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Does Non-Idealism Entail Particularism?, John Lawless

Faculty Publications - Philosophy

No abstract provided.

Improving The Efficiency Of Wells Turbines In Wave Energy Harvesting Using Computer Simulations, Godfred Abotar-Aidoo, Isaac Plange

ASPIRE 2026

Oscillating Water Columns (OWCs) are among the most promising wave energy converters for harnessing renewable power from ocean waves. These systems use a bi-directional airflow to drive a Wells turbine connected to a generator. However, the turbine’s efficiency is limited by flow separation and stall at high angles of attack. To address this, we investigated the effect of passive flow control by adding stability strips along the suction side of the turbine blades. The unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) equations, coupled with the k–ω SST turbulence model, were solved in ANSYS CFX 2025 R1 to evaluate the aerodynamic performance. Non-dimensional performance …

The Banner - V. 160, No. 6 - (July 2025), Christian Reformed Church In North America

The Banner

No abstract provided.

Minority Day Hearing On American Innovation And The Future Of Digital Assets: From Blueprint To A Functional Framework, Hilary J. Allen

Legislative Testimony & Comments

When we hear from the crypto industry that existing regulation is incompatible with their technology, that is a misdirection. It is entirely possible for a blockchain-based technology business to comply with existing investor protection and financial stability regulation. However, for many crypto businesses, it may be true that existing regulation is incompatible with the economics of their business model, especially if their business model depends on doing things that we have learned, over the years, tend to harm people. But we have little to lose as a society from limiting the profitability of this kind of business model; unfortunately, the …

Behavioral Responses Of The California Two-Spot Octopus Octopus Bimaculoides To Changes In Color And Sound, Sofia I. Ramirez, Nathalie Reyns

McNair Summer Research Program

Recreational and commercial boat activity, military and construction operations, and seismic surveys among other human activities produce excessive sound that is classified as anthropogenic noise. Because the intensity and frequency of anthropogenic noise is often higher than that of natural underwater acoustic stimuli, marine animals may experience physiological damage to their sound-detecting organs which in turn, affects their communication and orientation abilities. In our study, we aimed to analyze the differences in behaviors exhibited by the California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) when exposed to various volumes of noise at 54 Hz. To further investigate behavioral changes under varying conditions, we …

Digital Bibliography In The Age Of Linked Data, Kate Ozment

Faculty Scholarship

The article explores how the interplay of ideological values and technological capacities have shaped the digital bibliography of British print history. Using a misgendering in the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) as a case study, the article explores how information flows through resources like Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), and Early English Books Online (EEBO), library catalogues, WorldCat, and retail outlets like Amazon. The article argues that as data from the ESTC is reproduced through linked data structures, information is ‘authorized’ far beyond what a single resource would do alone or what its original authors imagined or designed. While feminist, …

Experimental Determination Of Diffusion Flame Extinction Boundaries Over A Pmma Sphere: The Effect Of Sub-Surface Solid Heating, James S. T'Ien, Chengyao Li

Faculty Scholarship

The SoFIE-GEL (Solid Fuel Ignition and Extinction-Growth and Extinction Limit) microgravity combustion experiment was recently conducted aboard the International Space Station (ISS). In these tests, diffusion flame extinction limits of 4-cm diameter PMMA (polymethacrylate) spheres were determined as a function of forced flows (0.2 to 80 cm/s), oxygen concentrations (13 % to 34 %) and pressure (0.15–1.1 atm). In particular, the effect of sample heat-up is investigated. The sample surface layer is preheated by the ignitor and the diffusion flame itself before the extinction procedure (e.g. flow velocity decrease or increase or oxygen decrease) is implemented. The degree of sample …

Tissue Engineering: History, Principles, Applications, Challenges, And Future Work, Alexa Cesari, Ms

Student Papers, Posters & Projects

Tissue engineering is a comprehensive and cutting-edge field that leverages principles from multiple scientific disciplines to assist in regenerative medicine. It is defined by the most basic structure of the human body, the cell. When an injury occurs, cells send signals to initiate wound healing processes. In most cases, the body is equipped to heal wounds on its own; however, there are instances where wounds are too severe and cannot undergo proper regeneration. When this occurs, alternative measures are taken to assist in wound repair. With numerous advancements made over the years, tissue engineering has become an increasingly common method …

A Late Presentation Of Benign Cephalic Histiocytosis, Madison A. Hackley, Nicholas D. Brownstone, Shayan Waseh, Simo Huang, Jason B. Lee, Sylvia Hsu

Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology Faculty Papers

No abstract provided.

Energetic And Economic Aspects Of Rebound, Part Ii: Applications Of The Framework, Matthew Kuperus Heun, Gregor Semieniuk, Paul Brockway

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Widespread implementation of energy efficiency is a key greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measure, but rebound can ‘‘take back’’ energy savings. However, the absence of solid analytical foundations hinders empirical determination of rebound magnitudes. In Part I, we developed foundations of a rigorous, analytical, consumer-sided rebound framework that is approachable for both energy analysts and economists. In this paper (Part II), we develop energy, expenditure, and consumption planes, a novel, mutually consistent, and numerically precise way to visualize and illustrate rebound. Further, we operationalize the macro factor (k) for macroeconomic rebound. Using the framework and rebound planes, we calculate and show …

The East Palestine Train Derailment: A Complex Environmental Disaster, Lynn T. Singer, Fredrick R. Schumacher, Timothy Ciesielski

Faculty Scholarship

This symposium, The East Palestine Train Derailment: A Complex Environmental Disaster, brought together scientists whose research represented initial scientific responses to the community health impacts of the chemical exposures incurred from a disastrous train derailment and subsequent combustion in East Palestine, Ohio in February, 2023. This derailment and burn led to multiple complex toxic exposures to air, soil and water, including vinyl chloride and butyl acrylate. Presenters described the multi-university consortium formed to assist with developing and communicating data-informed summaries to the affected community. Presenters also reported on the immediate health sequelae experienced by the community and the stress and …

An Ambient Nox Reduction Reactor System With And Without Forced Air, Hamid Rahai, Rylan Moffit, Komal Gada, Jeremy Bonifacio

Mineta Transportation Institute

Ambient nitrogen oxide (NOX) is one of the main ingredients involved in the formation of ground-level ozone (smog), which contributes to global warming and the formation of particulates in the atmosphere and causes respiratory illnesses, especially in children, older adults, and people with lung diseases. Investigations on adding titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles to the paint used on concrete surfaces such as buildings and its potential in reducing ambient NOX concentration have provided opportunities for the research and development of methods for passive control and filtration of the ambient NOX. The present research used numerical geometrical optimization to identify an optimized …

Copley Connects | Spring/Summer 2025, University Of San Diego

Copley Connects Library Newsletter

Message From the Dean | 2

Research and Scholarship Recognition | 3

Featured Collection: Southern Cross | 4

2025 Holleman Scholarship Winners | 6

AI Comes for Digital USD | 7

Pontem Partnership Marks Five Years | 8

Spotlight Jordan Kobayashi | 9

New Faculty at Copley | 9

ACRL Conference in Minneapolis | 10

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference | 10

Copley Recognizes Graduating Seniors with Bookplates | 11

Top 10 Digital USD Downloads for the 2024–2025 Academic Year | 12

New Resources for Fall 2025 | 13

Seguimos Creando Enlaces Conference | 13

Copley Reads | …

Environmental And Social Values Are Important To All Utahns, But Conservative Utahns Are More Likely To Prioritize The Economy, Sarah E. Wilson, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad

Utah People and Environment Poll (UPEP)

In the political landscape of modern America, few would disagree that people on either end of the political spectrum exhibit differences in priorities and values. Since the 1970s, polarization between left and right-leaning individuals and decision-makers regarding environmental matters has grown significantly.¹ For example, a 2023 Gallup Poll found that 78% of liberals favored prioritizing the environment over economic concerns, compared to just 20% of conservatives - representing the largest partisan gap since Gallup began including the question in their poll in 1984.²

Education Equity For Transgender And Gender-Diverse Persons In India: Insights Into Implementation Hurdles, Dipika Jain, Natasha Aggarwal, Kanmani Ray, Surbhi Karwa, Disha Chaudhari, Rishav Devrani

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

Part I of this article presents international, global, and national approaches to the right to education for transgender and gender-diverse persons. It then describes the Indian approach—the NALSA judgment and the Transgender Persons Act. Finally, it provides anecdotal insight into the lived experiences of transgender and gender-diverse persons and the marginalization they face.

Part II outlines: (i) the rationale of this study, (ii) the research methodology, and (iii) the questions in the right to information requests, which have formed the basis for investigating the landscape of education rights for transgender and gender-diverse students.

Part III provides an overview of the …

Town Of Lee, New Hampshire Annual Town Report June 30, 2025, Lee Town Representatives

Lee, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

"Inspiring Empathy": A Descriptive Review Of A Musical Composition, Garo Saraydarian

Educational Studies Dissertations

This study explored the experiences of college professors using an assessment approach, descriptive review, to assess undergraduate music compositions. College professors, and educators in general, often debate best practices around assessing student work. A literature review showed a debate amongst music educators over approaches to assessing student compositions, with rubrics being especially controversial. Descriptive review uses collective discussion and a series of non-judgmental exercises that aim for participants to become more intimate with a student and their work. As an assessment technique that had been used to look at student artwork, albeit at the elementary grade level, descriptive review has …

Whose Right(S)?: Civil Rights Impact Of Cultural Conflicts In The Curriculum, S. David Mitchell

Faculty Publications

Statutes seeking to prohibit the teaching of certain curricular topics that are considered divisive infringe upon the civil rights of students, parents, and teachers. The conflict over what should be taught implicates the rights of students, specifically their right to receive and to learn information; the rights of parents, specifically the right to control the education of their children; and the rights of teachers, specifically the First Amendment and academic freedom. “Anti-Woke” legislation, as it is broadly termed, is designed to silence those who seek to engage in the critical analysis of the structural and systemic barriers that have prevented …

Teaching With Ai - And Teaching Students To Use It Well, John Lande

Faculty Publications

This article argues that the rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into legal practice creates an opportunity-and need-for legal educators to rethink and improve their courses. While some faculty fear that AI will erode students' skills or encourage academic dishonesty, thoughtful use of AI tools in legal education actually can promote deeper learning, improve student writing, and reveal how students actually think. The article distinguishes between summative and formative assessment and explains how AI can produce meaningful formative feedback. It offers specific examples of AI-based assignments that can help students build core professional skills, and it highlights the importance of …

Gold & Blue, Summer 2025, St. Mary's University - San Antonio, Texas

Gold & Blue

This is the Summer 2025 edition of Gold & Blue, which is St. Mary's University's official alumni magazine.

Music, Poetry And Identity In Badakshan, Tajikistan: Singing And Sounding Community, Chorshanbe Goibnazarov

Music & Performance in Muslim Contexts

An illuminating account of Ismaili music, spiritual poetry and social change in Badakhshan.

In the riverine valleys of the Pamir Mountains of Tajik Badakhshan, a thriving millennium-old community of Nizari Ismaili Muslims created a unique spiritual culture in which the performance of music and poetry plays a central role. This book focuses on the central musical and poetic tradition of the Pamiri Ismailis, qasīda-khonī (also known as maddo), tracing its origins, evolution, delocalisation and relocation.

This book introduces readers to leading performers of qasīda-khonī and to the Ismaili gnosis that inspires its music and poetry.

• Based on six …

Uses Of Digital Technologies For Maxillofacial Prosthesis Manufacturing, Reem Abdulrahim Alobaidy

Al-Esraa University College Journal for Medical Sciences

Digital technologies play a great role in prosthodontics generally and specifically in maxillofacial prosthetics, this revolutionary approach has become an important way for rehabilitation of different modalities in maxillofacial prosthetic field. In this article we will summarize many contents of dental researches, web researches, on-line data bases, discussions of experts and clinicians with the most recent publications and new products releases and evaluate them. Describing the techniques in designing and fabrication for facial prosthesis applying computer aided method and manufacturing (CADCAM). As the development of digital dentistry took apart to overcome complexity of prosthesis construction and the limited expertise in …

Distribution Of Secretor Status In A Sample Of Iraqi Population Based On Their Gender, Blood Groups And Body Mass Index, Ola Amer Jasim

Al-Esraa University College Journal for Medical Sciences

The ABO blood group system was divided into four phenotypes i.e., A, B, AB, and O following its discovery by Karl Landsteiner in 1990. Antigens of the ABO blood group can be found in bodily fluids such as the salivary and digestive fluids. Furthermore, People are classified as ``secretors'' or ``non-secretors'' based on their ability to secrete (ABO blood group) antigens in body fluids. The control-based study was conducted on 342 Iraqi adults who were presented at educational institutions. The study lasted from October 2022 to February 2023 and aimed to determine the relationship between secretor status with (gender, blood …

Synthesis Of A New Composite Nanomaterial Consisting Of Bentonite-Polyethylene Glycolphthalate, Tariq Yassin Mahmoud

Al-Esraa University College Journal for Medical Sciences

In this study, a new composite material was characterized and prepared by polymerizing ethylene glycol located among bentonite layers with phthalic anhydride. The results showed that the polymer bonds with the clay structure through hydrogen bonding. The polymerization process led to the destruction of the three-dimensional crystal structure of the clay and the isolation of its layers in the form of two-dimensional nanoscale shells. The growth of the polymer around the isolated clay layers increased the total particle size at the microscopic scale.

Comparative Study Between Attendance Patients To Babylon Teaching Hospital In Babylon And Al-Alawiyah Teaching Hospital In Baghdad Infected With Intestinal Parasites, I. M. Al-Saqur, E. M. Abdul Ameer, A. N. Al-Thwani, S. S. Hassan, Z. J. Mazher, A. A. Abd Al-Hussein, R. A. Aziz, N. M. Butrus

Al-Esraa University College Journal for Medical Sciences

This study included detecting the rate of human infection with intestinal parasites on patients arriving the laboratories of Babylon Teaching Hospital and Al-Alawiya Children's Hospital In Baghdad for the period from beginning of January 2023 to the end of December 2023. The total number of examined people in the former hospital was 796, infected patients were (384 with 48.49%), The highest percentage of parasites recorded were Endameba coli (85.47%) followed by E. histolytica (63.44%) then Trichuris trichura (45.9%) the others parasites were Giardia lambelia (39.09%) Enterobius vermicularis (34.71%), Chilomastix mesnili (31.5%), Ancylostoma duodenale (19.04%), Hymenolpis nana (18.48%), Ascaris lunmbricoides …

Study Of Urinary Tract Infection Among Pregnant Women Attending Al Elywiah Maternity Hospital In Baghdad/Iraq, Abass T. Al-Joudi, Randa Abdal Jaleel Habeeb, Ali Dawoud Ramadan, Hussein Ibrahim Aliwi

Al-Esraa University College Journal for Medical Sciences

Urinary tract infection is a vary series symptom that pregnant women must be looking for treat as it effects in pregnant woman health baby for a long of 9 months of pregnant, this symptoms effect in different way on baby and mother health. The study on pregnant women carried out by examination of fresh samples taken from registered mothers in Maternity hospital and then carried varies analysis, physical, chemical and microscopic tests with bacterial and antibiotic sensitivity tests About 70 Urine sample taken from pregnant women that follow up their health in Al Elywiah maternity Hospital, the rested women …

Evaluation Of Phytotoxicity Of Greenly Treated Domestic Wastewater By Spent Plant Leaf Powders, Adnan Ahmad Ali-Nizam, Magdi Amin, Isam Shaker Hemza

Al-Esraa University College Journal for Medical Sciences

Health and ecosystems face widespread, impactful problems. Untreated wastewater is discharged into waterways and lands in most developing countries, containing harmful substances and pathogens. WHO estimates that nearly 1.7 billion people drink contaminated water in developing countries, and that contamination leads to nearly 500,000 diarrheal deaths each year. However, existing treatment methods are insufficient to remove dissolved substances and specific pollutants; they are very expensive, energy-intensive, require advanced technologies, and high operational skills. The process of removing pollutants from wastewater using plant waste powders involves a combination of mechanisms, including adsorption, complexation, and ion exchange. These processes are characterized by …

Western Australia’S Agricultural R&D Ecosystem, Ross Kingwell

Farm Systems and Economics published reports

• Decades ago, the agricultural R&D ecosystem in Western Australia (WA) was fairly simple with few funders and some key providers of R&D services such as the Department of Agriculture, CSIRO and the University of Western Australia.
• Since then, the agricultural R&D ecosystem in WA has increased in complexity with more R&D providers and a greater injection of industry and private funding.
• These changes have occurred against a backdrop of the total investment in agricultural R&D declining as a share of agriculture’s gross value of production.
• State and federal governments have reduced their share of the total investment in agricultural R&D. …

A Qualitative Study Utilizing The Design Thinking Process To Structure And Organize For Small Group Reading Instruction In Third, Fourth, And Fifth Grade, Ashlee Utt

Dissertations

Having educated and knowledgeable classroom teachers in reading instruction is a key tool in changing the dynamics of the struggling readers in schools. Being able to lead reading instruction in both whole and small group ensures students are able to learn and build reading strategies and skills to be implemented during whole group and independent time, where text is utilized with grade-level expectations. Utilizing explicit small group instruction can have a positive effect on student achievement and success. Research has shown that “guided reading makes it possible for students to effectively process an appropriate text every day, expanding their reading …

Bridging The Skills Gap: A Design Thinking Mixed Methods Approach To Workforce Readiness, Bernetta Matory–Sylvester

Dissertations

No abstract provided.