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2026 Academic & Creative Excellence Reception Program, Lynn University

Academic and Creative Excellence (ACE) Reception Programs

The program for the 2026 Academic and Creative Excellence (ACE) Reception - the 18th annual - organized by the Lynn Library, working in conjunction with the Office of Academic Affairs. The reception was held Tuesday, April 14 in the Salon at the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center.

The Faculty Scholarship and Creative Activities Award is presented to Dr. Roberta Rust.

Empowering E-Commerce Using Fog Computing To Distributed Nodes Management With Data Centers, Wael Hadeed, Nagham Sultan, Mohammed Yousif

Mesopotamian Journal of Big Data

Cloud computing has always been an essential part of big data analytics, providing several significant benefits such as pooled resources, availability on-demand, and quick scalability. Nevertheless, handling data-intensive workflows in such highly changing environments is still a problem. Excessively allocating resources may unnecessarily increase the operating cost, while insufficiently allocating resources may cause Service Level Agreement (SLA) violations and drop in the Quality of Service (QoS). This document explores the issues around data center deployment in the fast-changing e-commerce industry where continuous technological increments are vital to satisfying ever-changing customer needs. The main aim is to manufacture a sophisticated resource …

The Impact Of An Interactive Open Education Textbook For An Undergraduate Introductory Chemistry Course For Nonmajors, Erin Avram

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Reading informational text is a critical skill across most professions. Unfortunately, students are less likely to purchase the required course materials now compared to 2010. A free, interactive text was developed for an introductory chemistry course for non-STEM majors. This involved remixing existing texts and incorporating interactive activities to engage students during the learning process and provide opportunities for them to gauge their learning. Based on the results of a student survey, 82% of students reported that it was very important to them that the text was free and 80% of students who responded reported that they used the eText …

Modeling Bitcoin Dynamics Using Differential Equations, Boone M. Fleenor

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

In this thesis, we develop and analyze two nonlinear systems of ordinary differential equations to model Bitcoin price dynamics. Analytical techniques are used to obtain exact or approximate solutions where possible. Then, numerical simulations using a fourth-order Runge–Kutta method are employed to explore system behavior beyond analytically tractable regimes. Finally, model outputs are compared to historical Bitcoin price data using normalized and resampled time series. These results suggest that deterministic models can provide meaningful insight into the structural behavior of Bitcoin markets, while highlighting the need for stochastic or time-dependent extensions for more realistic modeling.

Res-Mnd: Motor Neuron Disease Detection Using Res4net–Convolutional Block Attention Module ​, Shuriya Balusamy, Rakesh Sivalingam, Shobana Rooben, Sony Helen

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

Background/aim: Motor neuron diseases (MNDs) are progressive neurological disorders that cause muscle weakness and wasting as a result of ongoing neurodegeneration. MNDs require comprehensive diagnostic approaches that integrate clinical symptoms, laboratory findings, and multimodal imaging data.

Materials and methods: In this study, a novel residual network for motor neuron disease detection (RES-MND) framework is proposed for detecting MNDs using multimodal imaging data. Initially, the input multimodal images, including MRI, CT, PET, and DTI, are preprocessed using adaptive dynamic histogram equalization and the total variation bilateral filter. The preprocessed multimodal images are processed through Res4Net-CBAM for feature extraction to enhance image …

Engineering Ferrate(Vi) For Water And Wastewater Treatment: Translating Science Into Technology, Zepei Tang, Zhenli He, Yang Deng

Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Over the past five decades, ferrate(VI) (FeO42–) for water and wastewater treatment has remained largely at the laboratory scale, with limited pilot- and full-scale implementation. This gap between sustained research and scarce real-world deployment places the technology in the Valley of Death─a high-risk stage of development─and highlights the need for an engineering-centric approach to enable practical application. This article presents an engineering framework to guide the development and translation of ferrate(VI) technology for water and wastewater treatment. From a system perspective, ferrate(VI) technology comprises three core subsystems: generation, treatment, and solid–liquid separation. Technology maturity depends on both the advancement of …

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Texas A&M Law Review

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The Deregulation Of Cancer, Daniel G. Aaron

Texas A&M Law Review

Fifty years ago, the U.S. embarked on a radical new path. Under pressure from the environmental movement, Congress passed an array of statutes aimed at regulating carcinogens out of our world. This regulatory experiment sprawled from air and water to food and consumer products.

Legal scholars have paid scant attention to this wave of cancer regulation despite its size and importance and the public’s apparent interest in avoiding carcinogens. But there is a growing literature finding flaws with individual regimes within the framework, such as the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the Tobacco Control Act. In …

Resolving Bankruptcy's Non-Voting Impaired Class Issue Using The Nonfactor Solution, Jacob Harrington

Texas A&M Law Review

In chapter 11 bankruptcy voting procedures, the issue of non-voting impaired classes can be a complicated issue, but the Southern District of Texas’s new “nonfactor” approach can be used as a lens through which different solutions to this issue may be understood. The United States Bankruptcy Code states that a bankruptcy plan may only be confirmed if every impaired class votes to accept the plan. But despite the statute’s apparent clarity, different jurisdictions’ solutions vary, some deeming non-voting impaired classes to plan. This Note demystifies the Bankruptcy Code’s approach to this matter, examines the different jurisdictional approaches to this issue, …

Ucc Agenda 4-14-26, Angela Brock

UCC Agendas/Minutes

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Ucc Minutes 4-14-26, Angela Brock

UCC Agendas/Minutes

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Program Review Report 4-14-26, Angela Brock

Program Review Committee

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South Carolina Teacher Workforce Profile For 2024–25, Svetlana Dmitrieva, Brian Cartiff, Angela Starrett

Reports

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of South Carolina’s public school teacher workforce in 2024–25. Aligned with SC TEACHER’s mission, it offers data to support decision-making at both state and district levels. Using teacher-level information for 55,634 educators, this report describes key workforce characteristics and trends of classroom teachers (PK–12), special education teachers, and retired educators who have returned to the classroom.

In addition to exploring broad workforce patterns, the report highlights age profiles across different facets of the teacher workforce. Understanding the distribution of early-, mid-, and late-career educators is essential for anticipating retirement trends, identifying support needs for …

Further Development Of A Low-Energy Arc-Ignition System For Nytrox/Abs Hybrid Propulsion Systems, Stephen A. Whitmore, Jared S. Coen, Ryan J. Thibaudeau

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications

Utah State University has developed a high-performance “green” hybrid propulsion technology based on the unique electrical breakdown properties of 3D-printed acrylonitrile butadiene styrene. Using 3D-printed ABS as fuel, typical startup sequences require approximately 5–15 joules and, once started, the system can be sequentially fired with no additional energy inputs required. The number of possible ignitions is limited only by the amount of fuel. The most technologically mature version uses gaseous oxygen (GOX) as oxidizer and 3D-printed ABS as fuel. While GOX is mass-efficient, it lacks volumetric efficiency unless highly pressurized. Nytrox, a blend of GOX and nitrous oxide, improves propellant …

Mastery By Mistakes: Reframing Failure In Higher Education Skill-Based Teaching And Assessment, Maura Metheny

JWU Dissertations & Theses

Experiencing a mistake, error or failure while learning generates an additional inquiry process that activates prior knowledge and increases retention of subsequent feedback and new material (Kapur, 2008). The use of errors to guide practice has been shown to lead to skill-mastery and expertise (Ericsson et al., 1993). When classrooms are psychologically safe environments where penalty-free exploration and knowledge application are encouraged, students gain a deeper understanding of the content (Tulis, 2013). This qualitative exploratory descriptive study aimed to understand the ways that undergraduate faculty in skill-based disciplines involve errors, mistakes and failures in teaching and …

Path Planning And Control For Vertical Takeoff And Landing Aircraft, Dean Benjamin Anderson

Theses and Dissertations

One of the challenging problems of unmanned aerial vehicles (uav) is controlling vertical takeoff and landing (vtol) aircraft. Vtol aircraft can take off and land without landing strips while retain the efficiency of fixed-wing airplanes for long range flight. Unfortunately, the transition from takeoff and forward flight, and from forward flight to landing, is an extremely difficult control problem. Most current controllers for transition switch between flight regimes based solely on airspeed. The trajectory for such switching transitions is a straight vertical ascension followed by a straight forward startup flight; it does not allow for the development of more complex …

Integrating Multi-Source Data With Machine Learning Techniques To Upscale Wetland Carbon Dioxide Fluxes, Abdullah Sulaiman Abdullah Al Fazari

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

Accurate quantification of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) fluxes in wetland ecosystems is essential for understanding their role in both regional and global carbon dynamics, particularly in the context of climate change. However, the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of wetlands presents major challenges for developing reliable upscaling models. This research developed and validated a comprehensive framework to upscale CO₂ fluxes across the Everglades National Park (ENP) and Big Cypress National Preserve (BCNP) in South Florida through the integration of multi-source datasets, including AmeriFlux eddy covariance (EC) tower measurements, NASA’s BlueFlux airborne CO₂ data, and multispectral satellite imagery from Landsat 8 OLI …

Electroenzymatic Cascades For Nitrogen Upgrading: Beyond Ammonia Towards Value-Added Nitrogen Chemicals, Rohit G. Jadhav, Vamshi Krishna Kamaja, Wassim El Housseini, Monica Brachi, Shelley D. Minteer

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

The global transition toward sustainable chemical manufacturing demands technologies that leverage natural carbon and nitrogen cycles while minimizing reliance on sacrificial reagents and fossil resources. These biogeochemical cycles are fundamental to life, and enzymes catalyze many of their key transformations. Bio electrochemical, specifically electroenzymatic, systems offer a promising route to sustainable synthesis by enabling selective redox transformations powered by electricity. However, whereas carbon-cycle enzymes are now well established in bio electrochemical synthesis, enzymes from the nitrogen cycle remain comparatively underexplored. Moreover, the nitrogen cycle alone does not access many value-added nitrogen-containing products, which require additional C-N bond formation and organic …

Quantum Scattering Of Hc5n And Para-H2 On A New Potential Energy Surface, Shan Gao, François Lique, Ernesto Quintas-Sánchez, Richard Dawes, Jérôme Loreau

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

In the interstellar medium (ISM), non-local thermodynamic equilibrium situations are common due to low density, and one needs to consider the effect of molecular collisions in order to interpret the observations. Among the species detected in the ISM, cyanopolyynes, with the general molecular formula HC_2n+1N (n = 1, 2, …), are characterized by large dipole moments and small rotational constants and constitute an indispensable class of candidates for the sensitive tracers of local density and temperature. We present a study of the collisional (de-) excitation of HC₅N by para-H₂ (p-H₂) in its ground …

The Effects Of Dietary Protein Manipulation On Operant Demand, Brianna R. Lilly

LSU Master's Theses

Previous work with dietary protein restriction in rodents has demonstrated that rodents fed a low protein diet exhibit physiological effects such as lower rates of weight gain and increased levels of circulating fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21). Dietary protein restriction also produces behavioral effects. Compared to rodents that are not protein-restricted, rodents that are protein-restricted exhibit increased food intake and higher preference for a protein vs. carbohydrate solution. Additionally, protein-restricted rodents will respond at higher levels for a protein reinforcer than non-restricted rodents. The current study assessed the effect of dietary protein restriction on operant protein demand during and after …

Forms Of Bullying That Affect The Academic Achievement Of Eighth-Grade Students According To Data From The Timss 2023 International Study: A Comparative Study Of Saudi Arabia, Japan, And Finland, Dr. Ali Hamoud Alharbi

University of Bisha Journal for Educational Sciences

This research aimed to identify the most common forms of bullying experienced by eighth-grade students, according to data from the TIMSS 2023, and those with the greatest impact on academic achievement, in Saudi Arabia, Japan, and Finland. The sample included all students who participated in the TIMSS 2023 study, totaling 15,667 students. The descriptive method, employing both causal-comparative and correlational approaches, was used to achieve the study’s objectives. The results showed that the most common form of bullying in Saudi Arabia, Japan, and Finland was “listening to hurtful things about one’s appearance,” with rates of 35.5%, 12.1%, and 24%, respectively. …

Drawing-Based Story Telling Influence On Children Language Development And Social Aspect, Hariddha Yuni Sulistyaningrum, Imanuel Hitipeuw, Triyono Triyono

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

Language and social development of children plays an important role in influencing further development. The objectives of this research are to determine the effect of drawing based on story- telling toward language development and social development of children age 5–6 years. Single subject research with reversal design ABAB was used in this experimental research. Four kindergarten children identified having language and social problems became the subjects. The observation was used to col- lect data. In addition, the data were put into graphs to be analyzed by using visual inspection. The results showed that drawing activities based on story telling could …

Strategies Of Cultural Integration In Successful Merger-Companies, Achmad Supriyanto, Burhanuddin

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

This research aimed to discover strategies in integrating a new culture within the merger companies. The strategies have elements including values, phases, leader role, and the system of cul- tural integration construction. This research used a meta-analysis with an expose facto research de- sign. Findings indicate new cultural integrations were carried out by many companies through demon- strating internal and external values. Integrations are implemented through ‘pre, process, and post- merger’. The most important in the preliminary stage is started by benchmarking, leading entire stages, and keeping a balance of collaboration between human and non-human aspects as well as leader …

Thematic Text Book Development Based On Local Wisdom, Wina Nurfitriani, Sumarmi, Hariyono

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

Local wisdom based education is a part of the implementation of character building principles in education which enable students to prepare themselves for future. The local wisdom plays significant role since the implementation of real-life context in teaching learning activities is the best approach to initiate the lesson. Not only as a basis in teaching learning activity, the implementation of local wisdom will assist student to comprehend every concept in learning material, therefore students will be able to implement their cognitive ability in daily life. One of means of integrating local wisdom is by transferring it to the textbook. Research …

Demotivating Factors In Learning English: Students’ Perceptions, Lutfiyan Khusyabaroh, Utami Widiati, Mirjam Anugerahwati

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

Students’ demotivation is an area which is not widely reached from studies. It is essential to revover the students’ demotivation factors in learning English. 240 ninth grade of junior high schools students were taken part. There were four factors of demotivation, they were seen from teacher, class- mates, text books and activities, and students’ characteristics aspects.

Observing Debate In Learning On Students’ Critical Thinking, A. Jauhar Fuad, I Wayan Ardhana, Sulton Sulton, Dedi Kuswandi

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

The objective of this research prove of difference between the limited critical thinking ability and the general critical thinking ability of learners using the methods of debate and discussion with learners who have different learning styles. Using a quasi-experimental design with testing and rating scales, the results showed: (1) there is no difference between the limited critical thinking ability of learn- ers between students who use the method of debate and discussion. There is a difference between the general critical thinking ability of learners between students using the method of debate and those who are using discussion method (2) there …

The Effect Of Intellectual Capital On Knowledge Management With The Mediating Role Of Organizational Commitment, Seyed Ahmad Hosseini Golafshani, Forough Amir Malayeri

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

For many years, at the competitive examination, Yazd province students have the highest ac- ceptance rate to enter university. The attention to knowledge management and its impact in the creation of an intangible capital type (but vital) called intellectual investment among employees and institutional managers responsible to educate are an indispensable necessity in the education department of Yazd province. In this regard, the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of in- tellectual capital on knowledge management with the interceding role of organizational commitment in the General Office of Education in Yazd province, Iran. The results …

Blended Learning Method Within Indonesian Higher Education Institutions, Zamzami Zainuddin, Cut Muftia Keumala

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

This article aims to explore the potential development of a Blended learning model in Indonesian higher education institutions. The paper attempts to explain the concept of the Blended learning in terms of theory and practice, based on the literature discussed in several reputable international jour- nals. Initially, this method proposes to improve the deficiencies of a traditional learning model which is lack of technological resources and at the same time to improve the gap of e-learning practice which is lack of a face-to-face learning experience. In the blended instruction, students will learn through a face- to-face interaction in the classroom …

How Much Do The Affective Factors Contribute To Writing Performance?: A Path Analysis Study Of Chained Predictors, Nurul Hidayah Pratama, Ekaning Dewanti Laksmi, Enny Irawati

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

Affective aspects are considered as one of the most influencing factor in learning foreign language. The aim of this study is to figure the model of affective aspects as factors in predicting writ- ing performance of the EFL college students. The sample of this study consists of 134 students of Eng- lish Department, UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim. The result of this study confirms that writing anxiety, writing self-efficacy, and writing attitude contribute to and writing performance (39.2%). Also, their atti- tude towards writing is more likely influenced by how they perceived their self-efficacy towards writing activities rather that their anxiety …

A Comparative Study On Performance Of Iot-Driven Ml-Enabled Forecasting Models For Efficient Air Quality Monitoring, Bara Ksiksi

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

Air pollution is one of the most important and devastating environmental issues that heavily affects public health around the world and it’s the cause of approximately 4.2 million early deaths. This thesis focuses on further improving forecasting models by introducing a zonal approach and satellite-based spatial validation. The main objective is to explore a zonal approach with the ground station data and to add a spatial component using satellite imagery to improve the accuracy of the results. It follows a four-stage evolution framework while focusing on the three different zones chosen. The four stages introduced different aspects which include a …