Digital Commons Network^™

Wonder & Warning: The Salve That's Needed To Heal Our Planet, Benton Greenberg , '26, Elle Anthony , '26, Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

Icebergs melting; plastic in the oceans; greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere; deforestation; industrial agriculture; pollution; overfishing. Humans have inhabited Earth for a mere fraction of its existence, comprising less than 1% of its total timeline, yet we are rapidly destroying it. The health of our planet is at a tipping point. Poets have been writing about the disharmony between the environment and humans for hundreds of years. Writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne plead us to change our ways through their haunting and ghastly works, while Jane Hirshfield and others speak through animals to hold us accountable for our faults. However, not …

Echoes Of Nature: Exploring The Intricacies Of Existence And The Environment, Lena Massengale , '25, Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

In this anthology, the works from highly skilled authors allow the reader to peek into the existential through a celebration of the natural world. Featuring the unique writing styles of Charles Simic, WS Merwin, and bell hooks, the reader is transported into a world of ecopoetry that aims to touch on more than earthly space. Transcending the rigid bounds of environmental scholarship, these authors incorporate their personal experiences in their interpretation of environmentalism. From the spiritual and ancestral ties to masked social critique, my anthology “Echoes of Nature: Exploring the Intricacies of Existence and the Environment” invites readers to explore …

Before We Say Farewell: An Anthology Of Ecopoetry, Suhyun Kim , '24, Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

When faced with the climate crisis, we humans have responded with varying levels of distress. Most of us swing between despair, when we fall into grief at our own stupidity and possible doom, and hope, that a solution is right around the corner. There is a middle ground of apathy, for those who’ve lost all hope and/or become paralyzed by the sheer magnitude of the climate crisis. Regardless of where we are, life under the climate crisis is not easy, and we all need to be reminded that it’s worth going on from time to time. Ironically, many of us …

Understanding The Anthropocene, Monica Kramer , '25, Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

The current climate crisis can be a daunting, anxiety-provoking topic. Terms such as “climate anxiety” are brought up because thinking about the prospect of future warming can cause extreme dread. Our current trajectory has even pushed people to forgo having children. Yet although this dread is very warranted and cannot be minimized, simply fearing for the future does not present any solutions to improving it. Ecopoetry can give us a window into helping deal with our grief, and can also suggest solutions for moving forward. This anthology presents poems that do both, helping us to better understand our current era …

The Whispers Of Magnolias, Nican Tlaca, And The World Around Us: An Anthology, Gabriela Rodriguez , '27, Qing Hao , '25, Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

Why read poetry after all, for all the frustration it can stir and the immense degree of patience it often demands (particularly challenging in our age of distractions)? Jane Hirshfield’s quotes offer a lucid insight: good poetry often changes how we perceive our surroundings and our states of existence. It lets us experience life in a transformed way – different before and after reading the poem – and inspires us to view our world with a sharper, more curious eye.
Here, we have compiled an anthology of ecopoetry that features a diverse selection of poems, ranging in time, culture, and …

Death, Love, And Feathers: Poems Teaching Us To Fly, Isa Specchierla , '26, Sophia Cáceres , '26, Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

Death, Love, and Feathers: Poems Teaching Us to Fly is an anthology that provides readers who are just starting to become interested in ecopoetry and want a place to begin their wonderful journey. We have incorporated some well-known ecopoets such as Mary Oliver, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, and Maya Angelou, which have personally inspired our own interest and sparked our love for ecopoetry. We have also included a few other lesser-known contemporary eco-poets, whose work touches on how our environment has been transformed through climate change.
We also present poems by Wanda Coleman, Eleanor Wilner, and Joy Harjo.
Through this …

Mediating Effect Of Bmi On The Association Of Economic Status And Coexistence Of Hypertension And Diabetes In Bangladesh: A Counterfactual Framework-Based Weighting Approach, Foyez , Md. Jamal Hossain Ahmmed, Md. Jamal Hossain, Md Tareq Ferdous Khan, Muhammad Mahabub Rahaman Manik, Saimon Shahriar, Dulal Chandra Nandi, Md Parvej Hussain

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

Background and Aims

Non-communicable diseases such as hypertension and diabetes are matters of huge concern worldwide, with an increasing trend in prevalence over the previous decade. First of all, this study aimed to evaluate the association between economic status (ES) and body mass index (BMI), ES and comorbidity of hypertension and diabetes, and BMI and comorbidity independently. Second, it explored the mediating role of BMI in the association between ES and comorbidity of hypertension and diabetes. Finally, it investigated whether the mediating effect differs with the place of residence, gender, and education levels.

Methods

A total of 11,291 complete cases …

He 3500 First Aid And Personal Safety Oer Syllabus, Shannon Caravello

Open Educational Resources

HE 3500: First Aid and Personal Safety Course at Kingsborough Community College. Principles for first aid and personal safety in terms of theory and practice of first aid procedures. Qualified students receive American Red Cross Certification. The course fulfills the safety and first aid requirements for those contemplating a teaching career.

He 2000 Community Cpr Oer Syllabus, Shannon Caravello

Open Educational Resources

HE 2000 Community CPR course at Kingsborough Community College. Knowledge and basic skills necessary to meet respiratory and cardiac emergencies in adults, children and infants. Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive the American Red Cross Certificate for Community CPR.

Exs 2000 Exercise, Energy Balance, And Weight Management Oer Syllabus, Shannon Caravello

Open Educational Resources

Concepts and principles of energy balance, body composition, weight management, and physical activity as they relate to personal health. Examines the causes of obesity, and its impact on human health and explores weight loss and diet options for the individual from a holistic perspective, including social, emotional, and physical dimensions of human health. Students will complete a lifestyle and nutritional analysis, develop nutritionally sound dietary plans, and design a specialized exercise program tailored to address their personalized weight management goals.

Due Process In Anti-Doping Proceedings Within The International Olympic Committee And Professional Tennis Associations, Katherine Jakeway

The International Law Review Association Student Forum

Today, professional athletes across the globe are subjected to rigorous drug testing in an attempt to eradicate the use of performance enhancing substances in sports. Many professional sports tours, including tennis, work closely with the International Olympic Committee and World Anti-Doping Agency to monitor and address doping violations. Although anti-doping rules are important to the safety of professional athletes, the current enforcement of anti-doping rules creates due process concerns for athletes that test positive for banned substances. This article specifically argues that the strict scrutiny sanction which bans athletes from professional play for even an unknowing or accidental doping violation …

Circle Packings From Tilings Of The Plane, Philip Rehwinkel , '22, Ian Whitehead, David Yang , '24, Mengyuan Yang , '25

Mathematics & Statistics Faculty Works

We introduce a new class of fractal circle packings in the plane, generalizing the polyhedral packings defined by Kontorovich and Nakamura. The existence and uniqueness of these packings are guaranteed by infinite versions of the Koebe–Andreev–Thurston theorem. We prove structure theorems giving a complete description of the symmetry groups for these packings. And we give several examples to illustrate their number-theoretic and group-theoretic significance.

Implementation Of A Human Trafficking Screening Tool In An Immigrant Services Organization, Cassandra Cooper

DNP Projects

Background

Human trafficking (HT) is a public health problem that advances the spread of disease and mental health issues and affects vulnerable populations including immigrants. HT screening tools are more reliable than clinical judgment in identifying HT victims, as even victims themselves are sometimes unaware of their own victimhood. To reduce the instances of victims being missed, HT screening tools have been validated to identify victims without the influence of personal bias.

Project Goals

1. Choose and implement a HT education module for staff.

2. Implement the AHTST for all new arrivals and from the months of November 2023 through …

The Guardian The Month Of April 2024, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the Month of April 2024. The Guardian is the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

The Effect Of Floor Stiffness On Acl And Meniscus Tear And Chondromalacia Susceptibility In Dancers, Kate J. Moreira

Honors Theses

Dance is a physically demanding art form, placing repeated strain on the joints and muscles of the body. Western dance technique emphasizes use of the lower extremity, resulting in a high volume of injury to the hip, knee, and ankle joints. Dance companies attempt to combat injury by installing low- stiffness floors in studios and performance spaces. These floors exert less pressure on dancers’ joints during intense movement sequences. The purpose of this research is to determine the impact of floor stiffness on dancers’ susceptibility to ACL and meniscus injuries and chondromalacia, specifically. Participants were asked about past and present …

Unhappy Endings: Queer Time In Evelyn Waugh’S Brideshead Revisited, Caitlin G. Spicer

Honors Theses

This thesis examines Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 Catholic novel, Brideshead Revisited, through the lens of queer theory. My work focuses on reproductive heteronormativity and queer time and how these concepts can be used to analyze Waugh’s text. I argue that Charles and Sebastian, among other characters, step out of the traditional—or heterosexual—timeline in a way that queers temporality. I examine Sebastian, Charles, and Julia to understand how their lonely yet holy lives contribute to a larger tradition of unhappy endings in queer and Catholic fiction. In this thesis, I define reproductive heteronormativity as the assumption that people will follow a heterosexual …

The Impact Of Government Data Open Platform Construction On Promoting The Development Of Digital Government: An Econometric Analysis Based On Psm Model, Taitian Mao, Tang Gan, Jinliang Chen

Journal of Scientific Information Research

[Purpose/significance]Open government data is the direction of the digital development of government, and exploring the impact of the Open Government Data Platform （OGDP） on the development of digital government is of guiding significance in advancing the goal of modernizing the national governance system and governance capacity. [Method/process]Based on the establishment or not of OGDP, this paper uses the propensity score matching method to investigate the causal relationship between OGDP construction and digital government development by using the cross-sectional data of 101 prefecture-level cities across China in 2019 as the research sample for empirical analysis. [Result/conclusion]Overcoming sample selection bias and eliminating …

Pfas In Charleston S.C.: A Review Of Pollution, Regulatory Issues And Potential Solutions, Jackson D. Vause

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Spatial Pattern Analysis Of Agricultural Drought In The Jatiluhur Reservoir’S Irrigation Area Using Normalized Drought Index (Nddi) Modis Satellite Image, Ahmad Zubair, N C. Sakina, N Khairunnisa, Ayyasy Siddiq, Andry Rustanto, Faris Zulkarnain, Muhammad Dimyati

Jurnal Geografi Lingkungan Tropik (Journal of Geography of Tropical Environments)

Agricultural drought occurs in various irrigation areas in Indonesia, one of which is the Jatiluhur Reservoir’s irrigation area. Agricultural drought in this area occurs due to several factors, including the natural phenomenon of climate anomalies which causes the length of the dry season, and also due to less optimal irrigation networks, damaged networks and other obstacles. But, not all agricultural land in the irrigated area experiences drought. Agricultural land affected by drought is important to know its spatial and temporal distribution to determine priority locations in drought disaster management, especially on agricultural land. Therefore, this study aims to examine the …

Regulating Food Waste Management In Indonesia: Do We Need An Omnibus Law (Again)?, Ni Gusti Ayu Dyah Satyawati, I Nyoman Suyatna, Putu Gede Arya Sumerta Yasa, I Dewa Gede Palguna, Nadeeka Rajaratnam

Indonesia Law Review

Indonesia was regarded to be the world's second-largest food loss and waste-producing country. Food waste contributes the most significant amount in Indonesia compared to other types of waste. This paper aims to discuss three legal issues. First, it identifies, in descriptive-normative means, the legal framework regulating food waste, which is the intersection of two legal regimes: 'the food management' and 'the waste and environmental management”. Second, it presents a comparative study by exploring the more advanced food waste legal frameworks, which take examples from Europe. The third objective is to recommend legal, institutional, and policy steps to mainstream food waste …

What Is The Price Of Withdrawing From Investor-State Dispute Settlement Provisions In An Era Of Climate Conscious Policy? Comparing Latin America's Rejection Of Foreign Investor Control To The Fallout From The Energy Charter Treaty, Carrie Swiggum

Student Scholarship

This article examines Investor-State Dispute Settlements criticisms and intended benefits as it comes up in public law issues such as the Energy Charter Treaty. The treaty is the world’s largest multilateral treaty, with about 50 member countries, and the most litigated, with most cases decided by arbitration. There is criticism against an inability to modernize the treaty due to concerns regarding climate change as well as criticism against the investor-state dispute settlement system itself, because of arbitration’s secrecy and lack of public involvement. This article argues that countries should leave unilaterally as they have begun to do, avoiding the regulatory …

The Abolition Of Woman, Lynne Marie Kohm

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The article argues that modern feminist jurisprudence, while initially aimed at advancing women's rights, has deviated from its original goals and now contributes to the erosion of the unique identity and value of women. This shift is evident in areas such as reproduction, gender fluidity, and motherhood, where legal and academic discourse increasingly deconstructs the concept of womanhood, leading to its potential abolition.

It Takes A Special Person To Raise A Special Needs Child: How New York's Existing Family Regulation Systems Are Not Equipped For Children With Autism, Alexandra Debenedictis

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note argues that New York's current family regulation systems, including the Family Court Act (FCA) and the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), are inadequately equipped to protect children with autism in foster care. These systems fail to address the unique needs of autistic children, leading to increased vulnerability to abuse, neglect, and prolonged stays in foster care. The note proposes reforms to improve monitoring, education, and resource accessibility to better safeguard these children.

Who Gets To Reap What They Sow? Addressing The Exclusion Of Undocumented Immigrants From Income Tax Benefits And Designing A Solution, Gabriela Amaral

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note argues that undocumented immigrants significantly contribute to the U.S. tax system, including Social Security, but are disproportionately excluded from receiving benefits, raising concerns about economic fairness and equal protection under the law. It advocates for a more inclusive policy, particularly through work authorization, to address this inequity.

Annotated Legal Bibliography

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Dipl 4193 Na Eastern European And Post-Soviet Politics, Margarita M. Balmaceda Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course provides a systematic introduction to the main issues in Soviet, post-Soviet and post Soviet-Bloc politics. Some of the topics to be considered are the following: (1) the legacy of Soviet nationality policies and the Soviet planned economy system on the creation and development of new political systems in the former Soviet republics after 1991; (2) the political and economic diversity which emerged within the ‘Soviet Bloc” starting in the 1950’s, and its effects on the development of new political systems after the fall of Communism; (3) the causes and consequences of ethnic conflicts in some of the countries …

Dipl 4115 Na Cross Cultural Negotiation And Conflict Management, Zheng Wang Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

There is no time in history when the need for cross-cultural competence has been more critical. The ability to negotiate and manage conflicts across cultures is no longer an optional skill set in the worlds of international business and diplomacy. This course, built on cases, interactive exercises and theoretical frameworks, explores the theory and practice of cross-cultural communication and problem-solving. It is designed to help our students to meet the challenges of living in a world in which, the opportunity for cross-cultural interactions is greater than ever and will only increase in the future. This course will use multiple methods …

Dipl 3470 Cyber Security And International Relations, Brandon Valeriano Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course explores the role that cyber security and cyber warfare play in intentional relations. It will examine the interactions, planning, history, and recent actions of states, the private sector, and the international community in cyberspace. We will explore how states and other actors leverage cyberspace to pursue goals and strategic objectives.

Cyber Attacks Against Industrial Control Systems, Adam Kardorff

LSU Master's Theses

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are the foundation of our critical infrastructure, and allow for the manufacturing of the products we need. These systems monitor and control power plants, water treatment plants, manufacturing plants, and much more. The security of these systems is crucial to our everyday lives and to the safety of those working with ICS. In this thesis we examined how an attacker can take control of these systems using a power plant simulator in the Applied Cybersecurity Lab at LSU. Running experiments on a live environment can be costly and dangerous, so using a simulated environment is the …

Positioning As A Mediator Of Reader Self-Efficacy: A Case Study Of Literature Circles, Elena M. Venegas

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

Literature circles are a socially supportive context in which students can cultivate their reader identities. This is especially promising for students with lower reader self-efficacies. This qualitative multiple case study explored the positioning practices of four Grades 5–6 students with comparatively low reader self-efficacy. In literature circles, the students responded to interactive positioning (i.e., positioning by others) and/or engaged in reflexive positioning (i.e., positioned themselves). Upon interpreting the data through positioning theory, two storylines emerged. In the first storyline, students reflexively positioned themselves in literature circles as strategic, engaged readers, thereby challenging initially lower reader self-efficacies. Yet the second storyline …