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Avoiding Extinction, Preserving Culture: Sustainable, Sovereignty-Centered Tribal Citizenship Requirements, Michael D. Oeser Jan 2015

Avoiding Extinction, Preserving Culture: Sustainable, Sovereignty-Centered Tribal Citizenship Requirements, Michael D. Oeser

North Dakota Law Review

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Can Universal Pre-K Overcome Extreme Race And Income Segregation To Reach New York’S Neediest Children? The Importance Of Legal Infrastructure And The Limits Of The Law , Natalie Gomez-Velez Jan 2015

Can Universal Pre-K Overcome Extreme Race And Income Segregation To Reach New York’S Neediest Children? The Importance Of Legal Infrastructure And The Limits Of The Law , Natalie Gomez-Velez

Cleveland State Law Review

This article will examine New York City and State’s current universal pre-kindergarten efforts as related to social goals of serving low-income children in segregated schools to address inequality and close opportunity gaps. It also will examine the educational goals of enhancing cognitive gains and improving school readiness for all children. Part I considers pre-kindergarten in a climate of extreme segregation by race and class and in the context of current technocratic education reforms operating against a backdrop of diminished legal remedies for the harms of race and class segregation and inequality. Part II examines pre-kindergarten, with a focus on New …

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Rituals Upon Celluloid: The Need For Crime And Punishment In Contemporary Film, J C. Oleson Jan 2015

Rituals Upon Celluloid: The Need For Crime And Punishment In Contemporary Film, J C. Oleson

Cleveland State Law Review

Most members of the public lack first-hand experience with the criminal justice system; nevertheless, they believe that they possess phenomenological knowledge about it. In large part, the public’s understandings of crime and punishment are derived from television and film, which provide modern audiences with a vision of institutions that are normally occluded from view. While public rituals of punishment used to take place on the scaffold, equivalent moral narratives about crime and punishment now occur on film because modern punishment is imposed outside of the public gaze. Yet because crime films distort what they depict, the public’s view of crime …

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Colluding Under The Radar: Achieving Collusion Through Vertical Exchange Of Information, Julia Shamir, Noam Shamir Recanati Graduate School Of Business, Tel Aviv University Jan 2015

Colluding Under The Radar: Achieving Collusion Through Vertical Exchange Of Information, Julia Shamir, Noam Shamir Recanati Graduate School Of Business, Tel Aviv University

Cleveland State Law Review

In the absence of antitrust regulations, rational profit-maximizing firms in an oligopoly may freely act in consort to reach a consensus and to maintain prices above the competitive level. However, in light of potential exposure to antitrust investigations and prospective heavy sanctions, firms attempt to achieve collusive outcomes without resorting to explicit agreements. One mechanism that may promote such tacit collusion is information-sharing; that is, the otherwise competing firms exchange their private information in order to set and maintain supra-competitive prices. Thus far, the attention of the antitrust authorities and scholars has focused on the phenomenon of horizontal information-sharing, i.e., …

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Erratum, Cleveland State Law Review Jan 2015

Erratum, Cleveland State Law Review

Cleveland State Law Review

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Alito's Voice: Koontz And The End Of Justice Steven's Private Private Property Regulation Policy, Colin W. Maguire Jan 2015

Alito's Voice: Koontz And The End Of Justice Steven's Private Private Property Regulation Policy, Colin W. Maguire

Cleveland State Law Review

This article talks about the substantial distinction between a physical government invasion and a coercive request for funds, if the government action fails under Nollan and Dolan. Clearly, there is a newly recognized risk to water resource regulators who try to stop development in areas which are considered wetlands.

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Ohio's Home-Rule Amendment: Why Ohio's General Assembly Creating Regional Governments Would Combat The Regional Race To The Bottom Under Current Home-Rule Principles, Jonathon Angarola Jan 2015

Ohio's Home-Rule Amendment: Why Ohio's General Assembly Creating Regional Governments Would Combat The Regional Race To The Bottom Under Current Home-Rule Principles, Jonathon Angarola

Cleveland State Law Review

This Note argues that Ohio’s home-rule principles foster a regional “race to the bottom and proposes that the Ohio General Assembly pass legislation creating regional governments to combat the absence of coordination among regional localities".

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A Citizen's Guide To Redisticting Reform Through Referendum, Grayson Keith Sieg Jan 2015

A Citizen's Guide To Redisticting Reform Through Referendum, Grayson Keith Sieg

Cleveland State Law Review

This Note proposes to explain the construction and political history of the 2012 Ohio Ballot Issue 2, extract lessons learned from its defeat, and, using those lessons, construct an alternative model referendum for congressional redistricting reform. What events led up to the November General Election defeat? Part II explores the history of redistricting and referendum. I also include a discussion on the various models of citizens redistricting commissions, including those adopted in California and Arizona (from which Ohio Issue 2 was largely borrowed), as well as recent constitutional challenges to citizens redistricting commissions. In Part III, I discuss the lessons …

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Transcriptional Stress Response In Foodborne Pathogens, Aaron M. Pleitner Jan 2015

Transcriptional Stress Response In Foodborne Pathogens, Aaron M. Pleitner

Open Access Dissertations

Novel molecular method use is leading to better identification and understanding of microbial presence in food and food processing environments. The application of molecular methods targeting foodborne pathogens provides genetic profiling and targeted intervention methods. Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) provides information on the genomic uniqueness of specific pathogens and is being implemented in epidemiological investigations. Transcriptomic profiling allows for tracking the differential expression of genes and elucidating stress responses. Effective methods and treatments require an understanding of intervention (e.g. sanitizers) and treatment (e.g. antibiotics) mechanisms and efficacies. Accurate novel molecular method use requires proper learning of theory and data management. ^ …

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Mach: A Model For Explaining Molecular And Cellular Mechanisms, Caleb M. Trujillo Jan 2015

Mach: A Model For Explaining Molecular And Cellular Mechanisms, Caleb M. Trujillo

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Biologists use mechanistic explanations to understand behaviors of the immense complexity of molecular and cellular systems. In undergraduate biology courses, students are expected to explain molecular and cellular mechanisms, but teaching this skill presents many challenges due to the highly abstract, intangible nature of the cellular world, the influence of everyday language, and the tendency of students to overestimate how much they can explain. Therefore, across three studies this dissertation addresses these obstacles to teach undergraduate biology students to explain molecular and cellular mechanisms. ^ The first step was to model how biology experts explain molecular and cellular mechanisms, and …

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Show Horse Welfare, Melissa A. Voigt Jan 2015

Show Horse Welfare, Melissa A. Voigt

Open Access Dissertations

In recent years there has been an increase in the public's attention to situations where trainers, owners, and handlers have compromised the well-being of show horses for the sake of winning. These situations may be due to training negligence or naivety of individuals working with the horse. Either way, due to these incidents, increasing pressure has been placed on the horse industry to address show horse welfare. The purpose of this research was to expound on the welfare of stock-type show horses through the perspective of those directly involved; considering the understanding of welfare, the value placed on welfare, and …

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Structure-Thermal Coupling In Viscoelastic Material In Rubber Bushing Of Vehicle System, Zhengui Zhang Jan 2015

Structure-Thermal Coupling In Viscoelastic Material In Rubber Bushing Of Vehicle System, Zhengui Zhang

Open Access Dissertations

The objective of this research is to utilize the frequency-dependent viscoelastic material model and characterize the dynamic response of rubber bushing under external excitation. Furthermore, with appropriate modeling, two heat generation mechanisms of rubber bushing are explored and their thermal fields are investigated. Due to the nonlinear force-deflection relationship of the viscoelastic material, finding satisfactory mechanical properties of rubber components still poses a great challenge. However, industry nowadays is in urgent demand for precise finite element analysis (FEA) modeling of rubber components. For example, a proper constitutive relationship of rubber components is critical to providing a reliable and trustable simulation …

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Behavior Of Reinforced Concrete Panels Subject To Impact By Non-Deformable Projectiles, Amer Abdel Karim Alkloub Jan 2015

Behavior Of Reinforced Concrete Panels Subject To Impact By Non-Deformable Projectiles, Amer Abdel Karim Alkloub

Open Access Dissertations

In impact resistance of reinforced concrete (RC) panels against projectiles the contribution of the orthogonal mesh reinforcement has been ignored. In this study the contribution of mesh reinforcement to impact resistance and itseffect on the nature of local damage caused by impact of non-deformable projectiles are investigated. The investigation included a combination of 53 experiments and series of finite-element based numerical simulations. Three levels of local damage modes were investegated based on the severity of the degree of damage in the impacted panels. Mesh reinforcement ratio within the range of reinforcement ratio considered, namely 0.19% to 0.48%, was irrelevant to …

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Discovery Of Molecules That Modulate Protein-Protein Interactions In The Context Of Human Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen-Associated Processes Of Dna Replication And Damage Repair, Matthew David Bartolowits Jan 2015

Discovery Of Molecules That Modulate Protein-Protein Interactions In The Context Of Human Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen-Associated Processes Of Dna Replication And Damage Repair, Matthew David Bartolowits

Open Access Dissertations

Integral to cell viability is the homotrimeric protein complex Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen (PCNA) that encircles chromatin-bound DNA and functionally acts as a DNA clamp that provides topological sites for recruitment of proteins necessary for DNA replication and damage repair. PCNA has critical roles in the survival and proliferation of cells, as disease-associated dysregulation of associated functions can have dire effects on genome stability, leading to the formation of various malignancies ranging from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma to skin, laryngeal, ocular, prostate and breast cancers. Here, a strategy was explored with PCNA as a drug target that may have wider implications for …

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Processing Of Thin Film Photovoltaics From Chalcogenide Nanoparticles, Kevin Wayne Brew Jan 2015

Processing Of Thin Film Photovoltaics From Chalcogenide Nanoparticles, Kevin Wayne Brew

Open Access Dissertations

Over the last few decades, it has become evident that current energy production for humanity since the industrial revolution has incurred the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the Earth’s atmosphere, resulting in rampant pollution, global warming, ocean acidification and other disastrous environmental effects. The continued emission GHGs is a direct result of the predominant use of fossil fuels to meet an exponentially increasing global energy demand. Development of sustainable energy technologies is a global imperative to avoid future catastrophe. Photovoltaics (PV) are an ideal resource that allows us to convert our greatest supply of energy, sunlight, directly into our …

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Understanding Student Behaviors Using Immediate Feedback Features In A Blended Learning Environment, Xin Chen Jan 2015

Understanding Student Behaviors Using Immediate Feedback Features In A Blended Learning Environment, Xin Chen

Open Access Dissertations

Feedback serves to close the gap between learners’ current understanding and the desired understanding. Informative feedback can keep students from holding onto misconceptions, actively engage learners in knowledge acquisition, and increase confidence and motivation to learn. Yet, in the context of higher education, it is usually not possible for instructors to provide timely feedback to every individual student. This is especially difficult in first-year foundational courses due to the large number of students. Online learning platforms offer a solution by providing students immediate feedback during the course of their interactions with formative assessment tools (e.g., online homework, quizzes, embedded questions …

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Impact Of L-Arginine Transportation On Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cell Function, Cansu Cimen Bozkus Jan 2015

Impact Of L-Arginine Transportation On Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cell Function, Cansu Cimen Bozkus

Open Access Dissertations

Inflammatory chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome has been linked to autoimmune inflammation. Likewise, prostatitis has been linked to prostate cancer development and progression. A better understanding of the mechanisms by which inflammation is regulated may provide the foundation for novel approaches to controlling inflammation. Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) are a heterogeneous population of immature cells that expand during benign and cancer-associated inflammation. MDSC are characterized by their ability to potently inhibit T cell responses. Therefore, by dampening inflammation, MDSC benefit autoimmune diseases. Instead, they aggravate cancer by blocking antitumor immune responses. Identification of mechanisms underlying MDSC activities can enable the …

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Signal Enhancement And Data Mining For Biological And Chemical Samples Using Mass Spectrometry, Yuezhi Du Jan 2015

Signal Enhancement And Data Mining For Biological And Chemical Samples Using Mass Spectrometry, Yuezhi Du

Open Access Dissertations

Mass spectrometry has been actively involved in the areas of healthcare, pharmaceutics, environmental analysis, food industry and forensics due to its ability to provide molecular information at trace levels. Recently, because of the complexity of chemical and biological samples, computer-assisted mass spectra analysis, including signal enhancement, statistics and machine learning, has been drawn more and more attention especially for researches in biomarker identification, sample classification and omics-related areas where high volume of data is generated.

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The Organization Of Mitochondrial Quality Control And Life Cycle In The Nervous System In Vivo In The Absence Of Pink1, Swathi Devireddy Jan 2015

The Organization Of Mitochondrial Quality Control And Life Cycle In The Nervous System In Vivo In The Absence Of Pink1, Swathi Devireddy

Open Access Dissertations

Maintenance of healthy mitochondria is crucial in cells, such as neurons, with high

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Aptitude In L2 And L3 Learners Of German, Katharina Neema Kipp Jan 2015

Aptitude In L2 And L3 Learners Of German, Katharina Neema Kipp

Open Access Dissertations

This study aims at contributing to the notoriously under-researched field of

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Characterization Of The Function Of The Dead-Box Rna Helicase Dbp2, Wai Kit Ma Jan 2015

Characterization Of The Function Of The Dead-Box Rna Helicase Dbp2, Wai Kit Ma

Open Access Dissertations

In eukaryotes, there are highly coupled mechanisms that require RNA-binding proteins to facilitate gene expression. Proper RNA structure and ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex formation are critical for gene expression. DEAD-box proteins are the largest class of RNA helicases that play fundamental roles in RNA and RNP structure remodeling. However, the precise biological role of the vast majority of the ~ 40 members in this family has not been completely described. Therefore, my research focused on characterizing the role of the DEAD-box RNA helicase Dbp2 during gene expression in S. cerevisiae.

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Second Language Writing Instructor Written Feedback Practices In An Esl Freshman Composition Class: A Complexity Theory Perspective, Masakazu Mishima Jan 2015

Second Language Writing Instructor Written Feedback Practices In An Esl Freshman Composition Class: A Complexity Theory Perspective, Masakazu Mishima

Open Access Dissertations

This case study investigated second language writing instructors’ written feedback practices from a complexity theory perspective. The purpose of the research was to explore and examine contextual factors and their impact on instructor written feedback practices. Data were collected from two ESL writing instructors and two ESL writers through surveys, interviews, and classroom observations. Based on the results, a complexity theory-based model of second language writing instructor written feedback practices was developed to represent the complexity of written feedback practice situated in the specific instructional context. The findings suggest that the instructors were under constant influence of five different contextual …

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Manganese Toxicity: Accumulation In Bone, Effect On Brain Neurochemistry, And Impact On Adult Neurogenesis, Stefanie O'Neal Jan 2015

Manganese Toxicity: Accumulation In Bone, Effect On Brain Neurochemistry, And Impact On Adult Neurogenesis, Stefanie O'Neal

Open Access Dissertations

O’Neal, Stefanie L. Ph.D., Purdue University, December 2015. Manganese Toxicity: Accumulation in Bone, Effect on Neurochemistry, Impact on Adult Neurogenesis. Major Professor: Wei Zheng.

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Proteogenomic Insights Into The Nature Of Chemoresistance In Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Brett Noel Jan 2015

Proteogenomic Insights Into The Nature Of Chemoresistance In Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Brett Noel

Open Access Dissertations

Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) is a hematopoietic cancer caused by the formation of the Philadelphia chromosome, a reciprocal translocation of the ABL1 oncogene on chromosome 9, and the breakpoint cluster region gene (BCR) chromosome 22, resulting in the BCR-ABL oncoprotein. BCR-ABL is a constitutively active tyrosine kinase that regulates cell growth and differentiation, leading to uncontrolled cell proliferation by deregulating downstream signaling pathways.

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A Comparison Of Two Instructional Sequences In An Intelligent Tutoring Program On Multiplicative Concepts And Problem Solving Of Students With Mathematics Difficulties, Joo Young Park Jan 2015

A Comparison Of Two Instructional Sequences In An Intelligent Tutoring Program On Multiplicative Concepts And Problem Solving Of Students With Mathematics Difficulties, Joo Young Park

Open Access Dissertations

One of the crucial goals of the National Councils of Teachers Mathematics standards (2000) was to have all students, including students with mathematics difficulties (MD), to succeed in establishing a higher-order thinking in mathematic.

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Photonic Metasurfaces For Spatiotemporal And Ultrafast Light Control, Amr Shaltout Jan 2015

Photonic Metasurfaces For Spatiotemporal And Ultrafast Light Control, Amr Shaltout

Open Access Dissertations

The emergence of photonic metasurfaces - planar arrays of nano-antennas - has enabled a new paradigm of light control through wave-front engineering. Space-gradient metasurfaces induce spatially varying phase and/or polarization to propagating light. As a consequence, photons propagating through space-gradient metasurfaces can be engineered to undergo a change to their momentum, angular momentum and/or spin states.

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The Impact Of Mobile Network Forensics Evidence On The Criminal Case Processing Performance In Macedonia: An Institutional Analysis Study, Filipo Sharevski Jan 2015

The Impact Of Mobile Network Forensics Evidence On The Criminal Case Processing Performance In Macedonia: An Institutional Analysis Study, Filipo Sharevski

Open Access Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore the contribution of the localization data, network-management data, and content-of-communication data in the case processing performance in Macedonia. The mobile network forensics evidence was analyzed respective to the impact of the mobile network data variety, the mobile network data volume, and the forensic processing on the case disposition time. The results from this study indicate that the case disposition time is negatively correlated with the network-management data volume and positively correlated with the content-of-communication data volume. The relevance of the network-management data was recognized in the highly granular service behavior profile developed …

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After-Hours Mobile Technology Use And Its Effect On Burnout Experienced By Student Affairs Professionals, Anne Stark Jan 2015

After-Hours Mobile Technology Use And Its Effect On Burnout Experienced By Student Affairs Professionals, Anne Stark

Open Access Dissertations

This study examined the possible effect between the after-hours mobile technology use by student affairs professionals and work place burnout experienced by student affairs professionals. Similar to Owens (2014), data for this study were collected by employing the Maslach Burnout Inventory (Christina Maslach, Jackson, & Leiter, 1986). The collected data in this study were explored by the statistical method of multiple regression. While the number of responses was not high enough to determine statistically significant differences, the data did not show a strong correlation between after-hours mobile technology use and workplace burnout experienced by student affairs professionals.

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Economic Development And Child Nutrition In Nepal, Ganesh Thapa Jan 2015

Economic Development And Child Nutrition In Nepal, Ganesh Thapa

Open Access Dissertations

Child malnutrition rates in Nepal are among the highest in the world. Government and non-governmental agencies are actively seeking various pathways that might be useful to improve child nutrition outcomes in Nepal, fill gaps in understanding surrounding nutrition drivers, and shorten the time required to attain the Millennium Development Goals. This dissertation includes three essays that use a range of data, including nationally representative data on the growth of children nutrition below five years of age, to identify potential pathways for improving child nutrition in Nepal.

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Mental Health And Human Minds: Some Theoretical Criteria For Clinical Psychiatry, Natalia Washington Jan 2015

Mental Health And Human Minds: Some Theoretical Criteria For Clinical Psychiatry, Natalia Washington

Open Access Dissertations

When it comes to the topic of mental illness, there are three broad areas of concern that are of interest to all of us as human beings—and to the theorists, researchers, and clinicians who wish to offer help—besides knowing what our symptoms are. First, we might be interested in finding out some normative facts about ourselves as individuals, such as whether or not we are mentally healthy, perhaps to what extent, and how this should affect our motivations. A second area of concern involves descriptive facts our minds. In what ways do we deviate from typical human psychological nature, and …

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