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Systemic Racism And Sentencing Indigenous Youth, Helene Love, Stephanie Wiley

UBC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Declarations Of Invalidity And The Metaphysics Of Judicial Review, Amitpal C. Singh

UBC Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Financial Literacy On Firm Performance, Erwin Joseph

Doctoral Dissertations (DBA)

This study examines the influence of financial literacy on firm performance by integrating state-level financial literacy data with firm-level metrics including Market Capitalization, Tobin’s Q, ROA, ROE, and EBIT. Utilizing data from the National Financial Capability Study (NFCS) and COMPUSTAT for the years 2009 to 2024, and a sample size of 100,126 observations, it highlights how higher levels of financial literacy correlate with improved firm valuation and profitability. The study employs the Financial Literacy Index and its imputed counterpart using the Fully Conditional Specification (FCS) method to address missing data. Regression analyses reveal that financial literacy significantly impacts both valuation …

Digestibility, Palatability, And Nutrient Composition Of Three Species Of Whole Prey In Three Species Of Snakes, Morgan R. Kienzle

Department of Animal Science: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Snakes in human care often lack diversity in the diet. Rodents account for the majority of meals, while wild snakes are consuming a varied diet composed of multiple different whole prey species. By feeding only one species of prey, the chance of nutrient deficiencies and other health concerns increases. To promote variety in the managed diet, two commercially available whole prey species (mice (Mus musculus) and chicks (Gallus spp.)) and one novel species (Seba’s short-tailed bats (Carollia perspicillata)), were analyzed for their dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM), crude protein (CP), crude fat …

Evaluation Of Two Different Sweet Bran Products On Beef Cattle Digestion Characteristics And A Review Of Ramp As An Alternative Step-Up Program, Emily K. Hoefling

Department of Animal Science: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Two Sweet Bran products were evaluated at 13%, 18%, and 23% inclusion of the diet on total tract digestibility and rumen fermentation parameters. Seven ruminally cannulated, heifers were used in a 6 x 7 row-column design with 21-d periods consisting of 16-d adaptation period followed by a 5-d collection. Dietary treatments were designed in a 2 x 3 factorial arrangement with 6 periods. Factors included two Sweet Bran products that differed in particle size (Sweet Bran-SP; GMD = 1.79 mm or Sweet Bran-LP; GMD = 2.51 mm) and three dietary inclusion (13%, 18%, or 23% of diet dry matter). The …

Spartan Daily, May 1, 2025, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2025

Volume 164, Issue 40

Menstrual Justice After Dobbs, Margaret E. Johnson

All Faculty Scholarship

This Article identifies and analyzes the category of state and private regulation that is invisible and subordinates women and other menstruators in ways that impact their privacy, liberty, and equality. Because this category of regulation is pervasive, bringing it to light is critical for considering how best to curb its harm. This Article considers potential legal strategies to counter such menstruation regulation and argues that Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization offers some promise—but more cause for pessimism—regarding the U.S. Constitution’s power to do so. This Article therefore explains how subconstitutional law offers greater potential, while cautioning that political science …

Sisterly Bonds Beyond The Grave: The Ethical Implications Of Posthumously Publishing Jane Austen’S Persuasion, Ashleigh Jay

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

By the time that Jane Austen died in 1817, she had only published four novels. After her death, her family retained her other writings. Later that year, they published one of Austen’s finished manuscripts which became the novel Persuasion. This act of posthumous publication invokes inquiries into whether the action was ethical. In order to better understand the ethics of publishing Persuasion posthumously, one can look at information from Jane Austen’s life and ideas around posthumous actions. Even though Persuasion by Jane Austen was published posthumously, Austen’s choice to leave the manuscript with her sister and her completion of …

Dutch Bros Coffee Strategic Audit, Parker Barry, Olivia Palmer, Cade Swanson, Braden Starck, Jacob Whiston

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

This case study focuses on Dutch Bros, a leading drive-thru coffee chain. A strategic audit was conducted to understand the company’s strategic management principles: external and internal factors, performance and competition, business level strategy, corporate level strategy, and organizational design and governance. In addition, the audit studies the implications of their recent strategic decisions to expand roasting facilities and move towards corporate-owned stores rather than operating a franchise model.

The research contained in this audit used publicly available information, including Dutch Bro’s financial statements, information from their website, annual reports, IBIS industry reports, and online press coverage.

Monetization Of Crowd-Sourced Fog Node Services Using Blockchain And Smart Contracts And The Adaptation Of Ml For Data Reduction, Faith Nwokoma

All Dissertations

Fog computing is increasingly becoming the building block for the explosive growth in edge computing as it affords the edge all the capabilities of the cloud with low latency and more decongested internet traffic. It accounts for the limitations found in IoT and other edge devices regarding memory, CPU, and bandwidth. While firms are providing these fog nodes, there remains the issue of data ownership, pricing fairness, and the amounts charged to customers based on the quality of services received. Our work proposed a decentralized blockchain-based fog paradigm that addressed these issues and provides a platform for users to contribute …

Deviant Trajectories Of Black Girls In Adolescent Romantic Relationships, Anna I. Fondren

All Dissertations

This quantitative study explored whether involvement in adolescent romantic relationships among Black females influenced juvenile delinquency and later criminal behavior. While prior research has examined how peers, family, and romantic partners impact delinquency and substance use, the unique intersection of being both Black and female in this context remains underexplored. The study used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), which follows U.S. adolescents from middle and high school into adulthood (ages 24–32). The dataset included variables related to peer and family relationships, romantic and sexual involvement, substance use, victimization, delinquency, and criminal behavior. …

Multineutrosophic Analysis Of Financial Statements As A Basis For Strategic Decision-Making In Uncertain Environments, Edison Aquiles Olivero Arias, Jorge Luis Chabusa Vargas, José Alejandro Flores Sánchez, Stephanie Marcela Delgado Estrada

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Uncertainty-Based Measurement Of Job Satisfaction Evaluation Of University Teachers: An Improved Bipolar Neutrosophic Multi-Criteria Approach For Enhanced Decision-Making, Jing Liu

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Study Of The Correlation Between The Behavior Of Work Teams And Knowledge Management In The Offices Dependent On The Academic Vice-Rectorate Of The National Agrarian University Of La Selva: Based On Plithogenic Statistics, Lucila Maribel Justiniano-Advincula, Monica Gisela Justiniano-Advincula, Ketty Marilú Moscoso-Paucarchuco, Inocente Feliciano Salazar-Rojas, Carlos Walter Mayta-Molina, Zaida Elizabeth Caycho-Gutierrez, Manuel Michael Beraún-Espíritu

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Estimating The Prevalence Of Delay In Comprehensive And Expressive Language Development In Preschool Children In Pichincha, Ecuador Based On Plithogenic Statistics, Andino-Acosta María Soledad, Guerrero-Olalla Mercy Paulina, Lima-Rosero Patricia Elizabeth, Moreno-Pramatárova Mila, Ruales-Paredes Salomé Shayana, Tapia-Tapia Sylvia Ibeth, Unda-Vargas Ivonne Cristina

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Complex Neutrosophic Approach For Uncertainty Management In Employment Competence For Higher Vocational College Students, Shuo Du, Lijuan Zhao

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Advanced Deep Learning Models Based On Neutrosophic Logic For The Analysis Of Brain Tumor Medical Images, Dina Atef, Doaa El Shaha

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Neutrosophic Sets And Systems, Vol. 82,2025, Florentin Smarandache, Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Maikel. Leyva Vazquez

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Advancing Precision And Autonomy In Agriculture And Medical Imaging Through Ai And Computer Visions, Tan-Hanh Pham

Theses and Dissertations

Deep learning has revolutionized numerous fields by enhancing precision, automation, and decision-making capabilities. This dissertation explores its applications in agriculture and medical image processing, introducing novel methodologies to improve accuracy and efficiency in these domains. These fields hold critical societal importance -- agriculture underpins global food security and sustainability, while medical imaging drives advancements in diagnostics and personalized healthcare, both benefiting significantly from data-driven innovations. In agriculture, deep learning is applied to precision spray systems through droplet analysis. Specifically, a generative model is designed to create synthetic droplet images, addressing the challenge of limited training samples, which are expensive …

Developing A Small Molecule To Inhibit Hsf1 Expression In Cancer And Evaluating Natural Genetic Variation In Small Molecule Toxicity., Michaela Kendal Foley

Theses and Dissertations

Each year cancer affects nearly 20 million people worldwide and genetic differences across populations can impact cancer onset and progression. Specifically, tumors with high levels of HSF1, the master regulator of the cytoprotective heat shock response (HSR), are correlated with poor patient outcomes in multiple cancers such as prostate, breast, and melanoma. Subsequently, the development of pharmacological inhibitors of HSF1 represents a promising strategy for anticancer therapeutics. Using a luciferase-based transcriptional reporter, two small molecule libraries were screened for inhibitors of HSF1 expression in human embryonic kidney cells, yielding ten compounds that decrease HSF1 expression. To identify if cancer lines …

Particle-Based High-Fidelity Interface Tracking Algorithms, Taiyuan Zhang

Dartmouth College Master’s Theses

Accurate interface tracking is essential in simulating multiphase flows, material deformation, and other physical phenomena involving evolving geometries. In this thesis, we present an adaptive dual-particle representation for high-fidelity interface tracking. By combining two types of particles—feature particles and sample particles—we construct an implicit representation that captures fine geometric details. This representation is evolved explicitly using a velocity flow field, enabling accurate and adaptive tracking of dynamic interfaces. We further propose a particle level set method on the flow map, leveraging the state-of-the-art accuracy of particle-based advection. By integrating this approach with the particle level set framework, we achieve fourth-order …

Offering A Manufacturing Curriculum Online To Rural Schools: The Case Of The Nimm Project, Raymond A. Dixon, Farjahan Shawon

Journal of Research in Technical Careers

This case study examined the extent to which the two implemented manufacturing pathways of the NIMM project successfully facilitated access and engaged high school students from rural regions in two manufacturing curricula. The program consisted of two tracks or career pathways for manufacturing technicians: Mechanical CADD technician and Electro-Mechanical technician. The Mechanical CADD program was delivered online, and the Electro-Mechanical program was delivered online and through a summer skills academy. Findings include, students showed less preference for CTE manufacturing courses in an online asynchronous format, CTE instructors need to be trained to teach online, proper IT infrastructure is needed for …

Wired For Degradation: How Post-Translational Control Of Inducible Camp Early Repressor Protein Influences Melanoma Fate, Melissa Rose Spigelman

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Melanoma is a highly aggressive form of skin cancer frequently driven by mutations in the BRAF gene, particularly the BRAFⱽ⁶⁰⁰ᴱ variant, which leads to sustained activation of the MAPK signaling cascade. Recent studies implicate the cyclic AMP (cAMP) signaling axis in melanoma progression and therapeutic resistance, highlighting the role of the Inducible cAMP Early Repressor (ICER), a transcriptional antagonist of CREB and CREM. ICER is downregulated during melanomagenesis and subject to post-translational regulation via phosphorylation and ubiquitin-mediated degradation. To investigate ICER’s functional relevance in vivo, e utilized a zebrafish melanoma model harboring brafⱽ⁶⁰⁰ᴱ, tp53−/−, and mitf−/−mutations, in which mitf expression …

Culture And Context: How Frames Of Teaching And Of Learning Mathematics Form And Change For Graduate Student Instructors, Johan Benedict Arroyo Cristobal

Dissertations and Doctoral Documents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023–

Why do instructors teach the way that they do? This question is key in understanding how and why asset-based or deficit-based practices are enacted in the classroom. In consequence, this question also gives insight into how the environment where students learn is shaped. Mathematics education research, in particular, has been concerned with how instructors respond to students’ contributions in the classroom and how these ways of responding can (dis)empower students.

One way to answer this question is to understand how instructors frame their own teaching and their students’ learning. Frames are mental constructs which help individuals filter details, interpret information, …

Engaging Youth In Philanthropic Practice: Field-Building Strategies And The Promise Of Youth-Possible Philanthropy™, Kimberlin D. Butler

The Foundation Review

Traditional philanthropy has largely been top-down, with communities — including youth — having limited decision-making power. Despite philanthropy’s recent shift toward participatory approaches, young people in these historically excluded communities are often ignored as contributors to philanthropic strategy.

Youth-Possible Philanthropy™ (YPP) offers a new, emerging theoretical framework that proposes to shift this dynamic by positioning youth as co-creators and possibility catalysts in philanthropic governance and strategy. YPP is grounded in possibility development, participatory approaches, and trust-based philanthropy.

The article provides strategies for operationalizing YPP. Case examples illustrate how YPP can foster authentic power-sharing and bridge gaps in philanthropic practice.

Contesting The City Through Sustainability Discourse: A Joint Archival And Interview Analysis Of City Planning In Louisville, Kentucky., Calvin Grant

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Sustainability is a part of a global discourse cast as a universal, technocratic solution to the climate crisis in need of a receptive public and active local adaptation. In many cases, language espousing sustainable development ideals and policy implementation promotes a perspective of scientific neutrality that overlooks socio-politically grounded discourses. This joint archival and interview-centered discourse analysis demonstrates that official sustainability discourse in Louisville’s Comprehensive Plan 2040 was produced through a carefully moderated consensus among planners and select stakeholders. Such consensus prioritizes the perspectives and agency of policy experts, business leaders, and others who have “recognized speech” of authority, while …

"I Never Really Saw Anybody That Looked Like Me In A Book": A Positioning Theory Analysis Of Preservice Teachers' Critical Reflections., Melissa Lee Zipper

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this qualitative case study is to understand how preservice teachers develop their criticality within a semester long undergraduate course focused on children’s literature. This study addresses a well-documented practical knowledge gap in education research: although preservice teachers claim to understand the importance of a culturally relevant and sustaining curriculum, they do not know how to effectuate that curriculum when it comes to their future classrooms. Using Positioning Theory as a theoretical lens and an analytical tool, the study explores how preservice teachers position themselves in relation to developing their criticality through participation in a course curriculum purposefully …

The Supreme Court's Specious Code Of Conduct, James J. Sample

Cardozo Law Review

Congressionally imposed ethics enforcement would enhance the Supreme Court's exercise of constitutional powers by reducing the interference of improper personal motives during its factual and legal determinations. The Court has long recognized the self-evident truth that "no man can be a judge in his own case." The Framers recognized the limits inherent in human nature: humans are not angels. Accordingly, the Constitutional scheme of separated powers, as elucidated by Madison, "[does] not mean that these departments ought to have no partial agency in, or no control over, the acts of each other." Congress rightly has the constitutional means and motive …

Evaluating The Relationship Between Musical Sophistication And Melodic And Harmonic Expectations., Anya Elizabeth Shorey-Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Expectations help us navigate our environment, especially in familiar contexts. Western tonal music offers one such context where expectations are at play. While implicit musical expectations occur in listeners without musical training, musical training can sharpen expectations. Two primary open questions are investigated here. First, explicit pitch-based expectations for less musical participants have been relatively neglected. Second, general musicality and formal musical training have not been well separated in previous research, making it difficult to understand if sharpening of expectations is associated with training itself or with broader musical interactions. Experiments 1 and 2 adapted an explicit music production task …

Black Childhood In Focus: Counter-Histories Of Black Urban Childhood In Preserve The Baltimore Uprising, A 21st Century Digital Participatory Archive., Ameena Basheera X Ruffin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the (mis)representation of Black urban childhood in the United States and proposes a framework for Black children’s inclusion in historical narratives. Black children have been excluded from constructs of childhood innocence, justifying violence against Black children and perpetuating anti-Black social hierarchies. This study builds on the work of Saidiya Hartman, advocating for a critical approach to studying, archiving, and understanding Black childhood through the lenses of region, race, age, and gender. Using the participatory digital archive Preserve the Baltimore Uprising as a case study, the research explores Black children’s presence and contributions during the 2015 Baltimore Uprising. …