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Gnana Chinniah V. East Pennsboro Township

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

American Institute For Chartered Property Casualty V. Adam Potter

2024 Decisions

USDC for the District of Delaware

Brandywine Village Associates V. Carlino East Brandywine Lp

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Walter Anderson V. Michael Dohman

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

James Moyle V. Brianna Moyle : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

Appeal from ruling of the Honorable Judge Jennifer Mabey of the Fourth Judicial District in and for Wasatch County as to a Petition for Divorce under U.C.A. § 30-3-1, et. seq.

Brody N. Miles, 15201 Moody Brown Law Attorney for James Moyle

Sarah Jenkins Dewey Bart Johnsen Hannah Ector Parsons Behle & Latimer Attorneys for Brianna Moyle

How To Read A Patent: A Survey Of The Textual Characteristics Of Patent Documents And Strategies For Comprehension, Graham Sherriff

Journal of the Patent and Trademark Resource Center Association

Reading patents is an important activity for inventors and anyone seeking to file or defend a patent, as well as for “exploratory” researchers such as students in a range of disciplines. However, they are notoriously difficult to read. This paper examines the characteristics of patent documents that impair their readability and seeks to identify comprehension strategies and techniques that may alleviate this difficulty. Insights were gathered from a review of the scholarly literature on reading and patent literacy, a survey of patent educators affiliated with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)’s Patent and Trademark Research Center (PTRC) Program, and …

A Regional Analysis Of Climate Change Effects On Global Snow Crab Fishery, Jingjing Tao, Kwamena Quagrainie, Kenneth A. Foster, Nicole Olynk Widmar

Department of Agricultural Economics Faculty Publications

The snow crab fishery faces increasing vulnerability to environmental factors, yet the literature on the relationship between climate change and snow crab harvest remains limited. This study estimates snow crab harvest functions using climate change indicators with unbalanced panel data of snow crab production from the eastern Bering Sea (Alaska), the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada), the Sea of Japan, and the Barents Sea (Norway-Russia). The relationship between snow crab biomass, stock, and catch is analyzed and the endogeneity of stock in the harvest function is also addressed using climate change indicators as instrumental variables (IVs). The results show …

Phase Ii Study Of Vemurafenib In Children And Young Adults With Tumors Harboring Braf V600 Mutations: Nci-Cog Pediatric Match Trial (Apec1621) Arm G, Marie V Nelson, Aerang Kim, P Mickey Williams, Sinchita Roy-Chowdhuri, David R Patton, Brent D Coffey, Joel M Reid, Jin Piao, Lauren Saguilig, Todd A Alonzo, Stacey L Berg, Nilsa C Ramirez, Alok Jaju, Elizabeth Fox, Brenda J Weigel, Douglas S Hawkins, Margaret M Mooney, Naoko Takebe, James V Tricoli, Katherine A Janeway, Nita L Seibel, D Williams Parsons

Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff Publications

Background: This is a phase II subprotocol of the NCI-COG Pediatric MATCH study evaluating vemurafenib, a selective oral inhibitor of BRAF V600 mutated kinase, in patients with relapsed or refractory solid tumors harboring BRAF V600 mutations.

Methods: Patients received vemurafenib at 550 mg/m2 (maximum 960 mg/dose) orally twice daily for 28-day cycles until progression or intolerable toxicity. The primary aim was to determine the objective response rate and secondary objectives included estimating progression-free survival and assessing the tolerability of vemurafenib.

Results: Twenty-two patients matched to the subprotocol and 4 patients (18%) enrolled. Primary reasons for non-enrollment were ineligibility due to …

Sensorial Investigations: A History Of The Senses, In Anthropology, Psychology, And Law: By David Howes, Hannah Drayson

School of Art, Design and Architecture

No abstract provided.

Ndls Communicator: Week Of 08.05.24, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Communicator

The Latest

• Professor Nicole Stelle Garnett elected to American Law Institute
• Notre Dame Law students promote economic opportunity through the Community Development Clinic

Student News

• Notre Dame Law students seek to be a "Different Kind of Lawyer" through public interest work this summer
• Notre Dame Law students champion civil rights and liberties this summer with the ACLU
• Program on Church, State & Society has announced the winners of its annual writing competition

Faculty News and Briefs

• Derek Muller was quoted by several news agencies concerning the current political climate surround the presidential elections including CNN, EWTN, The Economic Times, AOL, …

Summary Report Of Discussions At The Ana Forum 2024, Berkeley, Ca “How Can The North American Nepali Diaspora Contribute To Nepal’S Economic Development?”,, Ambika P. Adhikari

Himalayan Research Papers Archive

The ANA 2024 annual convention, organized on ANA’s 42nd founding anniversary, was held in the San Francisco Bay Area (Berkeley and Oakland) in California, where hundreds of ANA members and friends had gathered. The convention consisted of several forums, sessions, and cultural programs. As always, the convention included a Nepal-related forum “How Can the North American Nepali Diaspora Contribute to Nepal’s Economic Development?” The Forum took place from 1:30-2:30 pm on Saturday July 20, 2024. Four panelists, including the moderator, spoke at the forum. About 45-50 individuals attended the session. Guest panelist, Dr. Minendra Rijal sent a message as he …

Narratives On Nepal’S Coalition Politics, Ashis Adhikary

Himalayan Research Papers Archive

On 2nd July 2024, the Communist Party of Nepal- United Marxist Leninist (UML) struck a power-sharing deal with its earlier nemesis, the Nepali Congress (NC), and formed a new coalition. Surprisingly, UML left its ruling ally, the Maoist Center (MC) barely four months after joining hands. Coalition politics in Nepal ages old but this newly formed coalition nonplussed the analyst and political sphere. There are scattered and obstinate market narratives regarding this coalition. A gap exists in thematically framing those narrations. Therefore, this paper thematically presents those scattered narrations under three levels: individual, state, and system. At the individual level, …

Facilitating Play For Preschoolers With Severe Multiple Impairments, Hannah B. Wade

Masters Projects

Play is a fundamental right of childhood that should be accessible to every child because it has enormous benefits for all areas of their development and brings joy to their lives. Unfortunately, children with disabilities, especially those with severe multiple impairments, face many barriers to accessing play. Early childhood educators have the responsibility and privilege of supporting their students with severe multiple impairments in engaging in play by facilitating accessible play experiences within the early childhood curriculum. The goal of this project is to provide a guide for early childhood educators that supports them in facilitating playful learning for these …

James K. Moyle Petitioner/ Appellant V. Brianna Moyle Respondent/ Appellee : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

Appeal from ruling of the Honorable Judge Jennifer Mabey of the Fourth Judicial District in and for Wasatch County as to a Petition for Divorce under U.C.A. § 30-3-1, et. seq.

Brody N. Miles, Attorney for James Moyle Appellant

Sarah Jenkins Dewey, Bart Johnsen, Hannah Ector, Attorneys for Brianna Moyle Appellee

A Human Stat3 Gain-Of-Function Variant Drives Local Th17 Dysregulation And Skin Inflammation In Mice, Kelsey A Toth, Erica G Schmitt, Ana Kolicheski, Zev J Greenberg, Elizabeth Levendosky, Nermina Saucier, Kelsey Trammel, Vasileios Oikonomou, Michail S Lionakis, Eynav Klechevsky, Brian S Kim, Laura G Schuettpelz, Naresha Saligrama, Megan A Cooper

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Germline gain-of-function (GOF) variants in STAT3 cause an inborn error of immunity associated with early-onset poly-autoimmunity and immune dysregulation. To study tissue-specific immune dysregulation, we used a mouse model carrying a missense variant (p.G421R) that causes human disease. We observed spontaneous and imiquimod (IMQ)-induced skin inflammation associated with cell-intrinsic local Th17 responses in STAT3 GOF mice. CD4+ T cells were sufficient to drive skin inflammation and showed increased Il22 expression in expanded clones. Certain aspects of disease, including increased epidermal thickness, also required the presence of STAT3 GOF in epithelial cells. Treatment with a JAK inhibitor improved skin disease without …

Unlocking The Potential Of Small Satellites: Themis's Active Cooling Technology On The Spirit Mission, Miguel Ortiz Del Castillo, Clint Therakam, Jack Mcrobbie, Andrew Woods, Robert Mearns, Simon Barraclough, Stephen Catsamas, Mika Ohkawa, Jonathan Morgan, Airlie Chapman, Michele Trenti

Small Satellite Conference

The Thermal Management Integrated System (TheMIS) is a key element of the Australia-Italy Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal (SpIRIT) mission, launched in a 510km Polar Sun-Synchronous orbit in December 2023. SpIRIT is a 6U CubeSat led by The University of Melbourne in cooperation with the Italian Space Agency, with support from the Australian Space Agency and with contributions from Australian space industry and international research organizations. The TheMIS subsystem actively cools and controls the temperature of sensitive instruments, increasing the potential range of payloads supported on small spacecraft systems. TheMIS core functionality is based on a commercial Stirling Cycle Cryocooler …

Fantasist Of Middle America: L Frank Baum And His Works, L. Frank Baum

Mythcon

The panelists will talk about this centrally important midwestern Fantasy writer, who is named one of Diversicon’s “Posthumous guests of honor” this year. He would be remembered as greatly influential if he had only written The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but come and learn about more of his legacy.

An Electrical Power System Development For Vertecs: A 6u Cubesat Mission For Observation The Extragalactic Background Light, Chinathip Narongphun, Shunsuke Nakagawa, Hari Ram Shrestha, Victor Hugo Schulz, Rodrigo Cordova, Necmi Cihan Örger, Kei Sano, Takao Nakagawa

Small Satellite Conference

This paper focuses on an overview of the electrical power system (EPS) implemented in the Visible extragalactic background radiation exploration by CubeSat (VERTECS), a 6U CubeSat developed by a collaboration of the Kyushu institute of technology (Kyutech), JAXA, universities, and companies. Its mission aims to reveal the star-formation history of the universe through observations of the extragalactic background light (EBL) in visible wavelength. This article presents the three primary functions of the EPS in VERTECS design (i.e., power source, energy storage, and power control) in detail, as well as the verification of the system by the breadboard model (BBM). Numerous …

Open-Source Cubesat Solar Panels: Design, Assembly, Testing, And On-Orbit Demonstration, Nicholas J. Sorensen, Erik F. Halliwell

Small Satellite Conference

Cube satellites, or CubeSats, are small satellites commonly used to perform Earth imaging and on-orbit scientific experiments. CubeSats are often powered using expensive, inflexible commercial-off-the-shelf solar panels, largely due to a lack of flight-qualified open-source alternatives. Here, we describe the design of customizable, deployable solar panels, offering an open-source, cost-effective alternative. Towards a fully open-source CubeSat, our designs have mission-tailored power generation capabilities and simple electrical and mechanical integration. The solar panel designs were demonstrated on-orbit on three satellites in the Northern SPIRIT constellation and will be on AlbertaSat’s Ex-Alta 3 satellite, which will launch in 2025. The design files, …

Modelling Climate Effects On Site Productivity And Developing Site Index Conversion Equations For Jack Pine And Trembling Aspen Mixed Stands, Mahadev Sharma

Aspen Bibliography

Forest site productivity estimates are crucial for making informed forest resource management decisions.These estimates are valuable both for the tree species currently growing in the stands and for those being considered for future stands. Current models are generally designed for pure stands and do not account for the influence of climate on tree growth. Consequently, site index (SI) conversion equations were developed specifically for jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) and trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) trees grown in naturally originated mixed stands. This work involved sampling 186 trees (93 of each species) from 31 even-aged mixed stands (3 …

Ucf Pegasus Plan - 5th Grade - Structure And Function Of Government, Cheryl Johnson

Pegasus Plans: Social Studies Unit Plans for Florida Teachers

During this unit, students will demonstrate an understanding of the Structure and Function of the Three Branches of Government. Students will explore and compare each level and Branch of Government including but not limited to Checks and Balances, History of the Constitution and Purpose of Government.

Safety And Effectiveness Of Irreversible Electroporation In Lymph Node Metastases, Govindarajan Narayanan, Brian Schiro, Ripal Gandhi, Constantino Pena

All Publications

Purpose: Demonstrating the safety and efficacy of percutaneous irreversible electroporation (IRE) for the treatment of lymph node metastases.

Materials and methods: An IRB-approved, single-center retrospective review was performed on patients with lymph node metastases gastrointestinal, and genitourinary primary cancers. Primary objective safety was evaluated by assessing complications graded according to the Clavien-Dindo Classification, and efficacy was determined by tumor response on follow-up imaging and local progression-free survival (LPFS). Secondary outcome measures were technical success (complete ablation with an adequate ablative margin > 5 mm), length of hospital stay and distant progression-free survival (DPFS).

Results: Nineteen patients underwent percutaneous IRE between June …

Indonesia’S Development Strategy: The Path Of State Owned Enterprises Global Expansion, Farahdiba Rahma Bachtiar

Global: Jurnal Politik Internasional

Following the Asian Crisis, many believed that the era of the developmental state model had ended. However, amidst debates of pros and cons, there was a strong tendency to observe that, before the Jokowi administration, several Indonesian government policies were highly interventionist. This article examines the possibility that the developmental state model will no longer continue in Indonesia, which is merely a myth. Using a qualitative research approach that draws on various literature, including data from 2022–2024 and field research findings in Indonesia during the 2015–2021 period, this article argues that the developmental model has evolved toward a more practical …

Identifying Student Profiles In A Digital Mental Rotation Task: Insights From The 2017 Naep Math Assessment, Xin Wei, Susu Zhang, Jihong Zhang

Counseling, Leadership, and Research Methods Faculty Publications and Presentations

Mental rotation (MR), a key aspect of spatial reasoning, is highly predictive of success in STEM fields. This study analyzed strategies employed by 27,600 eighth-grade students during a digital MR task from the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in mathematics. Utilizing K-means cluster analysis to categorize behavioral and performance patterns, we identified four distinct profiles: Cognitive Offloaders (15% of the sample), Internal Visualizers (55%), External Visualizers (5%), and Non-Triers (25%). Cognitive Offloaders, skilled at minimizing cognitive load by eliminating incorrect options, demonstrated the highest MR accuracy rates at 45%. Internal Visualizers, relying less on digital tools and more …

Tumour-Intrinsic Endomembrane Trafficking By Arf6 Shapes An Immunosuppressive Microenvironment That Drives Melanomagenesis And Response To Checkpoint Blockade Therapy, Yinshen Wee, Junhua Wang, Emily C Wilson, Coulson P Rich, Aaron Rogers, Evelyn Degroot, Michael A Davies, H Atakan Ekiz, Joshua K H Tay, Chris Stubben, Kenneth M Boucher, Juan M Oviedo, Keke C Fairfax, Matthew A Williams, Sheri L Holmen, Roger K Wolff, Allie H Grossmann

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Tumour-host immune interactions lead to complex changes in the tumour microenvironment (TME), impacting progression, metastasis and response to therapy. While it is clear that cancer cells can have the capacity to alter immune landscapes, our understanding of this process is incomplete. Herein we show that endocytic trafficking at the plasma membrane, mediated by the small GTPase ARF6, enables melanoma cells to impose an immunosuppressive TME that accelerates tumour development. This ARF6-dependent TME is vulnerable to immune checkpoint blockade therapy (ICB) but in murine melanoma, loss of Arf6 causes resistance to ICB. Likewise, downregulation of ARF6 in patient tumours correlates with …

Statistical Anomaly Analysis Of Small Satellite Missions Focusing On Payloads, Alexander Schmidt, Nico Gerster, Johannes Bachmann, Alexander Groß, Roger Förstner

Small Satellite Conference

With the rapid development of space technology, the number of new satellites has expanded rapidly in recent years, and the applications of satellites have gradually expanded into other industries and deeper into academia. While the small satellite category is experiencing significant growth, the behavior of small satellites still requires more in-depth study. A growing number of academic and industrial customers are looking to use satellites to achieve their scientific or business goals without having to develop a full satellite mission, including a satellite platform. Hosting payloads on other satellites or procuring pre-qualified platforms enables new mission flexibility while minimizing the …

Scholar Guest Of Honor Address, The Mythopoeic Society

Mythcon

Speech by Scholar Guest of Honor Brian Attebery

Mythcon participants are invited (but not required!) to take part in our opening festivities Saturday morning by wearing costumes or regalia and carrying banners in our procession to the Terrace Rooms in which our Opening Ceremonies and Scholar Guest of Honor Address will be held. Those wishing to take part in the Opening Procession should meet by 8:45 am inside the main hotel lobby.

Proton Single Events Effects Testing By Undergraduate Students For University Cubesat Mission Assurance, Pragun Bethapudi, Matthew Chang, Max Gross

Small Satellite Conference

The PROVES (Pleiades Rapid Orbital Verification Experimental System) Flight Controller Board was irradiated with 200 MeV Protons to a total fluence of 1e10 across multiple runs. Using the n/2000 method [1], this report has concluded the Non-destructive Single Event Effect (SEE) error rate of the Flight Controller Board to be 0.183 SEE per system day.

A Hardware-In-The-Loop Star Tracker Testbed, Ashley Haraguchi

Small Satellite Conference

As the use of small satellites for advanced space missions continues to grow, the importance of low mass and cost three axis attitude stabilization systems is increasing as well, which means high accuracy attitude knowledge is required. Star trackers provide the most accurate attitude knowledge of any type of attitude sensor, but their high cost, size, and weight can be prohibitive to small satellite missions. Many simple star trackers have been developed using commercial-off-the-shelf camera sensors and processing hardware, but the challenge remains in testing and characterizing these devices. Common methods involve night sky tests, where the star tracker is …

Health Rocks!: An 11-Year Evaluation, Dan Wang, Yan Xia, Maria Rosario De Guzman, Jeong-Kyun Choi, Yunqi Wang, Zhenqiao Yang

Journal of Extension

This study examined the program effectiveness of Health Rocks!, a youth substance use prevention program. Merging data from 128,544 youth participants in 21 states between 2009 and 2021, this study compared self-reported levels of knowledge, skills, and internal and external assets before and after the program. Youth reported significant increases in substance use knowledge, stress-coping skills, and assets to make healthy life decisions across eleven years. The magnitude of effects varied by individual characteristics, including gender, school grade level, race, ethnicity, and residence. We provide recommendations for the evaluation of substance use prevention program effectiveness.