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Environmental Sustainability Practices Of Albanian Micro Enterprises And Smes, Engjellushe Icka, Jeffery Adams, Ralph G. Kauffman

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

There is a growing global awareness on the importance of sustainability practices. Some major reasons for the growing awareness of sustainability practices are increased legal requirements by governments, customer demands, and political/societal pressure. This paper discuses environmental sustainability practices of micro enterprises and SMEs in Albania. Nine Albanian SMEs were interviewed about their sustainability practices and the results are discussed. The results of this study show that even though there is a lack of detailed sustainability requirements in Albania many SMEs are aware of environmental sustainability and are beginning to implement sustainability practices. For some Albanian SMEs and micro businesses, …

Development Of Alveolar-Capillary-Exchange (Ace) Chip And Its Application For Assessment Of Pm2.5-Induced Toxicity, Mingyang Gang, Song Tang, Haiyun Chang, Yuanyuan Chen, Fengge Chen, Ying Mu, Dong Zhao, Weiwei Fan, Huifang Tian, Diane Darland, Ying Zhang

Biology Faculty Publications

Although standard two-dimensional (2D) cell culture is an effective tool for cell studies, monolayer cultivation can yield imperfect or misleading information about numerous biological functions. In this study, we developed an alveolar-capillary exchange (ACE) chip aiming to simulate the cellular microenvironment at the alveolar-capillary interface. The ACE chip was designed with two chambers for culturing alveolar epithelial cells and vascular endothelial cells separately, which are separated by a microporous polycarbonate film that allows for the exchange of soluble biomolecules. Using this model, we further tested the toxic effects of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), a form of airborne pollutant known to …

William E. Kelley (October 15, 2021), Jayson Smith

Our Story: The Black Oral History Project

William E. Kelley was a part of the class of 1960. In this interview, Kelley discusses with Whittier College student Jayson Smith ‘22 his upbringing, his time as the first black ASWC president, and his experiences with microaggressions at Whittier College.

International And Transnational Intellectual Property Law: An Update, Marketa Trimble

Media & Informal Publications

Professor Trimble presents recent developments in international and transnational IP law for the 2021 Intellectual Property Law Conference (hosted by the Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of Nevada).

Designed, Highly Expressing, Thermostable Dengue Virus 2 Envelope Protein Dimers Elicit Quaternary Epitope Antibodies, Stephen T. Kudlacek, Stefan Metz, Devina Thiono, Alexander M. Payne, Thanh T.N. Phan, Shaomin Tian, Lawrence J. Forsberg, Jack Mcguire, Ian Selm, Shu Zhang, Ashutosh Tripathy, Joseph S. Harrison, Nathan I. Niceley, Sandrine Soman, Michael K. Mccracken, Gregory D. Gromowski, Richard G. Jarman, Lakshmanane Premkumar, Aravinda M. De Silva, Brian Kuhlman

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

Dengue virus (DENV) is a worldwide health burden, and a safe vaccine is needed. Neutralizing antibodies bind to quaternary epitopes on DENV envelope (E) protein homodimers. However, recombinantly expressed soluble E proteins are monomers under vaccination conditions and do not present these quaternary epitopes, partly explaining their limited success as vaccine antigens. Using molecular modeling, we found DENV2 E protein mutations that induce dimerization at low concentrations (<100 pM) and enhance production yield by more than 50-fold. Cross-dimer epitope antibodies bind to the stabilized dimers, and a crystal structure resembles the wild-type (WT) E protein bound to a dimer epitope antibody. Mice immunized with the stabilized dimers developed antibodies that bind to E dimers and not monomers and elicited higher levels of DENV2-neutralizing antibodies compared to mice immunized with WT E antigen. Our findings demonstrate the feasibility of using structure-based design to produce subunit vaccines for dengue and other flaviviruses.

Holy Cross Magazine, Vol. 55, No. 4, Fall 2021, College Of The Holy Cross

Holy Cross Magazine

College Debuts Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Major and Program
By Meredith Fidrocki

Odyssey Celebrates 25 Years of Building Community, Relationships and Student Success
By Mary Cunningham ’17

Inside the Family, Faith and Foundations of Your New President
From his deep Catholic roots to his new role as Holy Cross’ 33rd president, Vincent D. Rougeau brings his lifelong mission of balancing human rights with community responsibility to the education of future generations.
By Maura Sullivan Hill

Service + Spirituality = Purpose
Holy Cross alumni ages 50+ live the values of service and spirituality via the Ignatian Volunteer Corps.
By Meredith Fidrocki

How, Then, …

2021-2022 Common Data Set - Wright State University Lake Campus, Office Of Institutional Research & Effectiveness, Wright State University, Princeton Review

Common Data Set

The 2021-2022 Common Data Set of Wright State University Lake Campus from the Princeton Review. It includes data on admissions, student enrollment, faculty, class size, financial aid and other measures, using standard definitions that aid comparisons between schools.

2021-2022 Common Data Set - Wright State University Dayton Campus, Office Of Institutional Research & Effectiveness, Wright State University, Princeton Review

Common Data Set

The 2021-2022 Common Data Set of Wright State University Dayton Campus from the Princeton Review. It includes data on admissions, student enrollment, faculty, class size, financial aid and other measures, using standard definitions that aid comparisons between schools.

Regulating New Fossil-Fuel Appliances Under Section 111(B) Of The Clean Air Act, Jack Lienke, Rachel Rothschild, Henry Engelstein, Nardos Girma

Other Publications

The majority of residential and commercial buildings use appliances powered with fossil fuels for space and/or water heating. Collectively, these appliances—most of which run on natural gas—emit substantial quantities of a variety of harmful air pollutants, including particulate matter, nitrogen oxides (“NOx”), and carbon dioxide. Fossil-fuel appliances in the U.S. emitted over 425,000 tons of NOx in 2017—almost three times the amount attributable to gas-fired power plants in that year. And fossil-fuel combustion in residential and commercial buildings accounted for almost 10% of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2019—only slightly less than gas power plants. Yet while the U.S. …

Multi-Messenger Astrophysics With Theseus In The 2030s, Bing Zhang, Numerous Authors, See Full List Below

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Research

Multi-messenger astrophysics is becoming a major avenue to explore the Universe, with the potential to span a vast range of redshifts. The growing synergies between different probes is opening new frontiers, which promise profound insights into several aspects of fundamental physics and cosmology. In this context, THESEUS will play a central role during the 2030s in detecting and localizing the electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave and neutrino sources that the unprecedented sensitivity of next generation detectors will discover at much higher rates than the present. Here, we review the most important target signals from multi-messenger sources that THESEUS will be …

Icarus Quartet, October 15, 2021 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

October 15, 2021 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

The Winter Adverse Driving Dataset (Wads) - Sequence 14, Akhil Kurup, Jeremy Bos

Michigan Tech Research Data

Collected in the snow belt region of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, WADS is the first multi-modal dataset featuring dense point-wise labeled sequential LiDAR scans collected in severe winter weather. Over 26 TB of multi modal data has been collected of which over 7 GB of LiDAR point clouds (3.6 billion points) have been labeled (semanticKITTI format) and made available here. This outdoor dataset introduces falling snow and accumulated snow along with all the semanticKITTI classes. We believe this dataset will further AV tasks like semantic and panoptic segmentation, object detection and tracking, and localization and mapping in conditions of moderate to …

The Winter Adverse Driving Dataset (Wads) - Sequence 15, Akhil Kurup, Jeremy Bos

Michigan Tech Research Data

Collected in the snow belt region of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, WADS is the first multi-modal dataset featuring dense point-wise labeled sequential LiDAR scans collected in severe winter weather. Over 26 TB of multi modal data has been collected of which over 7 GB of LiDAR point clouds (3.6 billion points) have been labeled (semanticKITTI format) and made available here. This outdoor dataset introduces falling snow and accumulated snow along with all the semanticKITTI classes. We believe this dataset will further AV tasks like semantic and panoptic segmentation, object detection and tracking, and localization and mapping in conditions of moderate to …

The Winter Adverse Driving Dataset (Wads) - Sequence 37, Akhil Kurup, Jeremy Bos

Michigan Tech Research Data

Collected in the snow belt region of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, WADS is the first multi-modal dataset featuring dense point-wise labeled sequential LiDAR scans collected in severe winter weather. Over 26 TB of multi modal data has been collected of which over 7 GB of LiDAR point clouds (3.6 billion points) have been labeled (semanticKITTI format) and made available here. This outdoor dataset introduces falling snow and accumulated snow along with all the semanticKITTI classes. We believe this dataset will further AV tasks like semantic and panoptic segmentation, object detection and tracking, and localization and mapping in conditions of moderate to …

Caring For The Souls Of Our Students: The Evolution Of A Community Economic Development Clinic During Turbulent Times, Gowri J. Krishna, Kelly Pfeifer, Dana Thompson

Articles

Community Economic Development (CED) clinicians regularly address issues surrounding economic, racial, and social justice, as those are the core principles motivating their work to promote vibrant, diverse, and sustainable communities. When COVID-19 arrived, and heightened attention to police brutality and racial injustice ensued, CED clinicians focused not only on how to begin to address these issues in their clinics, but on how to discuss these issues more deeply and effectively with their students. This essay highlights the ways in which the pandemic school year influenced significant rethinking of one CED clinic’s operations: first, the pandemic sharpened the clinic’s mission to …

The Winter Adverse Driving Dataset (Wads) - Sequence 35, Akhil Kurup, Jeremy Bos

Michigan Tech Research Data

Collected in the snow belt region of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, WADS is the first multi-modal dataset featuring dense point-wise labeled sequential LiDAR scans collected in severe winter weather. Over 26 TB of multi modal data has been collected of which over 7 GB of LiDAR point clouds (3.6 billion points) have been labeled (semanticKITTI format) and made available here. This outdoor dataset introduces falling snow and accumulated snow along with all the semanticKITTI classes. We believe this dataset will further AV tasks like semantic and panoptic segmentation, object detection and tracking, and localization and mapping in conditions of moderate to …

The Winter Adverse Driving Dataset (Wads) - Sequence 11, Akhil Kurup, Jeremy Bos

Michigan Tech Research Data

Collected in the snow belt region of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, WADS is the first multi-modal dataset featuring dense point-wise labeled sequential LiDAR scans collected in severe winter weather. Over 26 TB of multi modal data has been collected of which over 7 GB of LiDAR point clouds (3.6 billion points) have been labeled (semanticKITTI format) and made available here. This outdoor dataset introduces falling snow and accumulated snow along with all the semanticKITTI classes. We believe this dataset will further AV tasks like semantic and panoptic segmentation, object detection and tracking, and localization and mapping in conditions of moderate to …

The Winter Adverse Driving Dataset (Wads) - Sequence 18, Akhil Kurup, Jeremy Bos

Michigan Tech Research Data

Collected in the snow belt region of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, WADS is the first multi-modal dataset featuring dense point-wise labeled sequential LiDAR scans collected in severe winter weather. Over 26 TB of multi modal data has been collected of which over 7 GB of LiDAR point clouds (3.6 billion points) have been labeled (semanticKITTI format) and made available here. This outdoor dataset introduces falling snow and accumulated snow along with all the semanticKITTI classes. We believe this dataset will further AV tasks like semantic and panoptic segmentation, object detection and tracking, and localization and mapping in conditions of moderate to …

Desire And The Work It Does: Alterity And Exogamy In A Kotiria Origin Myth From The Northwest Amazon Of Brazil, Janet M. Chernela

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

In terms of the pan-Amazonian social paradigm that transforms affines into kin and assimilates them into the consanguineal unit, Eastern Tukanoans must be regarded as exceptional. This paper explores a foundation myth that allows us to better understand relations of self and Other, incest and exogamy, and violence and amity among the Eastern Tukanoan-speaking Kotiria. The narrative provides a heretofore-absent foundation for Tukanoan affinity, revealing complications and nuance in Kotiria notions of alterity and the generative role of Desire in its transformation. It is a synthesis not from nature, but from poesis; not from trust, but from theft; not from …

The Winter Adverse Driving Dataset (Wads) - Sequence 26, Akhil Kurup, Jeremy Bos

Michigan Tech Research Data

Collected in the snow belt region of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, WADS is the first multi-modal dataset featuring dense point-wise labeled sequential LiDAR scans collected in severe winter weather. Over 26 TB of multi modal data has been collected of which over 7 GB of LiDAR point clouds (3.6 billion points) have been labeled (semanticKITTI format) and made available here. This outdoor dataset introduces falling snow and accumulated snow along with all the semanticKITTI classes. We believe this dataset will further AV tasks like semantic and panoptic segmentation, object detection and tracking, and localization and mapping in conditions of moderate to …

All-Sky Search For Continuous Gravitational Waves From Isolated Neutron Stars In The Early O3 Ligo Data, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, S. Abraham, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, A. Adams, C. Adams, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, D. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, P. Ajith, T. Akutsu, Tiffany Z. Summerscales

Faculty Publications

We report on an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in the frequency band 20-2000 Hz and with a frequency time derivative in the range of [-1.0,+0.1]×10-8 Hz/s. Such a signal could be produced by a nearby, spinning and slightly nonaxisymmetric isolated neutron star in our Galaxy. This search uses the LIGO data from the first six months of Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observational run, O3. No periodic gravitational wave signals are observed, and 95% confidence-level (C.L.) frequentist upper limits are placed on their strengths. The lowest upper limits on worst-case (linearly polarized) strain amplitude h0 are ∼1.7×10-25 …

Novel Optimal Multisensor Placement For Indoor Rectilinear Line-Of-Sight Coverage, Prasanga Neupane, Guannan Liu, Hsiao Chun Wu, Shih Yu Chang, Jinwei Ye

Faculty Publications

Optimal multisensor placement/deployment for an arbitrary indoor geometry still remains very challenging nowadays. It is preferable to minimize the number of sensors which can still cover the entire indoor space with a balanced load. However, this multi-objective problem is quite complex in practice. In this work, we will study this critical multisensor placement problem mathematically and algorithmically and propose a systematic approach to tackle this problem. In this paper, we focus on the line-of-sight (LoS) coverage within a rectilinear indoor environment and the sensors' locations are restricted on the perimeter. Our proposed new approach consists of two stages. First, a …

Fort Hays State University Tiger Weekly, October 15, 2021, University Relations

Tiger Weekly Newsletters

No abstract provided.

The Self-Directed Goal Theory Experiment: A Mixed Methods Study Of Personal Development Goal-Setting Programs And Self-Efficacy, Tara N. Strickland

Dissertations

Andragogy is not dead; it may be simply lying dormant until its essential component, self-directed learning, revives it again. The fact is that self-directed learning can be formal or informal. This mixed methods study explored the informal side of self-directed learning, concentrating on self-help (a popularized form of personal development goalsetting). Despite a thriving self-help market, several personal development goal-setting programs focus more on goal achievement, little on goal planning, and even less on the individual. A comparative analysis of autonomous, guided, and self-directed personal goal-setting programs determined if self-directedness maximizes self-efficacy. Additionally, the researcher’s original Self-Directed Goal Theory and …

Land-Use Dynamics Associated With Mangrove Deforestation For Aquaculture And The Subsequent Abandonment Of Ponds, Aslan Aslan, Abdullah F. Rahman, Scott M. Robeson, Muhammad Ilman

School of Earth, Environmental, & Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

Highlights

• SAR data is useful for tracking dynamic changes in mangrove ecosystem.

• Time series SAR data can be used to estimate lifespan of pond.

• During 22+ years, over half of the mangrove forest in Mahakam Delta has been converted to aquaculture.

Abstract

The objective of this study was to evaluate the spatiotemporal dynamics of large area mangrove deforestation, aquaculture pond building, and the subsequent abandonment of ponds in a large delta in Indonesia, namely the Mahakam Delta. So, we developed and applied a novel methodology for exploring the lifespan of aquaculture ponds. Using historical multispectral and radar data, the …

Ocean Warming Threatens Southern Right Whale Population Recovery, Macarena Agrelo, Fábio G. Daura-Jorge, Victoria J. Rowntree, Mariano Sironi, Philip S. Hammond, Simon N. Ingram, Carina F. Marón, Florencia O. Vilches, Jon Seger, Roger Payne, Paulo C. Simões-Lopes

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Whales contribute to marine ecosystem functioning, and they may play a role in mitigating climate change andsupporting the Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) population, a keystone prey species that sustains the entireSouthern Ocean (SO) ecosystem. By analyzing a five-decade (1971–2017) data series of individual southern rightwhales (SRWs; Eubalaena australis) photo-identified at Península Valdés, Argentina, we found a marked increasein whale mortality rates following El Niño events. By modeling how the population responds to changes in thefrequency and intensity of El Niño events, we found that such events are likely to impede SRW population recoveryand could even cause population decline. Such outcomes …

For Cause And Countries: Initial, Sustaining, And Combat Motivation In The Royal Air Force Eagle Squadrons, 1940-1942, Timothy Defazio

Master's Theses

Before the United States entered the Second World War, 245 American pilots pledged their service to the Royal Air Force (RAF). Organized into 71, 121, and 133 Squadrons, collectively known as the Eagle Squadrons, these foreign volunteers present an intriguing avenue of soldier motivation analysis. Employing the conceptual framework offered by John Lynn and James McPherson, this thesis analyzes three components of the Eagles’ motivation—initial, sustaining, and combat.

Viewed in context, the Eagles’ decision to join a beleaguered air force reflected a commitment to ideological principles, as the desires to defend England and curb German aggression figured largely into their …

The Winter Adverse Driving Dataset (Wads) - Sequence 22, Akhil Kurup, Jeremy Bos

Michigan Tech Research Data

Collected in the snow belt region of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, WADS is the first multi-modal dataset featuring dense point-wise labeled sequential LiDAR scans collected in severe winter weather. Over 26 TB of multi modal data has been collected of which over 7 GB of LiDAR point clouds (3.6 billion points) have been labeled (semanticKITTI format) and made available here. This outdoor dataset introduces falling snow and accumulated snow along with all the semanticKITTI classes. We believe this dataset will further AV tasks like semantic and panoptic segmentation, object detection and tracking, and localization and mapping in conditions of moderate to …