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Cooperatives In Ohio’S Economy: Their Contribution And The Impact Of Covid-19, Iryna Demko, Isabella L. Mcknight, Hannah Scott

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

Ohio is home to 452 cooperatives, including some of the largest agricultural co-ops in the country, and is the birthplace of rural electric cooperatives in the U.S. However, prior to this analysis there was little information about the economic impact of those cooperatives on the state’s economy. The research team used various public sources and interviews to gather data on 58 agricultural and food cooperatives and 25 rural electric cooperatives in Ohio. This study found that agriculture, food, and rural electric cooperatives supported an estimated 12,910 full-time and part-time jobs in the state, attained $875 million in labor income, and …

Rsfmri Based Evidence For Functional Connectivity Alterations In Adults With Developmental Stuttering, Seyedehsamaneh Shojaeilangari, Narges Radman, Mohammad E. Taghizadeh, Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh

Research Administration Articles

Persistent developmental stuttering (PDS) is defined as a speech disorder mainly characterized by intermittent involuntary disruption in normal fluency, time patterning, and rhythm of speech. Although extensive functional neuroimaging studies have explored brain activation alterations in stuttering, the main affected brain regions/networks in PDS still remain unclear. Here, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we investigated resting-state whole-brain functional connectivity of 15 adults who stutter (PDS group) and 15 age-matched control individuals to reveal the connectivity abnormalities associated with stuttering. We were also interested in exploring how the severity of stuttering varies across individuals to understand the compensatory mechanism of …

Quantification Of Marine Acoustic Environments, Dylan Charles Wilford

Master's Theses and Capstones

The soundscape is an acoustic environment made up of all sounds arriving at a receiver. A methodology for the analysis of soundscapes was developed in an attempt to facilitate efficient and accurate soundscape comparisons across time and space. The methodology included generating and combining results from a collection of traditional soundscape metrics, statistical measures, and acoustic indices that were selected to quantify several salient properties of marine soundscapes: amplitude, impulsiveness, periodicity, and uniformity. The metrics were calculated using approximately 30 hours using semi-continuous passive acoustic data gathered in seven unique acoustic environments. The calculated values for each candidate metric were …

Assessing China’S Environmental Ngo Public Interest Litigation Against The U.S. Citizen Suit Model, Huishihan Wang

Dissertations & Theses

This dissertation introduces the U.S. and China’s environmental governance evolution, the background of their private enforcement provisions, including each country’s environmental legislative, administrative, and judicial development before establishing private enforcement. After the introduction, the second section examines the U.S. environmental citizen suits’ origin, environmental movements during the 1960s and 1970s, and pioneer ENGOs’ legal experiences. Statutory provisions are reviewed in various aspects in order to fully present this significant U.S. private enforcement measure. The third section analyzes the trajectory of Chinese ENGO EPIL development, including the provisions and typical actions according to several scattered provisions. Section four compares the theoretical …

Impact Of National And Municipal Environmental Standards On The Development Of Effective Solid Waste Management Systems In Jeddah, Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia, Raed Bin Sadan

Dissertations & Theses

The following research paper analyzes the impact of national and municipal environmental standards on the development of effective Solid waste management systems in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The research is essential in ensuring that there are notable positive changes in the disposal of solid waste by both the local government and the national government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The following paper follows a strategic plan and procedure in ensuring achievement of the goal and purpose of the research. The approach used in this paper is a comparison of the current local system and a proposed improvement of …

Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Vincent F. Chevrier, Lutishoor Salisbury, Jeremy Smith, Yang Tian

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

This poster was compiled to commemorate the promotion of Dr. Dr. Vincent F. Chevrier to Associate Research Professor in the Department of the Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arkansas, July 2020. It provides a summary of his research achievements and scholarly impact.

Violations During The Pandemic Of Law School Faculties’ Authority To Decide Methods Of Instruction, Richard K. Neumann Jr.

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Book Review Of How To Do Things With Legal Doctrine, Laura E. Little

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Experimental Pain On Shoulder Movement During An Arm Elevated Reaching Task In A Virtual Reality Environment, Frédérique Dupuis, Gisela Sole, Craig A. Wassinger, Hamish Osborne, Mathieu Beilmann, Catherine Mercier, Alexandre Campeau-Lecours, Laurent J. Bouyer, Jean S. Roy

ETSU Faculty Works

Background: People with chronic shoulder pain have been shown to present with motor adaptations during arm movements. These adaptations may create abnormal physical stress on shoulder tendons and muscles. However, how and why these adaptations develop from the acute stage of pain is still not well-understood. Objective: To investigate motor adaptations following acute experimental shoulder pain during upper limb reaching. Methods: Forty participants were assigned to the Control or Pain group. They completed a task consisting of reaching targets in a virtual reality environment at three time points: (1) baseline (both groups pain-free), (2) experimental phase (Pain group experiencing acute …

Discrimination Of Methionine Sulfoxide And Sulfone By Human Neutrophil Elastase, Darren Leahy, Cameron Grant, Alex Jackson, Alex Duff, Nicholas Tardiota, Jessica Van Haeften, Xingchen Chen, Jonathan M. Peake, Michael D. Kruppa, Eliot T. Smith, David A. Johnson, William B. Lott, Jonathan M. Harris

ETSU Faculty Works

Human neutrophil elastase (HNE) is a uniquely destructive serine protease with the ability to unleash a wave of proteolytic activity by destroying the inhibitors of other proteases. Although this phenomenon forms an important part of the innate immune response to invading pathogens, it is responsible for the collateral host tissue damage observed in chronic conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and in more acute disorders such as the lung injuries associated with COVID-19 infection. Previously, a combinatorially selected activity-based probe revealed an unexpected substrate preference for oxidised methionine, which suggests a link to oxida-tive pathogen clearance by neutrophils. …

Towards Improving Agriculture Productivity, Sushma Naithani, Dhirendra Kumar, Jaindra N. Tripathi

ETSU Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Cripping The Welfare Queen: The Radical Potential Of Disability Politics, Jina B. Kim

English Language and Literature: Faculty Publications

Drawing together feminist- and queer-of-color critique with disability theory, this essay offers a literary-cultural reframing of the welfare queen in light of critical discourses of disability. It does so by taking up the discourse of dependency that casts racialized, low-income, and disabled populations as drains on the state, reframing this discourse as a potential site of coalition among antiracist, anticapitalist, and feminist disability politics. Whereas antiwelfare policy cast independence as a national ideal, this analysis of the welfare mother elaborates a version of disability and women-of-color feminism that not only takes dependency as a given but also mines the figure …

Doing Well By Doing Good? Strategic Competition And United Nations Peacekeeping, Bryce Loidolt

INSS Strategic Perspectives

The Joseph Biden administration’s Interim Strategic Guidance emphasizes the importance of ensuring that international organizations “continue to reflect the universal values, aspirations, and norms that have underpinned the UN [United Nations] system since its founding 75 years ago, rather than an authoritarian agenda.”1 In this context, several trends in competitor contributions to UN peacekeeping operations could be cause for alarm and warrant greater U.S. engagement. Although Washington remains the largest billpayer for these missions, both Russian and Chinese personnel contributions to UN peacekeeping have surpassed those of the United States. Chinese financial contributions are slowly increasing and, unlike the United …

Nepalese In Denmark: How Their International Education Aspirations Transformed Into A Quest For ‘Greener Pasture’

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Political Ideology And Academic Autonomy In Ethiopia

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Simulation Modeling Of A Photovoltaic-Green Roof System For Energy Cost Reduction Of A Building: Texas Case Study, Sojung Kim, Burchan Aydin, Sumin Kim

Faculty Publications

This study aims at introducing a modeling and simulation approach for a green roof system which can reduce energy cost of a building exposed to high temperatures throughout the summer season. First, to understand thermal impact of a green roof system on a building surface, a field-based study has been conducted in Commerce, Texas, U.S., where the average maximum temperature in summer is 104 F (40 C). Two types of analyses were conducted: (1) comparison of temperature between different plant type via Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and (2) polynomial regression analysis to develop thermal impact estimation model based on air …

Modern Macos Userland Runtime Analysis, Modhuparna Manna, Andrew Case, Aisha Ali-Gombe, Golden G. Richard

Faculty Publications

The continued rise of Apple's macOS in both the home and workplace has led to a significant rise in the capabilities of both malware and attacker toolkits that target the operating system and its users. Over the last several years there have been numerous documented instances of macOS users being targeted by governments, intelligence agencies, and criminal groups, and the end results of these attacks were the victims having highly sophisticated malware installed on their systems. Unfortunately, the rise of these threats has not been met with an equal research and development effort by the memory forensics community. This has …

Validation Of A Single Channel Eeg For The Athlete: A Machine Learning Protocol To Accurately Detect Sleep Stages, Kayla Thompson, Kamil Celoch, Frankie Pizzo, Ana I. Fins, Jaime Tartar

Journal for Sports Neuroscience

There is a large and growing movement towards the use of wearable technologies for sleep assessment. This trend is largely due to the desire for comfortable, burden free, and inexpensive technology. In tandem, given the competitive nature of professional athletes enduring high training load, sleep is often jeopardized which can result in adverse outcomes. Wearable devices hold the promise of increasing the ease of monitoring sleep in athletes which can inform health and recovery status, as well as aid performance optimization. However, wearable devices typically lack sufficient validity to assess sleep – and especially sleep stages. To address this concern, …

Fall 2021 - Enrollment Profile Report, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

Enrollment Reports

This Enrollment Profile Report provides administrative- and delivery-site information on enrollment headcount and student credit hours, as well as the demographic characteristics of enrolled students. Delivery-site reporting counts all students, including those in UNL programs delivered at UNO, but excludes UNO programs delivered in Lincoln (CPACS programs). Administrative-site reporting counts students enrolled in UNO programs only (including the CPACS programs delivered in Lincoln). The purpose of this profile is to provide the undergraduate and graduate enrollments and student credit hour information by college or equivalent academic unit, class, gender and ethnicity. A glossary at the end of the report provides …

Is Clinically Measured Knee Range Of Motion After Total Knee Arthroplasty ‘Good Enough?’: A Feasibility Study Using Wearable Inertial Measurement Units To Compare Knee Range Of Motion Captured During Physical Therapy Versus At Home, Ryan M. Chapman, Wayne E. Moschetti, Douglas W. Van Citters

Kinesiology Faculty Publications

Total knee arthroplasty is highly successful, in part due to range of motion (RoM) recovery. This is typically estimated goniometrically/visually by physical therapists (PTs) in the clinic, which is imprecise. Accordingly, a validated inertial measurement unit (IMU) method for capturing knee RoM was deployed assessing postoperative RoM both in and outside of the clinical setting. The study's objectives were to evaluate the feasibility of continuously capturing knee RoM pre-/post-op via IMUs, dividing data into PT/non-PT portions of each day, and comparing PT/non-PT metrics. We hypothesized IMU-based clinical knee RoM would differ from IMU-based knee RoM captured outside clinical settings. 10 …

Ipulse: September 2021, Lynn University

Student Newspapers

Issues:

• September 2021 [Fall Week 1]: iPulse is Now Available on Apple News; Social Impact Scholars Program; Shawn Johnson and His Powerful Legacy; Greek Fall Recruitment and a History in the Making; Lynn Puts the "Wow" in Pow Wow; Striving for Greatness; Former Lynn Lacrosse Player Sailing Around the World; Staff Writer Bios
• September 2021 [Fall Week 2]: Ready to Make History: Lynn's Cross Country Team Wants to Make History This Season; A Talk with Tavian Craft; Fashion Statements on Campus; Metroid Returns; Tesla Bot: Good or Bad?; Saks Fifth Avenue's Latest Innovation; It Only Takes Two Steps Back

College Course Materials, Affordability Initiatives Across Tennessee, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury.

Office of Research and Education Accountability

No abstract provided.

Agricultural Carbon Markets: How Might They Work?, Drew Havens

Department of Agricultural Economics: Presentations, Working Papers, and Gray Literature

1) Introduction: a) Climate Change • b) Soil Sequestration and the Carbon Cycle • c) Increasing Soil Carbon Sequestration with Economics • d) Guiding Research Questions • e) Goals of this Report

2) What are agricultural carbon offset payment programs?

3) Are agricultural carbon markets effective?: • a) Voluntary vs Regulatory • b) Regional vs Global • c) Effectiveness of Agricultural Carbon Markets

4) Other Methods of Reducing Emissions: a) Carbon Tax • b) Cap and Trade • c) Summary

5) History of Programs That Provide Carbon Offset Payments to Farmers: a) The Chicago Climate Exchange • b) The Kyoto …

The Effect Of Project-Based Learning (Pjbl) Learning Model On Students' Science Process Skills On Colloidal Topics, Nurbani Jusuf, Anugrah Ricky Wijaya, I Wayan Dasna

Jurnal Pendidikan Sains

This study focused on the application of a Project-Based Learning (PjBL) model in chemistry learning using local wisdom from the Ternate area and examined the differences in students’ science process skills between those taught using the Project-Based Learning model and those taught using conventional learning models on colloidal topics, viewed from achievement motivation. The study employed a quasi-experimental design with a posttest-only groups design. The sample in this study consisted of students from one of the MAN schools in Ternate City. The results showed that there was a significant difference in students’ science process skills and achievement motivation between the …

Montanan, Fall 2021, University Of Montana--Missoula

Montanan Magazine, 1969-2024

This is the magazine of the University of Montana with news about the University for UM alumni as well as current faculty, students, staff, and administrators. This is volume 38.

Separating Preemption From The Subject Matter Analysis Of 35 U.S.C. § 101, Swartz, Rodney

Santa Clara Law Review

With what seems to be a fluke of history, the Supreme Court has developed a subject matter analysis framework embodied in 35 U.S.C. § 101 that relies on the preemption doctrine to justify invalidation. This Article establishes that preemption has a distinct objective that is more closely aligned with the written description framework of § 112 than with the subject matter eligibility framework of § 101. As a result of relying on preemption, the Court has created an arbitrary and difficult to apply test, resulting in a chasm between the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and courts that …

Scientific Reasoning In Problem-Based Distance Learning With The Help Of Edmodo On Wave Topics, Fitroh Fuadah, Lia Yuliati, Parno Parno

Jurnal Pendidikan Sains

Scientific reasoning ability is the ability to draw conclusions from the results of an investigation. The purpose of this study was to analyze students’ scientific reasoning abilities in problem-based distance learning assisted by Edmodo. This research employed an embedded experimental design. The subjects of this study were 70 eleventh-grade students of the science program at SMAN 2 Jember. The instrument used consisted of four essay questions. The results showed that the experimental class achieved an n-gain value of 0.795, categorized as high, while the control class obtained an n-gain value of 0.313, categorized as medium. Furthermore, the effect size in …

Impact Of Public Library Services On Educational Transformation In Nigeria; Case Study Of Oyo State Library Board, James Ogielagbega Enamudu, Solomon Amaechi Akannam, Charity Olubusola Odunsi, Sunday Olabisi Olatunji

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this paper is to report the result of a study on examining the impact of public library services on educational transformation in Oyo state. Respondents include the student users and librarians of the library. The respondents are engaged through purposive and simple random sampling techniques respectively, the instruments for data collection are self-administered questionnaire and interview. Descriptive survey research design was employed and data was analyzed using statistical package for social science, while the interview was interpreted by listening to the record properly. The result revealed that majority of the respondents patronizes the library occasionally. It was …

Publication Patterns And Trends Of Two Premier Indian Lis Journals: An Analysis Of Scopus Indexed International Papers, Manoj Kumar Sa, Nilaranjan Barik, Pradip Kumar Nikhandia

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study explores the publication pattern, and trends of international papers published in Annals of Library and Information Studies (ALIS), and DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) from 2012 to 2020. It has covered to 160 international papers which are contributed to above two journals and indexed in Scopus database from 2012 to 2020. The retrieved data were analyzed using various bibliometric parameters like yearly growth of publication, authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, scientific productivity of authors, and most productive authors to know the publication pattern and extent of collaboration among authors in such papers. Lotka’s inverse square …

Challenges In Feeding Children Posed By The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review Of Changes In Dietary Intake Combined With A Dietitian's Perspective, Heather Campbell, Alexis C Wood

Children’s Nutrition Research Center Staff Publications

Purpose of review: To examine the evidence that the dietary quality of children changed between the period preceding the COVID-19 pandemic and the first year during the pandemic.

Recent findings: A systematic review of the evidence for dietary changes occurring as a result of the pandemic-related restrictions, in Part I of this article, yielded 38 original research articles. These articles had conflicting results, some describing improvements in overall quality and some describing deteriorations. As a whole the studies were characterized by a low study quality, and children were poorly represented. Taken together, these studies do not provide enough evidence to …