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Investigation Of Melanin Nanoparticles For Radiation-Blocking And Antioxidant Properties, Giulia Stewart

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

Melanin, a naturally occurring organic dark pigment, has become the focus of extensive studies within the fields of biology, physiology, and now, nanomaterials. Naturally produced in the skin tissues of most mammals, it was found that melanin plays a significant role in protecting cellular DNA from radiation damage by absorbing UV radiation. This project’s objective was to synthesize bio-inspired melanin nanoparticles (MNPs) and optimize the radiation-blocking properties of natural melanin. Overall, the project had three phases: synthesis of melanin nanoparticles, electrospray of thin films, and radiation-blocking testing. Firstly, an MNP solution was synthesized by spontaneous oxidation of dopamine hydrochloride in …

Identification And Classification Of Fault Agent Detection Strategies In Nature, Dmytro Kravchenko

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

Modern systems need the type of resilience we see in nature. By increasing resilience, we are increasing systems ability to adapt and successfully recover from difficult situations. By observing processes within a biological multi-agent system, we can develop approaches to increase resilience of a wide range of artificial systems, from transportation networks to homeland security. One source of design inspiration to improve artificial systems is natural systems. In this research, we are particularly interested in observing and documenting natural processes which allow multi- agent systems to detect and recover from faults, even when the fault is an unknown, faulted member …

Sujo, Christopher R. Deacy

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Sujo (2024), directed by Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez.

Estimating Physical Activity And Sleep Using The Combination Of Movement And Heart Rate: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, James W. White Iii, Christopher D. Pfledderer, Parker Kinard, Michael W. Beets, Lauren Von Klinggraeff, Bridget Armstrong, Elizabeth L. Adams, Gregory J. Welk, Sarah Burkart, R. Glenn Weaver

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 16(7): 1514-1539, 2023. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to quantify the difference in physical activity and sleep estimates assessed via 1) movement, 2) heart rate (HR), or 3) the combination of movement and HR (MOVE+HR) compared to criterion indicators of the outcomes. Searches in four electronic databases were executed September 21-24 of 2021. Weighted mean was calculated from standardized group-level estimates of mean percent error (MPE) and mean absolute percent error (MAPE) of the proxy signal compared to the criterion measurement method for physical activity, HR, or sleep. Standardized mean difference (SMD) effect sizes …

Sasquatch Sunset, Dereck Daschke

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Sasquatch Sunset (2024), directed by David Zellner and Nathan Zellner.

Love Machina, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Love Machina (2024), directed by Peter Sillen.

The Illusion Of Public Space: Enforcement Of Anti-Camping Ordinances Against Individuals Experiencing Homelessness, Peer Marie Oppenheimer

University of Chicago Legal Forum

In response to the growing homelessness problem, many state and local governments have developed anti-camping ordinances that criminalize the act of sleeping on public property. Anti-camping laws can devastate individuals experiencing homelessness, especially when alternative resources, such as shelters, are not easily accessible. This Comment addresses the extent to which municipalities may enforce anti-camping ordinances against individuals experiencing homelessness who have no alternative to sleeping in public without violating the Eighth Amendment. As municipal regulation and judicial interpretation narrow the scope of permissible use of publicly owned areas, this raises the question of to what extent, and to whom, public …

Knock And Talks: Faithfully Applying Social Norms To Prevent Unconstitutional Police Intrusion Upon The Home, Alexander Newman

University of Chicago Legal Forum

A “knock and talk” is a common police practice involving an officer approaching a home and knocking on the front door to speak with a resident. The knock and talk is a long-recognized exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement, making it a powerful police tool to access constitutionally protected areas of the home. But courts have struggled to define the limits of a knock and talk. For example, when police officers knock and receive no answer, can they remain standing at the door, or even roam to other parts of the home?

The Supreme Court grounds the practice in …

The Dysfunctional “Functional Equivalent” Standard: Regulations Of Groundwater Discharges Since County Of Maui V. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, Ellie Maltby

University of Chicago Legal Forum

The distinction between “groundwater” and “navigable waters” has long created legal disputes. The most recent Supreme Court decision to grapple with the boundary between groundwater and navigable waters is County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund. Section 301(a) of the Clean Water Act (CWA) prohibits the discharge of any pollutant into navigable waters without a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit. The question in County of Maui is whether the CWA applies to pollutants that travel from a point source through groundwater, before entering navigable waters. The Supreme Court held that the CWA requires a permit when the discharge …

Multidistrict Litigation & Choice Of Federal Law, Andrew Eller

University of Chicago Legal Forum

Multidistrict litigation (MDL) is a procedural mechanism that consolidates federal civil cases from around the country into one federal district for pre-trial proceedings. Congress enacted MDL by statute in 1968 in response to a substantial influx of cases, and MDL represents a large portion of the federal civil docket today. MDL creates tricky choice of law questions, however, because cases are often filed in one district and then transferred to another through consolidation. Should a judge handling an MDL apply the state and federal law that the original court would apply or should he apply the law of his own …

International Borders: Yours, Mine, And Ours, Beth Simmons

University of Chicago Legal Forum

International borders have become divisive issues in international and domestic politics. They have also become sites where the human rights of vulnerable persons have increasingly been documented as at risk. Policies of border hardening in the face of growing human mobility and other external threats—real and imagined—have made international borders focal sites of conflict at many levels. This Article argues that international law can reframe our understanding of bordering, leading to a more constructive approach to border management and greater respect for human rights. Borders are essentially institutions with the potential to settle coordination problems over territory. But of growing …

The Border’S Migration, Nicole Hallett

University of Chicago Legal Forum

The border has never played a larger role in the American psyche than it does today, and yet it has never been less legally significant. Today, a noncitizen’s place of residence tells you less about what rights and privileges they enjoy than it ever has in the past. The border has migrated inward, affecting many aspects of non-citizens’ lives in the United States. The divergence between the physical and legal border is no accident. Instead, it is a policy response to the perceived loss of control over the physical border. But the physical border remains porous despite these legal changes. …

Borders That Bend, César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

University of Chicago Legal Forum

Borders do not exist. They are made and remade. At every step, the law creates, moves, reforms, reproduces, and reinforces the border. Focusing on the boundary that México and the United States share, this essay critiques the U.S. Supreme Court’s privileging of the sovereign prerogative to control access to the nation’s territory. In their efforts to control movement across and near the border, legal doctrine permits Executive officials to deviate from ordinary legal constraints on the use of violence. This creates a modern version of the sovereign that Carl Schmitt described a century ago: extra-constitutional in origin and subject to …

The Gravity Of Legal Diffusion, Anu Bradford, Adam Chilton, Katerina Linos

University of Chicago Legal Forum

A persistent empirical finding is that bilateral trade between two countries is proportional to the size of their economies and inversely proportional to their geographic distance. We hypothesize that a similar pattern is likely to hold for the diffusion of laws. We specifically argue that countries’ propensity to update their laws to converge with the leading regulator in a given policy area is likely to be proportional to the size of their economies and inversely proportional to their geographic distance. We then empirically test this theory in the area of antitrust and assess countries’ convergence to the world’s leading antitrust …

Dividing The Body Politic, James A. Gardner

University of Chicago Legal Forum

It has long been assumed in large, modern, democratic states that the successful practice of democratic politics requires some kind of internal division of the polity into subunits. In the United States, the appropriate methods and justifications for doing so have long been deeply and inconclusively contested. One reason for the intractability of these disputes is that American practices of political self-division are rooted in, and have been largely carried forward from, premodern practices that rested originally on overtly illiberal assumptions and justifications that are difficult or impossible to square with contemporary commitments to philosophical liberalism.

The possibility of sorting …

Older Persons Participation In Hard Martial Arts: Opportunities To Improve Psychological Well-Being? A Scoping Review., Dan Sullivan, Mike Climstein, Brian Moore, Luke Del Vecchio Dr

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 17(5): 183-198, 2024. This study aims to explore the potential psychological and cognitive advantages for older individuals engaged in hard martial arts (HMA), through a comprehensive scoping review of literature up to 2023. Specifically, it examines the extent of changes in cognition, mental state, and quality of life among elderly participants of HMA. Inclusion criteria were studies conducted on healthy persons who were over 50 years of age. Only papers published in the English language were included. The search was undertaken in electronic databases and sources of grey literature. Thirteen papers with a total of …

Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of Rotc Army Cadet Exercise Training For The Army Combat Fitness Test, Simone A. Cannon, Jake A. Mintz, Brandon Roberts, Kelsey Rushing, Gregor W. Jenkins, Gordon Fisher, Eric P. Plaisance, Cody E. Morris

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 17(4): 172-182, 2024. The Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) is used to evaluate the fitness level of potential Cadets for military readiness. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the exercise training program implemented by an Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program to gauge the performance metrics of the ACFT. METHODS: Twenty-six student Cadets of the ROTC at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) program participated in the study. Over an 8-month period, the ROTC Cadets trained on campus three days per week. Training was performed in a circuit …

Acute Effects Of Post-Activation Performance Enhancement Exercises On Army Combat Fitness Test Performance, Christopher Bonilla, Robert L. Herron, Greg Ryan, Jason Casey, Brandon Spradley

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 17(4): 154-171, 2024. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of implementing task-specific, post-activation performance enhancement (PAPE) strategies, to acutely improve Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) performance. Nineteen ROTC cadets completed two ACFTs, separated by 72 hours. Approximately half (n = 10) completed the traditional “Preparation Drill” as their warm-up prior to the first session and added PAPE warm-up strategies as part of their second session. The other group (n = 9) completed the treatments in the opposite order to facilitate a repeated-measures, crossover design. The participants’ composite ACFT score was used …

Sb01_23-24 Resolution To Achieve Equal Pay Throughout The Montana University System With Addendum, Trey Magnuson

University of Montana Staff Senate Resolutions

Staff Senate urged UM's Administration and Human Resource Services, the Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education, the Board of Regents, the Montana Governor’s Office, and bargaining unions (e.g., Montana Federation of Public Employees) to examine data regarding pay equity across the Montana University System in order to recruit and retain talented staff.

The resolution passed during the January 10, 2024 University of Montana Staff Meeting. Subsequently, a data error was found, and a correction was made. Due to the change in data and revised statement associated with the data point, the resolution was brought back up on a special …

Lanthorn, Vol. 58, No. 11, January 22, 2024, Grand Valley State University

Volume 58, August 7, 2023 - April 15, 2024

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Commentary On The Draft Supplementary Paper, Children’S Outcomes In The Draft Productivity Commission Report, A Path To Universal Early Childhood Education And Care, Dan Cloney

Early Childhood Education

This is a rapid review of the review of Draft Supplementary Paper 1, Children's Outcomes In the Draft Productivity Commission report, A Path to Universal Early Childhood Education and Care. The scope of the review is to provide commentary on general direction and tone as a follow up to the roundtable held on 15 August 2023. The body of this review was provided 22 January 2024 and supplementary text, now incorporated in this document, was added 9 Feb 2024

The Utah Statesman, January 22, 2024, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Confronting Legacies Of Indigenous Injustice: Lessons From Sweden, Sara L. Ochs

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Post-Dobbs Future: Bailing Water Downstream To Center Democracy’S Children, Charisa Smith

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

Tony Catros, Oral History Interview, 2024, Matt Jones

Oral Histories

Tony Catros, nicknamed "Cassius" by his fraternity brothers, served as an active member of the fraternity from 1963 until 1967. Catros relates his grandparents' immigration to the United States and his graduation from Redford Union High School before applying at EMU on a whim with friend Gary Griswold. Catros describes the differences between the Arms and other fraternities, his employment with Ypsilanti State Hospital while an Arm, and the importance of winning the All-Sports Trophy. He describes the reputation of Arm of Honor prior to his membership, and the initiation period that was part of all pledges' lives. He describes …

Consideration Of Ameliorative Measures In International Child Abduction Cases Post-Golan, Stephanie L. Tang

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

Solitary Confinement In Sheep’S Clothing: The Unlawfulness Of Medical Isolation Protocols During The Covid-19 Pandemic In American Prisons, Alexandra Franchino

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Blurry Lens: Assessing The Complicated Legal Landscape Of Biometric Privacy Through The Perspective Of Mobile Apps, Mackenzie K. Mendolla

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

Lobar Berdieva V. Attorney General United States Of America

2024 Decisions

Agency

Women At Work: Pathways From Gender Stereotypes To Gender Bias And Discrimination, Madeline E. Heilman, Suzette Caleo, Francesca Manzi

Faculty Publications

Despite important advances, gender-based discrimination continues to hin-der women’s career progress. This review examines the role that gender stereotypes play in promoting gender bias and discrimination. After review- ing what is known about the content of gender stereotypes and examining both their descriptive and prescriptive aspects, we discuss two pathways through which stereotypes result in discrepant work outcomes for women and men. First, we consider how the characterization of women as com- munal but not agentic conflicts with the perceived demands of many male gender-typed jobs and fields, thus promoting perceptions of women’s lack of competence in those areas. Second, …