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Design And Implementation Of A Fully Online And Remote Lab Course Under The Covid-19 Pandemic, Wei Zheng

Irish Journal of Academic Practice

This case study focuses on developing a fully online material testing course while keeping the experiential learning component for the students. The course of interest is a junior level plastics engineering course, PLE-360 (Testing and Analysis of Plastics), during which students are required to utilize various equipment to characterize polymers. Along with online lectures, remote labs are designed and implemented. During these labs, students remotely log into the computers, design the experimental program, conduct the tests, collect and analyze the data. The effectiveness of this practice is assessed through examining students’ lab grades and overall course grades. It is found …

Essays In Multidimensional Mechanism Design., Kolagani Paramahamsa Dr.

Doctoral Theses

This thesis analyzes three problems where a monopolistic seller is selling to an agent with multidimensional private information. While our understanding of such problems is comprehensive if the agent's private information is one-dimensional, problems with multidimensional private information are known to be ubiquitous but analytically notorious. The three chapters in this thesis make progress in understanding optimal mechanism design in such multidimensional screening problems. In the first problem, the seller is selling an object to an agent who exhibits behavioral preferences, in a departure from the standard rational models. Behavioral preferences arise because the agent is budget constrained and needs …

Remifentanil Patient Controlled Analgesia Use In Laboring Women: A Feasibility And Acceptability Study, Joshua Carr

Dissertations

Background/Purpose: Interest in remifentanil patient controlled analgesia (RPCA) as a treatment for labor pain has increased due to its unique pharmacodynamics and effectiveness on pain control among parturients. Despite its promise, RPCA remains infrequently used in the US. The purpose of this study was to 1) examine the implementation and acceptability of a new RPCA protocol in the labor and delivery ward of a mid-sized hospital, and 2) identify the attitudes and beliefs of healthcare workers in a real-world clinical setting.

Theoretical/Conceptual Framework: The holistic nature of Comfort Theory can account for the proposed mechanisms contributing to the …

Transitions In Palliative Care: Referral Time And Healthcare Utilization In Advanced Stage Colon, Rectal And Lung Cancer Patients., Ann Lawani

Dissertations

Background: Despite lung, colon, and rectal cancer being the leading and third leading cause of cancer-related death among both men and women respectively, few studies have examined Palliative Care Consultation (PCC) on healthcare utilization (HCU) in individuals with advanced stage diagnosis in this disease cohort. Extant research shows advanced stage cancer patients receive aggressive treatments, within the last 30 days of life. Palliative care is linked to less aggressive cancer treatment, and palliative interventions applied early, at diagnosis of advanced cancer, is more favorable for improving symptom and disease management. Patients and family members with early PCC are better informed …

Phenomenological Study Of The Lived Experience Of New Graduate Nurses Caring For Hospitalized Patients Living With Dementia, Geline Buenconsejo

Dissertations

Title. Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experience of New Graduate Nurses Caring for Hospitalized Patients Living with Dementia.

Purpose. This study explored new graduate nurses’ lived experiences in caring for hospitalized patients living with dementia.

Background. The first twelve months of transitioning from student to professional nurse in acute care settings are the most stressful, emotionally challenging, and mentally exhausting for new nurses striving to apply newly acquired skills into practice. Some of the most challenging patients for nurses to care for are hospitalized patients living with dementia (PtLWD). With the projected increase in the number of patients with dementia …

Trauma Recidivism: Threat Orientations And Recurrent Injury Perceptions, Molly Bauer, Ann M. Mayo

Dissertations

Purpose: To describe select sociodemographic and clinical variables, threat orientations, and the perceived likelihood of recurrent injury (PLRI) of individuals deemed at risk for trauma recidivism (TR).

Background: Injuries and violence are the leading cause of traumatic death among persons aged 1 to 44 in the United States. Trauma recidivism occurs when an individual experiences more than one significant injury requiring hospital care in a five-year period. The relationship between a trauma recidivist’s perception of recurrent injury and orientation towards a threat remains unclear.

Conceptual Basis: Trauma recidivism risk factors contribute to forming an individual’s PLRI. When individuals acknowledge the …

Foundations: Eating. Loving. Praying., George Conesa

The International Journal of Ecopsychology (IJE)

Kurt Goldstein imagined that at every stage of their development, organisms are, to characterize, wrestling with the imminent and inescapable realities (bio-socio-psychological) of energy (e.g., food and sleep), safety (e.g., hygiene; home and a family), and possibility (e.g., learning; opportunities and luck), and importantly, simultaneously. To oversimplify, Maslow would like us to eat before loving or praying, whereas Goldstein intuits that human motivations are dynamically complex and multifactorial -- in others words, integrally transactional and ongoing. It is Goldstein’s more complex idea that this essay supports.

Why We Experience Musical Emotions: William Gardiner’S “The Music Of Nature” Revisited, Daniela L. Boero Dr.

The International Journal of Ecopsychology (IJE)

This paper focuses and expands on the ideas of William Gardiner, an amateur musician who was the first to propose that human emotions experienced in music listening might be inspired by “the sounds of nature.” His book has been ignored for almost two centuries. We revisit his hypothesis from an evolutionary psychology approach. This contribution reviews environmental psychology and musical studies which focus on emotional reactions to basic musical cues such as pitch, timbre, and loudness, and also, on animal communication studies. Reported literature confirms the hypothesis that our ancestral soundscape might have shaped, at least in part, the basic …

Utilizing Human Factors To Improve Perioperative Adverse Event Investigations: An Integrated Approach, Joseph R. Keebler, Elizabeth H. Lazzara, Elizabeth Blickensderfer, Thomas Looke, Frank Rosemeier, Brittany Almon, Lou Barr, Jeffrey Kuhlman

Publications

Objective: Apply Human Factors (HF), systems engineering, and high reliability organizational principles to improve adverse event investigations in a regional hospital system. Background: Given the complexity of medicine and healthcare systems, innovative thinking is required to ensure these systems are resilient to error. Understanding the work system and its constituent parts is fundamental to understanding how errors begin and propagate. Method: This paper provides a discussion on employing a systems-based approach to improve perioperative adverse event investigations within a hospital system. Results: Data was collected across 13 investigations. The findings are summarized into 16 contributing factors, with 10 specific examples …

Canonical Sequences Of Optimal Quantization For Condensation Measures, Doğan Çömez, Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury

School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Faculty Publications

We consider condensation measures of the form P:=13P∘S−11+13P∘S−12+13ν associated with the system (S,(13,13,13),ν), where S={Si}2i=1 are contractions and ν is a Borel probability measure on R with compact support. Let D(μ) denote the quantization dimension of a measure μ if it exists. In this paper, we study self-similar measures ν satisfying D(ν)>κ, D(ν)κ, the D(P)-dimensional lower and upper quantization coefficients are finite, positive and unequal; and for D(ν)≤κ, the D(P)-dimensional lower quantization coefficient is infinity.

We consider condensation measures of the form P:=13P∘S−11+13P∘S−12+13ν associated with the system (S,(13,13,13),ν), where S={Si}2i=1 are contractions and ν is a Borel probability measure …

Beyond Inhibition: A Novel Strategy Of Targeting Hiv-1 Protease To Eliminate Viral Reservoirs, Josh G Kim, Liang Shan

2020-Current year OA Pubs

HIV-1 protease (PR) is a viral enzyme that cleaves the Gag and Gag-Pol polyprotein precursors to convert them into their functional forms, a process which is essential to generate infectious viral particles. Due to its broad substrate specificity, HIV-1 PR can also cleave certain host cell proteins. Several studies have identified host cell substrates of HIV-1 PR and described the potential impact of their cleavage on HIV-1-infected cells. Of particular interest is the interaction between PR and the caspase recruitment domain-containing protein 8 (CARD8) inflammasome. A recent study demonstrated that CARD8 can sense HIV-1 PR activity and induce cell death. …

Study And Improvement On Expansion Property Of Silicon Oxide, Wei-Chuan Qiao, Fang-Ru Li, Jin-Lin Xiao, Li-Juan Qu, Xiao Zhao, Meng Zhang, Chun-Lei Pang, Zi-Kun Li, Jian-Guo Ren, Xue-Qin He

Journal of Electrochemistry

The silicon-based anode materials have the potential to meet the ever-increasing demand for energy density in lithium-ion batteries market owing to their high theoretical specific capacity. Unfortunately, their commercialization was hindered by the continuous volume expansion. Herein, the expansion characteristics and corresponding mechanism of the silicon oxide and graphite-silicon oxide composites were investigated by in-situ displacement detection systematically. The results showed that the expansion property was improved by material process modifications. During the de/lithiation processes of graphite, the expansion ratio in 30% ~ 50% SOC changed little because of the small interlayer spacing variation of the intercalated graphite. …

Preparation And Properties Of Gcp-Supported Palladium Particles Composite Towards Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis, Ying-Chao Wang, Zi-Zai Ma, Yi-Fan Wu, Xiao-Guang Wang

Journal of Electrochemistry

Ammonia (NH₃) plays an essential role in agriculture and modern industries. Electrochemical fixation of nitrogen (N₂) to ammonia (NRR) under ambient conditions with renewable electricity is a promising strategy to replace the industrial Haber-Bosch method. However, it usually suffers from extremely poor ammonia yield and low Faraday efficiency due to the poor electrocatalysts. Therefore, intensive studies have been devoted to developing efficient NRR catalysts till now. Among them, palladium (Pd) can capture protons in the aqueous phase to form stable α-PdH, which balances the competitive adsorption between nitrogen and protons as well as reduces the …

Toxicological Responses To Sublethal Anticoagulant Rodenticide Exposure In Free‑Flying Hawks, Nimish B. Vyas, Barnett A. Rattner, J. Michael Lockhart, Craig S. Hulse, Clifford P. Rice, Frank Kuncir, Kevin Kritz

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

An important component of assessing the hazards of anticoagulant rodenticides to non-target wildlife is observations in exposed free-ranging individuals. The objective of this study was to determine whether environmentally realistic, sublethal first-generation anticoagulant rodenticide (FGAR) exposures via prey can result in direct or indirect adverse effects to free-flying raptors. We offered black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) that had fed on Rozol® Prairie Dog Bait (Rozol, 0.005% active ingredient chlorophacinone, CPN) to six wild-caught red-tailed hawks (RTHA, Buteo jamaicensis), and also offered black-tailed prairie dogs that were not exposed to Rozol to another two wild-caught RTHAs for 7 …

Simultaneous Hydrogen And (Nh4)2So4 Productions From Desulfurization Wastewater Electrolysis Using Mea Electrolyser, Ju-Cai Wei, Lin Shi, Xu Wu

Journal of Electrochemistry

It is preferred to simultaneously recover resource and energy from waster. Sulfur dioxide, SO₂, a common air pollutant, a potential energy resource, is a key link to sulfur nature circulation. SO₂ can be conversed to NH₄HSO₃ and (NH₄)₂SO₃ during the ammonia desulfurization process, which can be used to produce (NH₄)₂SO₄ fertilizer. For high quality (NH₄)₂SO₄ fertilizer and high heat transfer efficiency of the evaporative crystallization, HSO₃^- or SO₃^2- needs to be oxidized to form SO …

Facing The Past And Climbing The Mountain, Ruijing Hu

Master's Projects and Capstones

As children develop their worldview, morals, and viewpoints, family upbringing plays a crucial role. Indeed, the role of Chinese parents has shifted due to the country’s fast economic growth, and there have also been significant changes in lifestyle, which include the adoption of new technology, improved living conditions, and increasing educational pressure on the younger generation. This study utilizes a blend of secondary sources and first-hand testimonials in order to examine the influence of Chinese parenting techniques on children of my age, who were born after 1990, normally called the “Post- 90s” generation, as well as how our living situations …

Administrative Appeal Brief - Fusl000121 (2019-01-25)

Parole Administrative Appeal Briefs

No abstract provided.

Can Islamic Law Principles Regarding Settlement Of Criminal Disputes Solve The Problem Of The U.S. Mass Incarceration?, Amin R. Yacoub, Becky Briggs

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

The mass incarceration crisis in the United States (US) remains a vexing issue to this day. Although the US incarcerated population has decreased by twenty-five percent amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the US remains a leading country in the number of incarcerated people per capita. Focusing on Islamic law principles governing settlement in criminal cases, the rehabilitative approach of the Icelandic criminal justice model, and the powerful role of prosecutors in serving justice, this research argues that integrating settlement and mediation into the prosecutorial proceedings will significantly reduce mass incarceration in the US.

"Stronger" Together: Kanye Could Have Owned His Masters By Engaging In Collective Bargaining, L. Camille Cordova

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

Because the legislature and judiciary have failed to protect recording artists’ interests, this article proposes that engaging in collective bargaining will re-balance the bargaining positions of the major record labels and recording artists to create a mutually beneficial agreement that gives recording artists a termination of rights clause that mirrors section 203 of the 1976 Copyright Act. By contracting with a major record label, recording artists are automatically eligible for union membership to the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists union (“SAG-AFTRA”), who have experience negotiating other collective-bargaining agreements with these record labels. This agreement would provide …

China's Internet Policies Within The Global Community, Omar Saleem

Journal of Technology Law & Policy

China is often perceived as a land of contradiction replete with economic opportunities and political authoritarianism. With many overlapping strategic interests, China has been described as a competitor and inevitable foe, not a strategic partner, to the United States. China perceives the United States as butting into Asian affairs. The U.S. perception is that China’s socio-economic, political, and legal infrastructures fail to protect the individual rights of Chinese citizens. Accordingly, the criticism is that China’s governmental violations of individual rights are copiously depicted in its controls over the Internet. Purportedly, the logic follows, that China’s governmental controls over the Internet …

Judicial Myopia: Correcting The Second Circuit's Analysis In John Wiley & Sons, Inc. V. Kirtsaeng With Historical And Economic Lenses, Tyler Lefevre

Journal of Technology Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Amazon Cloud Player: The Latest Front In The Copyright Cold War, Cullen Kiker

Journal of Technology Law & Policy

This Article addresses a concern over the emerging use of cloud-based services for the storage and enjoyment of copyrighted music without the copyright holder granting the cloud-based service a license to copy or play back the music. Specifically, the Amazon Cloud Player will be examined with an eye toward the question of whether Amazon.com needs a license in order for users who have legally purchased copyright protected music to store and enjoy that music on the Amazon Cloud Player.

The implications of the questions raised in this Article cannot be understated. More and more content is being stored in the …

Patenting Medical Diagnostic Methods: The Mort Strikes Back, Eric J. Rogers

Journal of Technology Law & Policy

This Note will explore the law regarding the patent eligibility of processes like the patented diagnostic methods at issue in AMP v. USPTO. Part I summarizes the legal standards for the patent eligibility of any process. Part II demonstrates these evolving standards as they are applied to medically related processes. Part III explains, by reconciling the case law using hypothetical claims, the current boundaries between a patent claim to an abstract idea. Part IV analyzes the eligibility of the diagnostic method claims in AMP v. USPTO and concludes with a new formulation of the MorT Test in light of …

The President And The Autopen: It Is Unconstitutional For Someone Or Something To Sign A Bill Outside Of The President's Presence, Terry L. Turnipseed

Journal of Technology Law & Policy

This Article explores multiple facets of the President’s use of a proxy signature to sign legislation. In particular, the house-of-cards 2005 Office of Legal Counsel’s memorandum to President George W. Bush making the legal case for the use of a non-presence proxy to sign bills (the “Nielson Memorandum”) will be critiqued.

In Part I, this Article details the constitutional underpinnings of the Presidential signature requirement. Part II of this Article discusses the origins of proxy signatures, specifically the associated presence requirement for proxy signatures. The origins date back to the Statute of Frauds and then the Statute of Wills. As …

Association Of Molecular Pathology Meets Therasense: Analyzing The Unenforceability Of Isolated-Sequence-Related Patents For Upenn, Columbia, Nyu, Yale, And Emory, Sam S. Han

Journal of Technology Law & Policy

Every so often a case comes along that is equally interesting for its non-legal oddities as it is for its legal merits. Association for Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (BRCA Lawsuit) is one of those cases. The BRCA Lawsuit is significant enough that scholars, bloggers, pundits, students, scientists, politicians, and many others have provided comments on the BRCA Lawsuit, ranging from in-depth analyses to unsubstantiated opinions.

While many peculiarities can be found in the BRCA Lawsuit, one noteworthy oddity relates to the affidavits submitted by several of the individual plaintiffs and the plaintiffs’ …

Carbon Credits As Collateral, George M. Padis

Journal of Technology Law & Policy

Investment in energy-efficient technology is capital intensive, requiring financing and access to credit. Much has been written discussing the efficiency, or lack thereof, of cap-and-trade programs in the United States and, more recently, in the European Union. However, very little attention has been paid to the legal framework for the potential use of carbon credits as collateral to secure financing. This Note endeavors to begin filling that gap. Due to the unique qualities of carbon credits (for example, as a tradeable future right tied to geographic location), the current provisions of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (U.C.C) may …

The Time They Are A' Changin': Bilski V. Kappos, Global Tech V. Seb, Stanford V. Roche, And Microsoft V. I4i, Sue Ann Mota

Journal of Technology Law & Policy

Patent law in the United States has been in the process of changing in the last few years due to a series of Supreme Court cases and congressional action. This Article gives an overview of these changes and their implications.

In 2010 and 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court decided four landmark patent cases, each time affirming the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. On June 28, 2010, the Court unanimously held in Bilski v. Kappos that a patent application for claims involving hedging risk in energy markets involved non-patentable subject matter. On May 31, 2011, the Court held 8–1 …

Are Cell Phones Safe Until The Fcc Telss Us They Are Not? A Preemption Analysis In The Context Of Cell Phone Radiation Emissions Standards, Shelby Anderson

Journal of Technology Law & Policy

In light of the pervasiveness of cellphones in American culture, if the now theoretical health risks associated with cell phone usage become reality, mass litigation will ensue. The extent to which federal law may preempt such state tort litigation is the subject of this Note.

Geolocation And Jurisdiction: From Purposeful Availment To Avoidance And Targeting On The Internet, Tracie E. Wandell

Journal of Technology Law & Policy

This Article proposes a standard for Internet jurisdiction that recognizes the geographic borders now possible for Internet conduct. Purposeful availment analysis should look to an Internet user’s ability to target or avoid a forum by using geolocation to ascertain his true intent. To reach this conclusion, I will first examine the current state of Internet jurisdiction analysis by summarizing the traditional minimum contacts analysis, examining the competing standards for Internet jurisdiction, and contemplating how the law could change as a result of a case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court. Thereafter, I will contrast the U.S. Internet jurisdiction analysis to …

Chasing The Clouds Without Getting Drenched: A Call For Fair Practices In Cloud Computing Services, John Soma, Maury Nichols, Melodi Mosley Gates, Ana Gutiérrez

Journal of Technology Law & Policy

With cloud services emerging as the latest computing technological advancement, privacy looms as a critical component to the successful adoption of this technology. Through a comprehensive analysis of the looming dangers of privacy and security in clouds, this Article attempts to promote core principles and strategic business directions with the goal of fostering a consensus in legislative, regulatory, and international Internet policy. Influenced by the Federal Trade Commission’s Privacy Initiative, this Article advocates for the implementation of core privacy principles into cloud computing services. These core principles include facilitating transparency, empowering individuals to make informed and intelligent choices, strengthening multi-stakeholder …