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The Unique And The Universal In International Studies Theories From The Global South, Michael H. Allen

Political Science Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Sides Of A Dime, Reinetta Van

Mighty Pen Project Anthology & Archive

A navy captain falls, hits her head, and has her life forever altered. Years later, she passes her annual physical in preparation for deployment, despite being disabled. A contemplation on how a person can be two things at once, and if they should be.

Articles, stories, and other compositions in this archive were written by participants in the Mighty Pen Project. The program, developed by author David L. Robbins, and in partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, offers veterans and their family members a customized twelve-week writing class, free of charge. The program …

Mental Health Among Somali Women In The United States, Khadra M. Hussien

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

This study examined depression, stress, and anxiety and explored the complex factors that may influence Somali women’s psychological well-being. The study surveyed 53 subjects identified as Somali women aged 18 to 69 years old living in a major Metropolitan area in the Upper Midwest United States. Three research questions focused on investigating whether a depressed mood correlates with the severity of trauma, identifying what causes elevated anxiety, and assessing the significance of stress among Somali women. This research was critical to identify the mental health perceptions and the obstacles these women may have. The surveyed subjects reported severe depression mood, …

Esports, A New Age Brand Of College Sports: An In-Depth Look At The Gambling Beneath Esports, Ryan Geary

Student Works

No abstract provided.

Systematic Regulation Of Artificial Intelligence, Yonathan Arbel, Matthew Tokson, Albert Lin

Articles

Today's artificial intelligence ("AI'') systems exhibit increasing capabilities across a remarkable variety of tasks. The rapid growth in AI ability has caught the attention of policymakers, parliaments, and the United Nations. These entities are increasingly looking towards regulating AI, not only in its particular applications, but as a technology. Yet legal scholarship has thus far offered little to this new and critical regulatory conversation, which has instead been dominated by computer scientists and technologists.

This Article begins the project of assessing AI 's broader risks and law 's role in addressing them. These risks are wide ranging-they span harms to …

Israel, Palestine, And The Trolley Problem: On The Futility Of The Search For The Moral High Ground, Jack Russell Weinstein

Digital Press Books

Arguments about Israel and Palestine are almost always accusatory and polemical. Rather than learning from one another, opponents jockey for the moral high ground trying to find that one attack they believe proves their side to be completely on the right, without compromise. This means Israel’s advocates dismiss Palestinian land claims without due consideration and Pro-Palestinian voices falsely accuse Israel of the most heinous modern crimes: colonialism, genocide, and apartheid. None of this is productive or healthy.

In Israel, Palestine, and the Trolley Problem: On the Futility of the Search for the Moral High Ground, philosopher Jack Russell Weinstein interweaves …

Climate Change And The Need For Arpa-C, Bryce Ebben

Marquette Intellectual Property & Innovation Law Review

No abstract provided.

U.S. Strikes Against The Houthis: A "Splendid Little War" Of Self-Defense, Benjamin W. Haight

American University National Security Law Brief

No abstract provided.

Countering Jihadi Cool And The Case Of Raza V. City Of New York, Caroline Joan S. Picart

Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality

This Article begins with an explanation of the rhetoric, aesthetics, and culture of jihadi cool/chic, which is a crucial factor in the formation of self-radicalizing individuals. It then analyzes the jurisprudence, and legal and cultural ramifications of Raza v. City of New York, in which the New York Police Department had initiated an intense covert surveillance operation that focused on Muslims in New York and beyond without probable cause. This led to a lawsuit that claimed that the New York Police Department’s Muslim Surveillance Program violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, the First Amendment’s Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses, …

To Be A Woman Is To Perform: How Gender And Womanhood Are Discussed Through Shakespeare’S Use Of Mythology, Haley Kerner

Scripps Senior Theses

In an essay called ‘Shakespeare’s Ovid’, scholar Johnathan Bate wrote that “the first encounter between the English dramatist and the Roman poet probably occurred in the classroom of the grammar school at Stratford-upon-Avon” (Ovid, Golding, Bate, xli). Of course, the two would continue to meet many times in the concluding years. Shakespeare would have long conversations with Ovid’s Metamorphoses, especially through the voice of his characters as they jumped back and forth from his mind to the page. Shakespeare would invoke Ovid in most of his plays and many of his sonnets, guiding his readers and audience through the Roman …

Using Modern Motivational Theories As A Design Framework For Vr Gamification, Christopher Thomas Boardman

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Virtual reality has shown promise as a tool for organizational training. Implementing gamification, the use of game elements, has been shown to further improve learning outcomes. However, gamification has shown inconsistent results when applied to VR. To investigate this, we used motivational theory as a framework to select, justify, and implement game elements based on each theory to create different versions of a virtual grocery store training. Our results did not indicate any differences on performance, persistence, or error rate between each training condition, and exploratory analyses investigated the link between perceived competence and VR program quality. We discuss potential …

National Integration And Institution Building, Haiwen Zhou

Economics Faculty Publications

The mutual dependence between national integration and institution building is established in a formal model. It is shown that a decrease in transportation costs, but not necessarily an increase in population size, reduces the equilibrium number of states and the adoption of rule-based institutions. With endogenous transportation costs or endogenous population size, the unification process can feed on itself. The model is illustrated by the state of Qin's unification of China in 221 BC. During this process of national integration, transformations from relation-based governance to rule-based governance happened.

Let Them Play: A Discussion Of Allowing United States Service Academy Graduates To Play Professional Sports, John M. Michalak

Marquette Sports Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Worldwide Hunger Games: Why Russia’S De Facto Blockade Of Ukrainian Grain Export Ports Is A Crime Against Humanity, Kazel Kapadia

Student Works

No abstract provided.

Saving Social Security: A Comprehensive Approach To Finding A Path Forward, Nicholas Teresi

CMC Senior Theses

Most Americans rely on social security as a significant source of retirement income, but without congressional action, the program’s projected insolvency threatens to reduce benefits for all covered retirees. This thesis explores a path forward to legislating a fix by evaluating several proposed provisions. First, this thesis analyzes the premises and purposes of the program’s structure. By intentional design, program executives and lawmakers fostered acceptance of the program as a type of insurance. Second, this thesis assesses how lawmakers previously approached reform to apply it to the present issue. Throughout both the program’s first and last forty years, lawmakers reinforced …

What Roosevelt Did To Brown V. Board Of Education, Or Race And Court Packing, Jill M. Fraley

Nebraska Law Review

Roughly one-third of American schools remain segregated. Scholars have offered a variety of explanations, mostly social and cultural, but sometimes legal, for why desegregation did not proceed effectively after Brown v. Board of Education. This Article articulates a less expected and previously undocumented cause: President [Franklin D.] Roosevelt’s prior attempt at court packing slowed—even derailed—desegregation.

The story of what Roosevelt’s court packing did to make the work of integration harder is a cautionary tale, particularly for those who want to alter the U.S. Supreme Court now in furtherance of a modern cause. The only reasonable route for reforming the …

Make America Healthy: Reducing High Pharmaceutical Prices Without Reducing Innovation, Srividhya Ragavan

SMU Law Review

Cost of medication in the United States has historically remained one of the highest in the world. The conundrum that the United States has faced in balancing innovation with affordability of life-saving medications is palpable, especially when faced with the reality of patent monopolies conflicting with healthcare obligations. The result is an overflow of issues, which emphasize the need to delineate limits on innovation to balance pharmaceutical novelty with robust public health within the United States. This has increasingly shifted the focus of patent law into the realm of healthcare issues. Naturally, it leads to an inquiry about how best …

Military Symbols, United States Army

United States Army: Field Manuals

Military Symbols, United States Army Field Manual FM 1-02.2

Exploring Healing Touches In The Bible, Michée B. Badé

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

Healing touches in the Bible hold significant meaning in both the spiritual and physical contexts. Numerous biblical accounts illustrate how physical healing in connection with touch served as a demonstration of faith, connection, and divine power. These narratives depict important moments in which touch becomes a conduit for divine healing and emphasize the prominent role that touch plays in biblical accounts of healing.

This paper first explores the concept of health and healing as presented in Scripture, followed by an examination of touch and healing in both the Old and New Testaments, while looking at the cultural, theological, and missiological …

Graphene-Based Multilayer Polymer Nanocomposite Systems For Force Protection Applications, Mohammad Mansourian Tabaei

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This work focuses on designing and optimizing a multilayer polymer system (MLPS) for force protection applications, consisting of a front layer, sublayer, and back layer. The front layer was developed using high-concentration graphene nanoplatelet (GNP)-enabled polymers, specifically (poly vinyl alcohol) PVA and (polyurea) PU, as alternatives to brittle ceramic layers. The sublayer was tailored using ABS-GNP composites as a replacement for the traditional Kevlar middle layer. In the development of the front layer, PVA-based nanocomposites were optimized with a specific dispersing agent to enhance mechanical and thermal properties. These nanocomposites demonstrated significant improvements in stiffness, storage modulus, and energy dissipation, …

"'This May Not Be War, But Rather Statesmanship': Sherman's March Through Griswoldville, Milledgeville, And Greater Savannah", Matthew Ryan Lempke

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation argues that four communities in Confederate Georgia visited by Union soldiers during Sherman’s March to the Sea reorients our understanding about the state’s continued ability to resist the United States military, the level and variations of destruction, the rationales and motivations behind targeted actions, the multiplicity of experiences among diverse participants, willing and unwilling alike, and of the campaign’s broader effectiveness. The first two communities, Griswoldville and Milledgeville, were indispensable locations that set in motion a coalescence of military and political setbacks from which Confederate Georgia did not recover. As the march progressed and entered coastal communities, the …

Hohenschönhausen As A Tangible Representation Of The German Democratic Republic’S Development Of Operative Psychology, Zoe Werth

Honors Theses and Capstones

Located in Lichtenberg, Berlin (part of the former borough of Hohenschönhausen), Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen stands today as a memorial for the thousands who were killed and imprisoned there, from its construction in 1939 until its closure in 1990. This paper will trace the evolution of Hohenschönhausen from a physical space of confinement, to a sophisticated psychological apparatus designed to exert control over its political prisoners through the development of “Operative Psychology” (OP). Through an architectural and historical analysis of the prison, alongside a review of prisoner testimonies, this paper works to reveal how the environment of Hohenschönhausen was methodically designed to …

Ghanaian Values In Motion: A Content Analysis Of Slogans On Commercial Vehicles In Accra, Abraham Kenin, Vivian Dzokoto, Annabella Osei-Tutu, Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Slogans on commercial vehicles are a common sight in Ghana. These material artefacts can provide insight into beliefs and values about the sociocultural, spiritual, and political experiences of life in the contemporary Ghanaian context. In this study, we collected and analysed a total of 438 commercial vehicles’ slogans from 5 main transportation terminals in the Accra metropolitan area. Our thematic analysis of these slogans shows a major emphasis on religious and spiritual values to the extent that most of the recorded slogans serve as positive affirmations of religious values and sources of spiritual encouragement. The dominance of religious references in …

Experimentatal And Numerical Investigation Of Turbojet Engine Performance, Emissions, And Noise/Vibrations Using Jet-A And F24 Fuel, John W. Mcafee Jr

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Drastic improvement in cost effectiveness of high-power computing resources has generated a great interest numerical simulation to reduce the overhead cost of engine manufacturing, maintenance, and environmental concerns of engine testing. To accomplish this goal, this research presents the differences between military F24 fuel and commercial aviation fuel Jet-A from a thermochemical and engine performance perspective. This experimental data was used to create and validate a numerical model of the engine used in the experiments fueled with both Jet-A and F24 fuels. The experimental data was collected using a research based single stage turbojet engine outfitted with many sensors for …

Social Media Marketing Audiences And Adaptive Behavior In Brunei: Sem Analysis Using Smartpls, Shahid Anjum, Asmah Ahmad, Jefri Basiuni, Najeeba Tazeen

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

The social media and Internet technology penetrations and usage are quite high in Brunei Darussalam. The use of social media marketing among micro, small, and relatively medium businesses to promote their products has also grown as businesses desire to engage and build relationships with customers through social media. This has generated an interest in studying the adaption of social media marketing campaigns among customers, which indirectly determines the effectiveness of social media marketing itself, as well as in studying the facilitation factors for such an adaption. Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) has been used extensively because of its simplicity and usefulness. …

การเมืองของขบวนการนักศึกษาเวียดนามใต้ : ชาตินิยมอันหลากหลายในยุคสงครามเย็น, มรกตวงศ์ ภูมิพลับ

Journal of Social Sciences

งานวิจัยนี้มีจุดมุ่งหมายเพื่อศึกษาการเมืองของขบวนการนักศึกษาในเวียดนามใต้ในยุคสงครามเย็น และชาตินิยมที่ซับซ้อนและลื่นไหลจากการเคลื่อนไหวทางการเมืองและสังคมของนักศึกษา งานวิจัยนี้ประกอบไปด้วย 3 ประเด็นหลักคือ พัฒนาการขบวนการนักศึกษาในเวียดนามใต้ การปลูกฝังและการจัดการศึกษาของรัฐบาลเวียดนามใต้กับความช่วยเหลือของสหรัฐอเมริกา ตลอดจนความหลากหลายของกลุ่มขบวนการนักศึกษาที่มีผูกโยงกับความเปลี่ยนแปลงทางการเมืองและสังคมนับตั้งแต่สาธารณรัฐเวียดนามถือกำเนิดขึ้น งานวิจัยนี้ใช้วิธีวิทยาทางประวัติศาสตร์โดยใช้หลักฐานชั้นต้นและชั้นรองจากฝั่งเวียดนามและอเมริกาได้แก่ หนังสือพิมพ์ วารสาร บทกวี บทเพลงและข้อเขียนของนักศึกษาเวียดนามใต้ ในส่วนที่เป็นหลักฐานฝั่งอเมริกา ได้แก่ หนังสือพิมพ์และจดหมายที่บันทึกการตอบโต้ระหว่างนักศึกษาเวียดนามใต้และกลุ่มนักศึกษาในสหรัฐอเมริกา ผลการศึกษาพบว่าการเคลื่อนไหวของขบวนการนักศึกษาแบ่งออกเป็น 2 ช่วง ได้แก่ ยุคสาธารณรัฐที่ 1 ภายใต้รัฐบาลโงดิ่งห์เสี่ยมและสาธารณรัฐที่ 2 ภายใต้เหงวียนวันเถี่ยว การเคลื่อนไหวของขบวนการนักศึกษามีความหลากหลายและซับซ้อนซึ่งไม่ได้เป็นไปเพื่อการต่อสู้เพื่ออุดมการณ์ทางการเมืองเป็นหลักขึ้นอยู่กับบริบทของระดับปัญหาทางการเมืองภายในที่เวียดนามใต้อยู่ในสภาวะความโกลาหลทางการเมืองรวมทั้งสภาวะสงครามที่เพิ่มความรุนแรงมากขึ้นเรื่อย ๆ ปัจจัยเหล่านี้มีผลต่อรูปแบบการเคลื่อนไหวของขบวนการนักศึกษาและการออกมาตรการในการตอบโต้โดยรัฐ ขบวนการนักศึกษามีอยู่หลากหลายกลุ่มทั้งที่ทำงานร่วมกับรัฐและต่อต้านรัฐ การเติบโตของขบวนการนักศึกษาเพิ่มขึ้นอย่างมากภายใต้การเปิดเสรีเรื่องการศึกษาซึ่งได้รับความช่วยเหลือจากสหรัฐอเมริกา ทั้งนี้ชาตินิยมในหมู่นักศึกษาเวียดนามใต้มิใช่การจำกัดกรอบเพียงแค่การต่อต้านรัฐบาลและอเมริกา ทว่ายังหมายรวมถึงการพยายามสร้างชาติภายใต้สภาวะสงครามและต่อต้านรัฐบาลอำนาจนิยมด้วยการถกเถียงเรื่องการสร้างชาติ ความรักชาติ วัฒนธรรมแห่งชาติและต่างชาติ อย่างไรก็ตามหลังปี 1975 ขบวนการนักศึกษาเวียดนามไม่ได้มีบทบาททางการเมืองเช่นในยุคสงครามเย็น

Clark Magazine, Winter 2024, Clark University

Clark Magazine

The Winter 2024 edition of Clark Magazine. Clark Magazine is a twice-yearly publication primarily geared towards Clark University Alumni.

The cover story is 'The Mushroom Moment: In a bust of popularity, the once-humble fungus has captured the kitchen and conquered our culture. Clark mycologist David Hibbett believes he knows why'.

Run Boys Run: Historical Markers Of Sherman's March To The Sea, Whitley A. Gatch

Honors College Theses

Georgia's historical markers highlight significant events in Georgia's history in the location where they happened– they are meant to be understood and consumed by the general public. Due to the widespread development of the Lost Cause narrative in the post-Confederate South, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s, historical markers concerning Sherman's March to the Sea contain many false notions about General Sherman and his Union soldiers. Focusing on historical markers in Georgia's Coastal Plain and Low Country, this study analyzes the memorialization of the march and the impact of an invented mythico-history on the narrative portrayed as such falsehoods perpetuate …

Separation Of Structures, Alex Zhang

Faculty Articles

This Article makes three main contributions. First, it fleshes out the theory of separation of structures as distinct from contemporary scholarly approaches. Second, it writes the intellectual history of separation of structures, which has been an integral part of the separation of powers enterprise since its inception, including at the Founding. Third, it explores the scholarly and doctrinal implications of structural separation of powers. In particular, adjudicating the constitutionality of agency structures requires methodological pluralism that incorporates the normative values underlying the structural design. That is, under separation of structures, current doctrine should evolve beyond the formalism heavily criticized by …

A New Great Awakening Of Religious Freedom In America, John Witte Jr.

Faculty Articles

While loud criticisms of religion continue to clatter in the media and the law reviews, the U.S. Supreme Court has led a great awakening of American religious freedom. In more than two dozen cases since 2011, the Court has used both the First Amendment and federal statutes to strengthen the rights of religious organizations to make their own internal decisions about employment and employee benefits. The Court has held that some forms of government aid to religion and religious education are not only permissible under the Establishment Clause, but also required under the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses. The …