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The Investigation Of Nickel-Based Catalysts For The Oxidative Dehydrogenation Of Ethane, Justin Lane Park

Theses and Dissertations

The Investigation of Nickel-Based Catalysts for the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane Justin Lane ParkDepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry, BYU Doctor of Philosophy Chemistry The advancement of creating ethylene from ethane via oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) rather than the traditional direct dehydrogenation is right on the cusp of commercialization. The oxidative pathway provides a novel route that reduces the operating temperature of this reaction by 400-500°C. A variety of metals including Mo, V, and Ni that have redox properties suitable for the partial oxidation of small chain alkanes have been investigated. Currently, a MoVNbTe oxide is the most promising catalyst but it …

Radio Frequency Interference Cancellation,Appraisal, Detection, And Correction, Michael J. Lambert

Theses and Dissertations

Radio Astronomy, the study of distant objects in the radio spectrum, is set at defiance against all other users of the electromagnetic spectrum. Where traditional use would fill the electromagnetic spectrum with as much transmission and information as possible, Radio Astronomy would rather no man-made signals existed. Since that is not possible, they grumble and have to deal with unwanted transmissions impinging upon their instruments. I have demonstrated that subspace projection can remove these unwanted signals from Radio Astronomical data in post processing. I demonstrate it both on simulated data and on data taken from the Very Large Array radio …

Molecular Methods For The Identification And Quantification Of Cyanobacteria In Surface Water Sources, Treyton Michael Moore

Theses and Dissertations

Geosmin is a strong musty-flavored organic compound that is responsible for many taste-and-odor events in surface drinking water sources like lakes and reservoirs. The taste threshold of geosmin for humans is lower than 10 ng/L. Traditional treatment methods will not remove geosmin to this level. Additional water treatment methods must be implemented to successfully remove the geosmin and its associated flavor and odor from drinking water. Furthermore, geosmin is produced by cyanobacteria somewhat sporadically, so it is difficult to predict when taste-and-odor events are going to occur. The difficulty involved with predicting geosmin events has led most water treatment facilities …

Model Testing Of Soil Bacteria Population Dynamics, Adam Harlan Heninger

Theses and Dissertations

This is one of the first time series studies of bacteria in soils supporting actively growing corn crops. Mathematically modeling bacteria population dynamics has the potential as a tool to more precisely assess the economic optimal nitrogen fertilizer rate for farmers. As a first step in this modeling effort, we examine the possibility that the bacteria population growth might be described by a dynamic model developed in the food sciences describing bacteria growth in food meant for human consumption. We make the assumption that air temperature above the soil can be used as an approximation for soil temperature. Also, because …

Understanding Soil Liquefaction Of The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake, Donald Jared Anderson

Theses and Dissertations

The Kumamoto earthquake of April 2016 produced two foreshocks of moment magnitude 6.0 and 6.2 and a mainshock of 7.0, which should have been followed by widespread and intense soil liquefaction. A Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance team (GEER) led by Professor Rob Kayen of UC Berkley was dispatched to the Kumamoto Plain--which is in Kumamoto Prefecture, the southern main island of Japan--immediately following the earthquake. The Japanese and U.S. engineers in the GEER team observed mostly minor and sporadic liquefaction, which was unexpected as the local site geology, known soil stratigraphy, and intensity of the seismic loading made the Kumamoto …

An Evaluation Of Two Controller Implementations For An Inverted Pendulum On Cart System, Shaima Abdul Wahab Ali Al Habsi

Electrical Engineering Theses

Various embedded systems are available for control system design and implementation in either lab experiments of postgraduate and undergraduate courses in the area of dynamics and control, or in experimental academic research. The focus of this Master thesis project is set to study, compare and evaluate the performance of two options of controller implementations ranging from a low-cost microcontroller based embedded system to a relatively high-end, high-cost controller prototyping system. In the work reported here, the Arduino® DUE board, which is an Atmel ARM Cortex CPU based, and the dSPACE_® DS1104 prototyping system are used. Another objective of the …

Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Of 6-Thienyl-Lumazine Flourophore In Cellulose Acetate Nanofibers For Detection Of Mercury Ions, Noura A. Al Shamisi

Chemistry Theses

Time-resolved photoluminescence measurements were used to characterize the photophysical properties of 6-thienyllumazine (TLm) fluorophores in cellulose acetate nanofibers (NFs) in the presence and absence of mercuric acetate salts. In solution, excited-state proton transfer (ESPT) from TLm to water molecules was observed at pH from 2 to 12. The insertion of the thienyl group into lumazine (Lm) introduces cis and trans conformers while keeping the same tautomerization structures. Global and target analysis was employed to resolve the true emission spectra of all prototropic, tautomeric, and rotameric species for TLm in water. However, in the NFs solid film no ESPT from TLm …

Metamaterial-Based Sensor Design Using Split Ring Resonator And Hilbert Fractal For Biomedical Application, Nadin M. N. Alrayes

Electrical Engineering Theses

In this research, a simple and efficient approach is presented to design a metamaterial-based sensitive sensor for biomedical applications. The metamaterial based sensor is designed to differentiate between different types of cancer cell lines based on their electrical properties. The sensor is designed by incorporating a single circular split ring resonator (SRR) and a Hilbert fractal curve. The SRR is used considering its capacitive and inductive resonance properties, thereby making the SRR a favorable candidate for sensing applications. Moreover, the Hilbert fractal curve was used as a defected ground structure to increase sensor sensitivity and selectivity. The Hilbert fractal ground …

المسؤولية المدنية لأعضاء مجلس الإدارة في الشركة المساهمة العامة (دراسة مقارنة), سيف درويش سيف سهيل المري

Public Law Theses

لا شك أن شركة المساهمة العامة أصبحت -في يومنا هذا-أحد الركائز التي يرتكز عليها الاقتصاد الوطني، وذلك نتيجة للمكانة التي أصبحت تحتلها داخل النسيج الاقتصادي، والأدوار التي من خلالها تساهم في إنعاش الحركة الاقتصادية، ومن هذا المنطلق ومن أجل الحفاظ على مكانة هذه الشركات وعدم خروجها عن أهدافها التي أنشئت من أجلها فإنه من غير المستبعد بل من الضرورة مراقبة وضبط الأجهزة التي يناط بها إدارة الشركة حيث، أن أي تجاوز للرئيس أو أعضاء مجلس الإدارة للصلاحيات أو أي إنحراف عن الغاية المحددة لتلك الشركات، فإن ذلك ينتج الضرر للمساهمين أو الغير أو أصوال الشركة.

ونظرا لأهمية هذا الموضوع أنصبت …

ضوابط التعاقد بالشراكة بين الجهات الحكومية والقطاع الخاص (دراسة مقارنة – بين القانون الإماراتي والمصري والفرنسي), علياء سيف سالم سيف الجابري

Public Law Theses

تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى تقييم مدى كفاءة ضوابط دليل أحكام وإجراءات عقود الشراكة بين الجهات الحكومية والقطاع الخاص.

وذلك من خلال عرض بعض الضوابط التي أوردها الدليل الاتحادي وتلك التي أوردتها التشريعات المقارنة مثل جمهورية فرنسا وجمهورية مصر العربية باعتبارها أولى الدول التي أخذت بهذا النظام، والقانون المحلي لإمارة دبي ذلك أنه القانون المحلي الوحيد الناظم لعملية الشراكة بين الجهات الحكومية والقطاع الخاص لدى دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة.

وقد تم تحليل الضوابط وفق الدليل المذكور آنفا، والمقارنة بين التشريعات أينما وجدت المفارقات، وذلك للتوجه نحو توصيات مناسبة.

وقد أظهرت نتائج الدراسة بأن المشرع الاتحادي قد سلك مسلكا مشابها لذلك الذي …

فلسفة العقوبة التأديبية والمبادئ التي تحكمها على ضوء التشريع الاتحادي بدولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة, سندية علي سالم الحنطوبي

Public Law Theses

يتناول هذا البحث دراسة موضوع فلسفة العقوبة التأديبية والمبادئ التي تحكمها على ضوء قانون الموارد البشرية الاتحادي، حيث نص هذا القانون على خمس عقوبات تأديبية) لفت النظر الخطي، الإنذار الخطي، الخصم من الراتب الأساسي، تنزيل درجة الموظف درجة واحدة، الفصل من الخدمة (.

وتتمثل المعضلة الرئيسية لهذا البحث في بيان مدى مساهمة هذه العقوبات الخمس في تحقيق التوافق والتوازن العادل بين المصلحة العامة التي تتعلق بحسن سير المرافق مع عدم الإضرار بحقوق وضمانات الموظف العام، وكذلك حمايته من تعسف السلطة الإدارية عند توقيعها. وكذلك معرفة ما إذا كانت هذه العقوبات تكفل تحقيق مبدأ التناسب بين المخالفة المرتكبة والعقوبة الموقعة على …

القرار الإداري على ضوء قضاء المحكمة الاتحادية العليا, مريم زايد المزروعي

Public Law Theses

يمثل القرار الإداري أهم مظهر لاتصال الإدارة بالأفراد، حيث يجسد سلطة الإدارة وبإرادتها المنفردة بإصدار أوامر ملزمة للأفراد يجب الالتزام بالخضوع لها، ويتميز بأنه عمل قانوني يصدر من جانب الإدارة بإرادتها المنفردة كما انه يصدر عن الإدارة باعتبارها سلطة إدارية وطنية وأنه يرتب أثار قانونية معينة.

ويعتبر القرار الإداري ساريا) نافذاً (في حق الإدارة، بمجرد صدوره، إذا كان صادر اً ممن يملك إصداره مستوفيا شروط صحته، ولكن لا يسري في حق الأفراد إلا من تاريخ العلم به بإحدى وسائل العلم المعترف بها قانونا. ً إذا كان التعويل على قدر محدود لاستقرار وثبات القرار الإداري حق للأفراد ليتمكنوا من تريب أوضاعهم، …

ضمانات تأديب المُوظف العام على ضوء التشريع الاتحادي الإماراتي (دراسة مقارنة), أحمد عبد الله الشامسي

Public Law Theses

أعطى المُشرع الاتحادي الإماراتي الحماية القانونية للمُوظف من خلال بطلان كافة الإجراءات المُتعلقة بالجزاءات التأديبية ما لم تكن ضمن السياق الذي رسمه القانون، فكما ألزمت المُوظف بالواجبات التي نصت عليها القوانين وحظرت عليه عدم إتيان بعض الأعمال التي من شأنها تمثل مساسا بالقوانين والتشريعات، وعليه فإن كل مُوظف يُخالف الواجبات المنصوص عليها بمُقتضى القوانين والتشريعات أو يخرج على مُقتضى الواجب في أعمال وظيفته يُجازى إداريا. ً

إذ أن ما يُنسب إلى المُوظف العام من مُخالفات يجب أن تتم وفق إجراءات قبل ثبوت براءته أو قبل مُجازاته، فقد شدّدت كافة التشريعات على أن يكون للمُوظف وإن أرتكب مُخالفة إدارية ضمانات جوهرية …

Teachers’ Perceptions Of Reading Instructional Strategies And Reading Assessment Strategies Used In Private High Schools, Eman Yousef Mahmoud

Curriculum and Instruction Theses

This research explores private high school teachers’ perceptions of reading instructions and assessment methods used in private high schools, in Al Ain city, in the UAE. The main objective of this study is to investigate reading instructional strategies, reading assessment strategies, the difficulties teachers face while teaching reading and the difficulties high-school students face during reading classes. This study used a mixed-method design to answer the research questions. Quantitative data were collected by using a questionnaire as a first stage (N=73), and qualitative data were later collected through interviews (N=7). The attained results shed light on the current situation of …

Development Of A New Analytical Method For Separation And Quantitative Determination Of Synthetic Cathinones In Urine Using Gas Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Jasim Ali Ali Alzaabi

Chemistry Theses

This thesis is concerned with a new class of drugs known as synthetic cathinones, which overruns the drug markets in recent years as “legal highs” drugs, under different commercial names such as bath salts. All synthetic cathinone derivatives consist of a chiral center and usually sold out as a racemic mixture. Usually, one of the two enantiomers will have stronger central nervous system (CNS) stimulatory activity and the other one may have no significant CNS activity or addictive properties. A new sensitive and selective analytical method was developed for the simultaneous determination of ten synthetic cathinones enantiomers in spiked urine …

Tracking Client Outcomes: A Qualitative Assessment Of Civil Legal Aid's Use Of Outcomes Data, With Recommendations, David Udell, Amy Widman

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

In virtually all sectors of society, people are using data to improve what they do. Everyone, it seems, is interested in data, and is searching for best strategies to draw on its power. The stakes are high in the civil legal aid community, where strengthened advocacy can enable people to preserve their homes, their relationships with their children, their life savings, their physical and emotional well-being, and even their freedom.

Yet, in the civil legal aid community, awareness of the power of data is just beginning to take root. Traditionally, civil legal aid has been thinly funded, with little infrastructure …

At Least Some Rights The White Man Was Bound To Respect: Bland V. Beverly And A Contract For Freedom In The Age Of Slavery, H. Robert Baker

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

By law in Maryland, slaves could not enter into legally binding contracts. Nonetheless, in 1833 Beverly Dowling struck an agreement with his owner, Sophia Bland, for his freedom in exchange for $200. Dowling paid $173 towards his end of the agreement before being arrested as a runaway and sold to a slave trader. Beverly Dowling petitioned the Baltimore city court for his freedom, and a jury found that he was free because he had, in the process of raising the money to pay his owner, traveled to the state of New York to work. I survey the law of manumission …

Table Of Contents - Cardozo Journal Of Equal Rights & Social Justice, Vol. 25, Iss. 3

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

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Straight Actors In Lgbt Roles: Creative Casting Or Employment Discrimination?, Erica Ruff

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note examines the trend of casting straight actors in LGBT roles, termed "gay face," and explores its implications as a form of employment discrimination. It argues that this practice limits opportunities for LGBT actors and discusses the legal challenges in addressing this issue under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which does not explicitly cover sexual orientation. The note highlights the tension between anti-discrimination laws and First Amendment protections for artistic expression, noting that courts often favor the latter.

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Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

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Investigación Arqueológica: Sitio Buen Suceso, Comuna Dos Mangas, Provincia De Santa Elena. Informe Suplemental., Sarah M. Rowe, Guy S. Duke

Anthropology Faculty Publications

Supplemental report on radiocarbon dates from the 2017 excavation season at Bun Suceso, a Valdivia site located on the coast of Ecuador. Report submitted to the Region 5 Office of the Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural, Guayaquil, Ecuador.

An Analysis Of Political Preferences And Activism Levels Relationship To The Senior Colleges At Louisiana State University, Lily Frances Fontenot

Honors Capstones

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Bargained Justice: The History And Psychology Of Plea Bargaining And The Trial Penalty, Lucian E. Dervan

Law Faculty Scholarship

In Bargained Justice: The History and Psychology of Plea Bargaining and the Trial Penalty, Lucian E. Dervan traces the historical evolution of plea bargaining from its rejection under English common law to its dominance in modern American criminal adjudication.The article demonstrates that inducements to plead guilty—once condemned as coercive and incompatible with truth-seeking—emerged in the United States in the nineteenth century, expanded during periods of overcriminalization and prohibition, and were ultimately constitutionalized in Brady v. United States (1970). Dervan critically examines the Supreme Court’s assumption in Brady that innocent defendants would not falsely plead guilty in significant numbers. Drawing …

Slouching Towards Oblivion: Divergent Implementation And Potential Exodus Of Chevron Analysis In The Supreme Court's Interpretation Of Immigration Law, Amy L. Moore

Law Faculty Scholarship

In Slouching Towards Oblivion: Divergent Implementation and Potential Exodus of Chevron Analysis in the Supreme Court’s Interpretation of Immigration Law, Amy L. Moore examines the Supreme Court’s uneven application of Chevron deference in cases interpreting the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Mapping the Court’s immigration jurisprudence from 1984 through 2018, the Article documents a striking inconsistency: although the Court has repeatedly interpreted the INA, it has invoked Chevron in only a minority of those cases. Through a doctrinal survey of decisions such as Cardoza-Fonseca, Aguirre-Aguirre, and St. Cyr, the Article identifies recurring rationales for declining deference, …

Historic Structure Report: The Roper House, Kiim Hlavin, Rucha Kamath, Dana Marks, Amy Mendelson, Sada Stewart, Chris Tenny, Kendra Waters

Master of Science degree in Historic Preservation - Research Reports

A historic structure report is a typical document product of historic preservation research. An Historic Structures report is a comprehensive assessment of a building or buildings including the history, physical condition, and evolution over time. Usually prepared during a moment of transition for a building or property, the historic structure report prepared in the Spring semester of 2019 for the Roper House is no exception. Should the use and programming of the Roper House change from its current configuration, this report contains helpful information to record the building in its current state, and suggestions to best carry out and accommodate …

Teaching Online Foundation Course--Track A, Spring 2019, Center For Instruction & Research Technology (Cirt)

Teaching Online (TOL) Cohorts

A seminar on designing and delivering courses for distance learning in Spring 2019

Direct Action Housing: Exploring The History Of Tenant-Led Housing Struggles—On Film—In Nyc, Arielle Lawson

Publications and Research

This independent research project dives into the history of tenant-led housing struggles in New York City with a particular focus on using film archives and documentaries to highlight key moments and case studies when housing activism opened up new political imaginations, intersections and possibilities in the city.

As outlined in the Direct Action Housing zine, I curated and hosted four public events in the spring of 2019 on different aspects of housing struggles documented through archival film records. This series of housing history films was a starting point and catalyst to think about the role of and for the home …

The Relationship Between Coat Color And Dominance In Female Sable Antelope Over Time, Taylor Wilson

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Projects

Sable antelope (Hippotragus niger)exhibit sexual dimorphism, where males and females look different from each other in color and size. Within this difference between the sexes, there are a wide spectrum in coat colors among females, ranging from light tan to dark brown. The variations seen in female coat color in other species are known to be hormonally caused by testosterone. Testosterone levels are also related to dominance within the herd in other species. The first objective of this study is to determine if the variations in coat color are associated with the dominance hierarchy among female sable …

The Importance Of School District Quality In The Columbus Real Estate Market, Ryan Karapas

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Projects

Using a random sample of 100 houses sold between the months of October 2018 and January 2019 in the greater Columbus, Ohio area, this paper investigates the relationship between school district quality and the selling price of houses. The results show that school district quality has a positive and statistically significant influence on the Columbus real estate market. An increase of one letter grade in school district quality (calculated using output-related factors such as student performance) leads to a 13% increase in the selling price of a house. When using the average house price in my data set of $254,000, …

Elucidation Of The Amino-Terminal Structure And Characteristics Of Perilpin 5, Derek T. Wei

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Projects

The United States of America, among many other countries around the world, is suffering from lipid-related disorders. Developing treatment options for these disorders that impact the lives of billions of individuals is an imperative task for scientists. In order to develop treatments and therapeutics, it is first necessary to understand the etiologies of these disorders and their molecular mechanisms. The perilipins are a heavily studied family of proteins found on the surface of lipid droplets that have an integral relevance in regulating lipolysis. Understanding the proteins involved in lipolysis can not only lead to a more complete understanding of the …