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Byu Rocketry: 2025 International Rocket Engineering Competition, Barry Creighton, Tyson Butterfield, Haylee Sevy, Brian Bodily, Max Coverston, Bryant Neuvert, Sam Bridge, Matt Taylor, Caleb Fears, Andrew Mcdonald, Tj Neyman

Utah Space Grant Consortium

BYU Rocketry will compete in the 2025 IREC competition near Midland, Texas in in the 30,000 ft commercial motor category. The 10 ft and 76 lb. rocket, Escalante, is a tribute to the red rocks of southern Utah and is our next step on the staircase of progress as we attempt to go higher and faster than ever before.

Gasrats Cubesat Transparent Antenna Payload, Ethan Wayland, Tyler Day, Jaret Riggs

Utah Space Grant Consortium

The Get Away Special Radio and Antenna Transparency Satellite (GASRATS) is a technology demonstration CubeSat designed and built by the USU Get Away Special Student Satellite Team. The project involves a state-wide outreach program and has been accepted for NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative

International Rocket Engineering Competition, Ryan Lewis, Nick Woolsey, Wyatt Daugs, Brandon Williams, Hagen Walker, Ava Wilkey, Alex Nielson, Jared Jones, Ryan Johnson, Ethan Baer, Mike Wendell, Weston Fausett

Utah Space Grant Consortium

The Intercollegiate rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) challenges teams to design, build, and launch a high-powered rocket to a target altitude of 10,000 feet while recovering all components, Our team must integrate propulsion, avionics, recovery, and payload systems within strict safety, budget, and design constraints, demonstrating proficiency and innovation in rocketry.

Lunar Landscaping: Designing A Berm-Building Robot For Nasa Lunabotics, Vincent Banh, Anthony Bolda, Nathaniel Bruns, Brycen Cheney, Samuel Friel, Najman Husaini, Wyatt Jones, Reagan Maughan, Jacob Wilson, Joseph Youngblood

Utah Space Grant Consortium

The goal of the NASA Artemis missions are to establish long-term human presence on the moon. This year's NASA Lunabotics competition tasks teams with building robots capable of traversing and landscaping in a simulated Lunar terrain to gather data on Lunar construction. The competition goal is to construct a robot capable of building a berm out of regolith simulant. A diagram of the competition layout is shown in Figure 1.

Cubesat: Structure, Berk Mair, Korbin Burton

Utah Space Grant Consortium

Design, prototype, redesign, test, and fabricate the best 3U structure for the Utah Tech CubeSat to contain and protect the payload and necessary subsystems.

Cubesat: Communications P.A.R.R. Earth Station, Adam Dimaio, Patrick Robanske, Braden Williams, Ryley Horrocks

Utah Space Grant Consortium

Designed and prototyped developed an autonomous earth station with RF tracking and SatNOGS integration to enable reliable satellite communication for environmental monitoring.

Real-Time Control System For Hybrid Rocket Performance Analysis, Leonardo Yucra, Taylor Trujillo, Morgan Britton, Ben Albert, Steven Dipani, David Lunde

Utah Space Grant Consortium

The Mechanical Engineering Department at Weber State University is creating a high-temperature materials testbed using hybrid rocket technology for the Miller Advanced Research and Solutions Center. This technology provides enhanced safety and controllability through a control valve, which regulates oxidizer flow to achieve a stable mass flow into the combustion chamber.

Food Delivery Robots On College Campuses: Understanding Consumer Perceptions And Value Dimensions, Hayeon (Hailey) Choi, Hyun-Woo (David) Joung, Eun-Kyong (Cindy) Choi

ICHRIE Research Reports

The integration of autonomous delivery robots in the foodservice industry offers a promising innovation for enhancing delivery efficiency. College campuses, with their controlled environments and predictable layouts, serve as optimal testing grounds for these robots. This study examines the multifaceted values influencing the adoption and perception of food delivery robots on college campuses, providing insights for industry stakeholders. Findings indicate that functional and emotional values play the most significant role in shaping consumer perceptions, followed by price, novelty, and social values. However, preferences vary based on gender and role (students and faculty/staff), highlighting the need for targeted marketing strategies. These …

Sustainable Tourism In Kenya: An Analysis Of Tourism Policy Currently Under Consideration, Jacquelyne Muhati

Journal of African Policy Studies

This paper examines tourism policy in Kenya in the context of sustainable tourism development. It considers the critical factors that might hinder the development of the sector and highlights the shortcomings in the policy development. It will give a general review of policy development and its significance in Kenya. There will also be an analysis of the key issues in the current policy development in Kenya, and finally, consideration is given to the aspects of policy that the current policy makers should pay attention to in relation to the strategic approach to sustainable tourism development. With the growing economic significance …

The Challenge Of Crafting And Maintaining Democracy In Zimbabwe And South Africa, Robert W. Compton Jr.

Journal of African Policy Studies

This paper examines the impact of land reform policies on the political development of South Africa and Zimbabwe. In particular, it focuses on the past policy approaches to land reform, principally the "willing seller and able buyer" market approach in the context of past injustices involving land reform. The politics of land reform and the inability of the hegemonic parties in South Africa and Zimbabwe, the African national Congress (ANC) and Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) respectively, to implement satisfactory policy contributes to negative political and economic consequences for both countries. Simultaneously, opposition parties in both countries, in particular the …

The Future Of Monetary Integration In Southern Africa: Lessons From The European Union?, Richard Dutu, Donald L. Sparks

Journal of African Policy Studies

The 14-member Southern African Development Community (SADC) has a long-term goal of becoming a full common market. A major component of fuller integration would be a common currency arrangement. The states of southern Africa, however, face a dilemma: While the region already sustains a successful and long-running monetary union, the Common Monetary Area (CMA, known as the "Rand Zone"), the region's leading economic integration organization, the SADC, is opposed to joining the union.

The Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA)—a less successful, but rival economic organization—favors, for its part, a monetary union. Is the SADC ready for monetary …

Smes In Developing Countries And The Problem Of Exporting: Market Entry Costs, Exchange Rate Shocks And The Capital Structure Of Firms, Trond-Arne Borgersen

Journal of African Policy Studies

This paper integrates a sunk-cost model of foreign trade with a discussion on the capital structure of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries. A model of foreign trade where firms have to incur irrecoverable market entry costs in international markets is presented. As a result of the market entry costs the foreign trade structure is non-linear. This non-linearity complicates the relationship between foreign trade flows and exchange rates, compared to the predictions of conventional foreign trade theory. Both the entry and the operating decision are affected, as the non-linearity puts pressure on the capital structure of firms. In …

Cover And Table Of Contents, Institute On African Affairs

Journal of African Policy Studies

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Determining The Effectiveness Of An Educational Intervention On Self-Management Behaviors Of Adults With Type 2 Diabetes At A Rural Clinic: A Quality Improvement Project, Stacy L. Harvey

Dissertations

Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 (T2DM) has the highest mortality deaths, and these are projected to increase over the years. Living with diabetes can be very stressful to manage because of the complexity and required multidisciplinary approach required for effective health maintenance and lifestyle management. Diabetes self-management education programs are essential for improved glucose control and the goal is to help patients improve their lifestyle choices through knowledge of the disease for effective self-management behaviors in the essential areas of diet, exercise, glucose monitoring, medication and cooperation with the diabetes team.

Washington Report: Aicpa Comments On Treasury Proposal To Limit Use Of The Cash Method Of Accounting, Kenneth F. Thomas, Carol B. Ferguson, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Tax Adviser

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Preservation And Tax Benefits, D. Larry Crumbley, Anthony Billings

Tax Adviser

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Tax Clinic, Daniel F. Kruger

Tax Adviser

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Trade Or Business Requirement Under Sec. 174 After Green, Gregory V. Gadarian, James H. Dezart

Tax Adviser

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Estate Planning: Significant Recent Developments Concerning Estate Planning (Part Ii), Byrle M. Abbin, David K. Carlson

Tax Adviser

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