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Letter From The Editors, Lucy Dale, Sofia Monteleone, Kee Olandesca, Nor Osborne

Exile

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Front Matter

Exile

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Exile Vol. Lxxii

Exile

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Impact Of Repeated Washing Cycles On Surface Integrity And Mechanical Properties Of Glass Bottles, Siwat Patamakam Mr., Thitisilp Kijchavengkul, Siriyupa Netramai, Gong Yaijam

Journal of Applied Packaging Research

Glass bottles are a top choice in the global beverage industry, but their inherent brittleness poses challenges in maintaining durability. This study focused on investigating the impact of numbers of washing processes from reusing on the surface quality and mechanical properties of glass bottles after each washing cycle. Contact angle technique was used to determine surface quality of glass bottles. It was found that mechanical integrity, as reflected in internal pressure resistance values, and surface quality of glass bottles exhibited an exponential decline with each washing cycle. Furthermore, a predictive model (R² = 0.8882) was developed to estimate its …

Performance Optimization For Distributed Computing Via Gen Ai, Mingji Lou, Maksat Abasov, Fangfang Fu, Pragya Prakash, Venkata Siva Sai Manepalli

Defensive Publications Series

Methods, systems, and computer program products for performance optimization of distributed computing resources using generative artificial intelligence (AI) are provided. An example method may include receiving data associated with performance metrics of a distributed computing system and data associated with a cost function for activities engaged in with the distributed computing system. The method may include providing, as an input to a generative AI algorithm, the data associated with performance metrics of the distributed computing system, the data associated with a cost function for activities engaged in with the distributed computing system, and data associated with a knowledge graph regarding …

Investigating The Spatial Distribution Of Food Insecurity And Its Associated Factors Across Mississippi Counties, Elizabeth C. Swindell, Riley Morgan, Dylan Barker, Ruaa Al Juboori

Journal of Public Health in the Deep South

Background: Mississippi has one of the highest rates of food insecurity in the United States, with many counties experiencing significant disparities in access to healthy food. Therefore, understanding the spatial distribution of these disparities is essential for developing targeted interventions.

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the spatial distribution of food insecurity and its associated social and health factors across Mississippi counties to identify areas in need of intervention.

Methods: Cross sectional study was conducted using publicly available datasets to examine food insecurity and its associated factors at the county level. Pearson correlations and bivariate Moran’s I were used to …

Moonstorm In The Mainstream Or On The Margins?: Constellating St. Louis Lesbian Rhetorics From The Archives, Aurora Blanchard

Theses

Combining rhetorical analysis, oral history collection, and archival study, this multi-genre research project explores lesbian feminist organizing in the 1970s. Moonstorm was a St. Louis lesbian feminist magazine that operated in the 1970s and 1980s. The sample in this research project focuses on the issues of Moonstorm published between 1973 and 1977. Issues of Moonstorm are available for viewing in the archives of the State Historical Society of Missouri. Building on V. Jo Hsu’s theory of constellating, the poems and stories found in Moonstorm serve as sites of both contested and unconditional belonging for modern LGBTQ+ activists. Constellating, specifically in …

2024 Annual Report, University Of Maine School Of Law

Clinic Annual Report

3 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTORS

4 2024: YEAR IN REVIEW

6 GENERAL PRACTICE CLINIC

8 REFUGEE AND HUMAN RIGHTS CLINIC

10 RURAL PRACTICE CLINIC

12 PRISONER ASSISTANCE CLINIC

14 PROTECTION FROM ABUSE PROGRAM

16 YOUTH JUSTICE CLINIC

18 CENTER FOR YOUTH POLICY & LAW

20 ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTS

22 DONORS & FUNDING

24 CLINIC STAFFING

England Revisited, Courtenay Jauregui

Passport to the World

Join Professor Jaurequi as she recounts her adventures in England. She will share her experiences and knowledge of this small country

which boasts beautiful landscapes, ancient history, and one of the most famous UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Psychological Treatment Behind The Walls:Insights From The Inside, Rogelio Serrano

Psychology Division Scholarship

Repeated eras of mass incarceration, criminalization of marginalized communities, and substance use policies have created a revolving door of justice involved populations. The ever-increasing prison population has repeatedly become the largest contingency of mental health clientele for an overburdened mental health system. Those who work with formerly incarcerated individuals in the community often don’t know the unique set of challenges faced by practitioners within the system. Increased understanding and coordination of care can offer opportunities for sustained recovery and reduced levels of recidivism. In this presentation participants will learn about the unique insights on mental health treatment that can be …

Death Anxiety And Risk-Taking For Decisions Affecting The Self And Others, Luis Martinez Mejia

CSB and SJU Distinguished Thesis

This thesis examined the interplay between situational factors (i.e., level of risk, personal relevance) and internal traits (i.e., death anxiety, trait anxiety) on risk-taking during decision making. Specifically, participants had to decide whether to undergo (or have a family member undergo) a risky, but potentially life-extending surgery. Death anxiety, but not trait anxiety, was associated with risk-taking in this task. Those higher in death anxiety were significantly less likely to choose surgery for themselves, but significantly more likely to choose surgery for a family member. These findings show that death anxiety is linked with greater risk-aversion for life-and-death decisions affecting …

Minutes, College Of Liberal Arts Faculty Meeting, Thursday, April 17, 2025, College Of Liberal Arts Faculty, Rollins College

Executive Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Pulse - April 17, 2025, Unm Hsc Marketing & Communications

The Pulse

Weekly newsletter of the UNM Health Sciences Center.

The Indiana Statesman, April 17, 2025, Indiana State University

Student Newspaper

Earth Day Celebration on the quad!; The annual Earth Day Picnic hosted by Indiana State University in the quad

Human Dignity And Prostitution, Clara Kernodle

Harding Undergraduate Research Conference

In the twenty-first century, it is common to see feminists and pro-sex work voices lauding prostitution and other forms of the sex industry as viable expressions of women’s sexual and financial agency. As long as every participating party consents, they argue, sex work is not only tolerable, but admirable and positive – a form of transaction or service deserving license, protection, and respect in the name of individual freedom and female agency. Such voices argue that prostitution can even be dignified, as the sex industry supposedly allows participants full freedom to express their sexuality. In this paper, I offer an …

Robust Sex Determination In The Caenorhabditis Nigoni Germ Line, Jonathan P Harbin, Yongquan Shen, Shin-Yi Lin, Kevin Kemper, Eric S Haag, Erich M Schwarz, Ronald E Ellis

Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine Departmental Research

Sexual characteristics and reproductive systems are dynamic traits in many taxa, but the developmental modifications that allow change and innovation are largely unknown. A leading model for this process is the evolution of self-fertile hermaphrodites from male/female ancestors. However, these studies require direct analysis of sex-determination in male/female species, as well as in the hermaphroditic species that are related to them. In Caenorhabditis nematodes this has only become possible recently, with the discovery of new species. Here, we use gene editing to characterize major sex-determination genes in C. nigoni, a sister to the widely studied hermaphroditic species C. briggsae. These …

Utah Women, Discrimination, And Sexism: Experiences And Perceptions, April Townsend, Susan R. Madsen

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

During the fall of 2023, Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP) researchers conducted a statewide study to establish a baseline for public perceptions related to the awareness, understanding, and attitudes about challenges that Utah women and girls face. In early 2024, UWLP published 20 research summaries¹ that shared the results of this comprehensive study. Then, in the fall of 2024, the survey was administered again around the state of Utah with slight refinements. Between January and April of 2025, we have shared the results of the 2024 data by releasing six white papers, this being the final report in …

Votes In The Balance: A Statistical Analysis Of Voting Behavior In The 2016 Presidential Election, Evan M. Carter

Harding Undergraduate Research Conference

The 2016 Presidential Election was unprecedented in its results. The predicted winner, Hillary Clinton, ended up winning the popular vote, but lost in the Electoral College count to Donald Trump. I examine voting for the winner, Donald Trump, and what factors caused people to vote for him or for another candidate. Although there are several factors that go into how people vote, I analyze demographic, geographic, and ideological predictors for why people voted the way they did. To do this, I will run a regression model on my dataset. Since my dependent variable is dichotomous, meaning there are only two …

Minutes, College Of Liberal Arts Faculty Meeting, Thursday, April 17, 2025, College Of Liberal Arts Faculty, Rollins College

The College of Liberal Arts Faculty Minutes

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29. Dragaganza 2025 [Poster, October 27, 2024], Eugene Vander Leest Ev

LGBTQIA+ Archive Class Projects

Poster showcasing the Drag-a-ganza event which took place on October 27, 2024.

Retrieving Information: An Analogy, Joshua Levine

Library Staff Online Writings

A major part of being an effective legal information professional is knowing where to look at the beginning of your search. In this profession, you typically have a wide range of information resources at your fingertips. Mastering those resources, and being able to make an educated guess about where something might be found, are vital in this field.

Faculty And Staff Library News - April 2025, Rit Libraries

RIT Digital Archives

No abstract provided.

From Novice To Navigator: Research Discipline Skeletons For Liaison Librarians, Jenn Monnin

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

These slides are from a presentation to the Academic Librarians' Caucus of the Medical Library Association covering the Research Discipline Skeletons, a multidisciplinary tool developed by the author during their MLIS practicum. The presentation discussed the need for the Skeletons as a tool, the history behind it's creation, an example Skeleton in the field of Athletic Training, how to build a Skeleton, and other considerations.

For a blank Research Discipline Skeleton template you may use as well as another example, please see this citation:

Monnin, Jenn, "Research Discipline Skeletons: the Librarian’s Bridge to Subject Knowledge" (2020). Faculty & Staff Scholarship …

The Minutes Of The Marshall University Staff Council Meeting, April 2025, Marshall University Staff Council

Staff Council Minutes

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Survey On Intelligent Planning Methods From Large Language Models Perspective, Yanzhong Zhou, Junren Luo, Xueqiang Gu, Wanpeng Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Starting from the perspective of large language models, this paper gives an overview of the definition and development of intelligent planning, and briefly introduces the traditional methods of intelligent planning; based on the close relationship between large language model intelligent agents and intelligent planning, introduces the architecture of large language models and typical large model intelligent agents; focusing on the intelligent planning for large language models, combs through the learning of planning languages, chain of thought, feedback optimization, and process automation; combining with the current challenges and difficulties, introduces the outlook of cutting-edge research on intelligent planning with large …

Simulation Environment Construction Of Track Segment Association And Algorithm Performance Evaluation, Dian Ding, Guangfen Wei, Zheng Cao, Shaohui Wen

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to study the applicability of Track Segment Association (TSA) algorithms in actual radar working environment , a TSA simulation environment which can simulate the real movement of the target is constructed. By constructing a rich set of target motion sets, the state switching process of target motion is described based on Markov state transition matrix, and the density is flexibly controlled through track translation. The simulation results show that this environment can evaluate the performance of the current classical TSA algorithms. The evaluation results provide a good reference for the practical engineering application of interrupted track association.

Fids: Accelerating Network Intrusion Detection Through Strategic Feature Selection, James Elmore

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

Network intrusion detection systems (IDS) typically analyze complete network flows to identify malicious traffic, requiring flows to conclude before classification. This approach creates detection delays for attacks like Slowloris that intentionally keep connections open for extended periods of time. This paper introduces a novel approach that classifies network traffic using only features available from the first few packets of a flow, enabling faster detection while maintaining high accuracy. We evaluate three random forest models on the CICIDS2017 dataset using expanding sets of features: the first-packet model trained on on features available from the first backward packet, the few-packet model which …

The Evolution Of Russian And Chinese Disinformation Tactics And The Threat They Pose To The U.S. Cybersecurity, Jehovani Sese

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

This paper aims to discuss how disinformation has become the most powerful tool used against the United State by foreign operatives. Of these foreign operatives, Russia and China have shown the ability to use advanced tactics to truly affect the United States security. Often these tools came in the form of state-sponsored media, influence campaigns and fake online identities. This literature review explores the evolution of Russian and Chinese disinformation tactics, examining how these approaches have changed over time and become more sophisticated. This paper will highlight major campaigns which use tools such as bot networks, and social media manipulation. …

Shaped Adversarial Patches And The Ability They Hold, Nathan Hallberg

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

In more recent years the development of computer vision has advanced to be more comprehensive than in the past, with newer applications ranging from autonomous vehicles to security systems. The main application I will be talking about throughout this paper is an object detection algorithm called YOLO (You only look once), this algorithm is particularly significant due to their real-time performance of being able to identify and localize objects within an image in quick timing. However, the strength of these computer vision models is increasingly challenged by adversarial attacks, which manipulate the computer's vision to block a certain part of …

Cohens_D, Manish Rami

Software

This Python script calculates the effect size Cohen's d in a two group situation with known means and Standard Deviations.

Use this effect size if the sample size in your experiment is large and the two SDs are similar.