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Ca Harmful Algae Risk Mapping (C-Harm), Clarissa Anderson Phd, Raphael M. Kudela Apr 2025

Ca Harmful Algae Risk Mapping (C-Harm), Clarissa Anderson Phd, Raphael M. Kudela

Benefits of Ocean Observing Catalog (BOOC)

The CA-Harmful Algae Risk Mapping (C-HARM) system generates predictions of harmful algal bloom (HAB) conditions in California and Southern Oregon coastal waters through a combination of 1) real-time circulation models that predict the ocean physics, i.e. the West Coast Operational Forecast System (WCOFS), 2) satellite remote-sensing data of the ocean “color” and chlorophyll patterns, and 3) statistical models for predicting bloom and toxin likelihoods. These predictions are generated daily to provide a forecast of where you might encounter a Pseudo-nitzschia bloom and/or domoic acid event in the next one to three days.

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“Woman At Point Zero” Challenges Faulty Person Schemas, Josephine Ebersole Apr 2025

“Woman At Point Zero” Challenges Faulty Person Schemas, Josephine Ebersole

KU Inspires! Undergraduate Research Day

This paper explores how literature can challenge faulty-person schemas as defined by Mark Bracher through an analysis of Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi. The paper outlines how Saadawi pushes her readers to question faulty-person schemas and biases and also question the impact these schemas have on institutions and structures that are rooted in bias to oppress and control minorities. The main character in the novel, Firdaus, is a woman who fights against oppressive structures for her protection and freedom, and through humanizing such a character, Saadawi demonstrates how faulty-person schemas place inaccurate judgements on people and encourage …

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Speculative Youth Participatory Action Research: Narratives Of Imaginative Social Dreaming Apr 2025

Speculative Youth Participatory Action Research: Narratives Of Imaginative Social Dreaming

Occasional Paper Series

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Transforming Futures Through Speculative Ypar: The Garage Story, Allison Joann Lester, Eden Kadosh, Atlas Suarez, Abigail Rubinstein Apr 2025

Transforming Futures Through Speculative Ypar: The Garage Story, Allison Joann Lester, Eden Kadosh, Atlas Suarez, Abigail Rubinstein

Occasional Paper Series

The COVID-19 pandemic caused disruptions for young people across the U.S., exacerbating feelings of isolation and disconnection. In response, the [Youth] Think Tank—a paid Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) internship—was launched in [city name]. Teens from diverse backgrounds came together to address the issues they and their peers were facing. This article chronicles the journey of the [Youth] Think Tank through each phase of its YPAR project, following the design process step-by-step as the group developed The [Hub]: a youth-designed space that fosters connection, safety, and belonging within the community. Starting from the program's inception, we trace how the teens …

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Speculation Is Not Theoretical: The Work Of Ypar Moving Forward, Nicole Mirra Apr 2025

Speculation Is Not Theoretical: The Work Of Ypar Moving Forward, Nicole Mirra

Occasional Paper Series

Nothing brought me more joy during my years as the coordinator of the UCLA Council of Youth Research than those moments when, after politely listening to my explanation of some theoretical concept that scholars have painstakingly defined and debated across years in the academy, the students would laugh and respond with some variation of, “Yeah, we get it. We know what they’re saying—they just use fancy language to say it.” Hegemony, social capital— whatever the concept, the youth could always tap into their own identities and experiences to understand that, stripped of all jargon, they already viscerally grasped these realities—the …

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Crawl Spaces To Productive Ruptures: A Reflection To Remember Speculative Futures, Petra J. Lange, Erin Perry, Gregory Wickenkamp Apr 2025

Crawl Spaces To Productive Ruptures: A Reflection To Remember Speculative Futures, Petra J. Lange, Erin Perry, Gregory Wickenkamp

Occasional Paper Series

Perhaps the greatest purpose of artistic expression is trying to make sense of the human experience. Art and storytelling construct and transform our realities. They take the noise of seemingly endless stimuli in our physical existence and identify patterns and meanings, and in so doing, wield incredible power. This is the exact reason censorship is a useful tool to the status quo and reactive. The state of Iowa put this tool to use in 2021 with the passage of House File 802, the law restricting so-called “divisive concepts” and the ability to explore systemic oppression in schools (Iowa Legislative Services …

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“I’Ll Walk Out If You Walk Out”: A Comic On How Students Of Color Utilize Racial Micropolitical Literacy In Their Everyday Lives, Josephine Pham, Talitha Angelica Acaylar Trazo Apr 2025

“I’Ll Walk Out If You Walk Out”: A Comic On How Students Of Color Utilize Racial Micropolitical Literacy In Their Everyday Lives, Josephine Pham, Talitha Angelica Acaylar Trazo

Occasional Paper Series

Advocating for an expansive view of Youth Participatory Action Research that considers everyday practices in mundane life as essential for building just and thriving futures, the authors co-created a comic to illustrate the inventive ways youth of color co-create educational possibilities for racially just futures in everyday classroom life. Framed through a racial micropolitical literacy framework and based on a real-life narrative, their scholarship in comic form invites youth, practitioners, and scholars to re-frame and re-present learning, teaching, studying, and living educational justice in renewed ways. Specifically, the authors highlight the ingenious practices of youth of color who are already …

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Social Imagining In “Youth Taking Action:” Documenting Immigrating And Settling Through A Hybrid Youth Participatory Action Research Project, Natacha Monestel Mora, Julia Iriarte, Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur, Sediqa Temori, Mathias Abraha Apr 2025

Social Imagining In “Youth Taking Action:” Documenting Immigrating And Settling Through A Hybrid Youth Participatory Action Research Project, Natacha Monestel Mora, Julia Iriarte, Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur, Sediqa Temori, Mathias Abraha

Occasional Paper Series

This paper is a memoir of our experiences with Youth Taking Action (YTA), a YPAR program that took place during the COVID-19 pandemic. YTA, a collaborative effort organized by a non-profit based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, provided a space for 6 newcomer youths and 4 immigrant adults to engage in active dialogue. Through these conversations, we explored stories of immigration and settlement, identified barriers that limit opportunities for young newcomers and discussed possible actions to address these issues. The youth also learned documentary filmmaking techniques, which helped them collect data and generate more dialogue. This process revealed that linguistic …

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Actualizing Black Spatial Histories Through A Speculative Youth Archiving Project, Kaleb Germinaro, Alvin Logan, Jr. Apr 2025

Actualizing Black Spatial Histories Through A Speculative Youth Archiving Project, Kaleb Germinaro, Alvin Logan, Jr.

Occasional Paper Series

For today’s youth, learning about one's history and culture is not always a given in the classroom. Many schools are learning spaces void of any cultural or spatial connection, particularly for Black students. This paper details an action-based summer archeology program hosted by the Burke Museum and Seattle Public Schools Liberatory Education Program that explored Black spatial histories through speculative youth archiving. Through key relationships with community organizations, students underwent a three-week program designed to allow students to develop their relationship with Black spatial histories and envision their role in creating and setting history in real-time. Using student interviews, the …

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Así Querés Que Aprenda: Artivism As A Speculative Praxis, Ángela Shamira Morales Pereira, Ana Corona, Rodrigo Aleman Apr 2025

Así Querés Que Aprenda: Artivism As A Speculative Praxis, Ángela Shamira Morales Pereira, Ana Corona, Rodrigo Aleman

Occasional Paper Series

Así querés que aprenda (Is this how you want me to learn?): Artivism as a Speculative Praxis is a youth-led research project created by a community of young people from Centro Educativo de Capacitación, Arte y Producción (CECAP), an alternative school in Uruguay. The project's title is drawn from a poem written during the research process, where youth critically reflect on their educational experiences

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Introduction: Speculative Youth Participatory Action Research: Narratives Of Imaginative Social Dreaming, Ricardo Martinez, Ezequiel Aleman Apr 2025

Introduction: Speculative Youth Participatory Action Research: Narratives Of Imaginative Social Dreaming, Ricardo Martinez, Ezequiel Aleman

Occasional Paper Series

The theme of Issue 53 of the Bank Street Occasional Paper Series, Speculative Youth Participatory Action Research: Narratives of Imaginative Social Dreaming, arose from our perception that many youths and teachers assumed that youth participatory action research (YPAR) was unattainable to them. We argue that, to the contrary, many have been living different forms of YPAR for years.

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Navigating Public Sentiment: A Comparative Analysis Of Immigration Policy Perceptions In Canada And The United States (2017-2020), Jowan Mohammed Hussain Apr 2025

Navigating Public Sentiment: A Comparative Analysis Of Immigration Policy Perceptions In Canada And The United States (2017-2020), Jowan Mohammed Hussain

MA Research Paper

This paper examines the comparative perceptions of immigration policy in Canada and the United States from 2017 and 2020, focusing on how demographic factors such as age, sex, education, and occupation influence public attitudes. Utilizing data from the seventh wave of the World Values Survey, the study employs multinomial logistic regression models to interpret predicted probabilities. The findings reveal that women, younger individuals (18-29 years), and those with higher education levels generally exhibit more positive attitudes towards immigration policies. In contrast, older individuals (50 and over) and those in certain occupational categories, such as skilled and unskilled workers, tend to …

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Intimate Partner Violence And Patriarchy: A Macro-Level Analysis, Tian Yi Xu Apr 2025

Intimate Partner Violence And Patriarchy: A Macro-Level Analysis, Tian Yi Xu

MA Research Paper

Past studies of intimate partner violence (IPV) have extensively examined causes at the individual, interpersonal, and community levels. However, as a worldwide issue, a complete understanding of IPV cannot be obtained without investigating macro-level causes and international variations. Thus, I examined national-level patriarchal beliefs as a macro-level societal cause of IPV. The research question is do national-level patriarchal beliefs in a country affect its IPV rate? To answer the question, I extracted variables from the Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx), the World Values Survey (WVS), and the Quality of Government Dataset (QoG) and analyzed them using quantitative linear regressions with …

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Racial Inequities In Canadian Academia: The Case For Examining Within Discipline Variation, Sydney O. Joao Ms Apr 2025

Racial Inequities In Canadian Academia: The Case For Examining Within Discipline Variation, Sydney O. Joao Ms

MA Research Paper

Racialized faculty often earn less than their white counterparts due to a lifetime of structural, social, and institutional inequities presenting barriers to success within a given university. This research aims to explore the mechanisms and processes that help to explain the expected residual differences in income for faculty based on race, gender, and discipline. Focusing on one Southwestern Ontario university, I control for several factors such as faculty members' salaries over 5 years, year of graduation, type of degree, rank, type of employment, number of job changes, appointment, gender, visible minority status, and citations. Publicly available data was compiled from …

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Promising Young Woman And The Structural Failure To Protect Women, Josephine Ebersole Apr 2025

Promising Young Woman And The Structural Failure To Protect Women, Josephine Ebersole

KUCC -- Kutztown University Composition Conference

This paper explores Emerald Fennel's film Promising Young Woman and the relationship between women and male violence and how male violence is protected by misogynistic structures, specifically in the case of sexual assault. The paper argues that institutions and structures that are rooted in patriarchy and misogyny are fundamentally unable to protect women from the actions of violent men, both in the film and in reality.

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Program Booklet, Kutztown University Of Pennsylvania Apr 2025

Program Booklet, Kutztown University Of Pennsylvania

KUCC -- Kutztown University Composition Conference

PDF of Program Booklet

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Black Women Are Supreme: An Empirical Examination Of Black Women's Evaluations Of Ketanji Brown Jackson, Christine M. Slaughter, Camille Burge-Hicks, Nadia E. Brown Apr 2025

Black Women Are Supreme: An Empirical Examination Of Black Women's Evaluations Of Ketanji Brown Jackson, Christine M. Slaughter, Camille Burge-Hicks, Nadia E. Brown

ConLawNOW

This article discusses research on the nomination of the first Black woman Supreme Court Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson. The study examines how emotions and feelings of connectedness to racial and gender groups shaped evaluations of the historic nomination. The research finds that Black women were overwhelmingly enthusiastic about Jackson’s nomination, but that enthusiasm was attenuated by a wide range of variables like interest in politics and the interplay between racial and gender identity. It analyzes how linked fate, a sense of connection to one’s racial group, is associated with the evaluations of the Jackson nomination. The study finds that Black …

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Navigating Work-Life Balance: A Study Of School Educators In Challenging Contexts, Laurent Yacoub, Sara Abou Ibrahim, Nadine Osman, Zubaida Daye, Nada Jabbour Al Maalouf Apr 2025

Navigating Work-Life Balance: A Study Of School Educators In Challenging Contexts, Laurent Yacoub, Sara Abou Ibrahim, Nadine Osman, Zubaida Daye, Nada Jabbour Al Maalouf

Arab Economic and Business Journal

Work-life balance has become an essential aspect of employees’ fundamental rights provided by the workplace in almost every industry. While WLB is widely recognized for enhancing employees’ productivity, motivation, and consequently, the overall success of the organization, limited research has focused on its role in the educational sector, particularly in Lebanon. In the educational sector, this concept is particularly important since this sector is known for the high amounts of workload during and after school hours. This study explores the impact of work-life balance on job satisfaction among both Lebanese and non-Lebanese teachers in private and public schools in Lebanon, …

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Resource Optimization In Cross Cloud Identity Synchronization, Dileep Reddem Apr 2025

Resource Optimization In Cross Cloud Identity Synchronization, Dileep Reddem

Defensive Publications Series

Cloud providers implement support for System for Cross Domain Identity Management (SCIM) RFCs that mandate only how users and groups are to be provisioned. Administrators of cloud platforms must rely on third-party Identity Providers (IdPs) for group creation and management on the cloud platform. Empty or orphan groups consume storage and bookkeeping resources on the cloud platform, while a compromise or malfunction on the IdP end can exhaust cloud resources and/or impose costs on the cloud platform. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically detect and remove empty and/or inactive user groups using a periodically run mapping algorithm and/or suitably trained …

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Method And System For Transaction Level Settlement For Card Payments, Barbara E. Patterson, Libby A. Kurien, Millie L. Yee, Matthew A. Cramer, Michael Allen Balk, Karen Ando Apr 2025

Method And System For Transaction Level Settlement For Card Payments, Barbara E. Patterson, Libby A. Kurien, Millie L. Yee, Matthew A. Cramer, Michael Allen Balk, Karen Ando

Defensive Publications Series

Embodiments of the present disclosure includes: receiving, by a processing network computer from a resource provider computer via a transport computer, an authorization request message for a transaction; determining, by the processing network computer, that the transaction qualifies for transaction level settlement; modifying, by the processing network computer, the authorization request message to include a transaction level settlement indicator; transmitting, by the processing network computer, the authorization request message to an authorizing entity computer; receiving, by the processing network computer from the authorizing entity computer, an authorization response message; and transmitting, by the processing network computer to the resource provider …

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Biomimetic Nanobots For Heavy Metal Soil Remediation, Suma Mallapragada, Vaishnavi Sankepally Apr 2025

Biomimetic Nanobots For Heavy Metal Soil Remediation, Suma Mallapragada, Vaishnavi Sankepally

Defensive Publications Series

This defensive publication introduces an innovative approach for heavy metal soil remediation using biomimetic nanobots, designed to autonomously detect, neutralize, and degrade harmful contaminants while ensuring eco-friendliness and sustainability. The nanobots feature a graphene-based outer capsule for structural durability, a gold nanolens for selective ion detection, and a bioengineered pseudo-organelle payload system that enables enzymatic neutralization of heavy metals. Utilizing optical-tweezer-based DNA-polystyrene actuators, the system is capable of movement within the soil, and a self-regenerating mechanism ensures prolonged activity. A NanoIoT-enabled communication system allows real-time monitoring and control with minimal human intervention. The nanobots target common …

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The Composite Image Projection Configuration That Contains 5 Adjacently Configured Image Projection Configurations Where A Composite Image Projection Will Be Projected Collectively Onto An Adjacently Configured Composite Surface., Punarjeewa Abeysekera Apr 2025

The Composite Image Projection Configuration That Contains 5 Adjacently Configured Image Projection Configurations Where A Composite Image Projection Will Be Projected Collectively Onto An Adjacently Configured Composite Surface., Punarjeewa Abeysekera

Defensive Publications Series

This paper describes a composite image projection configuration that contains 5 adjacently configured image projection configurations where a composite image projection will be projected collectively onto an adjacently configured composite surface. The entire composite image projection configuration will consists of 5 adjacently configured image projection configurations. The generally utilized image projection configuration will contain a convex lens stack, a configuration that is capable of producing pixel patterns that will be associated with a high brightness light source and an enclosure. The composite image projection configuration, by utilizing the containing 5 adjacently configured image projection configurations, will have the capability to …

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Intrinsically Conductive Polymers For Dry Emg Electrodes, Ru He, Li Yao, Zidong Li, Vanessa Tolosa, Thomas Rudolf Apr 2025

Intrinsically Conductive Polymers For Dry Emg Electrodes, Ru He, Li Yao, Zidong Li, Vanessa Tolosa, Thomas Rudolf

Defensive Publications Series

An example method of manufacturing an electrode, comprises dissolving PVA in a PEDOT: PSS aqueous solution to produce a PEDOT: PSS/PVA solution. Then a dialdehyde crosslinker is added to the PEDOT: PSS/PVA solution to produce a mixture, and the mixture is provided to a mold to be partially cured to produce a loose hydrogel. The resulting hydrogel is then treated with acetic acid and undergoes a controlled drying process to produce a tough flexible dry polymer material that can be utilized as an EMG electrode in wristbands.

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Optical Terminal And Amplifier Line Card Definition Modelled As A Graph, Richard Moses S, Anand Nadarajan, Lokesh Kumar T.N, Archana C, Neeraj Bansal Apr 2025

Optical Terminal And Amplifier Line Card Definition Modelled As A Graph, Richard Moses S, Anand Nadarajan, Lokesh Kumar T.N, Archana C, Neeraj Bansal

Defensive Publications Series

Proposed herein are techniques to model optical terminal amplifier, in-line amplifier, and Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) line card components for an Optical Line System (OLS) line card as a graph. The proposed techniques may enable a component-based representation instead of a layer-based representation in which different hardware building blocks for an OLS line card are modeled as graph nodes.

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Electric Power Assisted Steering (Epas) Gear Rattle Damper, Anonymous Apr 2025

Electric Power Assisted Steering (Epas) Gear Rattle Damper, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

This “EPAS gear rattle damper” is important to provide a “Rattle” free driving experience

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The Role Of Intuition In Knowledge, Kenzi Mcspadden Apr 2025

The Role Of Intuition In Knowledge, Kenzi Mcspadden

Global Tides

In this paper, McSpadden challenges Climenhaga's use of intuitions as evidence by arguing that one does not have to cite memories, sensory experiences, and testimony in order to subconsciously use them to form her beliefs. McSpadden argues that there is a psychological definition of what intuitions could be, that intuitions do not always make philosophers more confident in their beliefs, and that intuitions can instead be explained by a cognitive reaction using past experiences.

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From Explanationism To Pragmatic Explanationism: A New Framework For Knowledge And Stakes, Jacob Guise Apr 2025

From Explanationism To Pragmatic Explanationism: A New Framework For Knowledge And Stakes, Jacob Guise

Global Tides

In "From Explanationism to Pragmatic Explanationism: A New Framework for Knowledge and Stakes", Guise defends the thesis that Pragmatic Explanationism helps overcome Explanationism's limitations in addressing pragmatic encroachment, specifically in high stakes scenarios and situations involving hidden practical factors. Guise argues that Pragmatic Explanationism should be adopted over Explanationism.

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The Utah Statesman, April 14, 2025, Utah State University Apr 2025

The Utah Statesman, April 14, 2025, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

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Tolkien, Tabletop, And Orcs: The Impact Of Participatory Neomedievalisms On Authority, Tyler Bell Apr 2025

Tolkien, Tabletop, And Orcs: The Impact Of Participatory Neomedievalisms On Authority, Tyler Bell

ATU Theses and Dissertations 2021 - Present

Different medieval and fantasy works have utilized race in different ways. Medieval Europe used race as a structural relationship to morally and religiously other certain people groups. J.R.R. Tolkien used race in a similar way, othering the fantasy races like orcs as a way to give the audiences clear antagonists. Direct film and video game adaptations of Tolkien uphold him as the authority on fantasy race, using orcs as antagonists and glorifying violence against them. The table-top role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons initially held up the antagonistic portrayal of orcs, but through different editions, the restrictions placed on orcs have …

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The Anthropology Of Citizenship And Its Importance In Educational Studies, Jagad Aditya Dewantara Apr 2025

The Anthropology Of Citizenship And Its Importance In Educational Studies, Jagad Aditya Dewantara

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

No abstract provided.

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