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Village Of Cuba Pedestrian Network Assessment, Andrew Gingerich

Reports & Documents

During the summer and fall of 2012 a brief assessment was conducted which examined the pedestrian network of the Village of Cuba, NM, and surrounding area. This assessment was undertaken in order to assist the efforts of Dr. Richard Kozoll and Step into Cuba, a community program that promotes healthy physical activity in a variety of ways in the Village of Cuba and surrounding area (for more about Step into Cuba visit http://www.stepintocuba.org). This assessment was funded by the University of New Mexico’s Prevention Research Center.

The basic goal of the assessment was to provide a comprehensive view of the …

Constraints On Cosmic Rays, Magnetic Fields, And Dark Matter From Gamma-Ray Observations Of The Coma Cluster Of Galaxies With Veritas And Fermi, P. T. Reynolds, Et. Al.

Physical Sciences Publications

Observations of radio halos and relics in galaxy clusters indicate efficient electron acceleration. Protons should likewise be accelerated and, on account of weak energy losses, can accumulate, suggesting that clusters may also be sources of very high energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission. We report here on VHE gamma-ray observations of the Coma galaxy cluster with the VERITAS array of imaging Cerenkov telescopes, with complementing Fermi Large Area Telescope observations at GeV energies. No significant gamma-ray emission from the Coma Cluster was detected. Integral flux upper limits at the 99% confidence level were measured to be on the order …

Constraints To The Effectiveness Of Legislative Libraries In Enhancing Legislative Process In North-Western State Houses Of Assembly Of Nigeria, Shamsuddeen S. Aliyu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study was conducted to identify constrains to the effectiveness of legislative libraries in enhancing legislative process in North-Western State Houses of Assembly. Data collection took place in 2012, questionnaire was used in collecting data from the legislators. One hundred and sixty two (162) copies of questionnaire were administered to the legislators from the five State Houses of Assembly, namely, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi and Sokoto. Thus, one hundred and forty one (141) representing 87 percent copies of questionnaire were returned and used for this research work. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data collected from the questionnaire, based …

Reevaluating Administrative Evidence Policy: The Case For Two Exclusionary Rules At Social Security Administrative Hearings, Max Bookman

Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal

The note advocates for the adoption of two specific exclusionary rules in Social Security Administration (SSA) disability hearings to address fairness concerns while maintaining efficiency. It argues that the current process, which prioritizes efficiency over the ability to cross-examine evidence, can lead to unfair outcomes for claimants. The proposed rules aim to ensure claimants can challenge evidence, promoting a fairer process without overly burdening the system. The note challenges the traditional view that exclusionary rules are unnecessary in administrative hearings, emphasizing the need for a balance between efficiency and fairness.

State V. Olivas Appellant's Brief Dckt. 39682

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

Homelessness: Causes, Culture And Community Development As A Solution, Kaitlin Philipps

Pell Scholars and Senior Theses

This thesis seeks to explain the reasons that homelessness occurs, and how it is currently being dealt with in public policy. Triggers and predictors of homelessness are explored and it is shown that triggers are almost always compounded, indicating a multitude of factors that lead to homelessness. The culture and community surrounding the homeless lifestyle is seen as playing a significant role in how the individual copes with their homelessness. The norms and values of their culture are investigated and its role in rehabilitation is explored. Current institutions for helping the homeless are analyzed for different success rates. Additionally, initiatives …

Smc Fact Book 2012, Saint Mary's College Of California

SMC Fact Book

No abstract provided.

Rio 2016 Olympic Park Master Plan Competition, Vicente Del Rio

Focus

No abstract provided.

Illustrated Design Model For Strategic Growth In San Luis Obispo County, Schani Siong

Focus

No abstract provided.

Book Review: The Painted King: Art, Activism, And Authenticity In Hawai’I, Darrell A. Hamlin

eJournal of Public Affairs

No abstract provided.

Creating Hammer V. Dagenhart, Logan E. Sawyer Iii

Scholarly Works

Hammer v. Dagenhart is among the best known cases in the canon of constitutional law. It struck down the first federal child labor law on the grounds that Congress’s commerce power allowed it to prohibit the interstate shipment of harmful goods, like impure food and drugs, but not harmless goods, like the products of child labor. Withering criticism of the decision spread from Justice Holmes’s famous dissent to law reviews, treatises, casebooks, and constitutional law classes. For nearly a century the decision has been scorned as inconsistent with precedent, incoherent as policy, and driven solely by the Court’s reactionary commitment …

Verify, Then Trust: How To Legalize Off-Label Drug Marketing, Fazal Khan, Justin Holloway

Scholarly Works

This article will discuss the current state of off-label medicine, relevant legislation in the area, and a proposal designed to capture the benefits of off-label medicine while limiting its dangers when practiced perniciously. Part II will discuss the regulations in place governing off-label promotion and will detail the practice of ghostwriting and its associated concerns. Part III will analyze the costs and benefits of off-label marketing and practice of medicine, and will utilize a case study to demonstrate the predicament of drug manufacturers. Part IV will set forth a proposal to use the newly created Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to …

Interprofessional Education In Didactic And Experiential Settings At The Jefferson School Of Pharmacy, Elena M. Umland, Cynthia A. Sanoski, Emily R. Hajjar, Bhavik Shah

College of Pharmacy Faculty Papers

Presented at: 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy in Kissimmee, Florida.

Objective:

To evaluate the various IPE offerings at a new school of pharmacy at a large academic medical center.

Frédérique Aït-Touati, Fictions Of The Cosmos: Science And Literature In The Seventeenth Century, Anthony J. Desantis

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

Oxford French Literature Professor Frédérique Aït-Touati’s book Fictions of the Cosmos: Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century is packed full of information—perhaps too packed with information—about all sorts of interesting subjects relating to the interplay of science and literature in the seventeenth century. The book explores literary aspects of science writing, the history of astronomy and optics, and the history of the relationship between fiction and knowledge, especially in the early modern period. Her overall aim in this exploration is to instruct us on the value of fiction in science and the value of science in fiction. To accomplish …

Seeking Liberty’S Refuge: Analyzing Legislative Purpose Under Casey’S Undue Burden Standard, Lucy E. Hill

Fordham Law Review

   In the 1992 decision Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, the U.S. Supreme Court crafted the “undue burden” standard for evaluating the constitutionality of abortion laws. Under that standard, a state is free to regulate abortion, as long as the regulation does not impose an undue burden on a woman’s right to an abortion. Although the standard is disjunctive, the Casey opinion focuses on the “effect” prong of the test, with little guidance as to what a “purpose” prong inquiry would look like. Subsequent Supreme Court abortion jurisprudence has served only to obscure the issue. Circuit courts, therefore, …

The “Peripheral Plaintiff”: Duty Determinations In Take-Home Asbestos Cases, Yelena Kotlarsky

Fordham Law Review

   Since the 1970s, litigation concerning the dangers of asbestos in the workplace has transformed from a few workers’ compensation claims to hundreds of thousands of lawsuits against companies in nearly every industry. While the typical plaintiff in these claims is an employee injured while handling asbestos at the worksite, a new class of “peripheral plaintiffs” has recently emerged. These plaintiffs consist of family members who are exposed to asbestos after inhaling the dust that saturates an employee’s person and clothing. The family members then bring claims against the employers and the owners of the premises claiming that they were negligent …

Track Me Maybe: The Fourth Amendment And The Use Of Cell Phone Tracking To Facilitate Arrest, Jeremy H. Rothstein

Fordham Law Review

   Police use of technology to locate and track criminal suspects has drawn increasing attention from courts, commentators, and the public. In United States v. Jones, the Supreme Court held that police installation of a GPS tracking device on a suspect’s vehicle constituted a search under the Fourth Amendment. Less attention has been paid to police tracking of cell phones—a far more common practice. Police can now locate a cell phone within several feet, using either GPS or information taken from cell towers.

   In August 2011, the government asked a federal magistrate judge in Maryland to allow thirty days of …

A Flexible Mixed Integer Programming Framework For Nurse Scheduling, Murphy Choy, Michelle L. F. Cheong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this paper, a nurse-scheduling model is developed using mixed integer programming model. It is deployed to a general care ward to replace and automate the current manual approach for scheduling. The developed model differs from other similar studies in that it optimizes both hospitals requirement as well as nurse preferences by allowing flexibility in the transfer of nurses from different duties. The model also incorporated additional policies which are part of the hospitals requirement but not part of the legislations. Hospitals key primary mission is to ensure continuous ward care service with appropriate number of nursing staffs and the …

The Shanghai-Hongkong Team At Mediaeval2012: Violent Scene Detection Using Trajectory-Based Features, Yu-Gang Jiang, Qi Dai, Chun Chet Tan, Xiangyang Xue, Chong-Wah Ngo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The Violent Scene Detection task offers a very practical challenge in detecting complex and diverse violent video clips in movies. In this working note paper, we will briefly describe our system and discuss the results, which achieved top performance in mAP@201 and runner-up in mAP@100, among all 35 submissions worldwide. The central component of our system is a set of features derived from the appearance and motion of local patch trajectories [2]. We use these features and SVM classifier as the baseline approach and add in a few other components to further improve the performance. Our findings indicate that the …

Automatic Defect Categorization, Ferdian Thung, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Defects are prevalent in software systems. In order to understand defects better, industry practitioners often categorize bugs into various types. One common kind of categorization is the IBM’s Orthogonal Defect Classification (ODC). ODC proposes various orthogonal classification of defects based on much information about the defects, such as the symptoms and semantics of the defects, the root cause analysis of the defects, and many more. With these category labels, developers can better perform post-mortem analysis to find out what the common characteristics of the defects that plague a particular software project are. Albeit the benefits of having these categories, for …

Oto: Online Trust Oracle For User-Centric Trust Establishment, Tiffany Hyun-Jin Kim, Payas Gupta, Jun Han, Emmanuel Owusu, Jason Hong, Adrian Perrig, Debin Gao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Malware continues to thrive on the Internet. Besides automated mechanisms for detecting malware, we provide users with trust evidence information to enable them to make informed trust decisions. To scope the problem, we study the challenge of assisting users with judging the trustworthiness of software downloaded from the Internet. Through expert elicitation, we deduce indicators for trust evidence, then analyze these indicators with respect to scalability and robustness. We design OTO, a system for communicating these trust evidence indicators to users, and we demonstrate through a user study the effectiveness of OTO, even with respect to IE’s SmartScreen Filter (SSF). …

A Feasibility Study Of Crowdsourcing And Google Street View To Determine Sidewalk Accessibility, Kotaro Hara, Victoria Le, Jon Froehlich

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We explore the feasibility of using crowd workers from Amazon Mechanical Turk to identify and rank sidewalk accessibility issues from a manually curated database of 100 Google Street View images. We examine the effect of three different interactive labeling interfaces (Point, Rectangle, and Outline) on task accuracy and duration. We close the paper by discussing limitations and opportunities for future work.

Eating Alone, Together: New Forms Of Commensality, Catherine Grevet, Anthony Tang, Elizabeth Mynatt

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Eating with others, or commensality, is an enjoyable activity that serves many important social functions; however, many individuals eat meals alone due to life circumstances, meaning that they miss out on these social benefits. We developed and deployed a simple technology probe providing social awareness around mealtimes to explore how social systems might help alleviate the loneliness of solitary dining. Our findings suggest that these systems can convey a sense of connectedness around a meal; further, our analysis revealed three themes relevant to systems of this type: that contextually-located peripheral awareness engenders connectedness; that such tools can foster a feeling …

China Vs India: A Democracy Battle, William A. Callahan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

The last war between Asia's giants erupted in October 1962. Fifty years on the respective works of a Chinese and an Indian intellectual define the shape of their 21st-century contest, says William A Callahan.

Understanding Engagement In Educational Computer Games, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Yunjie Zhou, Adeline Boey, Hanji Li

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper presents an empirical study to understand engagement in educational computer games. Engagement is defined as an experience that occupies an individual’s attention and captures one’s interest. The nature of engagement is viewed as comprising conditions, actions, and outcomes of engagement. The data collection method includes in-depth interviews with 12 educational computer game players who have experienced engagement in playing these games. We used the Grounded Theory (GT) approach to develop an understanding of user engagement in the computer game-based learning context.

Deep Diversification And Long-Term Persistence In The South American ‘Dry Diagona’: Integrating Continent-Wide Phylogeography And Distribution Modeling Of Geckos, Fernanda P. Werneck, Tony Gamble, Guarino R. Colli, Miguel T. Rodrigues, Jack W. Sites Jr.

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

The relative influence of Neogene geomorphological events and Quaternary climatic changes as causal mechanisms on Neotropical diversification remains largely speculative, as most divergence timing inferences are based on a single locus and have limited taxonomic or geographic sampling. To investigate these influences, we use a multilocus (two mitochondrial and 11 nuclear genes) range‐wide sampling of Phyllopezus pollicaris, a gecko complex widely distributed across the poorly studied South American ‘dry diagonal’ biomes. Our approach couples traditional and model‐based phylogeography with geospatial methods, and demonstrates Miocene diversification and limited influence of Pleistocene climatic fluctuations on P. pollicaris. Phylogeographic structure and …

Joe'S Niche In The Extension Scholarship Movement, Nancy K. Franz, Celia E. Stovall

Journal of Extension

Extension's sustainability is tied to relationships with academia. Now more than ever, Extension faculty and staff need to integrate their work into the aims of their university to gain credibility, relevance, and support. This requires Extension workers to more deeply and widely document and share the scholarship of their work with academics and stakeholders. Extension workers should look more often to the Journal of Extension as the premier Extension journal in North America to help address this need. The journal provides a number of factors and services that contribute to developing and sustaining a culture of Extension scholarship.

My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Louann Blocker

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.

E-Books And The Use Of E-Book Readers In Academic Libraries: Results Of An Online Survey, Judith Brook, Anne A. Salter

Georgia Library Quarterly

To ascertain the use of e-books and e-book readers in academic libraries, a study was conducted by Judith Brook of Mercer University and Anne A. Salter of Oglethorpe University. The study was conducted during the period March through May of 2010. The target audience for the web based Survey Monkey study consisted of library professionals, rare book and history of the book academics, library staff and students. Participants were contacted through eight listservs. This survey was unique because of its focus on a wider variety of library related professionals and on policies that govern the use of e-books and e-book …

Strain Rate And Orientation Dependencies Of The Strength Of Single Crystalline Copper Under Compression, Virginie Dupont, Timothy C. Germann

Aerospace Engineering - Daytona Beach

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to model the compression under uniaxial strain of copper single crystals of different orientations at various temperatures and strain rates. Uniaxial strain is used because of the close resemblance of the resulting stress state with the one behind a shock front, while allowing a control of parameters such as strain rate and temperature to better understand the behavior under complex dynamic shock conditions. Our simulations show that for most orientations, the yield strength of the sample is increased with increasing strain rate. This yield strength is also dependent on the orientation of the sample, …