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Sensory Food Aversions: Therapeutic Feeding Strategies For Children, Laureen Giles

MOT Student Capstones

Raising a child with selective eating habits is a common concern among many parents. By the age of two years old, 50% of children will develop selective eating habits which is a typical stage of development in young childhood. However, if a child is avoiding certain kinds of food due to sensory characteristics than skilled sensory intervention by an occupational therapy practitioner may be warranted. Research shows that children with "sensory" aversions to food between the ages of0-8 years old are more likely to develop long term selective eating patterns. Long term food aversion impacts nutritional intake which may affect …

Ud Hebrew Bible Scholar To Release Award-Winning Book On Gender In The Old Testament, Lauren Mccarty

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

UD Assistant Professor Esther Brownsmith explores questions of gender and sexuality in the Old Testament in her first book.

Fabrication And Characterization Of Binary To Quinary Transition Metal Diborides, Roberto Orrù, Mariano Casu, Simone Barbarossa, Sebastiano Garroni, Roberta Licheri, Antonio Mario Locci, Giacomo Cao

Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics: Materials for Extreme Environment Applications VI

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Raiders, Ransoms, And Religion: Captivity And The Road To Freedom For Christians And Muslims In The Early Modern Mediterranean, Philly Brainin, Philip Edward Brainin

History Honors Papers

The Barbary Pirates are a fascinating historical phenomenon, but they were also a part of the larger system of early modern Mediterranean captivity. This system, which thrived from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, saw Christians and Muslims enslaving and ransoming one another on both sides of the Mediterranean. These ransoms made up the base of the North African ransom economy at the heart of the entire system, and this economic motivator was joined by religious conviction in driving the actors within the captivity complex. This thesis argues for an updated historiography of this system, which has often separated …

The Utah Statesman, April 15, 2024, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Rollins Oral History Interview With Bruce Stephenson, Bruce Stephenson, Wenxian Zhang

Oral Histories

Bruce Stephenson earned a BA in history from Florida Southern College and a Master in city planning from Ohio State University.  He worked as land use planner for Pinellas County, Florida before receiving a PhD from Emory University.  His dissertation unveiled John Nolen’s 1923 plan for St. Petersburg, Florida’s first comprehensive city plan, and centered Stephenson's first book, Visions of Eden.

Dr. Stephenson started his teaching career at Rollins in 1988 and served as a professor in Environmental Studies for more than 35 years. His second book, John Nolen, Landscape Architect and City Planner, earned the JB Jackson …

Strategies To Enhance The Success Of Six Sigma Process Improvement Projects In Nonmanufacturing Environments, Talondis Whisker

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Six Sigma is a fact-based and data-driven methodology for improving products, processes, and services in companies across the world. Many project managers from various industries have tried to implement Six Sigma and have failed, resulting in poor quality of their products, inefficient processes, and cost increases. Grounded in the total quality management framework, the purpose of this qualitative single-case study was to explore strategies that project managers used to implement successful Six Sigma process improvement projects in nonmanufacturing environments. The participants were eight Six Sigma project managers who had experience in enhancing the success rates of Six Sigma process improvement …

Distributed Energy Management Strategy Of Microgrid Based On Master-Slave Game, Miaomiao Ma, Hao Wang, Lipeng Dong, Xiangjie Liu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Under the operation mode of power market, based on two-layer master-slave game, a distributed energy management strategy for the microgrid is proposed to tackle the conflict between the overall optimal operation of renewable microgrid and the maximum profit of each investor. To fully consider the balance between energy supply and demand, the concept of power trading agent is introduced, and an integrated demand response strategy based on consumer satisfaction and adjustable load is proposed on the user side. Considering the initiative and decision-making ability of power supply and load, the decision-making game model is established with power trading agent …

Optimization Of Urban Traffic Microsimulation Model For Carbon Emission Reduction, Bo Liu, Jianxin Lin, Yini Liu, Dong Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To assess the environmental benefits of transportation management or control strategies, a method to effectively integrate the micro-traffic simulation model and the micro-vehicle emission model is proposed. VISSIM platform is used to build a case micro traffic simulation model. K-means clustering method is used to divide the driving behavior into 4 types based on the acceleration and deceleration characteristics of different speed intervals of the trajectory data, and the global parameters of the simulation model are calibrated based on the driving characteristics, which quantitatively describe the total sensitivity of the parameters and the sensitivity of the interactions between the …

Modeling And Analysis Of Hybrid Traffic Flow Considering Actual Behavior Of Platoon, Xi Wang, Xiujian Yang, Xiaohan Jia, Shenyi Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To explore the effect of actual behavior of autonomous vehicular platoon on traffic flow, aiming at the hybrid traffic flow mixed with predecessor following(PF) platoon which is modeled according to the actual control strategy, a hybrid traffic flow model is established based on cellular automata(CA) modeling method. Simulation analysis shows that the effect of platoon characteristics such as time headway, market penetration, platoon size, and control gains on hybrid traffic flow presents coupling and nonlinear properties. The spatiotemporal behavior of hybrid traffic flow with different platoon characteristics is generally much different. Reducing time headway or increasing platoon market penetration …

Dynamic Path Planning For Mobile Robot Based On Rrt* And Dynamic Window Approach, Rui Zhang, Li Zhou, Zhengyang Liu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A dynamic path planning method combining RRT* and dynamic window approach(DWA) is proposed to realize the obstacle avoidance of mobile robot in complex environment of dynamic obstacles. Improved RRT* algorithm is used to generate the global optimal safe path based on the known environment information. By eliminating the dangerous nodes generated by RRT* algorithm, the security of global path is ensured. Greedy algorithm is used to remove the redundant nodes in the path to reduce the length of global path. DWA is used to track along the global optimal path planned by the improved RRT* algorithm. When static obstacles …

Collaborative Navigation Method For 5g Cluster Uav Based On Configuration Optimization, Chao Gao, Zheng Huang, Xuan Zhao, Hongxing Wang, Tao Long

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The existing range based cooperative navigation methods for clustered UAVs generally ignore the impact of space configuration on positioning and energy determination, which makes it difficult to obtain the accurate navigation and positioning results. In view of this, a collaborative navigation method is proposed for 5G clustered UAVs based on spatial configuration optimization. The relative ranging error model of UAVs based on 5G signals in complex environments is constructed, and the optimization strategy for collaborative navigation nodes is established based on the minimum geometric division of precision(GDOP) criterion to achieve the real-time optimization of collaborative navigation spatial configuration; A …

A Multi-Uav Collaborative Priority Coverage Search Algorithm, Xiang Yu, Qianrui Deng, Sirui Duan, Chen Jiang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: For the challenges such as large disaster area, uneven distribution of key areas and limited rescue time in emergency rescue, a multi-UAV collaborative priority coverage search algorithm is proposed. The search area is rasterized, and each grid is probabilistically labeled according to the disaster prediction information. The search area is divided into sub-regions of similar size and equal number of UAVs by K-means++ algorithm, and the search starting point of each sub-region is determined based on the clustering center, so that the multiple UAVs can carry out the partition cooperative search of the whole area. The score of each …

Incremental Image Dehazing Algorithm Based On Multiple Transfer Attention, Jinyang Wei, Keping Wang, Yi Yang, Shumin Fei

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to improve the processing ability of the depth-neural network dehazing algorithm to the supplementary data set, and to make the network differently process the image features of different importance to improve the dehazing ability of the network, an incremental dehazing algorithm based on multiple migration of attention is proposed. The teacher's attention generation network in the form of Encoder-Decoder extracts the multiple attention of labels and haze, which is used it as the label of the characteristic migration media network to constrain the network training to form the migration media attention as close as possible to the …

Rethinking Legislative Facts, Haley N. Proctor

Notre Dame Law Review

As the factual nature of legal inquiry has become increasingly apparent over the past century, courts and commentators have fallen into the habit of labeling the facts behind the law “legislative facts.” Loosely, legislative facts are general facts courts rely upon to formulate law or policy, but that definition is as contested as it is vague. Most agree that legislative facts exist in some form or another, but few agree on what that form is, on who should find them, and how. This Article seeks to account for and resolve that confusion. Theories of legislative fact focus on the role …

A Box Of Crayons, River Cienfuegos

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A Seat, Eilish Mcdonald

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A String Called Curiosity, Lauren Limburg

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Student Winner of the NaNoWriMo Flash Fiction Contest

After Hours, Michele Cruz

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America's Way, Matthew Williams

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Atlas, Ella Miller

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Bubble Gum Wall, Karen Stepherson

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Chipping Away, A.J. Sanchez

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Cloud, Mikaela T. Sims

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Do You Hear The Mission Bells?, Ann Tilger

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Emotional Baggage, Lauren Limburg

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Garden Of The Gods, Matthew D. Ring

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Going Back, Heidi Shipp

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Non-student Winner of the NaNoWriMo Flash Fiction Contest

Golden Hour, D.J. Hurley

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Greek Checkers, Matthew D. Ring

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