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Introduction, Palara Guest Editors

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Si El Sistema Nos Cierra Los Espacios Crearemos Espacios Al Margen, Ana María Belique

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El Movimiento Reconocido ha propiciado, como parte de su proceso de formación crítica para personas jóvenes dominicanas de ascendencia haitiana, su incursión en la escritura creativa. A través de la creación de textos que reflexionan sobre la vida, la lucha y la visibilidad delas mujeres negras de los bateyes de la República Dominicana, a quienes rara vez se ubica en un rol protagónico en la literatura y el cine dominicano, se busca realzar la perspectiva de los bateyes. Durante dos años consecutivos se viene desarrollando este proceso formativo en el cual convergen diferentes activistas y académicos de diferentes países de …

“Unx Marica Con Las GüEvas Bien Puestas”: La Demanda Racializada Y Sexogénero Disidente Dentro Del Paro Nacional En Cali, Mauri Balanta Jaramillo

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Las expresiones de violencia desde la intersección raza-género-sexualidad, durante el paro nacional de Colombia en 2021, es uno de los factores más cuestionables en términos de legitimar el lugar de los grupos étnicos y las diversidades del género y la sexualidad en la búsqueda de nuevos acuerdos sociales. Dichas violencias no sólo provienen del Estado que, ciertamente, ha moldeado la identidad nacional desde una perspectiva heteronormativa y binaria, sino también desde facciones de la protesta popular que promueven la anulación política de estas subjetividades y de los enfoques diferenciales que permitan una mejor comprensión de sus realidades en clavede justicia …

Mi Cuerpo Negro Habla/ My Black Body Speaks, Angie Melissa González Chaverra

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La Voz Del Silencio, María Elvira Solís

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La voz del silencio

Profundo… Memorias De Un Hueco Lleno, Andrea Moreno Hurtado

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Este cuento se escribió en memoria de todas las personas asesinadas y desaparecidas por exigir sus derechos durante el estallido social en Colombia 2021. Es la historia de muchos huecos llenos que, desde hace muchos años, se han vuelto parte de la geografía denuestro país, sea por el peso de llevara cuestas miles de siluetas rojas que dan cuenta de la historia del horror de este país o porque en varios de ellos ahora brota la esperanza y posibilidad de construir una nueva historia que nos alimente y nos abrace.

“Afrocolombian Women’S Collectives As A Tool Of Agency In The Montes De María Region”, Mesi Bakari-Walton

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This study focuses on Black women’s collectives in the Montes de María regionof the Atlantic Coast of Colombia. Women serve as agents of change who improve the lives of their families and communities, as seen in the work of Vicenta Moreno Hurtado, who develops the idea that in response to trauma, Black women tell their stories as active agents of recovery and betterment. In this essay, the work of women’s collectives demonstrates the willpower to move through trauma and overcome daily and lifelong hardships. Data from interviews will link current-day practices to ancestral memories, to show how the application of …

Mis Ancestras, Alicia Arrechea

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Mis ancestras

“Batea Sí Retros No”, Valeria Angulo-Caicedo

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“Batea sí. Retros no”1 es una arenga2 de la Movilización de Mujeres Afrodescendientes por el Cuidado de la Vida y los Territorios Ancestrales. Tal expresión es el título de este artículo, porque ubica etnográficamente los repertorios de acción colectiva de las mujeres afronortecaucanas, como la Asociación de Mujeres Afrodescendientes de Yolombó (ASOMUAFROYO), para confrontar las políticas y lógicas extractivistas de los recursos de la naturaleza, que amenazan la existencia de la vida en los territorios del corregimiento La Toma, en el norte del Cauca. En este artículo se propone analizar los repertorios de acción colectiva de ASOMUAFROYO, mediante el método …

Mujer Candente, María Elvira Solís

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Mujer candente

Los Rituales De Sanación De La Diáspora Africanamujeres Negras Dentro Del Contexto Del Paro Nacional Del 28 Abril: Versión Cali, Edna Carolina González Barona

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El presente ensayo busca profundizar y poner en la mesa la conversación sobre las distintas formas de resistencias-rituales contemporáneas dentro del fenómeno de las violencias-recicladas a través del análisis situado de lo visto y experimentado en el paro nacional del 28 abril del 2021 bajo la lente de la intersección de mujer negra-disidencia sexual y la salud mental. Así, este ensayo pretende orientar una reflexión sobre el ejercicio del poder, los rituales y la praxis antidominación de las mujeres negras y personas sexo disidentes afrodiaspóricas frente a la violencia materializada de la colonización en nuestras mentes, nuestras vidas y nuestros …

Entre La Dignidad Y La Muerte: Mujures Negras Dominación Patriarcal Y Estragias Espaciales De Resistencia En El Oriente De Cali, Libia Diaz-Ulabares

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Grupo de Investigadoras Populares Asociación Casa Cultural El Chontaduro. Review by Libia Diaz-Ulabares

Memo To The Public From Activists Of The Punto Afro Resistencia In Cali Colombia, Kathy Diaz

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COMUNICADO A LA OPINIÓN PÚBLICA Santiago de Cali, mayo 15 de 2021 Translation: Kathy Diaz

On The “Expropriation Of Dignity” A Report On The Situation Of The National Strike In Colombia 2021, Sarah Soanirina Ohmer, Anthony Dest

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Cali, Colombia April 28-May 10, 2021 A report compiled by faculty and researchers at the AfroDiasporic Studies Center (CEAF) at ICESI University: Vergara-Figueroa et al. English translation: Sarah Soanirina Ohmer and Anthony Dest, Lehman College

Call For Alara Fall 2024, Palara Guest Editors

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Author Bios, Palara Guest Editors

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Dual Nature Of Magnetic Nanoparticle Dispersions Enables Control Over Short-Range Attraction And Long-Range Repulsion Interactions, Ahmed Al Harraq, Aubry A. Hymel, Emily Lin, Thomas M. Truskett, Bhuvnesh Bharti

Faculty Publications

Competition between attractive and repulsive interactions drives the formation of complex phases in colloidal suspensions. A major experimental challenge lies in decoupling independent roles of attractive and repulsive forces in governing the equilibrium morphology and long-range spatial distribution of assemblies. Here, we uncover the ‘dual nature’ of magnetic nanoparticle dispersions, particulate and continuous, enabling control of the short-range attraction and long-range repulsion (SALR) between suspended microparticles. We show that non-magnetic microparticles suspended in an aqueous magnetic nanoparticle dispersion simultaneously experience a short-range depletion attraction due to the particulate nature of the fluid in competition with an in situ tunable long-range …

Covid Aftermath: The Impact Of The Pandemic On Florida's Public School Students, Hannah Blount, Michael Figg, Autumn Finke, Christina Gilbert, Mackenzie O'Connell, Nyasia Minaya, Kylee Neeranjan, Alyssa Rodriguez

Gator Team Child Juvenile Law Clinic

The goal of this White Paper is to provide an overview of the current and future impacts the COVID-19 pandemic (“COVID”) has left on Florida’s public school education system. Additionally, this White Paper review shows how public education institutions are still working to address the loss of instructional time and long-term consequences due to pandemic-related school disruptions.

Teaching The Relationship Between Multiplication And Division Through Differentiated Instructional Strategies, Teagan Vaughan

Theses/Capstones/Creative Projects

This capstone project reports the differentiated instructional strategies that were integrated throughout a math unit. The capstone will report the effectiveness of two instructional strategies that were integrated into a math unit that focused on students’ understanding of the relationship between multiplication and division. The math unit had 12 lessons taught over three weeks between the pre-and post-assessment. I will report how the strategies worked and the effect the strategies had on students learning. I collected and analyzed the pre/post-test data and found that nonlinguistic representations and multi-level questioning are effective instructional strategies for increasing student learning.

Keywords: instructional …

Assessing Aerodynamic Loads On Low-Rise Buildings Considering Reynolds Number And Turbulence Effects: A Review, Md Faiaz Khaled, Aly Mousaad Aly

Faculty Publications

This paper presents an extensive review of existing techniques used in estimating design wind pressures considering Reynolds number and turbulence effects, as well as a case study of a reference building investigated experimentally. We shed light on the limitations of current aerodynamic testing techniques, provisions in design standards, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods to predict wind-induced pressures. The paper highlights the reasons for obstructing the standardization of the wind tunnel method. Moreover, we introduce improved experimental and CFD techniques to tackle the identified challenges. CFD provides superior and efficient performance by employing wall-modeled large-eddy simulation (WMLES) and hybrid RANS-LES …

Religiosity And Midwestern Lgbtq+ Homeless Youth, Alecia Keller, Nancy Kelley

Theses/Capstones/Creative Projects

Previous investigations have focused on the intersections of LGBTQ+ youth and religion, homelessness and religion, or homeless LGBTQ+ youth, without recognizing the multiple intersections that make up each LGBTQ+ youth’s identity. The purpose of this study was to gain more insight into how being homeless, identifying as LGBTQ+, and growing up with some religion played a role in transitional-aged (ages eighteen to twenty-five) youths’ lives. After working with Youth Emergency Services (YES) in Omaha, Nebraska, and conducting interviews with LGBTQ+ youth who were previously homeless, similar topics emerged among participants. Three participants were evicted from their homes because of their …

Effectiveness Of Accommodations For Students With Adhd At Uno, Kayla Farley

Theses/Capstones/Creative Projects

ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder which can impair ability to sustain attention, inhibit impulses, plan and organize, and complete tasks. These deficits can create barriers to academic success for students with ADHD. Accommodations are often offered to alleviate these disadvantages. However, current research has called into question the effectiveness of commonly offered accommodations for students with ADHD. The purpose of this study was to determine how helpful UNO students found these accommodations and how to better help this student population. The study surveyed 27 UNO students with ADHD on their learning problems, their experiences with the accommodations and why they …

A Machine Learning Approach For Predicting Patient Mortality With Heart Rate Variability Statistics, Matthew Thiele, Dario Ghersi

Theses/Capstones/Creative Projects

The prediction of patient mortality in the healthcare system provides a metric by which hospitals can better manage patient care and assess the needs of each individual patient. As such, the development of better predictive methods is vital for improving patient outcomes and overall quality of care. Heart rate variability (HRV) is a measure of the heart’s complex beating patterns, giving medical professionals additional insight into patient health. Previous research has demonstrated the potential use of heart rate variability as a metric for patient mortality prediction for various conditions, however more work is necessary to validate HRV as a metric …

Patterns And Predictors Of Adherence To Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations In Alberta's Tomorrow Project, Olivia K. Loewen, Navjot Sandila, Grace Shen-Tu, Jennifer E. Vena, Huiming Yang, Kara Patterson, Jian Yi Xu

Faculty Publications

Breast cancer screening is an important prevention component as it can reduce cancer mortality and improve survival. Understanding patterns of adherence to screening recommendations is essential to guide health promotion strategies and policy implementation efforts. The 1999 Alberta screening guidelines were used to determine screening status for eligible female participants in Alberta's Tomorrow Project (n = 4,972), a longitudinal province-based cohort. Screening patterns were derived based on screening status assessed at enrollment (2001–2008) and follow-up (2008–2011). Information on reason for screening was also collected at each time point. Multinomial logistic regression was used to assess potential predictors of adherence to …

Personalized Breast Cancer Onset Prediction From Lifestyle And Health History Information, Shi Ang Qi, Neeraj Kumar, Jian Yi Xu, Jaykumar Patel, Sambasivarao Damaraju, Grace Shen-Tu, Russell Greiner

Faculty Publications

We propose a method to predict when a woman will develop breast cancer (BCa) from her lifestyle and health history features. To address this objective, we use data from the Alberta's Tomorrow Project of 18,288 women to train Individual Survival Distribution (ISD) models to predict an individual's Breast-Cancer-Onset (BCaO) probability curve. We show that our three-step approach-(1) filling missing data with multiple imputations by chained equations, followed by (2) feature selection with the multivariate Cox method, and finally, (3) using MTLR to learn an ISD model-produced the model with the smallest L1-Hinge loss among all calibrated models with comparable C-index. …

A Systematic Literature Review Of Anti-Discrimination Design Strategies In The Digital Sharing Economy, Miroslav Tushev, Fahimeh Ebrahimi, Anas Mahmoud

Faculty Publications

Applications of the Digital Sharing Economy (DSE), such as Uber, Airbnb, and TaskRabbit, have become a main facilitator of economic growth and shared prosperity in modern-day societies. However, recent research has revealed that the participation of minority groups in DSE activities is often hindered by different forms of bias and discrimination. Evidence of such behavior has been documented across almost all domains of DSE, including ridesharing, lodging, and freelancing. However, little is known about the underlying design decisions of DSE platforms which allow certain demographics of the market to gain unfair advantage over others. To bridge this knowledge gap, in …

Roots And Branches: Mimetic Reconstruction Of Women's History Through Nature In Post-Colonial Literature, Jessica D'Albero

Student Theses

Composed similarly to a mini book, this unconventionally structured thesis centralizes on how contemporary female authors, particularly Aurora Levins Morales and Yaa Gyasi, can rebuild gaps in undocumented women’s history through a fusion of nature within post-colonial fiction. A severe lack of preservation exists regarding women’s historical records due to centuries of facing oppression and dual colonization within domestic and public spheres. As a result, women’s memories have become misdirected. These memory gaps can be mimetically refurbished through fictional reconstruction to reimagine simulated pieces to the puzzle of women’s past. The paper divides into two sections, discussing first the idea …

Callaway Measurement Device, Andre S. Fisher, Roman Hays, Blake Sousa, Grant Gabrielson

Mechanical Engineering

The purpose of this document is to illustrate the Callaway Measurement Device senior project from start to finish. The challenge given to the team was to update and improve a gauge used by Callaway employees to measure the loft, lie, and face angle of their full spectrum of golf clubs. Once the team understood how the pre-existing gauge operates, the team conducted background research into other technologies that could improve the gauge. The team decided to digitalize the device amongst other tweaks to reduce error. Because the CAD files were not available for the pre-existing device, the team began reverse …

Gasifier Wall Wash Manifold, Ashley Sieu Che, Gintaras Julius Baipsys, Peyton Joseph Archibald, Michael Thomas Kieran

Mechanical Engineering

The objective of our Gasifier Wall Wash Manifold Project is to design three different manifolds that will uniformly distribute water on the inner diameter of a pressure vessel. Also, the distributed water should completely cover the circumference of the inner walls. From extensive research of current solutions as well as the conduction of technical analyses, we were able to produce three designs that would be able to meet our engineering specifications. Time constraints led to the fabrication of one manifold design along with a test rig. With a fully functional test rig, we saw positive results from our design verification …

Locking Solar Tracking Bushing, Benjamin James Reed, Andrew Donald Maas, Angel Navarro-Iniguez, John Vincent Bruner

Mechanical Engineering

The contents of this final design review (FDR) outline the progress made by a team of four mechanical engineering students at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo to solve the problem of torsional galloping in solar tracker panels since the preliminary design review. The project proposed by the sponsor, Christian Friedrich, on behalf of ARaymond is a design for a friction based braking system integrated into a redesigned bushing.

The CDR contains details about the system design, the design justification, the manufacturing plan, and design verification plan. In the system design section, the four manufacturing subsystems (bushing mount, actuation, …