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Long-Term Changes In Avian Biomass And Functional Diversity Within Disturbed And Undisturbed Amazonian Rainforest, David A. Luther, W. Justin Cooper, Vitek Jirinec, Jared D. Wolfe, Cameron L. Rutt, Richard O. Bierregaard, Thomas E. Lovejoy, Philip C. Stouffer

Faculty Publications

Recent long-term studies in protected areas have revealed the loss of biodiversity, yet the ramifications for ecosystem health and resilience remain unknown. Here, we investigate how the loss of understory birds, in the lowest stratum of the forest, affects avian biomass and functional diversity in the Amazon rainforest. Across approximately 30 years in the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, we used a historical baseline of avian communities to contrast the avian communities in today's primary forest with those in modern disturbed habitat. We found that in primary rainforest, the reduced abundance of insectivorous species led to reduced functional diversity, …

Photocatalytic Molecular Containers Enable Unique Reactivity Modes In Confinement, Senuri G. Jayawardana, Ella C. Madura, Víctor García-López

Faculty Publications

Photocatalytic molecular containers are discrete molecules with photosensitizers or photoredox units in their framework for the indirect light activation of the guest molecules in their cavity. Thus, such containers can carry out unique chemical reactions with high reaction rates, efficient energy or electron transfer, and distinctive regio- and stereoselectivity due to the confinement effects, making them great prospects for organic synthesis. Hence, this digest describes the general considerations for designing and studying photocatalytic molecular containers and showcases their potential by discussing the most representative examples. We forecast new paradigms in organic chemistry and photochemistry will originate from this relatively young …

Schrag '23 Uses Eckley Project To Connect With Others, Discover Self, Julia Perez

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Layer Deposition And Open Molding Of Petg By Fused Pellet Fabrication In An Additive Manufacturing System, Alex Gibson, Jason Weaver

Faculty Publications

Additive manufacturing continues to offer new possibilities in both production and economics. The industry has quickly adopted it to rapidly produce parts that would be difficult or cost preventative otherwise. Recent innovation has expanded its capabilities, however there are still significant limitations. Most AM processes are restricted by materials available, in producing large parts, or by not achieving material deposition speeds to make certain products feasible. In addition, tight tolerances for features and surfaces cannot be produced without substantial post processing. High-speed Fused Pellet Fabrication (FPF) in combination with Hybrid Manufacturing (HM) offers expanded capabilities as additive and subtractive process …

Can Meaning In Life Mitigate The Effects Of Interpersonal Dimensions Of Suicidality On Suicidal Ideation, Greg Edgin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Suicide is a serious and growing problem that has not been adequately explained by prior theories. The interpersonal theory of suicide (IPT) was derived to explain the progression of suicidality by positing that thwarted belongingness (TB) and perceived burdensomeness (PB), combined with hopelessness about these states (interpersonal hopelessness), lead to active suicidal ideation, which in turn leads to suicidal behaviors. However, no prospective tests of IPT hypotheses have utilized a measure of interpersonal hopelessness. Additionally, IPT neglects factors that may protect against or explain the progression of suicidality, such as meaning in life. The purpose of the current study was …

Through The Back Door: Unsettling And Witnessing The Transgenerational Trauma Paradigm With African American Women, Asia Tonja Marie Amos

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The purpose of this study was to disrupt and challenge how research and representation of transgenerational trauma in the field of psychology perpetuates the elision and erasure of African American women's experiences. In social sciences and the medical field, African American women are often described within trauma studies as either silent sufferers of substance abuse and interpersonal violence or perpetrators of lateral violence, child abuse/neglect, etc., which dislocates their personhood and complex nuances of their experiences (e.g. Broussard, 2013; Ponton III, 2018; Ricks, 2018). This study critiques, decolonizes, and de-pathologizes transgenerational trauma transmission (TTT) by using Black feminist intersectional and …

From Langston Hughes To Black Studies: Higher Education Through The Lens Of Black Poets, Justin R. Williams

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This project attempts to bridge two strands of literary studies not typically in conversation with one another. On one hand, literary disciplinary histories have tended to focus on novels as a primary source material for telling a story about higher education but have dismissed the utility of poetry for institutional critique. On the other hand, scholars of African American literature have long recognized Black Arts Movement poets’ centrality to the formation of black institutions and their impact on African American literary criticism but have been less interested in exploring disciplinary concerns prior to the formation of Black Studies. This dissertation …

Contribution Of Orbitofrontal Cortex Activity To Risky Decision-Making, Daniel Bradley Karmiol Gabriel

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

In this dissertation, I recorded individual neuronal activity from the lateral orbitofrontal cortex of awake, freely moving animals as they behaved in a punishment-based risky decision-making task. In this risky decision-making task, subjects chose between a small food reward and a large food reward associated with either a 0% or 50% risk of a concurrent punishment in the form of a mild footshock. As the risk of punishment increased, subjects reduced choice of the large reward. To fully dissect the neuronal underpinnings throughout the decision-making process, I designed the behavioral paradigm to contain three distinct stages: deliberation, choice selection, and …

Abstract: A Quest For Freedom: The History Of Marronage And Maroon Communities In The United States, 1513-1865, Ainsworth L. Tracey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

A Quest for Freedom: The History of Marronage and Maroon Communities in the United States, 1513-1865, is an examination of marronage or Maroon Societies in North America. The self-emancipated or fugitive slave community and its impact on African American men, women, and children during the slave era is one of the least understood aspects of African American History. The objective of this study is to showcase these self-liberated communities and the Maroon experience in North America. Current research on the subject has revealed that the historical record possesses a wealth of information on the topic which allows for an accurate …

Osha And Public Health In An Emergency And A Culture War, Richard R. Carlson

Missouri Law Review

The approval of COVID-19 vaccinations for working age Americans in early 2021 offered a welcome release from oppressive non-vaccination safety measures. Group activities including normal employment operations became possible with a greatly reduced risk of serious illness and death. However, escape from the virus and non-vaccination measures was limited by widespread resistance to vaccination. OSHA became one of a handful of federal government offices that adopted rules to motivate more people to accept vaccination as the best way to protect themselves, protect their families, and escape the oppression of non-vaccination measures. OSHA, which regulates private sector “occupational” health, issued an …

Reforming Qualified-Immunity Appeals, Bryan Lammon

Missouri Law Review

The Supreme Court held in Mitchell v. Forsyth that defendants have a right to immediately appeal from the denial of immunity. This right to appeal alone is enough to halt any progress in civil-rights litigation and add complexity to a case, and defendants can use these appeals to wear down plaintiffs. But appeals from the denial of qualified immunity—or simply “qualified-immunity appeals”—are worse than some seem to realize. In the 35 years since Mitchell, the federal courts have steadily expanded the scope and availability of these appeals. The courts have also undermined (or let defendants undermine) the limits on those …

Acoustic Source Localization Using Straight Line Approximations, Swarnadeep Bagchi, Ruairí De Fréin

Conference papers

The short paper extends an acoustic signal delay estimation method to general anechoic scenario using image processing techniques. The technique proposed in this paper localizes acoustic speech sources by creating a matrix of phase versus frequency histograms, where the same phases are stacked in appropriate bins. With larger delays and multiple sources coexisting in the same matrix, it becomes cluttered with activated bins. This results in high intensity spots on the spectrogram, making source discrimination difficult. In this paper, we have employed morphological filtering, chain-coding and straight line approximations to ignore noise and enhance the target signal features. Lastly, Hough …

Reality Analagous Synthetic Dataset Generation With Daylight Variance For Deep Learning Classification, Thomas Lee, Susan Mckeever, Jane Courtney

Conference papers

For the implementation of Autonomously navigating Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) in the real world, it must be shown that safe navigation is possible in all real world scenarios. In the case of UAVs powered by Deep Learning algorithms, this is a difficult task to achieve, as the weak point of any trained network is the reduction in predictive capacity when presented with unfamiliar input data. It is possible to train for more use cases, however more data is required for this, requiring time and manpower to acquire. In this work, a potential solution to the manpower issues of exponentially scaling …

Patient Experience Of Inpatient Care And Services Received At A Teaching Hospital In Malaysia: A Cross-Sectional Study, Wan Nor Fatihah Wan Nawawi, Vimala Ramoo, Mei Chan Chong, Nor Zehan Ahmad

Makara Journal of Health Research

Background: Patients’ experience reflects the quality of healthcare services from the end user’s perspective and therefore is an essential indicator of healthcare quality. This study aimed to measure patient experience of inpatient care and services received at a teaching hospital.

Methods: A total of 321 patients were enrolled in this quantitative, cross-sectional study during their discharge. Data were collected from May to September 2018 through a validated self-administered questionnaire adapted from the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey. Analysis of patient experience and overall hospital quality rating was conducted using SPSS version 25.

Results: …

Critical Mass Of Women On Biotech Corporate Boards And Its Implication For Firm Performance: A Mixed Method Explanatory Sequential Study, Shesh Sharma

Dissertations

This study examined the influence of demographic, functional, and cognitive diversities on firm performance of North American Biotech companies using a mixed method explanatory sequential approach. One-year cross-sectional data of 100 companies was analyzed followed by purposeful semistructured interviews with eight board members from the dataset. The combined results resolved several ambiguities present in the literature regarding board selection, composition, and the correlation of board diversity with firm performance. This study used the well-known market-based financial metric Tobin’s Q to measure firm performance.

The quantitative results showed a dichotomous relationship between gender ratio and Tobin’s Q based on a theoretically …

Unh Scientists Play Role In Nasa Mission To Send Astronauts Safely Back To Moon, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

State Of Utah, Plaintiff /Respondent Vs. Elbert John Pule, Defendant /Petitioner : Legal Brief, Utah Supreme Court

Utah Supreme Court Briefs (2021– )

Corrected Brief of Petitioner on Writ of Certiorari

NATHAN JACK, SEAN REYES, Counsel for Respondent

DOUGLAS J. THOMPSON, JENNIFER FORESTA, Counsel for Petitioner

State Of Utah, Plaintiff /Respondent Vs. Elbert John Pule, Defendant /Petitioner : Reply Brief, Utah Supreme Court

Utah Supreme Court Briefs (2021– )

Corrected Brief of Petitioner on Writ of Certiorari

NATHAN JACK, SEAN REYES, Counsel for Respondent

DOUGLAS J. THOMPSON, JENNIFER FORESTA, Counsel for Petitioner

August 31, 2022 (Vol. 107, No. 2), Daily Eastern News

Daily Eastern News: 2022-2023

No abstract provided.

Fall Southtalks Explore Theme Of Race In The Classroom, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

University of Mississippi News

Lectures begin Sept. 7 with David Wharton's 'Roadside South'

Implementasi Polis Asuransi Syariah Perjalanan Umrah (Aspu) Yang Diterbitkan Oleh Asosiasi Asuransi Syariah Indonesia (Aasi) Bagi Jemaah Umrah Di Masa Pandemi Covid-19, Erina Octaviani, Fia Fridayanti Adam

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

Umrah travel insurance was created to provide guarantees for compensation and benefits for Umrah pilgrims who travel for Umrah to the holy land. In this case, the Umrah Travel Sharia Insurance policy does not include a guarantee of protection for Umrah pilgrims affected by Covid-19. This paper discusses the implementation of the ASPU policy during the Covid-19 pandemic which was strengthened through a SWOT analysis. This research was conducted at the Indonesian Sharia Insurance Association using a qualitative descriptive method. Data collection was carried out from January to May 2022, using primary data originating from the return of COVID- 19 …

Analisis Pengaruh Laverage Dan Ukuran Perusahaan Terhadap Nilai Perusahaan Dengan Profitabilitas Sebagai Variabel Mediasi, Rizki Mardiyah Harahap, Edyanus Herman Halim, Novita Indrawati

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

There are several factors that become the goal of the establishment of a company. The first goal is to achieve maximum profit, and the second is to prosper the owner of the company or shareholders, and the next goal is to maximize the value of the company reflected in the company's shares. Companies that have gone public, maximize the value of the company seen from a high share price, because the value of the company can be reflected in the company's share price. This study chose the manufacturing industry because there are sub-sectors that will be selected in this study. …

Analisis Strategi Marketing Public Relations Untuk Meningkatkat Citra Pt Barakah Medika Nusantara, Selvi Yuliana, Margareta Manalu

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

Public Relations activities are needed by companies in improving the company's image. One of the important strategies that can be used in a business company in order to achieve the main goal of increasing sales is to use the Marketing Public Relations strategy. With the Marketing Public Relations strategy, the company gets the desired image. In this study, we will look at the Marketing Public Relations strategy carried out by PT Barakah Medika Nusantara to improve the company's image. The purpose of this research is to get an overview in the implementation of the Marketing Public Relations strategy to improve …

Law Society Regulation And The Lawyer-Academic, Andrew Flavelle Martin

Dalhousie Law Journal

Can, and should, law societies regulate and discipline lawyers for their teaching and research? This article explores these largely overlooked but critically important questions in order to establish a foundation for further debate and discussion by lawyers, legislators, and law societies. It argues that professionalism precludes only low-value teaching and research—teaching and research with little pedagogical or epistemic value such that it is unlikely or unworthy to be protected by academic freedom—and that any chilling effect on lawyer-academics comes as much from uncertainty as from actual danger of regulatory consequences. The author concludes that law societies and other stakeholders should …

Public Access To Online Hearings, Jérémy Boulanger-Bonnelly

Dalhousie Law Journal

The open court principle faced a significant challenge when courthouses closed their doors to limit the spread of COVID-19. The shift to online hearings in many jurisdictions generated new avenues for public access but also raised concerns for the privacy and security of individuals, and for the administration of justice. Building on existing principles and a review of the measures adopted by courts in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia during the pandemic, this paper seeks to identify best practices to preserve an appropriate balance between openness and competing interests in the online environment. It concludes that …

If I Had More Time, Would I Have Written A Shorter And Faster Decision? An Empirical Examination Of The Evolution Of Trial Court Decisions, Jon Khan

Dalhousie Law Journal

This article draws from my 2019 LLM thesis on Canadian judicial decisions, where I sought to understand two things: how current approaches to judicial decision-writing may impact access to justice and how might we make decisions a better source of data while also making them more timely, concise, accessible, and consistent. It presents the results and analysis of an original empirical study of the evolution of British Columbia trial decisions over 40 years (1980–2018). It argues that the current process for writing Canadian judicial decisions likely does not further the goals of access to justice and may even hinder them. …

Balance Sheet Items Of The Snb, Swiss National Bank

Documents

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Using Convergent Parallel Mixed Methods And Datasets For Science, Technology, And Innovation Policy Dynamics Research In Indonesia, Putera Prakoso Bhairawa, Suryanto Suryanto, Ningrum Sinta, Widianingsih Ida, Rianto Yan

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

The application of mixed methods has been widely implemented in several studies, particularly in the field of public policy; however, the implementation of convergent parallel mixed methods has been limited. Thus, such methods are appropriate to reveal the science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy dynamics in Indonesia during the 1945–2020 period, as policy dynamics research attempts to reveal the evolution of the changes regarding the policy itself. The following five concepts are analyzed through convergent parallel mixed methods: 1) regime/government change, 2) institutional change/transformation, 3) change in policy issuance, direction, and content, 4) actor role and existence, and 5) policy …

Defect And Distortion In Powder Bed Fusion Of Metal Additive Manufacturing Parts, Maurya Ajay Kumar, Kumar Amit

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

One of the state-of-the-art technologies for metal fabrication is laser powder bed fusion, which includes the following printing techniques: selective laser melting, selective laser sintering, direct metal laser sintering, and electron beam melting. This work examines defect formation in laser powder bed fusion, predominately focusing on selective laser melting. It also explores recent research findings on defect formation and classification and analyzes various internal defects, such as porosity, lack of fusion, balling, and solidification cracking. The influence of process parameters on defect formation and the effect of defects on mechanical properties are analyzed. This review also discusses defect inspection technologies …