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Climate Change Reshuffles Northern Species Within Their Niches, Laura H. Antao, Benjamin Weigel, Giovanni Strona, Maria Hallfors, Elina Kaarlejarvi, Tad Dallas, Oystein H. Opedal, Janne Heliola, Heikki Henttonen, Otso Huitu, Erkki Korpimaki, Mikko Kuussaari, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Reima Leinonen, Andreas Lindén, Paivi Merila, Hannu Pietianinen, Juha Poyry, Maija Salemaa, Tiina Tonteri, Kristiina Vuorio, Otso Ovaskainen, Marjo Saastamoinen, Jarno Vanhatalo, Tomas Roslin, Anna-Liisa Laine

Faculty Publications

Climate change is a pervasive threat to biodiversity. While range shifts are a known consequence of climate warming contributing to regional community change, less is known about how species’ positions shift within their climatic niches. Furthermore, whether the relative importance of different climatic variables prompting such shifts varies with changing climate remains unclear. Here we analysed four decades of data for 1,478 species of birds, mammals, butterflies, moths, plants and phytoplankton along a 1,200 km high latitudinal gradient. The relative importance of climatic drivers varied non-uniformly with progressing climate change. While species turnover among decades was limited, the relative position …

Is Corporate Law Nonpartisan?, Ofer Eldar, Gabriel V. Rauterberg

Articles

Only rarely does the United States Supreme Court hear a case with fundamental implications for corporate law. In Carney v. Adams, however, the Supreme Court had the opportunity to address whether the State of Delaware’s requirement of partisan balance for its judiciary violates the First Amendment. Although the Court disposed of the case on other grounds, Justice Sotomayor acknowledged that the issue “will likely be raised again.” The stakes are high because most large businesses are incorporated in Delaware and thus are governed by its corporate law. Former Delaware governors and chief justices lined up to defend the state’s “nonpartisan” …

Nasa Global Daily Downscaled Projections, Cmip6, Bridget Thrasher, Weile Wang, Andrew Michaelis, Forrest Melton, Tsengdar Lee, Ramakrishna Nemani

AES Faculty Publications and Presentations

We describe the latest version of the NASA Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections (NEX-GDDP-CMIP6). The archive contains downscaled historical and future projections for 1950-2100 based on output from Phase 6 of the Climate Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). The downscaled products were produced using a daily variant of the monthly bias correction/spatial disaggregation (BCSD) method and are at 1/4-degree horizontal resolution. Currently, eight variables from five CMIP6 experiments (historical, SSP126, SSP245, SSP370, and SSP585) are provided as procurable from thirty-five global climate models.

Computational Methods To Simulate Molten Salt Thermophysical Properties, Talmage Porter, Michael M. Vaka, Parker Steenblik, Dennis Della Corte

Faculty Publications

Molten salts are important thermal conductors used in molten salt reactors and solar applications. To use molten salts safely, accurate knowledge of their thermophysical properties is necessary. However, it is experimentally challenging to measure these properties and a comprehensive evaluation of the full chemical space is unfeasible. Computational methods provide an alternative route to access these properties. Here, we summarize the developments in methods over the last 70 years and cluster them into three relevant eras. We review the main advances and limitations of each era and conclude with an optimistic perspective for the next decade, which will likely be …

A New Approach To Machine Learning Hardware Classifier Design Based On Functional Decomposition Of Multi-Valued Functions, Saad Mohammad Al-Askaar

Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation presents a novel design of a hardware classifier based on combining modified Ashenhurst-Curtis Decomposition and multiplexer-based synthesis. The PSUD classifier brings three new contributions: an approach to solve the column multiplicity problem, an approach to encode multiple-valued variables, and a decomposition algorithm based on modified Ashenhurst-Curtis Decomposition. One of the biggest challenges in Boolean function decomposition is the variable partitioning problem. Thus, we introduce a new representation of two combined classifiers for multiple-valued functions to overcome the variable partitioning problem which allows finding the minimal column multiplicity and consequently to find high quality decompositions leading to a good …

A Bayesian Latent Scale Model For Multivariate Longitudinal Data, Kruti Pandya

Dissertations and Theses

In order to understand the entire course of slow progressing diseases like Alzheimer's dementia or multiple sclerosis, it is essential to characterize long term disease dynamics from a healthy stage to a late disease stage. Cohort studies typically recruit subjects at different stages of the disease and then follow them for a relatively short period of time. In this dissertation, we propose a novel Bayesian nonlinear mixed effects model with latent time scale to characterize long term disease dynamics using the observed short term longitudinal data from cohort studies without relying on clinical diagnosis. This model can accommodate noisy longitudinal …

2022-June-02-Mba Capstone Project Collaborates With Ciidi Clinical Research Office, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (June 2, 2022) – The Center of Excellence in Inflammation, Infectious Disease and Immunity (CIIDI) at East Tennessee State University expanded operations in 2021 by creating a Clinical Research Office on the Quillen College of Medicine campus. The office functions as a facilitator for interprofessional and cross-disciplinary investigators as it pertains to basic, preclinical, clinical, and epidemiologic research.

“With CIIDI’s influx of recruitment rates, sample acquisition, and additional large-scale collaborative efforts, it was imperative to create a formal Clinical Research Office,” said James Adkins, director. “We have secured a physical space where the biomedical community can access our …

Clinical Features And Body Composition In Men With Hormone-Sensitive Metastatic Prostate Cancer: A Pilot Study Examining Differences By Race, Patricia M. Sheean, Paula O'Connor, Cara Joyce, Vasilios Vasilopoulos, Ami Badami, Melinda Stolley

Biostatistics Collaborative Core: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Black men treated with frontline therapies for metastatic prostate cancer (MPC) show better clinical outcomes than non-Black men receiving similar treatments. Variations in body composition may contribute to these findings. However, preliminary data are required to support this concept. We conducted a retrospective cohort study for all men with MPC evaluated at our center over a 4-year period, collecting demographic and clinical data (N = 74). Of these, 55 men had diagnostic computed tomography images to quantify adipose tissue and skeletal muscle, specifically sarcopenia and myosteatosis. Nineteen men had repeat imaging to explore changes over time. Frequencies, medians, interquartile ranges, …

Cardozo Celebrates The Class Of 2022 At 44th Annual Commencement, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo News 2022

On May 31 Cardozo School of Law hosted its forty-fourth annual commencement ceremony at United Palace in Upper Manhattan. Cardozo’s Class of 2022 spent their entire 2L year learning remotely.

Resource Center For Delta Entrepreneurs Opens In Greenville, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Mississippi Small Business Development Center partners with CompuRecycling Inc.

Bridge Anyone? Or Chess?, Dean Norman

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

It didn't take many moves for him the checkmate me. I wasn't surprised, because I was a pretty average chess player.

Wildlife Fertility Control: An Alternative To Lethal Management Of Wildlife, Andrew N. Rowan

WellBeing News

The first international conference on wildlife fertility control was held in Philadelphia in 1987. Subsequently, approximately one such event has been organized every four years (the 9th conference being held 35 years after the first). In 2017 and 2022, the Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control (Institute) organized the most recent two meetings. The Institute is a new initiative of the Botstiber Foundation in Philadelphia, whose trustees decided to establish a specific program on wildlife fertility control. They founded the Institute in 2016 in partnership with the Humane Society of the United States. While the conference featured the customary talks …

The Uk Badger Cull: "Lies, Damned Lies And Statistics, Mark Jones

WellBeing News

In England, so often dubbed a nation of animal lovers, close to 177,000 native badgers, a protected species under UK law, have been shot under license since 2013, ostensibly to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis in cattle. There is no doubt that bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a severe problem for cattle, farmers, and taxpayers. In 2021, over 72,000 herd tests, covering more than 9 million individual cattle, were performed across Great Britain. Almost 39,000 reactor cattle and their direct contacts were slaughtered under the compulsory test and-slaughter program. More than 3.500 new herd incidents of bovine TB were recorded …

Factors Related To Contraceptive Use And Family Planning Decision-Making In The South Asian Community Residing In New York City, Nandini Shroff

Dissertations and Theses

Introduction: Currently, there are approximately 5.4 million South Asians residing in the United States (U.S.). The limited literature illustrates that contraceptive use is underutilized among Asians and Asian sub-groups, including South Asian Americans, compared to other racial and ethnic groups. Using Los Angeles County Health survey data, one study found that 22% of Asian Americans reported always using condom in the past 12 months compared to 37% of African Americans, 27% of Whites, and 27% of Hispanics. A study among New Jersey women revealed that compared to non-South Asian women, South Asians (SAs) were less likely to have used ever …

Investigation Of The Association Of Exposures To Fire-Related Hazards With Pulmonary Function Of Firefighters, David G. Goldfarb

Dissertations and Theses

Background. Firefighters are habitually exposed to hazardous toxicants which place them at an elevated risk for numerous adverse health outcomes. An example of this is the associations observed in other works between inhalation of combustion byproducts from urban structural fires and both acute and chronic pulmonary dysfunction. To-date, the characterization of firefighters’ exposures to dangerous chemicals in smoke from non-wildfire incidents, both directly through personal monitoring and indirectly from work-related records is scarce. Prior works investigating the association between routine firefighting and pulmonary function have relied on crude metrics such as years of service and numbers of responses to …

Methodologies For Quantum Circuit And Algorithm Design At Low And High Levels, Edison Tsai

Dissertations and Theses

Although the concept of quantum computing has existed for decades, the technology needed to successfully implement a quantum computing system has not yet reached the level of sophistication, reliability, and scalability necessary for commercial viability until very recently. Significant progress on this front was made in the past few years, with IBM planning to create a 1000-qubit chip by the end of 2023, and Google already claiming to have achieved quantum supremacy. Other major industry players such as Intel and Microsoft have also invested significant amounts of resources into quantum computing research.

Any viable computing system requires both hardware and …

Article, Tampa's Purity Springs Is Up For A $1.2 Million Revival, June 2, 2022, Amanda Hagood

Creekshed: City Wilds

An article by Amanda Hagood about Purity Springs in Tampa, Florida.

Summer Sunset Series Returns To The Grove, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Lineup features eclectic lineup of bands, anniversary edition of 'Thacker Mountain Radio Show'

The Constellation Of Shakespeare’S Juliet: A Psychoanalytic And Feminist Critique Locating The Power Of Juliet’S Resistance, Mara Andersen

English Theses, Dissertations, and Student Creative Activity

In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is a passionate figure who expresses her “willingness to surrender the conscious self to the impersonal forces that stir within it . . . [as] a kind of ontological trust in sexual experience and the world which opens with its relinquishments” (Snow 175). Juliet’s resistance of Verona’s patriarchal system is fueled by her rebellious desire for selfhood which enmeshes erotic and physical death. She violently emerges from childhood to womanhood. My research applies Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic and feminist theories of abjection and “malady of ideality.” Kristeva situates the maternal figure as the site of …

Executive Committee - Agenda 6/2/2022, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

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Is Corporate Law Nonpartisan?, Ofer Eldar, Gabriel V. Rauterberg

Law & Economics Working Papers

Only rarely does the United States Supreme Court hear a case with fundamental implications for corporate law. In Carney v. Adams, however, the Supreme Court had the opportunity to address whether the State of Delaware’s requirement of partisan balance for its judiciary violates the First Amendment. Although the Court disposed of the case on other grounds, Justice Sotomayor acknowledged that the issue “will likely be raised again.” The stakes are high because most large businesses are incorporated in Delaware and thus are governed by its corporate law. Former Governors and Chief Justices of Delaware lined up to defend the state’s …

Midfoot Motion And Stiffness: Does Structure Predict Function?, Kirk Evans Bassett

Theses and Dissertations

In clinical settings, dynamic foot function is commonly inferred from static and passive foot measurements; however, there is little evidence that static foot structure can predict dynamic foot function during walking gait. Previous research seeking to find correlations between the two have focused primarily on sagittal plane midfoot angles even though the midfoot has triplanar motion, which misses potentially important information. Additionally, the focus on kinematics alone may miss the contributions that forces play in midfoot mechanics. To address the angle limitations, a novel Signed Helical Angle (SHA) was developed to capture the triplanar motion of the midfoot from a …

Und Strategic Planning Focus Group Notes: Staff — June 2, 2022, University Of North Dakota

LEADS Development Documents

Notes from a June 2, 2022 UND strategic planning focus group with staff members. The notes capture staff perspectives on UND’s mission, whom the university serves, core values, campus community, research, employee recognition, compensation, collaboration, and visions for UND’s future.

Bringing 'Edutainment' To Your University – Putting The Fun Into Financial Literacy, Morgan O'Sullivan

Faculty and Staff Publications & Presentations

Learning should always be educational, but it can also be fun! Come to this interactive session to learn how to bring financial literacy to life for your students. Through learning about different activities and thinking with a different lens, you will be prepared to teach and facilitate a group of students on the vitally important topic of financial literacy.

By the end of this session, you will be ready to bring financial “edutainment” to your college/university campus. While we can all be entertainers, only the chosen few can be “Edutainers”. This is the session for you! Attendees will be brought …

Cooling Energy Savings For A Campus Building Using Sustainable Envelope-Case Study., Reda Y. M. Allam, Rafik Belarbi, Madi Kabore, Sherif Sheta

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Electricity consumption of the Egyptian building sectors has an increasing rate from 2014 until now according to annual report for electricity ministry [1]. Hence, this research examines the common building envelope systems after increasing the thermal resistance of exterior envelopes to achieve high energy efficient buildings. That will be attained by: 1- field results for the case under study is used to validate numerical model. Then, the thermal performance for the case study is increased by exterior thermal insulation panels, reduced air infiltration through double glass windows instead of infiltrated single glass windows. 2-Three-dimensional numerical results - TRNSYS v17 program, …

Literature Study On Energy-Storing Mice Tendons, Gustavo De Paiva

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Independent Study

The independent study I completed with the Musculoskeletal Soft Tissue Laboratory during the 2022 Spring semester involved an extensive literature search to determine the best course of action for testing the hypothesis that elastin helps reduce damage accumulation over time with cyclic loading of a tendon through a mouse model. This introduction is not a representation of what the lab is currently working on, but it’s to show how we’ve come to the point at which we’re at now: deciding between explant or in-vivo methods of testing the hypothesis.

A Direct-Read, A Posteriori Golden Copy Method For Measuring Soc Cache Upsets, Evan D. Poff

Theses and Dissertations

A method for measuring system-on-a-chip (SoC) cache upsets is presented and evaluated. In contrast to methods that predict cache contents through analysis or memory access patterns, this method uses system registers to read cache memories directly, thereby creating and checking golden copies to detect individual memory upsets during operation. The test method is driven by the device under test itself and does not require a user to set or know a priori the cache contents. A bare-metal implementation of this “direct golden method” on a Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC logged upsets in the device’s data cache, data tag, and TLB RAM …

Students’ Perspective On Effectiveness Of Electronic Resources And Conventional Textbook Materials In Promoting Learning In Isa Mustapha Agwai I Polytechnic (Imap), Lafia., Daniel Samuel Ayele (Cln)

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A survey was conducted to investigate the viewpoint of IMAP students on effectiveness of electronic learning resources and conventional textbook materials in promoting learning. The population of the study was 750 registered users of IMAP library in 2021 from which a sample of 450 representing 60 percent of the total population was randomly selected. The sample was determined using the Krejcie and Morgan table of sample size determination. The setting for the study was face to face. The instruments for data collection were questionnaire and interviews. The instruments were pilot tested with five participants. These five participants consist of …

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ERAP Case.

Optimizing Allocation Of Curricular Content Across The Undergraduate & Graduate Medical Education Continuum, Samara B Ginzburg, Margaret M Hayes, Brittany L Ranchoff, Eva Aagaard, Katharyn M Atkins, Michelle Barnes, Jennifer B Soep, Andrew C Yacht, Erik K Alexander, Richard M Schwartzstein

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Medical educators struggle to incorporate socio-cultural topics into crowded curricula. The "continuum of learning" includes undergraduate and graduate medical education. Utilizing an exemplar socio-cultural topic, we studied the feasibility of achieving expert consensus among two groups of faculty (experts in medical education and experts in social determinants of health) on which aspects of the topic could be taught during undergraduate versus graduate medical education.

METHODS: A modified Delphi method was used to generate expert consensus on which learning objectives of social determinants of health are best taught at each stage of medical education. Delphi respondents included experts in medical …