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Better To Grow Or Better To Improve? Measuring Environmental Efficiency In Oecd Countries With A Stochastic Environmental Kuznets Frontier, Oleg Badunenko, Marzio Galeotti, Lester C. Hunt

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

The standard approach to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) holds that as a country develops and GDP per capita grows environmental degradation initially increases but eventually it reaches a turning point where environmental degradation begins to decline. Environmental degradation takes many forms, one of them being emissions of harmful gases. According to the EKC concept, a country can reduce emissions by ‘growing’. The standard approach implicitly assumes that a country emits as little as possible for its economic development, whereas in reality, a country might emit above the best attainable level of emissions. Therefore, emissions could be reduced before and …

I Am A Part, Josie De Jong

Student Work

"By throwing myself into the action of life, I’d lost nothing and gained everything."

Posting about the joy of volunteering from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/i-am-a-part/

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (November 22, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Multi-Modal Transformers Excel At Class-Agnostic Object Detection, Muhammad Maaz, Hanoona Bangalath Rasheed, Salman Hameed Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Ming-Hsuan Yang

Computer Vision Faculty Publications

What constitutes an object? This has been a longstanding question in computer vision. Towards this goal, numerous learning-free and learning-based approaches have been developed to score objectness. However, they generally do not scale well across new domains and for unseen objects. In this paper, we advocate that existing methods lack a top-down supervision signal governed by human-understandable semantics. To bridge this gap, we explore recent Multi-modal Vision Transformers (MViT) that have been trained with aligned image-text pairs. Our extensive experiments across various domains and novel objects show the state-of-the-art performance of MViTs to localize generic objects in images. Based on …

Unh Receives Nearly $3 Million To Study Impact Of Youth Bystanders On Self-Directed Violence, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

2021-11-22_Michigandaily_Covidmap, Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services

Daily Michigan COVID-19 Update

The "WHERE WE STAND WITH COVID-19" map was obtained from Michigan's main COVID-19 page: https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus. Data was compiled by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). The information was updated daily at 3p.m., Monday - Saturday.

The State of Michigan is working around the clock to test and treat COVID-19 patients. Below is the most recent data healthcare experts across the state have compiled.

The image contained a map, indicating total cases by county, and also provides statistics on Total Confirmed Cases, Total COVID-19 Deaths, Daily Confirmed Cases, and Daily COVID-19 Deaths. There …

Josue Villalobos: Taylor Shaped Me, Taylor University

2021 Website News Stories

No abstract provided.

Treatment Considerations For Obstructive Sleep Apnea In Pediatric Down Syndrome, Erica Gastelum, Marcus Cummins, Amitoj Singh, Manuel Montoya, Gino Luis Urbano, Mary Anne Tablizo

Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being

Children with Down syndrome (DS) are at high risk for developing obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) compared to children without DS. The negative impact of OSA on health, behavior, and cognitive development in children with DS highlights the importance of timely and effective treatment. Due to the higher prevalence of craniofacial and airway abnormalities, obesity, and hypotonia in patients with DS, residual OSA can still occur after exhausting first-line options. While treatment commonly includes adenotonsillectomy (AT) and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy, additional therapy such as medical management and/or adjuvant surgical procedures need to be considered in refractory OSA. Given …

‘Count Your Blessings’, Ann Zlotnik

Marian Library Blog Archive

A poem from the All About Mary website and images from the Marian Library and the U.S. Catholic Special Collection kindle thoughts of grace and gratitude.

Nitrous Oxide Adaptation On Gene Expression In Breast Cancer Cells, Harsh Chheda, Estevan Ruiz Limón López, Zainab Mahmood, Ankit Sharma, Tina Tran, Uzma Abdulbaseer, Farouk Alshatti, James A. Radosevich

Chemistry and Physics Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures

Hypothesis and Objective: Genes participating in the notch signaling pathway are influenced by exposure to high nitrous oxide (HNO) levels. Notch signaling pathway genes are responsible for regulating cell fate, differentiation, and apoptosis. Dysregulation of these genes can contribute to tumorigenesis. Alterations in the expression of these genes in MCF7 breast cancer cells could help determine the effects of the notch signaling pathway on tumorigenesis as a result of exposure to nitrous oxide.

Methods: Samples of cDNA from MCF7 and MCF7-HNO cells were used in DNA microarray analysis. Qualifying genes of interest provided a p value < .05. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were defined and categorized using the Gene Oncology Uniprot (GO) Molecular Function database. These cells were further analyzed using a proprietary bioinformatics analysis created by our laboratory.

Results: Exposure to HNO …

Lanthorn, Vol. 56, No. 14, November 22, 2021, Grand Valley State University

Volume 56, August 2, 2021 - April 18, 2022

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Smokejumper Obituary: Hornumg, William Everett “Bill” (Missoula 1959), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

No abstract provided.

Hope And Longing In Las Vegas, Michael Paulus

SPU Works

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Tony Mutschler V. Brenba Tritt

2021 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

2021-11-22 Michiganoverview_Covidbedppe, Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services

Michigan COVID-19 Hospital Data

Contains the tables Statewide Hospital Capacity Report for COVID-19, COVID-19 Metrics, Statewide Hospital Available PPE Tracking for COVID-19, as well as the tables PPE Days On Hand and Patient Census.

2021-11-22_Michiganoverview_Covidschooloutbreak, Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services

Michigan COVID-19 Outbreak Reports

The School Outbreak Data page was obtained from Michigan's COVID-19 data page: https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98163_98173_102480---,00.html.

This report is created by the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services from data self-reported by local health departments. Data is updated every week.

K-12 School-Related Outbreak Reporting: In accordance with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists' outbreak definition, a K-12 school-associated COVID-19 case (confirmed or probable) is defined as a student, teacher, or staff member physically present in the school setting or participated in a school sanctioned extracurricular activity within 14 days prior to illness onset (or a positive test result) OR …

Coo2 Bhanga Munda Data, Asli Ascioglu, Padma Kadiyala

Finance Department Faculty Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

Using Modern Portfolio Theory To Create Efficient Portfolios From The S&P500, Dylan Rhoads

Honors College Theses

The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (S&P 500) serves as a proxy for the U.S. equity market and is among the most widely cited financial instruments in the world. Its risk and return can be accepted as the market’s, leading it to be the benchmark for performance in many investment settings. Modern portfolio theory helps to quantify performance by explaining the relationship between risk and return. Every portfolio has its own return and risk level, with the optimal allocations falling on the “Efficient Frontier”, that is the line on a graph that connects the portfolios that have the maximum return …

Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Readings Of The Medieval Orient: Other Encounters, Liliana Sikorska

Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European Middle Ages, the first part of this book discusses the troubled legacy of the encounters between the East and the West and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and fiction.

Drawing on the nineteenth-century models, the second part of the book looks at fictional and non-fictional works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century which re-established the “Oriental obsession,” stimulating …

Counteracting Crime Or Wasting Time? Examining A Blight Abatement Cpted Project In Philadelphia, Mandolynn Mcclusky

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study examines the relationships between a blight abatement CPTED project and the total, violent, and property crime rate in Philadelphia from 2000-2019. After controlling for certain demographics (population, median household income, median age of population, poverty level, and unemployment rate) as well as the national crime rate, no statistically significant relationship was found between the CPTED project and the crime rates with the data and measurements available to the researcher.

Smokejumper Obituary: Van Noy, Ronald M. “Ron” (Missoula 1953), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

No abstract provided.

Cpr Management Sa V. Devon Park Bioventures Lp

2021 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Alfred Degennaro V. Barry Grabelle

2021 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Luis Menendez Marroquin V. Attorney General United States

2021 Decisions

Agency

Dave Lawrence V. Ins

2021 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Usa V. Juan Hernandez-Bourdier

2021 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Usa V. Shawn Cavanaugh

2021 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Characterization Of Ovarian Cancer-Derived Extracellular Vesicles By Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy., Nina M. Culum, Tyler T. Cooper, Gilles A. Lajoie, Thamara Dayarathna, Stephen H. Pasternak, Jiahui Liu, Yangxin Fu, Francois Lagugne-Labarthet, Lynne Marie Postovit

Chemistry Publications

Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecological malignancy, owing to the fact that most cases are diagnosed at a late stage. To improve prognosis and reduce mortality, we must develop methods for the early diagnosis of ovarian cancer. A step towards early and non-invasive cancer diagnosis is through the utilization of extracellular vesicles (EVs), which are nanoscale, membrane-bound vesicles that contain proteins and genetic material reflective of their parent cell. Thus, EVs secreted by cancer cells can be thought of as cancer biomarkers. In this paper, we present gold nanohole arrays for the capture of ovarian cancer (OvCa)-derived EVs and …

Disproportionate Effects Of Climate Change_One View From Rural Cambodia, Hannah Litchfield Mmasc

Global Health Equity blog posts

In the Spring of 2013, I travelled to rural Cambodia for a latrine building project with Habitat for Humanity, Canada. A close friend suggested we participate in a building trip while in our second year of university. Together, we chose to participate in the Siem Reap, Cambodia mission because we knew relatively little about Southeast Asia and were incredibly interested in exploring and learning about the culture.

The Scarlet - November 22, 2021, Scarlet Staff

The Scarlet (Student Newspaper) (2011-present)

The November 22, 2021 edition of The Scarlet (est. 1939), Clark University's student-run newspaper. The Scarlet is intellectually and editorially independent of the University.