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Paso Del Norte Economic Indicator Review, December, Hunt Institute For Global Competitiveness

Technical Reports

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My Grandmother, Jinghong Chen, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Baker & Whitehill supplemental content

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A Modern Retelling Of Little Red Riding Hood, Robbie Li, Kennice Pan, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Baker & Whitehill supplemental content

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Clocks In Space, Pei-Jung Hsieh, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Baker & Whitehill supplemental content

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How Does It Feel To Have Clouds Swoop In Your Face, Zimu Fang, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Baker & Whitehill supplemental content

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February 14, 2018, Yadelis Gomez, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Baker & Whitehill supplemental content

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The Wonders Of The Human Head, Olivia Bartsch, Special Collections, Fleet Library

9th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2023

Entry for the 9th Annual Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, March 02, 2023, Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Andre Lee Bassuet.

Black And Bold Zine, Ramsey Bennani, Mariela Mariano, Britaney Mckinney, Natalia Muro

Student Zines

Two years into the pandemic caused by COVID-19, an unprecedented health crisis that has caught us al l off guard, we look back at how the world has changed since then and in what direction we are moving now.

The purpose of our magazine in the fol lowing pages is to delve into the social, political and economic dimensions of the coronavirus crisis, with special emphasis on the effects this devastating pandemic has had on the African-American community in the United States.

The future will depend on how we react to this event. Solidarity, leadership and generosity as an effective …

Social Media Politics Zine, Emma Beach, Mahagani Campbell, Nate Crystal, Brianna Sanchez

Student Zines

This magazine forefronts the intersection of social media, politics and race. Over the course of you reading this magazine you will learn about the different aspects of these intersections and as well as some people who are worth checking out. If you want to know about different Black owned businesses, people who are involved in promoting different issues such as the climate crisis, BLM, indigenous rights, reproductive justice and more, this magazine will help inform you. Be on the lookout for some creator spotlights and advertisements. We hope you enjoy the magazine and learn something new.

Validation Of Landsat 8 High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature Using Surfers, Quinton Vanhellemont, Robert J. W. Brewin, Philip J. Bresnahan, Tyler Cyronak

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Nearshore coastal waters are highly dynamic in both space and time. They can be difficult to sample using conventional methods due to their shallow depth, tidal variability, and the presence of breaking waves. High resolution satellite sensors can be used to provide synoptic views of Surface Temperature (ST), but the performance of such ST products in the nearshore zone is poorly understood. Close to the shoreline, the ST pixels can be influenced by mixed composition of water and land, as a result of the sensor’s spatial resolution. This can cause thermal adjacency effects due to the highly different diurnal temperature …

Toi-1201 B: A Mini-Neptune Transiting A Bright And Moderately Young M Dwarf, D. Kossakowski, J. Kemmer, P. Bluhm, S. Stock, J. A. Caballero, V. J. S. Béjar, C. Cardona Guillén, N. Lodieu, K. A. Collins, M. Oshagh, M. Schlecker, N. Espinoza, E. Pallé, T. Henning, L. Kreidberg, M. Kürster, P. J. Amado, D. R. Anderson, J. C. Morales, S. Cartwright, D. Charbonneau, P. Chaturvedi, C. Cifuentes, D. M. Conti, M. Cortés-Contreras, S. Dreizler, D. Galadí-Enríquez, P. Guerra, R. Hart, C. Hellier, C. Henze, E. Herrero, S. V. Jeffers, J. M. Jenkins, Eric L.N. Jensen, A. Kaminski, J. F. Kielkopf, M. Kunimoto, M. Lafarga, D. W. Latham, J. Lillo-Box, R. Luque, K. Molaverdikhani, D. Montes, G. Morello, E. H. Morgan, G. Nowak, A. Pavlov, M. Perger, E. V. Quintana, A. Quirrenbach, S. Reffert, A. Reiners, G. Ricker, I. Ribas, C. Rodríguez López, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, S. Seager, P. Schöfer, A. Schweitzer, T. Trifonov, S. Vanaverbeke, R. Vanderspek, R. West, J. Winn, M. Zechmeister

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

We present the discovery of a transiting mini-Neptune around TOI-1201, a relatively bright and moderately young early M dwarf (J ≈ 9.5 mag, ~600–800 Myr) in an equal-mass ~8 arcsecond-wide binary system, using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, along with follow-up transit observations. With an orbital period of 2.49 d, TOI-1201 b is a warm mini-Neptune with a radius of R_b = 2.415 ± 0.090 R_⊕. This signal is also present in the precise radial velocity measurements from CARMENES, confirming the existence of the planet and providing a planetary mass of M_b = …

Gospel Impact And Stewardship Tool (Gist): Visual Mapping To Discover Gospel Imperatives For Strategic Ministry Decisions, Martin Edward Lee

Doctor of Ministry Major Applied Project

Lee, Martin Edward “Gospel Impact and Stewardship Tool: Visual Mapping to Discover Gospel Imperatives for Strategic Ministry Decisions.” Doctor of Ministry. Major Applied Project, Concordia Seminary, 2021. 260 pp.

This research project and the resulting Gospel Impact and Stewardship Tool (“GIST”) addresses congregational stewardship deficits from a systems perspective, with a shared-stewardship imperative for all leaders and members of a congregation, instead of focusing stewardship on the individual. The GIST Ministry Map provides a visual picture of how individual ministries are interconnected. This project illustrates how a learning environment, and the GIST visual ministry mapping process, help improve strategic decision-making …

Equipping Lay Elders With The Spiritual Care Skills Of Active Listening, Sharing Scripture, Offering Prayer, And Providing Follow Up At St. Paul Lutheran Church In Wood River, Il, David Martin Arthur Schultz

Doctor of Ministry Major Applied Project

Schultz, David, MA. “Equipping lay elders with the spiritual care skills of active listening, sharing scripture, offering prayer, and providing follow up at St. Paul Lutheran Church Wood River, IL.” Doctor of Ministry. Major Applied Project, Concordia Seminary, 2022. 122 pp.

Spiritual care is vitally important for all people. Unfortunately, too often those who are commissioned to provide spiritual care lack the necessary skills to help others. This MAP explores how a lay elder seminar might equip the lay elders of a congregation with the spiritual care skills of active listening, sharing scripture, offering prayer, and providing follow up. This …

Trumped: Intentional Voter Suppression In The Wake Of The 2020 Election, Wesley N. Watts

Mercer Law Review

There was nothing normal about the year 2020. For just the third time in history, an American president was impeached, world icons John Lewis and Kobe Bryant passed away, the country of Australia was devastated by brushfires that burned some forty-six million acres of land, and The United States faced a racial reckoning the likes of which had been unseen since the Civil Rights era. All of this took place on the heels of a global pandemic that has killed more than 4.3 million people to date and has infected 10% of the global population. These events of the year …

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Mercer Law Review

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Domestic Relations, Andrew B. Mcclintock, Allison C. Ellison

Mercer Law Review

This Article addresses significant case law and legislative updates to Georgia domestic relations law that arose during the Survey period from June 1, 2020 through May 31, 2021. Notably, this period includes the state of emergency declared by the Governor and statewide judicial emergency declared by Chief Justice Harold D. Melton on March 14, 2020, in response to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state of Georgia during the first quarter of 2020. The majority of litigation deadlines were reinstated effective July 13, 2020, as part of the Fourth Order Extending Statewide Judicial Emergency issued by the …

When Coaching Becomes Criminal, Amanda J. Peters

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

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Covid-19, Constitutional Law, And Catastrophe, Brendan Williams

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

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Uncloaking The Invisible Hand: Reintroducing Fairness To Antitrust Analyses, Jennifer Coté

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

Antitrust doctrine adopted the Chicago School’s narrow consumer welfare and economic efficiency analysis in the early 1970s. Since then, enforcement has drastically reduced, and market concentration has substantially increased. But the Chicago School is not true to either the intent of the original antitrust legislation – the Sherman Act – nor to the ‘economist’ they adopted as their ultimate advocate, Adam Smith. The Chicago School has cherry picked Adam Smith’s written works to support market deregulation and the existence of a perfectly efficient, rational marketplace, but this is not an accurate rendition of his works. Rather, Adam Smith was a …

Creche Herald Vol. 25, No. 4, Rita B. Bocher

Creche Herald

The Winter 2021 publication features nativity sets and personal reflections from members in the organization; information about nativities and nativity exhibits; and information about the Friends of the Creche annual meeting.

The Mar-Portugal Plan: How Portugal's Action Plan To Transition Into A Maritime Economy May Prove Challenging Witihn The Current International Regulatory Framework For Deep Sea Mining, Sebastian Blanco

Journal of International Business and Law

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Implications Of Condition Shifts On Shallow Lakes, Alicia Skolte

Biology Graduate Theses

Shallow lakes have undergone condition shifts throughout time by natural causes, management actions, or a combination of the two. Because shallow lakes are especially vulnerable to shifts towards turbid conditions, management actions on shallow lakes have focused on water level/retainment, biomanipulations, the management/removal of non-native species, and land-use changes. This review compiles a summary on ecosystem shifts including a discussion on the frequency of shifts historically and the importance and causes of those shifts, trophic cascades, and the influence of introduced species in shallow lakes. This review will then examine case-studies of management-linked shifts and explain current shift theory. Next, …

Feeding Patterns And Diet Overlap Of Muskellunge And Co-Occurring Piscivores In Minnesota Lakes, Kamden Glade

Biology Graduate Theses

Muskellunge Esox masquinongy are the largest member of the family Esocidae found in Minnesota and are managed for trophy angling opportunities with large minimum size requirements, limited harvest, and stocking to support existing populations or expand angling opportunities. While Muskellunge impacts at the community level appear minimal based on available literature, relatively little is known about Muskellunge diets, eat the le particularly in Minnesota. In this study, we used gastric lavage to examine gut contents of Muskellunge, Northern Pike Esox lucius, Walleye Sander vitreus, and Largemouth Bass Micropterus salmoides. Diets were quantified using an index of relative importance (IRI) and …

Scalable Optimization Method For Generator Scheduling Under Uncertainty, Edward Arthur Quarm Jnr

Electrical Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Scalable optimization methods for power system operation has been subject of research over the last 60 years. State-of-the-art methods in this research area is yet to yield the scalability desired by system operators for practical operation of electric grids. This article-based dissertation makes three significant contributions. A scalable computational method is developed to tackle a mixed-integer problem commonly referred to as Stochastic Security-Constrained Unit Commitment (SSCUC), the output of which will be beneficial to Independent System Operators to manage electric grids. Secondly, an improved model for time-progressive contingencies in security-constrained optimization problems is presented. This modeling approach is more realistic …

Extracting Clinical Event Sequence By Using Association Rule Mining To Predict Clinical Events From Health Records, Aashara Shrestha

Computer Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Data mining is the process of extracting useful information from large amounts of data. Data mining has been around for a long time, and there are many multiple methods of performing data mining. However, the abundance of data that has become available in the last decade has made it possible to mine through this data to uncover important patterns and sequences. The relationship between variables and the way in which they can lead to a specific outcome is an interesting area of research. Today's healthcare industry faces a number of challenges. Providers must reduce costs, improve transparency, and improve the …

Adaptive Human-Robot Motion Transfer For Complete Body Imitation, Francisco Villa

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Programming robot systems to perform certain tasks is a big challenge especially if such programming is to be performed by persons who are not experts in robotics. For example, when programming a robot to serve as an exercise trainer, the person defining the motions might more naturally be a person in the exercise domain rather than a robotics expert. To address this, this thesis investigates programming by demonstration or teleoperation using full direct body motion. The goal is to reproduce gaits, gestures, and postures on a humanoid robot from observed human demonstrations. Fine motor movements such as movement of fingers …

Translation Of Array-Based Loop Programs To Optimized Sql-Based Distributed Programs, Md Hasanuzzaman Noor

Computer Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Most programs written to operate on data are usually expressed in terms of array operations in sequential loops. However, these programs do not scale to large amount of data generated by scientific experiments and industrial and commercial markets. Given the success of machine learning algorithms on large amount of data and the recent shift of industries to data-driven decision making, the data scientists who are not familiar with Big Data frameworks have to rewrite the sequential programs to distributed data-parallel programs by hand. We present a novel framework, called SQLgen, that automatically translates sequential loops to distributed data-parallel programs. SQLgen …

Language Pre-Training And Auxiliary Tasks For Vision And Language Navigation, Saumya Bhatt

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

The Vision and Language Navigation task came to life from the idea that we can build a robot or an autonomous system that can be instructed in human language and that will navigate using the instructions given. For example, we tell the agent to “Go down past some room dividers toward a glass top desk and turn into the dining area. Wait next to the large glass dining table” and not only does it reach the goal state but it follows the instructions while navigating. With the current developments, this may not seem like a distant problem anymore and in …

Synthesis, Characterization And Tribological Properties Of Mo-Dlc, Tirth Ashishbhai Patel

Material Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Diamond like carbon (DLC) films have been extensively used in a wide range of applications over the last decade due to their excellent mechanical and tribological properties. Metallic elements are used to dope DLC films in an effort to overcome some DLC limitations and make it compatible to use it in larger variety of applications. This study focuses on the effect of different processing parameters on DLC deposition, and the effect of Mo content on microstructure, mechanical and tribological properties. Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) technique coupled with magnetron sputtering is used in chamber atmosphere composed of CH4 and …

A Numerical Study Of Water Entry Problems Based On Overset Meshes, Yanni Chang

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations - Archive

A series of numerical experiments carried out on the water entry of circular cylinders are presented in this study. A cylinder was entering into the water with a prescribed inclined angle and velocity. The interface between water and air is tracked by the Piecewise Linear Interface Calculation (PLIC) schemes in conjunction with the Volume of Fluid (VOF) method. PLIC schemes have been extensively employed in the VOF method for interface capturing in numerical simulations of multiphase flows. Dynamic overset meshes, which have been widely used for problems with relative motions and complex geometric shapes, are applied to handle the moving …