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Fennel, Patrice Claeys Jan 2023

Fennel, Patrice Claeys

Nelle (literary magazine)

p. 23


Hamelin, Lizzie Hutton Jan 2023

Hamelin, Lizzie Hutton

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 41-42


Home / Lock, Yuliya Chanyshova Jan 2023

Home / Lock, Yuliya Chanyshova

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 3-4


Exceptional Women Ruling Millenia Apart: A Comparative Case Study, Miranda Brunn Jan 2023

Exceptional Women Ruling Millenia Apart: A Comparative Case Study, Miranda Brunn

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 22-26


Blame It On The Boogie: The Story Of The Rise And Fall Of Disco, Devin Hudson Jan 2023

Blame It On The Boogie: The Story Of The Rise And Fall Of Disco, Devin Hudson

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 41-46


Tolerance, Faith Potter Jan 2023

Tolerance, Faith Potter

Vulcan Historical Review

p. 90


Vulcan Historical Review 27 (End Matter), Vulcan Historical Review Staff Jan 2023

Vulcan Historical Review 27 (End Matter), Vulcan Historical Review Staff

Vulcan Historical Review

No abstract provided.


No Longer Wool Over The Eyes, Izabella Janush-Hernandez Jan 2023

No Longer Wool Over The Eyes, Izabella Janush-Hernandez

Vulcan Historical Review

p. 7


The Five Senses, Ricardo Pau-Llosa Jan 2023

The Five Senses, Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 18-23


The Worldly Outsider: A Conversation With Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Michael Anthony Hill Jan 2023

The Worldly Outsider: A Conversation With Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Michael Anthony Hill

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 50-64


The Self, Richard Tillinghast Jan 2023

The Self, Richard Tillinghast

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 167-168


In Troubled Times, Salvador Peralta Jan 2023

In Troubled Times, Salvador Peralta

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 143-144


Iron Maiden, Raye Hendrix Jan 2023

Iron Maiden, Raye Hendrix

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 109


Rockincha, Ricardo Pau-Llosa Jan 2023

Rockincha, Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 40-41


Metamorphosis, Maggie Dietz Jan 2023

Metamorphosis, Maggie Dietz

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 103


Zonkey, Flower Conroy Jan 2023

Zonkey, Flower Conroy

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 94


Count Your Blessings, Mark Rubin Jan 2023

Count Your Blessings, Mark Rubin

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 154-155


Dendrochronology, Carson Colenbaugh Jan 2023

Dendrochronology, Carson Colenbaugh

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 93


Machine Learning And Latent Space Representation Of Optical Responses In Nanostructures And Thin Films, David J. Hoxie Jan 2023

Machine Learning And Latent Space Representation Of Optical Responses In Nanostructures And Thin Films, David J. Hoxie

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The ability to tune optical responses in nanophotonics makes this class of materials useful for a broad range of applications, such as drug delivery systems, molecular sensing, green energy, and telecommunications, to name a few. Optical responses that offer strong resonance at small optical mode volume are often sought, requiring manipulation of many material properties i.e., refractive index and nanostructure shape. Machine learning has recently been employed to optimize photonic elements more efficiently. Machine learning optimization of optical responses suffers from reproducibility and accuracy issues due different nanostructures producing similar optical responses. To increase reliability and accuracy in recent neural …


Optoelectronic Properties Of Microstructures Of 3d And 2d Hybrid Perovskites, Bibek Singh Dhami Jan 2023

Optoelectronic Properties Of Microstructures Of 3d And 2d Hybrid Perovskites, Bibek Singh Dhami

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Solution-processed hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites have attracted great interest from both academia and industry. This class of materials possesses outstanding electrical and optical properties such as high absorption coefficient, large carrier diffusion lengths, and high photoluminescence quantum yield. Changing the chemical compositions or the dimensionality of these materials provides additional knobs for band gap tunability. Many studies have now shown the promise of this material system as viable for applications in photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes, photodetectors, lasers, and transistors. However, the performance of these devices depends critically on the techniques employed for the synthesis of hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites. Different synthesis techniques result …


The Association Of Cognitive And Physical Functioning With Health And Mortality Outcomes Among Puerto Ricans, Cheyanne Celine Barba Jan 2023

The Association Of Cognitive And Physical Functioning With Health And Mortality Outcomes Among Puerto Ricans, Cheyanne Celine Barba

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Puerto Rico has experienced a rapid increase in the older adult population over the last decade. With a growing older adult population, the importance of healthy aging becomes increasingly more important to understand. Understanding the impact that impairments in cognitive and physical functioning have on older adults in Puerto Rico will be important to supporting the rapidly aging population. The current project proposed to (1) examine predictors of transition to frailty, (2) examine whether cognitive function and frailty are associated with healthcare utilization, and (3) examine frailty and cognitive impairment as predictors of mortality and Alzheimer’s disease related cause of …


Gender Differences In Clinical Profiles Of Children And Adolescents Referred For An Autism Spectrum Disorder Evaluation, Jeremy J. Cottle Jan 2023

Gender Differences In Clinical Profiles Of Children And Adolescents Referred For An Autism Spectrum Disorder Evaluation, Jeremy J. Cottle

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The current study aimed to examine sex differences in clinical profiles of children and adolescents referred for an ASD evaluation, including ASD symptoms and associated clinical features. Specifically, the study aimed to include females who may be mis- or un-der-diagnosed by current ASD diagnostic procedures in order to characterize this phenotypically diverse population. Participants included 1,099 children and adolescents who were referred for an ASD evaluation at a tertiary care clinic. In this sample, 276 participants (25.11%) were female, 602 participants (54.8%) were diagnosed with ASD, and the average age was 5.97 years old (SD = 3.60). Independent samples t-tests, …


Rural Healthcare Disparities In Preschool Children Referred For An Autism Spectrum Disorder Evaluation, Zachary Enos Arnold Jan 2023

Rural Healthcare Disparities In Preschool Children Referred For An Autism Spectrum Disorder Evaluation, Zachary Enos Arnold

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Disparities in healthcare are widespread in rural communities, and families with a preschooler with suspected autism spectrum disorder (ASD) might be especially impacted by a dearth of services. By exploring the information gathered from ASD diagnostic visits, the goal of the current study was to inform future research that aims to address access to quality care in the communities that need assistance the most. It was hypothesized that increasing rurality would worsen the following metrics: barriers to care (e.g., social disadvantage & pediatrician availability), clinical evaluation outcomes (e.g., age of diagnosis, language functioning, adaptive functioning, ASD severity), and access to …


Indicators Of The Social Environment And Cognition In An Older Population Of Puerto Rican Adults, Erin E. Ballard Jan 2023

Indicators Of The Social Environment And Cognition In An Older Population Of Puerto Rican Adults, Erin E. Ballard

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Isolation and other indicators of poor social environment have been associated with a higher risk of cognitive decline. Overall evidence for this association is mixed, with most studies being conducted in Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (aka “WEIRD”) societies. Religiosity may moderate this relationship between less robust social environments and cognition by buffering the negative effects of stress. The primary aim of this study is to assess the relationship between indicators of the social environment and psychological distress (depressive symptoms) and cognitive decline in a population-based sample of older Puerto Rican adults (n=3,557) across two time-points. Social environment included …


Analyzing Cannabinoid Stability In Different Conditions And Validating Novel Cannabinoids For Oral Fluid Analysis, Cody Paseur Jan 2023

Analyzing Cannabinoid Stability In Different Conditions And Validating Novel Cannabinoids For Oral Fluid Analysis, Cody Paseur

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Oral fluid (OF) drug testing has been expanded to laboratory evidentiary confirmation testing in driving under the influence (DUI) cases. OF samples are collected by officers at the roadside using collection devices such as the Quantisal® device. Tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC) was the most prevalent drug in Alabama DUI casework in 2022. Δ9-THC remains a Schedule I drug in Alabama and federally. Current validated targets in cannabinoid oral fluid testing include Δ9-THC, Δ8-THC, 9R-Δ10-THC, 9S-Δ10-THC 11-hydroxy-Δ9-THC (THC-OH), 11-nor-9-carboxy-Δ9-THC (THC-OOH), cannabigerol (CBG), cannabidiol (CBD), and cannabinol (CBN). Due to the 2018 Farm Bill, cannabinoids derived from hemp with a Δ9-THC concentration less than …


Development And Validation Of A Multiplex Str Amplification Reaction For Academic And Research Purposes, Ahana Chatterjee Jan 2023

Development And Validation Of A Multiplex Str Amplification Reaction For Academic And Research Purposes, Ahana Chatterjee

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Short Tandem Repeat (STR) typing has been accepted globally as a gold standard for human identity testing. In 1997, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Laboratory’s newly developed Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) consisted of 13 core loci to be targeted while DNA typing. In this context, leading biotechnology companies like Promega (Madison WI), Applied Biosystem/Life Technologies (Foster City, CA) etc. offer commercial STR typing kits for crime laboratories. However, these expensive kits are not the most suitable for academic and research laboratories. Students learning the method of STR typing and researchers showing proof of concept do not require identifying …


Preceding Footsteps In Revolution: The History Of The Southern Negro Youth Congress, Donnae' Hampton Jan 2023

Preceding Footsteps In Revolution: The History Of The Southern Negro Youth Congress, Donnae' Hampton

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This thesis is a comprehensive history of the Southern Negro Youth Congress including the social circumstances that led to its formation, the work and people of the organization, and its impact and influence on future civil rights organizations and Black leftist movements of the late 1960s. The Southern Black communist organization was formed in 1937 and officially disbanded in 1949. SNYC committed itself to unionizing, educating, registering people to vote, and exposing racial horrors in the South for Black southerners. In 1939, SNYC moved its headquarters to Birmingham, Alabama. The segregated city of Birmingham in 1939 was the industrial center …


Accuracy Of Ancestry Estimation In Forensic Anthropology: An Examination Of Select Nonmetric Methods, Mackenzie Miller Jan 2023

Accuracy Of Ancestry Estimation In Forensic Anthropology: An Examination Of Select Nonmetric Methods, Mackenzie Miller

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A goal of forensic anthropology is to aid in identifying unidentified human remains, often by creating a biological profile. An important piece of this profile is an ancestry estimate, and methodological accuracy is taken seriously. Traditional typological nonmetric methods of ancestry are heavily critiqued for being subjective and lacking scientific rigor in analysis. In addition, these methods are noted for conflating morphological traits with specific ancestral categories, ignoring the reality of continuous human variation. To combat this, scholars have proposed morphoscopic nonmetric methods as an alternative because they retain the accessibility popularized by typological methods but add a layer of …


Canonical Laminations For Fixed Point Portraits, Md. Abdul Aziz Jan 2023

Canonical Laminations For Fixed Point Portraits, Md. Abdul Aziz

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Laminations are a combinatorial and topological model for studying the Julia sets of complex polynomials. Every complex polynomial of degree d has d fixed points counted with multiplicity. From the point of view of laminations, exactly d−1 of these fixed points are peripheral (approachable from outside the Julia set of the polynomial). Hence, at least one of the d fixed points is “hidden” from the laminational point of view. The purpose of this thesis is to identify, classify and count the possible fixed point portraits for any lamination of degree d. We will identify the “simplest” lamination for a given …


Persuasion In Descriptions Of Medical Crowdfunding On Gofundme: When Children Fundraise For Their Mothers' Lung Cancer, Ziyu Zhao Jan 2023

Persuasion In Descriptions Of Medical Crowdfunding On Gofundme: When Children Fundraise For Their Mothers' Lung Cancer, Ziyu Zhao

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Medical needs have become one of the top categories in online crowdfunding in the United States (Chandler, 2015). However, the level of donations falls short of what is needed to cover the high costs of healthcare (Norton, 2022; Young & Scheinberg, 2017). Therefore, more successful promotion of medical crowdfunding campaigns is crucial. This thesis research examined the influence of two persuasive factors, appeal type and cover images, in medical crowdfunding of lung cancer on backers’ donation behaviors on GoFundMe with manual coding and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC). The study found no statistically reliable support for the hypotheses, perhaps …