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The Epidemic of Corruption has been Identified in South Africa, How do We Solve It?
No full textThis poster seeks to relate the impact of bribery and grand corruption had in South Africa. Within recent times, top officials in this country have been implicated in grand corruption scandals and the taking of bribes. The concerns that remain are the country’s ability to persuade its people and convince them that they have a problem of corruption. The objective of this poster is to find solution to combat the many challenges of corruption within South Africa. Also, this poster has researched the impact of uncertainty of how the government has governed the resources of this country. The recommendations of this poster to South Africa are: to elect good governance, with accountability, and rule of law. This poster also analyzes the cause of corruption and the scope of corruption through various journal articles. Consequently, this poster will compare and contrast Chile to South Africa as a case study to implement some of what Chile did in the past to bring the fight to corruption
Seeking Validation and Healing: Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence Victims in Psychotherapy
No full textThe considerable personal and societal costs of domestic violence have prompted legislation regarding mandatory training in screening for the condition by health care providers. However, treatment resources are scarce. The costliest form of domestic violence, intimate partner terrorism (IPT), is characterized by power imbalance in the relationship that is enforced through psychological, emotional, physical, sexual and financial abuse (Stark, 2009). Symptoms of cluster B personality disorders (borderline, narcissistic, antisocial/psychopathic) link to patterns of abuse in perpetrators of IPT. Victims typically enter into the relationship unaware of their partner’s disorder. The onset of abuse is insidious as the perpetrator gradually undermines the victim’s self-confidence and reality testing while isolating him/her from social supports (Leedom, Geislin, & Hartoonian Almas, 2013). The abuse experience leads to anxiety, depression, PTSD, substance use disorders and stress-related physical illness. Although good evidence based therapies exist for these disorders, (cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), psychodynamic, among others) there is little research regarding how the presence of IPT impacts treatment. There is no evidence based therapy that specifically targets the victim syndrome. The first step in designing such a therapy, is to ascertain how and if the needs of victims of IPT are served by current community treatments. Study Objective: The objective of this study was to survey a large number of IPT victims regarding their experiences in psychotherapy in order to determine the relative strengths and weaknesses of current community therapy practices. This study used a mixed methods approach that gathered numerical data and allowed victims to describe their experiences in their own words
Messages of Foreign Policies and Coverage of Election in Unstable Democracy
No full textMedia of governments are vehicles of governmental messages. A medium of a government carries the government’s foreign policy messages to other countries. A government’s message on foreign policy passes through one of the government’s media to reach a target in another country. A government’s medium mediates between the government’s message on foreign policy and the message’s target in another country. Therefore, I used the term, mediated policy, to refer to those governmental media messages on foreign policy sent to Iraq during the election in 2010. I hypothesized that US Mediated Policy, Iranian Mediated Policy, and Saudi Mediated Policy are three latent constructs interacting in a structural model where they affect a fourth latent variable, Iraqi Independent Media. I ran a content analysis of international and domestic media coverage of the Iraqi election of 2010. I measured the saliences of two frames, former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. The analysis shows: (1) US foreign policy simultaneously deals with two opposing regional policies, Saudi and Iranian. (2) English represents a barrier to Iraqi independent media. (3) There are significant foreign policy messages carried by media of foreign governments to Iraq, which evidently affect Iraqi independent media
Data Mining of Franchise Failure by Brand
Get PDFThe SBA (Small Business Administration) offered a list of failure rates of small business loans sorted by franchise brands from 2001 to 2011. This is a collection of data of over 580 franchise brands who fail to pay back general SBA 7(a), real estate and equipment loans. Franchisee loan pay-back rates are tracked by brand for the ten-year period. Ideally, to be informed about where to put one's money, a franchise buyer should look at the profit of a brand's average store and compare the rate of return on the investment with all other brands' returns on investments. The purpose of this project is mining the relationship between the attributes in the dataset and offers a reference to the SBA about which kind of brand franchise worth a loan. And the failure percent of a brand can be accurately predicted with the program. Thus, the risk of loaning would be reduced and the percentage of success case could be guaranteed in a certain extent
STEM Pedagogy: The Concept of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Applied in Teaching Human Biology
No full textScience teachers have been finding it difficult to truly apply the concept of integrating science, technology, engineering and mathematics when teaching the individual disciplines for which they have been certified. Students have not been able to see the unity that exists in STEM. This poster uses a human arm to demonstrate how teaching science can vividly expose the concepts of mathematics, engineering and technology. This demonstrates an inspired and motivated unit on teaching human biology which leads to understanding the relationship of science, technology, engineering, and mathematical concepts
Predicting a T20 cricket match result while the match is in progress
No full textThere has been research done on ODI and Test match cricket but very few on T20 cricket, which is currently more favorite than its older brothers. And that’s why we decided to do research on this format of the game. The result of a T20 cricket match depends on lots of in game and pre-game attributes. Pre-game attributes like condition, venue, pitch, team strength etc. and in game attributes like wickets in hand, run rate, total run, strike rate etc. influence a match result predominantly. We gave more emphasis on in game attributes as our prediction will be when match is in progress. Our intentions would be to finding out the attributes which is most affecting the result in different phases of the game. We broke an innings into three phases: Power-play (1-6 overs), Mid-overs (7- 16) and final overs (17-20). Prediction will be active till the last over of mid overs phase. We consider an entire cycle of process of data mining, decision making and preparing a model to predict. Mining the data according to the attributes and different phases we have divided important to construct meaningful statistics. Modeling a problem for prediction requires several intelligent assumptions and molding the problem with collected data-sets. As we already mentioned cricket is a game of uncertainty and T20 format is the most unpredictable format rather than the other two format because it is the shortest format of the game and one over can change the result of a game. In this project we tried to design a prediction model which can go with this unpredictability and try to make a result prediction
UB Knightlines Spring 2016
No full textThe UB Knightlines newsletter for spring of 2016. This issue contains articles discussing the heart of the city storytelling series, SASD student Erin LaFavor’s story of entrepreneurship, two UB alumni being awarded teaching awards, alumnus Jim Ford honored at White House for STEM education, UB chaplain leading an interfaith prayer vigil, UB model UN team’s win at the National Model United Nations Europe Conference, SASD students exhibiting at book fair at Yale, UB students win the Connecticut Space Grant, UB seminar on image, perception, and self-perception, a new scholarship to at risk students, UB and the Connecticut Technology Council host a programming challenge, a new Student Entrepreneur Center opens its doors, UB student volunteering during Martin Luther King Jr. Day, emeritus professor Richard Allen’s appearance on Prairie Home Companion, faculty news, alumni news, books published by alums and faculty, an African-American alumni reunion, and other campus and sports news
The Influence of Fire Among the Habitats of Organisms Depending upon Water Content & pH Levels in Soil of Various Environments
No full textLoren Cagno's and Tiffany Zapata's poster on the interaction between fire and water dependant organisms in the New Jersey pine barrens
Ultrasound Evaluation of the Normal Ulnar Nerve in Guyon's Tunnel: Cross-Sectional Area and Anthropometric Measurements
No full textIntroduction: Ulnar nerve entrapment is an infrequent disorder, but is often seen in long distance cycling. Electrodiagnosis and imaging modalities, including ultrasound, are employed for diagnosis. The goal of this study was to obtain sonographic normative data of the ulnar nerve (UN) in Guyon’s tunnel, in order to establish the diagnosis of Guyon’s tunnel syndrome in future studies. Anthropometric measures were also obtained. Methods: 46 healthy volunteers (male=30) were recruited (age=24.7±3.1 years), and a total 83 wrists were examined. The examinations included anthropometric measurements (wrist width, depth, circumference, palm length and hand width) and ultrasound measurement of the cross sectional area (CSA) of the UN in Guyon’s tunnel. B-mode sonography and power Doppler were employed. Results: The UN CSA in Guyon’s tunnel for males was 6.0 ± 2.0 mm2, and 5.0 ± 1.0 mm2 for females. There was a significant difference between female and male in the measurements of wrist width, depth, circumference; palm length, width and UN CSA (p<.001). The UN CSA was correlated with wrist width, wrist depth, wrist circumference, palm length and hand width (p<0.01). Differences were noted within and between gender groups of UN CSA within Guyon’s tunnel. Conclusion: Nerve cross-sectional area may differ by gender and this may be related to body size. Therefore, the contralateral side is more useful as a reference standard than the gender mean