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It\u27s Not About Children: How Gender Resentment Shapes Public Opinion on Abortion in the United States
Get PDFThe debate around women’s reproductive health care, and particularly restrictions on abortion, remains a hotly contested area of American politics. Increasingly, restrictions on abortion access have become politically salient and increasingly common. While traditional justification from anti-abortion forces often rests on arguments about the reverence for life, increasingly we have seen an emphasis on the argument that anti-abortion policy protect women and children. Yet if those preferences truly drive abortion attitudes, then the same attitudes that predict abortion restrictions should also predict preferences for policies that materially support women and children. However, if instead attitudes towards women’s place in society drive abortion preferences, no such pattern should emerge. We examine the role of gender resentment, measured as hostile sexism, in shaping the debate and explore how the politics of resentment influences opinions on these topics across parties. Using data across American National Election Studies, we show how gender resentment conditions partisan attitudes on abortion and childcare in the United States, even among individuals who would otherwise be inclined to support more liberal policies
Riding the Silver Tsunami in Pursuit of Economic Democracy
Get PDFThe “American Dream,” a national ethos centered on the belief in equal opportunity and upward socio-economic mobility through hard work, has evolved significantly over time. Originally, it embodied ideals of liberty, justice, and economic democracy, opposing excessive wealth accumulation and economic inequality. However, over the 20th century, it became synonymous with individual economic success, particularly represented by Baby Boomers who thrived in the post-World War II economic boom. Today, Americans face an increasingly wide income and wealth gap that echoes the conditions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, raising questions about the Dream’s accessibility and relevance. This Article explores how worker cooperatives, which emphasize shared prosperity and democratic ownership, offer a pathway to reinvigorate the American Dream in the 21st century. By converting aging businesses owned by Baby Boomers into worker cooperatives, we can move toward an inclusive economic model that fosters social mobility, equitable opportunity, and sustainable prosperity. This Article examines the history, current conditions, and potential of worker coopera - tives as a transformative business model for America ’s economic future
The Reality of the Good Faith Exception
Get PDFThis Article has reexamined the law and theory of the good faith exception. It fnds that the exception, originally confned to narrow circumstances, is turning into a protection for nearly any investigatory activity with an arguable connection to an existing precedent or statute. Our study is the frst to empirically demonstrate the exception’s substantial infuence on modern Fourth Amendment law. Courts rely on the exception with remarkable frequency, and a large proportion of courts invoking the exception avoid any substantive constitutional ruling, stunting the development of Fourth Amendment doctrine. Further, our close theoretical examination of the good faith exception reveals that it incentivizes police and prosecutors to push the boundaries of constitutionality by aggressively employing invasive tactics with fimsy legal support. In addition, the exception denies a real remedy for core Fourth Amendment violations: when government agents rely on overbroad statutes or executive writs that authorize unreasonable searches. In its current form, the exception violates the constitutional rights of those most in need of Fourth Amendment protection, while undermining the structural role of the judiciary as a check on executive overreach. The Supreme Court should transform its good faith exception jurisprudence and address the exception’s detrimental impacts on policing, privacy, and Fourth Amendment rights
Zips Racing Electric - Vehicle Control Unit
Get PDFZips Racing Electric is a design team at the university that builds and races electric cars. The racing team wants to design a four-wheel drive system to increase performance, but the current computer on the vehicle cannot control the more complex power train. The goal of the project will be to build a hardware device that can read sensor inputs and control the torque output to each motor individually. The control device being designed will need to interface with the existing systems on the car and control regenerative breaking, torque vectoring, and other auxilliary systems on the car
An Improved Method to Protecting Skin Graft Dressings Following Surgery in Severe Burn Patients
Get PDFSevere burns, including deep second- and third-degree burns, affect over 450,000 people annually in the U.S., often requiring skin grafts for treatment. Recovery involves wearing wound dressings covered by bandage wraps for at least two weeks. While wraps are breathable, versatile, and simple, they can be painful to apply, especially for larger patients, and their compression varies based on the person applying them. This poses challenges when untrained caregivers are involved. Additionally, wraps often slip during physical therapy. Burn care units seek a new solution that matches current wraps in breathability and comfort but offers quicker application, controlled compression, and stability during movement.
Motivations for this project include wanting to provide a better recovery for the patient, decreasing skin graft failure and discomfort, all while increasing the ease of application for the clinician or at-home user.
The goal of our research is to diagnose user, and clinician needs and develop a prototype that solves the discovered pain points. If successful, this project will be a significant step toward improving the effectiveness and efficiency of bandage wrapping for burn patients. while also reducing the pain and discomfort they experience when wearing the bandages
Tax Arbitration and the Rule of Law: A Challenge for the Coordination of International Taxation
Get PDFTax arbitration mechanisms, which are provided both at the international and EU level, play a significant role in solving international tax disputes. However, such mechanisms do not seem to be fully compliant with the concept of Rule of Law that seems to arise from International and EU Laws. In fact, tax arbitration mechanisms appear to lack —mainly— certain due process guarantees that allow such procedures to comply with the equality principle.
More specifically, tax arbitration involves almost only the States, which are the party to it, allowing them to exercise relevant powers and influence —for instance— over the arbitration body and the applicable procedural rules. However, the taxpayers will have to bear the consequences of the awards even if they are not parties to the procedures. Thus, taxpayers, who have legitimate interests therein, hardly enjoy any rights during tax arbitration, despite some exceptions.
Given that, this study has identified an autonomous concept of Rule of Law at the international and EU level, consisting of certain due process guarantees and the principle of equality. Based on these conclusions, the arbitration mechanisms have been analysed in light of the latter concept, thereby addressing the most relevant issues and —eventually— providing a possible solution, namely, a conforming interpretation of the sources of International and EU law regulating tax arbitration
Developing a Novel Conceptual Tax Regulatory Framework for Crypto Tokens
Get PDFThis article challenges the informal and uncoordinated attempts by governments worldwide to hinder technological innovations that could potentially disrupt established monetary systems and undermine the significance of banks, stock exchanges, and financial institutions. The authors argue that the outcome, which effectively sacrifices governments\u27 ability to tax crypto capital appreciation, impedes the widespread adoption of decentralized tokens and is more detrimental than beneficial. Instead of applying outdated tax rules developed a century ago, the article proposes the development of a new regulatory tax framework that takes into account the unique characteristics of decentralized virtual tokens. These characteristics include their pseudo-anonymity, tradability, liquidity for certain tokens, minimal administrative costs, decentralized nature, government non-intervention, high price volatility, and virtual nature.
The article also criticizes the favorable realization principle granted by many tax authorities worldwide, deeming it unjustified and unnecessary. It argues that such a tax deferral suppresses the daily use of tokens, discouraging owners from exchanging or disposing of them as a means of payment. The article suggests that governments may be using these measures to protect their fiat currencies and invest in the development of their own digital currencies. However, it asserts that blockchain technology and crypto tokens do not jeopardize nationalism, and governments should welcome them instead of resisting them, as resistance would be futile and against their own interests.
To address these issues, the article proposes taxing the capital appreciation of crypto tokens, regardless of whether it has been realized or not, using a formulaic tax regime based on a risk-free interest rate and the investment in the token. Additionally, the article discusses income tax considerations related to the creation, disposal, and exchange of digital tokens, suggesting a revision of the existing tax regulatory framework to better align with the unique characteristics of crypto tokens and the principles underlying good tax policy
Ultrasonic Sensor-Based Sound Synthesis Using Raspberry Pi Pico W
No full textAt the intersection of Human Computer Interaction and digital art, this project transforms simple motion into musical expression. It explores an interactive real-time sound synthesis system using ultrasonic sensors to generate continuous audio. The objective is to design a system that maps physical distances into musical parameters such as pitch and amplitude, which will create a responsive audio environment. Two ultrasonic sensors are used in combination with the Raspberry Pi Pico W microcontroller running CircuitPython and Adafruit Audio Hat for real-time sound output. One sensor controls the pitch of the generated tone, while the other controls volume. This enables expressive control over sound through hand gestures. The project implements a weighted smoothing algorithm to refine distance readings and achieve smoother pitch transitions. The mapping from distance to frequency follows a perceptually meaningful function derived from the MIDI note scale, while volume mapping uses nonlinear transformations to simulate natural loudness perception. This work demonstrates how low-cost sensors can be repurposed beyond distance measurement for creative applications in digital sound generation. The results highlight the intersection of computing, art, and human-computer interaction, contributing to ongoing research in sound and sensor-based musical systems
Checks, Balances, Tariffs, and Justice Kavanaugh
No full textJustice Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion in FCC v. Consumers Research was remarkable in a number of respects, principally because it expressed very strong views on matters currently under consideration by the Supreme Court, although some of the issues he resolved were not issues posed by the Consumers’ Research case itself. Foremost among the positions he expressed were a muted version of the nondelegation doctrine and the view that the major questions doctrine has virtually no application to matters involving foreign affairs. The tariff decision now pending before the Court, in the V.O.S. Enterprises and Learning Research cases, may present a collision between two lines of recent Supreme Court decisions concerning Article II of the Constitution. One line has imposed restrictions on the power and discretion of executive agencies; the other has encouraged and articulated an expansive view of the power of the president individually. The tariff case presents an occasion where the former line, particularly the major questions doctrine, points to a result at odds with the latter line. Justice Kavanaugh, though at the center of the Roberts Court, has appeared to be the single Justice least disturbed by the emerging inconsistency between the Court’s anti-administrativist cases and its decisions protective of the presidency
Faculty Senate Chronicle November 6, 2025
No full textMinutes for the regular meeting of The University of Akron November 6, 202