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Our Findings in Marketing Research for Hartville Potato Chips
Full text linkTo conclude the 2024 Spring semester, we will present primary and secondary research to our client (Hartville Potato Chips). This presentation will support the proposition and promotional strategy to add three more local partnerships for Hartville Potato Chips based on our research findings
Tropical Fish Study in Tahiti
No full textDuring the spring and summer of 2023, I had the honor of partaking in a research study that focused on vertebrae found on the island of Moorea. This journey was made possible through the University-sponsored Tropical Vertebrae Biology course, taught by Richard Londraville and Peter Niewiarowski. Along with fellow University of Akron and Syracuse University students and staff, I traveled to this French Polynesian Island off the coast of Tahiti to study an amphibious fish inhabiting the intertidal zones of coral and rocky reefs, while also exploring the unique scenery and culture that Moorea has to offer.
My research team, composed of my fellow University of Akron students and myself, took an interest in the forces applied by the blackspotted rockskipper to evade predators on the coastline. Our curiosity was specific to their ability the forces exerted as they jump.
In order to better understand the blackspotted rockskippers’ ability to jump off rocks of different properties, we prepared a force plate of various substrates, specifically those of wet, dry, rough, and smooth surfaces. Our analysis demonstrated higher force, jump duration, and power on dry surfaces compared to wet surfaces, with little to no difference when comparing the substrate’s roughness.
Upon returning and finishing our research paper, our article, Navigating Nature’s Terrain: Jumping Performance Robust to Substrate Moisture and Roughness by Blackspotted Rockskippers (Entomacrodus striatus), was successfully published in Wiley’s Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology where the rights of the paper are possessed. More about this project can be found here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.2903?af=
The Application of Comparative Law in Public International Law Research
No full textComparative law analyses the similarities and differences between legal systems, often across different countries or jurisdictions, and examines how those systems operate. Public international law, by contrast, governs the conduct of actors subject to international law, primarily sovereign states, and international organisations, through legal frameworks and principles. Although comparative law and international law are traditionally treated as distinct areas of study, this paper explores the potential benefits of adopting a comparative approach to public international law. Insights from comparative law can deepen the public’s understanding of public international law and advocate for the establishment of “comparative public international law” as a distinct area of research. This field involves using comparative methods to examine how different legal systems interpret, apply, and implement international legal norms. Ultimately, drawing on experience from researching comparative law, the article proposes a framework for applying comparative law in public international law research. This framework is further explored through its potential applications at the regional, academic, and institutional levels, offering a roadmap for future scholarship and practice
ANOGAT-Sparse-TL: A hybrid framework combining sparsification and graph attention for anomaly detection in attributed networks using the optimized loss function incorporating the twersky loss for improved robustness.
No full textIn recent years, the identification of abnormalities in attributed networks has become essential for applications including social media analysis, cybersecurity, and financial fraud detection. Unsupervised graph anomaly detection techniques seek to recognize infrequent and anomalous patterns in graph-structured data without the necessity of labelled instances. Conventional methods employing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) frequently encounter difficulties, especially due to the transmission of noisy edges and the intrinsic intricacy of node interrelations. To overcome these restrictions, we introduce ANOGAT-Sparse-TL, an innovative hybrid framework that integrates graph sparsification and Graph Attention Networks (GAT) with autoencoder-based reconstruction for anomaly detection in attributed networks. The sparsification procedure removes extraneous edges and highlights significant node connections, thereby enhancing computational efficiency and improving anomaly detection efficacy. By including GAT, our model carefully allocates significance to pertinent neighboring nodes, yielding enhanced node embeddings. The autoencoder subsequently reconstructs these embeddings to detect abnormalities via reconstruction errors. Incorporating Tversky Loss in the reconstruction process further improves the robustness of the model by effectively addressing the imbalance between normal and anomalous data, prioritizing the detection of rare anomalies. This optimized loss function allows ANOGAT-Sparse-TL to focus on hard-to-reconstruct instances, which are typically indicative of anomalies, and reduces the impact of noisy data on the model\u27s performance. ANOGAT-Sparse-TL effectively integrates attribute-based and structural anomalies, yielding comprehensive anomaly ratings. Comprehensive studies on the four real-world datasets indicate that our strategy surpasses current state-of-the-art methodologies, with enhanced performance. Moreover, the scalability of our methodology guarantees its relevance to extensive real-world networks, rendering it an adaptable option for diverse graph anomaly detection activities. ANOGAT-Sparse-TL, despite its complexity, maintains computational efficiency and provides substantial improvements in anomaly detection inside attributed networks. Future research may concentrate on enhancing interpretability and broadening generalizability to various network architectures
Review of: \u3cem\u3eThe Mennonites\u3c/em\u3e [2nd ed]
Full text linkLarry Towell, the first Canadian member of the prestigious photo agency, Magnum Photos, began to photograph and write about power and landlessness after a stint of volunteer work in Calcutta in 1976. In the 1980s, he photographed the Nicaraguan Contra war and the relatives of the disappeared in Guatemala. In 1996, he completed a ten-year reportage on El Salvador which was followed by two books on the Palestinians. His book Afghanistan, 2014, will be followed in 2023 by The History War (Ukraine). Now close to his seventh decade, he remains one of the best and busiest photojournalists in the world. [First paragraph.
Symposium Review: \u3cem\u3eVirtually Amish: Preserving Community at the Internet’s Margins\u3c/em\u3e—Lindsay Ems
Full text linkEms’s book, “Virtually Amish,” is a significant contribution to research on Amish survival and how the Amish continue to endure the influence of modernized technological capitalism on their faith, values, and way of life. The underlying questions address not only whether increased exposure to digitization will accelerate their assimilation but, more significantly, how they are able to address such challenges. [First paragraph.
The State Action Doctrine in the Era of Social Media: When do Government Officials Cross the Line Between Private Speech and Government Speech?
Full text linkOver the last decade, American jurisprudence has been playing catch-up as the technological era has taken over the world. Social media has become one of the most prominent and influential tools when put into the hands of everyday people. For government officials, however, while social media serves as an invaluable tool to reach large scale audiences, it also carries certain legal risks. The State Action Doctrine serves as just one legal doctrine struggling to reconcile its own precedent with a changing world. While the Supreme Court may have resolved the doctrine’s applicability to social media for the moment, the many questions surrounding the the doctrine’s application to an entirely new world of media will return to the courthouse steps.
As it stands, the Supreme Court’s approach to this issue is far too insulating of government officials and does not entertain the circumstances that exist outside of a single social media post. It has addressed this issue with respect to one social media platform, but has left other platforms in the dark. This note will present an approach to resolving these issues that is versatile enough to be applied to any platform while taking into account those outside circumstances that must be considered
Working Through the Dangers of the Work-From-Home Model and Workers\u27 Compensation: Employer Liability for Remote Work Injuries
Full text linkThe rapid rise of work-from-home (WFH) models, particularly accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has necessitated a reevaluation of workers\u27 compensation laws. Ohio\u27s House Bill 447 (H.B. 447), enacted in 2022, attempts to address the increasing likelihood of work-related injuries for remote workers but potentially creates an unbalanced approach that disproportionately burdens employees. This note examines H.B. 447\u27s language, specifically the requirements of exclusive benefit and special hazard, which may prevent legitimate WFH injury claims. By comparing Ohio\u27s approach to more worker-friendly laws in states like Utah and Minnesota, the analysis argues that H.B. 447 should be revised to better reflect the remedial and humanitarian purposes of workers\u27 compensation systems. The proposed revisions aim to create a more equitable framework that balances employer concerns about premium rates and frivolous claims with workers\u27 needs for protection, recognizing that remote workers are not machines and deserve reasonable compensation for work-related injuries
TRACE Flight Computer
Full text linkIn the world of collegiate rocketry, there are currently no commercial-off-the-shelf flight computers capable of being fitted to liquid engine rockets with thrust vectoring control. Currently, amateur rocketeers utilize unreliable Arduino-based systems or expensive drone computers. The objective of this project is to design a flight computer capable of data collection and filtering, telemetry transmission, and real-time controls of critical safety systems using readily available commercial-off-the-shelf components to allow rocketeers to complete their designs within a reasonable budget. The system will collect data from two IMUs, a barometric altimeter, and a magnetometer, then filter the collected data using custom Kalman and low-pass filters. This data will then be used by the system to determine when and how to engage the included peripherals to maintain the predetermined flight path. The system will also transmit all flight characteristics data to a ground station so users can track the real-time status of the flight vehicle. The system will offer a cost-effective solution for aspiring rocketeers to launch with confidence and ensure proper operation in real time