31 research outputs found
Effects of Deep Pressure on Arousal and Performance in Adults With Autism: Examining the Efficacy of the Vayu Vest
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/30/2017
Adults with autism have impairments in autonomic nervous system regulation that impact their ability to engage socially and perform functional tasks. This study tested the efficacy of a sensory-based technology, the Vayu Vest, as a means of altering autonomic arousal and increasing performance.
Primary Author and Speaker: Stacey Reynolds
Additional Authors and Speakers: Shelly Lane
Contributing Authors: Brian Mullen, Caitlin Boulware, Holly Timberline, Michelle Norris, Caitlin McDaniel, Kaitlyn Baumann, Anthony Guarriello</jats:p
Bringing It All Back Home: Boulware and the Unfortunate Demise of the Miller Rule
No full textIn this Note, the author addresses the underlying tension between criminal intent and the complexity of the tax code in criminal tax prosecution in light of the recent Supreme Court opinion in U.S. v. Boulware. The author takes a look at the facts and circumstances of Boulware, the body of precedent supporting the Ninth Circuit\u27s opinion, and the reasoning of the Supreme Court in its subsequent reversal of that opinion. He revisits the oft cited opinion of Judge Learned Hand in Helvering v Gregory, and asks whether the courts have taken Judge Hand\u27s famous approval of tax planning so far out of context that it justifies the very behavior that he reproved. The author then asks if it is time to do away with the actual tax deficiency requirement in tax evasion cases-a rule bom in dictum and forged in repetition
Bringing It All Back Home: Boulware and the Unfortunate Demise of the Miller Rule
No full textIn this Note, the author addresses the underlying tension between criminal intent and the complexity of the tax code in criminal tax prosecution in light of the recent Supreme Court opinion in U.S. v. Boulware. The author takes a look at the facts and circumstances of Boulware, the body of precedent supporting the Ninth Circuit\u27s opinion, and the reasoning of the Supreme Court in its subsequent reversal of that opinion. He revisits the oft cited opinion of Judge Learned Hand in Helvering v Gregory, and asks whether the courts have taken Judge Hand\u27s famous approval of tax planning so far out of context that it justifies the very behavior that he reproved. The author then asks if it is time to do away with the actual tax deficiency requirement in tax evasion cases-a rule bom in dictum and forged in repetition
Modeling Geomorphic Features in Levee Reliability Analysis
No full textIt has long been understood that subsurface geology affects internal erosion potential in levee foundations. Geomorphic features associated with fluvial deposition environments are known to concentrate or block seepage, resulting in sand boils and internal erosion. However, incorporating the effects of geomorphic features into either deterministic or probabilistic analysis has remained a challenge. Based on the assumption that the preponderance of the underseepage risk to a levee reach is due to the geomorphic features along that reach, a methodology is being developed to incorporate the combined effects of these geomorphic features into reliability analyses of underseepage risk. A Response Surface-Monte Carlo (RSMC) analysis that takes into account the uncertainty in the subsurface geometry and the soil properties of the geomorphic features is used to assess the flow regime associated with each geomorphic feature. The RSMC is followed by an event-tree analysis to assess the likelihood of levee failure based on the resulting flow regime. Three-dimensional finite-element seepage analyses will be used to develop the response surface in order to take into account the inherent three-dimensional aspects of the geomorphic features. Finally, the total probability of failure of the levee reach due to underseepage will be calculated by combining the probabilities of failure for the geomorphic features located along a levee reach. In this manner, the “length effects” of a levee reach in a fluvial environment can be assessed by combining the failure probabilities of the geomorphic features located along the levee alignment
Book Review: Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South; Tears of Repentance: Christian Indian Identity and Community in Colonial Southern New England
No full textFaced with land pressures, depopulation, debt, cultural impositions, and a myriad of other challenges, Native Americans searched for ways to safeguard their families and communities. In Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South, Beck addresses a major historical development in the region that has captured the attention of archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians: the shift from a precolonial Mississippian world of chiefdoms to powerful Indian nations and confederacies by the eighteenth century. A professor of sociology at the University of Saint Joseph in Connecticut, and the author of several books on religious melancholy, Rubin brings a firm grasp of sociological and religious theory to the field of Native American history in Tears of Repentance: Christian Indian Identity and Community in Colonial Southern New England. Though Rubin\u27s use of sociological theory to explain Native engagement with religion is innovative, Edward E. Andrews\u27s Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World (2013) and Linford D. Fisher\u27s The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America (2012) provide greater depth in understanding the role of indigenous missionaries as cultural brokers and the selective engagement that Native communities had with Christianity in general
Black love and the Harlem Renaissance: The politics of intimacy in the novels of Nella Larsen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Zora Neale Hurston
No full textThe Harlem Renaissance, also known at the Negro Renaissance and the New Negro Movement, was a revolution that transformed politics, culture, and society—first in Harlem, and then in America for persons of African descent. It also changed the world\u27s perceptions of African America, and, most important, profoundly altered the way that African Americans perceived themselves. Unfortunately, decades after the movement, Nella Larsen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Zora Neale Hurston continue to be neglected by contemporary scholarship for many of the same reasons that they were marginalized in their own day. Recent scholarship has failed to consider a fresh approach to the thematic concerns of these women. My project will be a part of a reevaluation process as I illustrate how their works actually use class as a means of illuminating the inequity of power in relationships between (African American) men and (African American) women. As a result, they presented acceptable and unacceptable models of black love. My dissertation will attempt to contribute to an area of scholarship that is still growing; focus on some of the works of these writers that have yet to receive much attention; and offer another paradigm by which to consider the broader scope of thematic concerns that these authors effectively address. To this end, my project examines each author in separate chapters that concentrate on their respective works. As a result of the work of black literary archaeologists, the literati have been reminded that the Harlem Renaissance was not just a male phenomenon. Women like Larsen, Fauset, and Hurston were among the most prolific writers of the period. These three writers changed the face, gender, and therefore, voice of African-American literature and ensured that black women would never be silenced in literature or society again. This dissertation underscores the stories of Larsen, Fauset, and Hurston as they illuminate the tensions between black men and women who struggle to define self, to love themselves, and to value the self as they engage in the “politics of intimacy.”
Massive gravity simplified: a quadratic action
No full textWe present a simplified formulation of massive gravity where the Higgs fields have quadratic kinetic term. This new formulation allows us to prove in a very explicit way that all massive gravity theories considered so far inevitably have Boulware-Deser ghost in non-trivial fluctuations of background metric. © 2011 SISSA.Alberte L, 2011, J HIGH ENERGY PHYS, DOI 10.1007-JHEP04(2011)004; Alberte L, 2010, J HIGH ENERGY PHYS, DOI 10.1007-JHEP12(2010)023; BOULWARE DG, 1972, PHYS REV D, V6, P3368, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevD.6.3368; Chamseddine AH, 2010, J HIGH ENERGY PHYS, DOI 10.1007-JHEP08(2010)011; de Rham C, 2011, PHYS REV LETT, V106, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevLett.106.231101; Fierz M, 1939, PROC R SOC LON SER-A, V173, P0211, DOI 10.1098-rspa.1939.0140; FOLKERTS S, ARXIV11073157LMUASC3; Hassan S.F., ARXIV11063344; HINTERBICHLER K, THEORETICAL ASPECTS27282
Not Separate but Still Unequal: Disparities, Invisibility and Bias in Access and Quality of Health Care in Michigan
No full textCurrent research points to race and ethnicity as predictive of disparities in access and quality of health care. A 2002 Institute of Medicine Study found that African-American patients tend not to receive the same type of care as White patients, even when controlling for socioeconomic status. Self-reported perceptions of racial bias within the patient provider relationship, from the patient’s perspective, are analyzed to uncover the subtle ways perceptions of differential treatment based on racial bias work to create barriers or perpetuate disparities in health outcomes for African-American breast cancer survivors in Michigan
Design of a high-bunch-charge 112-MHz superconducting RF photoemission electron source
No full textHigh-bunch-charge photoemission electron-sources operating in a continuous wave (CW) mode are required for many advanced applications of particle accelerators, such as electron coolers for hadron beams, electron-ion colliders, and free-electron lasers. Superconducting RF (SRF) has several advantages over other electron-gun technologies in CW mode as it offers higher acceleration rate and potentially can generate higher bunch charges and average beam currents. A 112 MHz SRF electron photoinjector (gun) was developed at Brookhaven National Laboratory to produce high-brightness and high-bunch-charge bunches for the coherent electron cooling proof-of-principle experiment. The gun utilizes a quarter-wave resonator geometry for assuring beam dynamics and uses high quantum efficiency multi-alkali photocathodes for generating electrons. (C) 2016 Author(s).DOE Office of Nuclear Physics, Facilities and Project Management Division, "Research and Development for Next Generation Nuclear Physics Accelerator Facilities Program" FOA [DE-FOA-0000632]; National Science Foundation [PHY-1415252]SCI(E)[email protected]
Author Correction: Diversity, equity and inclusion actions from the NCATS Clinical and Translational Science awarded programs
No full textCorrection to: "Diversity, equity and inclusion actions from the NCATS Clinical and Translational Science awarded programs
