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Teaching Public Health Law and Inequality
No full textThose who teach public health law are acutely aware of the effect of public health law and policies on marginalized populations—including, but not limited to, those in the Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) community. In some cases, public health officials have created or exacerbated the problem through laws and policies that disproportionately affect these communities— sometimes, even deliberately.
This emerging attention to these important problems has now led to the development of a new course, Public Health Law and Inequality. The course is being co-taught by the two presenters, who will describe the basic outline of the course and offer some examples of how the topics are interwoven throughout the semester, and how the students have become deeply involved in the course, through regular reflection papers, class discussion, and presentations.
John Culhane is the H. Albert Young Fellow in Constitutional Law, professor of law, and co-director of the Family Health Law & Policy Institute at Delaware Law School (Widener University) and visiting professor of law at the Beasley Law School, Temple University. He teaches in the areas of Constitutional Law, Public Health Law, Torts and Family Law. Author of more than 40 law journal articles, he is also a regular contributor to Slate and Politico. His latest book, The Many Ties that Bind, will be published in 2023 by the University of California Press. He has written two electronic casebooks: Culhane Torts I and II ; and Kelly/Culhane Family Law (with Alicia Kelly) for ChartaCourse, and has also created Torts Study Guide for the same publisher.
John\u27s work has also appeared in The New York Times, Huffington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer and Dissent, among many other places. He has been featured and interviewed in media including the NPR shows Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Marketplace Morning Report, as well as MSNBC, Radio Times, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Reuters, and Associated Press. He has thrice won the Outstanding Faculty Award from Delaware Law School.
Joseph Farris is the assistant dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and adjunct faculty at Delaware Law School (Widener University), where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and was awarded the Dean’s Award and the President’s Award. He received his BSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, then served as an Officer in the United States Navy. Joseph has significant diversity leadership experience working on diverse and multicultural teams spanning from his roles in the military, church and nonprofit organizations to legal and business teams. Through DEI-related programming and messaging and a passionate commitment to social justice and the advancement of DEI interests and issues, he is helping the law school and broader legal community become more adept at recognizing and responding to DEI-related interests and issues, resulting in greater awareness and action towards creating a more inclusive and equitable environment.
Joseph teaches legal problem-solving and this semester is co-teaching Public Health Law and Inequality with John Culhane. Joseph is a licensed attorney in the state of Delaware and prior to joining the law school administration, he practiced law in the areas of corporate transactions, intellectual property, bankruptcy and restructuring matters. He has published works in those areas. In November 2021, he moderated a panel for the New Castle County Chamber of Commerce Women’s Leadership Conference about equity in the workplace; and in September 2021, he was a panelist in the National Association of African American Human Resources (Delaware chapter) event on the topic of justice in the workplace
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Teaching Public Health Law and Inequality
No full textThose who teach public health law are acutely aware of the effect of public health law and policies on marginalized populations—including, but not limited to, those in the Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) community. In some cases, public health officials have created or exacerbated the problem through laws and policies that disproportionately affect these communities— sometimes, even deliberately.
This emerging attention to these important problems has now led to the development of a new course, Public Health Law and Inequality. The course is being co-taught by the two presenters, who will describe the basic outline of the course and offer some examples of how the topics are interwoven throughout the semester, and how the students have become deeply involved in the course, through regular reflection papers, class discussion, and presentations.
John Culhane is the H. Albert Young Fellow in Constitutional Law, professor of law, and co-director of the Family Health Law & Policy Institute at Delaware Law School (Widener University) and visiting professor of law at the Beasley Law School, Temple University. He teaches in the areas of Constitutional Law, Public Health Law, Torts and Family Law. Author of more than 40 law journal articles, he is also a regular contributor to Slate and Politico. His latest book, The Many Ties that Bind, will be published in 2023 by the University of California Press. He has written two electronic casebooks: Culhane Torts I and II ; and Kelly/Culhane Family Law (with Alicia Kelly) for ChartaCourse, and has also created Torts Study Guide for the same publisher.
John\u27s work has also appeared in The New York Times, Huffington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer and Dissent, among many other places. He has been featured and interviewed in media including the NPR shows Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Marketplace Morning Report, as well as MSNBC, Radio Times, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Reuters, and Associated Press. He has thrice won the Outstanding Faculty Award from Delaware Law School.
Joseph Farris is the assistant dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and adjunct faculty at Delaware Law School (Widener University), where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and was awarded the Dean’s Award and the President’s Award. He received his BSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, then served as an Officer in the United States Navy. Joseph has significant diversity leadership experience working on diverse and multicultural teams spanning from his roles in the military, church and nonprofit organizations to legal and business teams. Through DEI-related programming and messaging and a passionate commitment to social justice and the advancement of DEI interests and issues, he is helping the law school and broader legal community become more adept at recognizing and responding to DEI-related interests and issues, resulting in greater awareness and action towards creating a more inclusive and equitable environment.
Joseph teaches legal problem-solving and this semester is co-teaching Public Health Law and Inequality with John Culhane. Joseph is a licensed attorney in the state of Delaware and prior to joining the law school administration, he practiced law in the areas of corporate transactions, intellectual property, bankruptcy and restructuring matters. He has published works in those areas. In November 2021, he moderated a panel for the New Castle County Chamber of Commerce Women’s Leadership Conference about equity in the workplace; and in September 2021, he was a panelist in the National Association of African American Human Resources (Delaware chapter) event on the topic of justice in the workplace
Resource Optimal Executable Quantum Circuit Generation Using Approximate Computing
No full textQuantum Computing is an emerging technology that combines the principles of computer science and quantum mechanics to solve computationally challenging problems significantly faster than classical computers. In this paper, we present a proof-of-principle procedure for generating hardware-executable quantum circuits for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices that follows the paradigm of approximate computing.Our approach starts from the reference circuit and trans-forms it into an executable circuit with tuneable parameters by replacing the high-level quantum operations by approximate decompositions into hardware-native gates. An inner optimization loop over the rotation gates’ angles ensures that the so-created circuit behaves in the same way as the reference one in terms of its expectation-value landscape. This technique is complemented by compiler-based optimizations to further reduce or aggregate gate groups of the optimized circuit. This three-step procedure is embedded into an outer genetic algorithm framework that inspects many different circuit designs with placements of single- and multi-qubit gates according to the hardware’s lattice structure, and returns a set of approximate quantum circuits that can be executed on NISQ devices directly.We have validated our approach for superconducting quantum systems from IBM and Rigetti for various benchmark algorithms. In nearly all cases, our approach outperforms the vendors’ quantum-compiler frameworks and produces significantly smaller circuits with up to 50% reduction in the number of gates.Accepted author manuscriptNumerical Analysi
2020 Baseball Team
No full textMembers of the 2020 Cedarville University baseball team are (front l-to-r) Noah Schleinitz, Payton Eeles, Rylan Compton, Austin Brown, Drew Minnich, Kale Ebling, Lucas Rotello, Matthew Biermann, Connor Culhane, Micah Stewart. (middle) Assistant Coach Kip Ferguson, Jacob Clements, Colton Eilers, Blais Hale, Bryce Hughes, Riley Landrum, Alan Perry, Westin Blattner, Brendan Toungate, NoNoah Cline, Head Coach Mike Manes. (back) Assistant Coach Markus Neff, Trace Gillis, Jadon Ambrose, Hunter Kraynak, Reid Hale, Kevin Zhang, Ethan Milburn, Conner TenHove, Elliott Gilmore, Logan Eby, Andrew Dunbar, Assistant Coach Steven Dennison. (not pictured: Joshua Lewis)https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/baseball_gallery/1077/thumbnail.jp
Responding to racism: measuring the effectiveness of an anti-racism program for secondary schools
No full textThis thesis reports on the effectiveness of an anti-racist
training program implemented at secondary schools in Vancouver
and Richmond in February and March of 1995. The program used
Responding to Racism; a guide for High School Students, prepared
by the author, with John Kehoe and Lily Yee. Training involved
three hours of anti-racist role-play exercises from Responding to
Racism. A pretest-posttest control group design was employed to
measure: retention of given models for dealing with racist
incidents, post-treatment levels of racism, and behavioral
reactions during a staged racist incident.
Ten social studies classes from two schools made up a sample
population of 262 students. Following half-day workshops, three
teachers carried out the program with a total of six classes of
either grade 9 or 11 students. Four additional classes continued
with regular curriculum to serve as the Control sample. The
Cultural Diversity Scale (Kehoe, 1982, 1984), was given as a
pretest to establish Control to Experimental group equivalency.
A posttest Written Response to Racist Incidents instrument, used
to measure knowledge of how to respond to a racist incident,
found a significant positive difference between Experimental and
Control groups, (t=(3.83) p.<.001). Post-training levels of
racism, evaluated through the Evidence of Racism Scale, were not
significantly different (+.16Sd).
The final postmeasure, the Racist Incident Behavioral Scale
(Culhane, 1995), found significant positive effect among a sample
of 68 students (40-Exp./28-Cntl.), (t=(3.33) p.<.001). Students
undergoing treatment were in the 68th percentile of Control
students on the Written Response to Racist incidents, (+.47Sd),
and the 92nd percentile (+1.23Sd) of Control subjects on results
from the Racist Incident Behavioral Scale. Experimental students
did not show significant difference when compared to Control
subjects on items pertaining to empathy for the victims of
racism. The results suggest the program was most successful in
changing behaviour, over attitudes, within the context of a
relatively short-term time period.
Responding to Racism provided students with methods for
responding to racist incidents which were evident on written and
behavioral measures. Support given to the victims of the racist
incidents, opposition to the perpetrators, and positive attempts
to limit the racism in each incident were all significantly more
apparent in responses of Experimental students over Control. The
results reaffirm the utility of role-play anti-racist training,
and validate the use of Responding to Racism as an effective
package for use in secondary school settings, notably in regards
to changing student behaviour in racially-motivated situations.Education, Faculty ofCurriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department ofGraduat
Making sense of health education in the Solomon Islands.
No full textThis article explores both the process and outcomes of a working Partnership between Solomon Islands College for Higher Education and the University of Waikato that explored the development of the initial teacher education health education courses. Through a process of co-construction and inquiry, teacher educators from the Solomon Islands and New Zealand developed a metaphorical context-specific model to represent understandings of health education in the Solomon Islands. The model and what this has meant for teaching and learning in health education at both SOE and in schools is examined
Plankton imagery data inform satellite-based estimates of diatom carbon
No full text© The Author(s), 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Chase, A. P., Boss, E. S., Haentjens, N., Culhane, E., Roesler, C., & Karp-Boss, L. Plankton imagery data inform satellite-based estimates of diatom carbon. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(13), (2022): e2022GL098076, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098076.Estimating the biomass of phytoplankton communities via remote sensing is a key requirement for understanding global ocean ecosystems. Of particular interest is the carbon associated with diatoms given their unequivocal ecological and biogeochemical roles. Satellite-based algorithms often rely on accessory pigment proxies to define diatom biomass, despite a lack of validation against independent diatom biomass measurements. We used imaging-in-flow cytometry to quantify diatom carbon in the western North Atlantic, and compared results to those obtained from accessory pigment-based approximations. Based on this analysis, we offer a new empirical formula to estimate diatom carbon concentrations from chlorophyll a. Additionally, we developed a neural network model in which we integrated chlorophyll a and environmental information to estimate diatom carbon distributions in the western North Atlantic. The potential for improving satellite-based diatom carbon estimates by integrating environmental information into a model, compared to models that are based solely on chlorophyll a, is discussed.Funding for this work was provided by NASA grants #NNX15AE67G and #80NSSC20M0202. A. Chase is supported by a Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
The importance of conference!
No full textThe author discusses the benefits of attending conferences for physical education teachers. It is noted that within and outside of the teaching profession physical educators are sometimes not viewed as teachers and the author believes that creating professional development opportunities will change that
Embeddedness as Condition and Strategy in Contemporary Art and Cultural Production
No full textThis thesis examines the concept of ‘embeddedness’ as condition and strategy in contemporary art and cultural production. Identifying embeddedness as a motif of contextual proximity and a strategy in contemporary art, the thesis proposes immediacy to be the result of intrinsic mediation. The project’s main concern is how embeddedness is contextualised by the current conditions that authors and cultural producers engage with. The primary question is whether and how embeddedness can convey a critical relation to the mediation that it undertakes. These concerns inform and arise from my work as an artist, and my participation in events, some of which I organise. The project claims that embeddedness in art is a critical condition and an editorial concept or a strategic plan that can be set up by the artist.
The investigation begins by looking at conditions of embeddedness by focusing on concepts of subjectivity and by elaborating strategies that I call ‘auto-direction’. For example, concepts of subjectivity are taken up in relation to Richard Serra’s video Boomerang (1974), in which the performer Nancy Holt reflects on her own spoken words, which are fed back with a short delay via microphone and headphones into her ears. Auto-direction, introduced with the example of Steven Spielberg’s initiative of a video diary exchange project between Israeli and Palestinian children, describes the activity of the producer, who self-directs his situated presence. Taking up idioms of embeddedness from artists like Phil Collins, Christian Jankowski and Erik van Lieshout the project examines embeddedness through a comparative analysis between contemporary art, visual culture, media theory, sociology, art theory, psychoanalysis and philosophy. These practices lead to an identification of embeddedness as an author’s immanent exposure, a claim taken up through analysis of theoretical texts and literature by Rosalind Krauss, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Gregory Bateson, Hal Foster, Bernard Williams and Alfred North Whitehead
Victorian Methodist responses to the Family Law Act 1975
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