Sexuality: The Empathetic Liberator

When people think of exploring sexuality, countless people associate the words with feelings of fear, shame, and guilt. Many people find their religious views cause the described feelings. For others, it may be the cultural messages received concerning sex that cause these feelings. Though we cannot change home and societal conditions, we can reform the one place adolescents can learn more about sex: sexual education. The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP) and the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) are scientifically proven to increase safer sex and prevent unwanted pregnancy. Research suggests that these federally funded programs disregard teenagers\u27 voices when determining their sexual health. To combat the problems in exploring sexuality, I explain my method of taking Qualitative Analysis of Bro and Hinge (applications) profiles, coding for thematic analysis (ex: relationships, hookups, kinks, and unsure). The aim is to see the differences between sexual expression in an online setting from the real world and find solutions to integrate sexual expression in real life. The data collection is still in progress. Future research steps include interviewing individuals to explain the before and aftereffects of venturing into sexuality and the views that loved ones have for an individuals\u27 sexual proclivities. Keywords: sexuality, sexual education, sexual health, expression, freedo

The Disrespectfulness of Weighted Survival Lotteries

If we can save the lives of only one of multiple groups of people, we might be inclined simply to save whichever group is largest. We may worry, though, that automatically saving the largest group fails to take each saveable individual sufficiently into account, offering some of these individuals no chance at all of being rescued. Still wanting to give larger groups higher chances of survival, we may then say that we ought to employ a proportionally weighted lottery to determine which group to save. In this paper, I argue that this would be a mistake. Given the most plausible way of specifying it, the weighted-lottery view itself fails to treat each saveable individual with equal moral respect

Are Surface-Modified PVDF films for Ammonia Detection the Key to Ending Air Pollution?

Air pollution is the cause of 11.65% of deaths globally, with 60,200 of those deaths coming from the United States. Furthermore, ammonia (a gas that contributes to air pollution) was detected in the troposphere for the first time in December 2016. With high concentrations of ammonia in the atmosphere causing respiratory ailments and permanent blindness from agricultural practices (ex: fertilizers sprayed on crops), there is a need for early detection and monitoring of ammonia leakages to eradicate air pollution. A chamber will be used to precisely detect various ammonia concentrations with a defluorinated Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) film as the chemical sensing layer. In addition, zinc Oxide nanoparticles are placed on the film\u27s surface for gas sensing. Though the data collection is still in progress, future steps include testing various ammonia concentrations for early detection in a controlled environment. Keywords: Air pollution, ammonia detection, surface acoustic wave, Polyvinylidene Fluorid

Broadband antenna measurement techniques--phase II

Issued as Monthly status report no. 1-17, and Final technical report, Project no. A-169

Retribution Requires Rehabilitation

Herbert Morris argues in his influential retributivist paper, Persons and Punishment, that criminals deserve punishment because their actions represent an unfair distribution of benefits and burdens in society. The proper distribution of benefits and burdens is important, in part, to restore law abiding citizens’ confidence that others will follow the law. In this paper I show that Morris\u27s argument for why criminals deserve punishment morally requires us to set up an institution of rehabilitation in addition to the institution of punishment. Such an institution is morally required because neither pure punishment systems nor punishment systems that incorporate quasi-rehabilitative aspects have ever worked to uphold the necessary confidence that Morris tells us law abiding citizens must have in order to protect the social order. Moreover, we cannot abandon Morris\u27s appeal to the duty to maintain social order without also abandoning a plausibly Morrisian framework