Same-Sex Harassment After Boh-Brothers

Because Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Boh Brothers Construction Company ostensibly represents the first faithful application of the gender-stereotyping theory in the context of same-sex harassment litigation, additional courts may elect to abandon the objective-evidence standard in favor of adopting the Fifth Circuit’s subjective-perception test. Employers, therefore, must resist the temptation to dismiss Boh Brothers as a legal aberration confined to the Fifth Circuit and instead take steps to prepare for the possibility of a legal environment in which overtly masculine men and patently feminine women may assert viable same-sex harassment claims. By eliminating the requirement that harassees exhibit readily observable, objectively gender-nonconforming characteristics in the workplace while at the same time mandating that courts conduct a rigorous, fact-intensive inquiry into the idiosyncratic beliefs and perceptions of individual harassers, the subjective-perception test would seem to portend a significant expansion of employer liability

Direct oral anticoagulants or warfarin for A fib?

A recent study evaluated the effectiveness of 3 direct oral anticoagulants and warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation. So which agents came out on top? PRACTICE CHANGER: Use direct oral anticoagulants instead of warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation because they are just as effective at preventing ischemic stroke and systemic emboli as warfarin, and because apixaban and dabigatran have lower bleeding rates. Stength of recommendation: B: Based on a single, prospective, cohort study

Team Member’s Centrality, Cohesion, Conflict, and Performance in Multi-University Geographically Distributed Project Teams

This study examined team processes and outcomes among 12 multi-university distributed project teams from 11 universities during its early and late development stages over a 14-month project period. A longitudinal model of team interaction is presented and tested at the individual level to consider the extent to which both formal and informal network connections—measured as degree centrality—relate to changes in team members’ individual perceptions of cohesion and conflict in their teams, and their individual performance as a team member over time. The study showed a negative network centrality-cohesion relationship with significant temporal patterns, indicating that as team members perceive less degree centrality in distributed project teams, they report more team cohesion during the last four months of the project. We also found that changes in team cohesion from the first three months (i.e., early development stage) to the last four months (i.e., late development stage) of the project relate positively to changes in team member performance. Although degree centrality did not relate significantly to changes in team conflict over time, a strong inverse relationship was found between changes in team conflict and cohesion, suggesting that team conflict emphasizes a different but related aspect of how individuals view their experience with the team process. Changes in team conflict, however, did not relate to changes in team member performance. Ultimately, we showed that individuals, who are less central in the network and report higher levels of team cohesion, performed better in distributed teams over time

Navigational Heads-Up Display

One problem drivers face is distraction from looking at their mobile device while navigating rather than watching the road. This problem can be solved with a heads-up display placed directly on the driver’s windshield. By using a mobile device with a custom GPS application, the following design will be able to send GPS data to a device that will display navigational information on a car windshield. The design includes two primary components, a mobile device and a System Unit, where the System Unit is composed of a portable power supply, a single board computer, and a display. For the design, the mobile device is an android device, the portable power supply is a battery, and the display is a small projector. The design has a very strong software focus, and the main intention of the design is to produce a fully functional Android mobile application that pairs along with prototype hardware elements. In final implementation, the mobile application sends data in the JSON format over a Bluetooth connection. The key features of the project are as follows: • A custom GPS Android Application that can generate routes from the user’s current location to destinations entered by the user. • A System Unit, which is a device that has the capability to be mounted on a vehicle’s dashboard, connect to the user’s mobile device, and generate a display that contains navigation information. • A projected display that is shown on the vehicle’s windshield

Raytheon -- Strength Optimized Designs Using Additive Manufacturing

Designing a structure to demonstrate the strength of 3-D printed part is more complicated than it seems. The design goal was to construct a device that demonstrates how 3-D printing can create a strength optimized design. The design must incorporate maximum strength, while not sacrificing other major components such as weight of the product, cost of the product, print time of the product and how much material is being used. Extensive research and tests were conducted on infill patterns, football helmets, and TPU material (material used in football helmets). There are multiple infill patterns that must be considered. The most important aspect of printing parts via FDM 3D printing is the infill pattern. This will directly affect the print time, material used, cost, and strength of the printed part. The second most important concept of the 3-D printed part is the infill structure. There are many infill structures, each having its own strengths and weaknesses when approaching higher strength, time to print, material used and weight. The team decided to focus on four commonly used infill structures (honeycomb, wiggle, triangular, and rectilinear). The team conducted a 3-point bending test and compression test, strictly following the ATSM standards to find out more about the strengths and weaknesses of each specific infill pattern (shown in this report). A design has been created and the application is a football Helmet. The design has 2 parts. The first part is a smaller, circular piece as the very top of the helmet. This piece contains a “triple layer infill sandwich.” The triple layer infill sandwich is composed of 3 different infills: wiggle infill (good for distributing rotational energy), honeycomb infill (good for distributing linear impact), wiggle infill again (good for distributing rotational energy). The second part of the helmet liner is a dome composed of an Isomax structure with a hole cut out at the top of the helmet. The team originally came up with 120 different designs in an attempted to best solve the task at hand. The method from obtaining these ideas came from brainstorming and online research. To narrow the solutions, a table was made with different attributes and rankings with each attribute. The team went through each individual concept and ranked it accordingly. After we had our top ideas team 13 conducted specific testing to figure out which idea was best and team 13 came up with this specific helmet liner

Foundational Curriculum for the African American Student Network: Synthesis of Discussion Topics and Themes

The African American Student Network (AFAM) is a therapeutic counterspace associated with positive educational and social outcomes for Black undergraduates at a predominantly White institution in the Midwest. We adapted consensual qualitative research methods to explore discussion topics and synthesize themes across hundreds of AFAM meetings spanning more than a decade. Including many of the traditional psychosocial tasks associated with emerging adulthood along with developmental milestones for racially diverse emerging adults, we found that AFAM students talked most about navigating college life followed by understanding racism, exploring identity, standing up for justice, and finding love, respectively. The results of this case study can provide a foundational curriculum for others interested in developing therapeutic counterspaces like AFAM