Terry and Miranda: The Conflict between the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the United States Constitution

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Multimodal Imaging Trials with Zebrafish Specimens

Biomedical imaging is an important technique that can be used for several applications such as cancer research and cardiology. A range of imaging technology, such as PET, SPECT, micro-CT and optical X-ray, is available for imaging. However, many research institutes use rats and mice for preclinical experiments. The purpose of this study was to determine if Zebrafish are compatible for use in pre-clinical imaging, and which modalities and probes work best. Different Zebrafish specimens were tested using five different modalities and four probes. In order to assess with two-dimensional modalities, both fluorescence and planar X-Ray were performed on the specimens. The fluorescence imaging was acquired using OsteoSense 750x and ProSense 750x as the probes. Through the results, we discovered that OsteoSense did not work as well as the ProSense. The next three modalities represented three-dimensional imaging. These modalities consist of X-ray Computed Tomography (CT), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), and Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT). The standard settings of high dosage and low voltage were used to assess with X-ray Computed Tomography. Sodium Fluoride (NaF) and Fludeoxyglucose (FDG) were the two probes tested with PET imaging, while MDP with technetium-99 was used for SPECT. The majority of the probes were detected in the specimens, but not at the correct target

Racism, epistemic injustice, and ideology critique

Since its 2007 publication, Miranda Fricker’s Epistemic Injustice has sparked a vigorous conversation in analytic philosophy about how social power corrodes individual’s epistemic capacities and distorts collective meaning-making in unjust ways. Yet for all its normative insights into social silencing, I argue that Fricker’s theorization of epistemic dysfunction remains too individualized, cognitivist, and dematerialized to account for racialized imaginaries. Rather than view racisms as normal and normative in racist cultures, Fricker frames identity-driven prejudice as a troubling aberration from otherwise unblemished epistemic and moral norms. This leads her into adopting an overly voluntarist and idealist theory of social change that centres training better knowers rather than unmaking racialized worlds. Ultimately, I contend that we should return to a materialist theory of ideology, following the work of Stuart Hall. Doing so jettisons the narrow focus on individual epistemic failures and instead problematizes how certain social ideas consolidate and reproduce racial hierarchies

Conceptual design studies for surface infrastructure

The utimate design of a manned Mars base will be the result of considerable engineering analysis and many trade studies to optimize the configuration. Many options and scenarios are available and all need to be considered at this time. Initial base elements, two base configuration concepts, internal space architectural concerns, and two base set-up scenarios are discussed. There are many variables as well as many unknowns to be reckoned with before people set foot on the red planet

Reviewing the purpose novel : reception, social reform, and the limits of persuasion in turn-of-the-century American fiction

“Reviewing the Purpose Novel” addresses the relationship between novels and public opinion by recovering an understudied category of nineteenth-century American fiction and analyzing the reception of four examples of the genre. Though narratives about how novels can change history are popular, my research indicates that there were far more barriers to a novel impacting public opinion than critics generally recognize. Drawing from a wide range of newspaper, magazine, and archival material, “Reviewing the Purpose Novel” constructs thoroughly contextualized accounts of each novel’s publication history and reception to show the ways that reviewers established generic expectations that limited the persuasive power an individual purpose novel was granted. Rather than locating the purpose novel’s disappearance in the modernist disdain for literature that engaged too explicitly with political or social issues or with the New Critical insistence that critics focus on aesthetic and formal qualities over social and historical ones, “Reviewing the Purpose Novel” offers a counter-narrative that engages mass and popular reading modes to show that by the turn of the century, reviewers, writers, and readers may have liked to imagine that a novel could effect concrete social change, but the models reviewers offered for reading the novels tended to limit or resist the persuasive process.Englis

High-pressure Solubilities of Carbon Dioxide and Ethane in Selected Paraffinic, Naphthenic and Aromatic Solvents

The isothermal solubilities of carbon dioxide in four solvents, benzene, n-decane, n-dodecane and n-tetradecane, were measured at temperatures ranging from 40 to 100�C. The isothermal solubilities of ethane were measured in n-decane at temperatures ranging from 100 to 280�F, in one- and two-ring naphthenic solvents (cyclohexane, trans- Decalin) at temperatures of 50, 100 and 150�C, and in 1-, 2-, 3- and 4-ring aromatic solvents (benzene, naphthalene, phenanthrene and pyrene) at temperatures ranging from 50 to 160�C. Binary interaction parameters for use in the Soave-Redlich-Kwong and Peng-Robinson equations of state have been optimized by regression of the obtained data for each system. Comparisons have been made regarding the accuracy of these equations in fitting the data with the use of one and two binary interaction parameters. Also compared are the results of the use of binary interaction parameters obtained through single and multipleisotherm regressions of the data.Chemical Engineerin

At the Frontiers of Writing: Exploring the Productive Encounter between the Poetic and the Political in Northern Ireland during The Troubles

This thesis aims to explore the nature of that productive relationship: between the poet and the revolutionary, the poem and the political imaginary. To do so, I want to critically examine the ligature between three points—the poet as a social position within Northern Ireland during the 1960s and 70s; the poetic as a culturally-constructed and defined category of the aesthetic operating within the Northern Irish 20th Century context; and poesis as the individual and creative work that the poem enacts through the materiality of its language.Bachelor of Art

Ambient pressure organic semiconductor thin film growth by ambient axisymmetric spray

Interest in using organic semiconductors in applications such as large area displays, photovoltaic devices, and radio frequency identification tags stems in part from their prospects for enabling significantly reduced manufacturing costs compared to traditional inorganic semiconductors. However many of the best performing prototype devices produced so far have involved expensive or time-consuming fabrication methods, such as the use of single crystals or thin films deposited under high vacuum conditions. This thesis examines a new approach for growing low molecular weight organic crystalline films at ambient conditions based on an organic vapor-liquid-solid growth (OVLS) mechanism using thermotropic nematic liquid crystal (LC) solvents

Liquid flyback booster pre-phase: A study assessment

The concept of a flyback booster has been around since early in the shuttle program. The original two-stage shuttle concepts used a manned flyback booster. These boosters were eliminated from the program for funding and size reasons. The current shuttle uses two Redesigned Solid Rocket Motors (RSRM's), which are recovered and refurbished after each flight; this is one of the major cost factors of the program. Replacement options have been studied over the past ten years. The conclusion reached by the most recent study is that the liquid flyback booster (LFBB) is the only competitive option from a life-cycle cost perspective. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility and practicality of LFBB's. The study provides an expansion of the recommendations made during the aforementioned study. The primary benefits are the potential for enhanced reusability and a reduction of recurring costs. The potential savings in vehicle turnaround could offset the up-front costs. Development of LFBB's requires a commitment to the shuttle program for 20 to 30 years. LFBB's also offer enhanced safety and abort capabilities. Currently, any failure of an RSRM can be considered catastrophic, since there are no intact abort capabilities during the burn of the RSRM's. The performance goal of the LFBB's was to lift a fully loaded orbiter under optimal conditions, so as not to be the limiting factor of the performance capability of the shuttle. In addition, a final benefit is the availability of growth paths for applications other than shuttle