Black Male Student-Athletes and Racial Inequities in NCAA Division I College Sports

The purpose of this report is to make transparent racial inequities in NCAA Division I college sports. Specifically, the authors offer a four-year analysis of Black men's representation on football and basketball teams versus their representation in the undergraduate student body on each campus. The report concludes with recommendations for the NCAA and commissioners of the six major sports conferences, college and university leaders, coaches and athletics directors, journalists, and Black male student-athletes and their families

Collective electromagnetic relaxation in crystals of molecular magnets

We study the magnetization reversal and electromagnetic radiation due to collective Landau-Zener relaxation in a crystal of molecular magnets. Analytical and numerical solutions for the time dependence of the relaxation process are obtained. The power of the radiation and the total emitted energy are computed as functions of the crystal parameters and the field sweep rate.Comment: 7 pages, 9 figure

A Framework for Judicial Review and Remand in Immigration Law

This Article breaks new ground at the intersection of administrative law and immigration law. One of the more important questions in both fields is whether a reviewing court should resolve a legal issue in the first instance or remand that issue to the agency. This Article advances the novel claim that courts should use the modem framework for judicial review of agency statutory interpretations to inform their resolution of this remand question. Then, using this framework, the Article identifies when remand is and is not appropriate in immigration cases. This critical analysis, which urges a departure from conventional academic wisdom, has significant implications for the larger theoretical debate over formalism and functionalism in administrative law

Psychosocial Impacts of Technology Training in Transitional-Aged Youth with Autism

The transition from adolescence to adulthood can be difficult to manage for any individual. In addition to typical adjustments, additional challenges for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have included living at home for longer, isolating themselves socially, and struggling to find the motivation to seek employment and/or education. Research suggests that these factors are influenced by deficits in adaptive functioning, social cognition, and emotional/behavioral functioning. For this reason, various programs have been implemented to support the adjustment of transitional-aged youth with ASD. Among such programs are postsecondary vocational organizations which seek to assist individuals on the Autism Spectrum by providing them technical training, community support, and employment skill development. The current study seeks to measure the impact of one such program on transitional-aged youth with ASD by measuring change in adaptive, social, and emotional/behavioral functioning as a result of participation

Loss of Parental Consortium: Why Kentucky Should \u3cem\u3eRe\u3c/em\u3e-Recognize the Claim Outside the Wrongful Death Context

The term consortium has been defined as [t]he benefits that one person . . . is entitled to receive from another, including companionship, cooperation, affection, aid, [and] financial support. Under Kentucky law, [e]ither a wife or husband may recover damages against a third person for loss of consortium, resulting from a negligent or wrongful act of such third person.” Furthermore, [in] a wrongful death action in which the decedent was a minor child, the surviving parent, or parents, may recover for loss of affection and companionship that would have been derived from such child during its minority…” In Giuliani v. Guiler, the Supreme Court of Kentucky added to this list of consortium claims, recognizing a minor child\u27s claim for loss of parental consortium. Part I of this Note reviews Kentucky\u27s history of loss of parental consortium claims. Part II examines the Kentucky Supreme Court\u27s decision in Giuliani, and Part III analyzes the Lambert v. Franklin Real Estate Co. court\u27s narrow reading of Giuliani. Part IV discusses the aspects of the Giuliani decision that the Kentucky Court of Appeals failed to consider in Lambert. Part V reflects on these considerations, evaluating persuasive authority and policy considerations which point toward recognizing loss of parental consortium claims outside the wrongful death context. Part VI briefly considers why the law has yet to change, before concluding that the Kentucky Supreme Court should allow a minor child to bring a loss of parental consortium claim even if his or her parent is only severely injured

Photo-Induced Current Measurements in Chlamydomonas Cell Suspensions

In order to fully understand the principles behind phototaxis in flagellate algae, it is necessary to measure the electric currents these cells create when processing light stimuli. Many different techniques have been developed to do this. One of these techniques, measuring from cell suspensions, has a number of advantages over the others that makes it highly desirable. However, the lab that first developed this method of recording did not describe the setup very well. The result is that in the thirteen years since it was first reported, only one other independent lab has been able to reproduce the results despite many attempts by others to do so. Therefore, the primary purpose of this project was to replicate the setup and reproduce the reported results so that others may utilize it. This was accomplished and so the setup is described in detail in Part II of the paper. With the successful reproduction of this cell suspension method, many experiments, involving new and untested stimuli, have been able to be performed. Previously unused analysis methods, which represent more of a physical rather than a biological approach to the data, have been applied. Though many of the results are in the preliminary stages of analysis, some of the newest and most interesting data is presented at the end of the paper