Predictive Modeling of Fate and Transport of Three Prevalent Contaminants in Midwest Agroecosystem Surface Waters: Nitrate-N, Atrazine, and \u3ci\u3eEscherichia coli\u3c/i\u3e

The majority of streams and rivers in the United States (U.S.) are ecologically impaired, or threatened by anthropogenic stressors. Recent reports have found atrazine in drinking water to be associated with increased birth defects and incidences of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, with higher levels of significance from exposure to both atrazine and nitrate-N. In contrast, recent illnesses from E. coli contaminating vegetables that originated from irrigation water has increased awareness of identifying sources of E. coli entering irrigation reservoirs. Methods to accurately predict atrazine and E. coli occurrence and potential sources in waterways continue to limit the identifying appropriate and effective prevention and treatment practices. Therefore, the primary objectives of this study were to: 1) Identify watersheds across Nebraska that were at risk for exceeding nitrate-N and atrazine maximum contaminant limits (MCLs) in surface water, 2) Determine the specific times of greatest risk for exposure to atrazine throughout the year, 3) Determine the load of E. coli during storm events in a hydrologic controlled stream situated adjacent to a livestock grazing operations and centered in the fly zone for avian migration in the Midwest, and 4) Identify trends between E. coli concentrations, grazing rotations, and avian migrations patterns. Findings from objectives 1 and 2 of this project identified impairments for both nitrate-N and atrazine in the surface water during the early growing season in the southeastern region of Nebraska. Objectives 3 and 4 required a complex combination of bovine density and waterfowl migration patterns to evaluate the impact of E. coli concentrations in stream water, with the downstream reservoir had exceedance probabilities above the EPA freshwater criteria \u3e85% of the growing season following rainfall events. Further, methodology developed in this project has the potential for application in regions with higher dependency on surface water to determine agrochemical and E. coli load influxes from upstream regions, evaluate other surface water contaminants in surface and/or groundwater, and implement best management practices. Advisor: Tiffany L. Messe

How big is 8,000,000 square feet? Exploring options for Amazon\u27s HQ2 project.

Currently, there is a trend among large corporations to build alternative or attractive office space types. Companies are adding elements to their headquarters or office space to make them appealing and exciting to not only their employees, but to the public. Amazon is known for its glass domes, Apple is known for its giant ring-shaped building, and Google is the best known for its playground-like vibe of total employee work/enjoyment experience. These novelties have become part of the brands of companies. In the past, cities have competed to host public attractions such as the Guggenheim Museum. Now, with the announcement of Amazon\u27s plan to build a second corporate headquarters, cities are competing to host offices. Not just any offices, though, the largest corporate presence the world has ever seen: 8,000,000 square feet of office space for 50,000 employees. This is double the size of Citi Bank in New York, the second largest corporate presence in a single city. Over ten years, the 8m square feet of space will be built, but has been already planned and proposed by cities that want to host Amazon\u27s HQ2. I have been looking at the announced site proposals as well as case studies of campuses that are of similar scale to eventually lead to my own design for what I think HQ2 should look like. While most directly applicable to Amazon\u27s requirements, I intend for my design to end up as a universal, alternative corporate campus that benefits employee productivity and well-being

Predictive Modeling of Fate and Transport of Three Prevalent Contaminants in Midwest Agroecosystem Surface Waters: Nitrate-N, Atrazine, and \u3ci\u3eEscherichia coli\u3c/i\u3e

The majority of streams and rivers in the United States (U.S.) are ecologically impaired, or threatened by anthropogenic stressors. Recent reports have found atrazine in drinking water to be associated with increased birth defects and incidences of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, with higher levels of significance from exposure to both atrazine and nitrate-N. In contrast, recent illnesses from E. coli contaminating vegetables that originated from irrigation water has increased awareness of identifying sources of E. coli entering irrigation reservoirs. Methods to accurately predict atrazine and E. coli occurrence and potential sources in waterways continue to limit the identifying appropriate and effective prevention and treatment practices. Therefore, the primary objectives of this study were to: 1) Identify watersheds across Nebraska that were at risk for exceeding nitrate-N and atrazine maximum contaminant limits (MCLs) in surface water, 2) Determine the specific times of greatest risk for exposure to atrazine throughout the year, 3) Determine the load of E. coli during storm events in a hydrologic controlled stream situated adjacent to a livestock grazing operations and centered in the fly zone for avian migration in the Midwest, and 4) Identify trends between E. coli concentrations, grazing rotations, and avian migrations patterns. Findings from objectives 1 and 2 of this project identified impairments for both nitrate-N and atrazine in the surface water during the early growing season in the southeastern region of Nebraska. Objectives 3 and 4 required a complex combination of bovine density and waterfowl migration patterns to evaluate the impact of E. coli concentrations in stream water, with the downstream reservoir had exceedance probabilities above the EPA freshwater criteria \u3e85% of the growing season following rainfall events. Further, methodology developed in this project has the potential for application in regions with higher dependency on surface water to determine agrochemical and E. coli load influxes from upstream regions, evaluate other surface water contaminants in surface and/or groundwater, and implement best management practices. Advisor: Tiffany L. Messe

Low Power Multi-Channel Interface for Charge Based Tactile Sensors

Analog front end electronics are designed in 65 nm CMOS technology to process charge pulses arriving from a tactile sensor array. This is accomplished through the use of charge sensitive amplifiers and discrete time filters with tunable clock signals located in each of the analog front ends. Sensors were emulated using Gaussian pulses during simulation. The digital side of the system uses SAR (successive approximation register) ADCs for sampling of the processed sensor signals. Adviser: Sina Balkı

Zero-sum magic graphs and their null sets

For any element h of the Natural numbers, a graph G=(V,E), with vertex set V and edge set E, is said to be h-magic if there exists a labeling of the edge set E, using the integer group mod h such that the induced vertex labeling, the sum of all edges incident to a vertex, is a constant map. When this constant is 0 we call G a zero-sum h-magic graph. The null set of G is the set of all natural numbers h for which G admits a zero-sum h-magic labeling. A graph G is said to be uniformly null if every magic labeling of G induces zero sum. In this thesis we will identify the null sets of certain classes of Planar Graphs

Paul Bowles’ Aesthetics of Containment: Surrealism, Music, the Short Story

This thesis aims to reposition the critical understanding of Paul Bowles, away from the traditional North African focus that has guided interpretations of his work, and place him instead within an interdisciplinary framework that is particularly attentive to his mid-century American context. Focussing on Bowles’ initial collection of short stories, The Delicate Prey, it investigates its reception by contemporary critics, and its place within the wider cultural and political climate of postwar America, with specific attention to ideas of freedom and containment. Turning to his involvement in the surrealist movement during the 1930s in Europe, it then suggests ways in which Bowles’ fiction reworked aspects of surrealism within a new aesthetic framework. This framework was also indebted to Bowles’ earlier career as a classical composer, and the third chapter of this thesis focuses on the influence of his musical career on the form and content of his short fiction. Finally, the thesis considers Bowles’ conceptualisation of the short story as a genre, and the ways in which his writing used form to disrupt his readers’ wider ideas about fiction and society. Throughout, this thesis positions Bowles within an alternative literary tradition, arguing that Bowles deliberately drew on practice from visual arts and music in order to develop a distinctive literary idiom. It considers why Bowles’ short fiction failed to find the same support from critics that it found with other writers, and offers a model for understanding this reaction and, ultimately, why the initial critical response has continued to guide the interpretation of his work

Sleep Beauties in Mathematical Research

Originally presented at ISSI 2019 in Rome, Italy on 2019-09-03This poster paper represents an initial analysis of mathematical Sleeping Beauties, or research receives a spike of citations after years of relatively few. This analysis shows sleeping beauties are over-represented in the mathematical literature, particularly with respect to highly cited publications, and identifies a publication with the third highest known beauty coefficient.Travel Support for the conference was provided by CADREPeer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/150649/1/paper 525.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/150649/5/sbPoster.pdfDescription of paper 525.pdf : Poster PaperDescription of sbPoster.pdf : PosterDescription of sbPoster.pdf : Poste

Tinjauan Yuridis Penerapan Hukum Pelaku yang Melakukan Pembunuhan Terhadap Korban yang akan Merampas Sepeda Motornya (Studi Putusan: Putusan Nomor 1/Pid.Sus Anak/2020/PN KPN)

Anak yang melakukan suatu tindak pelanggaran pidana dapat dihukum sesuai dengan ketentuan perundang-undangan yang berlaku. Hukuman diberikan untuk membuat anak menjadi jera terhadap perbuatannya. Di Negara Indonesia sudah sering terjadi tindak pidana Tindak pidana penganiayaan merupakan salah satu (1) bentuk pelanggaran pidana yang kategorinya terdapat penganiayaan ringan, berat, dan dapat menyebabkan kematian. Tindak pidana penganiayaan merupakan salah satu (1) tindak pidana yang fleksibel terutama masa hukuman yang dimana hukuman maksimal adalah tujuh (7) tahun jika menyebabkan kematian. Rumusan masalah dalam skripsi ini adalah mengapa hakim dalam putusan nomor 1/Pid.Sus-Anak/2020/PN KPN menerapkan pasal 351 ayat (3) KUHP dan bagaimana penerapan hukum dan pasal yang harus diterapkan hakim dalam putusan nomor 1/Pid.Sus-Anak/2020/PN KPN. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penulisan ini adalah penelitian hukum normatif, yaitu mengkaji hukum sebagai norma atau kaidah yang berlaku menggunakan studi kepustakaan berupa Putusan Pengadilan, data primer berupa peraturan perundang-undangan, data sekunder berupa buku-buku hukum, artikel/jurnal hukum, pendapat ahli hukum, dan data tersier berupa Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI), kamus hukum, web internet yang berkaitan dengan pokok permasalahan yang diteliti. Dari hasil penelitian ini dapat ditemukan bahwa dalam penerapan hukum dalam perkara nomor 1/Pid.Sus-Anak/2020/PN KPN yang dilakukan oleh majelis hakim terhadap pelaku yang merupakan anak yang masih dibawah umur tidak sesuai dengan fakta-fakta yang ada di dalam persidangan. Meskipun kewenangan hakim (majelis hakim) menerapkan pasal 351 ayat (3) KUHP tentang penganiayaan yang mengakibatkan kematian, namun seharusnya hakim menerapkan pasal 338 KUHP tentang pembunuhan demi terciptanya rasa keadilan. Kata Kunci: Tindak Pidana, Anak, Penganiayaan, Pembunuhan. / A child who commits a criminal offense can be punished in accordance with the provisions of the applicable law. Punishment is given to make children become deterrent to their actions. In Indonesia, criminal acts have often occurred. The crime of maltreatment is one (1) form of criminal offense in the category of minor, serious, and can cause death. The crime of maltreatment is one (1) flexible crime, especially the sentence period where the maximum sentence is seven (7) years if it causes death. The formulation of the problem in this thesis is why did the judge in decision number 1/Pid.Sus-Anak/2020/PN KPN apply article 351 paragraph (3) of the Criminal Code and how to apply the law and articles that must be applied by judges in decision number 1/Pid.Sus-Anak/2020/PN KPN. The research method used in this writing is normative legal research, namely studying law as a norm or rule that applies using literature studies in the form of Court Decisions, primary data in the form of laws and regulations, secondary data in the form of legal books, legal articles/journals, opinions of legal experts, and tertiary data in the form of dictionaries Large Indonesian Language (KBBI), legal dictionaries, internet websites related to the subject matter under study. From the results of this study it can be concluded that the application of the law in case number 1/Pid.Sus-Anak/2020/PN KPN which was carried out by the panel of judges against the perpetrators who were minors was not in accordance with the facts in the trial. Even though the judge's authority (judge panel) applies Article 351 paragraph (3) of the Criminal Code concerning maltreatment resulting in death, the judge should apply Article 338 of the Criminal Code concerning murder in order to create a sense of justice. Keywords: Criminal Law, Child, Maltreatment, Murde