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Solomon\u27s Wisdom or Solomon\u27s Wisdom Lost: Child Custody in North Dakota - A Presumption That Joint Custody Is in the Best Interests of the Child in Custody Disputes
The Rise of American Extremism: An Exploratory Analysis of American Religious and Political Extremism from Presidents Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama: 1977-2016
The purpose of this quantitative case study was to address the problem of domestic terrorism facing the United States. This concern led to a comprehensive examination of historical documents that focused on the temporal evolution of the problem beginning with the Carter administration and continuing through the Obama administration. The conceptual foundation centered on resolving the research question and validating three hypotheses directed at qualifying the escalation of domestic incidents of terrorism. This led to developing a behavioral model to assist law enforcement agencies in combating the issue of domestic terrorism. Bivariate and clustering statistical analysis validated the data while qualifying the demographics of the various typologies of U.S. domestic terrorists. The use of case study analysis, which drew on historical documents for evidence, considered the evolution of various groups, motivations, their ideologies, and goals. These variables were compared to successes and failures of relevant federal policies. The lack of understanding and oversight that led to an escalation of the number of incidents was also evaluated. Using ethical and scientific guidelines and protocols, the study’s findings promote the need for future research and highlight the dangers of repeating the past. By developing a behavioral model, this study gives law enforcement a valuable tool for resolving domestic terrorism. Additional considerations relate to future policy implications and the course of future research
College Students’ Values for Self-Expression, their Facebook Use, and Bridging Social Capital
Emerging adults are coming of age in social worlds permeated by social media. Communication with others on social media can provide access to bridging social capital, defined as social resources embedded in relationships with acquaintances which promote access to new information. Grooming ties through self-expression and masspersonal communication in networked publics is important for acquiring bridging social capital, behaviors complicated by context collapse. When engaging in masspersonal communication, social media users must balance their desire to express themselves with their desire to maintain positive impressions to multiple audiences. Recent research suggests an important strategy for navigating context collapse is the use of privacy controls. However, using privacy controls could inhibit relational maintenance with acquaintances who offer novel information. The current study investigates how college students are adapting to masspersonal communication on Facebook by examining their bridging social capital, privacy control behaviors, values for self-expression, and network diversity. Confirming previous research, bridging social capital was associated with frequency of Facebook use and relationship maintenance behaviors, however, it was not associated with privacy control behaviors or network diversity. Value for self-expression, relationship maintenance behaviors, Facebook use, and network size each uniquely predicted bridging social capital. Further, strength of self-expression endorsements differed across masspersonal communication topics. Qualitative analysis of college students’ reasoning about the appropriateness of various masspersonal communication topics provides insights into the values and priorities young people are bringing into their social constructions of online norms in response to new tensions created by context collapse. Implications of findings are discussed
Circadian Entrainment Triggers Maturation of Human In Vitro Islets
Stem-cell-derived tissues could transform disease research and therapy, yet most methods generate functionally immature products. We investigate how human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) differentiate into pancreatic islets in vitro by profiling DNA methylation, chromatin accessibility, and histone modification changes. We find that enhancer potential is reset upon lineage commitment and show how pervasive epigenetic priming steers endocrine cell fates. Modeling islet differentiation and maturation regulatory circuits reveals genes critical for generating endocrine cells and identifies circadian control as limiting for in vitro islet function. Entrainment to circadian feeding/fasting cycles triggers islet metabolic maturation by inducing cyclic synthesis of energy metabolism and insulin secretion effectors, including antiphasic insulin and glucagon pulses. Following entrainment, hPSC-derived islets gain persistent chromatin changes and rhythmic insulin responses with a raised glucose threshold, a hallmark of functional maturity, and function within days of transplantation. Thus, hPSC-derived tissues are amenable to functional improvement by circadian modulation
Red Ink\u27s Pictorial Review of the Langer Administration, 1934
This 32 page, anti-Langer magazine was published by Sam Clark of Bismarck in 1934. Composed mainly of cartoons, Red Ink\u27s Pictorial Review of the Langer Administration highlights the corruption which Clark felt was endemic in the Langer administration.https://commons.und.edu/langer-papers/1074/thumbnail.jp
THE ECONOMICS OF CARCASS BEEF PRODUCTION: AN APPRAISAL OF FLORIDA'S FEEDLOT POTENTIAL
Livestock Production/Industries,
Sub-grid scale representation of vegetation in global land surface schemes: implications for estimation of the terrestrial carbon sink
Terrestrial ecosystem models commonly represent vegetation in terms of
plant functional types (PFTs) and use their vegetation attributes in
calculations of the energy and water balance as well as to investigate the
terrestrial carbon cycle. Sub-grid scale variability of PFTs in these models
is represented using different approaches with the "composite" and
"mosaic" approaches being the two end-members.
The impact of these two approaches on the global carbon
balance has been investigated with the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem
Model (CTEM v 1.2) coupled to the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS
v 3.6). In the composite (single-tile) approach, the vegetation
attributes of different PFTs present in a grid cell are aggregated and
used in calculations to determine the resulting physical environmental
conditions (soil moisture, soil temperature, etc.) that are common to
all PFTs. In the mosaic (multi-tile) approach, energy and water
balance calculations are performed separately for each PFT tile and
each tile's physical land surface environmental conditions evolve
independently. Pre-industrial equilibrium CLASS-CTEM simulations yield
global totals of vegetation biomass, net primary productivity, and
soil carbon that compare reasonably well with observation-based
estimates and differ by less than 5% between the mosaic and
composite configurations. However, on a regional scale the two
approaches can differ by > 30%, especially in areas with
high heterogeneity in land cover. Simulations over the historical
period (1959–2005) show different responses to evolving climate and
carbon dioxide concentrations from the two approaches. The cumulative
global terrestrial carbon sink estimated over the 1959–2005 period
(excluding land use change (LUC) effects) differs by around
5% between the two approaches (96.3 and 101.3 Pg, for the
mosaic and composite approaches, respectively) and compares well with
the observation-based estimate of 82.2 ± 35 Pg C over the same
period. Inclusion of LUC causes the estimates of the terrestrial C
sink to differ by 15.2 Pg C (16%) with values of 95.1 and
79.9 Pg C for the mosaic and composite approaches,
respectively. Spatial differences in simulated vegetation and soil
carbon and the manner in which terrestrial carbon balance evolves in
response to LUC, in the two approaches, yields a substantially
different estimate of the global land carbon sink. These results
demonstrate that the spatial representation of vegetation has an
important impact on the model response to changing climate,
atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> concentrations, and land cover
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