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RESTORE THEIR POTENTIAL: EXPLORING THE EXPANDED EFFECTS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROGRAMS IN SCHOOLS
As restorative justice has become a commonality in various disciplines, it is important to gauge the effectiveness of policies and laws that promote this more modern approach to offender treatment. Michigan passed a law ... -
Blind Source Separation in Ultra-Low Power Devices
Blind Source Separation (BSS) is the process of decomposing a mixed signal into a set of linearly independent vector components. The Blind Source Separation problem arises organically in day-to-day human interaction in the ... -
We Are Invisible People: The Paradox of Homeless Criminalization, Social Bonding, and Fear of Crime
The purpose of this research was to examine how social bonds, within a homeless community, are impacted by homeless criminalization and to determine if fractured social bonds results in a higher fear of crime. This research ... -
Predictive Ecological Modeling of Grey Wolf (Canis lupus) Movement using Agent-Based Modeling and GIS
There is a wide-spread loss of large predators being witnessed across ecosystems globally. The large, apex predators are either displaced from habitat destruction, or killed directly by anthropogenic disturbances. We need ... -
Anticipatory Caregiving Scale: Development and Preliminary Validation of An Attitudes and Expectations about Future Caregiving Assessment Measure
As public awareness of family caregiving has grown, adults likely anticipate therole they may play as a caregiver for an aging loved one. Although anticipatory planning for caregiving has been studied, no measure of multiple ... -
ANALYSIS OF PFAS OVER TIME IN SOIL AT VENETUCCI FARM
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS, previously known as PFCs)have been a concern as an environmental contaminant for decades. They are resistant to degradation and commonly referred to as “forever chemicals.” Their use ... -
ANALYSIS OF PERFLUORINATED COMPOUNDS IN SOILS AND SEDIMENTS IN THE FOUNTAIN CREEK WATERSHED VIA SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION AND LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY
Perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs, are widely used compounds across various products and industries. The prevalence and stability of PFCs have consequently led to significant research interest owing to environmental and ... -
Effective Officer Retention Practices: A Systematic Review
The present paper systematically reviews academic literature from the past twodecades examining factors that contribute to police officer retention and longevity within a career in law-enforcement. The articles that are ... -
THE EMERGING THREAT OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM AND WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUPS: A SYSTEMATIC-REVIEW.
On September 17, 2020, Christopher A. Wray, the Federal Bureau of Investigations’ director, testified in Congress that violent extremist groups and racially motivated violent extremism, mostly from white supremacists, are ... -
THE KIDS ARE NOT ALRIGHT: AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO JUVENILE DELINQUENCY IN COLORADO SPRINGS
Colorado Springs is one of the fastest growing cities in the United States with a population of around 400,000 people. From multiple military bases and colleges to the geographical boundary contained by the mountains; ... -
IMPROVED DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TRANSACTIONS WITH HOMOMORPHIC COMPUTATIONS
This thesis proposes a model to protect and transfer data ownership securely, driven by Homomorphic Encryption (HE) primitives and protocols applied to private blockchain technologies. Regarding Blockchain-as-a-Service ... -
MOVING ON FROM TRAUMA: AEROBIC EXERCISE IN THE TREATMENT OF PTSD
Exposure to traumatic events is unfortunately a frequent occurrence, with 90% of individuals experiencing one or more traumatic events during their lifetime. Although the majority of people go on to recover from these ... -
WarmUp2, a Mininal Wearable System for Thermal Discomfort Prediction
Taking advantage of small footprint and easy accessibility of smartphones, we propose a minimal social weight Android wireless wearable system capable of predicting thermal discomfort of it's users. The system features a ... -
Building a Fully Distributed Social Network
Centralized architectures found in current social media networks are not the only viable way to organize social network applications. We show that there are certain desirable features of distributed architectures, and that ... -
ACCURACY-AWARE STRUCTURED FILTER PRUNING FOR DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have several technical issues on computational complexity, redundancy, and the parameter size – especially when applied in embedded devices. Among those issues, lots of parameters require high ... -
Experimental parameter identification of a physics-based model for solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer growth in lithium-ion batteries
Lithium-ion batteries are prevalent in our society. With the demand for better durability of batteries in portable devices and vehicles, it is imperative that cell degradation be observed and mitigated. A challenge of using ... -
Assessing Risk for Sexual Recidivism: How Inclusion of Psychologically Meaningful Risk Factors Can Improve Predictive Validity
The purpose of the present study is to develop a comprehensive actuarial scale designed to assess risk for sexual recidivism that will be appropriate for use with all sexual offender types. Although assessments for predicting ... -
Nonlinear Dynamic Associations Between Sleep and Coping Self-Efficacy in Posttraumatic Recovery from a Natural Disaster
Wildfires are catastrophic events that often negatively affect the psychological functioning of survivors, commonly in the form of traumatic distress. This distress can persist due to several internal and external factors ... -
Gender Differences in Risk-Taking, Impulsivity, and Inhibitory Control Related to PTSD
Gender differences in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) prevalence are well documented, with women showing a near twofold risk of PTSD diagnosis compared to men. However, in contrast to other symptoms of PTSD, the ... -
Missing and Murdered Indigenous People: A Modern Manifestation of Colonization
Scholars have long documented the various injuries brought on First Nations by European colonialism. While it is broadly recognized that Indigenous people are violently victimized at the highest rate in the nation per ...
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