University Of Notre Dame Research Articles

High precision mass measurements for the astrophysical r-process

The production of isotopes via the rapid neutron capture process depends sensitively on the atomic mass of the nuclides involved. In light of the recent observation and confirmation of neutron-star mergers as being one of the sites of the r-process, new nuclear data for improved abundance calculations are more urgently needed. To this end, the development of new radioactive ion beam facilities and measurement techniques now extends our reach into unexplored territories. One such facility is the N = 126 beam factory at Argonne National Laboratory. An essential component of this facility will be a multi-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrometer, currently being commissioned at the University of Notre Dame. Mass resolving power of 60,000 using 39K+ ions has been achieved. Simulation and continued optimization are underway to improve the efficiency of the device.

Democracy and Poverty - Avoiding Governors: Federalism Democracy and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina. By Tracy Beck Fenwick. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 2015. Pp. 296. $75.00 cloth; $29.00 paper.

Democracy and Poverty - Avoiding Governors: Federalism Democracy and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina. By Tracy Beck Fenwick. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 2015. Pp. 296. $75.00 cloth; $29.00 paper.

Ziolkowski, Theodore. Uses and Abuses of Moses: Literary Representations since the Enlightenment. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2016. xii+352 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Ziolkowski, Theodore. <i>Uses and Abuses of Moses: Literary Representations since the Enlightenment</i>. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2016. xii+352 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Fostering Civic Knowledge in Introductory Business Law and Legal Environment Courses: A Closer Look at Freedom of Speech

Journal of Legal Studies EducationVolume 35, Issue 2 p. 195-230 Article Fostering Civic Knowledge in Introductory Business Law and Legal Environment Courses: A Closer Look at Freedom of Speech Tonia Hap Murphy, Tonia Hap Murphy tmurphy1@nd.edu Teaching Professor, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame. I thank Patrick D. Murphy, Thomas M. Messner, and Emily A. Murphy for their helpful comments on this article.Search for more papers by this author Tonia Hap Murphy, Tonia Hap Murphy tmurphy1@nd.edu Teaching Professor, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame. I thank Patrick D. Murphy, Thomas M. Messner, and Emily A. Murphy for their helpful comments on this article.Search for more papers by this author First published: 06 August 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/jlse.12075 Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume35, Issue2Summer 2018Pages 195-230 RelatedInformation

Contemporary Girls Studies

As we move towards the second International Girls Studies Association Conference, to be held at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, in February 2019, we reflect on the work of the scholars and practitioners who presented at our first conference in April 2016, in Norwich, UK. In this special issue of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal we highlight the diversity of articles presented at the conference that provided us with a sense of the breadth of research in girls studies to date.

Conditioning-Free Electrolytes for Magnesium Batteries Using Sufone–Ether Mixtures with Increased Thermal Stability

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVCommunicationNEXTConditioning-Free Electrolytes for Magnesium Batteries Using Sufone–Ether Mixtures with Increased Thermal StabilityLaura C. MerrillLaura C. MerrillDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 205 McCourtney Hall, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United StatesMore by Laura C. Merrill and Jennifer L. Schaefer*Jennifer L. SchaeferDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 205 McCourtney Hall, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States*J. L. Schaefer. E-mail: [email protected], Tel: 15746315114.More by Jennifer L. Schaeferhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-4293-6328Cite this: Chem. Mater. 2018, 30, 12, 3971–3974Publication Date (Web):May 31, 2018Publication History Received1 February 2018Revised31 May 2018Published online31 May 2018Published inissue 26 June 2018https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b00483Copyright © 2018 American Chemical SocietyRIGHTS & PERMISSIONSArticle Views1199Altmetric-Citations18LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit Read OnlinePDF (2 MB) Get e-AlertsSupporting Info (1)»Supporting Information Supporting Information SUBJECTS:Cations,Deposition,Electrolytes,Magnesium,Sulfones Get e-Alerts

How to Move a Mountain: The Preparation and Transfer of One Million Volumes to an Off-Site Storage Facility

ABSTRACTIn late 2013, Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame embarked on an audacious journey to renovate its iconic fourteen-story building. Driven by an immediate pressing need to reduce the footprint of physical collections in the library, a massive project commenced in the fall of 2014 to prepare approximately one million volumes for transfer to an off-site high-density mobile shelving storage facility. The project was carried out in two large phases that involved coordination of work and schedules between the renovation committee, vendors, and multiple library teams, including the Collections Preparation Team that was responsible for ensuring that all items moving off-site had accurate catalog records and were barcoded. This article provides background information about putting the project together and describes how the work to prepare titles for transfer was organized and completed under a very short deadline.

Why All Business Schools Should Teach Foresight: Perspectives from More Than a Decade at the University of Notre Dame

This article advocates that business schools include a formalized foresight educational experience more widely in their curriculums. As a group charged with educating business leaders of tomorrow, the cultivation of the skill-set and mind-set necessary for anticipating change and positioning organizations for future success and survival should no longer be left to chance. For the past decade, the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame has required all undergraduate students to take a course titled Foresight in Business and Society. During this time, the Mendoza foresight faculty team has gained perspective on the design and value of a futures research learning experience for our students. Five underlying design principles are presented that have shaped the delivery and execution of the course these revolve around: developing great leaders, confronting ambiguous questions, experiential understanding, rigorous exploration, and anticipation as a force for good. As with any design-based perspective, the article concludes with challenges and pitfalls in recognition that the process is not always linear or smooth. But to other educators on this journey, the challenges are manageable and the promise and prospects for students makes it worthwhile.

Jaime LARA, City, Temple, Stage. Eschatological Architecture and Liturgical Theatrics in New Spain, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame (Indiana) 2004, 300 pp.

Jaime LARA, City, Temple, Stage. Eschatological Architecture and Liturgical Theatrics in New Spain, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame (Indiana) 2004, 300 pp.

Conjugate attacks Gram-negative bacteria

A new drug conjugate tricks Gram-negative bacteria into succumbing to an antibiotic that usually works only against Gram-positive bacteria. Gram-negative bacterial infections are tough to treat because the microbes have an extra outer membrane that is hard for antibiotics to traverse. And the ones that do get in are usually pumped right back out by the cells. To kill these hardy bacteria, Marvin J. Miller and coworkers at the University of Notre Dame have put a twist on a type of drug conjugate called a sideromycin. Such combinations usually consist of a siderophore—a chelating agent bacteria use to grab and collect iron from their surroundings—connected to an antibiotic. Usually there’s only one antibiotic attached, but Miller’s team adds a second one. Their synthetic sideromycin includes a siderophore, a cephalosporin, and an oxazolidinone (J. Med. Chem. 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b00218). The siderophore gets a bacterium to take up the conjugate. Then the

Girls’ Media Studies

Research Article| April 01 2018 Girls’ Media Studies Mary Celeste Kearney Mary Celeste Kearney Mary Celeste Kearney is director of the Gender Studies program and an associate professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Girls Make Media (Routledge, 2006) and Gender and Rock (Oxford, 2017). She is editor of The Gender and Media Reader (Routledge, 2011) and Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls’ Media Culture (Peter Lang, 2011), as well as coeditor (with Morgan Blue) of the second volume of Mediated Girlhoods (Peter Lang, 2018) and (with Michael Kackman) The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice (Routledge, 2018). She is academic editor of the book series Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media, and a board member of Console-ing Passions. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Feminist Media Histories (2018) 4 (2): 90–94. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2018.4.2.90 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mary Celeste Kearney; Girls’ Media Studies. Feminist Media Histories 1 April 2018; 4 (2): 90–94. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2018.4.2.90 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentFeminist Media Histories Search Keywords: girlhood, girls, girls’ media, youth culture Girls’ media studies is a unique area of feminist media studies that examines the intersecting dimensions of age and gender alongside other identity formations. Girls’ media scholarship covers studies on a diverse range of entertainment media, including film, television, magazines, music, comics, and video games, as well as digital communications technologies, platforms, and practices such as smartphones, social media, and sexting. Many researchers in girls’ media studies are concerned with how discourses of girlhood are constructed through representations of female youth. Other scholars focus on girls’ reception and uses of media, while still others analyze the production of girls’ media. And many do more than just one of these things. To date, the vast amount of girls’ media studies scholarship has centered on mainstream commercial media culture. Yet several researchers have focused on girls and independent media, particularly as produced within youth cultures like hip-hop and riot grrrl. Critical attention... You do not currently have access to this content.

A Byzantine Tarsal Coalition From A Byzantine Monastery

First described by Buffon in 1796, tarsal coalitions encompass any abnormal fibrous, cartilaginous, or bony coalition of any adjacent tarsal bones. Tarsal coalition results from developmental error or injury. Congenital tarsal coalitions arise early in gestation when fibrocartilaginous precursor tarsals fail to completely separate, with more extreme cases rarely occurring when the coalesced cartilage ossifies into fused bones during skeletal maturation (Cowell and Elener 1983). Milder, more common forms are subclinical and are often detected only as an incidental finding of medical imaging ordered for unrelated reasons, therefore the prevalence of tarsal coalition is unknown (Zaw and Calder 2010). However, large‐scale skeletal surveys of recent European‐Americans, recent South Africans of variable ancestry, and medieval Danes all yielded frequencies less than 4% (Case and Burnett 2012). More severe forms can entirely compromise normal mid‐ and rearfoot function and therefore disrupt gait and other locomotor behaviors (Zaw and Calder 2010, Case and Burnett 2012). We report here specimen EBND 6122, a nearly complete and totally, intricately synostotically fused left tarsus and metatarsals I–III recovered from the Byzantine monastery of St. Stephen's in Jerusalem (now the École Biblique et Archéologique Française and Couvent‐Saint Étienne), dating to the Fifth and Sixth Centuries CE. Because of the commingled skeletal deposition at this site, no other skeletal elements can be confidently associated with this individual's foot. We describe how this remarkable pathology affected the individual's gait; succinctly, lack of rear‐ and mid‐foot flexibility likely compromised the normal heel strike and midstance phases of the gait cycle. This specimen adds to the existing archaeological record of tarsal coalitions and is one of the most extreme examples of osseous tarsal coalition in either the clinical or archaeological literature.Support or Funding InformationThis work was supported by the University of Notre Dame and the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine.This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2018 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal.

3D ear recognition using global and local features

This paper proposes a method for human recognition based on 3D ears and makes two important contributions. First, it proposes a global 3D descriptor, and second, it proposes a strategy to combine local and global descriptors for superior recognition performance. The proposed global descriptor is computed as follows. Spheres of different radii are placed at each point p in the point cloud, considering it as a center. A histogram is computed from the number of points falling in the annular regions of the concentric spheres. By utilizing the histograms of point p and its neighbors in a ring of fixed radius, an encoded value is obtained and is used to construct a coded image. This image is further divided into blocks which are subsequently binned to a histogram. Finally, the global descriptor is computed by concatenating all the histograms. The combined representation of four popular local 3D descriptors and the proposed global descriptor, yields superior results as compared to the case when local and global descriptors are used alone. The proposed technique has been validated on University of Notre Dame (UND), collection-J2 database and on our in-house database and has achieved a rank-1 recognition rate of 98.69% and 98.90%, respectively.

Precision half-life measurement of C11 : The most precise mirror transition Ft value

Background: The precise determination of the $\mathcal{F}t$ value in $T=1/2$ mixed mirror decays is an important avenue for testing the standard model of the electroweak interaction through the determination of ${V}_{ud}$ in nuclear $\ensuremath{\beta}$ decays. $^{11}\mathrm{C}$ is an interesting case, as its low mass and small ${Q}_{EC}$ value make it particularly sensitive to violations of the conserved vector current hypothesis. The present dominant source of uncertainty in the $^{11}\mathrm{C}\phantom{\rule{4pt}{0ex}}\mathcal{F}t$ value is the half-life.Purpose: A high-precision measurement of the $^{11}\mathrm{C}$ half-life was performed, and a new world average half-life was calculated.Method: $^{11}\mathrm{C}$ was created by transfer reactions and separated using the TwinSol facility at the Nuclear Science Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame. It was then implanted into a tantalum foil, and $\ensuremath{\beta}$ counting was used to determine the half-life.Results: The new half-life, ${t}_{1/2}=1220.27(26)$ s, is consistent with the previous values but significantly more precise. A new world average was calculated, ${t}_{1/2}^{\text{world}}=1220.41(32)$ s, and a new estimate for the Gamow-Teller to Fermi mixing ratio $\ensuremath{\rho}$ is presented along with standard model correlation parameters.Conclusions: The new $^{11}\mathrm{C}$ world average half-life allows the calculation of a $\mathcal{F}{t}^{\text{mirror}}$ value that is now the most precise value for all superallowed mixed mirror transitions. This gives a strong impetus for an experimental determination of $\ensuremath{\rho}$, to allow for the determination of ${V}_{ud}$ from this decay.

The 24th Annual Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting.

The 24th Annual Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference (MMPC) was held at the University of Notre Dame from August 25-27, 2017. The conference provided an opportunity for scientists from the Midwest to discuss new advances in microbial pathogenesis, including how pathogens promote disease, and how they interact with each other, the microbiome and the host. This commentary highlights the MMPC history, the topics presented at the conference and the reports in this issue.

Sustainability of a Community-Based CHOICE Program to Improve the Health and Nutrition Status of Mothers and Infants in Indonesia.

Objectives Few studies have been undertaken to determine whether and how project results are sustained. University of Notre Dame (ND) and Project Concern International conducted a Post-Project Sustainability Study (PSS) of a USAID-funded program (CHOICE), implemented in Indonesia, Banten province, between 2003 and 2007, in order to determine lasting effects and improve PSS methodologies. Methods Sustainability was measured through a comparison of data collected on mother-infant pairs in 2014 with final evaluation data from 2007; and through a comparison of 2014 data collected from the CHOICE villages and comparison villages. Results The analysis showed positive differences in multiple indicators in CHOICE villages between 2007 and 2014, including births attended by skilled personnel (Mean Difference 48.56, 95% CI 38.68 to 58.43) and treatment of diarrhea (MD 16.42, 95% CI - 0.94 to 33.37). However, only one statistically significant difference between intervention and comparison groups in 2014 was observed, infants with diarrhea whose mothers sought advice or treatment (MD - 5.48, 95% CI - 9.55 to 1.39), showing more mothers in intervention group sought advice or treatment. Because contextual factors were not studied in detailand baseline data was not available for the comparison villages, it is difficult to determine the reasons for the results. Given that longitudinal data was not collected, it is also difficult to determine whether results fluctuated between 2007 and 2014. Conclusions for practice This PSS contributes to the limited body of knowledge in sustainability research. Lessons learned from this study will increase potential for sustainable impact of projects, as more rigorous measurement will lead to greater overall understanding of how sustainability actually "happens".

Meet the First Authors.

Meet the First Authors.

The teaching and learning of health advocacy in an Australian medical school.

ObjectivesTo determine if medical graduates from an Australian university are educated and skilled in health advocacy for their future practice with patients and the wider community. MethodsThe authors used an exploratory mixed methodology starting with curriculum mapping of the medical curriculum, followed by key informant interviews with the University of Notre Dame, School of Medicine academics (n = 6) and alumni (n = 5) on teaching/learning and practice of health advocacy. The final stage consisted of a cross-sectional survey on teaching/learning health advocacy among third and fourth (final) year medical students (N = 195). ResultsThe medical curriculum contained no explicit learning objectives on health advocacy. Key informant interviews demonstrated an appreciation of health advocacy and its importance in the medical curriculum but a deficit in explicit and practical ‘hands-on’ teaching. Survey response rate was 47% (n = 92). A majority of students (76%, n = 70) had heard of health advocacy, with this being more likely among third (92%, n = 33) compared with fourth-year students (67%, n = 37) (Fisher’s Exact Test χ2 (2, N = 91) = 7.311, p = 0.02). Students reported having opportunities to observe (76%, n = 70) and practise health advocacy (50%, n = 46) in the curriculum. ConclusionsStudents and medical graduates demonstrated sound recognition of the term health advocacy. Deficits identified in the curriculum include lack of explicit learning objectives and “hands-on” learning opportunities in health advocacy.

A Validation of Observed Meteotsunami in the West Coast of Sri Lanka with European Centre of Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Modelled Data

Metetsunamis are local regional events originating from perturbation of water levels by the impulse of particularly pressure drop in a disturbed atmospheric weather system and amplified to a destructive Tsunami wave with the combined effect of resonance. For the preliminary investigation a Meteotsunami event was analysed for one minute’s frequency data collected in situ sea level measuring station established in Colombo, Sri Lanka under the authority of National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency (NARA) with the supervision of Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). The contribution of disturbed weather system was analysed using wind speed (ms-1), atmospheric pressure (hPa) 10 min frequent reading from the Meteorological Department of Sri Lanka and weather station established under the bilateral project of University of Notre dame and NARA. The observed Meteotsunami event was validated using gridded modelled data (12.5 km resolution) obtained from the European Centre of Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and analysed using 6 hourly frequent atmospheric pressure (hPa) data, U and V at wind data at 10 m height and significant wave height. For the identification of Meteotsunami events, observed tide gauge readings were analysed in few different steps. The tidal constituents were quantified using harmonic analysis to obtained astronomical effect removed sea level variation and filtered to isolate Meteotsunami events using math lab software.According to the in situ observation data the atmospheric pressure gradient was recorded as 1008-1001 milibar hours while the modelled value dropped from 1009 to 1002 milibar hours. The observed wind speed was increased from 14.21 to 31.90 mph within 4 hours of time period and ECMWF wind speed increased from 11.02 to 19.94 mph with positive deviation. The observed wave height of Metiotsunami event was >0.3 m while model derived wave height was 0.6 m during the low tide period of the day. According to the threshold criterion suggested by Monserrat for classifying Meteotsunami, resulted wave amplitude of observation data exceeded 4 x σ, where σ is standard deviation of astronomical effect removed residual sea level time series. Further studies are required for the investigation of propagation mechanism with amplifying through the bays with the resonance effects. Further high frequency data are insufficient for the investigation of correlation with synoptic scale meteorological event.The ECMWF model is highly recommended for the prediction of disturbed atmospheric system and related ocean based extreme event forecast for prevention of ocean, atmospheric hazards and mitigation of vulnerability with the effect of global change giving real value of lives in the earth. Keywords: Sea level, Meteotsunami, Tsunami, Atmospheric, Resonance

Pebbles and Peregrinatio: The Taskscape of Medieval Devotion on Inishark Island, Ireland

SINCE 2008, the island of Inishark, Co Galway, Ireland, has been the subject of archaeological research by the Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast (CLIC) project, directed by Ian Kuijt of the University of Notre Dame. The CLIC project’s excavations have produced new evidence for the use of water-smoothed pebbles within monastic and pilgrimage practices on the island. Using a relational perspective centred on the concept of ‘taskscape’, this article traces the formation, acquisition, manipulation, and deposition of these pebbles by human and non-human agencies and suggests how the stones may have facilitated worshippers’ embodiment of penitential devotion — peregrinatio — by evoking the divine governance of hydrological forces. Relational theory, although inspired by non-Western indigenous perspectives, is shown to be effective in shedding light on the interplay of bodies, language, objects, and environmental phenomena in early medieval and medieval Irish Christian practice.