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Udm Dean's Report - A Look At The Student Of Today As We Prepare Them For Tomorrow, Mert N. Aksu Dds, Jd, Mhsa, Cert. Dph Sep 2026

Udm Dean's Report - A Look At The Student Of Today As We Prepare Them For Tomorrow, Mert N. Aksu Dds, Jd, Mhsa, Cert. Dph

The Journal of the Michigan Dental Association

UDM Dental School Dean Mert N. Aksu discusses the profiles, expectations, and challenges of modern dental students, highlighting their collaborative nature, tech-savviness, and focus on wellness and work-life balance. The report outlines UDM's clinical curriculum enhancements, including systems-based biomedical integration, and extensive clinical practice labs. Aksu addresses the substantial 58% inflation-adjusted rise in educational debt since 2008 and updates on community service rotations (Corktown Clinic, Titans for Teeth), the implementation of the new Vermont Track for rural care, the adoption of AI radiographic analysis, and comprehensive student mental health support programs.


Aall Nasig Liaison Quarterly Update, Rebecca Bearden Sep 2026

Aall Nasig Liaison Quarterly Update, Rebecca Bearden

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Preserving Our Shared Memory: Updates From The Digital Preservation Committee, Ella Hitchcock Sep 2026

Preserving Our Shared Memory: Updates From The Digital Preservation Committee, Ella Hitchcock

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Finding Home: How Richard Mouw And Dordt's Community Healed My Heart, Brad D. Hickey Sep 2026

Finding Home: How Richard Mouw And Dordt's Community Healed My Heart, Brad D. Hickey

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Shocking Words And Helper Spirit, Joel E. Kok Sep 2026

Shocking Words And Helper Spirit, Joel E. Kok

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


A Kuyperian Solution To The Contemporary Problem Of Individualism Manifested In Eucharistic Practice, Isaac Krommendyk Sep 2026

A Kuyperian Solution To The Contemporary Problem Of Individualism Manifested In Eucharistic Practice, Isaac Krommendyk

Pro Rege

Issac Krommendyk, a senior at Dordt University majoring in History and Spanish, submitted this winning paper to the Lambertus Verberg Prize for Excellence in Kuyperian Scholarship, 2026


A Model For A Christian Business, John Wassenaar Sep 2026

A Model For A Christian Business, John Wassenaar

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Resisting A Consumeristic Approach To Reading In Our Lives (And Our Classrooms), Elise Kamp Sep 2026

Resisting A Consumeristic Approach To Reading In Our Lives (And Our Classrooms), Elise Kamp

Pro Rege

Reviwed Title: Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age by Rachel Griffis, Julie OOms, and Rachel De Smith Roberts. Baker Academic, 2024. 230 pp. ISBN: 9781493446023.


Nasig Autumn Conference Update, Amy Castillo Sep 2026

Nasig Autumn Conference Update, Amy Castillo

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Counterintelligence At Its Core – Assessing And Preventing Foreign Espionage. By Kevin Riehle. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2025., Mike W. Parrott Sep 2026

Counterintelligence At Its Core – Assessing And Preventing Foreign Espionage. By Kevin Riehle. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2025., Mike W. Parrott

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


Transitional Terrorism In South Asia: Understanding The Kuki-Chin National Front Using The Crime-Terror Nexus, Masrur Mahmud Khan Sep 2026

Transitional Terrorism In South Asia: Understanding The Kuki-Chin National Front Using The Crime-Terror Nexus, Masrur Mahmud Khan

Journal of Strategic Security

The emergence of the Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) within the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) has engendered considerable concern within the domains of domestic and national security. Although the group’s political objectives have evolved from secessionist ambitions towards demands for regional autonomy, KNF has simultaneously engaged in profit-driven criminal activities. Thus, KNF exemplifies a hybrid organization, embodying both political and economic imperatives and operating at the intersection of insurgency, terrorism, and organized crime. In this context, the present qualitative study adopts the ‘crime-terror nexus’ as its analytical framework, positing that KNF represents a hybrid entity defined by its dual political aspirations …


China’S Path To Dominance: Preparing For Confrontation With The United States. By Derek Levine. Boulder: Keypoint Press, 2025., Martin Widzer Sep 2026

China’S Path To Dominance: Preparing For Confrontation With The United States. By Derek Levine. Boulder: Keypoint Press, 2025., Martin Widzer

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


The Polar Pivot: Great Power Competition In The Arctic And Antarctica. By Ryan Patrick Burke. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022., Collin Thigpen Sep 2026

The Polar Pivot: Great Power Competition In The Arctic And Antarctica. By Ryan Patrick Burke. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022., Collin Thigpen

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


Parallel Failures: The Recurring Logic Of Interventionist Blunders From Ukraine To Mexico, Jerjes Aguirre Ochoa, Jorge Alejandro Vázquez Valdez Sep 2026

Parallel Failures: The Recurring Logic Of Interventionist Blunders From Ukraine To Mexico, Jerjes Aguirre Ochoa, Jorge Alejandro Vázquez Valdez

Journal of Strategic Security

This article argues that a potential US military intervention in Mexico, predicated on securitizing cartels as terrorist threats, would replicate strategic failures seen in interventions like Russia’s in Ukraine. Through a comparative framework of three variables—securitization, underestimated nationalist resistance, and neglected co-responsibility—the analysis shows how external force applied to structural crises provokes nationalist backlash. In Mexico, any intervention would reactivate historical memory of US interference, triggering broad institutional and social resistance. The core security challenge is not the cartels but Mexico's institutional fragility: systemic impunity, subnational governance deficits, and weak checks and balances. Therefore, militarized approaches are counterproductive. As a …


Complex Adaptive Resilience And Asymmetrical Balancing: Russia And The 2022 Sanctions Regime, Renny Puspitarini, Sartika Soesilowati, Kacung Marijan, Ahmad Iskandar Rahmansyah Sep 2026

Complex Adaptive Resilience And Asymmetrical Balancing: Russia And The 2022 Sanctions Regime, Renny Puspitarini, Sartika Soesilowati, Kacung Marijan, Ahmad Iskandar Rahmansyah

Journal of Strategic Security

The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine prompted unprecedented Western sanctions, which amounted to more than 23,000 sanctions during 2022-2024. However, these sanctions failed to fulfill their designated objective of influencing the end of the Russia-Ukraine War. Russian responses to progressively augmented sanctions have sparked debates surrounding microeconomic sovereignty, macroeconomic adaptability, and, foremost, resilience. The article’s findings reveal that while sanctions have not brought the Russian Federation to acquiesce, they have catalyzed a structural, politically induced policy shift into a Complex Adaptive Resilience (CAR) framework. Russia's ability to build resilience against sanctions has been manifested structurally in its strategy to reinforce …


Was The Us Invasion Of Iraq A Mistake, Or Are We Missing The Emergence Of A Promising Democracy?, Robert Burrell, Arman Mahmoudian, John Pennell Sep 2026

Was The Us Invasion Of Iraq A Mistake, Or Are We Missing The Emergence Of A Promising Democracy?, Robert Burrell, Arman Mahmoudian, John Pennell

Journal of Strategic Security

This study evaluates the long-term impact of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq on its democratic development, social stability, and regional geopolitics. Utilizing a comprehensive data-driven approach, including metrics on governance resilience, national morale, political dynamics, economic indicators, and security sector reforms, the research assesses progress over two decades. Findings indicate gradual improvements in Iraq’s democratic institutions, public confidence, and economic resilience, despite persistent challenges such as corruption, sectarian divisions, and regional influence from Iran and neighboring states. The analysis suggests that Iraq’s resilience and evolving political landscape could foster a nascent democracy capable of regional influence if key reforms …


Between Markets And Maritime Might: India’S Engagements In The Indo-Pacific’S Emerging Order, Akriti Khajuria, Arushi Anthal Sep 2026

Between Markets And Maritime Might: India’S Engagements In The Indo-Pacific’S Emerging Order, Akriti Khajuria, Arushi Anthal

Journal of Strategic Security

In the strategic landscape of the Indo-Pacific, economic cooperation and security imperatives often converge in complex and sometimes conflicting ways. This strategic region has emerged as a critical arena where global and regional powers alike pursue economic engagement while recalibrating security postures in response to shifting geopolitical currents. Within this dynamic environment, India occupies a pivotal position as an emerging power seeking to reconcile its economic aspirations with evolving security challenges. This article explores how India negotiates the interplay between deepening economic integration, especially with major actors such as China and the US, while maintaining strategic autonomy and sovereignty. Anchored …


Structural Dependency: Nato, Defense Industry Politics, And Europe’S Stagnation, Diane M. Zorri Sep 2026

Structural Dependency: Nato, Defense Industry Politics, And Europe’S Stagnation, Diane M. Zorri

Journal of Strategic Security

Europe’s defense industrial base (DIB) weaknesses are commonly attributed to underinvestment, fragmented policies, or a lack of European cohesiveness. This article advances an alternative explanation: European defense industrial dependency has emerged through institutionalized alliance structures that systematically privileged US capabilities and incentives, becoming self-reinforcing and difficult for European actors to exit, even as their strategic preferences evolved. Drawing on dependency theory, path dependence, and theories of alliance politics, this article argues that transatlantic security arrangements established during the early Cold War, most notably NATO’s integrated command structures, defense procurement norms, and interoperability requirements, have generated long-lasting asymmetries in production, technology, …


Reinterpreting The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Dispute In The Nile Basin Through The Game Theories Of Attrition And Bargaining, Olileanya Amuche Ezugwu, Felix C. Chidozie, Adeola A. Adebajo Sep 2026

Reinterpreting The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Dispute In The Nile Basin Through The Game Theories Of Attrition And Bargaining, Olileanya Amuche Ezugwu, Felix C. Chidozie, Adeola A. Adebajo

Journal of Strategic Security

Why have more than a decade of negotiations, mediation efforts, and diplomatic interventions failed to produce a binding agreement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)? This article examines the hydro-politics of the Nile Basin through the lens of game theory, focusing on how bargaining behavior, strategic persistence, and competing perceptions of gains and losses shape state interactions. Drawing on the game of attrition and the bargaining game, the study analyzes the evolving strategies of Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan in the context of dam construction, filling, and operation. Rather than viewing the dispute solely as a contest over water allocation, …


Teaching Strategic Intelligence In Political Transition, Henry W. Prunckun Sep 2026

Teaching Strategic Intelligence In Political Transition, Henry W. Prunckun

Journal of Strategic Security

Scholarship on intelligence ethics centers on operations, leaving the ethics of intelligence education and capacity-building under-theorized. This article develops retrospective moral reappraisal (RMR): the delayed moral reclassification of earlier teaching as ethically compromised when political transition and new public knowledge recontextualize what that teaching may have enabled. It argues that RMR is a pathway to moral injury because the injurious event is later learning—not the original classroom act—that one’s contribution is now plausibly implicated in harm. Linking RMR to complicity and enabling under uncertainty, the article clarifies how foreseeability, professional role morality, and leverage shape responsibility without requiring causal certainty …


Reforming The Mississippi Criminal Code Part V: Justification, Judith J. Johnson Sep 2026

Reforming The Mississippi Criminal Code Part V: Justification, Judith J. Johnson

MC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Invoking The Protection Of Pupil Rights Amendment ("Ppra") To Safeguard Student Privacy Rights: My Three-Year Battle To Enforce The Ppra Against An Intractable New Jersey School District, Patricia Montana Sep 2026

Invoking The Protection Of Pupil Rights Amendment ("Ppra") To Safeguard Student Privacy Rights: My Three-Year Battle To Enforce The Ppra Against An Intractable New Jersey School District, Patricia Montana

MC Law Review

No abstract provided.


When Formalism Becomes Abdication: Howell, Hathorne, And The Limits Of Legislative Finality, Joe Hemleben Sep 2026

When Formalism Becomes Abdication: Howell, Hathorne, And The Limits Of Legislative Finality, Joe Hemleben

MC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Overruling Texas V. Johnson?, Natti Perelman Sep 2026

Overruling Texas V. Johnson?, Natti Perelman

MC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Formalism, Finality, And The Judicial Role In Mississippi Post-Conviction Review, Joe Hemleben Sep 2026

Formalism, Finality, And The Judicial Role In Mississippi Post-Conviction Review, Joe Hemleben

MC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Modern Youth Or Moral Decadence: Discourses On South Korea’S “Youth Culture” In Magazines Of The Late 1960s And Early 1970s, Thibaut Diverchy Sep 2026

Modern Youth Or Moral Decadence: Discourses On South Korea’S “Youth Culture” In Magazines Of The Late 1960s And Early 1970s, Thibaut Diverchy

Asia Pacific Perspectives

The cultural phenomenon known as “youth culture” (ch’ŏngnyŏn munhwa) emerged in South Korean society at the turn of the 1970s. It encompasses Western fashion trends, music genres, leisure and nightlife. Labeled as a foreign and decadent trend by the authorities, this so-called counterculture was the target of repeated crackdowns. It is sometimes perceived as a force of protest or resistance, but it had more ambiguous relations to the regime. Popular entertainment magazines such as the Sunday Seoul or the Chugan Kyŏnghyang helped propagate youth culture and provided resources about new trends to young people, but also kept a certain distance …


Assessment Of Glycemic Control Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Attending A Tertiary Diabetes And Endocrinology Center In Sulaymania City/ Iraq, Lina Ali Al-Khafaji, Bahjat Abdulridha Alsaeedy Sep 2026

Assessment Of Glycemic Control Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Attending A Tertiary Diabetes And Endocrinology Center In Sulaymania City/ Iraq, Lina Ali Al-Khafaji, Bahjat Abdulridha Alsaeedy

Muthanna Medical Journal

Introduction: The sociodemographic and clinical factors play a role in type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) glycemic control.
Objectives: To assess glycemic control among T2DM patients and its association with sociodemographic and clinical factors.
Materials and methods: A prospective observational study of 210 patients with T2DM at a tertiary diabetes and endocrinology center in Sulaymania city/ Iraq, from April to November 2024. The study involved sociodemographic data, body mass index, blood pressure, and blood tests for HbA1c, fasting blood sugar, total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, triglycerides, blood urea and creatinine. The performed HbA1c tests were compared with baseline results to identify differences, …


Molecular Detection Of Staphylococcus Aureus: A Performance Comparison Of Colony Pcr And Conventional Pcr Targeting The Icab Gene, Farah Badri Abed, Shahrazad Hazim Muhi, Sahar Mustafa Ibrahim, Riyam Alaa Mohammed Sep 2026

Molecular Detection Of Staphylococcus Aureus: A Performance Comparison Of Colony Pcr And Conventional Pcr Targeting The Icab Gene, Farah Badri Abed, Shahrazad Hazim Muhi, Sahar Mustafa Ibrahim, Riyam Alaa Mohammed

Muthanna Medical Journal

Background: Staphylococcus aureus is an important nursing disease that requires a prompt and effective diagnosis to implement a strategy to curb its transmission and spread. Although the gold standard is the conventional PCR using column-purified genomic DNA, Colony PCR with crude cell lysates saves a lot of time and cost of the test and its performance features have not been well established.
Objectives: This paper will compare Colony PCR (boiling method) and Conventional PCR (ABIOpuretm kit extraction) to amplify icaB gene (141 bp), which is a major determinant of biofilm formation in S. aureus and then assess their application with …


An Investigative Approach Leveraging Digital Twin Technology For A Cnc Machine, Anand Valiavalappil Aug 2026

An Investigative Approach Leveraging Digital Twin Technology For A Cnc Machine, Anand Valiavalappil

Yanbu Journal of Engineering and Science

Digital twin technology has emerged as an effective approach for improving the monitoring, validation, and optimization of Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machining operations. This study presents an investigative framework integrating Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAD/CAM), Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) methodologies for diagnosing and rectifying machining defects in CNC systems using the digital twin - virtual model (component and asset twins). Four machining experiments were conducted using Aluminum 6061-T6, Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), Brass, and Stainless Steel (AISI 304) on an EMCO CNC machine integrated with Siemens 840D controls. The first two experiments, involving turning and drilling operations, are presented in detail; the …


Investigating How Personal Values Shape Tourism Experiences: A Case Study Of The Irish National Stud And Gardens, Amy Monahan, Ann T. Conway Aug 2026

Investigating How Personal Values Shape Tourism Experiences: A Case Study Of The Irish National Stud And Gardens, Amy Monahan, Ann T. Conway

International Journal of Tour Guiding and Visitor Attraction Research

This Paper explores the relationship between personal values and tourism experiences  that are  satisfying. A case study of the Irish National Stud and Gardens was undertaken in order to explore this concept. Interviews were conducted to investigate how qualities of the attraction appealed to the visitors’ personal values, thereby enhancing the overall visitor experience. A set of personal values were identified which were specific to the destination. The research demonstrated how an understanding of personal values can assist attractions with various aspects of their operations, with context specific recommendations provided at the end. This approach was taken was taken to …