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Mccommons' Transformative Gift Strengthens Ole Miss Athletics, Bill Dabney

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – John and Donna McCommon, of Ridgeland, have made a major gift to the University of Mississippi's athletics programs that will help equip student-athletes for success in competition, academics and personal development, while also helping coaches to elevate their programs.

Reflections: The Journey Continues, Jerry L. Pitts

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Reflections: The Journey Continues is a deeply moving memoir of faith, loss, love, calling, and the quiet strength that carries a life forward when everything familiar has been shaken. In this powerful continuation of Reflections: My Personal Journey, Dr. Jerry L. Pitts invites readers into the chapters that followed his first book—the ones marked by profound suffering, unexpected grace, and a renewed sense of purpose.

This memoir traces the season when Jerry’s life was transformed by his late wife Janice’s four‑year battle with cervical cancer. With honesty and tenderness, he recounts the surgeries, treatments, setbacks, and moments of courage …

Feasibility Study Of An Artificial Intelligence Chatbot-Powered Cognitive-Behavioral Lifestyle Modification Program, Evans Forman, Charlotte Hagerman, Asher Hong, Zhuoran Huang, Hannah Mccausland, Jasmine Sun, Lauren Taylor, Meghan Butryn, Preetha Chatterjee, Ramtin Ehsani, Nawal Syed

Department of Family & Community Medicine Faculty Papers

Background: Approximately 2 billion adults seek lifestyle modification to improve their health and well-being. However, because of cost and access barriers, only a tiny fraction receive gold-standard lifestyle modification programs led by trained coaches. Digital programs without human coaches are more disseminable but have limited efficacy. Recent advances in large language model (LLM) AI chatbots have the potential to revolutionize digital programs by emulating human coaches, offering a safe, low-cost, and scalable lifestyle modification intervention. Yet, no studies have developed and tested such a program. Purpose: This study aims to evaluate the feasibility, safety, and user engagement of a new …

A Phase Ii Trial Of Defactinib Combined With Avutometinib In Patients With Metastatic Uveal Melanoma, Rino S. Seedor, Mizue Terai, Sergei A. Koshkin, Andrew E. Aplin, Marlana Orloff, Erin Sharpe-Mills, Madeleine Naccarato, Aurora Mills, Alfredo A. Molinolo, J. Silvio Gutkind, Takami Sato

Kimmel Cancer Center Faculty Papers

Background: Treatment options are limited, and outcomes remain poor for patients with metastatic uveal melanoma (MUM). We conducted an investigator-initiated, prospective, single-arm, single-institution, phase II study evaluating the combination of an FAK inhibitor (defactinib) with a RAF/MEK inhibitor (avutometinib) for the treatment of MUM. Methods: From February 2021 through January 2023, 12 patients with MUM were treated with the combination of defactinib and avutometinib. Defactinib was given 200 mg twice daily, and avutometinib was given 3.2 mg twice a week. Both drugs were given for 3 weeks on and 1 week off (28-day cycle). Disease control rate was the primary …

Ecological Footprint Assessment, Santina Benincasa

Open Educational Resources

This handout guides students through a structured ecological footprint assessment using the online Footprint Calculator. By following a series of steps—selecting their location, entering detailed lifestyle information, and reviewing personalized results—students evaluate how many planets would be required if everyone lived with their same resource consumption patterns. The activity prompts learners to identify the largest contributors to their footprint, quantify their impact in global hectares, and explore scenario-based changes that could reduce their environmental demand. Through reflection, students consider how everyday human behaviors influence Earth’s productive capacity and resource availability. Overall, the exercise encourages critical thinking about sustainability and personal …

Leveraging Health Information Exchange (Hie) Data To Demonstrate The Impact On Health Outcomes Of Community Based Organization Interventions: Case Studies Of Housing Placement And Medically Tailored Meal Program, Kevin Kramer, Harm Scherpbier, William Marella

College of Population Health Faculty Papers

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Methods

Transforming Advising And Improving Outcomes: Assessing Impacts Of Advising Changes, Amy S. White, Tailisha Gonzalez, Elgloria Harrison

Publications and Research

Abstract

Background: Earning full-time credit loads and persisting are how college students successfully graduate.

Objective: We measured whether credits and persistence at an urban, commuter Hispanic/Minority-Sserving Iinstitution improved after implementing a social work-based advisement strategy.

Methods: Using a quasi-experimental methodology on a college’s enrollment database, we measured the impact of a new advisement model on earned and attempted credit loads to compare traditional student advisement within control groups (n = 171 and n = 899) relative to intervention (n = 130).

Findings: In 2024, the intervention group attempted an average of 14.7 credits and earned an average of 14.3 credits, …

Birth-Size Reference Charts For Normal Nursery Newborns Between 35.0 And 41.6 Weeks., Fu-Sheng Chou, Hung-Wen Yeh, Crystal Hsueh, Irene E. Olsen, Veeral N. Tolia, Reese H. Clark

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

BACKGROUND: Current birth-size reference charts for nursery use may inaccurately categorize newborn size, impacting care. We aimed to develop new charts using data from uncomplicated newborns admitted to US nurseries.

METHODS: We analyzed de-identified data from newborns admitted to US normal newborn nurseries between 2021 and 2024. Statistical outliers were excluded, and gestational age was recorded in days. Birth weight, length, head circumference, and BMI models were developed by a randomly selected subset and validated by the remaining data. Proportions of newborns below the 10th percentile and above the 90th percentile were compared with the 2010 Olsen and 2013 Fenton …

Correlating High-Resolution Terrestrial Organic Carbon Isotope Records Across The Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary, Gregory D. Price, Rhodri M. Jerrett, Lauren K. O'Connor, Emily Dearing Crampton-Flood, Bart E. Van Dongen, Sabine K. Lengger, Marc Davies

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (∼66 million years ago) represents the most recent mass extinction event when an estimated 75% of all species became extinct, including all non-avian dinosaurs. Here we focus on the stable carbon isotope (δ¹³C) analysis of coal and coaly sediments across the terrestrial K/Pg boundary from 10 sites, between 42 and 64°N, USA and Canada. Our δ¹³C data set shows a statistically significant positive correlation with paleolatitude that we interpret as a consequence of our lower latitude sites being relatively warmer and more humid than our higher latitude sites. Temporally, our data indicates that …

An Ecophysiological Approach To Improving Health Outcomes Of Ornamental Shrimp During Aquarium Trade And Transportation, Sancha Conway Holroyd, John Spicer, Robert P. Ellis, Lucy Turner

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Ecophysiology examines the interactions between an organism’s physiology and its environment. It seeks to understand how an organism functions and adapts under changing conditions. This has direct applications to live-trade aquaculture sectors, including the ornamental aquarium trade, where traded animals experience a variety of changing, and often stressful, environmental conditions that can threaten their health and survival. This review proposes a role for ecophysiology in managing organismal health, using Hatch (1962) theoretical framework of disease and dysfunction as a foundation for defining and distinguishing health. We focus on tropical (marine and freshwater) ornamental shrimp as an exemplar group to highlight …

Autonomic Dysregulation Attributed To Vertebral Artery Insufficiency Secondary To Subclavian Steal Syndrome: A Case Report, Lara Zargarian, Hoang Nguyen, Manbir Sanghera, Arman Megerdechyan, William S. Hughes

Student Publications

Anatomic malformation as seen in subclavian steal syndrome leads to an alteration in the body's autonomic regulatory pattern, influencing varying physical manifestations. The autonomic nervous system provides situational regulatory feedback to the body, maintaining the body’s desired point of homeostasis. We report the case of a 68-year-old male who initially came in with X-rays indicating retrolisthesis and calcifications in his carotids. A left-sided carotid bruit was also noted, as well as right-sided upper extremity weakness. Continued imaging studies indicated structural changes to his cervical regions and continued calcifications in the remainder of his arterial supply branching off of his carotid …

Health Profile Of Brazilian Mothers, Carlos Eduardo Siqueira

Gastón Institute Publications

No abstract provided.

1951 Map Of Rocky Mountain National Park And Red Top Valley Ditch, 610 Redwood Fisher, Box 45, Department Of Interior Geological Survey

Rocky Mountain National Park

Map of Rocky Mountain National Park and surrounding area, with Red Top Valley Ditch outlined. The map was surveyed 1912-1915, published in 1919, and reprinted in 1951. Terms: Rocky Mountain National Park; Maps; Department of the Interior; Geological Survey; Medicine Bow; Roosevelt National Forest; Cameron Pass; Mummy Range; Mummy Pass; Granby Reservoir; Granby Mesa; Michigan Creek; Mt Dickinson; Mt Dunraven; Crystal Lake; Fairchild Mountain; Lawn Lake; Cow Creek; Cache la Poudre River; Specimen Mountain; Howard Mountain; Never Summer Mountains; Bearpaws Peaks; Continental Divide; Bowen Mountain; Baker Gulch; Red Mountain; Mt Nimbus; Timber Creek; Shipler Mountain; Windy Gulch; Trail Ridge Road; …

1953 Documents Relating To Acquistion Of Redwood Fisher Lands In Rocky Mountain National Park And Shadow Mountain National Recreation Area, 610 Redwood Fisher, Box 45, David H. Canfield, George F. Ingalls, Clarence A. Davis, Conrad L. Wirth, Bruce Wright, G. W. Lineweaver, Thomas J. Allen, John S. Mclaughlin, A. Van V. Dunn, Fred D. Mclaren

Rocky Mountain National Park

Memoranda, letters, and correspondences about the acquisition of Redwood Fisher lands in Rocky Mountain National Park and Shadow Mountain National Recreation Area. Terms: Rocky Mountain National Park; Shadow Mountain National Recreation Area; Redwood Fisher; Bureau of Land Management; Tom Kimball; Bureau of Reclamation; Colorado Department of Game and Fish; Colorado River; Shadow Mountain Reservoir; Granby Reservoir; David H. Canfield; Boulder; Stillwater Creek; George F. Ingalls; C. V. Marmaduke; Clarence A. Davis; C. A. Richey; Bruce Wright; Conrad L. Wirth; Shadow Mountain Dam; Granby Pump Canal; G. W. Lineweaver; Thomas J. Allen; John S. McLaughlin; Grand Lake; Pole Creek Ditch; Selak …

Role-Preset Pluggable Dreaming Pipeline With Reflection-Over-Prior-Dreams Operators, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

Autonomous LLM personas accumulate a continuous stream of heterogeneous day events. A naive "summarize-the-day" digester compresses that stream once, weights every event identically across personas, applies one forgetting curve, and never reasons across the sequence of its own prior digests. This publication describes a role-preset pluggable dreaming pipeline: a per-persona memory-consolidation process decomposed into four named, swappable stages — scoring, clustering, synthesis, and reflection — where (a) the concrete algorithm for each stage is selected by a role preset, (b) each scoring algorithm carries its own role-specific recency half-life, and (c) a distinct reflection stage runs operators over the persona's …

Dual-Channel Domain Data-Isolation, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

In a multi-domain application monolith, data is partitioned one database schema per business domain. Strong isolation is normally pushed into the database (GRANT/REVOKE, per-schema connection roles, row-level security). When all domains share one connection pool, an application-layer contract is needed that (a) denies accidental or malicious cross-schema access on the general read/write path, while (b) still permitting deliberate, controlled cross-domain reads. This publication discloses a dual-channel contract: a deny-direct channel that statically analyzes every facade-emitted SQL string and hard-denies foreign-schema references, and an allow-through-a-constrained-compiler channel that re-admits cross-domain reads only via a read-only, mutation-free pipe-query language whose compiler resolves relation …

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Caldwell Unified Dementia Research Engine (Cudre‑1.0) Unified Open‑Hardware Dementia Research Acceleration Platform No Patents. No Secrets. No Photos. Builder‑Ready. Research‑Only. Non‑Clinical., Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

 ABSTRACT

CUDRE‑1.0 is a unified, multimodal, open‑hardware research engine for dementia and neurodegeneration studies. It is explicitly designed to:

• Accelerate research, not provide treatment.

• Explore 40 Hz gamma entrainment, sleep‑linked glymphatic clearance, vascular pulsatility, and low‑intensity ultrasound neuromodulation.

• Provide a single, integrated platform for labs to test hypotheses about clearance, network synchrony, and non‑invasive neuromodulation.

Not a medical device. Not for clinical use.

All framing is research‑only, for mechanism exploration and trial design support.

Caldwell Neuro‑Glymphatic Integrated Loop (Cng‑Loop V1.0) Unified Clinic + Home Dementia‑Support Architecture Open‑Hardware • No Patents • No Secrets • Builder‑Ready • Cross‑Referenced To All Prior Caldwell Tdc Inventions, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

ABSTRACT

CNG‑Loop v1.0 is a unified, non‑invasive dementia‑support system integrating sleep‑synchronized glymphatic modulation, bilateral ear‑canal neuromodulation, vascular ultrasound support, gamma‑frequency entrainment, and personalized MRI/EEG‑anchored targeting. It combines clinic‑grade modules and home‑safe modules into a single architecture designed for moderate‑stage dementia support.

This system is built entirely from previously posted Caldwell inventions, including:

• Ambient Cognitive‑Clearance System (ACCS v4.0) — “Zero‑Wearable, Non‑Contact, Sleep‑Synchronized Glymphatic Modulation Platform for Dementia Prevention and Cognitive Health”

• BECDS v2.0 — “Bilateral Ear‑Canal Closed‑Loop Dementia Support System”

• GCI‑128 Neuro‑Vortex Protocol v3.1 — FUS + nanos + 40 Hz

• GCI‑267 — Harmonized ultrasound + microfluidic vascular support

• NeuroRegenerator v2.1 …

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Technical Disclosure: Integrated Space Readiness Training Center (Isrtc), Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Current ground-based deep-space environmental analogs suffer from an institutional vulnerability designated as "Escape Room Bias." When human subjects operate under an implicit institutional guarantee of safety, their cognitive, behavioral, and adaptive responses default to gamified problem-solving rather than genuine expeditionary survival. This psychological insulation limits the validity of collected behavioral datasets to less than 20% of actual deep-space operational reality, leaving aerospace organizations blind to the most critical human failure mode in high-consequence environments: the psychological freeze response under unyielding peril.

The Integrated Space Readiness Training Complex (ISRTC) eliminates this predictive gap by establishing an enduring Dynamic Test Assembly operating …

Automated Multi-Stage Semantic Analysis And Synthesis Of Heterogeneous Unstructured Operational Repositories, Michael Vianana, Tanmay Kayande, Nigel Nageer, Nupur Murlidharan

Defensive Publications Series

Modern organizations often struggle to identify systemic structural issues because post-mortem reviews, lessons-learned records, and risk logs are isolated in unstructured narrative text files across disparate storage repositories. A system is described that utilizes a multi-stage language model processing pipeline to autonomously aggregate, structure, and cross-reference completely unstructured, multi-source operational narrative text documents to expose global systemic risks and organizational blind spots. The system continuously connects to raw text silos, extracts semantic entities, and standardizes unstructured content into a globally normalized taxonomy to map risk correlations. Keywords: unstructured data, semantic analysis, natural language processing, language models, risk management, data clustering, …

Eight-Lock Autonomous Dispatch Envelope (Self-Tripping Autonomy Breaker), Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

Dispatching an autonomous coding subagent against a ticket — letting a large-language-model agent edit a repository, commit, and open a pull request with no human reviewing each action — requires governance that degrades safely rather than failing in either of the two unsafe directions: refusing outright (which stalls delivery) or running unbounded (which burns spend and ships defects). This publication discloses a chained, fail-closed precondition envelope of eight ordered locks evaluated before any run is permitted to touch the repository, together with a post-run settlement step. Three of the locks carry the inventive weight of the composition: (i) a per-principal …

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Catholic Kolping Society New York V. Mugan

All Decisions

In this lease-expiration holdover, the court dismissed the petition upon finding a manifest discrepancy between the theory of rent-regulation exemption alleged in the petition — RSC §2520.11(f) (charitable/educational institution, institutional affiliation) — and the RPL §231-c GCEL notice served with the predicate notice, which claimed a different exemption based on income-restricted housing. Because the two instruments were irreconcilable as to the basis for GCEL exemption, dismissal was required. Landlord's cross-motion to amend was denied for failure to annex a proposed amended petition as required by CPLR §3025(b).

Jerry Painadath V. Good Shepherd Penn Partners

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Narrowband Searches For Continuous Gravitational Waves From Known Pulsars In The First Two Parts Of The Fourth Ligo–Virgo–Kagra Observing Run, A. G. Abac, I. Abouelfettouh, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Raul Alberto Espinosa Perez, J. Lawrence, Francisco Llamas Villarreal, Miriam Ramos Arevalo, Soma Mukherjee, Gaukhar Nurbek, Volker Quetschke, Wenhui Wang

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Publications

Rotating nonaxisymmetric neutron stars (NSs) are promising sources for continuous gravitational waves (CWs). CWs may, if detected, inform us about the internal structure and equation of state of NSs. Here, we present a narrowband search for CWs from known pulsars, for which a matched-filter search can be applied. Narrowband searches are robust to mismatches between electromagnetic (EM) and gravitational emissions, in contrast to fully targeted searches where they are assumed to be phase-locked. In this work, we search for the CW counterparts emitted by 34 pulsars using data from the first and second parts of the fourth LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA observing run. …

Gwtc-4.0: Population Properties Of Merging Compact Binaries, A. G. Abac, I. Abouelfettouh, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Raul Alberto Espinosa Perez, J Lawrence, Francisco Llamas Villarreal, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Wenhui Wang

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Publications

We detail the population properties of binary neutron star, neutron star–black hole binary, and binary black hole mergers using 158 events from the cumulative Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog 4.0. The black hole primary mass distribution consists of a power-law-like continuum that steepens above 35 M⊙ with overdensities at 10 M⊙ and 35 M⊙. Binary black holes with primary masses near 10 M⊙ are more likely to have less massive secondaries, with a mass ratio distribution peaking at  q=0.74+0.13−0.13, potentially a signature of stable mass transfer during binary evolution. Black hole spins are inferred to be nonextremal, with …

Re: Conditional Approval Letter For The Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Insufficiently Reclaimed Sites Quality Assurance Project Plan, Molly Roby

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Re: Conditional Approval Letter For The Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Unreclaimed Sites Quality Assurance Project Plan, Emma Rott

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Ercole Mirarchi V. John Roberts, Jr.

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Cardozo Law News Brief: July 10, 2026, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Briefs

Highlights from the July 10, 2026 Cardozo Law News Brief include:

• Interim Dean of Students Francesca Acocella received the National Association of Law Student Affairs Professionals’ (NALSAP) Core Four Award in recognition of her outstanding contributions to law student affairs.
• Professor Jessica Roth spoke to Bloomberg about the Supreme Court’s Cook, Slaughter, and birthright citizenship decisions, discussing their implications for the Fourteenth Amendment.
• Professor Michael Pollack was quoted in Bloomberg about the legal history of sidewalks and responsibilities for their maintenance, and also appeared on CNN to discuss a viral story about community sidewalk construction.
• Adjunct Professor Gary …

Data For Post-Retail Application Of Chitosan Coating And Uv-C Irradiation: Effects On Strawberry Shelf Life, Microbial Quality, And Consumer Acceptance, Jonathan Kershaw

ScholarsArchive Data

Food waste is a global issue with significant environmental, economic, and human health impacts. The largest share of household and retail food waste comes from fresh produce, much of which is still edible at the time of disposal. While previous work has investigated shelf-life extension technologies applied on freshly harvested produce, almost no studies have investigated the efficacy of these treatments when applied to post-retail produce. This study investigated the effect of UV-C exposure and chitosan coating on the quality, microbial load, and visual acceptance of post-retail strawberries. Strawberries were assigned to low dose UV-C, chitosan dip, or one of …