Attorney Advertising In 'The Litigators' And Modern-Day America: The Continued Importance Of The Public's Need For Legal Information, David L. Hudson Jr.

Law Faculty Scholarship

This Essay addresses the phenomenon of attorney advertising from several vantage points. Part II of the Essay addresses how best-selling author John Grisham depicts attorney advertising in his great book The Litigators. Part III discusses the legal framework of how the U.S. Supreme Court protected attorney advertising as a form of protected commercial speech. Part IV addresses how the states and bar regulators have treated attorney advertising. Finally, Part V addresses the recent Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers Report and the American Bar Association’s proposed changes to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct regarding attorney advertising. Part V briefly …

First Amendment Tests From The Burger Court: Will They Be Flipped?, David L. Hudson Jr.

Law Faculty Scholarship

This article provides an overview of the Lemon test, Miller test, and the Central Hudson test, assessing how they fared in subsequent years, and offers thoughts on their continuing vitality.

Richard Carlyon: A Network Of Possibilities, Ashley Kistler, Chris Burnside, Paul Ryan

Books and Book Chapters

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition, Richard Carlyon: A Network of Possibilities, Reynolds Gallery, January 19 - March 9, 2018. The exhibition, curated by Ashley Kistler, included a selection of Carlyon's work made over the span of fifty years, and focused on the "network of possibilities" that took shape from the artist's sense of experimentation, curiosity, and agile thinking. The selected pieces include painting, ink drawings, and collage.

Cirt News - January 2018, Center For Instruction & Research Technology (Cirt)

CIRT News

This issue contains the following articles:

Faculty Spotlight: Using Outcomes in Canvas to Report and Evaluate Student Achievement of Learning Objectives

Director's Message: Online Learning Updates

Upcoming Events

Digital Thinking: Data Visualization Applications Available through CIRT

Best Practices Online: Test Security

Canvas News

Faculty Domains Updates

New in CIRT

Appropriate Preconditioning Of The Uterine Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Response Inhibits Preterm Labor, Judith Ann Ingles

Wayne State University Dissertations

Introduction: In this study, we are testing the overarching hypothesis that preconditioning the myometrial UPR allows for the maintenance of non-apoptotic CASP3 activity and thus sustains uterine quiescence. We have previously demonstrated that the pregnant uterus facilitates uterine quiescence through UPR mediated activation of non-apoptotic CASP3, yet the mechanism in which CASP3 utilizes to avoid its apoptotic cell fate is unresolved. There is a growing body of evidence including our own that demonstrates remote and direct preconditioning with minor stresses propagates cytoprotective mechanisms that allow for the avoidance of apoptotic cell death upon exposure to a subsequent more damaging stress, …

Viewer Disability And Television Accessibility: Closed-Captioning And Video Description Requirements In Today's Television Environment, Kimberlianne Podlas

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The article examines the legal and practical challenges of ensuring accessibility for individuals with sensory impairments in the contemporary television landscape, highlighting gaps in current regulations and the role of voluntary industry efforts in advancing accessibility. It argues that while laws like the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) provide a framework for accessibility, they fail to comprehensively address the complexities of modern streaming platforms and digital services. The analysis emphasizes the importance of both regulatory expansion and industry-led initiatives to achieve equitable access for all viewers.

Essential Methods For Planning Practitioners: Skills And Techniques For Data Analysis, Visualization, And Communication, Laxmi Ramasubramanian, Jochen Albrecht

Publications and Research

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Exploration Of Treatment Matching To Problem Drinker Characteristics With Motivational Interviewing And Non-Directive Client-Centered Psychotherapy For Problem Drinkers, Alexis Kuerbis, Jessica Houser, Svetlana Levak, Sijing Shao, Jon Morgenstern

Publications and Research

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a known effective intervention for alcohol use disorder (AUD). MI's mechanisms of action remain inconsistently substantiated, and research in this area has been reliant on identifying relationships through strength of association rather than experimental manipulation of active ingredients. In two previous studies, a pilot and a larger replication study, we disaggregated MI into its hypothesized active ingredients by creating three conditions: MI, Spirit Only MI (SOMI, in which evocation of change talk was proscribed), and a non-therapy condition (NTC). Results from both studies yielded equivalent findings across all three conditions. In the current analyses, data from …

Stigma And Its Reduction: The Role Of Knowledge, Causal Attribution, And Mental Disorder Type, Jesica N. Ferguson

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Projects

Abstract

Research has shown undeniable evidence of mental illness stigma. Stigma has been shown to reduce treatment seeking and negatively impact emotion and cognition in individuals with mental illness (Livingstone & Boyd, 2010). By discovering the driving forces behind stigma, treatment seeking and quality of life can be improved for individuals with mental illness. This study investigates the effect of knowledge, disorder type, and causal attribution on mental illness stigma. Specifically, participants were assigned to one of two conditions, knowledge or no knowledge. Knowledge conditions included information about a disorder (schizophrenia or depression, depending on disorder condition) such as definition, …

Characterization Of Two Cyclic Di-Gmp Phosphodiesterases Hypothesized To Regulate Virulence In Streptomyces Scabies, Madison Flasco

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Projects

Common scab is a devastating disease that affects the marketability of potatoes. The disease results in raised and pitted lesions seen on the surface of the potato and is caused by the soil pathogen, Streptomyces scabies. The S. scabies genome has two cyclic-di-GMP phosphodiesterases, RmdA and RmdB, both regulators of morphology and development. These proteins break down the ubiquitous second messenger molecule cyclic di-GMP, a molecule in charge of cell cycle progression and virulence. Both proteins contain diguanylate cyclase domains and phosphodiesterase domains, GGDEF and EAL, respectively, while RmdA contains an additional PAS_4 domain. Despite similar domain configurations, the two …

Nonstandard Lumbar Region In Predicting Fracture Risk, Dima Alajlouni, Dana Bliuc, Thach Tran, Nicholas Pocock, Tuan Nguyen, John A. Eisman, Jacqueline Center

Medical Papers and Journal Articles

Background: Femoral neck BMD is the most commonly used skeletal site to estimate fracture risk. The role of lumbar spine BMD in fracture risk prediction is less clear due to osteophytes that spuriously increase LS BMD, particularly at lower levels. The aim of this study was to compare fracture predictive ability of upper L1-L2 BMD compared to standard L2-L4 BMD and assess whether the addition of either lumbar spine site could improve fracture prediction over FN BMD.

Methodology: A prospective cohort of 3016 women and men 60+ years from the Dubbo Osteoporosis Epidemiology Study followed for occurrence of minimal trauma …

Developing A Mental Health Eclinic To Improve Access To And Quality Of Mental Health Care For Young People: Using Participatory Design As Research Methodologies, Laura Ospina-Pinillos, Tracey A. Davenport, Cristina S. Ricci, Alyssa C. Milton, Elizabeth M. Scott, Ian B. Hickie

Medical Papers and Journal Articles

Background: Each year, many young Australians aged between 16 and 25 years experience a mental health disorder, yet only a small proportion access services and even fewer receive timely and evidence-based treatments. Today, with ever-increasing access to the Internet and use of technology, the potential to provide all young people with access (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) to the support they require to improve their mental health and well-being is promising.

Objective: The aim of this study was to use participatory design (PD) as research methodologies with end users (young people aged between 16 and 25 years …

Looking Both Ways: A Review Of Methods For Assessing Research Impacts On Policy And The Policy Utilisation Of Research, Robyn S. Newson, Lesley A. King, Lucie Rychetnik, Andrew J. Milat, Adrian E. Bauman

Medical Papers and Journal Articles

Background: Measuring the policy and practice impacts of research is becoming increasingly important. Policy impacts can be measured from two directions – tracing forward from research and tracing backwards from a policy outcome. In this review, we compare these approaches and document the characteristics of studies assessing research impacts on policy and the policy utilisation of research.

Methods: Keyword searches of electronic databases were conducted in December 2016. Included studies were published between 1995 and 2016 in English and reported methods and findings of studies measuring policy impacts of specified health research, or research use in relation to a specified …

Does Citation Matter? Research Citation In Policy Documents As An Indicator Of Research Impact – An Australian Obesity Policy Case-Study, Robyn Newson, Lucie Rychetnik, Lesley King, Andrew Milat, Adrian Bauman

Medical Papers and Journal Articles

Background: Citation of research in policy documents has been suggested as an indicator of the potential longer-term impacts of research. We investigated the use of research citations in childhood obesity prevention policy documents from New South Wales (NSW), Australia, considering the feasibility and value of using research citation as a proxy measure of research impact.

Methods: We examined childhood obesity policy documents produced between 2000 and 2015, extracting childhood obesity-related references and coding these according to reference type, geographical origin and type of research. A content analysis of the policy documents examined where and how research was cited in the …

A Profiling Analysis Of Contributions Of Cigarette Smoking, Dietary Calcium Intakes, And Physical Activity To Fragility Fracture In The Elderly, Thuy T. Pham, Diep N. Nguyen, Eryk Dutkiewicz, Jacqueline R. Center, John A. Eisman, Tuan V. Nguyen

Medical Papers and Journal Articles

Fragility fracture and bone mineral density (BMD) are influenced by common and modifiable lifestyle factors. In this study, we sought to define the contribution of lifestyle factors to fracture risk by using a profiling approach. The study involved 1683 women and 1010 men (50+ years old, followed up for up to 20 years). The incidence of new fractures was ascertained by X-ray reports. A “lifestyle risk score” (LRS) was derived as the weighted sum of effects of dietary calcium intake, physical activity index, and cigarette smoking. Each individual had a unique LRS, with higher scores being associated with a healthier …

Perceptions Of Shared Care Among Survivors Of Colorectal Cancer From Non-English-Speaking And English-Speaking Backgrounds: A Qualitative Study, Lawrence Tan, Gisselle Gallego, Thi T.C Nguyen, Les Bokey, Jennifer Reath

Medical Papers and Journal Articles

Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) survivors experience difficulty navigating complex care pathways. Sharing care between GPs and specialist services has been proposed to improve health outcomes in cancer survivors following hospital discharge. Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) groups are known to have poorer outcomes following cancer treatment but little is known about their perceptions of shared care following surgery for CRC. This study aimed to explore how non-English-speaking and English-speaking patients perceive care to be coordinated amongst various health practitioners.

Methods: This was a qualitative study using data from face to face semi-structured interviews and one focus group in a culturally …

Protocol To Develop Sustainable Day Care For Children Aged 1-4 Years In Disadvantaged Urban Communities In Dhaka, Bangladesh, Mahua Das, Helen Elsey, Riffat A. Shawon, Joseph Hicks, J Ferdoush, Rumana Huque, Fariza Fieroze, Shammi Nasreen, Hilary Wallace, Saidur R. Mushreky

Medical Papers and Journal Articles

Introduction: Lack of safe, stimulating and health promoting environments for children under-5 hinders their physical, social and cognitive development, known as early childhood development (ECD). Improving ECD impacts on children, and can improve educational attainment for girls, who often care for younger siblings, and employment prospects for mothers. Developing and evaluating the impacts of ECD programmes within childcare needs to assess a range of social, health, educational and economic impacts, including women’s empowerment. Children living in slums are at high risk of poor early development and holistic, sustainable interventions are needed to address ECD in these contexts. This study will …

Screening For Familial Hypercholesterolaemia In Primary Care: Time For General Practice To Play Its Part, Tom Brett, Nadeem Qureshi, Samuel Gidding, Gerald F. Watts

Medical Papers and Journal Articles

Fifty per cent of first-degree relatives of index cases with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) inherit the disorder. Despite cascade screening being the most cost-effective method for detecting new cases, only a minority of individuals with FH are currently identified. Primary care is a key target area to increase identification of new index cases and initiate cascade screening, thereby finding close relatives of all probands. Increasing public and health professional awareness about FH is essential.

In the United Kingdom and in Australia, most of the population are reviewed by a General Practitioner (GP) at least once over a three-year period, offering opportunities …

Cardiac Steatosis In Hiv-A Marker Or Mediator Of Disease?, Morgan Jacob, Cameron J. Holloway

Medical Papers and Journal Articles

Although people living with HIV (PLHIV) are approaching normal life expectancy, a limitation to achieving this goal is managing the higher prevalence of co-morbidities, including cardiovascular disease. Whilst ischaemic heart disease likely contributes to a large proportion of cardiac disease in the modern era of treatment, cardio-metabolic disease, including cardiac steatosis, akin to obesity-related heart disease, is also a possible mechanism of increased cardiac morbidity and mortality. HIV and other metabolic and inflammatory diseases affecting the heart, including obesity, share many cardio-metabolic abnormalities, with increased pericardial and myocardial fat content, in association with chronic systemic inflammatory changes and alterations in …

Antenatal Influenza And Pertussis Vaccination In Western Australia: A Cross-Sectional Survey Of Vaccine Uptake And Influencing Factors, Donna Mak, Annette K. Regan, Dieu T. Vo, Paul V. Effler

Medical Papers and Journal Articles

Background: Influenza and pertussis vaccines have been recommended in Australia for women during each pregnancy since 2010 and 2015, respectively. Estimating vaccination coverage and identifying factors affecting uptake are important for improving antenatal immunisation services.

Methods: A random sample of 800 Western Australian women ≥18 years of age who gave birth between 4th April and 4th October 2015 were selected. Of the 454 (57%) who were contactable by telephone, 424 (93%) completed a survey. Data were weighted by maternal age and area of residence to ensure representativeness. The proportion immunised against influenza and pertussis was the main outcome measure; multivariate …

Evaluation Of Serum Glycoprotein Biomarker Candidates For Detection Of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma And Surveillance Of Barrett’S Esophagus, Alok K. Shah, Gunter Hartel, Ian Brown, Clay Winterford, Renhua Na, Kim-Anh Le Cao, Bradley A. Spicer, Michelle Dunstone, Wayne A. Phillips, Reginald V. Lord, Andrew P. Barbour, David I. Watson, Virendra Joshi, David C. Whiteman, Michelle M. Hill

Medical Papers and Journal Articles

Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) is thought to develop from asymptomatic Barrett’s esophagus (BE) with a low annual rate of conversion. Current endoscopy surveillance for BE patients is probably not cost-effective. Previously, we discovered serum glycoprotein biomarker candidates which could discriminate BE patients from EAC. Here, we aimed to validate candidate serum glycoprotein biomarkers in independent cohorts, and to develop a biomarker candidate panel for BE surveillance. Serum glycoprotein biomarker candidates were measured in 301 serum samples collected from Australia (4 states) and USA (1 clinic) using previously established lectin magnetic bead array (LeMBA) coupled multiple reaction monitoring mass spectrometry (MRM-MS) tier …

Atrial Fibrillation Screen, Management And Guideline Recommended Therapy (Af Smart Ii) In The Rural Primary Care Setting: An Implementation Study Protocol, Jessica J. Orchard, Lis Neubeck, Ben Freedman, Ruth Webster, Anushka Patel, Robyn Gallagher, Jialin Li, Charlotte Hespe, Caleb Ferguson, Nicholas Zwar, Nicole Lowres

Medical Papers and Journal Articles

Introduction: Screening for atrial fibrillation (AF) in people ≥65 years is now recommended by guidelines and expert consensus. While AF is often asymptomatic, it is the most common heart arrhythmia and is associated with increased risk of stroke. Early identification and treatment with oral anticoagulants can substantially reduce stroke risk. The general practice setting is ideal for opportunistic screening and provides a natural pathway for treatment for those identified. This study aims to investigate the feasibility of implementing screening for AF in rural general practice using novel electronic tools. It will assess whether screening will fit within an existing workflow …

Primary Goals, Information-Giving And Men's Understanding: A Qualitative Study Of Australian And Uk Doctors' Varied Communication About Psa Screening, Kristen Pickles, Stacy M. Carter, Lucie Rychetnik, Kirsten Mccaffery, Vikki A. Entwistle

Medical Papers and Journal Articles

Objectives: (1) To characterise variation in general practitioners’ (GPs’) accounts of communicating with men about prostate cancer screening using the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, (2) to characterise GPs’ reasons for communicating as they do and (3) to explain why and under what conditions GP communication approaches vary.

Study design and setting: A grounded theory study. We interviewed 69 GPs consulting in primary care practices in Australia (n=40) and the UK (n=29).

Results: GPs explained their communication practices in relation to their primary goals. In Australia, three different communication goals were reported: to encourage asymptomatic men to either have a PSA …

Poly-Arginine R18 And R18d (D-Enantiomer) Peptides Reduce Infarct Volume And Improves Behavioural Outcomes Following Perinatal Hypoxic-Ischaemic Encephalopathy In The P7 Rat, Adam B. Edwards, Jane L. Cross, Ryan S. Anderton, Neville W. Knuckey, Bruno P. Meloni

Health Sciences Papers and Journal Articles

We examined the neuroprotective efficacy of the poly-arginine peptide R18 and its D-enantiomer R18D in a perinatal hypoxic-ischaemic (HI) model in P7 Sprague-Dawley rats. R18 and R18D peptides were administered intraperitoneally at doses of 30, 100, 300 or 1000 nmol/kg immediately after HI (8% O2/92%N2 for 2.5 h). The previously characterised neuroprotective JNKI-1-TATD peptide at a dose of 1000 nmol/kg was used as a control. Infarct volume and behavioural outcomes were measured 48 h after HI. For the R18 and R18D doses examined, total infarct volume was reduced by 25.93% to 43.80% (P = 0.038 to < 0.001). By comparison, the JNKI-1-TATD reduced lesion volume by 25.27% (P = 0.073). Moreover, R18 and R18D treatment resulted in significant improvements in behavioural outcomes, while with JNKI-1-TATD there was a trend towards improvement. As an insight into the likely mechanism underlying the effects of R18, R18D and JNKI-1-TATD, the peptides were added to cortical neuronal cultures exposed to glutamic acid excitotoxicity, resulting in up to 89, 100 and 71% neuroprotection, respectively, and a dose dependent inhibition of neuronal calcium influx. The study further confirms the neuroprotective properties of polyarginine peptides, and suggests a potential therapeutic role for R18 and R18D in the treatment of HIE.

Morphological Re-Description And Molecular Identification Of Tabanidae (Diptera) In East Africa, Claire M. Mugasa, Jandouwe Villinger, Joseph Gitau, Nelly Ndungu, Marc Ciosi, Daniel Masiga

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

Biting flies of the family Tabanidae are important vectors of human and animal diseases across continents. However, records of Africa tabanids are fragmentary and mostly cursory. To improve identification, documentation and description of Tabanidae in East Africa, a baseline survey for the identification and description of Tabanidae in three eastern African countries was conducted. Tabanids from various locations in Uganda (Wakiso District), Tanzania (Tarangire National Park) and Kenya (Shimba Hills National Reserve, Muhaka, Nguruman) were collected. In Uganda, octenol baited F-traps were used to target tabanids, while NG2G traps baited with cow urine and acetone were employed in Kenya and …

Characterizing Curiosity-Related Behavior In Bottlenose (Tursiops Truncatus) And Roughtoothed (Steno Bredanensis) Dolphins, Malin Lilley, Amber J. De Vere, Deirdre Yeater, Stan A. Kuczaj Ii

Psychology Faculty Publications

Dolphins are frequently described as curious animals; however, there have been few systematic investigations of how dolphins behave when they are curious and the extent to which individual differences in curiosity exist in dolphins. Previous research has described individual differences in dolphins’ frequency of interactions with environmental enrichment as well as quantifying curiosity-related traits of dolphins via personality assessments, though behavioral observation and trait rating components have not been part of the same study. The present study describes two different experiments designed to elicit curiosity in 15 bottlenose (Tursiops truncatus) and 6 rough-toothed (Steno bredanensis) dolphins. …

Evaluation And Adaptation Of Live-Cell Interferometry For Applications In Basic, Translational, And Clinical Research, Kevin A. Leslie

Theses and Dissertations

Cell mass is an important indicator of cell health and status. A diverse set of techniques have been developed to precisely measure the masses of single cells, with varying degrees of technical complexity and throughput. Here, the development of a non-invasive, label-free optical technique, termed Live-Cell Interferometry (LCI), is described. Several applications are presented, including an evaluation of LCI’s utility for assessing drug response heterogeneity in patient-derived melanoma lines and the measurement of CD3+ T cell kinetics during hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The characterization of mast cells during degranulation, the measurement of viral reactivation kinetics in Kaposi’s Sarcoma, and drug …

Outcomes Associated With The Utilization Of Antidepressants And Psychotherapy Amongst Cancer Patients With Depression, Purva N. Parab

Theses and Dissertations

Objective: To determine patterns of use, prescription medicine costs, office-based visit costs and quality of life (QOL) across classes of antidepressants/psychotherapy in elderly cancer patients. Methods: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data files from 2005-2015 for cancer patients with depression aged 18 years or older were used for the study. Frequencies of patients under specific classes of antidepressants/psychotherapy were identified. Costs and QOL scores were compared using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Generalized linear models, linear/multinomial logistic regression were used for analyses adjusted for demographics, overall health status, number and type of comorbidities. Results: The study sample consisted of 17,671 cancer patients …

Colloidal Synthesis And Photophysical Characterization Of Group Iv Alloy And Group Iv-V Semiconductors: Ge1-Xsnx And Sn-P Quantum Dots, Venkatesham Tallapally

Theses and Dissertations

Nanomaterials, typically less than 100 nm size in any direction have gained noteworthy interest from scientific community owing to their significantly different and often improved physical properties compared to their bulk counterparts. Semiconductor nanoparticles (NPs) are of great interest to study their tunable optical properties, primarily as a function of size and shape. Accordingly, there has been a lot of attention paid to synthesize discrete semiconducting nanoparticles, of where Group III-V and II-VI materials have been studied extensively. In contrast, Group IV and Group IV-V based nanocrystals as earth abundant and less-non-toxic semiconductors have not been studied thoroughly. From the …

In Vitro Genetic Code Expansion And Selected Applications, Emil S. Iqbal

Theses and Dissertations

The ability of incorporation non-canonical amino acids (ncAAs) using translation offers researchers the ability of extend the functionality of proteins and peptides for many applications including synthetic biology, biophysical and structural studies, and discovery of novel ligands. Here we describe the three projects where the addition of ncAAs to in vitro translation systems creates useful chemical biology techniques. In the first, a fluorinated histidine derivative is used to create a novel affinity tag that allows for the selective purification of peptides from a complex mixture of proteins. In the second, the high promiscuity of an editing-deficient valine-tRNA synthetase (ValRS T222P) …