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Year In Review 2020-2021, Dugoni School Of Dentistry

Dugoni Academic Year in Review

Highlights of academic programs, clinical services, research, community outreach and other areas of University of the Pacific's Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry.

“It’S Not Really Hate Crime” – Reframing Hate Crime As Not Police Business” – Police Narratives Of Resistance And Denial, Timothy Bryan, Lorretta Trickett

Journal of Hate Studies

Within a global pandemic and increased questioning of police utility and legitimacy around racism and violence against women and girls (VAWG), this article examines the gap between police policy and practices on hate crime. Based on research with police forces in Canada and the UK, it demonstrates how police officers view hate crime through a policing rather than victim-centred mandate. Without reframing hate crime as a public and community safety issue, hate crime policies and procedures designed to ‘take hate crime seriously’ are unlikely to do just that. Real ‘commitment’ is needed to tackle hate crime as part of the …

Covid-19 Newsletter (Vol. 89), Center For Disaster Medicine, New York Medical College

COVID-19 Newsletter

No abstract provided.

New Mobile Safety App Use Encouraged For Um Students, Employees, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

Everbridge provides emergency communications, COVID-19 updates, live bus routes and more

State V. Yehle Respondent's Brief Dckt. 48515

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

Immigration Detention As An Obstacle To Decarceration, Pedro Gerson

San Diego Law Review

Criminal legal reform and measures to reduce carceral populations have received increasing media and public policy attention nationwide. These efforts have mainly ignored a parallel development: the consistent rise in the use of immigration detention over the last decade. This Article bridges that gap by arguing that ongoing efforts to decarcerate states and localities may be foiled by immigration detention. This argument relies on three different descriptive claims. First, much scholarly work has shown the extent to which vested interests have hampered criminal legal reform; these same interests could look to immigration detention as an alternative protection. Second, the extent …

Defamation Per Se Cases Should Include Guaranteed Minimum Presumed Damage Awards To Private Plaintiffs, Steven A. Krieger

San Diego Law Review

To combat the reputational harm associated with defamatory comments, forty states allow plaintiffs to recover presumed damages for reputational harm for defamatory statements considered “per se” defamation without having to prove the exact dollar figure associated with their reputational damages. While damages are presumed to a plaintiff’s reputation in a successful defamation per se lawsuit, the spectrum of presumed damages is so wide that there is almost no practical way for a plaintiff to reliably know the size of a presumed damages award, especially a lower-income plaintiff. Plaintiffs cannot evaluate the financial merit of a defamation lawsuit, which removes the …

Governors State University Student Handbook 2021-2022, Student Affairs And Services

Student Handbooks

As members of the Governors State University community, it is important that we all know what to expect of one another and how we make our shared values come to life every day. Our mission is not a static statement – it is what we live by. Any well-functioning community must have a set of values; this Handbook is meant to serve as a guide not only for our students, but also for faculty, staff, and administrators to ensure that all members of our community, are informed about policies, procedures, rights, and privileges.

Our Student Code of Conduct, along with …

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2021

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Reforming State Bail Reform, Shima Baughman, Lauren Boone, Nathan H. Jackson

Utah Law Faculty Scholarship

We are waist-deep in the third wave of bail reform. Scholars, policy makers, and the public have realized that the short period of detention before trial creates ripple effects on a defendant’s judicial fate and has lasting impacts on our system of mass incarceration. Over 200 proposed bail bills are pending throughout the states. This is not the first period of bail reform in America—two previous waves of bail reform in the 1960s and 1980s have both ended in increased pretrial detention for defendants. Some of the recent efforts in the third wave of bail reform have also increased detention …

Vol. 38, No. 4, Jane Flanagan, Scott Lerner

The Illinois Public Employee Relations Report

Pandemic State: Navigating the State of Illinois' Response to the Challenges of Covid-19 in the Workplace

by Jane Flanagan and Scott Lerner

Recent Developments

Thin Safety Margin: The Sefor Super-Prompt-Critical Transient Experiments, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas 1970–1971, Jerry Havens, Collis Geren

Arkansas Scholarly Editions

Thin Safety Margin charts the history of SEFOR, a twenty-megawatt reactor that operated for three years in the rural Ozark Mountains of Arkansas as part of an internationally sponsored program designed to demonstrate the Doppler effect in plutonium-oxide-fueled fast reactors. Authors Jerry Havens and Collis Geren draw upon this history to assess the accidental explosion risk inherent in using fast reactors to reduce the energy industry’s carbon dioxide emissions.

If a sufficiently powerful fast-neutron explosion were to cause the containment of a reactor such as SEFOR’s to fail, the reactor’s radiotoxic plutonium fuel could vaporize and escape into the surrounding …

An Adaptive Hazard Planning And Mitigation Framework For Responding To Urban Contamination In Karst Aquifer Systems, James Edward Troxell

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Environmental hazards in karst regions are damaging and often go unnoticed until an issue has escalated to a point of affecting life or property. The field of emergency and environmental contamination response lacks planning or preparedness focused on remediating groundwater contamination in karst systems. A lack of preplanning before an incident can lead to confusion, delayed response, and the inability to remediate the contaminant. Due to the rapid movement of contaminants through urban karst groundwater aquifers, an efficient response plan that leverages localized data in a GIS should be developed and maintained in order to adequately respond. The objective of …

The Motive To Work: Assessing Organizational Motivation Within The Federal Probation System, Aleda M. Thomas

Dissertations

Competition within the United States workforce is growing at an unprecedented rate. Turnover rates of all organizations and businesses have reached an all-time high. According to the U.S. Labor Department, 4.3 million Americans quit their job in the month of August alone. Times have shifted to where the ball no longer resides on the side of employers, but now it resides with employees. As such, it is vital to ensure workplaces are enjoyable and encompass cultures that produce high levels of motivation, satisfaction, and engagement. As such, the retention of skilled and qualified employees must be at the forefront of …

Annual Security And Fire Safety Report (Asfsr), Lindenwood University

Security Reports

Report prepared by the Department of Public Safety and Security Includes Policy Statements for the 2021-2022 Academic Year and Crime Statistics for Calendar Years (CYs) 2018, 2019 & 2020

Arming Goliath: Independent Craft Beer Is In Jeopardy At The Intersection Of A First Amendment Circuit Split, The Twenty-First Amendment, And The Erosion Of Tied-House Laws, Daniel J. Croxall

Florida State University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Ethicality Of Data Mining And Predictive Analytics, Sophie Roper

Undergraduate Research (Journal)

No abstract provided.

Sacred Heart University Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 1, Sacred Heart University

Sacred Heart University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Center For Real Estate Quarterly, Volume 17, Number 7, Portland State University. Center For Real Estate

Center for Real Estate Quarterly

Table of Contents:
-- Economic Analysis by Jerry Johnson
-- Portland’s Midas Touch and the Housing Market by Gerard C.S. Mildner
-- The Office Market by Anthony Bertenelli
-- The Industrial Market by Rodrigo Flores
-- The Retail Market by Rodrigo Flores
-- The Multifamily Residential Report by Jason Guralnick
-- Housing Production by Jordan Mulvihill
-- Ownership Housing Market by Parker Webb
-- Renter Assistance by Dan Noyes
-- Rental Evictions by Rachel Luoto
-- Inclusionary Housing by Nate Grein

Redefining What It Means To Be A ‘Warrior’: Dismantling Mental Health Stigma In Law Enforcement From The Classroom To The Academy, Maeve Lyons

Criminology Student Work

No abstract provided.

Employee Policy Handbook October 2021, Sacred Heart University

Handbooks & Factbooks

No abstract provided.

"Agents Of Change" – Lessons Learned From The Nation’S First Undergraduate Civil Rights Advocacy Clinic, Kath E. Rogers, Olu K. Orange

Experiential Learning & Teaching in Higher Education

How can universities support their students in pursuing civil rights activism? In doing so, how can universities prioritize students from marginalized communities who are most affected by justice issues? This paper will explore lessons learned from the nation’s first civil rights clinic at the undergraduate level. Responding to the urgency of our time, the University of Southern California, Dornsife College, launched "Agents of Change: Civil Rights Advocacy Initiative” in January 2021 to support students in addressing civil rights challenges in the Los Angeles community. This paper will discuss the importance of the civil rights activism clinical model at the college …

Harding Magazine Fall 2021 (Vol. 29, No. 3), Harding University

Harding Magazines

Publication distributed to alumni and friends of the university.

A Curriculum Model For Multidisciplinary Training Of Midwife Sonographers In A Low Resource Setting, Sudhir Vinayak, Marleen Temmerman, Geert Villeirs, Sharon M. Brownie

Imaging & Diagnostic Radiology, East Africa

In many low-resource settings, less than 5% of pregnant women can access ultrasound during pregnancy. Thus, gestational age is often difficult to determine, multiple pregnancies are diagnosed late and foetal and pregnancy-related anomalies can go undetected. A pilot solution was designed beyond the traditional approach of increasing numbers of qualified radiologists, gynaecologists and sonographers. An innovative Human Resource for Health (HRH) task sharing, and maternal child health (MCH) workforce training and capacity building initiative was designed, involving development and testing of a curriculum to train midwife sonographers via a teleradiology innovation platform and a partnership between specialist radiologists, sonographers and …

Democracy Avoidance In Tax Lawmaking, Clint G. Wallace

Faculty Publications

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was the most significant tax law in more than three decades, but the strategy for getting it enacted included a variety of maneuvers to avoid public scrutiny. As a result, many taxpayers did not know how they would be affected until they filed their own tax returns more than a year later. This Article identifies this lack of transparency as part of a persistent pathology of avoiding and constraining democratic inputs and responsiveness in U.S. federal tax lawmaking. Indeed, some scholars and policy makers have sought to channel tax lawmaking away from democratically grounded …

Should We Wear A Mask? Household Assessment Of Mask Wearing For Covid-19 In Ya’An, China, Leonard Peterson

Dissertations

In late 2019 and 2020, the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus spread worldwide and resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic, the second deadliest pandemic in modern history since the 1918 influenza pandemic. Since the virus was novel, no therapeutics and vaccines existed. Effective implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions was essential to reducing the transmission of the disease until the discovery of effective therapeutics and vaccines. This study explores the influence of the facilitating protective action attribute on adopting mask-wearing as a protective action in Ya’an, Sichuan Province, China. The study found that perceptions of mask effectiveness to reduce the probability of contracting and spreading …

Nebraska Transcript (University Of Nebraska College Of Law), Fall 2021

Nebraska Transcript

Dean's Message

Lovell making a difference through civil rights advocacy 12

Russell Lovell, ’69, executive summary of forthcoming article 16

Beard named editor-in-chief of Woomera Manual 4

Tech Refactored Podcast hits milestones 6

Shoemaker earns Carnegie Fellowship to explore rural futures 8

Immigration Clinic students hold second annual naturalization clinic 19

Nebraska Law joins national police practices effort 20

Professor Eric Berger: Examining lethal injection 22

Grant expands access to attorneys in rural areas 24

Clinical Legal Education Association recognizes Dugger, Lengeling, O’Neill and Sonnenfeld 26

Murga Rios awarded Immigrant Justice Corps fellowship 28

Faculty Notes 30

Professor Kyle Langvardt: …

Think In The Domain And Scope Of Information Application In The New Era, Mingwei Tang, Ruijuan Jiang, Xiaorong He, Xingshan Yao

Journal of Scientific Information Research

[Purpose/significance]Provide ideas and references for the application study of information science in the new era.[Method/process]The paper makes a literal reviews on information science application studies from development changes,influence domains and scopes and changes of analysis methods to analyze changes of information science in the new era.According to these changes,it analyzes the impact and influence scopes of information application from the six domains which are scientific research,military affairs, public safety, science and technology,economics and decision support.And six related cases are used to explain the application methods and process of information application on the relevant domains.[Result/conclusion]The cases study shows that the domains …

Usf School Of Architecture And Community Design, Wimauma Community Plan, October 2021, Taryn Sabia, Maggie Winter

School of Architecture and Community Design

The Hillsborough County and the Planning Commission launched the Wimauma long-range community design process to update the 2008 Community Plan. The initiative emphasizes participatory design and consensus building while aiming to guide future growth, coordinate investments, and provide a policy framework for revitalizing Wimauma Village Residential-2 with a clear, shared community vision.

Fall 2021, Echoes Staff

Rose Echoes

No abstract provided.