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Big Data Visualization Through The Lens Of Peirce’S Visual Sign Theory, Alon Friedman, Martin Thellefsen

School of Information Faculty Publications

Data from social media platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, are generated by people who produce, spread, share, or exchange multimedia content. Such content may include text, images, sounds, or videos. To derive insight into the behavior of social media users, researchers often use open-source technologies to visualize data and generate models for data analytics. One of the most popular open-source applications for managing and analyzing social media data is the open-source R programming language. Friedman and Feichtinger (2017) created an R package termed ‘Peirce’s sign theory R package’ to analyze data using Peirce’s principles of discovery. Though Peirce semiotics …

The Entity Attorney-Client Privilege Meets The Twenty-First Century: Rethinking Functional Equivalent Analysis In The Time Of A Nonemployee Workforce., Grace M. Giesel

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Courts have struggled with whether an entity’s attorney-client privilege can protect communications between the entity’s lawyer and a nonemployee who has information the entity’s lawyer needs to best advise the entity. The nonemployee might be a former employee. But increasingly in recent times, the nonemployee is an individual who was never an entity employee. Corporations and other entities have incorporated nonemployees in their economic enterprises in all sorts of roles—roles employees may have held in the past. Many courts have accepted that the privilege can apply to communications involving former employees.

When faced with nonemployees who are not former employees, …

On (Not) Seeing The Chicken: Perdue, Animal Welfare, And The Failure Of Transparency, Calvin Coker, Rachel A. Coker

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

In this essay, we analyze Perdue’s animal welfare campaign from 2016 to 2020 to isolate how demands for transparency are mediated and subverted by Perdue’s public facing rhetoric. Though Perdue’s annual releases and commitments to change nominally constitute a victory for animal welfare advocates, the company’s campaign enacts transparency as a sort of publicity for the company that belies marginal gains for the lives of chickens and may ultimately result in increased meat consumption. In providing trackable metrics, offering paternalistic justifications for their treatments of chickens, and through strategic omissions of language and visuals, Perdue satisfies demands for transparency without …

Cambridge 1629 Anglican Trilogy, Dale B. Billingsley

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

In 1629, Thomas and John Buck, Cambridge University Press printers, published three texts—the Book of Common Prayer, the Bible and the Whole Book of Psalmes (known as the “Metrical Psalter”)—that were often bound together in one volume [UL], 1 one copy of which is now on permanent loan to the Archives & Special Collections of Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville. We do not know with any certainty when UL was bound, but because the KJV second edition was published in 1638, with many scholarly corrections based on the original languages, we can assume that the three texts were bound together …

Toward An Archaeology Of Manuscripts, Mark A. Mattes

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

The title of Rachael Scarborough King’s edited collection of essays, After Print, refers at once to Peter Stallybrass’s insight that printing is a provocation of manuscript, as well as to what the study of manuscripts looks like when we move away from stadial and supersessionist print culture paradigms of authorship and publication and instead embrace archival methods and interpretive approaches that center on concepts of media interrelation in early modern manuscript cultures, such as Margaret Ezell’s concept of social authorship.The essays in King’s collection, including an epilogue by Ezell herself, bear the fruits of such intermedial and transmedial approaches, bringing …

Implementation Of A Software Defined Flisr Solution On An Active Distribution Grid, Darren Leniston, David Ryan, Clem Power, Paul Hayes, Steven Davy

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

Background: The resiliency of the distribution grid is of increasing concern to the distribution system operator (DSO) due to factors such as climate change and the resulting faults caused by inclement weather conditions, leading to service disruption to consumers. Loss of service negatively affects key performance indicators (KPI) of the DSO, such as customer minutes lost (CML) and customer interruptions (CI), leading to financial penalties imposed by the regulator. Methods: In this paper we propose a software-driven Fault Location, Isolation and Service Restoration (FLISR) solution, leveraging modern software and communication technologies married with the DSO's existing infrastructure, to aid fault …

Introduction: American Fiction Abroad, Laurence W. Mazzeno, Sue Norton

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

This chapter outlines the purpose and scope of Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom: Teaching and Texts, a collection of essays offering insight into the ways students enrolled in European higher education come to understand American experience through its literary fiction. Mazzeno and Norton provide a brief history of the study of American fiction in European universities, where traditionally it has been a component of broader American Studies programs, and explore the fluidity of the concept contemporary American fiction. They explain the purpose of the collection, reflected in some way in each of the sixteen chapters included in the …

Priorities For Research On Environment, Climate And Health, A European Perspective, E. Drakvik, M. Kogevinas, Å. Bergman, A. Devouge, R. Barouki, M. Kogevinas, A. Devouge, D. Sarigiannis, D. Destoumieux-Garzón, F. Matthies-Wiesler, A. Peters, D. Zalko, C. Villanueva, C. Tonne, E. Cardis, E. Diago-Navarro, J.M. Antó, M. Foraster, M. Nieuwenhuijsen, K. Straif, K. Van Veldhoven, K. Belesova, N. Pearce, A. Haines, J. Klánová, K. Šebková, L. Pokorný, K. Hilscherová, S. Boekhold, B. Staatsen, N. Van Der Vliet

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Investor-State Tribunals In Determining The Scope And Content Of The Fair And Equitable Treatment Standard – Legitimate Expectations And Proportionality, Simon Bianchi

LL.M. Essays & Theses

In recent years, the legitimacy of the investor-State dispute settlement (“ISDS”) has been called into question and several initiatives, such as the UNCITRAL Working Group III, are currently looking at various ways to enhance such legitimacy and ensure the sustainability of ISDS. In this respect, certain scholars like Professors Sornarajah and van Harten claim that the interpretative process undertaken by investor-State tribunals has contributed to this legitimacy crisis among others because the application of vague standards, such as fair and equitable treatment (“FET”), involves applying subjective notions of what adjudicators perceive as desirable developments of investment law. By contrast, other …

Cooperation Without Convergence: Border Carbon Adjustment And Heterogeneity Of Climate Actions, Lucas Moreira Jiminez

LL.M. Essays & Theses

Border Carbon Adjustment measures (“BCAs”) were originally conceived to help solve a problem that arises when countries ask firms to internalize the costs of environmental depredation in an open economy. Environmental regulation raises costs to domestic producers who feel and are — both are relevant — disadvantaged vis-à-vis their foreign competitors subject to lower regulatory costs, in ways that impact economic competitiveness but also the effectiveness of the regulation itself, to the extent it is directed at a ‘global commons’ problem such as reducing greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions in an attempt to mitigate climate change. However, BCAs create issues of …

Conflicting Fundamental Rights Under The Indian Constitution: Analyzing The Supreme Court’S Doctrinal Gap, Nikhil Pratap

LL.M. Essays & Theses

The Constitution of India recognizes a wide variety of fundamental rights: civil and political, socio-economic, and group rights. A conflict between these rights is a common occurrence. The Supreme Court of India’s method of resolving conflicts has been ad-hoc, nebulous, and vague. The Court rarely locates the conflict at a granular level and, on the rare occasion that it does, the decision lacks comprehensive reasoning. This paper attempts to demonstrate the doctrinal, structural, and reasoning gap in the Court’s jurisprudence. The paper does so by analyzing a subset of cases where the Court has adjudicated on conflicts between the right …

The Role Of Arbitral Tribunals In Determining The Scope Of The Fair And Equitable Treatment Standard, Thomas Ferguson Whip

LL.M. Essays & Theses

Whether or not investor-State dispute settlement (“ISDS”) faces a “legitimacy crisis,” there is a “growing consensus” that it requires reform. The development of the fair and equitable treatment standard (“FET standard”) by arbitral tribunals been a salient factor in fomenting this consensus and is the subject of several reform proposals. A number of scholars, including Professors Sornarajah and Gus van Harten, claim the interpretative process undertaken by tribunals in relation to the FET standard has contributed to ISDS’ legitimacy crisis because it involves applying subjective notions of what adjudicators perceive to be desirable developments of the law. On the other …

From The Field: Using A Simple Guide To Help Students Write Better Abstracts., Rochelle H. Holm, Anna Karin Roo

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) often write abstracts for research assignments but may not understand the purpose of an abstract. This paper presents the pilot of a simple guide for writing abstracts which gave student support to two undergraduate Malawian ELL students for their undergraduate research assignment. The two students and the instructor found the handout was helpful for the students to develop technical writing skills for the abstracts.

Sars-Cov-2 Rna Abundance In Wastewater As A Function Of Distinct Urban Sewershed Size., Rochelle H. Holm, Anish Mukherjee, Jayesh P. Rai, Ray A. Yeager, Daymond Talley, Shesh N. Rai, Aruni Bhatnagar, Ted Smith

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

During the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater-based epidemiology has emerged as a promising approach for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 prevalence on a community-level. Despite much being known about the utility of making these measurements in large wastewater treatment plants, little is known about the correlation with finer geographic resolution, such as those obtained through sewershed sub-area catchments. This study aims to identify community wastewater surveillance characteristics between sewershed areas that affect the strength of the association of SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection in a metropolitan area. For this, wastewater from 17 sewershed areas were sampled in Louisville/Jefferson County, Kentucky (USA), from August 2020 to April 2021 …

2022 State Of Metropolitan Housing Report: Towards A Just Housing Future In Uncertain Times., Lauren Heberle, Kelly Kinahan, Rebecca Halpryn, C. Johnson, M. Neal

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Judith S. Kaye: A Chief Judge For Families And Children, Andrew Shepard

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Sorry, They Were On Mute: The Sec’S “Token Proposal 2.0” As Blueprint For Regulatory Response To Cryptocurrency, J. Scott Colesanti

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

In 2008, as the world dreaded economic meltdown, one or more anonymous individuals titled "Nakomoto" posted a scientific white paper on the Internet. "Bitcoin" was thus born. That name - uttered but once in the white paper- would go on to define a movement, a market, and a mountain.

By late 2010, approximately 100 bitcoin had been mined; two years later, that number approached 10 million, and a second crypto had emerged. By 2018, bitcoin traded at over $18,000 per coin; a year later, that market value had plummeted to less than $5,000. Concurrently, tales of digital asset fortunes lost …

Choosing Death, Shaping Death: Assumptions About Disabilities, Race, And Death, Janet L. Dolgin

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

This article considers two legal cases and the stories that developed around them. Both the cases and their stories involved issues of significance to the larger society - death and bias. Each concern has occasioned confusion and debate in its own right. When these issues are combined, confusion and debate are intensified. This Article examines the complicated interplay between bias and decisions about death and dying in the U.S. health care system. Further, it reviews intersecting claims about the importance, respectively, of autonomy and community in resolving disputes about the topics of death and dying.

Transactional Clinical Support For Mutual Aid Groups: Toward A Theory Of Transactional Movement Lawyering, Michael Haber

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

In response to the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring and summer of 2020, thousands of grassroots, participatory, and often social movement-connected community efforts to help feed and care for one another through the crisis were launched, many of which identified their projects as 'mutual aid'. This article tells the story of how the Hofstra Law School Community Economic Development ("CED") Clinic has provided legal support and information to hundreds of these COVID-19 mutual aid groups. The article briefly reviews Professor Dean Spade's 2020 book Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), contrasting it …

Wrongful Imprisonment And Coerced Moral Degradation, G. Alex Sinha, Janani Umamaheswar

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Despite the ever-growing number of exonerations in the U.S.— and the corresponding surge in scholarly interest in wrongful convictions in recent years—research on the carceral experiences of wrongfully-convicted persons remains strikingly limited. In this essay, we draw on in-depth interviews with 15 exonerated men to explore the moral dimensions of the experience of wrongful imprisonment. We argue that imprisonment entails what we refer to as “coerced moral degradation,” whereby innocent men’s self-preservation efforts in prison require them to feign being—and at times actually become— morally worse people. We argue that these findings speak to the fundamental question of what the …

The Elephant In The Room In Clinical Scholarship: Ethical Guardrails And Case Histories, Theo Liebmann, Stefan H. Krieger

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Lawyers know how to tell a good story and are expected, encouraged, and even ethically required to use that skill on behalf of their clients. More and more, lawyers and legal academics are now using their clients' stories to advance goals that go far beyond achieving a client's objectives: exposing inequities with regard to access to justice; educating the public about the functioning and limitations of the legal system; raising the quality of lawyering; and improving our system of legal education. Unfortunately, the increase in the use of case histories to achieve such laudable goals has not been paired with …

2015 Blue Star Families Military Family Lifestyle Survey: Executive Summary, Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University, Blue Star Families

Institute for Veterans and Military Families

This brief is the Executive Summary for the 2015 Military Family Lifestyle Survey.

Application Of Accentuated Eccentric Loading To Elicit Acute And Chronic Velocity And Power Improvements: A Narrative Review, Justin Merrigan, Jonathon Borth, Christopher B. Taber, Timothy J. Suchomel, Margaret Jones

Exercise Science Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Valence Bond Glass State In The 4d 1 Fcc Antiferromagnet Ba2Lumoo6, O. H.J. Mustonen, H. M. Mutch, H. C. Walker, P. J. Baker, F. C. Coomer, R. S. Perry, C. Pughe, G. B.G. Stenning, C. Liu, S. E. Dutton, E. J. Cussen

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

B-site ordered 4d¹ and 5d¹ double perovskites have a number of potential exotic ground states including multipolar order, quantum spin liquids and valence bond glass states. These arise from the complex interactions of spin-orbital entangled J_eff = 3/2 pseudospins on the geometrically frustrated fcc lattice. The 4d¹ Mo⁵⁺ perovskite Ba₂YMoO₆ has been suggested to have a valence bond glass ground state. Here we report on the low temperature properties of powder samples of isostructural Ba₂LuMoO₆: the only other known cubic 4d¹ perovskite with one magnetic cation. Our …

Thyroid Cyst Grows E. Coli, Clarissa Hayes, Marc Stezzi Do, Emily C. Skutnik Do, Trevor Scheckelhoff, Henry Lam Do, David Egeler, Jeffrey Wright Do, Gretchen A. Perilli Md

Department of Medicine

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of 5g Implementation On The Aspects Of Sustainability In The Air Transportation Industry, Leila Halawi, Douglas Ashlock, Lucy Elias, Hannah Puchkoris, Anthony Williams

Publications

The concern of 5G C-band frequency interference with global aviation operations was founded on the criticality of a single-point failure with the radio altimeter operations. The research in this report intends to highlight the severe impact of 5G C-band implementation on the air transportation industry. It focuses on one airport in the United States, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), one of the busiest airports in the country, flying both domestically and internationally. The results show that Boeing aircraft are affected more than Airbus for 5G interference. Further, the findings show that the United States should align its 5G implementation with other …

Cannabinoid Use And Total Hospital Cost In Patients With Cirrhosis: A Study Based On Nationwide Inpatient, Rajesh Essrani Md, Muhammad Usman Zafar, Zahid I. Tarar, Umer Farooq, Jiten Kothadia

Department of Medicine

No abstract provided.

Trapped On The Eve Of War, 1941: Stalin And His Generals Failing Separately And Together, Cynthia A. Roberts

Publications and Research

This chapter examines Soviet military planning and preparedness on the eve of Germany’s June 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. Drawing on archival evidence and post-Soviet scholarship, it reassesses explanations for the Red Army’s catastrophic initial defeats. It argues that the General Staff’s unrealistic offensive plans and force posture conflicted with Stalin’s political strategy of deterrence and war avoidance. This mismatch, rooted partly in the Soviet military’s organizational preference for offensive operations and flawed assumptions about mobilization and the initial period of war, increased Soviet vulnerability to surprise attack. The chapter considers the development of Soviet war plans in 1940–1941, …

Kompetencje Organu Regulacyjnego Do Określania Opłat Za Dostęp Do Infrastruktury Kolejowej W Orzecznictwie Trybunału Sprawiedliwości Glosa Do Wyroku Trybunału Sprawiedliwości Z 9 Września 2021 R., C‑144/20, As „Latrailnet” I Vas „Latvijas Dzelzcelš” Przeciwko Valsts Dzelzcela Administracija, Ewelina Nieznalska, Anna Głusiec

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Niniejsza glosa dotyczy wyroku TSUE z 9 września 2021 r. C‑144/20 w sprawie LatRailNet i Latvijas dzelzceļš, dotyczącego kompetencji organu regulacyjnego do określania opłat za dostęp do infrastruktury kolejowej, w tym w szczególności w zakresie uprawnienia organu regulacyjnego do przyjęcia z własnej inicjatywy decyzji zobowiązującej przedsiębiorstwo wykonujące podstawowe funkcje zarządcy infrastruktury kolejowej do wprowadzenia zmian do systemu pobierania opłat za infrastrukturę.

Introduction, Jirayudh Sinthuphan

Asian Review

No abstract provided.