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An Analysis Of The Status Of Teacher Certification In The Australian Capital Territory Following The Introduction Of The Modular Model, Rohan Nethsinghe, Bernard Brown

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

This paper reports on research conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the Certification Modular Model 2.0 (CMM 2.0) offered by the Teacher Quality Institute of the Australian Capital Territory. The research evaluated the extent to which the CMM 2.0 was attractive, sustainable and developmental. The data was collected via two surveys conducted with, teachers who were prospective applicants to the CMM 2.0 and current and former certification participants. A case study method was used to conduct this research. Coding and systematic analysis were applied to the data by using the three selected categories attractive, developmental and sustainable. Most participants appreciated …

Securing Global Health: Global Citizenship And Covid-19 Awareness, Birol Bulut, Muhammed Kursat Oksuzoglu

Georgia Educational Researcher

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between prospective social studies teachers' global citizenship levels and their COVID-19 awareness levels. To do that, Relational survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, was used. The sample consisted of 409 prospective social studies teachers selected by simple random sampling method from six universities in Turkey. Global Citizenship Scale (GCS), The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Awareness Scale (CAS), and the Personal Information Form developed by the researchers were used in data collection. The t-test, Pearson Correlation Analysis and Multiple Regression Analysis were per-formed to analyze data. A positive and significant relationship …

Franchise Law, Deborah S. Coldwell, Kristina Pierre-Louis, Wes Dutton, Sam Mallick, Alexander Clark, Wilson Miller, Joe Pinto

SMU Annual Texas Survey

The 2022 Annual Texas Survey on Franchise Law presents an assortment of novel and familiar legal issues in Texas state and federal courts. This year’s Survey period contains decisions favorable to franchisors, franchisees, and third parties associated with franchised businesses on disputes involving intellectual property rights, enforceability of forum selection clauses, the essential elements of common law and statutory claims, and remedies available to franchise parties involved in litigation, among other issues. As in prior years, the Survey showcases developments in franchise law that serve as helpful reminders to practitioners advising parties involved in any stage of a franchise relationship.

The Trilogy Of Personal Jurisdiction And The Importance Of Ford, Jonathan M. Hoffman, Michaela Cloutier, Jason Proctor

SMU Law Review

Litigants and judges alike have struggled to understand and resolve the parameters of personal jurisdiction, particularly in product liability cases. This results in significant costs and time which is likely to be of little benefit to anyone.

Much of this confusion arises from two problems: (1) most of the early Supreme Court decisions on personal jurisdiction arose from contractual disputes; and (2) when the economy expanded after World War II, and new automobiles, commercial aircraft, appliances, and other complex products appeared, the Court’s attempts to resolve personal jurisdiction issues were unsuccessful. For over three decades, the Supreme Court failed to …

Data For Sale: Navigating The Role Of Data Brokers And Reproductive Health Information In A Post-Dobbs World, Heather Chong

SMU Science and Technology Law Review

Data privacy is a growing concern in our fast-paced society, as it has become increasingly necessary to relay and retain information digitally. However, the United States trails behind its counterparts in terms of the strength of existing data protection legislation. Unlike the European Union and its General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) law, the United States has no similar comprehensive data protection act. This lack of legislation has led to the exploitation of people’s private data and allowed companies to utilize loopholes in current laws to access sensitive health information. Data brokers have been collecting and reselling consumers’ personal information, including …

Fifty Years Of The Unl College Of Law Multicultural Legal Society, Anna Williams Shavers

Nebraska Law Review

I. INCREASING MINORITY STUDENT ENROLLMENT AT THE UNL COLLEGE OF LAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

II. THE EARLY YEARS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

III. MCLS SUPPORTERS AND PARTNERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

IV. IMPACT ON THE COLLEGE OF LAW . . . …

Due Process In Solitary Confinement: It’S Time To Overrule Sandin And Revise Wilkinson, Russell E. Lovell Ii

Nebraska Law Review

Sandin and Wilkinson were decided during Chief Justice William Rehnquist's tenure, and the Chief Justice played the lead role in reshaping the Court's solitary confinement caselaw over the past thirty years. It was Chief Justice Rehnquist who fashioned the “atypical, significant hardship” test in Sandin v. Conner and it would have to be exhibit 1 demonstrating the Chief Justice's “indifference to prison terrors,” to borrow Professor Judith Resnik's eloquent phrase. The Hijacking article contended that the Sandin Court totally ignored the facts of the case and time-honored settled precedent that required due process protection prior to imposition of even short-term …

Masthead & Table Of Contents, Vol. 102, No. 1

Nebraska Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Structural Harms Of Providing Mental Health Services Through The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, Heather Swadley

Nebraska Law Review

Many have proclaimed that the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act is the most sweeping gun control legislation to be passed in decades. However, the bill is not primarily a gun control bill—instead, much of the Act seeks to improve mental health services in hopes of preventing gun violence. Such a move is not rooted in established evidence, which finds little predictive value in knowing an individual’s mental health history. In fact, people with mental health disabilities are more likely to be victims of violent crimes than perpetrators. The Act therefore shifts the debate about gun reform from one about easy access …

Waivers, Keith N. Hylton

Nebraska Law Review

Waiver contracts are agreements in which one party promises not to sue the other for injuries that occur during their contractual relationship. Waivers are controversial in the consumer context, especially when presented in standard form, take-it-or-leave-it contracts. The law on waivers is inconsistent, with no doctrine or policy among the courts on enforceability. The aim of this paper is to offer a consistent set of policies that can form the foundation of a consistent set of doctrines, leading ultimately to a more consistent treatment of waivers in the courts. The most basic piece of this paper’s framework is a contract …

The Case Against Officer Fiduciary Duties, Paul D. Weitzel

Nebraska Law Review

This article argues that fiduciary duties owed by officer to shareholders are counterproductive, theoretically unsound and unnecessary in practice. Using experimental data from behavioral ethics research, the article shows that fiduciary duties expand the range of morally justifiable behavior, which increases self-serving transactions. This harm is not offset by the constraints created by fiduciary duties because officer fiduciary duties are rarely enforced and almost never result in actual damages paid by the officers themselves.

The article further shows that fiduciary duties owed by officers to shareholders are theoretically unsound. Fiduciary theory is premised on opportunism, vulnerability, entrusted assets and costly …

Masking Vulnerability: Including Ppe As A Covered Service In Health Insurance, Mary Leto Pareja

Nebraska Law Review

The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the shared vulnerability inherent in the human condition, prompting a collective recognition of our physical susceptibility to infectious diseases. While great strides have been made in combating COVID-19 through vaccinations and treatments, a portion of the population remains profoundly vulnerable due to health conditions that make the disease more dangerous, that limit vaccine efficacy, or that prevent vaccination altogether.

This article explores a path forward by proposing a solution within health benefit plans—encompassing both private health insurance and public health benefits. Specifically, the article advocates for a coverage mandate for over-the-counter personal protective equipment (PPE) …

Downstream Interests In Agriculture: The Clean Water Act’S Failure To Adequately Address Nonpoint Source Pollution, Christopher Berg

Nebraska Law Review

Agricultural runoff is a major source of nonpoint pollution in the U.S., where portions of fertilizer are carried away as runoff before polluting navigable waters. Commercial fertilizers containing heavy concentrations of nitrate and phosphate are the dominant source of nonpoint pollution. In 1972, the Clean Water Act (CWA) was implemented to protect navigable waters from discharges of point source pollutants. However, currently there are only limited provisions regarding nonpoint source pollution. Instead, regulation is left to the states through a variety of voluntary management programs. To properly address nonpoint source pollution, the CWA needs additional amendments that focus on more …

‘More Than A Woman To Me’: The Need For Gender Inclusive Language In Court Opinions And Statutes Relating To Abortion And Reproductive Health, Murphy Cavanaugh

Nebraska Law Review

After the Supreme Court of the United States returned authority to regulate abortion to the state level in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, many states began to redraft their statutes, either protecting or eliminating abortion access. In doing this, the Supreme Court intensified demands for gender-inclusive language in reproductive healthcare legislation and court opinions. The ongoing shift in discourse acknowledges the reproductive healthcare needs of transgender and nonbinary (“TGNB”) people, given the already limited access to general healthcare. This comment emphasizes the importance of genderinclusive language in the American legal system, arguing for a departure from anatomy-centered language …

Masthead & Table Of Contents, Vol. 102, No. 2

Nebraska Law Review

No abstract provided.

Sustainability Hub Newsletter - January 2023, Jacqueline Jergensen, Neyda Gilman, Jennifer Embree

Library Sustainability Resources

The January 2023 Issue of the Sustainability Hub Newsletter shares sustainable New Year's Resolutions, additions to our documentary collection, a new environmental justice mapping tool, information on the Sustainability Hub Interest Group, and a student petition for EV Chargers on campus! Also read our announcements and upcoming events!

Masks, Misinformation, And Making Do: Appalachian Health-Care Workers And The Covid-19 Pandemic, Wendy Welch

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

The firsthand pandemic experiences of rural health-care providers—who were already burdened when COVID-19 hit—raise questions about the future of public health and health-care delivery.

This volume comprises the COVID-19 pandemic experiences of Appalachian health-care workers, including frontline providers, administrators, and educators. The combined narrative reveals how governmental and corporate policies exacerbated the region’s injustices, stymied response efforts, and increased the death toll.

Beginning with an overview of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its impact on the body, the essays in the book’s first section provide background material and contextualize the subsequent explosion of telemedicine, the pandemic’s impact on medical education, and …

Deciphering Medical Errors: What Matters For Patients On Social Media, Tareq Nasralah, Omar El-Gayar, Lee W. Yang, Abdullah Hamdi Saleh Wahbeh

Research & Publications

No abstract provided.

Discovering Mhealth Users’ Privacy And Security Concerns Through Social Media Mining, Mitchell Damion, Omar El-Gayar

Research & Publications

No abstract provided.

Mining Health Informatics Job Advertisements: Insights For Higher Education Programs And Job Seekers, Ahmed Elnoshokaty, Mohammad Al-Ramahi, Omar El-Gayar, Tareq Nasralah, Abdullah Hamdi Saleh Wahbeh

Research & Publications

This paper used web scraping and data mining to analyze 831 health informatics job advertisements on indeed.com. Results showed that 87% of jobs explicitly required a college degree in a related field, 41% of jobs preferred a graduate degree, while 29% preferred or required professional certification. The analysis showed that preferred skills were analytics problem solving, communication skills, oral communication, interpersonal skills, project management, statistics, and critical thinking. The analysis also showed that college degrees, certifications, and the above-mentioned skill set are in high demand for working in the field of health informatics, especially in states with large populations and …

Conversational Agents For Mental Health And Well-Being: Discovering Design Recommendations Using Text Mining, Abdullah Wahbeh, Mohammad Al-Ramahi, Omar El-Gayar, Ahmed Elnoshokaty, Tareq Nasralah

Research & Publications

Conversational agents are increasingly being used by the general population due to shortages in healthcare providers and specialists, and limited access to treatments. They are also used by people to deal with loneliness and lack of companionship. As these apps are increasingly replacing real humans, there is a need to explore their design features and limitations for better design of conversational apps. Using text mining and topic modeling, this study analyzed a total of 126,610 reviews about Replika, a popular and well-established conversational agent mobile app. Our results emphasized current practices for designing conversational apps while at the same time …

Detection Of Prostate Cancer Using Machine Learning Techniques: An Exploratory Study, Laxmi Manasa Gorugantu, Omar El-Gayar, Nevine Nawar

Research & Publications

Prostate Cancer (PCa) is one of the most frequent cancers worldwide and the most common cancer in males. Testing for PCa remains problematic. Evidence is mounting that overdiagnosis and over-treatment can result in adverse side-effects yet have little impact in preventing death from PCa. Consequently, the importance of predictive tools that help physicians in the diagnosis of the condition cannot be understated. Though there exist several predictive models for the detection of clinically significant PCa, these models mainly depend on logistic regression. The objective of this research is to investigate the potential of various machine learning techniques to improve the …

Is Artificial Intelligence Attractive? An Empirical Study On User’S Intention To Use Ai-Enabled Applications, Omar F. El-Gayar, Gary Yu Zhao, Cindy Zhiling Tu

Research & Publications

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), and image recognition, are being incorporated into a wide variety of applications. These AI-enabled applications (AI apps) promise to reshape people's lives. However, despite the proliferation of AI-related research, very little research has focused on how AI apps' unique characteristics affect an individual's adoption behavior. This study examines factors influencing an individual's intention to use AI apps with a proposed research model based on the Task Technology Fit (TTF) as the underlying theoretical framework. The research model is empirically evaluated using the survey data and SEM method. …

Data Integration With Diverse Data: Aerospace Industry Insights From A Systematic Literature Review, Cherie Noteboom, Olga Perera

Research & Publications

Data Integration (DI) is a technical framework that facilitates the integration of different data sources into a unified system. Often, organizational data is spread across various files, databases, and personal computers, resulting in data silos and difficulties in accessing vital organizational knowledge. The solution rests in the development of Information Systems capable of handling diverse data from multiple heterogeneous sources. This study presents a systematic literature review on data integration approaches, specifically focusing on the aerospace industry. We conducted a literature search on IEEE Xplore database with keywords ‘data integration aerospace’ for articles published between January 2000 and December 2022 …

Mining Mobile Application Reviews To Inform The Design Of Anonymous Live Counseling Applications, Cherie Noteboom, Kalee Crandall, Kodey S. Crandall, Matt North

Research & Publications

Mental health issues among American youth continue to increase. Technology integration and acceptance represent modern opportunities to provide more access to licensed professionals. School counselors are mental health experts in schools uniquely positioned to provide social and emotional support to students. However, not all students have access to a school counselor or another mental health professional. In 2018, Utah developed the SafeUT app to increase services provided by school counselors and licensed clinicians to students in the state. This free mobile app provides confidential, real-time crisis intervention through an anonymous live chat and confidential tip program. Although the number of …

Power-Aware Fog Supported Iot Network For Healthcare Infrastructure Using Swarm Intelligence-Based Algorithms, Hafiz Munsab Ali, Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari, Tahir Hameed, Jun Liu, Alain Bertrand Bomgni

Research & Publications

Healthcare services become increasingly technology dependent every passing day such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Fog Computing, 5th generation (5G) and beyond communications, etc. They enable the processing and exchange of huge volumes of healthcare data whose integrity and real-time delivery are critical for healthcare services. Optimal power consumption in such essential healthcare infrastructure is critical for the well-being of patients and crucial to reduce the operational cost of healthcare facilities. In this paper, a Fog node has been introduced in an IoT healthcare infrastructure with power consumption as a key deciding factor. This work proposed a mathematical formulation …

Perception Of Bias In Chatgpt: Analysis Of Social Media Data, Abdullah Wahbeh, Mohammad Al-Ramahi, Omar F. El-Gayar, Tareq Nasralah, Ahmed Elnoshokaty

Research & Publications

In this study, we aim to analyze the public perception of Twitter users with respect to the use of ChatGPT and the potential bias in its responses. Sentiment and emotion analysis were also analyzed. Analysis of 5,962 English tweets showed that Twitter users expressed concerns regarding six predominant types of biases, namely: political, ideological, data and algorithmic, gender, racial, cultural, and confirmation biases. Sentiment analysis showed that most of the users reflected a neutral sentiment, followed by negative and positive sentiment. Emotion analysis mainly reflected anger, disgust, and sadness with respect to bias concerns with ChatGPT use.

Digital Agriculture Policies And Strategies For Innovations In The Agri-Food Systems—Cases Of Five West African Countries, Jules Degila, Frejus Ariel Kpedetin Sodedji, Hospice Gerard Gracias Avakoudjo, Souand Peace Gloria Tahi, Seton Calmette Ariane Houetohossou, Anne-Carole Honfoga, Ida Sèmévo Tognisse, Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo

All Grantees Publications

The digital transformation of agriculture can support economic growth and food and nutrition security in Africa. The objectives of this study were to provide an overview of the status of digital agriculture in five West African countries, analyze their efforts in developing the enabling environment and innovations, and formulate recommendations based on the identified gaps for the effective transformation of the sector. For this purpose, a literature search was performed using various sources, including web pages and databases of national agricultural and digital transformation institutions and start-ups of the five target countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria) …

Abundance And Flourishing In Rural Appalachia : Theological Thinking And The Local Church, Julie D. Keel

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

South Karnataka Riots Between 1998-2008 : Its Impact On Christians Then And Now, Wilson John

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.