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Nsf Collaborative Research: Developing Business Communication Skills In Manufacturing Technician Education, Andrew Bell, David Blais, April Bledsoe, James Freygang, Caleb Hale, Jon Hineman, Garrett Middleton, Robert Parker, Jessica Ramos

NSF ATE Project Case Study Collection

No abstract provided.

Salary Report, 2024 June, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Salary Reports

No abstract provided.

Salary Report, 2024 March, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Salary Reports

No abstract provided.

Art Teams: Teaching With Arts And Emerging Media Infographic, Elizabeth Valerio-Boster, Guy Trainin

Research and Evaluation in Education, Technology, Art, and Design

Infographic from Art TEAMS at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln about teaching with arts and emerging media.

Antibiotic Resistance In A Coastal River In Mississippi, Usa – Potential Drivers, Shuo Shen, Wei Wu, Eric A. Saillant, Darrell Jay Grimes

Gulf and Caribbean Research

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are major sources of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in water bodies. Most studies on the impact of WWTPs on antibiotic resistance have focused on freshwater systems, with little information on coastal and estuarine waters with variable salinity. This study monitored seasonal levels of ARGs at the effluent and downstream of the Pascagoula— Moss Point WWTP in the lower Pascagoula River, a coastal river in southeastern Mississippi, USA. Surface water samples were collected seasonally at upstream, outflow, and 3 downstream sites from February to November 2016. Bacterial resistance to sulfamethazine, tetracycline, and …

Developing A Biodiversity Management Plan For The Emu Fish Lake Environmentla Education Center, Ocean M. Thomas

McNair Scholars Research Journal

The EMU Sustainability Commission uses the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (STARS) to document sustainability practices and find areas of improvement. This study will present a biodiversity management plan designed to identify vulnerable ecosystems and species at EMU’s Fish Lake Environmental Education Center (FLEEC). This plan will improve EMU’s STARS rating and help prevent, manage, and/or remediate damage to natural habitats and sensitive areas. So far, it has been found that most organisms within the defined research area hold the IUCN Red List conservation status of “least concern”; however, the site includes nine vascular plant species with a Coefficient …

Tackling The Nitty-Gritty In Teaching Search Strategies: A Visualized Approach From A Human Cognition Perspective, Yuqi He

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2024

No abstract provided.

Post And Lintel, Fall & Winter 2024-25, Preservation Eastern

Post & Lintel

No abstract provided.

Court Review: Journal Of The American Judges Association, Vol. 60, No. 3, Eve M. Brank, David Dreyer, David Prince

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Anniversary Year Brings a Look at Our Past, Court Review Editors

The Case of Standing Bear: 15 Years After Court Review Publication, Joe Starita

The Case of Standing Bear: Establishing Personhood under the Law, Joe Starita

Perceptions and Experiences with Judicial Security Threats: A Survey of U.S. State Court Judges, Christine M. McDermott, Evan Murphy, Patrick Grimes and John Muffler

Civil Cases in the Supreme Court’s October Term 2023, Thomas M. Fisher

Editor’s Note, David J. Dreyer

President’s Column, Catherine Carlson

His Majesty the King v. Kruk: Stereotypical Reasoning and the Death in Canada of the “Rule Against Ungrounded …

Introducing Biosimilar Competition For Cell And Gene Therapy Products, Brian Canter, Sabine Sussman, Stephen Colvill, Nitzan Arad, Elizabeth Staton, Arti Rai

Faculty Scholarship

This article provides an early analysis of the potential for creating future biosimilar competition for cell and gene therapies (CGTs) to lower prices and improve patient access, building on a unique set of interviews with relevant experts. Our discussion addressed regulatory, manufacturing, intellectual property, and market size challenges. Due to CGTs’ complexity, meeting the regulatory requirement of ‘high similarity with no clinically meaningful differences’ will be difficult. Gene therapies are likely better candidates for biosimilar development than cell therapies. Biosimilarity should be met when gene therapy biosimilars contain the same genetic sequence as a reference product, and the variability in …

Lysophosphatidylcholine Acyltransferase-2 (Lpcat-2) & Protein S-Acylation In Macrophage Innate Immunity, Christian Good

School of Biomedical Sciences Theses

Lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase (LPCAT)2 is an enzyme involved in remodelling glycerophospholipids within cell membranes and the generation of platelet-activating factor. LPCAT2 also mediates lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced cytokine responses in both murine and human macrophages. Investigations into the mechanism behind LPCAT2 involvement into LPS-induced cytokine responses identified that LPCAT2 translocates to membrane lipid raft domains and associates with toll-like receptor (TLR)4 following activation by LPS. The mechanism behind this is not known, however LPCAT2 appears to have a role in regulating innate immune responses via lipid raft signalling complexes and understanding the molecular details of these mechanisms could help in the development of …

Delphi Panel For Establishing Land Use Compatibility Areas And Standards For Vertiports, David C. Ison

International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace

This study aimed to determine land use compatibility guidelines for vertiports, which are locations where vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft operate. The study employed a three-round e-Delphi panel to establish vertiport land use compatibility zones and standards. The results reached a consensus of at least 70%, providing comprehensive land use compatibility recommendations for vertiports. The study provides a foundation for vertiport land use compatibility planning, ensuring the integration of vertiports in existing communities. The findings can also increase public and local officials' awareness of the needs and requirements of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) infrastructure development. The uniformity between existing …

Non-Technical Skills Proficiency In Aviation Pilots: A Systematic Review, Seda Ceken

International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace

This systematic review aims to examine the role of non-technical competencies in pilot selection and flight operations, and explore the methods used for their assessment. It has been discerned that relying solely on technical flying skills is insufficient for a pilot; there is a growing understanding that a pilot candidate must possess and adeptly employ non-technical skills, commonly referred to as Crew Resource Management (CRM) skills. This systematic review was designed according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. For this review, a systematic search was conducted across seven databases. Seventeen publications were included in …

Annual Report Of The Selectmen/Auditors, Town Clerk/Tax Collector, Town Treasurer, Road Agent/Trustees Of The Trust Funds, Trustees Of The Library, Planning Board, Police And Fire Departments, Board Of Education, Town Of Hampstead, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2023, Together With The Vital Statistics For The Year As Prepared By The Town Clerk, Hampstead Town Representatives

Hampstead, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Nekton Community Responses To Living Shoreline Restorations In Alabama, Shelby Kuck, Christopher Grant, Matheus De Barros, Alexandra Rodriguez, Ronald Baker

Gulf and Caribbean Research

No abstract provided.

Senate Journal, Colorado General Assembly

Colorado House and Senate Journals

No abstract provided.

Warwilding: A Weapon And A Shield In The Midst Of Conflict, Lynn Ma

UC Law Environmental Journal

War disrupts the lives of people, governments, and the wider environment. The purpose of this article is to examine how rewilding and ecological planning could be applied to military logistics to enhance peace and security amid war and post-war periods. This is explored through a concept that conservationists have coined “WarWilding.” I will develop my conclusions by analyzing WarWilding case studies from active warfare and post-war zones. To evaluate the boundaries in the ethics of WarWilding, this paper will frame the analyses around provisions in the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification …

Carbon Storage Capacity Of Forests In New Jersey, Charles R. Harman, Meiyin Wu, Paul Bovitz, Elizabeth Ravit, Elizabeth Burke Watson, Daniel Gimenez

New Jersey Center for Water Science & Technology Reports

This report of the NJ Science Advisory Board Ecological Processes Standing Committee (EPSC) addresses charge questions focused on researching how the NJ Department of Environmental Protection might manage issues related to carbon content found within soil and its relationship to climate change. Whereas forests of New Jersey play a critical role in sequestering carbon which plays a direct role attempts to combat climate change, our forests are under constant pressure from a variety of natural and anthropogenic factors including damaging insects, overpopulation of browse species such as white-tailed deer, the influx of invasive plant species and impacts from development. The …

Harmful Algal Bloom Lake Management Guidance, Mike Danko, Jason Adolf, Chris Doyle, Nicole Fahrenfeld, Bob Kortmann, Fred Lubnow, Ling Ren, Nathan Ruhl, Stephen Souza, Meiyin Wu

New Jersey Center for Water Science & Technology Reports

Executive Summary: In 2021, the Division of Water Monitoring and Standards and Pesticide Control (DWMSPC) and the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) recruited a team of lakes management and cyanobacterial HAB experts to address the second component of the Governor’s HAB initiative focusing on enhancing scientific expertise and building the state’s capacity for HAB response. The HAB Expert Team’s primary objective is to provide guidance to DEP on HAB prevention, mitigation and management for NJ lakes and other waterbodies. The team has compiled a comprehensive literature review as a resource guide available here: NJDEP | Harmful Algal Blooms | …

Juvenile Dungeness Face High Predation Risk From Green Crabs Across Increased Temperatures At Different Salinities, Trever Gelling

Environmental Science and Management Undergraduate Departmental Honors Theses

Marine heatwaves, altered precipitation regimes, and other changing climate conditions are altering the abiotic conditions of Oregon's estuaries. Furthermore, warmer water temperatures are correlated with the range expansion and population growth of the invasive and broadly tolerant Carcinus maenas, the green crab, in Oregon. Metacarcinus magister, Dungeness crab, one of Oregon’s most valuable fishery species, is also facing these climate stressors, and their young that recruit to estuaries overlap with C. maenas adults. Therefore, we wanted to determine impacts of C. maenas on young-of-the-year (YOTY) M. magister and the roles of salinity, temperature, and predator size in mediating …

Breathe, Renee J Flores

Faculty and Staff Publications

This is a personal essay about breasts. It focuses on my experiences as a young girl, moving through adolescence to a history of breast cancer in my family, including my mother's breast cancer diagnosis. As a physician, patient, and wife, I reflect on the choices that I have to make and what this means for my identity as a woman and mother.

Translational Neuroscience Contributes To Understanding Neurodevelopmental Outcomes Of Dostoyevsky's "Brothers Karamazov" With Treatment Implications, Stephen I. Deutsch, Jessica A. Burket, Jeffrey Elikan Jd, David R. Spiegel

Department Psychiatry & Behavioral Science Faculty Publications

Dostoyevsky's novels raise profound ethical, moral, philosophical and theological issues and, as a result, both he and his novels serve as fertile subjects of scholarly inquiry across a variety of academic disciplines. In particular, major characters in "The Brothers Karamazov" lend themselves to classical psychodynamic formulations, such as the influence of adverse childhood experiences on adult social and occupational outcomes, which in the case of Dmitry, the eldest son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, are considered in exquisitely fine detail. Prosecutor and defense attorney provide differing interpretations of how early traumas, largely due to paternal neglect and abuse, affected Dmitry's adult …

Parting Thoughts Xxx: My Struggle With Disney And Cognitive Dissonance, Robin Lizzo

Faculty Publications - Kinesiology and Recreation

No abstract provided.

“Criminalizing” Depositions In Arbitration, Mitch Zamoff

Articles

Civil litigation–style deposition practice is preventing commercial arbitration from reaching its full potential as an economical, efficient alternative to a civil lawsuit. Although there is consensus among alternative dispute resolution experts that meaningful limits must be imposed on arbitration discovery to unlock the efficiency benefits of arbitration, depositions continue to feature prominently in commercial arbitrations for at least three reasons. First, civil litigators are addicted to depositions. They reflexively propose overdone deposition practice in arbitrations that replicates their litigation experience. Second, arbitrators may hesitate to disallow deposition discovery out of fear that their awards will be vacated for failure to …

Shareholders All The Way Down: Eu Corporate Sustainability Reforms And The Structure Of Corporate Governance, Matthew Bodie

Articles

The laws and norms of corporate law are changing across the globe. Gone are the days when scholars could confidently predict that shareholder wealth maximization would be the universal metric of corporate success. Instead, corporate leaders, governments, workers, activists, and even shareholders are looking beyond simplistic models of shareholder primacy to a broader understanding of corporate responsibility. This new approach has taken its firmest hold in the European Union, where three directives over the last decade have reshaped reporting requirements and directors’ duties in significant ways, pushing for greater accountability and attention to the needs of stakeholders.

Changes to company …

Planning For Pandemic And Epidemic-Related Scarcity Of Medicines, Sapna Kumar

Articles

This chapter proposes an ex ante approach to tackling drug scarcity. Entities funding pandemic- and epidemic-related research should contractually require recipients to produce sufficient quantities of resulting medicines. The recipient would agree in the event of a future shortage to share its technology and know-how with a qualified third-party manufacturer, in exchange for compensation. Alternatively, funding entities could more broadly utilize dormant licenses, which activate in the event of a pandemic or epidemic, and which require rights holders to license out technology and know-how to alleviate shortages. Such provisions could go even further, integrating reasonable pricing assurances and ensuring access …

Presidential Investment In The Administrative State, Nicholas Bednar, David E. Lewis

Articles

In this paper, we explain how presidents strategically invest in administrative capacity, noting that presidents have few incentives to invest effort in capacity building in most agencies. We test our account with two analyses. First, we examine the time it took for the Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden Administrations to nominate individuals to appointed positions. We find that presidents prioritize appointments to policy over management positions and that nominations occur sooner in agencies that implement presidential priorities. Second, we examine the responses of federal executives to the 2020 Survey on the Future of Government Service to see whether perceptions of …

Pioneer Tales (Vol. 8, No. 1), San Bernardino Historical & Pioneer Society

Pioneer Tales

No abstract provided.

Pioneer Tales (Vol. 8, No. 2), San Bernardino Historical & Pioneer Society

Pioneer Tales

No abstract provided.

Pioneer Tales (Vol. 8, No. 4), San Bernardino Historical & Pioneer Society

Pioneer Tales

No abstract provided.