Digital Commons Network^™

Environmental Enrichment For Farmed Animals, Alexandra Schauer

Animal Law Review

Environmental enrichment standards are set in many animal welfare laws, but such protections are generally withheld from farmed animals. Instead, farmed animals are subject to substandard enclosures that are under-stimulating and inappropriate for their species-specific behavioral needs. Scientific studies have shown that the inclusion of environmental enrichment in an animal’s enclosure balances their production of stress hormones, which has beneficial implications for the overall health and wellbeing of the animal. Establishing enclosure standards for farmed animals that include provisions relating to environmental enrichment would improve farmed animal well-being and, subsequently, the health of the humans who consume products deriving from …

Saving Species Or Sacrificing Science?: Navigating The Legal Labyrinth Of Research And Conservation Through The Case Of The Long-Tailed Macaque, Maliat Chowdhury

Animal Law Review

For decades, long-tailed macaques have served an instrumental role in advancing biomedical research. However, due to the recent primate shortage in U.S. laboratories, these macaques have become coveted targets for poachers. In 2022, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) elevated the long-tailed macaque’s threat level from “Vulnerable” to “Endangered,” citing research-related capture as a critical factor contributing to their decline. Under this new status, long-tailed macaques are at risk of being categorized under Appendix I of CITES, a designation that will subject them to stricter trade regulations. Alarmed by the potential obstacles this reclassification may pose to scientific …

Animal Sentience Should Be The Key For Future Legislation, Margaret Landi, Lida Anestidou

Animal Law Review

This Article posits that changes in U.S. laws and policies regarding animal experimentation depend on the recognition of animal sentience. Sentience—distinct from cognition and self-awareness—is the ability of an animal to experience pain, pleasure, and other emotions. First, this Article reviews the reasons animals are still used in biomedical research and the relevant characteristics of U.S. law. This is followed by a discussion of sentience and the concepts of cognition and self-awareness, and a discourse on societal interests. The Article concludes with an analysis of six bioethical principles considered central to the future of animal experimentation. Overall, conferring sentience would …

The Repeal Of Religious Accommodations -- A Constitutional Analysis, Ronald J. Colombo

American University Law Review

Under modern Supreme Court jurisprudence, the First Amendment ordinarily imposes no heightened standard of review upon neutral laws of general applicability that coincidentally burden the free exercise of religion. To relieve or minimize this burden, however, lawmakers are generally free to promulgate exemptions from, or accommodations to, such laws for the benefit of religious adherents. Such accommodations are common.

When a law is not neutral with respect to religion, or when the law is not generally applicable, then it will be subject to the exacting test of strict scrutiny to the extent that it burdens the free exercise of religion. …

Targeting Children: Liability For Algorithmic Recommendations, Michal Lavi

American University Law Review

We live in the algorithmic society, characterized by massive digital surveillance and data collection by private companies exploiting human information vulnerabilities for profit. The infrastructure of free expression translates into an infrastructure of digital surveillance. This model, dubbed “surveillance capitalism,” includes massive personalized algorithmic targeting that departs from human speakers, allowing a level of influence never witnessed before in scale, scope, or depth.

Personalized targeting can garner many benefits, as it allows individuals to find content that interests them without needing to invest energy in seeking out that content. However, personalized targeting can also cause tremendous harm because it can …

Green Eggs And Law: Evaluating Dr. Seuss’ Impact On The Legal System, John Browning

American University Law Review

For decades, the simple wisdom of Dr. Seuss (a/k/a Theodore Geisel) has occupied a beloved spot in the hearts of the countless millions who grew up with his children's books and the animated specials they spawned. And since some children grow up to become lawyers and judges, it is hardly surprising to see Dr. Seuss's lessons enshrined in our legal system. Judges from trial courts to the U.S. Supreme Court have referenced Dr. Seuss's works in addressing everything from environmental concerns to personhood to inmate rights. No less a figure than U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan referenced Seuss's 1960 …

Can Edna Be Used To Locate Shawnee Hills Cavefish Forbesichthys Papilliferus?, Megan Brandt, Timothy Spier Phd, Gary Zeruth Phd

Murray State Theses and Dissertations

Traditional stream fish sampling methods, such as seining and electrofishing, are time consuming, expensive, and limited to short stretches of stream. However, the analysis of environmental DNA (eDNA) from water samples promises to be a quick, inexpensive method for detecting fish. The streams of the Land Between the Lakes Recreational Area (LBL) are unique, undisturbed streams which contain many interesting fish species for which little information exists. One such rare species is the Shawnee Hills Cavefish Forbesichthys papilliferus, which is known to exist in a few LBL streams. However, the complete distribution of the Shawnee Hills Cavefish in LBL …

Reconciliation For Africa: Resources For Ethnic Reconciliation From The Bible And History, Craig Keener, Médine Moussounga Keener

Academic Books

No abstract provided.

Guide To The Micah Salkind Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

Dr. Micah Salkind is a DJ, sound designer, curator, and author of "Do You Remember House? Chicago’s Queer of Color Undergrounds" for which these oral history interviews were collected. There are 58 interviews available online with 61 people about “house music, the rhythmically focused electronic dance sound born in the post-industrial maroon spaces of Chicago's queer, black, and Latino social dancers.” The interviews are with DJs, musicians, club owners, and publishers and were completed over the course of two years, 2013-2014.

Breaking The Silence: A Mixed Methods Study On Opioid Education, Overdose Risks, And Treatment Education Among College Students, Anita Silwal

Theses and Dissertations--Communication

The opioid crisis is a national public health emergency in the United States. Opioid education, naloxone training, and medication for opioid use disorder treatment (MOUD) are evidence-based practices to mitigate opioid overdose. The opioid crisis is affecting people of all ages, including college students. Research indicates the gap in research among college students on how they perceive this public health emergency and how it is affecting them; thus, this dissertation aims to address the gap by examining college students' knowledge, attitude, and behavioral intentions toward opioid education, naloxone training, and referral to MOUD to those struggling with opioid addiction. The …

Spop Downregulation Promotes Bladder Cancer Progression Based On Cancer Cell-Macrophage Crosstalk Via Stat3/Ccl2/Il-6 Axis And Is Regulated By Vezf1., Meiqian Li, Yangyan Cui, Qi Qi, Jiakuan Liu, Jiaxuan Li, Guifang Huang, Jiale Yang, Jingya Sun, Zhihui Ma, Shengjie Liang, Dianzheng Zhang, Jun Jiang, Rujian Zhu, Qiuli Liu, Ruimin Huang, Jun Yan

PCOM Scholarly Works

Background: Cancer cells are intimately intertwined with tumor microenvironment (TME), fostering a symbiotic relationship propelling cancer progression. However, the interaction between cancer cells and tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) in urothelial bladder cancer (UBC) remains poorly understood. Methods: UBC cell lines (5637, T24 and SW780), along with a monocytic cell line (U937) capable of differentiating into macrophage, were used in a co-culture system for cell proliferation and stemness by MTT, sphere formation assays. VEZF1/SPOP/STAT3/CCL2/ IL-6 axis was determined by luciferase reporter, ChIP, RNA-seq, co-IP, in vitro ubiquitination, RT-qPCR array and ELISA analyses. Results: We observed the frequent downregulation of SPOP, an E3 …

News And Perspectives: Words Matter In Primatology, Michelle Bezanson, Liliana Cortés-Ortiz, Júlio César Bicca-Marques, Ramesh Boonratana, Susana Carvalho, Marina Cords, Stella De La Torre, Catherine Hobaiter, Tatyana Humle, Patrícia Izar, Jessica W. Lynch, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Joanna M. Setchell, Gladys Kalema Zikusoka, Karen B. Strier

Faculty Publications

Postings on social media on Twitter (now X), BioAnthropology News (Facebook), and other venues, as well as recent publications in prominent journals, show that primatologists, ecologists, and other researchers are questioning the terms “Old World” and “New World” due to their colonial implications and history. The terms are offensive if they result in erasing Indigenous voices and history, ignoring the fact that Indigenous peoples were in the Americas long before European colonization. Language use is not without context, but alternative terminology is not always obvious and available. In this perspective, we share opinions expressed by an international group of primatologists …

Innovative Technologies In Teaching Art Disciplines In Educational Institutions, Natalia Ursu, Ivan Hutsul, Serhii Luts, Iryna Paur, Timur Takirov

Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange (JETDE)

This study concerns the urgent need for adaptation and introduction of innovative technologies for the education of creative personality, development of skills, and a deeper understanding of art forms in educational institutions in Ukraine. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of novel technologies in increasing student engagement, acquiring skills, and artistic expression in various art disciplines in educational establishments. The study applied analysis and synthesis, comparison, generalization of philosophical, psychological, and pedagogical methods, art history sources, and Internet resources to the problems under study. It was proven that the integration of innovative technologies in teaching …

Heterochrony In The Interpretation Of Stained Glass Windows: A Case Study On Light In The Church Of Orsanmichele, R.J. Maupin

International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities

In the last decade, scholars of medieval art have examined how the materiality of religious objects was seen to increase the sacredness of the rituals in which they were used. Christians in the Middle Ages understood that objects had the potential to move from the material (such as glass or gems) to the immaterial (the divine presence of God). While stained glass is a medium that is defined by the mutability of its material, scholars have focused primarily on the iconography of glass windows and the workshop practices of glaziers rather than phenomenological meanings. There is recognition of the visual …

Annual Report Town Of Center Harbor, New Hampshire For Year Ending December 31, 2023, Center Harbor Town Representatives

Center Harbor, NH Annual Reports

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

Enhancing Grade 3 Learners' Creative Writing Through Makerspace Pedagogy, Mary Sada Chanzera, Wachira Nicholas

Institute for Educational Development, East Africa

This research project explored the integration of MakerSpace interventions to enhance creative writing skills in Grade 3 learners. It addressed the challenges students face in expressing thoughts through writing, and aimed to unlock linguistic potential and stimulate imagination with interactive tools and collaborative spaces. Traditional teaching methods in Kenya often fail to foster a love for writing or produce proficient writers. Factors such as limited exposure to diverse materials and difficulty understanding English structures contribute to low motivation and poor performance. The study highlighted the need for engaging and effective teaching approaches. MakerSpace interventions offer hands-on, experiential learning that encouraged …

การปรับปรุงระบบขนส่งเพื่อการส่งออกสินค้าตู้คอนเทนเนอร์ กรณีศึกษาผู้ผลิตอาหารสัตว์สำเร็จรูป, กฤษณะพงษ์ เกตุขุนทด

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาและเปรียบเทียบแนวทางการขนส่งสินค้าเพื่อการส่งออกที่เหมาะสมสำหรับผู้ผลิตอาหารสัตว์สำเร็จรูปในประเทศไทย โดยพิจารณาแนวทางการขนส่งหลัก 3 แนวทาง ได้แก่ คลังสินค้าเช่า และทำการขนส่งด้วยรถบรรทุกทั้งหมด คลังสินค้าสร้างเองในโรงงาน และทำการขนส่งด้วยรถบรรทุกทั้งหมด คลังสินค้าสร้างเองในโรงงาน และทำการขนส่งด้วยรถบรรทุกควบคู่กับการขนส่งผ่าน สถานีบรรจุและแยกสินค้า กล่องลาดกระบัง (Inland Container Depot: ICD) เพื่อขนส่งด้วยรถไฟไปที่ท่าเรือ การประเมินต้นทุนรวมในช่วงเวลา 10 ปี ดำเนินการภายใต้สมมติฐาน 3 กรณี ได้แก่ กรณีฐาน (Base Case) ที่ปริมาณส่งออกเติบโตปีละ 2%, กรณี High Demand ที่เติบโตปีละ 6% และกรณีที่ต้นทุนปรับตัวตาม Real GDP ที่ 1.8% ต่อปี ผลการศึกษา พบว่า แนวทางที่ 1 มีต้นทุนรวมต่ำที่สุดในกรณี Base Case แต่ไวต่อความผันผวนของต้นทุน ผันแปร แนวทางที่ 2 มีต้นทุนสูงที่สุดที่เกิดจากการลงทุนสร้างคลังสินค้า แต่สามารถรองรับปริมาณที่เพิ่มสูงขึ้นจากความต้องการในอนาคตได้ ส่วนแนวทางที่ 3 แม้มีต้นทุนระดับกลางที่เกิดจากก่อสร้างคลังสินค้า แต่สามารถควบคุมต้นทุนด้านการขนส่งได้ในกรณีที่ราคาน้ำมันเชื้อเพลิงพุ่งสูงขึ้นอย่างมาก อย่างไรก็ตามจากการสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกผู้ประกอบการในหลายอุตสาหกรรม พบว่ายังมีข้อจำกัดของระบบราง เช่น ความไม่แน่นอนของรอบรถ ตารางรถไฟอาจมีการเปลี่ยนแปลงอย่างกระทันหัน ซึ่งอาจก่อให้เกิดต้นทุนแฝงและกระทบต่อความเชื่อมั่น ผลการศึกษานี้สามารถใช้เป็นแนวทางประกอบการตัดสินใจของผู้ประกอบการในการเลือกแนวทางขนส่งที่เหมาะสม และวางแผนการลงทุนเพื่อรองรับการเติบโตของการส่งออกในอนาคต

Assembly And Analysis Of Space Biofilm-Forming Bacterial Model Organisms Towards The Treatment Of Water System Biofilms, Yo-Ann VéLez Justiniano

Dissertations

Space exploration imposes unique challenges on the human body and engineered systems alike. One such challenge is the control of microbial life, specifically biofilms, within the water processor assembly of the International Space Station (ISS). This investigation aimed to determine the feasibility of using an innovative bioremediation approach to mitigate biofilm growth in the water processor assembly. This approach entails the dissemination of a desired anti-biofilm gene across the microbial population of the water processor assembly through horizontal gene transfer via conjugation. To ascertain the viability of this method, the research was divided into two primary focuses. The first part …

Across The Pond, Lisa Larrabee

Theses

"A collection of stories inspired by the author's father; from his earlier childhood in Italy, to his emigration to the US around age 10 and to his adjustment in finding a balance as an Italian-American teen in the 50s, it includes his meeting / falling in love with the author's American mother and the ensuing circumstances of the culture clash from their relationship. This collection includes 5 historical fiction stories that are based heavily on factual stories, which are chronologically connected by 9 non-fiction pieces."

Sam's Club, Cam Torrens

Mighty Pen Project Anthology & Archive

A harrowing interview with The White House, a 45 pound briefcase called 'The Football" containing presidential launch codes, and an unpaid debt to a certain grocer.

Articles, stories, and other compositions in this archive were written by participants in the Mighty Pen Project. The program, developed by author David L. Robbins, and in partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, offers veterans and their family members a customized twelve-week writing class, free of charge. The program encourages, supports, and assists participants in sharing their stories and experiences of military experience so both writer and …

“With A Little Artifice, Therefore!” The Ethics Of Aestheticization In Holocaust Documentary, Marguerite Adolf

Film Studies Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

The Capacity Of An Unfaltering Duress: America's Lost Love Stories, Seth Shimmelfarb-Wells

English Honors Papers

This thesis interrogates the imbrication between negative subjectivity and the fiction writing of Gayl Jones. In doing so, this work reimagines conceptions of intimate and interpersonal love, community, and retributive violence in the face of conditional (anti)Blackness. Through an engagement with contemporary scholars of Black Studies and with the help of the abundant archive of Black music, this project aims to prioritize, reproduce, and heed to Black Artistic registers of feeling that embrace duress, destruction, and madness. Through her literary performance, Jones reproduces and fabulates moments of Black social life that expand and simultaneously shatter our conception of a given …

The Misleading Successes Of Cost-Benefit Analysis In Environmental Policy, David E. Adelman, Amy Sinden

Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law

This Article critically examines the rise of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in environmental policy and the profound disconnect that has persisted between the actual practice of CBA and its normative grounding. Although CBA is now synonymous with rational decision-making in federal agencies, this has not always been the case. Views about CBA have evolved from bipartisan rejection in the 1970s, to partisan division (Republicans for, Democrats against) during the Reagan-Bush years, to a broad embrace of CBA in the mid-1990s, when centrist legal scholars were instrumental in crafting a new defense of CBA based on a mix of welfare economics and …

Independence Through Judicialization: The Politics Surrounding Administrative Adjudicators, 1929-1949, Lawrence J. Liu

Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law

One front in today’s battle to define the scope of the administrative state concerns the authority, status, and future of its 10,000-plus administrative adjudicators. Decisions by federal courts and the executive branch to increase the dependence of administrative adjudicators on the executive have sparked strong reactions from observers, with many advocating for measures to increase adjudicator “independence.” But who should administrative adjudicators be independent of, which ought to be independent, and why?

Calls for administrative adjudicator independence are not new. This Article draws on primary documents produced by private actors, congressional decisionmakers, and federal executive agents to present a political …

The Clean Water Act’S Nurdle-Shaped Gap: Using The Cwa To Address Primary Microplastic Pollution, Taylor Hopkins

Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law

The term “nurdles” may sound like a silly made-up word lifted from the pages of a children’s book, but unfortunately nurdles are all-too real, with trillions of these microplastics ending up in our oceans each year. Nurdles spill into the environment at every step along their supply chain, allowing them to end up in fish and on our plates. Despite the known danger nurdles pose to both wildlife and humans, they are virtually unregulated. In the absence of regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), some states and their citizens have begun trying to wrangle rogue nurdles, and hold nurdle …

Improving The Affirmative Disclosure Of Agency Legal Materials, Bernard W. Bell, Cary Coglianese, Michael Herz, Margaret B. Kwoka, Orly Lobel

Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law

It is axiomatic that in a democratic society the law must be broadly accessible. Administrative agencies produce a plethora of materials imposing legal obligations on commercial or individual actors in the private sector. Other materials bind the agencies themselves in ways that affect the rights or interests of private parties. Still other materials provide the public with information about how agencies interpret and apply the statutes and rules they administer, or how agencies seek to deploy their discretion or take other actions that can affect private individuals or organizations. This Article focuses on improving the public availability of all of …

The Kitchen In The Church Complex: Work And Sacred Space At ‘Ain El-Gedida, Dana Robinson

Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics

The fourth-century church complex at ‘Ain el-Gedida, in the Dakhleh Oasis, provides a striking case study for the integration of kitchen work into social and religious space in late antiquity. Its unique features – both sociological and archaeological – reflect a dynamic, rough-and-tumble integration that both protects the sacred space of the nave and centres the productive labour of cooking. This article analyses the anteroom/kitchen B6 from the perspectives of space syntax, the communicative landscape of labour, and the sociology of graffiti. While it may have been designed as a transitional zone or service auxiliary for the primary public spaces …

Serine Proteinase Inhibitors From Nicotiana Benthamiana, A Nonpreferred Host Plant, Inhibit The Growth Of Myzus Persicae (Green Peach Aphid), Honglin Feng, Georg Jander

Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: The green peach aphid (Myzus persicae) is a severe agricultural crop pest that has developed resistance to most current control methods, requiring the urgent development of novel strategies. Plant proteinase inhibitors (PINs) are small proteins that protect plants against pathogens and/or herbivores, likely by preventing efficient protein digestion. RESULTS: We identified 67 protease genes in the transcriptomes of three M. persicae lineages (USDA-Red, G002 and G006). Comparison of gene expression levels in aphid guts and whole aphids showed that several proteases, including a highly expressed serine protease, are significantly overexpressed in the guts. Furthermore, we identified three genes encoding …

Diving At High Altitude: O2 Transport And Utilization In The Ruddy Duck And Torrent Duck In The Andes, Kevin G. Mccracken, Graham R. Scott, Luis Alza, Andrea Astie, Ciska Bakkeren, Emil Bautista, Mariana Bulgarella, Rebecca Cheek G. Cheek, Beverly A. Chua, Neal J. Dawson, Alexis Diaz, Catherine M. Ivy, Peter B. Frappell, Cecilia Kopuchian, Sabine L. Laguë, John N. Maina, Violeta Muñoz-Fuentes, Elizabeth R. Schell, Matthew M. Smith, Ryan J. Sprenger, Pablo L. Tubaro, Elizabeth R. Schell, Matthew M. Smith, Ryan J. Sprenger, Pablo L. Tubaro, Thomas Valqui, Roy E. Weber, Daniela Wilner, Robert E. Wilson, Julia M. York, William K. Milsom

Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University

Hypoxia and cold temperatures create unique physiological challenges for high-altitude organisms that can vary depending on lifestyle. While nearly all studies of air-breathing animals at high altitude are from terrestrial species, species that breath-hold dive underwater at high altitude encounter a very different set of selective pressures influencing their phenotype. The goal of this publication is to highlight the changes in O2 transport and utilization in high-altitude diving birds relative to divers at sea level, and the extent to which these changes are qualitatively distinct from phenotypic changes in non-diving species at high altitude. For example, while high capacities for …

Louisiana Agriculture Magazine, Winter 2024, Lsu Agcenter

Louisiana Agriculture

Research at the LSU AgCenter extends well beyond the farm gate. Across 150 acres at the Hammond Research Station, experts in landscape horticulture test the best ways to grow ornamental plants and trees. In Baton Rouge, researchers study how to protect homes in the path of a hurricane. Across the state the AgCenter Healthy Communities team works to empower food pantries and improve sidewalks and other pedestrian infrastructure in rural areas.

This issue of Louisiana Agriculture focuses on these topics along with new research on soil health and high-tech delivery systems for sugarcane ripening agents. Other articles focus on the …