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The Ai-Robotic Prescription: Legal Liability When An Autonomous Ai Robot Is Your Medical Provider, Erika Sophia Grossbard

University of Miami Business Law Review

As AI-driven healthcare accelerates, lawmakers must race against time to establish vital regulations, striving to protect patient safety in an era of increasingly autonomous medical devices. The real challenges arise when an automated AI medical device harms a patient during medical care, and the law has yet to clarify how liability should be allocated among its stakeholders. Currently, semi-autonomous robots are diagnosing medical conditions and performing surgeries. Eventually, autonomous AI medical providers will enter the market, capable of making independent medical decisions and providing treatment. These autonomous robots will function more like medical practitioners rather than merely as assistive tools …

Auctor Ex Machina: Artificial Intelligence And Authorship In Zarya Of The Dawn, Julianna Simpson

Journal of Business & Technology Law

No abstract provided.

Pepperbox - February 7, 2025, Student Newspaper Of Arcata High School

The Pepperbox

Volume 97, Number 4

The Comment, February 7, 2025, Bridgewater State University

The Comment

No abstract provided.

The Ethical Governance Of Artificial Intelligence: Using The Ai Integrative Risk-Based (Airb) Model To Achieve Compliance Risk Management, Miriam Weismann

University of Miami Business Law Review

While undeniably powerful, artificial intelligence algorithms also pose significant risks. The ethical, legal, social, and scientific implications of various AI models can be profound, as demonstrated by the subprime mortgage crisis. This crisis, worsened by the unregulated use of derivative algorithms, is a stark reminder of the pivotal role of individual accountability, ethical responsibility, and regulation in preventing future “catastrophic harm.”1 This Article ventures into the uncharted territory of AI ethical governance and aims to advance AI scholarship and address the unresolved issue of ethical compliance management in AI. Employing a risk-based assessment tool is critical for developing regulatory and …

Cherokee Removal Along The Trail, 1838-1839: Separating Fact From Fiction, John Norman Patterson

Masters Theses

The misinformation and misunderstandings concerning Cherokee Indian removal has resulted from how subsequent generations of historians and Cherokees have talked and written about it. The historiography of Indian removal is quite extensive but with respect to Cherokee removal not so much because most of the original documents kept by the Cherokees unexplainably disappeared in the nineteenth century. The drought of 1837-1838 was used as an excuse by John Ross and Lewis Ross to insist that the northern route be used to remove the remaining Cherokees to Indian Territory. Evidence presented clearly demonstrates that both men sought to enrich themselves at …

Ecological Influences On Informal Property Rights: Experimental Evidence, Erik O. Kimbrough

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

This paper explores the possibility that informal property right systems evolve unique features as a function of the characteristics of the resources over which they are established. We develop an experimental environment that allows us to test this hypothesis by comparing the emergence of property in (virtual) land when resource yields are either high- or low-variance and renewable or non-renewable. Previous research suggests that high-variance resources may lead to relatively insecure claims to property. Intuition suggests that this may be amplified when those resources are renewable. The experiments confirm that informal property rights adapt to resource characteristics in a manner …

Kenyon Collegiate - February 7, 2025

Kenyon Collegiate

No abstract provided.

The Diamond, February 7, 2025, Dordt University

Dordt Diamond

• Front Page: Dordt Theatre Department Attends KCACTF 57; Saved by Grace: Rival Teams United in Remembrance of Aden De Jong; Dordt Students React to Airliner Plane and Helicopter Crash in Washington DC
• News: New Locations for PLIA Trips; Op-Ed: Winter Boots, Virtue Signals, and Censorship?
• Feature: "Learning About Movies" Dr. Matthews' Online Engagement with Cinema; "Flow with the Father" Kicks Off New Women's Ministry; Senior Spotlights; Dordt Sustainability Efforts
• Opinion: The Bachelor - It's Back on TV, But Why?; Nosferatu Review; A Broken Cycle: Laundry at Dordt Needs to Change; Why Do the Chiefs Keep Winning? …

Corn Tolerance To Florpyrauxifen-Benzyl Rates And Its Mixture With Atrazine And Mesotrione, Amar Godar, Jason K. Norsworthy, L. Tom Barber

Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Florpyrauxifen-benzyl is a new synthetic auxin herbicide labeled in rice with a broad spectrum of control, typically more potent on broadleaf weeds. It has garnered some interest as a potential broadleaf weed control option for use in corn at low rates. Field experiments were conducted in Fayetteville, Arkansas, from 2019 through 2021 to examine the response of corn to postemergence applications of florpyrauxifen-benzyl at three rates (7.5, 15, and 30 g ae ha-1), as well as mixtures of the herbicide with atrazine (at half or full rate), mesotrione, or a combination of atrazine (at half rate) and mesotrione. Injury and …

Evaluation Of Soybean Response To Sulfur Fertilizer Rates And Sources, Md Enamul Haque Moni

LSU Master's Theses

Sulfur (S) deficiency has become a significant concern for producers due to over 90% reduction in atmospheric-S deposition since the “Clean Air Act” was established. Soil organic matter, another key source of S, is steadily declining due to continuous tillage. So, we evaluated soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] yield and leaf-S concentration responses to six fertilizer-S rates (0, 11, 22, 34, 45, and 67 kg S ha⁻¹) across 50 site-years, and six fertilizer-S sources (no-S check, Ammonium Sulfate (AMS), Sul4r-Plus/Gypsum, K-Mag, Tiger90CR, and Poly4) across 9 site-years in Louisiana from 2023-2024. In S rate study, soybean yield responded positively to …

Tdp43 Negtively Regulates Tbk1-Medicated Ifn1 Production Through Irf7 Pathway In Neurodegenerative Diseases, Wenjuan Zhang, Zhen Yi, Daihe Yang, Yifan Hao, Feng Zhou, Guohua Song, Cao Huang, Yun Zhou, Bo Huang

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

Mutations in the genes encoding TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP43) or TANK- binding kinase 1 (TBK1) have been strongly associated with neurological disorders, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia. TDP43 is a key component of pathological protein aggregates found in more than 90% of ALS cases, while TBK1 plays a critical role in innate immune signaling and autophagy. Despite these associations, the precise molecular mechanisms linking TDP43 or TBK1 dysfunction to neurodegeneration remain poorly understood. The present study examined the impact of TDP43 on TBK1-mediated type I interferon (IFN1) production in HEK-293T cells. The findings demonstrated that co-expression …

Additional Geographic Records Of Dekay’S Brownsnake (Storeria Dekayi) In Nebraska, Including A Late Seasonal Observation And Likely Range Expansion, Lauren Bahe, Dan D. Fogell, Keith Geluso

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Dekay’s Brownsnake (Storeria dekayi) occurs across much of eastern North America, inhabiting diverse environments such as marshes, woodlands, woodland edges, and urban areas. In Nebraska, recent studies documented its presence beyond the extreme southeastern region of the state, indicating a potential range expansion to the west and north. Our study continues to update its distribution with four additional county records. Two counties, Franklin and Harlan, represent the farthest west observations for Dekay’s Brownsnake in the state, further indicating a likely westward expansion. An observation from 6 December 2023 also represents the latest seasonal observation in the state. Despite …

The Impacts Of Software Development Methodologies On New Model Success Rate In The U.S. Automotive Industry, Marquita Aleatrice Tucker

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Since 2017, the U.S. automotive industry has experienced a decrease in new-model launch success rate. A single 12-month delay in a new vehicle launch may cost a manufacturer up to $200 million. One component of automotive product development is software development. The research problem was a lack of understanding of the challenges with software development methodologies from the perspective of software developers, preventing managers from implementing methodologies, policies, and processes to improve the rates of successful new model launches. The purpose and the research questions were focused on exploring the lived experiences of software developers in the U.S. automotive industry …

Beyond The Closed-Forest Paradigm: Cross-Scale Vegetation Structure In Temperate Europe Before The Late-Quaternary Megafauna Extinctions, Elena A. Pearce, Florence Mazier, Charles W. Davison, Oliver Baines, Szymon Czyzewski, Ralph Fyfe, K Binka, Steve Boreham, Jacques Louis De Beaulieu, Cunhai Gao, Wojciech Granoszewski, Anna Hrynowiecka, Małgorzata Malkiewicz, Tim Mighall, Bożena Noryśkiewicz, Irena Agnieszka Pidek, Jaqueline Strahl, Hanna Winter, Jens Christian Svenning

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Last Interglacial (∼129,000–116,000 years ago) provides key insights into temperate European vegetation dynamics before significant anthropogenic impacts. Using LOVE (Local Vegetation Estimates) and REVEALS (Regional Estimates of VEgetation Abundance from Large Sites) models, this study reconstructs vegetation patterns across local (∼9 km²) and regional (∼100 km²) scales. Local landscapes presented a heterogeneous mosaic, with averages of 17 % open vegetation, 21 % closed forests, and 63 % light woodlands, reflecting high fine-scale heterogeneity. Importantly, weak local-regional correlations highlight the importance of localised drivers. Longitude and, to a lesser extent, precipitation explained some variation in local vegetation openness, but heterogeneity …

Sc Poster Guide, Extension

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.

Guest Artist Recital Series; Winterreise: February 7, 2025, Nathan Windt, Marian Lee, Randal Richmond

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts

February 7, 2025

Friday Evening

7:00 p.m.

A Synthetic Chronogenetic Gene Circuit For Programmed Circadian Drug Delivery, Lara Pferdehirt, Anna R Damato, Kristin L Lenz, Maria F Gonzalez-Aponte, Daniel Palmer, Qing-Jun Meng, Erik D Herzog, Farshid Guilak

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Circadian medicine, the delivery of therapeutic interventions based on an individual's daily rhythms, has shown improved efficacy and reduced side-effects for various treatments. Rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory diseases are characterized by diurnal changes in cytokines, leading to inflammatory flares, with peak disease activity in the early morning. Using a combination of synthetic biology and tissue engineering, we developed circadian-based gene circuits, termed "chronogenetics", that express a prescribed transgene downstream of the core clock gene promoter, Period2 (Per2). Gene circuits were transduced into induced pluripotent stem cells that were tissue-engineered into cartilage constructs. Our anti-inflammatory chronogenetic constructs produced therapeutic concentrations …

Bacterial Community Assembly Of Specific Pathogen-Free Neonatal Mice, Elizabeth A Kennedy, James S Weagley, Andrew H Kim, Avan Antia, Anna L Deveaux, Megan T Baldridge

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Neonatal mice are frequently used to model diseases that affect human infants. Microbial community composition has been shown to impact disease progression in these models. Despite this, the maturation of the early-life murine microbiome has not been well-characterized. We address this gap by characterizing the assembly of the bacterial microbiota of C57BL/6 and BALB/c litters from birth to adulthood across multiple independent litters.

RESULTS: The fecal microbiome of young pups is dominated by only a few pioneering bacterial taxa. These taxa are present at low levels in the microbiota of multiple maternal body sites, precluding a clear identification of …

Financial Illiteracy Elimination Through The Development Of A Biblical Financial Literacy Curriculum For New Life Sda Church, Christopher L. Hughes

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The problem at New Life SDA Church is biblical financial illiteracy, caused by a lack of scriptural understanding of stewardship; the existence of knowledge gaps pertaining to modern, personal financial management practices; and substandard education across generations. As a result, there is a cascading effect of sustained cross-generational scarcity, difficulties fulfilling daily commitments and responsibilities, problematic family landscapes, and non-fulfillment of church-related stewardship. Protection against financial illiteracy is for New Life Seventh-day Adventist congregants to study and utilize biblical stewardship principles, along with modern financial concepts and practices in their lives. Therefore, this research project’s purpose was to train this …

Understanding The Relationship Between Food And Connection To God, Angela M. Hall

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

A person’s relationship with God is a personal one, as is the choice of the food we eat. Today we see more and more people struggle with unhealthy relationships with food. And our relationship with food affects more than just our physical health. Food and diet can play a role in how we hear from God. The present qualitative study aimed to understand the relationship between food and connection to God. Specifically, this study aimed to explain lived experiences with food and if diet affected connection to God. A total of twelve Christian, adult men and women participated in 1:1 …

Meditation Or Medication: Comparing Meditation To Phosphatidylserine In The Reduction Of Salivary Cortisol In Collegiate Tennis Players Post Exercise, Elizabeth Ann Novian Hughes

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Phosphatidylserine (PS) is a glycerophospholipid made in the body that is a part of the cell membrane (Carter & Greenwood, 2015; McArdle et al., 2019). PS reduces cortisol levels in the body (McArdle et al., 2019). Meditation is a “consistent self-care practice…that allows for developing loving awareness of current thoughts and feelings” (Valluri et al., 2024. Definition section, para. 1). Sadimi et al. (2021) used mindfulness meditation and found cortisol reductions were high. Meditation (MED) has not been compared to PS in reducing cortisol. Cortisol is increased in the body in response to the reception of stress input, such as …

A Mechanistic Exploration Of How Neighborhood Crime Exposure Relates To Neonatal Brain Function, Early Externalizing Behaviors, And Callous-Unemotional Traits, Rebecca Brady

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

Pregnancy through early childhood is a period of tremendous neural and behavioral development. Neuronal birth and migration occur prenatally and result in the formation of neonatal functional and structural networks. These early brain networks are a building block for postnatal development wherein infants rapidly learn a variety of new skills, including socioemotional skills such as emotion regulation and moral understanding. During the acquisition of these skills, even typically developing toddlers can act aggressively or impulsively; however, toddlers with high levels of externalizing behaviors are more likely to develop clinical externalizing disorders later in childhood and adolescence. As such, it is …

Learning From Sesame Street: A Qualitative Analysis Of Acceptance, Inclusion, And Cultural Diversity, Justin M. Polette

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Sesame Street first aired on public television in 1968. Sesame Street was developed by television producer Joan Ganz Cooney in partnership with educational and developmental psychologists to bridge the achievement gap in school readiness, specifically in underserved and underrepresented urban communities. This achievement gap was credited to societal racism and a lack of acculturation and racial diversity. Sesame Street was one of the first television programs, and the first children’s program, to feature an urban setting and a culturally diverse cast. During the 1940s, television programming was an almost exclusively white, Caucasian medium. The roles written for minority characters were …

Effectiveness Of Empagliflozin In Treating Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: A Systematic Review, Sara Abou Al-Saud

Journal of the Saudi Heart Association

Aim

The goal of this systematic review is to determine the effectiveness of empagliflozin in managing patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) as compared with a placebo

Methods

Web of Science, Cochrane, PubMed, and Scopus databases were searched for articles from 2000 to 2023. Reference lists of articles were manually screened. Trials that recruited patients with HFpEF and reported the effects of empagliflozin were included. Endnote X9 software was used for the study screening process.

Results

1029 non-duplicate articles were identified from the literature and 9 were selected for inclusion in this review. The included papers were …

System And Methods For A Unified Speaker And Microphone Design For Ultrasonics

Defensive Publications Series

Methods and systems are described for an acoustic system capable of facilitating an audio signal pathway and capture ultrasonic signals via applications and/or algorithms associated with an electronic device. In an example, systems or methods may receive, via a sensor associated with a device, an audio signal. The received audio data may be converted to audio data. The audio data may be analyzed to determine a difference in acoustic characteristics in relation to a threshold. When the difference in acoustic characteristics is above the threshold, an indication may be sent to stop emittance of an ultrasonic pulse. Conversely, when the …

2025 Sdsu Data Science Symposium Abstracts, South Dakota State University

SDSU Data Science Symposium

Abstracts for keynotes, invited sessions, and posters for the 2025 SDSU Data Symposium.

Comprehensive Sumo Proteomic Analyses Identify Hiv Latency-Associated Proteins In Microglia., Fergan Imbert, Dianne Langford

Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine Departmental Research

SUMOylation, the post-translational modification of proteins by small ubiquitin-like modifiers, plays a critical role in regulating various cellular processes, including innate immunity. This modification is essential for modulating immune responses and influencing signaling pathways that govern the activation and function of immune cells. Recent studies suggest that SUMOylation also contributes to the pathophysiology of central nervous system (CNS) viral infections, where it contributes to the host response and viral replication dynamics. Here, we explore the multifaceted role of SUMOylation in innate immune signaling and its implications for viral infections within the CNS. Notably, we present novel proteomic analyses aimed at …

Special Purpose Epr Resonators, Gareth R. Eaton

TeachEPR Submissions

Many types of EPR resonators are described.

Special applications that use various resonators are mentioned.

February 6, 2025, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2020-

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.