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Financial Impact Of Beef Cow Culling: Canadian Analysis, Heidi R. Johnson, Eric T. Micheels, Kathy A. Larson

Journal of Applied Farm Economics

Culling decisions within beef production systems are not reversible, and as such, data can help decision-makers double-check heuristics to avoid costly mistakes. In this essay, we use financial methods to examine cow culling decisions, evaluating their impact on overall herd profitability. To do so, we use production and financial data from 16 “typical farms” within the Canadian Cow-Calf Cost of Production Network to explore the financial impact of different culling strategies. This essay builds on prior literature by using Canadian data, as there may be differences in costs and productivity across production regions. We identify four culling scenarios that vary …

Children's Rights Debates, Revisited, Martha Minow

Florida Law Review

A Dunwody distinguished lecture in law that reflects on children's rights.

Risk: A Weak Element In U.S. Strategy Formulation, Frank Hoffman

Joint Force Quarterly

Strategic risk is an inherent element of national security decisionmaking, yet it is often insufficiently incorporated into U.S. strategy formulation. Frank Hoffman argues that risk analysis should be a routine and continuous component of strategic planning rather than an exercise conducted primarily during implementation. Drawing on joint doctrine and case studies involving the Iraq War, Operation Neptune Spear, and the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the article illustrates how assumptions, institutional biases, and inconsistent approaches to risk can shape strategic outcomes. Hoffman calls for a broader, shared understanding of strategic risk across the national security community and recommends developing an interagency …

Joint Force Quarterly, Issue 116, 1st Quarter 2025, National Defense University Press

Joint Force Quarterly

Joint Force Quarterly 116 explores key challenges and innovations in military strategy, operations, and global security. The Forum section examines how the U.S. approaches risk in its strategy, the impact of nonstrategic nuclear weapons, and the importance of using data-driven methods in planning military operations.

In JPME Today, articles focus on how joint military campaigns succeed, the role of storytelling and persuasion in operations, and the urgent need to modernize professional military education.

The Commentary section highlights Ireland's strategic role in securing Europe’s western flank and evaluates whether China’s military overestimates the potential of artificial intelligence.

The Features section dives …

The New Pornography Wars, Julie Dahlstrom

Florida Law Review

The world’s largest online pornography conglomerate, MindGeek, has come under fire for the publishing of “rape videos,” child pornography, and nonconsensual pornography on its website, Pornhub. In response, as in the “pornography wars” of the 1970s and 1980s, lawyers and activists have turned to civil remedies and filed creative anti-trafficking lawsuits against MindGeek and third parties, like payment processing company, Visa. These lawsuits seek not only to achieve legal accountability for online sex trafficking but also to reframe a broader array of online harms as sex trafficking. This Article explores what these new trafficking lawsuits mean for the future regulation …

Centella Asiatica: Recent Cosmeceutical Uses For Treatment Of Skin Diseases, Iman I. Soliman, Nouran Medhat, Huda Saleh, Mai El Halawany

Bulletin of Faculty of Pharmacy Cairo University

Centella asiatica is one of the well-known herbal species used in traditional medicine across Asia such as India, Indonesia, and China. It had been used as a medicinal plant for hundreds of years. Besides its general pharmacological activities such as neuroprotection, anti-cancer and anti-diabetes. It demonstrated effective dermatological actions as being a potent anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, healing and moisturizing properties. The major constituents responsible for these effects were triterpenoids. Triterpenoids included asciaticoside which was reported to induce collagen synthesis. Madecassoside was known for its wound healing properties. It was well known for its efficiency in improving the treatment of hypertrophic wounds. …

The Beacon, January 24, 2025, Beacon Staff

The Beacon, 2024-2025

Unsung Hero: Lori Bonnema; Come enjoy a night of dancing; Zendaya and Holland spark online frenzy; "Wicked" lives up to Broadway original; 2025 fashion throwbacks and throwaways; Heritage Singers present Madrigal Dinners; Comfort to those from far away; Unsung Hero: Lori Bonnema; Diaper drive at local church; Latin dance night; The sad reality of New Year's resolutions; You should try failure; Van Kalsbeek takes down 20-uear-old record; Track and field begins 2025 season; Wrestling charging through 2024-25 season; MLK chapel is moving to many; We all know the BINGO event is not getting old;

The Bison, January, 24, 2025

The Bison Newspapers

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Frsc 480-002: Forensic Microscopy, David Fisher

Chemistry, Environmental and Forensic Science Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Ypfs Lessons Learned Oral History Project: An Interview With Pedro Machado, Pedro Machado, Mercedes Cardona

Documents

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Review Of New Treatment Options For Toxoplasmosis, Kiley Roman

D.U.Quark

Toxoplasmosis is an infectious disease caused by the parasite, Toxoplasma Gondii. The parasite is often carried in cats and contaminated food and water. Toxoplasmosis is not serious most of the time but can be harmful to immunocompromised people, pregnant women, and their fetuses or babies. Treatments are commonly given to the immunocompromised. However, there are problems with the current treatments, in which they only treat active parasites and cannot remove the cysts created by disease progression. Due to the treatments’ inability to remove cysts, an infected person may not fully recover from the infection. This review evaluated the new …

Some Contradictions Of The Welfare State: Revisited, Chris O'Ralaigh

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

It is now 40 years since the publication of Claus Offe's classical paper, Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State. Much change has occurred to the form and content of welfare states over the intervening years, yet in addition to change, continuities are very much evident, and it is this constellation of developments – alongside anniversarial convenience – which has motivated a re-examination of Offe's seminal work on the contradictions of welfare states. This anniversary article re-introduces and provides a critique of the original paper before moving on to a historical comparison of the major political economic and societal differences …

Single-Chain Variable Fragments: Targeting Snake Venom Phospholipase A2 And Serine Protease, Ying Jia, Ariane Garcia, Elizabeth Reyes

School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences Faculty Publications

Snakebite is a critical global public health issue, causing substantial mortality and morbidity, particularly in tropical and subtropical regions. The development of innovative antivenoms targeting snake venom toxins is therefore of paramount importance. In this study, we adopted an epitope-directed approach to design three degenerate 15-mer peptides based on amino acid sequence alignments of snake venom phospholipase A2s (PLA2s) and snake venom serine proteases (SVSPs) from snake (Crotalus atrox). By leveraging their immunogenic and inhibitory profiles, these peptides were specifically designed to target the Asp49 and Lys49 variants of PLA2 and SVSP toxins. Groups of five mice were immunized with …

Co-Option Of Mitochondrial Nucleic Acid-Sensing Pathways By Hsv-1 Ul12.5 For Reactivation From Latent Infection, Patryk A. Krakowiak, Matthew E. Flores, Sean R. Cuddy, Abigail L. Whitford, Sara A. Dochnal, Aleksandra Babnis, Tsuyoshi Miyake, Marco Tigano, Daniel A. Engel, Anna R. Cliffe

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

Although viruses subvert innate immune pathways for their replication, there is evidence they can also co-opt antiviral responses for their benefit. The ubiquitous human pathogen, Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1), encodes a protein (UL12.5) that induces the release of mitochondrial nucleic acid into the cytosol, which activates immune-sensing pathways and reduces productive replication in nonneuronal cells. HSV-1 establishes latency in neurons and can reactivate to cause disease. We found that UL12.5 is required for HSV-1 reactivation in neurons and acts to directly promote viral lytic gene expression during initial exit from latency. Further, the direct activation of innate immune-sensing pathways triggered …

Volume Cxliv, Number 10, January 24, 2025, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

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Tug Of War Between Opt-In And Opt-Out Organ Donation Systems, Amna Cehaja

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

The demand for organ transplants is far greater than the supply of transplantable organs. Every day, twenty people in the United States die as they await an organ transplant; this equates to roughly 7,300 people annually. Whilst organ donation can be highly effective for prospective patients, not all individuals want to take part in such an action. A person’s decision not to partake in organ donation can stem from their ethics, morality, religion, and much more. For individuals that live in the United States and do not want to donate their organs upon death, they do not have to take …

Remote Sensing In Iberá Wetlands, Argentina: Uncrewed Aircraft Systems And Service Learning Supporting Environmental Resilience, James Tyler Deal

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

Mapping wetland regions is challenging. Uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) have inherent abilities to sense rapidly and efficiently remotely difficult to access locations. Wetland regions around the world are under pressure due to increasing human presence and climate change. Iberá Wetlands in Argentina provides an example of a region that rebounded from detritus effects of human activity. Although the Iberá Wetlands suffered great environmental degradation causing large animals to be driven from the area, visitors today see a biologically diverse region bearing the fruit of restoration. It serves as a prime location for demonstrating the ability of UAS to efficiently collect …

The Impact Of Light Pollution On The Erau Campus, Myles Curtis, Ahnika Gee

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

The 1-meter telescope at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach campus is the largest university-based research telescope in Florida. However, the light pollution from facilities and outdoor light fixtures greatly interferes with these resources, the quality of student life, and ecological systems in the area. Our team works to identify the greatest contributors to light pollution on campus so that we can develop cost effective and accessible solutions. A Unihedron Sky Quality Meter (SQM) is used to measure the amount of light being emitted from various sources of light. We are taking empirical and quantitative data, using the SQM, in …

Assessing Human Impact On The Soil Of Jekyll Island, Georgia, Hannah Lyons, Astrid Senko, Ryan Paulson, Megan Neumann, Ava Messmer

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

Jekyll Island has been one of Georgia’s top vacation spots since the late 1800s, but its dependence on tourism has the potential to affect its ecosystem. While prior studies have examined erosion and native flora, little is known about how recreation impacts the island’s soil composition. This study collected soil samples from areas with varying levels of human traffic. A commercially available soil probe was used to collect soil. The samples were analyzed for pH, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium using a LAMOTTE Model EM soil testing kit. Preliminary soil results showed that high-foot traffic areas averaged a pH of 6.5, …

Seeking The Divine: A Proposed Methodology Of Religion To Resolve Adjudications Over The Nexus Inquiry In Religious Asylum Claims, Saloni S. Jaiswal

University of Chicago Legal Forum

What is religion, and should immigration courts seek to define religion in the context of asylum claims? Under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), individuals who have experienced past persecution or fear future persecution because of their religious beliefs can apply for asylum in the United States. Although individuals are afforded these protections under the statutory provisions of the INA, there is a fundamental problem in the way courts have treated religious asylum claims. Rather than holistically considering religion, courts have instead focused on religion’s fragmentary aspects. This fragmentary understanding of religion has contributed to another legal problem among the …

Adjusting Immunity For Unconstitutional Torts, Liam Grah

University of Chicago Legal Forum

Sovereign immunity protects the government from liability arising in suits brought against it by citizens. Though lacking a firm constitutional basis, sovereign immunity has been justified as protecting the public fisc and maintaining the sense of sovereign dignity. The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) broadly waives sovereign immunity for tort claims against the United States. The discretionary function exception maintains immunity for tortious acts committed by employees acting within the valid bounds of their discretion. There is a circuit split about whether the discretionary function exception immunizes tortious conduct that is also unconstitutional. Circuits in the majority side of the …

Climatizing National Security, Mark Nevitt

University of Chicago Legal Forum

Is climate change a national security issue? Human security? Ecological security? This Article addresses the growing nexus between climate change and various conceptions of security with a particular emphasis on climate change's national security impacts. This Article argues that there is a growing connection between national security and climate change and a corresponding need to address the normative implications of "climatizing national security." This connection can be observed through three lenses: mitigation (reducing greenhouse gas emissions from military and national security sources); adaptation (investing in climate resilient infrastructure in an effort to prepare for climate impacts), and response (addressing climate-exacerbated …

Resilience For A Digital Age, Danielle Keats Citron, Kristen E. Eichensehr

University of Chicago Legal Forum

A resilience agenda is an essential part of protecting national security in a digital age. Digital technologies impact nearly all aspects of everyday life, from communications and medical care to electricity and government services. Societal reliance on digital tools should be paired with efforts to secure societal resilience. A resilience agenda involves preparing for, adapting to, withstanding, and recovering from disruptions in ways that advance societal interests, goals, and values. Emphasizing resilience offers several benefits: 1) Resilience is threat agnostic or at least relatively threat neutral; 2) its inward focus emphasizes actions under the control of a targeted country, rather …

In Search Of The Presumption Of Regularity, Aram A. Gavoor, Steven A. Platt

Florida Law Review

The presumption of regularity is an imprecise principle that federal courts apply in varying ways to presume federal officers and employees lawfully and consistently discharge their official duties. The presumption gained national significance during the Trump Administration in several key cases in which it was implicated, but the contours of the presumption were never described by the Supreme Court of the United States. While literature and judicial opinions have invoked the presumption, there has been sparse scholarly accounting for its contours, value, and legitimacy. This Article is the first to trace the contemporary domain of the presumption and its applications …

The Evolving Standards, As Applied, William W. Berry Iii

Florida Law Review

In Jones v. Mississippi, the Supreme Court of the United States adopted a narrow reading of its Eighth Amendment categorical bar on mandatory juvenile life-without-parole (JLWOP) sentences. Specifically, the Court rejected Jones’s claim that the Eighth Amendment categorical limit required a sentencing jury or judge make a finding of permanent incorrigibility—that the defendant is beyond hope of rehabilitation—as a prerequisite to imposing a JLWOP sentence. In dicta, the Court suggested that Jones could have made an individual as-applied challenge to his sentence under the Eighth Amendment by claiming that his JLWOP sentence was disproportionate to the crime he committed. …

After Lebor: Can The Rights Of Nature Movement Stand Back Up?, Desmond Nichols

Florida Law Review

The Rights of Nature Movement, a global political movement that seeks to expand the legal rights traditionally granted to humans and corporations to natural entities like lakes, rivers, and ecosystems, is becoming more mainstream. In the United States, the movement has had successes in passing local ordinances that grant lakes and rivers the right to exist and flourish. The most high-profile of these victories for the movement was the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, an ordinance that passed in Toledo, Ohio, in February of 2019. This Note explores the Rights of Nature Movement in the United States. The ordinances that …

The Property Law Of Tokens, Juliet M. Moringiello, Christopher K. Odinet

Florida Law Review

Non-fungible tokens—or NFTs, as they are better known—have taken the world by storm. The idea behind an NFT is that by owning a certain thing (specifically, a digital token that is tracked on a blockchain), one can hold property rights in something else (either a real or an intangible asset). In the early part of 2021, NFTs for items ranging from a GIF of a pop-tart cat with a rainbow tail, to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s first tweet, to a New York Times column (about NFTs!) have sold for millions of dollars over the internet. Promoters assert that …

It’S “A Good Day” To Make Inferences: Helping Emergent And Reluctant Readers, Amy Davis

Michigan Reading Journal

A skilled reader can understand and connect to relationships that are not explicitly stated in text. The process of making inferences can be divided into two categories: text and prior-knowledge-based. This paper offers examples of inference questions using the picture book, “It’s a Good Day” by Kevin Henkes, that teachers can use during shared book readings with emergent and reluctant readers.

Full Issue: Volume 57, No. 2

Michigan Reading Journal

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Deeper Magic: Theology Of The Body In C. S. Lewis And John Paul Ii, George French

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

C. S. Lewis tells us that science and magic are “twins.” “They were born,” he says “of the same impulse”3 of man to master the natural world. We think of them very differently because science has succeeded where magic has failed, but that should not make us blind to their “strong family likeness.”4 Science and magic are intertwined for much of their history, and it is in the Enlightenment that the two begin to separate. While magic died and science survived, Lewis thinks that modern applied science still retains much of the “family likeness.” Unfortunately, not all of the family …