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“Forced Worship Stinks In God’S Nostrils”: The Inquisition, Sepharad, And The American Experiment, Isaac Amon

Touro Law Review

In December 1791, the Bill of Rights, comprising the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, enshrined fundamental protections for individual freedoms, with the First Amendment guaranteeing liberty of conscience. This milestone, however, was the culmination of centuries of struggle. The arrival of Iberian Jews, including conversos, in North America played a pivotal role in shaping the course of American history. The Founders referenced the Inquisition in their letters and debates, particularly in discussions on legal protections for criminal suspects and the broader issue of religious liberty. Founding assurances of religious freedom to Jews and Christians stand in stark contrast …

A Market-Based Approach To Effective Slaughterhouse Line Speed Regulation, Kailey Mcneal

Animal Law Review

The nature of animal agriculture in the United States is heavily industrialized and profit-centered. Industrial animal agriculture maximizes profits and production by employing low-wage workers to do significant loads of labor. Slaughterhouses’ implementation of faster line speeds reflects this tactic. As the industry continues to increase line speeds to boost profits, workers, animals, and the environment continue to face augmented risks to their health and safety. Nonetheless, slaughterhouse line speeds at the federal level remain largely un- and under-regulated. The current federal regulatory scheme is unduly influenced by industry interests, prioritizes profit over safety, and lacks effective enforcement mechanisms. Through …

The Ill-Fated History Of Animal Protection Laws: Why Congress Must Create An Animal Protection Agency, Melissa Baines

Animal Law Review

Over the years, the United States Congress has passed several federal laws with the intention of protecting animals from being subjected to inhumane treatment by humans. Such laws have great potential to create positive change for animals, but all of these laws have been delegated to inappropriate government agencies for oversight and enforcement. It is time to finally remove the impossible task placed upon these federal agencies—who have been asked to carry out their own stated mandates while also promulgating rules that effectuate animal protection laws in conflict with those same mandates—by creating a federal Animal Protection Agency with the …

Social Justice, Practical Lawyering, And The Elephant In Solitary Confinement: Why Animal Law Belongs In The Legal Writing Classroom, Conley Wouters

Animal Law Review

Animal law has grown exponentially since its genesis in the late 1970s. It is the subject of survey courses, seminars, clinics, and law reviews. But animal law per se has not made its way into the legal writing discipline, and its absence creates missed opportunities for legal writing instructors to improve our teaching and help our students develop critical lawyering skills. This Article argues that we should seize these opportunities and incorporate animal law into legal writing classes.

The Article begins by summarizing the argument and offering a gen-eral description of how legal writing professors and their students stand to …

Leaving Pawprints On Our Hearts: Bystander Recovery For Witnessing The Negligent Killing Of A Companion Animal, John G. Browning

Animal Law Review

According to the Pew Research Center, nearly all (97%) Americans with companion animals consider their “furbabies” to be members of the family. This is reflected in a number of other areas, from state and federal laws re-garding emergency management that recognize four-legged members of the family unit to divorce and custody laws in multiple states that require courts to treat companion animals not as property, but as family members. Soci-ologists and psychologists have also documented the expanding recognition of the “multispecies family.” However, the majority of states’ laws still view companion animals as chattel property, even as more and more …

Insects, Ai Systems, And The Future Of Legal Personhood, Jeff Sebo

Animal Law Review

This Article makes a case for insect and AI legal personhood. Humans share the world not only with large animals like chimpanzees and elephants but also with small animals like ants and bees. In the future, we might also share the world with sentient or otherwise morally significant AI systems. These realities raise questions about what kind of legal status insects, AI systems, and other nonhumans should have in the future. At present, debates about legal personhood mostly exclude these kinds of individuals. However, I argue that our current framework for assessing legal personhood, coupled with our current framework for …

Reducing Opioid Use Following Posterior Spinal Fusion Procedures: A Pilot Project, Kevin Matthew Cornett

Yale School of Nursing Digital Theses

Importance: Opioid misuse and mortality remain a prevalent problem in the United States and there is a high rate of chronic opioid-use after spinal fusions. Current guidelines recommend the optimization of non-opioid analgesics as a primary pain control strategy with opioids acting as a secondary agent. Objective: To pilot an analgesic decision tree (ADT) featuring non-opioid analgesics to reduce postoperative pain, opioid consumption, and the incidence of adverse events during the first 48 hours after patients undergo a posterior spinal fusion. Methods: A literature review of opioid-sparing analgesics was conducted and a protocol developed as an interdisciplinary collaboration. The ADT …

Readmission Reduction Of 1st Year Transplant Recipients, Kristin Freed

Yale School of Nursing Digital Theses

Abstract Readmission Reduction of 1st Year Transplant Recipients Clear communication with patients at their health-literacy level improves patient outcomes, fosters trust, and is associated with readmission reduction. Readmission of transplant recipients are correlated with morbidity, medical errors, higher healthcare economic costs, and indicative of decreased survival post- transplant. Literature suggests that up to 72% of transplant recipients may have low health literacy increasing risk of readmission. The Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality created the REALM-SF assessment as a tool for medical providers to evaluate a patient’s health literacy status in a timely manner. This Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) …

New Leader Mentoring: Guiding Nursing Leaders Of The Future, Renee Marie Hammond

Yale School of Nursing Digital Theses

Nursing leaders throughout our health care system are retiring or leaving at an alarming rate – over 60% of the nursing leader workforce is expected to leave in the next five years. Retention of new nurse leaders is crucial to retention of clinical nurses, morale, and patient outcomes. Development of a formal mentorship program between new nurse leaders and experienced nurse leaders is essential to reducing the intent to leave of leaders. The Aims of this project are to develop a mentorship program for new nurse leaders using an adaptation of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership Core Competencies, to …

Improving Equity In Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk, Jordan Levandoski

Yale School of Nursing Digital Theses

The current use of racial categorization in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD) risk, limits assessment of confounders beyond cholesterol. The Life’s Essential Eight (LE8) categories of healthy diet, sleep, physical activity, smoking, body mass index, hypertension, total cholesterol, and blood glucose could reduce two million ASCVD events per year. The documentation of Z codes 55 – 65 describe social drivers of health (SDH) like housing, economics, and social systems which complicate care. Development of the ASCVD risk assessment and management protocol (ASCVD-RAMP) assessed ASCVD risk without race modification in patients aged 45 – 75 and improved health equity by pairing SDH …

Increasing Professional Interpreter Use To Improve Patient Outcomes On The Inpatient Oncology Unit, Kimberly Medina

Yale School of Nursing Digital Theses

Language barriers in healthcare contribute to significant disparities including delays in diagnosis and treatment, patient confusion, and increased mortality (Kwan et al., 2023). Approximately 21.5% of the people in the United States speak a language other than English at home and 8.2% of that population subset report speaking English less than very well (U.S. Census Bureau, 2021). Furthermore, in 2023 8% of Medicare beneficiaries have limited English proficiency (LEP) speaking and 7% have LEP reading (Centers for Medicare &Medicaid, 2024). Ensuring meaningful language access to LEP patients is essential for improving clinical outcomes and maintaining compliance to federal anti-discrimination policies. …

Developing A Standardized Workplace Violence Prevention Program For Healthcare Leaders To Enhance Safety, Kaleena Soorma

Yale School of Nursing Digital Theses

Abstract

Developing a Standardized Workplace Violence Prevention Program for Healthcare Leaders to Enhance Safety

The increasing threat of Type 2 workplace violence (client on staff) in healthcare disproportionately impacts employees such as Nurses. Desensitization to this growing trend in healthcare has contributed to perceptions that WPV has become an unavoidable risk, especially for those delivering care in high-risk areas such as the emergency department (ED).

The critical need to reevaluate WPV prevention strategies in healthcare, while highlighting systemic failures such as underreporting, is integral to driving a culture of safety. This project aimed to provide a post-incident Type 2 WPV …

The Impact Of Professionalism Education And Formative Feedback In Doctor Of Physical Therapy Students Utilizing The Abbreviated Cpi Feedback Form In The On-Campus Clinic Environment, William L. Scott

Dissertations

Problem

The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) developed the Clinical Performance Instrument (CPI) to assess the professional behaviors required for a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) student to be considered "entry level" in their clinical training. Feedback from our clinical partners has indicated that, historically, students from the Andrews University DPT program have scored lower than students from other programs in several areas of the CPI during their clinical experiences. According to subjective reports from our clinical partners, these areas included safety, professional behavior, accountability, communication, and critical thinking. These five areas have been the focus of our efforts in …

Moral Identity And Its Relationship To Higher Education Mentoring And Community Service Engagement, Maria O. Rodriguez

Dissertations

Problem

A moral action is a result of the engagement of multiple psychological processes set in motion when an individual faces a moral conflict. Research suggests that an individual's moral reasoning and moral identity strongly influence the psychological processes that precede a moral action. Recent studies have shown that higher education positively influences students' moral reasoning; however, there is a lack of understanding as to the degree to which higher education can influence the moral identity of students.

Method

This study performed a quantitative cross-sectional study to investigate the relationship between independent variables—mentoring experiences and community service engagement—and dependent variables—moral …

Synthesizing Deception: Countering Large Language Model-Generated Phishing Campaigns Through Adaptive Semantic Anomaly Detection, Bekim Fetaji, Debabrata Samanta

Mesopotamian Journal of Computer Science

The paper fills in a gap in the literature that demonstrates an insufficient number of sturdy detection schemes that can recognize the small semantic aberrations inherent in LLM-generated deceptive text. Our proposed co-design hybrid model is Semantic Anomaly Detection with Isolation Forest (SADI) model that combines the synergistic mixture of a fine-tuned transformer-based LLM for deep semantic feature extraction with Isolation Forest algorithm that detects anomalies efficiently. This study introduces SADI, an adaptive semantic-anomaly detector for large-language-model phishing emails. Using a corpus of 10 000 messages, SADI attains an F1 score of 0.981 (95 % CI 0.978–0.984) and processes a …

War-Displaced International Students: A Qualitative Study Of Factors Influencing The Integration Of Ukrainians At A Midwestern Healthcare College, Ivan Riapolov

Dissertations

Problem

The war in Ukraine has disrupted the country’s higher education system, displacing Ukrainian students and affecting their mental well-being. These students encounter numerous challenges while adapting to new academic and cultural environments abroad. Higher education professionals must recognize and address the unique experiences and needs of international students by region of origin to better serve these populations. This study aimed to explore the factors that influence the social and academic integration of Ukrainian international students into a new culture and to inform institutions of the best practices for creating supportive environments for international students.

Method

The qualitative study explored …

Religious Participation, Subjective Happiness, And Purpose In Life As Predictors Of Psychological Resilience Among College Students At A Faith-Based Institution In The United States, Elaine Powell Oliver

Dissertations

Problem

During the transition from adolescence to adulthood, also known as emerging adulthood, many college students experience psychological distress, such as anxiety, depression, stress, and loneliness (Arnett & Tanner, 2009; DeRosier et al., 2013). For some students, their psychological distress will impact how they perform academically and whether they will persist in their academic goals (Hartley, 2012; Robbins et al., 2018). Many students lack the resilience needed to survive and thrive amid the challenges of college life (Lane, 2020; McLafferty et al., 2022; Watkins et al., 2012). -- Resilience is considered an essential psychological characteristic to assist students in navigating …

2025 Retirees Association Newsletter, Morehead State University. Alumni Association.

Morehead State Alumni Association Publications

The Morehead State University 2025 Retirees Association Newsletter.

Rebuttal To “Correspondence On ‘Scientists’ Statement On The Chemical Definition Of Pfass”, Gabriel Sigmund, Marta Venier, Marlene Ågerstrand, Ian T. Cousins, Jamie Dewitt, Miriam L. Diamond, Jennifer Field, Alex T. Ford, Shira Joudan, Stefan Van Leeuwen, Rainer Lohmann, Carla Ng, Martin Scheringer, Anna Soehl, Noriyuki Suzuki, Xenia Trier, Sara Valsecchi, Penny Vlahos, Cora J. Young, Zhanyun Wang

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Changes In Pyrogenic Tracers Over The Last 15,000 Years In The Congo River Catchment Through Multi-Method Analysis, Samuel D. Katz, Helena Osterholz, Riley Barton, Ellen R.M. Druffel, Xiaodong Gao, Caroline A. Masiello, Cristina Santin, Tassiana S.G. Serafim, Sasha Wagner, Matthias Zabel, Rainer Lohmann

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

Black carbon (BC), the most recalcitrant part of the pyrogenic carbon continuum, is formed by the incomplete combustion of biomass and fossil fuels. Methods for detecting BC include the chemical degradation of condensed aromatic compounds into benzenepolycarboxylic acids (BPCA), chemothermal oxidation of organic carbon at 375°C (CTO), ¹³C nuclear magnetic resonance combined with a molecular mixing model, thermogravimetry-differential scanning calorimetry, and the use of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as tracers. However, there is limited knowledge about the comparability of these methods in marine sediments and their suitability as wildfire proxies. Here, we examined a sediment core from the Congo River …

State Of The University Annual Report - 2024-2025, Office Of The President, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

Office of the President State of the University Annual Report

No abstract provided.

Subdued Voices And Marginalized Lives: Reading R. K. Narayan’S Waiting For The Mahatma Through Feminist Standpoint Theory, D. Sundar Singh, S. Pressila Daissy, Roland Rencewigg P.

Journal of International Women's Studies

Standpoint feminism, based in second-wave feminist theory, insists that knowledge is situated in the social world and contends that marginalized groups, through their experiences of oppression and struggle, hold experiential understandings of power relations. This paper examines R. K. Narayan’s complex depiction of a young woman actively involved in India’s freedom struggle in his novel, Waiting for the Mahatma (1955/2004), through the lens of Sandra Harding’s feminist standpoint theory. The novel’s central character, Bharati, through her varied trajectories of resistance and accommodation within patriarchal structures, illustrates marginalized women’s understandings and their mirroring of social inequalities and power relations that are …

3d Printing Metal Horn Antennas Using Periodic And Aperiodic Perforated Designs For Directed Energy Applications, Alexis Valencia

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

In the past decade, Additive Manufacturing (AM) has proven to be groundbreaking yet reliable technology. Not only has it revolutionized the way we approach problems in research, design, and production but it has enabled burgeoning discoveries and methods due to the technologyâ??s efficiency, speed, and low manufacturing cost. One area that benefits greatly from this includes radio frequency (RF) devices like horn antennas. At the moment, most horn antennas produced by conventional manufacturing are expensive, heavy, and limited in customization, yet they are necessary for various systems like satellite communication, radar, radio astronomy, and more. 3D printing technology would alleviate …

University Of Minnesota Morris Catalog 2025-2027, University Of Minnesota-Morris

UMM Catalog

This document serves as an official historical record for a specific period in time. The information found is subject to change without notice. Colleges and departments make changes to their degree requirements and course descriptions frequently. More information is available at catalogs.umn.edu.

Disability Awareness And Inclusion, Claudia C. Gonzalez, Raquel C. Vasquez, Bruce J. Reed

School of Rehabilitation Services & Counseling Faculty Publications

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2021) reported an increase in the prevalence of persons with disabilities affecting one in four people in the United States. Disability awareness and inclusion describe how a combination of understanding, acknowledgment, compassion, and acceptance can allow persons with disability the same opportunities as those without disabilities. This can be seen with the increase in persons with a disability graduating from postsecondary institutions, about 14% from 2012 to 2022 of persons over 25. This chapter covers foundational material regarding disability awareness and inclusion, including the prevalence of disability in general and in educational settings, …

Navigating The Path: Understanding And Overcoming Challenges For College Students With Disabilities, Nahal Salimi, Bryan Gere, Elaine Mora, Roy K. Chen

School of Rehabilitation Services & Counseling Faculty Publications

Higher education can be challenging for many students, but for those with disabilities, it presents additional hurdles. Oftentimes, students with disabilities must navigate both their academic responsibilities and the unique challenges posed by their disabilities. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the most frequently reported challenges and barriers to academic success for students with disabilities in higher education. The chapter focuses on several key issues, including but not limited to societal attitudes surrounding disability and provision of academic accommodation, students' willingness to disclose their disabilities in their institutes, and difficulties with social integration. Each of these challenges is explored …

Integrating Technology To Support Learning And Accessibility In Counselor Education And Supervision, Yung-Chen Jen Chiu, Heekyung Lee, Junfei Lu, Kayi Ntinda, Roy K. Chen, Yuleinys A. Castillo

School of Rehabilitation Services & Counseling Faculty Publications

The rapid evolution of technology has profoundly impacted the delivery of counseling services and the field of counselor education. This transformation has introduced both opportunities and challenges for students from underrepresented backgrounds, including students with disabilities. This chapter delves into the integration of technology in counselor education and supervision, highlighting considerations of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. It explores strategies to enhance accessibility, including improved access to program information, optimized class preparation, and enhanced quality of clinical supervision. Key implications for counselor educators and supervisors include bolstering their own technological proficiency, familiarity with legal and ethical considerations, enhancing disability awareness, …

2025-2026 Craft Academy Student Handbook, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications & Marketing.

Communications and Marketing Publications Archive

The 2025-2026 Craft Academy Student Handbook.

Moving Beyond Traditional Multiculturalism: Dis/Ability Awareness In Counselor Education, Alicia B. Becton, Eunae Han, Leeza Ong, Amber Johnson, Roy K. Chen, Gabriela Rangel, Stephanie Lusk

School of Rehabilitation Services & Counseling Faculty Publications

This chapter explores the experiences of individuals with disabilities, emphasizing how they navigate educational and societal norms while balancing various identities. It emphasizes the impact of societal issues, such as racism and sexism, on individuals with disabilities. The authors delve into current multiculturalism trends, advocating for culturally responsive approaches in counselor education and rehabilitation services. The goal is to advance discussions on the future directions of multiculturalism by exploring the following key areas (a) the sociopolitical aspects of disability, (b) the inclusion of disability in counselor education, (c) accessibility and the universal design for learning (UDL), (d) culturally competent counselor …

Disability Community-Engaged Learning For Counselor Education Students, Kayi Ntinda, Bruce J. Reed

School of Rehabilitation Services & Counseling Faculty Publications

Community-engaged learning approaches utilize experiential learning by which participant students, disability community, and instructors are knowers and actors contributing to practical, real-world applications. This chapter explores the integration of community-engaged learning in counselor education programs, with a focus on its significance for developing practice-led skills respecting communities with and of disability. Second, the chapter proposes community-engagement pedagogical methods for critical thinking and real-world problem-solving skills by counselor education students. The chapter then addresses how community-engaged learning approaches meet CACREP standards for preparing counselor education students bridging the theory and practice gaps in their clinical rehabilitation counseling competencies. With community-engaged learning …