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Navigating Nil In Collegiate Athletics: Athletes, Institutional, And Market Perspectives, Don Lee, Hoyeol Yu, Myungwoo Lee, Minseok Cho

Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics

This study examines the post-2021 NCAA Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) era by synthesizing scholarship on how NIL policies have transformed collegiate athletics. Specifically, it explores the regulatory, economic, governance, and equity dynamics emerging from a decentralized policy environment and the rapid expansion of athlete commercialization. An AI-assisted scoping review and content analysis were conducted on NIL-related studies published in leading sport management and sport law journals since July 1, 2021. Using large language model–supported searches, thematic coding, and reliability and validity procedures, the selected studies were systematically analyzed across legal, governance, commercialization, athlete experience, and equity dimensions. Findings identified …

Reimagining Tourism Education Through Transformative Learning And Systems Change: Fast-Tracking Curriculum Reform To Close The Sustainability Competency Gap, James Hanrahan Dr, Anita Conefrey, Emmet Mcloughlin Dr, Domhnall Melly Dr

Irish Journal of Tourism, Hospitality, Leisure and Event Research

Tourism accounts for approximately eight per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions and faces increasing pressure to transition toward low-carbon, regenerative development pathways. However, evidence from recent studies across Ireland, the United Kingdom and five European countries reveals a persistent sustainability competency gap within tourism higher education, where graduates often lack the systems thinking, ethical reasoning, digital literacy and applied decarbonisation skills required to support Net-Zero transitions.

This paper examines how tourism education can respond to this challenge by integrating transformative learning and systems change approaches into curriculum design. Drawing on a conceptual analytic synthesis informed by three complementary empirical …

The Bowl That Holds No Money: Steward-Routed Alms And The Bowl-Anchored Credential — Proximity-Verified Revocable Credential Tags For Routing Religious Donations To A Lay Steward Account, With Rotation Dispatch And Co-Presence Escrow Release, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

We describe a donation-routing system for Buddhist monastic alms rounds in which a credential tag hung from a monk's alms bowl routes digital donations directly to a lay steward's account, so that money never enters monastic custody, as monastic rules require. The tag carries a revocable, time-limited credential issued by the monastic community and bound to the monk's ordination standing; a scan resolves the monk's name, monastery, current standing and the steward's account, resolves only in physical proximity to the tag (a copied image is inert), and stops resolving on loss of standing, giving donors a check against impostors when …

Vision With Grace: Intersectionality Of Education And Spirituality, Preeti Jha

Dissertations

Contemporary educational leaders face increasingly complex challenges, systemic inequities, educator burnout, and demands for transformation, yet existing leadership frameworks fail to address the inner lives and spiritual practices that sustain such demanding justice work. While research demonstrates spirituality's role in leadership effectiveness, this dimension remains largely unexplored in educational research, particularly regarding how spiritual consciousness shapes daily practices and social justice engagement. This qualitative study will examine how spirituality shapes educational leadership and social justice engagement through portraiture methodology and in-depth interviews with three spiritually aligned educational leaders in Northern California. Drawing upon the Bhagavad Gita, Spiritual Leadership Theory, and …

ข้อสังเกตบางประการเกี่ยวกับวิธีการกำหนดเขตทางทะเลในพื้นที่อ้างสิทธิทับซ้อนในอ่าวไทยระหว่างประเทศไทยกับกัมพูชาในบริบทของแนวคำวินิจฉัยศาลและอนุญาโตตุลาการระหว่างประเทศ (Some Observations Concerning The Method Of Maritime Delimitation In The Overlapping Claims Area In The Gulf Of Thailand Between Thailand And Cambodia In Light Of International Jurisprudence), Intouch Siriwallop

Chulalongkorn University Law Journal

บทความนี้ชี้ให้เห็นประเด็นและวิเคราะห์ข้อพิจารณาทางกฎหมายระหว่างประเทศเกี่ยวกับวิธีการกำหนดเขตทางทะเลในพื้นที่อ้างสิทธิทับซ้อนในอ่าวไทยระหว่างประเทศไทยกับกัมพูชา โดยอาศัยแนวคำวินิจฉัยของศาลและอนุญาโตตุลาการระหว่างประเทศเป็นกรอบหลักในการวิเคราะห์และปรับใช้กับกรณีระหว่างประเทศไทยกับกัมพูชาเพื่อสร้างความชัดเจนในรายละเอียดเกี่ยวกับวิธีการกำหนดเขตทางทะเลในกรณีดังกล่าว บทความนี้เริ่มต้นด้วยการนำเสนอความเป็นมาของพื้นที่อ้างสิทธิทับซ้อนดังกล่าว ซึ่งเกิดจากการกล่าวอ้างเขตทางทะเลของแต่ละฝ่ายที่แตกต่างกัน จากนั้นจึงอภิปรายกรอบทางกฎหมายระหว่างประเทศเกี่ยวกับการกำหนดเขตทางทะเลในภาพรวม แล้วจึงวิเคราะห์ข้อพิจารณาทางกฎหมายเกี่ยวกับการกำหนดเขตทางทะเลดังกล่าวระหว่างประเทศไทยกับกัมพูชาในลำดับต่อไป ทั้งนี้ เนื่องจากความซับซ้อนของการพิจารณาประเด็นทั้งหมดเกี่ยวกับการกำหนดเขตทางทะเลระหว่างประเทศไทยกับกัมพูชา บทความนี้จึงเลือกวิเคราะห์เฉพาะบางประเด็นที่น่าสนใจและโดดเด่น ซึ่งปรากฏคำวินิจฉัยของศาลและอนุญาโตตุลาการระหว่างประเทศที่สามารถนำมาใช้เป็นแนวทางในการวิเคราะห์ได้ ได้แก่ สนธิสัญญาระหว่างสยามกับฝรั่งเศส ค.ศ. 1907 ว่าเป็นความตกลงระหว่างประเทศไทยกับกัมพูชาเกี่ยวกับการกำหนดเขตทางทะเลหรือไม่ สภาพภูมิศาสตร์ของชายฝั่งไทยกับกัมพูชาซึ่งประชิดกันกับการลากเส้นแบ่งครึ่งมุมระหว่างเส้นฐานตรงตามที่ประเทศไทยกล่าวอ้าง อธิปไตยทางประวัติศาสตร์ การทำประมง น้ำหนักของภูมิสัณฐานประเภทเกาะต่าง ๆ ในอ่าวไทย และการนับชายฝั่งที่เกี่ยวข้องสำหรับการพิจารณาความแตกต่างอย่างมีนัยสำคัญระหว่างระยะทางแนวชายฝั่งที่เกี่ยวข้องและการพิจารณาความได้สัดส่วนระหว่างชายฝั่งที่เกี่ยวข้องกับพื้นที่ที่เกี่ยวข้อง

Mobile Food Vendors: An Integral Part Of Our Cities, Katja Friess

Fresh Voices: Composition at Cal Poly

No abstract provided.

A Cultural Explosion: The Significance Of The Diwali Banquet At Cal Poly, Alisha Patel

Fresh Voices: Composition at Cal Poly

No abstract provided.

One Land, “Different Owners”: Theoretical Explanations Of Communal Conflicts In Nigeria, Chukwudi G. Njoku

Journal of Peace, Conflict, and Security Studies

Communal conflicts are prevalent in Nigeria, with thousands of fatalities recorded. Literature suggests that an overwhelming percentage of these conflicts are land ownership related. Through a systematic review of literature and an analysis of conflict data, this study provides further understanding of the role of land ownership and competition in the occurrence and lethality of communal conflicts. It argues that land competition, more than other socio-economic factors is the key driver of communal conflicts in Nigeria. The findings from the analyses are explained with three theories – the tragedy of the commons which proved that the conflicts are triggered by …

Oco-3 Meets Ecostress: Insights Into Ecosystem Diurnal Water-Use Efficiency From Co-Located Solar-Induced Fluorescence And Thermal Observations, Zoe Amie Pierrat, Thomas P. Kurosu, Abhishek Chatterjee, Joshua B. Fisher, Maggie Johnson, Le Kuai, Kanishka Mallick, Nicholas Parazoo, Benjamin Wiebe, Kerry Cawse-Nicholson

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

Terrestrial ecosystem regulation of carbon and water fluxes is critical for constraining climate–biosphere feedbacks but remains poorly quantified across space and time. Here, we evaluate whether co-located observations from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) and the ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) can reproduce ecosystem water use efficiency (WUE) dynamics observed at FLUXNET sites across temporal scales, vegetation types, climates, and drought conditions. We created the ECOCO3 data set, which harmonizes OCO-3 and ECOSTRESS observations in space and time. ECOCO3 captures broad seasonal and diurnal carbon and water flux patterns including midday drought responses. Sampling sensitivity analysis …

On Antisemitism: A Word In History, By Mark Mazower, Penguin Press, 2025. 274 Pages. $26.56. Isbn 978-0241722909, Beth A. Griech-Polelle

Journal of Hate Studies

Historian Beth A. Griech-Polelle reviews Mark Mazower’s On Antisemitism: A Word in History which explores how the term came emerged in Germany in the last 1800s and how its definition has changed over time and across cultures, including in the US, the USSR, and the Arab world. Mazower considers the roles of geography, Christan and antisemitic Zionism, intellectual and political antisemitism, Nazism, anti-Zionism, imperialism, conspiracy theories, and anti-Israel sentiment in shaping how people have historically understood and do today understand the concept—and how such differences in understanding frustrated efforts to end antisemitism.

The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across The Holy Land, By Aziz Abu Sarah And Maoz Inon. Crown, 2026. 240 Pages. $30.00. Isbn 979-8217086511, Jack Shepherd

Journal of Hate Studies

Jack Shepherd, a scholar of tourism studies, reviews Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon’s The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey across the Holy Land. The authors, a Palestinian and an Israeli, have each lost loved ones to violence in the region where they now work promoting peace through tourism and travel. Organized geographically, The Future is Peace moves through Gaza, Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the West Bank, Nazareth, and Galilee, telling the histories and providing political context to help readers understand the conflict there.

The Legacy Sites: A History Of Racial Injustice, By Equal Justice Initiative. Monacelli, 2026. 280 Pages. $59.95 Isbn 978-1580937320, Roger Davis Gatchet

Journal of Hate Studies

Roger Davis Gatchet, a scholar of communication, reviews The Legacy Sites: A History of Racial Injustice, collectively authored by the Equal Justice Initiative with a forward by founder and executive director Bryan Stevenson. Rich with photographs and written for a popular audience, The Legacy Sites offers an accessible history of race relations and the struggle for racial justice in the United States, organized by chapters devoted to three sites in Montgomery, Alabama: the Legacy Museum, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice Museum, and Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. The book’s historical narrative adopts a critical tone that reflects the …

Plants Introduced Into Hawaii By The Polynesians, James P. Smith Jr

Botanical Studies

No abstract provided.

A Fate-And-Transport Model For Diclofenac From Wastewater Treatment Plants To The Diyala–Tigris Rivers, Baghdad, Iraq, Mohammed A. Al-Ameri, Ghyda Y. Al Kindi, Noor S. Mahdi

Engineering and Technology Journal

Diclofenac is a widely used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug that is incompletely removed by conventional wastewater treatment. This study evaluates its fate and transport from consumption and excretion, through the three Al-Rustamiyah wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) units in Baghdad, to the Diyala River, the Tigris River, and the Al-Tuwaitha drinking-water intake. Discrete ``grab'' samples were collected during 12–14 November 2020 from WWTP influent and effluent streams and from river and intake sites. Diyala River concentrations ranged from 0.094 to 2.184 μg/L. At the Tigris confluence, diclofenac was 0.052 μg/L; the two immediate downstream measurements were below 0.01 μg/L …

Geotechnical Enhancement Of Noncohesive Coal Mine Overburden Using Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation And Fly Ash Stabilization For Sustainable Pavement Applications, Atul Gautam, Laxmikant Yadu

Journal of Sustainable Mining

The majority of the waste generated from opencast mining, termed as overburden (OB), is dumped adjacent to the mine boundary and poses long-term stability issues. Various studies have been carried out to assess the risk of dump slope failure, and treatment strategies have been accordingly recommended to strengthen this OB dump. However, scant works are reported to sustainably utilize this OB for construction works. This study aims to quantify the performance of stabilized noncohesive coal mine OB collected from Gondegaon opencast mine (OCM) in India. Stabilization was achieved using two techniques, namely microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP) through Sporosarcina pasteurii …

Community-Based Participatory And Action Research: Bridging Latin American And Local Perspectives, Latin American And Iberian Institute, Nina Wallerstein, Andreas Hernandez, Andrea Román-Alfaro

LAII Events

Thursday, September 24th and Friday, September 25th.

Join us for a one-and-a-half day conference bringing together scholars, students, and community partners engaged in participatory and community-based research in Latin America, New Mexico, and the Southwest. The conference will feature invited speakers, interactive workshops, World Café-style discussions, and student lightning talks designed to foster dialogue, exchange ideas, and strengthen connections across Latin American and local contexts.

Featured invited speakers:

Anjuli Fahlberg, Tufts University
Nilza Rogéria de Andrade Nunes, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ)
Siegrid Guillaumon Dechandt, University of Brasília

Organized by the Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII) …

Factors Influencing Non-Perennial Stream Initiation In The Mt. Hood National Forest, Allison Bast

Dissertations and Theses

Historically, non-perennial headwater streams have been overlooked due to their small size and infrequent flow regimes, often leading to them not being recognized as legitimate streams, despite scientific evidence that has shown these streams significantly affect the quality of downstream waters. To combat this issue, environmental managers need to be able to accurately identify and delineate the origins of these streams; however, despite decades of research, an accurate, universal method for predicting how and where these streams commence has yet to be developed. Early studies conducted in steep, humid environments, identified a strong inverse linear relationship between the size of …

Mission-Scoped 5g Network Lifecycle With Disconnected Udm Cache And Cryptographic Revocation, Bart Van De Velde, Andreas Enotiadis

Defensive Publications Series

A system is proposed herein that defines fifth-generation (5G) subscriber, credential, and policy state for a mission as a machine-readable mission object. The mission object can be staged, instantiated, operated during a loss of central connectivity using a scoped local Unified Data Management (UDM) cache, and dissolved under policy control. The system combines a mission lifecycle state machine with cryptographic revocation of subscriber identity module (SIM), embedded SIM (eSIM), device, and policy assets at mission end.

Using Digital Engagement Methods To Balance Democracy And Efficiency In Public Decision Making, Catherine Zietse

PNHA Review

At the bedrock of our democratic society is the active participation of everyday people in shaping public affairs. Local governments seek to build inclusive and democratic processes for decision making, while at the same time being good stewards of scarce resources to efficiently address immediate needs of the community. This paper explores the role of digital engagement in balancing democracy and efficiency in public decision-making by looking at both theory and practice. Academic literature and case studies from the field show that technology and digital engagement platforms do not circumvent the risks of traditional engagement methods but provide both opportunities …

The Thank-All-Nearby Primitive: One-Tap Anonymous Gratitude Transfer To Everyone Nearby Over Bluetooth Low Energy Proximity, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

We specify a one-tap broadcast operation for anonymous peer-to-peer value transfer to every co-present, human-verified recipient within Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) proximity, optionally carrying money or time, in which each recipient receives a verifiable receipt and the sender receives no exportable record. The recipient set is resolved by physical co-presence rather than account lookup: devices advertise rotating, unlinkable proximity beacons, with ultra-wideband ranging and peer-to-peer nearby-connection APIs as optional substrates, and the platform learns only that two devices were in range, never absolute location. Components: (1) sender authentication by a per-action passkey signature, within a proof-of-humanity layer attesting a distinct …

The Gratitude-Riding Currency Tag: Qr And Nfc Markers On Circulating Banknotes For Tracking And Voluntary Tipping, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

We specify a scannable tag (QR code or NFC tag) carried on a circulating banknote so that a tip's thank-you message travels with the cash: gratitude metadata attached to physical currency rather than to a transaction record. A giver leaving a tip stamps or affixes the mark on a lowest-denomination note; any later holder scans it in a mobile browser to read the accumulated messages (text, photo, video or voice), add their own, and pass the note onward, so the note's ordinary circulation is the distribution channel.

The disclosure specifies: a physical mark bearing no words, brand or advertisement, only …

Whose Turn, Not Who's Best: Round-Robin Rotation Over A Boolean Liveness Predicate For Unranked Local Business Discovery, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

We specify an unranked local-business discovery system in which candidates are ordered by a publicly verifiable round-robin rotation (algorithm, per-cycle seed and recomputation tool published) and admitted by a boolean activity predicate instead of a ranking score. Admission asks only whether a participant's account balance has returned to zero within one published, global time window; amplitude and volume are excluded, so admission is a rate that cannot be accumulated or purchased. The discovery turn belongs to the payer, not the merchant: candidates are presented when a user spends from a forward-only, locality-restricted gratuity account, so the system has no merchant-facing …

Discourse Of Open Party Contestation In Jemaah Tarbiyah In Indonesia, Gili Argenti, Caroline Paskarina, Nani Darmayanti, Nandang Alamsah Deliarnoor

Jurnal Wacana Politik

Factionalization in Indonesian political parties is commonly explained by elite rivalry, coalition choices, or clientelistic interests, leaving intra-party conflict over the meaning of ideology less well explained. This article asks how the discourse of an open party constructs and reveals ideological contestation within Jemaah Tarbiyah and how that contestation contributed to the emergence of the Gelora Indonesia Party. Using Teun A. van Dijk's critical discourse analysis (CDA), the study integrates textual analysis, social cognition, and social context. The empirical material consists of in-depth interviews with 20 purposively selected actors from PKS, GARBI, Gelora, and related Tarbiyah networks, together with party …

Community-Based Participatory And Action Research: Bridging Latin American And Local Perspectives, Latin American And Iberian Institute, Nina Wallerstein, Andreas Hernandez, Andrea Román-Alfaro

LAII Events

Thursday, September 24th and Friday, September 25th.

Join us for a one-and-a-half day conference bringing together scholars, students, and community partners engaged in participatory and community-based research in Latin America, New Mexico, and the Southwest. The conference will feature invited speakers, interactive workshops, World Café-style discussions, and student lightning talks designed to foster dialogue, exchange ideas, and strengthen connections across Latin American and local contexts.

Featured invited speakers:

Anjuli Fahlberg, Tufts University
Nilza Rogéria de Andrade Nunes, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ)
Siegrid Guillaumon Dechandt, University of Brasília

Organized by the Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII) …

The Predictive Scoring For Dynamic Payment Routing And User Interface Adaptation, Sree Sitamahalakshmi Moguluru

Defensive Publications Series

In the field of digital payment processing, transaction routing systems can operate reactively by identifying performance degradation within a payment processor's network after user transactions have failed. A predictive payment orchestration framework can utilize a machine learning inference engine to generate a real-time authorization probability score for a transaction across multiple available payment processors. This score can be calculated using real-time telemetry signals from the processors and the specific metadata of the pending transaction. Based on the calculated scores, an execution engine can dynamically route the payment to a selected processor or signal a user-facing interface (e.g., a web application, …

Vestolit Gmbh V. Shell Chemical Lp

2026 Decisions

USDC for the District of Delaware

“Whenever You Are Using Media, You Should Always Have A Purpose”: A Study Of Chinese Immigrant Mothers’ Media Practices, Xiaoning Gui, Daniel G. Krutka

Journal of Media Literacy Education Pre-Prints

This qualitative study explores how eleven Mandarin-speaking Chinese immigrant mothers of young children in a southwestern U.S. city navigate and mediate media in their households. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. Findings show mothers balance media’s educational affordances with concerns about health and age-appropriate content, employing gatekeeping, time limits, and purposeful sharing. Mothers described children as learners, co-learners, and cultural connectors, sometimes reversing mediation by teaching mothers about U.S. media norms. Interpreted through a lens of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy while also drawing on Confucian concepts, results underscore the need for early childhood educators to honor immigrant families’ practices while fostering …

Adapting To Change: A Mixed Methods Approach To Understand How Colleges And Universities Are Utilizing Animals To Help Students Transition Into Higher Education, Christopher Puglisi, Shalini Mathew, Nicole D. Schutter, Monte Meyerink, Abiah George

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice

Individuals experience several changes in their lives, with one of the most impactful being leaving home to attend college. It is no surprise that college-age students need mental health support, especially in times of adjustment. To address this adjustment, animal-assisted interventions (AAI) have recently gained substantial attention. In this study, college and university departments that help students transition to higher education were surveyed (N = 59) and interviewed (N = 6) to understand how AAI are utilized. Results indicate that AAI have potential to ease students’ higher education transition, though institutions must establish an outline that states the benefits of …

Assignment 2: Constructing An Evidence-Based Policy Problem Statement (Focusing On Voting Rights & Civic Engagement Focus), Shetal Vohra-Gupta

Shetal Vohra-Gupta, The Invisible 80%: Students, Policy, and Action

No abstract provided.

Syllabus: Community Engaged Research, Emese Ilyés

Emese Ilyés, From Story to Action: Research as Liberation Practice

No abstract provided.