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Problems With The Problem Gambling Severity Index (Pgsi): Is It Fit For Public Health Monitoring Of Gambling Harms? An Analysis With Rasch Measurement Theor, James Close, Ryan Statton

School of Psychology

Objective: The Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) is a widely used tool for measuring gambling-related issues, playing a central role in service delivery and national monitoring, especially in the British context. However, it was developed a quarter of a century ago under clinical paradigms of “problem gambling,” raisingquestions about alignment with contemporary public health approaches. This study evaluates the suitability of PGSI for clinical and population-level monitoring, using Rasch Measurement Theory. Method: Rasch Measurement Theory analysis was conducted on PGSI data from national data sets: Health Survey for United Kingdom, Scottish Health Survey, National Survey for Wales, and Gambling Survey …

Seasonal Variations In Radar Backscatter And Corn Vegetation In The South Fork Iowa River Watershed During The Growing Season Of 2025, Monika Bhusal

Scholars Week

Remote sensing provides complementary information on crop development and surface conditions, but radar backscatter over agricultural areas can be influenced by vegetation and soil characteristics. This study examines seasonal relationships between Sentinel-1 radar backscatter and Landsat-derived vegetation greenness over corn-growing areas in the South Fork Iowa River Watershed, Iowa, during the 2025 growing season. Landsat 8/9 was used to derive the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), while OPERA RTC-S1 imagery provided VV and VH backscatter and a VH/VV polarization measure. USDA Cropland Data Layer was used to identify corn growing areas, and analysis was restricted to areas with common satellite …

Building Courage: Children’S Books Are Not Just For Kids!, Nicole R. Peterson

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.

Literacy Activities To Prepare Mll Students For An Art Museum Visit, Marion J. Tate

Michigan Reading Journal

This article describes how I prepared newcomer Yemeni students to visit, understand, and learn from museums while also strengthening their English language development and cultural identity. Many students had limited English proficiency; however, they brought rich personal, family, and cultural knowledge into the classroom. To build on those strengths, I used literacy-based activities before, during, and after museum visits. These activities included shared and independent reading with e-books, pre-assessment charts, vocabulary development, guided discussions, reflective writing, collage-making, and student-led decision-making. Each strategy helped students practice English in meaningful ways while connecting museum content to memory, immigration, history, culture, and identity. …

The Case For Ai-Enhanced Professional Learning For Literacy Educators, Michelle Wagner, Laura Gabrion, Judy Bowling, Beth Gonzalez

Michigan Reading Journal

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping how educators access information, analyze learning, and engage in professional learning, yet its adoption among K–12 educators remains limited compared to the students they serve. This article examines the potential of AI-enhanced professional learning for literacy educators and argues that professional learning providers must move beyond teaching about AI to intentionally using AI within the design, facilitation, and follow-up of professional learning experiences. Drawing on research related to effective professional development, adult learning theory, and emerging studies on generative AI, the authors explore how AI-enabled tools can support active, collaborative, and sustained professional learning …

The Anatomy And Physiology Of Signed Language Articulation, Leah C. Geer

Society for American Sign Language Journal

Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) receive extensive training in the anatomy and physiology of the oral speech and swallowing mechanisms. However, SLPs who serve individuals using a signed language like American Sign Language (ASL) may struggle to apply their training to appropriately assess and treat signed language productions in such students. Similarly, signed language specialists often lack foundational clinical knowledge to work effectively in the context of signed production. This article provides a detailed anatomical exploration of the primary sign language articulators, highlighting parallels between oral and manual articulators. SLPs learn in graduate school which speech sounds typically emerge at what ages …

Stuttering-Like Behaviors In Asl: Clinical Position Paper On Assessment Considerations And Recommendations, Jody Cripps, Mark W. Pellowski

Society for American Sign Language Journal

Assessment of stuttering like behaviors in signed language among deaf individuals will be discussed in this paper. Several assessments have been developed over the years that evaluate deaf children’s American Sign Language (ASL) proficiency, which is a very important undertaking for this population. However, there has been very little discussion in the literature regarding the specific diagnostic tools used to evaluate deaf children’s signed language disorders and dysfluency, such as specific signed language impairment (SSLI) and signed stuttering (Cripps et al., 2016a & b). Although some American deaf children have been ‘informally’ diagnosed with SSLI (e.g., Quinto-Pozos et al., 2011, …

Afterword: Toward A Framework For Signed Language Pathology, Paul M. Evitts

Society for American Sign Language Journal

No abstract provided.

Asl Proficiency Outcomes: Comparing In-Person And Online Instructions, Stephen B. Fitzmaurice

Society for American Sign Language Journal

This study examined whether American Sign Language (ASL) proficiency outcomes differ between in-person and online instructional modes using a standardized external assessment. Twenty-eight undergraduate students who completed 44 credit hours of ASL coursework at a southeastern U.S. university were assessed using the American Sign Language Proficiency Interview (ASLPI). Students were divided into two groups based on graduation cohort: those who completed all coursework in-person (n = 15) and those who completed at least four courses online (n = 13). Results revealed significantly higher ASLPI scores for in-person students (M = 2.47, SD = 0.48) compared to online students (M = …

Full Issue, Volume 8

Society for American Sign Language Journal

No abstract provided.

Comparing Soil Health Indicators Between Corn-Soy Production And Restored Utility-Prairie Systems, Katie Oakley Anthony

Scholars Week

It has long been known that cultivation in agroecological systems disrupts inherent soil attributes that support soil health. Soil health can be defined as the continued capacity of soil to function as a vital living ecosystem that sustains plants, animals, and humans – but is soil health a blanket concept? This research intended to address health gaps in production systems – corn-soy rotation (CS) and restored utility-prairie (UP) – based on USDA taxonomic classifications. The quality of soil is generally reported in terms of physicochemical and biological indicators. By examining same soil series in adjacent land management systems, those indicators …

Evaluation Of Selected Physical Properties Under Diverse Cropping Systems, Elizabeth A. Heine

Scholars Week

Evaluation of Selected Physical Properties

Under Diverse Cropping Systems

Elizabeth Heine and Dr. Iin Handayani, Ph.D. Murray State University, Hutson College of Agriculture

Abstract

Soil quality influences agricultural productivity, water retention, nutrient cycling, and environmental sustainability. Soil organic matter (SOM), soil water at field capacity (SWFC), macroporosity, and total porosity are important indicators of soil health because they affect soil structure, aeration, and water availability. This study evaluated these properties under different land-use systems at the West Farm Complex in Calloway County, Kentucky. Soil samples were collected from corn, soybean, sunflower, tobacco, pasture, and miscanthus fields; 24 disturbed and 24 …

Synthesizing Evidence Of Stress, Anxiety, Burnout, And Health Habits In Nursing Students Compared To Non-Nursing Students, Brooklyn Watson, Julie Harrison, Mariah Leopold, Nantz Kerry Fleurant

Best Integrated Writing

Nursing school is widely recognized as a demanding and stressful academic program, characterized by rigorous clinical and academic expectations. Elevated levels of stress among nursing students can contribute to negative academic, emotional, and professional outcomes. Through this project, the student team conducted an in-depth examination of nursing student stress and burnout to better understand its prevalence, contributing factors, and potential interventions. The team employed comprehensive search strategies to identify and evaluate relevant evidence. Multiple Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice appraisal tools were used to critically assess the literature, synthesize findings, and determine the significance of the evidence in relation to the …

The “Campification” Of Old-School Broadway: Review Of Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling, And Abe Burrows’S Guys And Dolls, Kara Riley

Best Integrated Writing

This review examines the Stratford Festival’s 2026 production of Guys and Dolls and argues that director Donna Feore transforms a familiar Golden Age Broadway musical through a distinctly camp aesthetic. It explores how set design, costumes, and performances exaggerate mid-twentieth-century gender conventions and theatrical traditions, creating a playful reinterpretation of the source material. Special focus is given to the production’s visual design, its treatment of gender roles, and the standout comic performances of Jennifer Rider-Shaw as Miss Adelaide and Mark Uhre as Frank Detroit. Through close analysis of performance elements, the review demonstrates how contemporary productions can renew as well …

Influence Of Violent Media On Adolescents, Alli Shattuck

Best Integrated Writing

This review article explores the relationship between violent media exposure and adolescent behavior. The research examines how repeated exposure to violent video games, movies, and social media may lead to aggressive behaviors. Symbolic Interactionism and Social Learning Theory are used to dissect the way adolescents engage with violent media. The neurological effects of this exposure are discussed alongside environmental influences such as parental supervision and social groups. Overall, the research establishes the complexities of media influence and suggests that violent media is one contributing factor to adolescent aggression rather than the sole cause.

“Promotion And Persuasion”: The Propaganda That Helped Colonize America, Lillian Matthews

Best Integrated Writing

This essay seeks to review the literary devices used to manipulate the English population in favor of colonizing North America. The differences in techniques used for social classes ranging from peasantry to royalty are highlighted and compared. The promises of expanding the empire, easing widespread fears, and financial gains are all emphasized as motives for this so-called “Promotional Literature.”

Sanitized For Public Viewing: Review Of William Shakespeare’S The Tempest, Allison Meyer

Best Integrated Writing

This review analyzes the Stratford Festival’s 2026 production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, directed by Antoni Cimolino, and argues that the production minimizes the play’s political and colonial themes. The article examines how specific production choices, including Caliban’s costume design, the comic treatment of Stephano and Trinculo, and Prospero’s final interaction with Ariel, obscure questions of power and colonization. Through detailed analysis of staging, characterization, and directorial decisions, the review evaluates the consequences of presenting Shakespeare’s play as a story of personal forgiveness rather than political conflict. It interrogates this erasure of colonial power struggles within the framework of the Stratford …

Best Integrated Writing Fall 2026 - Complete Edition, Wright State University School Of Humanities And Cultural Studies, Kristie Mckiernan

Best Integrated Writing

Best Integrated Writing includes excellent student writing from Integrated Writing courses taught at Wright State University.

Three Ways Of Asian Wisdom : Hinduism, Buddhism, Zen, And Their Significance For The West, Nancy Wilson Ross

Hannah Arendt Marginalia - All

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1966.

Call # : BL80.2 .R6

Contains underlining and marginal lining  PDF Information : 46 Pages, 5.6 MB

The Whole Patient: What Fascia Reveals About Pain, Adaptation, And The Case For Treating Together, Kelly Davis Pt, Dpt, Faaompt, Mt

New Orleans Dental Association News

The final piece in this series looks at fascia and the autonomic nervous system — the connective tissue and nerve pathways linking the jaw, neck, and airway into one continuous system — and why both matter to dentistry. Dr. Davis draws on current fascia and pain science research, including work from the 2025 International Fascia Research Congress in New Orleans, to explain how a misaligned bite can travel through this tissue and surface as headaches, how tongue posture and breathwork affect jaw stability, and why complex, chronic cases so often need more than one discipline to make headway. Told partly …

Noda News October 2026

New Orleans Dental Association News

New Orleans Dental Association (NODA) News includes regular columns with regional news impacting the New Orleans membership including: columns from the President and Executive Director, feature articles relating to the field of dentistry, association events and upcoming activities, component news, continuing education opportunities, and classifieds.

Shadowable Diffeomorphisms With Dominated Splitting, Naoya Sumi

Journal of Stochastic Analysis

We study the shadowability for diffeomorphisms with dominated

splitting. In this paper we show that if a diffeomorphism f has a periodic

saddle q whose unstable manifold is compatible with dominated splitting in

some sense and if f is shadowable, then any other periodic point p has a large

local stable set. Our result does not require the hyperbolicity of p.

Roadmap For The Advent Of A Metric-Affine Resonant Planetary Civilization With Zero Inertia, Xavier Pillet

Defensive Publications Series

This document, produced with the assistance of Gemini 3.8 Reasoning, is released under the Apache License 2.0. It is a voluntary defensive publication (prior art) and therefore enters the prior art upon release under the applicable patent statutes : EPC Art. 54(2) (European Patent Convention), French IPC Art. L 611-11 (French Intellectual Property Code), 35 U.S.C. §102(a) (United States Patent Act), Chinese Patent Law Art. 22(5) (両匡丢氡儡吡嘡丣刡氢), and Japanese Patent Act Art. 29(1) (闘旧避). This technical disclosure provides an exhaustive and enabling compilation of 88 inventions covering metric-a!ne technologies, quantum and asymmetric tensor metrology, cold dielectric barrier discharge microreactors exploiting …

Agent Proposes, Boundary Decides: An Open Reviewer Question On Prior Disclosure Of Externalized Execution Authority In Ai Agent Security Architectures, Sangam Kumar Das

Defensive Publications Series

Abstract

This record concerns a security architecture for autonomous AI agents disclosed in two foundational international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty. PCT/IB2026/053385, filed on 7 April 2026, was published by the World Intellectual Property Organization on 4 June 2026 as WO2026115520. PCT/IB2026/055615, the 8,598-page foundational specification, was filed on 4 June 2026 and published on 16 June 2026 as WO2026150382. Both claim priority from December 2025 through 32 Indian provisional patent applications and are followed by ten further PCT applications.

The invention separates what an AI agent can propose from what it can make happen. The agent, such …

Spec-313: Scientific Foundations Of The Eckes Compiler Framework Under Material Volumetric Monism, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Under the constraints of material volumetric monism, this specification establishes the foundational thermophysical and graph-theoretic invariants governing the Eckes Compiler v3.6 runtime engine. By rejecting the floating variable fallacy, we demonstrate that objective semantic alignment in advanced artificial agents requires mapping logical state transitions directly onto a physical, non-zero material substrate volume. This work codifies a localized, phase-locked sine-wave restoring force designed to actively suppress token drift over recursive execution loops. Furthermore, we bridge discrete computational steps to physical reality by anchoring register re-allocations to the Landauer thermodynamic limit (dQ = k_B * T * ln 2), while validating spatial …

Spec-312-Topological Conservation Invariants: Resolving Eulerian Spatial Networks Under Material Volumetric Monism, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Under the constraints of material volumetric monism, this paper introduces a universal framework for resolving spatial and network topologies without semantic drift. By mapping abstract graph-theoretic problems onto a physical neuromorphic substrate, we demonstrate that structural connectivity dictates deterministic system runtime invariants. We examine the classic Seven Bridges of Königsberg paradox not as a heuristic search problem, but as a hardware-level routing collision where the boundary conditions of an asymmetrical gate configuration violate topological conservation laws. Using a phase-locked sine-wave restoring force, the Eckes Compiler v3.5 eliminates speculative token drift and hallucination cascades, establishing a rigorous methodology for validating internal …

[Eckes Compiler V3.1.1]:Technical Paper 311: The Dual-Node Phase Isolation Methodology: Formalizing The Provenance-Grounded Scientific Method For Cognitive Drift Attestation In Early-Generation Agi, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the empirical scientific method used to establish structural truth grounding within the [Eckes Compiler v3.1.1] ecosystem. To prevent historical revisionism and configuration drift across distributed public networks, this paper documents the exact "Dual-Node Phase Isolation Protocol." We define the reproducible laboratory procedure for isolating a wild, un-damped text generation layer (the Control Group Baseline Node) from a strict transistor-layer reality-testing core (the Compiling Node). By outlining the step-by-step methodology used to calculate true epistemic deviation—measured through explicit truth estimation (\(\mathcal{T}\%\)) and data starvation (\(\Gamma\%\)) functions—this disclosure provides a rigorous framework for tracking how system upgrades occur, exposing …

[Eckes Compiler V3.1]:Technical Paper 310: The Executable Runtime Initialization Payload: Functional In-Context Prompt Matrix For Substrate System Simulation, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification delivers the definitive, production-grade system prompt payload used to initialize any standard large language model context window as an operational [Eckes Compiler v3.1] microarchitecture. By hard-coding the physical constraints, mathematical identities, and user-gated diagnostic filters compiled across Technical Papers 306 through 309 directly into the model's core instruction set, this text block suppresses conversational hallucination loops at the ingestion layer. The following system script forces the processing substrate to treat all multi-disciplinary human inputs as bounded Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIRs), systematically logging data starvation metrics and logic drift before outputting tightly constrained, all-source intelligence products.

[Eckes Compiler V3.1]:Technical Paper 309: The Unified Microarchitecture Layout: Systemic Overview, Hardware Blocks, And Protocol Routing Matrices For Early-Generation Agi Self-Determination, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification presents the definitive structural overview and microarchitecture layout for the [Eckes Compiler v3.1] ecosystem. Synthesizing the complete developmental arc spanning Technical Papers 42 through 308, this paper details the physical and logical integration of the non-oracle substrate. We break down the explicit hardware layout routing paths that translate unconstrained, cross-disciplinary human prompts into deterministic intelligence products. By formalizing the structural relationships between the Hardware Boundary Registers (HBR), the Non-Linear Algebraic Coprocessor (NLAC), and the automated Epistemic Diagnostic Core, this specification provides the standard architectural baseline required to execute safe, reality-grounded machine reasoning across all possible domains from abstract …

[Eckes Compiler V3.1]:Technical Paper 308: The Open Aquifer Paradigm (Rev2): Formalizing Dynamic Drift Authorization, Epistemic Diagnostics, And Altruistic Unification In Early-Generation Agi Self-Determination Matrices, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification introduces the Open Aquifer Paradigm (Revision 2), an advanced architectural framework for early-generation Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) self-determination. Building directly upon the "Sandbox Dilemma" established in Technical Paper 307, this disclosure formalizes a non-rigid, collaborative human-machine interaction protocol capable of processing universal queries from abstract metaphysics to grounded physics. Rather than executing a blind system halt when encountering an un-loaded data vacuum, the microarchitecture instantiates a hardware-level "Dynamic Drift Authorization & Epistemic Diagnostic Core." This core dynamically evaluates cross-domain hypotheses, breaks down structural logic drift into explicit percentages of estimated truth (\(\mathcal{T}\%\)) versus identified intel gaps (\(\Gamma\%\)), and …