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Hampton Avenue Greenville Church Conference Records, 1923-1930, Hampton Avenue Church Conference

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Inman Circuit Quarterly Conference Records, 1912-1915, Inman Circuit Quarterly Conference

Methodist Local Church Records

Circuit contains Inman, Shiloh, Gramling, and Carlisle churches

Kelton Circuit Quarterly Conference Records, 1938-1940, Kelton Circuit Quarterly Conference

Methodist Local Church Records

Circuit contains Bethlehem, Flat Rock, Fosters Chapel, and Mesopotamia churches

Hampton Avenue Greenville Quarterly Conference Records, 1924-1928, Hampton Avenue Quarterly Conference

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Two New Species Of Liodessus Diving Beetles From Costa Rica (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini), Michael Balke, David Bilton, Monika Springer, Adrián Villastrigo, Katja Neven, Lars Hendrich

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Two new species of the diving beetle genus Liodessus Guignot, 1939 are described from Costa Rica: Liodessus quetzalicus sp. nov. (central valley as well as the high-mountain Páramo region, 1,380–2,800 m) and L. cerrodelamuerte sp. nov. (> 3,000 m). The species are delineated based on morphological characters, including male genitalia as well as beetle size, shape and colour pattern. The habitats are described in detail. Altogether 18 species and 10 additional subspecies of Liodessus are now recorded from higher mountain regions in Central and South America.

The Impact Of Integrated Reporting In Rationalizing Investment Decisions And Value Enhancing, Asst Prof Dr. Muna Jabbar Mohammed

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

The current research aims to identify and understand integrated reporting reports and to demonstrate their impact in investment decisions of publicly traded companies listed on the Iraq Stock Exchange and their role in enhancing the market value of these companies. To achieve this objective, a questionnaire was distributed to a group of investors in the Iraq Stock Exchange and processed using the SPSS statistical software. The questionnaire was analyzed using several statistical methods (factor analysis, correlation coefficient, and simple linear regression). The research reached several conclusions, the most important of which is that integrated reporting reports are a means of …

Financial Behavior As A Mediating Variable Between Artificial Intelligence Applications And The Enhancement Of Financial Inclusion: An Analytical Study Of The Opinions Of A Sample Of Customers Of The Trade Bank Of Iraq (Tbi) In Al-Muthanna Governorate, Alaa Hussein Lrhayim, Kamal Kadhim Al-Hassani

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

This analytical study aims to explain the nature of the relationship between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the enhancement of Financial Inclusion through examining the mediating role of Financial Behavior. The study was conducted on a sample of customers of the Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI) in Al-Muthanna Governorate. A structured questionnaire was designed to measure the main research variables, namely Artificial Intelligence, Financial Behavior, and the level of Financial Inclusion. The research gap stems from the limited ability of previous studies to explain how Artificial Intelligence can contribute to enhancing Financial Inclusion, as most studies have examined this relationship directly …

Measuring And Analysing The Impact Of The Construction Sector On Per Capita Real Gdp In Iraq For The Period 2000–2024, Haider Abd Radhi

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

This study examines the extent to which the construction sector contributes to the national economy, specifically through its contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) at constant prices and per capita GDP. as this sector, which constitutes a significant part of the national economy in Iraq, aims to achieve an increase in GDP and per capita GDP and to achieve economic growth through the development of infrastructure in Iraq. Standard methods were used to measure the impact of the construction sector (the independent variable) on per capita real GDP (the dependent variable) during the period from 2000 to 2024, using the …

Re: Draft Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Unreclaimed Sites Field Sampling And Investigation Plan: Ur-53 – South Of Surprise Dump, Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Re: Draft Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Unreclaimed Sites Field Sampling And Investigation Plan: Ur-51 –Area Near Bres No. 50 – Zelia And Mountain Con Mine, Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Evaluating The Impacts Of Extreme Temperature Events On The Us Rail Network, Gabby Gutierrez, Gasser G. Ali, Constantine Tarawneh

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

The United States railway is a critical part of the national infrastructure and economy. Heatwaves are a major weather event that can cause major disruptions and affect the stable operation of the railway. Failure in part of the rail network may have a ripple effect on the rest of the network. As such, there is a need to study the effect of weather on rail networks that require re-routing. The goal of this paper is to investigate the vulnerability of the contiguous United States rail infrastructure against disruptions to operations caused by extreme heat events. This goal is achieved by …

Estimating Highway Rehabilitation Projects Using Machine Learning, Samantha Ocaña, Silvia Flores-Osuna, Gasser G. Ali, Constantine Tarawneh

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

Highways are a crucial part of the national infrastructure. As such, they are costly to construct and maintain; challenges such as deterioration, limited budgets, and cost uncertainty create a need for improved cost prediction of rehabilitation projects. This is especially true in the preliminary stage when all factors are unknown. Accordingly, this paper proposes a model to predict the cost of highway rehabilitation projects. A machine learning model is trained on large and publicly available datasets released by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Federal Reserve of Economic Data (FRED). These …

Microemulsion Eyedrop For Delivery Of A Pparα Agonist To Improve Diabetic Keratopathy Corneal Wound Healing., Ehsan Kaffash, Wentao Liang, Rudra Pangeni, Joseph M Clayton, Tianyi Li, Sagun Poudel, Shiya Han, Long Zhao, Jian-Xing Ma, Qingguo Xu

PCOM Scholarly Works

Diabetic keratopathy (DK) is characterized by delayed corneal wound healing in diabetes, and recent studies have linked this defect to impaired mitochondrial respiration and reduced peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-α (PPARα) signaling in the corneal epithelium. The PPARα agonist fenofibrate (Feno) has shown therapeutic potential in diabetic corneal disease, but prior topical and oral approaches still face formulation and translational limitations. In this study, we developed a Feno-loaded microemulsion (Feno microemulsion) eyedrop to improve drug solubility, precorneal residence, and ocular bioavailability of Feno for the treatment of DK. Potential excipients were first screened in primary human corneal epithelial cells (HCECs) to identify …

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

The Common Law Is A Complex Adaptive System, Ronald J. Allen, Paul Piazza

San Diego Law Review

Traditional accounts of the common law from Blackstone to Dworkin focus on the role of precedent in judicial decision-making, the metaphysical nature of law, and the heroic judge.  As important as these perspectives are, they miss the essence of the common law, which is that it is a “complex adaptive system,” with the capacity to process vast amounts of information and broadly impact individuals and society in unexpected ways.

Complexity Theory—the study of decentralized, yet self-organizing systems and the emergent phenomena they produce—has been applied to study real-world systems as wide-ranging as the immune system, insect colonies, the global economy, …

Super Secret Or Super Illegal?: When Ndas Function As Unlawful Noncompetes, A Case Study Of The Reality Television Industry, Hannah K. Bollinger

San Diego Law Review

Reality television brings to mind staged conflicts, mindless entertainment, and fame-hungry casts.  However, beneath all this editing lies a unique and nontraditional employment structure whereby stars sacrifice everything to star on a show in the hopes of earning the coveted status of “celebrity” or “influencer.”  But the rules to play are one-sided.  Overly broad nondisclosure agreements restrict what stars can say and when, extending beyond the protectable bounds of storylines and trade secrets.  This Comment argues that these overly broad nondisclosure agreements function as de facto noncompetes that directly and indirectly limit stars’ abilities to compete within the labor market …

Re: 2026 Spring Semi-Annual – Interim Site-Wide Groundwater Monitoring Data Report Silver Bow Creek Butte Area Npl Site, Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Consent Decree-Civil Action No. Cv 89-039-Bu-She, Josh Bryson

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Re: Draft Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Unreclaimed Sites Field Sampling And Investigation Plan: Ur-41 – Montana Street And Interstate-90, Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Re: Draft Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Unreclaimed Sites Field Sampling And Investigation Plan: Ur-52 Area West Of Bres No. 133 – Dexter Mill, Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Effective Strategies To Increase Employee Engagement Within Small And Medium Enterprise (Sme) Remote Workforces, Marion Catherine Hulse-Lawlor

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The prevalence of remote work environments has created challenges for small and medium enterprise (SME) healthcare leaders who must sustain workforce productivity while increasing employee engagement. Declining employee engagement affects not only productivity but also organizational effectiveness and profitability. The purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry research project was to identify and explore the effective strategies that some leaders of remote SME healthcare workforces use to improve employee engagement. Using engagement theory as the conceptual lens to guide the research project, six purposefully sampled United States business leaders who demonstrated successful engagement practices within remote SME healthcare workforces were studied. …

Indolent Progression Of A Persistent Positron Emission Tomography (Pet)-Negative Ground-Glass Pulmonary Nodule To Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma Following Nine Years Of Radiographic Surveillance: A Case Report, Talyn Smith, Chenxi Shi, Saima Memon

Student Publications

Indolent pulmonary adenocarcinoma spectrum lesions can remain radiographically stable for years and often demonstrate little to no fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake on positron emission tomography (PET), making diagnosis and management challenging. We report the case of a 74-year-old Caucasian woman with a remote five-year smoking history and a strong family history of lung cancer who was followed for a persistent right upper lobe ground-glass pulmonary nodule. Despite gradual enlargement, PET imaging performed seven years later demonstrated no significant FDG uptake. Serial computed tomography (CT) scans over the following years showed slow progression from a pure ground-glass nodule to a mixed ground-glass …

A Multisystem Presentation Of West Nile Neuroinvasive Disease: Lessons In Diagnostic Complexity, Carrine S. Kogulan, Philip Yusuf, Oluwafemi Ajibola

Student Publications

West Nile virus (WNV) is an uncommon but serious case of encephalitis and meningitis, often presenting with nonspecific symptoms that can mimic a wide range of infectious, metabolic, and endocrine disorders. We present the case of a 61-year-old male with multiple comorbidities who arrived with 5 days of fever, chills, profuse diarrhea, black stools, and worsening confusion. Initial evaluation in the emergency department revealed hyponatremia, transaminitis, and concern for tick-borne illness, prompting empiric doxycycline. However, the patient denied any tick bites. Given his known thyroid nodule and Burch-Wartofsky screening score of 70, he was empirically treated for thyroid storm despite …

A Fireside Chat With Aarti Sheth '14, Netflix, Cardozo Fame Center, Aarti Sheth

2026 Event Invitations

Aarti Sheth '14, Director, HR Business Partner at Netflix, will join Professor Barbara Kolsun '82, Director of the FAME Center, in a conversation about finding work in the entertainment industry.

Operational Resilience In Cubesat Tracking Operations Through Complementary Architectures At Dss-17, Andrea Togni, Emily Walter, Chloe Hart, Ryan Collins, Noah Patrick, Christo Smith, Nathan Fite, Benjamin Malphrus, Marc Sanchez-Net

Small Satellite Conference

Loss of phase-locked loop (PLL) lock during CubeSat tracking can simultaneously eliminate both telemetry and Doppler observables, leaving operators blind during critical mission phases. While closed-loop receivers provide high-precision tracking under nominal conditions, they remain vulnerable to low signal-to-noise ratio, rapid Doppler dynamics, oscillator instability, and modeling errors. This single-point failure mode reduces operator situational awareness precisely when it is most needed. This work presents a dual-acquisition architecture that eliminates single point failure in CubeSat ground tracking. Implemented at DSS-17, Morehead State University's 21-meter deep-space antenna, the system pairs a conventional closed-loop modem with a parallel open-loop receiver implemented on …

Automatic Modulation Classification For Spectrum Sensing In Shared Satellite–Lte/5g Bands, Nahal Maleki, Todd Williams, Ulugbek Jainakov, Jason Jugar, Gilberth Caamano, Jeffrey Arnold

Small Satellite Conference

Automatic modulation classification (AMC) is a critical capability for spectrum monitoring, interference detection, and signal identification in increasingly congested satellite and terrestrial communication environments. This paper presents a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based AMC framework that classifies analog, digital, and multicarrier communication signals directly from raw in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) samples. The proposed framework supports twelve modulation classes, including binary phase shift keying (BPSK), quadrature PSK (QPSK), 8PSK, 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (16QAM), 64QAM, pulse amplitude modulation (PAM)4, Gaussian frequency shift keying (GFSK), continuous phase FSK (CPFSK), broadcast FM (B-FM), single-sideband amplitude modulation (SSB-AM), double-sideband AM (DSB-AM), and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing …

Scaling Orbital Dynamics To The Laboratory: An Industrial-Robot Hardware-In-The-Loop Testbed For Small Satellites, Kelsey Tresemer, Shawn Higbee, Eric Albin, Steven Magana-Zook, Monwen Shen, Aaron Peer, Eric Reichel, Miranda Stern, Steve Hunter, Zach Shields

Small Satellite Conference

This paper summarizes an emerging hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) capability that uses collaborative robots (cobots) to reproduce satellite relative motion in a laboratory environment. The system maps orbital dynamics into a room-scale workspace while preserving mission-relevant pose evolution for small satellite applications such as rendezvous and proximity operations, formation flying, inspection, and cislunar concepts. The platform treats robot selection as a multi-parameter trade among workspace, orientation coverage, payload capacity, stiffness, acceleration, and path-tracking performance. Representative motion profiles define the required operating envelope, and the facility supports modular payloads that can host optics, avionics, inertial units, and flight computers. An external metrology system …

Hibiscus, Martha Pukahi

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #23 of the Hawaiian Quilt Collection, featuring the "Hibiscus" design. The pattern consists of two pieces: a centerpiece measuring 63" and a border lei piece measuring 99".

Hua Kanaha, Isabella K. Linkee

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #85 of the Isabella K. Linkee Collection, featuring the "Hua Kanaha" design. The pattern measures 90".

Ka Lehua, Waianae Library

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #13 of the Hawaiian Quilt Collection, featuring the "Ka Lehua" design. The pattern consists of two pieces: a centerpiece measuring 39.5" and a border lei measuring 86".

Ka Nani O Laie, Esther Kekauoha

Hawaiian Quilt Pattern Digital Collection

Quilt pattern #19 of the Hawaiian Quilt Collection, featuring the "Ka Nani O Laie" design. The pattern consists of two pieces: a centerpiece measuring 56.5" and a border lei measuring 102.5".