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Gwayak Ateg Onaakonigewi Dibenjigewin: Decolonizing Jurisdiction In Anishinaabe Tribal Courts, Kekek Jason Stark

Nebraska Law Review

It is generally understood as a matter of federal Indian law that determinations of tribal law should properly be interpreted by tribal courts. This is because tribal courts do not always adhere to the same legal philosophy as their settler colonial counterparts. Many tribal courts subscribe to traditional law, which is an “essential source” of tribal jurisprudence. Anishinaabe communities have maintained a rich body of traditional tribal law since time immemorial. However, these customary law principles are only recently being included in modern-day Anishinaabe tribal court determinations. This Article builds upon the Anishinaabe law principles articulated in recent opinions and …

Additions To The Millipede Family Caseyidae Verhoeff, 1909, Iii: Proposal Of The New Subfamily Ochrogrammatinae, New Records Of Vasingtona Irritans (Chamberlin, 1910), Established Species Of Ochrogramma Gardener And Shelley, 1989, A New Species Of Ochrogramma From Washington State, Usa (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Striariidea), And Observations On Spermatozoa And Spermatophores, William A. Shear, Paul E. Marek

Insecta Mundi

The genera Ochrogramma Gardner and Shelley, 1989 and Vasingtona Chamberlin, 1941 (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Striariidea: Caseyidae) are assigned to the Ochrogrammatinae Shear and Marek, new subfamily. The new subfamily is diagnosed by the broad ventral lamina of the mandibular stipes and extremely long gonapophyses (found in males), the peculiar, elaborately branched processes of the gonopods, and other characters. New records and new SEM illustrations are provided for the species Vasingtona irritans (Chamberlin, 1910), Ochrogramma bentona (Chamberlin, 1952) and Ochrogramma haigi Gardner and Shelley, 1989. The range of O. bentona is extended north from the Columbia River to the Puget …

A Preliminary Investigation Of Adherence To Shell Length Regulations And Adaptive Capacity Of The Turneffe Atoll Queen Conch (Aliger Gigas) Fishery, Belize, Elsa M. K. Brenner, Vincent Sollitto, Vincent Baribeau, Rebecca Branconi, Paul Simonin

Gulf and Caribbean Research

No abstract provided.

Lessons From An Iconic Grouper: Sex, Science, And Serendipity, Yvonne J. Sadovy De Mitcheson

Gulf and Caribbean Research

From a common little damselfish and spectacular grouper aggregations, to disappearing reef fishes and the dark side of the international seafood trade, my journey has passed through a fascinating and worrying period of change in the way we view and treat our oceans. Although much of my career has been in the Indo—Pacific, I focus here mainly on my professional ‘roots’ in the Caribbean and on the Nassau Grouper Epinephelus striatus, a species that kept me curious, taught me patience, never to assume and always to stay hopeful. This fish is almost an obsession; why can we not better safeguard …

Assessing College Students' Knowledge Of Applied Behavior Analysis And Evaluating The Effects Of A Fact Sheet To Address Misconceptions, Hannah Goike

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

Previous research has indicated that college students consistently endorse misconceptions about behavior analysis (e.g., use of physical punishment, Applied Behavior Analysis [ABA] is only intended for people with autism). This study aims to assess college students’ knowledge of behavior analysis and identify the extent to which participants are likely to endorse common misconceptions. This study replicated Artzen et al. (2010) and extended it by adding questions related to the recent trends and reported misunderstandings in the field of ABA that stem from public misconceptions. The current study also evaluated the effects of a brief intervention for improving participant knowledge of …

The Integration Of Certified Therapy Dog Teams Into Special Education: Insights Of Volunteer Handlers, Rana Aabed

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

The purpose of this study was to better understand how certified volunteer dog therapy handlers can be integrated into special education settings. Although the pet therapy discourse confirms the overall impact dog therapy has on youth’s psychological health (e.g., Groenewoud et al., 2023), research that could elucidate how volunteer handlers modify the way they have their dogs interact with special education populations is a present-day need that has otherwise not appeared in the literature. In response, this study involved a qualitative multiple-case investigation about the role of volunteer certified handlers and the dog therapy provisions they offer special education populations. …

Nsf Collaborative Research: Developing Business Communication Skills In Manufacturing Technician Education, Andrew Bell, David Blais, April Bledsoe, James Freygang, Caleb Hale, Jon Hineman, Garrett Middleton, Robert Parker, Jessica Ramos

NSF ATE Project Case Study Collection

No abstract provided.

Salary Report, 2024 June, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Salary Reports

No abstract provided.

Salary Report, 2024 March, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Salary Reports

No abstract provided.

Art Teams: Teaching With Arts And Emerging Media Infographic, Elizabeth Valerio-Boster, Guy Trainin

Research and Evaluation in Education, Technology, Art, and Design

Infographic from Art TEAMS at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln about teaching with arts and emerging media.

Whale Baleen To Monitor Per- And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (Pfas) In Marine Environments, Matthew S. Savoca, Anna R. Robuck, Michaela A. Cashman, Mark G. Cantwell, Lindsay C. Agvent, David N. Wiley, Rachel Rice, Sean Todd, Nicole E. Hunter, Jooke Robbins, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Rainer Lohmann

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) comprise >10 000 synthetic compounds that are globally distributed and highly persistent but remain challenging to monitor. Here we assess the utility of baleen─an accreting, keratinaceous tissue that baleen whales use for filter-feeding─to track PFAS dynamics in marine food webs. In six species investigated, PFAS were detected in all baleen tested (n = 18 plates, 220 samples, ∑₁₀PFAS range of 0.02–60.5 ng/g of dry weight), at levels higher than those of other tissue types besides liver. Three of the species in our data set had not been tested for PFAS contamination previously, …

Antibiotic Resistance In A Coastal River In Mississippi, Usa – Potential Drivers, Shuo Shen, Wei Wu, Eric A. Saillant, Darrell Jay Grimes

Gulf and Caribbean Research

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are major sources of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in water bodies. Most studies on the impact of WWTPs on antibiotic resistance have focused on freshwater systems, with little information on coastal and estuarine waters with variable salinity. This study monitored seasonal levels of ARGs at the effluent and downstream of the Pascagoula— Moss Point WWTP in the lower Pascagoula River, a coastal river in southeastern Mississippi, USA. Surface water samples were collected seasonally at upstream, outflow, and 3 downstream sites from February to November 2016. Bacterial resistance to sulfamethazine, tetracycline, and …

Developing A Biodiversity Management Plan For The Emu Fish Lake Environmentla Education Center, Ocean M. Thomas

McNair Scholars Research Journal

The EMU Sustainability Commission uses the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (STARS) to document sustainability practices and find areas of improvement. This study will present a biodiversity management plan designed to identify vulnerable ecosystems and species at EMU’s Fish Lake Environmental Education Center (FLEEC). This plan will improve EMU’s STARS rating and help prevent, manage, and/or remediate damage to natural habitats and sensitive areas. So far, it has been found that most organisms within the defined research area hold the IUCN Red List conservation status of “least concern”; however, the site includes nine vascular plant species with a Coefficient …

Tackling The Nitty-Gritty In Teaching Search Strategies: A Visualized Approach From A Human Cognition Perspective, Yuqi He

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2024

No abstract provided.

Post And Lintel, Fall & Winter 2024-25, Preservation Eastern

Post & Lintel

No abstract provided.

Court Review: Journal Of The American Judges Association, Vol. 60, No. 3, Eve M. Brank, David Dreyer, David Prince

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Anniversary Year Brings a Look at Our Past, Court Review Editors

The Case of Standing Bear: 15 Years After Court Review Publication, Joe Starita

The Case of Standing Bear: Establishing Personhood under the Law, Joe Starita

Perceptions and Experiences with Judicial Security Threats: A Survey of U.S. State Court Judges, Christine M. McDermott, Evan Murphy, Patrick Grimes and John Muffler

Civil Cases in the Supreme Court’s October Term 2023, Thomas M. Fisher

Editor’s Note, David J. Dreyer

President’s Column, Catherine Carlson

His Majesty the King v. Kruk: Stereotypical Reasoning and the Death in Canada of the “Rule Against Ungrounded …

Safe Storage Laws And Self-Defense From Heller To Bruen, Joseph Blocher

Faculty Scholarship

This short Essay, written for a symposium honoring Walter Dellinger, explores one of the most underappreciated—and indefensible—holdings of District of Columbia v. Heller, the landmark Second Amendment case that Walter ably argued for the District. Most scholars have focused on Heller’s announcement of an “individual” right to keep and bear arms for private purposes and its invalidation of the District’s prohibition on handguns. But along the way, almost in passing, the Court also struck down the District’s requirement that firearms be kept “unloaded and dissembled or bound by a trigger lock or similar device.” It did this not by asking …

Introducing Biosimilar Competition For Cell And Gene Therapy Products, Brian Canter, Sabine Sussman, Stephen Colvill, Nitzan Arad, Elizabeth Staton, Arti Rai

Faculty Scholarship

This article provides an early analysis of the potential for creating future biosimilar competition for cell and gene therapies (CGTs) to lower prices and improve patient access, building on a unique set of interviews with relevant experts. Our discussion addressed regulatory, manufacturing, intellectual property, and market size challenges. Due to CGTs’ complexity, meeting the regulatory requirement of ‘high similarity with no clinically meaningful differences’ will be difficult. Gene therapies are likely better candidates for biosimilar development than cell therapies. Biosimilarity should be met when gene therapy biosimilars contain the same genetic sequence as a reference product, and the variability in …

The Effect Of Intravenous Glucose Solutions On Neonatal And Mother Blood Glucose Levels After Cesarean Delivery, Mustafa Shihab, Ali Saadoon

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

BACKGROUND: Intravenous glucose fluids may be given to patients undergoing caesarean delivery to provide energy  to the mother and fetus while maintain hemodynamics. Different intravenous solution loads before operation, however, may cause maternal and fetal  hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia .OBJECTIVE: To compare the blood glucose level of the mother and the fetal after giving ringer lactate have (0, 1, and 5%) glucose to the mother before induction and completed after delivery to minimize the effect of both fasting and to mark the optimal glucose concentration for both mother and fetus.PATIENTS AND METHODS: Sixty pregnant women aged 18-35 years underwent elective cesarean …

Lysophosphatidylcholine Acyltransferase-2 (Lpcat-2) & Protein S-Acylation In Macrophage Innate Immunity, Christian Good

School of Biomedical Sciences Theses

Lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase (LPCAT)2 is an enzyme involved in remodelling glycerophospholipids within cell membranes and the generation of platelet-activating factor. LPCAT2 also mediates lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced cytokine responses in both murine and human macrophages. Investigations into the mechanism behind LPCAT2 involvement into LPS-induced cytokine responses identified that LPCAT2 translocates to membrane lipid raft domains and associates with toll-like receptor (TLR)4 following activation by LPS. The mechanism behind this is not known, however LPCAT2 appears to have a role in regulating innate immune responses via lipid raft signalling complexes and understanding the molecular details of these mechanisms could help in the development of …

Delphi Panel For Establishing Land Use Compatibility Areas And Standards For Vertiports, David C. Ison

International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace

This study aimed to determine land use compatibility guidelines for vertiports, which are locations where vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft operate. The study employed a three-round e-Delphi panel to establish vertiport land use compatibility zones and standards. The results reached a consensus of at least 70%, providing comprehensive land use compatibility recommendations for vertiports. The study provides a foundation for vertiport land use compatibility planning, ensuring the integration of vertiports in existing communities. The findings can also increase public and local officials' awareness of the needs and requirements of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) infrastructure development. The uniformity between existing …

Real-Time Detection Of Sea Turtles Using Uav And Neural Networks On Edge Devices, Jose A. Gonzalez Nunez, Jose G. Gonzalez Nunez, Mustafa I. Akbas, Patrick Currier, Nickolas D. Macchiarella

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

Sea turtle populations continue to diminish around the globe for various reasons. Therefore, the need for innovative solutions to monitor sea turtles has been increasing. This research paper focuses on an innovative application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) together with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to improve sea turtle conservation efforts. We outline the design, implementation, and evaluation of a system that deploys UAVs equipped with high-resolution cameras, coupled with a purpose-built neural network to recognize, classify, and monitor sea turtles. This project thus serves as a platform for understanding the wider applicability and limitations of this technology …

Non-Technical Skills Proficiency In Aviation Pilots: A Systematic Review, Seda Ceken

International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace

This systematic review aims to examine the role of non-technical competencies in pilot selection and flight operations, and explore the methods used for their assessment. It has been discerned that relying solely on technical flying skills is insufficient for a pilot; there is a growing understanding that a pilot candidate must possess and adeptly employ non-technical skills, commonly referred to as Crew Resource Management (CRM) skills. This systematic review was designed according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. For this review, a systematic search was conducted across seven databases. Seventeen publications were included in …

Annual Report Of The Selectmen/Auditors, Town Clerk/Tax Collector, Town Treasurer, Road Agent/Trustees Of The Trust Funds, Trustees Of The Library, Planning Board, Police And Fire Departments, Board Of Education, Town Of Hampstead, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2023, Together With The Vital Statistics For The Year As Prepared By The Town Clerk, Hampstead Town Representatives

Hampstead, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Nekton Community Responses To Living Shoreline Restorations In Alabama, Shelby Kuck, Christopher Grant, Matheus De Barros, Alexandra Rodriguez, Ronald Baker

Gulf and Caribbean Research

No abstract provided.

Senate Journal, Colorado General Assembly

Colorado House and Senate Journals

No abstract provided.

Warwilding: A Weapon And A Shield In The Midst Of Conflict, Lynn Ma

UC Law Environmental Journal

War disrupts the lives of people, governments, and the wider environment. The purpose of this article is to examine how rewilding and ecological planning could be applied to military logistics to enhance peace and security amid war and post-war periods. This is explored through a concept that conservationists have coined “WarWilding.” I will develop my conclusions by analyzing WarWilding case studies from active warfare and post-war zones. To evaluate the boundaries in the ethics of WarWilding, this paper will frame the analyses around provisions in the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification …

Carbon Storage Capacity Of Forests In New Jersey, Charles R. Harman, Meiyin Wu, Paul Bovitz, Elizabeth Ravit, Elizabeth Burke Watson, Daniel Gimenez

New Jersey Center for Water Science & Technology Reports

This report of the NJ Science Advisory Board Ecological Processes Standing Committee (EPSC) addresses charge questions focused on researching how the NJ Department of Environmental Protection might manage issues related to carbon content found within soil and its relationship to climate change. Whereas forests of New Jersey play a critical role in sequestering carbon which plays a direct role attempts to combat climate change, our forests are under constant pressure from a variety of natural and anthropogenic factors including damaging insects, overpopulation of browse species such as white-tailed deer, the influx of invasive plant species and impacts from development. The …

Harmful Algal Bloom Lake Management Guidance, Mike Danko, Jason Adolf, Chris Doyle, Nicole Fahrenfeld, Bob Kortmann, Fred Lubnow, Ling Ren, Nathan Ruhl, Stephen Souza, Meiyin Wu

New Jersey Center for Water Science & Technology Reports

Executive Summary: In 2021, the Division of Water Monitoring and Standards and Pesticide Control (DWMSPC) and the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) recruited a team of lakes management and cyanobacterial HAB experts to address the second component of the Governor’s HAB initiative focusing on enhancing scientific expertise and building the state’s capacity for HAB response. The HAB Expert Team’s primary objective is to provide guidance to DEP on HAB prevention, mitigation and management for NJ lakes and other waterbodies. The team has compiled a comprehensive literature review as a resource guide available here: NJDEP | Harmful Algal Blooms | …

Juvenile Dungeness Face High Predation Risk From Green Crabs Across Increased Temperatures At Different Salinities, Trever Gelling

Environmental Science and Management Undergraduate Departmental Honors Theses

Marine heatwaves, altered precipitation regimes, and other changing climate conditions are altering the abiotic conditions of Oregon's estuaries. Furthermore, warmer water temperatures are correlated with the range expansion and population growth of the invasive and broadly tolerant Carcinus maenas, the green crab, in Oregon. Metacarcinus magister, Dungeness crab, one of Oregon’s most valuable fishery species, is also facing these climate stressors, and their young that recruit to estuaries overlap with C. maenas adults. Therefore, we wanted to determine impacts of C. maenas on young-of-the-year (YOTY) M. magister and the roles of salinity, temperature, and predator size in mediating …