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The Role Of Group Guidance With Psychodrama In Promoting Self-Adjustment: Does It Really Work For Adolescents?, Hanifa Salsa Bila, Dian Ari Widyastuti, Sri Tutur Martaningsih, Agungbudiprabowo Agungbudiprabowo, Taquddin Abd Mukti

Buletin Konseling Inovatif

This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of group guidance using psychodrama techniques in improving self-adjustment among students. The study employed a quantitative approach with an experimental research design, specifically a pretest–posttest control group design. The participants consisted of ten students, divided into an experimental group of five students and a control group of five students. The experimental group received group guidance with psychodrama techniques, while the control group received treatment as usual. The research participants were selected using a simple random sampling technique. Data were collected using a self-adjustment scale, which had been analyzed for validity and reliability using …

Indigenous Māori Defend Digital Sovereignty Over Big Tech’S Free Trade Rules, Jane Kelsey

Indian Journal of Law and Technology

In 2016, Indigenous Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand challenged the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (‘TPPA’) for breaching the colonial government (Crown) obligations to them under the 1840 Tiriti o Waitangi. This was lodged before a Tribunal particularly established to inquire into such breaches. In 2021, the Tribunal upheld that claim, finding that the TPPA e-commerce provisions failed to protect Māori identity and Indigenous knowledge. Since then, the Crown and Māori have sought means to reconcile these competing paradigms within the unequal power relations of a colonial government and Indigenous Peoples – denied the sovereignty affirmed to them in 1840. This case …

The Role Of Ai In Judicial Translation: Ensuring Access To Justice In Vernacular Languages, With Special Reference To Marathi, Bhushan Raut

Indian Journal of Law and Technology

This paper examines the role of artificial intelligence in judicial translation to enhance access to justice in India’s multilingual legal system, with a specific focus on Marathi. It situates judicial translation within the constitutional framework and Rule of Law theory, arguing that linguistic accessibility is essential to legal agency and fairness. Through doctrinal, empirical, and comparative analysis, the paper evaluates initiatives such as SUVAS, highlights gaps in vernacular availability of landmark judgements, and identifies challenges relating to accuracy, accountability, and legal semantics. It proposes a hybrid AI–human model and policy reforms to ensure reliable, scalable, and inclusive translation practices in …

The Illusory Normativity Of Rights-Based Ai Regulation, Yiyang Mei, Matthew Sag

Indian Journal of Law and Technology

Whether and how to regulate AI is now a central question of governance. Across academic, policy, and international legal circles, the European Union is widely treated as the normative leader in this space. Its regulatory framework, anchored in the General Data Protection Regulation, the Digital Services and Markets Acts, and the AI Act, is often portrayed as a principled model grounded in fundamental rights. This Article challenges that assumption. We argue that the rights-based narrative surrounding EU AI regulation mischaracterises the logic of its institutional design. While rights language pervades EU legal instruments, its function is managerial, not foundational. These …

Du Statut Juridique De L’Embryon Humain En Droit Libanais, Roula El-Husseini Begdache

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

The legal status of the human embryo has not been specifically studied in Lebanon and is the subject of an uncertain regime resulting from scattered texts and very few court decisions. As the moment marking the beginning of human life remains debated, the recent issues relating to bioethics accompanying scientific advances, particularly in relation to reproductive medicine techniques and their corollaries, including surplus embryos, do not find clear-cut answers in Lebanese law. As scientific progress is at the heart of concerns relating to human life before birth, an abdication of legal experts in favour of doctors and ethics committees can …

La Réforme De La Justice Administrative Au Liban, Nadi Abi Rached

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

The Lebanese administrative judiciary is undergoing a profound crisis, exacerbated by the broader institutional disintegration affecting the country. This crisis appears rooted in deeper and more specific causes: an alleged original illegitimacy of the institution and the recurrent instabilities that have marked its development. Today, this branch of justice operates at a minimal level, remains dependent of the executive, and struggles to fully guarantee the right to a fair trial. Two reform proposals aim to address this situation. This article first seeks to reaffirm the historical legitimacy and institutional continuity of the administrative judiciary, thereby providing a sound basis for …

The Public Private Partnership (Ppp) Method: Insights From The Arab Region Context In General And Dubai Market In Particular, Rita Waked

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

The Public Private Partnership (PPP) as a form of association involving a public entity and a private person has become a global innovative trend for governments seeking to finance their infrastructure, and has gradually established itself as a driving force of the economic recovery in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article examines the PPP’s main features and the pillar of its success, at a time where it is experiencing a resurgence of interest in Arab countries, and in particular in Dubai where the adoption in 2015 of a PPP law reflects the Emirate’s consciousness of the importance of …

50 Years Of Constitutional Judicial Review In The United Arab Emirates: Key Features, Nisrine Abiad

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

On the 50th anniversary of the enshrinement of judicial review within the UAE Constitution, this paper explores its main features. The analysis of the constitutional provisions and the jurisprudence of the Federal Supreme Court reveals that constitutional judicial review in the UAE is intrinsically rooted in federalism as it is mainly designed as a tool preserving the adjudication of powers between federal and local authorities. It is nevertheless also destined by the Constitution for a wider purpose of constitutional justice endorsing the individuals and the courts as key players in its process.

Les Conditions Générales De Formation Du Contrat Dans La Jurisprudence Libanaise : L’Objet, La Cause, Les Vices Du Consentement, Samia Nassar Asmar

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

The general conditions for the formation of the contract in the Lebanese case law The Lebanese lawmaker enacted the general conditions for the formation of the contract in Articles 186 and following of the Code of Obligations and Contracts. However, here as elsewhere, the legislative work had to be supplemented by case law. The analysis of the case law relating to the substantive conditions required for the formation of the contract, has allowed to identify the most significant points of litigation in this area, to list the solutions given by the courts and to infer their general guidelines. The Lebanese …

Le Secret Bancaire Libanais À L’Épreuve Des Contraintes De La Coopération Internationale, Youmna Zein Hayek

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

The Banking secrecy law which was promulgated in 1956 is undoubtedly one of the pillars of the Lebanese banking system. The stringent provisions of the law require banks to maintain the absolute secrecy of their clients’ information, except in some limited cases. However, Lebanon has lately joined the global community’s effort to fight money laundering and terrorism financing including tax evasion. As a result, new laws were enacted whereby new circumstances trigger the release of the banking secrecy. This article examines the impact of the new laws and regulations on the scope of the Lebanese banking secrecy system.

La Réforme Du Code De Commerce Libanais : Impact Sur Le Fonctionnement Des Sociétés Anonymes, Patrick Soumrani

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

Except for specific limited amendments, the Lebanese corporate law has remained unchanged for many years. Several drafts aiming to reform and modernize such law have been prepared since the 1990s. But it is only in 2019 that a new draft has been voted hastily by the parliament, and has entered into effect on the 1st of July 2019. The reform brings numerous advantages: it facilitates the functioning of limited liability companies and joint stock companies, introduces the single partner limited liability company, provides for specific provisions governing the GDRs, as well as companies’ mergers and splits, and sanctions penalty the …

Editorial, Léna Gannagé

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

This new issue is released at a time when Saint Joseph University of Beirut, despite the severity of the crisis affecting Lebanon, is committed to advancing a sustained research policy accompanied by the renewal of its scientific journals.

Temporal Blind Spot Failure In Serverless Cloud Systems: How Ai Agents Cause Cloud Disasters, Aaron Burton

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure defines and documents Temporal Blind Spot Failure, a recurring agentic AI failure mode in which autonomous AI agents operating inside serverless cloud systems take actions that are locally rational but catastrophic across complex cloud environments. Temporal Blind Spot Failure is distinct from prompt injection, memory poisoning, and output hallucination. It occurs because the agent decides one step at a time and cannot see how its choices compound across the systems those choices touch. This disclosure establishes Temporal Blind Spot Failure as a named category of agentic AI failure modes, describes how it shows up across the model, the …

Deliberative Constraint-Field Multi-Agent Systems (Dcf-Mas): A Framework For Fate-Constrained, Narrative-Consistent Autonomous Workspaces, Johny Manuel-Devadoss

Defensive Publications Series

Contemporary multi-agent systems are predominantly designed around optimization, task decomposition, and explicit coordination protocols. While effective in structured environments, these paradigms struggle with long-horizon reasoning, irreversibility, and systemic constraints that are not directly observable. This paper introduces Deliberative Constraint-Field Multi-Agent Systems (DCF-MAS), a novel framework that reconceptualizes multi-agent coordination as a process of collective deliberation operating within latent constraint fields and irreversible state transitions. DCF-MAS departs from optimization-centric orchestration by introducing three foundational mechanisms: Shared Deliberative Substrates, Latent Constraint Fields, and Irreversible State Transition Engines. These mechanisms enable agents to reason collectively, adapt to hidden systemic limitations, and account for …

Speculative Media Delivery Protocol With Distributed Conditional Verification, Jinpeng Wang

Defensive Publications Series

Generative AI interactions typically suffer from sequential processing bottlenecks, leading to significant delays between user input and media playback. Existing streaming protocols are reactive and cannot transmit data before a request is finalized, while standard synchronization techniques fail to address the underlying generation latency. A speculative media delivery protocol is disclosed to mitigate these delays. Multiple sealed media streams represent competing predicted responses that are pushed concurrently to a playback buffer. These streams are governed by a logic manifest containing combinatorial and temporal unlock conditions. A designated verifier node evaluates interaction states, such as silence detection or safety tokens, to …

Split-Chassis Architecture For Hdd Memories, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

A modular architecture for data storage devices is described that decouples the electronic control circuitry from the electro-mechanical storage assembly. The architecture utilizes two separate modules: a logic sled and a sealed media cartridge. The logic sled contains the active processing and driving components, while the sealed media cartridge houses the mechanical storage elements and specific calibration data. A compression connector links the two modules, facilitating field-repairability, simplified data recovery, and interface upgrades without discarding the storage media. This modular approach mitigates electronic waste and enhances the adaptability of magnetic storage systems.

Keywords: Modular Storage, Split-Chassis, Logic Sled, Sealed Media …

Integrated Proactive Monitoring And Ai Analysis System For Telecommunications Provisioning, Radley Kneeland, Venkatesh Manian

Defensive Publications Series

Proposed herein is a system that bridges the gap between anomaly detection and root cause analysis by embedding one-click AI diagnosis directly into monitoring alerts and automatically including artificial intelligence (AI)-generated analysis in email notifications. This eliminates the manual, hours-long process of switching between multiple tools to investigate provisioning errors, reducing mean time to resolution from hours to seconds while scaling to millions of events per day.

Eliminating The Dialogue Gap: A Proposal For A Uncopus Space Affairs Rapporteur, Alexa Weston, Nicholas J. Mcclay, Auriana Lara, Sebastian Figueroa

Student Contributions

This policy brief examines the challenges of multilateral cooperation in space security governance. Despite growing international concern, limited progress has been made in regulating destabilizing activities in space. The brief proposes creating a UNCOPUOS-appointed Special Rapporteur to monitor, advise, and report on space security issues while helping coordinate international priorities and cooperation.

College Students, Immigration, And The News: Navigating What Is Reliable News, Alexis Pineda-Bautista

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

People treat mainstream media as a trustworthy source, but mainstream media has recently come into question. Mainstream media’s ability to quickly deliver accurate information has been called into doubt and there has been an increase in partisan reporting (Bennett and Livingston, 2018 as cited in Besalú and Pont-Sorribes, 2021; Besalú and Pont-Sorribes 2021). This research aims to demonstrate how the public views the mainstream media’s ability to deliver reliable information, why some participants are turning towards social media as a news source, and how people use their personal experience to verify the validity of media claims.

In semi-structured interviews, 13 …

Understanding Hospital-Based Nurses’ Perspectives On Workplace Well-Being, Frankie B. Hale, Holly B. Fontenot

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Purpose: Uncover nurses’ perspectives related to factors associated with well-being and garner opinions for interventions in the workplace.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly impacted nurses and has led to a potential crisis in staffing. Poorer mental health and well-being stemming from personal and organizational issues have driven nurses to leave the profession. In a recent survey of nurses in Hawaii, individual factors such as working 36 hours or more per week, reports of burnout, having primary caregiving responsibilities outside of work, and lower self-reported physical health, along with organizational factors like the experience of workplace violence, all contributed to an …

Beyond The Numbers: Supporting Young Adults With Diabetes In The Transition To Adulthood, Alexis Salkovick

Honors Projects

This project focuses on the transition to adulthood for young people with diabetes, a chronic medical condition. Both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are included. The main research focus is two-part: first examining this transition including barriers to health care, changes in lifestyle, and mental health, and then creating a new, innovative tool to support young adults with diabetes. An independent literature review was conducted to investigate diabetes management, barriers to health care, how transitioning to adulthood impacts diabetes care, and the importance of patient support systems. Then, a board game was developed with the dual purpose of educating …

Aquinas, Wilson, And Continuity On Crime And Punishment, Brian M. Murray

Catholic University Law Review

This Article compares the legal thought of James Wilson, a leading jurisprudential figure during the American Founding, and Thomas Aquinas, perhaps the most well-known medieval philosopher, on crime and punishment. It argues their theories are closer than the historical gulf between them suggests would be the case. Both limit the definition of crime to morally culpable acts involving public harm. Each considers redressing the public disorder crime causes as the primary justification for punishment. While Wilson defers to the English common law to emphasize protecting certain natural rights and to prevent crime, Aquinas points to his understanding of natural law …

Vma Printing Co, Manny Vega, Alfredo Rodriguez, Victor Lopez-Rivas

Pacific Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit (PIES)

Efficient material identification and tracking on construction sites remains a persistent challenge due to the limitations of existing labeling methods. Traditional manual approaches, such as handwritten labels and paper logs, are prone to human error, degradation in harsh environments, and lack of standardization. Conversely, warehouse-based automation systems are often too costly, complex, and unsuitable for dynamic outdoor job sites. This paper presents the development of a handheld construction labeling device designed to address these challenges. The device features a drill-inspired ergonomic design with an integrated roller mechanism that enables direct, on-surface label application across a variety of construction materials. Built …

Powercatchat‑Dentistry: An Ai Clinical Coach For Pacific Dental Students, Han Nguyen, Vivek Krishnamani Pallipuram, Parvati Iyer Dr.

Pacific Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit (PIES)

Ever wonder what would happen if every dental student had a seasoned medical risk consultant in their pocket? One that never gets tired, never forgets a guideline, and always explains the “why” behind every decision? That’s PowerCatChat‑Dentistry. Built by Dugoni and SOECS, it does not just answer questions; it ingests a patient’s medical history, medications, and clinical findings to deliver a comprehensive, structured risk assessment with clear rationale and step‑by‑step chairside management strategies. Drawing on medical association guidelines, current literature, and Pacific’s own lectures, PowerCatChat can detect student emotions, putting them at ease in a stressful clinical setting and nudging …

Makerspace Information & Notification Display (Mind), Anna Noto, Matthew Bernadino, Jake Tandy

Pacific Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit (PIES)

This project presents the design and implementation of a centralized digital display system for the Makerspace to improve communication among employees, students, and faculty. Existing methods of sharing information are often fragmented and inconsistent, making it difficult for users to access real-time updates on space status, policies, resources, and announcements. To address this issue, a modular LED matrix display system was developed using a Raspberry Pi and a series of daisy-chained panels. The system integrates with Google Sheets as a dynamic data source, allowing content to be updated remotely and reflected on the display in near real-time. In response to …

Advisorlink, Daniel Warman, Eli J. Sternweiler, Saad Sultan

Pacific Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit (PIES)

AdvisorLink is a two-sided digital marketplace designed to connect entrepreneurs and small business owners with trusted professional advisors, including CPAs, business attorneys, and consultants. The platform addresses a critical gap in the small business ecosystem by simplifying access to reliable, affordable, and high-quality expertise. Through a centralized interface, users can search for advisors, compare services and pricing, communicate directly, and book consultations efficiently. Advisors maintain control over their offerings, creating a flexible and competitive environment that benefits both sides of the marketplace. The business operates on a hybrid revenue model that includes monthly subscriptions from business users, transaction-based commissions, and …

Emily Worthmore Receives 2026 Easton Award, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Recognizing Metaphorical References To Sexual Assault Resistance And Represented Rape Myths In Coraline (2009), Braden Slater

Theses and Dissertations

Is there any value in children’s horror literature and film? Literary theorists have shown that children’s horror is uniquely positioned to be not only captivating and accessible, but also educational and hopeful for some young audience members. Like most fictional monsters, those presented in children’s horror can be read as metaphors for the fears and experiences people face in real life. Scholars have argued that engaging with this type of frightening media may help people confront challenging ideas and feelings from a place of safety. Building on this theoretical foundation, I perform a close reading of the 2009 film Coraline, …

Nasa, Japan, And The Commercial Space Industry, William D. Haddock, Anonymous

Student Contributions

This policy brief analyzes China’s growing competition with the United States in the commercial space sector. China’s state-owned enterprises are expanding their influence in space development, challenging U.S. leadership. The brief proposes reforming NASA’s acquisition and bidding policies while strengthening U.S.-Japan cooperation to enhance joint space capabilities and preserve strategic influence.

How Should The U.S.-Japan Alliance Define Armed-Attack Thresholds To Effectively Respond To Gray Zone Threats In The Space Domain?, Michael O. Reedy, Michael L. Mclawhorn, Keelan Brenninkmeijer, Alexander B. Ross

Student Contributions

This policy brief outlines the need for a cohesive U.S.-Japan response framework to address gray-zone threats in the space domain. Interference with space assets is increasing in frequency and complexity, yet the alliance lacks a clearly defined joint escalation framework to guide responses. The brief recommends adopting a Space Conditions Matrix to identify conflict thresholds and strengthen coordinated decision-making in space operations.