Review Of Holding The Line: The Telephone In Old Order Mennonite And Amish Life, Rod Janzen

Communal Societies

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Review Of Shared Visions, Shared Lives: Communal Living Around The Globe, Susan Love Brown

Communal Societies

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Crisis And Transformation The Kibbutz At The Turn Of The Century, Eliezer Ben-Rafael

Communal Societies

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The Total Institution - Day School Contimuum: A Model For Adapting And Updating The "Ideal Commune", Yuval Dror

Communal Societies

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Student Housing Cooperatives Communitarianism Among American Youth, Deborah Altus

Communal Societies

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Front Matter

Communal Societies

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Responsive User Interfaces Based On Task Criticality And User Context, Piyush Arora, Colby Hawker, Shantanu Pai, Ram Vivekananda, Wendy Yun, Jaime Sonoda

Defensive Publications Series

Responsive user interfaces enable dynamically adjusting user interfaces based on device-specific aspects such as screen size, aspect ratio, display resolution, etc. However, traditional responsive design fails to account for different types of constraints of a user and task criticality of the task being performed via the UI. Misalignment between the UI design, user context and task criticality can lead to user error. This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with user permission, for dynamically modifying the layout, information density, and/or interactive physics of a user interface based on a dual-factor analysis of user cognitive state and task criticality. The user's cognitive state …

Protecting Journalism From National Security In Contemporary India, Manish .

National Law School of India Review

Freedom of the press is an important element of a robust democracy. In India, press freedom lacks statutory protection, leaving constitutional protection under Article 19(1)(a) as the only remedy. In recent years, the use of anti-terror laws against journalists investigating alleged lapses or excesses by the state has posed a particular threat to press freedom, given the largely minimalist and statist interpretation that the Supreme Court of India has given to these laws. This has been compounded by the election and re-election of an autocratic populist government to Parliament, which has sought to use law as a means of ensuring …

Trust Amplification Exploits In Human To Ai Security Teams Abusing Overconfidence In Automated Recommendations, Pranav Bhatanagar Mr

Defensive Publications Series

Human–AI collaboration has become a central component of modern cybersecurity operations. Security analysts increasingly rely on automated systems for threat detection, risk assessment, and incident response. While this collaboration improves efficiency and scalability, it also introduces new vulnerabilities associated with human trust in machine generated recommendations. This paper introduces Trust Amplification Exploits, a novel class of adversarial strategies that manipulate and exploit overconfidence in AI-assisted security workflows. Rather than targeting algorithms directly, these attacks leverage repeated system accuracy, interface design, and organizational dependence to amplify human reliance on automated outputs. Over time, excessive trust reduces critical evaluation and increases susceptibility …

Interpretation Attacks: Exploiting How Ai Explains And Justifies Decisions (Turning Explainability Itself Into An Attack Surface), Pranav Bhatanagar Mr

Defensive Publications Series

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) systems are widely promoted as mechanisms for increasing transparency, trust, and accountability in automated decision-making. By providing human-readable explanations for model outputs, these systems are intended to support oversight, regulatory compliance, and informed human judgment. However, the growing reliance on automated explanations has created a previously overlooked security risk: the explanations themselves can be manipulated, exploited, and weaponized. This paper introduces Interpretation Attacks, a class of adversarial strategies that target how AI systems generate, present, and justify their decisions. Rather than manipulating model predictions directly, these attacks exploit the interpretability layer to influence human perception, distort …

Intent-Obfuscation Attacks: Evading Ai Security By Manipulating Meaning, Pranav Bhatanagar Mr

Defensive Publications Series

As artificial intelligence systems increasingly rely on intent-based security mechanisms to regulate user behavior, the nature of adversarial interaction is undergoing a subtle but significant shift. Rather than attempting to bypass safeguards through explicit policy violations or recognizable malicious patterns, attackers are increasingly manipulating meaning itself. This paper introduces Intent-Obfuscation Attacks, a class of semantic evasion techniques that exploit the gap between surface-level language compliance and the underlying objectives inferred by AI systems. Unlike traditional prompt injection or keyword-based attacks, intent-obfuscation operates through linguistic ambiguity, contextual indirection, and gradual semantic drift. Individual interactions appear benign and policy-compliant, yet when interpreted …

Ai Supply-Chain Pentesting: Attacking Models Through Training, Updates, And Dependencies (Hacking Ai Without Touching Production Systems.), Pranav Bhatanagar Mr

Defensive Publications Series

As artificial intelligence systems become embedded in critical decision-making workflows, security research has largely focused on defending models at runtime. Attention has centered on prompt injection, inference-time abuse, and output manipulation, implicitly assuming that models arrive in production as trustworthy artifacts. This assumption is increasingly fragile. Modern AI systems are assembled through complex and opaque supply chains involving datasets, pre-trained models, fine-tuning pipelines, dependency ecosystems, and automated update mechanisms. Each stage introduces opportunities for adversarial influence that remain largely unexplored by conventional security testing. This paper examines AI security from a supply-chain perspective, arguing that many impactful compromises occur upstream, …

Hallucination-Driven Exploits: Weaponizing Ai False Confidence In Cybersecurity Systems, Pranav Bhatanagar Mr

Defensive Publications Series

Artificial intelligence systems, particularly large language models, are now routinely used in operational cybersecurity environments. They assist analysts with alert triage, incident response, threat intelligence interpretation, and day-to-day decision-making in situations where information is incomplete and time pressure is constant. Much of the existing research on AI security has focused on direct attacks such as prompt injection, jailbreaks, or data poisoning. In contrast, this paper examines a quieter but increasingly consequential risk: the impact of confident hallucinations in security-critical contexts. When AI systems provide incorrect guidance with high confidence, the resulting decisions can materially affect defensive posture even when no …

Synchronous Multi-User Search Sessions With Group-Personalized Results, Paula Marques

Defensive Publications Series

Information retrieval systems designed for individual use may be inefficient for collaborative tasks, potentially requiring participants to search in isolation and manually share findings through disconnected channels, such as email or chat applications. A framework for synchronous, multi-user information retrieval sessions can synchronize participant actions in near real-time across multiple devices (e.g., smartphones, laptops, tablets, wearable devices). The system can allow a user to initiate a shared session and may generate a group-personalized set of results by synthesizing the profiles and contexts of the session participants. The framework may also provide an interactive collaboration layer with tools for shared bookmarking, …

Syllabus Design And Clinical Competency: A Review Of Dysphagia Training Graduate Speech-Language Pathology Programs Across North Carolina, R. Jordan Hazelwood, Kasey M. Clift, Paige H. Bradford

Appalachian Student Healthcare Research Review

Background

Despite the critical role of dysphagia management in speech-language pathology education, limited research has examined how graduate-level curriculum design and learning experiences influence clinical preparedness and competency development. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between instructor characteristics, syllabus design features, and the inclusion of dysphagia management competencies in graduate speech-language pathology (SLP) dysphagia course syllabi across North Carolina (NC).

Method

Instructor information and dysphagia syllabi from all accredited graduate SLP programs across NC were collected and rated. The New Dale-Chall Readability Calculator was used to evaluate syllabus readability and content complexity. The Four Dimensions of …

Multimodal Interventions To Assist In Reducing No Show Rates In An Outpatient Primary Care Setting, Amelia Barber

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) incorporated a Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) approach to address a practice issue of increased no show rates of patients scheduled for follow-up appointments in an adult outpatient primary care setting. Missed appointments symbolize a long-standing practice problem in ambulatory care, exacerbating challenges like healthcare expenses, fragmented care, inefficient resource utilization, and delayed treatment often resulting in negative patient outcomes. The project’s purpose was to develop an evidence-based CPG with integrated multimodal patient outreach strategies, including patient portal, text messaging, transportation support, and live reminder calls within Electronic Health Record (EHR) system to prevent and/or …

Factors That Contribute To Lone-Wolf Terrorist Attacks In The United States, Kevin Klatte

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Within the United States, current strategies aimed to prevent terrorism focus on terrorist organizations and international terrorism. The predominant literature on lone-wolf terrorism has focused mainly on quantitative data, and the qualitative studies that have been conducted do not uncover all factors that led to the individual committing the attack. Lone-wolf terrorism, while less frequent than international terrorism, has a significantly higher number of victims per attack and is extremely difficult to predict and prevent. The existing qualitative literature has heavily focused on the mental state, emotional status, and cognitive ability of the offender. This study explored why an individual …

Leadership Strategies To Promote Employee Engagement In Therapeutic Agencies, Paris Sim'mone Lewis

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This study investigates the persistent decline in employee engagement among behavioral health clinicians working within community-based therapeutic agencies, focusing specifically on Behavioral Health Organization A (BHOA). The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore how leadership style, communication practices, and organizational structure affect clinician engagement at BHOA. Grounded in the Baldridge Performance Excellence Framework and supported by transformational leadership theory, the study examines how leadership behaviors and communication pipelines shape motivation, burnout, and workforce alignment. Semi-structured interviews with organizational leaders, secondary data, and internal documents were collected and analyzed using Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis approach. Themes revealed communication …

The Importance Of Timely Documentation Of Updates On Patients’ Records In Improving Documentation Accuracy And Reducing Clinical Errors At The Home Health Agency, Sandra Aigbekaen

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Timely and accurate documentation is essential to patient safety, care coordination, and risk reduction in home health care. In this Doctor of Nursing Practice project, I implemented an evidence-based educational intervention to improve documentation practices among clinicians at a pediatric home health agency in the southwest United States. Guided by the analyze, design, develop, implement, and evaluate (ADDIE) instructional design model, I conducted the project to evaluate whether focused education would improve documentation accuracy, consistency, and timeliness. A targeted literature review on electronic health record (EHR) best practices, structured documentation, and patient safety informed the development of five training modules …

Developing A Comprehensive Program Plan For Postpartum Mental Health Assessment And Follow-Up Care, Kimberly Osborne

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This Doctor of Nursing Practice project was an executive leadership proposal to develop an evidence-based program plan for standardized postpartum mental health screening and structured referral processes within an obstetric clinic. The practice problem was inconsistent postpartum mental health screening and follow up. Internal organizational data demonstrated elevated no-show and cancellation rates among obstetric patients referred for mental health services, reflecting gaps in care coordination, particularly for rural and underserved populations. The purpose of this project was to develop a comprehensive program plan guided by the following practice-focused question: Will a standardized postpartum mental health screening and structured referral program …

Development Of An Evidence-Based Educational Intervention Designed To Increase Staff Knowledge And Competence In Comprehensive Fall-Prevention Practices, Jacqueline U. Becerra

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Inpatient falls continue to represent a significant nurse-sensitive quality indicator associated with patient injury, extended hospital stays, and increased healthcare costs. Despite the presence of established fall-prevention protocols, inconsistent completion of fall-risk assessments and uneven application of prevention strategies contributed to ongoing fall events at the project site. The practice problem addressed in this Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project was the lack of consistent staff knowledge and application of evidence-based fall-prevention practices. The purpose of this evidence-based quality improvement project was to implement and evaluate a structured fall-prevention staff education program to increase inpatient staff knowledge related to fall-prevention …

Early Childhood Teachers’ Experiences Establishing Positive School-Home Relationships, Jayme Michelle Doyle

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The problem in this study was that at Windland Elementary School (WES; pseudonym) early childhood teachers experienced a 16% decrease in parent satisfaction with the school's ability to eliminate or reduce barriers to parent engagement. Framed by six types of activities that encompass family engagement from Epstein et al., the purpose of this study was to explore early childhood teachers' experiences in establishing and maintaining school-home relationships at WES. Data were collected through semistructured interviews with 10 Kindergarten through Grade 3 teachers who had at least 3 years’ teaching experience at WES. Thematic analysis using open coding yielded four key …

Incarceration’S Impact On Young Adults’ Psychological Development, Well-Being, And Reintegration Into Society, Monica Murrell

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This qualitative phenomenological study explored how individuals who experienced incarceration during emerging adulthood understood and made meaning of their developmental, emotional, and psychosocial experiences. Emerging adulthood, defined as ages seventeen through twenty-five, is a critical developmental stage, and incarceration during this period may disrupt identity formation and emotional maturation. The purpose of the study was to examine the perspectives and coping mechanisms of individuals incarcerated during this stage to better understand how early adult imprisonment shapes trauma responses, identity development, and reintegration. Social learning theory served as the conceptual framework. Data was collected through interviews with six formerly incarcerated adults …

City, County, University Team Up To Serve Thousands After Ice Storm, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Once she knew her family would be safe in the wake of winter storm "Fern," Betsy Chapman had a thought: "What about all the families that aren't?" That thought grew into a communitywide relief effort that has served more than 3,000 families affected by the storm.

Enhancing Social Health Programming For Gbmsm With Meth Use Experience, William O’Leary, David J. Brennan, Yvonne Bergmans, Tim Guimond

Lyle S. Hallman Social Work Faculty Publications

This report presents key findings and recommendations based on a two-year qualitative study involving gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) who have crystal methamphetamine (meth) use experience. We explore barriers and enablers of engagement in social health programming and propose actionable strategies for fostering inclusion, safety, and retention. Our goal is to inform and support providers and stakeholders working with this population.

Phytic Acid (Insp6) Activates Hdac3 Epigenetic Axis To Maintain Intestinal Barrier Function, Sujan Chatterjee, Zachery Sin, Nguyen Tran, Loretta Vierra, Anuj Shukla, Tam Tran, George Koshkaryan, Kevin Ritter, Xue Bessie Sue, Saharat Jolak Ragsac, Seungman Park, Qian Liu, Richard Van, Katherine Huang, Kayci Huff-Hardy, Richard Rood, Anas Gremida, Martin Gregory, Chien-Huan Chen, Mira V. Han, Parakkal Deepak, Adikfi Saiardi, Henning J. Jensen, Prasun Guha

Life Sciences Faculty Research

HDAC inhibition shows promise in cancer treatment but pan-HDAC inhibitors cause gastrointestinal issues in 48% of patients. Understanding HDAC activation mechanisms is crucial to treating diverse diseases beyond cancer. Our study reveals that inositol polyphosphate multikinase (IPMK) and inositol hexakisphosphate (InsP6 or phytic acid), enriched in vegan diets, play essential roles in activating the HDAC3 epigenetic axis and maintaining intestinal barrier integrity. IPMK binds to HDAC3 and drives InsP6 synthesis, which selectively activates HDAC3 at a 10 nM concentration by recruiting the DAD domain of its corepressor protein. IPMK deletion diminishes HDAC3 activation, leading to histone hyperacetylation and MMP gene …

Cybersecurity In Higher Education Institutions: Awareness, Policy, And Experience On Employee Behaviour, Abdullahi Abiodun Yusuf, Adriana A. Steyn

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

The digital transformation of higher education institutions (HEIs) has introduced unprecedented connectivity and operational efficiency, but it has also heightened their exposure to cyber threats. South African HEIs, in particular, face increasing vulnerability due to their reliance on technology, openness, and diverse user communities. This study examines the influence of the institutional cybersecurity environment on employee cybersecurity-compliant behaviour (CCB), emphasising the critical roles of awareness, policy engagement, and experience. Drawing on Protection Motivation Theory and the Theory of Planned Behaviour, a conceptual model was developed to explore how cybersecurity awareness, policy familiarity, and prior experience shape employees’ attitudes, subjective norms, …

Ideas For Learning Newsletter: Early February ‘26, Iwasaki Library

IDEAS for Learning Newsletters

This IDEAS for Learning Newsletter reached the faculty of Emerson College on February 9th, 2026. This is the first published issue of February 2026. This is the eleventh issue of the third volume. It includes event reminders like Research and Creative Scholarship Breakfast Roundtable, Alternative Grading Community of Practice: Open to All Faculty, a faculty workshop on Engaged and Praxis-based Pedagogy with Dr. Tuesda Evans, Supporting Students Who are Struggling, Research Hub Writing Retreat, and a Spring Celebration of Research event. It also includes two spotlight stories about how co-curriculars benefit you and your students with Dr. Mneesha Gellman and …

Challenges To Completion Of Workforce Adult Education Classes Among New Americans, Damon Grew Peter Syphers-Wilkins

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The problem which was addressed through this study was New American groups face challenges in the completion of workforce adult education classes. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore New Americans’ challenges, needs, and cultural challenges to complete workforce adult education classes. The conceptual frameworks that guided this study were Knowles’ model of andragogy and Wlodkowski and Ginsberg’s motivational framework for culturally responsive teaching. Freire’s pedagogy of hope can inform future research focused on strengthening the model of andragogy and the motivational framework for culturally responsive teaching. For this phenomenological design, 10 semistructured telephone interviews were conducted with …

University Of New Hampshire 2025-2026 Faculty Senate Xxx - February 9, 2026 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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