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Adaptive Media Interruption Placement Using Causal Analysis Of Audience Engagement, Joanna Piega, David Lepkowski, Szymon Socha

Defensive Publications Series

A challenge in the field of digital media distribution relates to static interruption placements, such as advertisements, which may be determined without considering evolving audience engagement data. This approach can result in interruptions during periods of low viewer interest, potentially increasing session abandonment. Systems and methods are described that can address this by utilizing a quasi-experimental statistical framework to analyze audience engagement data. The framework may compare viewer abandonment rates between sessions where an interruption was presented and sessions where an interruption was not presented for the same temporal location. This comparison can yield a causal abandonment penalty metric for …

Siddha Formulations: A Traditional Reservoir Of Valuable Medicines For The Contemporary World, Agnes Preethy

International Journal of Traditional Knowledge

Traditional Medicine had been practised for many centuries in different parts of the world. However, the deep insights drawn from the traditional knowledge have remained highly localized as it had been privy only to the generations of traditional medicine practitioners. This, combined with lack of scientific evidence of their therapeutic action, had limited access, acceptance and awareness of these preparations to the larger segment of the community. The emergence of new lifestyle disorders and drug-resistant diseases in recent years has fuelled the search for alternate treatment strategies and has revived interest in traditional medicines. Concerted efforts to decipher the molecular …

Agrarian Festivals Of India- Embedded Traditional Knowledge About Environment And Ecology Preserved Across Millennia, Lopamudra Maitra

International Journal of Traditional Knowledge

With a prominent agrarian economy, it is important to note the many agrarian festivals from across the nation. These festivals also help to highlight many rites, rituals and folklore, which forms the basic ethos of the celebrations and within the many layers of these are embedded knowledge about environment and ecology, which has been passed down through thousands of centuries. These have also been variously corroborated through archaeological, historical and epigraphical records of ancient India. This paper is an attempt to highlight this historicity of the agrarian festivals of India, which also corresponds to the mainstream festivals from across India, …

The Influence Of Managerial Attitudes And Dynamic Capabilities On E-Marketing Adoption Among Small And Medium Tourism Enterprises, Hilal Maabad Ame, Omari Khalifa Mbura, Amani Gration Tegambwage

Arab Economic and Business Journal

This study examines how managerial attitudes and dynamic capabilities shape e-marketing adoption among Small and Medium Tourism Enterprises (SMTEs) in Zanzibar, using PLS-SEM on survey data from 216 SMTEs in the Urban-West and South Regions. Drawing on the Decomposed Theory of Planned Behaviour and Dynamic Capabilities Theory, the study finds that perceived ease of use and perceived security significantly increase adoption, while perceived usefulness and compatibility significantly decrease it suggesting that recognising a technology's value is insufficient without the operational capacity to act on it. Supporting this, dynamic capabilities significantly strengthen the usefulness–adoption and compatibility–adoption relationships, but show no moderating …

Advancing Clean Mobility: Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Bus Workforce Development For Transit Agencies, Manideep Tummalapudi, Shantanu Kumar, Jaskaran Singh

Mineta Transportation Institute

Hydrogen fuel cell electric buses (FCEBs) are rapidly transforming public transportation in the United States. However, while transit agencies are investing heavily in new zero-emission vehicles and fueling infrastructure, far less attention has been paid to the workforce needed to operate and maintain them. As agencies accelerate toward ambitious climate and fleet transition goals, they are also confronting a critical challenge: preparing workers for an entirely new set of technologies, safety requirements, and operational demands. This study addresses that gap by systematically identifying the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) required for FCEB vehicle operators and maintenance technicians, assessing current training …

Washington Search And Seizure Law: 2026 Update, Justice Charles W. Johnson, Justice Debra L. Stephens, Justice Steven González

Seattle University Law Review

This Survey is intended to serve as a resource which Washington lawyers, judges, law enforcement officers, and others can turn to as an authoritative starting point for researching Washington search and seizure law. In order to be useful as a research tool, this Survey requires periodic updates to address new cases interpreting the Washington constitution and the U.S. Constitution and to reflect the current state of the law. As the U.S. Supreme Court has continued to examine Fourth Amendment search and seizure jurisprudence, its decisions and reflections on Washington law are discussed.

Most of the Survey cases involve the Washington …

Getting Money Out Of Politics By Putting Money Into Politics: A Few Modest Proposals To Reform Seattle’S Democracy Voucher Program, Decker O’Donnell

Seattle University Law Review

Seattle’s Democracy Voucher Program offers an unconventional response to the growing influence of money in American elections: rather than restricting political spending, it seeks to amplify the participation of ordinary voters by providing publicly funded vouchers that residents may assign to participating candidates. This Article examines the program’s development, operation, and constitutional foundation within the modern campaign-finance framework established by Buckley v. Valeo and subsequent Supreme Court decisions. It argues that democracy vouchers provide a constitutionally viable means of broadening participation in campaign financing while mitigating the influence of wealthy donors. The Article identifies two weaknesses in the current system: …

Connecting Families Through Cash Transfers And An Enabling Environment In Colombia, Mexico, And The Philippines: A Qualitative Study, Johanna K P Greeson, John Gyourko, Sarah Wasch, Kristin Mallory, Lory Fehlig, Cesar Jácome, Nestor David Lara Yanes, Fátima Areli Ruiz Gutiérrez, Dennis Guamos, Adele R. Lehman

Faculty Scholarship

Nearly 700 million people worldwide live in extreme poverty, and almost half of the world’s population lives below the poverty line. Cash transfer programs are increasingly used to address poverty’s effects on family well-being, yet less is known about how families experience programs that combine cash transfers with peer-driven mutual aid. Children International’s (CI) Community Independence Initiative (CII) provides conditional cash transfers and promotes family-led goal setting, mutual support, and shared learning. This qualitative study explored how families in Colombia, Mexico, and the Philippines experienced CII and made meaning of its material and relational components. We conducted focus groups with …

Ai And Data Literacy Scales: Review And Item Analysis For Nursing-Specific Assessment, Mikyoung Angela Lee, Fabio D'Agostino, Ann Wieben, Pankaj Vyas, Bader G. Alreshidi, Lisiane Pruinelli, Marisa Sileo, Jethrone Role, Holly Bullion, Emiliane Nogueira De Souza, Janet Northcote

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Background: The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven decision-making in healthcare requires nurses to develop strong AI/data literacy.[1,2] Literature and industry reviews identified inconsistent data literacy definitions and few nursing-focused tools,[3] underscoring the need for validated instruments for nursing.

Purpose: To (1) review existing AI/data literacy instruments, (2) conduct item-level mapping to four frameworks representing data processes and competencies, and (3) guide nursing-specific instrument development.

Methods: Eleven international experts in nursing informatics and data science reviewed AI literacy scales from Lintner’s review[4] and five nurse-focused data literacy scales identified via Google Scholar. From 24 instruments, 475 items were …

Nurses’ Contributions To Virtual Care Delivery In Primary Care: A Scoping Review, Crystal Vaughan, Julia Lukewich, Maria Mathews, Lindsay Hedden, Ruth Martin-Misener, Marie-Eve Poitras, Shabnam Asghari, Michelle Swab, Dana Ryan

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Background: Virtual care is increasingly used to improve access to primary care (1,2). However, the roles of primary care nurses (i.e., nurse practitioners [NPs], registered nurses [RNs], licensed practical nurses [LPNs]) in virtual care delivery are not clearly defined. A better understanding of these roles can improve their integration and optimization in virtual primary care delivery and the availability and quality of virtual primary care (3,4).

Objectives: The purpose of this scoping review was to identify and map the international literature on nurses’ roles in virtual care delivery in primary care.

Methods: Following Joanna Briggs Institute methodology (5), we searched …

Practice Environment And Job Outcomes Among Nurse Practitioners Caring For Patients With Dementia, Lusine Poghosyan, Maura Dougherty, Kathleen Flandrick, Miles Degrazia, Joshua Porat-Dahlerbruch, Grant Martsolf, Soo Borson, Tatiana Sadak, Jianfang Liu

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Background: As the number of Americans living with dementia rises, healthcare delivery systems face increasing pressure to provide dementia-specific services to improve patient and family outcomes. The growing primary care Nurse Practitioner (NP) workforce plays a pivotal role in dementia care; however, many NPs practice in poor environments that lack needed organizational attributes and support to maximize their contributions. We examined the associations between the NP practice environment and key indicators of workforce sustainability—burnout, job satisfaction, and intent to leave.

Participants and Setting: We conducted a national cross-sectional survey of NPs caring for patients with dementia in 2022-2023. A total …

Cultural Tailoring And Co-Design Of Telehealth Interventions With Immigrants And Refugees, Saleema Allana, Thuvaraha Jeyakumaran, Dhruv Rathod, Maham Khan, Darryl Ku, Raza M. Haider, Victoria Smye, Richard Booth

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Background: Immigrants and refugees face significant barriers in accessing and using telehealth.(1,2) Although cultural tailoring and co-production approaches are recommended,(3) little is known about how deeply these practices are integrated into existing telehealth interventions for these populations.

Purpose: The purpose of this scoping review was to map the current evidence on telehealth interventions involving immigrants and refugees, assess how cultural tailoring was applied using the Cultural Sensitivity Framework, and evaluate the extent to which co-design approaches were used.

Methods: We conducted this scoping review following PRISMA-ScR.(4) Systematic search was undertaken in MEDLINE, CINAHL, Scopus, and Cochrane using telehealth, immigrant, and …

Building Tomorrow's Innovators: A Model Fusing Research, Collaboration, And Entrepreneurship, Modupe Akintomide, Monica Nandan, Joy Falilatu Li, Toi-Ann Kingsby, Dandre Williamsons, Ben Karanja, Blessing Anyanwu, Maggy Boadu

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Background: Integrating research, interprofessional teamwork, and entrepreneurship into undergraduate education enhances student achievement and success [1–3]. Traditional teaching methods often fall short due to limited experiential opportunities [4–6].

Aim: To evaluated the effectiveness of a course designed on the Research, Interprofessional Collaboration, and Entrepreneurship (RICE) Model in improving undergraduate competencies in research methodology, interdisciplinary teamwork, and entrepreneurial thinking skills.

Methods: Using a quality improvement framework, we developed and infused the RICE Model into a tuition-free, credit undergraduate course embedded in our Vertical Integrated Programs (VIP) funded research project. It was built around three pillars: (1) Research (R), emphasizing hands-on methodology …

Nursing Beyond Borders: Ethics, Trust, And Relational Safety In Global Practice, Jitana P. Benton-Lee, Jerry John Ouner, Amy Beth Staley, Jasper Erwin Tolarba, Regina Yuen, Siobhan O'Connor, Charlotte Mcardle

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Nurses encounter ethical dilemmas daily in clinical, community, and cross-cultural care settings. Relational ethics provides a guiding foundation for ethical nursing practice by emphasizing human connection, mutual respect, and shared meaning rather than rules, duties, or procedural norms alone. This workshop examines how relational ethics operates across borders, highlighting how nurses adapt their communication strategies, clinical judgment, and ethical reasoning to support individuals whose cultural values, histories, and expectations of care differ from their own. By framing ethics as relational rather than universal, the session positions relational safety as an essential precursor to ethical decision-making and professional accountability.

The workshop …

Citizen Science As A Long-Term Environmental Baseline: Assessing Impacts Of A Small Dam Removal In Montana, Usa, Bethany Blakey, Natalie Bursztyn

Watershed Sciences Student Research

As dam removals increase in frequency across Europe and North America, most research has focused on the impact of larger dam removals, despite the removal of small dams being much more common. There are hundreds of small dams in Montana, USA, and this research investigates impacts on stream ecology and morphology using citizen science data collected over eight years spanning before and after a 2020 small dam removal in Rattlesnake Creek. We analyzed pebble count grain size distributions and aquatic macroinvertebrate biotic indices from 2017 to 2024 to assess changes in sediment transport and macroinvertebrate population as well as evaluate …

Artificial Intelligence And Social Equities: Navigating The Intersectionalities In A Digital Age (Editorial), Daisuke Akiba, Julie Albright

Publications and Research

This editorial article introduces and synthesizes the Special Issue, “Artificial intelligence and social equities: navigating the intersectionalities in a digital age,” which examines how AI systems intersect with race, ethnicity, and interconnected identity dimensions across global contexts. The eight contributions span healthcare, digital media, higher education, organizational communication, and speculative futures, addressing anti-racist psychiatric algorithms, AI-generated visual disinformation, epistemic injustice between the Global North and South, algorithmically mediated rural–urban divides, culturally untranslated technology transfer, accessibility auditing across the AI lifecycle, and the tension between mechanical objectivity and empathic understanding. Read together, they show that AI is neither inherently …

Psychosis Among Justice-Involved Youth, Muhubo Y. Alinur

Master of Arts in Human Services

Abstract

Justice-involved youth face considerable mental health challenges, yet psychotic symptoms are frequently overlooked or misclassified as behavioral problems. This capstone critically reviews peer-reviewed literature on the prevalence, risk factors, assessment strategies, clinical needs, and systemic responses related to psychosis in justice-involved adolescents. Literature was sourced from Concordia University, St. Paul Library, Google Scholar, and PubMed. Research indicates that these youth often experience complex, overlapping issues such as trauma, substance use, mood disorders, neurodevelopmental difficulties, and barriers to accessing appropriate mental health care. Unaddressed, these co-occurring needs can result in punitive or unsuitable responses from justice and related systems when …

Supporting Children's Mental Health Through Early Prevention: The Role Of Human Service Professionals, Antwan Kimmons

Master of Arts in Human Services

The mental health of children is a growing concern around the world. According to the World Health Organization (2025), mental health conditions affect approximately one in seven adolescents aged 10–19 years; however, many of these young people do not get the help they need. Mental health problems can affect a child’s ability to learn, manage emotions, develop relationships and cope with stress at home, school and in the community. This review of the literature speaks to the promise of early prevention, early intervention, and trauma-informed care to support children’s mental health before issues develop into more serious levels. It also …

The Cost Of Caring: Understanding Compassion Fatigue In First Responders, Jonathon O. Santiago

Master of Arts in Human Services

First responders are regularly exposed to trauma, crisis, death, injury, and human suffering, which may contribute to compassion fatigue. This capstone examined compassion fatigue among law enforcement officers, emergency medical services personnel, firefighters, and other emergency-service professionals. The paper reviewed peer-reviewed research on symptomatology, occupational risk factors, protective factors, compassion satisfaction, emotional labor, stigma, help-seeking barriers, and organizational influences. Attention was given to the overlap between compassion fatigue, burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and vicarious trauma, as inconsistent definitions may make the issue harder to identify, measure, and address. The research also explored how repeated trauma exposure, confidentiality concerns, workplace culture, …

Breaking The Cycle: From Victimization To Offending Through The Lens Of Human Services, Colette R. Penalosa

Master of Arts in Human Services

The victim-offender overlap challenges the common view that victims and offenders are separately labeled by recognizing that both groups have experienced significant childhood trauma, physical, emotional, and psychological abuse, neglect, and other adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Current research implies these experiences can increase the risk of offending as they all influence cognitive and behavioral development while leaving criminal behavior undetermined. The purpose of this capstone is to analyze the relationship between childhood victimization and offending from a human service perspective; analyzing the pathways a victim takes on the road to offending. Research conducted will focus on exploring the victim-offender overlap, …

Credence Goods In Markets With Collective Reputation: Nature Of Equilibria And The Value Of Certification, Erin Krupka, Thomas P. Lyon, Arnab Mitra

Economics Faculty Publications and Presentations

Fraud can cause markets for credence goods to collapse, but collective reputation has been suggested as a potential solution, especially when buyer valuations for quality are high. We develop a discrete model of a market for label credence goods and provide conditions for no-fraud equilibria based on collective reputation. We identify conditions under which all equilibria may be asymmetric or involve mixed strategies and hence sellers may face coordination problems. Our analysis suggests such coordination problems are the greatest when the size of the high-quality market is approximately half of the overall market (that incorporates both high- and low-quality goods), …

An Exceptional Model At Sea: Functionalist Targeting And The Legal Vulnerability Of Maritime Civil Defense In Japan, Kentaro Furuya

International Law Studies

The intensifying security competition in East Asia, characterized by persistent territorial disputes and the potential for major regional contingencies, has placed the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) at a strategic crossroads. The 2023 Control Guideline, which outlines the JCG’s role during armed attacks, has further heightened interest in the agency’s legal status. This article examines the critical gap between Japan’s domestic legal framework and the international law of naval warfare, specifically addressing how the potential classification of JCG assets as military objectives undermines the safety of maritime civil defense operations.

While the Japanese government firmly maintains the JCG’s status as a …

Adaptation Of A Seismic Outreach Program: Collaboration Between University Students And Seaoc Mos, Paul Quinter, Ryan Lovejoy, Kristin Potterton, Anahid A. Behrouzi, Lelli Van Den Einde

Architectural Engineering

For nearly two decades, students in University of California, San Diego’s Society of Civil and Structural Engineers (UCSD SCSE) chapter have conducted a Seismic Outreach program that reaches around a thousand 4th and 6th grade students annually. This success motivated an effort to share and deploy the curriculum through other universities. To achieve this, the Structural Engineers Association of San Diego (SEAOSD) sought and received a 2024 National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA) grant that supported collaboration between UCSD SCSE, the Structural Engineers Association of Southern California (SEAOSC), and California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly). This …

How Does The Science Of Reading Approach Enhance Small Reading Group Instruction?, Destiny M. Morman

Graduate Teacher Education

This paper examined how the Science of Reading (SOR) practices enhance student success in small-group reading. Specifically, the purpose of this research is to analyze which SOR-aligned instructional practices are the most beneficial for promoting student success in small-group settings and to examine practices that may be less effective. Effective reading practices are crucial for small-group instruction (Smith et al., 2022). When instruction is strategically designed around students’ specific reading needs, educators can provide a more targeted and personalized support that may be difficult to achieve during whole-group instruction. During small-group learning, teachers can differentiate instruction by aligning lessons with …

Lindenwood Digest, August 26, 2026, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

• Event & Date: The Lindenwood University Employee Digest was published on August 26, 2026, detailing campus schedules including the August 27, 2026 football home opener against Charleston Southern and the August 31, 2026 Library Services Documentary Night.

• Geographic Grounding: Activities and facilities referenced are situated at the Library and Academic Resources Center (LARC) and the Spellmann Campus Center, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Missouri.

• Institutional Context: Academic Services transitioned its institutional title, forms, and primary administrative contacts to the Office of the Registrar effective for the Fall 2026 term.

Llm-Integrated Anomaly Detection For Iot Networks: Framework Structure, Mamoon M. Saeed, Rashid A. Saeed, Salah Hagahmoodi, Rania A. Mokhtar, Khalid Hamid

Baghdad Science Journal

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are vulnerable to zero-day attacks because most of them have weak or no inherent security due to the resource constraints of the devices. This weakness underscores the growing need for anomaly-based intrusion detection systems tailored to IoT networks. Nevertheless, general anomaly detection traditionally has a high number of false positives that drain analysts' time. Also, a semantic difference exists between the system's results and the operators' interpretations. We introduce a machine learning-based framework to tackle these issues in traditional systems in this paper by combining large language models (LLMs). Our model is effective in identifying …

Video Steganography Based On Invertible Neural Networks With Densenet And U-Net Features, Noor Fahem Sahib, Soukaena Hassan Hashem, Ekhlas Falih Naser

Baghdad Science Journal

The increased rate of cyber threats such as fraud and other forms of attack, including phishing, malware, and denial-of-service attacks, has led to a growing demand for secure methods to ensure the security of sensitive information that is transferred among users. Video steganography has become a very important element in dealing with these security issues, as communication has become more dependent on multimedia content. Hiding information is now an area that is being developed very fast with the introduction of Deep Learning (DL)-based steganography methods. This framework introduces Vid_Steg_DenseUNet, a video steganography method which efficiently extracts multi-level features using edge-preserving …

Qrc-Pso: A Quad-Module Ring-Competitive Pso Algorithm For Coverage Optimization In Wireless Sensor Networks, Yu-Xuan Zhou, Shao-Qiang Ye, Di-Wen Kang, Xue-Wei Liu, Kai-Qing Zhou

Baghdad Science Journal

Coverage optimization in WSNs is critical for disaster warning and industrial monitoring, but is challenging due to multi-modality and high-dimensionality. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) offers fast convergence and simple parameter tuning, yet suffers from premature convergence and parameter sensitivity in multi-peak problems. To address these issues, we propose a Quad-module Ring-Competitive PSO (QRC-PSO). It comprises four heterogeneous subgroups with distinct parameter configurations for global exploration, local exploitation, balanced search, and perturbation enhancement. Subgroups evolve independently but exchange elite particles via a ring-topology migration strategy: every 20 iterations, the best three particles of each subgroup move clockwise to the next subgroup …

A Stackable Multi-Mppt Power Architecture With Paralleled Inputs For Scalable Cubesat Solar Energy Harvesting, Muhammed Syedali N., Anamika A. Kamath, Nithin Krishnan S. S., Ashfaque K. P., Sijo George, Arun P., Jr-Chiun Roger Tsai, Tensae Ali, Jesmin Jose, Athira B. S.

Small Satellite Conference

In traditional CubeSat configurations, the Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) circuit acts as a critical single point of failure because all harvested solar energy is funneled through a single, non-redundant conversion stage. Consequently, the failure of this individual component completely blocks power delivery to the system, permanently stranding otherwise healthy solar arrays and batteries and causing catastrophic mission termination.

This work introduces a modular, stackable solar energy architecture that distributes power conditioning across multiple identical, autonomous modules connected to shared PV and battery buses. By relying purely on analog input-voltage regulation at a common operating point, it eliminates radiation-vulnerable digital …

Advancements In The Ma61c-Smallsat Hardware Board: Elevating Modular Adcs From Trl 5 To Trl 6, Saish Sridharan

Small Satellite Conference

LESSONS LEARNT AND DESIGN JUSTIFICATION

Output from previous phase

• RS422/RS485 Tranceiver: The LCT2865-based interface failed testing and should be redesigned for the next phase.
• Shielded Cabling: Properly grounded shielded cables eliminated JTAG communication instability.