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Spartan Daily, October 22, 2025, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2025

Volume 165, Issue 26

2025-10-22 Sgsu Candidates Campaign For Senator Positions, Kean Mathis

The Spectator Online

No abstract provided.

Spectrum, Volume 55, Issue 6, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Ongoing Government Shutdown Reaches Week Four -- West Campus Welcomes “The Evans Family Atrium” -- Step by Step: The Walk to End Alzheimer’s -- Navigating AI in the Classroom -- Is Sports Betting Impacting College Students? -- Pioneers’ Basketball Ready for Season Return

October 22, 2025, Faculty, Illinois Wesleyan University

2025-2026

No abstract provided.

Myocardial Protection By Acidic Amino Acids And Natural Dipeptides: Potential For An Underused Resource, N. King

School of Biomedical Sciences

Stopping then restarting the blood flow to the heart can cause ischaemia reperfusion (IR) injury. This can happen during revascularisation following a myocardial infarction and during on pump cardiac surgery using cardioplegic arrest. Despite extensive studies to identify cardioprotective interventions, the myocardium continues to sustain significant injury. Therefore, there is a need to identify agents that can be used during IR. This review focuses on the potential cardioprotective role for acidic amino acids and natural dipeptides using evidence from experimental studies and clinical trials with particular emphasis on their membrane transport. Acidic amino acids are present at high concentration in …

Conjuring Elizabeth Fulhame: Using Ai To Depict The Invisible Woman From The Dawn Of Photography., Yvette Hamilton

Art Inquiries

Histories of the origins of photography are dominated by men, but the lesser-known contributions of women, such as the British chemist Elizabeth Fulhame, were fundamental to its success. Fulhame’s eighteenth-century chemical experiments directly contributed to the birth of photography, however, she is either totally obscured, or only briefly footnoted, in foundational texts on the history of photography. Her obscuration is heightened by the complete absence of any surviving images of her - she is, quite literally, invisible within a medium whose history privileges the visible.

This paper charts my practice-led research that used AI generative imaging to create speculative portraits …

Review - Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior, Annie Dell'aria

Art Inquiries

Shahzia Sikander’s work spans traditions from multiple continents, eras, and media. Trained in the traditional miniature painting of South Asia and Persia, yet creating monumental pieces that command space both inside and outside the gallery, this artistic polymath maintains a signature style rooted in sumptuous detail and motifs that drip with layers of meaning. In Collective Behavior, a multi-part, career-spanning traveling museum exhibition of works made over the past 35 years, Sikander’s full array of talent and artistic evolution is on display.

Lindenwood Digest, October 22, 2025, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been a digital employee newsletter since 2009.

Proceedings Of The Seventeenth Annual Meeting Of The Georgia Association Of Mathematics Teacher Educators

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Georgia Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators

The purpose of GAMTE is to encourage and facilitate the improvement of mathematics teacher education across the state of Georgia. The goals of the organization are to: facilitate communication and collaboration among mathematics teacher educators between and within all educational levels; coordinate activities and work collaboratively with other associations, organizations, and governmental (national, state, and local) units to strengthen the mathematical, pedagogical, and clinical preparation of mathematics teachers at all levels (P-college); facilitate collaboration among mathematics teacher educators who are members of different academic units, such as departments of mathematics and departments of education; promote leadership among mathematics teacher educators …

Faculty Senate Agenda, Georgia Southern University, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Umn Morris Featured In The Princeton Review Guide To Green Colleges, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

No abstract provided.

Association Between End-Of-Third-Year Objective Structured Clinical Examinations And Accreditation Council For Graduate Medical Education Milestones During Intern Year, Katherine Berg, Jillian Zavodnick, Dianna Cheney-Peters, Heather Heiman, Sally Santen, Yoon Soo Park, Anita Wilson

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: The Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) administered in medical schools have increased in importance with the elimination of United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS).

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to understand the association between student performance on an end-of-third-year OSCE and performance in residency.

METHODS: This study explored the correlations between OSCE performance and relevant Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) milestone 1.0 performance. This study included students’ scores from 139 Sidney Kimmel Medical College (SKMC) students who completed an end-of-third-year OSCE during 2015 and 2016 and completed an intern year …

Open Access In The Age Of Ai: Rights, Access, And What Comes Next, Brittany Fischer, Meaghan Farrell

Librarian Posters and Presentations

This workshop aims to explain the evolving role of Open Access (OA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in scholarly publishing, including how publishers and platforms are using AI technologies. Attendees should afterwards be able to understand author rights in the context of OA and AI and recognize the importance of reviewing publishing contracts. We will also discuss how to use AI tools to discover and evaluate Open Access content, with awareness of the opportunities and challenges posed by AI-generated material.

Defining Endotypes Of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia In Preterm Infants To Improve Precision-Based Therapies., Megha Sharma, Gangaram Akangire, Noah H. Hillman, Winston M. Manimtim, Mark Ivan Attard, Venkatesh Sampath

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) remains a debilitating disease in premature infants. The chronic pathogenesis of BPD with complex prenatal and postnatal programming challenges attempts at precisely defining or treating disease. While existing BPD definitions categorize disease severity, a lack of consideration of disease heterogeneity and endotypes has contributed to the failure of clinical trials to improve BPD outcomes. Recent studies have used advanced lung imaging techniques, echocardiography, and lung function tests to identify airway, parenchymal, and vascular BPD endotypes. These endotypes carry different prognoses and require endotype-specific treatment strategies to optimize infant outcomes. In this Review, we focus on the pathogenic …

2025-10-22 Mecha Brings Local Latine Businesses To El Mercadito, Maddie Rodriguez

The Spectator Online

No abstract provided.

Genome-Wide Association Study Of Childhood B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Reveals Novel African Ancestry-Specific Susceptibility Loci, Cindy Im, Andrew R Raduski, Lauren J Mills, Kashi Raj Bhattarai, Robert J Mobley, Kelly R Barnett, Zhanni Lu, Kenneth Liao, Nathan Anderson, Rebecca A Johnson, Erica Langer, Anthony J Hooten, Alix E Seif, Kathrin M Bernt, Matthew Tsang, Brandon A Mamou, Luis Gil-De-Gómez, Julie A Wolfson, Danielle N Friedman, Neerav Shukla, Laura J Klesse, Erin L Marcotte, Lingyun Ji, Alice Dang, Minjie Luo, Yiming Zhong, Jalen Langie, Charleston W K Chiang, Adam De Smith, Joseph L Wiemels, Andrew Dewan, Xiaomei Ma, Catherine Metayer, Zhaoming Wang, Heather H Nelson, Nathan Pankratz, Tianzhong Yang, Saonli Basu, Lucie M Turcotte, Jun J Yang, Daniel Savic, Michael E Scheurer, Logan G Spector

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) is the most common pediatric malignancy. Given racial/ethnic differences in incidence and outcomes, B-ALL genome-wide association studies among children of African ancestry are needed. Leveraging multi-institutional datasets with 840 African American children with B-ALL and 3360 controls, nine loci achieved genome-wide significance (P <  5 × 10−8) after meta-analysis. Two loci were established trans-ancestral susceptibility regions (IKZF1, ARID5B), while the remaining novel loci were specific to African populations. Five-year overall survival among children carrying novel risk alleles was significantly worse (83% versus 96% in non-carriers, P = 4.8 × 10−3). Novel risk variants were also associated with subtype-specific disease (P <  0.05), including higher susceptibility for a subtype overrepresented in African American children (TCF3-PBX1) and lower …

The Perceived Barriers To Services Among Hispanic Immigrant Community Members In Southern Connecticut, Catherine Andrea Ortegon

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

In this qualitative phenomenological study, the perceived barriers to services among Hispanic immigrant community members in Southern Connecticut were explored. The study was grounded in social disorganization theory and cultural conflict theory to identify the specific obstacles these communities face, understand the underlying causes, and examine the broader societal and criminal justice implications. Data were collected through open-ended anonymous questionnaires with participants from Hispanic immigrant communities. The findings revealed that fear of deportation, language barriers, and limited education about available services and resources were the most perceived barriers. These challenges were found to significantly affect the integration and well-being of …

Effective Strategies It Leaders Use To Predict Project Failure Trends To Forecast Project Management Flow, Allen Jeffrey Taber

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

As a result of inadequate forecasting methods, Information Technology leaders experience inconsistent project flow and increased project failure. IT leaders who cannot predict project failure trends to better forecast and improve project management flow risk project failure and financial loss. Grounded in Porter’s five forces model, the purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry was to explore strategies that some IT leaders use to predict project failures to better forecast project failures to improve project management flow and reduce expenditures. The participants were six senior-level IT professionals who successfully predicted project failures to better forecast project failures to improve project management …

Cross-Cultural Perspectives On Psychological Research Practices And Opportunities: Do We All Have The (Same) Chance?, Irena Boskovic, Nisali Perera, Henry Otgaar

Psychological Research on Urban Society

The dominance of "WEIRD" (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) authors might indicate significant differences in research practices between them and non-WEIRD researchers or highlight issues such as inequality and publishing bias. In this survey, using a convenience sample of researchers worldwide (N = 72), we examined current research practices and researchers' views on the feasibility of advancements in employed methodologies among and between researchers in both WEIRD and Non-WEIRD countries. Our results showed that research practices are fairly uniform across cultures, by researchers commonly relying on (student) convenience samples, using statistical packages such as SPSS and R, utilizing …

Influence Of Social Identity And Industry Role On Implicit Biases In Fitness Professionals, Shayna J. Guerra, Katie Mcpherrin, Kellie A. Walters, Leilani Madrigal, Alison Ede, Amber Johnson

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 18(4): 1228-1251, 2025. https://doi.org/10.70252/SQUH3795 Implicit biases are unconscious, internally held beliefs shaped by cultural norms, societal structures, and personal experiences and are often related to societal constructs such as race, gender, age, body shape, and ability. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between social identity, industry role, and implicit biases in fitness professionals. Participants (n=296) were randomly assigned two implicit association tests (IATs): disability, weight, gender, skin-tone, or age. IATs measured implicit bias through word and pictorial associations and timed response to word/picture stimuli. Interviews (n=25) were conducted to further examine …

The Effect Of Mental Training On Psychological Hardiness And Selected Personality Traits Among Adolescent Male Volleyball Players, Moneer Fadel Ali Hassan, Omar Waleed Abdulkareem

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 18(4): 1186-1198, 2025. https://doi.org/10.70252/MQUH7716 This study was to examine the effect of a mental training program, including a combination of autogenic training and imagery, on a number of mental skills and on the development of personality traits - psychological hardiness as well as conscientiousness, openness to experience, and neuroticism - in Adolescent male volleyball players. 60 adolescent male volleyball players (aged 15–17) participated in a two-group, pretest-posttest design. The experimental group (n = 30) completed 8-week mental skills training program, including imagery, self-talk, attention control, and relaxation, while the control group (n = 30) followed …

Digital Entrepreneurship Is Redefining Entrepreneurship, Llandis G B Barratt-Pugh Prof, Fang Zhao Prof, Yuli Suseno Prof, Janice Redmond A Prof, Peter Standen A Prof

Journal of Business & Entrepreneurship

This paper provides empirical evidence to conceptualize how digital technologies reconfigure entrepreneurship. Taking an inductive theory-building approach, we first examined the extant literature. Our research study utilised case studies and surveys. More than forty extensive interviews were conducted with experienced digital entrepreneurs (DEs). The analysis followed an iterative grounded theory approach. These Australasian findings indicated that a continuum exists as traditional ventures migrate towards digital operations, forming hybrid models that reflect both the characteristics of traditional entrepreneurism and DE. But, while the motivation of DEs and traditional entrepreneurs were similar, their modes of developing products and ventures differed in terms …

The Rise Of E-Commerce And Digital Marketplaces: Implications For Consumer Engagement And Market Efficiency, Fatai Kayode Wahab, Tajudeen Idera Abdulmajeed

Journal of Business & Entrepreneurship

E-commerce and online marketplaces have witnessed remarkable growth over the past twenty years, transforming consumer behaviour and global business practices. This paper examines the factors contributing to the rise of e-commerce, focuses on its implications for consumer behaviour, and the business performance. The study employed a descriptive research design and utilised a survey method to gather data from fifty SMEs operating online businesses in Nigeria. Structured questionnaires were administered to business owners and managers to gain insight into their operational strategies, digital marketing adoption, and perceived challenges facing the e-commerce and online marketplaces in Nigeria. Data were analysed using descriptive …

Judy Love: The Copreneurial Journey Of The Love’S Travel Stops, Stephanie Metts, Rhonda Richards, Carol Sullivan, Liz V. Whitlow

Journal of Business & Entrepreneurship

This research provides information related to a high-profile, successful copreneurial venture. Judy Love came from humble beginnings and she, along with her copreneur husband Tom, built a multi-billion-dollar company.

Contributing to their success were a shared vision, mutual support, responsible leadership, and the integration of ethics and philanthropy into their business model. Studying a long-standing example like Love’s Travel Stops gives insight into what drove the organization’s success and survival. It also illustrates how personal values can shape corporate culture and have a positive community impact, and it offers a model for successful copreneurship.

Where Is The Power In A Power Analysis?, Kevin D. Dames, Zoe Climenhaga, Jared Rosenberg

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 18(2): 1114-1120, 2025. https://doi.org/10.70252/AVGK2063 Strategic planning of research involves predicting the number of replications of the experiment needed to detect an expected effect. The power analysis to determine sample size for the proposed experiment requires known or estimated characteristics of existing distributions. When used well, power analysis reduces the risk of statistical errors, wasted efforts, and temptations to twist ensuing analyses to eke out a ‘significant’ result after data collections conclude. This editorial highlights some examples of how this process goes awry. Sections are dedicated to the role of researchers, the case for ‘pilot’ studies, …

Skill Evolution In The Age Of Ai-Utilizing Text Analytics For Skill Gap Analysis To Prepare Women For Leadership Roles, Blenda G. Mutuma, Marcelline Ouma, Beth Kanyiri

Communications of the IIMA

ABSTRACT
The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the global workforce, presenting both opportunities and challenges for leadership development, particularly for women. As AI automates routine tasks and redefines skill requirements, there is a growing demand for uniquely human capabilities such as emotional intelligence, creativity, and strategic thinking, qualities that are inherently strong and often highly associated with women. Research indicates that women typically score higher in emotional intelligence, particularly in areas such as empathy and relationship management, which are critical for effective leadership (Goleman, 2020). Furthermore, studies by McKinsey & Company (2022) highlight that gender-diverse leadership teams, …

Beyond The Classroom: Competition Competency Creates Cybersecurity Careers (5cs), Dan Manson, Morgan A. Zantua, Zoe L. Fowler

Communications of the IIMA

ABSTRACT

The demand for cybersecurity talent appears to be constantly growing^[1], but the statistics can be illusory. According to Wages and Employment Trends in ONET On-Line^[2] cybersecurity job openings are ranked as having a Bright Outlook, and on May 1 2025 Cyberseek listed 450,000 US job openings out of a workforce of 1.25 million. However, most entry-level cybersecurity jobs require several years of experience resulting in a mismatch between supply and demand. Despite a “hot job market”, recently minted cybersecurity college graduates without experience have a hard time securing their first “entry-level” because they don’t meet the …

Responsible Ai: Applications And Ethical Considerations, Emuesiri Oduaran, Skye Ese Oduaran

Communications of the IIMA

As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly transforms industries and societies, its applications present both immense opportunities and significant ethical challenges. This paper explores the concept of Responsible AI, emphasizing the importance of integrating ethical considerations into AI development and deployment. It examines a range of AI applications, from healthcare and finance to autonomous systems, highlighting their potential to drive innovation while also raising concerns about bias, privacy, accountability, and job displacement. The paper evaluates the ethical principles that should guide AI design, including transparency, fairness, privacy protection, and human oversight. Furthermore, it critically analyzes the current landscape of AI governance, identifying …

Tracking Removed And At-Risk Government Information, Molly Blake, Sanga Sung, Ben Amata, Jenny Mcburney

SJSU Open Access Conference

The current U.S. administration is intentionally undermining public access to information as well as scholarly research by removing documents, reports, datasets, images, and language from government websites. In doing so, this administration is withholding publicly-funded information that we have a right to access, including data from government-sponsored research, historical information about marginalized groups, and speech transcripts. In removing these materials, the government is also deliberately sabotaging research related to topics it does not like, such as LGBTQ health, COVID, and climate change.

It is difficult to grasp the scope of this problem: how do we know when something is gone, …

Access Denied: Defending Research In A Shrinking Scholarly Landscape, Emily Kingsland

SJSU Open Access Conference

In early 2025, the U.S. Department of Education announced a reduction in the indexing of key journals in the ERIC database. As government censorship increasingly threatens the accessibility of educational research, librarians are emerging as critical defenders of open access and research transparency. This presentation reports on the proactive efforts of a Canadian academic librarian who developed actionable workarounds to address the disappearance of articles from ERIC. These missing records pose a significant challenge to researchers conducting knowledge syntheses, who face a reporting and reproducibility crisis when search results fluctuate or shrink without explanation. The implications are profound: systematic reviews …