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The Second Amendment Right To Bear Arms, Or Lack Thereof: Assessing The Prohibition Of Unlawful Immigrants From Possessing Firearms, Anna Egensperger

Et Cetera

This Note looks at the hot button issue of whether unlawful immigrants should have the constitutional right to bear arms. Thus far, the Circuit Courts have come to different conclusions which require the input of the United States Supreme Court. Although intertwined with political views, this Note attempts to take a non-partisan stance which prioritizes the application of case law and a consistent reading of the Constitution. To provide the full context of this issue, this Note begins by describing the facts and holding of Columbia v. Heller which creates the first test for establishing a right protected under the …

The Student Movement Volume 110 Issue 13: Together, We Are Andrews, Addison Randall, Lia Glass, Ysa Dennis, Melanie Webb, Jj Nixon, Stephanie Ferreira, Ysabella Neves, Isa Demoraes, Reagan Westerman, Joey Carrion, Kyle Simpson, Anna Rybachek, Laura Pérez

The Student Movement V. 110 (2025-2026)

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

"Stamped. Sealed. Discipled." The Annual Music & Worship Conference, Addison Randall

I'm Finna Be In The Pit: Entitlement in Concert Culture, Lia Glass

Sincere Recognition or Deflection: The 68th Grammy Awards, Ysa Dennis

Sidewalk Prophets Unplugged at the HPAC, Melanie Webb

Together, We Are America, Lia Glass

HUMANS

Faculty Spotlight: Tamara Wolcott-Watson, JJ Nixon

From Dorm Room to Design Studio: How Andrews Student Ruth Suarez Built a Nail Business on Campus, Stephanie Ferreira

A January Night In Venezuela: Beyond The Headlines, Ysabella Neves

NEWS

Andrews Administrators Hold Town Hall, Answer Questions on Recent ICE-Related Incident, Isa DeMoraes …

High-Quality Mouse Reference Genomes Reveal The Structural Complexity Of The Murine Protein-Coding Landscape., Mohab Helmy, Jin U Li, Xinyu F Yan, Rachel K Meade, Elizabeth Anderson, Patrick B Chen, Anne M Czechanski, Tomás Di Domenico, Jonathan Flint, Erik Garrison, Marco T P Gontijo, Andrea Guarracino, Leanne Haggerty, Edith Heard, Kerstin Howe, Narendra Meena, Fergal J Martin, Eric A Miska, Isabell Rall, Navin B Ramakrishna, Alexandra Sapetschnig, Swati Sinha, Diandian Sun, Francesca F Tricomi, Runjia Qu, Jonathan M D Wood, Tianzhen Wu, Dian J Zhou, Laura G Reinholdt, David J Adams, Clare M Smith, Jingtao Lilue, Thomas M Keane

Faculty Research 2026

We present a collection of 17 high-quality long-read inbred mouse strain genomes with complete annotation (contig N50s of 0.8-33.9 Mbp). This collection includes 12 widely used classical laboratory strains and 5 wild-derived strains. We have resolved previously incomplete genomic regions, including the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), defensin cluster, T cell receptor, and Ly49 complexes. Hundreds of non-reference genes from previous publications not found in GRCm39, such as Defa1, Raet1a, and Klra20 (Ly49T), were localized in the new reference genomes. We conducted a genome-wide scan of variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs) within the coding regions, identifying over 400 genes with VNTR …

Dynamic Soliton Solutions And Stability Analysis Of The (2+1)-Dimensional Wazwaz Kaur Boussinesq Equation Using An Efficient Method, Nivan Mohamed Elsonbaty, Hamdy Mohamed Ahmed, Niveen Mohamed Badra, Wafaa B. Rabie

Basic Science Engineering

This paper presents the first application of the Modified Extended Direct Algebraic (MEDA) method to the (2+1)-dimensional Wazwaz-Kaur-Boussinesq equation, a model governing wave dynamics in shallow waters. The approach successfully uncovers previously unreported classes of exact solutions, including combo dark–singular solitons and Jacobi elliptic function solutions. The spectrum of obtained solutions–which also encompasses bright, dark, and singular solitons, as well as hyperbolic, periodic, exponential, and rational functions–reveals rich and complex soliton dynamics. A comprehensive stability analysis confirms the robustness of these solutions under perturbation. These results significantly advance the understanding of wave propagation in nonlinear systems, providing valuable insights for …

Authentication Of Art, Herbert I. Lazerow

Cleveland State Law Review

The authentication of items permeates our law and our markets. While it is important for many consumer goods, authentication is crucial for artworks and artifacts where the value difference between the authentic and the inauthentic is huge. The question is raised most frequently in conflicts between buyer and seller of art where it is claimed that a warranty was breached, or between the owner of artwork and an authenticator where the claim sounds in tort. It also arises in any situation where the value of the art is important, such as tax or antitrust. Authentication of artwork can be difficult …

Teachers And Administrators' Perceptions Of School Resource Officers, Shameka J. Duncan

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

School Resource Officers (SROs) play a significant role in middle and high schools in Metro Atlanta; however little research has included the perceptions of school administrators and teachers about their roles. The purpose of this descriptive qualitative study was to explore the perceptions of teachers and administrators regarding the roles of SROs and their perspectives on the practices that could enhance collaboration among these stakeholders in ensuring school safety. Informed by Gregory’s theory of perception, the study investigated how educators and administrators described their interactions with SROs. Data was gathered via semi-structured interviews with three teachers and three administrators and …

Exploring Strategies For Leadership In Small Businesses, Edward B. King

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Small businesses face challenges in maintaining leadership continuity. Unstable leadership transitions can jeopardize business survival. Business leaders are concerned with selecting qualified succession leadership to avoid increased business costs and operational disruptions. Grounded in replacement planning theory, the purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry project was to identify and explore successful strategies used by business leaders in small Oklahoma enterprises to select qualified leadership successors. The participants were six leaders of small businesses in the U.S. state of Oklahoma who had successful strategies for selecting qualified leadership successors. Data were sourced from semistructured interviews and publicly available organizational documents. Thematic …

Effects Of The Efficient Implementation Of Corporate Finance Strategy On Company Performance, Benjamin Adewale Olugbemiro

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The present global business environment requires organizations to be proactive, dynamic, innovative, and resilient in the face of increasing competition. Corporate executives must understand how effective implementation of finance strategies influences performance and how these strategies can be leveraged to support sustainable, socially responsible initiatives. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to improve the understanding of corporate executives’ perspectives about the effects of the efficient implementation of corporate finance strategy on company performance. The conceptual framework included Modigliani and Miller’s capital structure theory, stakeholder theory, and agency theory. The participants comprised 13 senior corporate executives and finance managers …

Cv: Natalia Tapia (Criminal Justice), Natalia Tapia

Justice, Law, and Public Safety Studies Department Faculty Curricula Vitae

No abstract provided.

Hands Off Mahmoud Khalil: Why The State Department Can't Lawfully Revoke Green Cards, Enforce Immigration Law, Or End Status, Nicolas Garon

Et Cetera

In recent months, the Trump Administration has revived a controversial legal strategy aimed at stretching immigration law to enable aggressive enforcement. Among these efforts is a troubling misconception, exemplified by the case of Mahmoud Khalil, that the U.S. Department of State holds authority to revoke the legal status of individuals inside the country, deport them, or cancel lawful permanent resident (LPR) status. This claim directly contradicts longstanding immigration law, which limits the State Department’s role to visa issuance abroad and grants no domestic enforcement authority. Even visa revocations do not terminate lawful status once an individual is admitted. Despite this …

Nanoencapsulation Of Tomentosin-Rich Pulicaria Crispa Fraction In Mil-53(Fe) Improves The Release Profile And In Vitro Anti-Colorectal Cancer Activity, Hamies Baher

Dentistry

No abstract provided.

Student Senate Meeting Minutes February 11, 2026, Student Senate-Winona State University

Student Senate Meeting Minutes

This document is the official Winona State University Student Senate Minutes for February 11, 2026.

Stability Analysis Of Fractional-Frequency Offshore Wind Power System Based On Lyapunov Energy Function, Yumeng Jiang, Peiyang He, Ruanming Huang, Wei Xie, Chen Qian, Boyang Zhao, Yongqing Meng

Journal of Electric Power Science and Technology

The fractional-frequency transmission method has become an important solution for large-scale long-distance offshore wind power collection and transmission due to its advantages in transmission losses and construction costs compared with power frequency and direct current transmission methods. However, the stability research of fractional-frequency offshore wind power systems, especially the analysis under the background of typical large disturbances in system operation, is lacking. A high-order nonlinear state space model of the fractional-frequency offshore wind power system is proposed, and the sector-based nonlinear method is used to deal with the high-order nonlinear part of the model; the Lyapunov energy function of the …

Phase Selection Capacity Recovery Strategy For Full-Scale New Energy Grid Based On Coordinated Control And Protection, Lin Zhang, Hongbin Wang, Xun Chen, Xiangning Lin, Zhengtian Li, Fanrong Wei

Journal of Electric Power Science and Technology

The negative-sequence suppression control strategy and low-voltage ride-through control strategy are adopted when the inverter-based power supply fails, which leads to a serious inequality between the distribution coefficients of positive- and negative-sequence currents at the energy storage station side in a full-scale new energy system, resulting in incorrect phase selection of the phase current difference mutation element. Based on the fault sequence component network, the constraint condition for the correct phase selection of the phase current difference mutation element is derived. A phase selection performance recovery scheme based on fault component regulation is proposed, which can eliminate the degradation of …

Grounding Device With Induced Arc Suppression Function Based On Series Resonant Circuit, Yunhao Shu, Zhenghua Su, Shubin Hou, Yuhan Qian, Zhenjia Shen, Zheng Gong

Journal of Electric Power Science and Technology

In a strong electromagnetic induction environment, the outage line in the double-circuit line on the same tower will produce induced voltage and induced current. The arc generated when the ground wire is manually installed will seriously affect the safe operation of the equipment. Therefore, this paper proposes a grounding device with induced arc suppression function, which improves the ordinary grounding device by utilizing a series resonant circuit. Firstly, the calculation formula of induced electricity of the double-circuit line on the same tower is deduced theoretically. The working principle of the series resonant grounding device with arc suppression function is analyzed, …

Improving Ground Cover Crop Fractional Vegetation Mapping Via Causality-Based Deep Representation Learning, Atif Latif, Masoumeh Hashemi, Matt Yost, Somayeh Esmaeili, Xiaojun Qi

Computer Science Student Research

Semantic segmentation and deep learning methods have rarely been applied to fractional vegetation cover (FVC) segmentation tasks due to the lack of publicly available datasets for training deep learning models. FVC is a key indicator for assessing vegetation distribution, crop density, and crop responses to water availability and fertilizer application, yet conventional field-based measurement methods are time consuming, costly, labor intensive, and may lack the accuracy required for critical applications such as drought stress evaluation and water productivity. In this paper, we introduced causality-based deep learning techniques for FVC segmentation on a publicly available RGB dataset that consists of four …

A Taxonomic Overview Of The Apodemia Mormo Complex From A Genomic Perspective, Jing Zhang, Qian Cong, Jinhui Shen, Leina Song, Nick V. Grishin

The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey

Genomic analysis of the Apodemia mormo group (Riodinidae Grote, 1895 (1827)) specimens across the range from southwestern Canada through much of the western USA and northwestern Mexico, complemented by phenotypic examination and photographs of live individuals to inspect eye color, partitions the complex into eight species, one of which is proposed as new: Apodemia (Apodemia) apache Grishin, sp. n. (type locality in USA: Arizona, Apache Co.), and three elevated from subspecies of A. mejicanus: Apodemia (Apodemia) maxima (Weeks, 1891), stat. rest., Apodemia (Apodemia) deserti W. Barnes & McDunnough, 1918, stat. nov., and Apodemia ( …

February 11, 2026, Bcac

Booth Collaborative Advisory Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

North Dakota Emergency Medical Personnel’S Perceptions Of Human Trafficking, Jessica Evans

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Human trafficking is an abhorrent human rights violation, and victims experience a myriad of health disturbances while being exploited. Victims often seek emergency medical care, but research consistently shows that emergency medical personnel (EMP) are largely unprepared to screen, identify, and respond to them. However, there has been no research exploring their preparedness to screen, identify, and respond to victims of human trafficking, the barriers and challenges to identification of human trafficking victims, and training needs to improve screening, identification, and response to human trafficking victims in North Dakota. This study employed a generic qualitative approach grounded in constructivism. The …

Determinants Of Clinical Supervisor Self-Efficacy In Substance Use Disorder Counseling, Victoria A. Nagel

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Substance use disorder counselors face increasing challenges in responding to a growing and more severely affected population, often presenting with co-occurring mental health conditions and complex clinical needs. Clinical supervision plays a critical role in supporting counselor development, yet little is known about the factors that contribute to clinical supervisors’ self-efficacy in providing supervision for alcohol and drug counselors. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine whether years of counseling experience, years of substance use disorder (SUD) counseling experience, years as a clinical supervisor, professional counseling credentials, and supervisory credentials predicted self-efficacy among clinical supervisors. This study …

The College Voice, Vol. 63, No. 6 [February 11, 2026], Connecticut College

2025-2026

No abstract provided.

Rewriting Betrayal: The Political Memory Of Andrei Vlasov And His Russian Liberation Army, Christian N. Adams

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

This study examines the evolving historiography of Andrei Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) from the end of World War II to the post-Soviet era. Drawing on Soviet, émigré, and Western sources, it traces how interpretations of Vlasov’s defection reflected shifting moral and political frameworks in Russia’s collective memory. The analysis demonstrates that portrayals of Vlasov, from Stalinist condemnations to post-Soviet reappraisals, mirror the state’s changing relationship to patriotism, legitimacy, and dissent. By comparing Cold War scholarship with contemporary Russian debates, this paper argues that the Vlasov question endures not because of mere intrigue, but because it embodies the …

Love Data Week: 3 Presentations From Research Data Services, Omer Farooq, Jennie Tobler-Gaston, April Griess

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Join us in celebrating Love Data Week with a series of short, practical presentations led by the library’s Research Data Services team. Faculty, staff, and students are invited to join us on February 11 from noon to 1 P.M., either in person or via Zoom, for three focused sessions designed to support research, teaching, and data-informed scholarship.

Presentations

Omer Farooq: Stats Test Matchmaking: Finding the Right Statistical Analysis for Your Data

“What statistical analysis should I use?” is a common question among researchers. Selecting an appropriate statistical test can be challenging, especially when navigating unfamiliar methods. This presentation introduces …

Editorial: Unveiling The Next Generation Of Cancer Immunity & Immunotherapy, Mohanraj Sadasivam, Nethaji Muniraj, Chellappagounder Thangavel

Center for Translational Medicine Faculty Papers

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The Parthenon, February 11, 2026, Baylee Parsons, Kaitlyn Fleming, Abby Ayes, Ella Hatfield, Davina Snyder, Scott Price, Trista Honaker

The Parthenon

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Icare Home Tonometry On Glaucoma Management: A Retrospective Observational Study, Irene P. Kim, Natasha Nayak Kolomeyer, Jonathan Myers, Reza Razeghinejad

Phase 1

Introduction/Purpose: Home intraocular pressure (IOP) monitoring helps detect elevated IOPs that may be missed during routine office visits for glaucoma. This study examined whether home IOP tonometry provides additional information that changes glaucoma management.

Methods: This study included 82 eyes from 46 patients examined by the Wills Eye Glaucoma Service that had iCare HOME tonometry done between 2020 to 2023. Patient demographic data, prior surgical interventions and medications, and management changes following home tonometry were collected. iCare HOME tonometry data and the presence of IOP spikes were also recorded. Physician interpretations of optical coherence tomography imaging and visual field testing …

Pre-Infusion Evaluation Of Pain In Children And Adults With Osteogenesis Imperfecta (Oi) Receiving Cyclic Pamidronate, Andrew Stolfe, Cristina Mcgreal, Sarah Little, Shannon Bonner, Ricki Carroll, Mahim Jain

Phase 1

Introduction/Purpose: Chronic pain is common in OI patients, but standardized pain assessment and treatment is lacking. Pamidronate, a bisphosphonate traditionally administered to OI patients to increase bone mineral density, could play a role in pain management. This study will describe baseline pain before receiving pamidronate to contribute to the characterization of pain in OI and justify the need for evaluating the impact of pamidronate on pain over time.

Methods: 54 patients with mild to severe OI were selected from the Nemours Skeletal Dysplasia Program (mean age 10.5±6.6 years [range 2-31 years]; 54% male, 46% female). Pain was assessed using the …

Effect Of Als-Associated Ubiquilin-2 Mutation On Autophagy In Ipsc-Derived Neurons, Marina Pilger, Dorothy Benton, Juliet Goldsmith

Phase 1

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a degenerative neuromuscular disease that progresses to respiratory paralysis and death. Defective protein homeostasis is a major driver of disease pathogenesis, and autophagy, a cellular recycling and degradation system, is often disrupted in disease. UBQLN2 mutation is linked to a small percentage of familial ALS. Despite UBQLN2’s known role in protein homeostasis, the effect of its ALS-associated mutation on neuronal autophagy remains unclear. This study used iPSC-derived excitatory cortical-like (iCN) and lower motor (iLMN) neurons to quantify the effects of the familial UBQLN2 mutation (P506T) on autophagic flux. Live cell imaging and ImageJ were used …

Noninvasive Patient-Level Detection Of Nafld Using Mri Radiomics And Machine Learning, Vladimir Kirichenko, Rajanikanth Vadigepalli

Phase 1

Introduction— Current noninvasive assessment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) relies primarily on MRI-based fat quantification, such as proton density fat fraction (PDFF). This study explored the use of an MRI radiomics–based machine learning approach for accurate patient-level classification of NAFLD.

Methods— Liver MRI images from patients with suspected NAFLfD were retrospectively analyzed. Radiomics features were extracted using PyRadiomics from full-liver masks across 4–6 axial slices per patient. Slice-level features were aggregated to the patient level using summary statistics (mean, median, and standard deviation). To reduce redundancy and multicollinearity, features were pruned using Pearson correlation analysis with a threshold of …

Designing A Multilingual Instructional Language Tool For Patient Communication In Interventional Radiology, Ahlam Houssein, Samuel Almodóvar, Gregg Khodorov, Md, Mba, Sahib Sohal, Md, Robert Pugliese, Pharmd, David Dwyer, Md

Phase 1

Introduction: Language barriers in healthcare contribute to medical errors, reduced patient adherence, and increased procedural risk among patients with limited English proficiency (LEP), particularly in interventional radiology (IR), where real-time verbal instruction is essential for procedural success. Current virtual translation services lack the immediacy, specificity, and workflow integration required for intraprocedural communication. This project asks how a digital platform can enable IR professionals to communicate procedural instructions to LEP patients accurately and efficiently in real time, hypothesizing that a structured, phrase-based translation system will improve procedural efficiency and safety.

Methods: On-site interviews and workflow observations were conducted with IR physicians, …