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Classaction.Gov, Amanda M. Rose

University of Chicago Law Review

This Essay proposes the creation of a federally run class action website and supporting administration (collectively, Classaction.gov) that would both operate a comprehensive research database on class actions and assume many of the notice and claims-processing functions performed by class action claims administrators today. Classaction.gov would bring long-demanded transparency to class actions and, through forces of legitimization and coordination, would substantially increase the rate of consumer participation in class action settlements. It also holds the key to mitigating other problems in class action practice, such as the inefficiencies and potential abuses associated with multiforum litigation, the limited success of the …

The Constitutional Irrelevance Of Art, Brian Soucek

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Settled Law, G. Alexander Nunn, Alan M. Trammell

Faculty Scholarship

“Settled law” appears frequently in judicial opinions — sometimes to refer to binding precedent, sometimes to denote precedent that has acquired a more mystical permanence, and sometimes as a substantive part of legal doctrine. During judicial confirmation hearings, the term is bandied about as Senators, advocacy groups, and nominees discuss judicial philosophy and deeper ideological commitments. But its varying and often contradictory uses have given rise to a concern that settled law is simply a repository for hopelessly disparate ideas. Without definitional precision, it risks becoming nothing more than empty jargon.

We contend that settled law is actually a meaningful …

Takings Localism, Nestor M. Davisdson, Timothy M. Mulvaney

Faculty Scholarship

Conflicts over “sanctuary” cities, minimum wage laws, and gender-neutral bathrooms have brought the problematic landscape of contemporary state preemption of local governance to national attention. This Article contends that more covert, although equally robust, state interference can be found in property, with significant consequences for our understanding of takings law.

Takings jurisprudence looks to the states to mediate most tensions between individual property rights and community needs, as the takings federalism literature recognizes. Takings challenges, however, often involve local governments. If the doctrine privileges the democratic process to resolve most takings claims, then, that critical process is a largely local …

A Neural Network For Arabic Character Recognition., Ahmed Alam El-Din

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Neural network-based learning is an essential part of any intelligent system and is an inherent property in Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models. Recently, artificial neural network models have begun to emerge as powerful tools for learning. Neural networks are designed and applied to the classification of isolated Arabic characters. We have studied the ability of networks to correctly classify both training and testing examples. Multilayered neural networks were trained to classify the characters using the error backpropagation learning algorithm. Noisy characters could be efficiently recognized. In this paper we evaluate the performance of the backpropagation technique on recognition of Arabic …

Improving Multi-Hop Knowledge Base Question Answering By Learning Intermediate Supervision Signals, Gaole He, Yunshi Lan, Jing Jiang, Wayne Xin Zhao, Ji Rong Wen

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Multi-hop Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to find the answer entities that are multiple hops away in the Knowledge Base (KB) from the entities in the question. A major challenge is the lack of supervision signals at intermediate steps. Therefore, multi-hop KBQA algorithms can only receive the feedback from the final answer, which makes the learning unstable or ineffective. To address this challenge, we propose a novel teacher-student approach for the multi-hop KBQA task. In our approach, the student network aims to find the correct answer to the query, while the teacher network tries to learn intermediate supervision signals …

Acknowledgements As A Window Into Legal Academia, Jonathan Tietz, W. Nicholson Price Ii

Articles

Legal scholarship in the United States is an oddity—an institution built on student editorship, a lack of peer review, and a dramatically high proportion of solo authorship. It is often argued that this makes legal scholarship fundamentally different from scholarship in other fields, which is largely peer-reviewed by academics. We use acknowledgments in biographical footnotes from law review articles to probe the nature of legal knowledge co-production and de facto peer review in the legal literature. Using a survey and a textual analysis of about thirty thousand law review articles from 2008 to 2017, we examined the nature of knowledge …

Exploring Parent Perception Of Adverse Childhood Experiences Screening In Pediatric Primary Care: A Clinical Inquiry Project, Kathryn Stevens

The Eleanor Mann School of Nursing DNP Capstone Projects

This manuscript explores the incidence and implications of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and outlines a project assessing parental perception of their own ACEs screening during their child’s wellness visit. ACEs are adversarial events occurring during childhood, which may be chronic or singular. Abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction result in negative outcomes, including compromised neurological development and cognitive behaviors, developmental delays, poor lifestyle choices, and reduced mental and physical health. Additionally, a growing body of literature supports the impaired parenting skills in those with a history of ACEs. This can perpetuate intergenerational trauma, deprived opportunities, and poor familial health. Despite the …

Extracting The Number Of Short Range Correlated Nucleon Pairs From Inclusive Electron Scattering Data, R. Weiss, A. W. Denniston, J. R. Pybus, O. Hen, E. Piasetzky, A. Schmidt, L. B. Weinstein, N. Barnea

Physics Faculty Publications

The extraction of the relative abundances of short-range correlated (SRC) nucleon pairs from inclusive electron scattering is studied using the generalized contact formalism (GCF) with several nuclear interaction models. GCF calculations can reproduce the observed scaling of the cross-section ratios for nuclei relative to deuterium at high x_B and large Q², a₂ = (σ_A/A)/(σ_d/2). In the nonrelativistic instant-form formulation, the calculation is very sensitive to the model parameters and only reproduces the data using parameters that are inconsistent with ab initio many-body calculations. Using a light-cone GCF formulation significantly decreases this sensitivity …

Williamson V. Ada County Appellant's Brief Dckt. 48289

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Pena V. Wiking Insurance Company Of Wisconsin Respondent's Brief Dckt. 48379

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

The Demise Of The Blaine Amendment And A Triumph For Religious Freedom And School Choice: Espinoza V. Montana Department Of Revenue, Charles J. Russo, William E. Thro

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

It Is Time To End Ability Grouping And "The Soft Bigotry Of Low Expectations" It Imposes On Minority Students, Holly Fudge

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

What You Don't Know Will Hurt You: Addressing The Inequities Of Pro Se Litigation In Ohio Domestic Relations Courts, Allison Mikiciuk

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

Indigenous Environmental Justice And Sustainability, Deborah Mcgregor

Articles & Book Chapters

This chapter offers an alternative vision for sustainable futures involving self-determined Indigenous environmental justice (EJ). It builds upon a distinct understanding of Indigenous EJ which asserts that the components necessary for Indigenous EJ are Indigenous knowledge systems, legal orders, and conceptions of justice that have existed for thousands of years.1 This contribution will also offer preliminary thoughts on the need to decolonize internationally adopted conceptions of sustainable development expressed more recently through the post-2015 United Nations sustainable development agenda. Indigenous environmental injustice is very much an outcome of “unsustainable” and detrimental “development,” as well as gross violations of human and …

University Libraries Faculty Assembly Covid-19 Impact Statement, Emily Frigo, Leigh Rupinski, Sheila García Mazari, Jeffrey D. Daniels, Annie Bélanger

Library Reports and Communication

This University Libraries Faculty Assembly Covid-19 Impact Statement serves as documentation of changes that occurred across University Libraries and caused disparate, inequitable, impact to faculty throughout the pandemic, beginning in March 2020 and spanning into 2021. The document is necessarily limited in scope to assist faculty candidates in the tenure-track process and mitigate potential traumas as a result of the pandemic’s impact on that process. The structure of the tenure-track process is imperfect in nature, and this statement takes a trauma-informed, person-first, approach to investigating how to best support candidates in making their case for contract renewal, tenure, and/or promotion.

Polaron Problems In Ultracold Atoms: Role Of A Fermi Sea Across Different Spatial Dimensions And Quantum Fluctuations Of A Bose Medium, Hiroyuki Tajima, Junichi Takahashi, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Eiji Nakano, Kei Iida

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The Notion Of A Polaron, Originally Introduced In The Context Of Electrons In Ionic Lattices, Helps Us To Understand How A Quantum Impurity Behaves When Being Immersed In And Interacting With A Many-Body Background. We Discuss The Impact Of The Impurities On The Medium Particles By Considering Feedback Effects From Polarons That Can Be Realized In Ultracold Quantum Gas Experiments. In Particular, We Exemplify The Modifications Of The Medium In The Presence Of Either Fermi Or Bose Polarons. Regarding Fermi Polarons We Present A Corresponding Many-Body Diagrammatic Approach Operating At Finite Temperatures And Discuss How Mediated Two-And Three-Body Interactions Are …

Entangling Lattice-Trapped Bosons With A Free Impurity: Impact On Stationary And Dynamical Properties, Maxim Pyzh, Kevin Keiler, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Peter Schmelcher

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We Address The Interplay Of Few Lattice Trapped Bosons Interacting With An Impurity Atom In A Box Potential. For The Ground State, A Classification Is Performed Based On The Fidelity Allowing To Quantify The Susceptibility Of The Composite System To Structural Changes Due To The Intercomponent Coupling. We Analyze The Overall Response At The Many-Body Level And Contrast It To The Single-Particle Level. By Inspecting Different Entropy Measures We Capture The Degree Of Entanglement And Intraspecies Correlations For A Wide Range Of Intra- And Intercomponent Interactions And Lattice Depths. We Also Spatially Resolve The Imprint Of The Entanglement On The …

0869: League Of Women Voters Of The Huntington Area Collection, 1931-2020, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

Initially created as an auxiliary to the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the League of Women Voters was formed as an independent organization on February 14, 1920, six months prior to the ratification of the 19^th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The League was designed to be “a mighty political experiment.” Although nonpartisan, the organization educates the public about politics and elections and advocates for major public policy legislation.

The League of Women Voters of the Huntington Area organized in April 1944 and was granted recognition as a local League on January 10, 1948.The program of the new …

Creating Equal Opportunities Through Developmental Screening At A Rural Health Clinic, Allison Honderd

Doctoral Projects

Background: 17% of United States children have a developmental delay, but only 2-3% receive early intervention referrals (Rice et al., 2014; Zablotsky et al., 2019). Standardized developmental screening improves developmental delay identification and early intervention referrals (Guervara et al., 2013; Lipkin et al., 2020).

Objectives: This project aimed to implement standardized developmental screening, refer positive screenings, and generate revenue through proper billing.

Methods: A 12-week quality improvement project was implemented with the M-CHAT and Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) through four PDSA cycles at a rural health clinic for 9, 18, and 24-month well-child checks. Data were analyzed through a …

Program Evaluation Of Parent Engagement Activities In The Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Cheryl A. Bos

Doctoral Projects

Introduction: Leaders of a six-bed pediatric cardiac critical care unit identified the need to evaluate family engagement in patient care activities prior to implementing quality improvement initiatives. This program evaluation identified staff and family perception of barriers and facilitators to parent engagement in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.

Methods: Data were collected through quantitative and qualitative methods. Surveys collected staff baseline and parent pre-/post-hospital perception of the role of family engagement in caring for the child.

Results: The Questionnaire of Factors That Influence Family Engagement survey of 58 registered nurses indicated the nurse workflow (τb = .579, p = …

A Qualitative Study Of Intercultural Friendship Through New Social Media, Yanrong (Yvonne) Chang

Communication Faculty Publications

Applying Casmir’s Third Culture Model (TCM) of intercultural communication (Casmir 1993, 1999), the current study examines the ongoing interaction between two international participants mediated by one social medium: WeChat. It describes the dialogic communication patterns between the participants that enabled them collaboratively to construct a shared and mutually beneficial third culture that brought about a productive intercultural friendship. It demonstrates ways WeChat helped transform their interactions and facilitated their friendship development.

Student Reactions To Traumatic Material In Literature: Implications For Trigger Warnings, Matthew Kimble, William Flack, Jennifer Koide, Kelly Bennion, Miranda Brenneman, Cynthia Meyersburg

Psychology

Introduction While trigger warnings have garnered significant debate, few studies have investigated how students typically respond to potentially triggering material. Method In this study, three hundred and fifty-five undergraduate students from four universities read a passage describing incidences of both physical and sexual assault. Longitudinal measures of subjective distress, PTSD symptoms, and emotional reactivity were taken. Results Greater than 96% of participants read the triggering passage even when given a non-triggering alternative to read. Of those who read the triggering passage, those with triggering traumas did not report more distress although those with higher PTSD scores did. Two weeks later, …

Daily Eastern News: March 01, 2021, Eastern Illinois University

March

No abstract provided.

Putting The Self In Self-Correction: Findings From The Loss-Of-Confidence Project, Julia M. Rohrer, Warren Tierney, Eric L. Uhlmann, Lisa M. Debruine, Tom Heyman, Benedict Jones, Stefan C Schmukle, Raphael Silberzahn, Rebecca M. Willén, Rickard Carlsson, Richard E. Lucas, Julia Strand, Simine Vazire, Jessica K. Witt, Thomas R. Zentall, Christopher F. Chabris, Tal Yarkoni

Psychology Faculty Publications

Science is often perceived to be a self-correcting enterprise. In principle, the assessment of scientific claims is supposed to proceed in a cumulative fashion, with the reigning theories of the day progressively approximating truth more accurately over time. In practice, however, cumulative self-correction tends to proceed less efficiently than one might naively suppose. Far from evaluating new evidence dispassionately and infallibly, individual scientists often cling stubbornly to prior findings. Here we explore the dynamics of scientific self-correction at an individual rather than collective level. In 13 written statements, researchers from diverse branches of psychology share why and how they have …

Effect Of Motivational Behaviors And Race/Ethnicity On Academic Success In Physical Therapy Students: A Preliminary Study, Philip Fabrizio

PCOM Scholarly Works

Objectives: Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program admissions criteria and markers indicative of academic success appear to be mismatched. Acceptance into a DPT program implies that students have developed self-regulated learning strategies however, motivation behaviors are not typically assessed during the admissions process. The aim of this study was to determine direct effects of motivational behaviors and race/ethnicity on academic success and the moderating effect of race/ethnicity on motivational behaviors. Methods: Thirty-three first-year DPT students participated during their first foundational course, clinical anatomy. Motivation subscales from the motivated strategies for learning questionnaire (MSLQ) were used to assess student motivation behaviors …

2021-March-01-Study Of Journalists' Approach To Covid-19, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – Dr. Mildred F. (Mimi) Perreault of East Tennessee State University is the coauthor of an article examining how journalists approached coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was recently published in American Behavioral Scientist.

Dr. Mimi Perreault

“Journalists doing journalism during COVID experience a high level of personal responsibility to provide information to the public because it could save lives,” Perreault says. “People could be in a better place if I’m really careful about how I write what I write and I emphasize the facts and …

Ginawaydaganuc: The Birchbark Canoe In Algonquin Community Resurgence And Reconciliation (Chapter 5), Chuck Commanda, Larry Mcdermott, Sarah E. Nelson

Geography and Geology Faculty Publications

Omàmìwininì or Mamiwinnini people, also known as Algonquin, have lived in the watershed of the Ottawa River (the Kiji Sìbì, or Kichisippi) for thousands of years. There is archaeological evidence of Indigenous peoples living in the territory from at least 10,000 years ago.1 It is likely that people moved to this area as soon as the glaciers retreated from the area between Lake Champlain (south of Montreal, in what is now Vermont) and Lake Huron. Algonquin histories show that Algonquin territory covered much of what is now eastern Ontario and western Quebec, long before the territory was divided by colonial …

Comparison And Interpretability Of Machine Learning Models To Predict Severity Of Chest Injury, Sujay Kulshrestha, Dmitriy Dligach, Cara Joyce, Richard Gonzalez, Ann P. O'Rourke, Joshua M. Glazer, Anne Stey, Jacqueline M. Kruser, Matthew M. Churpek, Majid Afshar

Biostatistics Collaborative Core: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Objective: Trauma quality improvement programs and registries improve care and outcomes for injured patients. Designated trauma centers calculate injury scores using dedicated trauma registrars; however, many injuries arrive at nontrauma centers, leaving a substantial amount of data uncaptured. We propose automated methods to identify severe chest injury using machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) methods from the electronic health record (EHR) for quality reporting.

Materials and Methods: A level I trauma center was queried for patients presenting after injury between 2014 and 2018. Prediction modeling was performed to classify severe chest injury using a reference dataset labeled by …

2021-03-01 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress newsletter from March 1, 2021.