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Finding Aid For The Curtis Wilkie Collection (Mum00477), Leigh Mcwhite

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

Born and raised in Mississippi, Curtis Wilkie had a distinguished career in newspaper journalism at the Clarksdale Press Register (1963-1969), Mississippi Freelance (1969-1970), Wilmington News Journal (1971-1975), and the Boston Globe (1975-2001). After retirement from the Boston Globe, he became a professor and Fellow at the Overby Center for Journalism and Politics at the University of Mississippi and wrote several books on his career, national and southern politics, and the South.

Finding Aid For The Hooper/Rhodesian Information Office Collection (Mum00819)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

The Hooper/Rhodesian Information Office Collection contains edited letters and drawings by Win Hooper in Washington, DC from 1965 to 1978. During that period, her husband, John Hooper, served as Rhodesia’s registered Information Officer in the United States when the African country was denied diplomatic recognition.

Broken Kinship: Family Property Disputes And The Common Intention Constructive Trust In Singapore, Hang Wu Tang

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

There has been a proliferation of common intention constructive trust claims in Singapore. The main reason is that families have acquired real estate using their collective earning power without explicitly considering the individual entitlement of each family member. When a dispute arises, the claim is often pleaded as a common intention constructive trust. The complication with applying the law on the common intention constructive trust is that this is an English doctrine developed to deal with a different social context i.e. the breakdown of the relationship between cohabiting couples. In Singapore, the common intention constructive trust applies primarily in a …

Recovering Cost Of Cure Damages: The Necessity Of Showing An Intention To Cure, Kwan Ho Lau

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This case note discusses the relevance of a claimant's intention to effect the remediation when making a claim for cost of cure damages, with a focus on the decisions in St James’s Oncology SPC Ltd v Lendlease Construction (Europe) Ltd [2022] EWHC 2504 (TCC) and JSD Corp Pte Ltd v Tri-Line Express Pte Ltd [2022] SGHC 227; [2023] 3 SLR 1445.

Australia’S Definition Of Royalties: Overreach Or Evolution, Vincent Ooi, Kerrie Sadiq

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

In this article, Ooi and Sadiq examine the Australian Taxation Office’s reasoning for adopting a broad interpretation of royalties amidst various criticisms suggesting it has gone too far and is out of step with internationally accepted principles.

What's Success? And What Is It That Gives Meaning To Our Lives?, Seow Hon Tan

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This op-ed examines how the narrow mindset of success can hinder one from flourishing and leading an examined life. It looks at Prime Minister Lawrence Wong's call for Singaporeans to change their mindset of success, and calls for a national reset.

“Trust Us To Teach It ”: Examining The Associations Among Leadership, Organizational Trust, And Well-Being In Educational Settings, Jessica Mckinley

Theses and Dissertations

Today’s educators are experiencing unprecedented levels of stress, which have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite evidence supporting the protective nature of positive climate, effective leadership, and support for educator autonomy, there is also evidence to suggest that negative climate, ineffective leadership, and lacking autonomy continue to be major stressors for educators at work. This study investigated the relations among educator well-being, transformational and autonomy-supportive leadership styles, and organizational trust through the lens of the educator. Using a cross-sectional, survey-based design, this study examined the relations among these variables, as well as identified the relative contributions of leadership and …

Evaluating The Impacts Of Climate Change On The City Of Santa Fe’S Municipal Water Supply Using System Dynamics Modeling, Atlin Johnson

Civil Engineering ETDs

Climate change is one of the foremost problems facing water resources globally. Rising temperatures can impact global water supplies through decreased precipitation, increased evaporation, greater severity and frequency of extreme weather events, and increased wildfire risk. This work used system dynamics modeling through a social, ecological, and technical systems framework to evaluate the impact that climate change has on the municipal water supply for the City of Santa Fe in northern New Mexico, USA. Specifically, the model showed how, by the end of the century, climate change decreases total average annual water supplies by 28% and increases reliance on groundwater …

Establishing Marine Protected Areas In The Southern Ocean, Lessons For The Bbnj Agreement, Nengye Liu

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This paper first gives a brief overview of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)’s struggle to establish Antarctic Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). The paper then addresses the question: what lessons can countries learn from CCAMLR's experience in establishing high seas MPAs under the Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement? The paper finds that the final text of the BBNJ Agreement did largely reflect CCAMLR's experience when it comes to MPAs. This is particularly so with respect to 1) clarification of the relationship between conservation and use; 2) the interpretation and application of a …

Gamified Bodies And The Illusory Meaning Of Muscle, Orlando Woods

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

This paper foregrounds the agency of the body to explore how it is “gamified” in the pursuit of a desired self-image. Gamified bodies are those that are tricked into metabolising in ways that suit the representational aspirations of the self. The aspirations that I consider in this paper are those of muscle, and how individuals trying to build muscle pursue various metabolic tricks to try and overcome, or otherwise suppress, the in-built agency of the body. Exploring and understanding these tricks contributes to feminist understandings of the body generally, and of muscle specifically, and its unruly nonconformity to the gendered …

Insourcing The Smart City: Assembling An Ideo-Technical Ecosystem Of Talent, Skills, And Civic-Mindedness In Singapore, Orlando Woods, Tim Bunnell, Lily Kong

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

This article examines an alternative model of smart city formation, one based on the principle of insourcing technical competencies and capabilities to those responsible for city governance. This model counters the logic of technological outsourcing upon which many assumptions and critiques of the smart city rest, and thus reveals ways in which a more generative discourse can be forged. Drawing on a series of in-depth interviews with senior stakeholders from public and private sector organizations, we develop a case study of Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative. Through coordinated efforts to reorganize the public sector’s technological functions, develop nation-wide skills upgrading programs, …

Impact Of Rainfall On Air Temperature, Humidity And Thermal Comfort In Tropical Urban Parks, Juan A. Acero, Philip Carl Kestel, Hieu T. Dang, Leslie K. Norford

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

Urban areas in hot and humid tropical regions are frequently exposed to uncomfortable thermal levels. A well-developed urban heat mitigation strategy is increasing vegetation infrastructure, even though the impact differs based on regional climate. In this study we have evaluated the impact of rainfall on air temperature, humidity and thermal comfort inside a large urban park in Singapore, based on measurement campaigns. A comparison between the park and an urban site is presented. Results show that rainfall significantly reduces air temperature and improves thermal comfort levels, not only right after the rain event but also in the after-event dry period. …

Of Light And Shadows: Buddhism, Cinema, And The Question Of Diffused Religion In Modern China, Teng-Kuan Ng

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

While the scholarship on premodern Chinese Buddhism has explored the tradition’s rich diffusion throughout various realms of sociocultural life, the study of modern Chinese Buddhism leans heavily towards its monastic, institutional, and overtly “religious” forms. This split mirrors the logic of modern secularization, whereby religion should be rationally differentiated from the broader social fabric, institutionalized, and delimited within its own discrete functional sphere. This article rethinks the putative rupture between Chinese Buddhism’s past and present incarnations. Through the prism of cinema, a technology that arrived on Chinese shores at the same moment as the Western concept of religion, I illuminate …

Accounting For The Eu Green Taxonomy: Exploring Its Concept, Data And Analytics, Lucia Alessi, Theodor Florian Cojoianu, Andreas G. F. Hoepner, Giovanna Michelon

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

The European Union's Green Taxonomy has been used by corporations to account for and disclose hundreds of billions of Euros in capital expenditures. The aim of the taxonomy is to set a common and clear definition about which economic activities are most needed for the transition to a low-carbon economy, in line with the objectives of the European Green Deal. It is essential that academic research explores (a) to what extent the taxonomy is clearly understood, (b) if it impacts financial, environmental and societal outcomes, and (c) how it can be advanced. We review the nascent literature on this new …

Evaluating Urban Fire Vulnerability And Accessibility To Fire Stations And Hospitals In Austin, Texas, Akhil Mandalapu, Kijin Seong, Junfeng Jiao

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

Anthropogenic climate change has increased the frequency and intensity of fires. Despite their widespread consequences, current research has largely overlooked urban fires and their associated vulnerability. This study seeks to identify patterns of fire vulnerability, map out areas with high fire vulnerability and limited access to fire stations and hospitals, and ultimately determine the factors contributing to increased fire incidents. Principal Component Analysis was used to develop a fire vulnerability index comprising variables capturing health status and socio-environmental factors. Enhanced 2-step floating catchment area (E2SFCA) analysis was conducted to determine relative accessibility to resources such as hospitals and fire stations. …

Effective Data Sharing In An Edge-Cloud Model: Security Challenges And Solutions, Arijit Karati, Sajal K. Das

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

The proposed protocol offers privacy-preserving authentication across several cloud platforms, flexible key management for consumer data protection, and effective user revocation. Performance evaluation demonstrates that the proposed framework supports low latency, safe unified remote access, and data privacy in the contemporary edge-enabled environment.

The Refractive Thinker®: Artificial Intelligence: The New Frontier Of The Digital Age: Ch 7: Navigating The Integration Of Ai In Higher Education: Opportunities, Challenges, And Ethical Considerations, Cheryl Lentz, Dr. Karen Balcanoff

Publications

As educators in higher education continue to learn the effects and influence of artificial intelligence (AI), there are questions regarding the role of educators. According to Bearman et al. (2023), more research has been conducted about AI technology rather than how AI will affect higher education institutes (HEI). The goal of this chapter was to begin to fill this gap regarding the how by offering discourse through a refractive thinking approach and review of the literature with practical application of this how, particularly in the areas of (a) ethics and cheating, (b) use of administrative repetitive tasks easily delegated, and …

Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry-Based High-Performance Distributed Sensing Empowered By A Data And Physics-Driven Neural Network, Zhaopeng Zhang, Wei Peng, Osamah Alsalman, Lingmei Ma, Jie Huang, Chen Zhu

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) based distributed strain sensors are the preferred choice for achieving accurate strain measurements over extensive sensing ranges while maintaining exceptional spatial resolution. However, the simultaneous realization of high spatial resolution, high strain resolution, large strain range, and an extended sensing range presents an exceedingly challenging endeavor. In this study, we introduce and experimentally demonstrate a data and physics-driven neural network-empowered OFDR system designed to attain high-performance distributed sensing. In our experiments, we successfully maintained an impressive sensing resolution of sub-microstrain (0.91 µε) alongside a sharp spatial resolution of sub-millimeter (0.857 mm) across a 140-m sensing …

Attitudes Of Algerian Emi And Non-Emi Lecturers And Students Toward English, Sana Touahmia, Farhana Bakar

Higher Learning Research Communications

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the attitudes of English medium instruction (EMI) lecturers and students and non-EMI lecturers and students toward English in Algeria. The Algerian government plans to implement English as a medium of instruction in higher education.

Methods: The research was carried out at an Algerian university where French is the primary language of instruction, but English is used as the medium of instruction for certain courses in the engineering department. Data were gathered through a questionnaire, which was distributed to a group comprised of 52 EMI lecturers, 226 EMI students, 70 …

Faculty Perceptions Of College Readiness: A Phenomenological Study At A Two-Year College, Jackie Jackson

Dissertations, Theses, and Projects

The purpose of this study is to explore how faculty at a two-year college experience college readiness in their classrooms. A phenomenological approach was used to understand the lived experiences of each college faculty participant. Data was gathered through six individual semi-structured interviews via Zoom. The participants were unlimited full-time faculty who teach entry-level coursework and were recruited via email from academic deans. All participants were assigned numbers for anonymity in the interviews, data analysis, and data descriptions. All research data was kept securely with password protection and/or only accessible to the researcher. This study uses Conley’s Four Facets of …

The Influence Of Unhelpful Supervisor Support On Employee Burnout Across Cultures, Charles Blomstrom-Johnson

Theses and Dissertations

Organizations continue to become increasingly interconnected globally, yet often fail to consider the cultural context of policies. Such failures to account for cultural differences may add to workplace stressors for employees, leading to an increased risk of burnout. Supervisors may attempt to buffer against burnout by providing social support to their employees. However, if the support given by supervisors is considered by the recipient to be unhelpful, these buffering effects may be reversed. Examining samples from the United States and Japan, this study hypothesized that unhelpful supervisor support and burnout would relate significantly to one another, and that culturally based …

Supporting Resource Equity For Oregon’S Home Visiting Workforce: Exploring Program Model And Regional Differences, Nicole M. Lauzus, Yumi Lee, Beth L. Green, Erin Gaines, Ron Joseph

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

Prenatal and early childhood home visiting is an effective strategy for promoting positive birth outcomes, improving family well-being and preventing child abuse and neglect. One key to successful services is having a strong, well-supported home visiting workforce. In Oregon and nationally, this critical workforce is facing a crisis as programs struggle to hire and retain skilled home visitors, and workers face low pay, difficult working conditions and high job stress.

This learning brief is the second in a series to share findings from a 2023 survey of Oregon’s home visiting workforce, which provides a wealth of information about how to …

Insights Into Personalized Care Strategies For Wilms Tumor: A Narrative Literature Review, Salma Karam, Ahmad Gebreil, Ahmed Alksas, Hossam Magdy Balaha, Ashraf Khalil, Mohammed Ghazal, Sohail Contractor, Ayman El-Baz

All Works

Wilms tumor (WT), or nephroblastoma, is the predominant renal malignancy in the pediatric population. This narrative review explores the evolution of personalized care strategies for WT, synthesizing critical developments in molecular diagnostics and treatment approaches to enhance patient-specific outcomes. We surveyed recent literature from the last five years, focusing on high-impact research across major databases such as PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science. Diagnostic advancements, including liquid biopsies and diffusion-weighted MRI, have improved early detection precision. The prognostic significance of genetic markers, particularly WT1 mutations and miRNA profiles, is discussed. Novel predictive tools integrating genetic and clinical data to anticipate …

Transformer Models With Explainability For It Telemetry And Business Events, Shiau Hong Lim, Laura Wynter

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Temporal event data are commonly encountered in software applications across a wide range of domains, from IT telemetry and system logs to business process automation. Temporal event data in software applications carry information in various forms: both structured and unstructured, and with both regular and irregular occurrence frequency, making the representation of temporal event data challenging. Further chal-lenges come from the diversity in terms of the scale and volume of events that need to be summarized by the representation. We propose a general and unified approach to handle temporal event data for the purpose of learning a predictive transformer model. …

Reproducibility Debt: Challenges And Future Pathways, Zara Hassan, Christoph Treude, Michael Norrish, Graham Williams, Alex Potanin

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Reproducibility of scientic computation is a critical factor in validating its underlying process, but it is often elusive. Complexity and continuous evolution in software systems have introduced new challenges for reproducibility across a myriad of computational sciences, resulting in growing debt. This requires a comprehensive domain-agnostic study to dene and asses Reproducibility Debt (RpD) in scientic software, thus uncovering and classifying all underlying factors attributed towards its emergence and identication i.e., causes and eects. Moreover, an organised map of prevention strategies is imperative to guide researchers for its proactive management. This vision paper highlights the challenges that hinder eective management …

Generalization Analysis Of Deep Nonlinear Matrix Completion, Antoine Ledent, Rodrigo Alves

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We provide generalization bounds for matrix completion with Schatten $p$ quasi-norm constraints, which is equivalent to deep matrix factorization with Frobenius constraints. In the uniform sampling regime, the sample complexity scales like $\widetilde{O}\left( rn\right)$ where $n$ is the size of the matrix and $r$ is a constraint of the same order as the ground truth rank in the isotropic case. In the distribution-free setting, the bounds scale as $\widetilde{O}\left(r^{1-\frac{p}{2}}n^{1+\frac{p}{2}}\right)$, which reduces to the familiar $\sqrt{r}n^{\frac{3}{2}}$ for $p=1$. Furthermore, we provide an analogue of the weighted trace norm for this setting which brings the sample complexity down to $\widetilde{O}(nr)$ in all …

Secure And Flexible Wildcard Queries, Qing Wang, Donghui Hu, Meng Li, Guomin Yang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Wildcard Keyword Searchable Encryption (WKSE) enables users to search desired encrypted files with wildcard queries. Previous schemes only enabled single-character wildcard queries or restricted multi-character wildcard queries. Even if the two types of queries are supported by several schemes, they are vulnerable to correlation attacks and composition attacks. In this paper, we propose a WKSE scheme Secure Flexible Wildcard Queries (SFWQ) that supports highly flexible wildcard queries and resists correlation and composition attacks. Specifically, we adopt the interval matching method instead of traditional position matching, so that SFWQ supports a variety of queries, including single-character wildcard queries, multi-character wildcard queries, …

Evilscreen Attack: Smart Tv Hijacking Via Multi-Channel Remote Control Mimicry, Yiwei Zhang, Siqi Ma, Tiancheng Chen, Juanru Li, Robert H. Deng, Elisa Bertino

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Modern smart TVs often communicate with their remote controls (including the smartphone simulated ones) using multiple wireless channels (e.g., Infrared, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi). However, this multi-channel remote control communication introduces a new attack surface. An inherent security flaw is that remote controls of most smart TVs are designed to work in a benign environment rather than an adversarial one, and thus wireless communications between a smart TV and its remote controls are not strongly protected. Attackers can leverage such a flaw to abuse the remote control communication and compromise smart TV systems. In this paper, we propose EvilScreen, a novel …

Mtdscout : Complementing The Identification Of Insecure Methods In Android Apps Via Source-To-Bytecode Signature Generation And Tree-Based Layered Search, Zicheng Zhang, Haoyu Ma, Daoyuan Wu, Debin Gao, Xiao Yi, Yufan Chen, Yan Wu, Lingxiao Jiang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Modern Android apps consist of both host app code and third-party libraries. Traditional static analysis tools conduct taint analysis for API misuses on the entire app code, while third-party library (TPL) detection tools focus solely on library code. Both approaches, however, are prone to some inherent false negatives: taint analysis tools may neglect third-party libraries or face timeouts/errors in whole app-based analysis, and TPL detection tools are not designed for pinpointing specific vulnerable methods. These challenges underscore the need for enhanced identification of insecure methods in Android apps, particularly for app markets addressing open-source security incidents. In this paper, we …

Fine-Grained Passenger Load Prediction Inside Metro Network Via Smart Card Data, Xiancai Tian, Chen Zhang, Baihua Zheng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Metro system serves as the backbone for urban public transportation. Accurate passenger load prediction for the metro system plays a crucial role in metro service quality improvement, such as helping operators schedule train timetables and passengers plan their trips. However, existing works can only predict low-grained passenger flows of origin-destination (O-D) paths or inflows/outflows of each station but cannot predict passenger load distribution over the whole metro network. To this end, this paper proposes an end-to-end inference framework, PIPE, for passenger load prediction of every metro segment between two adjacent stations, by only utilizing smart card data. In particular, PIPE …