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Why Capping The House At 435 Is Unconstitutional, Anoo Dinesh Vyas

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.

In Support Of Free Speech On Food Production, Nicole Ligon

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.

Hydroxocobalamin For Vasoplegia In Cardiac Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis, Luai Zakaria, Karan Shah, Dongsheng Yang, Marta Kelava, Haytham Elgharably, Ashish K Khanna, Sanchit Ahuja, Benjamin Hohlfelder, Andrej Alfirevic, Andra E Duncan, Nikolaos J Skubas, Daniel I Sessler

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background: Vasoplegia during cardiac surgery is common and associated with perioperative mortality. Hydroxocobalamin is a catecholamine-sparing approach for treating vasoplegia. However, there is currently limited evidence to inform its use.

Methods: We conducted a single-centre retrospective propensity-matched cohort study of patients who developed vasoplegia after cardiopulmonary bypass. Our primary outcome was vasopressor requirement, expressed as norepinephrine equivalents (NEE), at 1, 4, 24, and 48 h after treatment. Our secondary outcome was a collapsed composite of in-hospital complications comprising stroke, sternal wound infection, mesenteric ischaemia, renal failure, and death.

Results: We identified 2727 (11%) patients with vasoplegia from 2018 to 2024. …

Two Moles, Two Worlds: Network Analysis Of Infernal Affairs And The Departed, Melissa Vu

IPHS 200: Programming Humanity

This project aims to explore how adaptation reshapes the social architecture of a movie. To do this, I used social network analysis to compare the character dynamics between Infernal Affairs(Hong Kong, 2002) and its U.S. adaptation The Departed(2006) in two ways: co-presence networks (characters connected when they appear in the same scene, with edge weights capturing repeated co-appearance) and directed dialogue network (arrows representing who speaks to whom, with thicker arrows indicating more frequent dialogue). Comparing the network structures across the two films reveals meaningful differences in group structure, connecting roles, and the concentration of dialogue around key characters, which …

Bone Marrow Endosteum In Homeostasis And Metastasis, Yuta Nakai, Wanida Ono, Noriaki Ono

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The endosteum is a thin layer of connective tissue lining the inner surfaces of bones adjoining the medullary cavity. The endosteum houses a variety of cells crucial for bone growth, repair and remodelling, including bone-forming osteoblasts, bone-resorbing osteoclasts and their precursor cells. Historically, the endosteum has been extensively studied as a key site for haematopoiesis by which blood cells are incessantly produced. However, recent studies have defined the endosteum as a niche for skeletal stem cells, underscoring the importance of the harmony between the inner endosteum and the outer periosteum in maintaining bone homeostasis. The endosteum also plays a significant …

Sexual Health Education For Behavior Change: Revisiting How Much Is Enough, Ross Shegog, Elizabeth R Baumler, Robert C Addy, Christine M Markham, Melissa F Peskin, Susan Tortolero Emery, Melanie A Thiel, Shehla Sadruddin, Dennis Reidy, Jeff R Temple

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Purpose: Successful implementation of school sexual health curricula relies on students receiving sufficient exposure to lesson content. This large replication study assesses the longitudinal association between exposure to sexual health lesson frequency and content domains and delayed sexual initiation of middle school students.

Methods: Post hoc data analysis was conducted using a large harmonized dataset from 3 randomized controlled trials evaluating It's Your Game curricula in the South Central United States. The sample comprised 1,022 sexually inexperienced middle school students (grades 7 and 8) who completed grade 9 follow-up after using either a 24-lesson hybrid (classroom and computer-based) (It's Your …

The Fear Factor: Exploring The Experiences Of Fear Of Secondary School Teachers, Kelly J. Raines

Doctor of Education (Ed.D)

Fear can be a powerful catalyst for cognitive potential, or a potent agent of havoc. This descriptive (transcendental) phenomenological study aimed to understand the phenomenon of fear experienced by teachers in public and private secondary schools in Central Florida. Semi-structured interviews collected data from the purposive sample, and the data were thoroughly analyzed using Colaizzi's (1978) model. The emergent essence of the lived experience of teachers identified the phenomenon of fear as the inducement of a debilitating sense of powerlessness that diminishes self-confidence and self-efficacy, resulting in emotional, cognitive, and/or physical impairments that directly affect the metacognitive potential of teachers. …

Ethical Sourcing In The Context Of Health Data Supply Chain Management: A Value Sensitive Design Approach, Camille Nebeker Edd, Ms, Ellen Wright Clayton, Et Al.

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Abstract

Objective

The Bridge2AI program is establishing rules of practice for creating ethically sourced health data repositories to support the effective use of ML/AI in biomedical and behavioral research. Given the initially undefined nature of ethically sourced data, this work concurrently developed definitions and guidelines alongside repository creation, grounded in a practical, operational framework.

Materials and Methods

A Value Sensitive Design (VSD) approach was used to explore ethical tensions across stages of health data repository development. The conceptual investigation drew from supply chain management (SCM) processes to (1) identify actors who would interact with or be affected by the data …

Mentoring Programs For Youth In Hagerstown, Maryland: Addressing The Opioid Epidemic, Stephane Reed

Selected Social Change Portfolios in Prevention, Intervention, and Consultation

Goal Statement: The goal of this social change portfolio is to help develop and promote mentoring programs for youth in Hagerstown, Maryland as preventive strategy to reduce the impact of the opioid epidemic. This initiative seeks to strengthen resilience, enhance academic performance and foster healthy decision-making among adolescents through consistent, supportive adult-youth relationships. The proposed mentoring framework to integrate culturally responsive, trauma-informed and community-based approaches address the systemic and interpersonal factors contributing to misuse in Washington County. Significant Findings: In Washington County, where Hagerstown is located, it continues to experience one of the highest opioids overdoes within Maryland which is …

Addressing Mental Health And Homelessness In The Lower Valley, Viere Arellano-Almazan

Selected Social Change Portfolios in Prevention, Intervention, and Consultation

Goal Statement: To reduce homelessness in the Lower Yakima Valley by implementing early intervention and culturally responsive mental health prevention strategies that enhance access to care, reduce stigma, and strengthen community resilience. Significant Findings: The Lower Yakima Valley faces significant challenges in addressing the intersection of mental health and homelessness due to limited access to culturally and linguistically appropriate care. Research indicates that rural residents particularly Hispanic immigrant and farmworker populations experience elevated levels of psychological distress, stigma, and barriers to accessing services (Armstrong et al., 2022). Applying the Social-Ecological Model has illuminated how multiple interconnected factors influence vulnerability, including …

Veteran Suicide Prevention In Central Florida, Michael Terkos

Selected Social Change Portfolios in Prevention, Intervention, and Consultation

Goal Statement: The goal of this project is to reduce suicide rates among veterans in Central Florida by strengthening protective factors, increasing access to culturally competent, trauma- informed care, and fostering community-based resilience networks that connect veterans, families, and local agencies. Significant Findings: Veteran suicide remains a critical public health concern in Florida, which continues to rank among the states with the highest veteran suicide rates (Florida Department of Health, 2025). Research indicates that approximately 17 veterans die by suicide each day nationwide (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs [VA], 2022). Key risk factors include post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, …

Tutoring Online During The Covid-19 Pandemic: Use Of Critical Incidents To Improve Practice, A.E. Dreyfuss, Jose Armando Sanchez Diaz, Barakat Adigun, Helen Baraki, Thalyia Thompson

Publications and Research

Developing expertise in the practice of online tutoring is presented by peer tutors who provided support to students with synchronous sessions with the onset of COVID-19. The experiences and learning of peer tutors were probed through the use of critical incidents (Flanagan, 1954), and how weekly training meetings provided support to them, creating a collaboration among the tutors and the training manager.

A Review Of The 2024/25 International Moots Season, Siyuan Chen

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This is the 11th annual review of Singapore’s performance in international moot court competitions. In a nutshell, 2024/25 has been a tremendous, record-breaking season for Singapore – and a particular duck has finally been broken. In the highest-tier or Grand Slam competitions, Singapore Management University emerged world champions in the Jessup, Vis East, International Criminal Court, and Frankfurt competitions; the previous world record for most Grand Slam wins in a season was 2 (held by various universities), and this new record may well increase to 5, depending on whether SMU can successfully defend its world championship at the Lachs Space …

How The Billable Hour Can Survive Generative Ai, Jonah Perlin

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The legal profession is rapidly adopting generative AI technology. With this shift has come an increasingly common assumption that generative AI will significantly reduce or even bring an end to hourly billing. The logic underlying this conclusion seems intuitive: if AI reduces the time lawyers spend on certain tasks while eliminating others altogether, then the total number of billable hours will fall. That decline, in turn, could threaten the financial viability of hourly billing, despite its place as the dominant law firm compensation model over the past half century.

This Article challenges this assumption. It argues instead that the billable …

Attribution As Architecture In The Digital Age, Laura A. Heymann

Faculty Publications

As technology changes, one thing remains constant: human creators seem to care about attribution, whether as creators or as audience members. Current U.S. law lacks the means for many creators to effectively address attributional interests, and experience has shown that top-down, imposed technological solutions can fail to gain the necessary buy-in and adoption. The best approach, examples suggest, is for platforms to think of attribution as part of the architecture of their systems, but to take their cues from user-developed, individualized solutions, which will not only be more responsive to user interests but also allow adaptation as interests change and …

Supporting Young Children’S Composing Practices Through Pre- And Post-Writing Conversations, Jackie Ridley, Rebecca Rohloff, Xiao Zhang, Margaret Quinn

Journal of Response to Writing

In this teaching tip, we propose purposeful pre- and post-writing conferences as a teacher practice to support young children’s early writing practices. We share how teachers can facilitate children’s idea development through conversational moves during writing conferences and provide a model for what this could look like using a task-based composing prompt.

“What Grade Do You Feel You Earned?” Integrating Student-Led Grading With A Labor-Based Grading Framework, Megan Von Bergen

Journal of Response to Writing

This brief article discusses the advantages of using a student grade proposal within a labor-based grading framework, focusing on how the grade proposal may reinforce the equity-related aims of labor-based grading and hone students' ability to self-assess. The article discusses the learning outcomes of the grade proposal and its process, then ends with a sample grade proposal.

Academic Department Indicators: 2024-2025, Systems Intelligence And Data Analytics, University Of Nebraska At Omaha

Academic Department Indicators

The audience is the Academic Planning Council (APC), college and department heads, and faculty. The purpose is to report instructional productivity measures useful for making comparisons and observing trends. Selected departmental information in this report is submitted annually to the Delaware Study, a National Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity.

This Instructional Productivity information corresponds to the UNO state- and tuition-funded budget. The Supplemental Information at the end of the document provides counts and statistics for campus-wide programs embedded in most colleges. Only Dual Enrollment instruction is excluded from the productivity report since it is a fee-based instructional program for …

The Importance Of Self-Care To Avoid Teacher Burnout, Lindsey Brittain

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

Schools across the world are facing the increasingly significant issue of teacher burnout and the ability to retain good teachers. The problem is teachers are experiencing heightened levels of stress, emotional exhaustion, and a lack of motivation in the classroom. Not only is this detrimental to their well-being but it also affects their students. Research has shown that self-care practices can help prevent burnout, but many teachers find it hard to implement these consistently for various reasons. This study aimed to find out how teachers experience burnout and the self-care practices they use to manage stress by using a mixed-methods …

Attachment Styles Connection To Teacher Burnout, Erica Jaeschke

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

Teacher burnout has become a concern, as teachers are leaving the classroom more frequently than in the past. A teacher's attachment may be associated with the development and persistence of teacher burnout. The problem with this topic is that teachers are leaving the classroom at alarming rates, which is problematic because schools will not have the support they need to educate future generations. This study aims to determine whether teacher burnouts are associated with specific attachment theories. A quantitative method was employed through voluntary survey questions, and 18 teachers participated.

Impact Of Brain Breaks On Student Engagement In An Elementary Classroom, Kailey Hunt

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

This capstone research project examines the relationship between scheduled brain breaks and student engagement in a third-grade classroom in Bondurant, Iowa. Since the return to in-person learning, classrooms have experienced notable declines in student engagement and motivation. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether incorporating structured brain breaks could provide students with opportunities to reset and reengage during instructional time. Using daily field notes and weekly student surveys, the researcher implemented two brain breaks per day, four days a week, over a four-week period, with 22 students. Findings indicate that short, structured breaks positively influenced student engagement, and …

Cooperative Learning And The Impact On Student Engagement, Erin Pint

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

Cooperative learning is an essential instructional approach that supports student engagement. There is limited implementation of this learning method in the classroom which leads to students lacking motivation and opportunities to collaborate with their peers. Research has shown that when teachers incorporate cooperative learning experiences, students demonstrate increased participation which leads to deeper understanding of the content. This inquiry-based research study aims to determine whether cooperative learning can improve student engagement. The study utilized a qualitative approach, using both student and educator surveys as well as field notes. Findings revealed that most students prefer learning alongside at least one peer …

The Impact Of Themes On Students’ Historical Consciousness And Relevance, Madeline Rainey Lincoln

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

Many students have long perceived history as boring and irrelevant to their lives beyond the classroom. Although recent shifts towards skills-based instruction have attempted to address these issues, students still struggle to recognize the purpose of learning history. This study examined the effectiveness of thematic instructional pedagogy in enhancing 9th-grade students’ historical consciousness and perceptions of relevance in a World History course at a suburban high school in Minnesota. A pre- and post-survey measured students’ views of historical consciousness, thematic learning, and the purpose of learning history before and after a unit of thematic instruction was implemented. Student artifacts, along …

Improving The Use Of Evidence To Support Historical Arguments In A Secondary Classroom, Dylan Vandyke

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

The study of history is too often relegated to the basic skills of memorization and summarization. Teaching students history, however, should not be just memorization. Research has shown that the ability of students to take multiple perspectives, analyze cause and effect, and make well-reasons assertions is much more valuable than basic memorization. Tying all these skills together is the concept of being able to present an argument with specific supporting evidence that helps to prove the point. Many freshmen in entry-level high school history courses struggle to use this skill well. This inquiry-based research study aims to help understand why …

Effective Strategies For Creating Inclusive Ell Curricula In Multicultural Classrooms., Katie Struck

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

This inquiry-based capstone project examines effective strategies for creating inclusive curricula for English Language Learners (ELLs) in multicultural classrooms, with a focus on leveraging students' first languages (L1) to reduce language barriers and promote motivation, cultural representation, and equitable academic outcomes. Amid the rapid growth of ELL populations in U.S. schools—from 8% to nearly 10% of public enrollment between 2000 and 2016—educators in regions like northwest Iowa face challenges in meeting diverse social and academic needs. A literature review synthesizes recent studies on supporting ELL demographics, preparing school staff, addressing barriers, and implementing evidence-based programs and practices. Conducted in a …

Oer Financial Literacy Curriculum For Mathematics Educators And Georgia’S New Mandates, Marnie Phipps, Patty Condict, John Bragelman

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

In 2022, Georgia agencies added new financial literacy requirements for both high school students and teacher qualifications to enhance financial literacy across the state. In response, a group of faculty members in an education preparation program acquired funding and developed a financial literacy curriculum for secondary preservice teachers. The OER curriculum was implemented in a senior-level capstone course. This manuscript presents a pilot study of the curriculum, including data collection and analysis for the project.

Domestic Military Deployments After Trump V. United States, Chris Mirasola

William & Mary Law Review

The current legal regime governing domestic military deployments was, largely, born of the Civil War. While conflict was ongoing, Congress enacted what are now a pair of statutes criminalizing military interference with federal elections. And as a coda to Reconstruction, Congress criminalized using the military as a civilian law enforcement force. Over the past 160 years, successive Congresses and Presidents have steadily chipped away at these crucial criminal-law protections. In 2024, the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States further undermined the limitations that remained.

In Trump, the Supreme Court held that Presidents enjoy, at minimum, a presumption …

The Bulletin: Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University, Volume 103, Issue 2, Fall 2025

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

This issue includes:

• 5 - Dean’s Column
• 6 - Time Machine
• 12 - ICYMI (In Case You Missed It)
• 18 - Medicine Rooted in Connection by Scott Orlov, SKMC Class of 2026
• 20 - All in the Family by Takami Sato, MD, PhD, and Rino Seedor, MD ’15
• 24 - When Jefferson and Medicine Struck Gold by Geno J. Merli, MD ’75, RES ’78 and ’80
• 28 - Alumni Weekend Recap
• 32 - Born a Jeffersonian by William Valentine Harrer, MD ’62
• 35 - Class Ambassadors
• 36 - A Message From the SKMC Alumni Board President
• 38 - Class Notes …

Slb-Mssim: A Spectral Library-Based Multiplex Segmented Sim Platform For Single-Cell Proteomic Analysis, Lakmini Senavirathna, Cheng Ma, Van-An Duong, Hong-Yuan Tsai, Ru Chen, Sheng Pan

The Brown Foundation: Institute of Molecular Medicine

Mass spectrometry (MS)-based single-cell proteomics, while highly challenging, offers unique potential for a wide range of applications to interrogate cellular heterogeneity, trajectories, and phenotypes at a functional level. We report here the development of the spectral library-based multiplex segmented selected ion monitoring (SLB-msSIM) method, a conceptually unique approach with significantly enhanced sensitivity and robustness for single-cell analysis. The single-cell MS data is acquired by a multiplex segmented selected ion monitoring (msSIM) technique, which sequentially applies multiple isolation cycles with the quadrupole using a wide isolation window in each cycle to accumulate and store precursor ions in the C-trap for a …

Investigating Machine Learning Algorithms To Classify Label-Free Images Of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms, Noelle Daigle, Shuyuan Guan, Suzann Duan, Thomas G Knapp, Eung-Joo Lee, Ali Azhdarinia, Sukhen C Ghosh, Solmaz Aghaamiri, Servando Hernandez Vargas, Naruhiko Ikoma, Jeannelyn Estrella, Martin J Schnermann, Tobias Else, Michelle Kang Kim, Juanita L Merchant, Travis W Sawyer

The Brown Foundation: Institute of Molecular Medicine

Significance: Pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (PNENs) are an uncommon cancer whose incidence rate has increased dramatically in recent years. Surgery is the only potentially curative treatment, which relies on both preoperative tumor localization and postoperative margin definition using histopathological examination for decision making. If pathology could be automated, valuable time and resources could be saved.

Aim: In this study, we investigate the ability of machine learning (ML) with handcrafted features, as well as deep learning, to classify label-free microscopy images of PNENs as a first step toward automated pathology of such tumors.

Approach: Patient samples of two different preparation types were …