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U.S. Territories And The Criminal Law Curriculum, Emmanuel H. Arnaud

Articles

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Convention On Safety For Survivors Of Family Violence Involved In International Custody Disputes, Merle H. Weiner

Cardozo Law Review

This Article proposes a new treaty to fix the "domestic violence problem" that plagues the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. It argues that a new international instrument is legally permissible and would be the most efficient way to solve the problem. It compares the proposed solution to other child abduction instruments that exist in the European Union (EU) and Latin America but that do not address domestic violence. This Article proposes specific treaty provisions and provides commentary on those provisions. This Article is intended to influence state parties to the Hague Abduction Convention who are …

Adipocyte-Derived Cchamide-1, Eiger, Growth-Blocking Peptide 3, And Unpaired 2 Regulate Drosophila Melanogaster Oogenesis, Chad Simmons, Isaiah H. Williams, Tancia W. Bradshaw, Alissa R. Armstrong

Faculty Publications

In addition to energy storage, adipose tissue communication to other organs plays a key role in regulating organismal physiology. While the link between adipose tissue dysfunction and pathophysiology, including diabetes, chronic inflammation, and infertility, is clear, the molecular mechanisms that underlie these associations have not been fully described. We use Drosophila melanogaster as a model to better understand how adipose tissue communicates to the ovary. In this study, we utilized D. melanogaster’s robust genetic toolkit to examine the role of five adipokines known to control larval growth during development, CCHamide-1, CCHamide-2, eiger, Growth-blocking peptide 3, and unpaired 2 in regulating …

A Hybrid Type I Randomized Effectiveness-Implementation Trial Of A Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Intervention In The Part C Early Intervention System: Study Protocol, Allison L. Wainer, Sarah Edmunds, Alice S. Carter, Wendy L. Stone, R. Christopher Sheldrick, Sarabeth Broder-Fingert, Yael S. Stern, Ellie Harrington, Lisa V. Ibanez, Brooke Ingersoll

Faculty Publications

Background

Participation in Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions (NDBI) is associated with significant improvements in functioning for toddlers with, and showing early signs of, autism spectrum disorder. The Part C Early Intervention (EI) system, which is publicly funded and available in all U.S. states, offers an optimal infrastructure through which toddlers can receive NDBIs. This study seeks to assess the effectiveness and fit of one NDBI, Caregiver Implemented Reciprocal Imitation Teaching (CI-RIT), within the Part C EI system.

Methods

This hybrid type 1 effectiveness/implementation trial uses a multi-site randomized control design to simultaneously test effectiveness and collect implementation data on CI-RIT …

Falling Women And Empty Skies: Returning To 9/11 In Fiction By Daniel Alarcon, Claire Vaye Watkins, And Otessa Moshfegh, Jeffrey Gonzalez

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Daniel Alarcon’s “Absence,” Claire Vaye Watkins’s “Rondine al Nido,” and Otessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation are American works of fiction that save their most substantive commentary on the 9/11 terror attacks for their final page, despite each text largely focusing on other matters. This gesture illustrates the works calling upon and questioning the gravitas afforded to the tragedy of September 11. Reviewing the reception history of 9/11 fiction and making comparisons to canonical 9/11 narratives, I argue that these texts complicate these canonical and criticial frameworks: they treat 9/11’s significance as a variable, rather than a constant.

Force Majeure, Vasvi Kerjriwal

Yalobusha Review

No abstract provided.

Tidings, Adam Jon Miller

Yalobusha Review

No abstract provided.

Light & Faith: April 2025, Taylor University

Light & Faith

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Differential Impacts On Proteoglycan Expression In The Response To Lens Wounding In Reparative And Pro-Fibrotic Microenvironments, Janice L Walker, A. Sue Menko

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

Ex vivo lens epithelial explant cultures created through a technique that mimics cataract surgery provided an ideal model with which to compare the impacts on proteoglycan expression in the response to wounding in both reparative promoting and pro-fibrotic microenvironments. On their native basement membrane capsule the injured lens epithelium undergoes regenerative repair, with the wound closing within a few days. Their migration across the wound area is led by a population of activated lens resident immune cells. The same leader cell population also directs the wounded epithelium to migrate off the outside edges of the lens explant across the surrounding …

Can Industrial Agriculture Be Resilient To External Shocks? Industrial Agriculture In Diversified Clusters In Rural China, Qian Forrest Zhang, Zhanping Hu

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

We propose a new model – “industrial agriculture of smallholders” – to conceptualize the agri-food system in China. These smallholders are embedded in “diversified clusters” in rural China, which also include rural industries and extensive rural-urban linkages. Their relationships with markets are more complex and dynamic than what is often portrayed under the linear framework of “commodity chains”. As an alternative to the globalized model of industrial agriculture, we argue that “industrial agriculture of smallholders” has greater resilience to external shocks. Using a village in northern China during the COVID-19 pandemic, we illustrate how economic diversity within this “diversified cluster” …

Dipl 6611/4611 International Relations Of Southeast Asia, Ann Marie Murphy Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

This class examines the international politics of Southeast Asia from a systems perspective. As secondary states geographically located in an area of great power interest, Southeast Asian countries have traditionally operated in an international system in which the "rules of the game" were largely written by great powers. These rules, in turn, create the context within which Southeast Asian states operate. This course explores how and why Southeast Asia evolved from a region of Western colonies to Cold War dominos, and later to one of economic dynamos. It then examines the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997, changes in the balance …

Fifty Years Of Exponent Ii, Karen Glenn, John Murphy, Bethany Budge

Faculty Publications

Drawing from the Exponent II Records (MSS 1527) in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, this exhibit featured photographs, writings, and records that document the first fifty years of the periodical Exponent II, a publication dedicated to Latter-day Saint women's voices. Display items included letters, original and draft publications, advertising materials, and scrapbook pages.

The exhibit illustrates that Exponent II has played a significant role in preserving and amplifying the voices of Latter-day Saint women for five decades.

Approved Programs 4-1-25, Angela Brock

Programs Committee (PC)

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Program Agenda 4-1-25, Angela Brock

Programs Committee (PC)

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Learning Tracheal Intubation With A Hyperangulated Videolaryngoscopy Blade: Sub-Analysis Of A Randomised Controlled Trial, Sascha Ott, Lukas M Müller-Wirtz, Sergio Bustamante, Julian Rössler, Nikolaos J Skubas, Karan Shah, Daniel I Sessler, Alparslan Turan, Kurt Ruetzler

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Introduction: The number of tracheal intubation attempts required to reach proficiency in videolaryngoscopy with hyperangulated blades is unknown. Understanding this training requirement might guide training for clinicians who perform laryngoscopy. We therefore performed a planned sub-analysis of a randomised controlled trial comparing tracheal intubation success with videolaryngoscopy vs. direct laryngoscopy to determine the number of tracheal intubations with a hyperangulated videolaryngoscope blade needed to provide an acceptable first-attempt success rate.

Methods: We included clinicians from a randomised controlled trial who were familiar with direct laryngoscopy and Macintosh-blade videolaryngoscopy but inexperienced with hyperangulated videolaryngoscopy. Cumulative sum statistics were used to generate …

"When The Bills Keep On Coming:" The Experiences Of Seafood Processors During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Shannon Guillot-Wright, Laura Porterfield, Brenda Wilson, Lacy Davis

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Essential workers were at increased risk during the COVID-19 pandemic, including seafood processors who are often rendered invisible within the public sphere. To examine the health and safety concerns of seafood processors, many who are low income or im/migrant workers on H-2B visas, our team conducted qualitative research with 44 participants. We found that in addition to high occupational health hazards that existed before the pandemic, COVID-19 increased workers' financial risks, which put them in more dangerous health and safety positions, since they needed to work through physical and mental health illness. These financial risks can be seen through the …

Worldwide Policy, Surveillance, And Research On Physical Education And School-Based Physical Activity: The Global Observatory For Physical Education (Gope!) Conceptual Framework And Research Protocol, João Martins, Andrea Ramirez Varela, João Costa, Marcos Onofre, Dean Dudley, Rafael Cristão, Michael Pratt, Pedro C Hallal, Rafael Tassitano

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Introduction: The Global Observatory for Physical Education (GoPE!) builds on the Global Observatory for Physical Activity (GoPA!) to address gaps in surveillance, policy, and research on physical education (PE) and activity (PA). GoPE! is a worldwide surveillance system of quality PE and school-based PA that informs policy and interventions and allows comparative analysis so that each country and region can check their status and progress. This paper presents GoPE!'s conceptual framework and describes the research protocol as a cross-continental and evidence-based surveillance system.

Methods: Based on GoPA!'s framework and informed by the European Physical Education Observatory, as well as framed …

Infringing Information Architectures, Michael Goodyear

Articles & Chapters

Information architectures—systems that facilitate storing and sharing data and content—underpin daily life, from streaming sites like Netflix and Hulu to social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Since the printing press, these systems and their novel features have challenged the bounds of copyright law, leading to accusations that providers and users directly infringe others’ copyrights. Almost fifty years ago, however, a largely unexplored paradigm shift occurred. Copyright owners started to allege that information architecture providers should be broadly secondarily liable for all their users’ infringements. These claims, which this Article terms architectural infringement claims, pose an acute challenge to the …

Genome-Wide Association Study Meta-Analysis Provides Insights Into The Etiology Of Heart Failure And Its Subtypes, Albert Henry, Xiaodong Mo, Chris Finan, Mark D Chaffin, Doug Speed, Hanane Issa, Spiros Denaxas, James S Ware, Sean L Zheng, Anders Malarstig, Jasmine Gratton, Isabelle Bond, Carolina Roselli, David Miller, Sandesh Chopade, A Floriaan Schmidt, Erik Abner, Lance Adams, Charlotte Andersson, Krishna G Aragam, Johan Ärnlöv, Geraldine Asselin, Anna Axelsson Raja, Joshua D Backman, Traci M Bartz, Kiran J Biddinger, Mary L Biggs, Heather L Bloom, Eric Boersma, Jeffrey Brandimarto, Michael R Brown, Søren Brunak, Mie Topholm Bruun, Leonard Buckbinder, Henning Bundgaard, David J Carey, Daniel I Chasman, Xing Chen, James P Cook, Tomasz Czuba, Simon De Denus, Abbas Dehghan, Graciela E Delgado, Alexander S Doney, Marcus Dörr, Joseph Dowsett, Samuel C Dudley, Gunnar Engström, Christian Erikstrup, Tõnu Esko, Eric H Farber-Eger, Stephan B Felix, Sarah Finer, Ian Ford, Mohsen Ghanbari, Sahar Ghasemi, Jonas Ghouse, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Franco Giulianini, John S Gottdiener, Stefan Gross, Daníel F Guðbjartsson, Hongsheng Gui, Rebecca Gutmann, Sara Hägg, Christopher M Haggerty, Åsa K Hedman, Anna Helgadottir, Harry Hemingway, Hans Hillege, Craig L Hyde, Bitten Aagaard Jensen, J Wouter Jukema, Isabella Kardys, Ravi Karra, Maryam Kavousi, Jorge R Kizer, Marcus E Kleber, Lars Køber, Andrea Koekemoer, Karoline Kuchenbaecker, Yi-Pin Lai, David Lanfear, Claudia Langenberg, Honghuang Lin, Lars Lind, Cecilia M Lindgren, Peter P Liu, Barry London, Brandon D Lowery, Jian'an Luan, Steven A Lubitz, Patrik Magnusson, Kenneth B Margulies, Nicholas A Marston, Hilary Martin, Winfried März, Olle Melander, Ify R Mordi, Michael P Morley, Andrew P Morris, Alanna C Morrison, Lori Morton, Michael W Nagle, Christopher P Nelson, Alexander Niessner, Teemu Niiranen, Raymond Noordam, Christoph Nowak, Michelle L O'Donoghue, Sisse Rye Ostrowski, Anjali T Owens, Colin N A Palmer, Guillaume Paré, Ole Birger Pedersen, Markus Perola, Marie Pigeyre, Bruce M Psaty, Kenneth M Rice, Paul M Ridker, Simon P R Romaine, Jerome I Rotter, Christian T Ruff, Marc S Sabatine, Neneh Sallah, Veikko Salomaa, Naveed Sattar, Alaa A Shalaby, Akshay Shekhar, Diane T Smelser, Nicholas L Smith, Erik Sørensen, Sundararajan Srinivasan, Kari Stefansson, Garðar Sveinbjörnsson, Per Svensson, Mari-Liis Tammesoo, Jean-Claude Tardif, Maris Teder-Laving, Alexander Teumer, Guðmundur Thorgeirsson, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Vinicius Tragante, Stella Trompet, Andre G Uitterlinden, Henrik Ullum, Pim Van Der Harst, David Van Heel, Jessica Van Setten, Marion Van Vugt, Abirami Veluchamy, Monique Verschuuren, Niek Verweij, Christoffer Rasmus Vissing, Uwe Völker, Adriaan A Voors, Lars Wallentin, Yunzhang Wang, Peter E Weeke, Kerri L Wiggins, L Keoki Williams, Yifan Yang, Bing Yu, Faiez Zannad, Chaoqun Zheng, Folkert W Asselbergs, Thomas P Cappola, Marie-Pierre Dubé, Michael E Dunn, Chim C Lang, Nilesh J Samani, Svati Shah, Ramachandran S Vasan, J Gustav Smith, Hilma Holm, Sonia Shah, Patrick T Ellinor, Aroon D Hingorani, Quinn Wells, R Thomas Lumbers

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Heart failure (HF) is a major contributor to global morbidity and mortality. While distinct clinical subtypes, defined by etiology and left ventricular ejection fraction, are well recognized, their genetic determinants remain inadequately understood. In this study, we report a genome-wide association study of HF and its subtypes in a sample of 1.9 million individuals. A total of 153,174 individuals had HF, of whom 44,012 had a nonischemic etiology (ni-HF). A subset of patients with ni-HF were stratified based on left ventricular systolic function, where data were available, identifying 5,406 individuals with reduced ejection fraction and 3,841 with preserved ejection fraction. …

Environmental Health Disparities In Pediatric Cancer: A Report From The Fourth Symposium On Childhood Cancer Health Disparities, Thanh T Hoang, Zdenko Herceg, Don W Coulter, Adam De Smith, Manish Arora, William E Funk, David Haynes, Stephen H Linder, Leticia M Nogueira, Amy E Hughes, Lindsay A Williams, Jeremy M Schraw, Michael E Scheurer, Philip J Lupo

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The 4th Symposium on Childhood Cancer Health Disparities was held at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas, on September 26, 2023. The symposium registered 94 attendees from different backgrounds (e.g. clinicians, epidemiologists, exposure assessment scientists, geospatial experts) with an interest in environmental health disparities of pediatric cancer susceptibility and treatment outcomes. The focus of the symposium was to provide an overview of the role of environmental risk factors in studies of pediatric cancer, introduce novel exposure assessment tools that can be applied to the field, and highlight opportunities to study the impact of environmental health disparities in pediatric cancer susceptibility …

An Application Of Minimization For Ensuring Balanced Study Arms In A Group-Randomized Covid-19 Educational Intervention Trial, Xu Zhang, Mohammad H Rahbar, Amirali Tahanan, Cici Bauer, Marcia C De Oliveira Otto, Alanna C Morrison, Belinda Reininger, Maria E Fernandez

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Our institution carried out a multi-center, group-randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of two community-based interventions on promoting the uptake of COVID-19 testing and vaccination in three regions with high levels of health disparities in Texas. We selected Census Block Groups (CBGs) with high disparity for randomization. In each study region, selected CBGs were randomized into two intervention groups and one control group. An important goal was to ensure balanced distributions of two continuous covariates, the disparity index and population size, across study arms. In this paper, we describe a novel minimization method used to ensure balanced study …

Executive Committee - Agenda, 4/1/2025, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

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Chevron Was Not, And Cannot Be, Overruled: The Dullness Of Loper Bright, Edward L. Rubin

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

As expected, the Supreme Court declared, in Loper Bright Enterprises. v. Raimondo,' that "Chevron is overruled." The Court was notably vague about the principle that would replace it, declaring that "courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority," but providing little guidance about how this crucial task should be performed. This is an obvious defect in an opinion with innumerable defects, but the problems with the Court's decision go well beyond its specific flaws. The Court did not understand the decision that it claimed to overrule. Chevron is not simply a …

Silent Trusts And The Conflicts Of Laws, Jeffrey A. Schoenblum

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

There are good reasons why the settlor of a trust may not wish the beneficiaries of the trust to know of its existence at the time that the trust is created and funded or even for years thereafter. The settlor may not want beneficiaries to learn of the trust's existence until they have matured, accomplished a specific task, become self-supporting, or abandoned prob- lematic or destructive behaviors. In other instances, the settlor may not, in principle, be opposed to the beneficiaries learning about the existence of the trust but does not want to grant direct access to the trust instrument …

Ready, Set, No: Why Not All Successful Dual Credit High School Graduates Matriculate To Postsecondary Education, Jessica Deckard Mann

Dissertations

Dual-credit programs that allow students to earn college credentials in high school have become commonplace in the United States. Early College High Schools (ECHSs) were specifically developed to support equitable access to these programs, targeting groups that are historically underpopulated in postsecondary education (PSE). ECHSs aim to close the achievement gap, increase the number of college credentials earned by high school students, better train the workforce, and improve the life-time earnings potential of a diverse population.

The purpose of this nonexperimental quantitative study was to gather data from graduates in one Midwestern state who earned a college credential in high …

Responsive Democracy And The Administrative State, Edward L. Rubin

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

I would like to thank Dean Micheal Scharf and Professor Jonathan Entin for inviting me to Case Western Reserve University School of Law to deliver the Frank J. Battisti Memorial Lecture and thank all of you for attending. It's really a pleasure to be here and to have the opportunity to offer a talk named after such a distinguished jurist. Judge Frank J. Battisti served on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio for 33 years, and he was chief judge of that court for more than two decades. During his time on the bench, Judge …

Artificial Intelligence: Maryland's Double-Edged Sword In Employment Decisions, Jessica S. Kweon

University of Baltimore Law Forum

No abstract provided.

Understanding Undergraduate Aspirations For Law Enforcement Careers And Motivation In The Classroom, Gabriella N. Burt

Honors Thesis

This study investigates the factors shaping undergraduate student interest in law enforcement careers. By surveying students from various Midwestern universities, this research aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the interplay between social influences, gender, and curricular exposure in shaping law enforcement career aspirations. Specifically, it examines how motivations for pursuing a public service career, external influences, and background characteristics shape career interest overall. The study also examines how these factors shape career interest between men and women and overall motivation to engage with specific law enforcement course topics. Findings inform policy and curriculum design.

The Routine War Crime? Double-Tap Drone Strikes Under Customary International Humanitarian Law, Nathan Swenson

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

The "double-tap" drone strike tactic, in which a drone hits a target twice in rapid succession, has garnered much international attention in recent years. This paper assesses the legality of those strikes under conventional international humanitarian law, specifically within the framework of the Geneva Conventions. I argue that the double-tap tactic is not necessarily illegal if proper steps for compliance with international humanitarian law are taken by commanders. However, many circumstances demonstrate that appropriate measures are often not taken in the status quo. I argue that such situations should be deemed as war crimes and prosecuted accordingly by international legal …

Classroom Environment: How Seating Effects Student On-Task Behaviors, Meg Jackson

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

Schools across the nation have seen an uptick in the number of students who struggle to stay on-task and focus during classes in which they are seated for long periods of time. With the increase in distracting behaviors, teachers are left looking for ways to help students engage in lessons and stay on-task. There are many tools that are advertised and claim to help students focus. However, to what extent are these tools effective? This study aims to determine the effect the classroom environment has on student on-task behaviors. The particular focus of this study is the effect different seating …