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Pragmatism About Nationalism, John J. Stuhr

Dewey Studies

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Dismantling The Patriarchy By Reclaiming Her Voice, Nikki Campo

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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The Sounds Of Your Self, Sonya Huber

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Misery & Company, A. J. Bermudez

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Bad News 101, Meg Senuta

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Rights Of Nature: An Argument For Judicial Economy, Anna Belinski-Huber

Natural Resources Journal

Tracing the evolution of the “rights of nature” movement from Indigenous law and early environmental ethics to modern global applications, this article reframes the debate around codification of legal rights for nature from moral theory to legal efficiency, arguing that the United States implicitly recognizes rights of nature within its environmental jurisprudence and statutory framework. Through detailed analyses of the Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Air Act, and Clean Water Act alongside corresponding case studies, the author demonstrates how courts and Congress have already expanded standing, redefined injury, and recognized nature’s inherent right to exist and flourish. …

Everything The Light Touches Is Not Your Kingdom: Understanding The Statutory Silence In The Antiquities Act To Restrict Presidential Power, Lillian A. Bourne

Natural Resources Journal

There is no greater threat to our public lands than energy dominance. The 1906 Antiquities Act gave presidents the power to proclaim national monuments on public lands, and today the federal government protects over 11 million acres as national monuments. President Trump plans to revoke and shrink monument protections so that these lands can be used for oil, gas, and mineral drilling, destroying cultural artifacts with detrimental impacts to air, water, and land. The Antiquities Act does not give the president the power to revoke or shrink national monuments designated by prior presidents; the Act reserves this power solely to …

Our World, Ourselves, Clinton Crockett Peters

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Tracing Literary Lineage, Valerie Boyd, Sejal Shah

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Gun Bubbles, Margrét Ann Thors

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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University Ai At Work: The Impact On Personal Document Creation, Vanessa Reyes, Alec Mullender

Proceedings from the Document Academy

This international study examines the use of AI tools provided through university-issued platforms in the US and Canada. The authors aim to discover how embedded AI tools in the university workplace affect the daily creation of personal documents within their digital workspaces. Using University-Issued Tools, such as Outlook, Teams, and all other Microsoft Suite Products, this study places a hyperfocus on time, efficiency, accuracy, usability, functionality, and how the embedded nature of AI tools facilitates working conditions, functions, intentionality, and purpose.

Key research questions are: (1) How do embedded AI tools support daily work processes? (2) In what ways do …

Reading Hair As A Document, Bhuva Narayan

Proceedings from the Document Academy

This paper is an exposition of the documental being, becoming, and unbecoming of hair, wherein I argue that although human hair is a corporeal material, and an object that can be viewed through various perspectives and theories, it can also be read as a document imbued with meaning, intention, and perception by humans, and fulfills Suzanne Briet’s criteria (Briet, 2006; Buckland, 1997) for an object to be considered a document: it has materiality (it must be a physical thing), intentionality (intended as evidence), needs processing (to be made part of a documentary system), and is an object of phenomenological perception …

Trusted Forms—The Case Of Barack Obama’S Birth Certificate, Karl-Heinrich Schmidt, Frederik Schlupkothen

Proceedings from the Document Academy

Documents can be understood as containers for information that enable remote communication between people across space and time. They are therefore fundamentally subject to issues of trust. The theoretical treatment of documents as a means of remote communication has a long history and has arrived in the age of electronic document exchange, as shown by the work of R. T. Pédauque, which is taken as a starting point here.

To take theory further, form-based documents are discussed here as an example. Form-based documents control the information provided by fillers by specifying form fields. The core of this paper is to …

Reading Ourselves: Self-Documentation, Infamy, And Collective Health In Brazilian Peripheries, Asy Pepe Sanches Neto

Proceedings from the Document Academy

This paper explores self-documentation as a social instrument for surviving misrecognition and constructing situated forms of care. Drawing from Foucault’s Lives of Infamous Men, it examines how lives become visible only when touched by power, through brief administrative inscriptions. Building on Documental Fixity (Sanches & Day, 2020), the argument shifts from the stabilizing power of documents to the anticipatory actions of those who know they are read. Rather than asking what a document is, I treat “document” as a modeling frame imposed upon things to manage indexicality. From passports to school uniforms, documentation organizes visibility and authority. In racialized and …

Cerebral Documents And Algorithmic Sensemaking: Searching For Expressions In Human And Artificial Cognitive Collaborations, Rebekah L. Cowell

Proceedings from the Document Academy

Generative Artificial Intelligences (AIs) and current advanced large language models (LLMs) are algorithmically designed to generate text-based conversations as conversational agents (CAs), by replicating human language and conversational communication. Pairing human cognition with generative computationally coded cognition. We have never been here before: cerebral and artificial information collaborations and processing producing expressions that may or may not become visible as second-hand/secondary source documents.

Sensemaking or sense(un)making is a unique autonomous human drive cognitively, our information processing is sensemaking in action and expressions and articulations are evidence of the sensemaking cycle. Documentation [expressed or articulated through various mediums] are a product …

Representing The Apparatus In Nineteenth And Twentieth Century Chemical Abstracting Literature, Evan F. Kuehn

Proceedings from the Document Academy

The rise of abstracting services in the 20th century is usually associated with the explosion of original scientific research and its attendant journal literature. The abstract was a tool of information dissemination and access for increasingly expansive and international work. What is often overlooked, however, is the correlation between original research and the technologies that made these advances available. Scientific apparatuses were, however, documented from the beginning, and were also a part of the rise of abstract literature in the 19^th and 20^th centuries. In this paper I examine the development of abstracts for apparatuses and patents in …

The Robot As A Document For Action: Materiality And Corporeality In The Info-Communicational Approach To Robots, Cécile Payeur, Béa Arruabarrena

Proceedings from the Document Academy

This article explores the emerging materialities of mediating artifacts in the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Drawing on the evolution of documentary environments and the growing hybridization of digital and physical spaces, it extends documentary and communication theories to robots taking into account their socio-technical dimension and their info-communicational implications for human interactions. It posits that examining the robot as a mediating artefact of a documentary nature can enhance both the understanding and the design of collaborative logic in HRI. Using Manuel Zacklad's theoretical framework, Documents for Action (DoPA), the research conceptualizes the robot as a semiotic and mediating document …

A Qualitative Exploration Of Personal Archiving At The Crossroads Of Ai, Aging, And Documentation, Vanessa Reyes

Proceedings from the Document Academy

As we age, our relationship with our personal archive evolves as we experience cognitive shifts. This is even more so if we experience a reality that is shaped by Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is increasingly managing personal information through automated curation and personalized AI software interactions tailored to users (Hayes & Downie, 2024), sometimes completely unbeknownst to users. Meanwhile, AI-driven automated curation is also helping older adults manage their archives, influencing their ability to maintain agency over their life documentation practices. Older adults use a variety of health-monitoring technologies, such as the Apple Watch, the Samsung Smartwatch, and the Fitbit. …

In The Grip Of The Sky, Sonya Huber

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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No One Lives Here, Genevieve Anna Tyrell

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Sheri Fink On Blending Science And Narrative, Lee Gutkind, Dan Sarewitz

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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The Same Story, Suzanne Roberts

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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The Resume, Catherine Elcik

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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What Will We Do For Fun Now?, Jane Ratcliffe

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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How To Hang A Mezuzah, Rachel Beanland

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Bloodlines And Bitter Syrup, Will Bridges

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Il-36Γ And The Development And Validation Of An Early Prediction Model For Severe Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Pneumonia In Children, Xiaodong Tang, Ying Li, Pao Yu, Wenpeng Wang, Bi Zhou

Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Objective: This study aimed to retrospectively analyze clinical data from pediatric patients with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia (MPP), investigate the expression and clinical significance of serum IL-36γ, and to develop and validate an early identification model for severe MPP (SMPP). Methods: Clinical data were collected from 345 children diagnosed with MPP in our department between July 1, 2023, and December 31, 2024. Based on diagnostic criteria, enrolled patients were categorized into an SMPP group (n=145) and a non-severe MPP (NSMPP) group (n=200). Serum IL-36γ levels at admission were measured using ELISA. Independent risk factors for SMPP were identified via binary logistic …

Evaluation Of The Oral Mycobiota In Pediatric Patients With Newly Diagnosed Malignancy, Gülşah Ece Özmerdiven, Gonca Erköse Genç, Serap Karaman, İlvana Çaklovica Küçükkaya, Zeynep Karakaş, Deniz Tuğcu, Ayşe Özkan Karagenç, Hikmet Gülşah Tanyıldız, Ayşegül Ünüvar, Zayre Erturan

Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Objective: This study examines whether the oral mycobiome of pediatric patients with newly diagnosed hematologic or oncologic malignancies differs from that of healthy children before treatment begins. Methods: The study included 117 children under 18 years of age: 67 patients and 50 healthy controls. Oral swab/rinse samples were cultured on various agar media, and fungal species were identified using conventional methods, API ID 32C, and MALDI-TOF MS. Antifungal susceptibility testing of non-albicans Candida (NAC) isolates was performed using VITEK2. Results: Yeast growth was observed in 58.2% of patients and 68% of healthy children. Candida albicans was the most frequently isolated …

Characterisics Of Children Evaluated For Simultaneous Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever And Brucellosis In An Endemic Region, Kübra Fırtına Topcu, Ayşe Hümeyra Taşkın Kafa, Elif Ünver Korğalı Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Faculty Of Medicine, Department Of Pediatrics, Sivas, Türkiye

Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Objective: Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) and brucellosis are two zoonoses that co-circulate in overlapping endemic areas and share similar clinical features. They may occur concurrently in the same patient. Methods: We aimed to investigate the occurrence of concurrent CCHF and brucellosis in pediatric patients from our endemic region. Results: We reviewed 31 patients younger than 18 years who, between January 2018 and December 2024, underwent concurrent testing with CCHF PCR and the Brucella serum agglutination test (SAT), along with their presenting complaints. Rural residence was present in 45.2% of cases, and a history of tick bite prior to presentation in …

Expression Of Metrnl, Presepsin, And Bmp9 In Peripheral Blood Of Children With Sepsis And Their Roles In Diagnosis And Prognosis, Yang Liu, Cheng Wei

Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Objective: Meteorin-like protein (METRNL), soluble CD14 subtype (presepsin), and bone morphogenetic protein 9 (BMP9) show promising for sepsis diagnosis and prognosis assessment in children. Their diagnostic and prognostic utility is comprehensively assessed in this study. Methods: A total of 360 children, aged 3-14 years, with sepsis, infection, and healthy groups were retrospectively analyzed. Receiver Operating Characteristic curve evaluated the diagnostic performance of METRNL, presepsin, and BMP9 for sepsis. The 28-day prognostic information was collected for the sepsis group. Risk factors for poor prognosis in the sepsis group were analyzed using logistic regression. A nomogram prediction model for prognostic prediction in …