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Leadership Practices Contributing To Academic Success In High-Performing Elementary Title I Schools In Texas, Jowie Walker

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

No abstract provided.

Attention To Detail: How Do Information Users Process Exhibits In Form 10-K?, Stephanie F. Cheng, Yimeng Li, Pengkai Lin

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

Form 10-K offers a setting for studying how users process complex, multi-layered disclosures: managerial narratives in the main file alongside separate exhibits, such as contracts and certifications, that provide unfiltered detail. Drawing on rational inattention theory, we investigate how users allocate limited attention across these components. Users typically begin with the main file and selectively access exhibits when the main file appears shorter, less readable, or less confident, indicating higher perceived information loss. This pattern strengthens for exhibits that offer more detail on topics discussed in the main file and among institutional investors and time-constrained users. Exhibit access persists beyond …

Hydpn: A Hybrid Deep Reinforcement Learning, Programming, And Neighborhood Operations Framework For Integrated Scheduling On Parallel Batch Processing Machines, Yuqi Wang, He Luo, Guoqiang Wang, Zhaoxia Wang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Batch processing machines (BPMs) are widely used in industries such as semiconductors, metal processing, and healthcare, where jobs are processed in batches. As production, inventory, and distribution become increasingly integrated to improve efficiency, research on their joint scheduling in parallel BPM environments remains scarce. This paper addresses the integrated scheduling problem in parallel BPMs, involving production, inventory, and distribution stages, with the objective of minimizing total costs. A unified cost-based model is first formulated, applicable to both in-facility and external distribution scenarios. A hybrid algorithm framework, HyDPN, combining deep reinforcement learning, dynamic programming, and neighborhood operations is proposed. Extensive experiments …

On-The-Fly Generation-Quality Enhancement Of Deep Code Models Via Model Collaboration, Weifeng Sun, Naiqi Huang, Meng Yan, Zhongxin Liu, Hongyan Li, Yan Lei, David Lo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The growing prominence of deep code models in automating software engineering tasks is undeniable. However, their deployment encounters significant challenges in on-the-fly performance enhancement, which refers to dynamically improving the performance of deep code models during real-time execution. Conventional techniques, such as retraining or fine-tuning, are effective in controlled pre-deployment scenarios but fall short when adapting to on-the-fly adjustments post-deployment. CodeDenoise, a notable on-the-fly performance enhancement technology, leverages uncertainty-based methods to identify misclassified inputs and applies an input modification strategy to rectify classification errors. While effective for classification tasks, this approach is inapplicable to generative tasks due to two key …

Vehicle-Based Multi-Services For Future Smart Cities, Hao Sun, Jinhua Zhao, Hai Yang, Shenhao Wang, Hamsa Balakrishnan, Thomas W. Malone, Hai Wang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Vehicles are crucial for sustaining socioeconomic activity and improving quality of life in modern cities by offering diverse services. These include passenger mobility, goods delivery, information acquisition, and acting as mobile servers such as food trucks and mobile lockers. At the same time, they also contribute to traffic congestion and air pollution. This tension fosters the rise of urban resource-conserving and sustainable service solutions. In this article, we introduce the concept of “Vehicle-Based Multi-Services” (VeMuS), in which a single vehicle offers multiple services simultaneously. Drawing on practical use cases, we examine service classification and integration for vehicles and the potential …

Enhancing Pointing Gestures Of Non-Hmd Users In Asymmetric Collocated Mixed Reality Collaboration, Nam-Dang Vo, Van-Vinh Thai, Anthony Tang, Khanh-Duy Le

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

A common collocated group setting in mixed-reality (MR) collaboration is a person wearing a MR headset (HMD user) and presenting MR contents to audiences who are not provided with such specialized devices (Non-HMD users). In this setting, while Non-HMD users can view the MR environment shown on a large physical display, it still remains challenging for the HMD user to interpret their pointing gesture when they spatially refer to objects in the MR environment. To address this, we designed and evaluated two pointing techniques—SCREEN and SCREEN+SPACE—that support Non-HMD users in referring to MR content. Screen pointing allows users to refer …

From Gaming To Politics: The Impact Of Political Chatter By Social Media Influencers On Consumer Engagement With Non-Political Content, Mahdi Niknejad Moghadam

Marketing Faculty Publications and Presentations

Social media influencers (SMIs) have become integral to digital marketing, shaping consumer perceptions and promoting products and services. While some SMIs are dedicated to political content or develop such content occasionally, nonpolitical SMIs may also engage in political chatter within their usual content. This study examines the effects of such chatter on consumer engagement by focusing on gaming SMIs. The main analysis is based on a dataset of 43,892 videos from 200 SMIs. The findings indicate that, overall, political chatter intensity in non-political content negatively impacts user engagement. However, this adverse effect is mitigated when SMIs express negative emotions, i.e., …

Enforcing The First Amendment In An Era Of Jawboning, Genevieve Lakier

University of Chicago Law Review

First Amendment law tends to focus on the exercise of formal government power. Nevertheless, for over six decades now, it has been black letter law that the informal exercise of government power can violate the First Amendment when it creates what the Court described in Bantam Books v. Sullivan as an “informal system of censorship,” outside the reach of the formal system. Lower courts have been deeply divided, however, about what kinds of government actions create this kind of informal system. The Court’s recent decision in NRA v. Vullo should end this division. In Vullo, the Court held that officials …

Why Smallholders (Do Not) Adopt Productivity-Increasing Technologies? Developing A Smallholder Adoption-Process Model Through An In-Depth Qualitative Study In Ethiopia, Tamiru Amanu Abetu, Paul T.M. Ingenbleek, K. E. Giller, Endalkachew Wolde-Meskel, Edward Baars

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

Research and innovation have developed an impressive number of technologies that can increase the agricultural productivity of African smallholders. The impact of technology is nevertheless hindered by the heterogenous and unpredictable adoption patterns of smallholders. Most current studies examine farm-level constraints and environmental barriers (e.g., distance to market and access to financial capital) as the main explanation for variations in adoption. We take a complementary approach that draws on adoption theories from consumer psychology, thus considering the interplay between contextual barriers and the micro-level decision making processes of smallholders with regard to the adoption of technology. Qualitative data on the …

Emerge/Ncy As Reflective-Critical Practice, Norma Denae Dibrell, Andrew Hollinger, Maggie Shelledy

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications

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Reforming Funding To Better Defend Families: Holistic Preventive Legal Advocacy That Checks Cps Agency Power, Joshua Gupta-Kagan

Faculty Scholarship

The federal government has provided funds to support legal representation of parents facing allegations of child neglect or abuse since 2019, across administrations of both parties. That funding illustrates the field’s recognition of parent defense’s importance to improving outcomes and reducing harms from the family regulation system, especially once CPS agencies file petitions against parents. Federal Title IV-E funding supports parent representation in those family court cases and for parents at risk of facing such cases. That funding has been an essential boon to parent representation and the benefits that flow from it. It is nonetheless time to take a …

Five Urban Futures For A Hot Planet: U.S. Legal Scenarios, Michael B. Gerrard

Faculty Scholarship

If current climate change trends continue, flooding, extreme heat, wildfires, and water scarcity will make the homes of millions of people in the United States increasingly uninhabitable. This change could happen by the end of the century, perhaps sooner. Most people will want to stay in their current homes, but there is no coherent policy to fortify the most vulnerable places. Nor is the current legal system equipped to handle what may become one of the largest migrations in U.S. history, as people flee intolerable climate conditions. This Article envisions five scenarios for cities in the future: sprout, grow, stay, …

Analytical And Cross-Sectional Clinical Validity Of A Smartphone-Based U-Turn Test In Multiple Sclerosis, Marta Plonka, Rafal Klimas, Dimitar Stanev, Lorenza Angelini, Natan Naplorkowski, Gaby Gonzalez Chan, Lisa Bunn, Paul Glazier, Richard Hosking, Jennifer Freeman, Jeremy Hobart, Mattia Zanon, Jonathan Marsden, Licinio Craveiro, Mike D. Rinderknecht

School of Health Professions

Background: Gait and balance impairment can profoundly impact people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS). Objectives: To evaluate the analytical and clinical validity of the U-Turn Test (UTT), a smartphone-based assessment of dynamic balance in PwMS. Methods: The GaitLab study (ISRCTN15993728) enrolled adult PwMS (EDSS 0.0 – 6.5). PwMS performed the UTT in a gait laboratory (supervised) using six smartphones at different wear locations and daily during a two-week remote period (unsupervised) using one smartphone (belt front). Median turn speed was computed per UTT. In the supervised setting, turn detection accuracy of smartphones was compared to motion capture (mocap) via F1 scores. …

Policy - Vol. 50, Spring 2026

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents - Vol. 50, Spring 2026

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

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Article 5 Of The North Atlantic Treaty And U.S.-Polish Relations, Agata Kleczkowska

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty (NAT) is the cornerstone of the world's largest military alliance. Its wording reflects a carefully balanced compromise: while it affirms that an armed attack against one ally shall be considered an attack against all, each member state has significant discretion in determining whether the requisite casus foederis has arisen, and in deciding what form its assistance should take.For Poland, since NATO accession in 1999, Article 5 has not only been the benefit of membership in the Alliance but also a shared responsibility. Against this background, the aim of the article is to analyze …

General Overview Of The Administration Of Justice In The Republic Of Poland, Marek Tecza

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

This article outlines the complex history of Polish law concerning constitutional guarantees of individual rights, restrictions on those rights during states of emergency and wartime, and the development of the Polish judicial system.

Poland regained its independence in 1918 after 123 years of partition. The first modern constitution of the reborn state was adopted in 1921. The article describes how threats to statehood and the rise of authoritarianism in the 1930s led to the curtailment of civil rights and freedoms almost immediately after the Constitution’s adoption. It also explains how World War II and Poland’s political dependence on the Union …

A Gateway Right Under Strain: Inclusive Education For Ukrainian Refugee Children With Disabilities In Poland, Carly M. Toepke

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

Between 2022 and 2025, Poland has granted temporary protection to almost 1,000,000 refugees from Ukraine fleeing conflict. Of those refugees, 32% are school-age minors. Poland has the responsibility of integrating these refugee children into the public-school systems, including the children with disabilities (likely around 15% based on worldwide average) into what should be an inclusive education system. However, Poland’s largely decentralized, city-by-city governance when it comes to refugee resource distribution risks segregation of refugee children with disabilities or de facto exclusion from learning.

The Article will argue that avoiding segregation and exclusion requires treating inclusive education as requirement for all …

Substations In The Digital Economy: Fiscal And Political Geographies Of Data Centers In Georgia, Jacqueline Wright

Geography Undergraduate Senior Theses

In recent years data center construction has drastically increased around the world, especially in the U.S. Building out the infrastructure of the digital economy consumes water, electricity, and capital at great scale, drawing resources from public use towards regimes of private accumulation. This thesis takes Metro Atlanta as a particular microcosm within international digital infrastructure buildout, first worth investigating on its own terms, but also for lessons that may reach across the broader geography of the digital economy. This thesis takes up concerns with the politics of data centers siting, how these projects fit into narratives of economic development, and …

Inverse Modeling The Geo-Spread Of Covid-19 In Brazil, Cameron Keith Mills

ETDs from 2020-2029

In 2021 Fitzgibbon, Morgan, Webb, and Wu used a modified SEIR (susceptible, exposed, infected, and recovered) model to predict how COVID-19 spread through Brazil [12]. For their model, six constant coefficients were used that were fitted, referenced, or assumed. In this thesis, we geo-spatially modify their SEIR model and formulate an inverse problem to recover the now spatial coefficients of the model. We first show there exists a unique solution to the modified model. To solve the inverse problem, we modify an inverse method [17] that focused on minimizing convex functionals. These recovered spatial coefficients can be used with Matlab’s …

Agn Storm 2. Xii. Ground-Based Optical Photometry And Lag Measurements Of Mrk 817, John W. Montano, Aaron J. Barth, Keith Horne, Edward M. Cackett, Gisella De Rosa, Y. Homayouni, Erin A. Kara, Gerard A. Kriss, Hermine Landt, Gilvan G. Apolonio, Nahum Arav, Benjamin D. Boizelle, Elena Dalla Bontà, Doron Chelouche, Maryam Dehghanian, Rick Edelson, Gary J. Ferland, Carina Fian, Catalina Sobrino Figaredo, Michael R. Goad, Diego H. Gonzalez-Buitrago, Wei Jian Guo, Chen Hu, Dragana Ilić, Michael D. Joner, Shai Kaspi, Christopher S. Kochanek, Andjelka B. Kovačević, Collin Lewin, Sha Sha Li, Yan Rong Li, Jun Rong Liu

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We present the ground-based imaging campaign and light curves of Markarian 817 as part of the multiwavelength monitoring program AGN STORM 2. Observations were carried out over 1.4 yr in the uBgVriz filters, with a median cadence of 0.4 day in the g band. Reverberation lags are measured using three methods (interpolated cross-correlation function (ICCF), Just Another Vehicle for Estimating Lags In Nuclei, and PyROA) with the Swift UVW2 band (1928 Å) as the reference light curve. The ICCF centroid lags range from 3.0 ± 0.8 days for the u band up to 7.9 ± 1.5 days for z, and …

Multiscale Gas Structure And Dynamics In An Extragalactic Central Molecular Zone, Liam M. Wang, Jiayi Sun, Yu Hsuan Teng, Eric W. Koch, Sanghyuk Moon, Elias Oakes, Erik Rosolowsky

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

The structures and dynamics of the interstellar medium are governed by a combination of self-gravity, external gravity, and various sources of ordered and random motions on different spatial scales. This paper uses Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array CO (3–2) observations at (Formula presented) 0.″1≈5  pc resolution to examine the scale dependence of molecular gas structure and dynamics in the central molecular zone (CMZ) of a nearby galaxy, NGC 3351. We use the dendrogram technique to characterize hierarchical molecular gas structures spanning two decades in spatial scales and measure their size, gas mass, and velocity dispersion. Their size–line width relation shows a …

The Aurora Survey, Ali Ahmad Khostovan, Ryan L. Sanders, Alice E. Shapley, Michael W. Topping, Naveen A. Reddy, Alex M. Garcia, Danielle A. Berg, Leonardo Clarke, Fergus Cullen, Richard S. Ellis, N. M.Förster Schreiber, Karl Glazebrook, Tucker Jones, Derek J. Mcleod, Anthony J. Pahl, Max Pettini, Paul Torrey

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We present new constraints on the mass–metallicity (MZR) and fundamental metallicity relations (FMR) using a sample of 34 galaxies at 1.38 ≤ z ≤ 3.5 (median z = 2.28). These galaxies have direct T_e measurements from [O iii]4363 Å and/or [O ii]7320,7331 Å auroral emission lines detected with JWST/NIRSpec as part of the AURORA survey. The detection of both oxygen auroral lines allows for dual-zone direct T_e measurements and expands the dynamic range in (Formula presented) 12+log(O/H)  (7.68–8.65 dex), stellar mass (10⁸–10^10.4 M_⊙), and star formation rate (1–100 M_⊙ yr⁻¹) …

Holographic Description Of 4d Maxwell Theories And Their Code-Based Ensembles, Ahmed Barbar, Anatoly Dymarsky, Alfred Shapere

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We formulate a precise holographic duality between an ensemble of 4d U(1)^g Maxwell theories living on a spin four-manifold M₄ and a topological Abelian BF-type 2-form theory of level N, summed over all five-manifolds with boundary M₄. The elements of the boundary ensemble are Abelian gauge theories specified by self-dual symplectic codes over ℤ_N, that parameterize topological boundary conditions in the 5d TQFT. Similarly, the equivalence classes of topologies distinguished by the 5d theory are parameterized by orthogonal self-dual codes. Hence the holographic duality can be reformulated in the language of quantum stabilizer codes. …

The Aurora Survey, Ryan L. Sanders, Alice E. Shapley, Michael W. Topping, Naveen A. Reddy, Danielle A. Berg, Ali Ahmad Khostovan, Rychard J. Bouwens, Gabriel Brammer, Adam C. Carnall, Fergus Cullen, Romeel Davé, James S. Dunlop, Richard S. Ellis, N. M. Förster Schreiber, Steven R. Furlanetto, Karl Glazebrook, Garth D. Illingworth, Tucker Jones, Mariska Kriek, Derek J. Mcleod, Ross J. Mclure, Desika Narayanan, Pascal A. Oesch, Anthony J. Pahl, Max Pettini, Daniel Schaerer, Daniel P. Stark, Charles C. Steidel, Mengtao Tang, Leonardo Clarke, Callum T. Donnan, Emily Kehoe

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We present detections of auroral emission lines of [O iii], [O ii], [S iii], and [S ii] in deep JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy for 41 star-forming galaxies at z = 1.4–7.2 from the AURORA survey. We combine these new observations with 98 star-forming galaxies at z = 1.3–10.6 with detected auroral lines drawn from the literature to form a sample of 139 high-redshift galaxies with robust electron temperature and direct-method oxygen abundance determinations. This sample notably covers a wider dynamic range in metallicity than previous work, spanning 0.02–0.9 Z_⊙. We calibrate empirical relations between 19 emission-line ratios and oxygen abundance, …

The Healthcare Transition Experiences Of Emerging Adults With Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Leslie Noojin Pitts

ETDs from 2020-2029

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a group of disorders characterized by enzyme deficiencies impairing adrenal hormone production and requiring lifelong management. Individuals with CAH experience increased morbidity and mortality due to the underlying condition, steroid exposure, and inadequate preventative care. Despite clinical guidelines recommending a structured healthcare transition (HCT), little is known about the HCT experiences of emerging adults with CAH. Understanding these experiences is critical for identifying practice gaps and developing interventions to improve health outcomes. This qualitative descriptive study explored the HCT experiences, challenges, and outcomes of emerging adults with CAH, as guided by the refined Social Ecological …

Vanessa Casado Pérez, Vanessa Casado Pérez

Faculty CVs

No abstract provided.

Nicholas Handler, Nicholas Handler

Faculty CVs

No abstract provided.

Philip Petrov, Philip Petrov

Faculty CVs

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents, Journal Of Youth Development

Journal of Youth Development

No abstract provided.