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The Settlement Privacy-Transparency Matrix: Moving Beyond The Dichotomous Mindset In The Settlement Debate, Alyson Carrel, Peter K. Chan

Journal of Dispute Resolution

The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once wrote, “The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.” Forty years after Owen Fiss’s seminal article “Against Settlement,” it is time to reimagine how we approach the settlement debate beyond traditional dichotomies. Just as Schopenhauer recognized that time and experience allow us to better understand our past, forty years of grappling with the settlement debate have given us the perspective to see its limitations, and now with emerging technologies, new possibilities. The ‘text’ of the debate—its dichotomous framing and distributive solutions—has shaped four decades of …

Psychology And Dispute Resolution: Looking Forward, Jennifer K. Robbennolt

Journal of Dispute Resolution

There is a long and deep history of interconnection between dispute resolution and psychology. Concepts like procedural justice permeate the literature. Psychologists have investigated and provided data about phenomena such as the fixed pie bias, impasse aversion, and reactive devaluation. Research drawing on the psychology of heuristics and biases has been influential, particularly in work on settlement decision making. Studies in this tradition have explored how framing, anchoring, anticipated regret, and different ways of considering options can influence the decisions made by disputants. Psychologists have explored the role of apologies in dispute resolution, the role of emotion in negotiation, and …

“America’S Peacemaker” Needs A Makeover: The Department Of Justice’S Community Relations Service Should Use Transformative Mediation And Restorative Justice In Today’S Black Lives Matter Movement, Julianna Leung

Journal of Dispute Resolution

On March 7, 1965, civil rights leaders John Lewis and Hosea Williams led hundreds of people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Their goal was to march to the state capitol of Montgomery in protest of racial segregation and the suppression of African American voters. On the other side of Pettus bridge, state troopers and spectators waving Confederate flags waited for them. When the protesters reached the end of Pettus, state trooper Major John Cloud ordered them to stop the march and leave. Williams tried to speak with Major Cloud, but Major Cloud rebuffed him. When the protestors …

Volunteered Or Voluntold: Effectiveness Of Good Faith Clauses On Court-Ordered Mediation, J. Michael Moore

Journal of Dispute Resolution

Mediation is the “process in which a mediator facilitates communication and negotiation between parties to assist them in reaching a voluntary agreement regarding their dispute.” There is a growing trend in many states and the federal government to allow courts to refer parties to mediation or other forms of alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”). However, one of the distinguishing elements of a mediation is that the parties come to a voluntary agreement. If the court has forced the parties to mediate, does that negate the voluntary nature of mediation? The answer to this question appears to be yes, but the real …

Expanding And Mainstreaming Sociohydrology Toward Transdisciplinary Praxis, Shinichiro Nakamura, Heidi Kreibich, Melissa Haeffner, Jenia Mukherjee, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Maiko Sakamoto, Mikiko Sugiura, Günter Blöschl, Taikan Oki, Murugesu Sivapalan

Environmental Science and Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Since its development in the early 2010s, sociohydrology has deepened our understanding of the long-term coevolution of humans and water by integrating insights from both the natural and social sciences, while also fostering an interdisciplinary community. Its modus operandi to date has been to focus on emergent phenomena, manifesting as unintended consequences, in a variety of contexts. The compound disaster that struck Japan’s Noto Peninsula in 2024, and similar experiences in other parts of the world, underscore the urgent need for systemic approaches that are co-developed by academia and practitioners and focus on context-specific solutions. This perspective piece thus calls …

Home Visitor Well-Being In Oregon: Influences On Stress, Mental Health And Risk For Staff Turnover Oregon’S 2023 Home Visiting Workforce Survey, Beth L. Green, Yumi Lee, Nicole Lauzus, Ron Joseph, Erin Gaines

Regional Research Institute for Human Services

This learning brief is the fourth in a series to share findings from a 2023 statewide survey of over 700 members of Oregon’s home visiting workforce. In this brief, we share information about home visitors’ well-being across several dimensions, including 1) job-related well-being (job satisfaction, feelings of emotional/physical safety on the job, work-related stress, and job burnout); 2) personal well-being (financial strain, depression and anxiety); and 3) risk of staff turnover.

Second, we explore whether there are differences in these aspects of well-being for home visitors who have different backgrounds and life experiences. We then ask the question, “What things …

The Impact Of Using : Infographic Technique Based On Marzano’S Dimensions Of Learning Model On Developing Moral Self In Islamic Education In Relation To Academic Achievement, Mohammed Abdul Karim Al-Ayasrah, Karima Abdullah Mohammed Al-Saadi

Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies

This study investigated the impact of using : infographic technique based on Marzano’s Dimensions of Learning Model on developing moral self in tenth-grade female students in Islamic education considering their academic achievement. The study used the quasi-experimental approach. The study population consisted of all tenth grade female students in North Al Batinah Governorate in the Sultanate of Oman, numbering (4781) students; while the number of study sample members was (273) female students from the tenth grade in North Al Batinah Governorate in the Sultanate of Oman for the academic year (2022/2023). The results showed that there was a statistically significant …

Social-Emotional Competence As A Mediating Variable In The Relationship Between Spiritual Coping And Occupational Hardiness Among Paramedics In The Emergency Centers Of The Palestinian Red Crescent Society, Rihab Aref Alsadi

Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies

The study aimed to investigate the effect of social-emotional competence as a mediating variable in the relationship between spiritual coping and occupational hardiness among paramedics in emergency centers of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. It also sought to determine the levels of social-emotional competence, spiritual coping, and occupational hardiness among them. The study was conducted on (120) paramedics, both male and female, in the northern governorates of Palestine, selected through a simple random sampling method. The study found that social-emotional competence as a mediating variable has an effect on the relationship between spiritual coping and occupational hardiness. The results also …

The Effects Of Digitized Social Stories On Classroom Routine Completion: A Single-Case Study Of Students With Developmental Disabilities, Huda A. Almumen

Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies

The current study examined the effects of a digitized Social Story, supported by embedded video prompts, on the classroom routine skills of fifth-grade Kuwaiti students with moderate intellectual disability, with or without co-occurring autism spectrum disorder. Using a single-subject, multiple baseline design across six participants, data were collected using an observational card with a checklist of the steps required to perform classroom routines. Participants significantly increased the percentage of correctly completed steps in daily classroom routines, indicating that digitized Social Stories, supported by video prompts, are effective tools for teaching classroom routines to students with developmental disabilities. Implications for future …

Novel Aspiration Thrombectomy And Blood Reinfusion System For Acute Intermediate-Risk Pulmonary Embolism: Aventus Trial Results., Saher Sabri, Samuel Horr, Brian Stegman, Wissam A Jaber, Michael A Jolly, Christopher M Huff, David O'Connor, Ahmad Younes, Nora E Tabori, Peter P Monteleone, Raghu Kolluri, Mehdi H Shishehbor, Jun Li

OhioHealth Research Institute Articles

BACKGROUND: Mechanical thrombectomy has become a first-line adjunctive therapy for anticoagulation in patients with acute intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism (PE). This prospective study evaluated the safety and efficacy of percutaneous mechanical aspiration thrombectomy with autologous blood reinfusion using the next-generation AVENTUS Thrombectomy System (Inquis Medical) in subjects with acute intermediate-risk PE.

METHODS: Subjects with acute intermediate-risk PE with symptoms ≤14 days were enrolled in this prospective, multicenter, single-arm study. Primary efficacy (defined as the change in the right ventricle to left ventricle [RV/LV] ratio from baseline) and safety defined as a composite rate of device-related major adverse events were both assessed …

Centering Justice: The Role Of Women's Centers In Advancing Reproductive Justice And Gender Equity, Amber Byrd Ndukwe

Mather Center Research Briefs

An overview of how women's and gender equity centers play a role in doing reproductive justice work.

Exploring Dynamics Of Power, Inequality And Violence, Ioli Filmeridis, Rachel Locke, Nana Afua Yeboaa Brantuo, Tarila Marclint Ebiede, Cherrell Green, Biko Koenig, Mardiya, Dayanna Palmar Uriana, Areli Palomo Contreras, Mirna Wasef

Kroc IPJ Research and Resources

The research included in this compendium centers Indigenous, diaspora, migrant, disenfranchised and disaffected groups in the discussions about violence and power. Through these perspectives the reader experiences the unflinching interrogations of the forces that seek to control, enforce, regulate and profit from the oppression, subjugation and criminalization of others highlight the harm of unchecked power. The research undertaken by the VIP Lab Fellows highlights how the experiences of those in the sightline of unmitigated power may otherwise be trivialized and obscured if attention and analysis is not devoted to understanding them. Their research also suggests contextually appropriate responses to remedy …

Engage & Empower: Foundations Of Social Work Practice, Elhanan Marvit

Open Touro Created

2025

Engage & Empower: Foundations of Social Work Practice is an open educational resource for social work students in “foundations of social work practice” courses. It begins by explaining Open Educational Resources and their benefits. Students then explore social work fundamentals, including the diverse roles of social workers.

With this foundation, students engage with the NASW Code of Ethics’ key terms, and principles. This ethical grounding prepares them for the “growth work” needed to develop cultural competence and cross-cultural awareness. They then learn to apply various Generalist Practice skills across different-sized systems to empower client populations.

Next, the book explores …

Individualized Functional And Structural Language Lateralities In Temporal Lobe Epilepsy And Their Impact On Memory, Ankeeta Ankeeta, Qirui Zhang, Sam Sharifzadeh Javidi, Shilpi Modi, Michael R. Sperling, Joseph I. Tracy

Department of Neurology Faculty Papers

The basis and impact of functional asymmetries in the brain, particularly language lateralization, are not fully understood, and the relationship between functional and structural asymmetries remains largely untested. This study investigated the degree to which asymmetries in hemispheric language laterality are concordant with asymmetries in gray matter (GM) structure and whether the hemispheric organization of memory is influenced by functional language asymmetries. Structural and functional MR data was acquired from 261 individuals, including those with unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy (LTLE = 96, RTLE = 69) and matched with healthy participants (HPs = 96). Functional language laterality indices (LIs) were calculated …

Neurodiversity In Action: Understanding The Brain Basis Of Dyslexia, Rebecca Marks

Science of Reading

Dyslexia, a specific learning disability (SLD) characterized by persistent difficulties in accurate and/or fluent word reading, is often misunderstood. This brief resource, written for non-neuroscientists, describes how research in cognitive neuroscience has revealed systematic differences in the reading brain between individuals with and without dyslexia.

The Effect Of Ischemic Preconditioning On Rock Climbing Performance, Jordan Fleury

All NMU Master's Theses

Rock climbing involves isometric contractions of the finger flexors, limiting forearm blood flow and causing ischemia-induced fatigue. Ischemic preconditioning (IPC) has been shown to improve time to failure (TTF) during climbing-specific tasks, though its mechanisms remain unclear. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of IPC on hemodynamics and muscle oxygenation during a finger flexor endurance test. This study assessed the effects of IPC on TTF, brachial artery blood flow (BF), vessel diameter (VD), and tissue saturation index (TSI). Variables were measured before (BL1) and after intervention (BL2), and throughout a finger-flexor fatiguing task (FT), including TSI …

The Effect Of Skeletal Muscle-Synthesized Bdnf On Motor Neuron Soma Size And Bdnf Protein Abundance, Sydney Benson

All NMU Master's Theses

Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a neurotrophin essential to neuron health and maintenance in both the central nervous system and periphery. It acts as a positive feedback system for the body’s motor neurons and the muscles they innervate, strengthening the synapse between them. Skeletal muscle-synthesized BDNF transmission occurs across the neuromuscular junction, the site where motor neuron axons synapse with muscle fibers. BDNF transmission to tropomyosin receptor kinase B (TrkB) at the motor neuron axon terminal causes clathrin mediated endocytosis of the complex and an intracellular signaling cascade that recruits dynein motor proteins for retrograde transport of the BDNF/TrkB …

Elucidating The Role Of Mir-10a/B In The Wound Healing Process In Larval Zebrafish, Jacquelyn E. Jacobs

All NMU Master's Theses

This study explores the regulatory role of microRNA-10 (miR-10) in larval zebrafish caudal fin regeneration, a model with broad implications for the future of regenerative medicine. Building on prior research from the lab, which indicated that miR-10 knockdown impairs regeneration, we verified this finding through rescue experiments, assessed its influence on healing projections, and examined its role in the innate immune response during the wound healing process. To address these questions, we employed a multi-faceted approach, including timed matings, microinjections, immunohistochemistry, fixed sample microscopy, and live imaging. Our results show that the experimental introduction of exogenous miR-10 can rescue the …

Politics And Institutional Change: The Water Commission Act Of 1913, Mark Kanazawa

Department of Economics Working Paper Series

Economists have long argued that increasing resource scarcity can lead to more clearly defined individual property rights, but the precise mechanism whereby this occurs remains unclear to this day. This paper documents the role of politics in shaping the creation of individual property rights within the context of appropriative water law in early 20th century California, finding evidence of both party ideology and interest group influence in establishing a new system for administering appropriative water rights.

Unauthorized Connections: Censorship As Collective Punishment In The Policing Of Bob Mizer’S Social Relations, Farrah Freibert

Publications

Bob Mizer ran his physique photography company, the Athletic Model Guild, for nearly half a century and his work has been celebrated from many perspectives, including historical scholarship, art books, and the development of a dedicated archive. The numerous legal battles that Mizer endured throughout his career have sometimes been interpreted through the lens of individuality, both as a testament to Mizer’s prominence in the development of queer visual culture and as evidence of the lengths anti-gay police would go to stymie his homoerotically-infused artistic endeavors. Yet, importantly, the criminal cases against Mizer also embroiled his associates in the field, …

Empowering Weight Loss: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial Of A Theory-Driven Self-Regulation Mobile App For Young Adults With Excess Body Weight, H. S. J. Chew, J. W. Ngooi, R. C. Du, P. Z. Chan, M. Jansson, B. Zhu, Y. Cao, Chong-Wah Ngo, R. Foo, A. Shabbir, D. Ho, N. Sevdalis, K. Y. Ngiam

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Background/Introduction: Obesity is projected to affect more than half of the global population by 2035, posing significant health and economic challenges. While lifestyle modification is considered a cornerstone of weight management, its effectiveness often relies on substantial support systems. Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a 12-week, standalone Temporal Self-Regulation Theory (TST)-based weight loss mobile application, which integrates self-regulation techniques, food logging, and dietary nudging, in promoting weight loss among young adults with excess body weight. Methods: A two-arm, parallel-group, 1:1 randomized controlled trial was conducted, adhering to the CONSORT-Outcomes 2022 Extension guidelines. Participants completed a face-to-face …

Mitigating Regression Faults Induced By Feature Evolution In Deep Learning Systems, Hanmo Yu, Zan Wang, Xuyang Chen, Junjie Chen, Jun Sun, Shuang Liu, Zishuo Dong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Deep learning (DL) systems have been widely utilized across various domains. However, the evolution of DL systems can result in regression faults. In addition to the evolution of DL systems through the incorporation of new data, feature evolution, such as the addition of new features, is also common and can introduce regression faults. In this work, we first investigate the underlying factors that are correlated with regression faults in feature evolution scenarios, i.e., redundancy and contribution shift. Based on our investigation, we propose a novel mitigation approach called FeaProtect, which aims to minimize the impact of these two factors. To …

Dual-Target Disjointed Cross-Domain Recommendation Mediated Via Latent User Preferences, Dinh Hieu Do, Hady Wirawan Lauw

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Users often navigate multiple platforms online, each characterized by its own set of scarce data. Recommender systems face a significant challenge in such fragmented environments. This paper proposes a novel approach to enhance recommendation systems by leveraging connections across distinct yet conceptually similar datasets from multiple platforms. We introduce a unique scenario of dual-target overlapping-free cross-platform recommendation, presenting a bridging mechanism to mutually improve across platforms and learn latent user preferences. Our approach addresses the data sparsity prevalent in each platform and enhances recommendation quality by harnessing redundant, rich, and similar domain data. Experiments validate the effectiveness of our method, …

Advancing Food Nutrition Estimation Via Visual-Ingredient Feature Fusion, Huiyan Qi, Bin Zhu, Chong-Wah Ngo, Jingjing Chen, Ee-Peng Lim

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Nutrition estimation is an important component of promoting healthy eating and mitigating diet-related health risks. Despite advances in tasks such as food classification and ingredient recognition, progress in nutrition estimation is limited due to the lack of datasets with nutritional annotations. To address this issue, we introduce FastFood, a dataset with 84,446 images across 908 fast food categories, featuring ingredient and nutritional annotations. In addition, we propose a new model-agnostic Visual-Ingredient Feature Fusion (VIF2 ) method to enhance nutrition estimation by integrating visual and ingredient features. Ingredient robustness is improved through synonym replacement and resampling strategies during training. The ingredient-aware …

Do Supplier Ceo's National Cultural Origins Affect Supplier-Customer Relationships?, Peng Liang, Hasan Cavusoglu, Nan Hu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This study investigates how the national cultural origins of supplier chief executive officers (CEOs), as characterized by Hofstede’s cross-cultural dimensions, influence the duration of supplier–customer relationships. By analyzing the cultural origins of supplier CEOs from 20 countries over a 25-year period, we find that supplier CEOs with high long-term orientation (LTO) and high uncertainty avoidance (UNA) are associated with longer lasting supplier–customer relationships, while those with high individualism (IND) are associated with shorter relationship durations. These findings are robust to several alternative explanations of customer and supplier CEO variables. To address potential endogeneity—specifically, the concern that CEOs with certain cultural …

Guardrails For Discretionary Powers: A Case Comment On The State Of Tamil Nadu V The Governor Of Tamil Nadu And Another, Pranav Verma

National Law School Journal

This Case Comment argues that by prescribing timelines for the president and the governors to grant or withhold assent to bills in The State of Tamil Nadu v the Governor of Tamil Nadu, decided in April 2025, the Supreme Court did not exceed its constitutional role, as argued by some critics. Instead, it applied established administrative law principles—relevant considerations, natural justice, and absence of mala fides—to the specific power of granting or withholding assent to bills. These principles have been long used to guide the other powers of the president, the governors, and the speaker/chairman. The court thereby reinforced …

The Indian Pharmacopoeia: Enabling Open Access And Crafting A ‘Sovereign Function Exception’ For Government Works, Aparajita Lath

National Law School Journal

Standardisation of drugs and access to such standards are important levers for effective drug regulation. The Indian Pharmacopoeia, the official book of standards for drugs in the country prescribed by the Union government under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940, are legally binding and enforceable. Not only do the standards have the force of law but are also government-created. The Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC), a division of the Union Department of Health and Family Welfare, has a legal monopoly over creating and publishing this compendium. Though it is legally binding, the Indian Pharmacopoeia is neither in the public domain …

The Indian Fourth Branch: Developing A New Institutional Morality, Abhinav Ravi

National Law School Journal

Contemporary discourse on democratic decline in India has often emphasised the need for stronger fourth branch institutions to safeguard constitutional democracy. However, fourth branch institutions are marked by a fundamental tension. They are deeply embedded in the very political contexts that they are designed to resist. The operational independence of fourth branch institutions is not merely a function of their design (that is, their structural independence), but also of the political climate, institutional leaders, and informal organisational factors.

Similar design features can produce divergent outcomes across time and contexts, with institutions displaying distinct phases of assertiveness and accommodation. While institutional …

The Procedural Architecture Of Climate Justice: Comparative Lessons From Regional Human Rights Courts, Indira Boutier

National Law School Journal

Climate change, once narrated through scientific data and economic costs, is now unavoidably framed as a question of rights and justice. This article examines how litigation before the African, European, and Inter-American human rights courts makes the procedural dimensions of climate justice visible. Procedural justice here is understood capaciously and includes not only rules of access, standing, and evidence, but also the recognition of corporations as duty bearers in transnational accountability regimes. A comparison of the three regions shows how colonial legacies, institutional architectures, and political economies shape the channels through which communities can contest climate harm. Litigation emerges less …

Making The Margins Visible: Dignity At Work And The Promise Of Puttaswamy—Review Of Gendered Bodies And Worlds Of Labour: Reconceptualizing Dignity After Puttaswamy Vs Union Of India, Shreya Shree

National Law School Journal

This review examines Kalpana Kannabiran and Devi Jagani’s reimagination of dignity as a framework for securing justice in gendered labourscapes. By centering a broad and dynamic understanding of dignity as a right, an inherent characteristic, and an enabling condition for rights-talk, the book advances new ways of articulating rights-claims through an intersectional and interdisciplinary reading of the Indian Constitution. The review highlights the significance of this approach in renewing understandings of the worker, labour, discrimination, and rights, while exploring its possibilities and limits in confronting violence and injustices embedded in gendered labour relations within the domestic sphere and beyond.