Digital Commons Network^™

An Uncertainty-Aware Entropy-Oreste Framework For Big Data Platform Selection In Complex Multi-Sector Environments, Ahmed M. Ali, Ibrahim Alrashdi, Karam M. Sallam

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

The increasing reliance on Big Data platforms across various industries has necessitated the development of systematic decision-support frameworks to guide their evaluation and selection. Given the diversity of available platforms, each offering different capabilities, scalability, and computational efficiency, choosing the optimal solution remains a complex challenge. This research proposes a novel analytical framework that integrates Spherical Fuzzy Sets (SFS) with the Entropy and ORESTE methods to address uncertainty and enhance the accuracy and robustness of Big Data platform evaluation. This hybrid integration, not previously applied to Big Data platform selection, enables objective criteria weighting through the Entropy method and comprehensive …

Pemahaman Warna Pada Siswa Kelas 1–2 Sd Melalui Kegiatan Mewarnai Sebagai Stimulus Kreativitas Di Lembaga Kursus, Milarosa Elisia, Sumarwahyudi Sumarwahyudi

Journal of Language, Literature, and Arts

This study is based on variations in color understanding among first- and second-grade elementary students during coloring activities at LKP Windyas Club Malang. These differences influence the development of children’s visual creativity. Drawing on Johannes Itten’s color theory and J. P. Guilford’s concept of creativity, this research aims to examine the relationship between color understanding and creative ability in non-formal art learning. A descriptive qualitative approach was employed, with data collected through observation, interviews, and documentation. Data analysis followed the Miles and Huberman model, including data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing, supported by triangulation to ensure validity. The findings …

Ekspresi Artistik Legenda Pantai Watu Ulo Jember Dalam Seni Lukis, Eldiza Rozi, Ponimin Ponimin, Swastika Dhesti Anggriani

Journal of Language, Literature, and Arts

The Legend of Watu Ulo Beach is a form of folklore that has long been preserved and passed down among the people of Jember and its surrounding areas. This legend holds strong potential to be realized through realist painting, as it contains educational values and moral messages that contribute to the strengthening of social character. The narrative serves as a source of creative inspiration, particularly in the creation of painting artworks. Therefore, this artistic creation seeks to interpret the Legend of Watu Ulo Beach through a realist approach in painting. This study aims to describe the process of idea and …

Kunci Popularitas Streamer Youtube, Humor Sopan Santun Ala Windah Basudara Atau Bar-Bar Ala Deankt, Moh. Faidatul Nur Imansyah, Muhammad Evan Dibayana, Anggoro Saputra

Journal of Language, Literature, and Arts

This study examines the popularity of two Indonesian YouTube streamers with contrasting personas: Windah Basudara, known for his polite communication style, and DeanKT, known for his unfiltered and aggressive style. Grounded in the concepts of personal branding and digital persona, this research aims to analyze how differing language styles shape online identity, influence audience perception, and impact commercial aspects such as brand safety. This study employs a qualitative descriptive approach using a case study strategy and content observation, supported by quantitative data collected through an online questionnaire with 57 respondents selected purposively. The findings reveal that humor and entertainment value …

The Labor Of Reading: A Personal And Pedagogical Exploration, Alisha Goldblatt

Wellspring: A Practitioner-Oriented Journal of Literacy and Language Education

While teachers bemoan the decrease in students’ ability to sustain interest in reading, and phones dominate over plain text, I have been wrestling with two questions that predate the current ubiquity of screentime: Why are some people more capable of reading fluently and with passion than others? Why can’t every person easily “lose” themselves in a text? As an English teacher and avid reader, I investigate the mechanisms of the act of reading (mainly fiction and creative nonfiction), the well-intentioned efforts of educators, and the question of whether reading itself is absolutely necessary to produce an informed, empathetic, and educated …

Why Are There Microscopes In The Art Room?, Joyce Symoniak

Professional Learning Day

During this presentation we will explore how working cross curriculum enhances learning within the visual arts, science and mathematics. We will discuss how the visual arts curriculum can be created in order to bond with STEM courses for student success. Through exploration we will discuss how collaboration within these courses can be used to solidify cross curriculum understanding and learning.

Smarter, Faster Lesson Planning With Ai: Supporting Math Instruction Without Sacrificing Quality, Marti Shirley

Professional Learning Day

This session demonstrates how AI can streamline lesson planning for secondary mathematics without reducing instructional integrity or depth. Teachers will learn how to use AI tools to generate hooks, worked examples, misconceptions, guided practice sets, and exit tickets that are all aligned to specific mathematical standards. The focus is on using AI to save time, generate ideas, and support differentiation while maintaining teacher control over content accuracy and pedagogical intent. Teachers will learn how to use a predeveloped prompt to create and refine a complete lesson plan, and leave with a bank of effective lesson-planning prompts and editable mini-lesson templates.

Russia's Information Warfare In Africa: Influence Operations In The Sahel, Stanislav Vasyliuk

Journal of Strategic Security

In the new era of technology and digitalization, the internet has become a new battleground where states are able to exercise their power and employ various tools to achieve foreign policy objectives. While this creates a possibility to improve the communication between the public and the government, it also opens a door for bad actors to pursue their agenda through fake news and disinformation. Russia has long been at the forefront of utilizing both in-person and digital spaces for propaganda efforts. The Sahel region of Africa presents possibly one of the most successful stories in the Kremlin’s recent track record. …

Enhancing Science Accessibility And Engagement For Students With Visual Impairments: A Randomized Trial Of The Talking Labquest In Nigerian Schools, Sariat A. Adelakun Dr

Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities

Students with Blindness in Nigeria are often erroneously perceived as incapable of engaging with science at the basic education level, contributing to their low enrolment in science-related careers. Although various techniques and materials have been proposed to support students with blindness in science, many lack empirical validation. This study investigated one such approach by examining the impact of the Talking LabQuest on the interest of Students with blindness in science subjects.

A randomized controlled trial was conducted in inclusive junior secondary schools in Nigeria, involving 20 classrooms over an 18-week period. Twelve classrooms were randomly assigned to the intervention group, …

Teaching Leadership In The Classroom: Peer To Peer Learning, Leadership Theory, Unsd Goals, And Community Building, Emma Wilson Parker

Professional Learning Day

Teaching LEADership in the Classroom: Peerto-Peer Learning, Leadership Theory, UNSD Goals, and Community Building highlights IMSA’s LEAD program, where students engage in leadership-centered activities that connect theory to practice. Participants will explore how peer-to-peer teaching, reflective dialogue, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals create intentional spaces for growth. This session offers strategies to implement peer-led models, build community, and design meaningful learning experiences that develop empathy, self-awareness, and purposeful leadership in and beyond the classroom.

Sensemaking In The High School Science Classroom, Matt Bulman

Professional Learning Day

When students investigate phenomena that spark curiosity, science learning transforms. This session highlights how to design lessons where students ask their own questions, construct models, and revise ideas through evidence-based reasoning. Participants will explore real high school examples of sensemaking in action and leave ready to shift instruction from “covering content” to fostering authentic scientific thinking. The session features classroom shifts and resources developed at St. Charles East High School. *Participants may consider bringing a favorite lab, activity, or assessment to this session.*

Exploring The Attributes Of Varied Interventions To Reduce Firearm Violence Among Youth And Emerging Adults: A Systematic Review, Vickie Blakely Reed, Lashanda D. Brumfield, Maaz Ali, Traci Hayes

Journal of Public Health in the Deep South

The death rate among children and adolescents, 14-26 years old, from firearms has increased 46% from 2019 to 2021. Among this demographic population, Black and Latino youth account for most firearm deaths. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines were used in conducting this study. Studies from January 2020 to October 2025 were identified through a search of PubMed, Web of Science, and ProQuest databases. Searches for the review included but were not limited to terms and phrases such as “gun violence prevention interventions for youth” and “firearm violence prevention interventions.” The purpose of this systematic …

Socioeconomic Factors Affecting Length Of Hospital Stay And Discharge Disposition Among Male And Female Gunshot Injury Patients In Jackson, Mississippi., Okechukwu Erinne, Deanna Howington, Sarah Mcgraw, Jonathan B. Lowrie, Matthew Kutcher, Alyscia Severance, Masoumeh Karimi, Leila Seidfaraji, Lei Zhang

Journal of Public Health in the Deep South

Background: Gun violence remains a public health concern in the United States, with Jackson, Mississippi, ranking among the highest in gun violence rates. Understanding how sociodemographic factors influence clinical outcomes is essential for improving care delivery and resource allocation. 

Purpose: This study examined the association between age, education, employment, and insurance status with hospital length of stay (HLOS) and discharge disposition among adult male and female firearm injury patients residing in Jackson, Mississippi.

Methods: Data were obtained from the electronic health records of adults (≥ 18 years) presenting to the University of Mississippi Medical Center emergency department …

A Secondary Analysis Of Mississippi Domestic Violence Trends From 2019 To September 2025 Based On The Trace Atlas Of Gun Violence Archives, Lashanda D. Brumfield, Bernice Akinwande, Vickie Blakely Reed, Traci Hayes, Tanya Funchess

Journal of Public Health in the Deep South

Abstract

Background: Domestic violence remains one of the most heartbreaking yet overlooked public health challenges across the Deep South. Prevention programs and effective policies addressing domestic violence issues must be driven by translatable, applicable, and reliable data in order to see outcome-driven results. Purpose: The objective was to identify temporal, regional, and city-level patterns in the frequency and severity of domestic violence gun incidents. Methods: This study presents a secondary analysis of domestic violence gun incidents in Mississippi from January 2019 to September 2025. To examine geographic distribution, incidents were aggregated at the regional level: Central, Northeast, Northwest, Southwest, …

Community-Guided Adaptation Of Violence Prevention Strategies: Insights From The Mississippi Violence Injury Prevention (Ms-Vip) Program, Erin Dehon, Masoumeh Karimi, Leila Seidfaraji, Michelle Brassfield, Melinda Todd, Rukia Lumumba, Matthew Kutcher, Matthew Morris, Fredrick Womack, Roy Hart, Lei Zhang

Journal of Public Health in the Deep South

No abstract provided.

Archives And Children's Knowledge, Elliott Kuecker, Ashley Rockenbach

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

This article argues for the importance of collecting works created by children—not just about and not just for—in formal archival collections. Framed through the ideas of legitimate knowledge and epistemic injustice, this piece combines notions important to children’s rights activists and childhood studies scholars with the role archives can play in preserving children’s knowledge through child-created materials. The authors describe how researchers struggle to find work created by children within archives, impacting the ability to create child-centered research that centers children’s views of the world as prominently as adult views of the world. Some collections that do include child-created materials …

Accepting And Implementing Virtual Reality In Archives: Archivists' Perspective, Farzaneh Talebhaghighi

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a transformative technology across various domains, including education, entertainment, and cultural heritage institutions. While libraries and museums have actively explored VR’s potential to enhance user engagement and accessibility, its adoption in archival settings remains limited. This study examines the perspectives of academic archivists regarding the acceptance and implementation of VR in archives, identifying key factors that influence their willingness to adopt or reject the technology. Through qualitative interviews with five archivists from the University of Arizona and Arizona State University, this research explores the perceived benefits, challenges, and institutional barriers associated with VR integration. …

Book Review: Sister Sinner By Claire Hoffman, Shawn Smith

Bound Away: The Liberty Journal of History

Claire Hoffman’s *Sister Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson* (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025) offers a very balanced and engaging look at one of the most influential yet controversial figures in early twentieth-century American Christianity. Blending meticulous scholarship with narrative flair, Hoffman explores McPherson’s rise from obscure evangelist to international celebrity, her pioneering use of radio, and her complex role in shaping Pentecostalism and popular culture. Avoiding sensationalism, Hoffman examines McPherson’s triumphs, contradictions, and mysterious disappearance with nuance and respect, resulting in a balanced yet compelling and well contextualized biography.

An Examination Of Civil War Memory: The Lost Cause, Taylor Hill

Bound Away: The Liberty Journal of History

The way that Americans view the Civil War has changed over time. What was once considered a mighty conflict and a horrid defeat for the South has transformed into a distant, unpleasant memory. Different interpretations have struggled to understand why the war was fought and how it has been received.

An Acknowledgement To The Hca Healthcare Journal Of Medicine's Reviewers And Editors For The Second Half Of 2025, Juan A. Sanchez, Graig Donini

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

The HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine would like to thank those behind the scenes who make this publication possible. Our journal would not be possible without the assistance of our peer reviewers, authors, and board members.

Electromagnetic Pins For Forest And Landscape Surveying, Djamila Hassan Djibril Professor

Defensive Publications Series

With As technology spreads, it is essential that forest management technologies follow the guiding principles of near-natural forest management, which include using tree species adapted to the site, growing forests that are structurally diverse, mixed and age-appropriate, avoid clear cutting, emphasis stability of the soil, and focus on individual tree growth. Many of the ideas and methods used in near-natural forest management are similar to those of complexity science. Examples include the importance given to diversity and structural differences.[1]. In this review paper we present a new scientific solution for Marker surveying and forest scaling and forest size structure , …

Automated Background Transcription For Audio And Video Content In A Web Browser, Benjamin Albert Azose

Defensive Publications Series

Many long-form video and audio files lack transcripts, which reduces content accessibility for individuals who prefer reading, are hearing impaired, or have constrained time for media consumption. Existing automated captioning services are often restricted to specific platforms and are not natively integrated into general web browsers. This disclosure describes a browser-integrated method that detects media on a webpage and offers background transcription. When initiated, the audio is processed by or routed to a voice-to-text service while the media plays in the background. Transcription is performed either locally using on-device models or via cloud-based processing. Once the process is complete, a …

Methods To Generate Virtual Interactions Based On Gestures, Karan Ahuja, Eric Jordan Gonzalez, Mar Gonzalez Franco, Andrew Chunmye Cheng, Vasco Miguel Liang Xu

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure presents a method for gesture-based virtual tool interaction on arbitrary surfaces within an Extended Reality (XR) environment. Utilizing a head-worn system with egocentric cameras, supplemented by wearable sensors, the system tracks three-dimensional (3D) hand poses and coordinates via a tracking system implementing a neural network or machine learning model. Unlike prior contact-detection methods, this approach employs a dual-network architecture: a static network classifies specific hand grasps (e.g., tripod or wide grips) to instantiate and spatially anchor corresponding virtual tools (e.g., pencils or erasers) with six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) precision; simultaneously, a secondary temporal neural network analyzes sequence-based micro-gestures for context-aware …

Marked For Prosecution: The Use Of Tattoo Recognition Technology In Criminal Trials And The Case For Evidentiary Limits, Marc Consalo

Mercer Law Review

In recent years, tattoos have taken on a new and largely overlooked role in our criminal trial system. Once viewed primarily as personal or cultural expression, tattoos are now treated by law enforcement as biometric data which can be analyzed, codified, and then searched by artificial intelligence (“AI”). Police departments and prosecutorial offices have begun using tattoo recognition software to identify suspects, assume gang membership, and establish guilt based on imagery or symbols. Yet, despite the rapid growth of this technology, its use in the courtroom has received almost no scholarly attention and even less judicial scrutiny.

This Article seeks …

Client Feedback Effects On Enjoyment, Motivation And Self-Efficacy In A Project-Based Learning Course, Krista Stacey, David M. Bourrie

University Faculty and Staff Publications

This paper reports a mixed-methods evaluation of how feedback/project source (faculty-led versus client-led) shapes student outcomes in a two-course undergraduate game and simulation development sequence (N = 29 across two academic years). Quantitative measures (enjoyment, intrinsic motivation, self-efficacy) were collected with a six-point Likert survey and analyzed, but due to small sample sizes were not used to empirically evaluate the constructs. Instead, qualitative data comprised of de-identified focus-group transcripts and open-ended survey responses were analyzed with a keyword-assisted codebook and manual validation. Year 1 (faculty feedback) exhibited more consistent post-course gains, especially in self-efficacy, while Year 2 (client feedback) produced …

Using The Misinformation Exposure-Trust Framework For Audience Segmentation: Predicting Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among U.S., Jing Zeng, Jinxu Li, Nan Yu, Xi Cui, Anli Xiao Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

This study examines whether individuals’ exposure to and trust in COVID-19 vaccine misinformation can be used to segment audiences and explain variations in vaccine hesitancy and health beliefs. Using k-means clustering, a survey of 819 U.S. college students (March–May 2021) identifies four subgroups based on combinations of high or low misinformation exposure and trust: misinformation-shielded (low exposure, low trust), misinformation-vulnerable (low exposure, high trust), misinformation-resistant (high exposure, low trust), and misinformation-accepting (high exposure, high trust). These subgroups differ significantly in political ideology, vaccine hesitancy, and health beliefs. The misinformation-shielded subgroup reports more liberal views, lower hesitancy, and higher perceived efficacy, …

Standing Against Housing, Brian M. Miller

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Flexi Disc: A Brief History And Timeline Of The Making And Distribution, Jada Villaroel

SOURCE Explore Program

The Flexi Disc, popular between the 1960s and 1990s, was an innovative product which brought decades of cheap music distribution to the homes of many Americans. Within the Plastic Artifacts Collection at Syracuse University are several flexi discs used as advertising, ranging from current musical artists to large food chains preserved in mailing envelopes from several decades of the 1900's. Observing these artifacts provided data and information to answer the question: how were flexi discs able to be manufactured at such low costs while maintaining a profitable market? Multiple sources, including physical flexi discs and chat logs, from the Special …

Cultural Science Night, Jiyoon Yoon

Mavs Open Press Open Educational Resources - Archive

This book is to learn water and weather by integrating with other cultures. This textbook is organized around two interconnected components. The first component provides cultural knowledge of China, India, Korea, and Mexico. The second component focuses on culturally responsive science instruction created for the Cultural Science Night event, an occasion in which teachers present hands-on, culturally responsive science activities in collaboration with students.

If you need an accessibility accommodation or have questions about the use of this text, please contact Mavs Open Press.

The Bison, February, 27, 2026

The Bison Newspapers

No abstract provided.