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How Lochnerism Ends, Robert Knowles

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

Shadow Price Signals In The Steel Sector: From Efficiency Gaps To Policy Maps, Giacomo Benini, Erik Enstad, Amare Alemaye Mersha, Luca Rossini

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

This study provides the first global, plant-level analysis of technical and environmental efficiency in steel production using data from 143 mills across 50 countries (2019–2023). Using a Stochastic Directional Distance Function, we estimate plants’ distance to the frontier and compute shadow prices of CO2e emissions. Results show efficient electric arc furnace mini-mills, common in North America, face high abatement costs and low inefficiency. Conversely, integrated plants in developing countries are inefficient but can abate cheaply, with Europe in between. Shadow prices remain well below carbon market rates, underscoring the need for tailored climate policies.

Staff Education To Improve Staff Knowledge On Self-Care Management Of Hypertension, Zainab Kebbie Turay

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Summary This DNP staff education project focused on improving staff knowledge on self-care management of hypertension. The overarching patient care problem at the project site was uncontrolled hypertension among adult patients with lack of staff knowledge and confidence in delivering related patient education. Addressing uncontrolled hypertension is vital within nursing practice due to its impact on public health and the opportunity for a nurse-led evidence-based intervention to improve patient outcomes. The practice-focused question for this project was: “In adults with uncontrolled hypertension, does staff education program on hypertension self-care management improve staff knowledge on how to educate patients on self-care …

U.S. Government Software Development Entity Implements A Hybrid Of Waterfall And Agile To Address Failures, Dwight Jerome Peters Jr.

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Although organizations allocate substantial resources to software development process initiatives, a significant portion of these projects fail. The U.S. government software development leaders and managers need to understand the disadvantages of both waterfall and agile methodologies as leading indicators of project failure. Grounded in the diffusion of innovation theory, the purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the consequences in government software development fostered by a hybrid approach of waterfall and agile methodologies pertaining to the inherent shortcomings of each methodology. The participants consisted of four current and four former team members from the U.S. government software development …

Library Newsletter: Early November ‘25, Iwasaki Library

Iwasaki Newsletters

This Library Newsletter reached faculty, staff, and students of Emerson College on November 7th, 2025. This is the first published issue of the two total issues that were published within the month of November. This is the fifth issue of the 3rd volume. It includes top stories such as NYTimes Cooking Thanksgiving Recipes, Interlibrary loan, A.I. tools that are better for Emersonians, Teach-In on Sustainability, Southwick Recital, becoming a volunteer for Relaxapalooza, and following the library on social media.

Michigan Academician Volume 50, Issue 1

Michigan Academician

2025 Michigan Academy Conference abstracts.

Artificial Intelligence (Ai) In Pharmaceutical Formulation And Dosage Calculations., Sameer Joshi, Sandeep Sheth

PCOM Scholarly Works

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reforming pharmaceutical sciences by renovating traditional drug formulation and dosage calculation approaches. This review provides a comprehensive overview of how AI technologies, such as machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), and natural language processing (NLP), are currently being used in pharmaceutical calculations to improve accuracy, efficiency, and personalization. We have explored the role of AI in predicting drug properties, excipient optimization, and formulation design, as well as its applications in pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) modeling, real-time dose adjustment, and precision medicine. Despite significant progress, data quality, interpretability, regulatory acceptance, and ethical considerations persist. Therefore, this review examines the …

Finding Solutions: Meeting Essential Needs To Overcome Health And Educational Inequities Among College Students, Nicholas Freudenberg, Rashida Crutchfield

Publications and Research

Many economic, academic, and social factors influence college completion, and scholars have documented that a significant cause of students leaving school before graduation is that many do not have their basic needs for food, housing, and health care met. These barriers undermine their academic success by forcing students to reduce the time spent on their studies, work more hours, or stop out of school to support themselves or their families. Unmet essential needs jeopardize academic and life success for students in higher education across the United States and widen racial/ethnic and class inequities in college completion and health. Our review …

The Opioid Crisis Meets Genomics, Valerie Gutmann Koch

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

Voter Emancipation In Slavery’S Afterlife, Carla Laroche

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

It Pays To Pay Female Athletes: Title Ix Requires Universities To Provide Athletes Equitable Revenue Distribution, Nicole Frankel

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

How Relationship Dissolution Shapes Domestic Violence Outcomes, Jordan Karnbach

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The breakup of a personal relationship can bring hurt feelings, tension and confrontation, and sometimes even violence. But predicting which ones are most volatile is a complex matter.

An Institutional Repository's Journey Through Title Ii Web Accessibility Standards, Jennie Tobler-Gaston

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

In April 2024, the implementation of Title II web accessibility standards for government entities prompted immediate reflection on accessibility practices within our institutional repository, DigitalCommons@UNO. This presentation will discuss the Title II standards and their implications for university repositories, describe the development of workflows for ensuring repository content meets these standards, and discuss the ongoing challenges for remediation.

An Analysis Of Large Language Model Hallucination And Creativity: Linear Representations And Causal Roles, Mckay Bowcut

Theses and Dissertations

Large language models (LLMs) show remarkable abilities in both factual and creative tasks, yet the problem of hallucination persists despite advances in training and post-training methods. Recent progress in model interpretability suggests that model behavior can be predicted and influenced by analyzing and manipulating internal activations. In this thesis, we address three questions: (1) Can we identify linear representations of hallucination and creativity in the model’s latent space? (2) Do these representations play a causal role in model behavior when manipulated? (3) Are creativity and hallucination causally intertwined? To answer these, we construct a novel dataset of factual, hallucinated, and …

Standardizing And Scaffolding Health Care Ai-Chatbot Evaluation: Systematic Review., Yining Hua, Winna Xia, David Bates, George Hartstein, Hyungjin Tom Kim, Michael Li, Benjamin Nelson, Charles Stromeyer Iv, Darlene King, Jina Suh, Li Zhou, John Torous

Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Health care chatbots are rapidly proliferating, while generative artificial intelligence (AI) outpaces existing evaluation standards.

OBJECTIVE: We aimed to develop a structured, stakeholder-informed framework to standardize evaluation of health care chatbots.

METHODS: PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses)-guided searches across multiple databases identified 266 records; 152 were screened, 21 full texts were assessed, and 11 frameworks were included. We extracted 356 questions (refined to 271 by deduplication and relevance review), mapped items to Coalition for Health AI constructs, and organized them with iterative input from clinicians, patients, developers, epidemiologists, and policymakers.

RESULTS: We developed the Health …

Volume Cxlv, Number 7, November 7, 2025, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

Law Review Symposium: Prisoners' Rights: Protecting Civil Liberties Behind Bars & Beyond 11-7-2025, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

No abstract provided.

University Of Northern Iowa Graduate Studies Fifth Annual Three Minute Thesis® Competition [Program, 2025], University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate Studies.

Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) at UNI Programs

Graduate students engage with audience members regarding their research.

Junior-Level Women Experiences Influencing Their Departure From The U.S. Coast Guard, Jill Lynn Lazo

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Despite increasing attention to public service motivation (PSM) in organizational research, there is a notable absence of studies examining the experiences of women in military contexts, particularly within the United States Coast Guard (USCG). This generic qualitative study, grounded in PSM theory, explored why junior-level women in the USCG prematurely exited military service. While existing research on PSM and women is limited and none specifically focused on women in the USCG, this study addressed that gap by interviewing 16 junior-level women who had separated from the USCG between four and eight years prior. The purpose of the study was to …

Teachers’ Perceptions Of The National Professional Development Policies And Mathematics Performance In Guyana, Nicola Marcia Johnson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The Ministry of Education in Guyana has focused on improving primary students’ performance in mathematics; however, low student performance persists. The problem addressed in this study was the limited understanding of how Guyanese primary teachers used the national professional development policies (NPDP) to address the low performance of students on the Math National Grade 6 Assessment (MNGSA). Grounded in Bandura’s social cognitive theory and Senge’s systems thinking theory, the purpose of this study was to explore Guyanese primary teachers’ perceptions of their successes and challenges using the NPDP to address the low performance of students on the MNGSA. For this …

Pathways And Challenges In The Clinical Translational Of Radiopharmaceuticals For Pediatric Investigations, Erik Stauff, Hanieh Karimi, Heidi H. Kecskemethy, Thomas H. Shaffer, Reza Vali, Lauren W. Averill, Xuyi Yue

Department of Radiology Faculty Papers

Radiopharmaceutical development and clinical translation face numerous scientific, ethical, and regulatory challenges, particularly within the pediatric population. Although molecular imaging holds significant promise for improving diagnosis and treatment across a spectrum of diseases, including pediatric-specific conditions like Kawasaki disease, autism spectrum disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and neuroblastoma, the path from discovery to clinical application remains problematic. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provides three primary pathways-traditional Investigational New Drug (IND) applications, exploratory Investigational New Drug application (eIND), and the Radioactive Drug Research Committee (RDRC) mechanism-to facilitate clinical translation of radiotracers. However, these frameworks are not specifically tailored to pediatric needs. …

Lender Fellows Symposium, The Lender Center For Social Justice

The Lender Center for Social Justice

A conference pamphlet for the Fall 2025 Lender Symposium

Sga 57 Senate 2025-11-07 Minutes, Niu Student Government Association Senate

Student Government Association Archives

No abstract provided.

Sga 57 Senate 2025-11-07 Agenda, Niu Student Government Association Senate

Student Government Association Archives

No abstract provided.

Data Privacy In Crisis: How Crisis Pregnancy Centers Threaten The Personal Health Information Of Women Seeking Abortion Care, Melissa Mcgloin

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

Borrowed Competence: Socially Extending The Mind To Extend Digital Practices, Cordelia R. Stewart, Sheau-Fen (Crystal) Yap, Krzysztof Kubacki

More Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Research

This study extends current understanding of digital competence by exploring alternative skill sets harnessed by digitally disadvantaged groups that enable their practices to continue. By combining practice theory with the socially extended mind framework, we address the research question: What forms of offline competence support the integration of digital practices among a disadvantaged consumer group, and how do these competences influence the cohesion and continuity of their practices? Through an ethnography of a ‘Street Church’ community, we demonstrate how different forms of offline social interaction (i.e., sequential, synchronised, substitutive) and group culture
function as valuable resources for guiding digital practices, …

Nanodiamonds In Advancing Biomedical Sciences, Ebenezer Owusu, Sofia Lerma, Jinhyeong Jang, Deepa Roy, Shizue Mito, Upal Roy, Elena A. Rozhkova

Health & Biomedical Sciences Faculty Publications

Nanodiamonds (NDs), tetrahedral carbon structures with a size ranging from 1 to 100 nm, have gained growing attention in recent years due to their distinct optical, thermal, and mechanical properties compared to other carbon nanomaterials (e.g., graphene, carbon nanotubes, carbon dots). Combined with a high surface-to-volume ratio and tunable and chemically versatile surfaces, these support broad applications across catalysis, electronics, and life sciences. Moreover, the biocompatible characteristics of NDs enable their controllable interfacial interactions with biological systems, positioning them as excellent candidates for advancing cutting-edge biomedical sciences, particularly through the engineering of efficient material biointerfaces that facilitate optimal interactions with …

Lobizona And Cemetery Boys: Broadening Representation Of The Latinx/Chicanx Community, Genesis Pabon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

This thesis focuses on two young adult speculative fiction novels, Lobizona and Cemetery Boys, that showcase the need for accurate representation of the Latinx/Chicanx and LGBTQ+ communities. Themes of sexuality, race, identity, and the gender binary within Latinx/Chicanx cultures will be explored. The narratives of the protagonists in both novels disrupt the gender binary in the United States and the Latinx/Chicanx community. There is a lack of literature that focuses on Latinx/Chicanx young adult speculative fiction, particularly in the United States, highlighting the need for more scholarly research in this area. It is essential for literary scholars and readers to …

Development And Initial Validation Of An Instrument To Measure Teachers’ Socioscientific Issues Instruction Perceptions, Michael Edward Mitchell

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Little is known about how high school science teachers perceive Socioscientific Issues (SSI) on a broad scale, including what factors shape their views of a pedagogical shift to adopt SSI. To address this critical gap, I constructed the Teachers’ Socioscientific Issues (SSI) Perceptions Survey (TSPS), the first instrument specifically designed and initially validated to measure teacher perceptions of SSI integration. This study presents the development and validation of the TSPS, offering robust evidence for its reliability, fairness, and construct validity.

Survey development adhered to gold-standard psychometric protocols (Bandalos, 2018; Crocker & Algina, 1986; DeVellis, 2012; McCoach et al., 2013) and …

Impact Of Growth Conditions On The Abundance And Diversity Of Cultivable Bacteria Recovered From Pheronema Carpenteri And Investigation Of Their Antimicrobial Potential, Jazmin Conway, Grant G January, Katie J Muddiman, Rosemary Dorrington, Kerry L Howell, Mathew Upton

School of Biomedical Sciences

The deep sea is a largely unexplored extreme environment supporting a diverse biological community adapted to low temperatures and high pressures. Such environments support microbial life that may be a source of novel antibiotics and other drugs. Whilst this is often the case, many species with bioactive capabilities may be missed with traditional culturing methods. In this study, a total of 16 different concentrations and types of media were employed, to culture 389 bacterial isolates using Dilution to Extinction methods and Actinobacteria Directed Cultivation techniques. This generated 72 (18.6%) isolates with narrow and broad-spectrum activity against ESKAPE pathogens including Escherichia …