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Summary & Discussion On United Nations Preliminary Report On Ai: Benefits And Harms Of Artificial Intelligence For Civil Society, Angie Holzer

Journal of Nonprofit Innovation

In July 2026, the United Nations' newly formed Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence released its first Preliminary Report, offering the first global, scientific assessment of AI's capabilities, risks, and impacts. This article examines the report's findings through the lens of civil society, organizing the Panel's evidence around three questions of direct relevance to nonprofit leaders and researchers: how rapidly AI capability is advancing, who controls its development, and where its benefits and harms are concentrated. Drawing on the Panel's data across societal applications, economic implications, human rights and information integrity, cultural flourishing and child safety, and AI governance, …

D1.08 Sesión De Ponencias 1: Cuerpo, Identidad Y Arquetipos En La Experiencia Rolera, Agustina Cinanni, Carlos Uncal, Antonio Roda-Martinez, Astrid Alyss Dellair Martínez, Cristo Leon, New Jersey Institute Of Technology, Red De Investigadores De Juegos De Rol, James Lipuma Dr.

10mo Coloquio Internacional de Estudios sobre Juegos de Rol

Primera sesión de ponencias del 10mo Coloquio Internacional de Estudios sobre Juegos de Rol, dedicada a presentaciones académicas organizadas en un bloque temático del programa.

Información de ponencias

Ponente 1.1. Agustina Cinanni

Título: “El arquetipo del thief: una aproximación a la construcción de la clase”

Ponente 1.2. Carlos Uncal

Título: “La aventura literaria: una experiencia de RPG en el aula”

Ponente 1.3. Antonio Roda-Martínez

Título: “Juegos de Rol Analógicos en el Aula: Propuesta Metodológica de Aplicación y Diseño”

Ponente 1.4. Astrid Alyss Dellair Martínez

Título: “El juego de rol como dispositivo de aprendizaje: estudio del desarrollo de habilidades cognitivas y …

Oncogenic E-Cadherin-Dependent Metastasis And Potential Therapeutic Interventions, Madison K. Duenas, Anjela Anand, Paige Cano, Ralph Boccia, Mary Alpaugh

STEM Student Research Symposium Posters

Oncogenic E-cadherin-dependent metastasis is a paradoxical mechanism of cancer progression whereby E-cadherin, a cell-to-cell adhesion protein that normally suppresses tumor invasion, instead promotes the formation of cohesive cell tumor clusters that collectively invade surrounding tissues and metastasize. This phenomenon has been extensively studied using inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) models, including the MARY-X xenograft and SUM149 cell line, while comparisons with other breast cancer models such as MDA-MB-231 continue to provide insight into E-cadherin-independent metastatic mechanisms. This project reviews recent literature investigating the molecular mechanisms behind it and evaluates emerging therapeutic strategies targeting E-cadherin-associated cellular pathways. Laboratory techniques, including spheroid generation …

Client Usability And Student Perspectives Of A Novel Mobile Health App To Facilitate 3d-Printed Assistive Device Learning And Application, Sara Benham, Sarah Argumedo, Samantha Pifer, Tiras Williams, Jeffrey Bush, Monica Kaniamattam

Journal of Innovation in Health Sciences Education

Introduction: Locating, selecting, and printing appropriate 3D-printed assistive devices (AD) to meet specific health needs can be overwhelming. To address these challenges, the 3DAdapt app was developed. This study aimed to explore the app’s usability through an occupational therapy (OT) student project that involved delivering 3D-printed AD to older adults.

Methods: Over three sessions, OT students collaborated with older adults to provide customized 3D-printed AD. The app’s usability was assessed using a mixed-methods approach, including the System Usability Scale (SUS; scores ≥ 70 indicate usability). Focus groups with OT students further explored the usability of occupation-focused interventions with their …

D1.05 Keynote Ii: Publishing And The Synoptic View Of Role-Playing Game Studies, Evan Torner Ph.D.

10mo Coloquio Internacional de Estudios sobre Juegos de Rol

Keynote session on publishing, field formation, and the synoptic view of role-playing game studies, with attention to how scholarly communities organize, circulate, and consolidate research across disciplinary traditions. It will be held in English.

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Freedom Of Religion: The Chinese Farce, Christopher M.L. Mccain

Ohio Northern University International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Promoting The Rule Of Law To Resist The Rise Of Autocracy: The Precarious Role Of The Courts, David Pimentel Esq.

Ohio Northern University International Law Journal

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Taking It Offline: Investment Arbitration In Response To Internet Censorship, Sebastian Blitt Esq.

Ohio Northern University International Law Journal

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Review Of Cults Like Us!: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America, Cheryl Coulthard

Communal Societies

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Removal Of Heavy Metal Ions From Wastewater By Carbon Nanotubes (Cnts), Waleed Frayyeh, Zainab Mohammed, Abdulkhaleq Mahmood

Engineering and Technology Journal

This work is an attempt to remove cadmium (II) from wastewater by adsorption on multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and functional group of carbon nanotubes (fMWCNTs) by using the batch process system and continuous reactor. In the batch reactor, the main variables that govern process efficiency such as the initial Cd (II) concentration, MWCNTs dose, contact time, stirring speed, and pH were studied. The experiments revealed that the amount of cadmium absorption (II) was higher on the increasing fMWCNTs dose and stirring speed. In addition, it decreased significantly with a decrease in the initial concentration of cadmium. The optimum values for …

Effect Of Starch Powder On Behavior Of Silica Fume Biopolymer Concrete, Samir Atia, Waleed Abbas

Engineering and Technology Journal

The great economic development and the growth of modern means of construction have led to the spread of large quantities of chemical admixtures that we must be cautious of. As the world is turning towards environmentally friendly alternatives, finding locally viable solutions is becoming inevitable. The influence of using Nano starches of a biopolymer on certain properties of silica fume concrete in the fresh case (slump and fresh density) and in the hardened case (compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, and flexural strength) has been investigated. It has been added to silica fume concrete in various percentages of (0%, 0.25%, 0.5%, …

Investigation Of The Diffusion Depth Of Ni-Cu Thermal Spray Coating For The Low Carbon Steel, Aya Mohsin, Hussain Yousif, Sura Ahmed

Engineering and Technology Journal

The effect of some parameters on the diffusion depth of the Ni-Cu coating layer on 52 low carbon steel samples using flame thermal spraying was investigated. In this research, coating-powder particle (1926.6 nm) was used, spraying gases pressure (0.5, 1bar) for oxygen and acetylene was implemented, and the temperature of the sprayed coating layer on the substrate was in the range (500- 750 C°). Diffusion cross-section was observed by using an optical microscope. The microstructure and phase analysis of the coating layer was observed by using X-ray diffraction (XRD), and SEM respectively. At standoff distance was 125 mm, powder feeding …

Improve The Corrosion Resistance Of The Copper-Zinc Alloy By The Epoxy-Wo3 Nanocomposite Coating, Ban Abbass, Kadhum Shabeeb, Ayad Hassan

Engineering and Technology Journal

Metal corrosion is one of the most critical challenges in industrial processes. In this research, nanocomposite coating was synthesized by blending tungsten trioxide (WO3) nanoparticles with Epoxy resin and applied on brass samples to evaluate the performance of corrosion protection under stressed environments. A dip-coating method was adopted to coat the brass sample's surface. Coated and uncoated brass samples have been subjected to corrosion tests to study the corrosion behavior when exposed to corrosive media. Obtained results indicated that the brass coated samples with mixed epoxy\tungsten trioxide (WO3) exhibited reasonable corrosion resistance because of the ceramic protective barrier on the …

Preparation Of Graphene Nanosheets From Graphite Flakes Via Shear Assisted Exfoliation, Ali Saloum, Basma Al-Tamimi, Saad Farid

Engineering and Technology Journal

Graphene is one of the most important forms of carbon. Due to its exceptional physical, chemical, and mechanical properties, it’s used in different fields such as electronic, energy storage, and medical applications. Therefore, the production of graphene in large quantities, at a low cost, and high quality, has become critical. Using graphite powder, a few layers of graphene sheets were prepared via a series of mechanical exfoliation methods. the dry ball milling process by the planetary mill was used. Thereafter, the milling was followed by shear force and then supported by ultra-sonication to reach the lowest level of the graphene …

Wild Clary Plant Extract As Corrosion Inhibitor For Carbon Steel In Seawater Medium, Zainab Aziz, Rana Majed, Majid Abd

Engineering and Technology Journal

Aqueous extract of wild clary has been used in place of a corrosion inhibitor in the corrosion control of carbon steel. The major components of this extract are Ethan amine, Amino-octadic, and 4H-Pyran-4-one. It has an excellent inhibition efficiency (IE) of 83.078% at a concentration of 20 (mL/L) and a temperature of 298 (K). The extract was characterized by FTIR and GC MS, where the antibacterial was tested and the protective film was analyzed on the samples using FTIR spectra. The protective film formed on the metal surface is confirmed using an electrochemical study by Potentiostat, which revealed that this …

Design And Implementation Of The Temperature Sensor For Health Care Monitoring Based On Optical Fiber Technology, Dawood Ahmed, Alaa Ali, Shehab Kadhim, Sawsan Fandi

Engineering and Technology Journal

Human health is represented due to the measurement of vital signs. The basic vital signs are temperature, heart pulse rate, oxygen percentage in blood, blood pressure, etc. These signs are changes according to the physical and mental status of the individual. So measuring and monitoring those signs are very important. In this work, design and implementation of human Temperature Sensor are submitted. This is achieved using optical fiber technology. Two sensor diameters were tested; 125 µm and 60µm. The obtained results show a shifting in wavelength towards the red region due to temperature application. The submitted sensor has good sensitivity …

A Study Of Patient’S Pain Assessment Based On Facial Expression: Issues And Challenges, Elaf Saddam, Saad Mutashar, Wissam Ali

Engineering and Technology Journal

Pain is considered as an emotional experience and a restless feeling associated with tissue damage. When the interpretation begins in the brain, the sensation of pain occurs; a signal transmitted to the brain through the nerve fiber. Pain helps the body to stop further damage to the tissues. Since there are numerous ways to convey and feel pain, the perception of pain is special to all. Technology that promotes pain assessment is an urgent need to reduce restless feelings and suffering. This paper aims to demonstrate the issues and challenges facing the patient’s pain assessment based on facial expression. The …

A Proposed Channel Estimation Based On Enhanced Sub-Carrier Index Modulation And Packet-Discrete Wavelet Transform To Minimize Bit Error Rate, Ansam Jabbar

Engineering and Technology Journal

For Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and other communication systems, many estimating approaches have been developed to estimate the channel state information and lower the Bit Error Rate (BER). These estimating methods, however, are still subject to the influence of large peak powers compared to average powers. Reduced computational complexity is one of the most significant factors to consider while developing a new estimate algorithm. This study aims to provide a novel design of the Packet-Discrete Wavelet Transform (P-DWT) algorithm for channel estimation in wireless OFDM instead of the fast Fourier transform (FFT). It is presented to retrieve the code …

Signaling Load Reduction In 5g Network And Beyond, Mohammed Waheed, Azzad Saeed, Thanaa Abd

Engineering and Technology Journal

A huge traffic flow in the next generation network is anticipated due to the rising in number of users and the new services that need low end-to-end latency causing a large signaling load on the Core Network (CN). In order to mitigate this issue, many revolutionary architectures have been proposed to reduce this burden such as Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN). In this paper, a new C-RAN distributed core network architecture has been proposed by splitting some CN functions and grouping them into one location with Base Band Units (BBUs). As a measure of testing the proposed architectures and by …

Power Optimization Of Binary Multiplier Based On Fpga, Fadi Nasser, Ivan Hashim

Engineering and Technology Journal

In the VLSI circuits, power dissipation is a critical design parameter and it plays a vital role in the performance of different digital systems. The decrease in chip size along with the increase in chip density and complexity will increase the difficulty in designing higher performance and low power digital systems. Therefore, achieving a fast and low power system is the major concern of VLSI designers. Most of the digital systems have different math operations in their architectures. This paper focuses on the multiplication operation. Multiplication requires more iterations, long time, large area, and consumes high power of the digital …

Preparing Nanofluids (Al2o3) For Enhancement Performance Of Photovoltaic, Mohammed Saadoon, Ibtisam Hasan, Mohammed Mohammed

Engineering and Technology Journal

Photovoltaic (PV) panels produce electrical energy comparable to the cumulative amount of PV radiation generated on surface of sun. The solar modules influence on temperature of PV panel and for work with its standard specifications in Iraqi environment can be used nanofluid for cooling PV and improve performance. The developed thermal model for proposed cooling method has shown on the way to be an efficient design tool that can help engineers to reduce the time and cost of experimental testing. The improvement in temperature reduction using direct flow technique at rear sides of PV panel achieved electrical and thermal performance …

The Influence Of Convection Heat Transfers For Vertical Mini-Tubes Using Solvent Carbon Dioxide And Porous Media At Supercritical Pressure, Bilal Kkihlefa, Ameer Jaddoa, Ahmed Reja

Engineering and Technology Journal

Porous media and solvent CO2 at supercritical pressure were investigated experimentally to study the effect of convection heat transfer in vertical mini-tubes. Mini-tubes diameter (5 and 8 mm) with medium porosity of 0.5 are proposed in experimental investigation. Experimental conditions consisted of bulk fluid, wall temperatures ranged from 33 to 55 oC, and 8 to 10 MPa of pressure. Reynolds number, Mass flow rate, and heat flux were 1750 to 21000, 0.5 to 4.5 Kg/h, and 3.25×104 to 1.1×105 W/m2 respectively. Some chemical additives like Ethanol, Chloroform, Acetone, Dimethyl sulfoxide, and Methanol were considered. A special focus was dedicated to …

Earthquake Response Of Model Footings On Soft Clays Strengthened By Stone Columns, Ann Raheem, Mohammed Fattah, Makki Al-Recaby

Engineering and Technology Journal

The objective of the present study is to understand the behavior of soft soil strengthened by stone columns under dynamic seismic load. Ordinary and encased stone columns were used under different conditions. The present study converges around the dynamic response of stone columns of lateral shaking, the interaction of soil frame for understanding settlement mechanisms and the prediction of dynamic load limitations of foundations in soft soils subjected to seismic load (during vibrations).  The results of this research will provide the basis for assessing measures to reduce the severity of seismic hazards and the seismic design of foundation structures in …

Chitosan Hydrogel For Removing Of Heavy Metal Ions From Water: A Review, Maysaa Ali, Shemaa Soud, Anaheed Hameed

Engineering and Technology Journal

Industrial and agricultural discharges have been shown as important sources for a wide range of contaminants like heavy metals. This study focused on the assessment of the toxic effect of heavy metals and illustrates some methods of eliminating or avoiding these contaminants. In certain methods, heavy metals (Cu, Zn, Cr, Ni, Pb, Hg, and Cd) are recovered, and range of absorbents are tested. A number of studies have reported the complex interaction of polymers with metal ions with the polymers for eliminating heavy metals (e.g. cellulose, chitosan, and chitin. Metal ions are absorbed by these polymers by the amine and …

A Study About E-Commerce Based On Customer Behaviors, Zainab Mohammed, Suhad Kadhem

Engineering and Technology Journal

E-commerce is one of the new virtual technologies that make life simpler for both traders, marketers, and customers. However, the main problem for the seller was how to know customer's intentions when they enter the website. This paper proposed to predict whether customers make a purchase or not from their previous behaviors.  Therefore, this paper aims to predict the intentions of users that using online -shopping. the main aim of this study is to highlight customer behaviors to predict purchases and make a compression between the works that are related to the subject of this paper to conclude and suggest …

Preparation Of Nickel Oxide Microparticles By Pulsed Laser Ablation And Application To Gas Sensors, Nedal Hussain, Luma Abbas, Lamyaa Latif

Engineering and Technology Journal

Nickel oxide (NiO) microparticles were synthesized by pulsed laser ablation in double deionized water and intensively studied using Nd:YAG laser. The obtained sample was examined by X-ray diffraction, XRD measurement which tests the existence of polycrystalline. The structural parameters introduced and surface morphology was studied using field emission scanning electron microscopy devices. The optical properties of microparticles in a liquid were investigated through UV-VIS spectroscopy. The CO/CO2 sensing properties of the NiO microstructure sensors were systematically investigated, and the effects of different laser fluencies on the CO/CO2 sensing characteristics were analyzed. XRD measurements reflected the existence of polycrystalline, the optical …

Optimized Pid Control Of Quadrotor System Using Extremum Seeking Algorithm, Abdullah Muhsen, Safanah Raafat

Engineering and Technology Journal

This paper presents the development of an automatic tuning of conventional PI-D controllers for Quadrotor system. The most critical problem of tuning the parameters of the PID, is that they can drastically affect the performance of the system. Accordingly, Extremum seeking (ES) algorithm is utilized here to reduce a selected cost function that brings the required performance aspects. The results show that the ES-PID controller provides better stability and performance as compared with only PI-D controller. The parameters of ES-PID controller have been successfully tuned and modified to reach the desired destination with significantly less overshoot, oscillations, and faster convergence.

An Experimental Study Of Porous Hydroxyapatite Scaffold Bioactivity In Biomedical Applications, Auday Mehatlaf, Alaa Atiyah, Saad Farid

Engineering and Technology Journal

Hydroxyapatite is one of the most bioactive materials used in tissue engineering due to its excellent biocompatibility and chemical composition which is equivalent to the mineral element of bone. In this study, polymer sponge replication method was used to fabricate porous hydroxyapatite scaffolds. Pure phase of hydroxyapatite scaffolds and the chemical bonding were verified via Fourier Transform Infrared and X-ray diffraction. Emission scanning electron microscopy (F E S E M) examination showed that the proposed scaffold has high interconnected pores that were achieved just after sintering at temperatures 1350 ºC for 2 hours. The percentage porosity values were estimated to …

A Desirability Function For Evaluation Of Corrosion Behavior For Nanocoated- Steel Using Electroless Technique, Muroog Shinyar, Abbas Hussein, Laith Abbas

Engineering and Technology Journal

The current work is conducting an experimental investigation into the effect of those technical parameters, called nanomaterial, bath temperature and plating time on the micro-hardness and corrosion rate of electroless plated low carbon steel undergoing electroless deposition operation. It was used to prepare (Ni-P/ Nano TiO2), (Ni-P/ Nano Al2O3) and (Ni -P/ Nano SiO2) alloys in this research. The Taguchi design is used to describe the variations located within the corrosion and mechanical properties. To achieve a comprehensive study, a Taguchi-based design was used to account for all applicable combinations of factors. Experimental models had been advanced that linking the …

Deposition Of Ceo2/Tcp Thin Film On Stainless Steel 316 L By Rf Sputtering, Hiba A. Abdullah, Ahmed M. Al-Ghaban, Rana A. Anaee

Engineering and Technology Journal

RF sputtering method was used for deposition 70wt% CeO2/TCP thin film on stainless steel 316L surface. The selection of ceria and tricalcium phosphate is according to the fact the importance of these materials in biomedical media. The produced coating was characterized by XRD, FESEM/EDS and AFM analysis, the result revealed that the obtained peaks from XRD refer to the deposited materials. When substitution of Ce was done, distorting of the lattice structure can occur suggesting certain incorporation of the cerium oxide within TCP lattice. Also, from SEM investigation uniformly homogeneous surface as a layer of (CeO2 + CaO) and TCP …