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E-Cigarette Toxicity And Neurological Function: An Escalating Public Health Concern, Anushka Patel

Inquiro (undergraduate research journal)

pp. 32-34

https://www.uab.edu/inquiro/issues/current-issue/e-cigarette-toxicity-and-neurological-function-an-escalating-public-health-concern

Navigating Puberty: A Systematic Review Of Sex And Puberty Education For Autistic Children, Victoria A. Boatright, Shannon M. Kirshy, Caroline G. Richter

Inquiro (undergraduate research journal)

pp. 24-31

https://www.uab.edu/inquiro/issues/current-issue/navigating-puberty-a-systematic-review-of-sex-and-puberty-education-for-autistic-children

Time To Abolish The Dea: Evaluating The Agency’S Failures And Calling For Community Investments, Ifetayo Harvey

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Computational Thinking And Equity-Centered Urban Preservice Residency Program's Impact On Stem Teachers, Jesse Ha, Wei Wei, Kimberley Gomez, Anuradha Ghosh

Department of Teaching and Learning Scholarship and Creative Works

Situated in an urban teacher residency program at the University of California, Los Angeles, that aims to prepare high school teachers for integrating computational thinking (CT) into equity-focused STEM teaching, this paper investigates the impact of the STEM+C3 program on preservice teachers' conceptualizations and integration of CT in classrooms. Our analysis of 10 interviews suggests that the STEM+C3 program had an overall positive impact on teaching residents' (TRs) understandings of equity-centered practices in CT pedagogy with a few teachers demonstrating shallower understandings. Most TRs were able to characterize identity and positionality while only a few were able to characterize diversity, …

Tips From Sir Cluckerton: Effective And Fun Social Media With A Library Mascot, Allison Boswell, Laura Pitts

Research, Publications & Creative Work

In 2021, the Houston Cole Library (HCL) at Jacksonville State University (Jacksonville, AL) added a mascot to enhance social media posts, and the result has been successful. HCL’s simple low-cost mascot has consistently stimulated positive interactions between the library staff/faculty and students, community members and university officials. HCL’s library mascot has created a cult-like following that watches and comments on his adventures. This current discussion indicates how any library can create their own mascot regardless of budget restrictions and time commitments.

Exploratory Study Of Students’ Creative Mindset, Perceived Values Of Open Educational Resources, And Flow, Hungwei Tseng, Mark Sciuchetti, Yingqi Tang

Research, Publications & Creative Work

As the awareness, benefits, and adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) in various fields have increased, so have efforts to conduct research on its impact on students learning behaviors, experience, and engagement. However, limited research has been conducted regarding the efficacy of using OER on students’ perceived enjoyment in learning and interactions with educational materials. This study aimed to examine the relationships between creative mindset, flow experience, and perceived values of OER among 88 online undergraduate students. First, results revealed that students who have a growth-oriented creative mindset are more likely to understand and embrace OER’s intrinsic worth. Their willingness …

Exploratory Study Of Students’ Creative Mindset, Perceived Values Of Open Educational Resources, And Flow, Hungwei Tseng, Mark Sciuchetti, Yingqi Tang

Research, Publications & Creative Work

As the awareness, benefits, and adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) in various fields have increased, so have efforts to conduct research on its impact on students learning behaviors, experience, and engagement. However, limited research has been conducted regarding the efficacy of using OER on students’ perceived enjoyment in learning and interactions with educational materials. This study aimed to examine the relationships between creative mindset, flow experience, and perceived values of OER among 88 online undergraduate students. First, results revealed that students who have a growth-oriented creative mindset are more likely to understand and embrace OER’s intrinsic worth. Their willingness …

Litmag 2024, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Litmag

Litmag’s mission is to nurture the creativity of the students, staff, and alumni of UMSL by providing a space to showcase the diverse literary and artistic talent on our campus. We aim to provide an inclusive, professional and high-quality publication free of charge to UMSL and the local community.

Dear Reader, On behalf of the editorial staff and myself, welcome to the 2024 edition of Litmag. With this year’s publication, our team sought to find honest expressions within familiar forms of writing and art. Litmag has driven discussion and craftsmanship. This year’s staff truly selected thoughtprovoking pieces. Curiosity compels us …

Neglected, Perplexing, Unpredictable: Remedies In International Commercial Arbitration, Charles H. Brower Ii

Nebraska Law Review

People often treat awards as the focal point of international commercial arbitration, but awards are not the focal point; remedies are. Yet remedies remain an undertheorized topic in the arena of international commercial arbitration. The whole topic of remedies is neglected; there is almost no quantitative data on the remedies requested or awarded in international commercial arbitration. Likewise, almost no standard works devote significant qualitative analysis to remedies.

Remedies are also perplexing because opinions on the sources and limits of a tribunal’s remedial powers are literally scattered to the four cardinal directions, with observers approaching remedial powers from the perspectives …

What Roosevelt Did To Brown V. Board Of Education, Or Race And Court Packing, Jill M. Fraley

Nebraska Law Review

Roughly one-third of American schools remain segregated. Scholars have offered a variety of explanations, mostly social and cultural, but sometimes legal, for why desegregation did not proceed effectively after Brown v. Board of Education. This Article articulates a less expected and previously undocumented cause: President [Franklin D.] Roosevelt’s prior attempt at court packing slowed—even derailed—desegregation.

The story of what Roosevelt’s court packing did to make the work of integration harder is a cautionary tale, particularly for those who want to alter the U.S. Supreme Court now in furtherance of a modern cause. The only reasonable route for reforming the …

Rising Tides, Rising Premiums, Kevin Freudenburg

Nebraska Law Review

Insuring flood-prone properties is a complex insurance problem. Attempts by the U.S. federal government to step in and correct perceived private market failures have often exacerbated the problem by artificially subsidizing building and rebuilding activity in low-lying areas. This article describes the fundamental problems inherent in the design of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) by analyzing the program through the lens of the insurance concepts of moral hazard and adverse selection. It also provides a comparative view of flood insurance schemes globally, and suggests possible reforms.

Zero Progress On Zero-Days: How The Last Ten Years Created The Modern Spyware Market, Mailyn Fidler

Nebraska Law Review

Spyware makes surveillance simple. The last ten years have seen a global market emerge for ready-made software that lets governments surveil citizens and foreign adversaries alike and to do so more easily than when such work required tradecraft. The last ten years have also been marked by stark failures to control spyware and its precursors and components. This Article accounts for and critiques these failures, providing a socio-technical history since 2014, focusing on the conversation about trade in zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits and more recently spyware. This Article also applies lessons from these failures to guide regulatory efforts going forward. …

Unfair Discrimination Standards, Actuarial Fairness, And Insurers’ Use Of Big Data, Laura L. Arp

Nebraska Law Review

Technological innovations in insurance rating allow increasingly large sets of data about insureds to be collected, analyzed, and turned into rates. Consumers’ concerns about artificial intelligence can translate into mistrust that their insurance rates accurately reflect the risk they present. In response, regulatory frameworks are being developed for testing these new algorithms. When people encounter the word “discrimination,” they often register a meaning of “unfair discrimination.” However, in the insurance context, “discrimination” is a neutral term.

This Article attempts to unpack the multiple and complex facets present in the definition of unfair discrimination—and in particular proxy discrimination—as applied to insurance, …

Is West Virginia A Haven For Disabled Workers? An Evolving Story, James V. Koch, Robert M. Mcnab

Economics Faculty Publications

With a particular focus on West Virginia, this study utilizes state-level monthly panel data over 13 years (2010-2022) to examine the determinants of the rates of application of individuals for Social Security Administration disabled worker income payments (SSDI) and the initial recommendations of those applications for approval by the states. Application rates are particularly sensitive to the educational attainment of state populations and approval rates to economic conditions. However, in contrast to media coverage and public perceptions, both the number of applications for SSDI and approval rates have been declining nationally and in West Virginia.

The Federal Government’S Role As The Warden Of Immigrants, Pedro Gerson

Nebraska Law Review

This Essay examines the evolving landscape of immigration enforcement within the broader context of federal confinement in the United States. The current “crisis” at the southern border, characterized by historic levels of migrant influx and shifting political tides toward restrictionism, underscores the federal government’s increasing emphasis on confinement as a tool of migration control. Furthermore, this Essay argues the need to conceptualize federal confinement as a unified system encompassing both immigration detention and incarceration, which reveals the extent to which immigration has become a dominant factor in federal custody. Drawing on data and analysis, it demonstrates that immigration-related offenses now …

Heads Held High And Hands Holding Hope: The Victory And Vulnerabilities Of The Indian Child Welfare Act After Haaland V. Brackeen, Mikayla Jones

Nebraska Law Review

Congress enacted the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in 1978 to mitigate the catastrophic effects of the federal government’s longstanding policy of forcibly removing Indian children from their families and tribal communities. ICWA has safeguarded Indian children and families for decades by setting minimum standards in state child welfare proceedings to prevent unwarranted removals, support family preservation and reunification, and foster cultural and community connection.

However, ICWA has faced numerous legal challenges since its implementation—often on the theory that the law discriminates against Indian children on the basis of race in violation of the Equal Protection Clause. In 2023, the …

Using A Congressional-Executive Agreement To Protect Abortion At Home And Abroad, Amanda V. Landaverde

Nebraska Law Review

In the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the Court rejected the existence of a constitutional right to abortion and obliterated the only federal protection of abortion. Two years after the Court’s decision, Congress has not passed federal legislation protecting abortion, and our country has no national standard on abortion access. In the meantime, in states with draconian abortion restrictions, women are forced to wait until they are at death’s door before the state allows them to have an abortion. This occurs despite the majority of Americans supporting some form of abortion access.

Although potential legislation …

Public Lands In Private Hands: Corner-Crossing Is An Ominous Grey Area In Wyoming Law, Christian Moncrief

Nebraska Law Review

Corner-crossing is a tactic used by recreators in Western states with ample public land. Corner-crossing occurs when a recreator reaches a four-way junction of two corners of public land and two corners of private land and steps or climbs diagonally from one corner of public land to another. This practice frequently occurs in areas where public and private lands are interlocked in an alternating checkerboard pattern. Due to the millions of acres of corner-locked public land in Wyoming and the implications of this practice on private property rights, corner-crossing is an extremely pressing issue in Wyoming. The legality of corner-crossing …

Asset-Based Financing For Space Activities, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

The space industry—whose numbers are already substantial—has undeniable potential for further growth. However, because it no longer consists of only multibillion-dollar companies, the industry needs access to traditional financing. Venture capital alone is insufficient. This Article discusses some difficulties for the space industry’s access to traditional—and especially asset-based—financing. Some are common to all space activities, while some exist only for novel space activities. These difficulties cover a broad range of legal, regulatory, and factual issues (including insurance). While the problems are difficult, ideas to solve them are plentiful, a number of which the paper discusses. The paper also presents ways …

Food And Drug Regulation: Statutory And Regulatory Supplement (2024), Adam I. Muchmore

Faculty Scholarship

This Statutory and Regulatory Supplement is intended for use with its companion casebook, Food and Drug Regulation: A Statutory Approach (2021). This is not a traditional statutory supplement. Instead, it contains selected, aggressively edited provisions of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), related statutes, and the Code of Federal Regulations. The Supplement includes all provisions assigned as reading in the casebook, as well as a few additional provisions that some professors may wish to cover. The excerpts are designed to be teachable rather than comprehensive.

A Benchmark Framework For Data Visualization And Explainable Ai (Xai), Murat Kuzlu, Gokcen Ozdemir, Umut Ozdemir

Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

This research introduces a benchmark framework, called EDUMX, designed for machine learning (ML)-based forecasting and XAI tasks, leveraging the Streamlit open-source Python library. The framework offers a comprehensive suite of functionalities, including data loading, feature selection, relationship analysis, data preprocessing, model selection, metric evaluation, training, and real-time monitoring. Users can easily upload data in diverse formats, explore relationships between variables, preprocess data using various techniques, and assess the performance of the ML model using customizable metrics. With its user-friendly interface, this framework offers invaluable insights for forecasting tasks in various domains, catering to the evolving needs of predictive analytics. EDUMX …

The Future Of Indigent Defense In South Dakota, Brooklyn Bollweg, Neil Fulton

South Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2023-2024, Tennessee. Department Of Safety And Homeland Security

Annual Reports

This document is the annual report for the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security during the fiscal year.

El Ruiseñor Justiciero: El “Antimenendezpelayismo” De María Rosa Lida En La Filología Española Del Medio Siglo, Aurora Hermida-Ruiz

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

El impacto de María Rosa Lida en la filología hispánica del medio siglo ha sido evaluado en más de una ocasión, señaladamente a raíz de su temprana muerte en 1962, a la edad de 52 años, o con motivo de efemérides tales como el centenario de su nacimiento en 2010, o el doble cincuentenario de su muerte y de la publicación póstuma de su magnum opus, La originalidad artística de La Celestina en 2012. De una manera u otra, la crítica coincide en presentarla como una rara avis, destacando casi siempre como excepcionales tres aspectos de su actuación y de …

A Imprensa ‘Para Mulheres’: Possível Roteiro De Leitura, Mariela Méndez

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

"É impassível pensar na imprensa dita feminina no Brasil sem ancorar a reflexão nas ideias, nos conceitos e nas trajetórias apontadas nos dais livros da pesquisadora Dulcilia Buitoni, marcos na história e na análise desse tipo de produção editorial. Nos estudos Mulher de papel: a representação da mu/her pela imprensa feminina brasileira (Buitoni, 1981; 2009) e Imprensa feminina (1986), Buitoni mapeia tanto o percurso da imprensa feminina no Brasil quanto seus atributos. Apoiada na obra clássica da francesa Evelyne Sullerot, a brasileira faz questão de diferenciar a imprensa feminina da imprensa feminista, embora reconheça que a imprensa feminina moderna tenha …

A Framework For Supporting Teacher Development And Progression: Identifying Conditions To Support Teaching Interns And Early Career Teachers, Sandi Fielder, Chad M. Morrison, Susan Ledger, Peter R. Whipp

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Early career teacher retention and progression are complex issues which inform discourse about and review of pre-service teacher preparation. Debate about how to best connect pre-service teachers’ theoretical learning about teaching to practical application and reflection within the classroom (praxis) is ever-present within this dialogue. Extended teaching internship is identified as effective for connecting these elements of learning to teach, through sustained placement activity situated within supportive school environments. These extended experiences are located within communities of practice and facilitate ongoing reflection on transitions from pre-service to early career teaching. The mixed methods research reported here focused on participants’ retrospective …

Friend Or Foe: Preservice Teachers’ Experience Of Teaching While Studying, Marion Sturges, Jaydene Barnes, Jacqueline Humphries

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

The current teacher shortage across Australia is significant. Various stakeholders have contributed to the discourse around this shortage, and different solutions have been implemented, including using conditionally accredited preservice teachers to fill the gaps. However, the voices of these preservice teachers have been largely missing from conversations. In this small-scale study, a survey was used to gather insights from preservice teachers at one university about their experiences of working as teachers while simultaneously completing their teaching degrees. The preservice teacher participants enthusiastically shared their thoughts on the benefits and challenges of combining teaching with studying. A thematic analysis of the …

What Do You Know About Adhd? A Comparison Between Mainstream And Special Education Teachers, Sigal Eden, Nufar Sukenik

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

This study investigates the knowledge and attitudes toward Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among a large cohort of mainstream and special education in-service teachers in Israel. Given the pivotal role of teachers in identifying and managing ADHD symptoms within the classroom, it is crucial to ensure they possess adequate knowledge and positive attitudes toward the disorder. Previous studies have indicated a gap in knowledge and attitudes between mainstream and special education teachers, often influenced by factors such as teacher training, personal experience, and demographic characteristics. This study addresses these gaps by utilizing the well-validated ASKAT questionnaire to provide a comprehensive assessment of …

Investigating Western Australian Teacher Perceptions Of Young Children’S Challenging Behaviour In The Early Years (Kindergarten To Year 2): An Exploratory Analysis., Gillian Smith, Kay Ayre, Helen Egeberg

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

An upward national trend in challenging behaviour amongst young children in Australian schools has prompted widespread concern and garnered frequent media scrutiny. Scholars have established that child-teacher relationships are central to understanding and mitigating challenging behaviour; however, exploration of teacher perceptions of children's challenging behaviour in the early years has been scant. This paper reports on findings drawn from a larger mixed-methods study of how teachers perceive, and respond to, young children’s challenging behaviour. Survey data from 111 Western Australian teachers of Kindergarten to Year 2 showed that challenging behaviour is appraised contextually, and relational pedagogy is valued. The analysis …

Meta V Bundeskartellamt: A Double-Edged Sword For Consumer Protection, Adrianus Van Heusden, Larisa Munteanu

International Journal on Consumer Law and Practice

Although consumers and data subjects do not always overlap in the European Union, the fields of data protection and consumer law are increasingly intertwined. Within this case note, one of the most impactful and recent decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union will be analysed. Case C-252/21 will be examined through the lens of consumers using social networks in the digital age, additionally making references to the ‘take it or leave it’ and ‘cash for privacy exchange’ concepts identified by the doctrine in the field. Innovatively, this commentary will present a distinct and atypical opinion related to …