The Human Rights Fulcrum: Using Environmental Rights As Leverage For Change, Rebecca Bratspies

Pace International Law Review

“Give me a lever long enough and a firm place on which to stand and I will move the earth." That is how Archimedes famously described the power of levers and the possibility they create for moving something that otherwise seems immovable. His point was that with the use of distance, a fulcrum, and a lever, nothing is really immovable. This same characterization has been applied to human rights law, and its attempts to disrupt patterns of structural dispossession, discrimination and oppression that bedevil human society. Indeed, the metaphor that human rights are a lever for change is relatively common …

Analysing Numeracy Demands In Alberta Curriculum: A Focus On High School Mathematics, Asia Majeed, Kwesi Yaro

Numeracy

In recent years, numeracy has been recognized as a key educational priority across the curriculum in many international jurisdictions, including almost all Canadian provinces. In Alberta province, Canada, for example, the Teaching Quality Standard (TQS) #3 explicitly states that all teachers are responsible for fostering literacy and numeracy skills, regardless of the specific subject areas they teach. This expanded focus reflects a broader understanding of numeracy not merely as a subset of mathematical skills, but as a fundamental competency that supports informed participation in civic, economic, and personal life. This paper applies the 21st Century Numeracy Model (Goos et al., …

Tbi Semi-Annual Report July-December 2024, Tennessee. Bureau Of Investigation.

Annual Report

No abstract provided.

2025 Child Fatality Annual Report, Tennessee. Department Of Health.

Child Fatalities in Tennessee Report

No abstract provided.

The Savage Ontology V2: A Complete Physical Theory Of Certified Computation, Nick Y. Savage

Defensive Publications Series

Defensive publication establishing prior art for the Savage Ontology — a closed, self-consistent physical theory of certified computation consisting of eight theses: (1) Information has physical observables (Flux Tensor), (2) The computational manifold is triply constrained (symplectic, holographic, causal), (3) Computational time is derived from topology (Topological Clock), (4) The system converges to a golden-ratio-governed fixed point (φ from α²−α−1=0), (5) Self-repair is a theorem (100/100 adversarial attacks repaired), (6) Cognition is thermodynamic (Landauer-complete), (7) Computation is causally isolated (Causal Diamond), (8) The Savage Limit εs=10⁻⁶ certifies every state transition.

Architecture: SIA-v6 (Symplectic Inference Architecture, Version 6) Verification: 1,565/1,565 test …

Personalized Environmental Risk Alerting Via Fusion Of Physiological, Environmental, And Contextual Data, Sumukh Shevde, Sudeep Chauhan

Defensive Publications Series

Personal health monitoring devices may detect physiological changes but can lack environmental context to determine a cause, while environmental alert systems may rely on generic, non-personalized data. Systems and methods are described that can algorithmically fuse multiple data streams. These streams can include real-time physiological data from a wearable computing device (e.g., a smart watch, fitness tracker), such as heart rate variability; hyperlocal environmental data, such as air quality or noise levels; and contextual data, such as a user's location and activity level. This fusion of data may be used to compute a personalized risk index. The index may then …

Peer-To-Peer Relay Of Emergency Signals Following Primary Communication Link Failure, Sumukh Shevde, Nazih Almalki

Defensive Publications Series

The reliability of emergency signaling from computing devices (e.g., smartphones, smart watches, or wearable devices) with direct-to-satellite communication can be affected when a primary communication link is unavailable due to factors such as antenna obstruction, environmental shielding, or power constraints. Systems and methods are described that provide a peer-to-peer relay mechanism. For example, upon failure to establish a primary long-range connection, a first device can broadcast an emergency relay request using a low-power, short-range radio. A proximate second device can detect the request and, if it has a viable communication link (e.g., cellular, Wi-Fi, or its own satellite link), it …

Evolution Of Surface Roughness And Hardness For Iraqi Flint-Bauxite Refractory Bricks, Zainab Kassim Hassan, Enas Muhy Hadi, Huda Jabbar Abdulalhussin

Journal of Applied Sciences and Nanotechnology

This research aimed to assess how coarse bauxite affects the microstructure and surface-related characteristics of refractory made using Iraqi flint, bauxite and kaolin raw materials. The study focused on determining how porosity, mullite morphological features and grain packing occur with the addition of coarse bauxite (≤ 1.18 mm) to flint refractories and what effect those features have on the mechanical properties of hardness and surface roughness. The originality of this research lay in the deliberate introduction of coarse bauxite as an alumina source. As such, the addition resulted in a poorly bonded mullite phase; a microstructural characteristic not examined in …

Development And Evaluation Of A Folic Acid-Targeted, Ph-Responsive Superparamagnetic Nanocomposite For Selective Camptothecin Delivery In Antibacterial Applications, Musaab Mohammed Kadhim, Qasim Najim Thewaini, Sharafaldin Al-Musawi

Journal of Applied Sciences and Nanotechnology

This study addresses the critical need for improved therapeutic strategies to overcome the limitations of conventional treatments, particularly systemic toxicity and poor bioavailability of potent agents such as camptothecin (CPT). This research was designed to fabricate and characterize a superparamagnetic iron oxide nanocomposite (SPION-DEX-CPT-FA) used for the selective delivery of CPT and to evaluate its effectiveness in antibacterial applications against bacteria Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus pneumoniae from the urinary tract. Studies involving the synthesis and evaluation of nanocomposites are being considered for the targeted delivery of a particular drug. The method used a …

Effect Of Crushed Brick Waste Addition On The Physical, Mechanical, And Thermal Properties Of Fired Zurbatiya Clay For Environmentally Friendly Brick Production, Mervit Mahdi Hanoos, Shihab Ahmed Zaidan, Hanaa Areer Al-Kasiy

Journal of Applied Sciences and Nanotechnology

This study investigates the addition of 10%, 20%, and 30% crushed brick waste (CBW) to Zurbatiya clay and firing the mixture at 1000°C for 8 hours to produce sustainable and energy-efficient bricks. The results showed that the overall density increased to 1.85 g/cm³ at 10% CBW, yet decreased to 1.4 g/cm³ at 30% due to the increase in porosity from 18% to over 30%. Consequently, thermal conductivity decreased from 0.5 to less than 0.3 W/m· K, enhancing thermal insulation. Also, Shear strength decreased from 15 MPa to 5 MPa but remained acceptable at the 10–20% ratios. Shrinkage improved …

Formulation Of Vegetable Oils Loaded Nanoemulsions For Photoprotection Against Uvb And Uva Radiation: In Vitro Study, Kawther Ali Hussein, Randa Mohammed Dhahi

Journal of Applied Sciences and Nanotechnology

The objective of this study is the development of bio-based nanoemulsions that were derived from natural sources, including olive, coconut, red raspberry, and tomato seed oils, to produce safe and effective UV- protective agents. The nanoemulsions were produced at the nanoscale with uniform droplets by employing ultrasonic emulsification utilizing deionized water and Tween 80. According to Dynamic light scattering (DLS), the oil nanoemulsification from red raspberry exhibited the smallest droplet size of (148.5 nm), low polydispersity index of (0.218) and high zeta potential of (–35.6 mV). The spherical shape of the droplets was confirmed via Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) as …

Studying The Compressive Strength And Thermal Conductivity Properties Of Metakaolin-Based Geopolymer Concrete By Using Natural Perlite, Aya Nahedh Mohsin, Hanaa A. Al-Kaisy, Jamal J. Dawood

Journal of Applied Sciences and Nanotechnology

The building industry must investigate sustainable alternatives due to the environmental impact of traditional construction methods and the growing depletion of natural resources. Using perlite (3–5 mm) to partially replace natural coarse aggregates in concrete production is one possible strategy. However, concerns remain regarding the performance of perlite in structural applications, particularly its effect on mechanical behavior and durability. This study examines the structural performance of concrete incorporating graphene and partially substituting perlite for coarse aggregates. Perlite was used at replacement levels of 5%, 10%, and 15%, and graphene was added at 0.1%, 0.3%, and 0.5% by cement mass. Cubic …

Empirical Evaluation Of A Cnn-Resnet-Rf Hybrid Model For Occupancy Rate Prediction In Passive Ultra-Low-Energy Buildings, Yiwen Liu, Yibing Xue, Chunlu Liu, Runyu Wang

Student Papers, Posters & Projects

Accurate occupancy information is critical for optimizing energy efficiency in buildings. Hybrid machine learning models have demonstrated great potential in previous studies; however, their application in passive ultra-low-energy buildings remains underexplored. This study conducts an empirical evaluation of real-time occupancy rate prediction using a CNN-ResNet-RF hybrid model based on multi-source environmental and behavioral data from a passive ultra-low-energy educational building. The model integrates Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for local feature extraction, Residual Networks (ResNet) to enhance deep feature representation, and Random Forests (RF) for ensemble-based generalization. Indoor CO₂ concentration exhibits the strongest linear correlation with occupancy rate (r = …

The Student Movement Volume 110 Issue 17: Springing Forward United, Ysa Dennis, Addison Randall, Corinna Bevier, Anna Pak, Megan Constantine, Caleb Chung, Zorislav Plantak, Isa Demoraes, Moraya Truman, Melanie Webb, Nathaniel Reid, Laura Pérez

The Student Movement V. 110 (2025-2026)

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

To Be An Independent Artist: Mac Rapach, Ysa Dennis

Music Festival: Symphony Orchestra Showcase, Addison Randall

I Watched Every 2025 Best Picture Nominee (So You Don't Have To), Corinna Bevier

HUMANS

Bible Study Group Spotlight: "Come Let Us Reason Together", Anna Pak

Create, Communicate, Connect : A Look into the VACD, Megan Constantine

NEWS

AUSA Election Results Announced: Meet Your 2026-27 Officers, Caleb Chung

James White Library Creates New Disability Technology Room, Zorislav Plantak

University Leadership Responds to Student Concerns at Town Hall, Isa DeMoraes

IDEAS

The Monthly Cycle of Being a Woman, Moraya Truman

Maybe It …

Daily Eastern News: March 11, 2026, Eastern Illinois University

Daily Eastern News: 2025-2026

No abstract provided.

The Host Galaxies Of Active Galactic Nuclei With Direct Black Hole Mass Measurements, Vardha N. Bennert, Nico Winkel, Tommaso Treu, Xuheng Ding, Vivian U, Raymond P. Remigio, Aaron J. Barth, Matthew A. Malkan, Lizvette Villafaña, Samantha Allen

Physics

Reverberation mapping (RM) determines the mass of black holes (BHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) by resolving the BH gravitational sphere of influence in the time domain. Recent RM campaigns have yielded direct BH masses through dynamical modeling for a sample of 32 objects, spanning a wide range of AGN luminosities and BH masses. In addition, accurate BH masses have been determined by spatially resolving the broad-line region with GRAVITY for a handful of AGNs. Here, we present a detailed analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images using surface-brightness profile fitting with state-of-the-art programs. We derive AGN luminosity and host-galaxy properties, …

From Courtrooms To Classrooms: Experiments In Survival, Justin Surdyka

Journal of Prison Education Research

The transformative powers of college-in-prison programs are known, but students get the grave of continued incarceration—even if we are fully rehabilitated. For the college-in-prison student who spends years in classes, degrees and parole denials are synonymous, especially for those of us who have committed violent off enses. We are educated but not redeemed in the eyes of the system. My classmates and I are the degrees behind the denials, the students behind the degrees, the prisoners behind the students, the human beings behind the prisoners who are the reason higher education in prison is praised for being transformative. Yet we …

An Ambient Acoustic Ice-Fracturing Dataset Taken In Shallow Freshwater, John Case, Andrew Barnard, Daniel Brown

Michigan Tech Publications

This paper describes an acoustic dataset collected on a frozen shallow freshwater lake between February and March of 2024. This collection took place over one full week on Portage Lake in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA. The first sub-dataset consists of ambient ice and environmental noises collected by an array of hydrophones, microphones and geophones placed below, above and on the ice respectively. The second sub-dataset consists of instrumented force hammer impacts at a series of locations on the the ice with the corresponding response at each acoustic sensor. All acoustic data were recorded at a sample rate f …

The Impact Of Foot Care Education Within The Unhoused Female Population: A Community-Based Nursing Intervention, Bertha Karina Coronel Barragan, Jessica Sandoval, Afia Margaret Darko, Alexandra Elizabeth Lucero, Gloria Yeyoung Kim, Anyanka T. Ziegler

Nursing Leadership in Community Engagement Projects

The Impact of Foot Care Education Within the Unhoused Female Population: A Community-based Nursing Intervention

The unhoused population is a vulnerable community that faces many obstacles in accessing healthcare (Benadda et al., 2025). Many of these individuals face stigmas related to their economic and housing conditions. It is important for nurses to be able to identify risk factors that may increase the prevalence of health-related problems, including using public health models to implement disease prevention. When discussing this population, one crucial preventative measure includes foot care, which aids in the deterrence of infections and promotes overall health (Coates et al., …

Trust Before Treatment: Educating Nurses On Trauma-Informed Care For Sex Trade Survivors, Matthew George Ditchik, Monserrat Castaneda, Daniela Tirado Osorio, Emily Haynes, Dani Salazar Tuparan, Joie Ikuzwe Mburu

Nursing Leadership in Community Engagement Projects

Trust Before Treatment: Educating Nurses on Trauma-Informed Care for Sex Trade Survivors

Survivors of the sex trade often seek healthcare during some of the most vulnerable times in their lives, yet many report experiences of judgment, dismissal, or re-traumatization within clinical settings. Trauma-informed care is an approach that recognizes the lasting impact trauma can have on a person’s physical and emotional well-being and calls healthcare professionals to adjust their practices to promote safety, trust, autonomy, and empowerment. Research shows that implementing trauma-informed care improves patient well-being, enhances staff collaboration, and reduces the risk of further harm (Huo et al., 2023). …

Michael Kaplon V. Morris Township Police Department

2026 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Minimum Wages And Workplace Injuries, Michael Davies, R. Jisung Park, Anna Stansbury

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

How do minimum wage changes affect workplace amenities? Using the universe of claims from California, the US’ largest workers’ compensation system, over 2000-2019, we exploit geographic variation in state- and city-level minimum wages and local occupation-level variation in exposure to minimum wage changes to estimate whether minimum wage increases affect the rate of workplace injuries. We find a large adverse effect of raising minimum wages on injuries. A 10% increase in the minimum wage increases the injury rate by 7.2% in an occupation-metro area labor market which is fully exposed to the minimum wage increase. Our results imply an elasticity …

Pediatric Thyroid Disorders: What Pediatricians Need To Know About Diagnosis, Referral, And Surgical Care, Michael Smith, John Dahl

Pediatrics in Practice: A CME Podcast

Pediatric thyroid disorders can present subtly but have significant implications if missed. In this episode, Jake Dahl, MD, PhD, MBA, discusses how pediatric thyroid disease differs from adult presentations, when pediatricians should consider specialty referral, and how endocrinology and surgery work together to guide care. The conversation offers practical insights to help pediatricians recognize red flags, navigate referrals, and support families through diagnosis and treatment.

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Interfacial Chemistry Involved In Selective Separation Of Nmc/Lmo And Lco/Lmo Binary Cathode Materials By Froth Flotation Using Oleic Acid, Richard Kofi Oboh, Kaiwu Huang, Seoung Bum Son, Lei Pan

Michigan Tech Publications

The variability in cathode compositions within recycled lithium-ion battery (LIB) feedstocks poses a significant challenge to efficient downstream refining processes. This study demonstrates the feasibility of using froth flotation with oleic acid as a collector to selectively separate lithium nickel-manganese-cobalt oxide (NMC) and lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) from lithium manganese oxide (LMO) materials. Laboratory-scale flotation tests achieved an 80% separation efficiency in a single stage, producing a froth product with >90% purity of NMC/LCO at approximately 90% yield. Concurrently, the LMO materials were enriched in the sink product with ∼90% purity and ∼90% yield. This approach was further validated using …

Efficient Energy-Stable Discontinuous Galerkin Schemefor The Non-Isothermal Cahn–Hilliard–Navier–Stokestwo-Phase Fluid Flow System, Guang-An Zou, Meiting Wang, Kejia Pan, Yin Yang, Xiaofeng Yang

Faculty Publications

In this article, we propose a novel numerical framework for the non-isothermal Cahn–Hilliard–Navier–Stokes two-phase flow system, which couples the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations, the Cahn–Hilliard phase-field equation, and the heat transport equation to capture temperature-dependent two-phase flow dynamics. The pro-posed scheme achieves three major advances: (i) unconditional energy stability through a combined scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) and zero-energy-contribution (ZEC) approach, (ii) linearity and full decoupling of all variables while using a second-order temporal discretization, and (iii) efficient implementation via discontinuous Galerkin (DG) spa-tial discretization together with a second-order projection method for the Navier–Stokes equations. We rigorously prove the unconditional energy stability …

Congruence Properties Modulo Prime Powers For A Class Of Partition Functions, Matthew Boylan, Swati .

Faculty Publications

Let p be prime, and let p_[1,p](n) denote the function whose generating function is

∏ _n≥1 (1 − qⁿ)⁻¹ (1 − q^pn)⁻¹.

This function and its generalizations p_[c^r,d^m](n) are the subject of study in several recent papers. Let ℓ ≥ 5, let j ≥ 1, and let p ∈ {2, 3, 5}. In this paper, we prove that the generating function for p_[1,p](n) in the progression β_{p,ℓ,j …}

How Do Minimum Wages Affect Workplace Injuries?, Michael Davies, R. Jisung Park, Anna Stansbury

Upjohn Institute Policy and Research Briefs

No abstract provided.

Underwriting The Wrongs: How Certain Underwriters At Lloyd's, London V. Alliance Drilling Consultants Exposes The Need To Solve Louisiana's Comparative Fault Circuit Split For Contract-Based Drilling Claims, Amber Clement

LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

No abstract provided.

Tunable 3d-Printed Biomaterials For Perfused In Vitro Models Of The Blood-Brain Barrier, Louis Salvatore Paone

Theses and Dissertations

In vitro models have tremendous utility for improving our understanding of complex physiological and pathophysiological processes in a more controlled environment than animal models, in addition to incorporating human cells to overcome species-specific disparities. This dissertation describes innovations in biomaterial-based fabrication processes that advance in vitro models of the blood-brain barrier, providing the opportunity to evaluate the effects of cell-matrix interactions on barrier integrity, additives to reduce viscous drag of blood flow, and molecular mechanisms underlying the cellular response to amyloid beta in the context of Alzheimer’s disease. The core technology underlying this advance is a biomaterial compatible with digital …

Note To Self V. Bpx: Closing The Post-Production Cost Gap In Louisiana's Forced Pooling Laws, Addison A. Jones

LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

No abstract provided.