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More Than #Freebritney: Remedying Constitutional Violations In Guardianship For People With Disabilities, Hannah Shotwell

New Mexico Law Review

Adult guardianship is used as a method to restrict the decisionmaking rights of some individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities who have been deemed “incompetent.” However, the use of guardianship to remove someone’s decisionmaking rights violates the equal protection rights granted by the New Mexico Constitution. Discrimination against people with developmental disabilities must be substantially related to an important governmental interest, and the current state of guardianship fails to meet that bar. Further, guardianship violates the state constitutional guarantee of due process because it infringes on the fundamental right to the least restrictive means of care. New Mexico must adopt …

Changes In Measures Of Vestibular And Balance Function And Hippocampus Volume In Alzheimer's Disease And Mild Cognitive Impairment, Helen S Cohen, Christie M Lincoln, Valory N Pavlik, Haleh Sangi-Haghpeykar

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

OBJECTIVE: To test the hypotheses that people with Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment have increased frequency of vestibular impairments and decreased hippocampal volume compared with healthy age-matched controls.

STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective, with some historical controls.

SETTING: Out-patient, tertiary care center.

SUBJECTS: People with mild to moderate dementia diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and with mild cognitive impairment. Main Outcome Measures: A standard clinical battery of objective tests of the vestibular system, and screening for balance; available clinical diagnostic magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs) were reviewed and postprocessed to quantify the left and right hippocampal volumes utilizing both manual segmentation and computer …

Cybersecurity Of Critical Infrastructures: Challenges And Solutions, Leandros Maglaras, Helge Janicke, Mohamed Amine Ferrag

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

People’s lives are becoming more and more dependent on information and computer technology. This is accomplished by the enormous benefits that the ICT offers for everyday life. Digital technology creates an avenue for communication and networking, which is characterized by the exchange of data, some of which are considered sensitive or private. There have been many reports recently of data being hijacked or leaked, often for malicious purposes. Maintaining security and privacy of information and systems has become a herculean task. It is therefore imperative to understand how an individual’s or organization’s personal data can be protected. Moreover, critical infrastructures …

2022-2023 Academic Catalog, Saint Mary's College Of California

Academic Catalog

No abstract provided.

Student Life, Saint Mary's College Of California

Academic Catalog

No abstract provided.

Smart And Intelligent Automation For Industry 4.0 Using Millimeter-Wave And Deep Reinforcement Learning, Abhishek Vashist

Theses

Innovations in communication systems, compute hardware, and deep learning algorithms have led to the advancement of smart industry automation. Smart automation includes industrial sectors such as intelligent warehouse management, smart infrastructure for first responders, and smart monitoring systems. Automation aims to maximize efficiency, safety, and reliability. Autonomous forklifts can significantly increase productivity, reduce safety-related accidents, and improve operation speed to enhance the efficiency of a warehouse. Forklifts or robotic agents are required to perform different tasks such as position estimation, mapping, and dispatching. Each of the tasks involves different requirements and design constraints. Smart infrastructure for first responder applications requires …

In The Name Of National Security Or Insecurity?: The Potential Indefinite Detention Of Noncitizen Certified Terrorists In The United States And The United Kingdom In The Aftermath Of September 11, 2001, Dana Keith

Florida Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Environmental Damages And Crimes, Jeffrey S. Wade, Rafael González Ballar, Fernando C. Walcacer, José Rubens Morato Leite, Marcelo Buzaglo Dantas

Florida Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Supreme Court Jurisprudence And School Shooting Threats: A Legal Review, Benjamin P. Comer

Journal of Criminal Justice and Law

This legal review provides a general synopsis of selected school shooting threat cases processed in U.S. Federal courts and specifically emphasizes the interpretive mechanisms employed by judges during the adjudicatory process. Approximately 29 federal cases involving school shooting threats are reviewed, and six different legal tests and rules commonly used by federal courts are discussed in detail. Among other findings, descriptive statistics reveal that a majority of courts employed the Tinker rule when analyzing threats (72.4%) and that the majority of cases involved the application of a single test (72%). Select cases are then discussed which highlight the application of …

2021-2022 Annual Report, Southern Illinois University Board Of Trustees

Annual Report Archive

No abstract provided.

Critical Information Infrastructure Protection, Vulnerabilities, Threats And Challenges: A Critical Review, Krishna Prakasha

Manipal Journal of Science and Technology

Protection of Critical Information Infrastructure is a crucial requirement nowadays and requires immediate attention and a lot of prevention activities to avoid any cyber threat to critical IT services. This article aims to give a basic overview of Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) and Critical Sectors such as the Power and Energy Sector, Banking Financial Service and Insurance (BFSI), Telecommunications, Government Services, the Transport Sector, the Health Sector, etc. The consequences of attacks on these sectors have been examined, including their national and international challenges. This article shall also discuss the vulnerabilities of common CII, security controls, emerging trends, threats, and …

Inconsistencies In Bail Determinations: An Analysis Of Judicial Decision- Making, Kacey Henning

Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality

No abstract provided.

Defunding Police Agencies, Rick Su, Anthony O'Rourke, Guyora Binder

Journal Articles

This Article contextualizes the police defunding movement and the backlash it has generated. The defunding movement emerged from the work of Black-led activists to reassert democratic control over policing and shift resources to social service agencies and other institutions serving community needs. In reaction, states have enacted anti-defunding bills checking local government reduction of law enforcement budgets. These anti-defunding measures continue a long tradition of state and federal control over local police spending, subverting local democratic control over police agencies. These limits include direct legal constraints on local police spending and indirect constraints through grants and authorization to collect fines, …

In Celebration Of Morrissey V. Brewer At Fifty: A Surprising University Of Nebraska College Of Law Back Story To The Prisoners’ Rights Due Process Landmark, Russell E. Lovell Ii

Nebraska Law Review

The year 2022 will be the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1972 landmark prisoners’ rights case, Morrissey v. Brewer.1 Morrissey was a Fourteenth Amendment due process challenge involving an Iowan whose parole was revoked without a hearing.2 But long before Mr. Morrissey was in prison, a legislative internship at the University of Nebraska College of Law (Nebraska Law) in 1968 got me involved in researching and drafting the Nebraska Treatment and Corrections Act of 1969, including state parole law. The one area of parole law not reformed by the new legislation was parole revocation, a shortcoming that was the …

Unintended Sibling Legislation? Statutory Regulations Of Child Labor In Germany And In The United States, Carol Daugherty Rasnic

Florida Journal of International Law

This essay analyzes the federal child labor laws of Germany and the United States in an attempt to ascertain whether similarly extreme distinctions are evident in this area as well. The two bodies of law will be compared according to: (1) businesses or employers subject to the laws; (2) individuals protected; (3) exemptions or exceptions; (4) types of work prohibited for minors and scope of restrictions and duties on employers; and (5) penalties for violations and enforcement procedures. A study of Germany’s statute protecting the minor worker (jugendarbeitsschutzgesetz) and the child labor provisions of the United States’ Fair …

U.S. Micromobility Law (Major Road Work Ahead), Peter W. Martin

Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers

Over the past decade electrically powered bicycles, stand-up scooters, skateboards, and more have burst onto the nation’s streets and sidewalks. While some have been owned by their riders, a combination of embedded technology and smartphone apps allowed well-funded start-ups to distribute these novel e-vehicles across urban public spaces, making them available for on-demand, short-term rental. This blossoming of “micromobility” has taken place within physical and legal infrastructures ill-prepared for the change. Indisputably, most of the new types of individual motorized mobility fell outside established vehicle categories. The literal terms of existing law banned their use on all public rights of …

Oklahoma V. Castro-Huerta, United States Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh

US Government Documents Related to Indigenous Nations

This United States (US) Supreme Court decision, argued April 27, 2022 and decided June 29, 2022 expanded the reach of state jurisdiction to allow for prosecution of crimes that occur on Indigenous land, regardless of whether or not a state is named as having such jurisdiction under US Public Law 280. In 2020, the US Supreme Court's decision on McGirt v. Oklahoma established that much of the eastern part of the state of Oklahoma is Indigenous land and therefore falls under either tribal jurisdiction or Federal jurisdiction. In 2015 Victor Manuel Castro-Huerta was charged and convicted of child neglect by …

Lindenwood Digest, June 29, 2022, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been a digital employee newsletter since 2009.

Florida In Publications, 2016, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Covid-19 Newsletter (Vol. 125), Center For Disaster Medicine, New York Medical College

COVID-19 Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Methods And Devices For Sample Capture Using Gas-Pulse Nanoparticle Displacement, Kermit King Murray, Fabrizio Donnarumma, Jamira Stephenson

College of Science Patents

The present disclosure provides for sampling instruments and methods of collecting sample particles. The sampling instrument can include a high-pressure pulsed valve coupled to a gas flow system to displace a sample from a surface. Also included can be a voltage supply coupled to a voltage switch, a suction device, a sample collector, and a collection filter. To collect a sample, extractive particles can be deposited onto a sample present on a substrate. At least a portion of the sample becomes coupled to a portion of the extractive particles to form sample particles. High-pressure gas can be discharged at the …

6.27 Nyc Districting Commission Hearing Summary, Piper Benedict

Redistricting Resources

No abstract provided.

An Exploratory Investigation Of Student-Level Factors And Perceptions Of Safety In Secondary Schools Implementing Swpbis, Nicholas L. Scheel

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Past and recent violent incidents (e.g., shootings, bullying) within schools in the United States have caused great concern among the public about the safety of students. Although research has shed light upon the positive and negative impacts of current crisis prevention initiatives (e.g., federal and state legislation, security cameras, trauma-informed practices) on student perceptions of safety, the breadth of literature focused on the impact multitiered systems of supports (i.e., school-wide positive behavior supports and interventions [SWPBIS]) have on student perceptions of safety is limited (Nowicki, 2020). This exploratory investigation utilized a multivariate analysis of variance to examine perceptions of safety …

The Junk Playground As Agora: Designing Spaces To Re-Invigorate Democratic Participation, Mathias Poulsen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In this paper, I suggest that there is an urgent need to design new spaces and possibilities for democratic participation. With inspiration from the tradition of “adventure playgrounds”, I argue that play design can contribute to expanding the participatory repertoire within deliberative democracy. Two design experi-ments are presented and discussed through the prism of self-determination the-ory and the findings point to a new understanding of democratic participation and the intrinsic, civic motivation that drives it. By shifting focus from the classi-cal deliberative ideals of rational discourse towards sensorial, open-ended explo-ration and creation, new democratic possibilities emerge. It is argued that …

Ethics Through Design, Maria Alejandra Luján Escalante, Luke Moffat, Monika Büscher

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Ethics through Design (EtD) uses co-design methods to create, facilitate and nurture anticipatory capabilities for research and innovation, responsive to both society and environment. In practice, EtD problematizes both Ethics and Design. This paper draws upon ethics of technology, specifically the work of Gilbert Simondon, to formulate principles of co-design facilitation. EtD understands ethics, beyond regulation and administrative ticking-box exercises, as contextual, creative and participatory ongoing processes. EtD has been developed within Disaster and Risk Management (DRM) and Emergency Response domains, over 7 years of working in partnership with emergency response practitioners, policymakers, academics across disciplines, standardization organizations and key …

Designing Inside And Alongside The System: Working With Residents Of Ferguson, Missouri On Police Reform, Alix Gerber

DRS Biennial Conference Series

After uprisings exposed the racial bias of policing in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice committed the city to a process of court-ordered reform. This paper outlines a creative exploration of two design approaches to impacting policymaking and legal reform in this context: a Participant Designer approach that sought to include more people’s lived experience and perspectives in policymaking, and a Speculative approach that worked to reframe the discussion from a problem about policing to an opportunity to imagine new forms of public safety. These approaches explored ways of working inside and alongside the legal system, on …

2022 Charter & Membership Roster | Safety Committee, Natalia Esparragoza

Committee Charge & Membership Roster

No abstract provided.

The Tesla Brake Failure Protestor Scandal: A Case Study Of Situational Crisis Communication Theory On Chinese Media, Jiajun Liu

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The aim of this thesis is to test how Tesla handles a protestor in Tesla’s booth in Shanghai. This thesis evaluated the effectiveness and acceptance of Tesla’s public relations and crisis communication through analyzing domestic Chinese official news articles and consumers’ attitude on China’s most used social media platform, Weibo. The electric vehicle industry is relatively a newer industry than traditional automobile manufacturing industries. Therefore, the immaturity of the industry could bring different types of crises, and traditional vehicle problems could also be the problems of electric vehicles, such as engine failure, brake failure, safety concerns and security threats, and …

Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session June 23, 2022, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

Acceptance of the Agenda

Approval of the Minutes

Remarks by the Chair

Remarks by the President

Updates by the Faculty Senate President

Updates by the Western Student Association President

Updates by the Graduate Student Association Vice President

Presentation – WMU’s Investment in the Future – Academic Tenure and Promotion

Public Comments Regarding Action Items

Action Items

• Proclamation - Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Title IX
• Academic Tenure and Promotion
• Teaching Assistants Union (TAU) Labor Agreement
• Police Officers Association (POA) Labor Agreement
• Tuition and Required Fee Rates Fall 2022
• General Fund Budget, Fiscal Year 2022-2023
• Student Room, Board, and Apartment …

Degradation Performance Modeling And Optimal Maintenance Planning Of Deteriorating Critical Infrastructures, Hung Q. Nguyen

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Serving as the backbone of the nation’s economy, a large and growing number of deteriorating critical infrastructures, such as transportation and water infrastructures, are underperforming, aging, becoming structurally deficient, and must be repaired or replaced. Due to the influence of a variety of factors (e.g., material structure, design, operation, and environmental conditions) at different phases of lifecycle and the costly data acquisition process, field degradation of deteriorating infrastructures is highly uncertain with limited degradation data. The co-location and spatial proximity between many infrastructures, such as road and water infrastructures, further makes them physically and operationally interdependent. The sheer deterioration of …