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The Current - Volume 32 Issue 17, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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Learning From South Korea’S Covid-19 Response: Why Centralizing The United States Public Health System Is Essential For Future Pandemic Responses, Meghan Ricci

Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental, & Innovation Law

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed stark differences in governmental preparedness across the globe. The United States, once thought of as a global leader in public health, had the theoretical skill and efficiency to handle the pandemic but failed to utilize those skills and resources during an actual health crisis. In the spring of 2020, everyone watched the U.S.’s reaction to the unfolding of the COVID-19 pandemic due to its historic placeholder as a global leader and innovator. However, the performance of the U.S. in response to the global pandemic disappointed both global commentators and U.S. citizens. This paper will compare the …

The Long-Term Problem With Electric Vehicle Batteries: A Policy Recommendation To Encourage Advancement For Scalable Recycling Practices, Lauren Fricke

Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental, & Innovation Law

With the growing popularity of electric vehicles, the demand for lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries, which are the dominant energy source for electric vehicles, are skyrocketing. By default, this means a growing demand for the raw materials needed to manufacture these complex batteries such as lithium, cobalt, and nickel. Economic, environmental, and political supply chain factors bring into question the sustainability of these batteries as a solution to the issues surrounding gasoline powered transportation, creating a need for large scale Li-ion battery recycling. By 2030, 140 million EVs are predicted to be on the road worldwide. In that time, eleven million …

Supplementing Dshea One Step At A Time: The Fda's Modernization Plan, Aarika Nieto

DePaul Law Review

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Utilizing Electronic Mail To Prevent Drug Trafficking In Prisons, Jessica Warshaw

DePaul Law Review

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Guilty Until Proven Guilty: Effective Bail Reform As A Human Rights Imperative, Hafsa S. Mansoor

DePaul Law Review

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Public Health Equity Law: Considering Law As A Tool In Achieving Health Equity, Dawn Pepin

DePaul Law Review

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Encounters Between The Elderly And Law Enforcement

Contemporary Southern Psychology

The elderly population is growing dramatically throughout the world. Out of this growth comes an increase in the number of encounters between the aged and law enforcement. These encounters occur because of a variety of factors including mental illnesses and addictions. Furthermore, older adults may be victims as evidenced in different forms of abuse such as physical, emotional, or financial abuse. Sadly, some documentation exists that older adults are committing more crimes. Multiple reasons have been postulated for these crimes including poverty, jealousy, and boredom. All of these different situations with the aged have created an increase in the number …

The Rider (2022-01-18), Verilu Infante

The Rider Archives

Vol.7 No.15

Minutes, Curriculum Committee Meeting, Tuesday, January 18, 2022, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Minutes

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Generating And Providing Geo-Bounded Spaces For A Virtual Community, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure relates to generating and providing geo-bounded spaces for a virtual community of users. The disclosure describes techniques to generate a geo-bounded space; analyze user information to associate a user with the geo-bounded space; enable the user to receive and publish a content item; and implement a security feature for communications associated with a geo-bounded space and/or its associated users. The techniques can determine a personal characteristic of the user; identify a user representative for the geo-bounded space; and provide a centralized content location associated with the geo-bounded space.

Seroprevalence Of Covid-19 Igg Antibody In Resident And Fellow Physicians In Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Analysis Of A Cross-Sectional Survey, Dennis J. Baumgardner, Alexander Schwank, Jessica J. F. Kram, Wilhelm Lehmann, Jacob Bidwell, Tricia La Fratta, Kenneth Copeland

Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews

Purpose: Medical trainees are likely at differential risk of exposure to COVID-19 per respective clinical activity. We sought to determine the seroprevalence of COVID-19 antibody (Ab) among resident and fellow physicians with varying degrees of exposure to COVID-19.

Methods: A cross-sectional study of Milwaukee-based resident and fellow physicians, encompassing December 2019–June 2020, was conducted. Relevant variables of interest were ascertained by survey and payroll data, and Abbott ARCHITECT Ab test (index cut-off of ≥ 1.4) was performed. Descriptive statistics were generated, with 95% CI calculated for the study’s primary outcome of seroprevalence.

Results: Among survey respondents (92 of 148, 62%), …

Monthly Trends Of Substance Use Among Mainers Receiving Buprenorphine Treatment During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Sarosh Khan

Journal of Maine Medical Center

Introduction: Drug-related deaths in Maine increased by 23% in the first quarter of 2020 compared to the last quarter of 2019. Most of these deaths were accidental overdoses involving at least one opioid, and 65% of these deaths were caused by fentanyl, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Methods: This research explored substance use in Maine during 2020. Among the sample of individuals, 46% were homeless and receiving recovery services at a buprenorphine-assisted treatment program at a federally qualified health center in Maine. Charts of 35 patients were reviewed for emergency room visits and urine drug …

Selective Delivery Of Smart Device Audio Alerts To Reduce Interruptions, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Multiple interlinked smart devices belonging to a user can each play an audio alert for the same notification, which is a disturbance for the user. This disclosure describes techniques to arbitrate among multiple devices owned by a user when providing audio alerts. The number of audio alerts played per notification is optimized to reduce interruptions to the user while still keeping the user well informed of notifications and emergencies. Per the techniques, the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of the BLE (or other wireless personal area network) signal is used to infer the distance between the devices. Distance data is …

The Grassroots Movement Of Food Allergens In The United States And The Governments Role From 1990-2016, Maria R. Garbo

The Exposition

This poster aims to explain the beginning of food allergens in the United States and how the governments interactions influence the history of food allergies. Using government documents and data it unravels what exactly the government did to help or lack there of in a very serious matter. Food allergens were a grassroots movement in the United States and just began to raise awareness within the last few decades.

Minutes 1-12-2022 | Safety Committee, Natalia Esparragoza

Safety Committee Minutes

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Brigham Young University Police And The Campus Community, Martha J. Harris

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Police Departments have become increasingly common on college campuses. In this creative thesis project, I explore Brigham Young University’s Police Department through a journalistic lens and examine what has happened since the department was almost decertified by the Utah Department of Public Safety. I do so by interviewing experts and community members, analyzing public records and data, and synthesizing my findings in a long-form audio story. I begin this paper with brief literature reviews of both crime on college campuses and the podcast medium. I then include the transcript of my podcast. Finally, I discuss my experience during this project …

January 12, 2022 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

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Midweek Memo, Georgia Southern University

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From Shared Governance To Shared Leadership: Our Covid Response To Faculty Evaluation, Support, And Advancement, John Burnight, Danielle Cowley, Becky Wilson Hawbaker, James Mattingly, Patrick Pease, Amy J. Petersen, John Vallentine

Teacher-Scholar: The Journal of the State Comprehensive University

As a state comprehensive university in a small, midwestern metropolitan area, “Students First” is more than a slogan. The preamble to our Faculty Constitution and our University’s mission statement both specify that students and their flourishing are the justification for our institution’s existence. We have learned, however, that a precondition to robust attention to students’ well-being is parallel attention to the well-being and development of our faculty. This article chronicles the principles and practices by which our shared leadership team responded to unique challenges presented by the COVID crisis and its ripple effects. A closing theme acknowledges that COVID revealed …

Nonprofits Are Questioning Their Use Of Facebook, Emily Brenner, Karen Hoekstra

Research, Reports, and Publications

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The Effect Of The Seattle Police-Free Chop Zone On Crime: A Microsynthetic Control Evaluation, Eric L. Piza, Nathan T. Connealy

Publications and Research

Research Summary:

Nightly confrontations occurred between protestors and officers outside of the Seattle Police Department’s (SPD’s) East precinct in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder. On June 8, 2020, the SPD abandoned the East precinct in an attempt to calm the situation. Following closure of the precinct, the Capitol Hill Occupation Protest (CHOP) took hold in the surrounding 6-block area. The CHOP occupation lasted until July 1, 2020. Over this time period, CHOP operated as an autonomous zone, with police officers not patrolling and generally not responding to calls for police service within the area. We used the microsynthetic control …

Covid-19 Newsletter (Vol. 103), Center For Disaster Medicine, New York Medical College

COVID-19 Newsletter

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Purcell To Retire As Uab's Chief Of Police, Linda Gunter

Browse All News

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Dark And Quiet Skies Ii Working Group Reports, James Lowenthal, Connie Walker, Piero Benvenuti

Astronomy: Faculty Publications

This Report presents the main results of the Conference “Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society II” which took place on-line on 3–7 October 2021. This conference was the logical follow-up of the first one, organized as an on-line workshop with the same title on 5–9 October 2020. Both conferences were co-organized by UNOOSA, IAU and the Government of Spain and were well attended. The focus of the second conference was about the feasibility of implementing the recommendations presented by the first one in its extensive report. The main qualifying difference between the first and the second conferences was …

Intouch January 10, 2022, New York Medical College

InTouch

• NYMC Mourns the Death of Two Former Leaders
• TCUS Set to Create New Campus in Times Square
• Chancellor Hosts Virtual Town Hall Meeting
• NYMC Announces Changes to Food Services Operations
• NYMC Takes a Look Back on 2021
• Isidora Monteparo, SOM Class of 2022: Air Force Second Lieutenant, Artist and Future Air Force Physician
• The Office of Student and Residential Life Makes NYMC Feel Like Home

A Study Of Blockchain-Based Internet Of Things, Roheen Qamar

Iraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics

Blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT), two of the most emerging technologies, are alreadyreconfiguring our digital future, as described by the drastic change in the current network architecture. Theincorporation of IoT has brought the objects around us to life, making them “smart” and capable of communicatingwith one another, thereby amassing massive data by consistently acquiring the physical world for analysis andintelligent action. It has made our dream of seamless integration of the digital and physical worlds a reality, alteringthe essence of our perception of the physical world. However, the issue with current IoT solutions is the requirementfor a centrally …

Obituaries

Colby Magazine

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Opioid‐Specific Medication‐Assisted Therapy And Its Impact On Criminal Justice And Overdose Outcomes, C. Clare Strange, Sarah M. Manchak, Jordan M. Hyatt, Damon M. Petrich, Alisha Desai, Cory P. Haberman

Criminal Justice & Criminology: Faculty Publications & Other Works

Background

The overlap between justice system involvement and drug use is well-documented. Justice-involved people who misuse opioids are at high risk for relapse and criminal recidivism. Criminal justice policymakers consider opioid-specific medication-assisted therapies (MATs) one approach for improving outcomes for this population. More research is needed that explores the impacts of opioid-specific MATs for justice-involved people.

Objectives

This study sought to assess the effects of opioid-specific MAT for reducing the frequency and likelihood of criminal justice and overdose outcomes for current or formerly justice-involved individuals.

Search Methods

Records were searched between May 7, 2021 and June 23, 2021. We searched …

Seoul’S Misguided Desire For A Nuclear Submarine, James Campbell

Naval War College Review

Rather than waste its money on nuclear submarines that would provide only a single-dimensional response, South Korea should lock down a superior ASW suite by combining new technologies with existing ROKN platforms to provide multiple mission capabilities for less money, including support by existing maintenance infrastructure.