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Magna Carta And The Origins Of Legislative Power, Matthew Steilen

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Borrowing As Realization: Taxing Billionaires' Unlocked Gains, David G. Chamberlain

Buffalo Law Review

Should billionaires be able to live large by borrowing against appreciated assets? By holding and not selling the appreciated assets, billionaires pay no taxes on the wealth unlocked through the borrowing. This feat is accomplished by relying on the interplay of two fundamental principles of the U.S. federal income tax system. First is the principle of “realization.” Whether or not this principle has a constitutional foundation, which is hotly debated, the current tax system requires that, except in very limited circumstances, a gain is taxed only if it is “realized” through a sale, exchange, or other disposition of the asset. …

Live In Fragments, Matthew Frye-Castillo

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.

Weekday Morning, Running Late, Tamara Kreutz

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.

Editor-In-Chief’S Foreword, Megan Stupi

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Generative Privacy Doctrine: The Case For A New Legal Privacy Framework For Gen^Ai, Karina Devi Etminani

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

From quills to queries, from secrets once scrawled in private to personal prompts on glowing screens, debates over privacy rights endure. Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) further confounds by conflating confession with code, and intimate thoughts with algorithms. Although technologists have predicted AI’s ascent before, and have critically assessed privacy rights for decades, the unprecedented engagement with GenAI following OpenAI’s public launch of ChatGPT marks a distinct moment— one where a generation of rights holders actively builds and converses with emerging platforms while the law strains to keep pace.

Existing privacy doctrines are ill-prepared for GenAI’s dynamic data processing and its …

Impacts Of The 2024 Coral Bleaching Event On Reef Fish Biodiversity, Misali Island, Zanzibar, Louisa Blakely

Tanzania-Zanzibar: Coastal Ecology and Natural Resource Management

Coral reefs are critical ecosystems that support roughly a quarter of all marine life, yet they are increasingly under threat from climate change. In spring 2024, Misali Island—a well-conserved reef site off the coast of Pemba, Tanzania—experienced one of the most severe coral bleaching events since the global mass bleaching of 1998. This study investigates how the most recent bleaching event has affected fish biodiversity around Misali. Survey data collected through underwater transects revealed that, despite the bleaching, overall biodiversity remains high. This points to a degree of ecological resilience in the reef system. However, a low presence of corallivorous …

‬ ‭ Spiritual Geographies And Living Ritual:‬ ‭ Misali Island’S Caves In Swahili Religious Life In Zanzibar, Everett Gordon

Tanzania-Zanzibar: Coastal Ecology and Natural Resource Management

Caves along the East African Swahili coast are more than geological formations—they are spiritual landscapes where the boundaries between visible and invisible worlds collapse. This paper explores the ritual and religious significance of three caves on Misali Island, a small coral rag island off the coast of Pemba in the Zanzibar Archipelago. Drawing on vegetation surveys and three weeks of ethnographic fieldwork, including interviews with local fishermen, waganga (healers), and marine rangers, this study investigates how these caves serve as sites of prayer, healing, and spirit veneration. It argues that the practices performed within and around these caves exemplify the …

Baobab Beach Profile: Erosion Of North-Northeast Misali Island, Elizabeth Waterfall

Tanzania-Zanzibar: Coastal Ecology and Natural Resource Management

This study investigates the patterns and drivers of coastal erosion on Misali Island,located off the coast of Pemba Island in the Zanzibar Archipelago. Fieldwork was conducted over a 28-day period, focusing on four beachfront locations along Baobab Beach. Measurements included strike and dip, beach crest-to-toe distance (m), beach step height (cm), sand composition and sand color, velocity, coral composition, and a rate of sediment accumulated per day. These data, combined with qualitative observations, reveal spatial variability in sediment deposition and erosion severity across the island’s coastline. Results suggest that reduced coral cover and increased exposure to wave energy are contributing …

Reimagining The Rijksmuseum: A Decolonial Future, Paige Abrey

Netherlands: International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender

This paper explores how the Rijksmuseum is practising decoloniality and to what extent it is sincere. Through evaluating exhibitions, curatorial choices, and community engagement, I examine how the museum navigates questions of colonialism, responsibility, and representation. Ultimately, while there have been clear efforts to engage with decolonial practices, such as rethinking the labelling of artworks and creating space for previously ignored narratives, these changes also highlight the challenges of making meaningful steps forward within the dominant structures and frameworks that reinforce the colonial narrative. This research highlights the complexities and nuances of practising decolonial work in a museum space, and …

Take Me To Church: Transmasculinity In Gay Male Erotic Space, Kurt Mclaughlin

Netherlands: International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Digitization And Payment On Community Health Promoter (Chp) Motivation And Effectiveness In A Peri-Urban Community In Kisumu, Kenya., Fiona Yohannes

Kenya: Global Health and Human Rights

Community Health Promoters (CHPs) in Kenya are the liaison between the community and higher levels of healthcare. As CHPs’ responsibility in the country has grown, stipends started being distributed, and digitization efforts have begun to support them. This ISP paper aims to investigate how recent digitization and payment of CHPs impact their motivation and effectiveness in a peri-urban community in Kisumu, Kenya. The project includes data analysis on CHP performance data from 2016 to 2021 and analyses of interviews with CHPs and CHAs in April of 2024. It was found that time was positively related to CHP performance. It was …

Water And Sanitation: Community Perceptions Of Health Practices And Interventions In Nyalenda, Kisumu County, Western Kenya, Virginia Rostick

Kenya: Global Health and Human Rights

Due to the lasting effects of Kenya’s colonial history, poor sanitation and water treatment practices that increase the spread of water-borne diseases are still ravaging informal settlements across the country. While there are currently many projects and health interventions in place to help mitigate these issues, addressing the root cause of sanitation inequities calls for policy initiatives and requires a collaborative, community-based approach to decision making. Toresearch how NGO projects and health interventions could better approach community outreach within the peri-urban community of Nyalenda, this largely descriptive study utilizes both qualitative and quantitative data to evaluate community practices and perceptions …

Program Evaluation: Family Centered Rounding To Support Communication In Pediatric Care, Kristy M. Schmidt

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Family centered rounding (FCR) is a pediatric evidence-based practice intended to bring healthcare teams, patients, and families together at the bedside in a collaborative approach to care planning. FCR emphasizes communication and shared decision-making between healthcare teams and families, leading to improved patient outcomes. Despite well-documented benefits of FCR, challenges such as inconsistent nursing participation, variability in practices, and workflow disruptions hinder implementation and sustainability of FCR.

Aim: This program evaluation was designed and conducted at an urban pediatric hospital to assess the processes, perceptions, and impact of FCR. The overall quality of FCR and the strengths and barriers …

The Gaps Between The Pillars And Practice: Prevention Of And Responses To Gender Based Violence In South Africa, Madeleine Morrison

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This study investigates how gender-based violence (GBV) is understood, prevented, and responded to in South Africa, with a focus on national frameworks, institutional practices, and broader sociopolitical dynamics. Grounded in feminist, decolonial, and intersectional methodologies, the research draws primarily from document and discourse analysis—centered on the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (NSP on GBVF)—alongside a written interview with a professional working in the gender justice field. Despite outreach to over 40 individuals and organizations, direct participation was limited, reflecting wider issues of burnout, institutional gatekeeping, and resource constraints in the GBV sector.

The findings reveal that while …

Understanding The Born Free Generation: Perceptions Of Freedom And Identity, Ashley Grandberry

South Africa: Multiculturalism and Human Rights

The end of apartheid promised unity and justice, but many South Africans born after 1994, known as the Born Free generation, feel those promises were mostly symbolic (Malila, 2015; Bowers et al., 2021; Statistics South Africa, 2021; Jordaan et al., 2022). Despite growing up in a "free" South Africa, the Black and Coloured population has inherited deep economic and social inequalities, faces high unemployment, and is often dismissed by older generations as lazy and ungrateful. For many, freedom feels more like a performance by the government than a lived reality. In this project, I interviewed two Born Frees and found …

What Is Order? An Exploration Of Exchange And Mobility Within The Streets Of Yaoundé, Cameroon, Quentin L. Messer Iii

Cameroon: Development and Social Change

This paper explores how order materializes as people, vehicles, and resources exchange on Yaoundé’s streets. Using qualitative and descriptive research approaches, it draws on primary data from interviews with prominent groups of informal sector actors, street vendors, and taxi drivers, as well as observations conducted throughout Yaoundé. The study also includes a literature review of twelve scholarly articles that assemble a robust foundational understanding of how “order” has been influenced and adapted within Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) over the past fifty years. The study reveals that kinship as a basis for urban order arose due to state distrust and mismanagement of …

Do Systems Exist?: A Conversation, Adam Walls, John M. Flach

Books Authored by Wright State Faculty/Staff

“Do Systems Exist? A conversation” is a refreshing and ambitious exploration of systems thinking, framed as a cross-disciplinary dialogue between Adam Walls, a business consultant, and John Flach, a cognitive systems theorist. The book resists the conventions of both academic textbooks and business manuals, opting instead for a conversational format that invites readers to think alongside the authors, rather than simply absorb pre-packaged conclusions.

This strength, however, may also be a limitation for some readers. Those expecting a structured framework or a step-by-step methodology for applying systems thinking in organizations may find themselves adrift in what feels more like a …

House Rules Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana As Of December 14, 2021, University Of Montana--Missoula. Associated Students, Associated Students Of The University Of Montana

ASUM Governing Documents, 2019-present

Fiscal Policy of the Associated Students of the University of Montana as of SB17-24/25: Amending House Rules Section 2.

Nessca: A Meditative Process From Dis-Ease To At-Onement, Jonathan Colley

Doctor of Ministry Projects and Theses

In the beginning was the verb. I asked a coworker whose native language is Spanish how is John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word…” translated in the Santa Biblia. The Greek word logos translates to “word,” and many of us are familiar with the squeezing of the logos into English. Is it “word” the way that we use word-units to speak, write, communicate? This would be palabra in Spanish. Is it word as “reason,” logos as logic, as an ability to think through and make sense of and bring order to the seemingly chaotic existence we behold? This would …

The Extension Newsletter, Issue 117, Spring 2025, Wright State University Retirees Association

The Extension Newsletter

An eight page newsletter from the Wright State University's Retirees Association.

Examining Cookstove Use Pemba Island, Tanzania, Mabel Degrandpre

Tanzania-Zanzibar: Coastal Ecology and Natural Resource Management

This study focuses on the realities and perceptions of cookstoves among community members in Pemba. With a secondary focus on how the realities and perceptions of cookstove 2 use intersect with the Community Forest Pemba cookstove initiative. This study is centered in Wete District on Pemba Island Tanzania. Using a qualitative approach with semi structured interviews and biographical sketch methodology 29 total interviews were conducted which illuminated the traditional significance of the three stone fire (TSF), awareness about the health risks of cookstoves, and the impact that the Community Forest Pemba (CFP) cookstove initiate has on community members. Interviewees used …

Impact Of Mindfulness On Teaching And Learning, Angie Buttjer

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

Research has shown that mindfulness practices that enhance awareness and focus while regulating emotions benefit students' well-being and academic achievements. The research studies mindfulness practices' effects on third-grade classroom teaching and learning processes. The research study explores how the daily incorporation of mindfulness practices impacts student attention and self-management skills together with their academic outcomes while assessing the impact on teacher effectiveness and classroom environments. A mixed-methods approach combines quantitative data from academic assessments, behavioral observations, and qualitative insights from teacher journaling. The initial findings indicate that students who practice mindfulness show better focus and involvement in learning while displaying …

Dean's Update, April 2025, Neil W. Schluger

SOM Dean's Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Virtual Bodies, Virtual Worlds (Engl 093a) Final Project, Amanda Licastro

Library Staff Works

For your final project you will use all of the readings and discussions we have had throughout this semester to inspire your own creation: a virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) experience intended to teach one of the fictional texts we’ve read. The goal is to educate your audience, particularly to explain or enhance the reading experience through immersive content. You should draw on your own personal experience, criticism of the novel, and other reliable, scholarly sources to write a pitch – and ultimately a formal proposal – for this short extended reality (XR) application. Again, your immersive experience …

A Public Statement On Our Surveillance Culture: Virtual Bodies, Virtual Worlds (Engl 093a) Midterm, Amanda Licastro

Library Staff Works

For your midterm assignment you will design a critical/creative art piece that makes a public statement about our surveillance culture inspired by the materials we have engaged with in this course, including the fictional stories, theoretical texts, and the items from special collections. The piece you make must be created using the resources available through the Makerspace, for example, the laser cutters, sewing material, 3D printers, or crafting materials. Aside from the workshop we will have together, you are encouraged to revisit the Makerspace and book time with the experts available to support your design. Please be respectful of their …

Casey Anthony Case, Shelby L. Woodyard

SACAD: Scholarly Activities

Casey Anthony is the mother of Caylee Anthony who went missing in 2008. Her mother called the police to report her missing 31 days after her last sighting. During the investigation, Anthony lied to police on multiple occasions which lead them to arrest her for the murder of her daughter. Anthony was then charged with first degree murder along with aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child. Caylee’s body was found shortly after the missing person's report, wrapped in a blanket near the Anthony’s home. Florida wanted the death penalty in the case against Casey Anthony with mostly …

Examining Mental Health In Mass Shooters, Christina K. Robison, Brooke Mann

SACAD: Scholarly Activities

Mass shootings are defined as shootings that cause 4 or more deaths not including the shooter (excluding those committed in connection to underlying criminal activity, such as gangs or drugs); examples include workplace shootings, school shootings, public shootings, shootings at places of worship, etc. There have been 195 mass shootings since 1966, with 1,398 reported deaths. While several factors influence mass shootings, research points to psychological, sociological, and economic influences. This analysis is over 3 separate studies, having between 172-177 shooters each with the same basic demographics, but separate focuses. Overall, the main focus is looking for patterns that could …

From Murphy To The Seminole Compact: California’S Pathways To Sports Betting Legalization Without A Constitutional Amendment, Makenalani “Roo” Cash

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

No abstract provided.

Replicating Reality: Is Trademark Use In The Metaverse Commercial Or Expressive?, Vito Quaglia

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

This Note will examine how trademark law should be applied to emerging digital spaces known as metaverses, which can function as both new-age video games and digital marketplaces. The Note will first explain the concept of the metaverse. Next, it will lay out the current landscape of trademark law as it is applied to marks in artistic works, including First Amendment protections for artistic relevance. Then, the Note will illustrate trademark infringement lawsuits dealing with fashion and digital media. Following that, this Note will detail how trademark law is applied to video games, especially in cases involving artistic expression. The …