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April 2025 Library News, University Libraries

Library News

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Prosecuting Police, Guyora Binder, Anthony O'Rourke, Rick Su

Journal Articles

Prosecutors face criticism for prosecuting too many minority members and too few police. Recently, some reformers have won prosecutorial elections by pledging to change these priorities. Yet scholars have identified two impediments to police prosecutions. First, county prosecutors often answer to suburban voters indifferent to the excesses of city police. Second, prosecutors depend on those police to investigate their cases and to endorse them as effective. This Article argues that the influence of residents and police on prosecutorial decisions depends on the political geography of a prosecutor’s office. As a result, whether a prosecutor’s office is “city-based,” “regional,” or “state-appointed” …

The Emotional Geographies Of Vietnamese Students In Australia, Anh N.Q. Phan, Ha H. Nguyen, Thuy T. Nguyen, Tho X. Pham

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

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Successful Career Construction In The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Young Graduates In The Uae, Ayman Ahmed, Sami Mejri, Nada Rabie, Stephen Wilkins

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

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Epanorama April 2025, Southern Adventist University

Panorama Parent Newsletter

This digital issue of Panorama includes information on fundraiser for international nonprofit, mechanic checks, and lawn vespers.

Panorama Spring 2025, Southern Adventist University

Panorama Parent Newsletter

This printed issue of Panorama includes information on Southern students winning nine communication awards, Q&A with Joseph Hyde, leadership tips, and the ivory comb on display,

Columns Spring 2025, Southern Adventist University

Alumni Newsletter

Features articles on gamification to increase learning and classroom engagement, summer camp connections, and embracing service.

Voyages Spring 2025 Inner Pages, Florida Southwestern State College

Voyages Magazine

Voyages Magazine: FSW Embracing AI. Spring 2025 inner pages.

Voyages Spring 2025 Cover Layout, Florida Southwestern State College

Voyages Magazine

Voyages Magazine: FSW Embracing AI. Spring 2025 cover layout.

Human Rights And Foreign Policy: South Africa's Genocide Complaint Against Israel At The International Court Of Justice, Penelope Andrews

Articles & Chapters

On December 21st, 2023 the South African Government filed an urgent application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the wake of Israel's military activities in Gaza in response to the attack in Israel on October 7th in which more than 1,200 Israeli citizens were killed and several hundred were taken as hostages. The Israeli government responded to the attacks and the taking of hostages by launching a military campaign into Gaza, with the express purpose of destroying Hamas and especially its ability to attack Israel in the way that it did on October 7th. The first few days …

Stopping The Zombie Apocalypse, Rebecca Roiphe

Articles & Chapters

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The Acth Test Fails To Diagnose Adrenal Insufficiency And Augments Cytokine Production In Sepsis, Dan Hao, Qian Wang, Misa Ito, Jianyao Xue, Ling Guo, Bin Huang, Chieko Mineo, Philip W. Shaul, Xiang An Li

Physiology Faculty Publications

The adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) test diagnoses relative adrenal insufficiency (RAI) or critical illness–related corticosteroid insufficiency (CIRCI). Initially, guidelines recommended corticosteroid/glucocorticoid (GC) therapy for septic patients with RAI, but later trials did not show a survival benefit, leading to updated guidelines that abandon targeting RAI or CIRCI. Recent studies with an RAI mouse model showed a clear survival benefit from GC therapy in mice with RAI, suggesting that inconclusive GC clinical trials might be due to issues with the ACTH test rather than targeting RAI. To investigate, we performed the ACTH test in septic mice. Interestingly, the ACTH test identified most …

Leads Data Insights: Discovery — Spring 2025, University Of North Dakota

LEADS Development Documents

Spring 2025 Data Insights presentation for the DISCOVERY core value of UND LEADS. The slides analyze Discovery strategic priorities using Activity Inventory data and outcome measures related to research funding, undergraduate research, Scholarly Commons student work, Grand Challenge activity, external partners, service units, faculty retention, and professional development.

Leads Data Insights: Learning Core Value Metrics Summary — Spring 2025, University Of North Dakota

LEADS Development Documents

Summary and analysis of Spring 2025 metrics for the LEARNING core value of UND LEADS. The document reviews data sources, levels of achievement, and rationale for Learning strategic priorities, including experiential learning, global perspectives, digital technologies, student support, learning spaces, advising and mentoring, dynamic learning approaches, credential pathways, and credit and non-credit learning opportunities.

University Of North Dakota, University Of North Dakota

LEADS Development Documents

Spring 2025 Data Insights presentation for the LEARNING core value of UND LEADS. The slides analyze currently available data as of March 2025, including levels of achievement for Learning strategic priorities, Activity Inventory summaries, and strategic-priority-level metrics related to experiential learning, global perspectives, digital technologies, student support, learning spaces, advising, mentoring, and credential pathways.

Physical Therapy Outcome Measures Used In Persons With Long Covid: A Systematic Review Of Interventional Studies Up To 1-Year Postglobal Health Emergency, Andrea Lopes Sauers, Liana Johnson, Marissa Mortensen, Laura Bianca Dorásio Da Silva, Luciana Angélica Da Silva De Jesus, Jaime González, Cristino Oliveira

Physical Therapy Faculty Publications

Purpose:

To identify the most frequently used outcome measures in interventional studies for Long Covid in outpatient, home-based, and telerehabilitation physical therapy settings.

Methods:

Registered in PROSPERO (registration number: CRD42021286714) and conducted according to PRISMA guidelines, this review included interventional studies performed in outpatient, telerehabilitation, or home-based physical therapy settings, assessing adults with persistent Long Covid symptoms in at least 3 months post-COVID-19 infection and published in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. A comprehensive search strategy was executed across PubMed, Embase, Scopus, PEDro, SciELO, Web of Science, and CINAHL. Data were managed via Covidence, with studies independently screened and extracted by …

Transforming Optical Vernier Effect Into Coherent Microwave Interference Towards Highly Sensitive Optical Fiber Sensing, Ruimin Jie, Jie Huang, Chen Zhu

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The optical Vernier effect has garnered significant research attention and found widespread applications in enhancing the measurement sensitivity of optical fiber interferometric sensors. Typically, Vernier sensor interrogation involves measuring its optical spectrum across a wide wavelength range using a high-precision spectrometer. This process is further complicated by the intricate signal processing required for accurately extracting the Vernier envelope, which can inadvertently introduce errors that compromise sensing performance. In this work, we introduce a novel approach to interrogating Vernier sensors based on a coherent microwave interference-assisted measurement technique. Instead of measuring the optical spectrum, we acquire the frequency response of the …

William & Mary Law School Clinical Program News (2024-2025), William & Mary Law School

William & Mary Law School Clinical Program Newsletter

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Llm-Ie: A Python Package For Biomedical Generative Information Extraction With Large Language Models, Enshuo Hsu, Kirk Roberts

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Objectives: Despite the recent adoption of large language models (LLMs) for biomedical information extraction (IE), challenges in prompt engineering and algorithms persist, with no dedicated software available. To address this, we developed LLM-IE: a Python package for building complete IE pipelines.

Materials and methods: The LLM-IE supports named entity recognition, entity attribute extraction, and relation extraction tasks. We benchmarked it on the i2b2 clinical datasets.

Results: The sentence-based prompting algorithm resulted in the best 8-shot performance of over 70% strict F1 for entity extraction and about 60% F1 for entity attribute extraction.

Discussion: We developed a Python package, LLM-IE, …

Traditional Gender Roles And Intimate Partner Violence: Exploring Relationships Between Religion, Self-Control, And Alcohol, Carina J. Pawlak

Posters - 2025

IPV is the physical, psychological, or sexual aggression by a married, unmarried, or live-in partner (Patra et al., 2018).

- Male perpetrators are reported for 92% of the IPV cases compared to females and are more likely to severely injure or kill their partners (Levitt et al., 2008).

- In a traditional community that had lax attitudes toward IPV, there was an 80% increase in the likelihood of perpetration and women’s consent to the violence increased their likelihood of victimization by 11% (Linos et al., 2013).

- To maintain traditional gender roles found within religious communities, some men may use …

Aha And Hmm: The Joy Of Writing Senryu, John J. Han

KAUPA Letters

Senryu, a satiric and often humorous counterpart to haiku, emerged in mid-18th century Japan as a form of popular self-expression among the rising merchant class. Named after the poet and editor Karai Senryu, this genre focuses on human nature, social behavior, and everyday life rather than the seasonal themes central to haiku. Traditionally composed in a 5-7-5 syllabic structure, modern English-language senryu are often written in free style with fewer than 17 syllables. While frequently humorous, senryu can also capture serious aspects of human experience, including hardship and social issues. Unlike haiku, which encourages contemplation, senryu aims to evoke immediate …

Whither China?, Yeomin Yoon

KAUPA Letters

No abstract provided.

Emerging Trends In Privacy And Security Control In Telecommunication Services Delivery: Challenges And Countermeasures, Young B. Choi

KAUPA Letters

The rapid evolution of telecommunication services, driven by advancements in 5G, IoT, and cloud computing, has introduced significant privacy and security control challenges. These challenges arise from the increased attack surface, regulatory pressures, and evolving cyber threats. This paper explores key trends in privacy and security control issues, examines countermeasures such as advanced encryption, Zero Trust Architecture, and continuous monitoring, and discusses challenges and future directions in securing telecommunication services.

Why Read Harold Bell Wright?, John J. Han

KAUPA Letters

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Historical Imperative: A Key To Korean Unification, Paul Hong

KAUPA Letters

This essay explores the theory of historical imperative as a foundational framework for understanding Korean unification. It argues that Korea's unique and continuous national identity, resilience against external invasions, and modern aspirations for unity make unification an inevitable outcome of historical forces. The discussion highlights Korea's 5,000-year historical narrative, incorporating both documented dynastic transitions and the foundational Dangun legend (2333 BCE). While the Dangun legend is regarded as mythology by many historians, it remains a vital cultural and national symbol, reflecting Korea’s deeply ingrained sense of identity and continuity. The essay examines the survival of Korea’s identity through foreign invasions …

Jenifer Michaels. A History., Farrah Freibert

Publications

Jenifer Michaels was a legendary subcultural star within the gay liberation film milieu of 1970s Los Angeles. Taking three paths to approaching and interpreting Michaels’s filmic and archival image, this article is structured by an analysis of Michaels’s documentary appearances, her performance in sex films, and her statements published in a textual interview. Working against what I call historiographic gentrification, the article utilizes archival and micro-historical methods to think through Michaels’s subcultural stardom as a nexus for complicating biography, documentary, and the politics of veracity.

Exploring And Implementing A Compassionate Social Service Ministry In Korean American Churches, Caleb Kim

KAUPA Letters

The purpose of this study is to explore the types and contents of church ministries provided by Korean American churches in the Chicagoland area. Using a conceptual content analysis, this study identified that most Korean American churches disproportionately offer an evangelical ministry to their fellow church members but overlook a compassionate social service ministry to their congregations, other ethnic minorities, the oppressed and unjust social issues. The most offered evangelical ministries are weekly worship services, evangelism, world mission, discipleship training, and Bible study. Only few churches provide financial aid support and pastoral care services to their church members and non-Korean …

The Renaissance Figure Of Joseon, Choi Rip, Young B. Choi

KAUPA Letters

This essay introduces various aspects of the prominent Renaissance scholar of Joseon Dynasty, Choi Rip including his life, era, and legacy, political thought, national and diplomatic views, life, and family philosophy, 15 characters as a Renaissance person, comparison with western figures and Korean historical figures closest to him.

Long-Term Assessment Of Skeletal And Dental Asymmetry After Conventional And Mini-Implant-Assisted Rapid Palatal Expansion, Brett Barton, Shea Jamieson, Marinho Del Santo Jr, Manuel Lagravere Vich, Dawei Liu, Sumit Yadav, Shivam Yogesh Mehta

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Introduction

This study aimed to evaluate the short-term and long-term skeletal and dental asymmetry with miniscrew-assisted rapid palatal expansion (MARPE), rapid palatal expansion (RPE), and control group using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) analysis.

Methods

A total of 180 CBCT scans were analyzed for 60 patients divided into 3 groups: MARPE (mean age 13.7 ± 1.74 years), RPE (mean age 13.9 ± 1.14 years), and control (mean age 13.3 ± 1.49 years). CBCT scans were recorded at 3 points: pretreatment (T1), postexpansion (T2), and posttreatment (T3). The anterior nasal spine, posterior nasal spine, zygomaticomaxillary point, anterior nasal cavity width, posterior nasal …

Effect Of Surface Conditioning On The Adhesive Bond Strength Of 3d-Printed Resins Used In Permanent Fixed Dental Prostheses, Marco Dederichs, Zaid Badr, Stephanie Viebranz, Sandor Nietzsche, Ulrike Schulze-Spate, Anne-Sophie Schmelzer, Thomas Lehmann, Arndt Guentsch

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Objectives

Although pre-treatment parameters for subtractive computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) materials have been thoroughly investigated, data regarding additive restorative materials designed for permanent use in the oral cavity are scarce. This study investigated the effects of abrasive materials and blasting pressure on the bond strength of 3D-printed resins used in permanent restorations.

Methods

A total of n = 44 test specimens additively manufactured from Formlabs’ `Permanent Crown Resin' were prepared. Three groups with n = 11 specimens were airborne-particle abraded with 50 µm aluminium oxide at 1 bar, 2 bar or 3 bar. The control group did not receive any …