A Christian Romantic In Context: The Theological Environment Of George Macdonald’S Scotland, Daniel Hubin

North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies

No abstract provided.

Toward An Account Of Visual Aesthetic Experience In Multimodal Large Language Models, Batuhan Saridede

Cognitive Science Senior Theses

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) increasingly mediate visual culture, far less is known about how MLLMs themselves evaluate aesthetic value and how those evaluations shift under different beliefs about authorship. This thesis investigates how three commercial MLLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini) appraise visual artworks across six dimensions: liking, beauty, profundity, worth, narrativity, and intentionality. Using a balanced dataset of 100 artworks, half human-generated and half AI-generated, with representational and abstract works equally represented, each model evaluated every image under four provenance conditions: unspecified origin, inferred origin, assumed AI origin, and assumed human origin. Results show that representationalism in visual …

Political, Legal & Ethical Implications Of The United Nations Resolution 1441 & Its Resulting Iraq War, Anika Elyse Segall

Honors Projects

This paper analyzes the political, legal, & ethical implications of the United Nations Resolution 1441 & its resulting Iraq War. The central question of this paper is answered in these sections: 1. Politics: Is it politically convincing (whom did it convince and not convince) to invade Iraq?  2. Law: Is it legally convincing (which body of law) to invade Iraq? 3. Political Ethics: How has this informed how the US has conducted foreign policy and war-making in the Middle East since 2003?

Viewing Machines, Janos Cseh

Theses and Dissertations

By sifting through personal memories, the contemporary media landscape, and seeing the world through the lens of painting, Cseh asks what it means to understand information through images.  The artist unpacks the interwoven relationships between images and memory, feeling and seeing, and the difficulty of seeking truth through an analysis of his paintings.

Rape Pregnancies And Consequent Ptsd Resulting From The Overturn Of Roe V. Wade, Emma Lindenfelser, Yulia Garaeva, Nenette Nti-Agyemang, Ellen Davis, Anna Kabwa, Alexandra M Calaman

Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal

Prior to the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, access to safe legal abortions was limited and often restricted along racial, economic, and geographic lines. Nearly fifty years later, women’s health policy evolved again following the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturning Roe v. Wade. This court ruling decimated federal protections of abortion. This paper presents the research that the 2022 Dobbs judicial decision may contribute to and exacerbate rape-related PTSD on 1 out of 20 American who are unable to access a safe abortion after a rape-related pregnancy. Pregnant women living in conservative states that have outlawed …

Efficacy And Cost‑Effectiveness Of Outdoor Residual Spraying With Α‑Cypermethrin, Pirimiphos‑Methyl, And Deltamethrin Against Sand Flies: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomised Controlled Field Trial In Uganda, Livingstone Kamoga, Edwin Kigozi, Nelson Ssewante, Blaise Kiyimba, Shamim Nabidda, Elvis Seremba, Andrew Munerya, Richard Achuma, Damiano Lomokol, Nantume Olivia, Patrick Banadda Matovu, Daniel Tamale, Patrick Sagaki, Joshua Joshua Epuitai Joshua Epuitai, Felix Bongomin, Scovia Nalugo Mbalinda

School of Nursing & Midwifery, East Africa

Introduction:  Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a significant public health challenge in East Africa. Achieving the WHO 2030 target of reducing VL mortality to below 1% requires novel control strategies. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of three insecticide formulations for outdoor residual insecticide spraying (ORS) in selected villages of Amudat district, Uganda.

Methods:  A pragmatic clustered randomised controlled field trial was conducted in five clusters. Three clusters were randomly allocated to receive ORS with either α-cypermethrin, pirimiphos-methyl, or deltamethrin, while two clusters served as untreated controls. The primary outcome was the change in sandfly counts …

Litter Law, Sean Lyness

Brooklyn Law Review

The problem of litter—and the efforts Americans have taken to eradicate it—has largely been a footnote in the story of environmental law. But litter has never been a small issue, both in terms of the magnitude of the problem and the legal system’s attempts to address it. Every state in the country and thousands of municipalities have laws on litter. Few areas of law are so ubiquitous. I call this body of law “litter law.” This Article is the first piece of legal scholarship to comprehensively examine litter law. How did the thousands of laws regulating litter come to be? …

Ml Models For Child-Parent Speech Diarization, Kenneth Kang

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

This senior design thesis presents a machine learning research pipeline for child-parent and child-directed speech diarization. Speech diarization is the task of determining who spoke and when in an audio recording. Although this problem is well studied in adult meeting, broadcast, and conversational speech, child-parent audio is a more uneven setting. Children may speak in short turns, change pitch quickly, vocalize without producing clear words, interrupt adults, overlap with adult speech, cry, laugh, or code switch. These behaviors are normal in real family interaction, but they can confuse diarization systems that were mostly designed and evaluated on adult speech.

The …

Ruby Lee Hamilton

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Patterns Of Language And Visuospatial Lateralisation In Three-Year-Old Children, Josephine E. Quin-Conroy, Donna M. Bayliss, Stephanie J. Bovell, Debra Eamer, Georgina H.M. Earl, Simon E. Fisher, Clyde Francks, Murray T. Maybery, Sarah Pillar, Desiree Silva, Andrew J.O. Whitehouse, Nicholas A. Badcock

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Little is known about how or when language and visuospatial processing lateralise in the brain, and if individual differences in lateralisation are related to early language or visuospatial abilities. We explored if patterns of language and visuospatial lateralisation are related to cognitive skills in young children. A large sample of 3-year-olds (n = 136) attempted two functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound (fTCD) tasks to estimate language and visuospatial lateralisation. At the group level, language was lateralised to the left hemisphere, but visuospatial processing was weakly lateralised to the right hemisphere. The relationship between patterns of lateralisation and cognitive skills was investigated …

Effect Of Implementing An Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Intra-Hospital Transport Guideline For Hospitalized Children: A Type Iii Hybrid Implementation-Effectiveness Study, Yang Li, Yuxia Yang, Jing Hu, Wenchao Wang, Yun Jin, Weijie Shen, Yanhong Zhang, Yingfeng Zhou, Ye Cheng, Jos M Latour, Ying Gu

School of Nursing and Midwifery

BACKGROUND: Intra-hospital transfers (IHT) of hospitalized children are unavoidable practices often performed with emergency patients and postoperative patients. Standardizing IHT processes to minimize adverse events might improve children's outcomes. We developed an evidence-based clinical practice IHT guideline for hospitalized children. The aim of this study was to evaluate the implementation process and the effectiveness of the implementation of this guideline on patient outcomes, healthcare professionals' knowledge and behavior, and hospital organizational context.

METHODS: A type III hybrid effectiveness-implementation design was adopted, using a pre-post intervention trial (January-December 2024). Data of patient demographics, transport-related outcomes, and healthcare providers' knowledge and compliance …

Multidomain Expert Evaluation Of Leading Large Language Models As Providers Of Vaccination And Preventive Medicine Information, Marcello Di Pumpo, Leonardo Villani, Vittorio Maio, Maria Rosaria Gualano, Eleonora Marziali, Lucia De Maio, Rossella Mancini, Stefania Boccia, Walter Ricciardi, Patrizia Laurenti

College of Population Health Faculty Papers

OBJECTIVES: Vaccination is one of the most effective public health interventions. Large language models (LLMs) show great capability for providing health information. This study compared the performance of ChatGPT 3.5 (G3E), ChatGPT 4o in English (G4E), Claude 3.0 (CDE), Gemini 1.5 (GME), and ChatGPT 4o in Italian (G4I) in delivering information on vaccination and preventive medicine.

STUDY DESIGN: Mixed-method analysis evaluating large language models.

METHODS: Twenty-six expert-designed healthcare scenarios were used to evaluate each model through an adapted DISCERN-based instrument. Four experts independently rated outputs across six domains: Information Reliability, Information Quality, Medical Appropriateness, Impact on Vaccine Hesitancy, Potential for …

Comments On The Letter “Bridging The Gap: The Critical Next Steps For Implementing Genetic Risk Scores In Myocardial Infarction Prevention In Saudi Arabia, Abdullah Saeed

Journal of the Saudi Heart Association

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Bridging The Gap: The Critical Next Steps For Implementing Genetic Risk Scores In Myocardial Infarction Prevention In Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Almohammadi

Journal of the Saudi Heart Association

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Best Practices For Interprofessional, Community-Based Interventions In Preventing Type 2 Diabetes Among Adults Aged 50 And Older, Julie Joseph Mrs

Journal of Interprofessional Practice and Collaboration

The prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is rapidly increasing among adults aged 50 years and older in the United States, posing a significant public health challenge. In 2021, an estimated 38.4 million Americans had diabetes, with adults aged 50years and above constituting a disproportionately large segment of this population. Evidence suggests that community-based lifestyle and educational interventions are effective in reducing the risk of T2DM among older adults. These interventions particularly promote dietary modification, increased physical activity, and diabetes education. Integrating the expertise of nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, physicians, and other professionals through interprofessional collaboration strengthens diabetes prevention and …

Evaluating Interprofessional And Cultural Competency: A Community-Mental Health Interprofessional Education Event, Megan A. Whitbeck, Carrie A. Griffiths, William F. Miller, Laura M. Skoronski Chavez, Krisy Elrod, Autumn M. Forgione, Anna L. Grippi, John P. Merchant

Journal of Interprofessional Practice and Collaboration

Purpose: This study examined the effectiveness of a mental health focused interprofessional education (IPE) event, where undergraduate and graduate students from four different healthcare disciplines collaboratively completed a case study activity, that included diversity and mental health components.

Methods: A quasi-experimental, one-group pretest–posttest design was used. Participants included 72 undergraduate and graduate students from nursing, occupational therapy, health administration, and counseling programs at a private university. Students engaged in a structured team-based activity emphasizing communication, collaboration, and cultural responsiveness in a mental health care context. Self-reported measures included the Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Attainment Survey (ICCAS) and the Cultural …

The State Of Interprofessional Education And Collaborative Practice In Ghana: Experts’ Perspective, Amy Bening, Victor Mogre, Yolande Heymans, Christmal Dela Christmals

Journal of Interprofessional Practice and Collaboration

ABSTRACT

Purpose: Interprofessional education (IPE) has gained recognition as the best form of preparing health professionals for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (IPCP) in the healthcare settings. As such, many countries have inculcated IPE into the training of health professionals, but the state of IPE in the Ghana is unknown. Therefore, this study sought to explore the state of IPE and IPCP in Ghana.

Methods: The study employed a qualitative descriptive study in which 16 key informants were interviewed, and data was thematically analysed to describe the state of IPE and IPCP in Ghana.

Results: Three themes were identified and described: IPCP …

Community Health Fair As Experiential Learning: Interprofessional Faculty And Student Perspectives, Sharon Stevenson, Martha Rojo, Jing Jin, Erickson Feliciano, Margaret Love, Scott Wright

Journal of Interprofessional Practice and Collaboration

Abstract

Background: Traditional, precepted clinical practice sites continue to decline. Community health fairs (CHFs), led by experienced interprofessional faculty, present a valuable opportunity. In addition, CHFs provide students with hands-on experience in real-world settings.

Aim: This study examined the perspectives and clinical experiences of interprofessional faculty and students participating in a CHF.

Methods: This study utilized qualitative and quantitative design. Fourteen participants (seven students, seven faculty) engaged in conversational interviews, and completed a faculty and student survey as well as a demographic survey. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the sample and survey responses, and thematic analysis was used to …

Is There Value In Seeing Mahatma Phule As A Pragmatist?, Vishal Thakare

Dewey Studies

No abstract provided.

Progressivism, Democracy, And Education: A Comparative Study Of John Dewey And Mohammad Iqbal's Philosophy Of Education, Abdul Khaliq Aboya, Asad Shahzad

Dewey Studies

No abstract provided.

Spiritual Democracy & Democratic Faith: Dewey And Vivekananda On Pluralism And Freedom, Albert R. Spencer

Dewey Studies

No abstract provided.

Dialectics Of Pragmatism, Caste(S), And The Idea Of India, Nikhil Sanjay-Rekha Adsule

Dewey Studies

No abstract provided.

Between Untouchability And Slavery: Dewey, Russell And Ambedkar On Freedom-As-Growth, Danish Hamid

Dewey Studies

No abstract provided.

Ambedkar's Pragmatist Feminism: Beyond Rorty And Dewey, Kanchana Mahadevan

Dewey Studies

No abstract provided.

John Dewey's Pragmatism And India: Past And Futures, Scott R. Stroud

Dewey Studies

No abstract provided.

Critiquing Class And Caste On Three Continents: Dewey, Ambedkar, And Mosca On Social Endomosis, Emerson Bodde

Dewey Studies

No abstract provided.

Technology And Development In Morocco, Mohamed Germouni

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

This article examines the relationship between technology and development in Morocco. It discusses the role of technological choices in shaping industrialization, productivity, and economic growth. The paper emphasizes that technology is not a neutral factor, but a strategic component of development policy that must be adapted to national priorities, institutional capacities, and social needs. It also highlights the importance of coherent technological policy for long-term development.

Some Aspects Of The Budgetary Problem In Relation To Development: The Case Of Morocco, Fathallah Oualalou

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

This article examines selected aspects of the budgetary problem in relation to development, with a focus on Morocco. It presents the budget as both an instrument of economic policy and a reflection of the dominant development strategy. The paper reviews successive phases of Moroccan budgetary policy from independence to the late 1970s, linking them to planning, stabilization, public investment, and the use of economic surplus. It highlights the budget's role in shaping growth priorities and development choices.

Investment Financing Policy Within The Framework Of Moroccan Planning, Abdellatif Ghissasi

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

This paper presents the main features of investment financing policy within the framework of Moroccan planning. It emphasizes the structural gap faced by developing countries between large economic needs and limited available resources. The article discusses the need to mobilize internal and external resources, organize investment priorities, and align financing mechanisms with the objectives of economic and social development. It also highlights the importance of adapting financing policy to national and international constraints.

The Role Of The Public Sector In Development And Planning, Ismail-Sabri Abdalla

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

This article examines the role of the public sector in development and planning. It argues that state ownership alone does not automatically solve development problems, but it can reveal the political nature of economic decision-making and the limits of market forces. The paper analyzes how public enterprises, planning choices, and state intervention may contribute to investment, social priorities, and structural change, while also depending on broader political objectives and social relations.