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Liberty In Death? An Analysis Of The Ethics And Laws Regarding Physician-Assisted Suicide, Ross Leavitt

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

I seek to analyze physician-assisted suicide with the following two goals in mind: (1) Evaluating how ethical and legal arguments surrounding suicide developed throughout history and how they inform our understanding today; (2) What a regulatory scheme governing physician-assisted suicide looks like and if it can adequately safeguard the interests of the individual and the collective.

Cybersecurity Disparities In U.S. Healthcare: Regulatory Gaps, Equity Failures, And Systemic Risks, Erica Patterson

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

U.S. healthcare relies on digital infrastructure that now shapes clinical safety. However, the governing law remains a patchwork. The HIPAA Security and Breach Notification Rules, layered with uneven federal and state mandates and voluntary frameworks, do not yield a clear, enforceable floor of protection for small, rural  hospitals which are institutions with thin budgets, legacy systems, limited vendor leverage, and scarce IT staff. This Article identifies the gap, namely that minimum safeguards are not articulated as testable outcomes that low-resource providers can implement and sustain, and offers a remedy. Using doctrinal analysis and comparative assessment of federal and state regimes …

Diversity Regulations For Clinical Trials & The Underrepresentation Of Native American Women, Alka Meresh

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

The exclusion of women and racial minorities from research currently compromises the generalizability of findings. Native American women, are particularly underrepresented in clinical trials due to the complicated history between Native American health and the US government. Congress, the NIH, and the FDA are the most prominent actors involved in regulating the diversity of clinical trial participants. This article will identify and analyze the deficiencies of the current regulations promoting diversity in clinical trials and suggest some solutions to build community with Indigenous communities and promote their participation in clinical trials.

Never Trust, Always Verify, Securing Medicare's Future To Defend Against Ai Driven Cyber Threats, Dana G. Jones

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

Healthcare cybersecurity stands at a pivotal juncture, analogous to the Cold War's most perilous moments. When President Ronald Reagan declared "trust but verify"^[1] during nuclear disarmament negotiations with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, he established systematic verification as the cornerstone of security in high-stakes environments where the cost of misplaced trust meant potential human extinction. Today, the rapid integration of artificial intelligence and networked medical devices into America's healthcare infrastructure has created stakes equally grave for the nation's sixty-five million Medicare beneficiaries^[2]; however, the threat landscape has evolved beyond Reagan's paradigm. Modern healthcare cannot afford even conditional …

Death Wish: A Comprehensive Analysis Of Physician Assisted Suicide, Janna George

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

Physician-assisted suicide is an extremely complex and controversial legal issue, deeply rooted in morality, legality, and ethics. Countries around the world are split as to how to approach this concept, with some permitting physician-assisted suicide under particular circumstances, and others strictly prohibiting it. ^[1] This division is evidence of the subject’s complex underpinnings. According to the United States Declaration of Independence, all Americans are deserving of certain unalienable rights, “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”^[2] But what about the right to die?

There are a number of reasons as to why physician assisted suicide is complicated, including …

The Tax Adviser, Volume 18, Number 3, March 1987, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Tax Trends, Nicholas J. Fiore

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Washington Report: Technological Developments: Implications For Cpas In Tax Practice, Kenneth F. Thomas, Carol B. Ferguson

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Tax Reform Act Of 1986 Changes Affecting Real Estate Investment Trusts, Linda Galler

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Tax Clinic, Gerald W. Padwe

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Working With The Revised Alternative Minimum Tax For Individuals, Paul J. Streer, Michael L. Holland

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Accounting Provisions Of The Tax Reform Act Of 1986, Suzanne E. Seidel, J. Russell Hamilton

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Advancing Lipid Management: Saudi Heart Association Position Statement On Pcsk9-Targeted Therapies In The Primary And Secondary Prevention Of Cardiovascular Disease, Waleed Alhabeeb, Hussein Alamri, Hussein Elbadawi, Yazed S. Alruthia, Waleed Alharbi, Owayed Alshammeri, Adel Tash, Shadi Almoziny, Naji Kholaif, Hussain Halawani, Fadia Almahdi, Wael Yar, Khalid F Alhabib

Journal of the Saudi Heart Association

Background: Despite robust evidence for low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) reduction in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) prevention, attainment of guideline-recommended targets remains suboptimal in Saudi Arabia, especially among high- and very high-risk patients. Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin/Kexin Type 9 (PCSK9)-targeted therapies, which include monoclonal antibodies (evolocumab, alirocumab) and small interfering RNA (inclisiran), offer potent LDL-C lowering that can help address this gap.

Methods: The Saudi Heart Association (SHA) convened a multidisciplinary panel to review evidence from randomized controlled trials, real-world studies, and economic analyses on PCSK9-targeted therapies. Recommendations were developed through expert consensus, contextualized to the Saudi healthcare environment.

Results and conclusions: …

Modular Aerial Suppression Architecture (Masa), Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The Modular Aerial Suppression Architecture (MASA) is an open-hardware conceptual aerial firefighting platform designed around segmented ballistic fire-suppressant deployment rather than conventional liquid-tank dumping systems. The architecture proposes the use of modular cargo-based deployment systems integrated into reversible commercial or cargo aircraft platforms, allowing suppressant payloads to be delivered through stabilized aerodynamic cone units intended to improve directional placement accuracy in high-wind wildfire environments.

Unlike traditional airtankers that rely on large liquid retardant releases susceptible to wind drift, atomization, and severe center-of-gravity slosh dynamics, MASA utilizes discrete suppressant payload units engineered with forward-weighted ballistic stability and passive fin-controlled descent characteristics. …

Ip-Superstate: A Reference Architecture For Continuous Ai-Native Provenance, Attribution And Licensing, Fatih Dinc

Defensive Publications Series

Most AI-generated artifacts — model architectures, datasets, agent workflows, evaluation methods, prompts — currently lack standardized provenance, attribution, and licensing infrastructure. This disclosure describes IP-Superstate, a five-layer reference architecture for continuous AI-native intellectual property provenance and licensing: Genesis (artifact detection), Vault (cryptographic timestamping and defensive disclosure), Alchemy (valuation metadata and programmable licensing), Nexus (multi-channel market routing), and Overseer (audit trail and feedback-driven improvement). The architecture defines four composable primitives — Provenance, Attribution, Licensing, Audit — that can be adopted independently. This disclosure is intended to establish public prior art. It does not constitute a patent application, legal advice, or a …

Light Straw Clay Alternative Building Material, Natalie M. Durdle Miss

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure details a 100% organic, non-hazardous, and fully biodegradable insulation system engineered specifically as a high-performance alternative to traditional light straw-clay (leichtlehm) construction in northern, non-agricultural, or arctic climates. The system completely replaces both geological clay and agricultural straw with locally harvested, invasive, and wild northern biological inputs. The structural insulation matrix utilizes a high-silica, woody, and hollow-stemmed fiber substrate sourced from standing dead, wild invasive perennial weeds—specifically European Common Reed (Phragmites australis), Common Mullein (Verbascum thapsus), Canada Thistle (Cirsium arvense), or Giant Reed Sweetgrass (Glyceria maxima). These plants …

Boreal Dome Tension Ring System, Natalie M. Durdle Miss

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure establishes a low-cost, portable, field-expedient geodesic and hexagonal framework optimized for rapid deployment in remote, sub-arctic, or northern environments. The system replaces heavy, old-growth timber and manufactured metal connectors with high-flexibility juvenile saplings (under 25 years old) reinforced via an exterior high-tensile biocarbon matrix. This document establishes prior art to prevent corporate patenting or monopolization of low-tech, non-industrial tensegrity framing systems that utilize local biomass and organic binders for disaster relief, medical evacuation shelters, or off-grid construction.

Invisible Rotorcraft Using Boreal Glass Technology, Natalie M. Durdle Miss

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure establishes a low-tech, field-expedient, manned rotary-wing aircraft (specifically a gyroplane or autogyro) optimized for rapid tactical evacuation, medical casualty transport, or emergency egress from remote, unorganized, or contested sub-arctic environments. The aircraft completely eliminates the need for advanced industrial aviation manufacturing, mechanical gearboxes, complex transmission driveshafts, or petroleum-based internal combustion. Instead, it relies on un-milled juvenile wood cores, high-tensile algae-derived carbon fibers, unrefined conifer sap resins, and calcined bio-ceramic linear alternators powered by a closed-loop, phase-changing propane cycle. This document formally places these structural and mechanical configurations into the public domain to serve as un-patentable prior art for …

Creating Transparent Boreal (Wood) Glass, Natalie M. Durdle Miss

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure establishes a low-cost, field-expedient, non-industrial process for the manufacturing of optically translucent, structurally reinforced bio-synthetic wood composites (commonly referred to as "transparent wood"). The method utilizes commonly available household chemical equivalents and manual automotive tools to safely strip light-absorbing lignin from native wood veneers and replace the resulting empty cellular voids with clear plant or synthetic resins. This document explicitly establishes prior art to prevent the commercial monopolization or patenting of small-scale, decentralized, and DIY variations of this material processing cycle.

The Tax Adviser, Volume 18, Number 2, February 1987, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Tax Trends, Nicholas J. Fiore

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Foreign Tax Credit Provisions Of The Tax Reform Act Of 1986, Richard M. Hammer, James D. Tapper

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Implicit Bias In Hiring: Leveraging Avatars To Foster More Inclusive Hiring Practices, Alexa Trifilo, Gary Blau, Crystal Reeck

Engaged Management ReView

This research investigated implicit racial in-group bias in hiring and examined extended reality (XR) as a mechanism for masking visual identity cues during the interview process. By introducing avatars that obscure physical characteristics, such as race, the study extends the concept of “blind” hiring into immersive virtual environments. In our experimental design, randomly assigned participants evaluated job candidates represented by avatars that had three variations of racial identifiability (White, Asian, or racially unidentifiable avatar) and two qualification levels (strong and ambiguous). We controlled for gender by including only experienced, full-time female professionals as participants in the evaluation of female avatars …

The Tax Adviser, Volume 18, Number 1, January 1987, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Subject Index, 12 Months Ended December 1986, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Author Index, 12 Months Ended December 1986, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Tax Trends, Nicholas J. Fiore

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Thumbtax, Sandra K. Lewis

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Paying The Debts Of Others: A Sec. 166 Or 162 Deduction?, Cherie J. O'Neil, Maria D. Tucci

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Continuity: Persistent Decision-Centric Ai Cognition With Runtime Governance, Bounded Retrieval, And Defense-In-Depth Credential Scrubbing — Defensive Technical Disclosure V2.0, Thiago Goncalves

Defensive Publications Series

A memory-augmented AI assistant control plane is disclosed, comprising five
technical methods combined and publicly released as a Visual Studio Code
extension since October 31, 2025: (A) bounded retrieval with a code-enforced per-
call cap and per-record character limits such that worst-case per-turn token injection
remains approximately constant regardless of total stored knowledge; (B) runtime
governance interception of AI agent tool calls using an INTERCEPT → PAUSE →
EVALUATE → ENFORCE pipeline mapped to nine OWASP LLM Top 10 (2025)
categories; (C) defense-in-depth credential scrubbing applied at five enforcement
boundaries (tool-call input, AI-generated output, persistence write, persistence read,
MCP tool-result) …