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Jacksonville State University Faculty Handbook | June 2023 Edition, Jacksonville State University

Handbooks & Manuals

The Jacksonville State University Faculty Handbook, as approved by the board of trustees, serves as a reference manual for faculty members and administration. It is the product of faculty and administration collaboration, which reflects broad-based participation in the governance of the university.

Nicus In The Us: Levels Of Acuity, Number Of Beds, And Relationships To Population Factors., Roberta Pineda, Kati Knudsen, Courtney C. Breault, Elizabeth E. Rogers, Wendy J. Mack, Alicia Fernandez-Fernandez

HPD Articles

OBJECTIVE: To 1) define the number and characteristics of NICUs in the United States (US) and 2) identify hospital and population characteristics related to US NICUs.

STUDY DESIGN: Cohort study of US NICUs.

RESULTS: There were 1424 NICUs identified in the US. Higher number of NICU beds was positively associated with higher NICU level (p < 0.0001). Higher acuity level and number of NICU beds related to being in a children's hospital (p < 0.0001;p < 0.0001), part of an academic center (p = 0.006;p = 0.001), and in a state with Certificate of Need legislation (p = 0.023;p = 0.046). Higher acuity level related to higher population density (p < 0.0001), and higher number of beds related to increasing proportions of minorities in the population up until 50% minorities. There was also significant variation in NICU level by region.

CONCLUSIONS: This study contributes new knowledge by describing an updated registry of NICUs in the US in 2021 that can be used for comparisons and benchmarking.

Initial Study Checklist, Placeworks For The College

Long Range Campus Planning Archive

No abstract provided.

University Libraries Newsletter - June/July 2023, Paula Webb

USA Libraries Newsletter

University Libraries Newsletter for June and July 2023.

Contents include:

• Kathy Wheeler Retires from USA Libraries
• USA Libraries DEI Council Sponsered Juneteeth Presentation with Eric Finley
• USA's I-10 Mobile River Bridge Archaeology and Down the Bay Projects Presented ay Ben May Library
• USA Libraries Upgrades to ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
• McCall Library Hosts USA Alumna Isabel Machado
• University Libraries Publications and Staff Updates

USA Libraries Exhibits & Events

• 2nd Annual JAWS Fest
• Lupercalia Art Show
• Stephanie Bromley - Out of the Ordinaire, Artist Extraordinaire
• Louis Tooker - Bodies of Work

Aged 539 And 580 Report: Cal Poly Rodeo Fitness Program And Assistant Coaching, Mia I. Prichard

Agricultural Education: Graduate Internship Reports

This report details the role of an assistant coach and the implementation of a fitness program for student athletes. This fitness program was designed to enhance athletic performance in the rodeo arena and prepare the Cal Poly Rodeo team members to compete at their highest levels. This paper outlines the daily tasks of an assistant coach throughout this process, as well as the outcomes of this experience.

A Lack Of Uniformity, Compounded, In Immigration Law, Jill E. Family

Notre Dame Law Review

The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) is known for bringing standardization to federal agency behavior. The APA’s framework for adjudication, however, is lax and incomplete. It provides standards, but only meaningfully for formal adjudication, and Congress rarely requires agencies to follow the APA’s formal adjudication procedures. The APA, therefore, expressly allows for nonuniform adjudication in that it requires little of the informal adjudication category that makes up the lion’s share of agency adjudication.

This lack of uniformity in adjudication is prominent in immigration law. When federal agencies adjudicate whether to remove (deport) an individual from the United States, those agencies act …

The “Catch-22” Of Rule 23(B)(2): Past Purchaser’S Standing To Pursue Injunctive Relief, Margarete Tompkins

Notre Dame Law Review

This Note argues that past purchasers of a product have standing to pursue injunctive relief under Rule 23(b)(2). Part I discusses class actions and the current state of caselaw on false-labeling cases. I.A discusses the history of class actions generally, as well as the differing views on the purpose of Rule 23 throughout its history. I.B then provides background on standing, both generally and in the class action context. I.C explains the existing caselaw on standing for past purchasers, illustrating the looming circuit split on the issue. Part II then begins the argument portion of this Note. II.A argues that …

Remarks At Notre Dame Law School, Brett M. Kavanaugh

Notre Dame Law Review

During the Notre Dame Law Review’s 2023 Federal Courts Symposium, students and faculty gathered in the McCartan Courtroom in Eck Hall for a conversation with Justice Kavanaugh. Dean G. Marcus Cole moderated and fielded questions from attendees. Highlights from the event, adapted for print, are reproduced below. Questions and responses have been lightly edited for readability and clarity.

The Apa As A Super-Statute: Deep Compromise And Judicial Review Of Notice-And-Comment Rulemaking, William N. Eskridge Jr., John Ferejohn

Notre Dame Law Review

The Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 (APA) is a “super-statute,” creating a robust, enduring governance structure for the modern regulatory state. An emerging literature on “APA originalism” maintains that some of the judge-created rules of administrative law are inconsistent with the APA’s original public meaning and therefore illegitimate. In the context of notice-and-comment rulemaking, some academics and judges wield APA originalism as a reason to abrogate the presumption of judicial review, hard-look review of agency factual conclusions, and judicial deference to agency interpretations of law. Some of the judges who would apply original public meaning to those issues have asserted …

Interpreting The Administrative Procedure Act: A Literature Review, Christopher J. Walker, Scott T. Macguidwin

Notre Dame Law Review

The modern administrative state has changed substantially since Congress enacted the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) in 1946. Yet Congress has done little to modernize the APA in those intervening seventy-seven years. That does not mean the APA has remained unchanged. Federal courts have substantially refashioned the APA’s requirements for administrative procedure and judicial review of agency action. Perhaps unsurprisingly, calls to return to either the statutory text or the original meaning (or both) have intensified in recent years. “APA originalism” projects abound.

As part of the Notre Dame Law Review’s Symposium on the History of the Administrative Procedure Act …

The Path Of Administrative Law Remedies, Aditya Bamzai

Notre Dame Law Review

The question whether the term “set aside” in the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) authorizes a federal court to vacate a rule universally—as opposed to setting aside the rule solely as to the plaintiffs—is a significant and contested one. This Essay traces the history of the statutory term “set aside” from its origins in the 1906 passage of the Hepburn Act to its 1946 placement in the APA. During this era, Congress repeatedly used the term “set aside” in agency review statutes. This Essay argues that, in doing so, Congress did not intend to depart from the underlying remedial framework created …

Textualism And The Administrative Procedure Act, Kristin E. Hickman, Mark R. Thomson

Notre Dame Law Review

In recent years, the Supreme Court occasionally has applied a more limited approach to textualist reasoning that, if applied to the APA, could expand the perceived gulf between textualism and existing administrative law doctrine. Our purpose with this Essay is to explore the implications of this trend for APA interpretation, particularly as it might apply to agency rulemaking. We do not purport to address critics of textualism as an interpretive methodology; we speak primarily to those who are persuaded of textualism’s merits. We also will not try to resolve all the many disagreements about textualism’s variations or the APA’s meaning. …

The Emerging Possibility Of Religious Charter Schools: A Case Study Of Arizona And Massachusetts, Kathleen C. Ryan

Notre Dame Law Review

In July 2022, Arizona became the first state to create a universal school-choice program by passing the Empowerment Scholarship Account Program, an education savings account (ESA) for all students outside the public school system. Over the past thirty years, Arizona has expanded its school choice offerings, which includes one of the largest charter school systems in the nation. Today, students in Arizona have many choices for school, including traditional public schools, charter schools, magnet schools, secular private schools, and religious private schools. In the future, could one of those options be a religious charter school?

Justice Breyer’s dissent in Espinoza …

Due Deference: Kisor, Stinson, And The United States Sentencing Commission, Tim Steininger

Notre Dame Law Review

Under Kisor v. Wilkie, courts must defer to agencies’ interpretations of regulations when certain conditions are met. Lower courts continue to diverge, however, when it comes to the deference due the United States Sentencing Commission’s commentary. The Supreme Court has declined to come to the circuits’ aid. Commission commentary interprets its Guidelines. Guidelines are necessarily subject to the Administrative Procedure Act’s notice-and-comment requirements and congressional control; commentary is not. Given the heightened stakes inherent in sentencing, some argue that the rule of lenity should apply when a court considers deferring to commentary. This Note argues that such an approach …

Amy Block V. Jaguar Land Rover North America Llc

2023 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Usa V. Michael Simmons

2023 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Realizing Molecular Machine Learning Through Communications For Biological Ai: Future Directions And Challenges, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Samitha Somathilaka, Sehee Sun, Adrian Ratwatte, Massimiliano Pierobon

School of Computing: Faculty Publications

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are weaving their way into the fabric of society, where they are playing a crucial role in numerous facets of our lives. As we witness the increased deployment of AI and ML in various types of devices, we benefit from their use into energy-efficient algorithms for low powered devices. In this paper, we investigate a scale and medium that is far smaller than conventional devices as we move towards molecular systems that can be utilized to perform machine learning functions, i.e., Molecular Machine Learning (MML). Fundamental to the operation of MML is the …

Guest Editorial: Special Issue On Green Iot For Future Space–Air–Ground–Ocean-Integrated Networks And Applications, Bo Rong, Mohamed Cheriet, Jon Montalban, Lei Shu, Yi Qian

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications

The Internet of Things (IoT) plays a critical role in enabling the seamless integration of disparate devices. Future IoT will rapidly expand its coverage to offer future worldwide omnipresent applications and services by merging communications in diverse spatial domains to build the space–air–ground–ocean-integrated network (SAGOI-Net). SAGOI-Net will include a significant number of battery-powered network nodes, such as satellites, unmanned vehicles, and underwater devices, due to the extremely vast geographic reach and dynamics in free space. Given the battery limitations, high-energy-efficiency communications and networking will be critical to the future system. Green SAGOI-Net seeks to not only bring ubiquitous connectivity to …

The Shared Ethical Framework To Allocate Scarce Medical Resources: A Lesson From Covid-19, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Govind C. Persad

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

The COVID-19 pandemic has helped to clarify the fair and equitable allocation of scarce medical resources, both within and among countries. The ethical allocation of such resources entails a three-step process: (1) elucidating the fundamental ethical values for allocation, (2) using these values to delineate priority tiers for scarce resources, and (3) implementing the prioritisation to faithfully realise the fundamental values. Myriad reports and assessments have elucidated five core substantive values for ethical allocation: maximising benefits and minimising harms, mitigating unfair disadvantage, equal moral concern, reciprocity, and instrumental value. These values are universal. None of the values are sufficient alone, …

On The Measurement Of Nakazima Testing Based Out-Of-Plane Forming Limit Curves Using 2d Digital Image Correlation, Akshat Agha, Fadi Abu-Farha

Publications

The strain compensation method for measuring in-plane forming limit curves (FLCs) using 2D digital image correlation developed previously [A method of measuring in-plane forming limit curves using 2D Digital Image Correlation, SAE Int. J. Mater. Manf., 2023] was modified and extended to more versatile and popular out-of-plane FLCs. The current study introduces a straightforward strain compensation technique for measuring Nakazima testing based out-of-plane FLCs utilizing an affordable single-camera (2D) DIC system. In this study, forming tests are performed on two automotive-grade sheet metal alloys: DP980 steel and a 6xxx series aluminum alloy using the Nakazima test method. The experiments are …

2022-2023 Annual Report, Heyman Center On Corporate Governance

Heyman Center Reports

The 2022-2023 Annual Report of The Samuel & Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance at Cardozo Law School highlights key events, the Heyman Scholars Program, and the diverse curriculum offerings. Featuring insights from industry experts and faculty, the report showcases the Center's commitment to excellence in business and corporate law education.

Selecting The Most Adequate Fuzzy Operation For Explainable Ai: Empirical Fact And Its Possible Theoretical Explanation, Orsolya Csiszar, Gábor Csiszar, Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

A reasonable way to make AI results explainable is to approximate the corresponding deep-learning-generated function by a simple expression formed by fuzzy operations. Experiments on real data show that out of all easy-to-compute fuzzy operations, the best approximation is attained if we use an operation a + b − 0.5 ( limited to the interval [0,1]$. In this paper, we provide a possible theoretical explanation for this empirical result.

Jews In Chmielnik, 1556-1946: The Rise And Fall Of A Polish Jewish Community, Rivka Chaya Schiller

Student Theses and Dissertations

Today, there are no openly practicing Jews residing in Chmielnik, a small town in eastern Poland. In 1939, on the eve of World War II, Jews comprised at least 80 percent of the overall population: an estimated 10,275 out of 12,500 people. In October 1945, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency stated that there were precisely 61 Jews registered in Chmielnik. What happened to the other 10,214? This thesis attempts to find out. In my monograph I provide a microhistory of Chmielnik—a town whose Jewish roots trace back to 1556—with a special emphasis on World War II. Since the town itself was …

Aged 539 Project- Soledad High School, Jacob Torres

Agricultural Education: Graduate Internship Reports

This internship and project report includes documentation required in meeting the quality criteria for secondary-level programs of instruction in agriculture. The documents are concurrently used for the Agriculture Incentive Grant review process at Soledad High School conducted by representatives of the California Department of Education. The supporting material includes information to receive state and local funding, outline the goals and objectives of the program, along with an overview of Soledad High School, the agriculture program and the community.

Old Salem School Historic Structures Report, Aidan B. Taylor, Cyndi Parker, Charlyn King, Tommy King, Sarah Johnson

Reports

Historic Structures Report completed during the 2023 Summer Field Studies course. Conducted under the supervision of Belinda Stewart Architects in Eupora, Mississippi.

3rd Jakarta Annual Surgical Symposia: Comprehensive Surgical Update Proceeding Abstracts, Scientific Committee Jass

The New Ropanasuri Journal of Surgery

Introduction. The need for arteriovenous fistula (AVF) as access to hemodialysis is increasing, but the failure rate of AVF maturity is also relatively high. Umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have anti-inflammatory properties that can occur in homeostasis, repair, and regeneration in pathological responses caused by vascular injury. This study aims to determine how administering cord mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) affects vascular maturity based on Doppler ultrasound examination in AVF rabbit models.

Method. An experimental study proceeded using a local male rabbit (Lepus Domestica). The administration of umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells was applied in situ on AVF and intravenously. …

“I’Ll Give You My Trust Assets, When You Pry Them From My Cold, Dead Hands”: The Supreme Court Of Georgia Clarifies That A Mere Challenge To A Trust’S Formation Will Not Trigger An In Terrorem Clause, Kiana Johnson

Mercer Law Review

Imagine a television infomercial wakes you up from your sleep. While refocusing your vision, you faintly hear the television say: “Are you a disgruntled beneficiary?” You think to yourself, “I’m not disgruntled, but I sure wish I could have more money.” You are slightly intrigued, so you crank up the volume on the television, and the infomercial emphatically states, “Do you believe you are entitled to ‘ill-gotten gains’?” You think to yourself, “I have no idea what ill-gotten gains are.” I just want ownership over the assets I —.”

Giller v. Slosberg, 359 Ga. App. 867, 858 S.E.2d 747 …

Game, Set, …Tie? The Eleventh Circuit Gives Courts Discretion To Refrain From Choosing A Prevailing Party, Tessa Sizemore

Mercer Law Review

During the National Football League’s (NFL) 2022 opening week, the Houston Texans game versus the Indianapolis Colts ended in a tie after an impressive fourth-quarter comeback by the Colts. This is only the nineteenth opening week tie in NFL history. Much like that Texans-Colts game, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit hosted a legal dispute which ended in a tie this year. While the American legal system is no game, it is certainly a surprise when our adversarial system produces a legal result with no winner.

The Reward Positivity As An Additive And Temporally Independent Event-Related Potential Feature, Trevor C J Jackson

Psychology ETDs

The reward positivity (RewP) is a feedback-related event-related potential elicited in response to reward with two distinct defining features. First, it reflects an axiomatic reward prediction error signal. Second, it is spectrally represented within the delta band. We propose a third defining feature, namely that it is an additive and temporally independent event-related potential feature. Across five datasets and ten studies, this dissertation tested three major hypotheses. First, we show that stimulus modality (e.g. visual and auditory stimuli) and parametric delays can shift the RewP in time, which empirically indicates an additive and temporally independent feature. Second, we provide some …

University Of Dayton Magazine, Summer 2023, University Of Dayton

University of Dayton Alumni Publications

The University of Dayton Magazine is published quarterly by the Office of University Marketing and Communications for alumni, parents, students, faculty/staff, trustees and other friends of UD.