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Modelling Malaysian Mortality With Cause-Of-Death: A Compositional Data Approach To Lee-Carter Extension, Saiful Azril Ishak, Norazliani Md Lazam, Shamshimah Shamsuddin, Nurin Haniah Asmuni, Nordiana Rosdi

Malaysian Journal of Computing (MJoC)

Forecasting cause-specific mortality is at the core of actuarial valuation, annuity pricing, and long-term public health planning. In traditional extrapolation frameworks such as the Lee-Carter and Li-Lee models, probability leakage is a structural flaw which causes the independently projected cause death rates to not sum to total mortality and results in implausible trajectory crossovers. To overcome these shortcomings, this study explores the application of Compositional Data Analysis (CoDA) extensions namely CoDA Lee-Carter (CDLC) and CoDA Li-Lee (CDLL) to historical Malaysian cause of death data. We transform cause proportions to the unit simplex using centred log-ratio coordinates. This transformation imposes exact …

Teacher And Principal Turnover In Alaska: Statewide Trends From 2013-2024, Dayna Jean Defeo, Noah Burke, Trang C. Tran

CAEPR Reports

Research consistently affirms that good teachers are critical for a child’s academic success, as well as their long-term social and economic outcomes. However, high teacher turnover disrupts instructional continuity and hurts student achievement. In Alaska, maintaining a stable educator workforce has been a challenge for nearly three decades. This report updates the state’s longitudinal retention data to report on trends in teacher turnover from 2013 to 2024. The report finds that, while the majority of Alaska’s educators stay at their main schools from year to year, overall turnover has trended upward since 2013 (with the exception of reduced turnover during …

Law School Record, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Fall 2026), Law School Record Editors

Law School Record

• Message from the Dean
• Legal Education in the Age of AI
• Speaking Out Beyond The Bench
• Theory In Practice
• Asked and Answered
• Meet the Five Alumni Now Clerking at the US Supreme Court
• Meet Lucy Msall, MLS '23 Newest Member of the Law School Faculty
• Faculty awards and recognition
• Trial By Fire: Inside the Law School's Intensive Trial Practice Workshop
• Development News
• Law School Unveils Portrait Honoring Geoffrey Stone, '71
• In Memoriam
• A Tribute to Professor Randal C. Picker, '85
• Giving Back: Peter Kolker, '66

2026 October, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications & Marketing.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for October of 2026.

Shsp Dean's Newsletter, Fall 2026, Brian J. Nickerson

SHSP Dean’s Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Teaching Prevention Before Disease Management: A Sustained Curriculum Innovation In Pre-Licensure Nursing Education, Selam Stephanos, Jan M. Nick Phd

Loma Linda University Research Reports

Chronic noncommunicable diseases are the leading causes of death worldwide, yet many are preventable or reversible through lifestyle change (Dean et al., 2014). Although nurses are well-positioned to support health behavior change, pre-licensure nursing education remains largely didactic, disease-focused, and introduced late in the curriculum (Kemppainen et al., 2013; Shea et al., 2021). To align with national priorities, we redesigned a pre-licensure health promotion course around lifestyle medicine and experiential teaching strategies. This presentation describes the process and sustained implementation results.

In Brief, Case Western Reserve University School Of Law

In Brief

Table of Contents

• Message from the Dean
• The Country's Pioneering Health Law Center
• Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of our War Crimes Research Office
• Foundations of Practice: Beginning the Journey from Law Student to Lawyer
• CWRU Law School's Teams Win Two National Championships in 2026
• Scholarly Impact
• 2025-2026 Conferences and Lectures Roundup
• Alumni Spotlight
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam
• Campus Comeback
• Diploma Day

Submission Guidelines For Graduation Requirements, Heather Hankins

Training Materials, User Guides, and Documentation

Last Updated October 2026

These submission guidelines support:

• Bachelor of Architecture submissions
• Honors capstone and thesis submissions
• Master's Thesis submissions
• Master's Project submissions (any non-thesis master's level culminating project)
• Dissertation submissions

All graduating KSU students should use this submission guide to identify the correct collection and submit their required deliverable, whether is it a thesis, dissertation, or other project.

Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions.

The Pal Compass For Navigating Ai In Education, Anny Fritzen Case, Christine Dawson, Deborah Vriend Van Duinen

Teacher Education Faculty Scholarship

A framework for reflecting on AI in Education through Purpose, Agency, and Learning.

Front Matter, Art Inquiries, Kris K. Belden-Adams

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.

Here Come The Brides: Sylvia Sleigh, Lawrence Alloway, And Hetty Remington, Andrew D. Hottle

Art Inquiries

Sylvia Sleigh (1916–2010), a Welsh-born artist who lived and worked in England before settling in the United States, is known primarily for her uninhibited portraits of nude men, many of which were painted in New York City during the feminist art movement of the 1970s. Over the last half-century, Sleigh’s male nudes have been both admired and derided for disrupting the conventional paradigm of the male artist and unclothed female model. Among them are Philip Golub Reclining (1971; private collection) and The Turkish Bath (1973; David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago), which were inspired by canonical …

Adrienne L. Childs, Ornamental Blackness: The Black Figure In European Decorative Arts, Brigid M. Boyle

Art Inquiries

Ornamental Blackness by Adrienne L. Childs offers the first comprehensive survey of European luxury and utilitarian objects that treat Black Africans as decorative motifs. Proceeding chronologically from the middle Baroque period to the late nineteenth century, Childs charts the initial production of racialized objects for royal courts and aristocratic households and their later dissemination to middle-class homes. Items such as furniture, light fixtures, clocks, tableware, porcelain figurines, and treasury objects became an apparatus for controlling and fetishizing Black bodies, reinforcing the idea of Black servitude as normal. Many of these objects were crafted from precious natural materials whose extraction and …

Memory In Fragments: The Lives Of Ancient Maya Sculptures By Megan E. O’Neil, Jeanette Nicewinter

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.

Harry Boone: From Entropy To Renewal, Gertrude Herbert Institute Of Art, Augusta, Ga, Mysoon Rizk

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.

Gustave Courbet: Realist And Rebel, Leopold Museum Vienna, Austria, Joyce Polistena

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.

On Canvas: The Origins And Implications Of A Common Phrase, Kerr Houston

Art Inquiries

Why do modern art historians and conservators describe paintings executed on cloth in Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries as works on canvas, when late medieval and early Renaissance sources never do the same? This article answers that question by tracing and analyzing the evolution of canvas as a term in the history of painting. Until the late 1400s, it will be argued, the term canvas and its regional variants connoted coarse woven fabrics made of hemp that were associated with rugged, utilitarian needs and rural poverty—but not with painting. By contrast, artists and related texts relied on …

Alison Place, Ed., Feminist Designer: On The Personal And The Political In Design, Anmol Shrivastava

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.

Book Review: The Art Of Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721-1782) By Christina K. Lindeman, Amanda Strasik

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.

Encoded, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, Ny, Tamara Smithers

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.

A Bibliography Of Faculty Scholarship, Kathryn J. Dufour Law Library

Scholarly Articles

The purpose of this bibliography is to record in one place the substantial body of scholarship produced by the current faculty at the Catholic University, Columbus School of Law. From its humble beginnings under the tutelage of founding Dean William Callyhan Robinson, through its adolescent period when, like so many other American law schools, it was trying to define its pedagogical niche, to its eventual merger with the Columbus University Law School in 1954, the law school at Catholic University has always retained a scholarly and remarkably productive faculty. The sheer quantity of writing, the breadth of research and the …

October 1, 2026, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Can Cirilo Change The World? Cirilo F. Bautista's Lyric Poems In Times Of Crisis, Kristal Joyce Ibarra

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

Contemporary crises continue to confront Filipinos. These include the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, systemic corruption within the Philippine government, the red-tagging of activists, the deterioration of institutional integrity and public confidence in the Philippine government, and the US war against Iran, together with its global repercussions such as rising oil prices and displacement. This paper proposes that individuals turn to literature, beyond the fields of science or policymaking, during times of crisis and distress. Specifically, the lyric poems of National Artist for Literature Cirilo F. Bautista, distinguished by their evident relevance, form, and capacity to influence readers both …

The Jeanne Clery Disclosure Report, Sacred Heart University

News, Magazines and Reports

"2026 Sacred Heart University Department of Public Safety Annual Campus Crime & Fire Report."

Editorial Foreword Ijsls Volume 6 Number 1, Sulistyowati Irianto

The Indonesian Journal of Socio-Legal Studies

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Quality Assurance Project Plan - Spokane River Pfas Study, Chad Pritchard

EWU PFAS Research Collection

Assessing the impacts of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination across multiple aquifers and multiple sources requires a detailed understanding of the hydrogeologic framework to quantifiably determine PFAS sources. The West Plains of eastern Washington is an ideal natural laboratory to study the fate and transport of PFAS because the general geohydrologic framework has been established and collaboration with several related PFAS projects will maximize the use of grant funds. This project will help the population, environment, and commercial entities of the West Plains by building a transport model, delineating PFAS contamination, and using unique PFAS distribution at different locations …

Afit Librarian Newsletter, Fourth Quarter 2026, D'Azzo Research Library, Air Force Institute Of Technology

AFIT Library Knowledge Base

No abstract provided.

A Profile Of Assisted Living Direct Care Workforce Training Requirements Across The United States, Erh-Chi Hsu, Paula Carder, Lindsey Smith, Zhiqing E. Zhou, Olga Yakusheva, Anna S. Beeber, Eric Jutkowitz, Kali Thomas

Institute on Aging Publications

Objectives

To characterize assisted living (AL) direct care worker (DCW) training requirements across the United States and how these regulations have changed over time. Specifically, we examine state-level profiles of training regulations, including duration, frequency, content, source of materials, evaluation, and changes in regulatory coverage.

Design

Cross-sectional and longitudinal descriptive study using state policy data and AL directories from 2019, 2021, and 2023.

Setting and Participants

All US states' AL training–related regulations; all ALs and AL beds governed by those regulations.

Methods

We used a mixed-methods approach with an explanatory sequential design (QUAN → qual), first conducting health services regulatory …

Chapter 6: Dragon's Breath Sauce, Garon C. Smith

G. Wiz’s Book of Spells

Dragon’s Breath Sauce is a collection of fun things to do with liquid nitrogen. The chapter title comes from using the cryogenic fluid to chill Cheetos Puffcorn to -321 degrees Fahrenheit and then eating them at this temperature. When popped in a saliva-moistened mouth, the cold causes the moisture in one’s breath to condense into fog. Breathing out releases a cloud that can be imagined as smoke from a fire-breathing dragon. In addition, liquid nitrogen offers a chance for audience members to briefly immerse their hand in a pool of watery-looking fluid, yet pull it out instantly and completely dry. …

Editor’S Note, Patric R. Spence

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This editorial introduces Volume 43 of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration and situates the publication within the history of the Association and the communication discipline. It summarizes contributions addressing departmental leadership, academic middle management, organizational change, and professional association leadership. The editorial also describes ongoing efforts to digitize historical publications, correct bibliographic records, and improve access through an institutional repository. Emphasis is placed on preserving the historical record of communication administration and encouraging contributions that draw on practical administrative experience, professional reflection, and research.

Death By A Thousand Cuts: Thoughts On Protecting Faculty And Staff Morale From Ever-Increasing Administrative Demands, Timothy R. Levine

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

Faculty life is more challenging and demanding than ever. Many university administrators give lip service to promoting faculty and staff job satisfaction, retention, morale, and engagement. This essay focuses on one threat to the faculty and staff: the increasing bureaucratic demands from ever more bloated university administrations. A chair-level mitigation strategy is proposed in which chairs selectively shield faculty and staff from some of the burden, while prioritizing and explaining the merits of mission-critical tasks in ways that are transparent and align with scholarly values.