Digital Commons Network^™

Arctic Barnabas Ministries: Another Giving Tradition

West Michigan District Dental Society Bulletin

Each Fall, a team of dedicated dental professionals travel from their West Michigan practices to the heart of Alaska to provide much-needed dental care to missionary families who serve in some of the state’s most remote regions. In this interview Dr. Devin Norman discusses the group's mission, the challenges they face, and the stories that have stayed with them.

Better To Give Than To Receive

West Michigan District Dental Society Bulletin

In this article Dr. Sarah Bouwkamp shares her experience joining a University of Michigan dental mission trip to Guatemala, serving patients in need and rediscovering the deeper purpose of dentistry.

The Caroline Grace Medema Memorial Fund

West Michigan District Dental Society Bulletin

In this heartfelt letter from Brent and Lorene Medema, the family shares their story and reaction to the decision by the WMDDS Board of Directors to honor their late daughter through the Caroline Grace Medema Memorial Fund. The fund will provide financial support for pregnant women and children in need of dental care.

Wmdds Bulletin Fall 2025

West Michigan District Dental Society Bulletin

In the Fall 2025 issue, the reader will find the following feature articles:

• The Carolina Grace Medema Memorial Fund
• West Michigan Members in Missions: “Better to Give Than to Receive" and "Arctic Barnabas Ministries"
• Pearls from Local Dentists

Also included are your monthly tripartite update, news from West Michigan counties, the President's Message and Editor's Letter.

Contract Lifecycle Management Within An Integrated Digital Workspace, N/A, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

Business agreements contain critical obligations that are typically extracted and tracked manually. This process is labor-intensive and prone to human error, which can lead to missed deadlines, breached terms, and potential liabilities. This disclosure describes a method for autonomously managing contractual obligations within a digital workspace. The method utilizes a large language model to analyze a contract, identify the contracting parties, and assign specific duties to the user's organization. Based on this party-specific assignment, actions such as scheduling calendar events, drafting payments, or populating organizational document templates are automatically orchestrated within the user's integrated suite of productivity applications. This approach …

Implementation Of Common Controls Framework Using Graph Database And Vector Database Technologies, David J. Driggers

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses methods, systems, and techniques for implementing a common controls framework using graph database and vector database technologies. Unlike traditional relational database implementations, these approaches leverage the inherent relationship modeling capabilities of graph databases and the semantic similarity search capabilities of vector databases to provide enhanced control mapping, gap analysis, and compliance assessment functionality. This disclosure establishes prior art for non-relational database implementations of security control frameworks.

Rightsizing Regulations To Foster Innovation And A Healthy Business Environment: Insights From Elite Executives, Brian Charles Mulligan, Nelson Granados

Engaged Management ReView

This study examines insights from business executives on how TRAILS—that is, taxes, regulations, assessments, interventions, litigation, and subsidies—influence entrepreneurial behavior and firm performance. Using an applied constructivist grounded theory design, we conducted 17 in-depth interviews to identify how top business executives view the effects of regulations on business performance. We adopt the premise that the right level and set of regulations lead to a healthier business environment. We find that right-sized TRAILS catalyze entrepreneurial dynamism, whereas wrong-sized TRAILS impose hidden opportunity costs, stifle innovation, and erode institutional trust. Crucially, the study reveals the vital role of the government as …

From Face-To-Face To Interface: A Critical Review Of Human Relationships In The Digital Era, Zainb I. Mohammed, Lina M. Shaker

AUIQ Humanities and Social Sciences

The rise of digital technologies has significantly transformed the nature, structure, and experience of human relationships across multiple domains. This review critically examines how digital platforms such as social media, messaging applications, online dating sites, and AI-driven interfaces have reshaped interpersonal connections, including friendships, romantic relationships, and family dynamics. Drawing on interdisciplinary literature from psychology, communication studies, sociology, and media theory, the review explores themes such as digital intimacy, parasocial interactions, performative relationships, remote caregiving, and the ethics of AI-mediated emotional engagement. Special attention is given to underrepresented populations (e.g., older adults, neurodiverse individuals), as well as longitudinal and developmental …

Mental Health Quality Of Women Employees At The University Of Sharjah, Bushra Alakashee Prof., Fatima A. Algharbawi Dr.

International Journal for Research in Education

This study examines the quality of mental health among 200 female employees at the University of Sharjah—teaching and administrative—during the academic year 2023–2024. The Ryff Model of Psychological Well-Being was applied using the Ryff scale with six dimensions: self-acceptance, positive relations with others, personal growth, purpose in life, environmental mastery, and autonomy. Tool validity and reliability were confirmed statistically. Findings indicate generally high mental-health quality; autonomy ranked highest among the six domains, whereas a relative weakness appeared in self-perception. Significant differences were observed by years of service (1–5, 6–10, ≥11), by marital status (single, married, widowed, divorced), and by work …

Fs Minutes 2025-10-29, Northern Illinois University

Faculty Senate Archives

No abstract provided.

Fs Agenda 2025-10-29, Northern Illinois University

Faculty Senate Archives

No abstract provided.

Historical Methods Manual, Hollie Marquess, Brian Gribben

All Open Educational Resources

The Historical Methods Manual is a guide for history majors or students in history courses.

October 29, 2025 Blazer Weekly, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

Blazer Weekly (student newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: October 29, 2025, Eastern Illinois University

Daily Eastern News: 2025-2026

No abstract provided.

Accessible, Realistic Genome Simulation With Selection Using Stdpopsim., Graham Gower, Nathaniel S Pope, Murillo F Rodrigues, Silas Tittes, Linh N Tran, Ornob Alam, Maria Izabel A Cavassim, Peter D Fields, Benjamin C Haller, Xin Huang, Ben Jeffrey, Kevin Korfmann, Christopher C Kyriazis, Jiseon Min, Inés Rebollo, Clara T Rehmann, Scott T Small, Chris C R Smith, Georgia Tsambos, Yan Wong, Yu Zhang, Christian D Huber, Gregor Gorjanc, Aaron P Ragsdale, Ilan Gronau, Ryan N Gutenkunst, Jerome Kelleher, Kirk E Lohmueller, Daniel R Schrider, Peter L Ralph, Andrew D Kern

Faculty Research 2025

Selection is a fundamental evolutionary force that shapes patterns of genetic variation across species. However, simulations incorporating realistic selection along heterogeneous genomes in complex demographic histories are challenging, limiting our ability to benchmark statistical methods aimed at detecting selection and to explore theoretical predictions. stdpopsim is a community-maintained simulation library that already provides an extensive catalog of species-specific population genetic models. Here, we present a major extension to the stdpopsim framework that enables simulation of various modes of selection, including background selection, selective sweeps, and arbitrary distributions of fitness effects (DFE) acting on annotated subsets of the genome (for instance, …

Joint Senate Meeting Minutes 10-28-2025, Unk Student Government

Joint Senate Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Racial Identification Congruence, Ethnic Identity, And Skin Tone: Implications For Well-Being In Latinx Populations, Marisol Orea

ETD Collection

Latinx individuals often navigate complex intersections of race, ethnicity, and phenotype within a sociocultural context that imposes external racial categorizations. This dissertation examines the psychological implications of racial identification congruence—the alignment between an individual's self-identified race and how others perceive them—on life satisfaction, mental health, and minority stress. Specifically, it investigates how racial identification congruence, ethnic identity, and self-identified skin tone relate to these well-being outcomes among Latinx adults. A national sample of 509 Latinx participants completed validated measures, and data were analyzed using hierarchical regression, moderation, and mediation analyses. Ethnic identity emerged as a consistent and significant predictor of …

Wilf Impact Center Conversations | The Role Of A Conviction Integrity Unit In Identifying, Preventing, And Remedying Wrongful Convictions, Wilf Impact Center For Public Interest Law

WILF Impact Center for Public Interest Law | Event Posters

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

In recent years, national Conviction Integrity Units (CIU) of prosecutorial offices have played an important role in exonerating people wrongly convicted of crimes. In 2022, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg created the Post-Conviction Justice Unit (PCJU), a CIU tasked with reviewing old Manhattan cases, overturning wrongful convictions, and addressing the root causes behind these injustices. Since its inception, the PCJU has helped exonerate 13 people.

If Sustainable Living Is Our Goal, Complexability Should Be Our Game: Playing Between Simplicity And Complexity​, Tim Lutz

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Dr. Tim Lutz, Earth and Space Sciences Emeritus, presents "If sustainable living is our goal, complexability should be our game: Playing between simplicity and complexity".

If Sustainable Living Is Our Goal, Complexability Should Be Our Game: Playing Between Simplicity And Complexity, Tim Lutz

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Dr. Tim Lutz, Earth and Space Sciences Emeritus, presents "If sustainable living is our goal, complexability should be our game: Playing between simplicity and complexity"

Bottled Water, Daniel Jaffee

Sociology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Bottled water has transformed from a niche product into the most-consumed packaged beverage worldwide. This commodity is linked to broader struggles over human rights and social justice, the question of who owns nature, and the future of public goods. Bottled water's negative environmental externalities include high energy and carbon footprints and major plastic waste pollution caused by disposal of hundreds of billions of single-serving plastic bottles. These dynamics have generated oppositional movements that are both contesting bottled water consumption and resisting the industry's extraction of groundwater. Recent scholarship emphasizes bottled water's impacts on public tap water and its relationship to …

The Lumberjack, October 29, 2025

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

Commonwealth Times 2025-10-29

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

Flow Structure And Mixing Near A Small River Plume Front: Winyah Bay, Sc, Usa, Christopher Papageorgiou, George Voulgaris, Alexander E. Yankovsky, Diane Bennett Fribance

Faculty Publications

This study presents Eulerian data from Winyah Bay, SC, USA collected during the passage of a tidal plume. The data captured the evolution and structure of the plume and include high-resolution velocity and temperature time series, supplemented by temperature – salinity profiles from a MicroCTD profiler. The observations identified a pre-existing plume extending to 4 m, with a water density of 1023.6 kg m⁻³, laying above denser ambient waters. Upon arrival, the newly discharged tidal plume introduced a fresher layer (1020.7 kg m⁻³) extending to 2.6 m, gradually thinning due to radial spreading. The plume's frontal …

Managing Anticoagulation In A Patient With Calciphylaxis And Mechanical Valve: A Therapeutic Dilemma, Qutaiba Qafisheh, Abdalhakim Shubietah, Mohanad Qwaider, Muath A. Baniowda, Abdalrahman Assaassa, Roaa Aljunaidi, Abubakar Nazir

Division of Cardiology Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Calciphylaxis is a rare, life-threatening vasculopathic syndrome most commonly seen in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and associated with high mortality. Vitamin K antagonists complicate management in patients with mechanical valves by potentially exacerbating vascular calcification while remaining essential for thromboprophylaxis.

CASE PRESENTATION: A 50-year-old woman with ESRD on hemodialysis and a mechanical mitral valve on warfarin presented with severe abdominal pain and rapidly progressive necrotic ulcers. Despite broad-spectrum antibiotics and sodium thiosulfate, lesions worsened. Biopsies were nondiagnostic; however, the clinical phenotype was consistent with calciphylaxis. A multidisciplinary team transitioned anticoagulation from warfarin to subcutaneous unfractionated heparin (UFH) (333 U/kg …

Illustration As A Participatory Tool For Diverse(Queering) Discussions On The Climate Crisis: Exploring The Workshop Method, Devon Tipping

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

This practitioner reflection examines the role of illustration within participatory community settings to facilitate diverse and meaningful discussions on the climate crisis. The focus is on leveraging illustration to challenge traditional modes of climate conversation, emphasising tactical and emotional responses to climate engagement through visual methods rather than relying solely on verbal dialogue. This study involved bringing together LGBTQ+ communities within a city on the South-West Coast of England, UK. Through a series of five illustrative workshops, they provided a platform for participants to share their perspectives and experiences, to highlight the often-overlooked connections between LGBTQ+ identity and the climate …

Student Senate Meeting Minutes October 29, 2025, Student Senate-Winona State University

Student Senate Meeting Minutes

This document is the official Winona State University Student Senate Minutes for October 29, 2025.

Mosquito Classification And Explainability From Image Data Via Deep Learning Techniques, Farhat Binte Azam

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mosquitoes are the deadliest animals on Earth, responsible for more human deaths annually than any other species. Mosquito-borne illnesses continue to pose severe risks to global health. In 2015 alone, there were an estimated 214 million malaria cases worldwide. Similarly, a 2016 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that Puerto Rico’s Department of Health received over 62,500 suspected cases of Zika, with 29,345 confirmed positive cases. In 2019, Southeast Asia experienced its worst dengue outbreak in recorded history. Of the approximately 4,500 mosquito species distributed across 34 genera, …

Beyond Averages: Modeling And Diagnosing Stochastic Failure In Sic/Sic Composites, Frank Zok, Shane Gallagher, Madeleine Mcallister, Nicholas Han

Ceramic Matrix Composites III

Please click Additional Files below to see the full abstract

Flow Structure And Mixing Near A Small River Plume Front: Winyah Bay, Sc, Usa, Christopher Papageorgiou, George Voulgaris, Alexander E. Yankovsky, Diane Bennett Fribance

Marine Science

This study presents Eulerian data from Winyah Bay, SC, USA collected during the passage of a tidal plume. The data captured the evolution and structure of the plume and include high-resolution velocity and temperature time series, supplemented by temperature - salinity profiles from a MicroCTD profiler. The observations identified a pre-existing plume extending to 4 m, with a water density of 1023.6 kg m-3, laying above denser ambient waters. Upon arrival, the newly discharged tidal plume introduced a fresher layer (1020.7 kg m-3) extending to 2.6 m, gradually thinning due to radial spreading. The plume's frontal propagation measured at 0.36 …