Digital Commons Network^™

Fall 2025 - Volume 35, Number 2

CompassPoint

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Review Of City Of Refuge: Separatists And Utopian Town Planning, Martha Bradley-Evans

Communal Societies

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Review Of We Are As Gods: Back To The Land In The 1970s On The Quest For A New America, Deborah E. Altus

Communal Societies

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Apocalyptic Anticipations: Mormon Millenarianism In The Early Years, Grant Underwood

Communal Societies

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Review Of The Allure Of Immortality: An American Cult, A Florida Swamp, And A Renegade Prophet, Christian Goodwillie

Communal Societies

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The Influence Of Moravian Brethren Religious Thought And Practice On The Development Of Camphill Communities, Robin Jackson

Communal Societies

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Death Of A Guru: An Analysis Of The Postcharismatic Phase In The Transcendental Meditation Movement, Lane Atmore

Communal Societies

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From The Editors, Carol Medlicott, Heather Van Wormer, Susan Love Brown

Communal Societies

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Lived Utopianism: Everyday Life And Intentional Communities, Lucy Sargisson, Lyman Tower Sargent

Communal Societies

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How Standards Of Review Under Erisa Impair Mental Health Parity: An Analysis Of Wit V. United Behavioral Health, Hayden K. Hickey

Kentucky Law Journal

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The Paradox Of Barring Early-Release Defendants From Section 1983 Relief, Emily M. Puckett

Kentucky Law Journal

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Disproportionate School Brutality Upon Black Children, Nicole Tuchinda

Kentucky Law Journal

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Scotus's Summer Of 2022: Obfuscation Of And Disdain For Rationality And The Traditional Personal Liberties Framework, Roy G. Spece Jr.

Kentucky Law Journal

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The Law Fox Manifesto, Benjamin H. Barton

Kentucky Law Journal

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The Right To Record Police Must Be Clearly Established, Cole S. Manion

Kentucky Law Journal

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Avoid The Proxy: It's Time For Congress To Wager On Sports Betting, Andrew Tao

Kentucky Law Journal

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Redistricting's Ultimate Antidote, Douglas M. Spencer

Kentucky Law Journal

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Self-Districting: The Ultimate Antidote To Gerrymandering, Edward B. Foley

Kentucky Law Journal

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The Phantasm Of Principle, Wilfred U. Codrington Iii

Kentucky Law Journal

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Redistricting In The Political Thicket: The Ghosts Of Colegrove V. Green, Anthony J. Gaughan

Kentucky Law Journal

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Introduction: There Must Be Something In The Water—Or The Bourbon—In Kentucky: Voting Rights In The Bluegrass State, Joshua A. Douglas

Kentucky Law Journal

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Proceedings Of The 11th Geia Seminar (2024), Patrícia Tosqui Lucks, Juliana De Castro Santana

GEIA Seminar

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Evaluation The Awareness Of Using Brushing And Interdental Cleaning Aids Among Dental Students In Najaf City, Iraq, Ali Faisal Madhloom, Firas Bashir Al-Taweel, Mustafa Faris Shubbar, Ali Falah Rfysh

Maaen Journal for Medical Sciences

Background: The consensus is that overall health is significantly impacted by oral health. It is anticipated that dental students will have a strong understanding of oral health. The aim of this preliminary pilot study was to evaluate of the awareness of using tooth brushing and interdental cleaning aids between dental students from 1^st grade to 5^th grade in Najaf city, Iraq.

Methods: A cross-sectional study and questionnaire with 12 questions was based on the use of brushing tongue and interdental cleaning aids were conducted among 1^st grade to 5^th grade dental students in Alkafeel …

At The Crossroads: Ryan Coogler’S Metaphysical Meditation On Blues Music’S Power Of Salvation And The Terror Of Racial Predation In “Sinners”, Terri Bowles

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

In Sinners (2025), written and directed by Ryan Coogler, intercultural histories of music, religion and oral tradition inform a modern and complex horror tale confronting the terror of Jim Crow in the post–World War I Mississippi Delta. The film, starring frequent Coogler collaborator and muse Michael B. Jordan as twin war veterans out to reestablish their lives as juke joint owners, coalesces themes of economic repression, racial voyeurism, and secular and religious entanglements with cinematic horror allegories of objectification, consumption and possession. This review explores the film’s tense and violent examination of these themes and the lived and imagined spaces …

From Prompt To Prejudice: Visual Evidence From Ai Image Generation Platforms, Jinu K. Varghese, Padma Rani

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

This study examines how AI image generation systems perpetuate digital orientalism through systematic cultural representation patterns that increasingly shape global digital markets and international development discourse. Using visual social semiotics methodology, we conducted comparative analysis of Midjourney and ChatGPT platforms across nine culturally specific prompts examining religious imagery, contemporary social dynamics, and power structures in Indian cultural contexts. Our findings reveal that both platforms consistently reproduce colonial-era representational frameworks despite culturally sensitive prompting and advanced technical capabilities. The analysis identifies three systematic patterns: temporal displacement strategies that acknowledge modernity while containing it within orientalist categories, institutional validation requirements that privilege …

Aging And The Screen: Toxic Commodification Of The Female Body In The Substance (2024), Damlasu Uyug Sengun, Tuncer Mert Aydın, Zeynep Ozdamar Ertekin

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

Representations of the aging female body have increased in media, but their presence is still shaped by social norms and market-driven ideals. On the contrary, The Substance (2024), an absurd, postmodern body horror, provides us a provocative critique of contemporary society’s obsession with youth and beauty and the way our culture defines and commodifies aging, especially in relation to women’s bodies and identities. Our review of The Substance incorporates consumer culture theory with Julia Kristeva’s concept of the abject (1982), Laura Mulvey’s theory of the male gaze (1975), and Barbara Creed’s notion of the monstrous-feminine, (1993) to explore the toxic …

Navigating The Open-Loops: Actor Dynamics And Bottlenecks In The Transition Towards Circular Household Waste Supply Chains, Burcin Ozdamar, Aysu Göçer

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

Household waste supply chains (HWSCs) in developing countries often suffer from fragmented actor structures, weak coordination, and informal practices that limit their overall performance and circularity potential. Existing studies tend to focus on isolated aspects such as waste types, technologies, or individual actors, without systematically examining the broader network and interdependencies shaping HWSC outcomes. Addressing this gap, this study investigates the key components (e.g. actors and waste processes) and bottleneck points that hinder the structure and functioning of current HWSCs to transform into circular systems. Drawing on industrial network theory, the research analyzes how actor relationships and system configurations influence …

A Time Of Transition: Globally And At Mgdr, Nikhilesh Dholakia, Deniz Atik, Zeynep Ozdamar Ertekin, Delphine Godefroit-Winkel

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

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Multimodal Llm For Automated Validation And Correction Of Geospatial Data., Ilia Labzovsky, Danny Karmon

Defensive Publications Series

Manual verification of potential map inaccuracies can be resource and time intensive. Some systems may utilize a multimodal large language model (LLM) as a reasoning engine for map data validation. An LLM can be configured to ingest and analyze disparate data sources, such as user-generated reports, street-level and satellite imagery, and anonymized aggregate location data. By performing a cross-validation analysis on these inputs, the system may calculate a confidence score for a potential map discrepancy. In some examples, when the score exceeds a predetermined threshold, the system can automatically execute a correction in a geospatial database. This automated correction process …

Multi-Directional Haptics Actuator, J-Z Tseng

Defensive Publications Series

This publication discloses a multi-dimensional haptic actuator (“MDHA”) for use in electronic devices, such as smartphones and tablet computers. Several of the disclosed MDHA’s components are uniquely configured and positioned in both the X plane and the Y plane to provide enhanced power-force efficiency in two or more directions, thereby enabling a wider range of user scenarios (e.g., additional vectorial sensations and different compositions of haptic frequencies) than are possible with traditional single-plane actuators.