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Ole Miss Program Builds Teacher Pipeline In Rural Schools, Marvis Herring

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – A partnership launched in 1997 between Marshall County Schools and the Mississippi Teacher Corps at the University of Mississippi has transformed into a pipeline for educators reshaping classrooms and leadership across the district.

A Comparison Of Mathematics Intervention Methods: Overcoming Learning Loss Caused By Covid-19, Adam Goosby

College of Education

The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented disruptions to the educational system and exposed weakness within the structures that resulted in measurable regression in student achievement across all academic domains, but most notably mathematics. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of two distinct methods of mathematics interventions provided to middle-grade students with the intent to begin to overcome the learning loss. Through the lens of the Expectancy-Value theory, the study emphasizes the importance of mathematics achievement and its role in building student capacity and establishing a growth mindset. The study employed a series of repeated-measures ANOVAs and a …

An Interview With An Instagram Archivist: @404mph Interviews @Onlystarleft, 404mph (On Instagram)

Digital Laboratory: Publisher of Internet Journal

An Interview with an Instagram Archivist: @404MPH Interviews @ONLYSTARLEFT is a dialogue conducted entirely through iMessage, presented as both a publication and a designed artifact. Within this text exchange, the conversation navigates themes of digital preservation, authorship, and self-curation—examining how social media aesthetics transform personal experience into collective memory. @ONLYSTARLEFT reflects on the act of archiving not as static documentation but as a living, participatory practice shaped by the speed and impermanence of online culture. Formally, the project recognizes the iPhone as a cultural mediator—its interface shaping not only how we communicate, but how we perceive and construct value within …

When Creative Practice Becomes Research, James Kelly

Staff Scholarship - Australia & Dubai

This seminar examines approaches to practice and research within an academic context, with particular reference to the academic scholarship framework at SAE University College. It introduces distinctions between creative practice and research, demonstrating how disciplinary practice may be transformed into recognised scholarly output when it is contextualised within a theoretical framework, critically reflective, and disseminated for peer engagement.

Drawing on methodologies by Candy (2006), Skains (2018), and Barrett (2019), the presentation outlines methodological models for Practice-as-Research (PaR), Practice-Based Research (PBR), Practice-Led Research, Research-Led Practice, and hybrid approaches. It highlights the iterative and open-ended character of creative research processes, in which …

Multisource Information Fusion Method For Human Gait Perception, Guiliang Chen, Guowei Liu, Yongchao Li, Chao Cai, Zihao Li, Dong Yang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In response to the insufficient gait perception capability during lower limb exoskeleton assistance, a human lower limb gait phase optimization classification model was proposed. A wireless transmission gait information collection system was designed for collecting the required gait phase feature information. Human joint angles were accurately calculated by fusing acceleration and angular velocity information using extended Kalman filtering. Additionally, kernel principal component analysis was applied to reduce dimensionality in conjunction with plantar pressure data. The LSSVM algorithm was employed to classify gait data, and the PSO algorithm was utilized to find the optimal classification parameters. Experimental results demonstrate that …

Relative Stare Decisis, Andrew Coan

Utah Law Review

Stare decisis stands at a crossroads. The Supreme Court has recently overturned landmark precedents on abortion rights, affirmative action, and administrative deference, while signaling its willingness to reconsider other long-settled doctrines. Amid this tumult, one principle appears to command broad consensus: Stare decisis carries heightened force in statutory cases, where Congress can override the Court’s decisions through ordinary legislation, and less force in constitutional cases, where override can only be accomplished through the onerous Article V amendment process. Yet this doctrine of “relative stare decisis” rests on remarkably fragile foundations. The principal justifications offered by its adherents are underdeveloped or …

The Unavoidable Consequences Of Homelessness, Sara K. Rankin, Laura Riley

Utah Law Review

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Grants Pass v. Johnson decision sounded the death knell for Eighth Amendment protections for people experiencing homelessness. The decision not only overruled key Ninth Circuit decisions, but also severely cabined the Court’s own precedent, allowing cities across the country to jail and fine people for doing nothing other than surviving in public space when they have no reasonable alternative. The Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment is a powerful symbol of America’s aspiration to realize the dignity and humanity of all its people, especially those who are marginalized and vulnerable to systemic discrimination …

An Ugly Common Ancestor: Dred Scott, Roe And Enumerationism, David S. Schwartz

Utah Law Review

The Dred Scott case holds a deserved place in the constitutional “anticanon” of Supreme Court decisions that exemplify rejected constitutional views. But the complex history of the case, the convolution of the opinion by Chief Justice Roger Taney, and the complicated relationship between its two primary holdings have generated multiple, often conflicting arguments about its negative “lessons.” Such arguments—particularly that of Robert Bork arguing that Dred Scott is the “very ugly common ancestor” of Lochner v. New York and Roe v. Wade—have masked an important element of the Taney opinion: its central reliance on “enumerationism,” the doctrine of limited enumerated …

Drone Assassinations: The Limits Of The President’S Constitutional Authority To Strike Foreign Military Officers With Drones Without Congressional Approval, Christopher A. Smith

Utah Law Review

While drones are a significant asset to the United States Military, their presence also presents unique challenges. The ability to stalk and engage in assassination style killings of high-ranking foreign military officials without ever placing United States forces presents a new issue where the President can intrude on Congress’s power to declare war. This is especially true with regard to the War Powers Resolution, which requires military action without congressional authorization to be limited in nature, scope, and duration. While the Soleimani strike fell short of violating this part of the War Powers Resolution test, perhaps only due to the …

Workplace Violence: Innovative Interprofessional Learning Bursts, Beth Egbert, Jedidiah Colon-Huertas, Jacqueline M. Gordon

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Viewers will be able to describe an innovative interprofessional strategy to implement the Joint Commission's Workplace Violence Prevention education and training standards amidst the current challenging work and learning environment. Education bursts delivered by an occupational health nurse and security officer team are described.

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Adjudicating Atrocity: Reading Hitesh Verma V State Of Uttarakhand As A "Landmark" Case In The Judicial Discourse On Caste Violence, Tejaswi Chhatwal

Socio-Legal Review

This article critically examines the Supreme Court’s judgment in Hitesh Verma v State of Uttarakhand (2020) and argues for reading it as a “landmark trial” in the judicial undoing of reform—namely, the statutory changes introduced by the 2016 Amendment to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989. Existing socio-legal scholarship on atrocity jurisprudence has shown that the judicial understanding of caste violence and doctrinally instituted evidentiary standards have historically operated to invisibilise caste from crime’s framework. As a result, most instances of caste-based discrimination and violence have not been named as offences of “atrocity” under the …

A Brief List Of 10 Important Guidelines For Prospective Sbg Authors, Josephine A. Ruggiero

Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics

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The Echo: October 20, 2025, Taylor University

2025-2026 (Volume 113)

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Methods, Barriers, And Challenges: Exploring Military Nurse Potentially Preventable Loss During A Pandemic, Melissa J. Miller, Janice G. Agazio, Christopher Stucky, Lidilia M.A. Garcia, Robin C. Stalbaum

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The retention of a robust nursing workforce requires a complete understanding of nurses’ perceptions regarding the factors influencing their decision. This presentation describes an on-going research project exploring nurses’ free-text comments on Army Nurse Corps Surveys including methodology, barriers, and challenges of an interprofessional research team during a pandemic.

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Shu World Review- October 20th 2025, Diplolab

SHU World Review

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Allied Health Students' Experiences Of Telehealth Within Coursework And During Placement: A Survey Study, Kate Bridgman, Shane Erickson, Krithika Anil, Adam R. Bird, Jennifer Freeman, Carol Mckinstry, Christie Robinson, Sally Abey

School of Health Professions

Background: Despite growing professional utilization, there is limited understanding of how allied health students are prepared for telehealth practice through academic coursework and placements. This study investigates students’ exposure to telehealth education, their perceptions of preparedness, and the competencies they believe are needed for graduate practice. Methods: A cross-sectional online survey was conducted between October 2024 and March 2025 across two Australian universities offering 24 allied health courses. The survey, adapted from existing tools and informed by telehealth competency frameworks, collected quantitative and qualitative data on students’ telehealth learning experiences, placement exposure, and perceived competency needs. Descriptive statistics and content …

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Minutes October 20, 2025, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Call to Order
• Approval of Minutes - September 22, 2025
• University Business
• Faculty Senate Business
• Information
• EPC Report - October 2, 2025
• Report
• Athletics Council Annual Report
• Library Advisory Council Annual Report
• Academic Freedom and Tenure Annual Report
• Old Business
• New Business
• Adjourn: 3:55 pm

Phase Transitions In An Ising Model Of Agent Expectations In Financial Markets: Analytics And Numerical Results In One And Two-Dimensional Network Topologies, Marko Raseta, Steven D. Silver, Alina Bazarova

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

We cite correspondences between dynamics in competitive markets and information theory in the objective of recovering signal from noisy information sequences. In financial markets, this objective has been examined as recovering signal on phase transitions between ordered and disordered states of agents in the market. These transitions have been indicated to denote critical points in time series of market price. Although there is a noteworthy background in information theory in the study of the dynamics of the Ising model in this manuscript, we pursue a different modeling approach. Whereas phase transitions in a multicomponent model of market states have previously …

Optic Pathway Abscess Caused By Clostridium Septicum Endophthalmitis From Colon Adenocarcinoma Requiring Incision And Drainage Of Optic Nerve And Chiasm, Matthews Lan, David P. Bray, Joseph Schaefer, Arbaz A. Momin, Aria Mahtabfar, Charlotte Marous, Christopher J Farrell

Department of Neurosurgery Faculty Papers

Background and importance: Optic pathway abscess formation is a rare clinical entity. To date, there are no reports of optic pathway abscess formation due to Clostridium septicum, secondary to colon adenocarcinoma. We present a video case report of a unique patient found to have C. septicum optic pathway abscess requiring craniotomy for incision and drainage of optic nerve/chiasm.

Clinical presentation: A 62-year-old woman presented with acute-onset right eye vision loss and rapidly progressive proptosis, chemosis, elevated intraocular pressure, and ophthalmoplegia requiring emergent canthotomy with cantholysis. MRI brain and orbits with and without contrast revealed enhancement of right posterior sclera …

Goals Reconsidered: From Brute Prelusory States Of Affairs To The Lusory Complexity Of Sport, Francisco Javier López Frías

Kinesiology and Health Science Faculty Publications

In this paper, I examine Bernard Suits’ conceptualization of goals in his influential definition of gameplay, focusing on how his account falls short of capturing the complexity of sporting practices. Suits famously describes games as voluntary attempts to overcome unnecessary obstacles in achieving an identifiable state of affairs. By referring to this state of affairs as the prelusory goal of games, he frames gameplay as structured teleologically around this goal, converting it into the most fundamental element of his notion of gameplay. Although elegant and very intuitive, this conception of games raises tensions when applied to the complex, multilayered activities …

Aaa Wellness Connection: Awareness, Assistance, And Advancement To Promote Associate Well-Being, Hephzibah Edwin, Rachel Watkins

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

This educational activity describes an organization's commitment and leadership support to promoting a healthy work environment. The project explores the engagement of associates through the organizational wellness connection using a AAA model - to promote awareness, assistance, and attainment of associate well-being and foster their physical and emotional health.

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A Commitment To Impact Racism In Healthcare: An Academic And Healthcare Institution Partnership, Christine W. Abbyad, Elizabeth Polinard, Tiffany N. Ricks

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Potential benefits are considerable when addressing perinatal racism in nursing school is then expounded upon in new hire residency programs. Such an effort was undertaken in a Texas city involving collaboration between a university nursing professor and a nursing research scientist and nurse educator working within a local healthcare system.

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The Utilization Of Self-Tracking Technologies For Managing Nurses’ Shift Work Related Fatigue: A Study Protocol, Soyoung Choi, Jooyoung Seo

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

This study will provide insights on utilizing self-tracking technologies to improve the health and well-being of professional nurses in clinical settings. The presenter will introduce the synthesis of existing literature on the effects of self-tracking health behaviors and the future mixed-methods study protocol.

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Rejecting The Unitary Executive, Christine Kexel Chabot

Utah Law Review

Critics have dismissed originalism as an empty methodology. They claim it is incapable of resolving our most important constitutional disputes, including the debate over the unitary executive. While unitary scholars assert that Article II grants the President an indefeasible power to remove all subordinates at will, their purportedly originalist interpretation conflicts with significant historical evidence. The Supreme Court’s apparent move toward an indefeasible removal power has proceeded as though this underlying historical indeterminacy is either irrelevant or does not exist. This Article offers a new way to bridge the disconnect between historical disputes over the unitary executive and public meaning …

Ultra Vires Review Of Federal Agency Action Made Simple(R), Richard W. Murphy

Utah Law Review

The law governing ultra vires review seeking injunctive relief to challenge statutory violations by federal agencies is a mess. Although administrative law generally limits judicial review to final actions, a substantial body of caselaw holds that this type of ultra vires review can reach interlocutory actions, vastly expanding judicial reach. Although administrative law now insists that federal courts must exercise independent judgment when reviewing agency statutory interpretations, caselaw limits this type of ultra vires review to correcting only the most spectacular statutory violations. In addition, caselaw ignores or garbles the problem of determining which types of plaintiffs qualify to invoke …

A Letter To Faculty Mentors And Current Sbg Readers From The Editor In Chief, Josephine A. Ruggiero

Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics

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Optimization Dispatch Method For High-Proportion Renewable Energy Power Systems Based On Sc-Ppo, Zhongkai Xu, Chenyang Chu, Kai Xie, Ruizhuo Zhao, Wenjun Ke

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The high proportion of renewable energy integration brings significant challenges of randomness, multi-objective coupling, and security constraints to power systems. Traditional model-driven methods have limitations in modeling accuracy and adaptability. To address these issues, this paper proposed a safety-constrained PPO algorithm (SC-PPO). The method included three improvements. A temporal convolutional network was utilized to construct a dynamic state encoder that integrated historical operation, real-time monitoring, and prediction data to form a causal state representation. A hierarchical reward structure was designed, and an adaptive weighting mechanism based on constraint satisfaction degree was introduced to coordinate multi-objective optimization. Physical constraint projection …

Height And Phytotelm Size Affect The Invertebrate Communities Of Epiphytic Bromeliads In The Amazon Rainforest, Xaali O'Reilly-Berkeley, Alex Pazmiño-Palomino, Andrea Hidalgo-Cárdenas, Sofía I. Trujillo-Regalado, Hannah Mossman, Jennifer K. Rowntree, Richard F. Preziosi

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Tank bromeliads are found in rainforests across the Neotropics and harbour diverse invertebrate communities between their leaf axes. Various factors influence the invertebrate species richness and differences in composition in bromeliad phytotelmata, most notably, habitat size. However, there has been little work on invertebrate communities in bromeliads in western Amazonia or at different heights in the canopy. We collected 63 epiphytic bromeliads (Aechmea hoppii (Harms) L.B.Sm, A. nidularioides L.B.Sm) on the eastern edge of the Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot in Ecuador and explored which biological and physical variables explained the differences in invertebrate composition among bromeliads. We extracted a total …

Decarbonization Is Happening In U.S. Higher Education, But Carbon Neutrality Goals Alone Are Not Delivering It, Alexander R. Barron, Nubraz F. Khan, Greta Anesko, Emma S. Larsen, Junwen Ding, Shey P. Sanges, Aaron L. Strong

Environmental Science and Policy: Faculty Publications

Carbon neutrality emerged as an overall framework for climate action several decades ago, with the assumption that institutions would follow a carbon management hierarchy - reducing their own emissions (i.e. decarbonization) and relying on high-quality offsets to address any residual emissions. In practice, offsets and other accounting-based emissions reductions have often dominated both discussion and action. However, sector-wide studies examining the balance between decarbonization and offsetting have been limited. Here, we examine 23 U.S. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) that have declared carbon neutrality and contrast their direct (Scope 1) greenhouse gas emissions reduction efforts with a broader universe of U.S. …

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Turkish Journal of Chemistry

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