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Fluridone Use In Furrow-Irrigated Rice: Palmer Amaranth Control And Crop Response, Maria Carolina Souza, Jason K. Norsworthy, Pamela Carvalho-Moore, Amar S. Godar, Samuel B. Fernandes, Trenton L. Roberts, Thomas R. Butts

Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Rice cultivated under furrow irrigation faces weed management challenges due to the aerobic conditions that favor the emergence of terrestrial weeds such as Palmer amaranth. Fluridone was recently registered for use in rice production, offering an alternative site of action for Palmer amaranth control. Four site-years of field experiments were conducted in 2022 and 2023 in furrow-irrigated rice to assess Palmer amaranth control and crop tolerance to fluridone applied preemergence alone or with various postemergence treatments. The experiment was a randomized complete block design with a split-plot arrangement and four replications. The whole-plot factor was the postemergence treatment, while the …

Must A Consumption Tax Be Regressive?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

Articles

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers once explained why the United States is the only developed country that has not yet adopted a value-added tax: “Liberals think it’s regressive and conservatives think it’s a money machine.... If they reverse their positions, the VAT may happen.” It is true that the VAT is a money machine. It has been estimated that each percentage point of a broad-based U.S. VAT would raise $100 billion each year. This means that a 10 percent VAT (which may be politically possible) would raise $1 trillion each year, and a 25 percent VAT (less likely, but equal …

P–12 District Equity “Shutdown”: Equity Directors’ Experiences Amid Anti-Equity Organizing, 2020–2022, Andrew Matschiner

Education Faculty Articles and Research

This article examines local experiences of the national attack on district equity work intended to better support Students of Color and LGBTQ+ students over the 2020–2022 school years. Drawing on theory on zones of mediation and interviews with over 70 district “equity directors” (EDs) nationally, I analyze how together national, state, and local pressure led to district equity “shutdown.” Forms of district equity shutdown included censoring equity-focused communication and language, eliminating district equity-focused programming or personnel, and restricting books and learning resources, with 40% of EDs reporting at least one form of district equity shutdown.

Crawling Is More Fun With Friends: Active University Web Archiving Through Cross-Campus Collaboration, Ruth E. Bryan, Andrew Mcdonnell

Library Presentations

Between 2023-2024, staff of the University Archives at the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center (Lexington, Kentucky, United States) reviewed the sustainability of our web archiving program. Preserving our institution’s vast web presence is technologically demanding, requires ongoing specialized expertise, and is underfunded. It is also absolutely necessary: If university archives do not determine how to sustainably acquire, preserve, and provide access to online documents, we will suffer (and already have experienced) significant gaps in our understanding of the university’s actions, events, and decisions. We used Kristin R. Eschenfelder, et al.’s “nine dimensional framework for digital cultural heritage …

October 27 Elections, Census & Redistricting Update, Jeffrey M. Wice

Elections, Census & Redistricting Updates

No abstract provided.

Welcome Home, Father Jim, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

What kind of life is worth living? For more than eight decades, Father Jim Heft, S.M., has wrestled with that question, even as he's lived what I and many others would portray as a life chock-full of meaning.

Taming The Chaos: Strategies For Streamlining Library Work In An Interruption-Driven World, Melanie S. Brasher, Amanda K. Izenstark

Public Services Faculty Presentations

Library workers often can’t follow the typical productivity advice doled out by productivity experts. In a job that is essentially managing ongoing interruptions with the added bonus of needing to describe what you’ve accomplished to numerous stakeholders, how can you keep track of what you do, what you need to do, and what you need to know? Join this session for some examples of frameworks and connect with others to tame the chaos that is modern library work. Due to the size of this topic, we will poll attendees live in order to choose the topics of greatest interest to …

Faculty Senate Xxx 2025-2026 - October 27, 2025 Agenda, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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University Of New Hampshire 2025-2026 Faculty Senate Xxx - October 27, 2025 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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Adapting Northern Herbs For Desertification Control Around Poyang Lake, China​, Haijing Xiao, Zhenwu Bian, Junyu Xu, Shimeng Li, Mengting Xiao, Min Guo, Xianglong Bu, Muhammad Rafiq, Chunsong Cheng

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Desertification poses a pressing global challenge, threatening both environmental stability and socioeconomic well-being, and it requires detailed monitoring of its dynamics and drivers to inform land restoration and sustainable development strategies. Around Poyang Lake, China’s largest freshwater lake, desertification has triggered profound ecological degradation and economic losses, intensified by human activities and climate change. This study investigates these challenges by evaluating an integrated revegetation approach that combines Beach vitex (V. rotundifolia) with nitrogen-fixing licorice (Glycyrrhiza spp.) to improve soil quality, stabilize environmental conditions, and foster sustainable land management. Field experiments examined the drought tolerance and soil enhancement capabilities of five …

Cross-Model Watermarking Via Discriminative Samples For Secure Authentication, Juan Zhao, Yudao Sun, Zhihai Yang, Cai Xu, Hongji Chen, Fan Zhang, Jianxin Li

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Deep neural networks on cloud platforms face growing security threats, with AI services increasingly relying on heterogeneous models for the same task to meet diverse user needs. Existing methods fail to distinguish benign modifications from malicious attacks in cross-model scenarios. To address this challenge, we propose a non-intrusive cross-model watermarking method that generates discriminative samples as universal keys, enabling authentication without altering model parameters or architectures. Specifically, we introduce a margin enhancement loss to amplify confidence gaps between benign and malicious behaviors, ensuring high transferability across models. Both theoretical analysis and experimental results demonstrate the high efficacy of our proposed …

Deficits In Motion And Form Perception In Infantile Nystagmus Syndrome, Mahesh Joshi, Asma Zahidi

School of Health Professions

Purpose: Visual deficits in infantile nystagmus syndrome (INS) could be a result of retinal blur from excessive eye movements and/or cortical changes from visual deprivation. We measured global motion and form sensitivity in INS to compare deficits between motion and form perception and to decipher the role of internal noise (local deficit such as eye movement) and sampling efficiency (global cortical deficit).Methods: A total of 30 participants (14.40 ± 4.83 years) with INS and 30 age-matched controls discriminated the direction of motion and orientation of physically equivalent translational random dot kinematograms (RDKs) and Glass patterns. Both stimuli consisted of 240 …

The Volume And Characteristics Of Research On Gastrointestinal Symptoms In ‘Natural’ Peri- And Postmenopause:: A Scoping Review, Naomi Shaw, Rebecca Abbott, Clare Pettinger

School of Health Professions

BACKGROUND: Menopause has been linked to an array of symptoms, often with adverse effects on quality of life, work and relationships. Despite evidence of economic and social impacts, and a growing population of menopausal individuals, there are significant gaps in knowledge regarding menopause. Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms in peri- and postmenopause are areas of uncertainty that warrant further investigation.

OBJECTIVES: Following JBI guidance, this scoping review aimed to systematically map research on GI symptoms in 'natural' peri- and postmenopause, exploring the volume and conduct of research, and variables investigated that could influence symptom experience.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Studies assessing GI symptoms (constipation, …

Do Sustainability Reports Contain Financially Material Information?, Suzanne Haley, Matthew Shaffer, Richard Sloan

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Recent years have witnessed significant growth in corporate sustainability reporting. Yet existing research provides mixed evidence on the information content of these reports for investors. We examine the stock market reaction to the announcement of a sample of US corporate sustainability reports incorporating Sustainability Accounting Standards Board metrics that are intended to provide financially material information to investors. Using standard measures of information content, we cannot find compelling evidence that these reports provide a significant amount of new information to investors. Further analysis of a subset of common metrics indicates that they are either financially immaterial or preempted by traditional …

Correcting For The Inflated Adult Population Denominator In An English Nationwide Health Care Cohort: Database Analysis Study, Sudhir Venkatesan, Mark Joy, Gavin Jamie, Debasish Kar, Robert Williams, Xuejuan Fan, Wilhelmine Meeraus, Ruby S.M. Tsang, Kathryn S. Taylor, Sylvia Taylor, F. D. Richard Hobbs, Sneha N. Anand, Chris Robertson, Simon De Lusignan

Peninsula Medical School

Background:Electronic health care databases are widely used for epidemiological studies. However, they may contain inactive records of individuals no longer participating in the health care system. These inactive records create a methodological challenge as they systematically appear as unexposed with no recorded outcomes. Given the widespread health care system engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic, the English National Health Service (NHS), which hosts a national pandemic planning and research dataset with linkage to COVID-19 vaccination and emergency care data, makes it an ideal setting to identify the extent of overrepresentation due to inactive health care records and assess ways to mitigate …

Ag's Letter On Settlements

Catholic Dioceses in Bankruptcy

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Fifth Amended Plan

Catholic Dioceses in Bankruptcy

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Mmu: 10/27/25-11/02/25, Student Bar Association

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Resilience Factors And Physical Activity Engagement In Adolescents With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study., William R. Black, Haley Hart, Jennifer Christofferson, Mark Connelly, Liesbet Goubert, Dustin Wallace, Laura Ellingson-Sayen, Ann M. Davis

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

Background/Objectives: Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMSKP) affects up to 40% of adolescents and leads to substantial disability, reduced quality of life, and long-term health risks. Physical activity is central to treatment, but adherence to moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) is inconsistent. We evaluated higher-resilience constructs-self-efficacy, pain acceptance, motivational stage, and affect-and hypothesized that higher resilience would be associated with greater objectively measured physical activity, better daily functioning, and higher quality of life in adolescents with CMSKP. Methods: Forty-three adolescents (13-18 years) with CMSKP completed measures of physical activity-specific self-efficacy, acceptance (AFQ-Y), motivational stage (PSOCQ-A), and affect (PANAS-C). Participants wore activPAL …

Chimes: October 27, 2025, Calvin University

Chimes

Calvin's strategic planning process by Ashley Hamons

Public Health and Recreational Therapy programs phase out by Sarah Sparling

John Calvin's use of deception:A look at the French Reformation by McKenna Wilkinson

Men's soccer navigating roller coaster stretch, has eyes on MIAA tournament by Zach Kern & Hendrik Beelen

The hidden beauty of Calvin's organs by Ella Vanden Berg

Why 'religion'? A history of the department's name by Joe Toly

A Review Of Pavement Condition Evaluation Index Systems In China And Abroad, Chen Leilei, Yang-Li Wenyun, Li Wei, Muhammad Thlha, Qian Zhendong

Journal of China & Foreign Highway

With the increasingly complex operating conditions of roads, it has become a consensus among countries to improve the accuracy and systematicness of maintenance decisions. Since the pavement condition evaluation index system is the core tool supporting the judgment of schemes, its construction method and applicable ability directly affect the maintenance efficiency and resource allocation level. Based on the construction logic of the index model, the scoring mechanism of grade division, and the conditions of road grade adaptation, the characteristics of the evaluation index systems in typical countries in China and abroad were compared and sorted out. The internal causes affecting …

Broadway Conductor Returns To His Roots For Concert, Master Class, Delaney Girard

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss – University of Mississippi alumnus and Broadway musical director William Waldrop joins the UM Opera Theatre and the Lafayette-Oxford-University Symphony Orchestra for a joint concert Monday (Nov. 3) in the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts.

Managing Pcos In Adolescents, Michael Smith, Tania S. Burgert

Pediatrics in Practice: A CME Podcast

In this episode, Dr. Tania Burgert, a leading pediatric endocrinologist and director of the Multi-Specialty Adolescent PCOS Program at Children’s Mercy, breaks down the complexities of diagnosing and managing polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in teens. She discusses the evolving diagnostic criteria, the challenges pediatricians face in early identification, and how to approach patients who may be “at risk.” Dr. Burgert also explores first-line treatment strategies, the critical role of mental health support, and how lifestyle interventions can be made sustainable for adolescents.

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Perspectives On High-Value Care Education Among Us Medical Students, Hannah K. Bassett, Michelle Chen, Shivani Jain, Anitra Karthic, Karthik Ramesh, Hannah Shenton, September Wallingford, Allison Heacock

School of Medicine Faculty Publications

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Nitrogen Management In Enhancing Raspberry (Rubus Idaeus L.) Productivity And Sustainable Development In Fruit Cultivation, Aleksandar Leposavić, Žaklina Karaklajić-Stajić, Sezai̇ Erci̇şli̇, Darko Jevremović, Ivana S. Glišić, Branko Popović, Olga Mitrović

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

This study investigated the effect of reduced nitrogen (N) fertilizer dosage on the vegetative and generative potential, physical and chemical characteristics, and fruit yield of raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.). Two raspberry cultivars (Willamette and Meeker) were treated with low and high doses of calcium ammonium nitrate and urea over 3 consecutive years (2021–2023) in Western Serbia. Basic floricane traits and fruit quality parameters were analyzed using widely accepted methodologies. The results showed significant variations in primocane growth, floricane traits, and berry quality in response to different N fertilizer doses, whereas soluble solid content (SSC) was more stable. Lower N fertilizer …

Designing Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure To Benefit Residents In A Near-Port Community, Polly Parkinson, Emma Mecham, Fawn Groves, Amy Wilson, Ivonne Santiago

Teacher Education and Leadership Student Research

In the rush to meet electric vehicle (EV) adoption goals that address environmental and health concerns, transportation planners, engineers, and community policy experts cannot separate the context of socioeconomic factors from transportation needs. This data analysis indicates that because transportation decisions are backgrounded by health, work, and housing, EV adoption must also address multifaceted human needs. Communities focused on building more electric vehicle charging stations motivated this research to find ways for all households to benefit. This primarily qualitative study, including a community survey and individual interviews, engaged residents in the planning process. The inductive research project grew from a …

Fostering Sustainability Literacy And Action Through Language Education: Perspectives And Practices Across Regions, Maria-José De La Fuente, Odette Gabaudan, Kiley Kost, Owain Llewellyn, Pilar Molina, Seth Peabody

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

This activity report explores the integration of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in language pedagogy, focusing on its potential to equip students with both linguistic proficiency and the competencies needed to address complex global challenges. Rooted in the context of TU (Technical University) Dublin’s commitment to embedding sustainability in Higher Education curricula, the activity report builds on insights from a 2023 roundtable discussion convened by two of the authors in collaboration with CercleS and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) on the occasion of its first Research conference. Featuring perspectives from scholars in sustainability and language education, …

Validation Of A Prognostic Nomogram For Locally Advanced Oropharyngeal Carcinoma Treated With Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy With/Without Systemic Therapy, P. Bossi, R. Gili, S. Calza, L. Licitra, M. Maddalo, A. Bacigalupo, L. Belgioia, J. Cacicedo, N. Facchinetti, A. Garcia Castano, M. Oliva, P. Bonomo, G. Sanguineti, P. Franco, A. Argiris, A. Psyrri, E. Orlandi

Kimmel Cancer Center Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Head and neck squamous-cell carcinoma (HNSCC), particularly oropharyngeal cancer (OPC), exhibits diverse prognostic factors influenced by demographic and lifestyle variables. Prognostic nomograms, such as the one developed by Fakhry et al., incorporate clinical and biological markers to predict overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) in OPC patients. However, their applicability to European populations remains unverified. This study aimed to externally validate Fakhry's prognostic nomogram in a large European cohort of locally advanced OPC patients treated with definitive intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) with or without systemic therapy.

METHODS: This is a retrospective external validation study conducted on 805 OPC patients …

The Future Of Nonprofit Regulation In The United States: Three Dynamic Trends, Lloyd H. Mayer

Journal Articles

Nonprofit regulation in the United States is strongly influenced by society-wide political trends. This influence is especially evident today with respect to racial justice debates, partisan political divides, and significant changes in federal tax law. This commentary explores both how these trends are already affecting nonprofit regulation and how they might affect nonprofit regulation in the near future.

Chan V. Encalada

All Decisions

In a nonpayment proceeding, the landlord's petition was dismissed. After a trial on tenant's counterclaims, the court found for the tenant, awarding a $20,000 rent abatement for breach of warranty of habitability due to conditions like damaged floors, mold, lack of heat/cooking gas, and pests. The tenant also proved harassment, receiving $1,000 in compensatory damages and $35,000 in punitive damages, citing the landlord's omission of essential services demonstrating intent or malice, including physical assaults. The court also ordered the landlord to correct all outstanding DHPD violations.