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Florida Springs: From Geography To Politics And Restoration, Linh Uong

The Southeastern Librarian

Christopher F. Meindl

Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2024

ISBN: 9780813079158

245 pp. $38.00 (Hbk)

Employing The Marketing Mix Framework To Increase Usage Of Academic Libraries, Chantelle Swaren

The Southeastern Librarian

Academic libraries face a regular influx of new students, creating an ongoing need to increase awareness and usage. To accomplish this, many academic libraries rely on short-term outreach tactics that focus on only one element of the marketing mix: Promotion. This article introduces the complete marketing mix framework, including seven elements (7 Ps), and explains how they can be applied in academic libraries. Definitions and library-specific examples are provided for each element: Product, Price, Place, Promotion, People, Process, and Physical Proof. The integrated approach of marketing mix theory and planning can be employed by academic libraries to increase patron awareness, …

Serum Biomarker Trajectory Clusters Predict Functional Outcome And Quality Of Life For Traumatic Brain Injury, Thanh Son Do, Chantal Carnes, Zhihui Yang, Firas Kobeissy, Hamad Yadikar, Gayla R. Olbricht, Olli Tenovuo, Jussi P. Posti, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Lindsay Wilson, Nicole Von Steinbüchel, Endre Czeiter, Andras Buki, David K. Menon

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Serum brain-enriched biomarkers are increasingly employed in the clinical evaluation of traumatic brain injury (TBI) to assist with triage, neuroimaging decisions, and prognostication. However, the potential of temporal biomarker trajectories to inform disease monitoring and long-term outcomes remains underexplored. We aim to identify distinct biomarker trajectory (TRAJ) profiles in traumatic brain injury patients and to examine their associations with long-term clinical outcomes. The study included 373, CT-positive Intensive Care Unit (ICU) traumatic brain injury patients (256 with initial Glasgow Coma Scale 3–12) from the Collaborative European Neurotrauma Effectiveness Research in TBI (CENTER-TBI) core study who had at least two serum …

Legislatively Erased: The Failure Of Privacy Legislation To Protect People Connected To The Criminal Legal System, Chaz Arnett, Kate Weisburd

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Digital Learning For English Learners: A Selected Annotated Bibliography For English Learner Research, Policy, And Practice, Center For Equity For English Learners

Annotated Bibliographies

Digital Learning for English Learners: A Selected Annotated Bibliography for English Learner Research, Policy, and Practice is comprised of 17 annotations from recent and seminal literature regarding digital learning resources for English Learners (ELs) and Multilingual Learners (MLs). These annotations build on the annotations regarding digital learning in CEEL’s 2022 annotated bibliography, Ensuring Equity and Excellence for English Learners: An Annotated Bibliography for Research, Policy, and Practice (Center for Equity for English Learners, 2022) to include publications from 2022-2025. This selected annotated bibliography serves as a resource for researchers, policymakers, educators, and advocates who are working for equity and …

Induced Degradation Of G-Protein-Coupled Receptors Through Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras, Victoria Saca

Student Theses and Dissertations

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are a family of heptahelical transmembrane proteins that can modulate various cellular signaling pathways and therefore are attractive drug targets. Despite high mutational rates of GPCRs in cancer there are few oncology FDA-approved anti-GPCR drugs, leaving a gap in the therapeutic landscape. Drug discovery platforms such as targeted protein degradation (TPD), provide opportunities to target oncogenic proteins by direct modulation of protein expression. TPD methodologies can be used to target oncogenic GPCRs that are overexpressed or constitutively active, as in the case of constitutively active mutants (CAMs), which have roles in cancer progression. TPD methods include …

Evolution Of A Novel Neuronal Sex-Specifically Spliced Gene In Mosquitoes, Yael Norohasimbola Tsitohay

Student Theses and Dissertations

Female mosquitoes from many species require a blood meal from an animal host as a protein source for egg development and successful reproduction. The majority of mosquito species are generalists in their host preference, feeding on a range of animals including mammals, birds, and amphibians. However, a small fraction of mosquito species have evolved a preference for human hosts. These species are mainly found in the genera Aedes, Culex, and Anopheles, and they have created a global health crisis due to their ability to transmit deadly human pathogens including dengue virus, Zika virus, West Nile Virus, and …

The Influence Of Dna Methylation On Both H2a.Z Nucleosome Dynamics And The Zinc Finger And Homeoboxes Transcription Factor Family, Rochelle M. Shih

Student Theses and Dissertations

DNA methylation represents a widespread and heritable modification that exerts substantial influence on chromatin organization and function in many eukaryotic genomes. The presence of DNA methylation has been strongly linked to transcriptional regulation, in both activating as well as repressive ways, though exactly how a small chemical mark can enact such drastic and seemingly opposing effects on gene expression remains an open question. In my thesis work, I describe the influence DNA methylation has on two classes of chromatin proteins, the histone variant H2A.Z and the Zinc Finger and Homeoboxes (ZHX) family of transcription factors. DNA methylation and H2A.Z preferentially …

Structural And Functional Studies Of The Sars-Cov-2 Niran Domain, Gabriel I. Small

Student Theses and Dissertations

The COVID-19 pandemic was a dramatically disruptive event, wreaking devastation across the globe and radically impacting nearly every facet of human life. For the first time, a significant amount of global money and attention was directed at coronavirus (CoV) research, propelling the field to the forefront of biomedical research. This allowed for the rapid development of a suite of vaccines and antivirals targeting SARS-CoV-2 that aided in ameliorating the effects of the pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 was the third CoV zoonosis of the 21st century and is now endemic. Global understanding of the threats posed by CoVs circulating among animals in the …

Is A Tridentine Paradigm, And Our Dependence On A Hierarchical Logic Of Priesthood, Driving Our Responses To Scarcity, Joseph Grayland

Pastoral Liturgy

No abstract provided.

Influence Of The Solar Cycle And Interplanetary Shocks On Turbulence At 1 Au, Sujan Prasad Gautam

Dissertations

This thesis studies the effect of the solar cycle and interplanetary shocks on turbulent fluctuations at 1 AU. We examine the solar cycle dependence of turbulence cascade rates corresponding to the total turbulence energy using the methodology developed by Adhikari et al. that utilizes a Kolmogorov phenomenology. Turbulence cascade rates are derived using 25 years (1995–2020) of Wind spacecraft plasma and magnetic-field observations. We find that the total turbulence energy cascade rate changes with the solar cycle, such that the cascade rate is largest during solar maximum and smallest during solar minimum. It is positively correlated with the solar wind …

Repainting The Republic: How Color Changes The Reception Of Roman Honorific Portraiture, Madelyn Fisher

Classics Honors Papers

Most people commonly imagine gleaming, unpainted, white marble under the lights of a museum gallery. However, Roman sculpture was far from how we commonly view it today; the Roman world was full of painted statues. How and why was Roman portraiture stripped of its color? This thesis discusses the development and use of Roman honorific portraiture over the course of the Republic, and the existence of polychromy within the Greco-Roman world. Furthermore, this paper also explores how color was erased from the historical narrative and argues that the understanding of Roman sculpture as polychromatic must be reincorporated back into the …

Confronting Inequality: Three Eras Of Gender And Tax Scholarship, Bridget J. Crawford

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Tax law is not neutral--it encodes social values and reinforces certain longstanding hierarchies. For over fifty years, legal scholarship at the intersection of gender and tax has exposed how seemingly neutral tax laws perpetuate gender inequality. This Article uses the metaphor of quilting to trace the evolution of this scholarly field across three distinct eras.   Part I names and defines the designing era (1971-1986), which began with Grace Blumberg's writing on the gendered impact of tax laws on marriage, labor, and caregiving; she framed taxation as a tool of social control over women. Blumberg's work laid the foundation for other …

Operational Agency: A Permeable Legal Fiction For Tracing Culpability In Ai Systems, Anirban Mukherjee, Hannah H. Chang

SMU Science and Technology Law Review

Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems act with a high degree of independence yet lack legal personhood—a paradox that fractures doctrines grounded in human-centric notions of mens rea and actus reus. This Article introduces Operational Agency (OA)—a permeable legal fiction structured as an ex post evidentiary framework—and Operational Agency Graph (OAG)—a tool for mapping causal interactions among human actors, organizations, and AI systems. OA evaluates an AI’s observable operational characteristics: its goal-directedness (as a proxy for intent), predictive processing (as a proxy for foresight), and safety architecture (as a proxy for standard of care). OAG operationalizes that analysis by embedding these …

Suing The Ghost In The Medical Machine, Jason R. Cheek

SMU Science and Technology Law Review

Devices that autonomously diagnose medical conditions, with no human interaction, have arrived. These self-operating systems incorporate artificial intelligence (AI), and include machines that diagnose preventable blindness, as well as some that write radiology reports. These devices feature AI-integrated software to make diagnosis decisions traditionally made by humans who have received extensive medical training. Soon, AI-driven devices will autonomously make treatment decisions.

What happens when these autonomous medical systems harm a patient? At the moment, most would expect product liability law to provide a path to recovery. But AI oftentimes uses multiple complex inputs and approaches, including statistical probabilities, to reach …

Ultrasound-Guided Vs Conventional Intraarticular Injection Of Hyaluronic Acid For Management Of Temporomandibular Joint Internal Derangement: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Muhanad Almufarrih, Muhammad Al-Hawari, Ayman Yaseen, Sally Abdelsameaa

Mansoura Journal of Dentistry

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy of using ultrasound guidance during intra-articular injection of hyaluronic acid (HA) in the management of patients with TMJ internal derangement. Material/subjects and Methods: Forty patients complaining of anterior disc displacement with reduction (DDwR) not responsive to conservative treatment were enrolled in this study. The diagnosis was based on the current update of diagnostic criteria for temporomandibular disorders (TMDs). Intra-articular injection of Hyaluronic Acid guided by Ultrasound in the first group and Intra-articular Injection (IAI) of HA conventional way in the second group were performed. Articular pain was evaluated using the visual …

Survival Rate And Prognostic Criteria In Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients: A Retrospective Analysis, Shihab Ahmed Jassim, Shadi Awny Hasan, Mohamed Mahmoud Anees, Jilan Mohamed Youssef

Mansoura Journal of Dentistry

Objective:

To evaluate overall survival, disease-free survival (DFS), and associated prognostic factors among patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) treated at a tertiary oncology center in Egypt.

Materials/Subjects and Methods: This retrospective cohort study was conducted at the Surgical Oncology Department, Oncology Center, Mansoura University, Egypt. Medical records of patients with histopathologically confirmed primary OSCC diagnosed between January 2011 and December 2021 were reviewed. A total of 140 eligible patients were included. Data collected included demographic characteristics, selected medical history, tumor site, tumor size, TNM stage, histological grade, treatment modality, and follow-up status. Data were entered, managed, and analyzed …

Priority Treatment Of Fraud Claims In Bankruptcy, John P. Hunt

Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal

No abstract provided.

Bankruptcy’S Blind Spot: An Examination Of How The System Turns Its Back On Mentally Ill Debtors, Ashley Deady

Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal

No abstract provided.

Fresh Start Or False Promise? Addressing Black Student Loan Debt Through Bankruptcy, Adji Ostin

Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal

No abstract provided.

Pouvoirs Incontrôlés: Talleyrand And The Xyz Affair's Impact Upon Chief Justice John Marshall's Jurisprudence And The Pursuit Of International Consistency In The Schooner Exchange V. Mcfaddon, Christian Ketter

California Western International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Mythcon 54 - Get Your Fantasy Kicks On Route 66!, The Mythopoeic Society

Mythcon Programs

Theme: Get Your Fantasy Kicks on Route 66

As part of the Route 66 centennial events that will be occurring across Oklahoma throughout 2026, Mythcon 54, a three-day conference, will add literary discussions to the festivities with the theme Get Your Fantasy Kicks on Route 66that encourages attendees to register for conference and to join us in discussions of fantasy literature that include:

• urban or epic fantasy about the adventures of travels on the road
• fantasy literature from or inspired by native American oral, written, or historic traditions
• the MythSoc archive, located on Route 66, and the role of …

The Prohibition Of Force Is The First Principle Of International Humanitarian Law, Mary Ellen O'Connell

Saint Louis University Law Journal

With the end of the Cold War, United States presidents have shown growing disinterest in complying with the United Nations Charter prohibition on the use of force. Their legal advisers have based justifications for resort to military force on ever thinner legal grounds to the point that justifications appear to focus only on the legal principles governing the conduct of military force, not on the right to resort to force in the first instance. Samuel Moyn captured the phenomenon in his book, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War. The phenomenon of decline has not stopped with …

The Invalidity Of The “Shock The Conscience” Test For Evidence Gathered By Foreign Police, Kevin Valleroy

Saint Louis University Law Journal

Federal courts since the 1970s have often discussed the “shock the conscience” test in the context of transnational criminal investigations. This test purports to exclude from American trials evidence gathered by foreign police through “conscience shocking” methods. No doubt its creators sought to protect the rights of defendants amidst unclear evidentiary standards. But since the test’s creation, its proponents have failed to agree on a consistent explanation for the test’s constitutionality. Moreover, Supreme Court precedent since the 1980s has heaped doubt on the prevailing explanations for the test’s existence. While a lively debate on the “shock the conscience” test’s underlying …

Foreword

Saint Louis University Law Journal

No abstract provided.

A Farewell To Space Arms Control, Eytan Tepper, James B. Romano

Saint Louis University Law Journal

This paper examines the nearly seven decades of attempts to adopt multilateral rules restricting space arms race and limit military uses of outer space. The paper presents the early success to introduce, as part of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, basic key limitations, notably a ban on weapons of mass destruction and offensive military uses of celestial bodies, and the subsequent failure to expand these basic rules. Indeed, despite forty-five years since the early 1980s of work in various streams and frameworks attempting to prevent a space arms race, and despite many countries’ proclamations supporting space arms control, no meaningful …

Recalibrating The Threshold Of Niac? Aggregated Intensity And The Risk Of Over-Classification, Nathan Derejko

Saint Louis University Law Journal

The proliferation of armed groups poses significant factual and legal challenges to determining the threshold of Non-International Armed Conflict (“NIAC”). In response, a number of academics and practitioners have proposed a “cumulative” approach, under which the intensity of violence generated by multiple armed groups within a defined geographical and temporal context is assessed in the aggregate. This “aggregated intensity” approach departs from the established bilateral, case-by-case methodology inherent in the established Tadić test for NIAC. This paper offers a critical analysis of the “aggregated intensity” approach and its relevance to contemporary determinations of the threshold of NIAC.

From Classroom To Closing Table: Strategies For Teaching Transactional Drafting And Preparing Law Students For Practice And The Nextgen Bar Exam, Keisa M. Johnson Monroe

Saint Louis University Law Journal

Undoubtedly, at the end of each semester on the final evening of my Transactional Drafting course, a student approaches me to share feedback and reflections on the class. Their feedback often ranges from expressions of surprise—”This class was actually more enjoyable than I expected”—to reconsiderations of their initial intentions—”I’m going to be a trial lawyer, so I wasn’t even going to take this class, but I’m so glad I did!”—to newly discovered interests—”I think I’m actually interested in pursuing a career as a transactional lawyer now.” These student reflections are helpful as they offer valuable insights as I am constantly …

Breaking The Huddle: Judicial Deference, Antitrust, And The Ncaas Path Forward, Zeke Stockton

Saint Louis University Law Journal

The University of Tennessee Men’s Basketball team entered Week Ten of the 2024–25 college basketball season ranked number one in the country. The Southeastern Conference’s leading scorer going into Tennessee’s game against Texas that week was Tennessee’s Chaz Lanier. On the first play of the second half, Lanier launched a pass into Tennessee’s bench instead of taking an open jump shot. Rick Barnes, Tennessee’s head coach and one of the winningest coaches in college basketball history, immediately took Lanier out of the game. Barnes said in the post-game press conference, “[t]hat play was designed for that shot. I told him, …

Good Transactional Drafting Isn’T Just About The Nuts And Bolts, Joan E. Neal, Michelle M. Drake

Saint Louis University Law Journal

To create practice-ready transactional lawyers who can be valuable and valued advisors to their future clients, teaching technical nuts-and-bolts drafting is critical but not sufficient. Rather, transactional drafting professors need to embed other important lessons into the content for their students, including emphasizing the importance of forming a forward-looking or planning mindset and developing their students’ ethical awareness. To do this, these lessons and mindsets should be a part of the debriefs of all drafting exercises, so that the professor can model these ways of thinking when discussing drafting decisions. These additional lessons are particularly important because students may have …