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Trends In Private Equity Acquisitions Of Assisted Living Facilities., Jennifer N. Bunker, Yashaswini Singh, Gauri Gadkari, John Bowblis, Lindsey Smith, Paula Carder, Sean Huang, Momotazur Rahman, Kali S. Thomas

Institute on Aging Publications

This cross-sectional study examines trends in private equity acquisitions of assisted living facilities across the US.

Nyls Earns Straight As In Top Academic Areas, Allison Gillingham

NYLS Community News

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Supporting The College Athlete Amidst The Onset Of Name, Image, And Likeness, Brennan K. Berg, Michael Hutchinson, Janelle E. Wells, David W. Walsh, Andre Simmond

Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics

Athletic administrators often assume a distinct stakeholder role that has the most immediate and frequent impact on college athletes’ well-being and retention. The implementation of name, image, and likeness (NIL) represents a historic transformation in college athletics. Utilizing a sport development framework, particularly the retention stage, to examine elite athlete development, how athletic administrators socially support college athletes in the new context of NIL and its impact on administrators’ work experiences were empirically assessed. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 athletic administrators at nine universities. The themes of Implementation Challenges, Lack of Uniformity, Holistic Benefits to Athlete Well-Being, and Mostly …

The Security Trilemma: A Critical Research Agenda, Adem Yavuz Elveren, David M. Fields

Working Papers

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Ethical Leadership: Rooted, Open, Generative, And Mindful, John Arthur Nunes

Intersections

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The Case For “Constructive Gridlock” In Independent Agencies, Jeffrey Manns

Texas A&M Law Review

Critics of President Trump have alleged that he has reduced independent agencies to mere extensions of the executive branch during his second term. The reality is that Democratic and Republican presidents routinely leverage the opportunity to reshape independent agencies in openly partisan ways because presidents have majority control of the appointments for the leadership of virtu ally all agencies. I examine a large data set of independent agency votes from the Obama and first Trump terms to show that independent agency commissioners vote in predictably partisan ways when addressing substantive policy changes. The partisan design of independent agencies undercuts agency …

Thermtron: The Unsexy Case The Current Court Should Overturn (Statutory Stare Decisis Be Damned), Christine Tamer

Texas A&M Law Review

Since 1887, Congress has created an impenetrable dike wall to stop appellate review of remand orders in 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d), which provides: “An order remanding a case to the State court from which it was removed is not reviewable on appeal or otherwise . . . .” Then, in 1976, the Supreme Court held “that § 1447(d) does not mean what it says” and, thereby, punctured not a tiny hole, but a big one in Congress’s dike wall that had been impenetrable for nearly 90 years. While you won’t find Thermtron—an unsexy jurisdictional case—on any list of the …

That Old College Try: Judge-Made Monopolies In The Market For Affinity Goods, John A. Rothchild

Texas A&M Law Review

There is a large market for goods such as t-shirts, coffee mugs, posters, and baseball caps that are emblazoned with the names and symbols of culturally prominent institutions—universities, athletic teams, musical bands, automobile brands. We buy, wear, and display those goods to express our affinity with the referenced institution. The owners of the trade symbols that adorn these items, which this Article refers to as “affinity goods,” jealously guard what they claim is their sole right, under the trademark laws, to authorize the use of their symbols as decoration. They have brought numerous lawsuits aimed at establishing and enforcing this …

Moderators Of Peer Influence Effects For Adolescents’ Smoking And Vaping Norms And Outcomes In High And Middle-Income Settings, Jennifer M. Murray, Sharon C. Sánchez-Franco, Olga L. Sarmiento, Erik O. Kimbrough, Christopher Tate, Shannon C. Montgomery, Rajnish Kumar, Laura Dunne, Abhijit Ramalingam, Erin L. Krupka, Felipe Montes, Huiyu Zhou, Laurence Moore, Linda Bauld, Blanca Llorente, Frank Kee, Ruth F. Hunter

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

Background: Peer influence is central to adolescent smoking initiation, yet its impact varies depending on individual and contextual factors. Understanding which moderators (personality, contextual, cultural, and environmental traits) shape these processes can inform more effective prevention strategies. We investigated hypothesized moderators of peer influence for adolescent smoking/vaping norms and other smoking-related outcomes in high and low-middle-income countries (LMICs): Northern Ireland and Bogotá.

Methods: Across 12 schools (n = 1,344, age 12–13 years), participants completed novel behavioral economics experiments measuring social norms, and self-report surveys, before and after school-based prevention interventions (ASSIST and Dead Cool). We examined how peer influence …

Exploring Runtime Evolution In Android: A Cross-Version Analysis And Its Implications For Memory Forensics., Babangida Bappah

LSU Master's Theses

Userland memory forensics has become a critical component of smartphone investigations and incident response, enabling the recovery of volatile evidence such as deleted messages from end-to-end encrypted apps and cryptocurrency transactions. However, these forensics tools, particularly on Android, face significant challenges in adapting to different versions and maintaining reliability over time due to the constant evolution of low-level structures critical for evidence recovery and reconstruction. Structural changes, ranging from simple offset modifications to complete architectural redesigns, pose substantial maintenance and adaptability issues for forensic tools that rely on precise structure interpretation. Thus, this paper presents the first systematic study of …

Administrative Variability & The Price Of Title Ix Compliance On Minority-Serving Institutions, Jacob Wall

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice (ERSJ) Blog

The Department of Education (“ED”) enforces civil rights in education through Title IX. Title IX prohibits sex-based discrimination in federally funded educational programs, and promotes inclusion in higher education.  Significantly, Title IX enforcement depends on the executive branch controlling the ED, as this power rests with both the Department of Justice and the ED’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Historically, judicial enforcement of statutes like Title IX relied on agency interpretation under Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., which required judicial deference to executive agencies when statutes are ambiguous.  However, the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in …

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Texas A&M Law Review

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The Role Of The Preamble: Evidence From The Constitutional Convention And The Ratification Debates, Stuart Ford

Texas A&M Law Review

This Article explores the role of the Preamble in constitutional interpretation by looking at how it was perceived at the founding. It does this in three ways. First, it explores how preambles were used in eighteenth-century America. At the time, preambles were almost universally understood to be key to interpreting the laws and constitutions they preceded. This shared understanding forms the backdrop against which the Preamble was received by the founding generation. Second, it looks at the records of the Constitutional Convention for evidence of what role the drafters expected the Preamble to serve. Unfortunately, the records of the Convention …

Major Rules In The Courts: An Empirical Study Of Challenges To Federal Agencies’ Major Rules, Libby Dimenstein, Donald L. R. Goodson, Tyler Szeto

Texas A&M Law Review

Since at least the 1990s, presidents have seen the administrative state as a key tool, if not the primary one, for achieving policy objectives. At the same time, the administrative state has faced growing scrutiny, particularly from members of the Supreme Court. Given these dynamics, do some administrations’ regulatory actions fare better in court than others? Are there any trends we can see over time? These are some of the questions we sought to answer in the first empirical study of how major rules, as defined under the Congressional Review Act (“CRA”), fare in federal court. We chose major rules …

A Reemployment Right For People In Pretrial Detention, Jordan Laris Cohen

Texas A&M Law Review

Job loss is a major collateral consequence of pretrial detention. It frequently results from even short periods of detention and can have cascading and long term effects on income, housing security, family stability, and likelihood of incarceration—all despite the fact that people in pretrial detention are entitled to a presumption of innocence and indeed may never be found guilty of an offense. Given existing racial disparities in arrests, bail determinations, and bail amounts, job loss from pretrial detention further drives racial inequalities in employment and income. While job loss from pretrial detention inflicts substantial social harms and undermines due process, …

Causation’S Due Process Dimensions, Cassandra Burke Robertson, Charles W. “Rocky” Rhodes

Texas A&M Law Review

For decades, courts have grappled with the tension between compensating victims of mass harms and maintaining fairness to defendants when causation is difficult to prove. This Article argues that the Supreme Court’s due process jurisprudence provides a relevant framework for navigating this tension. We contend that the Court over the last three decades has established a consistent Fourteenth Amendment due process approach in punitive damages and personal jurisdiction cases, which is rooted in antecedents tracing to the nineteenth century and relies on a nexus of interests that balances individual rights, state interests, and federalism concerns. This framework, we argue, has …

Discerning Interstate Groundwater Law: An Evaluation Of Federal Common Law And Its Impacts On Groundwater Management, Brooke Collishaw

Texas A&M Law Review

The Supreme Court has demonstrated a superficial understanding of ground water over the last century in interstate water disputes. In cases that indirectly affect groundwater, it has ignored the complexities of the resource and its connection with surface water. All but one Supreme Court case that mentions groundwater centers around surface water, leading to the inadequate consideration of groundwater. This has led to the development of a unique federal common law for how federal courts are to resolve interstate water disputes that affect groundwater. While the Court has applied the law consistently, gaps exist. Given the growing reliance on cross-border …

Parenting Under Constraint: How Histories Of Abuse And Sexual Violence Shape Mothers' Caregiving In A Homeless Shelter, Kiera P. Irvin

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Background: Mothers experiencing homelessness often carry extensive trauma histories, yet little work examines how abuse and sexual violence shape day-to-day parenting inside communal shelter settings. This study explored how trauma histories intersect with shelter structures to influence caregiving and feelings surrounding parenting among homeless mothers.

Method: Using a qualitative design, four mothers (ages 30–51) residing in a large Midwestern homeless shelter completed approximately 30-minute, semi-structured interviews in a private room onsite. Data were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed with inductive reflexive thematic analysis in Dedoose.

Results: Three interrelated themes were identified. (1) Parenting Under Constraint, in which communal living, limited …

A Holistic Approach: Strategies For Students With Cortical/Cerebral Visual Impairment, Nabiha Mujahid

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This study explored how Louisiana’s expanded definition of visual impairment has influenced professional practices in identifying and supporting students with Cortical or Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI). CVI, a brain-based visual condition, remains understudied, leaving educators with limited evidence-based guidance. Using a qualitative phenomenological design, this study examined the experiences, challenges, and strategies of professionals across eight key roles: Assistive Technology (AT) Specialists, Occupational Therapists (OTs), Orientation and Mobility (O&M) Specialists, paraprofessionals, Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), special education teachers, special education administrators, and Teachers of the Visually Impaired (TVIs). Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and artifacts to capture interdisciplinary perspectives. Thematic …

‘Casar Public Lecture: Jazz Diplomacy: America's Conversation With The World', The Prince Alwaleed Center For American Studies And Research Casar

Performances, Events, and Presentations

The lectures deliberated about how the U.S. used jazz as a tool of cultural diplomacy during the Cold War, sending jazz musicians abroad to promote American values and counter Soviet influence. Jazz symbolized freedom and democracy but also highlighted racial tensions in the U.S., creating a paradox. These tours influenced global perceptions of America and supported civil rights movements at home and abroad. These lectures were a collaboration with The Music Program in the Department of the Arts at AUC.

Date: 2-3 Nov. 2025

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The American Friends Of Irish Neutrality And The American Irish Defense Association: The Last Irish American Committees, Patrick J. Horan

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines the complex narratives surrounding Irish neutrality during World War II within the Irish American community. It focuses on two key organizations, the American Friends of Irish Neutrality (AFIN) and the American Irish Defense Association (AIDA), arguing that the conflict over neutrality was a pivotal moment in the assimilation of Irish American identity. The study explores how Irish Americans balanced their connection to their ancestral homeland with their desire for full acceptance in the United States.

The research reveals a fervent propaganda war between the AFIN, a grassroots organization defending Ireland’s right to remain neutral, and the AIDA, …

The Tax Adviser, Volume 2, Number 12, December 1971, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Index: Subject Index -12 Months Ended November 1971; Author Index -12 Months Ended November 1971, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Tax Adviser

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Tax Trends, Harry Z. Garian

Tax Adviser

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Tax Clinic, Thomas S. Oehring

Tax Adviser

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Hot Stock-After The Tax Reform Act, Abraham L. Kendal

Tax Adviser

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Proposed Changes In The Taxation Of Advertising Income Of Exempt Organization Publications, John Ellicott

Tax Adviser

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Index: Subject Index-12 Months Ended October 1971; Author Index-12 Months Ended October 1971, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Tax Adviser

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Tax Trends, Harry Z. Garian

Tax Adviser

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Tax Clinic, William E. Neuhauser

Tax Adviser

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