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Dameon Allen V. Attorney General United States Of America

2026 Decisions

Agency

Martin And Harris Private Ltd V. Merck & Co Inc

2026 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Ildar Niyazov V. Attorney General United States Of America

2026 Decisions

Agency

Workforce Solutions For Primary Care Physician Shortages In Veterans Health Administration Outpatient Clinics, Quintin Warner

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The shortage of primary care physicians (PCPs) in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospital system highlights the need for strategies to effectively mitigate this issue. The purpose of this integrative review was to examine the literature on primary care physician shortages in VHA hospital-based outpatient clinics and determine evidence-based solutions. The review question centered on strategies and best practices that can be implemented to address PCP shortages in VHA outpatient clinics. The Donabedian Model provided the framework for analyzing structural factors, processes, and patient outcomes. A comprehensive review of the literature resulted in 40 articles being screened for quality and …

Performative Belonging And Embodied Meaning-Making In Africa–China Encounters, Ignatius Suglo

Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

Since the Mao era, political rhetoric has framed Africa–China relations through a discourse of brotherhood and solidarity, presenting belonging as ontological. I argue instead that belonging in the Africa–China space is achieved through sustained labor across political, cultural, and everyday contexts. Existing scholarship has predominantly examined belonging through spatial frameworks of community-building and place-making. Through case studies of two musicians – Hao Di, a Nigerian performer who achieved prominence in Chinese Mandarin singing competitions, and Akua China, a Chinese musician active in Ghana – I propose the concept of ‘performative belonging.’ Situating discussion on belonging within those of performativity enables …

Prompt Framing And Evidence Requirement For Ai-Generated Educational Responses In Dental Education: Experimental Study., Man Hung, Corban Ward, Owen Cohen, Jacob Marx, Zachary Smit, Jacob Newman, Martin S. Lipsky

Institute on Aging Publications

Large language models are increasingly used in health professions education; however, the role of prompt design in shaping their outputs remains poorly understood in clinical training contexts. In dentistry, where information presentation, perceived credibility, and procedural reasoning are important, the effects of instructional framing and evidence requirements on AI-generated educational responses are particularly relevant.

Chitinase Variants Establish Environmental Inflammatory Lung Conditioning, Yilin Wang

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

Environmental particulate exposure contributes to the severity and persistence of numerous acute and chronic lung diseases, including asthma, viral pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and pulmonary fibrosis. Chitin, a highly abundant environmental polysaccharide present in fungi, insects, and mites, is continuously encountered at mucosal barrier surfaces and functions as an immunostimulatory particulate substrate within the respiratory tract. Acidic mammalian chitinase (AMCase; CHIA) is an evolutionarily conserved mammalian enzyme that degrades chitin-containing particles and regulates inflammatory responses at barrier tissues. Common human CHIA polymorphisms reduce AMCase enzymatic activity and are associated with asthma susceptibility; however, the physiologic consequences of these variants …

Programming Of The Pre-B Cell Checkpoint And Maintenance Of B Cell Development By Dna Damage Responses, Haley Schmidt

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

During early B cell development, the stepwise arrangement of the B cell receptor (BCR) by immunoglobulin (Ig) gene recombination defines developmental stages and coordinates checkpoints for differentiation. Early pre-B cells express an incomplete version of the BCR, referred to as the pre-BCR, which signals clonal expansion and additional Ig rearrangements. These cellular programs are essential for B cell development and are carried out in a highly regulated fashion during the pre-B cell checkpoint. Clonal expansion defines the strictly proliferative large pre-B cell stage, while Ig rearrangements occur exclusively in small pre-B cells. Signaling in pre-B cells must carefully orchestrate cessation …

China Maritime Report #57: Sailing Thousands Of Miles Without Losing Course: The Roles And Authorities Of The Plan Party Standing Committee, Jeffrey Becker, Brian Waidelich

CMSI China Maritime Reports

Main Findings:

• The Navy Party Standing Committee (NPSC) is the Chinese Navy’s core leadership body, but it does not operate independently; it functions within the broader Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and PRC military hierarchy.
• Politically, the NPSC ensures that China’s Navy remains loyal to the CCP with Xi Jinping at its core. Administratively, it ultimately directs personnel, training, procurement, logistics, fiscal management, readiness, and modernization.
• Military reforms have preserved the NPSC’s authoritative role within the Navy, and today’s members have gained more diverse operational experience earlier in their careers than their predecessors. 
• At the same time, members’ shorter average tenures …

Self-Medication Experience And Healthcare Trust Among Youth: A Regionally Concentrated Digital Survey In Indonesia, Wahyudi Wahyudi, Azra Muzaiyana Nasution, Arini Dwi Rahmadani, Alysa Rahmadani Hasibuan

Patient Experience Journal

Self-medication has become a central experience for youth transitioning toward independent medical decision-making. In the digital era, young people must navigate a complex landscape of health information while seeking independent health solutions. This study investigates self-medication experiences and healthcare trust among youth, utilizing a regionally concentrated digital survey approach in Indonesia. Data were collected via a cross-sectional approach using digital platforms (Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter/X), facilitated by 76 trained enumerators. While respondents from all 38 provinces participated, the sample (N = 2,790) exhibits a major geographical concentration in the Sumatra region. The study employed a validated 16-item instrument to evaluate …

A Method And A System For Provisioning Virtual And Physical Card Accounts On Digital Wallets, Sushma Shetty, Manab Das, Mitchell L. Wright, Rohini Suren

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods are disclosed for provisioning virtual and physical card accounts onto digital wallets. Upon receiving a provisioning request, a server computer identifies an account type using internal database indicators and routes tokenization requests to an appropriate entity-an issuer for physical card accounts, and an issuer token service provider for virtual accounts. The invention eliminates a need for issuers to provide dedicated account ranges for virtual cards, supports provisioning on existing BIN ranges, and enhances issuer flexibility and commercial offerings in electronic payment systems. The system utilizes internal logic for the account type identification and routing, streamlining the provisioning …

Longitudinal Behavioral Delta Detection System And Method For Passive Multi-Modal Audio Analysis, Eric Zavesky

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method for passive longitudinal behavioral delta detection through multi-modal audio analysis is disclosed. The system comprises an edge audio capture device for continuously capturing ambient audio, an on-device multi-modal feature extraction pipeline extracting acoustic features as semantic-level representations, topic-level natural language embeddings without retaining specific words, behavioral graph topology interaction data, and classified non-verbal sound event frequency vectors, and a longitudinal delta detection engine computing temporal deltas at multiple resolutions against a historical baseline. A privacy architecture ensures on-device processing with content obliteration and hashed entity identity. A model adaptation layer provides supervised, unsupervised membership testing, and …

Pipeline-Based Data Processing Method, System, And Hardware Apparatus, Jinhui Wu

Defensive Publications Series

Existing data processing systems universally adopt a centralized computing paradigm that relies on
complex operations, resulting in high computational resource consumption and significant bandwidth
redundancy. This paper proposes a data processing method, system, and hardware apparatus based on a
Pipeline Array, wherein input data is distributed across multiple independent Pipelines. Each Pipeline
independently maintains a state value, compares the input against its state, outputs upon change, Blocks
when unchanged, and independently updates its state value. Founded on the Zero-Computation Property
(core operations are comparison and assignment only), the system comprises Pipeline, State Storage,
Compare, Output Control, and State Update modules. …

A Case For Societal Provenance: Marguerite Harper As Told By The Men She Represented, V. Emily Cranwell Deinert

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

This paper argues for making societal provenance the grounding framework for archival descriptive standards to ensure that important voices already present in archives are no longer buried. This study reclaims from archival obscurity the career of literary agent Marguerite E. Harper to illustrate the need for this expansion. Harper proves strikingly absent from some of the archives for the authors she represented. Likely an unwitting omission from archivists that uncritically accepted the narratives of these male authors, Harper’s erasure provides a potent example of the ways that archival descriptive standards may unintentionally further silence historically marginalized voices within archives. The …

An Architecture Of Vanishing: Toward A Protocol Of Archival Disappearance, Edgardo Civallero

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

This article rethinks the preservationist reflex that equates archival care with permanence. Drawing on post- and decolonial theory, it provincializes endurance as a historically situated ideal and foregrounds global traditions where disappearance, opacity, and cyclical renewal structure memory. It reframes vanishing as custodianship rather than neglect, introducing a taxonomy of protocols of epistemic disappearance—temporal, spatial, relational, semantic, and material—and a grammar of vanishing that operationalizes them as design tools. Extending to institutions, it outlines seasonal, dismantling, shadow, and nomadic archives as forms that measure success by their capacity to end well. A concluding framework articulates five principles—vanishing as care, duration …

Contract Theory In The Saudi Civil Transactions Law “A Critical Comparative Study”, Mohamad Arfan Alkhatib

BAU Journal - Journal of Legal Studies - مجلة الدراسات القانونية

This comparative critical study provides an in-depth doctrinal and analytical examination of contract theory under the Saudi Civil Transactions Law, situating its analysis within the broader framework of the modern law of obligations. The inquiry is structured around two interdependent axes. The first considers the determinants of contracting, analysed through the dual categories of contractual autonomy and the binding normative force of contract (force obligatoire). The second addresses the requirements of contracting, focusing on the constituent essentialia negotii and the extent to which such elements may be subject to curative mechanisms within the applicable invalidity …

Implementation Of The Retirement And Social Protection Law In Lebanon, Manal H. Choker

BAU Journal - Journal of Legal Studies - مجلة الدراسات القانونية

The Law No. 319 dated December 22, 2023 constitutes a historic station in the process of developing social security legislation in Lebanon. This law - published in the Official Gazette No. 53 on 28/12/2023 - amended some provisions of the Social Security Law and established the retirement and social protection system in the National Social Security Fund. The adoption of this legislation was the result of efforts that lasted about twenty years of studies and consultations on the reform of the end-of-service system, where the adoption of a pension system was repeatedly postponed despite the urgent need for it. The …

The 2024 New European Pact On Migration And Asylum: Recasting The European Legal Framework For Asylum Between Protection Guarantees And The Effectiveness Of Migration Management, Ali Mourad

BAU Journal - Journal of Legal Studies - مجلة الدراسات القانونية

The New European Pact on Migration and Asylum, adopted on 14 May 2024, constitutes one of the most far-reaching reforms undertaken by the European Union in this field. Through a package of ten legislative instruments, it reorganizes screening at the external borders, procedures for international protection, the determination of the Member State responsible, solidarity mechanisms, crisis and force majeure situations, and the role of databases and European Union agencies. This reform emerged in a context in which the migration crises of 2015 and 2016 exposed the limits of the Dublin system, whose application, particularly the irregular-entry criterion—concentrated responsibility in practice …

D&R Realty Assoc. V. Lichtman

All Decisions

After trial, court finds tenants (defendants) not liable for breaking lease before term ended because landlord unreasonably rejected multiple proposed assignees under RPL § 226-b. Because tenants gave timely 30-day notice of intent to vacate, they were released from the lease by operation of law and not responsible for damages. Court enters money judgment in tenants' favor for return of security deposit.

Estate Of Alfons Melohn V. Salvaggio

All Decisions

In nonprimary residence holdover, court denied respondent's motion to dismiss (finding notice of nonrenewal sufficient despite pleading alternative addresses and omitting electrical usage data), struck respondent's traverse (unopposed), but declined to strike attorneys' fees counterclaim (holding RPAPL § 702 does not bar attorneys' fees in summary proceedings). Court limited discovery to two years but noted petitioner could seek expanded disclosure if it articulates need at deposition.

Woods V. Plunkett

All Decisions

Court dismissed licensee holdover petition because it failed to clearly allege facts regarding the creation and duration of respondent's license, the manner of service of the notice to quit (petitioner filed two contradictory affidavits of service and two materially different versions of the notice), and the regulatory status of the premises. Court noted petitioner did not move to amend.

2037 Hughes Avenue Llc V. Cosme

All Decisions

Tenant defaulted in a nonpayment proceeding and moved to vacate the default judgment and warrant. The court granted the motion, finding a reasonable excuse for the default and potentially meritorious defenses, including failure to comply with the CARES Act's 30-day notice requirement for Section 8 voucher tenancies, improper rent demand, and breach of the warranty of habitability. The parties were restored to the status quo and tenant was permitted to interpose a late answer.

Samuel Arribasplata-Marin V. Attorney General United States Of America

2026 Decisions

Agency

Assess The Effectiveness Of Sleep Hygiene Education Programe On Sleep Quality Among Students, Narinder Kaur Walia

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Introduction: Sleep is essential for physical, cognitive, and emotional well-being. According to WHO, good sleep involves 7–9 hours of rest, minimal sleep latency, and the absence of disturbances like insomnia. However, many students lack awareness of proper sleep hygiene. Poor sleep quality is common among nursing students due to academic pressure, clinical rotations, irregular schedules, and lifestyle habits like caffeine use and social media. These issues can affect mental and physical health, academic performance, and patient care. Sleep disturbances are a growing concern among the general population, with global prevalence ranging from 3.9% to 45%. In India, studies show 36.3% …

Bezalel Grossberger V. Robert Cormack

2026 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Eric Weiss V. Deborah Posner

2026 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Usa V. Jamal Gwaltney

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Christopher Mbewe V. Superintendent Mahanoy Sci

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

The Inner Motherhood Penalty: The Impact Of Maternal Self-Stereotyping On Decisions To Apply For High-Status Roles, Jaycelin Eyre

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Stereotype-based discrimination creates obstacles for women's representation in high-status roles, and even more for mothers, who experience a motherhood penalty in hiring, evaluation, and promotion. While literature identifies how maternal stereotypes lead to external discrimination, little is known about how maternal self-stereotyping creates barriers to women's representation in high-status roles. Applying self-categorization theory (SCT) and expectancy theory, this paper examines whether maternal self-stereotyping influences women's willingness to apply for high-status roles through work-family conflict (WFC), which reduces the perceived value (valence) of these roles. In a survey, participants (N = 392) rated their willingness to apply for five jobs varying …

Fighting With Data: Design Implications For Ai-Enabled Mission-Command Systems, C. Anthony Pfaff

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

Fighting with Data examines how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping military decision making by changing both the speed of command and the structure of cognition within mission-command systems. Rather than treating AI as a tool that merely accelerates existing staff processes, this monograph recognizes AI redistributes cognitive labor across a network of people, data, tools, and operational processes. In this new environment, commanders and staffs spend less time assembling information and more time interpreting meaning, judging uncertainty, and deciding how to act.

This shift in the human role requires a new way of thinking about trust in military AI. Traditional …