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The Shift: Claims Upon Which Relief Can Be Granted For Medication-Assisted Treatment-A Survey Of Rokita V. Pennsylvania Department Of Corrections, Kiara R. Douglass

Widener Commonwealth Law Review

Opioid addiction is a rising issue in the United States and is continually recognized as a public health issue. This epidemic is also rising inside prison walls. In fact, the risk of overdose death associated with opioid use is higher for individuals recently incarcerated compared to individuals who are free in society. To counteract the epidemic and help those with addiction, Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) programs are being used more frequently. However, the lack of availability of MAT programs in prisons continues to be a concern.

Understanding The Effect Of Carried Interest Provisions On Fairness And Equality In The Taxation Of Hedge Fund Profits, Nathan D. Madden

Widener Commonwealth Law Review

Private equity and hedge fund managers (General Partners) typically receive a percentage share of the profits from the funds that they manage as part of their compensation for managing the investments made by investors. This compensation is commonly referred to as “Carried Interest.” General Partners are then entitled to a more favorable tax treatment of their compensation—as compared to most other taxpayers—by deferring the tax on Carried Interest and having it taxed at a lower, preferential rate. Many view these Carried Interest tax provisions as providing an unfair and unjustified tax advantage. This paper will explore alternatives that would arguably …

Divergent Journeys From Kabul And Kyiv: How Congress Can Ensure Equal Pathway Programs For Parolees To The United States, Erika C. Firestone

Widener Commonwealth Law Review

Scenes of Afghan citizens rushing United States military aircraft and handing their babies off to soldiers at the Kabul airport in August of 2021 shocked the conscience of the West. The Taliban entered Afghanistan’s capital city that month, completely unopposed, after twenty years of United States presence. As Kabul fell and the deadline for the United States’ withdrawal on August 30 approached, the streets outside of the airport grew crowded. People had no shelter from the scorching sun. A child-care center was created quickly after panic-stricken parents disappeared, leaving their children behind, hopeful that they would be delivered to safety. …

Yes, Your Broken Tailight Does Matter: Why Enforcement Of Minor Traffic Violations Is Integral For A Safe Society, Richard E. Berner

Widener Commonwealth Law Review

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.” These words serve as a reminder that within the framework of law and order, human beings are the most spectacular creatures to walk the face of the Earth. Outside of this framework, we are no greater than the most savage of beasts. The United States has historically faced challenges with the presence of racial bias within the legal system. In particular, traffic laws have been subject to uneven enforcement across the country, with one study indicating that black drivers were approximately …

Preschool Children And The Media, William J. Thorn

Communication Research Trends

No abstract provided.

Tele-Faith Mediated Religion In Brazi, Luis Ignacio Sierra Gutiérrez

Communication Research Trends

No abstract provided.

Orality And Literacy 25 Years Later, Paul A. Soukup S.J.

Communication Research Trends

No abstract provided.

Integrated Marketing Communication / Michael Traber Bibliography, S. Alyssa Groom, Fritz Frei

Communication Research Trends

No abstract provided.

Pervasive Entertainment, Ubiquitous Entertainment, Louis Bosshart, Lea HellmüLler

Communication Research Trends

No abstract provided.

Grassroots, Participatory Communication In Africa, Robert A. White S.J.

Communication Research Trends

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Acute Vs. Chronic Response To Doxorubicin Treatment With Endurance Training In Non-Tumor-Bearing Rats, Quinten W. Pigg, Dillon Harris, Daniela Sayuri Inoue, Bertha F. Polegato, Carol R. Tonon, Mariana Janini Gomes

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

Doxorubicin (DOX) is a chemotherapy agent widely used to treat many types of cancer; however, DOX use is limited due to its adverse effects. While cardiotoxicity is the most well-recognized issue, skeletal muscle wasting and weakness is another significant adverse effect that can decrease quality of life, manifested clinically through weakness and exercise intolerance. PURPOSE: We aimed to investigate the effects of DOX treatment on exercise intolerance and muscle function in preclinical models of both acute and chronic effects of chemotherapy using non-tumor-bearing rats. We also investigated the preventive and therapeutic effects of endurance training in these models. METHODS: …

Muscle Metabolic Profile Following Acute Exercise In Mice With Constitutively Active Mtorc1, Hanna Kalenta, Sean P. Kilroe, Trevor B. Romsdahl, Erik D. Marchant, Rosario Maroto, Jennifer J. Linares, William K. Russell, Blake B. Rasmussen

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

An increase in Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex I (mTORC1) kinase activity stimulates muscle protein synthesis in response to amino acids, growth factors, energy, and mechanical stimuli. We previously found muscle hypertrophy and increased mitochondrial respiration in resting mice with chronically active mTORC1 (i.e., an inducible skeletal muscle specific DEPDC5 knockout (KO) model), but no improvement in muscle quality and function. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the metabolic profile of skeletal muscle in DEPDC5 KO and wild-type (WT) male and female mice following 1-hour of treadmill exercise. METHODS: Targeted metabolomics was performed on quadricep …

Targeted Soleus Muscle Activation Enhances Very Low-Density Lipoprotein Triglyceride Metabolism Via Lipoprotein Lipase, Daniel P. Leblanc, Marc T. Hamilton

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) is the rate limiting enzyme for tissue specific plasma triglyceride (TG) utilization. There is a strong causal link between LPL and cardiovascular health. PURPOSE: Our translational studies investigated the soleus muscle aiming to answer the following questions: What are the mechanisms responsible for the potent process of regulating LPL within the soleus muscle? Can individuals with low fitness levels capitalize on the unique phenotype of the soleus muscle to markedly enhance systemic plasma lipid metabolism through localized contractile activity, even though the muscle constitutes only ~1% of body weight? METHODS: We began by testing the hypothesis that …

Procedural Learning And Reform In Federal Administrative Adjudication, Jeremy S. Graboyes

Widener Commonwealth Law Review

In the mid-twentieth century, in cases like Goldberg v. Kelly, the Supreme Court found a right to “some kind of hearing” in program after program and set about constructing a “fixed list of procedural protections required by due process.” Constitutionalizing procedural choices in this manner gave courts substantial control over how administrative adjudication operated. However, the approach was criticized. Dissenting in Goldberg, Justice Hugo Black wrote that by imposing significant procedural requirements on agencies without a clear constitutional or statutory basis for doing so, courts “wander[ed] out of their field of vested powers and transgress[ed] into the area constitutionally assigned …

The Not-So-Obvious And Inconvenient Truth: Reexamining A Right To Counsel For Parents And Children In Abuse And Neglect Administrative Proceedings, Tiffany Williams Brewer

Widener Commonwealth Law Review

The right to counsel for parents in administrative abuse and neglect cases, as well as for the children that are the subject of these matters, is a necessity that may not be obvious. This Article seeks to elucidate the fundamental interests that are at stake and justify why the sacrosanct protections of the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright right to counsel case should be extended to an administrative proceeding involving parents who are facing inclusion on a state child abuse and neglect registry. The Article also reveals an inconvenient truth–that communities of color are disproportionately impacted by the consequence of adverse …

Congress And The Shifting Sands In Administrative Law, Christopher J. Walker

Widener Commonwealth Law Review

In recent years, we have seen an anti-administrativist turn in the federal judiciary, with the Supreme Court limiting agency power in important respects. These shifting sands in administrative law seem to be motivated, at least in part, by the Court’s perception of the rise of presidential administration and decline in legislative activity. As part of the Widener Commonwealth Law Review Judging in Administrative Law Symposium, this Essay assesses how the Court has responded to concerns about overpresidentialism and then sketches out several ways Congress can respond to reassert itself in federal lawmaking.

Undo Process: Examining Agency Procedural Levers To Access To Counsel, Haiyun Damon-Feng

Widener Commonwealth Law Review

Every day, through internal adjudicative proceedings, agencies make thousands of rights determinations that affect critical matters such as financial security, family unity, personal safety, and individual liberty. Scholars and policymakers have recognized the significant impact that representation can have on adjudicative outcomes across the administrative state. Many agencies have implemented policies affirmatively seeking to boost an individual’s ability to bring an advocate to assist with the adjudication process. In the immigration context, however, agencies have enacted procedural hurdles that have made it more difficult for individuals to reap the benefits of this assistance.

This Essay uses recent developments in the …

Corporate Exceptionalism: What's Behind The Business Community's Newfound Love Of Jury Trials, Richard H. Frankel

Widener Commonwealth Law Review

2024 was another year of blockbuster Supreme Court decisions. These range from expanding presidential immunity from criminal prosecution, overruling the Chevron doctrine, addressing access to the abortion drug mifepristone, setting standards regarding the power of federal agencies, and others. One case that has flown under the radar, at least outside of administrative law circles, is SEC v. Jarkesy. On its surface, the Supreme Court narrowly held that “the Seventh Amendment entitles a defendant to a jury trial when the [Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)] seeks civil penalties against him for securities fraud,” rather than being required to proceed in an …

The Disintegration Of Administrative Adjudicatory Enforcement Authority, Robert L. Glicksman

Widener Commonwealth Law Review

In Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy, the Supreme Court held that the SEC violated Mr. Jarkesy’s Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial by pursuing its charges that he engaged in securities fraud in an administrative forum rather than in federal court. This Essay reviews and critiques the Jarkesy decision, concluding that it ignores several important issues in boiling the case down to whether statutory securities fraud is sufficiently similar to common law fraud to demand attachment of the jury trial right. This decision also distorts decades’ worth of Supreme Court precedents concerning the Seventh Amendment and Article III, …

Navigating The New Loper Bright Regime, Adam G. Crews

Widener Commonwealth Law Review

For many ordinary Americans—the ones who do not spend their days concerned with the minutia of administrative law doctrine—the biggest release of 2024 might have been international pop sensation Taylor Swift’s eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department. The album’s standard edition ends with the track “Clara Bow,” which reflects on the entertainment industry’s habit of cycling through young female performers. Swift’s own experiences inform the song: she has explained how powerful record label executives would compare her to some other artist who came before her, then gratuitously disparage that woman, and then assure Swift that she is an improvement …

Generations United & The Brookdale Foundation Group: An Overview Of Progress In Support Of Grandfamilies Over The Last Decade, Ana Beltran, Jaia Lent, Melinda Perez-Porter

GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice and Policy

Strategic partnerships and collaborations enable organizations that serve grandfamilies to address service gaps and facilitate the development or enhancement of services tailored to support their needs. These collaborative partnerships empower organizations to provide comprehensive support to caregivers and children and also play a crucial role in enabling organizations to create, expand, and maintain supportive services. By fostering strong relationships with a diverse range of partners, organizations can ensure that grandparents and other relative caregiver families receive information, assistance, and support. The authors, representing a national organization and a private foundation, have collaborated for more than 25 years to support grandfamilies. …

Solving Old Cases With New Technology, Philip Hodapp

Master of Arts in Criminal Justice Leadership

The State of Minnesota has seen a significant uptick in the homicide rate in the last ten years, and not all homicides are being solved. Due to a significant staffing shortfall across the state, but especially in the inner-city areas, police agencies are having a hard enough time keeping up with ongoing cases, let alone finding time to work on cold cases. With the advancement in DNA technology, including Forensic Genetic Genealogy, cases need to be re-examined to see if the new technology could spark life into older investigations.

Due to the rise in skepticism of policing today and the …

Campus Assembly Minutes 02/18/2025, Campus Assembly

Campus Assembly

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Advising Tools For Student Success, Ingrid Washington, Jimmy Wright

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A capstone submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the Ernst and Sara Lane Volgenau College of Education at Morehead State University by Ingrid Washington on February 18, 2025.

Institutional Mechanism Of Engineering Istisna And Prospects For Its Use In Saudi Arabia, Svitlana Danylina, Andrei Grimalyuk

Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics

The article raises the problem of neo-industrial diversification of Saudi Arabia using the institutional mechanism of engineering istisna. The article shows that Saudi Arabia has all the objective and subjective conditions for the successful creation of a neo-industrial model of the information society in the process of the fourth industrial revolution. A balanced institutional approach is used to analyze this problem, which assumes the unity and interrelation of institutional and technological changes in the process of neo-industrial diversification in Saudi Arabia. The authors conclude that the institute of engineering istisna will allow Saudi Arabia to organize the creation of "smart", …

School Music Programs And The Issue Of Equity: The Perceptions Educational Leaders Hold Around The Benefits And Challenges Of K-12 Music Programs, Bryant Montalvo

JWU Dissertations & Theses

The type and availability of music programs is often related to school size and a community’s socioeconomic status (Elpus, 2022). The success of music programs may be dependent on the resources allocated to arts education (Crooke & McFerran, 2015). These factors are examples of internal and external variables that may influence music programs. The purpose of this explanatory sequential mixed methods study was to investigate and explore the perceptions that educational leaders have about their schools’ music programs and to understand how different factors may influence music programming in public schools across the East Coast. A questionnaire (Phase I) derived …

In Re: James Tice

2025 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Come And Take It: Prosecutorial Discretion Impositions On Black Communities Regarding Unlawful Carrying Of A Weapon Charges, Karagan Carson

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

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The Green Wall Of Silence, Frank Rosenblatt

Journal Articles

This chapter contemplates the “Green Wall of Silence” through several examples. In Iraq, following the detainee abuse scandal at the U.S. military operated prison in Abu Ghraib in 2004, military officials announced that the abuse was the result of just a “few bad apples,” reaching this conclusion through a series of investigations that chilled or blocked witnesses from revealing actual truths, and avoided examining the role of higher-level officials who contributed to the abuses. In Afghanistan, military leaders lauded U.S. Army Corporal Pat Tillman for his conduct in a heroic firefight with the enemy, but concealed from the public the …

Navigating Pregnancy With Cardiovascular Disease: Pathophysiology, Risk Stratification, And Maternal–Fetal Outcomes, Osman Türkmen, Serra Akar İnan

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

Pregnancy induces significant cardiovascular changes, including increases in heart rate, blood volume, and cardiac output, which may exacerbate existing heart conditions or unmask previously undiagnosed heart diseases.. This review outlines the types of cardiovascular diseases that affect pregnant women, organized by the modified World Health Organization risk classification. It covers key areas, including how pregnancy impacts the heart, common maternal and fetal complications, and effective management strategies. The review emphasizes the importance of preconception counseling, risk assessment, and continuous monitoring to ensure the best maternal and fetal outcomes. It also highlights practical guidelines for healthcare providers and discusses the latest …