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Mindful Lawyering: Incorporating Mindfulness Into The American Bar Association’S Model Rules Of Professional Conduct, Lyda Creus Molanphy

St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics

No abstract provided.

The Corporate Transparency Act Or An Expanded Customer Due Diligence Rule, Tyler Scattolini

Texas A&M Law Review

In 2021, Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) to combat money laundering, terrorist financing, and other illicit activities by requiring certain business entities to report personal information about the individuals who own or control the business and those who helped create or register the business. The reported information will be held in a federal database controlled by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and can be disclosed upon request by domestic and foreign governmental agencies and financial institutions.

While the motivation behind the CTA is warranted due to the recent uncovering of illegal shell companies …

Law And Historical Materialism, Jeremy Kessler

Duke Law Journal

Since the financial crisis of 2008, left-leaning legal thought has experienced a renaissance within the American academy. From law and political economy to critical race theory to feminist legal studies to Marxist legal theory, new perspectives have flourished, and marginalized traditions have been revived and revised. These new perspectives and revisionist projects all share an intellectual debt to the critical legal studies (“CLS”) movement of the late 1970s and 1980s. That movement’s critique was focused on functional accounts of law: accounts that understood legal change as primarily responsive to the demands of extralegal social and economic forces. Some of those …

History And Tradition? Anatomy Of A Constitutional Revolution, Noah Feldman

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Punishment, Penal Reform, And Alternatives To Incarceration In Durham, North Carolina, 1869-Present, Michael Deluca

Duke Law Journal

In the years following the Civil War, communities throughout the United States reckoned with divergent ideas about crime and punishment. Southern states in particular faced questions related to race and the legacy of slavery as they defined new crimes, designed penal facilities, and filled local jails. During this period, North Carolina adopted a new state constitution that manifested the transition from corporal punishment to incarceration that was occurring throughout the country. Like many states, North Carolina looked to New York and Pennsylvania for lessons to be gleaned from those states’ experiences with penitentiaries—new facilities that promised to rehabilitate incarcerated people …

Winning At Any Cost: Overcoming Professional Sports Team Rent Seeking Through The Sports Broadcasting Act, Omar S. Mattar

Duke Law Journal

U.S. professional sports teams are integrally linked with the identity of the cities they play in. Because of this prominence, they are some of the most valuable privately owned assets on earth. Their leagues are monopolies, insulated by entry costs that make competition from smaller competitors almost impossible. Owners rent seek using this leverage by demanding states and cities subsidize teams’ operating costs or risk the franchise departing for more generous taxpayer funding elsewhere, creating a race to the bottom. The most gratuitous of these subsidies, to build and renovate stadiums, will cost state and local taxpayers at least $20 …

Bsp Gigi Llc V. Moulton

All Decisions

Tenant moved for summary judgment arguing the rent demand was defective under RPAPL § 711(2) due to improper lump-sum formatting and inclusion of Section 8 subsidy amounts in tenant's share of rent. The tenant highlighted confusion in the landlord's rent ledger, which listed ambiguous credits and charges and failed to distinguish between tenant's portion and subsidy amounts. Landlord failed to oppose the motion despite multiple opportunities. The court found the rent demand facially deficient for not providing a clear breakdown of tenant's actual liability, thereby invalidating the predicate notice. Since a proper rent demand is a condition precedent, the petition …

Diego Beekman Mutual Housing Assoc. V. Larkins

All Decisions

In this non-payment proceeding, the tenant moved to dismiss under RPAPL § 731(4), asserting that rent arrears cited in the petition were fully paid before any hearing occurred. The case was delayed due to pandemic-related court closures and statutory stays under the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act and ERAP. During the stay, the tenant paid $4,074—exceeding the $3,446.96 demanded in the petition—with no earmarking of payments. The landlord opposed, arguing the arrears had since grown, but did not dispute the payment facts. The court held the petition was satisfied under RPAPL § 731(4), as payments were made "prior …

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Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Higher Education Faculty Perceptions Of The Strategies, Training, And Support Needed For Online Teaching, Jamie Wankier

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Online teaching and learning are growing within higher education, and faculty require support and motivation to engage in professional development that provides training in transitioning from teaching face-to-face to online. The problem that was addressed through this project study was that few faculty members took advantage of the training in online pedagogical strategies at a midsized western state university (MWSU), despite survey results indicating that faculty wanted this training. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore online pedagogical strategies, training, and support faculty need and are willing to participate in at MWSU. Hall et al.’s concerns-based adoption model …

Integrating Doctrine & Diversity Speaker Series: Executive Power In The Classroom: Addressing Project 2025 And Executive Orders In The Law School Curriculum 04-09-2025, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

No abstract provided.

Documents From The April 9, 2025 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana (Asum)., Associated Students Of The University Of Montana

Senate Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2007-Present

Minutes and agenda from the April 9, 2025 Meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM).

Executive Watch: The Breadth And Depth Of The Trump Administration's Threat To The First Amendment, Timothy Zick

Popular Media

Given the Trump administration’s continued and varied assaults on the First Amendment, it is vital to monitor those attacks and then realize the gravity of the “sweeping and draconian sanctions ” imposed by unconstitutional executive fiat. Vigilance is especially important, as New York Times investigative reporter Michael S. Schmidt has noted, because “Mr. Trump has employed tactics including lawsuits, executive orders, regulations, dismissals from government jobs, withdrawal of security details and public intimidation to take on a wide range of individuals and institutions he views as having unfairly pursued him or sought to block his agenda.”

Mindful of such matters, …

April 9, 2025, Faculty, Illinois Wesleyan University

2024-2025

No abstract provided.

Activation Of Endoplasmic Reticulum-Localized Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 5 (Mglu5) Triggers Calcium Release Distinct From Cell Surface Counterparts In Striatal Neurons, Yuh-Jiin I Jong, Steven K Harmon, Karen L O'Malley

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGlu

Winonan, Winona State University

The Winonan - 2020s

This issue of the Winonan, the Winona State University student newspaper, was published on April 9, 2025.

Christ Community Health Serv Comptroller July 1, 2020, Through June 30, 2021, And July 1, 2021, Through June 30, 2022, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury

Medicaid Examinations

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Study Of Filtration Rate Of Water-Based Mud Between Silica And Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Of Different Sizes For The Deep Well Application, Almotasim Alkalbani, Girma Chala, Alhaitham M. Alkalbani

The Journal of Engineering Research

In the oil and gas industry, drilling mud plays a vital role in the drilling process. However, during the drilling process, various factors such as the filtration process, the formation of a mud paste, and the pressure variation on the well walls can significantly impact the designs and complications in the well, in addition to changing the characteristics of the reservoir. One of the challenges in the drilling process is the leaching process, which can cause various problems including the rearrangement of pressure in the vicinity of the wellbore, swelling, and a variation in the strength characteristics of the rocks. …

Energy Auditing Of Hvac Systems For The Enhancement Of Efficiency And Sustainability, Fidhin J. Kandothillath, Fiseha M. Guangul

The Journal of Engineering Research

Energy audits are crucial for identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency and promote sustainability in the energy sector. In Oman, air conditioning systems account for about 50% of the nation's electricity use, reaching up to 70% in summer due to temperatures as high as 50°C. This study aimed to analyze energy consumption, focusing on air conditioning and refrigeration systems, using an academic building as a case study to improve energy efficiency and sustainability. A series of energy audits identified opportunities for energy conservation in the building's systems. The audit revealed that implementing various low-cost, high-cost, and zero-cost strategies could enhance energy …

Contribution To The Evaluation Of Soot Deposit Thickness Evolution And Its Impact On Heat Transfer Within Heavy Diesel Engines: An Innovative Simplistic Procedure, Abdelhamid Rahim, A. Beniaiche, L. Hemmouche, A. Beniaiche, A. Liazid

The Journal of Engineering Research

This study deals with a numerical procedure designed and built to evaluate the evolution of soot deposits thickness and their impact on heat transfer for a high-pressure common rail 16V280 marine diesel engine piston. Using a combination of 3D numerical computations and an iterative calculation algorithm, this work reveals the complex relationship between soot deposit, temperature distribution, and piston thermal dynamics. Non-uniform soot deposit distribution is observed, concentrated at the piston bowl peripheral regions. This distribution aligns with theoretical expectations, indicating the influence of the swirl effect. The presence of soot deposits alters the temperature distribution, implying displacement of high-temperature …

Modified Best Channel Quality Indicator Scheduler For Heterogeneous Lte-A Network, Edidiong-Obong Ekpo, Kufre Udofia, Akaninyene Obot

The Journal of Engineering Research

In this paper, a Long-Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) Modified Best Channel Quality Indicator (M-BCQI) Scheduler is proposed for enhanced cell edge throughput performance. The scheduling algorithm utilizes two time slots, each of 0.5 ms in length, with the First Time Slot (FTS) implemented with the Best Channel Quality Indicator (BCQI) algorithm has a CQI-focused Resource Block (RB) allocation mechanism, while the Robin (RR) algorithm is the mechanism used in the Second Time Slot (STS) for RB allocation. Vienna LTE system level simulator was used for the proposed scheduling algorithm assessment. The results obtained showed significant improvement, indicating 44% superior cell edge …

State-Of-The-Art Review On Utilization Of Fly Ash In Pavement Structures, Uneb Gazder, Md Arifuzzaman, Marwa Jazi, Madiha Abid

The Journal of Engineering Research

The use of fly ash in construction has been on the rise, yet its application in pavement construction remains relatively underexplored. This study addresses this gap by critically reviewing 70 years of research on fly ash usage in pavement engineering, offering valuable recommendations. Class 'C' fly ash is employed for soil stabilization, while class 'F' is used in concrete. In both flexible (asphalt) and rigid (concrete) pavements, fly ash primarily functions as a filler material. Fine ash, owing to its fineness, enhances asphalt concrete by reducing void ratios and water sensitivity, as well as easing subgrade compaction while increasing compressive …

Hazard And Operability Study Analysis As A Semi-Automatic Approach, Soufyane Boutadjine, Mourad Korichi, Ilyas Sellami

The Journal of Engineering Research

Risk analysis is crucial in industrial conception. HAZOP is the top risk analysis method for the oil and gas sector. This paper presents a semi-automatic method to address HAZOP's limitations and produce automatic results. The method uses a knowledge base, initially filled with gas liquefaction data, and is enhanced with subsequent case studies. An inference engine processes this data to conduct a HAZOP study. Propagation rules identify potential deviation paths, enabling risk analysis and consequence prediction based on the knowledge base. This method uniquely illustrates deviation paths and introduces nodes along these paths for further study. The findings derive from …

Efficiency Enhancement Of Photovoltaic Solar Cells Using Metamaterials Absorbing Screen, Haitham Al Ajmi, Mohammed Bait-Suwailam, Mahmoud Masoud

The Journal of Engineering Research

This paper proposes a novel technique for the efficiency enhancement of photovoltaic (PV) solar cells using metamaterials absorbing screens. This kind of engineered material comprises resonant metallic rings that are printed on a host low-loss dielectric substance and made periodic in a two-dimensional lattice. The absorbing screen has been carefully designed, and its retrieved effective constitutive parameters, effective electric permittivity ϵ_eff and effective magnetic permeability µ_eff, are integrated within a numerically modelled amorphous-Silicon-based PV solar cell structure as an impedance matching layer. Such arrangement will greatly achieve matching between the effective impedance of the composite solar cell …

Recent Cnn-Based Techniques For Breast Cancer Histology Image Classification, Arunadevi Karuppasamy, Abdelhamid Abdesselam, Hamza Zidoum, Maiya Al-Bahri

The Journal of Engineering Research

Histology images are extensively used by pathologists to assess abnormalities and detect malignancy in breast tissues. On the other hand, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are by far, the privileged models for image classification and interpretation. Based on these two facts, we surveyed the recent CNN-based methods for breast cancer histology image analysis. The survey focuses on two major issues usually faced by CNN-based methods namely the design of an appropriate CNN architecture and the lack of a sufficient labelled dataset for training the model. Regarding the design of the CNN architecture, methods examining breast histology images adopt three main approaches: …

Numerical Simulation Of Ventilation Potential In Traditional Omani House: Bait Al Khandaq As An Example, Hayder Murad Khan, Saleh Al-Saadi, Aliya Al-Hashim

The Journal of Engineering Research

The use of cooling systems has increased because of drastic changes introduced after the oil revolution in the local architecture by using modern building designs and practices that may not suit Oman's climate. The traditional architecture in this country is characterized by its passive cooling design features, which the Locals fine-tuned through trial and error. These sustainable passive design practices developed over the ages have the ability to provide healthy and comfortable spaces for their occupants while preserving the environment and natural resources. These strategies are still evident in many traditional settlements and buildings in Oman. The present research evaluates …

Extreme Cold Discomfort In Extreme Hot Climates, A Study Of Building Overcooling In Office Buildings In Qatar, Abdulla Alnuaimi, Sukumar Natarajan

The Journal of Engineering Research

Indoor cold discomfort in Qatar due to “building overcooling” is increasing, as air-conditioning prevails, and global temperatures rise. Overcooling is not dependent only on the inappropriate design of cooling systems, but on “international” thermal comfort standards that are not customized for warm climates. International standards are unintentionally biased towards cooler climates and cultures, the application of which in warm climates result in colder indoor temperatures observed by building occupants and increased cooling energy demand. Overcooling is an over-expenditure of energy, resulting in uncomfortably cold indoor thermal conditions, and unnecessary carbon emissions. In this study, the analysis of field data from …

Stacked Delta Design Of Three-Phase Permanent-Magnet Fault Current Limiters, Mohamed Eladawy, Ibrahim Metwally

The Journal of Engineering Research

This paper proposes an improvement for the dynamic performance of presaturated stacked permanent magnet biased three-phase fault current limiter (PMFCL) through COMSOL finite element simulation. The nonlinear demagnetization behavior of the permanent magnet, especially in the upper part of the B-H curve with negative magnetic field intensity, has been modelled through the Jiles-Atherton method. This enables a realistic representation of the PMFCL dynamic behavior throughout its entire operations of pre-fault, fault and fault removal, respectively. The experimental measurements have been considered to validate the trends of the simulation outcomes during the entire operation of PMFCL. Extensive finite element simulation shows …

Spatial And Statistical Analysis Of Environmental Noise Levels In The Main Campus Of The University Of Lagos, Alfred Alademomi, Chukwuma Okolie, Babatunde Ojegbile, Olagoke Daramola, Johanson Onyegbula, Rahmat Adepo, Wemimo Ademeno

The Journal of Engineering Research

The increasing student population, developmental, and commercial activities within the University of Lagos main campus have led to an increase in daily noise levels. These increasing noise disturbances have disrupted the serenity and tranquillity of the campus environment. In this study, the noise levels are assessed at thirty–four selected monitoring stations within the University of Lagos main campus. The assessment was done to determine the compliance of the University to international standards set by World Health Organisation for tolerable noise levels in different environmental types (or land use classes). Over a period of three days, the minimum, maximum and average …

Potential Enrichment Of Physical Properties Of Gypsum Adding Palm Tree Ash And Saw Dust, Ali Mohamed Algarny, Mohammed A. Alhefnawi

The Journal of Engineering Research

Natural architecture uses locally produced materials to assure the strength of the construction elements. Palm tree is widely planted in the Gulf Countries and its annual abounded residues constitutes a greater environmental burden of being neglected and rarely used or recycled in efficient ways. The paper discusses the potential changes in the physical properties of pure gypsum cubes when utilizing additives such as the ash and saw dust of palm tree residues. The additives were added in various proportions by weight. Four groups of different laboratory tests were conducted on four different groups of cubic samples made of pure gypsum …