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Small Claims Mediation In Maine: An Empirical Assessment, Craig A. Mcewen, Richard J. Maiman

Maine Law Review

In recent years considerable attention has been paid in the United States to the development of informal "alternatives to court" as part of a world-wide access to justice movement. Of these alternatives to courts, mediation contrasts most sharply with adjudication and, in theory, promises much by way of decreasing the alienation of citizens when it is made an adjunct to the formal judicial process. The contrast and promise stem largely from the participatory and consensual character of the mediation process. A third party to the dispute—the mediator—encourages the parties to find a mutually agreeable settlement by helping them to sharpen …

Saintly Cinema: Modelling The Icon In The Flowers Of St. Francis And Andrei Rublev, Alexander Hart

Journal of Religion & Film

Throughout the history of the cinema, filmmakers have turned to the visual arts for inspiration in creating spiritual styles on film. In this essay, it is argued that Roberto Rossellini’s The Flowers of St. Francis (1950) and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev (1966) were influenced by Giotto di Bondone’s frescos and Andrei Rublev’s Eastern Orthodox icons, respectively. Committed to realism, Rossellini adopts Giotto’s proto-Renaissance, humanist art as a model for a spiritual style in which the Transcendent is manifested through the natural world. Subverting terrestrial reality, Tarkovsky adopts the aesthetic principles of the Eastern Orthodox icon, translating Pavel Florensky’s concepts of …

A Labor Of Love: Wall-E'S Redemption, Rosamund M. Gammie

Journal of Religion & Film

Inaugurated into the Criterion Collection in 2022 this paper re-examines some of the initial responses to the 2008 Disney-Pixar animated film, WALL-E. The movie received a mixed reception, largely celebrated (but occasionally viewed as “too leftist” by others) for its environmental, anti-capitalist message by many public critics, yet disparaged or dismissed as being superficially empty, shallow, and hollow in academic circles. Labor has been the focus of some academic criticism of the film, particularly as it relates to commoditisation, but this paper recontextualises labor not with capitalism, but with love. By viewing the film through the dynamic of labor and …

Securing The Future Of Ai: A Deep Compliance Review Of Anthropic, Google Deepmind, And Openai Under Soc 2, Iso 27001, And Nist, Ramkumar Bharathan

Defensive Publications Series

As foundation models like Claude, Gemini, and OpenAI become integral to enterprise AI solutions, the need for rigorous, standards-aligned security evaluation grows. This paper presents an expert-level comparative audit of the SOC 2 controls implemented by Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI, drawing from public attestations, model cards, and technical documentation. Going beyond traditional compliance, the assessment incorporates frameworks from ISO 27001, NIST, and AI-specific risk models to benchmark each provider’s security maturity across five domains: organizational governance, infrastructure controls, operational security, data protection, and AI-specific safeguards.

Key findings indicate that Google demonstrates enterprise-grade maturity with advanced automation, zero-trust architecture, and …

Decolonizing The Future Through The Memory Of Subalternized Knowledges: Looking At The Production Of Three Latin American Artists From A Decolonial Perspective, Luciana Amormino, Anna Cavalcanti

Kritika Kultura

This article examines the artistic production of three Latin American artists, two Brazilians and one Chilean: Rosana Paulino (1967-), Moara Tupinambá (1983-), and Cecilia Vicuña (1948-). Vicuña and Tupinambá, artists of Indigenous descent, incorporate the epistemologies of native peoples into their works, considering the differences in ethnicity, territory, and generation that distinguish them. Paulino, in turn, a Black woman from the outskirts of São Paulo (SP/Brazil), addresses issues related to Black ancestry in her artistic production, particularly those linked to the experiences of enslaved African populations. Despite the distinct trajectories of these artists, a common element emerges in their artistic …

Deimperialization Of Difficult Heritage Museums Of Political Repression In Kazakhstan, Dmitriy Melnikov, Anastasia Mitrofanova, Svetlana Riazanova

Kritika Kultura

In this article, we employ a decolonial methodology to question whose voices and histories are highlighted and whose are silenced in museum exhibitions. This methodology is employed to analyze the memorial museums situated on sites associated with state-induced violence, or, more precisely, within the premises of the Karaganda Corrective Labor Camp (the museum in Dolinka and the “ALZHIR” memorial complex). Our objective is to examine how these museums endeavor to reclaim these sites as significant for national history and identity. The museums employ various strategies to deimperialize the message conveyed through their exhibits and to find a balance between the …

Decolonizing Memory And Examining The Naga Identity In The Works Of Easterine Kire, Paloma Chaterji

Kritika Kultura

Colonization can be twofold: external and internal. For a socio-geographic space like Nagaland, a state in the Northeast of India, colonialism has presented itself through Britain, and even India itself; these multiple faces of colonialism have influenced and destabilized this hilly state. It was the British who had the maximum influence on Nagaland. India, even after its independence from the British in 1947, implemented certain strategies that smelt of British imperialism, whichultimately affected Nagaland and Northeast India as a whole. Thus, referencing the novels by the Naga woman writer, Easterine Kire, namely, Sky is My Father: A Naga Village Remembered …

Paabat: Provincializing Postmemory In Merlie Alunan’S Poems On The Balangiga Encounter Of 1901, Ian Harvey A. Claros

Kritika Kultura

This essay deploys the Waray word for haunting, apparition, and feeling—paabat—to examine Merlie Alunan’s poems about the Balangiga Encounter of 1901 and its aftermath in the anthology Running with Ghosts and Other Poems (2017). This historical event transpired when the townsfolk launched a surprise attack against the American soldiers stationed in Balangiga, a town in Samar, Philippines. Despite its success, the Americans harshly retaliated by pacifying the entire island through militarization, massacre, and arson. Alunan’s poetry attempts to reconstruct a range of events and subjectivities that constitute this traumatic history. Initially, it can be posited that her poetics and self-reflexivity …

Alaála: Tropical Memory, Christian Jil R. Benitez

Kritika Kultura

This essay considers a moment in José Rizal’s novel El Filibusterismo (1891)—namely, the substitution of the Spanish figure of “black King Melchor” with the folk “King of the Indios,” Bernardo Carpio, in the eyes of a native coachman—with a critical attention to how such an instant of comparison unfolds. The essay first ruminates on the crucial phrase deployed by Rizal to signify the moment, pensar naturalmente, which has been interpreted differently across various translations of the novel, but specifically rendered here as alaála or remembering. Through a brief philological examination of the latter Filipino word, regarding it as a material …

Decolonizing National And Imperial Memories: From Postcolonial To Decolonial And Beyond, Jarula M.I. Wegner

Kritika Kultura

This article describes a discursive shift at the beginning of the twenty-first century in academic and public debates from postcolonial to decolonial critiques and asks what this means for the study of national and imperial memories. While some critics, like Robert J. C. Young, see this shift within postcolonial discourse, others, like Sylvia Wynter, believe that postcolonial theory itself needs to be decolonized. Regardless of whether one believes the shift is taking place within postcolonial studies or caused from outside, in any case it presents at least twelve complex transformations. While many of the characteristics hark back to a longer …

Grotian Images Of The Sea In Law And Philosophy, José Duke Bagulaya

Kritika Kultura

Against the backdrop of modern states’ cadastralization of the sea, this article discusses images of the sea in three texts that are analyzed as figures of resistance to contemporary forms of territorialization: Hugo Grotius’s Mare Liberum [The Free Sea] (1609), Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus (1981), and the South China Sea (SCS) Arbitration Award (2016). It is argued that the recurring images of the sea in these three texts, which may be collectively called “Grotian images of the sea,” constitute a thought that resists states’ territorializing tendencies by grounding legal challenges to excessive claims to the sea. …

Transversal Symbiogenesis: Mapping A Nonlinear Postcolonial Future, Chun-Mei Chuang

Kritika Kultura

Gaia’s symbiotic imagery and the Anthropocene crisis characterize the early twenty-firstvcentury, shaping a historical consciousness where we are becoming Isabelle Stengers’sv“cosmopolitical idiots.” In this context, we practice “slowing down” and regeneration, always with historical specificities and intricate networks of relations. This paper reevaluates Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon’s vivid transcorporeal language, charged with the violent energy of resistance, through the lenses of symbiogenesis, metamorphosis, and hybridogenesis. I propose a nuanced understanding of postcoloniality that challenges normative notions of identity and violence, advocating for a nonlinear trans-species future. I emphasize the urgent need for a planetary postcolonial turn that embraces hybridity, …

Challenging The Status Quo: Disability In Australian Children’S Picture Books, Karen Glasby, Tracey Chamlin, Martin Kerby, Margaret Baguley, Alison Bedford, Eseta Tualaulelei, Emerson Zerafa-Payne

Kritika Kultura

This article will analyze a range of Australian picture books that both explore the topic of disability and serve as educational tools for exploring diversity issues. The books were identified in a survey administered by the State Library of New South Wales (NSW) public library service, which identified 62 books that deal with diversity. Thirteen of the 62 books were assessed as having characters with a disability—including autism, mental illness, dementia, spina bifida, neurodiversity, physical disability, deafness, and implied but unidentified disabilities. This article will analyze the approach adopted in each of the picture books using Rudine Sims Bishop’s three …

Abortion Rights, Fugitives From Slavery, And The Networks That Support Them, Rebecca E. Zeitlow

North Carolina Civil Rights Law Review

No abstract provided.

Better Safe Than Sorry: Brown V. City Of Inglewood Should Not Be Game Over For Elected Officials' Whistleblower Protection Within California Local Governments, Aidan Winter

California Western Law Review

No abstract provided.

Fostering Success: The Need For Continued Foster Care Beyond Age Twenty-One, Louisa Twitchell

California Western Law Review

No abstract provided.

Association Of Dmd Gene Variant Classes With Motor Outcomes In A Drug Registration Clinical Trial Setting, Yuan Fang, Utkarsh J. Dang, Katherine I. Illei, Paula Clemens, Eric P. Hoffman, Cinrg, Vision Dmd Investigators

Pharmacy Faculty Scholarship

Background and Objectives: Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by pathogenic variants of the DMD gene, leading to the loss of dystrophin. Clinical variability in DMD can complicate interpretation of interventional data in clinical trials. One source of clinical variability is allelic heterogeneity (different pathogenic variants with different effects on dystrophin protein expression). We sought to determine whether gene variant classes in clinical trial participants potentially affect clinical trial data interpretation. Methods: We analyzed 186 vamorolone trial participants with DMD (VBP15-002/003; VBP15-004) who were 4 to steroid-naïve at baseline. We stratified participants into gene variant classes by either variant location …

Enhancing Academic Integrity: From Ideas To Action., Fiona O' Riordan (Ed.), Ruth Níbheoláin (Ed.), Denis Cummins (Ed.)

Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Faculty Authors 2025: College Of Arts And Sciences, Erin Sheffner

Faculty Authors and Sponsored Grant Recipients Reception Bibliographies

An annotated bibliography compiled by the University Library of the publications featured by the College of Arts and Sciences Faculty at the annual Faculty Authors and Creators Reception at Governors State University.

Faculty Authors 2025: College Of Business, Erin Sheffner

Faculty Authors and Sponsored Grant Recipients Reception Bibliographies

An annotated bibliography compiled by the University Library of the publications featured by the College of Business Faculty at the annual Faculty Authors and Creators Reception at Governors State University.

Günther Anders’S “Promethean Shame”: Technological Ressentiment And Surveillance, Babette Babich

Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections

Günther Anders’s philosophy of technology, particularly his complex notion of ‘Promethean shame,’ or technological ressentiment, may illuminate questions of surveillance and AI ethics. As a critical philosopher of technology, radically so, his emphasis on the negative or downside of technology distinguishes Anders’s thinking on technology from future-focused and mainstream technological messianism. Key to Anders’s notion of ‘Promethean shame’ was his observation that we adapt ourselves to our technology, not the other way around. Provocatively, Anders argued that while the populace in the past—referring to Nazi Germany—required the techniques of mass psychology and mass gatherings for the purposes of manipulation and …

Variation And Selection During Pandemic: Toward A Multiplex Framework For Understanding Nonprofit Community Network Evolution In Crisis Time, Yiqi Li, Aimei Yang, Wenlin Liu, Jingyi Sun, Michigan State University, Lichen Chen

iSchool - All Scholarship

This study examines how the communication network structure of a community of U.S. nonprofits evolves in response to the COVID-19

pandemic by examining their multiplex strategic communication network- building on Twitter/X. This study identifies two types of networks:

representational ties (for third-party audiences) and substantial ties (for direct resource exchange). Our findings suggest that organizations remain consistent with network strategies through different crisis stages, and the crisis provides opportunities for nonprofits to maintain existing substantial networks while building more extensive substantial networks. Representational ties, even the ones formed pre-crisis, hold the potential to turn into substantial relationships. Theoretically, this research …

Volume 11 Issue 1 Complete Issue

Journal of Response to Writing

No abstract provided.

Dipl 3370 Gender, Race And Culture In International Relations, Fredline M’Cormack-Hale Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

That gender should have a central place in international relations is finally beginning to take hold in the discipline. Most, if not all, introductory IR classes spend some time looking at how a study of states and the political and economic power they wield is incomplete without a consideration of how notions of femininity and masculinity also shape international relations. However, while IR scholars share concerns around male dominance in IR, feminism is not a monolithic concept and there is a diversity of both feminist approaches as well as topics studied. Moreover, intersectionality tells us that it is important to …

An Exploration Of How Motivations And Perceived Ability Influence An Advisor's Willingness To Give Advice, Ishani Banerji

Publications

Decision-makers frequently rely on advice from advisors, yet little is known about the factors influencing advisors' willingness to give advice (WTGA). This paper explores WTGA through three studies, investigating its relationship to advice quality, an advisor's motivations, and abilities. Our findings show that advisors frequently demonstrate a willingness to give advice even when their solution to the specific problem is incorrect, resulting in the dissemination of poor-quality advice. We find that both the helping and influence motives predict WTGA, with the helping motivation playing a more dominant role. Finally, we find that WTGA varies significantly as a function of advisors' …

A Tale Of Two Agencies: Contrasting How The Loss Of Chevron Deference Will Impact The Department Of Defense And The Environmental Protection Agency, John-Paul S. Mantone

California Western Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reforming Property Taxation To Solve California's Housing Deficit, Ryan Jensen

California Western Law Review

No abstract provided.

Proceedings Of The 103rd Annual Virginia Academy Of Science Meeting, 2025, Virginia Academy Of Science

Virginia Journal of Science

Proceedings (abstracts) of the 103rd Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, May 22, 2025, at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Active Suspension System, Jens Clausen, Felix Derrouaz, Jacky Quan

Mechanical Engineering Senior Theses

This thesis presents the design, development, and prototyping of an active suspension system intended for high-performance racing applications, with a focus on karting. The goal of the project was to create a geometrically active suspension capable of dynamically adjusting key parameters such as camber, caster, toe, and track width in real-time to improve grip, cornering stability, and overall vehicle performance.

The team conducted extensive research into suspension theory, customer needs, and existing industry solutions before developing a mechanical platform based on a Short-Long Arm (SLA) double wishbone configuration. Using linear actuators to introduce five degrees of freedom, the system was …

Learning From Indigenous Knowledge And Research, Rob Morrison

Faculty Publications

The goal of this sabbatical research is to learn more about non-Western ways of knowing and learning (epistemologies) and to become a more effective culturally responsive teacher. I investigated how Indigenous Knowledge and research practices can enrich current definitions and practices of Information Literacy and integrate them into the research process. Information Literacy is part of a larger and more complex research process that involves connecting researchers’ questions and purpose with literature reviews and the resulting new knowledge.

I am continuing my research journey that started with my dissertation work on Culturally Relevant Information Literacy and Critical Information Literacy (CIL). …