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Opening Remarks: Celebrating Alumni In The Judiciary, Jelani Jefferson Exum

St. John's Law Review

(Excerpt)

Good evening and welcome! I am deeply honored to address such a distinguished group of alumni, our alumni who serve as judges— perhaps the most important role a lawyer can have. Law professors may argue with that, but I think tonight we can let the judges have it!

But, seriously—today, perhaps more than ever, we recognize how profoundly judges—especially those who graduated from St. John’s Law—shape our profession with distinction and unwavering integrity. Your excellence on the bench—your courtroom presence, your thoughtful judgments and opinions, and your steadfast dedication to St. John’s Law—all reflect tremendously upon our law school …

Zero-Sum Empathy: The Supreme Court's 2025 Term Decisions On Gender Identity, Susan Etta Keller

ConLawNOW

This past term, the Supreme Court majority continued to follow a pattern of rendering transgender individuals essentially invisible in the cases that concern their rights. In last year’s United States v. Skrmetti, the transgender youth affected by the ban on transgender care were largely absent from the majority opinion holding that such bans discriminated on the basis of neither sex nor transgender status. This term, the majority continued a similar trend, deciding two cases on the emergency docket that ignored the lived experience of transgender individuals while significantly affecting them, and one case on the merits, West Virginia v. …

Propuesta Metodológica Para La Evaluación De La Pobreza Energética En Chiapas, México, Mario Alejandro Sánchez Trujillo, Pascual López De Paz, Marcelino García Benítez, Amina El Mekaoui, Bassam Alí, Jesús Francisco Escalante Euán

Journal of Maya Heritage

Resumen. El acceso inequitativo e insuficiente a servicios energéticos de calidad constituye uno de los principales obstáculos para el desarrollo socioeconómico y el bienestar humano en México, siendo el estado de Chiapas una de las entidades con mayor vulnerabilidad socioambiental. Este trabajo presenta una propuesta metodológica cuantitativa y geoespacial para evaluar la pobreza energética de las siete subprovincias fisiográficas de Chiapas. La metodología combina datos de censos de población y vivienda 2020 (INEGI), la estandarización Min-Max, el análisis de correlación de Pearson y el análisis de componentes principales (PCA) para la construcción de un índice de pobreza energética (IPE) multidimensional. …

Anemia, Hematinic Deficiencies, Hyperhomocysteinemia, And Gastric Parietal Cell Antibody Positivity In Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis Patients With Or Without Microcytosis, Chun-Pin Chiang

Articles in Press

No abstract provided.

Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy In Dentistry: Biological Rationale, Clinical Evidence, And Therapeutic Limitations, Pao-Chang Chiang

Articles in Press

No abstract provided.

Closed-Loop Axial Gap Control And Hybrid Bearing Architecture For An Axially Floating Orbiter In A Double-Flow Scroll Vacuum Pump, Yoel Shimo Arieli

Defensive Publications Series

Two related inventions for a double-flow scroll vacuum pump operating without tip seals are disclosed. Invention I is a closed-loop axial gap control system that maintains the axial gap between the orbiter and the fixed scroll members. It comprises at least two axial gap sensors, temperature sensors and pressure sensors; a control unit sampling at 1 kHz or more and running a PID layer together with an adaptive feedforward layer that learns thermal drift patterns; at least one electromagnetic actuator acting on a tab extending from the orbiter carrier plate; and an optional predictive-maintenance function that raises an alert when …

Mutation-Qualified, Authority-Scoped Evaluator Routing For Versioned Engineering Ai Systems, Bharath Raj C, Mukund Anandan, Gourav Gourav

Defensive Publications Series

A system is proposed herein for qualifying evaluators used to review generated technical material in versioned engineering artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The system creates controlled degradations from protected technical obligations, measures the technical dimensions for which each evaluator demonstrates competence, and limits promotion authority to current qualified dimensions. Dimension-specific authority rules prevent lower-authority votes from overriding controlling technical sources, while named dependency envelopes invalidate affected qualifications when relevant sources, platforms, releases, or evaluator configurations change. Unaffected evaluator capabilities and still-valid prior decisions remain usable, allowing localized promotion, rejection, owner review, or insufficient-evidence outcomes.

Cross-System Checkpoint Cohesion For Kafka And Spark Streaming Pipelines, Ananya Verma, Raouf Khan

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method and a system for receiving events from an event streaming platform, processing the events using a stream processing engine for a processing epoch to generate an output, and writing the output to one or more sinks. Source progress information indicating a consumption position, and execution state information comprising a state version of a state store and a watermark position, are collected for the processing epoch. Sink durability information indicating durable commitment of the output to the one or more sinks is determined. A candidate unified checkpoint manifest binding the source progress, execution state, …

System And Method For Serving A Plurality Of Process-Isolated Inference Workflows From A Single Host-Resident Model Artifact Through An Opaque Shared-Memory Handle On A Real-Time Transaction Path, Hao Qin, Ruiyang Xia, Victor Genty, Ningyu Shi, Bin Zhang, Yi Li, Wenting Fu

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods for serving machine-learning inference are provided. A host runtime loads a model artifact a single time into host-owned memory, providing a single resident instance of the model artifact. Inference workflows sharing the single instance each execute in a respective interpreter process isolated from the host runtime and from one another. Each interpreter process holds an opaque handle referencing the single instance without a copy of the model artifact in an address space of the interpreter process. The host runtime receives, over a shared-memory channel, a scoring request issued by a first inference workflow through the opaque handle …

Tamtsīlāt Muqāwamah An-Nisā’ Fī Riwayah Al-Mar’Ah Fī Nuqtat As-Sifr Lil-Kātibah Nawāl Sa‘Dāwī Wa-Fīlm Muntasaf Al-Layl Fī Qasr Bīrā (Musalsal Netflix): Dirāsah Adabiyyah Muqāranah, Rofiqoh Rofiqoh, Ida Nursida, Ahmad Habibi Syahid

Al-Arabi: Journal of Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language

تسلط هذه الدراسة الضوء على أشكال مقاومة النساء للنظام الأبوي كما تنعكس رواية "المرأة في نقطة الصفر" لنوال سعداوي ومسلسل "منتصف الليل في قصر بيرا" لإيمري شاهين. باستخدام أساليب وصفية نوعية ونهج أدبي مقارن أمريكي مقترن بنظرية نسوية راديكالية، تبحث هذه الدراسة في كيفية تأثير السياقات الاجتماعية والثقافية في مصر وتركيا على طرق مقاومة الشخصيات النسائية للقمع القائم على النوع الاجتماعي. تظهر نتائج الدراسة أن فردوس تناضل من أجل حريتها من خلال الوعي الذاتي والسيطرة على جسدها ورفض الأعراف الاجتماعية التقييدية، بينما تقدم إسرا شكلاً حديثاً من أشكال المقاومة من خلال الذكاء والتصميم والشجاعة للتعبير عن رأيها في الأماكن العامة. …

Feminine Validation As The Foundation Of Masculine Authority In Woolf’S To The Lighthouse, Arianna Walters

Locus: The Seton Hall Journal of Undergraduate Research

Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse follows Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay as they navigate the complexities of gender characteristics within their marriage and family. As the novel progresses, normal marital and familial disputes invoke a deeper question: what is the true authority behind masculinity? Though the instinct is to first answer with dominance, the novel challenges readers to see the fluidity of both feminine and masculine traits. This essay argues that masculine authority is not self-sustaining, but relies on feminine validation to transform relationships within the family. This dependence is clearly fulfilled through Mr. Ramsay’s transformation at the end of the …

Shutdown As Strategy: A Repeated Game Model Of Government Shutdowns With Audience Costs And Credible Commitment Problems, Tanisha Mazumder

Locus: The Seton Hall Journal of Undergraduate Research

Government shutdowns impose enormous costs on the economy and on federal workers, and yet they keep happening, and they keep getting longer. Why? The existing literature treats shutdowns as either a byproduct of legislative gridlock or a symptom of partisan polarization, but neither account explains why rational political actors repeatedly choose an outcome that nobody wants. This paper argues that shutdowns are not bargaining failures but strategic equilibrium outcomes, sustained by the political cost of being seen to back down. I model government shutdown as a repeated Chicken game between Democrats and Republicans with three parameters: the policy benefit of …

Debate Driven By Districts: Nullification At The Local Level In South Carolina, Dillon Kantor

Locus: The Seton Hall Journal of Undergraduate Research

Protective tariffs have long been a controversial topic in the United States, as individual states often have grievances with their implementation. The most dangerous of these controversies was the Nullification Crisis, a sectional conflict that almost led to South Carolina’s secession from the Union 30 years before the Civil War. Despite the wealth of scholarship that has covered the Nullification Crisis, no analysis has fully concentrated on the debates that drove the conflict on the local level. These local meetings and debates sought to settle where individual districts stood on key issues underscoring the crisis, such as the tariff itself, …

Nanoparticle-Based Innovations In Lung Cancer Treatment: Challenges And Opportunities, Shailesh Sharma, Chamanpreet Kaur, Gurminder Kaur, Surajpal Verma

Journal of Food and Drug Analysis

Nanoparticles (NPs) present a therapeutic revolution in the context of lung cancer, having several and unique advantages over many traditional drugs, such as increased specificity, minimal side effects on healthy tissues, and increased efficacy. It definitely provides a detailed understanding of preparation techniques for nanoparticles for lung cancer treatment, as well as assessment approaches and therapeutic applications of nanoparticles in cancer treatment. The incorporation of drugs into nanoparticle-based systems is then critically discussed with emphasis on their capability to circumvent MDR and target tumour cell lines. Also, the review mentioned the development in the agnostic application, the nanoparticles that are …

Signal-Anchored Growth Engine, Shreyas Prabhurao Kc, Ajay Raman Rayapati, Pranay Ashok Vyas, Praveen Subramonia Pillai

Defensive Publications Series

SIGNAL-ANCHORED GROWTH ENGINE

ABSTRACT

The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for generating quantified, evidence-grounded sales opportunities from heterogeneous payment-network data. A governed knowledge substrate is maintained, having a semantic metrics layer that defines certified metrics decoupled from physical storage and a signal ontology and knowledge graph that models, as typed entities and typed relationships, clients, products, enrollment relationships between the clients and the products, and upsell-candidacy relationships between the clients and the products. A selection of a client and a product is received. A planner produces an ordered analysis plan. A quantitative analyst, a relationship analyst, and a market …

Reward-Driven Agent-Aware Fraud Score Recalibration For Detecting Agent-Disguised Human Payments In Agentic Commerce, Shashika Ranga Muramudalige, Ravi Shankar Maruvada, Harishkumar Sundarji Majithiya

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a reward-driven, agent-aware fraud score recalibration system for detecting agent-disguised human payments in agentic commerce. The system operates as a model-agnostic overlay on an existing fraud scoring model and does not require access to model parameters, architecture, training data, feature importances, or reason codes. Raw transaction and session data are processed to extract behavioral signals, determine an agent probability and agent type, and evaluate behavioral signals against human and agent-type-specific behavioral baselines. Signals expected for legitimate agents, including off-hours activity, cross-border activity, non-personalized queries, absence of session warmup, and programmatic request timing, may be suppressed …

Method And System For Cross-Instance Prediction And Auditable Decision-Provenance Receipt Generation For Autonomous Actors, Eric Zavesky

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method for cross-instance prediction and auditable decision-provenance receipt generation for autonomous actors. The system comprises a local sensor suite and world model resident on an autonomous actor, an institutional prediction service maintaining a learned evidence model built from anonymous sensor submissions contributed by autonomous actors across multiple operators, and a decision receipt generator. In operation, the autonomous actor queries the institutional prediction service with its sensor observations and contextual state; the service returns an evidentiary prediction derived from the aggregated cross-instance evidence model operating on spatial and temporal axes; and the receipt generator cryptographically binds the submitted …

October 1, 2026

The Breeze, 2020-

No abstract provided.

Integrating Ai In Lesson Planning: Critical Reflection And Thoughtful Implementation, Chris Wilcoxen, Amanda Steiner, Julie Bell

The Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on Pedagogy and Learning Design, Vol. 1, Issue 1., Fall 2026

If generative AI can reduce the cognitive load associated with preliminary planning tasks, beginning teachers might gain space to develop their lessons and adapt instruction more quickly. This study employed a directed qualitative content analysis to examine how beginning teachers modify AI-generated lesson plans in ways that reflect pedagogical reasoning. Data collection occurred throughout the instructional cycle. Artifacts analyzed included 1) modified AI-generated lesson plans 2) recorded lesson implementation videos, 3) written or video reflections, and 4) open ended survey questions. The study yielded 88 qualitative artifacts and 26 open-ended responses. Findings indicate that while AI provides a useful baseline …

Shaniyra Scott V. Valerie Arkoosh

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

John Grove V. Mml Investors Services Llc

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Jarvis Roberts V. State Of Pennsylvania

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Spartan Daily, October 20, 2026, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2026

Volume 167, Issue 25

The Myth Of Evenhanded Administration: Integrating Individual Heterogeneity Into Benefit–Cost Analysis, Richard L. Revesz, Burçin Ünel, Sarah Wheaton

Duke Law Journal

In 2025, the Trump administration ended long-standing efforts to determine the extent to which pollution has disproportionate impacts on different communities, including overburdened and disadvantaged communities. But, at the same time, it reaffirmed its commitment to performing benefit–cost analysis to analyze the consequences of regulations. These approaches are mutually inconsistent. A proper benefit–cost analysis simply cannot be done without considering the distribution of a policy's impacts.

Generally, benefit–cost analyses are conducted based on impacts on an average member of the population—that is, a person with median characteristics. Often, however, the populations affected by government policies vary from the median in …

Moving Beyond Comparators: Rethinking Title Vii Intersectional Claims, Virali Patel

Duke Law Journal

Title VII promises to protect employees from discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. However, for plaintiffs who assert claims on the basis of more than one identity, that promise often falls apart in court. This Note argues that the comparator requirement is part of the issue. Courts often demand that plaintiffs point to a "similarly situated" coworker who both was treated better and resembles the plaintiff in almost every respect but for the protected trait. Because antidiscrimination doctrine most commonly analyzes race and sex as separate, non-overlapping categories, intersectional plaintiffs face an evidentiary bind: Comparators available …

Overbreadth, Facial Validity, And The Nature Of First Amendment Rights, Randy J. Kozel

Duke Law Journal

The doctrine of First Amendment overbreadth instructs judges to treat certain statutes as unenforceable even if they have lawful applications. The theory is that if a statute restricts too much protected speech, it is invalid on its face. The fact that it has some lawful applications will not save it.

This Article seeks to redefine the relationship between overbreadth, facial invalidity, and judicial review of speech restrictions. It disentangles overbreadth concerns from facial defects, shifting the focus to the underlying sources of constitutional infirmity. The Article's central claim is that it is impossible for a statute to fail as overbroad. …

Grants Pass And Its New Defendants: Looking To Drug Courts To Improve Homeless Courts, Paige Kupas

Duke Law Journal

The U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 decision in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson was consequential both for the judicial system and for homeless defendants. The Court's holding that ordinances punishing sleeping and camping outside were not cruel and unusual punishments under the Eighth Amendment opened the floodgates for municipalities to either pass or enhance enforcement of such ordinances. What followed was an increase in the number of homeless defendants in the court system. Not only does this Grants Pass result put more pressure on already overburdened court dockets, but it also exacerbates an already broken system in which the most …

“I’M A Biracial Person Who Looks White In A Black Man’S Rap Game”: Exploring Expressions Of Multiracialized Masculine Vulnerability In Logic’S “Everybody”, Matthew Oware

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

The field of Black vulnerability studies includes analyses of Black men rap artists’ sexual debut, romantic relationships, mental stress, self-medication, and suicidal thoughts. I expand this analysis to Black-white mixed-race men who express emotional vulnerability regarding their racial identities. Using a case study of the song “Everybody” by Logic—a Black and white, mixed-race man—I find that Logic expresses joy and pride in his Black and biracial identity. Similarly, I observe that he expresses anger and frustration toward those who question, dismiss, or degrade his Black and biracial identities, a pattern paralleled in research on multiracial individuals. By analyzing his radio …

Report On Open Educational Resource And Open Access Publication Practices Of Winona State University Educators, Kayla Olson

Library Faculty Works

This report presents the findings from a survey disseminated to all employees over Winter 2026 that focused on Winona State University educators' knowledge of and practices around copyright/intellectual property, open educational resources (OERs), and open access (OA) publishing. It establishes a baseline understanding of our educators’ advanced information and professional development needs, and can be replicated in the future if needed. In all, responses suggest that there may be continued interest in professional development and support around OERs, some interest in professional development around OA publishing, and potential benefits to further faculty and staff development around copyright/intellectual property. The author …

3890-98 Broadway Assoc. Llc V. Hiraldo

All Decisions

App Term 1st affirms (Ortiz, J.) denial of tenant's motion to vacate default judgment. The process server's affidavit constitutes prima facie evidence of proper service under RPAPL § 735(1), and tenant's mere conclusory denial of receipt was insufficient to rebut the presumption. Tenant also failed to demonstrate a meritorious defense.