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Mark Weller V. Linde Pension Excess Program

2024 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Service Receipt Among Alaskan Women Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault, Or Stalking, Ingrid Johnson

AJiC Alaska Victimization Survey

The Alaska Justice Information Center (AJiC) at the University of Alaska Anchorage has released a new report, "Service Receipt among Alaskan Women Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault, or Stalking." This report used data from the 2020 Alaska Victimization Survey (AVS) to estimate the extent to which victims of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and stalking needed and received victim services. It also estimated the extent to which victims are likely to report to the police in the future.

Sharon Finizie V. Secretary United States Department Of Veterans Aff

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Usa V. Joseph Johnson, Jr.

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

John Kalu V. Spaulding

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Order Appointing Expert Witness Advisor

Catholic Dioceses in Bankruptcy

No abstract provided.

Satellites In The Russia-Ukraine War, Ron Gurantz

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

Satellites and counterspace systems have shown themselves to be important parts of modern warfare in the Russia-Ukraine War but have also been subject to various restrictions to prevent escalation. This monograph examines the role of satellites and counterspace systems in the Russia-Ukraine War’s high-technology warfare and the effects of satellite proliferation and commercialization on the conduct of the war. It also analyzes the restrictions under which space-based capabilities have been operating and the implications of these limits for future conflicts—a subject that has received little attention. Relying on an exhaustive study of open-source material and the application of limited-war theory …

Levy V. Nys Div. Of Hous. & Community Renewal

All Decisions

The tenant alleged that the landlord overcharged rent by claiming false Individual Apartment Improvements (IAIs). The DHCR investigated and found that the landlord's claims were justified. The tenant challenged the DHCR's determination in court. The court upheld the DHCR's decision, finding that it was reasonable and not arbitrary and capricious. The court also denied the tenant's motion for default judgment against DHCR.

Comparing The Roles Of Secondary Schools And Universities In The Formation Of British Cabinet Ministers1922-2022, John William Hogan, Sharon Feeney

Articles

The role played by the education system in the creation and reproduction of governing elites, and its countervailing potential to create a more meritocratic and egalitarian society, has been a topic of enduring concern. However, these debates have been rendered opaque by an inability to directly compare elite formation systems both within and between countries. To resolve this problem, we employ elite formation quantitative indices to compare the roles of the secondary school and higher education systems, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in the formation of its political elite – cabinet ministers – between 1922–2022. …

National Blue Ribbon School Principals’ Descriptions Of Their Leadership Practices, Demere Houston

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Approximately 7% of all U. S. K-12 schools have received the United States Department of Education’s (USDOE) National Blue Ribbon (NBR). Information was needed about how leaders prepare their schools to earn this award. This study was focused on the leadership practices of school principals honored with the award between 2005 and 2021 to learn more about this gap in leadership practice. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore how NBR-award principals describe the leadership practices that enabled them to build school environments worthy of the highest designation a school can receive from the USDOE. The conceptual …

Fetal Heart Rate Self-Monitoring By Mothers In Labor, Mesfin Gebrekidan Zbelo

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Childbirth poses a significant risk, with many intrapartum stillbirths worldwide. In Lesotho, 35% of stillbirths occur during labor, predominantly due to birth asphyxia. Low midwife-to-laboring mother ratios result in insufficient adherence to standardized protocols for intrapartum fetal heart rate monitoring. In the intrapartum period, quality and respectful care during birth are crucial. The purpose of the study was to examine intrapartum outcomes and the impact of self-monitoring of electronic fetal heart rate on laboring mothers' use of a doppler. Catastrophe theory and the theory of access proposed by Penchansky and Thomas served as the theoretical frameworks. Logistic regression analysis revealed …

Rosser V. Elite Craft Homes : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

On appeal from the Second Judicial District Court, Weber County, Honorable Craig Hall, District Court No. 220903070

Jonathan R. Schofield (8274) Dick J. Baldwin (14587) Steven R. Glauser (15607) Daniel S. Sorenson (18101) PARR BROWN GEE & LOVELESS, P.C. Attorneys for Appellants Jeremy Rosser and Brandon Kilburn

James Mortensen V. Labor Commission, Quality Pool & Spa : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

BRIEF OF APPELLEES

Loren M. Lambert, No. 5101 ARROW LEGAL SOLUTIONS GROUP, PC Attorney for Appellant Jaceson Maughan/Christopher C. Hill General Counsel UTAH LABOR COMMISSION Attorney for the Utah Labor Commission

Cody G. Kesler [14225] RICHARDS BRANDT MILLER NELSON Attorneys for Appellees Quality Pool & Spa and/or Owners Insurance Co

Book Review: The World: A Family History Of Humanity, Zachary Griffiths

Parameters Bookshelf – Online Book Reviews

Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore

Reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Zachary Griffiths (US Army), Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Army

The Harding Project’s Lieutenant Colonel Zachary Griffiths reviews this best-selling, epic in scope history of the world framed by powerful families and gives an honest evaluation of the book’s potential value (and shortcomings) for soldiers. Griffiths notes that the book provides insight into the “richness of the human experience” with “vignettes to give color to historical military campaigns and humanize those campaigns’ participants.”

Book Review: Standing Up Space Force: The Road To The Nation’S Sixth Armed Service, Robert D. Bradford Iii

Parameters Bookshelf – Online Book Reviews

Author: Forrest L. Marion

Reviewed by Robert D. Bradford III, associate professor of defense and Joint processes, Department of Command, Leadership, and Management, US Army War College

Robert D. Bradford III reviews this “first history” of the United States Space Force. He overviews the author Forrest L. Marion’s resources (“primary sources and extensive oral history interviews”) and highlights the book’s value in the way it “depicts cultural and bureaucratic barriers to…organizational change.” Bradford notes the history’s universal applicability as it relates to other situations in which an institution successfully approaches change.

Examining School To Home Transference Of Behavioral Interventions Provided To Elementary Students With Autism, Andre Lamar Patterson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Parent–teacher collaboration is crucial for optimizing outcomes for students with autism spectrum disorder (SWAs). This qualitative study addressed perceptions among parents of elementary-aged SWAs regarding the lack of transfer of school-based behavioral skills to the home environment. Parental perceptions of the transfer of behavioral interventions, including applied behavior analysis (ABA), from school to home for SWAs aged 6–12 years were explored. Using a basic qualitative methodology, data were gathered using semi structured in-depth interviews of eight participants with elementary aged children with autism: Member checking, peer debriefing, and triangulation provided validation. Two major themes emerged: (a) the importance of regular …

Obese African American Women’S Perceptions Of Transition From College To Workforce, Alea Lycorish

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The rate of obesity continues to rise among adults in the United States, and African American (AA) women are at greater risk in comparison with any other group. This matter has become an alarming public health crisis. Obese AA women also face a higher risk of discrimination in the workforce. The purpose of this qualitative, multiple case study was to increase the understanding of the perceptions and experiences of bachelor degree educated, overweight AA women during the postgraduate phase, who entered the workforce within the past 10 years. The theoretical framework used in this study was Crenshaw’s intersectionality theory. The …

Foreword: Understanding Maine's Novel Right To Food Constitutional Amendment, Lisa A. Prosienski Editor-In-Chief

Maine Law Review

No abstract provided.

Motion Capture Based Signature Authorization In A Mixed Reality Environment, Samuel Wu

Defensive Publications Series

The subject disclosure provides computer-implemented methods that include generating, in a mixed-reality environment, a signature capture area in a written document; detecting, using a gesture sensor, a series of movements of a user within the signature capture area; converting the series of movements into an image; and inserting, into a signature portion of the written document as a signature of the user, the image.

Anticipated Amount Verification, Pinesh Roy, Barbara Patterson

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides a system and a method for verifying an anticipated amount of a digital financial transaction. The disclosure proposes including a request for an anticipated amount verification (AAV) associated with the transaction, while forwarding a transaction request from a merchant to an issuer via an acquirer and a payment processing platform. Thereafter, the issuer generates an AAV response indicating whether the transaction is eligible for the anticipated amount. Further, the issuer communicates the AAV response to the merchant, via the payment processing platform and the acquirer. Based on the AAV response the merchant determines whether the transaction …

Adverse Childhood Experiences And Effects On Delinquency, Katherine Lank

Master of Arts in Human Services

Youth involved in delinquent acts are seen interacting with the juvenile justice system at an alarming rate. Adverse childhood experiences influence the development of behavior and chances of taking risks. Children who grow up in a household with an unfit parent, substance abuse, or mental health disorders are seen turning to delinquent acts for gratification. This can have a higher chance of poor educational performance, unemployment, increased law enforcement interactions, and long-term mental and physical disabilities. Searching literature consisted of finding external factors and their control on brain development and future adult behaviors. Research was conducted on the school-to-prison pipeline, …

Work-Related Musculoskeletal Problems: A Look At How Employers View Causes, Roger C. Jensen

Safety Health & Industrial Hygiene

Causation concepts for work-related musculoskeletal disorders vary among authors and academic disciplines. The major causation concepts are single-event and repetitive motion. The aim of this short communication is to share findings from a recent survey of United States employers conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics about work-related musculoskeletal cases, and, more specifically, about whether the employers regard the causes of their employees’ musculoskeletal problems as being from a single exposure or from multiple exposures. Recommendations are offered for using terminology consistent with employer understandings.

Child Abuse And The Negative Role It Plays Throughout A Childs Lifetime, Mckenna Ellingson

Master of Arts in Human Services

Child abuse is very common termonology across the entire globe, states, communities, and even rural and urban areas. This writing will cover many topics within child abuse that discusses the impact that child abuse has on children through physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, exposure to domestic violence and how it causes substantial adverse health, educational, and behavioral consequences throughout the child lifespan. The goals will to be to explore different types of abuse and how it impacts the child's brain, development, and stages throughout their lifetime. This writing was aimed to review the most comprehensive studies of the …

Exploring The Efficiency Of Nitrogenated Carbon Quantum Dots/Tio2 S-Scheme Heterojunction In Photodegradation Of Ciprofloxacin In Aqueous Environments, Yilmaz Ateş, Zafer Eroğlu, Özkan Açişli, Önder Meti̇n, Semra Karaca

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

The usability of polyvinyl chloride-based quaternary triethanol ammonium chloride anionite (PVC-TEAC) as a potential extractant for tungstate was investigated to recover tungstate from Gabal Qash Amir, Egypt, assaying 70.91% WO3. Structure elucidation for PVC-TEAC anionite was successfully carried out using several techniques. Experimental measurements, such as pH, agitation time, initial tungsten concentration, anionite dose, co-ions, temperature, and eluting agents, have been optimized. It was found that PVC-TEAC anionite has a maximum capacity of 63 mg per gram. From the distribution isotherm modeling, Langmuir’s model fits the experimental results better than Freundlich’s, with a theoretical value of 61.728 mg g–1. According …

Magnetic Solid-Phase Extraction Technique Based On Fe3o4@Coppy-Pth Nanocomposite For Extraction Of Cobalt, Chromium, And Nickel Prior To Determination By Micro-Sample Injection System-Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry In Alcoholic And Nonalcoholic Beverages, Meli̇ke Küçüksakalli, Qamar Salamat, Buket Ti̇reli̇, Şükrü Gökhan Elçi̇

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

A novel Fe3O4@coPPy-PTH nanocomposite-based sorbent was prepared via in-situ oxidative polymerization using Fe3O4 nanoparticles with spherical and flower-like morphologies of thiophene and pyrrole as the feedstocks. The synthesized nanocomposite utilized sensitive extraction and determination of the metal ions Co(II), Cr(III), and Ni(II) without a chelating agent, followed by a micro-sample injection system-flame atomic absorption spectrometer (MIS-FAAS). The composition and morphology of Fe3O4@coPPy-PTH nanocomposite were characterized by advanced spectroscopic and imaging techniques like SEM and FT-IR. SEM observations showed the size of Fe3O4 nanoparticles changed from 30 nm to 120 nm in diameter after the copolymer (PPy-PTH) coating. The Fe3O4@coPPy-PTH nanocomposite …

Lacoo3 Is A Promising Catalyst For Dry Reforming Of Benzene Used As A Surrogate Of Biomass Tar, Başar Çağlar, Deni̇z Üner

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

Tar build-up is one of the bottlenecks of biomass gasification process. Dry reforming of tar is an alternative solution if oxygen chemical potential on the catalyst surface is at sufficient levels. For this purpose, an oxygen donor perovskite, LaCoO3, was used as a catalyst for dry reforming of tar. To circumvent the complexity of the tar and its constituents, benzene molecule was chosen as a model compound. Dry reforming of benzene vapour on the LaCoO3 catalyst was investigated at temperatures of 600, 700, 800 °C, at the CO2/C6H6 ratios of 3, 6, 12 and at space velocities of 14000 and …

Synthesis And Characterization Of New Hexahydroquinoline Derivatives, Evaluation Of Their Cytotoxicity, Intracellular Ros Production And Inhibitory Effects On Inflammatory Mediators, Ezgi̇ Pehli̇vanlar, Deni̇z Arca Çakir, Sonia Sanajou, Hülya Tezel Yalçin, Terken Baydar, Pinar Erkekoğlu, Hani̇fe Avci, Rahi̇me Şi̇mşek

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

Inflammation is a response to injury and infection in the organism. It can be categorized as acute and chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation is the underlying cause of many diseases such as Alzheimer's, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases. Recent studies have proven the anti-inflammatory properties of 1,4-dihydropyridines (1,4-DHPs) and its derivatives, which have many biological properties including calcium channel blockers. The structures of the synthesized compounds were elucidated by IR, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR and HRMS methods. The cytotoxic properties of the compounds were determined by 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) method in 3T3 cell line. Among the 15 compounds, the three compounds …

Paying For Performance? Attorneys’ Fees In Securities Fraud Class Actions, Stephen J. Choi, Jessica M. Erickson, A. C. Pritchard

Law & Economics Working Papers

This Article studies whether plaintiffs' lawyers matter in securities class actions. We use inverse propensity score weighting (IPW) to compare the results in cases led by top-tier firms against those brought by lower-tier firms. This technique addresses case selection effects by using all of the cases led by a top-tier firm and then weighting the cases led by lower-tier firms based on how similar these cases are to the cases led by top-tier firms. We do find that top-tier lawyers obtain better outcomes for shareholders in a subset of securities class actions, specifically the cases against the larger (although not …

Jose Collado-Lantigua V. Attorney General United States Of America

2024 Decisions

Agency

Fruit Street Health, P.B.C. V. Sharecare, Inc. Order On Motion To Dismiss, Kathy Lee Ellerbee

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

No abstract provided.