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Keeping The Peace: From Bosnia To The Sahel, Jack Fitzgerald

Capstone Collection

This research has looked to analysis both the evolution and nature of geopolitical conflicts over the past 30 years, and the parallel advancement of long-term humanitarian operations during that period. Long-term United Nations peacekeeping operations have evolved since the end of the Cold-War to be much more political and military in nature. The term humanitarian diplomat is a direct by-product of that evolution. In the first generation of UN peacekeepers, humanitarian actors on the ground were not called on to be political negotiators. However, in the post-Cold War era the role of peacekeeping has shifted to one of peacebuilding within …

Investigating The Perceived Impact Of Surgeons' Burnout On Surgical Physician Associates' Wellness In United States Ambulatory Surgery Centers, Rhionna J. Smith, Lihua Dishman, John W. Fick, Kathleen M. Thomas

Patient Experience Journal

Surgeons are the de facto leaders of surgical teams with surgical physician associates (SPAs) as integral members who function in all areas of the peri-operative environment. Surgeons often supervise SPAs. Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) provide patients with same-day diagnostic and preventive procedures as more convenient alternatives to hospital-based outpatient procedures. This qualitative, national, and cross-sectional study explored the perceived impact of surgeons' burnout on SPAs' wellness in U.S. ASCs during global health crises. Primary demographic and qualitative data were collected using a self-developed, three-section survey instrument: (1) information regarding informed consent; (2) 10 short demographic questions; and (3) two open-ended …

A Lifetime Of Climate Changes: Female Farmers' Perceptions Of Climate Change Impacts To Well-Being And Livelihood In Antigua And Barbuda, Jamie Matthews

Capstone Collection

This capstone project emphasizes the value of smallholder farmers working on small island developing states (SIDS) in an era of climate change—with a particular focus on female farmers in light of the global feminization of agriculture. This research study engaged female farmers living in Antigua and Barbuda, a SIDS in the Caribbean, to capture their perceptions of climate risks and the impacts climate change has had on their well-being and livelihood. Qualitative data was collected via life history interviews (LHI), as well as focus group discussions (FGD). These methodologies addressed the primary questions of this research: (i) How do female …

The Impact Of The Jordanian Education System On Syrian Refugee Identity, Victoria Wiese

Capstone Collection

Jordan currently hosts 1.3 million Syrian refugees, with 48% of those refugees being children. Many of these children are currently enrolled in the Jordanian education system, both in host communities and in refugee camps like Za’atari. As such, the future of education for these children holds a great deal of importance, especially because education plays a significant role in the shaping of cultural identity and can have a considerable impact on a child’s future success. This exploratory research is based on the opinions of six Syrian refugee fathers from the Irbid community in the North of Jordan. It examines Syrian …

The Politics Of Possession And Gun Violence: The Bruen Decision's Impact On Firearm Regulation, Jacob Butler

JCLC Online

States struggle to implement new firearms policies because they are

limited by two major forces: the political feasibility of passing new firearms

legislation and an increasingly broad and individualized Second Amendment

right. Due to this conflict, states continually return to one of few

constitutional yet politically popular methods of gun control: enacting

possession-based firearms laws. These laws are largely ineffective at

reducing gun violence.

In the 2022 Supreme Court decision New York Rifle and Pistol

Association v. Bruen, the Court further expanded the scope of the Second

Amendment to protect the individual’s right to bear arms outside of the …

Medical Board Of California, Emily Powers, Marcus Friedman

California Regulatory Law Reporter

No abstract provided.

Public Utilities Commission, Erol Kilic, Marcus Friedman

California Regulatory Law Reporter

No abstract provided.

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California Regulatory Law Reporter

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State Bar Of California, Katie Gonzalez, Marcus Friedman

California Regulatory Law Reporter

No abstract provided.

Usa V. William Kaetz

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Timothy Ryan V. Usa

2024 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Usa V. Danny Aument

2024 Decisions

USDC for the District of Delaware

Yoel Gruen V. Ahuva Gruen

2024 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co Llc V. Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Design Of Face-Milled Spiral Bevel Gear Drives With The Desired Conditions Of Meshing And Contact By Application Of The Universal Motion Concept, Akari Tawa

Theses

This thesis aims to improve the computational methodology proposed by Fuentes et al. (2018) for the design of face-milled spiral bevel gear drives in order to get closer to the objective gear tooth surfaces and provide the desired meshing and contact conditions. In the existing computational methodology, all machine-tool settings, excluding velocity ratio, are treated as constants, whereas in this work, the machine-tool settings will be computed by polynomial functions up to the fourth degree of the cradle angle, approach commonly known as Universal Motion Concept (UMC). The proposed approach assumes a predefined geometry for the wheel member of the …

Creditors' Motion For Appointment Of Trustee

Catholic Dioceses in Bankruptcy

No abstract provided.

The “Horizontal Separation Of Powers” After National Pork Producers Council V. Ross, Bradley W. Joondeph

San Diego Law Review

The Supreme Court’s decision in National Pork Producers Council v. Ross (NPPC) held that California’s Proposition 12—which forbids the sale of pork in the state derived from pigs born of sows confined “in a cruel manner”—does not violate the dormant Commerce Clause. Specifically, the Court held that the law neither regulates “extraterritorially” (despite the fact that nearly all the pork sold in California is produced in other states) nor imposes an undue burden on interstate commerce. While the Court’s rationale in NPPC was somewhat fractured, the decision nonetheless established some important points. First, a state law’s out-of-state “practical …

Is There Room In The Classroom For The First Amendment? Defining The Doctrine For Teachers’ Classroom Speech, J.P. Riley

San Diego Law Review

Many public school teachers face a daunting question: What are they allowed to say in the classroom? States are actively passing legislation restricting instruction and discussion regarding Critical Race Theory, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Yet, there is a circuit split in First Amendment jurisprudence regarding the bounds of teachers’ classroom speech. Do these purported curricular restrictions extend to all teachers’ classroom speech? Do these restrictions silence teachers’ lived identities related to race, sexual orientation, and gender identity? The Supreme Court should resolve the circuit split in teachers’ classroom speech analysis to provide teachers the protection to share their lived …

Prosecutors In The Passing Lane: Racial Disparities, Public Safety, And Prosecutorial Declinations Of Pretextual Stops, Donald Braman, Jared Fishman, Lily Grier, Kevin Himberger, Jarvis Idowu, J.J. Naddeo, Rory Pulvino, Jess Sorensen, Joanie Weaver

San Diego Law Review

In response to a growing set of empirical studies demonstrating their widespread discriminatory effects, pretextual stops have been subjected to decades of criticism from scholars, the public, and jurists. However, pretextual stops have been defended by some as a necessary public safety measure, particularly in the fight against violent gun crimes. Following a series of highly publicized police shootings of unarmed Black drivers during pretextual stops, and in the absence of substantial judicial or legislative guidance, a growing number of prosecutors have developed policies deprecating the prosecution of pretextual stops absent a clear public safety benefit. Without empirical evaluations of …

Ripped Apart: The Quandary For Progressive Jews, Ellen Kaplan

Theatre: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Study Protocol: A Mixed-Methods Study Of The Implementation Of Doula Care To Address Racial Health Equity In Six State Medicaid Programs, Marian Jarlenski, Susan Kennedy, Annaliese Johnson, Caroline Hale, Zoe D'Angelo, Aza Nedhari, Gerria Coffee, Molly Chappell-Mcphail, Kiddada Green, Dara D. Méndez, Leigh G. Goetschius, Sarah Gareau, Kristin Ashford, Andrew J. Barnes, Katherine A. Ahrens, Kara Zivin, Elizabeth Mosley, Lu Tang, Writing Committee For Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network

Publications

Background

Racial inequities in severe maternal morbidity (SMM) and mortality constitute a public health crisis in the United States. Doula care, defined as care from birth workers who provide culturally appropriate, non-clinical support during pregnancy and postpartum, has been proposed as an intervention to help disrupt obstetric racism as a driver of adverse pregnancy outcomes in Black and other birthing persons of colour. Many state Medicaid programs are implementing doula programs to address the continued increase in SMM and mortality. Medicaid programs are poised to play a major role in addressing the needs of these populations with the goal of …

Thinking Blue / Writing Red: Marxism And The (Post)Human, Stephen C. Tumino

Publications and Research

Thinking Blue/Writing Red interrogates contemporary culture across a range of texts, from the pandemic (‘Covid’ and ‘Trump Speak’) to high theory (Melville's narratives) and popular culture (Beyoncé's ‘Formation’ and Super Bowl performance, Twin Peaks , metamodern ‘cli-fi’ films). Inspired by Derrida’s idea of the secret, Tumino examines the significance of social movements (Black Lives Matter, Occupy, alter-globalization) and naïve art (Darger, Ryden) to argue that these texts speak of the secrets that capitalism cannot speak. Contending that the cultural surfaces narrate only the ‘nonsecret,’ that to see the social logic of the culture one must dig into what Bruno Latour …

Impact Of Land Use Dynamics On The Water Yields In The Gorgan River Basin, Masoomeh Yaghoobi, Aram Fathi, Shahryar Fazli, Wenzhao Li, Elham Haghshenas, Vahid Shokri Kuchak, Hesham El-Askary

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

This research investigates the future dynamics of water yield services in the Gorgan River Basin in the North of Iran by analyzing land cover changes from 1990 to 2020, using Landsat images and predicting up to 2040 with the Land Change Modeler and InVEST model under three scenarios: continuation, conservation, and mitigation. The results indicate significant shifts in agricultural land impacted water yields, which fluctuated from 324.7 million cubic meters (MCM) in 1990 to 279.7 MCM in 2010, before rising to 320.1 MCM by 2020. The study uniquely assesses the effects of land use changes on water yields, projecting a …

A Proposal For A Compassionate Behavior Consultation - A Pilot Study, Danina Lynne Thatcher

Theses and Dissertations

Teachers frequently encounter disruptive or other challenging behavior in their classrooms, which often results in poor outcomes for both teachers and students. Behavior consultation is frequently used to assist teachers in managing challenging behavior. However, it is difficult for teachers to implement behavioral interventions with consistent fidelity, even with consultative support. This pilot study utilized a multiple-baseline design to evaluate the effects of a compassionate behavior consultation on teachers' implementation fidelity of evidence-based classroom management practices in three junior high classrooms. It also assessed the teacher's ratings of the social validity of the consultation process and resulting interventions. A compassionate …

Case Study On Sasha Skochilenko: Anti-War Russian Political Prisoner, Sofia Semenova

GHEA21 Open Educational Resources

Sasha Skochilenko was incarcerated in a Russian prison for more than two years for the act of placing anti-war leaflets, disguised as price tags, on goods in a grocery store in St. Petersburg, Russia. This case study, prepared by Sofia Semenova, documents the harsh conditions of Skochilenko’s imprisonment and its effects on her physical and mental health. It also examines the questionable evidence and processes used to prosecute her case, arguing that during Skochilenko’s trial, the principles of adversarial process and equality between the prosecution and the defense were constantly violated.

The Effects Of The Interstellar Medium In Superbubble Breakout, Javier Ignacio Saavedra

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Outflows driven by cascading supernovae (SNe), which originate from star clusters in the disks of spiral galaxies have been proposed as one of many explanations for lower than expected star formation rates. These outflows send gas out where is unable to form stars as part of a larger process called stellar feedback. The gas is sent trough thin over-dense shells called superbubbles and several analytical models exist to predict their growth and larger effects on their host galaxies. We propose a new model inspired by Weaver et al. (1977), Orr et al. (2022) and Ostriker & McKee (1988) which consists …

Using Manipulatives As Learning Interventions To Teach Introductory Chemistry Content In The Secondary Classroom And Beyond, John Kenneth Kennon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Use of manipulatives to explore concepts qualitatively and quantitatively was investigated in this study. Particle diagrams, enthalpy, VSEPR, and stoichiometry; four classes of students were divided into two groups constituting test group and control group. Control groups received traditional pedagogy (Lewis diagrams) while test groups used manipulatives. Shapiro-Wilks, class means, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Mann-Whitney U tests, and item-by-item analyses were employed to quantify performance. Particle diagram results suggested that using modeling improves student learning outcomes based on means and Mann-Whitney U-test p-value. Enthalpy results indicated a larger mean for the test group than the control group, but no statistical difference between score …

The Runaway Train Of Mandated Reporting, Katie Louras

San Diego Law Review

Mandated reporting was broadly enacted in the 1960s with good intentions and in a very different historical context regarding societal knowledge and recognition of child abuse. It has since expanded drastically regarding who must report and what must be reported. In the same sixty years, no research has demonstrated its efficacy. However, research does suggest that mandated reporting creates independent harms concentrated within low-income and minority communities. On top of the potential trauma of an investigation stemming from a report, mandated reporting also serves to isolate families, cutting them off from community support. Mandated reporters are most commonly those in …

Origin, Regulation, And Function Of Bone Marrow Adipose Tissue And Implications For Bone Health, Xiao Zhang

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Bone marrow adipose tissue (BMAT) is a unique fat depot located within the skeletal system that takes up a large portion of the total bone marrow volume and contains tremendous amounts of energy that can be potentially utilized to fuel the body. However, largely attributed to its strong resistance to lipolytic stimuli and its persistent accumulation in various physiological and pathological conditions, the exact function of BMAT within the bone and how it is regulated throughout the body remains largely unclear. This dissertation sought to better understand the unique role of BMAT within the bone marrow niche by first reviewing …

Job Task Analysis: Exploring A Nonprofit Mental Health Administrative Staff’S Perceptions Of Their Job Duties And Priorities, Ella Faye Warren

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Due to a recent expansion, Organization A encountered challenges in aligning its administrative staff duties and responsibilities with the strategic objectives of the organization. This difficulty was driven by the need to accommodate new services and the increasing demand for mental health services within the region. The purpose of this qualitative research study was to explore the job duties the administrative staff at Organization A currently perform, and what were their perceptions concerning the priorities to be fulfilled in the future. The conceptual frameworks of job task analysis and job task inventory guided the data collection process, which involved conducting …