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Usa V. James Cole

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Daniel Salvatierra V. Lake Erie College Of Osteopathic Medicine

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Sec V. Todd Lahr

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Sorry, Not Sorry: Activating Moments Of Slippage Through Transpedagogical Practice, Lynn Sanders-Bustle

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

While innovative approaches to teacher preparation are implemented in teacher preparation curricula, most curricula and practicums continue to be built around expected and normative standards of teacher practice. Intended to prepare future teachers to be successful in K-12 settings burdened by the impact of a stifling audit culture, policy overreach, continued efforts are needed to prepare preservice teachers for contemporary unknowns of pedagogy through contemporary art practices.

In this article, the author/inquirer examines preservice teachers’participation in transpedagogical practice (social practice) aimed at guiding high schoolers in a 2019 social practice project designed to make change in their schools. In this …

Evaluating Mountain Lion Diet Before And After A Removal Of Feral Horses In A Semiarid Environment, Peter C. Iacono, Kathryn A. Schoenecker, Kezia R. Manlove, Pat J. Jackson, David C. Stoner

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Non-native species can affect ecosystems by influencing native predator-prey dynamics. Therefore, management interventions designed to remove non-natives may inadvertently lead to increased predation on native species. Feral horses are widely distributed throughout the arid parts of western North America. A growing body of research indicates that horses can be an important prey species to mountain lions in ecosystems where they overlap. In December 2020, the Bureau of Land Management removed 455 horses from the Delamar Mountains, Nevada, USA. We leveraged this management intervention to implement a before–after–control–impact study to test hypotheses about predation on horses and native ungulates. We predicted …

Rahman V. Lewis

All Decisions

The case involved a landlord seeking to evict a tenant receiving a Section 8 housing subsidy. The landlord's failure to serve a required Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) notice and certification form with the termination notice was deemed a fatal procedural defect. The court also found that the tenant did not waive this defense by failing to raise it in their answer. The court dismissed the case without prejudice, as the landlord did not meet statutory requirements, leading to a substantial win for the tenant.

Nocturnal Paroxysmal Dystonia To Sleep-Related Hypermotor Epilepsy: A Critical Review, Neel Fotedar, Hans O. Lüders

Faculty Scholarship

Sleep-related paroxysmal motor episodes (SPMEs) have been described by various names, including nocturnal paroxysmal dystonia, nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE), and sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy. The underlying pathophysiology has been debated over the years, with these episodes assumed to be a form of paroxysmal dystonia or parasomnia versus a form of epilepsy. In most studies published on SPMEs and their variants (paroxysmal arousals, nocturnal paroxysmal dystonia, and episodic nocturnal wanderings) in the early 1990s, the authors speculated on the pathophysiology but did not commit to one idea. It was not until the mid-1990s that epilepsy became the leading prospect. We performed …

Nutrien Ag Solutions, Inc. V. Agreeta Solutions Usa, Llc Order On Discovery And Evidentiary Disputes, John J. Goger

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

No abstract provided.

Ay 2024/2025 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2024-07-24, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Archives

No abstract provided.

Impacts Of Climatic Fluctuations And Vegetation Greening On Regional Hydrological Processes: A Case Study In The Xiaoxinganling Mountains–Sanjiang Plain Region, Northeastern China, Chi Xu, Zhijie Zhang, Zhenghui Fu, Shenqing Xiong, Hao Chen, Wanchang Zhang, Shuhang Wang, Donghui Zhang, Heng Lu, Xia Jiang

Environment and Society Faculty Publications

The Xiaoxinganling Mountains–Sanjiang Plain region represents a crucial ecological security barrier for the Northeast China Plain and serves as a vital region for national grain production. Over the past two decades, the region has undergone numerous ecological restoration projects. Nevertheless, the combined impact of enhanced vegetation greening and global climate change on the regional hydrological cycle remains inadequately understood. This study employed the distributed hydrological model ESSI-3, reanalysis datasets, and multi-source satellite remote sensing data to quantitatively evaluate the influences of climate change and vegetation dynamics on regional hydrological processes. The study period spans from 2000 to 2020, during which …

Employing Reflexivity In Sexuality Socialisation Research: A Methodological Contribution From Psychosocial Studies, Lisa Saville Young Dr, Yanela Ndabula Ms, Catriona Ida Macleod Prof

The Qualitative Report

In this paper, we describe and demonstrate the value of adopting a psychosocial methodology to explore unique sexual socialisation experiences emphasising the role of reflexivity. Psychosocial methodology emerges from Psychosocial Studies, a “transdisciplinary” area interested in phenomena from “both” a social and personal perspective and in this paper is employed to investigate how sexual socialisation is shaped by psychological processes “and” social relations, and how these can be “thought together” (Frosh & Vyrgioti, 2022). Psychosocial data analytic strategies involve applying narrative and discursive psychology alongside psychoanalytic concepts to understand the possible reasons for a participant’s investment in particular discourses, understanding …

The Experiences Of Jamaican Secondary School Counselors Who Provide Psychological Support To Adolescents, Onnica Morris

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

School counselors play an integral role in helping adolescents navigate and overcome the psychological distress that they experience. This study aimed to better understand the experiences of Jamaican school counselors who provide psychological support to adolescents in high school. Urie Bronfenbrenner’s (2006) bioecological model of human development and Hans-Georg Gadamer's (1981) hermeneutic theory formed the conceptual framework for this study. Seven Jamaican secondary school counselors who provide psychological support to adolescents in high school participated in semistructured interviews via the Zoom online platform. Narrative analysis was used to code and analyze the data from the interviews. Seven themes emerged from …

Differential Lipid Binding Specificities Of Rap1a And Rap1b Are Encoded By The Amino Acid Sequence Of The Membrane Anchors, Mussie K Araya, Wei Chen, Yuepeng Ke, Yubin Zhou, Alemayehu A Gorfe, Junchen Liu

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

RAP1 proteins belong to the RAS family of small GTPases that operate as molecular switches by cycling between GDP-bound inactive and GTP-bound active states. The C-terminal anchors of RAP1 proteins are known to direct membrane localization, but how these anchors organize RAP1 on the plasma membrane (PM) has not been investigated. Using high-resolution imaging, we show that RAP1A and RAP1B form spatially segregated nanoclusters on the inner leaflet of the PM, with further lateral segregation between GDP-bound and GTP-bound proteins. The C-terminal polybasic anchors of RAP1A and RAP1B differ in their amino acid sequences and exhibit different lipid binding specificities, …

Criminality & Imprisonment Policy Lessons From Across The Pond: Comparing Europe And The United States, Jonathan Link

Florida Journal of International Law

In the wake of the death of George Floyd and the national and international outcry for racial justice that followed, it seems inevitable that criminal justice reform in America is on the horizon. U.S. President Joe Biden has recognized that there “absolutely” is systemic racism in law enforcement.1 He went on to argue that the U.S. prison system should “turn into a rehabilitation system, not . . . just punishment.” In these interview statements and various other campaign speeches, Presidential debates, and Presidential press conferences since, the President has made clear that the way that the U.S. punishes crime needs …

The United States As An Essential Forum For Litigating And Chronicling The Genocide In Rwanda, Matthew C. Kane

Florida Journal of International Law

Over several months in 1994, hell descended on Rwanda. The country and its people experienced unfathomable tragedy, the likes of which the rest of the world simply cannot comprehend. Since the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF) seized power from the architects of the genocide, the country has made significant steps in terms of nation building. Rwanda has experienced tremendous economic growth and is widely considered to have one of the lowest levels of official corruption on the continent. The people themselves are different—perhaps most fundamentally, the majority of the current population had not yet been born when death became routine. Yet …

Influence Of Different Breeds Of Pigs To The Natural Succession, H D. Matthes, A.C D. Micklich, G Dietl, H Mohring, W Jentsch

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

The aim of this study was to find out the effect of pigs on the natural succession. We used 4 different breeds of pigs for our investigations. Because of the grazing behaviour and their rooting activity the total number of plants increased up to 30%. But the vegetation quickly returned to conditions prior to rooting, if the rooting activity fails to happen. Rooting activity of pigs on floodplain soil and following grazing in the next spring after rooting permits seeds of different species of plants to germinate and develop in the plant free areas. These plants often have little chance …

Revitalizing America's Low-Yield Deterrent, Alex Kleitz

Space and Defense

An array of low-yield weapons will play a vital role in integrated deterrence. *The following essay, submitted in June 2022, earned the Junior Division USSTRATCOM General Larry D. Welch Deterrence Writing Award.

Consulting To Avoid Kessler, Madison Walker

Space and Defense

The consultation obligation of Article IX from the Outer Space Treaty may be used to create a framework for sharing space situational awareness data, globally, with the intention of facilitating enduring coordination agreements for collision avoidance.

Finding A North Star: Lessons In Space Law For The Nuclear Regime, Elsbeth J. Magilton

Space and Defense

This paper applies lessons from the Artemis Accords to the nuclear arms regime—specifically asking whether strategic soft law agreements could create a stop gap for the shortcomings of nuclear arms control. Soft law can lead to more consistent communications, helping build predictability and trust, which is a recipe for a more secure world. *This essay is updated from a previously published version and appears here by permission of the Minnesota Journal of International Law.

Protecting The Cosmos: Defining Celestial Bodies In The Outer Space Treaty, David Epstein

Space and Defense

Lack of a clear definition of the term “celestial bodies” as used in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty risks exporting legal and political conflict into the cosmos. *This essay is updated from a previously published version and appears here by permission of the Journal of Space Law at Ole Miss.

Pushing Boundaries: Feminism, Female Leaders, And The Fate Of Feminist Foreign Policy, Sannia Abdullah

Space and Defense

The study challenges the clearest, unqualified liberal claim on feminist foreign policy: namely, women equal peace and security while men equal war. In fact, women approach foreign policy challenges as judiciously as men and have proven their statesmanship. Feminist foreign policy promotes gender equality, women empowerment, and socio-economic parity based on a non-hierarchal system, but it fails to offer a resilient, conflict preventing, and environmentally friendly alternative framework capable of reducing contemporary foreign policy challenges.

Space And Defense Volume 15 No. 1 Spring 2024 (Whole Issue), Space And Defense

Space and Defense

No abstract provided.

Electric Vehicle Charging Testing Method And System, Christian Aabye, Alexandre Pierre

Defensive Publications Series

An embodiment includes a method comprising: coupling a test simulation device comprising a plurality of testing protocols for a plurality of testing operational scenarios to test either an electric vehicle or a charging station; performing, by the test simulation device, the testing protocols; and outputting, by the test simulation device, test results in response to performing the testing protocols.

Method And System For Providing Actionable Suggestions Using Generative Artificial Intelligence (Genai), Sonny T. Truong, Abhinav Sharma, Oleg Umarov, Brandon Myers

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a method and system for providing actionable suggestions using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). The method comprises receiving an input from a database. The input indicates usage data associated with a web application on a user device. Thereafter, the method comprises analyzing the usage data based on context variables using a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) model. Finally, the method comprises generating one or more actionable suggestions for user of the user device based on the analysis.

Dynamic Availability Of A Payment Limit Of A Payment Card For Enhanced Security, Alok Roy

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides a dynamic payment limit platform 104. The disclosure proposes the platform 104 to collect transactional data, such as amount of transaction and time of the transaction associated with the payment cards. The platform 104 may further calculate card holder’s average transaction amount per day. The platform 104 may further generate a trend based on the average transactional data. The platform 104 may dynamically assign a fixed available limit for each day based on the trend and send an associated notification to the user.

Prevent Distributed Denial Of Service (Ddos) Attack And Prioritize Valid Users Using Multi Signature Security Reference (Mssr) Header, Gokul Anand Manimaran

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for preventing distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack using multi signature security reference (MSSR) header. The system of the present disclosure may comprise determining, by the service providing system 102, that a site-specific Signed Security Reference (SSR) header may be issued to end user 210. Further, the system may comprise storing the SSR header in a file that corresponds to the MSSR header file. Furthermore, the system may comprise sending the MSSR header to web service 104 in subsequent calls. Thus, sending the MSSR header to the web service 104, may identify …

India: Yes Bank Restructuring, 2020, Salil Gupta

Journal of Financial Crises

Yes Bank was suffering from liquidity outflows in the second half of 2019 owing to a combination of deposit withdrawals, invocation of pledged shares, losses from extraordinary credit provisions, and overexposure to stressed sectors like power and infrastructure. In December 2019, Yes Bank reported a Common Equity Tier 1 capital ratio at 0.6%, far below the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) mandated levels, and a quarterly loss of 185 billion Indian rupees (INR; USD 2.5 billion). In early March 2020, the RBI and the Ministry of Finance announced a restructuring plan for India’s fourth-largest private bank, Yes Bank, to prevent …

Federal Reserve: Conflicts Between Monetary Policy And Bank Regulation In Tackling Inflation, Aaron Klein

Journal of Financial Crises

COVID-19 was a worldwide economic shock, creating a global recession later followed by widespread inflation. The United States’s response to COVID was particularly aggressive across three dimensions: monetary, fiscal, and markets. The US economy generally outperformed other nations similarly impacted by COVID. However, the US experienced substantial instability in its banking sector in the spring of 2023. Multiple banks failed, resulting in the Federal Reserve and other government agencies invoking emergency authority designed to protect financial stability.

This paper argues that the Federal Reserve has unique responsibility for this banking crisis from its multiple roles as (1) conductor of monetary …

Student Entrepreneurship – The Impact Of University Environment On Students’ Starting Conditions, Quynh Duong Phuong, Jörg Freiling

European Management Studies

Purpose: The research aim is to identify how the university campus influences students’ entrepreneurial starting conditions. Approach: The underlying paper is conceptual. The focus is to propose new relationships among constructs and bridge existing theories. In this paper, the entrepreneurial constructs regarding the venture foundation process are linked to extant literature on Higher Educational Institutions and bordering topics. We develop research propositions by connecting these two topic streams through causalities. Findings: We developed eight research propositions, arranged into two categories: university setting and student setting encompasses. The university setting comprises factors accentuating the specific, fertile university environment, whereas the student …

Motivation To Work In The Context Of Covid-19 Impact On Tourism Industry Enterprises, Katarzyna Czernek-Marszałek

European Management Studies

Purpose: To explore the work motivation of managers of tourism enterprises during the COVID-19 period. Design/methodology: Qualitative research conducted from April to May 2021 in a form of semi-structured interviews with twelve tourist entrepreneurs from the Silesian region. Findings: The COVID-19 caused changes in work performance, including a decrease of work motivation, in the tourism industry. However, at the same time, it stimulated the appearance of new sources of work motivation like, e.g., a desire to overcome the crisis, survival on the market, caring for the staff, a sense of professional passion or concern for the development of the branch …