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Michigan Academician Volume 50, Issue 2

Michigan Academician

2026 Abstract Issue

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 …

Urban Forestry Planning And Coalition Building To Support Natural Areas In Cleveland, Sara G. Tillie, Constance E. Hausman, Sarah E. O'Keeffe

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Greater Cleveland is focusing on urban reforestation and revitalizing natural areas through multiple planning efforts and partnerships. In a legacy city with multiple challenges but also strong non-profit, research, and philanthropic sectors, the need to coordinate planning, implementation, and evaluation is vital to future success. Cleveland has spent the past decade implementing The Cleveland Tree Plan (2015), its first long-range urban forestry plan, and utilizing the collective impact model to build a strong coalition and leverage cross-sector partnerships. Through this approach, Cleveland is driving large-scale social change. Collaboration is more than just working together; it is maintaining systems that guide …

Innovative Development Of Synthetic Biology Industry From Perspective Of Deep Integration Of Four Chains, Qin Guo, Chao Zhang

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Future industries represent the development direction of technological innovation and emerging industries, and are the main path to accelerate the formation of new quality productivity. As an important subsector of the future industry, synthetic biology industry is becoming a new track and new format for new quality productivity, and various regions are making cutting-edge directions such as synthetic biology industry a hot topic for future industrial layout. Based on the analysis of typical cities such as Shenzhen, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Changzhou, the current integration of the Four Chains in the synthetic biology industry is facing a four-dimensional dilemma …

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Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

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Investigating Pathway Of China’S Rapid Rise In Science, Technology And Industry, Yongxiang Lu

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

As a globally recognized manufacturing powerhouse and the world’s second-largest economy, China has achieved historic leaps in scientific, technological, and industrial innovation capacity. This study analyzes the drivers of China’s rapid rise in science, technology and industry from there dimensions: education, infrastructure, and manufacturing. In terms of education, China has built the world’s largest science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) talent training system. The number of graduates with Ph.D. degree in STEM is twice that of the United States, and the quality of higher education has been steadily improved. On infrastructure, China ranks first globally in power generation and has …

Forging “The Backbone Of The Blue Sky”: Pathways For Enhancing Independent Innovation Capability Of China’S Commercial Aircraft Industry, Qianshu Shi, Chao Zhang, Quan Cheng

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Advancing indigenous innovation in China’s commercial aircraft industry is essential for strengthening the country’s high-end equipment manufacturing capabilities and enhancing the technological self-reliance of its aviation sector. China has achieved notable progress in key technological breakthroughs, industrial system development, and commercial operational validation. Nevertheless, gaps remain between China and the world’s leading aviation powers, owing primarily to an insufficient supply of original advances from fundamental research, underdeveloped mechanisms linking collaborative innovation activities, limited capacity for the independent iteration of core systems, and inadequate accumulation of lifecycle data. Strengthening fundamental aeronautical research is therefore critical to overcoming these constraints. Drawing on …

Breaking Through Bottleneck In Overseas Expansion Of China’S Commercial Aircraft: Pathways For Business Model Innovation, Mengru Dong, Chaofeng Huang, Chao Zhang

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The overseas expansion of China’s commercial aircraft is a strategic choice for building manufacturing power, transportation power, and aviation powerhouse. Business model innovation serves as a crucial means to enable these aircraft to overcome international competition barriers and accelerate their overseas expansion. Based on the analysis of the urgency of the overseas expansion of China’s commercial aircraft and the necessity of business model innovation, this study systematically reviews the main business models for the overseas expansion of global commercial aircraft, including the complete aircraft sales model, the collaborative operation model, and the full life cycle service model. Furthermore, based on …

Current Status, Challenges, And Countermeasures For Airworthiness Certification Of China’S Large Homegrown Aircraft, Liming Ge, Mingda Yang, Zixuan Liu, Yichen Wang, Jing Deng

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The airworthiness certification of domestically produced large aircraft serves as both a crucial foundation for achieving self-reliance and independent control over China’s aviation industry chain and a key support for deep participation in the governance of global civil aviation rules. Currently, the airworthiness certification system has taken initial shape, localized infrastructure networks are gradually improving, and the benefits of a super-large market are continuously being realized, effectively facilitating the successful large-scale commercial operation of the C919 airplane. The development of domestic large aircraft families places greater demands on certification resource coordination and airworthiness management throughout the aircraft life cycle. However, …

International Experiences, Lessons, And Implications For Development Of Commercial Aircraft Industry, Chaofeng Huang, Cuilin Wu

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The commercial aircraft industry serves as a cornerstone for building a strong aviation country, a new engine driving economic growth, and a core carrier for upgrading the aviation industrial structure. Over more than 70 years of global industrial evolution, commercial aircraft development programs in most countries have encountered bottlenecks and withdrawn from the market, resulting in a duopoly dominated by the United States and Europe, which has accumulated abundant practical experience and historical lessons. At present, China’s commercial aircraft industry has entered a new phase of large‑scale production and international expansion. Nevertheless, it still faces challenges including bottlenecks in key …

Dual Helix Drive For High-Level Technological Self-Reliance And Self-Improvement: Systematic Interaction Between Strategic Scientists And The Chinese Spirit Of Scientists, Jianqiang Li, Side Hu

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Achieving high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement necessitates the cultivation of commensurate strategic soft power. This study aims to elucidate how strategic scientists and the Chinese spirit of scientists, through deep-seated “systematic interaction”, form a “dual helix engine” that propels the national innovation system toward an advanced stage. Drawing on complex adaptive systems theory, a three-layer dynamic interaction model is constructed comprising “value internalization–organizational empowerment – ecological co-evolution”. The findings indicate that strategic scientists serve as the personified carriers and strategic executors of the Chinese spirit of scientists. Through paradigm guidance, institutional creation, and cross-boundary catalysis, they translate spiritual values into …

Resource Security Research In China In The New Era: Evolving Concepts, Paradigm Shifts, And Strategic Pathways, Dong Jiang, Jinwei Dong, Yanzhao Yang, Jingying Fu

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Resource security serves as a critical foundation for safeguarding national security and underpinning high-quality socioeconomic development. Major geopolitical conflicts, such as the Russia–Ukraine conflict and the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, have intensified turbulence across global resource supply chains, positioning resource security as a central arena of strategic competition among nations. As a major consumer and trading power in global resource markets, China faces persistently high import dependence for critical mineral resources, and the pressure to ensure resource security amid the pursuit of high-quality development continues to mount. Against this backdrop, resource security is evolving from a narrow focus on supply …

China’S Semiconductor Supply Chain Landscape And Strategies For Enhancing Global Competitiveness, Su Zhang, Ziyan Yang, Yifan Sun, Yan Xia, Huijuan Wang

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Against the backdrop of accelerating global digital transformation, intelligent upgrades, and intensifying geopolitical competition, the semiconductor supply chain has become the focal point of global technological, economic, and security dynamics. This study systematically examines the evolution of the global semiconductor supply chain, assesses security risks in China’s semiconductor industry, and analyzes the impact of China-US semiconductor decoupling using a hypothesis extraction approach. Based on these findings, it proposes strategic pathways to enhance China’s semiconductor competitiveness. Key findings include the following: (1) The global semiconductor supply chain exhibits both “regional concentration” and “industry fragmentation”. The US and Europe dominate upstream segments, …

Integrating Tacit And Explicit Knowledge Across Construction Projects: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis Of Knowledge Transfer, Lessons Learned, And Organizational Learning, Felix M. Delmonte

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

Abstract

Construction projects rely on knowledge distributed among temporary, multidisciplinary teams, firms, and lifecycle stages. Practical judgment often remains with experienced participants, while written accounts may omit the conditions and reasoning needed for later use. This research examines how construction scholarship explains the movement of project knowledge from capture through sharing and retrieval to reuse on another project. It treats these activities as distinct, and considers tacit expertise alongside explicit records, with attention to who contributes knowledge, who needs it, and where it must travel. The planned approach is a qualitative synthesis of published, peer-reviewed research from 2022–2026. The available …

Source Page Evaluation Of Local Rag Retrieval For Engineering Safety: Implications For Mechanical And Civil Engineering, Sherif Sorour, Areej El Mufti, Mohamed Nabawy, Anwar Sahbel

Civil Engineering

Industrial safety question answering requires access to the exact source material that supports an answer, not merely a related document. This study evaluates the retrieval stage of a local retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system at the source page level. Eighteen documents on lockout/tagout, machine guarding, and personal protective equipment were prepared in raw, cleaned, and metadata-enriched forms. Best Matching 25 (BM25), latent semantic analysis (LSA), and reciprocal rank fusion (RRF) hybrid retrieval were tested on 54 questions: 36 answerable, 12 safety-related but unsupported, and 6 outside the covered topics. Raw BM25 achieved the highest mean reciprocal rank (0.492) and Hit@5 (0.722), …

Mitigating Nursing Student Stress Through Mindfulness Techniques, Mandy Mcguire

Group: Northern Arizona University School of Nursing, DNP Doctoral Papers

Undergraduate nursing students experience high levels of academic and psychosocial stress, which can negatively impact learning and well-being. National and international evidence indicate that a large proportion of nursing students report elevated stres throughout their education. The purpose of this Doctor of Nursing Practice project was to evaluate the effect of faculty-facilitated mindfulness techniques on undergraduate nursing students’ perceived stress over one academic semester. A repeated-measures approach was used, with students completing the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) at baseline (week 1), mid-semester (week 7), and post-intervention (week 14). Faculty shared brief mindfulness techniques, including guided breathing, guided imagery, and reflective …

Digital Inclusion And Psychiatric Care For Adults Experiencing Homelessness: Barriers, Innovations, And Ethical Implications, Ramon A. Gambino Castanos

DNP and Student Works

Populations experiencing homelessness face disproportionately high rates of mental health illness, yet they remain among the most digitally excluded populations in current healthcare systems. As new digital health interventions like telehealth, mobile apps, and eHealth platforms become increasingly important to mental health care delivery, questions arise about their accessibility, feasibility, and ethical implications for unhoused individuals. This paper explores the intersection of digital inclusion and mental health care for adults experiencing homelessness, drawing on eight systematic reviews published between 2020 and 2025. The literature reveals significant barriers to digital access, including lack of devices, internet connectivity, digital literacy, and trust …

October 2026, Office Of Research

Research Update

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Cmsi Translations #37: The Technical Evolution And Future Development Of Chinese Navy’S Third Generation Conventional Submarine, Yin He

CMSI Translations

While construction of the Type 039A submarine was underway, the Chinese Navy, guided by anticipated technological developments in future conventional submarines, its own operational requirements, and the potential threats it faced, initiated research/development and improvement efforts for a new generation of submarine technologies. By around 2010, several key technologies and systems required for these new submarines had achieved breakthroughs or completed development, clearing the obstacles for commencing construction of the new Type 039B. At the same time, this marked the beginning of the large‑scale production of the Chinese Navy’s core conventional submarine force for the 2020s.

Toward 2035: 20 Fundamental Scientific Problems In Artificial Intelligence, Working Group For Artificial Intelligence Advancement Chinese Academy Of Sciences

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The development of the artificial intelligence （AI） discipline is effectively expanding the capability boundaries of AI. To explore the foundational theories and underlying core technologies for next-generation of general AI, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has formulated 20 fundamental scientific problems in AI. Centered on “disciplinary reconstruction of AI foundational theories (Y+AI)” and “AI-enabled applications of complex systems across multiple domains (AI+X)”, these problems are characterized by multiple complexities including openness, high dimensionality, high dynamism, large scale, and cross-scale properties.

Book Review: Vigil: A Novel, Stephen Woodgeard

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

George Saunders’s Vigil is presented as a sharp, unsettling novel about climate ethics, corporate power, and the stories people use to excuse harm. The review argues that the book’s magical-real realist structure turns a dying oil executive’s final night into a moral reckoning, while also showing how family myth, corporate language, and public discourse shape denial. It also notes that the novel’s allegorical design can feel heavy-handed at times, but its central strength is its forceful critique of complicity and the difficulty of moral awakening.

Constructing The Cyber Workforce Gap: Measurement And Its Consequences, Ryan Straight

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

Cyber workforce-gap figures steer federal strategy, industry advocacy, and the growth of educational programs. Rather than estimating the U.S. gap, this review examines how the estimates are made: through job-posting analytics, survey-based estimation, and federal accounting, each of which must assume its way from instrument to labor market. A census of this journal's complete run illustrates what those figures underwrite in one venue: of 176 items published across eleven years, 51 invoke a labor-market workforce claim, 46 treat it as settled fact, and only one, an editorial, interrogates it. Meanwhile, the producers and auditors of those figures have diverged. Between …

Lost On The Moon: A Classroom Activity For Bringing Group Processes To Life, Christin L. Munsch, Allison Lena, Kay Sassan

Feminist Pedagogy

This teaching activity reviews key concepts in group processes and introduces students to Expectation States Theory (EST) and Status Characteristics Theory (SCT), two micro-sociological frameworks that explain how inequality of opportunity emerges in task-oriented small groups with consequences for unequal outcomes. The activity is built around a team-building exercise “Lost on the Moon” in which participants rank 15 survival items individually and then in small groups. We adapt this exercise by taking field notes on group interactions and drawing on these notes to facilitate a discussion in which students critically reflect on their interactions with one another. We close the …

"Two Different Histories": Lgbtq Educator Identity In An Era Of Policy Precarity In Further Education, Liberty Heath-Tavener

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

In Zadie Smith’s debut novel White Teeth (2000) she writes: ‘every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.’ (p. 532) Although this notion related to the struggles of global majority people in Britain after decolonisation, I liken it to the concept of identity for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer (LGBTQ) educators within further education, where their internal thoughts, feelings and reality are often in conflict with external norms, ideals and policies, all of which are geared towards heteronormativity and cisnormativity. Lakoff and Johnson (1980) argue that metaphors transcend rhetorical devices and are an essential …

The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, And The Futures Of The West, Greg Arburn

The Journal of Economics and Politics

No abstract provided.

Social Justice Fallacies, David Mcclough

The Journal of Economics and Politics

No abstract provided.

Extending Research Of Neighborhood Governance Systems: An Empirical Study Of Community Councils In Cincinnati, Ohio, Julie Cencula Olberding, Darrin Wilson, Stefanie Swiger

The Journal of Economics and Politics

Neighborhood governance systems have been developed as a way to enhance citizen engagement in local government, particularly in major cities. Scholarly research on these systems is quite limited, and most articles focus on neighborhood councils in Los Angeles, California. Our study extends this research to another system in a different city – specifically, community councils in Cincinnati, Ohio. Based on Li, Wen, and Cooper (2019), we surveyed their governing board members and analyzed relationships between three aspects of board performance (internal capacity, attention-action congruence, external networking) and three dimensions of community council effectiveness (promoting civic engagement, resolving neighborhood issues, advising …

The Quest For An Independent Scotland: The Impact Of Culture, Economics, And International Relations Theory On Votes Of Self-Determination, Sam Rohrer, James Gilley, Nathan Price

The Journal of Economics and Politics

In the contemporary world, the true locus of sovereignty is up for debate. The drive for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom, within the larger context of the European Union illustrates trends within this relocation of sovereignty. Traditional research focused primarily on the cultural and identity issues at play, as well as economic issues. This work broadens the scope by placing the independence struggle within a complex international context. The shift from a purely realist state system interpretation to that of a refereed Pacific Union illustrates when nationalist and separatist movements can find conditions that allow for a viable secessionist …

Firm Behavior In The Mid-Twentieth Century American Steel Industry, Robert Rogers

The Journal of Economics and Politics

In the period from 1920 to 1972, the American steel industry consisted of eight large companies and a fringe composed of small domestic producers and foreign firms exporting to the United States. The market structure made it unlikely that the industry behaved in a perfectly competitive fashion. Thus, oligopoly hypotheses on firm behavior such as Nash-Bertrand and Stackelberg leadership seem plausible. This paper estimates a BLP demand model for the industry, and it, then, uses the demand parameters to estimate price equations under the different behavioral assumptions. From the information in this model, tests are made to see which hypothesis …

The Evolution Of Distributive Benefits: The Rise Of Letter-Marking In The United States Congress, Russell W. Mills, Nicole Kalaf-Hughes

The Journal of Economics and Politics

The recent moratorium on earmarks has given rise to a new and largely hidden practice for securing distributive benefits: letter-marking. Letter-marking occurs when members of Congress ask (in writing) the head of an agency to retain or allocate distributive benefits in their districts. While letter-marking is common in Washington, the scholarly literature has ignored this practice. We use a unique dataset of 101 congressional letters relating to FAA funding and empirically assess the degree to which the letter-writer’s characteristics and the letter’s content impact the likelihood of achieving the objectives. In doing so, we offer a nuanced understanding of letter-marking.