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Criteria For Determining The Level Of Media Literacy Development Of Students In The Summative Assessment System, Bakhtiyor Kadirov, Dilnoza Kadirova, Rashid Omanov, Anvar Allamurodov, Asqar Kholturayev

Journal of Media Literacy Education Pre-Prints

The integration of digital technologies into education necessitates how students’ media literacy is developed and assessed. High school students require skills in critical thinking, digital content evaluation, and the identification of manipulative information.This study examines the effectiveness of summative assessment in measuring media literacy skills and explores the impact of an artificial intelligence-based digital platform enriched with augmented and virtual reality modules. An empirical design was employed involving 120 students from five schools assigned to control and experimental groups. The experimental group engaged with AI-supported media literacy platform over a ten-week period. Data were collected through pre- , post-tests, summative …

Letting Time Serve You: Boot Camps And Alternative Sentencing For Female Offenders, Wilson Z. Liu

Florida Journal of International Law

Across multiple American presidential administrations, the United States has made its discontent with the dispute resolution bodies of the World Trade Organization known. The actions of the United States initiated a crisis of confidence in the World Trade Organization. This Note examines that crisis and posits what comes next for the World Trade Organization and the resolution of international trade disputes in general.

Look What You Made Me Do: The Impact Of Taylor Swift's Re-Recording Project On The Global Copyright Industry, R. Jacob Gilbert

Florida Journal of International Law

Taylor Swift redefined the relationship between artists and their labels. Although there has been discussion about the impact of these new recordings on Swift’s personal catalog, there has been no analysis of how Swift’s action will impact the global copyright industry. Taylor Swift is viewed as a trailblazer by many in the music industry. This is because many artists have rerecorded or remastered their original works out of spite, but only one other major artist even attempted to complete a rehaul of their entire discography. In the digital age of master recordings, Swift’s impact has far-reaching effects. This Note examines …

A Review Of International Surrogacy Arrangements From A Private International Law Prespective And China's Policy Response, Yingying Wu

Florida Journal of International Law

Surrogacy has risen on a global scale due to the development of medical technology. International surrogacy is intensive as a result of forum shopping out of the variety of national policies on surrogacy and laws on legal parentage, resulting in some private international law issues. For instance, the complexity of parentage in many international surrogacy cases in recent years often leads to parentless surrogate born children. To that end, the Hague Conference on Private International Law has been working on this affair in order to protect children and women in international surrogacy from a private international law perspective.

In light …

The Calculation Debate In A New Century: A Conversation Between An Austrian School Economist And A Socialist Philosopher, Tegan L. Truitt, Larry Alan Busk

Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis

No abstract provided.

Planification Against Extractivism: Towards A Democratic Agroecological Planification Against Agrarian Capitalism In A Estrada (Galicia, Spain), Jacobo Rivas Sanmartín, Rubén Camilo Lois González, Paula Noya Vázquez

Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis

This article analyses the expansion of vineyards in the parish of San Xiao de Vea, in the municipality of A Estrada (Galicia, Spain), as a concrete manifestation of extractive agrarian restructuring under contemporary capitalism. Drawing on land-use data, socio-metabolic indicators, and qualitative testimonies, it shows how financialization, speculative land practices, and state selectivity reorganize rural space, degrade mixed farming systems, and intensify contradictions between capital accumulation and the ecological and social conditions of reproduction. The article argues that existing green planning frameworks, shaped by market logics and technocratic indicators, are structurally incapable of confronting these dynamics. As an alternative, it …

Class Struggle And The Socialist Economic Calculation Debate, Tiago Camarinha Lopes

Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis

The socialist economic calculation debate is often portrayed as a sharp and straightforward conflict between two opposing sides. While this characterization is valid given the ideological clash between defenders of capitalism and proponents of socialism, this paper offers a more nuanced perspective on the interaction between the main schools of economic thought involved in the debate, the Marxist and the Austrian. Drawing on the humanist approach of critical pedagogy developed by Brazilian philosopher Paulo Freire (1921–1997), the paper argues that the debate over socialist economic calculation is not only a clear expression of class struggle within economics. It also involves …

Democratic Economic Planning From And For Social Reproduction: Foundations For A Postcapitalist Research Agenda, Sophie Elias-Pinsonnault, Bengi Akbulut, Audrey Laurin-Lamothe

Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis

As ecological and social crises render the transformation of capitalist economic organization increasingly urgent, the resurgence of interest in democratic economic planning confronts a foundational blind spot: the systematic neglect of social reproduction. This paper argues that any genuinely needs-based planned economy must extend its scope beyond formally recognized productive activities to encompass the full spectrum of reproductive labor through which human and non-human life is sustained and regenerated. Drawing on feminist political economy and the Marxist-feminist tradition, the authors argue that meeting needs requires more than reorganizing production: it demands confronting the question of who does reproductive work, at …

The Specter Of Planning: Introduction To The Special Issue, Larry Alan Busk

Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis

No abstract provided.

Career Spotlight: Emily Hays, Esq., Emily Hays

Florida Entertainment and Sports Law Review

An interview with Emily Hays. She is Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property (IP) at The Walt Disney Company, where she advises creative, business, and legal teams on issues related to copyright, trademark, defamation, right of publicity, and more to help bring the magic of Disney to life. In her role, she works at the intersection of law and storytelling: addressing copyright and trademark clearance, acquisition, protection, and management issues, analyzing complex rights matters, and reviewing and drafting IP-related language for agreements throughout development, production, and distribution. Before joining Disney, Hays served as Counsel, Content Legal at Paramount and was a litigation …

Career Spotlight: Nathaniel Otto, Esq., Nathaniel Otto

Florida Entertainment and Sports Law Review

An interview with Nathaniel (Nate) Otto. He is a corporate and sports attorney and player agent at MGC Sports, advising football players and coaches on contractual matters. Before joining MGC Sports, Nate was an associate attorney in the mergers and acquisitions, corporate, and tax group at Burr & Forman. There, his practice included counseling colleges, universities, collectives, and athletes on matters involving name, image, and likeness (NIL), NCAA rules, and player contract negotiation. In his current role, Nate translates his traditional legal knowledge into expert advice for collegiate and professional football players by combining his legal skills with his prior …

The Impact Of Mandatory And Voluntary Corporate Social Responsibility (Csr) On Firm Value (A Study On Lq45 Index Companies During 2021–2024), Carissa Cetta Dravita, Nanny Dewi Tanzil, Runita Arum Kanti

Journal of Accounting Auditing and Business

This study examines whether mandatory and voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure have different associations with firm value among companies included in Indonesia's LQ45 index during 2021–2024. Using a balanced panel of 25 consistently listed and reporting firms (100 firm-year observations), the study constructs two non-overlapping, binary content-analysis indices: a mandatory disclosure index based on POJK 51/POJK.03/2017 and SEOJK 16/SEOJK.04/2021, and a voluntary disclosure index based on additional GRI Standards 2021 items. Firm value is measured using Tobin's Q. The pooled Main Model includes firm size and return on equity as controls and reports firm-clustered robust standard errors, with year-effects, …

Scorpiops Walteri Sp. N. (Scorpiones: Scorpiopidae) From Myanmar, František Kovařík

Euscorpius

A new species Scorpiops walteri sp. n. (Scorpiopidae) is described from Myanmar, fully illustrated with color photos showing its morphology and habitus. Scorpiops walteri sp. n. is the only species of the genus with a combination of the following five characters: chelal trichobothrium Eb₃ located in middle of manus between trichobothria Dt and Est; patella of pedipalp with 11–12 ventral and 19 external trichobothria; fingers of pedipalps strongly undulate in male; pedipalp movable finger with ca. 47 IAD; and chela length to width ratio 2.8 in male.

Application Of Salivary Gland Scintigraphy Under Taiwan’S National Health Insurance System, Chun-Pin Chiang

Articles in Press

No abstract provided.

Petrographic Analysis Of Pottery From A Middle Bronze Age Ii Site West Of Tell Qasille (Pp. 129–131), Anat Cohen-Weinberger

'Atiqot

In this study, 32 vessels were examined from the Middle Bronze Age II settlement, tombs and kilns to determine the nature of the raw materials. Most of the samples were related to the same petrographic group, the nature of which points to a coastal origin. The results of this study suggest a homogenous raw material for the examined assemblage.

Chalcolithic Burial Sites At Ma‘Abarot And Tel Ifshar (Pp. 45–63), Yosef Porath

'Atiqot

The two burial sites are located in the Sharon plain, south and north of Naḥal Alexander. The kidney-shaped cave at Ma‘abarot was hewn in the kurkar sandstone. All the burials in the cave were secondary. Of the 63 burials identified, 42 were placed in three types of ceramic vessels—house-shaped ossuaries, chest-shaped ossuaries and large domestic kraters—and 21, in ‘bone heaps’. The finds consisted of pottery vessels typical of the Chalcolithic period, e.g., V-shaped bowls and fenestrated bowls and bottles, and a flake from a flint digging tool. At Tel Ifshar, two burial places were discovered, both damaged by infrastructure work. …

Le Néo-Classicisme Pénal En France À L’Époque Contemporaine, Antoine A. El Khoury

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

No abstract provided.

Technical Disclosure Specification: Topological Helical Embedding Constraints For Volumetric Space-Time Emergence Across Twisted Manifolds, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes a non-perturbative geometric mechanism governing the topological transformation of a two-dimensional information substrate into three-dimensional volumetric space-time metrics. Standard holographic frameworks recognize that boundary data can mathematically define a bulk volume, yet they fail to establish a dynamic physical mechanism for the emergence of mass-energy tensors and gravitational curvature without introducing free parameters or unverified dimensional compactifications.

This paper demonstrates that three-dimensional physical matter and spatial depth emerge natively when a parameter-agnostic 2D viscoelastic fluid membrane experiences localized spatial overlapping (The Fold) and asymmetric rotational torque (The Twist). By driving boundary wave configurations through an asymmetric rotational …

Technical Commonspec: Multi-Phase Sedimentation And Capillary Infiltration Metrics For Monolithic Material Manufacturing, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes a multi-track engineering framework to validate and optimize two verified, classical physical processes used in advanced material manufacturing: Dual-Phase Centrifugal Sedimentation and Capillary Infiltration. In standard chemical engineering and metallurgical processing, modeling the structural consolidation of dense particulate suspensions and the subsequent penetration of liquid phases into porous matrices presents significant numerical and physical tracking challenges. If fluid-particle interactions are modeled using uncoupled, single-variable frameworks, localized density spikes and pressure friction variations create manufacturing defects and structural voids.

To deliver an absolute, un-biased verification of these manufacturing dynamics, this paper presents three completely air-gapped, isolated methodologies executed …

Le Conflit Entre Deux Acquéreurs Successifs D'Un Même Immeuble, Serge Najjar

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

No abstract provided.

Droit Commercial, Poej

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

No abstract provided.

Droit Civil, Poej

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

No abstract provided.

Le Rôle Émergent De La Justice Dans La Reconstruction De L’État De Droit : Le Cas Du Liban D’Après‑Guerre, Georges Assaf

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

No abstract provided.

Environnement Et Droit Agraire Au Liban, Ibrahim Najjar

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

No abstract provided.

Energy Accounting For Pfas Treatment: Endpoint Definition, Concentration Dependence, And The Service-Equivalence Constraint, Ernest N. Sumrall

Defensive Publications Series

Energy performance in per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) treatment is often reported on a volumetric basis, in kilowatt-hours per cubic metre of water processed. Volumetric energy is necessary for hydraulic design and utility sizing, but it is insufficient by itself for cross-study comparison because it does not reference the quantity of contaminant addressed. This paper develops the mass-normalised complement and, more importantly, establishes the conditions under which either metric may be used comparatively.

Three results are presented. First, a taxonomy separating five distinct endpoints — transfer, removal, degradation, defluorination, and mineralisation — that are not interchangeable, and a corresponding pair …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Subterranean Isolated Piezo-Ferroelectric Cavity Resonator Architecture For Ambient Base-Load Power Transduction (500 Mwe), Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses the structural design, geometric constraints, material science formulations, and multi-stage attenuation mechanics of a 500 Megawatt Electric (MWe) Subterranean Reservoir Resonator (SRR). The system is engineered to directly substitute for conventional nuclear generation at the source without thermal emission, radioactive waste, or fissile supply chains. The architecture utilizes a non-equilibrium, solid-state ferroelectric relaxor core operating within the gigahertz spectrum, nested inside a multi-axis, quad-chassis structural containment envelope. By shifting from mechanical-thermal-electrical conversion paradigms to high-frequency coherent phase-locked transduction, a continuous, baseline grid feed is established within a highly compact physical footprint.

Technical Disclosure Specification:Solid-State Piezo-Ferroelectric Micro-Resonator Appliance For Decentralized Off-Grid Point-Of-Use Generation (15 Kwe), Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses the structural design, geometric constraints, material science formulations, and intrinsic physical safety mechanisms of a 15 Kilowatt Electric (kWe) solid-state Micro-Resonator Appliance (MRA). The system is engineered to provide decentralized, off-grid, point-of-use electrical generation for residential, commercial, and vehicular platforms without emissions, fuel chains, or central utility transmission dependencies. Operating entirely overground as a self-contained consumer appliance, the unit utilizes a hyper-sensitive, domain-engineered polar single-crystal relaxor core housed inside a nested, quad-chassis structural envelope. The core compresses diffuse ambient acoustic and electromagnetic background noise into a phase-locked, non-equilibrium 45.5 Gigahertz (GHz) standing wave loop. Down-conversion is handled …

Analysis Of Communicable Disease Trends In Children: Babylon Governorate, Iraq From 2022 To 2024, Sahar Hassan, Kareem Jebur Dhaidan

Al-Ameed Journal for Medical Research and Health Sciences

Background: Infectious diseases are a great challenge to the health of children globally. This paper provides an epidemiological scenario and patterns of these diseases among children in the Hilla Babylon Governorate, Iraq, and specifically, the re-emergence of meals.

Methods: The retrospective study was carried out on 7851 medical records of children aged below 15 years between the period of January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2024. The registry of Babylon Maternity and Children Hospital was used to extract data. Data were analyzed in terms of trends and distributions by age, sex and time using descriptive statistics and inferential tests.

Results: …

Benefits Of Regional Anesthesia Versus Opioids In The Management Of Postoperative Pain Following Excision Of A Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor., Duveen Nalamothu, Mauricio Arce Villalobos, Joseph D Tobias

Ambulatory and Primary Care Articles

Postoperative opioid exposure in opioid-naive patients may carry a risk of persistent opioid use. We present the case of a 16-year-old female with no significant family history who was recently diagnosed with neurofibromatosis type 1 and found to have a rapidly enlarging mass in her left upper extremity. She was scheduled for excisional biopsy. To minimize the need for postoperative opioids, analgesia via a continuous peripheral nerve catheter was employed following resection of the malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor. This case report reviews the clinical applications of multimodal analgesia via a continuous peripheral nerve catheter in pediatric patients, including placement …

Identifying Daily Oil Market Shocks: Evidence From The Hormuz Crisis, Davide Valenti Dr., Chiara Casoli, Matteo Manera, Luca Pedini

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

This paper develops a daily Bayesian structural VAR model of the global crude oil market that decomposes the real price of oil into three fundamental drivers: shocks to global real economic activity, shocks to oil price expectations and shocks to physical oil supply. We combine a daily sign-restriction identification strategy with a posterior filtering step based on monthly physical oil market data, which sharpens the economic interpretation of the estimated daily shocks. We apply the model to provide a real-time interpretation of the main drivers behind the 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis, one of the largest and most abrupt oil …