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Appeal, Arbitrate, Appraise: A Forthcoming Rallying-Cry For The Victims Of The California Wildfires, Thomas Riley

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution (CJCR) Blog

Seven days into the 2025 new year, the most expensive natural disaster in United States history broke out. 29 people were killed, and at least 16,000 structures were destroyed. Damages estimations have been varied. One analyst firm reasoned the fires could cost as much as $35 billion[3], another thought $45 billion, and the University of Southern California thinks $75 billion. Among the hardest hit neighborhoods was Altadena, California. Northwest Altadena stood as one of the few areas black families could purchase homes in Southern California, as “81% of Black households in Altadena own homes, compared with 32% across Los Angeles …

The Daily Gamecock: February 2025, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

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LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

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Copas Accounting Procedures: From A Litigation Perspective, Austin W. Brister, M. Alejandra Salas

LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

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Climate Change As A National Emergency: Exploring Executive Powers, Greg Giunta

LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

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Reorienting Climate Law And Economics: Carbon Recovery Fees Versus Climate Industrial Policy And The Problem Of Social Cost Of Carbon Pricing, Carter F. Smith

LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

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LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

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LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

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LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

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Is An Exclusive Pipeline Servitude Actually Exclusive? The Louisiana Second Circuit Opines, Ryan M. Seidemann

LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

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Should Owners Of American Land Be . . . American? An Examination Of The Global Implications Of U.S. Agricultural Land Ownership And The Need For A Federal Regulation, Mattie Zepernick

LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

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The Texas Two-Step And Rights Of First Refusal: How Courts Should Interpret Preferential Rights Provisions In Stock Transfer Transactions, Isabelle Rowan

LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

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We Know About The Right To Bear Arms, But What About The Rights Of Bears Ears, Brandon Andrews

LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

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The Case Against E-Waste In The Bayou State: Proposing E-Waste Recycling Legislation In Louisiana, Elizabeth Bueche

LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

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America Runs On Biodiesel: Implementation Of A New Federal Mandate For Increased Renewable Energy Fuel, Asia Jackson

LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

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Analysis Of Disparities Within The Ncaa’S Name, Image, And Likeness Rule, Madison Salzenstein

Honors Theses

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This paper analyzes disparities with the NCAA’s Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) Rule. The 2021 introduction of the NIL Rule was a landmark event, allowing college athletes to profit from their personal brand. While NIL has resulted in many positive opportunities for college athletes, it is not without fault. Specifically, this thesis will explain how NIL amounts differ between both male and female athletes and revenue and non-revenue sports, and will explain the key factors contributing to the disparity in each area.

Using data obtained from the NCAA’s NIL Assist Data Dashboard for the period January through December 2024, …

Ndls Communicator: Week Of 02.17.25, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Communicator

The Latest News

• ND Law Global Human Rights Clinic advocates for human rights before United States International Trade Commission
• ND Law's Black Students Association celebrates Black History Month and the pursuit of justice
• Professor Jorge Barrera-Rojas defends dissertation to earn two doctoral degrees
• Notre Dame Law School's Religious Liberty Clinic secures asylum for Iranian Christian convert facing persecution

Faculty News and Briefs

• Paul Miller was cited in an important dissenting opinion by Justices Gordon, Edelman, and Steward of the High Court of Australia for his work on fiduciary obligations.
• This week, A.J. Bellia will speak on the legal implications of …

The Lymph Trial: Comparing Microsurgical With Conservative Treatment For Chronic Breast Cancer-Associated Lymphoedema - Study Protocol Of A Pragmatic Randomised International Multicentre Superiority Trial, Elisabeth A Kappos, Justin M Sacks, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

INTRODUCTION: Up to one-fifth of breast cancer survivors will develop chronic breast cancer-related lymphoedema (BCRL). To date, complex physical decongestion therapy (CDT) is the gold standard of treatment. However, it is mainly symptomatic and often ineffective in preventing BCRL progression. Lymphovenous anastomosis (LVA) and vascularised lymph node transfer (VLNT) are microsurgical techniques that aim to restore lymphatic drainage. This international randomised trial aims to evaluate advantages of microsurgical interventions plus CDT versus CDT alone for BCRL treatment.

METHODS AND ANALYSIS: The effectiveness of LVA and/or VLNT in combination with CDT, which may be combined with liposuction, versus CDT alone will …

Residence, Education, Wealth, And Hiv/Aids Prevention Knowledge Among Nigerian Adults, Chinedu Nwaobia Nwaru

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

HIV has remained the most prevalent and deadliest epidemic affecting humanity. It is pertinent to note that, despite the number of years since the first case was reported in the early 1980s in the United States, and concerted efforts by local, national, and international governmental and nongovernmental agencies at curbing it, the level of knowledge of HIV transmission and the disease prevention, especially among Nigerians, is still not encouraging. Nigeria, the most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa ranks second globally as the country with the highest number of people living with HIV/AIDS, which is currently estimated at 3 million. In …

Strategies For Improving Phlebotomy Training Programs In Midwestern Nonprofit Acute Care Hospitals, Zaid Naima

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Preanalytical errors in laboratory testing represent a significant challenge in healthcare delivery, accounting for most laboratory errors. Inadequate and inconsistent phlebotomy training has been identified as a major contributor to high rates of preanalytical errors and specimen rejection in nonprofit acute care hospitals within multihospital health systems in the U.S. Midwest region. The aim of this integrative review was to identify best practices and strategies for improving on-the-job phlebotomy training programs in Midwestern nonprofit acute care hospitals within multihospital health systems, using the Donabedian model as a framework to enhance specimen quality, reduce rejection rates, and increase patient satisfaction. A …

Medical Laboratory Technologist Labor Market And Industry Initiatives To Address Labor Shortages, Jarvis John Surriga

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The demand for laboratory testing has increased, requiring more medical laboratory technologists/scientists (MLTs/MLSs) in the United States. However, the supply of qualified MLS workers has decreased, which has caused a critical labor shortage. The purpose of this integrative review was to determine the best practices and strategies for improving the staffing and retention of clinical laboratory staff (CLS) given the growing demand for laboratory services. A search of empirical and nonempirical literature published between 2019 and 2024 yielded 1,935 articles, and exclusions resulted in 66 articles that addressed the problem. The additional examination resulted in 26 articles chosen for further …

Modelling The Behavior Of Human Crowds As Coupled Active-Passive Dynamics Of Interacting Particle Systems, Thoa Thieu, Roderick Melnik

School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Faculty Publications

The modelling of human crowd behaviors offers many challenging questions to science in general. Specifically, the social human behavior consists of many physiological and psychological processes which are still largely unknown. To model reliably such human crowd systems with complex social interactions, stochastic tools play an important role for the setting of mathematical formulations of the problems. In this work, using the description based on an exclusion principle, we study a statistical-mechanics-based lattice gas model for active-passive population dynamics with an application to human crowd behaviors. We provide representative numerical examples for the evacuation dynamics of human crowds, where the …

Change Detection Analysis Using Remote Sensing And Gis Approaches For Lake Manzala, Egypt, Mohamed Eraki, Rasha Abd El Ghany, Sameh El Kafrawy, Mostafa Rabah

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Manzala Lake, the largest natural freshwater body in Egypt, is situated in the northeastern part of the Nile Delta. It faces major environmental challenges, largely due to pollution from untreated industrial effluents, sewage, and agricultural runoff. As part of Egypt's national initiative to rehabilitate its lakes, a development project was launched in 2017 and concluded in June 2022. The project aimed to purify the lake by eliminating contaminants, clearing invasive vegetation, deepening the canals, the study focuses on assessing land cover changes using remote sensing and GIS, and offers some recommendations for sustainable lake use following the development efforts. The …

Characteristics And Outcomes Of Patients With Cardiogenic Shock And Clinically Significant Valvular Heart Disease: From The Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network., Anthony P Carnicelli, P Elliott Miller, David D Berg, Nijat Aliyev, Carlos L Alviar, Erin A Bohula, Sunit-Preet Chaudhry, Meshe Chonde, Christine Chow, Howard A Cooper, Lori B Daniels, Christopher B Fordyce, Shahab Ghafghazi, Michael J Goldfarb, Kari L Gorder, Madeleine M Hamilton, Ryan R Keane, Michael C Kontos, Jonathan J Kusner, Evan Leibner, Daniel B Loriaux, Venu Menon, Raunak M Nair, L Kristin Newby, Mary-Tiffany Oduah, Michael G Palazzolo, Harsh Patolia, Jacob B Pierce, Matthew J Pierce, Brian J Potter, Alastair Proudfoot, Robert O Roswel, Gregory Schnell, Jeffrey Shaw, Kiran Sidhu, Shashank S Sinha, Anubodh S Varshney, Jason N Katz, Sean Van Diepen, David A Morrow

Heart and Vascular Articles

BACKGROUND: Cardiogenic shock (CS) can be complicated by severe valvular heart disease (VHD). We analyzed cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) admissions according to VHD status.

METHODS AND RESULTS: The Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network is a multicenter network of tertiary CICUs. Centers contributed data from consecutive admissions during 2-month annual snapshots from 2017-2023. CS admissions were classified as having CS attributed to VHD, CS with noncausative VHD or CS without severe VHD. Demographics and therapies were compared. Unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios for in-hospital mortality were calculated. We analyzed 5242 admissions with CS (4.1% attributed to VHD, 18.8% with noncausative …

The Unfolding Story Of Protein Misfolding Causing Alzheimer Disease In Recipients Of Human Pituitary Growth Hormone, Evan G. Graber, Sayed M. Hadi Hosseini, Darrell M. Wilson, Alan D. Rogol

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Faculty Papers

Human growth hormone (hGH) has been in clinical use for children with GH deficiency (GHD) since the late 1950s. The original formulations were considered very safe with few adverse events reported. That changed remarkably in 1985 when the first patients with GHD, who had been treated with cadaveric hGH, were diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Fortunately, that same year a robust supply of recombinant hGH was released to the market whose adverse event profile did not include CJD. Patients who had received National Hormone and Pituitary Program hGH have been continuously followed since 1985. It is clear that prions are …

The Lived Experiences Of Police Officers’ Responses To Stranger And Familial Child Abductions, Kennedy Pierce

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

When the media covers stories of child abductions, a common misconception is who the abductor is. Despite what the news broadcasts, a child is more likely to be abducted by a family member or acquaintance than a stranger. This qualitative study was conducted to explore the lived experiences of police officers’ responses to stranger and familial abductions using a phenomenological approach to determine how schemas may shape police officers’ perceptions, specifically concerning responding to child abductions. Schema theory suggests schemas are formed based on an occurrence between an individual and their surrounding environment. Nine interviews were conducted of police officers …

Techno-Economic Analysis For Floating Offshore Wind And Offshore Green Hydrogen, David Pegler, Deborah Greaves, Robert Rawlinson-Smith, Simone Michele, Daniel Conley, James Benhin

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

This paper describes a techno-economic model for exploiting the Celtic Sea wind resource through direct productionof hydrogen offshore. The model conceives a modular approach with eight 510 MW floating windfarms,each with an electrolyser system and export compressor mounted on a jacket. The model ensures an uninterruptedhydrogen supply to an industrial cluster (16.4 te.H2/h) by incorporating salt cavern hydrogen storage.During periods of no power generation, baseload power is provided from hydrogen fuel cells. The base-casemodel with a Discount Rate of 6% returned an Levelised Cost of Hydrogen (LCoH) of £7.25 per kg of hydrogen in2023. The LCoH shows strong sensitivity to …

A Roadmap To Precision Medicine Through Post-Genomic Electronic Medical Records, Kevin M. Mendez, Stacey N. Reinke, Rachel S. Kelly, Qingwen Chen, Mark Su, Michael Mcgeachie, Scott Weiss, David I. Broadhurst, Jessica A. Lasky-Su

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

The promise of integrating Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and genetic data for precision medicine has largely fallen short due to its omission of environmental context over time. Post-genomic data can bridge this gap by capturing the real-time dynamic relationship between underlying genetics and the environment. This perspective highlights the pivotal role of integrating EMR and post-genomics for personalized health, reflecting on lessons from past efforts, and outlining a roadmap of challenges and opportunities that must be addressed to realize the potential of precision medicine.

Physiotherapists’ And Occupational Therapists’ Experiences Of Working With People With Atypical Parkinson’S Conditions, Kate Blandford, Tanja Križaj

School of Health Professions

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to gain deeper understanding of the experiences of occupational therapists and physiotherapists, working with those with atypical Parkinson’s conditions, within the UK. A literature review identified that research into these roles is limited and unrepresentative. Materials and methods: A qualitative approach, informed by hermeneutic phenomenology was used to guide the study design. Semi-structured, online interviews, focussed on therapists’ experiences of success and challenge, were completed with six physiotherapists, and three occupational therapists, experienced in working within this area of practice. The interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim and were analysed using Braun and …

Inhale Wp3, A Multicentre, Open-Label, Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trial Assessing The Impact Of Rapid, Icu-Based, Syndromic Pcr, Versus Standard-Of-Care On Antibiotic Stewardship And Clinical Outcomes In Hospital-Acquired And Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia, Inhale Wp3 Study Group And Committees, Virve I Enne, Susan Stirling, Julie A Barber, Juliet High, Charlotte Russell, David Brealey, Zaneeta Dhesi, Antony Colles, Suveer Singh, Robert Parker, Mark Peters, Benny P Cherian, Peter Riley, Matthew Dryden, Ruan Simpson, Nehal Patel, Jane Cassidy, Daniel Martin, Ingeborg D Welters, Valerie Page, Hala Kandil, Eleanor Tudtud, David Turner, Robert Horne, Justin O'Grady, Ann Marie Swart, David M Livermore, Vanya Gant

Peninsula Medical School

PURPOSE: INHALE investigated the impact of seeking pathogens by PCR on antibiotic stewardship and clinical outcomes in hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia (HAP and VAP).

METHODS: This pragmatic multicentre, open-label RCT enrolled adults and children with suspected HAP and VAP at 14 ICUs. Patients were randomly allocated to standard of care, or rapid in-ICU syndromic PCR coupled with optional prescribing guidance. Co-primary outcomes were superiority in antibiotic stewardship at 24 h and non-inferiority in clinical cure of pneumonia 14 days post-randomisation. Secondary outcomes included mortality, ICU length of stay and evolution of clinical scores.

RESULTS: 554 eligible patients were recruited from …