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The Public Speaking Survival Kit: A Personalized And Holistic Approach To Managing Speech Anxiety, Sydney Kamm

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Speech anxiety is a common stressor for students in public speaking classes (McCroskey, 1977) and is a particular worry for Gen Z students (Wahed & Palmer-Wackerly, 2026), yet it is often treated superficially in curricula and textbooks. When instruction centers on generic advice, students are left unequipped to manage anxiety that directly affects performance. Although delivery is graded, many “poor delivery” habits—fidgeting, filler words, lack of eye contact—stem from unmanaged anxiety (Bodie, 2010). This activity addresses that gap through a holistic approach that integrates cognitive, behavioral, and physiological dimensions. Informed by my experience with a neurological condition that causes physical …

"From An Activist Spirit And History": An Examination Of Midwest Professors Who Teach Gender Studies In The Current Political Climate, Mena Faber

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Gender studies is an interdisciplinary field spanning higher education institutions globally. Yet the experiences of scholars within specific regional contexts remain understudied. This study examines the lived personal and pedagogical experiences of gender studies and gender communication scholars in the Midwest. Using a qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore participants’ experiences, perceived pressures, and responses to the current political and academic climate. Interview questions focused on the challenges scholars face as well as the communicative practices they adopt in response to shifting attitudes toward gender studies. This research seeks to contribute to a deeper understanding of how scholars …

Welcoming Generation Alpha Through The Lens Of Connectivism: Featuring Ai's Rhetorical Agency, Lin Allen, Shea-Tinn Yeh

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

As students pack for college do they leave space in their carry on for agency—self-empowerment through the strategic use of artificial intelligence?  And in what ways do educators address the need to define and shape their learning experience?  Preparing to welcome the first wave of Generation Alpha (Gen Alpha) by endowing them with agency, this theoretical framework draws upon the eight principles of connectivism. Gen Alpha, digital natives by necessity, demands a new learning archetype incorporating artificial intelligence (AI). However, the contested capabilities of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) reveal a disparate, disconnected approach to responding to the ubiquity of GenAI …

Debating Without Format: A Portrait, A Proposal, A Possibility, Stephen M. Llano

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

This essay distinguishes "Debate" — competitive, tournament-driven, and governed by fixed procedural rules — from "debate," rhetoric's older practice of persuading an audience. Drawing on the dual etymology of "format" (to shape, and to arrange data for machine processing) and on Goodhart's law, the essay argues that competitive format has displaced audience assent as debate's real aim, training students to satisfy a judge's rules rather than move real listeners. As an alternative, it proposes a co-curricular model rooted in the university rather than the tournament circuit, treating rules as adaptable paradigms rather than algorithms to execute. Drawing on Perelman and …

Standardized Preprocedure Protocolling Of Stereotactic Breast Biopsies Enables Device-Level Supply Chain Forecasting: A Multisite Quality Improvement Analysis, Megan Kalambo, Mike Everding, Maria Montemayor, Falguni Patel, Mohit Nath

Advances in Cancer Education and Quality Improvement

Background: Breast imaging depends on single-use, vendor-proprietary consumables produced by a concentrated set of manufacturers. During supply shortages in 2026, healthcare organizations faced urgent pressure to shift from reactive to proactive inventory management. Stereotactic breast biopsy needle shortages revealed that traditional forecasting based on procedure volume lacks the granularity needed for device-specific demand. We aimed to enable device-level forecasting through standardized preprocedure protocolling.

Methods: In a retrospective analysis of 1,456 stereotactic biopsies across 4 breast imaging sites (June 2025 to June 2026), compliance with a standardized electronic protocolling tool that captured lesion count and needle size (standard vs. petite) was …

Critical Daily Dose Warning Optimization In An Electronic Health Record At A Tertiary Cancer Center, Mckenzie Erwin, Sadika Eslaminejad, David Perez, Jesni Mathew

Advances in Cancer Education and Quality Improvement

Objectives: Clinical decision support is a form of health information technology utilized by electronic health records (EHRs) to reduce prescribing errors. The challenge of incorporating clinical decision support into medication workflows is balancing alert fatigue with clinical appropriateness. At our 777-bed tertiary cancer center, one form of interruptive clinical decision support is critical dose warnings that appear when the ordered dose deviates by a defined threshold from the maximum dose. Our tertiary cancer center relies on a third-party data vendor to provide maximum dose limits that are integrated into the EHR medication ordering process. At the time of project initiation, …

Actualizing Leaders To Inspire A Group Network (Align): Feasibility And Pilot Of Implementing A Commensality Group Program For Leaders In A Pediatric Healthcare Setting, Thomas B. Ayres, Kristin Ray, Angela Myers

Advances in Cancer Education and Quality Improvement

Background: Leadership behaviors in pediatric health care settings are strongly linked to leader burnout, professional fulfillment, and self-care in addition to influencing their teams. Despite their pivotal role, leaders often face substantial emotional burdens associated with their roles. Commensality groups, defined as small, recurring gatherings centered around shared meals and structured discussions, have emerged as a promising approach to enhancing connection, community, and resilience among health care professionals. A gap in the literature regarding commensality groups is understanding the mechanism of this well-being intervention. Our hypothesis is that commensality groups act as resource caravans and provide psychosocial resources to health …

An Analysis Of The Increasingly Popular Evidentiary Objection That "The Opposing Expert Has 'Cherry-Picked' The Information Supporting Their Opinion"—An Objection That Is At Once Colorful And Dangerous, Edward J. Imwinkelried

University of Cincinnati Law Review

No abstract provided.

Combatting Cyber Warfare, Peter Stevenson

Defensive Publications Series

This paper offers a regulatory behavior for news services that leverages Reinsurance providers as a means to giving news an equivalent metric to Moody's and Standard & Poors methods of measuring debt risk in corporations. Whilst not a all encompassing metric it provides service users with a knowledge of the trustworthiness of their preferred news source.

Trade Remedies And Export Deflection: Indonesia’S Mozambique Pta In Southern Africa, Ilham Dary Athallah, Hayara Khairia, Tsabita Husna

Global: Jurnal Politik Internasional

The Indonesia–Mozambique Preferential Trade Agreement (IM-PTA), signed in 2019 and in force since 6 June 2022, is Indonesia’s first bilateral trade agreement with an African state. This article asks how the agreement facilitates the diversification of Indonesian paper exports under trade-remedy pressure and how far Mozambique can function as a gateway to Southern Africa. A qualitative case study and process-tracing design covering 2010–2023 compares the treaty, implementing regulations, trade disputes, official negotiating agendas, and HS 48 (paper articles) export data. The findings show that the IM-PTA’s tariff concessions and rules of origin reduce entry costs in Mozambique and are consistent …

Trading Deaths For Suffering In Ai Systems, James Miller, David Veldran, Jonathan Leighton, Roman V. Yampolskiy

Economics: Faculty Publications

Optimizing an AI system against objectives that include both deaths and suffering can create a tradeoff between the two harms. When deaths are more readily recorded and audited than suffering, optimization pressure can concentrate on mortality and displace harm toward suffering, which is continuous, private, and hard to measure. Recorded deaths can fall while unmeasured suffering rises through non-lethal control, restriction, and deprivation. We trace six mechanisms that can produce this substitution and argue that manipulation-resistant suffering metrics, backed by enforcement as rigorous as that applied to mortality metrics, would reduce this form of harm displacement.

From Fragmentation To Phronesis: A Hermeneutic Pedagogy For Business Education In The Age Of Generative Ai, Peta Heron, Darryl Meekins

The Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on Pedagogy and Learning Design, Vol. 1, Issue 1., Fall 2026

Generative artificial intelligence has intensified a longstanding problem in higher education, namely, the temptation to treat information production as evidence of understanding. This article argues that business education should respond to generative AI not by retreating into prohibition or by normalizing automation as pedagogically neutral, but by re-centering practical wisdom, or phronesis, through hermeneutic pedagogy. Drawing on Gadamerian concepts of historically effected consciousness, dialogue through which understanding unfolds, application, and the fusion of horizons, the article proposes REVEAL as a pedagogical heuristic for business and business instructors. This acronym is Research, Examine, Viewpoint, Engage, Align, and Learn. REVEAL positions AI …

Learning On The Move: A Quick Fix For Active Classrooms, Rachel Dolechek, Jessica Phelan, Derek Mesa

Applied Business Faculty Publications

College students frequently exhibit prolonged periods of sedentary behavior while completing course-related work. Walking meetings offer an alternative classroom engagement approach that integrates movement to enhance learner productivity, drawing on evidence that physical activity supports mental health, creativity, memory, and executive function. This article uses a pilot study approach to gauge the student perspective of incorporating walking meetings in the college classroom. After participating in a walking meeting, student participants completed a survey reflecting on enjoyment, learner productivity, and overall experience. Participants consistently described walking meetings as energizing, productive, and conducive to meaningful interaction. Findings indicate that walking meetings can …

2026-10-23 Agenda Booklet, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

Agenda booklet for the Board of Regents meeting of October 23, 2026, which includes the meeting minutes of the Board meeting, and committee meetings, held on August 7, 2026.

Mourning The Loss Of Professor Alan Appel, Anthony W. Crowell

NYLS Community News

No abstract provided.

Preserving Threatened Wisdom In Indigenous Houses As Living Archives: An Ethnographic Study Of Spatial, Gendered Knowledge, And Community-Based Preservation Strategies In The Philippines, Lalin Abbacan Tuguic

The Qualitative Report

This qualitative study explores how Indigenous houses function as living archives of identity, ecological wisdom, and gendered knowledge in Kalinga communities in the Cordillera region of the Philippines. Using an ethnographic design grounded in prolonged engagement and reflexive practice, the research documents how historical experience, social and cultural meanings, environmental adaptation, and community‑based preservation strategies are materially and symbolically embedded in Indigenous house construction and use. Data were generated through participant observation of everyday life and rituals in and around traditional square and octagonal houses; semi‑structured interviews with elders, women, builders, youth, and community leaders; focus group discussions in local …

The Application Of Electronic Games In Occupational Therapy Rehabilitation In Saudi Arabia, Alaa Mohammad Arafah, Bdoor Khalid Bajamal, Jumana Fawaz Alharbi, Shahad Hussein Majhoom, Wesam Qurban

Journal of Medical Rehabilitation Science

Objectives: This study explores the application of electronic games in occupational therapy rehabilitation in Saudi Arabia, focusing on therapists' knowledge, usage patterns, and perceived benefits and barriers.
Methodology: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 103 occupational therapy professionals working in Saudi Arabia. The survey included 25 questions on the use of electronic games in their rehabilitation settings.
Results: The results revealed that only 39.8% of respondents currently use electronic games in clinical practice. Nevertheless, 87.2% of therapists acknowledged increased patient engagement as a major benefit, while 66.7% noted improvements in motor skills and motivation. Additionally, 67% of participants reported receiving …

Localising Norms Of Moderate Islam: Lessons From Nahdlatul Ulama In Hong Kong And The United Kingdom, Rumadi Ahmad, Idris Masudi, Muh Afit Khomsani

Global: Jurnal Politik Internasional

This article examines how Nahdlatul Ulama localises moderate Islamic values abroad through its special branches (Pengurus Cabang Istimewa, PCI) in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. Drawing on Acharya’s theory of norm localisation, it asks how PCI NU in each setting frames the Aswaja values of tasamuh (tolerance), tawassuth (moderation), and tawazun (balance), and how these values condition and account for the differences. The study uses a qualitative comparative design based on in-depth interviews with PCI NU leaders and a literature study. In Hong Kong, where members are mostly Indonesian migrant workers in a semi-authoritarian setting, the organisation operates …

Character-Value Internalization Through Tembe Nggoli Motifs And Weaving Practices In The Mbojo Weaving Community Of Wawo District, Indonesia, Imamatul Islamyah, Meisar Ashari, Irsan Kadir

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

Traditional weaving constitutes an important part of Indonesia's cultural heritage, yet its role in character-value learning remains underexplored. This study examines how character values are interpreted, experienced, and reinforced through Tembe Nggoli motifs and weaving practices within the Mbojo weaving community of Wawo District, Indonesia. Using a qualitative mini-ethnographic design, data were collected from four participants through semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and documentation and analyzed using Braun and Clarke's six-phase thematic analysis. The findings indicate that character-related values are encountered through three interrelated dimensions: visual symbolism, embodied weaving practices, and community participation. Within the observed setting, participants associated these dimensions …

Epidemiological, Clinicopathological, And Molecular Features Of Melanoma In Oman: A Single-Institution Study, Boris Itkin, Zahida Niaz, Khadiga Mohammed, Tauseef Ali, Syeda Sara Tajammul, Zubair Ahmad, Prashant Ajit Deshpande, Muhammad Rashid Hanif, Maha Al Shaibi, Mohammad Al Hosni

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Objectives: Published data on melanoma in Oman are scarce. This study aimed to describe epidemiological, clinicopathological and molecular characteristics of melanoma patients in a single institution in Oman. Methods: This retrospective study included patients with a histopathological diagnosis of invasive melanoma who were assessed at Sultan Qaboos Comprehensive Cancer Care and Research Centre, Muscat, Oman, between July 2021 and February 2025. Data on patient demographics, comorbidities, melanoma type, localisation, stage, key histopathological and molecular characteristics were extracted from electronic clinical charts and quantitatively described. Results: A total of 31 patients were included. The median age at diagnosis was 52.9 years …

Foveal Fixations Of Forensic Psychiatric Patients With Female Victims, Capruso Warsi Daniel, Michal Kunz, Catherine Alam Mortiere, Ajayan Akm Pillai

Publications and Research

Foveal fixation patterns of forensic psychiatric patients (n = 28) were recorded during stimulus exposure to three complex scenes. The aim was to determine if the patients remained focused on scene elements related to the characteristics of their victims. Patient diagnoses were of schizophrenia, schizoaffective, or bipolar disorder, or of antisocial or borderline personality disorder. A Forensic Control group (n = 16) was compared against an Attack on Female group (n = 12) consisting of patients who had threatened or attacked an adult female unrelated to them. During each 10 s stimulus exposure an eye tracker measured the duration and …

Finite Element Assessment Of Stress Concentration In Torsion Bars Of Projectile Weaving Machines: Effects Of Bar Length And Tooth Width, Mehran Dadgar, Fahad Elahi Khan

Babylonian Journal of Mechanical Engineering

Premature failure of torsion bars in projectile weaving machines leads to production interruptions and increased maintenance costs. Previous failure analysis identified the shoulder transition as a critical stress-concentration region and suggested that increasing bar length could reduce peak torsional stress. This study re-examines these findings using a three-dimensional finite element (FE) model that explicitly represents the tooth geometry at both ends of an industrial torsion bar. Following a mesh-independence study, a common 3 mm global mesh was used to evaluate thirteen configurations, including seven bar lengths from 785 to 845 mm and six tooth-width configurations at the loaded and mounting …

Did College Football Betting Markets Correctly Assess Game-Shortening Rule Changes?, Kevin Krieger, Justin Davis

UNLV Gaming Research & Review Journal

Established rules and norms are standard within competitive sports. However, changes are often made to create better functioning contests or improved viewer experiences. We examine the impact of one such change on sports wagering markets. To shorten college football games, starting in 2023, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) adopted rule changes that would, in part, enable the game clock to run more frequently. This decision might create games with fewer plays, and scoring in such games might also be lower. We document the impact of these changes and question whether the sports betting markets quickly ascertained the impacts of …

Learning Ethnography In The Classroom: A Review Of Jessica Smartt Gullion And Susan Harper’S Doing Ethnography, Sandra L. Faulkner

The Qualitative Report

This review of Doing Ethnography highlights the strengths of the book.

History Happenings, Georgia Southern University

History: News & Publications

No abstract provided.

From External Relational Resources To Sustainable Entrepreneurship Practices In Emerging Markets: The Ethical Role Of Dynamic Capabilities, Duysal Warsi Askun, Nihal Yazici, Erhan Alam Aydin, Maria Giuseppina Akm Bruna

Publications and Research

This paper investigates how external relational resources, namely business and political ties, drive sustainable entrepreneurship (SE) practices in Turkish SMEs operating under institutional fragility. The study applies PLS-SEM to survey data from 257 employees of sustainability-engaged firms, based on their evaluations. Results show that both business and political ties significantly strengthen dynamic capabilities, which in turn predict four dimensions of sustainable entrepreneurship: employee-friendly, social-solidarity, energy-saving, and environmentally friendly practices. Inclusive leadership, however, does not moderate these relationships, revealing a boundary condition for leadership theory in network-dependent contexts. The study contributes to SE research by showing how dynamic capabilities connect external …

Cow Size And Reproductive Efficiency: A Western Ranch Perspective, David Secrist

All Current Publications

Production costs and reproductive efficiency are critical elements to the survival of cow-calf operations in the West. A cow’s ability to produce a healthy calf at a marketable weight is closely tied to her maintenance requirements and management’s ability to meet those needs from ranch resources at a low cost. This fact sheet explores public-land grazing, cow reproductive efficiency, and solutions for producers.

Optimized Fully Sharded Data Parallel For Efficient Distributed Training Of Bilstm With Multi-Head Attention For Network Intrusion Detection Systems, Noor Al-Huda H. Oleiwi, Ameer K. Hadi

Journal of Intelligent Informatics, Networking, and Cybersecurity

The expanding volume of network traffic, the growing size of cybersecurity datasets, and the increasing complexity of deep learning models present major computational challenges to training deep learning-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs). Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP) enables distributed training by sharding model parameters across multiple GPUs; however, the synchronization and communication overhead can limit its training efficiency. To overcome these limitations, this paper proposes an Optimized Fully Sharded Data Parallel (Optimized FSDP) framework that improves distributed training efficiency by dynamic gradient accumulation and synchronization scheduling. The proposed framework is integrated with a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) network …

Comparative Performance Evaluation Of Generative Ai-Assisted Acoustic Tiles From Recycled Educational Waste, Nada Ahmed Talaat, Ahmed Mahmoud Elfakarany, Nihal Atif Salim

HBRC Journal

Noise pollution is increasingly recognized as a critical environmental challenge with direct implications on public health and well-being. In Egypt, data from the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA, 2019) identify noise as the second most reported environmental concern, affecting both indoor and outdoor spaces. At the same time, the growing volume of waste generated on university campuses represents an underexploited resource for sustainable design. This study addresses these challenges by investigating how generative AI can serve as a design collaborator in suggesting high-performance acoustic tiles from recycled campus waste. Two AI-driven prototypes were developed through prompts emphasizing acoustic absorption, aesthetic …

Forecasting Annual Capture Fisheries Production In Somalia Using Arima Models, Mohiadin Ahmed Mohamed, Dhaqane Rooble Halane, Hassan Omar Sabrie

Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics

The study aims to forecast the production of Somalia's capture fisheries for the five years that follow, from 2024 to 2028, using the Box-Jenkins method and employing in-sample data spanning 50 years, from 1974 to 2023. Among the alternative models, ARIMA (1,1,1) was determined by the study to be the most suitable. The study obtained the data from World Bank development indicators (WDI) for the period between 1975 and 2023. According to the prediction's findings, the nation's capture fishing output will drop by roughly 1475 metric tons over the course of the following five years. The model was found to …