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2014 Advertising Campaign Highlights

Virginia Dental Journal

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Seeking Candidates For Secretary-Treasurer, Steven G. Forte Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

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Trustee’S Corner, Julian Hal Fair Iii, Dmd

Virginia Dental Journal

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Continued Lack Of Effective Leadership In Vda:Va Board Of Dentistry?, Robert B. Allen Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

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President's Message, Michael Link Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

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Message From The Editor, Richard F. Roadcap Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

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Va Dent J January, February And March 2025

Virginia Dental Journal

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Asia Pacific Perspectives Vol. 19 No. 1, 2025, University Of San Francisco

Asia Pacific Perspectives

Articles

Think Pieces

Photo Essay

Book Reviews

Va Dent J April, May And June 2015

Virginia Dental Journal

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Vda Membership Task Force Summary Report- An Assessment Of Factors Related To Non-Renewal Of Vda Membership- Part Ii, Julie M. Coe Dds, Ms, Mba, Al M. Best Phd, Alfred J. Certosimo Dmd, Kyle L. Coble Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

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An Interview With- Delegate Todd Pillion, Todd E. Pillion Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

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Letter To The Editor Mission Accomplished!, Robert B. Allen Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

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Are You Making The Most Of The Vda’S Advertising And Pr Campaign?, Kirk Norbo Dmd

Virginia Dental Journal

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President’S Message Mid Level Providers Coming To Virginia?, Michael Link Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

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The Continuum Of Contractual Commitment, David V. Snyder

Pepperdine Law Review

Contracts frequently call for one or more differentiated levels of contractual commitment. Although contractual liability in the common law is said to be strict liability, and a claim that a good attempt was made is said to be no defense, often a party promises only to try. Contract theory in the United States struggles with departures from the paradigm of strict liability, and it has failed to fully consider the continuum of contractual commitment. To encompass the range of assent-based commitment and its consequent liability, U.S. contract theory needs to distinguish more clearly between (1) promises to try, which do …

Liberty In Death? An Analysis Of The Ethics And Laws Regarding Physician-Assisted Suicide, Ross Leavitt

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

I seek to analyze physician-assisted suicide with the following two goals in mind: (1) Evaluating how ethical and legal arguments surrounding suicide developed throughout history and how they inform our understanding today; (2) What a regulatory scheme governing physician-assisted suicide looks like and if it can adequately safeguard the interests of the individual and the collective.

Uninformed Consent: Legal Failures In The Treatment Of Female Patients, Eva Zagarzhevskaya

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

Surgeries are a common practice globally, with 51.4 million procedures performed in the United States alone. [1] Going in for a procedure typically has a variety of risks involved such as shock, wound infection, or a bad reaction to anesthesia. [2] However, a risk no patient should have to consider is the risk of an alternative exam being performed on them without their knowledge or consent during surgery. Yet, there is no federal statute preventing this practice. Rather, in 34% of US states, doctors do not need their patient’s consent to have medical students and other doctors perform invasive exams …

Cybersecurity Disparities In U.S. Healthcare: Regulatory Gaps, Equity Failures, And Systemic Risks, Erica Patterson

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

U.S. healthcare relies on digital infrastructure that now shapes clinical safety. However, the governing law remains a patchwork. The HIPAA Security and Breach Notification Rules, layered with uneven federal and state mandates and voluntary frameworks, do not yield a clear, enforceable floor of protection for small, rural  hospitals which are institutions with thin budgets, legacy systems, limited vendor leverage, and scarce IT staff. This Article identifies the gap, namely that minimum safeguards are not articulated as testable outcomes that low-resource providers can implement and sustain, and offers a remedy. Using doctrinal analysis and comparative assessment of federal and state regimes …

Diversity Regulations For Clinical Trials & The Underrepresentation Of Native American Women, Alka Meresh

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

The exclusion of women and racial minorities from research currently compromises the generalizability of findings. Native American women, are particularly underrepresented in clinical trials due to the complicated history between Native American health and the US government. Congress, the NIH, and the FDA are the most prominent actors involved in regulating the diversity of clinical trial participants. This article will identify and analyze the deficiencies of the current regulations promoting diversity in clinical trials and suggest some solutions to build community with Indigenous communities and promote their participation in clinical trials.

Never Trust, Always Verify, Securing Medicare's Future To Defend Against Ai Driven Cyber Threats, Dana G. Jones

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

Healthcare cybersecurity stands at a pivotal juncture, analogous to the Cold War's most perilous moments. When President Ronald Reagan declared "trust but verify"^[1] during nuclear disarmament negotiations with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, he established systematic verification as the cornerstone of security in high-stakes environments where the cost of misplaced trust meant potential human extinction. Today, the rapid integration of artificial intelligence and networked medical devices into America's healthcare infrastructure has created stakes equally grave for the nation's sixty-five million Medicare beneficiaries^[2]; however, the threat landscape has evolved beyond Reagan's paradigm. Modern healthcare cannot afford even conditional …

Death Wish: A Comprehensive Analysis Of Physician Assisted Suicide, Janna George

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

Physician-assisted suicide is an extremely complex and controversial legal issue, deeply rooted in morality, legality, and ethics. Countries around the world are split as to how to approach this concept, with some permitting physician-assisted suicide under particular circumstances, and others strictly prohibiting it. ^[1] This division is evidence of the subject’s complex underpinnings. According to the United States Declaration of Independence, all Americans are deserving of certain unalienable rights, “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”^[2] But what about the right to die?

There are a number of reasons as to why physician assisted suicide is complicated, including …

Washington Report: Technological Developments: Implications For Cpas In Tax Practice, Kenneth F. Thomas, Carol B. Ferguson

Tax Adviser

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Advancing Lipid Management: Saudi Heart Association Position Statement On Pcsk9-Targeted Therapies In The Primary And Secondary Prevention Of Cardiovascular Disease, Waleed Alhabeeb, Hussein Alamri, Hussein Elbadawi, Yazed S. Alruthia, Waleed Alharbi, Owayed Alshammeri, Adel Tash, Shadi Almoziny, Naji Kholaif, Hussain Halawani, Fadia Almahdi, Wael Yar, Khalid F Alhabib

Journal of the Saudi Heart Association

Background: Despite robust evidence for low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) reduction in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) prevention, attainment of guideline-recommended targets remains suboptimal in Saudi Arabia, especially among high- and very high-risk patients. Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin/Kexin Type 9 (PCSK9)-targeted therapies, which include monoclonal antibodies (evolocumab, alirocumab) and small interfering RNA (inclisiran), offer potent LDL-C lowering that can help address this gap.

Methods: The Saudi Heart Association (SHA) convened a multidisciplinary panel to review evidence from randomized controlled trials, real-world studies, and economic analyses on PCSK9-targeted therapies. Recommendations were developed through expert consensus, contextualized to the Saudi healthcare environment.

Results and conclusions: …

Ip-Superstate: A Reference Architecture For Continuous Ai-Native Provenance, Attribution And Licensing, Fatih Dinc

Defensive Publications Series

Most AI-generated artifacts — model architectures, datasets, agent workflows, evaluation methods, prompts — currently lack standardized provenance, attribution, and licensing infrastructure. This disclosure describes IP-Superstate, a five-layer reference architecture for continuous AI-native intellectual property provenance and licensing: Genesis (artifact detection), Vault (cryptographic timestamping and defensive disclosure), Alchemy (valuation metadata and programmable licensing), Nexus (multi-channel market routing), and Overseer (audit trail and feedback-driven improvement). The architecture defines four composable primitives — Provenance, Attribution, Licensing, Audit — that can be adopted independently. This disclosure is intended to establish public prior art. It does not constitute a patent application, legal advice, or a …

Invisible Rotorcraft Using Boreal Glass Technology, Natalie M. Durdle Miss

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure establishes a low-tech, field-expedient, manned rotary-wing aircraft (specifically a gyroplane or autogyro) optimized for rapid tactical evacuation, medical casualty transport, or emergency egress from remote, unorganized, or contested sub-arctic environments. The aircraft completely eliminates the need for advanced industrial aviation manufacturing, mechanical gearboxes, complex transmission driveshafts, or petroleum-based internal combustion. Instead, it relies on un-milled juvenile wood cores, high-tensile algae-derived carbon fibers, unrefined conifer sap resins, and calcined bio-ceramic linear alternators powered by a closed-loop, phase-changing propane cycle. This document formally places these structural and mechanical configurations into the public domain to serve as un-patentable prior art for …

Implicit Bias In Hiring: Leveraging Avatars To Foster More Inclusive Hiring Practices, Alexa Trifilo, Gary Blau, Crystal Reeck

Engaged Management ReView

This research investigated implicit racial in-group bias in hiring and examined extended reality (XR) as a mechanism for masking visual identity cues during the interview process. By introducing avatars that obscure physical characteristics, such as race, the study extends the concept of “blind” hiring into immersive virtual environments. In our experimental design, randomly assigned participants evaluated job candidates represented by avatars that had three variations of racial identifiability (White, Asian, or racially unidentifiable avatar) and two qualification levels (strong and ambiguous). We controlled for gender by including only experienced, full-time female professionals as participants in the evaluation of female avatars …

The Tax Adviser, Volume 18, Number 1, January 1987, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Tax Adviser

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Subject Index, 12 Months Ended December 1986, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Tax Adviser

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Tax Problems In Forming A Partnership Of Controlled Corporations, Nancy J. Stara

Tax Adviser

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Perceptions Of Research Infrastructure And Support In Northern New England, Carolyn E. Gray, Kathryn Bizier, Brenda M. Joly

Journal of Maine Medical Center

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