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Alpina Oct 2026

Alpina

Appalachia

Reports of mountaineering in the greater ranges of Patagonia, Nepal, Tibet, Saudi Arabia, North America, and Madagascar include a wintertime solo of Cerro Torre, an 86-year-old’s summit of Manaslu, and a discussion of climbing permits on Everest. Nepal tourism officials list eight more high points as 8,000-meter peaks. Two men from France climb Jannu East. American Jim Morrison skis down Everest. Chinese climbers scale peaks in the area known as East of the Himalaya. Sentencing of three criminals. First ascents in Saudi Arabia. And more.

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Skyline Sketches: I’M Not Having A Baby, So I Climbed A Very Tall Mountain, Caroline Santinelli Oct 2026

Skyline Sketches: I’M Not Having A Baby, So I Climbed A Very Tall Mountain, Caroline Santinelli

Appalachia

The writer heads to Kilimanjaro after her concept of life at age 32 takes a turn.

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A Forager’S Guide To The Wilderness: Understanding The Land Through Eating, Anderson Smith Oct 2026

A Forager’S Guide To The Wilderness: Understanding The Land Through Eating, Anderson Smith

Appalachia

The runner-up in the 2025 Waterman Fund Essay Contest.

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Chasing Redemption On The Long Trail: From Emergency Room Patient To Vermont End-To-Ender, Derick Lugo Oct 2026

Chasing Redemption On The Long Trail: From Emergency Room Patient To Vermont End-To-Ender, Derick Lugo

Appalachia

His previous end-to-end attempt had fizzled in illness, so he goes back to get it right.

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Ken Nichols: A Curmudgeon Climber Committed To His Ethics., Stephen Kurczy Oct 2026

Ken Nichols: A Curmudgeon Climber Committed To His Ethics., Stephen Kurczy

Appalachia

An unusual and enduring friendship with Connecticut’s most famous climber.

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Maps For Wandering: Lessons From My Father On Mount Monroe, Katie Ives Oct 2026

Maps For Wandering: Lessons From My Father On Mount Monroe, Katie Ives

Appalachia

A father’s sudden illness brings up the connection his daughter felt with him in the mountains

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The Loss Of Guy Waterman, A Quarter-Century Later: Friends Climb Franconia Ridge To Remember Their Mountain Mentor, Doug Mayer Oct 2026

The Loss Of Guy Waterman, A Quarter-Century Later: Friends Climb Franconia Ridge To Remember Their Mountain Mentor, Doug Mayer

Appalachia

A man who helped recovered the body of his friend talks about his giant legacy.

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The Long Way Home: What The Appalachian Trail Taught Me About Real-Time Dispatches, Christine Woodside Oct 2026

The Long Way Home: What The Appalachian Trail Taught Me About Real-Time Dispatches, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

The outgoing editor-in-chief tells how she sent home dispatches for publication during the early weeks of her thru-hike, and then realized she didn’t need to tell everyone what she was doing.

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Appalachia Summer/Fall 2026: Complete Issue Oct 2026

Appalachia Summer/Fall 2026: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Summer/Fall 2026 - Volume LXXVII, Number 2 - Issue #262. Legacies.

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The B-Tag Recommendation Function: Privacy-Preserving Methodology For Ai-Mediated Commercial Tip Recommendation — Suggested Tip Amounts With Stated Reasons From Confidential Merchant Costs, Without Customer Tracking, Thon Ly Oct 2026

The B-Tag Recommendation Function: Privacy-Preserving Methodology For Ai-Mediated Commercial Tip Recommendation — Suggested Tip Amounts With Stated Reasons From Confidential Merchant Costs, Without Customer Tracking, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This paper discloses a method by which an AI agent recommends a voluntary payment amount, a suggested tip in a pay-what-you-want sale, and shows it with stated reasons, without tracking the customer and without revealing the merchant's costs. Six components are specified. (1) The merchant confidentially discloses a cost breakdown by category (materials, labor, a skill premium, overhead, regulatory cost and margin) to the recommender; the customer never sees it. (2) The recommended amount is a non-binding anchor: paying it, more, less or nothing completes the sale, and whether a customer accepted or overrode past suggestions is not recorded. (3) …

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Discreteness, Adjacency And Order: A Structural Comparison Of The Theravāda Abhidhamma With Causal Sets And Loop Quantum Gravity — Partial Orders, Spin-Network Boundaries And Discrete Time In Buddhist Philosophy Of Matter, Thon Ly Oct 2026

Discreteness, Adjacency And Order: A Structural Comparison Of The Theravāda Abhidhamma With Causal Sets And Loop Quantum Gravity — Partial Orders, Spin-Network Boundaries And Discrete Time In Buddhist Philosophy Of Matter, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This study compares the Theravāda Buddhist Abhidhamma with two discrete approaches to quantum gravity, causal set theory and loop quantum gravity, as formal structures, on three axes: order, adjacency and ratio. No row predicts a measurement, and none says that a Buddhist text anticipated a theory of quantum gravity. On order, the twenty-four conditioning relations of the Paṭṭhāna, taken whole, are not a partial order. The condition-modes that always run from earlier-arising to later-arising form an acyclic typed relation over which a strict order can be read: acyclic by selection, not yet a causal set, and ordering some moments of …

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Transparency As Enforcement: Anti-Abuse Without Legal Contract Machinery — Community Disclosure In Place Of Terms-Of-Service Enforcement, Limited To Incurred Obligations, Thon Ly Oct 2026

Transparency As Enforcement: Anti-Abuse Without Legal Contract Machinery — Community Disclosure In Place Of Terms-Of-Service Enforcement, Limited To Incurred Obligations, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This paper discloses a design pattern for abuse prevention in online platforms and shared-fund applications that replaces terms-of-service enforcement, dispute resolution and account termination with disclosure: the conduct to be policed is made visible to the bounded community it affects, and that community's own response is the sanction. Three properties make disclosure work as enforcement: the visibility itself is the mechanism, the response is proportioned by the community rather than by a binary rule, and participants join knowing what will be visible. Two deployments are specified: disclosure to a family of every reward its steward receives from the family's shared …

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Building Psychological Safety: Fostering Human Connection In Academic Libraries, Dawn Behrend Oct 2026

Building Psychological Safety: Fostering Human Connection In Academic Libraries, Dawn Behrend

Library Presentations & Publications

No abstract provided.

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Market Trends And Challenges For Alabama's Emerging Oyster Aquaculture Industry, Taryn M. Garlock, Quinn Lafontaine, Russell Grice, Andrea M. Tarnecki Oct 2026

Market Trends And Challenges For Alabama's Emerging Oyster Aquaculture Industry, Taryn M. Garlock, Quinn Lafontaine, Russell Grice, Andrea M. Tarnecki

Journal of Extension

Different marketing channels influence farm profitability by affecting the costs that producers incur and the prices they receive. This article quantifies oyster sales volume and price by market channel in Alabama's commercial oyster aquaculture sector and assesses challenges to expanding farm businesses. The results show that many oyster producers are selling exclusively through one channel, which raises questions about their resiliency and their capacity to adapt to a dynamic single market. The two most common market channels were processors and distributors. Most growers had a positive outlook on sales growth and showed the greatest interest in expanding sales to distributors, …

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Rethinking Existing Extension Programming: A Foundation For Healthy Aging?, Nicholas J. Spokely, Sloane A. Montgomery, Kelsey J. Weitzel, Kristin A. Miller, Marta Novaes Oliveira, Stephen D. Ball, Breanne S. Baker Oct 2026

Rethinking Existing Extension Programming: A Foundation For Healthy Aging?, Nicholas J. Spokely, Sloane A. Montgomery, Kelsey J. Weitzel, Kristin A. Miller, Marta Novaes Oliveira, Stephen D. Ball, Breanne S. Baker

Journal of Extension

Muscle declines are becoming more prevalent in younger adults, driving the need for accessible exercise programs. The Stay Strong, Stay Healthy (SSSH) Extension program was developed for adults 60 years old or older, but for this study, we enrolled 135 participants aged less than 60 years old in rural and urban counties to assess if it could improve their muscle performance. We analyzed data with time and group comparisons using paired t-tests and 2 × 2 repeated measures ANOVAs. Younger adults significantly improved muscle performance after SSSH, and the results were similar between rural and urban counties. This study …

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Board Gender Diversity, Cultural Logics, And Corporate Tax Behaviour, Atia Hussain, Ammad Ahmed, Bao Thi Ngoc Nguyen Oct 2026

Board Gender Diversity, Cultural Logics, And Corporate Tax Behaviour, Atia Hussain, Ammad Ahmed, Bao Thi Ngoc Nguyen

All Works

Corporate tax aggressiveness tests corporate accountability, yet less is known about when board gender diversity translates into more restrained tax behaviour across institutional settings. Using 27,275 firm-year observations from 29 countries across Europe, Asia, and Australasia during 2013–2023, we examine whether board gender diversity is associated with lower tax aggressiveness and whether national culture conditions this association. Board gender diversity is negatively associated with tax aggressiveness: greater female board representation is associated with higher cash effective tax rates and more restrained tax behaviour. This association is stronger in high masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation settings, but weaker in high …

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Life Cycle Assessment Of Emerging Battery Technologies- A Comparative Review Of Sodium-Ion, Zinc-Air, And Aluminum-Ion Systems, Abdulmonem Fetyan, Zishan Shaikh, Syed Nasir Shah, Mohamed Adel Allam, Hemant Mittal, Ahmer A.B. Baloch Oct 2026

Life Cycle Assessment Of Emerging Battery Technologies- A Comparative Review Of Sodium-Ion, Zinc-Air, And Aluminum-Ion Systems, Abdulmonem Fetyan, Zishan Shaikh, Syed Nasir Shah, Mohamed Adel Allam, Hemant Mittal, Ahmer A.B. Baloch

All Works

The accelerating global demand for sustainable energy storage solutions has heightened interest in alternative battery chemistries beyond lithium-ion. This review presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of life cycle assessment (LCA) studies on three emerging battery technologies: sodium-ion, zinc-air, and aluminum-ion. By systematically examining peer-reviewed literature published between 2010 and 2025, we evaluate the environmental performance of these chemistries across key life-cycle stages, from raw material extraction to end-of-life treatment. The review employs bibliometric mapping to identify thematic trends and methodological patterns, including system boundaries, functional units, and impact assessment approaches. Sodium-ion batteries show promise due to material abundance and moderate …

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Exploring Women’S Career Path To Leadership Within The Public Sector, Verona Mitchell Oct 2026

Exploring Women’S Career Path To Leadership Within The Public Sector, Verona Mitchell

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Women in public administration face compounding challenges on their paths to executive leadership, yet their lived experiences prior to assuming leadership roles are critically understudied. Existing scholarship has documented the barriers women face once in leadership, but a significant gap remains in understanding the personal, systemic, and relational forces that shape their formative trajectories. This generic qualitative study explored the career journeys and pre-leadership experiences of women leaders in the public sector to better understand the forces shaping their paths to executive roles. Stivers's feminist public administration theory uses women's lived experiences as valid knowledge within its framework. Data were …

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Exploring The Lived Experiences Of Women Survivors Of Intimate Partner Violence And Systemic Failures In Criminal Justice, Healthcare And Social Service Systems, Jeannine F. Latsch Oct 2026

Exploring The Lived Experiences Of Women Survivors Of Intimate Partner Violence And Systemic Failures In Criminal Justice, Healthcare And Social Service Systems, Jeannine F. Latsch

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Intimate partner violence (IPV) disproportionately affects women in the United States. Despite protective legislation and institutional protocols, limited understanding exists of how systemic failures within criminal justice, healthcare, and social service systems affect survivors’ healing, trust, and future help-seeking. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of women survivors of IPV who interacted with these systems. Feminist theory and institutional betrayal theory were used as the theoretical framework. The research questions were framed to address survivors’ experiences of systemic failures and the influence of those failures on healing, institutional trust, and willingness to seek …

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The Relationship Between Phishing Policies And Employees' Intention To Comply, Nurbert A. Hughes Oct 2026

The Relationship Between Phishing Policies And Employees' Intention To Comply, Nurbert A. Hughes

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Some Information technology (IT) managers may have insufficient protection motivation (Prmo) to follow phishing policies, which may leave organizations more vulnerable to phishing attacks that exploit human behavior. IT and business managers worry that low Prmo to recommended protective actions against phishing exposes them to unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information, financial loss, operational disruption, and reputational harm. Grounded in protection motivation theory (PMT), the purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine the relationships between fear appraisal (Fapr), perceived threat severity (PTsev), perceived threat vulnerability (PTvul), response efficacy (Reff), self-efficacy (Seff), and response costs (Reco), and Prmo. The participants …

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Burnout Experiences Of Primary Care Healthcare Workers During The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Basic Qualitative Study, Lucca O. Vandeventer Oct 2026

Burnout Experiences Of Primary Care Healthcare Workers During The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Basic Qualitative Study, Lucca O. Vandeventer

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The COVID-19 pandemic intensified burnout among healthcare workers. Although burnout in hospital settings has been widely documented, registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), medical assistants (MAs), and equivalent clinical support roles in outpatient primary care have received comparatively limited qualitative attention. Guided by Maslach’s burnout theory and the job demands–resources model, the purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore the experience of burnout among primary care healthcare workers who performed front-line work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thirteen participants, including 10 RNs and three MAs or individuals holding equivalent MA-related roles, completed individual, semi-structured, audio-only Zoom interviews; no …

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Exploring The Appetite For Early Morning Online Classes: A Conceptual Framework For Future Research, Niall A. Minto, Christina Ryan Oct 2026

Exploring The Appetite For Early Morning Online Classes: A Conceptual Framework For Future Research, Niall A. Minto, Christina Ryan

Irish Journal of Academic Practice

This conceptual paper explores the potential for early morning online classes in part-time adult education. Drawing on literature relating to adult learners, class scheduling, chronotype and cognitive performance, it examines whether the timing of online classes warrants greater consideration in the context of changing patterns of work and learning. The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of online and hybrid working and learning, while advances in digital technologies have expanded opportunities, allowing for greater flexibility in when and where learning takes place. This is particularly relevant to part-time adult learners, who often balance education with employment, family and other responsibilities. The …

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Striking A Balance With Social Media Use On An Uneven Playing Field, Stacey F. Stearns, Jennifer E. Cushman Oct 2026

Striking A Balance With Social Media Use On An Uneven Playing Field, Stacey F. Stearns, Jennifer E. Cushman

Journal of Extension

Social media is now an integral part of Extension's communications and marketing strategies; however, it is an uneven playing field. While social media allows greater access to audiences and introduces Extension programs to new audiences, the social media companies also control the platforms and algorithms. The challenge is balancing the need to engage our audiences where they are with the lack of control Extension professionals have over the platform and how audiences access and use our content. This commentary includes a case study of an Extension Facebook page that Meta inadvertently deleted, and the repercussions the organization faced in rebuilding.

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Have You Done Your Duty? Impact Of Direct Mailing Campaign On Septic System Owners' Maintenance Knowledge And Behaviors In Coastal Texas Watersheds, Audrey Mccrary, T. Allen Berthold Oct 2026

Have You Done Your Duty? Impact Of Direct Mailing Campaign On Septic System Owners' Maintenance Knowledge And Behaviors In Coastal Texas Watersheds, Audrey Mccrary, T. Allen Berthold

Journal of Extension

As part of a watershed protection plan, the Texas Water Resources Institute and AgriLife Extension Service developed and distributed an educational postcard (``mailer'') about septic system maintenance to mailing addresses outside of public sewer service areas. The mailer was distributed four times within 1 year. The impact of this mailer was evaluated with a retrospective pre/post-test within a mailed survey. Overall, the mailer was effective at increasing knowledge of septic system owners and prompting maintenance action. Mailers can be a cost-effective alternative for educational initiatives where the target audience is not able to or interested in in-person or online programs.

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The Verney Family And Their Guitars In France And England, 1643–53, Christopher Page Oct 2026

The Verney Family And Their Guitars In France And England, 1643–53, Christopher Page

Soundboard Scholar

The five-course guitar was a fundamental resource for the Verney family from 1643 to 1653 as they sheltered in France, avoiding their creditors and escaping the state of civil war at home in England. Their papers from that period, comprising many thousands of letters and financial accounts, show them hiring a guitar-master, ordering new guitars in Paris and debating the relative benefits of lessons for their eldest son on the guitar as opposed to the lute. This article reproduces the key documents and considers the music that the Verneys may have played. The papers particularly show how an instrument often …

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Veteran Community Online Mindfulness Support (Vet-Coms): Feasibility And Acceptability Of A Community-Based Support Program For Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress, Maria Danet Bluhm Oct 2026

Veteran Community Online Mindfulness Support (Vet-Coms): Feasibility And Acceptability Of A Community-Based Support Program For Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress, Maria Danet Bluhm

Sigma Foundation for Nursing Research Grant Reports

Veteran Community Online Mindfulness Support (Vet-COMS) is a four-week virtual mindfulness training program with community support for veterans experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms. This study aims to test the feasibility and acceptability of Vet-COMS among veterans. Mindfulness meditation will help relax and calm their minds and help them cope better with their daily stressors and post-traumatic stress symptoms. The goal is to equip veterans with a stress-reduction tool, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic where imposed social distancing may stress the veterans and disallow them the community support needed. The ultimate objective is for veterans to practice daily mindfulness meditation to help …

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Montana Kaimin, October 8, 2026, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula Oct 2026

Montana Kaimin, October 8, 2026, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

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Relatos De Viajeros Italianos Del Siglo Xix En Argentina, Fernanda Elisa Bravo Herrera Oct 2026

Relatos De Viajeros Italianos Del Siglo Xix En Argentina, Fernanda Elisa Bravo Herrera

INTI: Revista de literatura hispánica

No abstract provided.

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Inti Numéro 103-104, Providence College Oct 2026

Inti Numéro 103-104, Providence College

INTI: Revista de literatura hispánica

No abstract provided.

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“Topografía Del Silencio”: Identidad, Tierra Y Correspondencia En La Memoria Transatlántica De La Familia Racca De Santa Fe, Argentina, María Teresa Sanhueza Oct 2026

“Topografía Del Silencio”: Identidad, Tierra Y Correspondencia En La Memoria Transatlántica De La Familia Racca De Santa Fe, Argentina, María Teresa Sanhueza

INTI: Revista de literatura hispánica

No abstract provided.

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