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Comparison Of The Mars And Xgboost Algorithms For Predicting Body Weight In Kalahari Red Goats, Louis Thobela Tyasi, Cem Tirink, Kwena Mokoena, Hasan Önder, Uğur Şen, Demet Çanga Boğa, Tolga Tolun, İsmai̇l Gök, Yüksel Aksoy, Lütfi̇ Bayyurt, Ömer Faruk Yilmaz

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

Estimating goat body weight from morphometric traits is essential for growth monitoring, health management, and welfare. Accurate weight informs nutrition, clinical interventions, and mating decisions. In this study, the MARS and XGBoost algorithms were used to estimate the live weight of Kalahari Red goats based on body measurements. A dataset containing body length (BL), birth type (single, twin, or triplet), withers height (WH), rump height (RH), and heart girth (HG) information for 200 goats was used in the training and testing of the models. The performances of the models were evaluated with the goodness-of-fit criteria. XGBoost showed a performance of …

Hatchability And Nestling Viability In An Extremely Short-Beaked Pigeon Breed, Türker Savaş, Hakan Erdem, Cemi̇l Tölü

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

The selection of hobby animals for breeding by enthusiasts is often based on aesthetic considerations, which can have a negative impact on the animals’ biology. Furthermore, “extreme traits” that deviate from ancestral norms, such as short beaks in pigeons, can be detrimental to the animal’s welfare. Beaks perform many essential functions, such as facilitating feed intake and eggshell breaking. The present study investigates possible hatching problems and the nestling viability of short-beak pigeons through a study of the breeding records of Mısıri (short beak), Baska (medium beak), and Turkish Dönek (normal beak) pigeons, as well as data from one breeding …

The Parthenon, February 25, 2026, Baylee Parsons, Kaitlyn Fleming, Abby Ayes, Ella Hatfield, Davina Synder, Scott Price, Trista Honaker

The Parthenon

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Institutional Logic: A New Dynamic Typology For Policy Innovation Labs, Esti Hoss-Golan, Anat Gofen, Adam M. Wellstead

Michigan Tech Publications

Policy innovation labs (PILs) are established globally to address complex public challenges. PILS are distinguished by their focus on fostering innovation, promoting collaborative co-design, and engaging in experimentation. The current literature highlights structural characteristics that define PILs, such as their source of funding, their autonomy from government agencies, and the tools that are utilized. This paper provides a dynamic perspective by focusing on the institutional logics of PILs, which are socially constructed patterns of symbols, practices, values, and beliefs that guide decision-making and shape organizational behavior. Drawing from semi-structured interviews with 31 managers from European PILs, we identify three distinct …

Stitching Up Industry Issues: Arbitration Can Offer Customized Solutions To Fashion Intellectual Property Disputes, Catherine Meng

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

This comment proposes alternative dispute resolution (ADR), specifically arbitration, as a more effective mechanism for resolving fashion copyright disputes. The fashion industry has historically received limited protection for designs—primarily trademark and patent law—resulting in widespread copying and difficulty enforcing claims. In the 2017 case Star Athletica, L.L.C. v. Varsity Brands, Inc., the Supreme Court added copyright to the patchwork of protections. However, that protection is available only for aesthetic elements, not functional ones. The difficulty in distinguishing these components, along with the challenges of enforcing claims across borders and between parties with unequal bargaining power, as in Hian v. Louis …

Table Of Contents & Masthead, Grace E. Brandt

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

No abstract provided.

An Alternative Sacrifice: Religious Arbitration Agreements In Ministerial Employment Contracts, Grace E. Brandt

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

After decades of development in lower courts, the Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the ministerial exception in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. E.E.O.C. (2012) and provided additional guidance in Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru (2020). The precise contours of the exception remain uncertain, but the doctrine—grounded in the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses of the First Amendment—effectively bars civil courts from reviewing claims against religious institutions that implicate ministerial employment decisions. Thus, ministers are unable to pursue redress for legitimate harms that occur within the scope of their religious employment, even if unrelated to religious doctrine. This …

Off The Gridiron Conflict: Why The Nfl Should Use Mediation To Resolve Internal Disputes, Bryan Weitzman

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

The National Football League (NFL) is a multibillion-dollar enterprise built on a sport that fundamentally depends on communication, cooperation, and collaboration. Yet the league resolves nearly all internal disputes through adversarial arbitration mechanisms embedded in the NFL Constitution and the NFL/NFL Players Association Collective Bargaining Agreement. This comment argues that the NFL’s exclusive reliance on arbitration is conceptually inconsistent with the values that the sport instills and structurally prejudicial to players, coaches, and employees—particularly where the Commissioner retains final arbitral authority. An examination of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) principles and case studies demonstrates how the NFL’s current internal dispute resolution …

The Regulatory Framework For Crowdsourced Online Dispute Resolution: Revisiting The Dispute Resolution Triangle, Yun Zhao, Zhiming Xiao

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

Crowdsourced Online Dispute Resolution (CODR) constitutes a transformative approach to digital-era disputes, fundamentally reconceptualizing dispute resolution through distributed participant networks rather than merely digitizing traditional alternative dispute resolution. Anchored in Katsh and Rifkin’s dispute resolution triangle (trust, convenience, expertise) and Perritt’s co-regulatory governance model, this paper analyzes CODR’s evolution from early systems such as iCourthouse to contemporary implementations. Case studies of eBay Community Court (contractual self-regulation prioritizing convenience) and Xianyu Small Court (state-aligned hybrid governance optimizing expertise through algorithmic juror specialization) demonstrate how platforms operationalize these theoretical frameworks. The legal analysis examines jurisdictional fragmentation and enforcement challenges, revealing how regulatory …

Hiding Elephants In Mouseholes: Judicial (Mis)Application Of The Federal Arbitration Act To Attorney-Client Arbitration Agreements, Gregory L. Smith

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

This article criticizes cases and commentary that assume, without argument, that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) and its decidedly pro-arbitration jurisprudence apply to determine the enforceability of private attorney-client arbitration agreements, thus preempting state bar rules governing disclosures that lawyers must otherwise provide to clients when proposing private, binding arbitration in place of bar-sponsored arbitration regimes. The author argues that applying the FAA and its jurisprudence to attorney-client arbitration agreements raises significant constitutional issues regarding the states’ recognized authority to regulate the legal profession—an issue that courts and commentators have simply ignored.

Dispute Review Boards And The Construction Industry: The Song Remains The Same—Or Does It?, Daniel Mcmillan

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

Dispute Review Boards (DRBs) are a unique form of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) used on large and complex construction projects across the country. Although largely ignored by legal scholars, DRBs have been highly successful in resolving costly, time-consuming disputes involving hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of projects since their advent in 1975. DRBs are a hybrid form of ADR that combine facilitative and evaluative as well as coercive and non-coercive features of more common forms of ADR. But what actually makes DRBs so effective at dispute avoidance and resolution? This article analyzes: (i) the attributes that make DRBs an …

Review Of Scattered And Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives And Remade History, Kai H. Uchida

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

In Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History, historian and archivist Laura E. Helton tells the story of six individuals – Arturo Schomburg, Alexander Gumby, Virginia Lee, Dorothy Porter, Vivian Harsh, and Lawrence Reddick – whose practices of radical collecting revalued and recast the importance of Black history. Helton combines innovative methodological readings of previously undervalued archival sources with a keen understanding of archival practice to illuminate Black archives as a site of radical collecting, intellectual inquiry, and community empowerment. Compellingly written with insights about the theory of their curation and the story of …

Sdilj V. 27-1 Masthead

San Diego International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Note: Greenvent – Revolutionizing Methane Management With Hybrid Energy Processing In Mine Ventilation, Roman J. Jędrzejczyk, Damian K. Chlebda, Jacek Dańczak, Piotr Rosikowski, Monika A. Koperska, Robert E. Hayes, Joseph P. Mmbaga, Robert Hildebrandt, Joanna Profic-Paczkowska

Journal of Sustainable Mining

Methane plays a significant role in intensifying the greenhouse effect, possessing a global warming potential more than twenty times greater than that of CO₂ when measured on a carbon-dioxide-equivalent basis. Hence, identifying efficient methods to mitigate methane emissions is crucial for safeguarding the environment, ensuring economic viability, and maintaining practicality. Globally, research initiatives are dedicated to crafting an effective catalyst system for methane oxidation, which involves developing catalysts, comprehending their characteristics, and determining the best way of bonding them to structural supports to enhance functionality. Notably, systems that incorporate metals from the non-noble d-block of the periodic table as …

Impact Of A Formal Presurgical Curriculum On Early Resident Cataract Outcomes, Shirley Z. Wu, Sumit Sharma, Justin C. Muste, George Markakis, Michael Millstein, Sheldon Oberfeld, Allen Roth, Jack Shao, Thomas L. Steinemann, Elisa Bala, Sunil K. Srivastava, Priya Shukla, Jeffrey Chu, Xinyu Gu, Delaney Ryan, Daniel F. Martin, Jeffrey M. Goshe

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Background: Presurgical training during ophthalmology residency is crucial for a successful transition to cataract surgery in the operating room. Growing evidence suggests that residents benefit more from supervised hands-on learning than from independent practice. The supervised presurgical curriculum approach for early resident cataract surgical training has not been widely studied, especially with regard to the steepest part of the learning curve.

Purpose: To investigate the impact of a formal presurgical wet lab curriculum on early resident cataract complication rates, operative time, and patient visual outcomes.

Methods: In this retrospective case-control study, resident primary cataract cases before and …

Expansion Of A Self-Guided Curriculum And Validation Of A Self-Assessment Tool For Ocular Examination Skills, Maria Lee, Irene Pak, Aryan Chaychian, Isabell Kassaye, Adam Alyafaie, Neeti Parikh, Madeline Yung

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Background: Public interest in vision health is growing, yet ophthalmology remains underemphasized in medical education due to time constraints associated with in-person instruction.

Purpose: To demonstrate effectiveness of self-guided e-learning modules for ocular examination skills and to determine whether self-assessments can reliably assess medical student proficiency in these skills.

Methods: Medical students at a single institution participated in a skills workshop. Group 1 completed self-guided modules for visual acuity, confrontational visual field testing, pupil examination, and extraocular motility evaluation. Group 2 completed a self-guided module for the slit lamp anterior segment examination. Afterward, each student completed a …

Ophthalmology Exposure For Medical Students In Institutions Without A Home Ophthalmology Department: A Review Of The Literature, Rayna Marshall, Sara A. Khan, Meghan Berkenstock

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Background: Matching into an ophthalmology residency program has become increasingly competitive, with a 66% overall match rate reported by the San Francisco Match in 2024. Early exposure to ophthalmology is critical for students to develop an interest in the field, build robust research experiences, and find mentors to create a competitive ophthalmology residency application. These experiences can often be difficult to acquire at institutions that lack an ophthalmology department. Such institutions face unique challenges in providing mentorship and exposure in this medical specialty, underscoring the need for innovative solutions to support interested students.

Purpose: To assess ways a …

Program Director Perspectives On Global Ophthalmology Fellowships, Ashlie A. Bernhisel, John A. Musser Vi, Gena M. Damento, Grant M. Welk, Jacquelyn A. O’Banion, Kieran S. O’Brien, Jeff H. Pettey, Suzanne S. Gilbert

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Background: Eight Global Ophthalmology (GO) fellowship programs are available in the United States, and more than 30 U.S. GO fellows are now alumni. There are no standardized learning objectives for these programs, and fellows’ experiences vary widely between institutions.

Purpose: To survey GO fellowship program directors in the United States to elucidate differences in learning objectives, duration of time abroad, funding sources, and other differences between GO fellowships.

Methods: All program directors at all institutions with current GO fellowship programs in the United States were sent a 25-question questionnaire via email from October through December 2022. The …

Impact Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Current Ophthalmic Surgical Volume In Los Angeles, Pooja Nikki Bisarya, Jason Strawbridge, Justin Hanson, Irena Tsui, Joann Giaconi

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Background: Increased outsourcing of ophthalmology surgeries has negative consequences for patients, who lose continuity of care, and for ophthalmology trainees, who experience reduced surgical volume.

Purpose: To examine the utilization and outsourcing of ophthalmic surgeries at the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs (VA) before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on implications for surgical training and patient outcomes.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study was conducted within the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles (GLA) Healthcare System, specifically at clinical sites staffed by ophthalmology residents. All ophthalmology patients sent for surgery from these sites were included. …

Publishing Under Pressure: Ophthalmology Research Productivity After Adoption Of Step 1 Pass/Fail, Arjun N. Bhatt, Ali Abolhassani, Asim Ahmed, Jack Mcclain, Joanne Thomas, Saurabh Wakade, Shivam Patel, Steven E. Brooks

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Background

The transition of the USMLE Step 1 exam to pass/fail scoring has increased the emphasis on research productivity in competitive specialties such as urology and neurosurgery, yet its impact on ophthalmology bears further investigation. Additionally, the San Francisco Match provides no publicly available data on the research output of matched ophthalmology residency applicants, highlighting a critical gap in understanding the academic profiles of these candidates.

Purpose: To evaluate the relationship between the USMLE Step 1 transition and pre-residency research productivity of matched ophthalmology residents and assess the potential role of medical school NIH funding level on publication metrics. …

Ophthalmology Consult Volume At A Tertiary Care Center Emergency Room: An Emerging Trend, David S. Portney, Breanna Tracey, Jaqueline Stoutin, Tatiana Deveney, Bradford Tannen, Shahzad I Mian

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Background: Changes to the practice of ophthalmology have affected how health systems manage urgent and emergent ophthalmic complaints. However, the literature analyzing recent trends is limited.

Purpose: To analyze trends in the volume of ophthalmology consults and eye-related emergency room visits at a large academic medical center.

Methods: This is a single-institution retrospective observational study of adult emergency room patient encounters and subsequent adult emergency room ophthalmology consults from July 2019 through June 2024. Encounters were categorized as primary eye complaints and nonprimary eye complaints. Ophthalmology consults and emergency room encounters were tracked based on the presentation …

Gender Disparities In Leadership Roles Across The United States Academic Ophthalmology Programs, Fateme Montazeri, Kathryn E Mcannis, Madeline W Hay, Andy Xiao, Saba Faghihzadeh, Parisa Emami-Naeini

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Background: Enhancing gender diversity in leadership can boost overall female participation in the workforce. Gender diversity in the workplace improves innovation, collaboration, and performance.

Purpose: To investigate gender disparities in ophthalmology leadership roles.

Methods: This cross-sectional study of the United States ophthalmology residency programs included chairpersons, residency program directors, and service directors. Data on gender, academic background, and clinical and research experience of leaders were systematically gathered from publicly available sources, including institutional websites, Doximity profiles, Scopus databases, and direct inquiries to each program, from September to November 2023.

Results: Of 539 academic leadership positions in …

Correlation Of Faculty Assessment Scores With Resident Experience And Preparation At The Surgical Curriculum For Ophthalmology Residents Skills Transfer Lab, Mitra Nejad, Mario Cale, Jonathan Reed, Isha Cheela, Grace Sun, Stacy Pineles, Shahzad Mian

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Introduction: The Surgical Curriculum for Ophthalmology Residents (SCOR) provides a standardized system of surgical training and assessment. Skills transfer workshops were held on November 2021 and February 2022 and a learning management system (LMS) was made available to all participating residents prior to the workshops. The purpose of this study was to assess for correlation between faculty assessment scores for phacoemulsification chop (“phaco chop”) techniques with the residents’ experience level and pre-workshop preparation time.

Methods: Residents who registered for the workshops were asked to self-report the number of cataract surgeries they had performed to date, as well as the number …

Total Freedom, Marguerite Sargent

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

No abstract provided.

Aurora St. Luke's Today, 2007 Sep 7-13, Advocate Health - Midwest

Historical Documents - Combined

Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI: Employee newsletter published weekly, with information about what's happening at St. Luke's, as well as Metro Region goals and system-wide initiatives.

Aurora St. Luke's Today, 2007 Jan 26-Feb 1, Advocate Health - Midwest

Historical Documents - Combined

Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI: Employee newsletter published weekly, with information about what's happening at St. Luke's, as well as Metro Region goals and system-wide initiatives.

Aurora St. Luke's Today, 2007 Aug 24-30, Advocate Health - Midwest

Historical Documents - Combined

Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI: Employee newsletter published weekly, with information about what's happening at St. Luke's, as well as Metro Region goals and system-wide initiatives.

Aurora St. Luke's Today, 2006 July 14-20, Advocate Health - Midwest

Historical Documents - Combined

Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI: Employee newsletter published weekly, with information about what's happening at St. Luke's, as well as Metro Region goals and system-wide initiatives.

Aurora St. Luke's Today, 2006 Apr 14-20, Advocate Health - Midwest

Historical Documents - Combined

Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI: Employee newsletter published weekly, with information about what's happening at St. Luke's, as well as Metro Region goals and system-wide initiatives.

Aurora St. Luke's Today, 2006 Apr 7-13, Advocate Health - Midwest

Historical Documents - Combined

Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI: Employee newsletter published weekly, with information about what's happening at St. Luke's, as well as Metro Region goals and system-wide initiatives.