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Home Based Elder Care (Hbec) In India: Exploring Culturally Competent Models, Urmi Nanda Biswas

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

The chapter deliberates on elder care models within the sociocultural context of India, aligning with traditional values and family structure. The chapter is based on mini-case studies of 47 healthcare organizations that offer various types of care services to the aging population and extends to discuss a few of the upcoming models. Key informant interviews were conducted across different types of organisations studied involving the CEO/manager / proprietors, paramedical staff, and the seniors availing the services of the organisation. Apart from this focused group discussions of seniors in rural communities were also conducted. Structures of the organizations, along with the …

Factors Influencing Flourishing In Autoimmune Patients: A Systematic Review, Amherstia Pasca Rina, Endang R. Surjaningrum

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

This scoping literature review aimed to identify factors that influence flourishing and to synthesize gaps in previous studies that flourishing is not only influenced by the internal factor but how the social conditions individuals live in can also affect flourishing. Autoimmune diseases are incurable and associated with mental health conditions that can exacerbate the intensity of recurrence, so it is necessary to take protective measures, namely flourishing as a form of behavioral management of chronic diseases. The prevalence of autoimmune patients who are declared flourishing is relatively small, but flourishing is actually a psychological concept that is needed by everyone …

Home Care Workers, Immigration, And An Aging Population, Catherine Ipsen, Luke Santore

Employment

The size of the Home Care Worker (HCW) workforce has not kept pace with demand, and inadequate compensation and benefits have historically contributed to poor HCW recruitment and retention. Demographic trends put further strain on the workforce, with immigrants, naturalized citizens, and Black and Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) individuals currently making up the majority of the HCW workforce.

Policy changes, cuts to benefits, and immigration crackdowns threaten to further weaken the supply of HCWs while the demand continues to rise. In this report, Catherine Ipsen and Luke Santore provide analysis and strategies to support HCWs and strengthen the Personal …

Salvadora Persica’S Effects On Oral Microbiota And Possible Pathophysiological Links To Type Ii Diabetes Mellitus Risk Factors, Ahmed Bahieldin, Heba J. Sabbagh, Mohammed H Alshehri, Abdullah M. Algarni, Naif Aljahdali, Ibrahim M. Asir, Khalid Mohammed Alzahrani, Awad S. Almhwary, Fatemah Saleh Alzaghabi, Abdullah Jaber Alsahafi, Amjed S Alshehri, Ali Ahmed Alzahrani, Faisal M. Alotaibi, Mohammed A. Alghamdi, Abdulwahab S. Almutairi, Sherif Edris

The Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Science

The application of Miswak (Salvadora persica) in healthy children was investigated to identify the oral microbiota associated with risk factors for type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Deep sequencing of the bacterial 16S rDNA V3–V4 regions was conducted on oral microbiome samples obtained prior to and following swaking. The KEGG database and PICRUSt analysis indicated that swaking affected functional pathways, resulting in an enrichment of transport pathways and a decrease in the risk factor associated with the T2DM pathway. Seven operational taxonomic units (OTUs), comprising the uncharacterized species Prevotella, Atopobium, Actinomyces, Lactobacillus, Neisseria bacilliformis, Actinomycetaceae, …

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Spiritan Horizons

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Following The Holy Spirit Together: Our Lay Spiritan Journey, Paula Nettleship, Ian Nettleship Phd

Spiritan Horizons

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Spiritan Horizons

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Understanding Ai Literacy: Implications For Practice​, Devon Olson, Janet Anderson, Sara Westall

Librarian Publications

Presentation from the 2025 Mountain Plains Library Association Tri-Conference, held in Grand Forks, ND. This presentation provides an overview of basic AI concepts and frameworks for AI literacy, discussing the impact of different patron and learner demographics on learner needs, competencies, and instructional strategies.

Trade Secrecy’S Information Paradox, Christopher Buccafusco, Jonathan S. Masur, Deepa Varadarajan

Notre Dame Law Review

Trade secret law is meant to encourage socially beneficial behaviors by permitting firms to protect their investments in the creation of valuable information. In theory, the ability to protect valuable information will make firms more likely to create that information in the first instance. But the law can also be used to shield socially harmful behaviors from public oversight. Firms can assert trade secret protection to prevent journalists, watchdogs, and criminal defendants from learning whether they are engaged in dangerous, wrongful, or biased activity. Ideally, trade secret law should sort socially beneficial uses from socially harmful ones, permitting only the …

Foundations For Platform Liability, Kathryn E. Spier, Rory Van Loo

Notre Dame Law Review

From spreading misinformation to selling deadly products, bad actors use technology platforms to their advantage while causing devastating harms to privacy, health, and even democracy. Despite their central role in enabling these bad actors, the platforms almost entirely escape liability. This legal immunity is purportedly grounded in economics. From the beginning, courts and legislatures feared that liability would chill innovation, growth, and user access. They also speculated that platforms have sufficient market incentives to voluntarily police bad actors, making liability unnecessary.

Whereas many scholars have argued that platform immunity is blind to justice, this Article shows that it is also …

Henry J. Duff – Unheralded Reformer, Russell J. Desimone

Dorr Scholarship

In the aftermath of the failed 1842 Dorr Rebellion, a new Rhode Island state constitution was drafted and ratified. It was claimed that the new constitution included many of the provisions that were in the extra-legal People’s Constitution. This was not exactly true. In one respect the new state constitution differed from the People’s Constitution in that naturalized citizens were required to have a freehold while native born citizens were not. Henry J. Duff, a naturalized citizen from Ireland, fought for a period of five years to have the state constitution amended to remove the freehold requirement for naturalized citizens. …

Policy Analytic Approach To Overcoming Barriers In Transitional Support For Autistic Racial And Ethnic Minority Youth, Rosaline Owusu Dnp, Mph, Fnp-Bc, Crnp

Department of Family Medicine

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Gaia Dr3 Photometric And Kinematics Studies Of Two Open Star Clusters: King 13 And Teutsch 1, N. T. Alsslegy, A. A. Haroon

The Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Science

This research examines two largely unstudied open clusters: King 13 and Teutsch 1. It analyses their photometric and kinematic properties. The study utilizes the optical wavelength data from Gaia DR3. We found 521 and 414 candidates for their respective clusters as highly probable astrometric members. Fitting King’s profile within RDPs, we estimate both core and limiting radii. For each cluster, we create color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) and analyses them by fitting them with appropriate isochrones that have specific metallicities (0.0193 and 0.0196) and different ages (0.818 ± 0.043 and 0.539 ± 0.038; age by Gyr), thus, the heliocentric distances are 3.00 …

Mammal Diversity Of Wadi Fatimah Dam Area, Makkah Al-Mukarramah Region, Saudi Arabia, Abdulrahman Abdullah Alasiri, Hassan Mahfudh Felemban, Isam Mohammed Abu Zeid

The Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Science

This study assessed the diversity and status of mammals in the Wadi Fatimah Dam area, Makkah Al-Mukarramah Region, Saudi Arabia, over twelve months from April 2019 to March 2020. The study area, approximately 10 km², was divided into five sites, yielding a total of 18 mammal species from 9 families, with 429 individual observations. Notable species included the Hamadryas Baboon, Arabian Wolf, Afro-Asiatic Wildcat, and Rock Hyrax, with the highest diversity recorded during rainy seasons, particularly between November and December. The presence of water significantly influenced mammal populations, with fluctuations corresponding to rainfall patterns. The study envisaged that …

The Potential Effect Of Ginger As An Adjuvant Treatment In Mice With Induced Multiple Sclerosis: Histological And Physiological Studies, Abdulkader M. A. Shaikh Omar, Salim M. El-Hamidy, Dalia Mohammed Kenani, Safa Hassan Qahl, Ghadah Alshahrani

The Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Science

Objectives: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disorder of the central nervous system that affect liver and kidneys. Newer treatments for MS were developed such as drug Ibudilast (IBD) and natural plants such as 6-Shogaols (Ginger components). The current study investigates the protective effects of IBD, 6-Shogaols, and their combination on the liver and kidneys of MS mice model.

Methods: Thirty-five mice were used. The study duration was 9 weeks; 5 weeks for demyelination induction by Cuprizone (CPZ) followed by 4 weeks for remyelination. At demyelination, mice were assigned into; Control group (n = 10) and CPZ group (n = …

Transition Metal Nitrides As High-Performance, Cost-Effective Alternatives To Noble Metals In Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensing, Wafa Said Al-Haraidh, Moustafa Ahmed

The Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Science

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors using noble metals like gold face critical limitations in cost, thermal stability, and spectral tunability, despite their strong plasmonic response. This study demonstrates that refractory metal nitrides-titanium nitride (TiN) and zirconium nitride (ZrN) achieve competitive sensing performance, while addressing these drawbacks. Employing the transfer matrix method in a Kretschmann prism coupling configuration, we systematically evaluate TiN and ZrN against gold across key metrics, such as surface plasmon quality factor, penetration depth, and propagation length. Results reveal that metal nitride-based SPR sensors achieve sensitivity up to 155.3 deg/RIU and detection accuracy of 0.077 deg^–1, …

Hospitalized Adult Patients With Hypokalemia (Cont.), Lisa Mclaughlin

Nurse Residency

In hospitalized adult patients with hypokalemia, how does intravenous potassium supplementation compare to oral (PO) potassium supplementation in affecting the time to normalization of serum potassium levels within a 72-hour inpatient stay?

Scheduled Ambulation Twice Per Shift To Reduce Hospital-Acquired Delirium, Rylee Collins Rn

Nurse Residency

In older adult inpatients ages 65 and older on a medical-surgical telemetry unit, does scheduled ambulation twice per shift with staff assistance, compared to as-needed ambulation, reduce the incidence of hospital-acquired delirium during hospitalization?

Reducing Delirium In Older Adults: The Role Of Quiet Hours During Hospitalization, Kelly Hermawan Bsn, Rn

Nurse Residency

In older adults how does the implementation of quiet hours compared to no quiet hours affect the incidence of delirium as measured by positive cam score during hospitalization?

Beyond Phonics: Neuroaesthetic And Symbolic Divergence In Culturally Responsive Dyslexia Screening, Piper Hutson, James Hutson

Faculty Scholarship

Recent advances in neuroscience and educational technology have challenged the traditional phonological-deficit model of dyslexia, revealing the profound influence of visual-symbolic processing, neuroaesthetic resonance, and cultural context in the reading brain. This article interrogates prevailing assessment paradigms by synthesizing research on the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA), cross-linguistic literacy systems, and emerging neurodiversity frameworks. The study addresses the urgent need to reconceptualize dyslexia as a heterogeneous divergence in symbolic processing—rooted as much in neuroaesthetic and visuospatial alignment as in phonemic awareness. Existing screeners, predominantly optimized for English and other Latin-based scripts, systematically neglect the cognitive realities of learners in multilingual …

Flea News 96 (November 2025), R. L. Bossard

Flea News

Flea News is a twice-yearly newsletter about fleas (Siphonaptera). Before including in publications any of the citations given here, please review for accuracy and correct formatting. Many of our sources are abstracting journals and current literature sources, and editors have not necessarily checked citations.

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Obituary: Lane Douglas Foil (June 16, 1949 - June 22, 2025)

Siphonaptera Literature (2025): Taxonomy, Conservation, Hosts and Distributions, Physiology and Morphology, Evolution, Ecology, Pathology and Control, Microbial Symbionts

Resonant Body Communication For Neurodivergent Contexts: A Multimodal, Temporally Elastic Blueprint For Inclusive Biometric Systems, Piper Hutson, James Hutson

Faculty Scholarship

Prevailing emotion-sensing systems privilege a facial-and-gaze paradigm that encodes neurotypical tempo, channel priority, and expression classes, thereby mischaracterizing or erasing neurodivergent communication. This article advances a design-oriented framework for biometric sensing that centers resonant body communication: temporally extended, multimodal, and environmentally situated patterns of posture, gesture, rhythm, and interoception that carry affective meaning. Through an integrative methodology that synthesizes cognitive neuroscience, embodied arts practices, and human–computer interaction, the study formalizes a theoretical model with four pillars: temporal elasticity, multimodal sensory hierarchies, resonant gestures and rhythmic entrainment, and environmental attunement. Building on this model, the article specifies technical requirements for next-generation …

Identifying Superior Finger Millet (Eleusine Coracana L.) Landraces Using The Multi-Trait Genotype-Ideotype Distance Index (Mgidi), Sujan Chapagaina, Bishnu Prasad Kandela, Sudikshya Shresthaa, Ankur Poudela, Shubh Pravat Singh Yadavb

Extension Publications

Genetic variability and selection are crucial for finger millet breeding programs to maximize genetic gain and productivity. This study evaluated 18 finger millet landraces cultivated in the mid-hills of Nepal, along with ‘Kavre Kodo 2’ as a check variety, assessing 14 agro-morphological traits. The objective was to identify superior finger millet landraces using a multivariate approach based on the multi-trait genotype– ideotype distance index (MGIDI). The experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications. Principal component analysis revealed that the first five components collectively accounted for 80.8% of the total variation, reflecting the genetic relatedness …

European Management Studies 2025, Vol. 23, No. 2

European Management Studies

European Management Studies 2025, vol. 23, no. 2

Reverse Auction As Purchasing Tool: Literature Review And Research Agenda, Jaroslav Urminsky, Marketa Zajarosova

European Management Studies

Purpose: The study aims to organize and analyse the fragmented knowledge base on reverse auctions that has emerged across multiple disciplines due to global digitization. It seeks to identify key research themes, methodologies, and trends in both private and public sector applications.

Design/methodology/approach: A systematic literature review was conducted covering two decades of research indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. Hundreds of articles addressing diverse aspects of reverse auctions were examined and categorized through network and content analysis to uncover thematic clusters and methodological tendencies.

Findings: The analysis indicates a growing academic interest in reverse …

Breaking The Barriers: Mediating Effects Of Agile Hr Practices And Challenging Organizational Members’ Comfort Zones On The Link Between Digital And Agile Transformation And Organizational Performance, Bora Coşar

European Management Studies

Purpose: Building on organizational change management (OCM), this study examines how digital and agile transformations influence organizational performance through people-centred mechanisms. Using socio-technical systems theory, the study investigates how aligning technical workflows and social roles can turn transformation initiatives into measurable performance gains.

Design/methodology/approach: The research analyses data from 402 employees in Turkey’s connector manufacturing sector through structural equation modelling (SEM). Agile HR practices and employees’ behaviours that challenge their comfort zones are tested as parallel mediators connecting digital and agile transformations to organizational performance.

Findings: The findings demonstrate that digital and agile transformations have a positive impact …

From Prestige To Performance: Evaluating Law School Outcomes Using Value-Added Modeling, Jason Scott, Andrea Pals, Dominique Monserrat

AccessLex Institute Research

Bar passage and employment rates are widely used to evaluate law school performance, yet these raw outcomes often reflect student selection rather than institutional performance. This study applies a value-added modeling (VAM) framework to assess the contributions of law schools to student success, controlling for prior achievement and contextual factors. Using a 10-year panel dataset of 189 ABA-accredited law schools, we estimate fixed-effects models to isolate the impact of the law school learning environment on first-time bar passage and law-related employment. Our findings reveal that schools traditionally viewed as underperforming often exceed expectations when student background is accounted for, challenging …

Sailors And Scholars: The History Of The U.S. Naval War College, 1884–2009, Vol. 1, John Hattendorf, B. Mitchell Simpson Iii, John R. Wadleigh

Sailors and Scholars, Second Edition

Volume I, 1884–1984: The First Century, covers from the Naval War College’s founding during the era of Luce and Mahan through its centennial anniversary during the Cold War, detailing how the College came to be widely acclaimed as the premier center of professional naval education and thought.

Multinational Transfusion Practices And Outcomes In Haematology Patients Admitted To The Intensive Care Unit, Caroline Schaap, Laurens Oomen, Senta Raasveld, Jimmy Schenk, Sanne De Bruin, Merijn Reuland, Claudia Oord, Jan Bakker, Maurizio Cecconi, Marcus Lance

Anaesthesiology, East Africa

Background and Objectives The number of critically ill patients with haematological conditions is increasing, yet transfusion practices in this population remain poorly defined. This study aimed to compare transfusion strategies in critically ill patients with versus without haematological conditions.

Study Design and Methods This international, prospective observational substudy of the International Point Prevalence Study of Intensive Care Unit [ICU] Transfusion Practices (InPUT) evaluated transfusion use in ICU patients with and without haematological conditions, including benign or malignant diseases or a history of stem cell transplantation. Outcomes included use of red blood cells (RBCs), platelets, plasma, haemostatic interventions, transfusion indications and …

Compassion, Connection, And Capacity: Outcomes Of A Yearlong Contemplative Medicine Fellowship, Anne Kennard, Jennifer Clinkenbeard, Erin Gillespie, David Iozzi

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications and Presentations

Objective: To evaluate how a year-long Contemplative Medicine Fellowship impacts physician burnout, moral injury, work-life integration, meaning, capacity for compassion, and professional resilience.

Design: A pre–post survey observational study using a combination of validated survey tools and questionnaire items authored by the research team.

Setting: The New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care (NYZC), an educational nonprofit in the US, offers a year-long, remote learning fellowship in contemplative medicine that integrates mindfulness, compassion training, reflective inquiry, community engagement, and other contemplative approaches to the practice of medicine.

Intervention: Participation in the Contemplative Medicine Fellowship, which includes experiential contemplative practice, didactic …