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Nano-Curcumin And Copper Nanoparticles As Enhanced Therapeutics For Lung Cancer: A Molecular Docking And Bioinformatics Study, Sabah Saad Abdulsahib, Zahraa Abdulmunim Sharba, Shaymaa Omar Mohammed, Buthenia A. Hasoon

Baghdad Science Journal

The increased surface area-to-volume ratio and improved biological properties of nanoparticles have made them highly attractive for biomedical applications. In the present study, the cytotoxic effects of Cu, Curcumin, and the Curcumin–Cu complex were evaluated against A549 lung cancer cells using the MTT assay. Molecular docking demonstrated that the Curcumin–Cu complex exhibited the strongest binding affinity toward the HRAS protein (PDB ID: 6MQT), forming multiple hydrogen and ionic interactions with key active-site residues, suggesting a potential interaction with this therapeutic target. Bioinformatics analysis further identified HRAS as a highly expressed cancer-related gene in A549 cells and a key regulator of …

From Protest To Form: Translating Venezuelan Resistance Into Architectural Form, Estefany S. Gomes

Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year

Political unrest in Venezuela has continuously redefined the relationship between power and space. Protest reveals that collective action is inherently spatial. As movement consolidates into collective action, it reorganizes territory and redefines how space is used and occupied. What appears as an event can be understood as a constructed condition shaped by direction, pressure, and intensity. In this sense, protest operates as a temporary architecture formed through motion and presence.

This thesis investigates the spatial intelligence embedded in protest and explores how it can be translated into architectural form. Protests reorganize space through compression and release. They unfold through phases …

Valuing Carbon And Ecosystem Services To Guide Policy Decisions For The Transboundary Al-Hwezeh Marsh, Haider S. Abid, Nadheer A. Fazaa, Mark J. Whittingham, Mahdi Ahmad, Ibrahim Bahr Alolom

Baghdad Science Journal

Al-Hwezeh Marsh, a transboundary freshwater wetland in southeastern Iraq at the Iran border, is one of 40 UNESCO World Heritage sites globally designated for both cultural and natural value. Despite this status, the marsh has undergone severe degradation since the 1970s due to upstream regulation of the Tigris and Karkheh Rivers and local economic pressures from oil extraction and agriculture. Cross-border management efforts, coordinated by Bahr Al-Uloom Foundation, aim to promote sustainable restoration. This study supports these efforts by estimating the economic value of ecosystem services and carbon stock under different marsh area scenarios, integrating cultural, natural, and economic dimensions. …

Effects Of Sowing Date, Water Deficit, And Potassium And Sodium Silicate On Yield And Quality Traits Of Faba Bean (Vicia Faba L.), Mohammed Moatasem Arif Alrawi, Wafaa Ali Hussein

Baghdad Science Journal

Faba bean production in Iraq is becoming much harder due to climate change. Arid environments in the region suffer from a combination of low rainfall, outdated irrigation networks, and extreme heatwaves, all of which directly suppress final crop productivity. As a protein-rich legume of high nutritional and economic value, faba bean requires effective agronomic strategies to maintain yield and quality under stress conditions. This study evaluated, under field conditions during the 2023–2024 growing season in Iraq, the interactive effects of three sowing dates (September, October and November), two deficit irrigation regimes (80% and 60% of the full irrigation control), and …

Safeguarding Childhood: A Comprehensive Review Of Child Abuse In Pakistan, Zohra Asad, Khadija Khaja

Journal for Social Work Scholar-Practitioners

Child abuse is a phenomenon that has affected children from every country, culture, or socio-economic class. Children who are abused or neglected may be more likely to repeat the cycle of violence by entering violent relationships as teens and adults, or with some abusing their children. This paper aims to explore child abuse in Pakistan, the incidence of child abuse, and ways to address it. This academic article seeks to investigate and examine the patterns of child abuse in Pakistan. This report offers insights into the prevalence, types, risk factors, and effects of child abuse in Pakistan by reviewing the …

A Distributional Synoptic Perspective On The So-Called “Historical Present” Tense Of Mark’S Gospel, Oliver Glanz

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

The Greek “historical present” (HP) tense phenomenon is often presented in textbooks and grammars as a literary feature that authors use in historical narrative texts to bring a sense of vividness to the reader. As if the historical distance of the “pastness” of the narrated event is overcome and the reader is brought—like in a time machine—into the presence of the event narrated. Even though this concept of the so-called Greek HP has been contested, if not rejected by some Greek scholars, it is often taught in seminaries and NT Greek textbooks. The absence of a consensus about the function …

Treating The Trauma Beneath The Violence: A Reappraisal Of Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrator Interventions, Huda S. Shaikh, Vanessa Cordoba

Journal for Social Work Scholar-Practitioners

Intimate partner violence (IPV) remains a global public health emergency with little meaningful reduction in prevalence over the past two decades, despite extensive micro-level interventions targeting perpetrators through batterer intervention programs (BIPs) and legal accountability mechanisms (Arce et al., 2020; Babcock et al., 2004; Shetty, 2025; WHO, 2025). Using a macro social work and epistemological lens, this paper argues that the IPV field and judicial systems, particularly in the United States, have relied on an outdated and largely reactive paradigm that obscures the trauma histories of perpetrators, neglects intergenerational and neurobiological mechanisms, and perpetuates epistemic injustice toward both survivors and …

When The Chatbot Is Wrong On Purpose: Using Genai Role-Play To Build Student Engagement And Critical Ai Fluency, Sierra Adare-Tasiwoopa Api

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore how customized AI chatbots can be used to increase student engagement while also teaching students to question AI-generated information. The workshop centers on a role-playing game scenario in which students interact with a chatbot non-player character (NPC) that serves as a guide, informant, but one that sometimes provides incomplete, misleading, or invalid information. Rather than treating chatbot errors as failures, the activity uses them as opportunities for students to practice verification, source evaluation, metacognition, and discipline-specific reasoning.

Participants will first experience a short version of the role-playing activity as students. They will then …

Teaching In The Ai Era: Studying Faculty Course Redesign, Visible Thinking, And Sustainable Implementation, Sierra Adare-Tasiwoopa Api

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

How can faculty development move beyond generic AI guidance toward redesigns that make student thinking visible, clarify AI expectations, and remain feasible for teaching-intensive institutions? This presentation shares the design and emerging findings from Nevada State University’s AI & Accessibility Academy study, which follows faculty from a summer course redesign academy into fall implementation. The study examines changes in faculty self-efficacy around AI-era pedagogy and accessibility, the redesign practices faculty implement, how course artifacts reflect process-focused assessment and accessible design, and what factors support or constrain sustained implementation.

The session describes the study’s mixed-methods design, including faculty pre/post/follow-up surveys, artifact …

Building Bots That Teach Thinking: Using Custom Ai Chatbots To Enhance Critical Thinking And Decision-Making, Megan Biagi

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

Generative AI is increasingly common in education, but its effect on student learning depends largely on how it is used. This interactive session will introduce practical strategies for creating custom AI chatbots that encourage students to think through problems rather than simply ask for answers. Participants will explore ways to design bots that ask learners to explain their reasoning, consider alternative perspectives, identify assumptions, and revise their thinking before receiving feedback.   Examples from healthcare education and other disciplines will show how these tools can support guided inquiry, reflective questioning, clinical reasoning, and decision-making. Participants will review and revise sample chatbot …

5…4…3…2…1, Julia M. Renzelmann

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

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Paralyzed, Paige M. Daly

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

This essay was written for Dr. Simal’s Intermediate Spanish for Health Professions course at Providence College, which invited students to reflect on personal experiences with healthcare. Students shared their narratives in English and Spanish to reach a broader audience and highlight the importance of empathy and listening in healthcare. About the course: Intermediate Spanish for Health Professions aims not only to develop the language skills and medical vocabulary necessary to facilitate communication between future health professionals and the Spanish-speaking communities in the United States, but also to explore the historical, cultural, and ethical dimensions of healthcare in Latin America and …

Just A Stomachache, Jillian M. Spinali

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

This essay was written for Dr. Simal’s Intermediate Spanish for Health Professions course at Providence College, which invited students to reflect on personal experiences with healthcare. Students shared their narratives in English and Spanish to reach a broader audience and highlight the importance of empathy and listening in healthcare. About the course: Intermediate Spanish for Health Professions aims not only to develop the language skills and medical vocabulary necessary to facilitate communication between future health professionals and the Spanish-speaking communities in the United States, but also to explore the historical, cultural, and ethical dimensions of healthcare in Latin America and …

Power Of Badass, Jessica A. Smith

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

No abstract provided.

Testing Personalization In Llm-Based Mental Health Support: A Proposed Experimental Design For College Students, Tchalim P. Agninoube, Greg Williams

Annual DBA Scholars Conference

Rising student mental health demand has outpaced campus counseling capacity. This paper proposes a 2x2 between-subjects experimental design to test whether a personalized LLM-based chatbot, grounded in just-in-time adaptive intervention principles and cognitive load theory, provides better short-term anxiety reduction than a standard chatbot across stress and neutral contexts. The personalized chatbot uses wearable stress data, sleep quality, self-reported overwhelm, and support preferences to select between low-load and elaborative support paths. The design contributes a practical framework for evaluating personalization in AI-driven mental health tools and informs scalable, responsible institutional deployment.

Bridging Awareness And Action: A Multilevel Model Of Organizational Learning, Safety Climate, And Sickle Cell Trait Safety Compliance, Kimberly Snowden

Annual DBA Scholars Conference

Despite the existence of NCAA and National Athletic Trainers’ Association guidelines, preventable sickle cell trait (SCT)-related adverse events continue to occur in athletic settings. This study examines how organizational learning capacity, safety climate, leadership commitment, and individual risk perception influence compliance with SCT safety protocols and related safety outcomes. Drawing on Organizational Learning Theory, Safety Climate Theory, and the Health Belief Model, the study proposes a multilevel framework tested through an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design. Findings are expected to identify organizational predictors of compliance and provide practical recommendations to strengthen SCT safety implementation and reduce preventable athlete harm.

The Paradoxes Of Mental Health Disclosure In The Workplace: What Employee Voices Reveal About Courage And Organizational Culture, Steve G. Winkel D.B.A.

Annual DBA Scholars Conference

The lived experience of mental health disclosure is deeply paradoxical. Drawing on thematic analysis of qualitative data from 572 U.S. employees with diagnosed mental health conditions — 282 of whom disclosed to a manager or HR professional — this paper presents three central paradoxes: (1) disclosure normalizes experience but does not neutralize vulnerability; (2) the same conversation produces both safety and stigma; and (3) disclosure requires courage, revealing the inadequacy of existing organizational norms. A constructivist grounded theory approach guided the inquiry. Theoretical implications for stigma management theory (Goffman, 1963) and psychological safety research (Edmondson, 1999) and practical implications for …

Microbusiness Owner-Managers And Financial Planning: A Transtheoretical Model Of Behaviour Change Approach, Christopher L. Gorman

Annual DBA Scholars Conference

The practitioner-scholar proposes a cross-sectional study to investigate how microbusiness owner-managers adopt financial planning behaviour through the lens of the Transtheoretical Model of Behaviour Change (TTM). The study will examine the TTM’s stages of change and the factors that influence these owner-managers’ decisions to engage in financial planning. By applying a behaviour change framework to an underexplored area of financial planning research, the study will aim to identify barriers and opportunities to microbusiness owners’ adoption of financial planning. The findings will inform strategies CFP^® professionals can use to enhance client engagement, communication, and decision-making among microbusiness owner-managers.

Inside Imsa’S Ai Credential: Building Ai Skills For Students & Educators, Tami Armstrong, Ai Center,, Dr. Zack Conley, Outreach,, Kavithaa Suresh Kumar, Academics,, Marti Shirley, Imsa Alum

Professional Learning Day

Explore IMSA’s free, online AI Credential, launching this fall as a self-paced, asynchronous course for high school students and educators. Participants will get an inside look at the eight-module curriculum designed to build foundational AI knowledge, responsible use, and practical skills. The session will also preview how IMSA plans to build on this experience to develop a dedicated educator AI Credential focused on pedagogy, instructional strategies, and meaningful classroom application.

Exploratory Data Analysis On Stress In America: The Impact Of Health, Age, And Employment, Liv E. Bookhamer, Olivia Turkal, Rebecca Fang

Modern Psychological Studies

Over the past few decades, stress levels in America have increased significantly. This study explores the relationship between stress and key demographic and health-related variables using the 2018 Stress in America survey data. The research aims to examine how age, employment status, physical health, mental health, and mental health treatment influence average stress levels in the U.S. Previous studies have highlighted that younger adults, particularly those aged 18-34, experience higher levels of stress, while individuals with employment tend to report greater stress than those without. Furthermore, stress is known to be linked to physical and mental health, with severe stress …

Becoming Anything: Stem Cells And The Power Of Analogy, Sarah O’Leary-Driscoll, Dr. Jessica Amacher, Academics

Professional Learning Day

How does a single cell become a heart, a neuron, or skin? In this session, we will explore stem cells and cell differentiation through analogy-based modeling. No prior knowledge necessary! Participants will work through a hands-on analogy that makes gene expression familiar and concrete. Then we will discuss other examples, and consider what makes analogies effective and where they break down. Come to learn the fascinating science of how we each develop; leave with a powerful teaching strategy you can use in any discipline.

Supporting Teens Through Grief & Loss, Jayshree Panchal, Student Affairs

Professional Learning Day

Teens may appear and communicate in ways that resemble adults, yet they are still in the process of learning to manage their emotions, comprehend their relationships, and establish their identity in the world. When they experience grief and loss, they are navigating through their own unique journey of mourning. This workshop aims to assist you in understanding how to provide support to teens as they navigate the lifelong process of grieving.

2025 Medicaid Cuts Effect On Substance Use Intervention And Treatment, Noah K. Pierini

Modern Psychological Studies

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed by congress will negatively impact substance use disorder (SUD) intervention and treatment. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will be dismantled, state grants will be eliminated, and a streamlined enrollment process will be terminated. Vulnerable populations will experience more significant losses of insurance coverage in general and greater upticks in SUD-related mortality specifically. This is due to these populations relying on Medicaid for both overall and behavioral health care at a higher-than-average rate. Currently, research is limited on the relationship between SDoH and Medicaid’s effect on SUD intervention and treatment. Furthermore, there exists almost …

Saving Macarthur: The Story Of America’S Most Daring Naval Rescue, And Of The Men It Left Behind, Edmund B. Hernandez, Rudy Tomedi

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

China’S Spies: Beijing’S Espionage Offensive, Andrew G. Wilson, Nigel West

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Set & Drift—“Long Before The Enemy Is Sighted”: Frank Marble, Cdr., Usn, Carlos R. Rivera

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

A History Of State Attacks On Submarine Cables, Jonathan Winkler

Naval War College Review

Performing a heavier lift than most realize, the world’s submarine cables are being sabotaged at an increasing rate. But what seems a recent phenomenon belies a long history of attacks on these vital lines of communication.

Interrelated Risk Of The Maritime Choke-Point Network, Michael Kidd, Giana Farry, Violet G. Frost, Liam Kiley, Aakash Palathra, Moe Abdelsalam

Naval War College Review

Disruptions to choke points in various parts of the choke-point network create chains of risks spreading far and wide.Using mathematic modeling presents ways to mitigate negative impacts across the whole of the choke-point network.

From The Editors, Sam J. Tangredi, Editor-In-Chief

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Autumn 2026 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.