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Paramilitary Model And Civilian Employee’S Impression Of Law Enforcement, Deanna Vue

Master of Arts in Criminal Justice Leadership

Law enforcement agencies have long been facing a leadership crisis. Much of law enforcement organizational structure and leadership have been focused solely on police officers. Law enforcement leaders forget these traditional models and rigid structure also affect civilian personnel. The chain of command serves to streamline communication, not to facilitate unchecked behavior. However, many law enforcement leaders continue to rely on the chain of command for everything from mentoring, to coaching, to evaluation. Civilians may feel they are treated unequally and suffer from an unbalanced psychological injury. Some may consider it blasphemous to change the traditional organizational structure of law …

Gathered Together: The Impact Of In-Person Experiences In A Virtual Age, Consuela Knox

DMin Project Theses

This February 2024 Doctor of Ministry project thesis at Lipscomb University analyzes how following the height of a global health pandemic which required that individuals quarantine, in-person attendance at West Harpeth Church worship services has not reached the pre-pandemic level. The goal of this project was to enhance West Harpeth members’ theological understanding of the importance of in-person corporate gatherings as compared to virtual gatherings. The key research question was: Can awareness of the value of in-person corporate gatherings at West Harpeth, in comparison to virtual gatherings, be raised among members by them engaging in theological reflection? Related questions were: …

Overprotected But Unrepresented: An Argument For Mandatory Appointment Of Counsel And Against Automatic General Conservatorships In California, Maria De Los Angeles Reyes Olmedo

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

Conservatorships are restrictive arrangements that must be reserved for people with severe intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. However, California probate courts unnecessarily impose conservatorships and forego less restrictive alternatives for the sake of administrative convenience. While AB 1194 will ameliorate California’s paternalistic conservatorship system, this Note advocates for requiring courts to appoint counsel to all conservatees and proposed conservatees in every conservatorship proceeding, and to enact conservatorships only after proving less restrictive methods are insufficient. Humans—regardless of their dis/ability—deserve to age with dignity in a conservatee-centric system that does not violate their constitutional, federal, and state rights.

Professor Pillsbury And The Boundaries Of Deserved Punishment, Kevin Lapp

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Stones In Sam Pillsbury's Bowl, Scott Wood

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Fostering Responsible Innovation In Fintech, Willie Almack

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

The California Consumer Financial Protection Law (CCFPL) was passed in 2020. This piece of legislation rebranded the state’s financial services regulator as the “Department of Financial Protection and Innovation” (DFPI) and authorized the creation of an “Office of Financial Technology Innovation” (OFTI) within the DFPI. The CCFPL grants the DFPI expanded supervision over “fintech” providers—firms that leverage software-based technologies to deliver financial services to consumers via nontraditional conduits. Recognizing that fintech presents both potential benefits and risks for consumers, the California legislature took measures to ensure that the new regulatory scheme does not stifle innovation. Using the DFPI as a …

"Judicial Frustration": A Local Judge's Bold Attempt To Solve The Homelessness Crisis From The Bench, Gregory A. Alonge

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

In May 2021, in the case of LA Alliance v. Los Angeles, Judge David O. Carter of the Central District of California granted a sweeping order enjoining the city and county of Los Angeles to offer shelter to all unhoused persons living in Skid Row. The 109-page order identified structural racism and government indifference as the unconstitutional causes of homelessness in the region, and condemned California’s housing-first approach to addressing the issue. Although the Ninth Circuit swiftly vacated the preliminary injunction on procedural grounds, Judge Carter’s order begs the question: would universal shelter offers actually ameliorate the homelessness crisis? …

Wayne Sayer, Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation

Bridges Digital Archive: Audio and Video Recordings

In this interview, Wayne Sayer is the guest. Sayer speaks of his time in high school where, as a freshman, he saw a riot about to break out between the Mexican and White students. Sayer also explains that previous to that event, there was a lot of racial tension that was occurring in the school, such as fights. Sayer then answers the interviewer's questions regarding school activism, saying that he and other students wanted to confront a problem at that moment. For the question of whether he had any advisor or teacher that he remembered fondly, Sayer talked about his …

February 24, 2023 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Field-Tunable Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Correlations In A Heisenberg Magnet, D. Opherden, M.S.J. Tepaske, F. Bärtl, M. Weber, M.M Turnbull, T. Lancaster, S.J. Blundell, M. Baenitz, J. Wosnitza, C.P. Landee, R. Moessner, D.J. Luitz

Chemistry

We report the manifestation of field-induced Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) correlations in the weakly coupled spin-1/2 Heisenberg layers of the molecular-based bulk material [Cu(pz)2(2-HOpy)2](PF6)2. At zero field, a transition to long-range order occurs at 1.38 K, caused by a weak intrinsic easy-plane anisotropy and an interlayer exchange of J′/kB≈1 mK. Because of the moderate intralayer exchange coupling of J/kB=6.8 K, the application of laboratory magnetic fields induces a substantial XY anisotropy of the spin correlations. Crucially, this provides a significant BKT regime, as the tiny interlayer exchange J′ only induces 3D correlations upon close approach to the BKT transition with its exponential …

Graph Analysis On Social Networks, Shen Lu

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

With the development of transportation network, social network, and communication network, there are many applications in streaming data. For example, traffic congestion happens between the origin and destination of daily trips. Traffic analysis can help plan the trips so that traffic congestion can be avoided. Social network and communication network represent the behaviors of the entire population. People build connections based on their hobbies, daily activities, photos, videos, simple messages, and even anonymous web surfing. All of these can be turned into commercial use, such as product marketing, business network building, and technology trending. Data science is about how to …

Beyond Regulation: Competition In The Pharmaceutical Industry And The Public Manufacturing Of Drugs, Jane Kaufman

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

High generic drug prices affect patient access to health care. This is not only detrimental to individual members of the public but is also a problem for the entire healthcare system. Market conditions in the pharmaceutical industry as well as anticompetitive behavior by pharmaceutical companies can directly produce high drug prices. This Note argues that the government should go beyond the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry to lower drug costs and instead become a market player, adding competition to the generic drug market. The public manufacturing of drugs is likely an effective policy solution for the federal government or state …

From Tuberculosis Bedside To Bench: Ube2b Splicing As A Potential Biomarker And Its Regulatory Mechanism, Mengyuan Lyu, Jian Zhou, Yanbing Zhou, Weelic Chong, Wei Xu, Hongli Lai, Lu Niu, Yang Hai, Xiaojun Yao, Sheng Gong, Qinglan Wang, Yi Chen, Yili Wang, Liyu Chen, Ganzi People's Hospital, Jiongjiong Zeng, Chengdi Wang, Binwu Ying

Student Papers, Posters & Projects

Alternative splicing (AS) is an important approach for pathogens and hosts to remodel transcriptome. However, tuberculosis (TB)-related AS has not been sufficiently explored. Here we presented the first landscape of TB-related AS by long-read sequencing, and screened four AS events (S100A8-intron1-retention intron, RPS20-exon1-alternaitve promoter, KIF13B-exon4-skipping exon (SE) and UBE2B-exon7-SE) as potential biomarkers in an in-house cohort-1. The validations in an in-house cohort-2 (2274 samples) and public datasets (1557 samples) indicated that the latter three AS events are potential promising biomarkers for TB diagnosis, but not for TB progression and prognosis. The excellent performance of classifiers further underscored the diagnostic value …

A Review Of Perceived Risk Role In Autonomous Vehicles Acceptance, Ho Jen Sim, Tan Booi Chen, Lau Teck Chai, Nasreen Khan Thandar Oo

International Journal of Management, Finance and Accounting

The purpose of this study is to critically review literature pertaining to the theoretical concept of perceived risk and its role in autonomous vehicle (AV) studies. A mapping on the placement of perceived risk to explain its position concerning AV acceptance either as a direct predictor or mediator as well as the number of dimensions used (i.e., single or multi-dimensions) in the context of AV, will be derived based on the critical review. Interestingly, a critical gap was discovered in which very little attention had been paid to the use of perceived risk as the multidimensional constructs that included financial …

Human Disturbances Dominated The Unprecedentedly High Frequency Of Yellow River Flood Over The Last Millennium, Shi Yong Yu, Wen Jia Li, Liang Zhou, Xuefeng Yu, Qiang Zhang, Zhixiong Shen

Marine Science

A warming climate may increase flood hazard through boosting the global hydrological cycle. However, human impact through modifications to the river and its catchment is not well quantified. Here, we show a 12,000-year-long record of Yellow River flood events by synthesizing sedimentary and documentary data of levee overtops and breaches. Our result reveals that flood events in the Yellow River basin became almost an order of magnitude more frequent during the last millennium than the middle Holocene and 81 ± 6% of the increased flood frequency can be ascribed to anthropogenic disturbances. Our findings not only shed light on the …

Associating Outcomes After Hip Arthroscopy With Patient Resilience, Patrick F Szukics, Peters Otlans, Matthew Meade, Jeffrey Lynch, John P. Salvo

Rothman Institute Papers

Background: Higher patient resilience has been shown to be associated with improved patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) at 6 months after hip arthroscopy.

Purpose: To examine the relationship between patient resilience and PROMs at minimum 2 years after hip arthroscopy.

Study design: Cross-sectional study; Level of evidence, 3.

Methods: Included were 89 patients (mean age, 36.9 years; mean follow-up, 4.6 years). Patient demographics, surgical details, and preoperative International Hip Outcome Tool-12 (iHOT-12) and visual analog scale (VAS) pain scores were collected retrospectively. Postoperative variables were collected via a survey and included the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS), Patient Activation Measure-13 (PAM-13), Pain …

Videoconference Administration Of The Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System, Zachary T. Stine

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)

Neuropsychological assessments rely on standardization, reliability, validity, and normative data to increase the accuracy of clinicians’ interpretations (Lezak et al., 2012). One particular assessment that focuses on examining comprehensive executive functioning is the Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS; Delis et al., 2001). Videoconference is gaining in use to provide services within multiple healthcare domains to increase access to care and convenience, potentially reduce costs, and sustain patient satisfaction (Brearly et al., 2017). The literature has shown support for the growing field of telehealth neuropsychology (Brearly et al., 2017); however, many neuropsychological assessments, such as the D-KEFS, have not been normed …

Multitrait Genome-Wide Analyses Identify New Susceptibility Loci And Candidate Drugs To Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, Ryan Sun, Julia Y Roh, Heather J Cordell, Hyun-Sung Lee, Vikram R Shaw, Sung Wook Kang, Javad Razjouyan, Matthew A Cooley, Manal M Hassan, Katherine A Siminovitch, Trine Folseraas, David Ellinghaus, Annika Bergquist, Simon M Rushbrook, Andre Franke, Tom H Karlsen, Konstantinos N Lazaridis, Kathryn A. Mcglynn, Katherine A Mcglynn, Lewis R Roberts, Christopher I Amos, International Psc Study Group

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a rare autoimmune bile duct disease that is strongly associated with immune-mediated disorders. In this study, we implemented multitrait joint analyses to genome-wide association summary statistics of PSC and numerous clinical and epidemiological traits to estimate the genetic contribution of each trait and genetic correlations between traits and to identify new lead PSC risk-associated loci. We identified seven new loci that have not been previously reported and one new independent lead variant in the previously reported locus. Functional annotation and fine-mapping nominated several potential susceptibility genes such as MANBA and IRF5. Network-based in silico drug …

Does Structural Racism Influence How Black/African Americans Define Memory Loss And Cognitive Impairment? An Africana Phenomenological Study, Andre Pruitt

Dissertations and Theses

With the variety of research about dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD), few studies have explored the effect of social structures, such as racism, on how Black/African Americans conceptualize memory loss, dementia, or AD. Furthermore, limited within the scholarship are the environmental factors and structural racism that are thought to influence cognitive impairments and meaning making about cognitive decline impacting Black/African Americans.

Most U.S. research centers on methodologies and epistemologies grounded in Eurocentric ways of knowing (objectivity, individuality, either/or logic). However, Eurocentric methodologies fail to acknowledge the cultural experiences with memory loss, cognitive impairment, dementia, and AD, as well as the …

Motive As An Aggravating Factor In The Law Of Intentional Homicide, Stuart P. Green

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Local, Regional, And Global Adaptations To A Compound Pandemic-Weather Stress Event, Iman Haqiqi, Danielle S. Grogan, Marziyeh Bahalou Horeh, Jing Liu, Uris Baldos, Richard Lammers, Thomas W. Hertel

Department of Agricultural Economics Faculty Publications

Global food security can be threatened by short-term extreme events that negatively impact food production, food purchasing power, and agricultural economic activity. At the same time, environmental pollutants like greenhouse gases (GHGs) can be reduced due to the same short-term extreme stressors. Stress events include pandemics like COVID-19 and widespread droughts like those experienced in 2015. Here we consider the question: what if COVID-19 had co-occurred with a 2015-like drought year? Using a coupled biophysical-economic modeling framework, we evaluate how this compound stress would alter both agricultural sector GHG emissions and change the number of undernourished people worldwide. We further …

Increased Floodplain Inundation In The Amazon Since 1980, Ayan Fleischmann, Fabrice Papa, Stephen K. Hamilton, Alice Fassoni-Andrade, Sly Wongchuig, Jhan Carlo Espinoza, Rodrigo Paiva, John Melack, Etienne Fluet-Chouinard, Rafael M. Almeida

School of Earth, Environmental, & Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

Extensive floodplains throughout the Amazon basin support important ecosystem services and influence global water and carbon cycles. A recent change in the hydroclimatic regime of the region, with increased rainfall in the northern portions of the basin, has produced record-breaking high water levels on the Amazon River mainstem. Yet, the implications for the magnitude and duration of floodplain inundation across the basin remain unknown. Here we leverage state-of-the-art hydrological models, supported by in situ and remote sensing observations, to show that the maximum annual inundation extent along the central Amazon increased by 26% since 1980. We further reveal increased flood …

Maternal Gestational Diabetes Is Associated With High Risk Of Childhood Overweight And Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study In Pre-School Children Aged 2–5 Years, Maria Mantzorou, Dimitrios Papandreou, Eleni Pavlidou, Sousana K. Papadopoulou, Maria Tolia, Maria Mentzelou, Antigoni Poutsidi, Georgios Antasouras, Georgios K. Vasios, Constantinos Giaginis

All Works

Background and Objectives: Childhood obesity is a global public health concern with long-term and serious health implications. An important factor for childhood obesity is maternal gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), which in turn impacts maternal and offspring long-term health. This study aimed to investigate the associations between maternal GDM and childhood weight status and multiple anthropometric and sociodemographic factors and perinatal outcomes. Materials and Methods: A total of 5348 children aged 2–5 years old and their paired mothers took part in the study. Questionnaires were utilized to evaluate the sociodemographic factors and perinatal outcomes as well as smoking habits, educational level, …

Drones Across The World: Laws And Policies, Sarah Nilsson

OER Main

Navigating the world’s drone and advanced air mobility laws is a daunting but critical task if you are in the aviation industry. Hence the need to formalize the relevant material and create this eTextbook (webbook). While still copyrighted content, it is freely distributed worldwide under a Creative Commons, non-commercial, and non-derivative license. This webbook is structured the way the United Nations views the globe, in 6 main areas, Northern America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Oceania, Europe, Asia, and Africa. It is easily searchable by country if used as a reference guide. This webbook has an interactive design with hyperlinks, …

Volume Cxlii, Number 15, February 24, 2023, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

Uab Received More Than $332 Million In Research Funding From The National Institutes Of Health In 2022, Alicia Rohan

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Spring Awakening (2023) | Program, Jacksonville State University

Department of Theatre & Film Performance Archive

Performed: 24-27 February 2023; "Spring Awakening" was based on the play by Frank Wedeking, book and lyrics by Steven Sater, and music and orchestrations by Duncan Sheik. The rock musical explores the journey from adolescence to adulthood. The director was Carolyn Conover, choreographer was Alison Woodward, music director was Michael Greenwood, fight and intimacy choreographer was Bridget McCarthy, scenic designer was Jason St. John, costume designer was Freddy Clements, lighting designer was Jenn Luck, make up designers were Freddy Clements and Addie Lot, sound designer was John A. Davis, conductor was Jacob Moorer, fight/dance/intimacy captains were Semaje Newton and Erin …

Artificial Intelligence-Based Chatbots For Promoting Health Behavioral Changes: Systematic Review, Abhishek Aggarwal, Cheuk Chi Tam, Dezhi Wu, Xiaoming Li, Shan Qiao

Publications

BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI)-based chatbots can offer personalized, engaging, and on-demand health promotion interventions. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the feasibility, efficacy, and intervention characteristics of AI chatbots for promoting health behavior change. METHODS: A comprehensive search was conducted in 7 bibliographic databases (PubMed, IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, PsycINFO, Web of Science, Embase, and JMIR publications) for empirical articles published from 1980 to 2022 that evaluated the feasibility or efficacy of AI chatbots for behavior change. The screening, extraction, and analysis of the identified articles were performed by following the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items …

“It's Important To Talk About These Issues”: The Need For Leaders To Establish Connections And Address Students' Experiences And Concerns, Elizabeth Gil

GSE Faculty Publications

In this Conversations in Urban Education, high school student leader Sofia Dí­az shares her experience with racial and gender inequity and justice while transitioning into high school in the 2020-2021 school year and attending school virtually and in-person during the continued pandemics of Covid-19 and racial injustice. Díaz provides insights on how educational leaders and staff can build relationships and reach out to students and families in order to support student well-being and safety. Díaz's experiences and observations highlight the myriad issues students and families face and the importance of supporting students through increasing awareness of resources and developing coping …

Hybrid Modeling For Electrochemical Systems, Luis Alejandro Briceno-Mena

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The discovery of new materials like catalysts, polymeric films, and biomolecules, is driven by industrial needs such as improving reaction or separation selectivity, enhancing therapeutic effects on medical treatments, or reducing costs of replacement. However, deployment of these advances in industrial applications is often hindered by the lack of models needed for design and optimization. Due to the novelty of materials and devices, experimental data and first principles' knowledge are scarce, making it hard to build models either via data-driven or knowledge based approaches. In this context, a way to efficiently combine domain knowledge with data could provide a pathway …