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Painted By Hand, Written In The Sky: Martin Wong’S Fingerspelling As Invented Visual Language, 1982-1985, Bella Clemente

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis examines Martin Wong's (1946-1999) hand-painted fingerspelling as an invented personal visual language and vehicle of self-portraiture, analyzing three paintings created during his time in New York between 1982 and 1985: Attorney Street: Handball Court with Autobiographical Poem by Piñero (1982-1984), Compulsion (1984-1985), and Stanton Near Forsyth Street (1983). Through iconographic analysis of lingual elements in each work, including fingerspelling, graffiti, calligraphy, and poetry, this thesis argues that Wong's stylized adaptation of the American Sign Language manual alphabet reflects an evolving sense of self-identity, drawing on influences from Chinese artistic traditions, calligraphy, Kufic script, and the Nuyorican poetry and …

Student Perspectives On Learning With Teaching-Research Methods In Initial Teacher Education, Paulo Marinho, Carlinda Leite, Fátima Sousa-Pereira

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

This article explores the perceptions of student teachers enrolled in an initial teacher education programme who attended a curricular unit organised around research-based teaching strategies. Data were gathered from reflective class diaries produced during one semester and analysed through qualitative content analysis. The findings suggest that, from the participants’ perspective, the curricular unit supported investigative autonomy, critical reflection and argumentation, links between theory and school-based observations, and perceived preparation for the future teaching profession. At the same time, the diaries highlighted time pressure and workload as important constraints. Highlighting student teachers’ voices on how a research-based unit was experienced during …

Audio-Visual Essay Assessment In Initial Teacher Education: An Exploration Of Pre-Service Teachers’ Experiences, Kristina Turner, Andrea Ng

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Assessment in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) plays an important role in shaping Pre-Service Teachers’ (PSTs) understanding of assessment in their future classroom practices. While research highlights the value of authentic and multimodal assessment in higher education, little is known about the use of audio-visual essay assessments within ITE. This qualitative interpretive study explored PSTs’ experiences of completing an audio-visual essay assessment in an Australian undergraduate ITE course. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 18 PSTs and analysed using an inductive qualitative thematic analysis informed by Saldaña’s two-cycle coding framework. Three themes were identified: initial apprehension and overcoming challenges, advantages …

The Role Of Coursework In Promoting Doctoral Candidates’ Research Competence: A Case Study Of Professional Doctorates In Education, Fred Y. Mgata, Luqman Hakeem, Justo M. Lemesaya, Zhiyong Zhu, Huan Song, Jimmy E. Kihwele

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Doctorate programs with coursework aim to develop research-competent graduates who can contribute knowledge and work outside academia. This study explored the influence of coursework on doctoral candidates' development of research competence. The study employed a qualitative case study approach within the Professional Doctorate in Education programs at a Chinese university. The researchers interviewed 13 doctoral candidates, reviewed 10 course syllabi, and conducted a thematic analysis of the data. The findings revealed that coursework contributes to candidates' knowledge base, research direction, skills, and critical thinking. Instructors and peers promote candidates' research competence through instruction, mentoring, collaborative research projects, and peer feedback. …

Research-Based Learning For Pre-Service Teachers’ Meta-Reflexivity: Insights From English Language Teacher Education In Türkiye, İrem Çomoğlu, Eda Ceylan, Eda Akgün-Özpolat, Kenan Dikilitaş

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Drawing on Cramer et al.’s (2023) framework for meta-reflexive teacher education, we conducted a case study to examine how research-based learning (RbL) helps pre-service teachers (PSTs) develop meta-reflexivity. The data was collected in an undergraduate course in Türkiye where 81 PSTs engaged in RbL through developing, explaining, and exploring their pedagogical puzzles (PPs). Analysis of data from written reflections and class recordings generated themes indicating that PSTs began to adopt a meta-reflexive stance through a set of research and reflection practices involved in their puzzle exploration processes. The study suggests that RbL may be a promising approach for fostering PSTs’ …

“Police Power” Or Puppeteer: Us Interventions In Latin America And Its Immigration Crisis, Alison Meagher

Honors Program Theses

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How We Failed Our Children By Failing Them: A Legal Analysis Of Scrapping Of No-Detention Policy In India, Debargha Roy, Sarthak Sahoo

National Law School of India Review

The ratification of the Convention of the Rights of the Child by India in 1992 obligated her towards developing legislation and interpreting laws in harmony with the convention in a child-centred manner to protect the best interests of the child. With the reading of right to education as a part of Right to Life under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution by the Supreme Court, followed by the insertion of Article 21A by the Parliament that guaranteed the right to free and compulsory education to children from the age of six to fourteen, there was a need to introduce a …

Invisible, Manipulated, And Politicised: Rethinking The Conceptual Foundations Of The Un Convention On The Rights Of The Child, Anshul Dalmia

National Law School of India Review

This paper examines whether the rights articulated in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (‘UNCRC’) can be meaningfully assimilated within the broader framework of international human rights. It locates this inquiry within enduring jurisprudential debates on the nature, justification, and enforceability of children’s rights. While international human rights law presumes a relatively stable rights-bearing subject, children occupy an ambivalent position—simultaneously recognised as rights-holders and as dependents mediated through an adult authority. Drawing on Tobin’s critique, which cautions against the dangers of conceptual indeterminacy, the paper argues that the UNCRC exemplifies these risks. It contends that the …

Deconstructing Parenthood: A Critical Queer Analysis Of Gender, Law, And Bionormativity In India, Jwalika Balaji

National Law School of India Review

Parenthood (the legal connection to one’s child) is often assumed to be a biologically determined and natural status, but in reality, it is a legal and social construct shaped by historical, cultural, and political contexts. This paper critically examines the legal framework of parenthood in India, highlighting how it privileges a bionormative, dyadic, heterosexual parental unit, while marginalising LGBTQ+ individuals, unmarried couples, and alternative family structures. Through a critical queer method, the paper deconstructs the bio-essentialist juxtaposition of gender, conjugality, and reproduction that underpins Indian family law. It explores how the legal framework selectively acknowledges the constructed nature of parenthood …

Glorifying Khaki: Policing, Power, And Copaganda In Hindi Cinema, Stuti Shah, Jyotika Tomar

National Law School of India Review

This article adopts US civil rights advocate Alec Karakatsanis’s conceptualisation of ‘copaganda’ to analyse the commercially successful ‘Cop Universe’ directed by Rohit Shetty, situating it within a broader socio-legal analysis of contemporary policing in India. It argues that copaganda in Hindi cinema recasts police officers not only as vigilantes, but also as embodiments of Hindutva and nationalist virility and a Brahmanical patriarchal order. In doing so, these films normalise extra-legal policing, obscure the structural realities of custodial violence and impunity, and reframe state violence as both necessary and morally desirable. The article situates these cinematic narratives alongside contemporary developments in …

An Excellent Genealogy Of The Core Concepts Of Indian Contract Law: A Review Of Dr. Shivprasad Swaminathan’S “A Historical Introduction To Indian Contract Law” (Routledge 2025), Katy Barnett

National Law School of India Review

This review discusses Dr Shivprasad Swaminathan’s new book, ‘A Historical Introduction to Indian Contract Law’, including his discussion of the history of Indian contract law, formation of contracts, contractual consideration, privity, contractual vitiating factors, frustration, damages and stipulated sums, and unjustified enrichment. As noted in the last chapter of Dr Swaminathan’s book, the discussion goes to the very heart of the common law itself and how it operates. We can all learn from the Indian experience of codification.

Knowledge, Attitudes And Practices Regarding Bovine Tuberculosis In Cattle And Humans In Malawi, Alfred Ngwira, Samuel O.M Manda, Esron D. Karimuribo, Sharadhuli I Kimera

All Rsif Scholars' Publications

Background

Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) has a significant impact on both the cattle industry and human health. Understanding its transmission, clinical signs, risk factors, and control measures is essential for prevention. This study aimed to evaluate the knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding BTB in high-burden areas of Malawi.

Methods

A stratified sampling design was employed to collect data from 463 butchers, dairy farmers and cattle farmers in different locations and settings in Malawi. Aggregate scores on knowledge, attitudes, and practices were taken as multivariate measurements and fitted with multivariate linear regression models.

Machine Learning Guided Design Of Doped Lithium Lanthanum Zirconium Oxide (Llzo) For Improved Performance, Bernice Ngwi Abraham, Elvis Twumasi, Desmond Edem Primus Klenam, Tabiri Kwayie Asumadu Asumadu, Abdulhakeem Bello, Vitalis Chioh Anye, Nancy A Burnham, Rodica Neamtu

All Rsif Scholars' Publications

This paper presents a machine-learning approach to the development of all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) with doped Lithium Lanthanum Zirconium Oxide (LLZO) electrolytes. LLZO electrolytes are promising solid electrolytes that exhibit high ionic conductivities of approximately ~10−3–10−4 S cm−1. However, optimizing the ionic conductivity of LLZO is a multiparametric challenge involving numerous compositional and processing variables. This work employs a data-driven methodology by applying machine learning to a dataset mined from the literature. This approach was used to model the intricate relationships between the compositional and synthesis variables and ionic conductivity. Tree-based and ensemble models, like Decision Tree, Random Forest, Light Gradient …

Steiner Coset Partitions For Five Mutually Commuting Subgroups, Fusun Akman, Papa Sissokho

Faculty Publications – Mathematics

A Steiner coset partition of a group G with respect to pairwise distinct subgroups H1 , …, Hr is a collection of pairwise disjoint cosets g1 H1 , …, gr Hr whose union is G. Motivated by the Herzog–Schönheim Conjecture, we have recently started exploring the groups that admit Steiner coset partitions. In previous work, we completely classified such groups for up to r = 4 mutually commuting subgroups. In this paper, we extend the classification to r = 5 mutually commuting subgroups.

The Missing Constitutional Law Of Executive Conditions, Nicole Huberfeld, Matthew B. Lawrence

Faculty Articles

This Article contributes to the development of the constitutional law of executive conditions. The appropriations presidentialism of the second Trump Administration—the shift from bilateral executive/legislative cooperation and compromise in federal spending to executive unilateralism in defiance of congressional control—has forced courts into the administration of federal spending like never before. As a result, judges have been forced to confront legal questions that remained mostly dormant during the era of executive/legislative cooperation, including questions about the constitutionality of efforts to encourage through spending conditions what the federal government cannot mandate (or has not mandated) directly, like speech or silence on particular …

Comparación De Modelos Discriminativos Y Generativos Eficientes Para Clasificación De Entidades En Documentos, Alejandro Palacios Tirado

Máster en Inteligencia Artificial

El entendimiento automático de documentos es una tarea fundamental en el procesamiento del lenguaje natural y la visión por computador, con aplicaciones directas en la digitalización de procesos y la automatización de flujos de trabajo documental. En este contexto, los modelos discriminativos especializados han dominado el estado del arte, mientras que la irrupción de los modelos generativos de tipo visión-lenguaje (VLMs) plantea la pregunta de si estos pueden constituir una alternativa viable sin necesidad de datos anotados específicos. Este trabajo presenta una comparación sistemática entre LayoutLMv3, un modelo discriminativo fine-tuneado sobre el dataset FUNSD, y LFM2.5-VL-450M, un VLM eficiente de …

Modelización Y Simulación Multiagente De Dinámicas Emergentes En Clústeres Empresariales, Marina López González

Máster en Inteligencia Artificial

Este Trabajo Fin de Máster desarrolla una arquitectura de simulación multiagente para representar dinámicas plausibles de participación, interacción, utilidad relacional y permanencia en un clúster empresarial deep tech. El caso de estudio es SECPHO, un ecosistema de innovación originado en torno a la fotónica y orientado actualmente a la conexión entre capacidades tecnológicas, retos industriales y actores diversos. El trabajo aborda dos retos complementarios. El primero consiste en transformar fuentes operativas heterogéneas (socios, eventos, formularios, proyectos, retos, señales de servicio y atributos empresariales) en una base computable capaz de alimentar un simulador. Para ello se realiza una fase de auditoría, …

Generación Narrativa Controlada Mediante Rag Para La Inserción Coherente De Nuevos Personajes En La Odisea, María Tocado Murillo

Máster en Inteligencia Artificial

Este Trabajo Fin de Máster diseña, implementa y documenta una metodología experimental reproducible para evaluar cómo distintas estrategias de generación narrativa afectan a la coherencia canónica al introducir personajes nuevos en una obra clásica. El problema de investigación no se limita a producir textos fluidos: se centra en generar narraciones capaces de integrarse en un universo literario preexistente sin alterar acontecimientos, relaciones entre personajes, cronología, espacios narrativos ni desenlace. Para ello se utiliza La Odisea como caso de estudio y banco de pruebas de una arquitectura general de generación narrativa controlada mediante modelos de lenguaje y recuperación aumentada por generación …

Merlín Sistema Para La Generación De Presentaciones Corporativas Con Ia Y Rag, Pablo Trigo Queralto

Máster en Inteligencia Artificial

Las presentaciones son una de las principales herramientas para transmitir información en el entorno empresarial, pero su creación resulta costosa en tiempo, repetitiva en diferentes tareas y desigual en el resultado según la persona que la elabore. Una reunión con el equipo comercial confirmó lo anterior y lo perfiló, lo realmente difícil no es pensar qué contar, sino convertir esa idea en una presentación. Este Trabajo de Fin de Máster (TFM) propone el diseño, creación y evaluación de un sistema de diseño agéntico para la generación de presentaciones PowerPoint corporativas en Sopra Steria, combinando inteligencia artificial generativa, recuperación aumentada de …

The Paradox Of Intellectual Property At The U.S. Supreme Court, Tonja Jacobi, Matthew Sag

Faculty Articles

The Supreme Court is dramatically more politically polarized in the Roberts Court era, and the justices have been criticized for highly ideological and partisan decision-making. Yet, we show that there is one area of law that is becoming less ideologically divided and predictable: intellectual property (IP). In an earlier study, we showed that, prior to the Roberts Court, IP case outcomes were predictable based on judicial ideology, with more conservative justices embracing IP rights, as they do for real property. In the last two decades, IP has become more influential on the economy and society, through the increasing dominance of …

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated: South Atlantic Region: Rooted In Significance, Marjorie Harris Young

Alpha Kappa Alpha - South Atlantic Region

The history of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated: South Atlantic Region is highlighted in this publication, "Rooted in Significance." The South Atlantic region includes Alpha Kappa Alpha chapters in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.

Review Of Current Research Describing The Influence Of Non-Health Care Drivers Of Health In Rural And Urban Populations, Katie Youngen, Julia Cecil, Tyrone F. Borders

Rural & Underserved Health Research Center Publications

Social determinants of health (SDOH) (also called social drivers of health) are the conditions of the environment where people live, learn, work, and play that are known to affect health outcomes.¹ The primary objective of this literature review is to summarize the most recent literature related to the Healthy People 2030 domains of a) economic stability, b) education access and quality, c) neighborhood and built environment, and d) social and community context.² Our particular focus is on non-health care drivers of health. The secondary objective is to identify gaps in literature applied to rural populations.

Principles Over Mechanics: Why Coster Failed To Fix Blasius, Jay B. Kesten, Lucy Heady

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.

What's In A Name? The Misnomer Of Corporate "Fiduciaries", Wendy Gerwick Couture

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.

Hmda Demographics: Racial And Ethnic Discrimination In The Mortgage Application And Approval Process, Paul Arrowood

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.

Working Group Iii's Draft Guidelines On Isds Damages: Preserving Investor Protections While Strengthening Host State Defenses, Zack Hodgson

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.

Title Ix's Application To House V. Ncaa Settlement, Parker Westhoff

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.

Management Of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors By Rural And Urban Primary Care Practices, Lars E. Peterson, Zachary J. Morgan

Rural & Underserved Health Research Center Publications

In the United States, over 650,000 people die annually from cardiovascular disease (CVD) with high associated health care and economic costs.1 Despite a strong scientific basis for their beneficial impact on health,2 rates of preventive screening remain low.3 Levels of adherence to preventive guidelines are even lower in African American populations, socioeconomically disadvantaged populations, and underserved rural populations.4 Rural populations have higher rates of modifiable risk factors—obesity, smoking, physical inactivity—for CVD than urban populations and bear a disproportionate burden from CVD.5–7 Rates of undiagnosed and poorly treated high blood pressure are more common in rural areas.8,9 Racial/ethnic minority populations also …

Front Matter, Front Matter

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.

Rural-Urban Differences In Dental Care Utilization After A Public Health Emergency, Quazi Minhaz Tabassum, Redwan Bin Abdul Baten, Ahmed A. Arif

Rural & Underserved Health Research Center Publications

Overview of Key Findings

• Past year dental clinic visits declined among both rural and urban populations after the COVID-19 pandemic. However, rural patients are more likely to report delayed dental service utilization than their urban counterparts.

• Participants residing in Medicaid expansion states or with health insurance coverage were 16% less likely to delay dental visits overall.

• The COVID-19 pandemic further worsened the existing challenges in dental healthcare access for urban and rural communities.