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Mckee Minute September 2026, Southern Adventist University

McKee Minute – McKee Library This Month

The September 2026 edition of McKee Minute includes information on library partnerships, Campus Research Day 2027, Hispanic Heritage Month, and a PowerNotes update.

Rebutting 38 False Claims About Solar, Wind, Electric Vehicles, And Battery Storage, Andrew Kieffer

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Achieving the United States’ ambitious emissions reduction goals depends in large part on the rapid adoption of wind and solar energy and the electrification of consumer vehicles. However, misinformation and coordinated disinformation about renewable energy is widespread and threatens to undermine the transition. In this report, the Sabin Center identifies and examines 38 of the most pervasive false claims about solar energy, wind energy, and electric vehicles, with the aim of promoting a more informed discussion.

W&L Law Library Annual Report 2025-2026, The Law Library At Washington And Lee University School Of Law

Law Library Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Fuse Annual Report 2026, Franklin University Library

FUSE Annual Report

Learn about FUSE's performance during the August, 2025 - July, 2026 Academic Year in the Franklin University Library's annual report.

An Enduring Mission, Expanding Responsibilities: Reexamining Educating Students To Think Forty Years Later, Victoria Therriault

Learning Hub

This article reexamines the role of school librarians forty years after the publication of Educating Students to Think. It argues that the central mission of school librarianship, helping students locate, evaluate, synthesize, and use information thoughtfully, has remained consistent while librarians’ responsibilities have expanded. The article connects this mission to contemporary practices including inquiry learning, instructional collaboration, digital and media literacy, AI literacy, digital citizenship, equitable access, and instructional leadership. It also presents an updated framework and practical strategies for applying these responsibilities in modern school library programs.

2026-09-01 Caudill Connection, Morehead State University. Caudill College Of Arts, Humanities And Social Sciences.

Caudill Connection

Caudill Connection newsletter for September of 2026.

Drone Remote Sensing For Forestry: An Economic Assessment, Micah G. Scudder

University Grant Program Reports

This project addressed a critical knowledge gap in modern forest management: the lack of a standardized, rigorous economic framework to evaluate the true financial viability of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS/drones). Supported by this seed grant, an economic evaluation protocol rooted in engineering economics was developed and translated into a functional financial template tool. When external structural funding changes at a partner flight agency restricted upfront fixed-wing hardware access, the research design was pivoted from a single-site case study at Lubrecht Experimental Forest to a multi-project empirical validation. The framework was applied across nine distinct drone remote sensing projects managed by …

Epanorama September 2026, Southern Adventist University

Panorama Parent Newsletter

This digital issue of Panorama includes information on Southern students earning regional and national honors, Southern Serve, the School of Engineering accreditation, and campus life.

Aligning Tenure With Institutional Values: Supporting And Rewarding Engaged Scholarship In College Tenure Policies, Sian Bareket, Alexander R. Barron, Abigail O’Meara, Charavee Basnet Chettri

Environmental Science and Policy: Faculty Publications

Scholars have described the current era as a polycrisis, with climate change overlapping and interacting with other social justice and environmental challenges. While the expertise and capacity housed in academia has tremendous potential to help society face these threats, scholars and others have long critiqued academia as too isolated from the practical problems of society and front-line communities. While engaged scholarship (ES) connects academia and real-world problems, tenure policies are usually designed to primarily reward “traditional” scholarship focused on journal articles and academic books. This study sought to investigate the contrast between higher education institutions’ publicly shared values aligned with …

Democracy And Public Policy Network Expert Analysis On September 2026 Poll, Robert Alexander

Democracy and Public Policy Network Polls

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Survey Of 1200 U.S. Likely Voters, September 2026 Tabs, Robert Alexander, Melissa K. Miller, David J. Jackson, Joshua Boston

Democracy and Public Policy Network Polls

No abstract provided.

Survey Of 1200 U.S. Likely Voters, September 2026 Toplines, Robert Alexander, Melissa K. Miller, David J. Jackson, Joshua Boston

Democracy and Public Policy Network Polls

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The Freedom To Learn: Student Stories Of Challenge, Aspiration, And Accomplishment, Marjan Noori, Ata Ullah, Elizaveta Vergel, Salma Rahman, Myo Myint Maung Maung, Sisila Zafari

GHEA21 Publications

Every year, students threatened or displaced by political repression, conflict, or crisis take more than 2,000 regular, credit-bearing courses offered by GHEA21. This collection of student work is a small selection of the perspectives on the freedom to learn that have emerged from these courses. It presents a range of work—academic papers, articles written for public audiences, and creative writing—from several countries. GHEA21 compiled this collection as an initiative of its Collaborative for Threatened and Exiled Universities.

The Timing Of Albedo Declines With Reforestation, Christopher A. Williams, Surendra Shrestha, Susan Cook-Patton, Natalia Hasler, Drew E. Terasaki-Hart, Samantha Yeo

Geography

Reforestation is a leading climate solution for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but generally decreases surface albedo, which diminishes its climate mitigation value. Knowing how quickly this albedo effect unfolds relative to carbon removal is critical for planning climate mitigation actions, yet the temporal changes in albedo are poorly described. This study uses satellite observations to characterize temporal changes in albedo with stand development for different forest types and ecoclimatic settings around the world. We find that about half of the climate warming effect from decreased albedo occurs within 40 years, but that it takes anywhere from 50 to …

Nyls Mourns The Passing Of Justice And Nyls Trustee Ernst Rosenberger ’58, Anthony W. Crowell

NYLS Community News

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Corrigendum To “Development And Validation Of The A-Tango Organ Failure Score For Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure In Global Cohorts” [J Hepatol 85 (2026) 91–105], Cornelius Engelmann, Nipun Verma, Tingting Qi, Annarein Johanna Catharina Kerbert, Julian Pohl, Carrie Morgan, Michal Kowalski, Fausto Andreola, Marcelo Oscar Silva, Jose Luis Perez Hernandez, Renato Palma-Fernandez, Manuel Mendizabal, Osvely Mendez-Guerrero, Jose Luis Marin, Sebastián Marciano, René Male-Velazquez, Maria Sarai González-Huezo, Adrian Gadano, Fernando Bessone, Carlos Benitez, Oscar Alfredo Beltran Galvis, Mauricio Castillo Barradas, Marco Arrese, Karen Vagner-Danielsen, Peter Jarcuska, Boglarka Balogh, Zsuzsanna Vitalis, Antonella Putignano, Manuel Tufoni, Michael Manns, Claire Francoz, Manuel Romero-Gomez, Stephen Ryder, Pierre Nahon, Sven Francque, Osman Özdogan, Cristina Sole, Jose Presa Ramos, Heinz Zoller, Manuela Merli, Flemming Bendtsen, Thomas Berg, Alexander Zipprich, Pietro Gatti, Juan Acevedo, Martin Janicko, Frank Erhard Uschner, Carmine Gabriele Gambino, Giacomo Zaccherini, Xianbo Wang, Xin Zheng, Guohong Deng, Yan Huang, Zhongji Meng, Yanghang Gao, Zhiping Qian, Xiaobo Lu, Feng Lui, Yu Shi, Jia Shang, Yubao Zheng, Yingli He, Sunil Taneja, Pratibha Garg, Hans Van Vlierberghe, Christian Steib, Rudolf Stauber, German Soriano, Raj Mookerjee, Henning Gronbaek, Andrea De Gottardi, Minneke Coenraad, Rafael Banares, Stefan Zeuzem, Alexander Gerbes, Marco Domenicali, Faouzi Saliba, Francois Durand, Hai Li, Ajay Duseja, Jinjun Chen, Rajiv Jalan

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

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Gli Weekly, September 1, 2026, Franke Global Leadership Initiative

GLI Weekly

Advising -- GLI Leadership Retreat -- Capstone Leadership Workshops -- Study Abroad Fair -- Slow Flow Yoga and Sound Bath at the MMAC -- UM Welcome Feast -- First Friday at UM -- Career Days -- Spice It Up! with GLI -- Empower Pack Building with the Missoula Food Bank -- Job Opportunity - International House Manager

Cerebellar Atrophy In Pediatric-Onset Opsoclonus-Myoclonus-Ataxia Syndrome: A Large International Cohort Study, Rebecca Macrae, Kierstin Hederstedt, Christopher Cortina, Kumaran Deiva, Andrea Klein, Ming Lim, Thomas Rossor, Elizabeth A Sokol, Yasmin Khakoo, Nikita Malani Shukla, Timothy E Lotze, Wendy G Mitchell, Sarah Hopkins, Bo Zhang, Mark P Gorman

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Background and objectives: Pediatric-onset opsoclonus-myoclonus-ataxia syndrome (POOMAS) is a rare, neuroinflammatory syndrome that targets the cerebellum and can cause irreversible cerebellar structural changes, namely cerebellar atrophy. We investigated the frequency of cerebellar atrophy, as well as associated risk factors and functional outcome measures, using the largest active POOMAS registry.

Methods: This was a retrospective observational study of participants with POOMAS with disease onset from 1995 to 2025 using data from the multinational, multicenter POOMAS registry. Variables were compared between the cerebellar atrophy subgroups using the Fisher exact test or Wilcoxon rank-sum test.

Results: Of participants with follow-up imaging, cerebellar atrophy …

Language-Serving Hospitals And Seven-Day Readmission Among Patients With A Non-English Primary Language, Alyssa N Jones, Brittany M Dacier, Jesus Mejia, Benjamin G Allar, Rachel E Murphy, Regan W Bergmark, Esteban F Gershanik, Alicia Fernandez, Andrea L Pusic, Gregory L Peck, David W Bates, Gezzer Ortega

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Objectives. To compare 7-day readmission among patients with a non-English primary language in language-serving versus non-language-serving hospitals.

Methods. We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the New Jersey State Inpatient Database (2010-2022). We identified 578 030 inpatient discharges home among patients with a non-English primary language. We used generalized linear mixed models to compare 7-day readmission between language-serving hospitals-defined as those with a higher proportion of patients with a non-English primary language-and non-language-serving hospitals.

Results. Patients with a non-English primary language were less likely to be readmitted within 7 days at language-serving versus non-language-serving hospitals (4.8% vs 9.8%; adjusted odds …

Longitudinal Patterns Of Fentanyl Utilisation (Medical Versus Illicit Sources) In The United States 2015-2023: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Seungyeon Lee, Wenyu Song, David W Bates, Richard D Urman, Ping Zhang

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Background: Over the last decade, fentanyl use in the U.S. has experienced a dramatic shift, largely driven by a rise in illicit fentanyl and its role in the opioid overdose crisis. Characterizing individual-level illicit fentanyl exposure poses significant challenges, as such use often occurs outside clinical settings and is not directly captured in clinical data, making it difficult to measure its true scale and impact.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using Epic Cosmos, a large U.S. electronic health record dataset comprising over 300 million patients across inpatient and outpatient settings nationwide (January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2023). …

Inaccurate Interpretation Of Hypoxia Signatures From Transcriptomic Analyses In Neuro-Oncology, Rebecca K Simmons, Pratima Raut, Subhi Talal Younes, Marco Gallo

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

We aim to highlight problems with the biological interpretation of computationally-derived hypoxia signatures for neuro-oncology research. By reviewing important experimental work in the field, we discuss common misinterpretations of the concepts of normoxia and hypoxia. In fact, the concentration of oxygen in the adult brain is in the range of 1-7%. Unfortunately, this oxygen concentration range is often mistakenly considered hypoxic in neuro-oncology experiments, although it should be considered physioxic. Further, given the lack of a universal hypoxic signature, we stress the importance of deriving cell type-specific hypoxic signatures using carefully-executed experiments.

Sustainability Hub Newsletter – September 2026, Malya J. Robenson, Neyda Gilman, Jennifer Embree

Library Sustainability Resources

Welcome to a brand new semester at Binghamton! Let’s dive in to your introduction to sustainable life at BU, learning about the sustainability hub, seedsaving, campus resources, and more!

“I Really Like Being On The Floor, Because I Spend All The Time In My Chair”: Children With Disabilities’ Experiences Of Physical Activity In School, Katherine Gulliver, Rachel Knight Lozano, Kathrin Paal

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

Children with multiple disabilities often encounter significant barriers to participating in physical activity, impacting not only their physical health but also their overall experience in school. This study places the voices of four children at the centre of their own research, exploring their lived experiences of participating in physical activity in school. Using Clark’s (2017) Mosaic approach, this child-centred participatory study shows how children take part and engage with physical activity as part of their school day. Using videos and photography, child-led tours and ethically sensitive conversations with researchers, children shared a range of opportunities for enjoyment, exploration and interactions …

Preface. Neutrosophic Decision-Making, Artificial Intelligence And Large Language Models: Applications In Engineering, Education And Public Policy In Latin America. Special Issue Of The International Academic Meeting At Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins, Santiago, Chile (2026), Maikel Yelandi Leyva Vazquez, Alexis Matheu Perez, Florentin Smarandache

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

This special issue collects the papers presented at, and derived from, the international academic meeting held at Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins (UBO) in Santiago, Chile, over two days: Tuesday, June 30 and Wednesday, July 1, 2026. The meeting, organized by Professors Maikel Yelandi Leyva Vazquez and Alexis Matheu Perez, was honored by the presence of Professor Florentin Smarandache, founder of neutrosophy. Sessions covered the foundations of neutrosophic logic, NeutroAlgebra and AntiAlgebra, plithogenic statistics and probability, the epistemic auditing of large language models, and their applications to higher education, institutional evaluation, and public policy, in connection with the FONDECYT Regular 2026 project …

Beyond National Accuracy: A Neutrosophic Geographic Evidence Audit Of Preschool-Attendance Prediction In Ecuador (Ensanut 2018), Cindy Patricia Campoverde Vera

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Predictive models built on national surveys are usually summarized by one aggregate performance figure, yet a national metric may conceal large differences in how the model behaves across territories. We examined this problem with the 2018 Ecuadorian National Health and Nutrition Survey (ENSANUT 2018). A conventional Random Forest trained on five child and household variables reached a national accuracy of 64.83% against a majority-class baseline of 54.40%. This aggregate concealed substantial geographic heterogeneity: provincial accuracy ranged from 56.1% (Bolivar) to 78.0% (Canar). To represent this evidence without collapsing it into one number we formalize a Neutrosophic Geographic Evidence Audit (NGEA), …

Project-Based Learning And Mathematical Competencies In Primary Education: A Neutrosophic Cognitive Map Reading Of A Critical Integrative Review, Uriostegui Adan Yurithzi Majogani

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Developing mathematical competencies in primary school is essential for interacting with the environment. Faced with the limitations of traditional direct instruction, project-based learning (PBL) has emerged as an active alternative. This study analyzes, through a critical integrative review of ten reference studies (2016-2026), whether PBL determines the development of basic mathematical competencies in primary school students, and formalizes the resulting conceptual system as a neutrosophic cognitive map (NCM) with eight concepts and nine causal connections classified as positive, negative, or indeterminate. The static analysis of the map identifies PBL as the most central concept and makes explicit that the direct …

Taxi Geometry And Euclidean Geometry: Congruence And Similarity Of Triangles, Jose Carlos Pinto Leivas, Osvaldo Jesus Rojas Velazquez, Diana Carolina Perez Duarte, Randy Zabaleta Mesino

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

This article presents an instrument that describes the experience implemented with students of a graduate programme in the courses of Analytic Geometry and Linear Algebra. The purpose of the instrument, as a didactic resource, was to analyse how the connections between the classical cases of congruence and similarity of triangles in Euclidean Geometry and in Taxi Geometry can be explored. The metric analysis of the productions shows that the three classical congruence criteria - SSS, SAS and ASA - cease to hold under the taxicab metric, and that equilaterality does not imply equiangularity in that geometry. In addition, a neutrosophic …

Verified, Unsupported, Or Contradicted? A Neutrosophic Evidence Audit Of Public-Security Dashboard Indicators: Citizen-Security Incidents Reported To Ecuador's Ecu911, July 2026, Jhon Jairo Tuz Chamorro

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Administrative dashboards display values whose evidential support is rarely audited. This study characterised the open file of incidents reported during July 2026 to Ecuador's Integrated Security Service ECU911. The analysis demonstrated that population normalisation substantially changed the territorial ranking. Three dashboard indicators that failed evidential review were used as validation cases for the proposed Neutrosophic Dashboard Indicator Audit (NDIA), under which each indicator is treated as a proposition whose numerical value and interpretation must be adequately supported by the underlying data and computational procedure. The audit distinguished between different forms of evidential failure, including a computational contradiction, a claim unsupported …

The Absorption Problem In Software-Planning Assessment: A Single-Valued Neutrosophic Model With Deferral, Angela Olivia Yanza Montalvan, Omar Mar Cornelio

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Planning the software production process is a knowledge-intensive activity whose assessment relies on expert, linguistic and frequently conflicting indicators. Deterministic and fuzzy models compress each assessment into a single membership value and therefore cannot distinguish ignorance from contradiction. We formalise this Absorption Problem and propose a Single-Valued Neutrosophic (SVN) model that represents each indicator as a truth-indeterminacy-falsity triple, aggregates them with an SVN weighted average under AHP-derived weights, computes a structural-indeterminacy operator from inter-indicator disagreement, and applies a deferral rule that routes high-indeterminacy projects to expert review. On a real project-management dataset (n = 199), gating on structural indeterminacy raises …

Beyond Scalar Uncertainty: Independent Neutrosophic Evidence Coordinates For Conflict-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Florentin Smarandache, Maikel Yelandi Leyva Vazquez

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines reduce the quality of retrieved evidence to one number, and common scalar uncertainty summaries conflate evidential distinctions that a three-coordinate representation keeps apart: insufficient, contradictory and explicitly indeterminate evidence. We use the non-normalized neutrosophic triple (T, I, F) as a testable multidimensional evidence representation, with independent channels for support, explicit indeterminacy and opposition, and subject its defining design principle to a controlled empirical test on a pre-specified battery built on Climate-FEVER, validated externally on ConfRAG. The independent triple gives the best five-way behaviour with the LLM evaluator; normalization deletes the magnitude that signals insufficiency. The benefit …