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Reforming The Indian Bar: The Limits Of Technological Solutions, Varsha Aithala, Karthik Suresh

Articles

A majority of Indians do not have effective access to legal services, despite the constitutional promise of access to justice. There are two intertwined reasons for this: the unavailability of a sufficient number of good quality lawyers, and the high costs of accessing legal services. The Indian legal profession is highly unequal, with ‘prestige’ being the currency of upward professional mobility. The professional regulator, the Bar Council of India, simply lacks the capacity to regulate quality. As a consequence, clients lack the information to access lawyers, and to understand the outcomes they desire from them, and the fees they have …

Re: 2025 Spring Migration Seasonal Report For Berkeley Pit Waterfowl Protection Plan, Mark Thompson, Loren Burmeister

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

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Re: Approval Letter For Bpsou Blacktail Creek Riparian Actions Draft Field Work Plan: Wetlands Delineation And Functional Assessment (Received August 8, 2025), Emma Rott

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

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Ifit3 Activation Significantly Contributes To Hiv-1-Associated Neurodegenerative Disorder-Mediated Neuroinflammation, Ranjit Kumar Das, Nirakar Sahoo, Deepa Roy, Chun Xu, Jose Galarza, Maria Camila Mejia Garza, Hansapani Rodrigo, Asim K. Duttaroy, Upal Roy

Health & Biomedical Sciences Faculty Publications

Introduction: The advent of effective combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has significantly improved HIV-1 treatment, saving millions of lives. However, HAND remains a concern, particularly among aging individuals with HIV-1. The mechanisms underlying HAND are not well understood.

Methods: This study investigated the role of interferon-induced protein with tetratricopeptide repeats 3 (IFIT3) and its upstream regulator, signal transducer, and activator of transcription 1 (STAT1), in HAND pathology. Using the SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cell line and HIV-infected humanized mice, we examined the effects of the cART drugs, HIV Tat protein, and HIV-1 virus on STAT1 and IFIT3 expression.

Results: The results showed that …

37th Convocation Pakistan

Speeches from convocations, inaugurations, and major events

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'What The World Would Be’: How Creating A Shared World Through Collaborative Roleplaying Helps Us Deal With Real-World Challenges, Pablo Muslera

Imaginings: creative practice and inquiry

A creative prose artefact and critical exegesis illustrate how roleplaying games explore community and identity. A prose dramatisation of a cooperative TTRPG (table top roleplaying game) juxtaposes the collaboratively imagined world, and the reality from which it is an escape. Themes of gender identity, isolation, precarious work and fluctuating health are explored within the timeframe of the Covid outbreak in Adelaide mid-2020, with the roleplaying session serving as a respite from insecure work and health challenges, while supporting creative agency and the expression of meaningful selfhood through collaborative play and problem-solving. This reflects a broader phenomenon of the increased popularity …

Cpr: Knowing Through The Making, Dugald Graydon

Imaginings: creative practice and inquiry

The methodologies used in the creation of artistic work and, in the academic setting, the explanation of the processes of artistic inquiry and their findings is necessarily non-prescriptive and potentially requires artists to innovate on methodology, combining existing methods and creating new ones on a case-by-case basis. Creative Practice Research addresses these issues by offering a methodologically diverse range of principles that artists can use to articulate their subjective creative practices in an academic setting, challenging traditional research methods while also legitimising creative work within academia. The following paper provides a brief application of this methodology in the context of …

The Monstrous Other: Exploring Negative Representations Of Queerness In Genre Cinema, Mark Gambino

Imaginings: creative practice and inquiry

The following literature review is an extract from my SAE University College Masters thesis, Disrupting negative representations of queerness in genre cinema, conferred in September 2024. The project explored representations of the queer Other in film horror, through artefact-exegesis, with the creative artefact, horror film Shadows, interrogating the coding of trans / queer characters as the ‘monstrous Other’ in the horror film genre, and how this notion can be subverted and transcended.

Pigments, Bridge Of Disciplines, Candace Gwyther

Imaginings: creative practice and inquiry

What follows is an excerpt from Pigments: The Bridge of Disciplines, a practice-based Masters thesis exploring the intersection of oil painting and ceramics through shared material processes. The literature review grounds the research in theories of Meshwork, Play, Bricolage, and Path making, framing an interdisciplinary approach that challenges traditional boundaries and fosters new modes of creative expression.

Orchestrating Brilliance In The Recording Studio: Mixing Music To Record Music, Adrian Carroll

Imaginings: creative practice and inquiry

This paper is a report on a heuristic inquiry into music recording practice and workflow to arrive at the essence of experience. Through professional reflection on a music recording, we investigated the recording process and student experience; this was used to identify, explore and expose tacit professional practice. The central theme that unfolded revealed benefits in mixing music during a recording session. Other themes of workflow efficiency, and emotional expression, also emerged from the data collection. The research culminated in a creative synthesis in the form of a research question: Can live studio recordings be a viable option for artists, …

Considerations When Exploring One’S Arts-Based Practice As Research, David L. Page

Imaginings: creative practice and inquiry

This article shares insight into some of the knowledge gained on a higher degree research (HDR) study journey, which I wish I had access to prior to my commencement of that journey. I presented this on 8 July 2025 at the SAE University College Week 7 Forum, and trust this insight may be of interest to those SAE faculty who are new to higher education (HE) research, who have an interest in exploring one’s own arts-based practice as part of the Scholarship and Research activities now being encouraged at SAE University College.

The Methodological Approach Of My Emergent Auto-Ethnographical Journey In Arts-Based Practice As Research (Abr): Music & Sound-Making, Meaning-Making, Self-Making, David L. Page

Imaginings: creative practice and inquiry

This article discusses the methodological approach of my professional Doctor of Creative Industries (DCI) Research Project 1 study. The aim of higher degree research (HDR) Project 1 was to investigate my DIY music & sound-making practice and self as a practitioner, in the process of creating and producing a DIY music artefact. Specifically: to investigate why I as the practitioner felt an authentic connection with one form of music & sound-making (acoustic instrument-based), and not a connection with another form of music & sound-making (digital virtual-based).

In Tensile // In Between, Corinna Di Niro

Imaginings: creative practice and inquiry

"In Tensile // In Between" operates as both artistic artefact and theoretical critique, demonstrating how creative practice can embody and extend academic discourse. This creative-critical work examines shifting perceptions of course delivery within creative tertiary education, arguing that project-based learning enables the seamless embedding of socio-cultural discourse and theories within practical making processes.

The poem interrogates how educational environments can cultivate critical thinking through what I term "tensile pedagogy"—an approach that maintains productive charge between opposing forces rather than seeking synthesis or resolution. This concept builds upon King's (2017) work on pedagogy as tension, which argues that "tension and incompleteness …

Bodies That Sparkle And Spill: A Poetics Of The Burlesque Parent, Lola Montgomery

Imaginings: creative practice and inquiry

The embodied experiences of burlesque performers during motherhood are explored in an online discussion, through femme theory, Bakhtin's grotesque body, and Butler's gender performativity. The participants' bodies are explored as sites of contestation, able to perform diverse roles simultaneously. Through performance, Mulvey's masculine gaze is inverted into a poetics of feminine praxis.

Montserrat Developments Impacting Local Coral Reefs, Emma I. Bartholomew

2025 Symposium

Montserrat is a small island in the Caribbean, and over half of the island is in the exclusion zone because of the active volcano, Soufrière Hills. In that half was the old capital, Plymouth, which has since been abandoned, and its old port. The old port was getting less reliable and accessible, so they decided to build a new port in Little Bay, closer to the seat of government in Brades. This study explored how the addition of the new port impacted the corals in that area. We explored several different bays and recorded the diversity and health of the …

Transforming Leadership Behaviors And Thriving Through The Storm In A High Reliability Organization, Rajveer Kaur, Jiji Andrews, Kambree Baxter

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The structural inequities have affected critical care nurses, health care worker’s health and well-being (Durrah et al, 2022; Wells, S., 2024). Prioritizing nurse wellbeing has been formed to improve psychologically safe work environments associated with positively decreasing barriers in patient outcomes within the workforce (Wells, S., 2024). Authentic leaders developed patient advocacy, trusting relationships with their employees to increase the access to proper nursing services to enhance the ability to thrive at work ( Alhalal et al, 2024a; Durrah et al, 2022). Authentic leadership tool was introduced to design interventions and policies specifically for nurse manager’s authentic leadership style to …

Leveraging Meaningful Recognition To Create And Sustain Healthy Work Environments, Cindy Lefton

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Meaningful recognition, a form of feedback describing how one makes a difference in the life of another, also serves to illustrate the elements of a healthy work environment in action. Focusing on meaningful recognition as a catalyst to shape and drive healthy work environments, attendees will be introduced to evidence-based budget neutral practices they can utilize to positively impact team members, workplace culture, and patient experience.

Transforming A Nurse Residency Program: Building Resilience To Enhance Professional Well-Being, Deborah Ambrosio Mawhirter, Maria L. Triolo

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Introduction: A nurse residency program fosters professional growth and aids in the transition into practice. As nurses enter the workforce, they may become overwhelmed and stressed. There is a growing recognition that nurses need assistance in developing skills for resilience. A process of adapting when faced with challenges such as stress and adversity. Educating nurses in a residency program by providing interventions to promote healthy behaviors, self- care and develop a resiliency plan enhances the work environment and allows nurses to flourish. Nurses that build self-care into personal resilience plans bolster individual wellness and promote wellness. Integrating a culture of …

Three-Pronged Mentorship Model, Sherrilyn D. Coffman, Dawn Taylor

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Background: ______ ______ University embraces a caring-based philosophy, which frames both our curriculum and our faculty way-of-being. Our School of Nursing has grown rapidly in recent years, adding more faculty to meet the needs of greater numbers of students. The faculty mentoring program has also expanded and developed into three phases: (1) Onboarding (belonging), (2) Mentorship (competency), and (3) Sponsorship (empowerment).

Purpose: This presentation will describe components and activities of the Three-Pronged Mentorship Model, and summarize evaluation data from our first year, ranging from August 2023 to December 2024.

Influence of Caring Theory: The mentoring program is aligned with Watson’s …

Combining Organizational Assessment And Evidence-Based Strategies To Address Incivility In Nursing, Guillaume Ngonmeudje

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The workplace environment in healthcare is complex and negatively influenced by an increasing pattern of incivility. Recent reports of the increasing prevalence of incivility and related disruptive behaviors within nursing academic and clinical settings are alarming. Incivility threatens the sense of belonging needed to support and nurture the development of nursing students in the profession, and significantly impacts the work performance of front-line healthcare workers, contributing to medical errors and poor patient outcomes (Patel et al., 2022). Nurses and nursing students must be well equipped to effectively address incivility in the workplace and promote the collaboration necessary to optimize patient …

Use Of Structured Mentoring With Nurse Residents To Improve Staff Retention And Professional Growth, Gail Cudia, Stephen Boyce

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Background
Nurses in residency programs participate in orientations that pair them with preceptors. The preceptors are experienced peers based on the units for which the residents are hired. Those encouraging and supportive relationships serve to onboard the nurse residents clinically, operationally, and socially. However, what do we provide for these nurses to encourage and support them professionally beyond the orientation? The term “mentor” was used loosely at our facility for several years. A structured program did not exist; no intentional pairing of mentor/mentee, no official documenting, nor mentor training.

Purpose
The purpose of the mentoring program is to provide extended …

Enhancing Well-Being: Sensory Adhesive Strips And Box Breathing To Reduce Anxiety In Bsn Students, Beth Heuer, Tish Gill

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

In a recent meta-analysis, Vo et al.¹ reported that most nursing students experienced moderate stress (42.1%) and mild to moderate anxiety (19.4%-25.1%). Both physiologic and psychological calming can be enhanced through controlled breathing techniques. Breathing techniques have emerged as potential tools for stress management and well-being. Controlled breathing influences respiratory rate by increasing vagal tone during slowed expiration.² This reduction in respiratory rate can enhance mood and reduce negative emotions such as state anxiety.²

Recognizing the importance of addressing mental health in academic settings, this study was designed to teach a controlled breathing method (Box Breathing) to …

A Warm Welcome: Creating A Welcoming Environment For Nursing Student Clinicals Using A 3t Approach, Jeanine E. Gangeness, Sarah Heim, Linnea Benike

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Background: Establishing a welcoming clinical learning environment for nursing students is important as it has been shown to positively impact student learning, sense of security and belonging, recruitment, and development of professional caring behaviors. The first clinical day is often riddled with anxiety for nursing students. Clinical units today have higher acuity patients, staff nurses with fewer years of experience, and rapid adoption of new technologies and processes when compared to the past. These factors necessitate a renewed approach to how nursing students are introduced to clinical care. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to explore the impact …

Stand Up! [Book Review], Amanda Harrison

Disability in LIS (DisLIS)

Tori Sharp’s graphic novel Stand Up! follows best friends Clay and Kyle as they navigate the end of middle school, the school play, first crushes, and their podcast. This feel-good story offers an affirming and relatable escape for LGBTQIA+ and neurodiverse middle-grade readers.

Aligning Operational Excellence With Sustainable Development Goals In A School Of Nursing, Ashley Leak Bryant, Gabrielle Leonard, Lakecha Alston, Julie Jacobson Vann, Valerie Howard

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Operational excellence is one of our priorities for the 2023-2028 strategic plan at our School of Nursing. The Office of Strategy and Global Affairs at UNC School of Nursing is committed to continuous improvement of sustainable operational excellence. The sustainable development goals/global goals were adopted by the United Nations in 2015, with a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity. The purpose is to present an overview of the formation, evolution, and evaluation of the Office of Strategy and Global Affairs in the School of Nursing …

Overcoming Challenges: Creating A Healthy Work Environment, Linda Eanes, Liji Mathew, Betty Phillips, Dalia Paul, Moncy Mathews

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

A healthy work environment improves patient outcomes and promotes resiliency by supporting the wellbeing of the nurses. The purpose of our study was to describe labor and delivery nurses’ experiences in caring for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. We used a descriptive phenomenological design and purposeful sampling to recruit experienced labor and delivery nurses for flexible semi-structured face-to-face audiotaped interviews. Constant comparison was used to analyze data. Ten nurses employed in a labor and delivery unit in two acute care hospitals in southern Texas participated and were interviewed from June through August 2022.

Five distinct themes were identified: Psychological stress …

Work-Life Balance Strategies For Nurse Faculty To Reduce Burnout, Jacqueline Williams, Joely Goodman, Sarah Ball, Trevor Woodward, Christine Young, Elizabeth Flott, Kara Morgan

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) (2022), nurse faculty vacancy rates continue to increase, threatening the ability to educate future healthcare professionals (Darnell et al., 2020; Gazza, 2022). Due to the shortage of qualified educators, faculty in academia are expected to fulfill multiple roles, thus increasing workload demands (Singh et al., 2019). With increased workload expectations, faculty require frequent adaptation to maintain a healthy work-life balance (Poole & Spies, 2021; Singh et al., 2019).

Previous research in academia has found correlations between work-life balance and emotional exhaustion, well-being, job retention, educator burnout, and job satisfaction using …

Finding The Right Fit: How Rotations And Mentorship Shape Successful Nursing Careers, Jessica Dunks, Lois Yearous, Judi Rhyner, Emily Calabro, Keith Jones, Earlene Reagan

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Background: Nursing students often face challenges in gaining adequate exposure to diverse clinical settings. This can make choosing a first nursing job difficult, leading to potential dissatisfaction and turnover. In a 12-hospital system, a novel initiative was designed to address this issue by providing nursing students with immersive clinical experiences in various departments, facilitating a smoother transition into their professional nursing roles.

Methods: Nurse technicians (nurse techs) are nursing students hired into the system to gain hands-on experience. The pilot program was launched in May 2022 across 9 Collaborative Business Units (CBUs) within a hospital system in Washington state. The …

Social Capital In The Workplace For New Graduate Nurses: Maximizing Recruitment And Retention, Faye Ari Inumerables, Jennifer Emilie Mannino, Lisa A. Lumley, Kenya Williams, Pamela Watters, Fadjana Joseph, Kimberly Campbell-Taylor, Jennifer Hahl, Kathy Leistner, Mary Stevenson

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Background: Given the widespread nursing shortages, prioritizing nurse recruitment and retention efforts is essential. Understanding the impact of new graduates' initial experiences on their decision to accept and remain in their roles is essential for educators, recruiters, and healthcare system administrators to gain valuable insights. Purpose: This study aimed to examine a national sample of new graduate nurses’ first job experiences through the lens of social capital. Theoretical Framework: Social capital (Bourdieu, 1986; Coleman, 1988; Putnam, 1994) asserts that social relationships create valuable networks that serve as resources to their members, extending reciprocal benefits for individuals and the organization, building …

Reshaping Workplace Well-Being: The Journey To Human Connection, Heike Doody, P. Ann Blaney

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

As healthcare continues to evolve in post-Covid environment, nurse leaders face increasing challenges with guiding teams, improving engagement, and promoting overall wellbeing. Increasing work engagement is an important indicator of workforce sustainability and wellbeing (Schaufeli, 2021). Leaders foster a culture of wellbeing, safety, and support for employees in healthcare organizations with a human connection. The purpose was to reengage direct care nurses to implement wellbeing standards and reestablish the human connection among staff by utilizing engaging leadership concepts.

Faced with lack of council engagement, leaders from the Healthy Work Environment Council (HWEC) shifted their leadership style from transitional to engaging …