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The Most Age-Diverse Society In Our Country's History, Cal J. Halvorsen, Logan Fox, Tim B. Zielonko

Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging

The public narrative is that the United States population is getting older. This is, indeed, true. We have more people over age 50 than we have ever had in our country—both in total numbers and in the share of the population. The numbers of older people will continue to grow, all the way up until the projections stop at the year 2100. Many have asked, “What will we do with all of these older people?”

The Role Of Complexity In Structural Transfer: A Corpus Study From Turkish And Bulgarian, Sarah Joy Russell

Theses and Dissertations

This study the explores the need to examine the increasingly varied methods of quantifying morphological complexity in regards to their ability to influence structural borrowing across languages, with particular attention to the distinction between enumerative complexity (enumeration of all of the morphemes and distinctions in a system) and integrative complexity (entropy-based calculation of the class distinctions of the system). While existing models in contact linguistics often assume that structurally simpler languages are more likely to serve as sources of grammatical transfer, such accounts typically rely on enumerative measures of complexity alone and do not fully account for the role of …

Karmic Theodicies, Justin Mooney

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

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The Nature Of Divine Knowledge, Matthew Frise

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

July 2026, Office Of Sustainability

Office of Sustainability Newsletter

No abstract provided.

David Edmonds, Parfit: A Philosopher And His Mission To Save Morality, T. J. Mawson

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Hybrid Type 1 Randomized Controlled Trial Of Technology-Assisted Stepped Care Behavioral Health Intervention For Caregivers And Children Following Pediatric Traumatic Injury, Leigh E. Ridings, Kari N. Thomsen, Margaret A. Prentice, Ebonie Powell, Gabriela Becerra, Martina Mueller, Rochelle Hanson, Christian J. Streck, Peter Ehrlich, Linda Ewing-Cobbs, Meghan L. Marsac, Ryan Spurrier, Tatiana Davidson, Kenneth J. Ruggiero

Psychiatry Faculty Publications

Pediatric traumatic injury (PTI) has substantial physical and emotional health impacts, sometimes resulting in hospitalization and/or the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression in children. Caregivers are a key source of support for children following PTI; however, many caregivers experience their own distress and psychological reactions following injury. The CAARE (Caregivers' Aid to Accelerate Recovery after pediatric Emergencies) model is a technology-assisted, stepped care intervention to support the emotional and behavioral recovery of preadolescent children hospitalized after PTI and their caregivers. The CAARE model seeks to provide a systematic, evidence-based screening and intervention procedure that is feasible to …

Jason Scott V. Ups Supply Chain Solutions

2026 Decisions

USDC for the District of Delaware

Crosstalk Between Integrin Signaling And Nad⁺ Biosynthetic Pathways Promotes Glycolysis, Proliferation, Survival, And Tumor Growth In Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, Orion Spellecy, Javeria Qadir, Rongbo Han, Kai Zhu, Bingwei Xu, Yang Zhang, Isha Aryal, Ruei Lung Lin, An Hsuan Lin, Abu Saleh Mosa Faisal, Dana Napier, Dava Piecoro, Tim Scott, Penghui Lin, Li Chen, Lawrence D. Brewer, Chi Wang, Natasha Kyprianou, Zhenheng Guo, Ruihua Guo, Olivier Thibault, Burton B. Yang, Xiuwei H. Yang

Markey Cancer Center Faculty Publications

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive breast cancer subtype with limited therapeutic options. Here, we investigated how integrin-dependent signaling pathways regulate tumor metabolism and therapeutic vulnerability in TNBC. Pharmacological inhibition of the integrin/FAK axis and/or BRD4 induced cell cycle arrest, autophagy, and senescence in highly proliferative cells, consistent with a metabolic stress phenotype. Metabolomic analyses using [U-¹³C]-glucose revealed a marked suppression of glycolytic carbon flux, accompanied by an approximately 30-47% reduction in intracellular NAD⁺ levels and coordinated alterations in NADH and tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle intermediate α-ketoglutarate. Mechanistically, we identified nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT), the rate-limiting enzyme in NAD⁺ biosynthesis, …

Comparison Of The 1c2 Reference Filtered Cigar To The 1r6f Reference Filtered Cigarette, Amrita Machwe, Samuel B. Clark, Halle Harned, Tanvi Sawardekar, Stacey A. Slone, Huihua Ji, David K. Orren

Markey Cancer Center Faculty Publications

Introduction: Filtered cigars are a class of tobacco products that can be consumed similarly as conventional cigarettes. Here we have compared tobacco smoke condensates prepared from the 1C2 reference filtered cigar with those from the 1R6F reference cigarette with respect to effects on cell proliferation and viability and AhR-mediated gene expression. Methods: Tobacco smoke condensates were prepared using ISO, Health Canada Intense (HCI) or Cigar Smoking (CSR) regimens and certain HPHCs were measured. Cell proliferation and viability assays were performed on immortalized human bronchial or oral epithelial cell lines. AHR-mediated gene expression was measured using a mouse hepatoma cell line …

How Much Should A Conversational Recommender System Converse?, Akshit Kumar, Vahideh Manshadi, Akhilesh Tumu

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Conversational recommender systems powered by generative AI can enhance personalization by facilitating information elicitation through follow-up questions. However, engaging in these conversations imposes a communication cost on users. As platforms with different objectives and monetization models deploy these systems, a central question is: how does the platform’s objective and sellers’ strategic response shape the design of these systems in terms of their elicitation strategy? We develop a parsimonious model of conversational elicitation in which interaction generates noisy preference information and imposes a communication cost borne by the user. A user-welfare-maximizing platform elicits more information when accurate niche matching yields large …

Life After Divorce: Effects Of Joint Custody On Parents And Children, Stella Canessa, Gordon B. Dahl, Anna Hasselqvist, Costas Meghir, Susan Niknami, Mårten Palme, Helmut Rainer, Olof Rosenqvist, Pengpeng Xiao

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Divorce reshapes family life, yet little is known about one of its most consequential features: the allocation of child custody. We study the impact of joint versus sole custody on both parents and children using rich administrative data from Sweden linked to over 25 years of newly-collected court custody rulings. To address selection concerns, we exploit random assignment of custody disputes to judges who differ sharply in their propensity to grant joint custody. For fathers, joint custody substantially raises earnings and improves mental health, consistent with sustained paternal involvement enhancing labor market attachment and psychological well-being. In contrast, there are …

Ai Premium, Nicola Borri, Yukun Liu, Aleh Tsyvinski

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Using 380 trillion tokens of realized AI consumption across more than four hundred large language models from the licensed proprietary OpenRouter dataset covering approximately 2 percent of current global monthly AI token consumption, we analyze how AI affects firms, markets, and workers. Leveraging the unprecedented size, scope and granularity data, we construct the AI Factor from growth in tokens, dollars, and users, estimate firm-level AI Betas from stock return comovement, and characterize the AI Premium. First, we build a high-frequency AI factor and decompose it into salient components. Second, we show that firms whose returns covary more positively with the …

Credit Surfaces And Economic Uncertainty, John Geanokopolis, David E. Rappaport

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

The Credit Surface along the leverage dimension gives the bond spread as a function of the loan-to-value ratio. Empirically, we show that uncertainty shocks typically increase spreads and steepen the credit surface, profoundly affecting the supply of credit. Theoretically, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the convexity of the credit surface, and for changes in the anticipated distribution of collateral prices that lead to steepening of the credit surface. Finally, we show that the credit surface itself fully reveals the entire distribution of collateral prices, thus providing a new and vivid language with which to describe uncertainty and stochastic …

The Displacement Effects Of Domestic Outsourcing, Mayara Felix, Michael B. Wong

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Evidence that domestic outsourcing lowers pay comes largely from on-site transfers, in which workers move to a contractor but keep the same jobs. Displacement is rarely observed: whether workers lose their jobs, where they go, how earnings evolve. In Brazil’s 1993–1994 pro-outsourcing reforms, which differentially affected security guards, such transfers were rare; firms instead used occupational layoffs, shedding their guards while keeping other workers. Displaced guards’ employment recovered within five years, but many changed occupations and wages stayed about 12% lower. Lifetime losses average 1.2 to 1.5 years of pre-layoff earnings, concentrated among workers from high-wage firms, reflecting lost premia.

Domestic Outsourcing And Young-Worker Entry Into The Formal Sector, Mayara Felix, Michael B. Wong

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We provide evidence that domestic outsourcing increases young-worker entry into the formal sector. Leveraging a pair of 1993–1994 Brazilian reforms that reduced the relative cost of outsourcing security guards, a triple-differences design shows that the reforms increased formal guard employment by 4% and hiring from unemployment or informality by 7%, while reallocating formal employment from older to younger workers and leaving demographic-adjusted wages unchanged. Census data corroborate the rise in formality, driven by the youngest cohorts. The compositional shift mirrors a general pattern in Brazil’s matched employer–employee records: conditional on total firm size, employers with greater occupation-specific scale hire younger …

July 2026 Bulldog Alumni & Friends News, Kari Jones, Garrett King

Bulldog Alumni & Friends News

July 30 SWOSU Near You: Eischen’s

July 27 - August 7 Online SWOSU Athletic Auction

August 7 SWOSU Athletic Hall of Fame Banquet

August 8 SWOSU Athletic Auction and Dinner

October 30-31 SWOSU Homecoming

Lawyers' Manual For Appealing Parole Denials: Administrative Appeals And Article 78 Petitions, Parole Preparation Project

All Categories

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Black Brilliance By Design: Culturally Affirming Strategies For High School And Postsecondary Success, Kirsten E. Thornton

Education Dissertations

College and career readiness and access programming aims to prepare students for postsecondary enrollment and success. The intentional implementation of college and career readiness programming was introduced to address the achievement gap in educational outcomes, including but not limited to: graduation rates, college enrollment, college retention, and viable career opportunities. However, Black students who graduate high school and are not adequately academically and socially prepared for postsecondary education compared to their white and non-white counterparts. Current college and career readiness frameworks lack a culturally-relevant lens necessary to effectively address the unique needs of the Black communities in achieving college readiness. …

Demographic And Socioeconomic Factors Associated With Pediatric Cochlear Implantation: A 10-Year Retrospective Study, Julia Finley, Michael Mcglone Md, Sri Kiran Chennupati Md

Research Scholars

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Saw-Tooth Slot Antenna Sensor For Dielectric Characterization Of Alcohols, Saline Solutions, And Glucose, Hilary Scott Nkimbeng Cho, Jin W. Choi

Michigan Tech Publications

In this study, a low-profile and saw-tooth-shaped slot antenna sensor is proposed for liquid characterization, demonstrating sensitivity to dielectric variations in glucose, saline, and alcohol-based solutions. The antenna consists of a single-layer Rogers 4003C substrate with a rectangular slot integrated with multiple saw-tooth perturbations on the top side and a modified microstrip feedline with a quarter-wavelength transformer on the bottom side. The saw-tooth geometry enhances electric field concentration within the slot region, thereby improving sensitivity to variations in dielectric properties. When liquids with different dielectric constants are deposited on the saw-tooth region of the antenna, measurable resonance frequency shifts occur, …

Irrigation Use In A Changing Landscape: A Combined Economic And Hydrologic Approach, Noormah Rizwan, Jamshid Jahali, Molly Sears, Sean Woznicki, Tao Liu, Oskar Marko, Mirjana Radulović

Michigan Tech Publications

Warmer temperatures and erratic rainfall patterns are threatening global water availability. Irrigation is a key risk-mitigation strategy, helping sustain crop yields under climate stress. Limited research has examined farmers' likelihood of irrigating under climate change, or the effects of large-scale irrigation expansion on future water availability, largely due to challenges in acquiring field-level irrigation data. Using an integrated econometric-hydrologic modeling approach, we investigate how short- and long-run climatic conditions shape irrigation incentives and feasibility in Serbia—an increasingly water-stressed region—and how these incentives evolve under future climate scenarios. Our econometric model identifies when and where irrigation becomes a viable option under …

Absorption Characteristics Of A Passive Damper-Augmented Timoshenko Beam Using A Wave-Decomposition Approach, Samikhshak Gupta, Vijaya Venkata Narasimha Sriram Malladi

Michigan Tech Publications

Local impedance variations in structural waveguides partially reflect and absorb incidentflexural waves, motivating wave-based strategies for passive vibration control. This studydevelops and experimentally validates a wave-energy framework to quantify and optimizeflexural wave absorption by Kelvin–Voigt attachments on a finite Timoshenko beam.A finite element model is validated against Scanning Laser Doppler Vibrometry measurementsfrom a clamped–clamped aluminum beam with a passive damper mounted nearone end, with dashpot parameters identified through two independent approaches andthe discrepancies attributed to parameter uncertainty. Wave decomposition of the simulatedand measured velocity fields yields the power reflection coefficient ρ(ω) and powerabsorption coefficient α(ω) over the 0–15.3 kHz band. …

Ms4 Swmpp 2026, John Kay

Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) Permit

Stormwater discharges from Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico (SNL/NM) are eligible for coverage under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) Permit. This Stormwater Management Plan (SWMP) was prepared by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia (NTESS) for the Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sandia Field Office (SFO), owner of SNL/NM, located in Albuquerque, NM.

Co-Designing Multimodal, Multilingual Text Sets: Centering Caregiver Choice, Katie M. Crook, Emily Howell, Lindsey W. Rowe, Hazel Vega Quesada, C. C. Bates

Publications

Early literacy instruction in the U.S. often centers monolingual, English-dominant practices that marginalize multilingual learners and their families. This qualitative design-based research study examines a family literacy initiative that engaged caregivers and teachers as co-designers of a multilingual, multimodal literacy resource bag. Using the MultiSemiotic Architecture Framework, we analyzed qualitative data to explore how collaborative text selection can advance linguistic justice in early childhood education. Findings highlight five themes that shaped intentional text selection and supported multilingual home literacy practices: content, language, cultural relevance, curricular alignment, and collaborative modifications. By centering families' cultural and linguistic resources, the project disrupted monolingual …

Career Pathways Program Annual Report For Ay 2025/26, Wie Yusuf

Career Pathways

Career Pathways launched in August 2017 as the university-wide initiative to provide career and professional development to graduate students. It encompasses both the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) and the Preparing Future Professionals (PFP) Certificates. The Preparing Future Faculty Certificate was established in 2007, while the Preparing Future Professionals Certificate was launched in 2017, concurrently with the introduction of Career Pathways. The Career Pathways program prepares graduate students for a successful transition into thriving careers. With the PFP Certificate, the emphasis has been on addressing the existing gap in career and professional development for master’s and doctoral students with career plans …

Msw Portfolio: Through Courage And Heart, Meghan N. Conklin

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

This portfolio discusses my journey through the MSW program highlighting anti-oppressive frameworks, ethics, trauma informed care, and indigenous practice. This portfolio displays how I met the core competencies of advanced integrative practice with a focus on practice with youth in and out of institutional setting.

Math 119: Math For Elementary School Teachers Syllabus, Seth Lehman

Open Educational Resources

OER course syllabus for Math 119, Math for Elementary School Teachers, at Queens College

Office Of The Attorney General And Reporter, July 2026, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury.

Performance Audit Reports

No abstract provided.

State And Regional Variation In Access To Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation., Allan M. Joseph, Andrew J. Lautz, Carlie N. Myers, Ranjit S. Chima, Juan P. Gurria, Shafee Salloum, Wendy Hasson, Matthew P. Malone, Jenna Miller, Reanna Smith, Maya L. Dewan

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is only available in specialized medical centers. We conducted a geospatial analysis and found state- and region-level variation in the supply of ECMO centers, and the number of children who had access to ECMO. These findings may help target areas for the development of new ECMO programs.