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Règlement De La Crise Anglophone Au Cameroun: Pourquoi L'État Refuse L'Aide Étrangère, Julius A. Amin

History Faculty Publications

Ce qui a commencé fin 2016 comme une manifestation pacifique par des avocats et des enseignants dans les régions du Nord-Ouest et du Sud-Ouest du Cameroun a rapidement tourné à la violence et s'est transformé en ce qui qui est désormais connu sous le nom de crise anglophone du Cameroun. La protestation a été déclenchée par le sentiment de marginalisation de la région anglophone du Cameroun, qui représente 20 % des 29 millions d'habitants du pays. Le conflit a provoqué d'immenses destructions et fait de nombreuses victimes. L'armée camerounaise a répondu à la protestation par des arrestations et des tortures. …

Intouch Week Of February 3, 2025, New York Medical College

InTouch

• John Phillips, M.D., FACS, to Lead Department of Urology
• NYMC Highlights the Powerful Intersection of Holocaust Remembrance and Black History
• Joel Kupersmith, M.D. ’64, Presents Inaugural Lecture on Virtual Care and Health Ethics
• Study Exposes Stark Health Disparities in Sickle Cell Disease Outcomes Tied to Social Vulnerability
• Faculty Spotlight: Shaping the Future of EMS: Advancing Quality and Care Nationwide Public Health

Mcsa Forum Minutes 02/03/2025, Morris Campus Student Association

Morris Campus Student Association

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(Winter Skate (Leucoraja Ocellata)) Jaw, Michael A. Birnbaum, David Kerstetter

All Scans: Kerstetter Fisheries and Avian Ecology 3D Scan Series

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From Bench To Bedside: Murine Models Of Inherited And Sporadic Brain Arteriovenous Malformations, Samuel T Mcclugage, Peter T Kan, Karen K Hirschi, Jason E Fish, Joshua D Wythe

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Brain arteriovenous malformations are abnormal vascular structures in which an artery shunts high pressure blood directly to a vein without an intervening capillary bed. These lesions become highly remodeled over time and are prone to rupture. Historically, brain arteriovenous malformations have been challenging to treat, using primarily surgical approaches. Over the past few decades, the genetic causes of these malformations have been uncovered. These can be divided into (1) familial forms, such as loss of function mutations in TGF-β (BMP9/10) components in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, or (2) sporadic forms, resulting from somatic gain of function mutations in genes involved in …

Characterizing The Genetic Basis For Inherited Retinal Disease: Lessons Learned From The Foundation Fighting Blindness Clinical Consortium's Gene Poll, Allison R Ayala, Janet K Cheetham, Stephen P Daiger, Patty Dhooge, Jacque L Duncan, Todd A Durham, Abigail T Fahim, Rachel M Huckfeldt, Robert B Hufnagel, Susanne Kohl, Ramiro S Maldonado, Michele Melia, Michel Michaelides, Mark E Pennesi, José-Alain Sahel, Juliana M Ferraz Sallum, Mandeep S Singh, Dror Sharon, Kimberly Stepien, Kaylie Jones, Christina Y Weng

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

PURPOSE: The Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) Consortium is a collaboration of 41 international clinical centers that manage patients affected with inherited retinal diseases (IRDs). The annual Consortium gene poll was initiated in 2020 to capture the genetic cause of disease in patients with IRD and associated clinical practices of Consortium sites. Data from the 2022 gene poll are reported here.

METHODS: In 2022, academic, private practice, and government ophthalmology clinics that are members of the Consortium centers were polled to identify per-case IRD genetic causality from a list of 387 syndromic and nonsyndromic IRD genes. The survey also assessed how …

Youth Experiences Of Participation, Inclusion, And Influence Within A Youth-Serving Organization Implementing Participatory Processes, Rhen M. Miles

Dissertations and Theses

The youth development field has undergone shifts and reconstructions in how youth are conceived, impacting the approaches of youth-serving programs attempting to facilitate learning, growth, and engagement. Evolving views inform how policymakers, funders, and youth-serving agencies perceive and relate with youth. In turn, these dynamics influence how youth learn to think about themselves, others, and the world. Dominant discourse regarding youth development has been shifting from a deficit-based to an asset-based lens, with the proliferation of Positive Youth Development (PYD) frameworks, which seek to cultivate internal strengths and positive developmental outcomes rather than just prevent negative behaviors and outcomes. Despite …

"I'Ll Just Say It's Been A Racist Process": The Power Dynamics Within And Outside Diversity Requirement Classrooms At A Minority-Serving Institution, Kazusa Seko

Dissertations and Theses

U.S. higher educational institutions have increasingly implemented diversity requirements; however, institutional power dynamics during the implementation process and in a classroom after the implementation should be more highlighted. This study aims to understand the implementation of a diversity requirement during the implementation process and faculty and student experiences within required diversity courses at Portland State University (PSU) by analyzing one-on-one semi-structured interviews. PSU is a minority-serving educational institution that implemented a diversity requirement, the Race and Ethnic Studies Requirement (RESR), in Fall 2022. These data are analyzed through Critical Race Theory (CRT) lenses--introducing Okun's (2021) white supremacy culture in an …

Bank Fragility After Mergers, Jeffrey Jou, Teng Wang, Jeffery Y. Zhang

Law & Economics Working Papers

Do banks become more fragile after merging? By constructing a novel forward-looking measure of fragility and exploiting staggered interstate banking deregulation as exogenous shocks to bank mergers, we show that the loan portfolios of merged U.S. banks become more vulnerable to adverse economic conditions. However, merger size matters. The increase in fragility is driven almost entirely by mega-mergers of large banks, suggesting the presence of moral hazard. In addition, we find that increased geographic or portfolio diversification following mergers does not offset the increase in fragility. If anything, mergers between large banks that have significantly dissimilar portfolios can actually worsen …

Screening And Treatment Of Iron Deficiency Among Heart Failure Patients With Impaired Ejection Fraction: The Impact Of A Pharmacist-Led Protocol, Firas Al Badarin, Feras Bader, Bassam Atallah

Faculty Scholarship

Background: Despite guideline-recommended routine screening and iron deficiency (ID) treatment among heart failure (HF) patients, these practices are often underutilized. Currently, limited data are available on the outcomes of pharmacists' programs to enhance ID screening and management. Accordingly, we sought to describe the frequency and yield of screening for ID and intravenous (IV) iron replacement rates among our cohort of HF patients and examined the impact of implementing a pharmacist-led protocol (PLP) aimed at enhancing these rates. Methods: We conducted a retrospective study involving HF patients with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) <45% at a quaternary care hospital in the Middle East/Gulf region. The PLP was introduced in August 2022. Data on demographics, comorbidities, echocardiographic parameters, laboratory findings (including ID screening and its findings), and rates of treatment with IV iron replacement were analyzed and compared between the pre-implementation group (n = 432, October 2015–February 2020) and the post-implementation group (n = 154, August 2022–January 2023). Results: Before the PLP, 63.2% (n = 273) of eligible patients underwent ID screening, with 80.6% (n = 220) found to have ID. Following the implementation of the PLP, screening rates significantly increased to 86.4% (n = 133) (p = 0.03), with 53.4% (n = 71) diagnosed with ID. The rate of IV iron replacement in ID patients improved from 30.4% (n = 67) in the pre-PLP group to 73% (n = 52) in the post-PLP group (p < 0.001). Multivariable logistic regression identified baseline glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and hemoglobin levels as significant predictors of IV iron replacement in the pre-PLP cohort. Conclusions: Implementing a pharmacist-led protocol was significantly associated with enhancing the screening and treatment of ID in patients with HF and LVEF <45%. This study demonstrates the crucial role of pharmacists in optimizing guideline-directed therapies, which can be replicated in various healthcare settings.

A Qualitative Program Evaluation Of A Community College Mentoring And Advising Initiative For First-Time, Full-Time African American Men, Duane Westley Reid

Theses and Dissertations

Duane W. Reid A QUALATATIVE PROGRAM EVALUATION OF A COMMUNITY COLLEGE MENTORING AND ADVISING INITIATIVE FOR FIRST-TIME, FULL-TIME AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN 2024-2025 Monica Reid Kerrigan, Ed.D. Doctor of Education This study examines the experiences of African American male students within the Operation Achievement initiative at Unique College, a community college in New Jersey with an enrollment of over 8,000 students across its four campuses, located in both urban and suburban settings. The educational challenges faced by African American male students have been widely researched, with many studies highlighting the risk factors that hinder their academic achievement. Variables such as race …

Leaves, Vivian Ludwig

Distinguished Student Work - Visual Arts

Poster

Jazz Singer In Pincurls, Jordan Henry

Distinguished Student Work - Visual Arts

Painting

Sea Exploration, Cameron Eddington

Distinguished Student Work - Visual Arts

Painting

Honorable Mention, Aarushi Das

Distinguished Student Work - Visual Arts

Painting

Generating Real-Time Synthetic Datasets To Improve Aerial Object Detection, Garrett Williams

Theses and Dissertations

The widespread use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) across civilian and military applications has necessitated the advancement of real-time drone detection and tracking capabilities. Machine Learning (ML) addresses these requirements, however, to train a robust and generalizable model requires large and diverse video datasets. Curating these real-world datasets is often time-consuming and cost-prohibitive. Here, we present DyViR, a real-time customizable rendering application capable of automatically generating highly realistic synthetic, multi-modal video of aerial objects, digital environments, and automatic generation and labeling of bounding boxes. Synthetic data, coupled with real-world training sets, augment the ML training process, leading to increased performance …

Neurotechnology Works Its Way Forward, Jeremy Ben Merkelson, Wendy Kearns, David Rice, Elyse Sparks

Seattle University Law Review Online

Neurotechnology is an emerging and rapidly advancing field of technology used to collect, process, and analyze brain or nervous system activity. The market is expected to reach $21 billion by 2026.

In a previous article, published in October 2023, we explored the potential of neurotechnology applications in the workplace, like electroencephalogram (EEG) headbands that monitor fatigue and boost safety, software and EEG combination technologies that creates a shortcut to the human brain and optimizes complex decision-making, and earbuds that track focus and stress.

We have continued to study and speak about these issues in various forums, and meanwhile, technology and …

Mississippi Entrepreneurship Forum Opens Registration For 2025, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Innovators and future business owners in the Magnolia State will soon have an opportunity to learn from experts in the field at the 10th annual Mississippi Entrepreneurship Forum.

Earthquake Shakes Unh Campus, Addie Smith

Digital Edition

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Unh Police Still Searching For Missing Student Alexis Garcia, Melissa Gold

Digital Edition

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February 3, 2025

The Gavel Gazette

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Missional Formation: The Church In A Global Era, Stanley John

Syllabi

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Adoption Of Improved Crop Varieties Limited Biodiversity Losses, Terrestrial Carbon Emissions, And Cropland Expansion In The Tropics, Uris Baldos, Alfredo Cisneros-Pineda, Keith O. Fuglie, Thomas Hertel

Department of Agricultural Economics Faculty Publications

Research investments in crop improvements, including by national and international agricultural research centers, have made significant contributions to raising yields of staple food crops in developing countries. Although mostly intended to improve food security and rural incomes, innovations in crop production also have major implications for the environment. Building on the latest productivity estimates from historical crop improvements in developing countries and using a gridded (0.25 degrees) equilibrium model of global agriculture, we assess the impacts of improved crop varieties on cropland use, threatened biodiversity, and terrestrial carbon stocks over 1961–2015. We replicate a historical baseline and produce a counterfactual …

Seguir Adelante: A Qualitative Exploration Of Latino Farmworkers' Work And Nonwork Resources., Faviola Robles Saenz, Julissa Castellanos Regalado, Larry Martinez, Greg Townley

Psychology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Latino immigrant workers have been an exploited community within many dangerous workforces, but especially within the agricultural industry. They are a crucial population for the labor and economy of the U.S., yet Latino farmworkers report feeling expendable, discriminated against, and exposed to hazardous working conditions. Due to these experiences, it is essential to explore the resources that farmworkers find valuable in improving their working conditions. This study draws upon qualitative interviews conducted with 41 Latino farmworkers in Oregon. Themes pertaining to work and nonwork resources were uncovered through thematic analysis, illustrating that farmworkers receive support from their proximal communities and …

Ohio University Faculty Senate Agenda February 3, 2025, Angela Brock

Faculty Senate Agendas

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Ohio University Faculty Senate Minutes February 3, 2025, Angela Brock

Faculty Senate Minutes

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Reparations For Project One Hundred Thousand, Eleanor T. Morales

Duke Law Journal

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. Department of Defense (“DOD”) created a new program that targeted marginalized communities, resulting in thousands of deaths and adversely impacting the lives of more than one hundred thousand others. This Article—which draws on original archival research from obscure DOD files—uncovers the origins and effects of the program called “Project One Hundred Thousand.” This research reveals that the program drafted members of impoverished communities to serve in the place of more privileged men, who received draft exemptions. The program enabled the U.S. government to continue the war at scale without incurring an unacceptable loss of …

Fair Notice Is A Sociopolitical Choice, Alexander Zhang

Duke Law Journal

This Article reframes a deadlocked debate about “fair notice” as a justification for statutory interpretation methods by developing a historical account of a crucial, overlooked dimension: legislatures’ and laypeople’s value judgments about notice. On one side of the debate are idealists who contend, on due process grounds, that judges should embrace interpretive methods and theories based on how well they promote fair notice. On the other side are realists who counter, on empirical grounds, that perfect notice is impossible. Each side continues to talk past the other because we lack a fleshed-out framework for evaluating when the fair-notice basis of …

Finding A Purpose In Bruen's World, Timothy J. Southam

Duke Law Journal

Fewer than seven months after the Highland Park mass shooting, the Illinois General Assembly passed the Protect Illinois Communities Act (“PICA”), a statewide ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines. Gun-rights advocates have characterized PICA (and other similar strong state gun laws) as unconstitutional laws intentionally enacted to defy the Supreme Court’s protection of the right to keep and bear arms. In response to such severe accusations, especially in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, this Note assesses these claims using PICA as a case study. Through an investigation of its legislative history—an investigation that …

By Scalpel Or Chainsaw: The Status Of Pre-Bruen Case Law In The Lower Courts, Thomas Moy

Duke Law Journal

The Second Amendment is in a state of flux. After the U.S. Supreme Court decided District of Columbia v. Heller, the lower federal courts coalesced around a means-end scrutiny test to judge the constitutionality of gun control laws. But enter New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. The analysis now centers around a test that focuses on text, history, and tradition. Courts have a new test with few guidelines about how to apply it.

Given the lack of guidance, courts have struggled to answer a key question: What pre-Bruen case law is still valid? Utilizing the undocumented immigrant …