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Using Ai Centaur Systems To Strengthen Professional Judgment, John Lande

Journal of Dispute Resolution

This article encourages dispute resolution practitioners to use artificial intelligence (AI) “centaur” systems, which may perform better than either humans or AI tools operating independently. Centaur systems combine human and AI capabilities so that each contributes complementary strengths in decision-making. This is particularly important in managing legal disputes, where practitioners should integrate analysis of legal issues, tangible and intangible costs, strategic judgment, and ethical considerations.

The Life And Work Of Odr Visionary And Architect Colin Rule (So Far), John Lande

Journal of Dispute Resolution

Many people know Colin Rule as a pioneer of online dispute resolution. Fewer people probably appreciate the full breadth of his contributions over the last three decades. This article reviews Rule’s work as a builder of dispute resolution systems, writer, educator, entrepreneur, and institutional leader. It highlights recurring themes in his career and scholarship, including trust, fairness, usability, access to justice, and the need to keep human judgment at the center of technological innovation.

Cooling Conflict: Embedding Mediation Protocols In Data Center Land Sale Contracts, Allison Elias

Journal of Dispute Resolution

Imagine a two-thousand-acre plot of land in rural Louisiana being leveled to accommodate a 10 billion dollar data center. With the construction of this data center comes the destruction of a region inhabited by rich plant and animal life as well as 80,000 residents, a quarter of whom live below the poverty line. Alternatively, think of a $750 million data center being built next door to your home, causing sediment build-up in your water supply, water scarcity, light pollution, and destruction of neighboring forests. Unfortunately, one does not have to imagine these scenarios. Both stories come directly from recent news …

Reports Of Legal Writing’S Death Are Greatly Exaggerated: Why Generative Ai Will Not Kill The Craft, Jayne T. Woods

Journal of Dispute Resolution

In preparing for this essay, I typed the phrase “legal writing is” into Google to see how common searches finished the thought. The only completed thought to appear was “legal writing is hard.” Amen. Legal writing is an amalgamation of logical reasoning, cognitive psychology, classical rhetoric, legal terminology, legal citation, and proper grammar and style, all of which must result in a product accessible to readers of all education levels. When generative AI arrived, producing cogent, plausible legal prose in seconds, it led many to believe that writing, generally, and legal writing, specifically, had reached the end of days.

Mirror, Mirror On My Screen, Can You Feel Like A Human Being?, Lauren A. Newell

Journal of Dispute Resolution

We cannot go anywhere without encountering artificial intelligence (AI) these days. AI has infiltrated our phones, our cars, and our washing machines. It is with us in doctors’ offices, at the drive-through, and at sporting events. It has taken over our calendars and our inboxes and our videoconferences, and it would like to help us brush our teeth, too.

Justice After Atrocity: Lessons From Rwanda And Cambodia For Contemporary International Law And Conflict, Jennie Hubbard

Journal of Dispute Resolution

In the aftermath of mass atrocity, the question facing survivors and policymakers is not whether societies will rebuild but how rebuilding will address truth, justice, and memory. Modern transitional justice systems trace institutional and normative roots to the post—World War II order, most famously embodied by the Nuremberg Trials, which first established that individuals could be held accountable for crimes against humanity. Nuremberg did more than punish Nazi officials; it articulated a legal and moral principle that the international community could, and sometimes must, assert jurisdiction to address mass crimes when domestic systems fail. Despite that precedent, global reactions to …

Beyond City Limits: Access To Adr And Child Client-Directed Counsel In Missouri’S Rural Family Courts, Reghan Matlock

Journal of Dispute Resolution

Reba McEntire once sang, “Don’t trust your soul to no backwoods southern lawyer”—a warning that still echoes in today’s debates about rural justice and representation. The catchy murder ballad captures a story driven by dramatic family ties and a broken justice system. While the song exaggerates for effect, it taps into a realistic concern: an existing divide in access to justice between rural and urban communities. This divide impacts all areas of law, including family law—where concerns about confidentiality and privacy are heightened because small communities make it difficult to shield sensitive matters from public view. The divide is troubling, …

Reforming Mediation: The Hidden Inequities Shaped By Race, Gender, And Power, Victoria Seever

Journal of Dispute Resolution

Courts and policymakers often promote family dispute resolution as a faster, less adversarial alternative to traditional litigation. Yet for many women of color, the mediation table often replicates the same racial and gender power imbalances that the legal system claims to mitigate. Family Dispute Resolution (“FDR”) often fails women of color by reinforcing racialized and gendered power imbalances. Alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”), especially mediation, presents both an opportunity and a risk in divorce, custody, and intimate partner violence (“IPV”) cases. IPV cases become especially difficult with the various laws in different states that govern how mediation should be used and …

The Unexpected Role Of Conditionality In Shaping Relational Values: Insights From An Incentive-Based Conservation Program In Bolivia, Brooke Mcwherter, Will Munger, Zhao Ma, Claudia Radel, Laura Zanotti, Jonathan Bauchet, Ricardo Godoy

Department of Agricultural Economics Faculty Publications

As global change accelerates, Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs have become increasingly important tools for addressing the interconnected challenges of land degradation, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and climate change. PES programs provide incentives to individuals or communities, conditional on people adopting sustainable natural resource management practices to support or increase ecosystem service provisioning. Although conditionality is considered a “PES-defining feature,” little is known about how conditionality is perceived by community members and how such perceptions influence their participation in and experience with PES programs. To address this gap, we conducted an extensive qualitative study of Watershared, an incentive-based conservation …

The Impact Of Alexithymia On Body Image: The Mediating Role Of Rumination Among Students At Sultan Qaboos University, Fatima Alrahbi, Mai Helmy, Amal Alhadabi

Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies

The study aimed to examine the mediating role of rumination in the relationship between the dimensions of alexithymia and body image among first-year students at Sultan Qaboos University in the Sultanate of Oman. The descriptive method was employed, and the sample consisted of 310 male and female first-year students at Sultan Qaboos University, who were selected using a convenience sampling method. The study instruments included three scales: the Body Image Scale, the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, and the Rumination Scale. The results indicated the presence of statistically significant direct effects of the dimensions of alexithymia on rumination. The findings showed that …

The Effectiveness Of A Digital Game-Based Learning Environment In Developing Problem- Solving Skills Among Primary School Students, Ayda Abdulkareem Aleidan

Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies

The study aimed to examine the effectiveness of a digital learning environment based on educational games in developing problem-solving skills among female elementary school students. The digital environment was designed using educational game tools (ClassCraft, Kahoot!, Scratch) within interactive activities that consider learners’ characteristics and the requirements for developing problem-solving skills. The sample consisted of 64 fifth-grade students, divided into two groups: an experimental group (n = 31) that learned through the game-based digital environment, and a control group (n = 33) that learned through traditional instruction. An electronic game-based training program was implemented, along with an observation checklist to …

Neonatal Surgical Site Infections: Evaluating Risk Factors And Adherence To Preventive Protocols, Owen N. Ferriola, Allen Huang, Joan C. Bruce, Douglas J. Fox Iii, Nicholas A. Long, Erin M. Morris, Jeannette M. Joly, Carleen Cuevas, Kuojen Tsao

Summer Research Program Abstracts

No abstract provided.

Plasma And Extracellular Vesicle–Enriched Protein Profiles In Chronic Rhinosinusitis, Aryana Amin, Rutviben P. Shah Bds, Dhvani Parikh Mph, Niki Mirhosseini Bs, Baharan Fekry Phd, Donyea L. Moore, Mahboobeh Mahdavinia Md, Phd

Summer Research Program Abstracts

No abstract provided.

Caregiver Health Literacy Is Associated With Pediatric Burn Recovery Outcomes, Ananya Sampathkumar, Anna Sabukurian, Erin M. Morris, Alyssa M. Griffith, Nicholas A. Long, Alexa Cumming, Macie Boden, Christina G. Morris, Lauren K. Mayon, Thian H. Nguyen, Allison L. Speer, Natalie A. Drucker

Summer Research Program Abstracts

No abstract provided.

Sex Differences In Surveillance Outcomes Of Thoracic Aortic Disease: Insights From The “Watchful Waiting” Study, Trang H. Do, Brian Shukwit, Minjae Lee, Siddharth K. Prakash

Summer Research Program Abstracts

No abstract provided.

Optimizing Feeding Trajectories In High-Risk Nicu Infants: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Saachi Singal, Amirali Tahanan Ms, Manouchehr Hessabi Md, Mph, Sepideh Saroukhani Md, Phd, Chiamaka Aneji Md, Jaclyn Ruggiero Md, Elizabeth Sabroske Do, Mba

Summer Research Program Abstracts

No abstract provided.

Functional Characterization Of A Hepcidin Knockout Mouse Model For The Study Of Acute Pancreatitis, Andrew Schmidt, Amanda Bean, Jiajing Li, Danqing Ren, Suhair Al Salihi, Yanna Cao, Tien Ko

Summer Research Program Abstracts

No abstract provided.

Biomarker-Defined Neural Injury-Risk Profiles And Maternal Plasma Small Extracellular Vesicles In Preeclampsia, Mariele Patungan, Jacqueline Parchem, Tina O. Findley, Avery Dewolf, Ximena Medina Romero

Summer Research Program Abstracts

No abstract provided.

Choroidal And Retinal Vasculature Changes Following Creatine Ingestion In Diabetic And Non-Diabetic Subjects, Zeal Pathak, Milin Patel, Avery Zhou, Charles Wykoff

Summer Research Program Abstracts

No abstract provided.

How Preservice Teachers' Confidence Is Impacted By A Geometry Course, Stephanie Hastings, Gabriel T. Matney

School of Inclusive Teacher Education Faculty Publications

A large body of literature supports the notion that a K-12 teacher's confidence in teaching and content impacts student achievement. This study explores a group of preservice teachers and their confidence in teaching geometric concepts. The eight participants were preservice secondary mathematics teachers enrolled in a high-school-focused geometry course centered on pedagogical content knowledge. Using mixed methods, the study examined how their confidence to teach geometric topics changed over the course, with participants rating that confidence on a 4-point Likert scale. Confidence to teach most topics increased significantly. Six themes emerged from the second round of interviews: (1) deep understanding …

Interactive Distribution Visualizer, Manish Rami

Software

An interactive tool visualizing types of distribution. Viewers can morph between a bell curve, box plot, and cumulative frequency curve.

Reliability Vs. Validity Visualizer, Manish Rami

Software

A visualization tool to demonstrate the concepts of reliability and validity.

Each target represents repeated measurements of the same person or construct. The crosshair (✛) marks the true score. Reliability = how tightly shots cluster together. Validity = whether shots center on the true score. Click any panel for a clinical SLP example. Also see notes below the plots.

Borderplex Business Barometer, Volume 10, Number 6, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Steven L. Fullerton

Border Region Modeling Project

No abstract provided.

Resilience Modeling Method For Combat System-Of-Systems Based On Hypernetwork And Game Theory, Yuxian Duan, Hanqiang Deng, Jiarui Zhang, Jian Huang, Shijia Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In view of the difficulties in dynamic reconfiguration and resilience evaluation faced by modern combat system-of-systems in a highly adversarial environment, and the deficiencies of existing studies in depicting high-order interaction relationships and cluster evolution mechanisms, this paper proposed a resilience modeling method for combat system-of-systems integrating hypernetwork and game theory, aiming to analyze the resilience mechanism of the system-of-systems in all dimensions from micro, mesoscopic, to macro levels. At the micro level, a high-order motif structure was introduced to represent the complex interaction modes among combat units, which overcame the information loss of traditional binary relationships in depicting …

Simulation Study Of Elevator Group Control Scheduling Based On Real-Time Occupancy Perception, Yiyong Han, Shiyu Wang, Yang Ye, Zhen Zhang, Fengque Pei, Minghai Yuan

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To address the conflict between car space allocation and peak passenger flow response efficiency in elevator group control scheduling, a multi-objective scheduling method based on proximal policy optimization (PPO) with real-time occupancy perception was proposed. A simulation environment considering car capacity constraints was constructed, and a reward-penalty mechanism with average passenger waiting time, system energy consumption, and car congestion as optimization objectives was designed. Based on this, state and action spaces were defined to form a PPO-based scheduling framework; a simulation platform integrating traffic flow visualization, policy scheduling, and performance evaluation was developed. Simulation results show that this method …

Adaptive Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Network-Based Net Load Forecasting For Residential Areas, Yongqi Yang, Cong Wang, Hongli Zhang, Ping Ma, Yue Meng, Tianhao Zhou

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To address the issue that traditional residential overall power load forecasting methods fail to fully consider the differences in users' electricity consumption habits, making it difficult to improve prediction accuracy, a residential net load forecasting method combining representation learning clustering and an AGCN-Transformer was proposed. The representation learning method was utilized to fully extract the latent features of users' net load data, and users were divided into different groups based on the similarity of electricity consumption behaviors; the net load data of the same group were aggregated, and a graph structure suitable for this task was constructed by comprehensively …

Analysis Of Emerging Pfas Contaminants In Water: Review And Future Perspectives, Baljit Singh, Zina Fredj, Rangasamy Savitha, Abhijnan Bhat, Gayathree Thenuwara, Isha Dahiya, Suneha Goswami, Simrjit Singh, Xolile Fuku

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are widely used in numerous industrial and consumer products. These compounds exhibit remarkable environmental persistence which allows them to accumulate in ecosystems and pose serious risks to water quality, the environment and human health, thereby underscoring the urgent need for effective monitoring and control. To mitigate the long-term impacts of PFAS contamination, robust and reliable advanced analytical methods and sensor technologies are essential. This review critically examines current analytical methods, including coupled chromatographic techniques, emerging sensor-based (optical and electrochemical sensors) methods and separation-based electrophoresis for PFAS detection. Recent progress in device miniaturisation coupled with integration …

Evolution And Prospects Of Polarization Image Simulation Technology, Gengpeng Li, Wei Cai, Zhiyong Yang, Zhili Zhang, Xiaowei Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Polarization image simulation technology is a key means to break through the bottleneck of polarization data acquisition and promote the development of polarization vision. This study systematically reviewed three evolutionary paradigms of this technology: Physical mechanism simulation, based on the polarization bidirectional reflectance distribution function and polarization ray tracing, strictly solves polarization light transmission, which has high interpretability and credibility, but it is computationally complex and lacks visual realism. Data-driven simulation, using models like neural radiance fields to learn polarization appearance from data, has high generation efficiency and visual fidelity but weaker physical consistency and interpretability. Physics-data fusion simulation …

Mbse Design And Approach-Phase Operational Simulation Of Bdsbas Airborne Receiver, Ruihua Liu, Tongwei Wang, Zan Ma

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In view of the problem that traditional document-based design methods are difficult to effectively capture the dynamic characteristics and internal interactions in navigation accuracy and integrity assurance required by BeiDou satellite-based augmentation system (BDSBAS) airborne receivers during the approach phase, which easily leads to designs deviating from actual requirements and affects system performance, a model-based systems engineering(MBSE) method was introduced. A multi-dimensional system architecture model encompassing system requirement analysis, behavior description, structure design, and parameter constraints was established. Taking BDSBAS as the object, a co-simulation method of system modeling language and MATLAB for required navigation performance (RNP) was proposed, …

Simulation Study On The Vulnerability Of Belt And Road Composite Transportation Network Based On Cascading Failure, Mingjun Qian, Chao Yin, Zhiwen Huang, Quanneng Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To address the issues of unclear cascading failure propagation mechanisms and difficult-to-quantify vulnerability evolution laws caused by the structural complexity and node heterogeneity of the "Belt and Road" multimodal transport network, a vulnerability assessment method for composite transportation networks integrating physical analogy and improved cascading failure model was proposed. Sub-networks were constructed based on main transportation modes of the Belt and Road, and nodes in the same city were coupled to build a composite transportation network model. An information entropy-Joule's law model was constructed to identify key nodes of the composite network and its subnetworks. A load-capacity cascading failure …