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Evaluating The Elimination Of Peremptory Challenges In Arizona, Hailey Badger Gordon

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The Supreme Court confronted racial discrimination in jury selection in Batson v. Kentucky by prohibiting the use of race as a factor in exercising peremptory challenges. But Batson challenges rarely succeed in overcoming a challenged peremptory strike and have long been criticized as insufficient to eliminate racial discrimination in jury selection. Justice Marshall correctly predicted in his concurring opinion in Batson that racial discrimination in jury selection would continue as long as peremptory challenges were permissible.

Recognizing Batson’s shortfalls, states have experimented with reforms ranging from lowering the required showing for a successful Batson challenge to enumerating presumptively impermissible …

Justifying Redistributive Regulations, Jack Lienke

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Conventional cost-benefit analysis asks whether a regulation’s total benefits exceed its total costs but not whether those benefits and costs are distributed fairly across society. The traditional justification for this indifference to equity is that distributional concerns are most efficiently addressed through the tax-and-transfer system. Agencies issuing regulations, the story goes, should focus on growing the pie (i.e., increasing aggregate welfare). If the regulation that yields the largest pie also yields inequitably apportioned slices, Congress can correct the problem with taxes and transfers.

But Congress often asks agencies to fill in the details of its transfer programs with regulations, such …

Toward An Absolute Privilege From Defamation For Statements Made In Campus Sexual Misconduct Proceedings, Elizabeth Munoz-Smith

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Title IX prohibits recipients of federal funding from discriminating on the basis of sex in their education programs and activities. The regulations implementing Title IX impose strict requirements on the procedures that institutions must follow in investigating and adjudicating complaints of sexual harassment. But survivors using campus processes are facing potential liability for defamation at an increasing rate. The existence of this threat leads to further underreporting of an already-underreported crime, a detrimental impact on survivors’ education, and psychological stress created by the re-traumatization of a civil suit that carries potential monetary liability for their report. This Note argues that …

Three-Dimensionalization Mediates The Subjective Experience Of Fractal Interior Spaces, Joori Suh, William Stalker, Steen Pedersen, Assaf Harel

Psychology Faculty Publications

A fractal, a self-similar organic or geometric pattern that repeats at varying scales, is one of the most compelling characteristics found in nature. Previous studies on fractal patterns have demonstrated consistent trends in potential psychological benefits, such as stress reduction. However, we fall short of understanding one of the essential properties of fractals found in nature, i.e., the three-dimensionality of their appearance. In this study, we aimed at understanding the role of the three-dimensionalization of fractal patterns in spatial structures on human subjective perceptual experience. Two hundred seventy three-dimensional spatial prototype models were created for this study, spanning two dimensions: …

Musi 140.01: Aural Perception I, Aneta Panusz

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Annual Report, Fy 2024 Quality Of Kerosene And Motor Fuel In Tennessee, Tennessee. Department Of Agriculture.

Fuel Quality Reports

No abstract provided.

Volume 26, Fall 2024 Masthead

Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review

No abstract provided.

Beyond Medicaid Expansion: Addressing The Sexual And Reproductive Health Crisis In Rural Appalachia, Cheyenne Peters

Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review

In addition to negatively impacting abortion access, the decision

in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has forced many

clinics in rural Appalachia that previously provided access to holistic

sexual and reproductive health services, such as contraception

management, sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing, and preventative

cancer screening, to close their doors entirely. This has left

many Appalachians living in rural communities with no option for

accessing sexual and reproductive healthcare. However, many people

were never able to access the care even before the recent provider

shortage due to a lack of adequate insurance coverage. This

article explores how Medicaid expansion …

From Margins To Center: Elevating The Voices Of Disadvantaged Families In Child Welfare, Jerron R. Wheeler

Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review

This essay sheds light on the systemic challenges faced by indigent,

minority families within the child welfare system, using personal experiences

from my time as a student at the University of Florida

Levin College of Law as a lens. This essay aims to highlight the intersection

of poverty, race, and the child welfare system, showing

how these factors can hinder parents' ability to reunite with their

children despite their best efforts. The essay seeks to underscore the

urgent need for a more nuanced, multidisciplinary approach to child

welfare advocacy that includes legal professionals, social workers,

and health professionals working collaboratively …

When Old Habits Die Hard: A Comment On Sander And Steinbuch’S “Mismatch And Bar Passage”, Sherod Thaxton

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Front Matter

Hofstra Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Border Crisis And The Right To Seek Asylum, Philip G. Schrag

Hofstra Law Review

Control over the U.S. southern border has become one of the most contentious issues in American politics. Any migrant who crosses that border into the United States has a statutory right to seek asylum. Butthe process for adjudicating asylum claims in the nation’s immigration courts has essentially collapsed, with waiting times for hearings averaging about four years. During those years, an asylum applicant can remain in the United States with a right to work, and many politicians and commentators believe that migrants have therefore been incentivized to cross the border either by rafting across the Rio Grande or hiking through …

The Law Is Weirder Than Ai, Sam Williams

Hofstra Law Review

Between artificial intelligence threatening to take our jobs and destroy the world while adopting the aesthetic of the weird and a presidential election that could have been partially determined by how people feel about being weird, it seems like the weird is taking over. In this Article, I make the case for embracing the weird. Only by embracing our own weirdness can we make sense of the weirdness (or lack thereof) of those that we do not understand. Primarily through the lens of author H.P. Lovecraft’s weird tales, I argue that the law is very weird. This weirdness is mostly …

July / August / September 2024, Randy Curry, Cindy Brooks

RURAL ROCKS

This is the July, August, and September issue of Rural Rocks from the SWOSU College of Pharmacy.

Disorientations: The Political Ecology Of “Displacing” Floating Communities From Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake, Sopheak Chann, Alice Beban, Amanda Flaim, Timothy Gorman, Long Ly Vouch

Department of Sociology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

In this article, we extend a theory of disorientations to reveal how attempts to fix and control both water and people are disrupting once-fluid relationships between the Tonle Sap Lake and communities who have lived with-on the lake for generations. Using ethnographic and participatory mapping methods, we examine the socio-ecological dynamics that preceded and succeeded in the forced relocation of three floating communities in 2018. We argue that communities’ experiences challenge land-centric and event-centric understandings of displacement that pathologise fluid lifeways and fail to account for the materiality of water that has shaped floating villages’ multi-generational relationships with their wetland …

Young Children’S Directed Question Asking In Preschool Classrooms, Michelle Wong, Koeun Choi, Libby Barak, Elizabeth Lapidow, Jennifer Austin, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Bonawitz

Department of Linguistics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Question asking is a prevalent aspect of children’s speech, providing a means by which young learners can rapidly gain information about the world. Previous research has demonstrated that children exhibit sensitivity to the knowledge state of potential informants in laboratory settings. However, it remains unclear whether and how young children are inclined to direct questions that support learning deeper content to more knowledgeable informants in naturalistic classroom contexts. In this study, we examined children’s question-asking targets (adults, other preschoolers, self-talk) during an open-play period in a US preschool classroom and assessed how the cognitive and linguistic characteristics of questions varied …

Fibroscan As A Non-Invasive Tool For Assessment Of Hepatic Fibrosis In Children With Beta Thalassemia Major, Udita Chowdhury, Suneel Mundkur, Sandeep Kumar, Pushpa Kini

Open Access archive

Introduction: Fibroscan is a noninvasive tool for measuring liver fibrosis. This study was done to assess liver fibrosis in thalassemic children and to correlate fibroscan findings with supportive markers of increased iron store such as serum ferritin. Methods: This prospective observational study was conducted in children between five and 18 years of age diagnosed with beta thalassemia major who were on regular blood transfusion. The fibroscan findings of liver were correlated with serum ferritin, liver enzymes, and blood transfusion requirements. Results: Among the 34 children who satisfied the inclusion criteria, 22 children (64%) had no fibrosis, 10 (30%) had mild …

Numerical Analysis Of The Mechanics Of Foreign Particle Entry On Automotive Turbocharger Compressor Blades, Anand Pai, Anshul Singh, Marcos Rodriguez-Millan, Adwait Mangrule

Open Access archive

Automotive turbochargers, essential for enhancing intake air pressure and boosting torque in internal combustion engines, operate at exceptionally high rotational speeds of approximately 100,000 to 300,000 rpm. Despite the implementation of dual or triple air filtration systems to filter contaminants, neglected maintenance can lead to clogged filters, resulting in the ingestion of metallic filter mesh, and other small-sized objects from filter indicators, washers, and plastic components into the turbocharger assembly. The current study explores the impact of foreign particles on the mechanics of turbocompressor impeller blades in automotive turbochargers through a computational approach. A finite element model of the turbocompressor …

Ketogenic Diets Hold Therapeutic Potential Against Periodontal Inflammation, Shaswata Karmakar, Shivaprasad, Ramya Arangaraju, Baishakhi Modak

Open Access archive

Purpose of Review: Periodontitis, one of the most prevalent diseases in the world, is caused by the accumulation of dysbiotic microbial biofilm on the teeth leading to chronic inflammation of the tissues surrounding the teeth. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), obesity, chronic stress, and smoking are some of the risk factors for the disease. A high-carbohydrate diet also increases the risk of periodontal inflammation. Modifying diet and nutrition could serve as a preventive and therapeutic tool to target multiple risk factors simultaneously. Recent Findings: Emerging evidence shows that the ketogenic diet induces hormetic stress and switches on various cell-protective anti-inflammatory …

Dermatology And The Media – Embracing The Scars, Rochelle Cheryl Monteiro, Merwyn Fernandes

Open Access archive

No abstract provided.

Impact Of Sleep Quality On Hemogram-Derived Inflammatory Indices In Medical Undergraduates: A Cross-Sectional Study, Yash Garg, T. Jaseem, Kavita Rasalkar

Open Access archive

The link between sleep-related disorders and inflammation is well-known, but the association between inflammatory indices and sleep deprivation is still unclear. In our study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between irregular sleep patterns and systemic inflammation using Hemogram-Based Inflammatory Indices. We collected demographic information from 90 undergraduate medical students through a confidential questionnaire. Sleep quality was assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Blood samples were obtained for complete blood count analysis, with platelet (P), lymphocyte (L), and neutrophil (N) counts measured. These values were then used to calculate hemogram-based inflammatory indices, including the Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index (SII), …

Surveillance Of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia In A Network Of Indian Hospitals Using Modified Definitions: A Pilot Study, Purva Mathur, Aparna Ningombam, Kapil Dev Soni, Richa Aggrawal

Open Access archive

Background: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients receiving mechanical ventilation in India. Surveillance of VAP is essential to implement data-based preventive measures. Implementation of ventilator-associated events (VAE) criteria for surveillance has major constraints for low resource settings, which can lead to significant underreporting. Surveillance of VAP using common protocols in a large network of hospitals would give meaningful estimates of the burden of VAP in low resource settings. This study leverages a previously established healthcare-associated infections (HAI) surveillance network to develop and test a modified VAP definition adjusted for Indian settings. Methods: In …

Measures Of Justice: Researching And Evaluating Lay Legal Assistance Programs, Tanina Rostain, James Teufel

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In recent years a national movement to train lay advocates and advisors to assist people with their common justice problems has emerged in the United States. A host of new programs have launched that allow trained navigators and justice workers to provide legal assistance. These programs – developed in Alaska, Delaware, South Carolina, Arizona, and Utah, among other places – vary in their substantive focus, the skills they impart, and their approaches to reaching the people and communities they seek to help. The proliferation of lay legal assistance programs creates research imperatives and opportunities. These programs need to be assessed …

Just What Are You Trying To Prove? The Relevance Of History To Constitutional Theory And Practice, Randy E. Barnett

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Engineering-Enhanced Theatre: How Engineering Involvement Can Aid Regional Theatres, Albert M. Le

Architectural Engineering

Engineering and theatre are disciplines not often associated with each other within regional and small theatre companies in the United States. The distinction between the two fields of study is not simply from the fundamental differences between how each field is taught and practiced, but also the difficulties encountered within a scope of theatre often constrained with limited budget and time for each production. However, when beginning to explore the intersection between engineering and theatre, it is found that the empirical nature of current theatrical practices can be countered, and scenic design and construction can be re-envisioned with engineering involvement …

Innovations To Increase Plywood Shear Wall Design Capacity And Resiliency, "Mega Walls", Through Ductile Metal Strapping, Trevor Douglas Reichenberg, Tara Suzanne Reich, Katelyn Marie Lowry

Architectural Engineering

The researchers of this project are three undergraduate Architectural Engineering students at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Plywood shear walls are common structural elements in timber structures that resist lateral forces. Since their introduction to the industry in the 1950s, their shear capacities have remained essentially unchanged amongst the innovations of other wooden lateral systems. Prior to this project, Cal Poly undergraduate researchers have taken on the challenge of modernizing the shear wall. The “MeGa Wall” project was born: a system that implements metal gauge strapping which enhances a conventional wall by reducing nail connection failures. Full-scale experimental …

Structural Health Monitoring In A Small-Scale Environment Using Wired And Wireless Communication Device Readings, Gabriela Mcclure

Architectural Engineering

Our goal with this project is to test and develop a structural health monitoring (SHM) device capable of assessing the safety and integrity of building connections and overall structural health. At Cal Poly, a large portion of our structural engineering curriculum focuses on the design of buildings in response to earthquakes and the damage that can be mitigated through proper design. The increasing accessibility of technology in our world allows for the growth and development of systems that can enhance building safety and help us better understand how building practices can evolve to continue prioritizing life safety. Structural health monitoring …

A New Strategy To Modify Hopfield By Using Xor Operation, Rusul Hussein Hasan

Baghdad Science Journal

The Hopfield network is one of the easiest types, and its architecture is such that each neuron in the network connects to the other, thus called a fully connected neural network. In addition, this type is considered auto-associative memory, because the network returns the pattern immediately upon recognition, this network has many limitations, including memory capacity, discrepancy, orthogonally between patterns, weight symmetry, and local minimum. This paper proposes a new strategy for designing Hopfield based on XOR operation; A new strategy is proposed to solve these limitations by suggesting a new algorithm in the Hopfield network design, this strategy will …

What Does ‘Co-Production’ Look Like For Food System Transformation? Mapping The Evidence Across Transforming Uk Food Systems (Tukfs) Projects., Naomi Shaw, Charlotte A. Hardman, Neil Bernard Boyle, Joanne Craven, John Dooley, Bethan Mead, Lisa Morgans, Hannah Mumby, Clare Pettinger

School of Health Professions

Co-production is a collaborative way of working which emphasises the exchange of diverse forms of knowledge in an equal partnership for equal benefits. Co-produced research is a key strategic aim of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Transforming UK Food Systems (TUKFS) Strategic Priorities Fund; this research programme brings together researchers, policymakers, industry and communities to create positive change in the way food is produced, accessed and consumed. However, more generally, there are diverse understandings of co-production and a lack of consensus on what ‘good practice’ looks like. Therefore, this study aimed to identify and map examples of co-production methods …

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (Snp) Rs2229569 With L Selectin Gene Expression In Iraqi Female During In Vitro Fertilization Program., Raghad Hameed Rashid, Asmaa M. Salih Almohaidi, Alia Hussain Ali

Baghdad Science Journal

Infertility is recognized as one of the leading reproductive health problems in various regions of the world. In vitro fertilization (IVF) is one of the most effective treatments for infertility. In the current research, the role of the selectin -L (SELL) gene, especially the rs2229569 polymorphism, has been determined in terms of implantation and expression level. This work involved 67 females who underwent an in vitro fertilization cycle, divided into two major groups: the implantation failure female group and the implantation success female group. Blood samples were collected from the females. After DNA extraction from blood sample then amplification by …