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Environmental Repair In The Energy Transition, Martin Lockman

Faculty Publications

For nearly a century, American laws have required mines, oil and gas companies, and other potentially hazardous industries to restore land affected by their activities to a safe condition when they are done with it. These laws represent a grand bargain—they allow operators to make profitable but damaging use of land today in exchange for the promise of expensive remediation tomorrow. However, this bargain has proven hard to enforce. Dozens of “zombie” mines scar mountains in Kentucky. Unrecorded “orphaned” wells poison groundwater in Texas. Over the past century, these laws have become the center of a legal arms race. Fossil …

A Copula-Based Framework For Multivariate Count Time Series With Mixed Marginal Distributions, Dimuthu Fernando, Yuxin Wen, Wimarsha Jayanetti

Engineering Faculty Articles and Research

We developed a class of multivariate integer-valued time series models using copula theory. Each count time series is modeled as a Markov chain, with serial dependence characterized through copula-based transition probabilities for Poisson and negative binomial marginals. Cross-sectional dependence is modeled via a trivariate Gaussian or a “t-copula”, allowing for both positive and negative correlations and providing a flexible dependence structure. Model parameters are estimated using likelihood-based inference, where the trivariate Gaussian or t-copula integrals are evaluated through standard randomized Monte Carlo methods. Simulation results, along with an analysis of annual counts of major hurricanes (Category 3+) across the North …

Rethinking Ethics For An Era Of Trusted Computational Tools, Kristin M Kostick-Quenet, Meghan Hurley, John Herrington, Eric A Storch

Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff Publications

Computer perception (CP) technologies are poised to deliver near real-time behavioral insights with high precision. As technical barriers recede, our field's ethical focus must shift from "Can we trust the data?" to "Should we use it here, and how?" We propose a contextual ethics framework that: (1) defines the appropriate scope of CP integration; (2) advocates codesigned roadmaps to manage expectations and epistemic conflict; (3) expands evaluation beyond performance metrics to humanistic outcomes; and (4) anticipates future high performance systems to safeguard dignity, empathy, and shared decision-making in clinical care.

Public Attitudes Toward Cascade Genetic Screening In The United States, Hadley Stevens Smith, Emilie S Zoltick, Madison R Hickingbotham, Emily S Bonkowski, Stacey Pereira, Tara A Lavelle, David L Veenstra, Amy L Mcguire, Katherine E Bonini, Leila Jamal

Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff Publications

Introduction: After a patient receives genetic test results that indicate an actionable health condition, cascade genetic screening (CGS) is the process of evaluating the patient's relatives for a potentially elevated genetic risk of disease. The United States primarily relies on patients to communicate with their relatives, resulting in suboptimal rates of risk communication, familial genetic testing uptake, and risk-reducing interventions. There is ongoing debate about whether and how best to inform relatives of a potentially increased genetic risk.

Methods: We conducted a nationally representative survey of US adults to assess attitudes toward informing at-risk relatives, acceptability of system-mediated communication, and …

"I Just Broke Down": Critical Care And Secondary Traumatic Stress In Multilingual Schools, Elaine Allard, Barbara Thelamour, Yusra Ali , '24, Naw Hser Nay Paw , '27

Educational Studies Faculty Works

Drawing on nearly a decade of qualitative data collection and educator engagement at an immigrant-serving high school in Philadelphia, this essay explores the intersections of critical multilingual pedagogy with secondary traumatic stress (STS). STS is a mental health condition impacting professionals who work closely with trauma-impacted individuals, which can adversely impact their job satisfaction and career trajectories. Weaving teacher accounts with scholarship on critical care, STS, and teachers’ working conditions, the authors paint a complex picture of how, in spite of its myriad benefits for students, critical care can increase educators’ risk of developing STS in multilingual, immigrant- serving schools, …

Recreational Fishing Identification Guide, Department Of Primary Industries And Regional Development, Western Australia

Fisheries Occasional Publications

Please note: this updated version (9th edition) published in June 2026 replaces the version published in 2023.

This guide has been developed to help you identify the more common species in Western Australia that you may encounter. The purpose of this guide is to enhance consistent and accurate species identification.

If you are unsure about a particular species (or if it is not in this guide), please discuss it with a representative of the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia. You can access additional information from dpird.wa.gov.au

Throughout this guide you will see all or some of …

Recreational Fishing Location Guide, Department Of Primary Industries And Regional Development, Western Australia

Fisheries Occasional Publications

Please note: this version (6th edition) published in 2026 replaces the version published in 2023.

This guide has been developed to help you identify the fishing locations that you may visit. The purpose of this guide is to enhance consistent and accurate identification of fishing locations and block numbers within each Bioregion. If you are unsure about a particular location, please discuss it with a representative of the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia.

Oer Hss214 Social Gerontology, Maureen Doyle

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

Research Project Management: A Case Study On File Organization, Melanie S. Brasher

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Presentations

Poster was presented at the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) Annual Conference, Virtual, June 2-5, 2026.

Increasing attention is being paid to not just research data management but also research project management. This refers to the myriad of organizational, administrative, and metacognitive tasks needed to manage research projects from beginning to end (Noy, 2024). One overlooked aspect of research project management is collaboration in shared digital workspaces. For example, are files named and organized in such a way that it is easy for new collaborators to get up to speed?

We have access to tools …

2026 June, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications & Marketing.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for June of 2026.

Fairlinked: Data Fairification Tools For Materials Data Science, Van D. Tran, Brandon Lee, Ritika Lamba, Henry Dirks, Quynh D. Tran, Balashanmuga Priyan Rajamohan, Ozan Dernek, Laura S. Bruckman, Yinghui Wu, Erika I. Barcelos, Roger H. French

Student Scholarship

FAIRLinked is a software package created to support the FAIRification of materials science data, ensuring proper alignment with FAIR principles: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. It is built to be compatible with MDS-Onto, an ontology designed to capture the semantics of various types of materials data, enabling integration and sharing across different research workflows. The package is subdivided into three subpackages: InterfaceMDS, RDFTableConversion, and QBWorkflow. The first subpackage, InterfaceMDS allows users to search for terms using either string search or various filters, explore different domains and subdomains, and add terms to MDS-Onto. RDFTableConversion is used for serialization and deserialization of …

Joining Forces: Enhancing Website Usability Through Ux And Assessment At An Academic Library, Josie Cotton, Liz Bober

Researchers, Instructors, & Staff Scholarship

In this chapter, we show how we used assessment and user experience (UX) methods to improve our library’s website. We conducted usability testing, during which we observed participants complete tasks on our website. To help support our testing, we used our library’s biennial user satisfaction survey, where we included several targeted questions that assessed user engagement with the website. We used the results of both assessments to inform updates to the website. Together, the results of our usability testing and survey provide a full picture of website use and lead to a more user-centered website. While the survey was quantitative …

Shaker Meetinghouse, Douglas L. Winiarski

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

"John Wadleigh enlisted five times in the Continental Army. A diminutive but “hard-handed” man lauded for his prodigious work ethic, Wadleigh responded to the Cambridge Alarm in April 1775. His regiment anchored the left flank of the Patriot line arrayed on Breeds Hill and was “one of the last to leave the scene of action.” Over the next six years, this son of a prosperous Hampstead, New Hampshire, farm family marched on Quebec, witnessed Burgoyne’s surrender at Saratoga, and fought invading British forces to a standstill in Rhode Island."

2026 Research, Policy, And Practice Summit: “Protecting Access To Rural Community Living For People With Disabilities”, Will Hoard, Lillie Greiman, Rtc: Rural

Independent Living and Community Participation

This summit summary examines the critical personal assistance workforce shortage in rural communities, where demand for care increasingly outpaces supply. Drawing on national data and expert panel insights, the event highlighted how structural barriers including low wages, administrative complexity, and limited data undermine the safety, independence, and dignity of disabled people in rural areas. The summit concluded that protecting rural community living requires coordinated policy investments in workforce wages, working conditions, and data systems, recognizing direct care workers as essential to the health and independence of the people and communities they serve.

Rehab Mechanics, Sierra Spierling, Nicole Garcia, Joel Gonzalez, Diana Garcia-Becerra, Mia Kwan

Mechanical Engineering Senior Theses

Stroke survivors often struggle to regain grip strength and hand mobility due to limited access to physical therapy, lack of progress tracking during independent rehabilitation sessions, and reduced motivation from slow or unmeasured progress. There is a need for more effective rehabilitation approaches, as current at-home strengthening tools do not provide quantitative feedback or adjustable resistance, and clinical devices are expensive. This makes it challenging for patients and their physical therapists to guide recovery and monitor improvement effectively. To address these obstacles, we developed a low-cost, customizable grip-strengthening device that tracks patient progress and assists in regaining strength and mobility …

Student-Teacher Agreement On Personality Traits And Social Competencies During Early Adolescence, Marek Blatný, Veronika Koutná, Martin Jelínek, Petr Květon, Alexander T. Vazsonyi

Sociology Faculty Publications

The present study sought to validate existing knowledge on inter-rater agreement on personality traits and social competencies. Based on longitudinal data, the study aimed to determine whether the agreement between student and teacher reports changes over time. The research sample consisted of a total of 296 early adolescents (181 females, 115 males, average age in the first wave of the two-year study period was 12.37 years). The personality traits and social competencies of students were rated by class teachers (N = 28, 75% females). Personality traits were measured by the Big Five Inventory and social competencies by the Social Skills …

The Polysubstance Assessment Tool, Amanda M. Bunting, Charles M. Cleland, S. Michaela Barratt, Brittany Griffin, Jaimee Williams, Carrie B. Oser, Joshua D. Lee, Jennifer Mcneely

Sociology Faculty Publications

Background and aims: There are currently no brief quantitative assessments that capture the drug patterns of people who engage in use of more than one drug on the same day or simultaneously. The current study examined the retest reliability, acceptability and feasibility of a new quantitative assessment to measure polysubstance use. Design: A tool for assessing simultaneous and same-day polysubstance behaviors, the polysubstance assessment tool (PAT) was developed in interviewer-administered and electronic self-administered formats. Participants were allocated 1:1 to receive either version of the PAT and returned one to three days later to repeat the assessment. Setting: New York City, …

Forecasting With Uncertain Persistence, Joel Flynn, Maksim Meinert, Karthik Sastry

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

With uncertainty about persistence, we show that forecasts necessarily become more persistent and over-react at long horizons. For these reasons, correctly specified and Bayesian forecasts may under-react at short horizons and over-react at long horizons. These results provide a unified explanation for several asset pricing and forecasting puzzles, including: (i) the excess responsiveness of long-horizon rates to short rates, (ii) the dominance of apparent term premia for long-term rates, (iii) the ex post predictability of bond yields, (iv) the excess volatility of long-horizon forward prices, (v) the excess persistence of long-horizon forecasts, and (vi) the over-reaction of long-horizon forecasts.

From Unstructured Data To Demand Counterfactuals: Theory And Practice, Timothy Christensen, Giovanni Compiani

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Empirical models of multi-product demand rely on low-dimensional product representations to capture substitution patterns, increasingly using proxies built from unstructured data. When proxies are imperfect, standard workflows yield biased counterfactuals and invalid inference. We develop a practical toolkit to address these issues. Our methods apply to market-level and/or individual data, require minimal additional computation, provide simple standard-error formulas, and accommodate proxies from fine-tuned models. Further, we propose diagnostics to assess proxy quality. Our methods yield meaningful improvements in predicting substitution in empirically calibrated simulations and in an application where we assess counterfactual prediction performance against a ground truth.

Good Intentions, Mixed Messages: Considering Mental Health In Attorney Discipline, Sarah J. Schendel

Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works

The legal profession urges struggling lawyers to seek help—but what happens when those same lawyers become the subject of discipline? As mental health challenges among lawyers become more widely acknowledged and understood, the disciplinary systems that govern the profession remain uneven and opaque in their treatment of mental health as a mitigating factor. This Article presents the first comprehensive review of over a decade of disciplinary decisions and admonitions in Massachusetts, focusing on how mental health is considered during sanctioning and whether current standards meaningfully reflect the profession’s stated commitments to fairness, public protection, and attorney well-being.

The analysis reveals …

Veiled Justice: Secularism And The Hijab Across Democracies, Mohamed ‘Arafa

Seattle University Law Review

For much of 2022, Iran was gripped by widespread protests led by women who openly challenged the regime’s authority, particularly its compulsory veiling laws, following the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody. Women around the globe came around and showed solidarity with the women in Iran. However, in non-Islamic countries and societies, one can still make out many prejudices and stereotyping connected to the question of whether and to what extent veiling is mandatory for women according to Shārīe’ā law. Is wearing the hijab a choice, or rather, an essential religious practice that religious Muslim women need to obey? …

Regulating Wellness: Reimagining Legal Frameworks In The Age Of Preventative And Aspirational Health, Barbara Zabawa

UMKC Law Review

The 2025 Wellness Law Symposium was held October 3, 2025 at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.

Wellness Disputes, Maria Cudowska

UMKC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Breaking The Lease, Breaking The Cycle: Restructuring Missouri’S Lease Termination Law For Survivors Of Domestic Violence, Ries Freeman

UMKC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Visual Arts Are The Only Arts With Morals: Generative Ai And Aural Arts, Megan Pilege

UMKC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Changing The Definition Of Medical Expenses To Include Preventative Health: The Phit Act, Amy Bantham, Tom Richards, Mike Goscinski

UMKC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Wellness, Transhumanism, And The Death Of Health Law, Leah Fowler

UMKC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Sacred Wellness, Haley Palfreyman Jankowski

UMKC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Should All Entry Points To Wellness Be Regulated Equally? What Mapping Existing And Emerging Entry Points Reveals, Tanya E. Karwaki

UMKC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Illness/Wellness, Ableism & Perfectibility In The Tax Code, Diane Klein Kemper

UMKC Law Review

No abstract provided.