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Troy Lewald V. Pennsylvania Department Of Corrections

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Noise-Perturbed Federated Learning For Synthetic Wearable Health Monitoring: A Reproducible Multi-Seed Evaluation, Billel Essaid

Mesopotamian Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Federated learning (FL) keeps wearable records local, but shared updates can still disclose participant information. This study evaluates an auditable noise-perturbed FL pipeline for synthetic wearable risk monitoring and examines how client-side clipping, central Gaussian perturbation, participant-held-out validation, and two empirical privacy attacks behave across repeated cohorts. Twelve independently generated cohorts (24 participants; 5,760 half-hour windows each) were analyzed with matched-exposure centralized logistic regression, FedAvg, clipped FedAvg, and clipped-plus-noise FedAvg using 16/4/4 participant train/validation/test splits. Uncertainty was estimated with a two-stage hierarchical bootstrap that preserves each seed's validation-selected threshold. The clipped-plus-noise model achieved mean AUROC 0.903 (95% CI 0.867–0.913), AUPRC …

Artificial Intelligence In Occupational Mental Health Assessment: Applications, Predictive Potential, Methodological Challenges, And Responsible Implementation, Julio Suárez Albanchez

Mesopotamian Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Background: Occupational mental health disorders represent a growing challenge for organizations worldwide. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a potential tool for improving the assessment and surveillance of psychosocial risks.
Methods: A critical narrative review of the literature on AI applications in occupational mental health was conducted, focusing on predictive models, methodological limitations, ethical risks, and governance challenges.
Results: Current evidence suggests that AI systems can support the prediction of burnout, stress, anxiety, and other mental health outcomes through machine learning, natural language processing, and behavioral analytics. However, important limitations remain regarding data quality, external validation, explainability, privacy, algorithmic bias, …

Synthesizing Ai In Steam: Visual Storytelling (Vs) As A Meaning-Making Connector Between Bio-Inspired Design (Bid) And Creative Expression, Kriti Malkani, Arunita Paul

The Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on Pedagogy and Learning Design, Vol. 1, Issue 1., Fall 2026

This study investigates the essential role of AI-generated Visual Storytelling (VS) as an analytical and interactive tool within STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) in design education. Additionally, the study also explores the potential of VS as a meaning-making tool transcending mere art and visualization. There is potential in incorporating designerly methods into scientific solutions, creating opportunities for innovation. At the same time, traditional BID (Bio-inspired Design) processes deal with more technical explorations and suffer from representation, making it difficult for students to move beyond the literal scientific illustrations and diagrams. Innovation and connection between design and science require …

2026-10-21 Maya & Kean’S Fall Favorites, Maya Deguzman, Kean Mathis

The Spectator Online

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Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union

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List Of Abbreviations

Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union

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Foreword, Corey Tazzara

Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union

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A Mediterranean Puzzle: Paternity Leave Divergence In Italy And Spain, Ricardo Camacho

Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union

In 2019, the European Union (EU) adopted legislation establishing the right to paternity leave for fathers and second parents, advancing the equitable distribution of caregiving responsibilities and gender equality in labor markets. This paper examines why Italy and Spain—two Southern European Member States with shared historical, cultural, and religious legacies—have diverged significantly in their paternity leave entitlements: Spain offers nineteen weeks of full-paid paternity leave, while Italy provides just two. This paper finds that Spain’s more expansive paternity leave policy reflects higher levels of descriptive representation, effective interest group dynamics, and positive policy framing, with institutional design and cultural norms …

Best For Denmark: Monetary Sovereignty And Nationhood In Denmark’S Campaign For Euro Membership, 1999-2000, Maria S. Cheng

Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union

This mixed-methods, analytical-empirical paper traces the development of the 2000 Danish euro referendum. Despite its long-term fixed exchange rate, Denmark opted out of Economic and Monetary Union in 1993 and rejected euro membership in 2000 through a series of national referenda. This apparent contradiction raises the question of how political elites of the time framed the preservation of a national currency constrained by its choice of monetary regime. I argue that, as they grappled with the nascent euro’s uncertainties, the Social Democrat government sought to redefine Danish sovereignty from that of isolationism to a concept only realized through European regionalism. …

Explaining Divergent Healthcare Entitlements For Undocumented Migrants: A Comparative Analysis Of Spain And Denmark, Jimin Jeong

Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union

This paper examines the puzzling divergence in healthcare entitlements for undocumented migrants in Spain and Denmark. Despite being a wealthy social democratic welfare state, Denmark restricts undocumented migrants to emergency-only care. Spain, a Mediterranean welfare state with fewer resources and a larger undocumented population, extends universal access to healthcare. This paper evaluates six theoretical explanations from the social policy scholarship to explore why Spain has adopted more generous healthcare entitlements for undocumented migrants than Denmark. The findings suggest that three mechanisms play the most significant role in explaining these differences: party configuration, elite framing, and the strength of interest group …

Converging, But Not Together: Regional Growth After Eu Enlargement, Armine Kardashyan

Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union

Using annual NUTS-3 data for eleven Central and Eastern European member states from 2000 to 2023, this paper studies whether regional catch-up after EU enlargement reflects absolute or conditional convergence. I estimate rolling ten-year convergence regressions within a steady-state framework in which regional GDP per capita depends on investment, human capital, and EU exposure. The results show strong conditional convergence during the early and middle phases of enlargement: Regions above their predicted steady states grow more slowly, consistent with adjustment toward heterogeneous long-run targets. This relationship weakens over time and becomes statistically indistinguishable from zero in later windows. Absolute convergence …

The Rise Of Right-Wing Extremism Among Eastern Germany’S Youth: A Study Of Political Socialization In Germany’S Neue Bundesländer, Tim Luebbert

Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union

Eastern Germany has seen a pronounced rise in support for right-wing extremist actors among young people aged 15 to 25, raising concerns about long-term democratic resilience. This study examines why youth in eastern Germany are disproportionately receptive to far-right ideology and how attitudes are shaped by political socialization, regional identity, and gendered demographic dynamics. It combines a literature review with original survey data from a questionnaire administered in January 2026 to high school students in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The findings suggest that far-right youth radicalization in eastern Germany cannot be explained solely by cultural backlash trends observed in other western democracies. Instead, …

Slow Violence In French Polynesia: Where The Cold War Got Hot, Gillian G. Maynard

Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union

Between 1966 and 1996, France conducted a series of atmospheric and underground nuclear tests on the atolls of Mururoa and Fangataufa, exposing Polynesian communities to radioactive fallout. The paper seeks to illustrate how France’s nuclear testing program in French Polynesia produced gendered and slow forms of violence extending long after the cessation of testing. Combining environmental history, feminist political ecology, and the analysis of declassified government documents, the paper traces how radioactive contamination entered food systems, damaged reef geology, and generated intergenerational health burdens. The paper additionally examines the gendered impacts of radiation exposure, arguing that Polynesian women experienced a …

Implementation Of A Modified Trigger Tool For Adverse Drug Reaction Detection In Pediatric With Covid-19 In Indonesia, Nisa Maria, Avini Risda Khaerani, Indri Yuliani Hamdani, Annisa Lazuardi Larasati, Larasati Arrum Kusumawardani

Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research

Pediatric patients are vulnerable to adverse drug reactions (ADRs), necessitating prompt monitoring of treatment-related adverse events (AEs). This study analyzed ADRs in pediatric COVID-19 patients using a modified trigger tool to identify AEs, followed by causality analysis with the Naranjo Algorithm, and evaluated the tool’s performance. A cross-sectional, single-center retrospective study was conducted at a hospital in Indonesia from August 2020 to July 2021, using total sampling of pediatric patients aged one to≥24 hours with COVID-19. AEs were identified using 23 triggers (15 laboratory result, eight drug-administration). A total of 242 positive triggers were detected among 120 patients (mean two …

Joseph Manasee V. Fidler

All Decisions

Handwritten opinion. In this GCEL holdover, the court dismisses for failing to plead GCEL status under RPAPL § 741(5-a) and failing to include the small landlord exemption disclosures required by RPAPL § 741(5-b) and RPL § 214(1), per Morgan v Caesar. Petitioner's motion to amend was denied because the proposed amended petition did not correct the deficiencies.

Connors V. Kushner Cos., Llc

All Decisions

App Div 2nd affirms Supreme Court (Walker, J.) finding that two units were not subject to rent stabilization but denying summary judgment on remaining units. A 2014 RSC amendment removed the prior requirement that the first tenancy after a temporary student-housing exemption (RSC § 2520.11[f]) must be rent stabilized, so landlord could potentially deregulate pre-HSTPA; however, landlord failed to prove proper deregulation, and no fraudulent scheme was established, so both sides' summary judgment motions are largely denied.

Decker Assoc., Llc V. Deutsch

All Decisions

App Term 1st affirms (Chinea, J.) landlord's summary judgment in Loft Law nonpayment. The landlord did not forfeit RGB increases by awaiting the Loft Board's final rent order before seeking them, as the increases "did not accrue or become collectible" until that order issued. Tenant's statute of limitations and laches defenses are rejected on the same basis.

Fifth Ave. 25g, Llc V. Sambar

All Decisions

App Term 1st reverses (Chinea, J.), holding that respondent did not waive his personal jurisdiction defense by moving for summary judgment on the merits, because he had previously raised that defense (citing Gliklad v Cherney). Respondent's nonconclusory denial of the process server's claims necessitates a traverse hearing; matter remanded accordingly.

50 Years Of Irrigation District Modernization In The Usa -- Then And Now, Charles M. Burt

BioResource and Agricultural Engineering

Irrigation district modernization in the USA has seen changes in management attitudes, hardware, software, and the shouldering of responsibilities for environmental issues that were never envisioned fifty years ago. The pace of modernization is quite variable depending upon the state and location within the state. This paper provides some insights into the evolution of several aspects of modernization over that fifty year time span.

Iran Strikes And Shifting Sands: America And A Remade Middle East, Jeffrey Feltman

Brookings Scholar Lecture Series

As part of the Brookings Scholar Lecture Series, Brookings Fellow in Foreign Policy Jeffrey Feltman discusses the post-Iran war landscape, new regional alignments, and the impact on U.S. interests and relations. We are living through what could be the most transformative period in the Middle East since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. New, informal alliances are scrambling traditional politics, while longstanding diplomatic taboos (such as prohibiting direct Israeli-Lebanese negotiations) are tossed aside. Syria, its transitional leadership embraced by the Trump Administration, no longer serves as Iran’s land bridge to Hezbollah but risks becoming a flashpoint in escalating Israeli-Turkish tensions. Middle …

Comprehensive Variable-Temperature Raman And Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Investigation Of Bulk Undoped, Fe-Doped, And Ge-Doped Gan: Correlated Phonon, Carrier, Optical, And Disorder Dynamics, Manika Tun Nafisa, Sm Atiqur Rahman, Zhe Chuan Feng, Sandip Das, James N. Hilfiker, Nina Jong, Ian T. Ferguson, Benjamin Klein

Faculty Articles

Bulk gallium nitride (GaN) substrates with controlled electrical compensation and doping are foundational materials for high-power electronics, optoelectronics, and emerging spintronic devices. Despite extensive studies on epitaxial GaN thin films, a complete and correlated understanding of crystal, phonon, free-carrier, birefringence, optical, and disorder-driven processes in high-quality bulk GaN crystals remains limited. In this work, a comprehensive temperature-dependent (25–300 °C) investigation of free-standing bulk undoped, Fe-doped, and Ge-doped GaN substrates using Raman spectroscopy, spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE), and atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been presented. A detailed analysis of phonon evolution, apparent Raman-shift-derived biaxial stress and in-plane strain, longitudinal optical phonon–plasmon coupling …

Advocating For New York City Students In The Education Law Clinic, Sarah Stukalin

NYLS Community News

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Real-Time Integration Of Iomt And Patient Digital Twins With Blockchain-Anchored Provenance For Interoperable And Privacy-Preserving Electronic Health Records, Dinesh Goyal, Sheng-Lung Peng

Mesopotamian Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Electronic health records (EHRs) are not designed for continuous physiological streams, dynamic patient-state representations, and verifiable cross-provider exchange. This study presents an integrated healthcare architecture combining Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) telemetry, patient-specific Digital Twins, GRU-based risk analytics, blockchain-anchored provenance, and HL7 FHIR R4 interoperability. Its central contribution is the Synchronized State Update with Risk-Aware Blockchain Anchoring (SSU-RABA) algorithm, which couples Digital Twin synchronization with predicted clinical risk to prioritize asynchronous provenance anchoring without blocking the real-time update path. In controlled experiments with 18,000 synthetic IoMT packets, the Digital Twin achieved a mean update latency of 178 ms and synchronization …

Integrating Imperfect Cross-Domain Segmentation Maps Into Dental Radiograph Classification: Robustness Of Soft Probability Weighting Versus Hard Masking, Raed Bulbul, Mohammed Alhanjouri

Mesopotamian Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Tooth segmentation maps transferred across dental radiograph datasets are imperfect, and the way they are integrated into a diagnostic classifier determines whether their errors reach the dental diagnosis. This study quantifies such errors on external panoramic radiographs and compares hard masking with soft probability weighting for tooth-level classification of dental pathology. A U-Net and a conditional diffusion model were trained on STS-2D-Tooth and frozen; the diffusion model refined the U-Net probability map in six image-conditioned denoising steps. On two independent external datasets from Bangladesh (319 radiographs) and Tunisia (59 radiographs), U-Net maps reached Dice 0.787 and 0.871, and 73% and …

Spartan Daily, October 21, 2026, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2026

Volume 167, Issue 26

Documents From The October 21, 2026 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana (Asum), University Of Montana--Missoula. Associated Students

Senate Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2007-Present

Agenda and meeting minutes from the October 21, 2026 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM). No resolutions were discussed in this meeting.

Placebo-Arm Response Rates For Pain Outcomes In Chronic Pancreatitis: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis Of Randomized Controlled Trials, Tareq Alsaleh, Prachi Mann, Aleena Majeed, Syed Hasaan Rahman, John George

Student Publications

Background: Improvement in the placebo arm can influence chronic pancreatitis (CP) pain trials, yet contemporary estimates of placebo-arm response are limited. We aimed to quantify placebo-arm pain response rates in medical placebo-controlled randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of CP-related abdominal pain.

Methods: PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and Scopus were searched from inception to October 2025 for placebo-controlled RCTs reporting pain response among placebo-treated patients with CP. Crossover trials, procedural or device-based sham-controlled trials, and studies without extractable placebo-arm pain-response data were excluded. The primary outcome was the pooled proportion of placebo-treated patients achieving pain response according to study-specific definitions. Random-effects …

The Price Of Open: Understanding Article Processing Charges And Nsu's Cost-Saving Agreements, Keri Baker

Staff Presentations, Proceedings, Lectures, and Symposia

Open access publishing can raise your work's visibility and impact — but it often comes with a price tag in the form of Article Processing Charges (APCs) that can run into the thousands of dollars. This session, designed for NSU faculty, unpacks the true cost of “open” and shows you how to avoid paying it. We'll cover the Scholarly Communications services available through the Alvin Sherman Library, walk through the major open access models (Gold, Green, Diamond, Hybrid) and how their costs differ, and — most importantly — detail the transformative “Read and Publish” agreements NSU currently holds with publishers …

Ruins In Reverse: Landscape Painting, Time, And The Galleria At Crystal Run | Srps Fall '26 10/21, Kristopher Benedict

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Kristopher Benedict, Art + Design, presents "Ruins in Reverse: Landscape Painting, Time, and the Galleria at Crystal Run".