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The New Adolescent Epidemic: Vaping And The Electronic Cigarette, Manuel Reyes-Loya

Hibbs Brief

In this issue of the Hibbs Brief, we discuss some health issues regarding what is considered the new pandemic among adolescents – the electronic cigarette.

Foreword: Fifty Years Later, An Editor Looks Back, Alan Charles Dell'ario

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Imagination Unbound: On The New Anti-Rights Trajectory Of The U.S. Supreme Court, Joshua J. Schroeder

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

In the summer of 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled an individual right for the first time in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org. The Dobbs Court also suggested that several rights-affirming decisions including Loving v. Virginia, Griswold v. Connecticut, and Obergefell v. Hodges should be systematically reviewed to similarly determine their lasting effect, if any. The idea that decades-old precedent should be systematically reviewed by the Court to decide whether it should be overruled under the new Janus v. AFSCME balancing test is uncharted territory.

Using an ad hoc balancing test to systematize the overruling of longstanding decisions is …

A Critical And Historical Analysis Of Ohio’S Post-Millennium Regression To Major-Party Monopoly, Mark R. Brown

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Universal Back-End Design, Jason Kalili

LMU Theses and Dissertations

Accessibility in back-end development is often overlooked, with the majority of discussions and efforts centered on front-end design. To make applications usable for a wider audience, developers must also prioritize incorporating accessibility from the back-end. Back-end web accessibility encompasses the design and development of web-based systems and applications that are accessible to all users, including those with disabilities. This involves optimizing the underlying code and infrastructure for accessibility and implementing features that enable users with disabilities to navigate and interact with the site or application. Ensuring back-end web accessibility is crucial for creating an inclusive online environment accessible to everyone, …

Nitroalkane Oxidase Inspired No-Transfer Agents, No Sensors, And The Computational Design Of Fluorescent Sensors, Thanh Thuy Thi Vuong

Chemistry & Biochemistry Dissertations - Archive

Flavin adenine dinucleotide and flavin mononucleotide are co-enzymes with biologically relevant redox potentials. They are involved in many chemical transformation processes in the biological system, such as one-electron and two-electron transfer reactions, dehydrogenase reactions, and intramolecular electron transfer reactions critical to cellular function. Their ability to be reoxidized under aerobic conditions has inspired us to investigate biomimetic transformations with their derivatives, especially in converting NO2 to NO. Besides that, a series of biosensors was designed and investigated to detect NO in the aqueous system. NO sensors were achieved with computational DFT calculations correctly predicting the fluorescence response.

Long Term Neuroprotective Effects Of Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cells In Neonatal Rats Post Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy, Melissa February, Thomas N. Tulenko, Barry Weinberger, Alla Kushnir

Cooper Rowan Medical Journal

Background: Hypoxemic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the neonatal population. Recent research has shown human adipose stem cells (hASCs) to have neuroprotective effects in animal models of HIE. This study tested the hypothesis that neurodevelopmental outcomes would be improved using hASC therapy in term neonatal HIE rat model.

Methods: Seven day old rats underwent left carotid artery ligation followed by 8% oxygen for 120 minutes, or carotid isolation in shams. Forty-eight hours after surgery half of the rats received hASCs and half normal saline (NS) intravenously. Rota-rod and cylinder tests were used to …

New Ceo Appointment And Its Influence On Foreign Market Re-Entry Decisions, Jawaher Falah O Alotaibi

Management Dissertations - Archive

This dissertation investigates the effect of new CEO appointment on foreign markets re-entry decisions given that new CEOs are likely to bring a new set of skills and knowledge to their firms, leading these firms to evaluate opportunities in foreign markets in a different way. To examine this relationship, data for exit and re-entry events were collected by relying on RavenPack analytics tool. Specifically, data of 294 exit and 144 re-entry events for 339 firms in BRIC economies (i.e., Brazil, Russia, India, and China) were used and supplemented by Compustat data and additional data sources. Conditional Fixed Effect Logit Regressions …

Deformation At Uturuncu Volcano, Bolivia: Modeling The Effect Of Volatile Movement In The Hydrothermal System, Karissa Rosenberger

Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

Deformation at volcanos is often a precursor to an eruption, but sometimes volcanos experience uplift without actually erupting. Determining the mechanisms behind this deformation and whether it will lead to an eruption is an important part of understanding volcanic systems. Uturuncu volcano in Bolivia has been experiencing deformation for decades, but the last time it erupted was 250,000 years ago. The reason behind this deformation is unknown, but one possible cause is volatiles moving into the hydrothermal system and getting trapped, causing the volume to increase and the surface to uplift. To test this hypothesis, the current volume change of …

Editor's Note, Jordan Stone

Mercer Law Review

No abstract provided.

Coase’S Parable, F.E. Guerra-Pujol

Mercer Law Review

Some stories have heroes and villains. Others involve a voyage, a quest, or a monster to be defeated. The law is no exception. Most legal stories are about identifying wrongdoers and vindicating the rights of victims, and this standard victim-wrongdoer model not only informs recent developments in legal scholarship, such as feminist jurisprudence or critical race theory; it also informs our classical liberal tradition.5 But what if harms are reciprocal or jointly caused? In other words, what if victims are just as responsible as wrongdoers for their plight?

Symposium Introduction, Pamela Wilkins, Suzianne Painter-Thorne

Mercer Law Review

Anyone from Mercer University or from Macon, Georgia—indeed, anyone from the American South—should understand the truth of this statement. Markers and reminders of the past are ubiquitous: the Ocmulgee Mounds that were occupied by different Native American cultures for thousands of years; Confederate monuments that were only recently moved away from downtown Macon; even a plaque commemorating where Reverend Pearly Brown liked to play the gospel blues; and a museum in the house where the Allman Brothers once lived, jammed, and smoked weed. Whether we celebrate or deplore them, these long-spun webs (at least in part) define us.

The Battle Of The Narrative In Jones V. Mississippi: Consideration Of Youth “In Name Only”, Stevie Leahy

Mercer Law Review

Juvenile sentencing within the United States is but one illustration of how the legal system reinforces the marginalization of populations that have been historically underinvested and underrepresented. Throughout the past century, the macro-narrative on sentencing has fluctuated nationally, as well as within individual states, with the reasoning used to justify decisions sliding between the conflicting lenses of rehabilitation and punishment. This has necessarily impacted the micro-narrative—the way that an individual’s story is considered and weighed (or ignored) within sentencing. There are endless factors that affect outcomes in sentencing: class, race and or ethnicity, gender, and access to counsel are just …

Law's Body, Matt Saleh, Hannah Potter, Kendall Foley

Mercer Law Review

How do law’s narratives construct one of its central objects: the human body? This essay explores legal constructions of the human body: both in its idealized form, and in the negative ontological spaces of injury, disability, death, and dehumanization that surround that ideal.

Bodies are “the very ‘stuff’ of law.” There are few areas of law where the human body does not, somewhere, require definition. For instance, without a concept of the body, there can be no consequent constructions of personhood, nakedness, state intrusion, injury, disability, duty of care, aging, or the moment of death, to name only a few.

32 Shots In The Dark: How Local Governments Can Increase Police Accountability When States Refuse To, Marcia M. Ziegler

Mercer Law Review

On March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor was shot to death in her apartment hallway by police officers executing a search warrant. The warrant was based on a false affidavit, the executing officers acted criminally on scene, and in the aftermath, detectives spread misinformation about the case on social media. While there was some limited accountability for the officers involved, many citizens considered the official response to be lackluster. After a period of public protest, Louisville and other cities all over the country have examined options for police reform at the local level. While most law enforcement agencies operate in a …

The Rise Of Public School Prayer With The Demise Of Lemon V. Kurtzman, Samantha Thompson Lipp

Mercer Law Review

The Supreme Court of the United States has officially overturned Lemon v. Kurtzman. The controversial and heavily criticized Lemon opinion sets forth the primary test courts used for over fifty years in analyzing claims under the Establishment Clause. The official overruling of Lemon signals the Supreme Court’s embrace of a more accommodating approach toward religion in the public sphere. This Comment predicts how, in Lemon’s absence, the Supreme Court will likely reassess precedent in the context of public school prayer and become more accommodating of religion.

In Part II, this Comment addresses the three approaches to interpreting the …

Critical Race Theory (Crt) In The Legal Academy: Derrick Bell’S Seminal Law Review Articles And Critical Race Theorists Scholarship; Crt Opponents Conflicting Views And Potential Consequences Of Critics’ Cancellation Strategy, Cynthia Elaine Tompkins

Mercer Law Review

This Article discusses Critical Race Theory (CRT), a legal study developed by law professors for law school education. Many, if not most, critical race theorists credit Derrick Bell as the law professor who founded and inspired CRT, and even after he died in 2011, his extensive volume of scholarship remains influential, especially among scholars of critical race and law topics. This Article examines Derrick Bell’s earliest law review articles’ critiques of civil rights laws, his Interest Convergence theory, and his assessment that racism is systemic and permanent in the United States of America.

CRT critics broadly categorize African American history, …

A Holy Land Guidebook: Cultivating Spiritual Disciplines For Pilgrimages, Johnnie L. Birks

Doctor of Ministry Theses and Dissertations

A small group of research participants and I assembled for this phenomenally enriching project intervention to create a proprietary branded guidebook for Miracle Loaves And Fishes World Hunger Ministry, Incorporated, and its subsidiary, Anointed Royal Tours, to be used for pilgrimages to the Holy Land. These pilgrimages will create sustainable funding for the ministry to support universal efforts to eliminate global hunger while simultaneously attempting to equip believers with a transformative and/or restorative walk in Christlikeness for the sake of creation, humanity, and eternal life in God’s Kingdom. The path of Christlikeness is to be transformed (Rom 12:2 NRSV), as …

Crow's Nest, May 1, 2023, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The May 1, 2023, issue of the Crow's Nest.

“A Disputant Of The Landscape:” Redefining The English Landscape In “To Autumn”, John Sager

The Criterion

No abstract provided.

Accelerating Colorectal Cancer Screening And Follow-Up Through Implementation Science (Accsis) In Appalachia: Protocol For A Group Randomized, Delayed Intervention Trial, Electra D. Paskett, Aaron J. Kruse-Diehr, Jill M. Oliveri, Robin C. Vanderpool, Darrell M. Gray Ii, Michael L. Pennell, Bin Huang, Gregory S. Young, Darla Fickle, Mark Cromo, Mira L. Katz, Paul L. Reiter, Melinda Rogers, David A. Gross, Vickie Fairchild, Wendy Xu, Angela Carman, Jean M. Walunis, Ann Scheck Mcalearney, Timothy R. Huerta, Saurabh Rahurkar, Erika Biederman, Mark B. Dignan

UK CARES Faculty Publications

Appalachian regions of Kentucky and Ohio are hotspots for colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality in the USA. Screening reduces CRC incidence and mortality; however, screening uptake is needed, especially in these underserved geographic areas. Implementation science offers strategies to address this challenge. The aim of the current study was to conduct multi-site, transdisciplinary research to evaluate and improve CRC screening processes using implementation science strategies. The study consists of two phases (Planning and Implementation). In the Planning Phase, a multilevel assessment of 12 health centers (HC) (one HC from each of the 12 Appalachian counties) was conducted by interviewing key informants, …

The (Ir)Reverent Social Roles Of Religion In The Work Of James And Wharton, Jannette Kazlauskas

The Criterion

No abstract provided.

Bawdy Works: Vulgar Humor And Bodily Autonomy In Austen's "Mansfield Park" And Fielding's "The History Of Tom Jones", Sloane Larsen

The Criterion

No abstract provided.

Enigmatic Nashe And The Subversion Of Romance, Louie Alexandris

The Criterion

No abstract provided.

The Exile Enigma And The Cycle Of Haunting, Caroline Boardman

The Criterion

No abstract provided.

Ownership Is Power, Madeleine Moino

The Criterion

No abstract provided.

Awareness In Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush", Caroline Coffey

The Criterion

No abstract provided.

Christian Humanism In Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood", Grant Ward

The Criterion

No abstract provided.

What Is The Right Feeling? Keat's Poetic Representations Of Agentive Femininity, Brendan Bonner

The Criterion

No abstract provided.

The Criterion (2023)

The Criterion

No abstract provided.