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Surgical Removal Of Visceral Adipose Tissue Has Therapeutic Benefit In Male Appnl-F Mice, Samuel A. Mcfadden, Yimin Fang, Kathleen Quinn, Mackenzie R. Peck, Jenelle E. Chapman, Tiarra Hill, Andrzej Bartke, Erin R. Hascup, Kevin Hascup

Articles

Purpose:  Visceral white adipose tissue (vWAT) accumulation causes systemic inflammation, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and senescent cell accumulation that are risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Visceral fat removal (VFR) improves metabolism and reduces pro-inflammatory cytokines.  We hypothesized that VFR removal in AD mice would improve metabolism and cognition.

Methods:  Male and female APP^NL-F mice underwent sham or vWAT surgical resection (periovarian or epididymal and perirenal) at 4 (pre-symptomatic) and 16 (symptomatic) months of age to understand interventional and therapeutic effects, respectively.  At 18 months of age, glucose metabolism and novel object recognition (NOR) memory were assayed followed by …

Graduate Council Minutes 2026-03-02, Northern Illinois University

Graduate Council Archives

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Graduate Council Agenda 2026-03-02, Northern Illinois University

Graduate Council Archives

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Korean Words In The Oed: Race, Gender, And The Modern English Speaker, Elaine W. Chun

Faculty Publications

This article examines representations of the Modern English Speaker of Korean (MESK) in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), as lexicographers listened to and documented the language of this figure over the past century. I show that, until the early twenty-first century, the most salient type of MESK was the Koreanist, a white, masculine expert on and translator of Korean, the language of a racial other. By contrast, more recent Korean entries, influenced by the global spread of hallyu, have invoked the Korea Fan, a figure that potentially unsettles longstanding ideologies of language, race, and gender. I …

Introduction – Carnets Filmiques, Carnets Sonores : Des Essais Intimes Et Collectifs, Robert Bonamy, Aude Fourel, Eve Le Fessant Coussonneau

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Le sens à attribuer à la notion de carnet filmique ou de carnet sonore suscite quelque indécision, en raison du caractère composite et mouvant des cas envisagés. L’enjeu principal ne paraît ainsi pas ici celui d’une définition serrée d’un objet, mais plutôt une attention accordée à des tentatives de réalisation. De surcroît, si la forme-carnet permet à peu près tout, elle n’interdit donc véritablement rien : l’esquisse, le brouillon, l’approximation, voire l’échec et l’interruption.
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Du Journal De Deuil À L’Œuvre De Sépulture : « Lo » (Thanassis Vassiliou, 2021-2025), Marie Martin

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After his mother’s death in 2017, Thanassis Vassiliou returned to Greece and began filming. The instinctive act of recording aimed both to come to terms with the now definitive absence in places still filled with memories, and to document his own reactions, attempting to preserve them even if he could not fully understand them. These filmic notes could perhaps, later on, allow another perspective, according to the dynamic that Antoine Compagnon aptly analyzed as paradoxical in relation to Barthes’s Mourning Diary: “mourning and narrative are antinomic, but [...] only narrative [...] is capable of expressing the experience of mourning, …

« From Ground Zero » Et « Letters » : Carnets Polyphoniques En Quête D’Intersubjectivité, Eve Le Fessant Coussonneau

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The two polyphonic films From Ground Zero (2025, produced by Rashid Masharawi) and Letters (2025, produced by Josef Khallouf) bring together, in response to the war in Gaza, unique short films, letters and chronicles that address collective questions. How do these films take charge of the urgent need to problematize, aesthetically and politically, the relationship between subjectivity and the collective? From the Palestinian enclave or neighboring Lebanon, they seek irreducible singularities and intersubjective connections in the face of the horror of genocide. Caught in a complex combination of places and times, their address to our spectatorial gaze thus reveals the …

Le Vent Du Sud, « La Nuit Et L’Enfant » – Récit D’Une Vidéo-Correspondance Avec Zoheir Mefti, David Yon

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Entre 2011 et 2012, Zoheir Mefti et David Yon ont entretenu une correspondance autour de la réalisation filmique. A travers leurs échanges, ils questionnent la nécessité de l’image. Zoheir Mefti travaille un geste filmique de l’urgence, tandis que David Yon prépare un film en Algérie dans un temps plus long. Après les mots, ils partagent des images et des sons, tels des carnets filmiques, dans lesquels ils donnent leurs positions et interrogent les liens entre la vie et le cinéma.

Vol. 70, No. 8 (March 2, 2026)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Comment On The Draft Environmental Impact Statement For New Operations For Lake Powell And Lake Mead Post-2026, Bryan Williams, Caitlyn Andrus, Brittany Fager, Matthew Fugal, Parker Hansen, Ashley Jones, Shaun Joseph, Ashley Mcallister, Braden Wilding, David Rosenberg

Civil and Environmental Engineering Student Research

We appreciate the Bureau of Reclamation’s extensive effort in preparing the Post-2026 Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Draft EIS) for operational guidelines for Lake Powell, Lake Mead, and the Colorado River Basin. This commentary will address positives, questions, and concerns from the Draft EIS. We also share recommendations for consideration in the Final EIS.

2025-2026 Anthony De Mare: American Mavericks & Re-Imaging Sondheim, Anthony De Mare

Guest Recitals

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Force–Power Profiles And Countermovement Utilization Ratios In U.S. Ski & Snowboard National Team Athletes, Joshua Bullock

Doctorate in Kinesiology

Mogul skiing imposes high neuromuscular and lower-extremity loading athlete demands, yet mogul-specific reference values for jump-derived force–power characteristics and differential utilization metrics have remained limited. The specific aims of this study were to: 1) establish descriptive statistics, including means, percentiles, and variability for jump height (JH), peak force (PF), and peak power (PP) during the squat jump (SJ) and countermovement jump (CMJ) in elite mogul skiers, 2) determine corresponding countermovement utilization ratio (CUR) values for each measure (JH-CUR, PF-CUR, and PP-CUR), and 3) report descriptive outcomes independently for both male and female athletes to provide sex-specific reference profiles. Archived testing …

Re: Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Npl Site Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit, Remedial Design Documents For The Blacktail Creek Area Groundwater Hydraulic Control System, Josh Bryson

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

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Rising Sun: The Musical Legacy Of Clarence "Tom" Ashley, The Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University

The Reece Museum Exhibition Publications

Clarence “Tom” Ashley (September 29, 1895 - June 2, 1967) was a musician from Mountain City, Tennessee. Ashley began making music at medicine shows and local fiddlers’ conventions as early as 1911. Notably, Ashley participated in the Mountain City Fiddlers Convention in May 1925, an event that is considered to have helped launch the modern country music industry by catching the attention of recording executives in the years leading up to the historic Bristol Sessions (1927-1928) and Johnson City Sessions (1928-1929). Ashley was recorded during the historic 1929 Johnson City Sessions as both a solo artist and as a member …

Biomechanical Characterization Of Porcine Lower Limb Arteries For Preclinical Evaluation Of Peripheral Vascular Devices, Barbara Batista De Oliveira, Frazer Heinis, Anastasia Desyatova, Jason Mactaggart, Alexey Kamenskiy

Journal Articles

Purpose Peripheral artery disease (PAD) predominantly affects the lower extremities, where complex biomechanical deformations during limb flexion contribute to disease progression and treatment failure. While human and cadaver studies have characterized these deformations, preclinical device testing requires large-animal models that replicate human arterial anatomy and biomechanics. Swine are commonly used, yet their biomechanical comparability to humans remains poorly defined. Methods We performed a detailed morphometric and biomechanical analysis of the external iliac (EIA), superficial femoral (SFA), and popliteal (PA) arteries in 20 Yucatan and 16 domestic swine using computed tomography angiography. Arteries were evaluated in straight and flexed limb postures …

Usa V. Albert Boufarah

2026 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Faculty Senate Agenda March 2, 2026, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• 3:00 Call to Order
• Approval of Minutes February 2, 2026
• 3:05 University Business
• 3:20 Faculty Senate Business
• 3:35 Report
• Parking and Transportation
• 3:40 Information
• EPC Report - February 5, 2026
• 4:00 Old Business
• 4:05 New Business
• Special Faculty Forum
• Adjourn: 4:30 pm

Should Single-Sales-Factor Formulas Be Constitutional?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

Articles

On October 28, 2025, Florida sued California in the Supreme Court over its application of a single-sales-factor (SSF) formula to exclude large out-of-state asset sales. But Florida couched its critique in much broader terms, seemingly attacking the validity of the SSF altogether. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) stated that: California has created a tax system that punishes economic freedom. We will not tolerate California over-taxing revenue earned in Florida. The Newsom regime is obviously attempting to punish business owners who have fled California due to its disastrous policies. Given that multitudes of California businesses and residents are moving to …

One Mother At A Time: Ole Miss Pharmacy Assists Maternal Health Effort, Marisa C. Atkinson, Natalie Ehrhardt

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Mississippi is experiencing a maternal and infant health crisis, and the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy and its alumni are stepping in to help resolve it one patient at a time.

Mcsa Forum Minutes 03/02/2026, Morris Campus Student Association

Morris Campus Student Association

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Adolph Michelin V. Warden Moshannon Valley Correctional Center

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Carnets De Bord. Tables D’Orientation « Tariq Teguia », Pascale Cassagnau, Tariq Teguia

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This interview by Pascale Cassagnau with Tariq Teguia puts into perspective the Algerian filmmaker’s work notebooks, which are both autonomous objects and working documents, linked to the film itself. A medium for thought, the notebook is a space for language, a score and a cartographic space that gives shape to the writing of the film in a graphic way. A discursive space parallel to the space of scriptwriting, the notebook accompanies the development of the film from its inception, collecting the writing of thought in no particular chronological order.

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Cet entretien de Pascale Cassagnau avec Tariq Teguia met en …

Design And Evaluation Of A Collaborative Xr Framework With Abstract Building Blocks For Manufacturing System Prototyping, Shaun Macdonald, Bixun Chen, Yuanjie Xia, Rami Ghannam

School of Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

Manufacturing systems are complex installations designed and developed by stakeholders with differing expertise. However, system design primarily features traditional methods, long lead times, and siloed environments, which obstruct comprehension, communication, or collaboration. Prior research has used extended reality (XR) to prototype and visualise specific manufacturing applications; however, flexible system modelling remains complex. To address these issues and lay the foundation for future-facing manufacturing design as part of Industry 4.0, we introduce ARTIFY—a prototype XR framework for conceptual system prototyping. It features abstract building blocks that can be semantically reconfigured to support early-stage modelling of varied manufacturing systems in immersive environments. …

Do Attorneys Discriminate? Understanding The Implications Of Bias On Voir Dire & Jury Selection, Jessica Lambert

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)

Biases, generally defined as predispositions or inclinations for or against ideas, is a broadly prevalent aspect of human cognition and decision-making (Steinhauser, 2020). Bias is present in every decision-making structure, even those in which we strive for the greatest neutrality, such as the legal system (Alter, 2010). An especially important place to seek to minimize or eliminate bias is in the courtroom. Our justice system is built upon the assumption of impartiality and nonpartisanship (Rosenberg, 2008), yet biases and stereotypical decision- making are common criticisms of the court (Curley et al., 2022; Chopp, 2017). This study attempts to identify the …

Intouch Week Of March 2, 2026, New York Medical College

InTouch

• Kartik Prabhakaran, M.D., to Lead Department of Surgery
• Uncovering an Early Driver of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
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• NYMC and TU Host "Ninety Minutes: The Medical Magazine of the Web"
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« Voi(E)X De L’Exil, Formes De La Pensée » : Le Cinéma-Essai De Borhane Alaouié », Elie Yazbek, Farah Alhashem

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This article offers a comprehensive study of Borhane Alaouié’s work, a central figure in modern Lebanese cinema, situating it within the tradition of the essay film. Through an analysis of Lettre d’un temps d’exil, À toi où que tu sois and Khallas, it examines how exile, wounded memory, and fragmentary thought shape the filmmaker’s aesthetic and ethical approach. Exile is explored not only as a geopolitical condition but as an interior state, a persistent uncertainty that structures voices, narratives and images. The study highlights the importance of voice-over, fragmentation, memory-driven editing and epistolary address, while positioning Alaouié’s work …

The Personal Is Collective: Egyptian First-Person – Documentary Cinema As Post-Revolution Diary, Eman Elharmeel

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The 2011 Egyptian revolution marked a watershed moment in the reconfiguration of individuality, autonomy and self-expression within Egyptian society. Challenging long-standing collectivist frameworks, the revolutionary moment opened new spaces for individual agency and subjective reflection. This paper examines how these shifts intersect with the rise of first-person documentary cinema as a powerful medium for articulating post-revolutionary subjectivity in Egypt.
Focusing on The Past Will Return (2015) by Dina Hamza, Happily Ever After (2016) by Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir, and Little Eagles (2016) by Mohamed Rashad, the paper analyzes how filmmakers negotiate personal desires, familial pressures and collective belonging …

Triste Souvenir Et Sombre Avenir, « Lettre À Ma Sœur » (2006) De Habiba Djahnine, Boualem Khelifati

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This article explores how Letter to My Sister (2006), a film by director and poet Habiba Djahnine dedicated to her sister Nabila, a democratic and feminist activist who was murdered by Islamist terrorists in Tizi Ouzou in 1995, revisits the fate of the direct and indirect victims of Algeria’s dark decade of the 1990s and the repressive religious and state policies towards women. It employs a narrative structure that combines several film genres – film-letter, film-journey, film-poem, and film-archive – showing situations in which memories and pain are shared, as well as the necessary perpetuation of a struggle that is …

Beyrouth 1978-1982 : Le Fonds Photographique De Monica Maurer – Une Collection Contre L’Oubli Et La Destruction, Aude Fourel

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It was while searching for unused film footage on the Palestinian struggle for a documentary essay that I discovered the filmography of German director Monica Maurer and her work restoring and preserving Palestinian films. For the past four years, we have been working together to digitise and catalogue the photographs and documents she still keeps at home.
I reflect on the paths opened up by the writing of a film in the making, on the formatting of Monica Maurer’s photographic collection, and on the initial prospects for visual and historical studies of this material in the particular context of the …

Sonorisation De L’Anarchive Ou La Palestine Comme Projet Politique – À L’Écoute De « A Fidai Film » De Kamal Aljafari Et De « Partition » De Diana Allan, Judith Abensour

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Kamal Aljafari’s A Fidai Film draws on Palestinian archives confiscated by Israel in Beirut in 1982. Diana Allan created Partition using archives from Mandatory Palestine held at the Imperial War Museum in London. The film notebook not only refers to a type of fragmentary editing, but also allows us to revisit the relationship between sound and image, thus offering an exercise in remembrance in the present. By adding sound to images, the two filmmakers question the contradictions inherent in archives, their erasure or their resistance to authoritative or propagandistic discourse. Thus, under the guise of sensory and sound anthropology for …