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Detecting Bitstream-Level Fpga Trojans With An Snn, Kylie Arnett

Shelby Hall Graduate Research Forum Presentations

Limited research has been conducted on SNNs for FPGA Trojan detection. FPGA design is often handled by manufacturers outside the U.S. FPGA manufactures outsource production to third-party foundries. This multi-step process introduces security vulnerabilities and increases risk of Hardware Trojan insertion.

Key Questions: To what extent can an FPGA be manipulated at the bitstream level to enable or disable encryption algorithms?

Can SNNs accurately detect the presence of Trojans within an FPGA?

Eeg Features And Rotterdam Head Ct Score Predict Early Favorable Outcome In Pediatric Severe Tbi, Xuexin Lu

Presentations

INTRODUCTION Accurate prognostication after pediatric severe TBI (sTBI) remains challenging. We examined the utility of continuous EEG (cEEG) and Rotterdam head CT score in predicting short-term favorable outcome. METHODS 7-yr (01/2018-12/2024) retrospective study of children aged 1.5-18 yrs admitted to our PICU with sTBI and receiving cEEG monitoring per institutional protocol. Early favorable outcome was defined as Pediatric Cerebral Performance Category scale 1-3 at PICU discharge. cEEG features (background, sleep architecture, reactivity, and seizure) during the 1st 12-hrs of monitoring and initial Rotterdam head CT scores were recorded. Demographics, GCS score, pupillary reactivity, injury severity score (ISS), clinical seizure, cardiac …

Bridging The Distance: Expanding Access To Mental Health Services In School, Griffin Gallagher, Arayah St John, Kaylie Svir

Master of Social Work Student Policy Advocacy Briefs

All students should have equitable access to mental health services in schools. In Minnesota, there has been an 11% increase in students experiencing long-term mental health challenges since 2016, and only 1 in 5 students receive the assistance they need. Students are experiencing a lack of access to mental health services in schools due to barriers of cost, transportation, shortage of support staff, and stigma. When mental health services are not provided in schools, this results in a decrease in school attendance, higher dropout rates, and negative school environments, affecting the long-term outcomes and needs of the child. Mental health …

Housing After Recovery: Expanding Access For Justice-Involved Individuals, Calvin Parzych, Melinda Gillen, Juliet Worayewaa, Mikayla Witter

Master of Social Work Student Policy Advocacy Briefs

Every human being deserves access to safe, stable housing, especially individuals in recovery from substance use disorders. These individuals face significant barriers to stable housing, especially when their criminal records are considered by landlords. This can pose a risk to potential relapse, homelessness, and overall struggle to maintain recovery. Addressing housing discrimination for all members of society, especially justice-involved individuals, can aid in resolving public health and social justice issues that continue to be a long-standing problem.

March 2026 Library News, University Libraries

Library News

No abstract provided.

Bankrupt Crypto Organizations, Kara Bruce, Christopher K. Odinet, Andrea Tosato

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

When You're Just Not "Indian" Enough: The Erosion Of Tribal Sovereignty In State V. Nobles And The Case For Deference To Tribes On Questions Of Indian Status, Daniel G. Sullivan

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Hss 216 Introduction To Motivational Interviewing, Juline A. Koken

Open Educational Resources

This syllabus contains links to an OER textbook that was adopted for our Introduction to Motivational Interviewing course, along with additional links to OER videos and additional readings.

Hss 295, Juline A. Koken

Open Educational Resources

This syllabus contains links to existing OER materials as well as additonal readings for our HSS 295 Community Organizing class.

Teaching On The Clock, Michael Burla Do

Faculty Development Tips

No abstract provided.

The Emerging And Evolving Evidence Supporting Creatine As An Ergogenic Aid: History And Applications, Chad Kerksick, Drew Gonzalez, Jeffrey Stout, Scott Forbes, Darren Candow, Tim Ziegenfuss, Ronald Marshall, René Schwesig, Richard Kreider

Faculty Scholarship

Background

Creatine is one of the most extensively studied ergogenic aids, with over three decades of research supporting its role in exercise performance, recovery, and health.

Methods

This narrative review summarizes the historical development of creatine supplementation and evaluates evidence regarding its mechanisms, efficacy across active, athletic populations (e.g. strength, endurance, team-sport), and tactical (e.g. military, law enforcement) populations, and its safety profile.

Results

The evidence suggests that creatine enhances phosphocreatine resynthesis and cellular energy availability, resulting in consistent improvements in high-intensity exercise performance, training adaptations, lean body mass, strength, and power. Additional findings indicate that creatine may attenuate exercise-induced …

Analyzing Access To Livelihood Opportunities Among Migrants, Refugees And Asylum-Seekers In Egypt, Sara Sadek, Nada Hegazy, Shaimaa Gheith, Mahmoud Mansour

Faculty Journal Articles

The study “Access to livelihood opportunities among migrants, refugees and asylum- seekers in Egypt,” was conducted under the framework of the Egyptian Migration Hub (EHUB) project. It focused on underscoring the prospects of challenges with regards to the employment of such groups in the informal labor economy in Egypt considering the current limitations in the legal framework. The study adopted a qualitative method including 46 KIIs and 46 FGDs conducted in three governorates: Greater Cairo, Alexandria and Damietta. In December 2024 the law 164 governing refugee and asylum issues in Egypt was enacted with Article 18 stipulating the right to …

Portable Ice Cube Maker, Ayden Ziegler, Emiliano Hansen, Wyatt Engdahl, Dane Hansen

Mechanical Engineering

This Final Design Report outlines the senior design project undertaken by a team of mechanical engineering students at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, for the development of a portable backpacking ice cube maker. The project aims to design, build, and test a lightweight, compact device that produces ice cubes for backpackers in remote outdoor environments. The goal is to create a functional prototype that is durable, user-friendly, and suitable for backcountry use. This document details background research, project objectives, and project plan, and current design status.

Trademarks Beyond The Dictionary: A Corpus Linguistics Approach To The International Implementation Of The Rule Of Foreign Equivalents, George Mcmullin

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Remedying Copyright For Indigenous Australians: A Stolen Generations Perspective, Elizabeth Serventy, Koutras

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This study presents a Judicial Intersectionality method that incorporates knowledge from arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. It aims to examine how historical legal, political, and social injustices against Indigenous Australians have persisted in various spheres. When considering the Stolen Generations period, attention is directed on addressing the existing insufficient copyright rights and enhancing future legal results for Indigenous artists. In order to achieve that objective, a unique and distinct copyright system is regarded as the most suitable resolution. Philosophically and pragmatically, this approach was aligned with the Australian Government's 2023 Referendum, which aimed to grant constitutional status to …

Synergist Free Solvent Extraction Of Lithium From Alkaline Salt Lake Brines Using Thenoyltrifluoroacetone In Octanol, Shayan Abrishami, Amir Razmjou

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

The growing demand for lithium in energy storage applications necessitates the development of efficient and selective extraction technologies for recovering lithium from alkaline brines containing high concentrations of competing alkali metals. This study presents an investigation of a thenoyltrifluoroacetone (TTA)-octanol solvent extraction system for selective lithium recovery from high‑sodium brines, utilizing 1-octanol as an environmentally benign diluent without requiring any synergistic co-extractant. Through systematic optimization of key operational parameters including pH, extractant concentration, scrubbing conditions, and stripping agent concentration, the system demonstrated excellent performance with lithium extraction efficiency of 67.5% ± 3.4% and a maximum separation factor of 28.0 ± …

Understanding Desired Greater Collaboration Ties, Seong Won Yang, Giuseppe Labianca, James A. Coutinho, Andrew Pilny, Daniel J. Brass, Carlo J. Labianca

Sociology Faculty Publications

Whereas organizational network studies infer employees’ agentic desires through observed network changes, we capture desires to collaborate more closely with co-workers directly through a survey. We argue that formal structures create workflow dependencies between employees as they gather others’ inputs to complete their tasks, and individuals desire to alter their networks to manage those dependencies using the following two main collaborative approaches: (1) collaborating more intensely with existing formal workflow network partners; and (2) engaging in bypassing approaches with specific partners outside of their prescribed formal workflow. We found that employees pursued a tie-strengthening approach with formal partners they already …

Jetstream Spring 2026, Nancy Anzalone, Susan Bloom, Courtney Dalfonso, Nikki Palumbo

JETstream: Library Newsletter

This edition of JETstream highlights the "Beat the Blahs" potluck, new Learning Services for writing, tutoring and a collaboration with North Shore High School, a Library user survey for Graduate and Doctoral students, new librarian profiles, and adjustments to two study locations in Public Square and the third floor of the JET Library. Also noted are upcoming events and services.

Delegation And Verification Under Ai, Lingxiao Huang, Wenyang Xiao, Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

As AI systems enter institutional workflows, workers must decide whether to delegate task execution to AI and how much effort to invest in verifying AI outputs, while institutions evaluate workers using outcome-based standards that may misalign with workers’ private costs. We model delegation and verification as the solution to a rational worker’s optimization problem, and define worker quality by evaluating an institution-centered utility (distinct from the worker’s objective) at the resulting optimal action. We formally characterize optimal worker workflows and show that AI induces phase transitions, where arbitrarily small differences in verification ability lead to sharply different behaviors. As a …

On Local Overidentification And Efficiency Gains In Modern Causal Inference And Data Combination, Xiaohong Chen, Haitian Xie

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This paper studies nonparametric local (over-)identification and the semiparametric efficiency in modern causal frameworks. We develop a unified approach that begins by translating structural models with latent variables into their induced statistical models of observables and then analyzes local overidentification through conditional moment restrictions. We apply this approach to three popular classes of causal models: (1) the general treatment model under unconfoundedness; (2) the negative control model, and (3) the long-term causal inference model under unobserved confounding. The first model yields a locally just-identified statistical model, implying that all regular asymptotically linear estimators of the treatment effect have the same …

Triple/Double-Debiased Lasso, Denis Chetverikov, Joseph R.V. Sørensen, Aleh Tsyvinski

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

In this paper, we propose a triple (or double-debiased) Lasso estimator for inference on a low-dimensional parameter in high-dimensional linear regression models. The estimator is based on a moment function that satisfies not only first- but also second-order Neyman orthogonality conditions, thereby eliminating both the leading bias and the second-order bias induced by regularization. We derive an asymptotic linear representation for the proposed estimator and show that its remainder terms are never larger and are often smaller in order than those in the corresponding asymptotic linear representation for the standard double Lasso estimator. Because of this improvement, the triple Lasso …

First Proof Solutions And Comments, Mohammed Abouzaid, Andrew J. Blumberg, Martin Hairer, Joe Kileel, Tamara G. Kolda, Paul D. Nelson, Daniel Spielman, Nikhil Srivastava, Rachel Ward, Shmuel Weinberger, Lauren Williams

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Here we provide our solutions to the First Proof questions. We also discuss the best responses from publicly available AI systems that we were able to obtain in our experiments prior to the release of the problems on February 5, 2025. We hope this discussion will help readers with the relevant domain expertise to assess such responses.

Stochastic Optimization And Coupling, Frank Yang, Kai Hao Yang

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We study optimization problems in which a linear functional is maximized over probability measures that are dominated by a given measure according to an integral stochastic order in an arbitrary dimension. We show that the following four properties are equivalent for any such order: (i) the test function cone is closed under pointwise minimum, (ii) the value function is affine, (iii) the solution correspondence has a convex graph with decomposable extreme points, and (iv) every ordered pair of measures admits an order-preserving coupling. As corollaries, we derive the extreme and exposed point properties involving integral stochastic orders such as multidimensional …

Utep Oer Newsletter March 2026, Maria Teresa Torres, Inspire

OER Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Mainstreaming Mistrust: The Shift In Us Vaccine Policy Under The Trump Administration, Sanjin Musa, Amy Estlund, Megan A. Berman

Faculty Scholarship

Department of Health and Human Services led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., represents a significant departure from long-standing public health norms. This commentary explores how historically marginalized anti-vaccine activism has moved into the mainstream of government oversight. Key actions driving this transition include the wholesale replacement of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the departure of senior CDC officials, and the public questioning of established childhood immunization schedules. Furthermore, the administration has ceased financial support for global health entities like the World Health Organization and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, while canceling funding for innovative mRNA vaccine platforms. 

These domestic policy …

Meta-Analysis Of Genetic Mapping Studies In Mice Reveals Candidate Epilepsy Modifier Genes That Are Outside The Current Drug Development Landscape., Giovanna L Durante, Anna L. Tyler, Rod C Scott, Amanda E Hernan, J Matthew Mahoney

Faculty Research 2026

OBJECTIVE: Despite decades of development in anti-seizure medications, ~30% of individuals remain refractory to all treatments, and none of the existing therapies are disease modifying. Identifying targets outside the current preclinical paradigm is critically important. This study aimed to characterize the landscape of current epilepsy treatments at the level of gene interaction networks and identify novel genetic modifiers of epilepsy as potential novel therapeutic targets.

METHODS: We performed a functional network analysis to score genes based on their interactions with known epilepsy genes, and we integrated these functional scores with population genetics data and drug tractability information. In parallel, we …

Prevalence Of, Edison Liu, Margaret Antonio, Tracy Nance, Francesca Menghi

Faculty Research 2026

PURPOSE: BRCA1 promoter methylation (BRCA1meth) affects 20%-27% of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and ovarian cancer (OvCa) and has therapeutic predictive value in both cancer types. BRCA1meth is established during early embryonic development as a constitutional event, and its detection in the peripheral blood cells of unaffected women associates with increased risk for breast cancer and OvCa. Thus, facile and sensitive assessment of BRCA1meth is an important component for both risk assessment and the therapeutic management of these cancer types.

METHODS: We used the GRAIL circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA)–based targeted meth- ylation platform to quantify BRCA1meth in cfDNA (cfBRCA1meth) from plasma …

Improving Gene Isoform Quantification With Miniquant., Haoran Li, Dingjie Wang, Qi Gao, Puwen Tan, Yunhao Wang, Xiaoyu Cai, Aifu Li, Yue Zhao, Andrew L Thurman, Seyed Amir Malekpour, Ying Zhang, Roberta Sala, Andrea Cipriano, Chia-Lin Wei, Vittorio Sebastiano, Chi Song, Nancy R Zhang, Kin Fai Au

Faculty Research 2026

RNA sequencing has been widely applied for gene isoform quantification, but limitations exist in quantifying isoforms of complex genes accurately, especially for short reads. Here we identify genes that are difficult to quantify accurately with short reads and illustrate the information benefit of using long reads to quantify these regions. We present miniQuant, which ranks genes with quantification errors caused by the ambiguity of read alignments and integrates the complementary strengths of long reads and short reads with optimal combination in a gene- and data-specific manner to achieve more accurate quantification. These results are supported by rigorous mathematical proofs, validated …

The Indian Law Aunties, Torey Dolan

UMKC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Resisting Overcompliance, Meera E. Deo

UMKC Law Review

No abstract provided.