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Mitochondrial Nad Metabolism In T Cell Responses, Alicia Marie Bostwick-Galaviz

Dartmouth College Ph.D Dissertations

Metabolism is critical to CD8 T cell differentiation and response to intracellular infections and cancer. Mitochondrial NAD is a key component of cellular metabolism; however, the biology of this metabolite in CD8 T cells is poorly understood due to limitations of existing NAD analysis techniques. In this thesis, we develop the mitochondrial NAD redox index and capacity analysis (RICA) assay, a powerful flow-cytometry based technique for assessing mitochondrial NAD content and redox state in living cells. We use this assay to profile mitochondrial NAD dynamics across the course of CD8 T cell differentiation and in multiple in vitro and ex …

Center For Social Policy In Practice Generative Artificial Intelligence Use Policy, Evan England, Jess Carson, Rachel Filippone, Tyrus Parker, Harshita Sarup

New Hampshire Early Care and Education Research Consortium

The Center for Social Policy in Practice (SPiP) team at the University of New Hampshire Carsey School of Public Policy has a shared, core commitment to the principle that at no time will generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools replace the critical judgement, professional training, ethical grounding, and community responsibility that underpin the Center’s purpose. This document describes the purpose and key principles of SPiP's generative AI use policy.

Senate Bipartisan Permit Reform Bill Would Upend Many Environmental Laws, Michael B. Gerrard

Faculty Scholarship

On September 26, the Republican chairs and Democratic ranking members of two key Senate committees released the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA). The full Senate is expected to take up the bill on November 9 (a week after the midterm elections). Its future in the House is uncertain.

The bill, the culmination of years of negotiations on permitting reform, is very good for the proponents of many kinds of energy projects (both clean and fossil), especially electricity transmission. It is very bad for environmental groups and other project opponents who want to challenge these projects in …

Library News-- October, 2026, Rwu University Library

Library Newsletter

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Kenyon Collegian - October 1, 2026

The Kenyon Collegian

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The Global-To-Local Trust Layer: From A Working Prototype To A Trustworthy One, Amrita Datta

Paul English Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute Publications

This guest speaker session, part of Professor Wei Ding's Industry AI Applications course at the University of Massachusetts Boston, features Amrita Datta, Global Marketing Strategist, Enterprise AI Advisor, and Vice President and Board Member of AMA Boston. The session introduces the Global-to-Local (G2L) Framework and explores how to turn working AI prototypes into trustworthy and reliable applications. Through real-world examples, participants learn about key elements of trustworthy AI, including guardrails, data boundaries, human oversight, failure handling, and evaluation, and explore how these concepts can be applied to their own AI projects.

2026-10-01 Caudill Connection, Morehead State University. Caudill College Of Arts, Humanities And Social Sciences.

Caudill Connection

Caudill Connection newsletter for October of 2026.

Fall Seasonal Program

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

A collection of programs from September through mid-November 2026.

The Legal Risks Posed By Ai Chatbots: Unfair And Deceptive Practices And Other Authorities, Stephanie T. Nguyen, Adam Teitelbaum

Center for Law and the Economy

Growing alarm about existential risks and other harms posed by AI technology have given rise to calls for the government to regulate AI platforms.

This issue brief addresses a related but distinct problem: the use of AI technology by large corporations — including AI platforms themselves — to deploy AI customer-service chatbots1 in ways that may violate existing consumer protection laws. Law enforcers and the plaintiffs’ bar can and should use existing law to stop and deter those violations, and all businesses using AI chatbots should take immediate steps to ensure their AI chatbot practices are compliant with consumer protection …

Crossing Digital Borders: Student Success, Peer Mentorship And Ethical Ai Literacy In Community College Curricula, Adrian Bordoni, Jody A. Resko

Open Educational Resources

A changing job market set wthin the context of new Generative Articial Intelligence applications and technology requires academia to integrate, innovate and implement updated materials in their classes. Lack of training and awareness of ethical use of emerging technologies by students will be addressed, and best practices will be modeled, by Peer Mentors.

Faculty Coordinators will train 4 students to serve as Peer Mentors to develop materials as part of an interdisciplinary, career focused set of workshops. These workshops will be hosted in Education and Criminal Justice Classes in person- as well as a hybrid session in collaboration with Faculty …

Beyond Nutrients: Frass Fertilizer Legacy Effects For Sustainable Nematode Management In Potato–African Nightshade Rotation Systems, Emmanuel O. Anedo, Dennis Beesigamukama, Benson Mochoge, Nicholas K. Korir, Solveig Haukeland, Xavier Cheseto, Moses Nyongesa, Patrick Pwaipwai, Sevgan Subramanian, Abdou Tenkouano, Chrysantus M. Tanga

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

The utilization of insect frass fertilizer in crop production systems has recently gained significant global interest, but there has been limited evidence of its residual benefits in rotational cropping systems. The legacy effects of black soldier frass fertilizers (BSFFF), conventional organic fertilizer (SAFI), inorganic fertilizer (NPK), synthetic nematicide, and their combinations on potato cyst nematode (PCN) management under potato-African nightshade rotational farming systems were investigated. Eight treatments were evaluated: BSFFF, SAFI, chitin-fortified BSFFF (BSFFF+5chitin), NPK + nematicide, combination of BSFFF and NPK so that each supplies 50% of the nitrogen required by potato (50BSFFF+50NPK), combination of SAFI and NPK so …

Study Of A Nonlinear Delayed Parabolic Model For Prion Disease Dynamics With The Unfolded Protein Response, Gangadhara Boregowda, Laurent Pujo-Menjouet, Zhaosheng Feng, Michael R. Lindstrom

School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Faculty Publications

Prion diseases are neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the dynamic spread of misfolded toxic proteins in the brain. In this process, the normal cellular prion protein (PrPC) produced by neurons misfolds into a toxic form known as scrapie prion protein (PrPSc). These misfolded proteins propagate through the brain by converting healthy prions into their toxic form. This biological mechanism can be modeled by a system of nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations, accompanied by a nonlinear delayed integral boundary condition. Our primary objective is to establish the existence of nonnegative classical solutions to this system. Furthermore, we derive a priori estimates for …

Barrel-Rides And She-Elves: Audience And Anticipation In Peter Jackson’S Hobbit Trilogy [Note], Janet Croft

Faculty Publications

Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, to the audience that loved the Lord of the Rings films, is an exciting opportunity to revisit Tolkien’s fantastic world and see favorite characters acting out their earlier adventures. The reader of the books, though, is often likely to find the difference in tone between the children’s book and the vastly expanded films jarring. This essay will explore audience expectations, the difficulties of filming a “prequel” after a “sequel,” and issues of “anticipation” in relation to character development.

Understanding Institutional Dashboards: Access, Navigation, And Usage With Census Enrollment Dashboard & Ida Agent, Bismah Qureshi, Ben Hyman

Library Workshops

This workshop introduces Rowan faculty and staff to the Institutional Data & Analytics (IDA) dashboard environment, with a focus on accessing, navigating, and effectively using institutional dashboards and analytics tools. Participants will learn how to access dashboards through the IDA portal, understand the different dashboard categories available, and navigate common dashboard features such as filters, drill-downs, interactive charts, and data downloads.

The workshop will highlight the Census Enrollment Dashboard as a hands-on example to demonstrate how institutional data can be explored and analyzed across multiple dimensions, including term, college, program, residency, demographics, and student level. Attendees will also be introduced …

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Cardozo Law Review

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The Insular Cases “Are Not A Life Preserver”: The Covenant And Self-Determination In The Northern Mariana Islands At Fifty, Neil Weare

Cardozo Law Review

The Insular Cases—Supreme Court rulings from the early 1900s addressing the constitutional status of U.S. Territories—are facing what Justice Neil Gorsuch has called “a long overdue reckoning.” In 2022, Gorsuch declared that the Insular Cases “deserve no place in our law” because they “have no foundation in the Constitution and rest instead on racial stereotypes.” Justice Sonia Sotomayor agreed, stating that the Insular Cases “were premised on beliefs both odious and wrong.” Together, these Justices—who do not agree on much—expressed a shared “hope [that] the Court will soon recognize that the Constitution’s application should never depend on . . . …

Chevron Usa Inc. V. Plaquemines Parish: Did The Removal Clarification Act Of 2011 Abrogate The “Causal Nexus” Requirement For Removal Pursuant To 28 U.S.C. § 1442—The Federal Officers Removal Statute?, E. Farish Percy

Cardozo Law Review

On June 16, 2025, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Chevron USA, Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish to address whether the causal-nexus requirement survived the Removal Clarification Act of 2011’s amendment to 28 U.S.C. § 1442, the federal officer removal statute (FORS). The consolidated cases before the court include some of the more than forty civil cases that were brought by Louisiana parishes against various oil companies seeking to hold them responsible for the loss and deterioration of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands caused by the oil companies’ alleged violations of a Louisiana state permitting law. The cases were filed in 2013 and …

The New Investment Horizon For The National Football League, Sam Nacht

Cardozo Law Review

In August 2024, the National Football League became one of the last major North American sports leagues to permit private equity investment in its member teams. The league’s new bylaws, however, impose significant restrictions on this investment: only six pre-approved private equity funds may invest, each purchase is capped at a ten percent equity stake, and all investments are subject to a minimum six-year lock-up period. While these restrictions reflect the league’s understandable caution about outside influence, they may have inadvertently created a significant antitrust problem. This Note argues that the NFL’s private equity bylaws constitute an unreasonable restraint of …

Territorial Inequality In A Warming World: The Icj’S Climate Opinion And The Future Of Self-Determination For Puerto Rico, Ashley Olita Nemeth

Cardozo Law Review

This Article examines how climate change and Puerto Rico’s territorial status operate as mutually reinforcing constraints on the archipelago’s right to self-determination. While Puerto Rico is highly exposed to intensifying climate impacts, its status as an unincorporated U.S. territory limits its ability to respond, resulting in federal control over fiscal policy, disaster recovery, and economic regulation, as well as exclusion from international climate finance mechanisms. Together, these structural limitations create a “climate-colonial feedback loop” in which environmental harm deepens political and economic dependency, further undermining adaptive capacity and autonomous development. The Article advances a two-part analysis. First, it demonstrates how …

Rewriting Downes V. Bidwell, Rose Cuison-Villazor

Cardozo Law Review

This Essay engages in a thought experiment. Employing the “rewriting” approach to Supreme Court cases recently used by legal scholars, this Essay provides an alternative version of the case considered most important among the Insular Cases—Downes v. Bidwell—where the Supreme Court adopted the territorial incorporation doctrine to hold that Puerto Rico is “foreign to the United States in a domestic sense.” To this day, Downes and the other Insular Cases serve as precedent for the proposition that the constitutional rights of U.S. territorial residents may be treated differently. But how would the Supreme Court have ruled if it employed Critical …

Empire By Gaslight, Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus

Cardozo Law Review

This Article argues that the constitutional law of U.S. colonialism as it applies to Puerto Rico should be understood as a form of collective gaslighting. The United States has been gaslighting Puerto Ricans for a century-and-a-quarter. By defining their constitutional status as a series of contradictions—starting with defining Puerto Rico as “foreign,” but only in a “domestic sense”—the federal government has caused Puerto Ricans to question their capacity to judge their own reality, thereby solidifying U.S. power over the island and undermining Puerto Rican resistance. Not only has the United States been gaslighting Puerto Ricans since annexation, but it has …

Doctrinal Interregnum In The Law Of United States Territories, Anthony M. Ciolli

Cardozo Law Review

The past decade witnessed an unprecedented renaissance in interest in the constitutional treatment of U.S. territories. Once derided as “a marginal debate about marginal places” or “‘a footnote within a footnote’ of an already niche field,” law journals published a staggering seventy articles between 2022 and 2023 focused on the law of the territories. The American Bar Association, whose founder Simeon Baldwin played an instrumental role in laying the foundations for the racist Insular Cases, and which itself actively discriminated against the territories for more than a century, passed numerous resolutions repudiating many of its past positions. Even Congress, after …

Adaptive Intelligent H-Infinity Controller Design For Mimo Nonlinear Systems Under Asymmetric Input Saturation, Mohammed Qasim, Hazem I. Ali, Omar Farouq Lutfy

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

This paper details the design of a robust adaptive intelligent guaranteed cost H-infinity controller, tailored for MIMO nonlinear systems subject to external disturbances, parametric uncertainties, and asymmetric input saturation constraints. The adaptive intelligent part of the proposed controller consists of a Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFNN) with bounded output to respect saturation constraints and a robust adaptive law for RBFNN weights estimation. This part serves to estimate the system's uncertain nonlinearities and external disturbances. The guaranteed cost H-infinity is designed based on Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs) to address the system parameter uncertainties and bounded RBFNN estimation errors, as well …

Enhancing Gru With Long-Short Attention: A Case Study Of Saudi Stock Market Prediction, Hussein Samma, Qusay Shihab Hamad, Ali Salem Bin Sama, Adnan Bakather, Khaled Alhashash

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

Predicting stock market movements accurately is a challenging task due to the inherent complexity and volatility of financial markets. In recent years, deep learning techniques, particularly the Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), have shown promising results in financial time series prediction. However, capturing the most relevant information from large volumes of data remains a critical challenge for improving prediction accuracy. This work introduces an attention-enhanced GRU model for forecasting the Saudi stock market. The proposed model integrates attention mechanisms to dynamically prioritize different input patterns, enabling the network to focus on the most relevant information for prediction. Two types of attention …

Improving Performance For Dco-Ofdm Based Vlc Via Convolutional Coding And Viterbi Decoding, Maha F. Shatti, Samir M. Hameed, Atheer A. Sabri

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

The reliability of Visible Light Communication (VLC) is affected by several parameters, the most significant being high peak-to-average power ratio(PAPR) and nonlinear distortion. This study presents an adaptive direct current O-OFDM (DCO-OFDM) based VLC system as a solution, which integrates error correction the Convolutional coding and Viterbi decoding (by hard and soft decision methods) with a PAPR reduction technique that combines Vandermonde-like Matrix (VLM) precoding with a nonlinear companding transform (NCT). This proposed system enhances resistance to channel impairments, thereby reducing BER while maintaining the gains of PAPR reduction. Moreover, examined the system under realistic VLC propagation conditions both Line …

Power-Efficient Target Tracking And Coverage In Under-Provisioned Wireless Visual Sensor Networks, Muna M. Jawad

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

Due to their ability to detect the physical environment, directional sensors have attracted a lot of attention in wireless visual sensor networks (WVSN). These sensors perform two key functions: communication and sensing. A WVSN comprises numerous configurable limited fields of view sensors, comprising distinct angular sectors, arranged with multiple targets randomly scattered in the same surrounding region. Therefore, there is a critical need to improve the network's lifetime and reduce power demand while providing complete target coverage. This paper looks at under-resourced visual networks with an inadequate number of sensors to match applications' needs and develops a viable model to …

Cost-Efficient High-Capacity Radio Over Fiber (Rof) Transmission: Integrating Coarse And Dense Wdm Techniques, Hilal A. Fadhil, Fadia N. Hummadi, Feras N. Hasoon, Haider J. Abd, Hussein A. Kazem

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

Using Radio over Fiber (RoF) has expanded lately to the point where a key component of it link between central office and base station would be useful from the whole industry. As the market grows towards communication products of ultra-high-speed, like 5G applications, capital expenditure (CapEx) is crucial. The two primary types regarding wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) techniques Dense WDM and Coarse WDM are integrated in the presented work to create cost-effective, new design paradigm for RoF. The suggested system is tested and put into use at 10 Gbps data transmission rate. In addition, it describes how the two systems-based …

A Triple-Verification Framework For Swift, Real-Time Detection Of Anomalous Sensor Readings In Large-Scale Iot Systems, Taha E. Al-Jarakh, Inas Jawad Kadhim, Ayad Al-Dujaili, Eduardo Campos Mercado

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

Due to the massive expansion of Internet of Things systems and the variety of anomalous data resulting from faulty sensors, cyberattacks, or communication failures, it has become difficult to handle this type of data. Although current machine learning and statistical analysis techniques offer high accuracy in detecting anomalies, these methods alone are not sufficient for handling massive amounts of data in real-time. Therefore, the idea arose to propose a Triple-Verification Framework to detect and block anomalous data. The first stage of the framework acts as a firewall to block incoming messages from blocklisted/unauthorized sensors or carrying unknown schemes. In the …

A Corpus Linguistics-Driven Hybrid Deep Representation Framework Incorporating Majority Voting For Enhanced Automatic Spoken Language Identification, Lubin Balasubramanian, J. Uthayakumar, Niranjana Kumara M, Sariga Arjunan

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

Spoken Language Identification (SLID) is a well-researched area. It has previously been recognized as a crucial first stage in every multi-lingual speech recognition system. Latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL) are used to highly strengthen the performance of SLID systems, allowing them to perform a crucial part in mainstream applications The gathered speaker utterances have been entered into the DL network for training phase. The language equivalent to the great posterior probability is then recognized as the target language. This study introduces an Enhancing Automatic Spoken Language Identification with Corpus Linguistics and Ensemble Deep Representation (EASLI-CLEDR) …

How Did We Get Here?, Michael J. Klarman

Fordham Law Review

President Donald J. Trump’s second administration has transgressed basic rules and norms of democracy and the rule of law in myriad ways. Below, I have laid out my own top ten list of transgressions, though others could surely have made out a good case for their own “favorites.” It would not be difficult to come up with a longer list, yet the purpose of my Levine Lecture is less to describe where we are than to explain how we got here. Following an enumeration of Trump administration transgressions, my lecture turns to two questions. First, why have traditional checks on …