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How Many Pieces Form A Forbidden Picture? Protecting Privacy Through The Mosaic Theory Of The Fourth Amendment, Sam Ciaccio

MC Law Review

No abstract provided.

The High Cost Of Low Pay: How Mississippi's Compensation System For Indigent Defense Violates The Sixth Amendment, Whitney L. Dowell

MC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Restoring The Right To Effectiveness: How An Unreasonably High Burden For Proving Ineffective Assistance Violates The Sixth Amendment, May Hebert

MC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Red, White, And Due: How The Due Process Clause Can Prevent Homeless Encampment Cleanouts From Sweeping Individual Rights Under The Rug, Codie Hicks

MC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Judges In Command: How Judicial Creativity In Interpreting The Ftca Harms Military Discipline, John Clyde Ready

MC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Closing Loopholes Or Creating Gaps: The Future Of Obstruction Of Justice Laws After Fischer V. United States, Helaina Theos

MC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Revisiting Water Use Household Behavior In Metro Manila: Evidence From The Almost Ideal Demand System Model, Albert E. Lamberte

Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (AKI)

This study revisits household water use behavior in Metro Manila by estimating residential water demand using the almost ideal demand system (AIDS) and the merged 2021 Family Income and Expenditure Survey-Labor Force Survey. The analysis examines how households respond to price, income, and cross-commodity changes under the two concessionaires, Manila Water (east zone) and Maynilad (west zone). Both have operational environments that differ substantially, particularly in non-revenue water (NRW), tariff structures, and service reliability. Results show that water demand is moderately price-inelastic in both zones. However, households serviced by Maynilad exhibit higher price and income elasticities, reflecting tighter expenditure constraints …

On Stage: Startling Visibility, Operatic Drama, And George Tooker’S Un Ballo In Maschera, Alex Del Dago

Art Inquiries

As a part of its centennial advertising campaign, the Metropolitan Opera in New York commissioned the American figurative painter George Tooker (1920-2011) to create a fine art image inspired after Giuseppe Verdi’s 1859 opera, Un Ballo in Maschera. Within the artist's composition, themes around masquerading, skepticism, and surveillance arise, all of which are common threads within both Tooker’s and Verdi’s work. Primary questions that can be asked from looking at this type of subject matter include: who is truthfully themselves, who may be someone other than they initially say they are, and most importantly, how does the ambiguity of gendered …

2026 October - Mary V. Jordan Center Newsletter, Mary V. Jordan Center, East Tennessee State University

Mary V. Jordan Center Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Robert Indiana, Love, Biblical Authority, And American Art In The 1960s, David Mccarthy

Art Inquiries

Years before Robert Indiana suggested that his canonical LOVE paintings and sculptures carried erotic connotations, he was explicit in indicating that the series was to be understood as spiritual. In 1973, as the United States Postal Service issued some three hundred and thirty million stamps with his design, he specifically explained that the genesis of LOVE should be traced to his childhood training in Christian Science. Although scholars have certainly acknowledged this background, none, so far, have sufficiently addressed the actual foundational text of the faith, nor have they adequately addressed the evidence of Christian references found in the artist’s …

On Loss And Absence: Textiles Of Mourning And Survival, Art Institute Of Chicago, Chicago, Il, Elizabeth S. Hawley

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.

Floating World: A.A. Murakami, Museum Of Fine Arts, Houston, Tx, Yumi Park

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.

Bard Observer Vol. 25 No. (October 2026), Bard College

Bard Observer, 2020 - 2029

No abstract provided.

Marie Taylor Barton And Southern Modernism, Cynthia Fowler

Art Inquiries

This paper examines the efforts by Southern artist Marie Taylor Barton (1904-1992) of Nashville, Tennessee to spread the principles of modern art to her community through her art practice and her advocacy for modern art. Barton emerged as an artist in the first half of the twentieth century. She studied with New York modern artist Ralph Pearson (1883-1958), an underrecognized but highly influential art teacher, at his summer school in Gloucester, Massachusetts. While in Gloucester, she also heard lectures by artist Hans Hofmann and visited Dartmouth College to see José Clemente Orozco’s mural The Epic of American Civilization (1932-34) that …

2026 October 1 - Tennessee Weekly Drought Summary, Tennessee Climate Office, East Tennessee State University

Tennessee Climate Office Weekly Drought Summaries

No abstract provided.

State-Aware Fuzzing Of Javascript Engines With Llm-Guided Instrumentation, Wai Kin Wong, Dongwei Xiao, Cheuk Tung Lai, Ping Fan Ke, Shuai Wang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The security of the modern web depends on the correctness of JavaScript (JS) engines, yet these complex systems remain vulnerable to high-impact bugs. A critical limitation of state-of-the-art fuzzers is the coverage plateau: once a fuzzer saturates the control-flow graph, edge coverage loses its ability to guide discovery. Because complex engine behaviors, such as JIT optimization tiers and hidden class transitions, often share identical edge coverage, standard coverage metrics are blind to the distinct internal states required to trigger deep errors. To bridge this gap, we present StateLens, a framework that employs Large Language Models (LLM) to automate the discovery …

Size-Tunable Tellurium Quantum Dots By Glancing Angle Deposition, S. M. Sayem, Salim Hussain, Fernando Maia De Oliveira, Ranjitha Kumarapuram Hariharalakshmanan, Gregory Guisbiers, Tansel Karabacak

Faculty Scholarship

Tellurium has a unique helical crystal arrangement and pronounced anisotropy that influence its electronic and optical properties at the nanoscale. This study reports the synthesis of pure tellurium quantum dots (Te QDs) on silicon wafer using glancing angle deposition (GLAD). Quasi-hemispherical dots with lateral sizes ranging from 9 to 28 nm and vertical dimensions of 6 to 10 nm were produced as a function of the deposition duration. A comparison of the dot sizes with the Bohr radii of the charge carriers indicated a regime of strong to intermediate confinement. Structural analyses confirmed the polycrystalline nature and trigonal phase of …

Evaluating Environmental Dna For Monitoring Jellyfish In The Gulf Of Maine: A Comparison With A Decade Of Citizen Science Observations, Jhana Lore

All Theses And Dissertations

Jellyfish were once hypothesized to be successful survivors in the face of climate change. While it was thought that jellyfish were increasing in abundance worldwide in a process called “jellification”, recent evidence suggests that increases are regional. The Gulf of Maine is an area of concern for ecological change due to its recent period of severe and rapid warming, as well as other anthropogenic impacts, such as overfishing, eutrophication, and ocean acidification. These impacts eliminate the natural predators and competitors of jellyfish. Additionally, heightened temperatures increase reproduction and speed somatic jellyfish growth. Despite these concerns, the Gulf of Maine has …

Improving And Quantifying Utility Under Local Differential Privacy, Ye Zheng

Theses

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is a privacy model in which users perturb their data locally before sharing it with untrusted data collectors for analysis. It provides provable privacy guarantees for each individual user. Owing to these guarantees, LDP has been widely deployed by major technology companies such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft to protect user privacy while still enabling data collection for analytics and machine learning. However, a fundamental challenge in LDP is the tradeoff between privacy and utility: stronger privacy guarantees typically come at the cost of lower utility for the data collector. To address this challenge, a central …

Sjsu Erfa News, Fall 2026, San Jose State University, Emeritus And Retired Faculty Association

Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association (ERFA) Newsletter

Volume 40, No 1

Montana Resident Report: Impact Of Air Quality And Wildfire Smoke On Travel And Outdoor Recreation In Montana, Q2 2026, Carter Bermingham, Megan Schultz, Melissa Weddell

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

This study was designed to better understand how residents respond to wildfire smoke in their community, and the associated impacts it has on their travel and outdoor recreation behavior (if any at all). The Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research (ITRR) conducts resident studies quarterly to better understand current topics across the state. In a year marked by a lack of winter snowpack and warm spring temperatures, 2026 was an ideal time to broach the topic of wildfire smoke in Montana.

Respondents were asked whether they check current smoke conditions before leaving for a trip and at what level of …

Leadership Plan, Jennifer Harshbarger

Distinguished Student Scholarship Collection

This personal leadership development plan presents a seven-year professional roadmap to transition from the role of Director of Operations into an executive leadership position focused on business growth and organizational development at PhyMet. Centered on the principles of servant and authentic leadership, the plan emphasizes cultivating trust, empathy, active listening, and open communication while maintaining organizational accountability. It critically assesses individual strengths in interpersonal communication and identifies key developmental priorities, including strategic thinking and the delegation of project ownership rather than isolated tasks. Furthermore, the paper demonstrates the practical execution of these leadership philosophies through applied scenarios addressing organizational change …

Little Bighorn Days 2026, Hardin, Montana, Emma Keinath-Lopez

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

This study was conducted for Little Bighorn Days to provide insight into the characteristics of attendees of the 2026 Little Bighorn Days event hosted in Hardin, Montana. Seventy attendees of the event completed the survey. Results show that the majority of respondents were Montana residents, with 66% residing in Montana and 85% of Montana respondents residing in Big Horn County. Respondents from outside Big Horn County spent an average of five nights in Montana and reported a total spending of $24,994.00, with the highest expenditures occurring in hotel/motel/bed and breakfasts, restaurants/bars, retail goods/services, and gasoline/diesel. Overall, attendees reported high levels …

River City Roots Festival 2026, Missoula, Montana, Emma Keinath-Lopez

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

This study was conducted to provide insight into the characteristics, spending patterns, and satisfaction levels of attendees at the 2026 River City Roots Festival in Missoula, Montana. A total of 251 attendees completed the survey. Approximately 85% of respondents were Montana residents, including 72% who resided in Missoula County. Among respondents from outside Missoula County, 74% spent at least one night away from home. Visitors spent an average of 3.9 nights in Montana and 2.9 nights in Missoula. Fifty-six respondent groups from outside of Missoula County provided expenditure information, reporting an estimated $44,397.38 in total visitor spending in Missoula. The …

The Equity Docket, Thomas P. Schmidt, Kellen R. Funk

Faculty Scholarship

The Supreme Court has two sides. On its ordinary docket, the Court answers questions of law after briefing and oral argument. On its extraordinary docket, the Court fields applications from litigants asking it to equitably set the status of a new law or executive action while a lawsuit is pending. Only a decade ago, the equity side was an obscure backwater of Supreme Court practice; today it is where the Court confronts some of the most contested and consequential public law disputes. This aspect of the Court’s work has taken on various labels — the shadow docket, emergency docket, interim …

4-H Schedule Of Events - Lancaster Fair (2027 Draft), Christine Whiting

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.

Graduate School Blog - October 2026, Cynthia Haynes

UofM Grad School Blog

This issue highlights Dr. Deborah Tollefsen’s latest reflection on clarity and removing barriers to graduate student success, along with opportunities to get involved through the GSA Fall 2026 Election. We also feature upcoming graduate student events, academic webinars, Homecoming celebrations, and graduate recruitment activities. These stories and opportunities showcase resources designed to help graduate students navigate their academic journeys, build meaningful connections, and achieve their professional goals.

Graduate School Blog - October 2026 Volume 2, Cynthia Haynes

UofM Grad School Blog

This issue highlights the inaugural Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition, introduces our first Graduate School Ambassadors, features upcoming graduate student events and academic webinars, and shares important Spring 2027 registration reminders. We also spotlight Homecoming and Memphis’s food scene, highlighting the experiences and opportunities that make graduate life at UofM special.

Design, Synthesis, And Photophysical Characterizations Of A Novel Push-Pull Chromene Derivative For High-Performance Organic Photodetector Applications, Ahmed M. El-Mahalawy, Fatma A. Mohamed, Ahmed F. Mabied, Ahmed R. Wassel

Nanotechnology Research Centre

A novel push-pull chromene derivative, compound E, was synthesized via a multicomponent reaction and characterized by NMR/mass spectrometry and X-ray diffraction, which revealed a monoclinic structure. DFT calculations showed a 3.36 eV HOMO-LUMO gap with charge-transfer characteristics. Thermally evaporated thin films exhibited dual UV-visible absorption at 211 nm and 420 nm, with an experimental Eg of 3.07 eV. The films exhibited excitation-dependent photoluminescence in the 550-570 nm range, with a Stokes shift of 0.76 eV. Chromatically stable yellow-green emission and environment-sensitive photophysics indicate potential for fluorescent sensing and bioimaging applications. A heterojunction photodetector, E/p-Si, performed optimally in reverse bias …

Practicing Philosophical Bilingualism, Biculturalism, And Biliteracy (Pb3): A Collective Transformation, Alexander V. Stehn

Philosophy Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.