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Excavations At Beit Safafa: Iron Age Ii And Byzantine Agricultural Installations South Of Jerusalem, Nurit Feig

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A 24-Sheqel Judean Weight From Beit Ṣafafa, Raz Kletter

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An Old Syrian Cylinder Seal From Azor, Diana L. Stein

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An Iron Age Ib/Iia Burial Cave At Har Yona, Upper Nazareth, Yardenna Alexandre

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Excavations At Tel Gat-Ḥefer In The Lower Galilee, Areas A And B, Yardenna Alexandre, Karen Covello-Paran, Zvi Gal

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A Middle Bronze Age Iib Tomb At Azor, Amir Gorzalczany, Daphna Ben-Tor, Jonathan Rand

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The Flints From Tel Gat-Ḥefer, Rina Y. Bankirer, Ofer Marder

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The Early Bronze Age Occupation At Tel Gat-Ḥefer, Lower Galilee, Areas C And D, Karen Covello-Paran

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Tomb 1 Of The Second Millennium Bce At Yiftaḥ’El, Lower Galilee, Leticia Barda, Eliot Braun

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Radiocarbon Dates Fromḥorbat Ḥani (West), Dror Segal, Israel Carmi

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The Chalcolithic And Early Bronze Age Flint Assemblages From Ḥorbat Ḥani (West), Hamoudi Khalaily

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Petrographic Results Of Chalcolithic And Early Bronze Age Ib Pottery From Ḥorbat Ḥani (West), Anat Cohen-Weinberger

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An Early Bronze Age Ib Burial Cave And A Byzantine Farm At Ḥorbat Ḥani (Khirbet Burj El-Ḥaniya) (West), Egon H.E. Lass

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Front Matter, Editorial Board

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The Stripes Of Glory We Wear: Reflections Of The Legal Role And Intricacies Of Citizenship In The History And Foundation Of The Malaysian State

Washington International Law Journal

Abstract: The meaning of citizenship in Malaysia is a tale as old as the country itself—a thorny triangular relationship between the state; the Bumiputera majority of Malay and indigenous natives; and the non-Bumiputeras minority of Chinese and Indians who primarily migrated when the region was under British colonial rule and influence. In the present, Bumiputeras enjoy a constitutionally stipulated special status—a distinction that bestows many privileges and preferential treatment in all facets of life, from commerce to education, homeownership to government employment, that is off-limits to non-Bumiputeras. Supporters of the system argue it remains necessary—a form of affirmative action …

The Taiwanese Way To Ai Governance: Draft Basic Law On Artificial Intelligence And Future Regulatory Strategies

Washington International Law Journal

Abstract: Despite Taiwan’s significant contributions to the global artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem, its role remains underexamined in international AI governance discourse. This Article addresses this gap by analyzing Taiwan’s emerging AI regulatory framework, with particular emphasis on the Draft Basic Law on Artificial Intelligence (the “Draft AI Law”). Situating Taiwan’s approach within the broader global regulatory landscape, the Article compares the Draft AI Law with key international models, including the European Union’s AI Act and the United States’ NIST AI Risk Management Framework, while also drawing on regulatory developments in Japan and South Korea. Rather than providing a clause-by-clause analysis, …

Reviving Novorossiya: Russia’S Invasion Of Ukraine Under International Law

Washington International Law Journal

Abstract: For nearly three years, the Eastern European nation of Ukraine has been entangled in a war it did not instigate, did not desire, but was forced into by its more powerful neighbor, Russia. Since the onset of the war, Russia has faced accusations of widespread atrocities, including severe violations of human rights, international humanitarian law, and breaches of other international norms. Following the inauguration of United States (US) President Donald Trump, there has been a renewed effort to bring both parties to the negotiating table and end the conflict. With the ongoing negotiations, there is no better time to …

Volume 35, Issue 1: Contents

Washington International Law Journal

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Litigating Workplace Sexual Harassment In China: Practical Challenges & Proposed Solutions

Washington International Law Journal

Abstract: The development of China’s anti-sexual harassment laws and policies over the past few decades has raised the hopes of many. However, the sheer volume of regulations can easily create the false impression that the Chinese legal system is effectively dealing with workplace sexual harassment. Statistics show that the number of lawsuits filed in Chinese courts remains trivial, even though workplace sexual harassment continues to be widespread. This article argues that courts in China misunderstand how to apply important concepts in litigation such as how to define sexual harassment and employer liability. The difficulty of carrying the burden of …

Foreword

Washington International Law Journal

FOREWORD

Francisco T. Quintana

The staff of the Washington International Law Journal proudly present the first installment of Volume 35. Formerly published as the Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, the Journal was historically defined by legal and policy issues within the Pacific Rim region. Since Volume 24, the Journal has expanded its scholarly scope and now publishes articles addressing international, foreign, and comparative law from across the globe. This year also marks a significant operational milestone with the launch of the Washington International Law Blog, which provides a platform for legal academics worldwide to publish condensed versions …

Hybrid Warfare: A Collection Of Scenarios, Adrian Borbély

DRI Press

Hybrid Warfare is nothing new but it has increasingly made the news - even if most of it remains beyond our awareness. Hybrid Warfare gathers all methods through which countries wage war against each other beyond traditional military, diplomatic and economic battlefields (cyber attacks, disinformation, transnational organized crime, appropriation of natural resources, lawfare, corruption, etc.). Such below-the-surface foreign aggressions are not limited to localized regions where armed forces shoot at each other trying to take each other’s positions. In hybrid warfare, society as a whole is the battlefield. In other words, hybrid warfare is not the concern of a few, …

Perception Of Prosodic Speech Patterns Of Autistic Individuals, Rebecca Lunt

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the perception that neurotypical individuals have of autistic individuals’ speech, including their speech prosody. Speech samples were collected from four neurotypical and four autistic young adults as they answered interview questions. Then, 50 neurotypical listeners (28 female, 22 male) were recruited to listen to the speech samples and rate the speech on visual analogy scales on their likeability and ability to communicate. Participants were told prior to listening to the speech samples whether or not the speaker had autism; however, there were both deceptive and truthful listening conditions, with some autistic speakers …

Pathogenesis Of Polyglutamine Diseases: Piecing Together A Complex Molecular Puzzle, Esmeralda Villavicencio Gonzalez, Huda Y Zoghbi

Duncan NRI Faculty and Staff Publications

Polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases, caused by a CAG repeat expansion encoding a glutamine tract in nine distinct proteins, present a complex molecular puzzle in which each piece contributes to neurodegeneration. While each of the causative proteins has a distinct function, the downstream consequences of polyQ toxicity are often similar, including protein accumulation, transcriptional dysregulation, somatic CAG repeat instability, disrupted energy homeostasis, compromised synaptic function, and selective neuronal death. This review summarizes emerging insights into how proteins with an expanded polyQ tract disrupt distinct cellular functions, and we examine a multitude of discoveries that are inspiring and reshaping novel therapeutic strategies.

Pciafl: Personalized And Class Imbalance-Aware Federated Learning For Driver Behavior Classification, Osho Osho, Shubh Garg, Suchetana Chakraborty, Sajal K. Das

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Automated understanding of driver behavior from vehicular kinematics is vital for safety-aware intelligent transportation systems. However, centralized cloud processing suffers from latency, scalability, and privacy issues. Federated Learning (FL) provides a decentralized alternative but faces two major challenges: (i) non-IID client data due to heterogeneous driving styles and sensors, and (ii) severe class imbalance, as risky behaviors are inherently rare. In this work, we propose a personalized FL framework that uses a shared CNN-LSTM backbone with client-adaptive classifiers and incorporates a cost-sensitive loss to address behavior skew. Evaluated on the UAH-DriveSet dataset, our method achieves 92.60% accuracy and 91.68% macro-F1, …

Cv: E. Maria Wheeler (Speech-Language Pathology), E. Maria Wheeler

Rehabilitation and Health Sciences Department Faculty Curricula Vitae

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Faculty Senate Agenda January 5, 2026, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• 3:00 Call To Order
• Approval of Minutes December 1, 2025
• Approval of Amended Minutes November 3, 2025
• 3:05 University Business
• 3:20 Faculty Senate Business
• 3:35 Reports
• Council on Teacher Education
• Scholarship Annual Report
• University Studies Report
• 3:50 Old Business
• 3:55 New Business
• Commencement
• 4:00 Information
• EPC Report - December 4, 2025
• Adjourn: 4:30 pm

Cv: E. Maria Wheeler (Speech-Language Pathology), E. Maria Wheeler

Rehabilitation Sciences Department Curricula Vitae

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Faculty Senate Minutes January 5, 2026, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Call to Order
• University Business
• Faculty Senate Business
• Report
• Council on Teacher Education
• Scholarship Annual Report
• University Studies Report
• Old Business
• New Business
• Information
• Adjourn - 4:06 pm

January 5 Elections, Census & Redistricting Update, Jeffrey M. Wice

Elections, Census & Redistricting Updates

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Datamut: Deterministic Algorithms For Time-Delay Attack Detection In Multi-Hop Uav Networks, Keiwan Soltani, Federico Corò, Punyasha Chatterjee, Sajal K. Das

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have gained popularity in various fields such as agriculture, emergency response, and search and rescue operations. UAV networks are susceptible to potential security threats, such as wormhole attacks, jamming, spoofing, and false data injection. Time-Delay Attack (TDA) is a unique attack in which malicious UAVs intentionally delay packet forwarding, posing significant threats, especially in time-sensitive applications. It is challenging to distinguish malicious delay from benign network delay due to the dynamic nature of UAV networks, intermittent wireless connectivity, or the Store-Carry-Forward (SCF) mechanism during multi-hop communication. Some existing works propose machine learning-based …