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The Deeds Of King Arthur In A Medieval Dante Commentary, Christopher Berard, Morris Tichenor

Humanities Program Faculty Publications

What does the story of King Arthur have to do with Dante’s Divine Comedy? Christopher Berard and Morris translate a fourteenth-century Dante Commentator’s gloss on the Death of Mordred (Inf.XXXII.61-62).

Introduction to the Translation

Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola (c.1320–1388), an Italian scholar and lecturer based in Bologna, is chiefly remembered for his influential Latin Comentum super Dantis Aligherii comoediam [Commentary on Dante Alighieri’s Comedy] (1373–88). He admired the humanistic writings of Francesco Petrarca (Eng: Petrarch; 1304–74) and Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–75), maintained an active friendship with them, and drew upon their works as well as numerous …

Weird Cops (Agency Police), Farhang Heydari

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The police badge has migrated deep into the administrative state. Parks, schools, transit, housing, revenue, conservation, insurance, and gaming agencies now field tens of thousands of sworn “Agency Police”—often with full arrest powers despite missions far removed from general public safety. The footprint of these officers is significant and expanding, outpacing the growth of traditional law enforcement. Far from being limited to certain communities, Agency Police attract support across the political spectrum, from law-and-order policymakers to reformers. And yet, Agency Police are largely ignored in legal scholarship. The result is that a large slice of U.S. criminal enforcement is poorly …

The Media Production Studio- Zine, Caroline Cooper

Library Research and Reports

Created to highlight the library’s Media Production Studio, this zine includes information on the Media Production Studio, examples of software, QR codes to previously created projects, and info on how to get additional information.

Using Demographics And Psychographics To Advance The Great Commission: Lessons From The National Association Of Free Will Baptists, Edward E. Moody Jr.

Great Commission Research Journal

For decades, marketers have used demographics and psychographics to engage different segments of the population. Psychographics refers to the study of people’s activities, interests, opinions, values, attitudes, and lifestyles to better understand and predict behavior beyond what can be learned from demographic characteristics alone (Demby, 1974; Wells & Tigert, 1971). This paper examines whether these strategies can be effectively adapted to advance the Great Commission. The practices of the early church, particularly those of the Apostle Paul, reflect principles that are consistent with contemporary demographic and psychographic analysis. In this paper, the process of using an approach to help churches …

My Pilgrimage In The Growth Of The Church, Charles Van Engen

Great Commission Research Journal

I have lived a life invested in the growth of the church and forming leaders who would mobilize the church toward growth. I have sought to pay forward what others did for me. Born of missionary parents, I was raised in the state of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. From 1973 to 1985, my wife, Jean, and I served the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico in Chiapas, Mexico, in leadership formation, training evangelists, pastors, and teachers of rapidly growing churches. In 1981, I received a Ph.D. in missiology under Johannes Verkuyl at the Free University of Amsterdam. I taught Mission Theology …

Outside The Church Walls: An Empirical Exploration Of Organizational Culture And Pastoral Leadership In Two Urban Churches, Althea P. Gordon-Scott, Joshua D. Henson, Bethany D. Peters, Katrina Hutchins

Great Commission Research Journal

A mini-ethnographic case study explored the interconnections of organizational culture and pastoral leadership with sustainable outreach in two very different churches that focus on ministry to people with life-controlling issues and economic need: a small, primarily Black church in the Great Lakes region and a large, primarily White and Hispanic church in the western United States. Despite their differences, the churches shared similar espoused values and leadership characteristics that facilitated their outreach initiatives. Themes derived from the data include altruistic foundations, the value of relationships, exemplary pastoral leadership, organizational challenges, agile organizational systems, and the centrality of God.

The Great Dechurching: Who’S Leaving, Why Are They Going, And What Will It Take To Bring Them Back? By Jim Davis And Michael Graham, David Thiessen

Great Commission Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Disability & Evangelism: The Good News Of The Fullness Of God’S Kingdom By Rochelle Scheuermann, Kenneth Nehrbass

Great Commission Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Repairing The Missional Breach: Why The Church Isn’T Making Disciples And How We Can Fix It By Kevin Blackwell, Henry E. Walker

Great Commission Research Journal

No abstract provided.

How Did We Get Here? Examining 70 Years Of The Church Growth Movement By Todd Wilson, Mike Morris

Great Commission Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Reviving Mission: Awakening To The Everyday Movement Of God By Linson Daniel, Jon Hietbrink, And Eric Rafferty, John Husted

Great Commission Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Caribbean Hearing Health Readiness: A Data-Guided Method For Doctor Of Audiology Study-Abroad And Service Learning, Chelsea Tynes, Antony Joseph

AuD Capstone Projects - Communication Sciences and Disorders

Access to audiology care is essential, as unmanaged hearing loss carries significant communicative, social, and health consequences. Across many Caribbean nations, access to audiologic care remains limited, with substantial variation in workforce, diagnostic services, hearing-health infrastructure, and system readiness. The Caribbean Audiology Research Project (CARP), established by the Hearing Loss Prevention Laboratory, characterized hearing-health capacity across eight Caribbean countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and The Bahamas. Publicly available data on the audiology workforce, healthcare infrastructure, diagnostic and rehabilitative services, public-health programs, demographic indicators, and logistical factors were …

Considerations For Research About 2-K A Brief Informed By What Will It Take To Fulfill The Promise Of 2-K?, Sara Amadon, Cristina Medellin-Paz, Lindsey Bravo

Straus Institute for Thriving Children & Families

New York City’s expansion of publicly funded child care for two-year-olds (2-K) presents a unique opportunity to study how a large urban system can build a sustainable, equitable, and developmentally appropriate system for serving young children and their families. As one of the nation's first large-scale public investments in early care and education for two-year-olds, 2-K offers an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research to inform ongoing implementation and program expansion. The knowledge generated from research can support policymakers and practitioners in New York City and other communities seeking to expand access to early care and education.

Regulating Police Robots, Farhang Heydari, Max Isaacs, Barry Friedman

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Once considered a mere novelty, ground robots and aerial drones are quickly becoming a mainstream policing tool. Autonomous police robots, equipped with a panoply of cameras and sensors, have been sent into parks, schools, and train stations. Agencies across the country are piloting “Drone as First Responder” programs, which automatically dispatch drones in response to 911 calls. Police have used robots to disorient, immobilize, and use force against suspects.

Police robots may provide public safety benefits, but they may also carry real risks. The widespread adoption of highly mobile robots equipped with cameras, sensors, and analytics will only hasten the …

Amadeus, Lynn University

Drama Programs

Are you ready to rock? Far from a traditional period piece, Lynn University Drama's Amadeus casts Mozart as the original genius rock star—a rebel of raw intensity and brilliance. Seen through the eyes of his rival, Salieri, this unique production features brilliant live musicians for a visceral journey into the heart of creativity ... both his and our own.

Experience Amadeus—as loud and relevant today as ever and living on in every one of us.

Note: This production uses strobe lighting, which may cause discomfort or trigger symptoms for individuals with certain health conditions.

By Peter Schaffer
Directed by …

Mora Valley Of The Mills 2026: A Documentary Report History Of The Milling Industry And Cultural Heritage Preservation, Jose A. Rivera

Faculty Publications

The flour mills along the upper Mora River constitute the largest number of still standing commercial mills in the State of New Mexico, namely the Cleveland Roller Mill, the St. Vrain Mill, the Gordon-Sánchez Mill, and the La Cueva Mill at the Houser Raspberry Ranch. Notably, all four mills are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. During their heyday, 1964-1920, Mora County was seen as the “breadbasket of New Mexico” due to its bountiful supply of cereal and cool climate vegetables. Local acequia farmers supplied the mills with the input of wheat, corn and other grains that led …

10-21-26 Bor Hsc Committee Notice Of Meeting, Patricia Serna

HSC Committee (A subcommittee of the UNM Board of Regents)

10-21-26 BOR HSC Committee Notice of Meeting

Mutation-Based Multi-Agent Test Case Update, Dawei Tian, Jiakun Liu, Yun Peng, Yichen Zhang, Jianlei Chi, Jun Sun, Xiaohong Su

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Modern software systems evolve rapidly under CI/CD practices, where tests are critical for quality. However, substantial code changes often render existing test cases obsolete, causing pipeline disruptions, reduced productivity, and compromised quality. Recent automatic test update approaches leverage LLMs to refine test cases via execution feedback and exact-matching context retrieval, prioritizing executability and line coverage but suffering three limitations: (1) neglecting test assertion adequacy, weakening fault detection; (2) relying on coarse line coverage instead of specific uncovered lines/branches; (3) using exact-matching retrieval, which fails for LLM hallucinated queries. To address these, we propose MuMuTestUp, a mutation-guided multi-agent framework with three …

Probguard: Proactive Runtime Monitoring For Llm Agent Safety Via Probabilistic Prediction, Haoyu Wang, Christopher M. Poskitt, Jiali Wei, Jun Sun

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Large Language Model (LLM) agents increasingly operate across domains such as robotics, virtual assistants, and web automation. However, their stochastic decision-making introduces safety risks that are difficult to anticipate during execution. Existing runtime monitoring frameworks, such as AgentSpec, primarily rely on reactive safety rules that detect violations only when unsafe behavior is imminent or has already occurred, limiting their ability to handle long-horizon dependencies. We present ProbGuard, a proactive runtime monitoring framework for LLM agents that anticipates safety violations through probabilistic risk prediction. ProbGuard abstracts agent executions into symbolic states and learns a Discrete-Time Markov Chain (DTMC) from execution traces …

Mg-Fuzz: Model-Guided Fuzzing For Unsafe Scenario Discovery In Autonomous Driving Systems, Yulong Lyu, Ruiqi Hong, Jiawan Wang, Jun Sun, Lei Bu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

As autonomous driving systems (ADS) are increasingly deployed in real-world environments, discovering diverse unsafe driving scenarios remains a fundamental yet difficult problem. Existing scenario generation and testing approaches often rely on black-box exploration or externally-observed heuristic feedback, which struggle to effectively guide the search toward high-risk scenarios induced by complex decision-making behaviors. A key difficulty stems from the fact that unsafe behaviors in ADS often arise from internal decision-making logic, which can induce structured and discontinuous responses that are hard to effectively explore using purely black-box guidance. Consequently, current tools tend to repeatedly discover a narrow set of similar unsafe …

Chatgpt, Can You Generate Multiple-Choice Questions For An Undergraduate Computing Course? An Evaluation Of Its Effectiveness Using Classical Test Theory, Eng Lieh Ouh, Kar Way Tan, Siaw Ling Lo, Benjamin Gan, Yuhao Zhang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Educators are increasingly adopting large language models such as ChatGPT to generate multiple-choice questions (MCQs), yet empirical evidence on the quality of these items in computing education assessments remains limited. This study compares 30 ChatGPT-generated and 30 manually crafted items from an undergraduate software design course, and evaluates item difficulty, discrimination, and distractor quality using Classical Test Theory. We triangulated two evaluations using within-subjects and between-subjects designs. Our quantitative findings show that all three metrics in both evaluations point in the same direction. ChatGPT-generated items are easier, less discriminating, and exhibit poorer distractor quality than manually crafted items. Distractor quality …

The Quality Dimensions Of Ai Robo-Advisors And Their Effect On Stock Market Investor Retention; The Mediator Effect Of Source Credibility., Hossam A. Deraz Dr.

Business Administration

The current study explores how AI robo-advisors (AIRA) platforms retain stock market investors over time. It examines how system reliability (REL), seamless system user interface navigation (SIN), application informativeness (INF), and perceived conversational quality (CON) affect investor retention (RET) in an emerging capital market through perceived source credibility (SCR). This empirical study included survey data from 413 Egyptian financial and investing community retail stock investors. For this study, SEM using AMOS 26 assessed direct structural routes, model fit, and indirect mediation effects after confirmatory factor analysis confirmed construct validity and reliability. Variance accounted for (VAF) calculations measuring mediation strength across …

Measuring Financial Responsibility Of Private Higher Education Institutions, Jack Hansen

Mark A. Israel '91 Endowed Summer Research Fund in Economics

The U.S. Department of Education’s Financial Responsibility Composite Score aggregates three accounting ratios to assess the financial health of private higher education institutions, yet its predetermined weights lack a formal statistical foundation. This paper argues that a data-driven alternative better summarizes institutional financial condition. Using Principal Component Analysis on the Primary Reserve Ratio, Equity Ratio, and Net Income Ratio calculated from 2025 audited statements for 30 private nonprofit bachelor’s institutions in the greater Chicago regional market, we derive empirically-determined weights. The resulting PCA-based score correlates positively with the official FRCS but produces meaningfully different institutional rankings. Relative to our composite …

Service Robots With Low Anthropomorphism In Restaurants: Consumer Reactions And Implications, Ferhat Eren, Volkan Genc

Journal of Global Hospitality and Tourism

This study investigates consumer responses to low-anthropomorphic service robots in restaurant front of-house roles using the AIDUA (Artificially Intelligent Device Use Acceptance). Data from 1,268  participants were analysed using PLS-SEM. The results revealed that social impact and  anthropomorphism significantly influenced both performance and effort expectancy, while hedonic  motivation influenced only performance expectancy. Performance expectancy strongly influenced  emotions, which in turn significantly influenced both the willingness to use service robots and objections  to their use. However, effort expectancy did not significantly influence emotions. The findings validate the  AIDUA model in this context and offer practical insights for robot design and implementation.

Covid-19 Impact On The Swiss Hotel Industry: A Time Series Analysis On 4-Stars Hotels, Yann Queckenstedt, Tianshu Zheng

Journal of Global Hospitality and Tourism

This study investigates the impact of COVID-19 on Swiss 4-star hotel arrivals using time series analysis and forecasts future demand through 2025. Employing a seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average model with intervention analysis, monthly arrival data from January 2005 to December 2022 were analyzed to quantify pandemic-related disruptions. Forecasts from January 2023 to December 2025 suggest a full recovery by March 2023, marking a 36-month rebound period. The pandemic’s economic impact mirrored downturns last seen in the 1970s, underscoring its severity. Findings offer actionable insights for hotel managers and tourism stakeholders, particularly in revenue management and strategic planning. Unlike prior …

New Mexico Health Care Workforce Committee 2026 Annual Report, University Of New Mexico - Health Sciences Center

New Mexico Health Care Workforce Committee (2013-ongoing)

No abstract provided.

Molecular Epidemiology Of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis In The Middle East And North Africa: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Tsegaye Shamebo, Aboma Zewude, Temesgen Mohammed, Atef Oreiby, Mohammed Saleh Albreiki, Yassir Mohammed Eltahir, Robert Barigye, Markos Tibbo, Ali Artaman, Gobena Ameni

All Works

Objective The objective of this article was to conduct a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis on the molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Middle East and North Africa. Methods PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase, and Google Scholar databases were used for literature search on the molecular epidemiology, clustering rate and recent transmission index of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) published between 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2025. The study quality was assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) and meta-analysis was carried out using R statistics version 4.5.3. Results Fifty-nine studies reported 13,194 Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) isolates of …

Dean's Update, October 2026, Neil W. Schluger

SOM Dean's Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Electronic Resource Updates - 2026 Q3, Brigitte Galauner, Gregg Harris

Electronic Resources Quarterly Updates

No abstract provided.

Resource Assessment Report No. 10: Southern Nearshore And Estuarine Scalefish Resource: Sandy Sprat (Whitebait) 2026 Assessment, Daniel E. Yeoh, Brett Crisafulli, Rubie Evans-Powell, Sybrand A. Hesp

Resource Assessment Reports

Sandy sprat Hyperlophus vittatus (‘whitebait’) is a small-bodied clupeid which occurs in temperate nearshore marine and estuarine waters throughout southern Australia. In Western Australia, this species is almost exclusively caught by the commercial sector on the lower west coast, between Perth and Geographe Bay, where it is considered to comprise a single biological stock. Since 2010, sandy sprat has primarily been caught by the South West Beach Net Fishery (SWBN) in the Bunbury region. This is a shore-based fishery which utilises beach seine nets to target a variety of finfish species in shallow nearshore waters.

Commercial catch is monitored and …