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Radical Right Ideologues In The Age Of Trump: Heralds Of Nihilism, By Ronald Beiner. Routledge, 2026. 160 Pages. $57.99. Isbn 978-1041126812, Joan Braune

Journal of Hate Studies

Philosopher Joan Braune reviews Ronald Beiner’s Radical Right Ideologues in the Age of Trump: Heralds of Nihilism, which examines how fascist ideologues such as Steve Bannon, Aleksandr Dugin, Jason Jorjani, and Costin Alamariu (known online as “Bronze Age Pervert”), invoke philosophers, including Plato, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, in their arguments. It also considers why traditional philosophy departments have hesitated to acknowledge the use of philosophers in right-wing movements and how Beiner manages the risk of validating fascism as intellectual by studying the topic.

Strange People On The Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart A Small American Town, By Michael Edison Hayden. 320 Pages. $30.00 Isbn 978-1645030607, Thomas F. Schaller

Journal of Hate Studies

Political scientist Tom Schaller reviews Michael Edison Hayden’s Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small American Town. Part memoir and part ethnography, Strange People on the Hill details Hayden’s time as an investigative journalist in Berkley Springs, West Virginia, where the Southern Poverty Law Center tasked him with learning about the purchase of an area castle by Peter Brimelow, the founder of the white nationalist group VDARE, named after Virginia Dare, the first white child born in the Americas, and his wife. Strange People on the Hill chronicles the challenges of working as a journalist …

Cowboy Apocalypse: Religion And The Myth Of The Vigilante Messiah, By Rachel Wagner. New York: Nyu Press, 2023. 320 Pages. $35.00. Isbn 978-1479831623, Scot Loyd

Journal of Hate Studies

Scot Loyd, a heritage studies scholar, reviews Rachel Wagner’s Cowboy Apocalypse: Religion and the Myth of the Vigilante Messiah. An Interdisciplinary study drawing from religious studies, media theory, and cultural analysis, Cowboy Apocalypse examines how American video games, film, television, and other forms of popular culture engage redemptive violence, particularly at the hands of lone heroes.

The Legacy Sites: A History Of Racial Injustice, By Equal Justice Initiative. Monacelli, 2026. 280 Pages. $59.95 Isbn 978-1580937320, Roger Davis Gatchet

Journal of Hate Studies

Roger Davis Gatchet, a scholar of communication, reviews The Legacy Sites: A History of Racial Injustice, collectively authored by the Equal Justice Initiative with a forward by founder and executive director Bryan Stevenson. Rich with photographs and written for a popular audience, The Legacy Sites offers an accessible history of race relations and the struggle for racial justice in the United States, organized by chapters devoted to three sites in Montgomery, Alabama: the Legacy Museum, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice Museum, and Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. The book’s historical narrative adopts a critical tone that reflects the …

When The Hood Comes Off: Racism And Resistance In The Digital Age, By Rob Eschmann. University Of California Press, 2023. 312 Pages. $24.95. Isbn 978-0520379749, Stephanie M. Ortiz

Journal of Hate Studies

Sociologist Stephanie M. Ortiz reviews Rob Eschmann’s When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age, which examines how the internet reorganizes the conditions under which racism is expressed, with a focus on higher education. This reorganization allows hate to flourish online even as racism is disavowed in public. Online and offline spaces are not disconnected, though, and digital revelations—revealed when “the hood comes off”—shape offline relationships, institutional trust, campus climate, and students’ sense of safety.

Antisemitism: What Everyone Needs To Know, By David Harris. Oxford University Press, 2025. 280 Pages. $18.99. Isbn 978-0197800676, Dov Waxman

Journal of Hate Studies

Political scientist Dov Waxman reviews Antisemitism: What Everyone Needs to Know, authored by David Harris, former chair of the American Jewish Committee. Part of Oxford University Press’s What Everyone Needs to Know series aimed at general readers, the book provides a basic history of antisemitism through the present, including explaining its relationship to the Holocaust, but it devotes much more attention to what the author alleges is antisemitism on the left, particularly concerning Israel, than to antisemitism on the Far Right, and it fails to engage with or reflect contemporary scholarship on antisemitism.

Foreign Fighters And The Extreme Right: Tracking Far-Right Volunteers Beyond The Ukraine War, Edited By Daniel Koehler And Miroslav Mareš. Routledge, 2026. 326 Pages. $57.99. Isbn 978-1003186014, Alex Mackenzie

Journal of Hate Studies

Alex MacKenzie, a scholar of politics, reviews Foreign Fighters and the Extreme Right: Tracking Far-Right Volunteers Beyond the Ukraine War, edited by Daniel Koehler and Miroslav Mareš. Foreign Fighters and the Extreme Right provides a history of foreign fighters, with a focus on the previous hundred years. Methodologically and geographically diverse, the collection includes chapters on the United States, Russia, Germany, Italy, the UK, Scandinavia, Southeastern Europe, and Eastern Europe, examining the historical and social context of foreign fighters in each region.

The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across The Holy Land, By Aziz Abu Sarah And Maoz Inon. Crown, 2026. 240 Pages. $30.00. Isbn 979-8217086511, Jack Shepherd

Journal of Hate Studies

Jack Shepherd, a scholar of tourism studies, reviews Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon’s The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey across the Holy Land. The authors, a Palestinian and an Israeli, have each lost loved ones to violence in the region where they now work promoting peace through tourism and travel. Organized geographically, The Future is Peace moves through Gaza, Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the West Bank, Nazareth, and Galilee, telling the histories and providing political context to help readers understand the conflict there.

Children No More: Were And Are Gone. Produced By Sheila Nevins, Yael Melamede And Hilla Medalia; Directed By Hilla Medalia. English. 2026; Color; 36 Minutes. Full Story Films, Medalia Productions, And Salty Features, Muzna Rahman

Journal of Hate Studies

Postcolonial studies scholar Muzna Rahman reviews Children No More: Were and Are Gone, Hilla Medalia’s Academy Award-nominated short documentary. The film documents pro-peace Israeli activists who gather regularly in Tel Avivi to hold a silent vigil for Palestinian children killed by Israel forces. Against the backdrop of everyday urban life, the protestors simply hold photos of the children, commemorating their lives rather than their brutal deaths. The images of Palestinian children held by Israeli activities highlights the similarities between the groups, while the rage of passersby reveals the danger that Israelis who advocate for peace face in their work.

The Voice Of Hind Rajab. Produced By Nadim Cheikhrouha, Odessa Rae, And James Wilson; Directed By Kaouther Ben Hania. In Arabic. 2025; Color; 89 Minutes. A Mime Films And Tanit Films Production, Distributed By Jour2fête, Amahl Bishara

Journal of Hate Studies

Anthropologist Amahl Bishara reviews the film The Voice of Hind Rajab, which was nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards. The docudrama tells the true story of a young Palestinian child whose family car is attacked by Israeli soldiers while the family attempts to evacuate from their town in northern Gaza. Trapped in the car with her five deceased loved ones, little Hind is the object of an attempted—and eventually failed--rescue by the Red Crescent Society. Using real footage, The Voice of Hind Rajab tells not the story of one child’s final hours but of …

Imagining The Possibilities: A Consideration Of Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Tracy Wascom

Journal of Hate Studies

Tracy Wascom reviews Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, a traveling exhibit that refashions books published by a white supremacist group, the Creativity Movement, into art. Books such as The White Man’s Bible and RAHOWA: This Planet is All Ours!, written in the 1980s, were provided to the Montana Human Rights Network by a white supremacist defector. With curator Katie Knight, MHRN then invited artists to repurpose the texts into paintings, sculptures, films, and other artistic investigations of hate. Thirty-eight artists are represented in the current touring exhibit, including Enrique Chagoya, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Jim Riswold, Faith Ringgold, and Clarissa …

“A Candle In The Darkness”: On Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past And Present At The Canadian Museum For Human Rights, Itay Zutra

Journal of Hate Studies

A scholar of Jewish studies, Itay Zutra reviews On Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present, an exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights that opened in June 2026 and is expected to run through November 2028. The exhibit, curated by Isabelle Masson, recognizes the historic and ongoing displacement of Palestinians by the Israeli government by including both historic relics from the initial removal of Palestinians in 1948 and contemporary art engaging continued violence there. Items include artifacts from the life of physician Izzeldin Abuelaish, who lost his daughters and niece to an Israeli attack on their home even …

Engineering Small-Sized Cations With Strong Solvation For High-Voltage Supercapacitors, Tong Huo, Pan Liu, Hao Chen, Peng Zhang, Zhen-Lei Chen, Guo-Fu Sun, Zhi-Qiang Shi, Jing Wang

Journal of Electrochemistry

Supercapacitors (SCs) have attracted much attention in the field of energy storage due to their high power density and long cycle life. However, their relatively low energy density limits their application in a wider range of fields. Methods to increase energy density include enhancing specific capacitance and extending operating voltage window. Herein, we report a novel electrolyte salt, tetramethylammonium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (TMA-FSI), the resulting electrolyte formed with propylene carbonate (PC), designated as TMF, exhibited a wide electrochemical stability window (ESW) of 5.09 V. On the one hand, we found that the small size of TMA⁺ enables it to enter the …

Oral Health Equivalent To Body Health, Ahmed Jameel Obayes, Abeer Mohammed Ali Al-Garawyi

Muthanna Medical Journal

Oral health comprises the palate, mouth and throat lining, tongue, lips, salivary glands, chewing muscles, nerves, and upper and lower jaw bones. Chronic mouth infections were related to ``diabetes, heart and lung disease, and stroke'' in a recent research. Our oral health influences our overall health. Understanding that tooth loss is usually caused by illness or injury rather than age is a crucial first step in preventing ``dental caries and periodontal disease''. This overview of evidence connects poor oral health to systemic disorders. A number of studies have shown a relationship between dental and general health, indicating ``poor oral health'' …

Investigation Of The Redox Behavior Of Helichrysum Herb In Blood Via Cyclic Voltammetry, Asad Hameed Alnajar, Zahraa Neamah Abbas

Muthanna Medical Journal

The redox properties of Helichrysum were studied in human blood using cyclic voltammetry (CV). The study aimed to determine the redox capacity of the phytochemicals in this herb, particularly phenolic compounds and flavonoids, and their effect on the redox balance in the blood. Voltographic plots showed distinct anodic and cathodic peaks at 750 and -600 mV, respectively, consistent with the redox activity of the active metabolites. The results indicated that Helichrysum exhibits a reversible redox process with significant antioxidant capacity, suggesting its role as an electron donor in biological systems. These findings contribute to understanding the electrochemical properties of medicinal …

Translation Techniques And Meaning Equivalence In The Novels ``It Ends With Us'' And ``Akhir Antara Kita'' By Colleen Hoover, Tanty Aidullia Nasution, Rusdi Noor Rosa, Erikson Saragih, Rudy Sofyan, T. Thyrhaya Zein

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

Translating literary works addressing sensitive issues such as domestic violence (DV) and psychological trauma requires careful strategies to preserve meaning, emotional nuances, and pragmatic effects in the target language. This study examines translation techniques, levels of meaning equivalence, and relevance in dialogues concerning domestic violence and personal trauma in Colleen Hoover's It Ends with Us and its Indonesian translation, Akhir Antara Kita. Employing a descriptive qualitative approach, 451 dialogue segments were analyzed using the frameworks of Molina and Hurtado Albir (2002), Baker (1992), and Gutt (2010). The findings identified 17 translation techniques, predominantly established equivalent (26.60%), modulation (20.45%), and …

Perceptions Of Correctional Officers In Prison Environments And The Coping Mechanisms They Use To Support Work–Life Balance, Amiee C. Ruger

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This qualitative study explored correctional officers’ lived experiences with occupational stress, coping strategies, work–life balance, and psychological well-being. The purpose of the study was to better understand correctional officers’ experiences working in high-stress correctional environments, including how they experienced and managed occupational stress, as well as the factors that influenced their psychological well-being. The Yerkes-Dodson law, Nixon’s human function curve, and the transactional model of stress and coping provided the theoretical framework for the study. Eight correctional officers were recruited using purposive and snowball sampling techniques. Semistructured interviews were conducted through the online meeting platform Zoom, and the data were …

Generalized Apostol-Bernoulli Functions And The Evaluation Of Character Sums, Brad Isaacson

Publications and Research

We introduce two types of generalized Apostol–Bernoulli functions attached to Dirichlet characters and express them by generalized Apostol–Bernoulli numbers. As a corollary, we obtain formulas expressing two families of character sums by generalized Apostol–Bernoulli numbers. These sums are twisted generalizations of sums introduced and studied by Arakawa, Berndt, Ibukiyama, Kaneko, Kim, Ramanujan, and Zaharescu in the context of modular forms and theta function identities.

Rapid Inter-Individual Vocal Interactions In Freely Behaving Rats Revealed By Acoustic Source Localization, Shinya Yamamoto, Kazuo Okanoya

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) in rodents have been widely used as indicators of affective states; however, their role in rapid temporal exchange between individuals remains largely unexplored, primarily due to technical limitations in identifying vocalizing individuals during free social interactions. Here, we combined acoustic source localization (USVCAM) with markerless multi-animal tracking to examine the temporal structure of vocal interactions in freely behaving rat dyads. In three dyads with sufficient vocal output, inter-individual vocalization intervals exhibited a clear peak at approximately 50-250 ms, indicating fast temporal exchanges of vocalizations between individuals. To test whether this pattern could arise from independent vocal production, …

Home On The Range: Where Deer And Antelope Compete With Feral Horses For Limited Resources, Katelyn Davies, Hannah B. Klugman, Kathryn A. Schoenecker, David C. Stoner

All Current Publications

Given projections for continued drought conditions in the West, a better understanding of how native wildlife respond to competition with feral horses will be critical for developing effective conservation programs in the future. This fact sheet provides information on feral horses and presents study data comparing their use of water resources with that of native wildlife.

Green Finance’S Role In Bank Risk: Empirical Evidence From The Emerging Economy, Viverita Viverita, Dwi Nastiti Danarsari, Ratih Dyah Kusumastuti, Ruhaini Muda

Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development

Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority (OJK)’s sustainable finance roadmap, phases I and II, primarily aims to facilitate sustainable development by integrating economic, social, and environmental considerations into financial policies. A special objective is to promote the development of green financial products and services. This policy allows banks to mitigate reputational and regulatory challenges. Nevertheless, the prompt implementation of green credit may entail transition risks, such as policy adjustment costs. A limited body of research examines the direct relationship between green finance and bank risk, particularly in the context of sustainability mandates. This study analyzes the influence of green finance on banking …

2025 - Nh Forest Products Industry Report, Andrew J. Fast, Basanta Lamsal, Jagdish Poudel, Raju Pokharel

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.

Autosomal-Recessive Hoxa3 Deficiency Causes Congenital Athymia And Laryngeal Malformation, Sarah S Dinges, Marita Bosticardo, Anke Hirschfelder, Francesca Pala, Johannes Kopp, Viktor Glaser, Johannes Grünhagen, Giuseppe Sangiorgio, Lisa Ehlers, Pawel Durek, Olga Staudacher, Mirjam Völler, Austen Worth, Uwe Kölsch, Zainab M Golwala, Nadine Unterwalder, Erwin Lankes, Karl-Ulrich Schunck, Frederik Heinrich, Kayla Amini, Stavros Loukogeorgakis, Evey Howley, Heather Kenney, Hendrik S Fischer, Sven C Weber, Oliver Blankenstein, Christian Meisel, Anke Wendt, Harald Stachelscheid, Angela Kaindl, Christoph Bührer, Anita Balázs, Mir-Farzin Mashreghi, Julia K Polansky, Dimitrios L Wagner, E Graham Davies, Marcus A Mall, Alexandra Y Kreins, Luigi D Notarangelo, Horst Von Bernuth

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Background: Approximately 10% of patients with severe combined immunodeficiency phenotype lack a known genetic cause. In particular, the molecular basis of thymic defects is poorly understood. Homeobox (HOX) genes encode conserved transcription factors that control spatial body development. The function of human HOXA3 is undefined.

Objective: We characterized the first human with HOXA3 deficiency and investigated the role of HOXA3 in immune system development.

Methods: We performed clinical and immunologic phenotyping as well as genetic sequencing. A homozygous nonsense variant in HOXA3 was identified and functionally validated via reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, Western blot analysis, assessment of transcriptional activity, …

Staff Education To Improve Medication Adherence Knowledge In Schizophrenia Care, Richard Emereonye

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This staff education doctoral project addressed a documented gap in nursing competency, confidence, and documentation related to medication adherence counseling for adults with schizophrenia on an inpatient psychiatric unit. Nonadherence to antipsychotic medication affects an estimated 40% to 60% of adults with schizophrenia and contributes to relapse and avoidable rehospitalization. The practice-focused question was: In a psychiatric care facility, how does a competency-based staff education program on medication adherence strategies for schizophrenia affect nursing staff knowledge, confidence, and competency, as measured by pre- and post-education assessments? The intervention was developed using the analyze, design, develop, implement, and evaluate (ADDIE) model …

A Fate-And-Transport Model For Diclofenac From Wastewater Treatment Plants To The Diyala–Tigris Rivers, Baghdad, Iraq, Mohammed A. Al-Ameri, Ghyda Y. Al Kindi, Noor S. Mahdi

Engineering and Technology Journal

Diclofenac is a widely used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug that is incompletely removed by conventional wastewater treatment. This study evaluates its fate and transport from consumption and excretion, through the three Al-Rustamiyah wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) units in Baghdad, to the Diyala River, the Tigris River, and the Al-Tuwaitha drinking-water intake. Discrete ``grab'' samples were collected during 12–14 November 2020 from WWTP influent and effluent streams and from river and intake sites. Diyala River concentrations ranged from 0.094 to 2.184 μg/L. At the Tigris confluence, diclofenac was 0.052 μg/L; the two immediate downstream measurements were below 0.01 μg/L …

Lessons Learned: William White, Mercedes Cardona

Journal of Financial Crises

William White spent 22 years at the Bank of Canada, where he served as deputy governor from September 1988 until 1994 before joining the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). He held a number of positions at the BIS until 2008, including head of the Monetary and Economic Department; he was also a member of the executive committee. He served as chairman of the Economic and Development Review Committee at the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from 2009 until 2019 and is currently a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto. This Lessons Learned summary is based …

Lessons Learned: Daniel K. Tarullo, Sophia Alden

Journal of Financial Crises

Daniel K. Tarullo was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Board) and the Federal Open Market Committee from January 2009 to April 2017. Before his appointment to the Board, Tarullo held several government positions, including assistant secretary of state for economic and business affairs, deputy assistant to the president for economic policy, and assistant to the president for international economic policy. In addition to his work with the Federal Reserve, Tarullo has extensive experience in law and academia and has spent more than 15 years teaching at Georgetown and Harvard Law Schools. Tarullo …

The Lingering Effects On Junk Bond Spreads Of The Fed’S 2020 Corporate Bond Backstop Facilities, John V. Duca, An Nguyen

Journal of Financial Crises

The US corporate bond market is typically disrupted during financial crises, when uncertainty and risk premiums are high and bond issuance is depressed. During the COVID-19 recession, the Federal Reserve introduced two unprecedented interventions: the Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility and Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility. These backstop facilities stood ready to purchase corporate bonds when corporate bond spreads were wide. While existing literature highlights their effects on investment-grade bonds, the implications for high-yield (junk) bonds remain less well understood. We track uncertainty using the Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX; Jurado, Ludvigson, and Ng’s measures of macroeconomic uncertainty; and other …

Lessons Learned: Agustín Carstens, Mercedes Cardona

Journal of Financial Crises

Agustín Carstens had a long career at Bank of Mexico, the country’s central bank, starting in 1980, before he was named the country’s minister of finance, a post he held from 2006 to 2009. In January 2010, he was named governor of Bank of Mexico and served in that role through 2017, when he became general manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Carstens managed multiple financial crises during his career. Mexico weathered a significant upheaval during the Mexican Peso Crisis of 1994–95, and again during the 2007–09 Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The Mexican economy did not have the …

A Framework For Understanding The Vulnerabilities Of New Money-Like Products, Kenechukwu Anadu, Patrick Mccabe, J.P. Perez-Sangimino, Nathan Swem

Journal of Financial Crises

New money-like products, such as tokenized money market funds (MMFs), money market exchange-traded funds, and stablecoins, could be transformative for finance. These products may offer significant benefits, but like other money-like assets, they also have certain vulnerabilities. We introduce a framework to analyze the vulnerabilities of new products by comparing their features to those that contribute to vulnerabilities in MMFs. Specifically, we examine the extent to which each product engages in liquidity transformation, is subject to threshold effects, serves as a money-like asset, poses contagion risks, and has reactive investors. Our framework is useful for assessing the potential effects of …