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Beyond Annual Dose: Assessing Lifetime Cancer Risk From Dietary Radiocesium Exposure And Public Risk-Perception Gaps In Japan, Yuxin Liu, Qian Zhuang, Shipeng Dong, Jingsong Huang, Zhenzhong Hu, Boyang Huang, Guoyi Han, Robert L. Goble, Ana Maria Cruz, Tong Liu, Xiaolin Hou, Yingzhe Du, Liang Mao, Lei Huang, Michael Siegrist

Sustainability and Social Justice

Radiocesium in food poses an ongoing challenge in environmental health risk assessment. Annual dose compliance (1 mSv/year) is essential for radiological protection but may not reflect cumulative lifetime cancer risk (LCR) under chronic exposure or corresponding public risk perceptions. We developed an integrated radiological risk assessment framework to evaluate dietary radiocesium-related health risks and determine whether these estimates align with public risk perceptions. We estimated prefecture-level LCR and risk-perception gaps through multilevel regression and poststratification using a nationwide survey in Japan, together with food-monitoring data on radiocesium concentrations. The annual dietary radiation dose was well below the 1 mSv/year benchmark, …

Moral Language Analysis And The Archives Of Sexuality, Phoenix R. Crane, Calvin Mensel '27, Claire Collins '28

Annual Student Research Poster Session

This project was based primarily in Greencastle, IN, with regular research trips to Indiana University in Bloomington to conduct in-person, archival research at the Kinsey Institute. During these visits, the team explored the Institute’s scholarly collections on sexuality, particularly on subjects related to queer women’s sexuality, criminal trials, and the occult. Extensive notes were taken – recording gender issues and language patterns, specifically. Three promising collections were identified to compare – abortion trials, obscenity trials, and murder trials. Guided by Moral Foundations Theory, differences were hypothesized in how journalists’ language emphasizes the five facets of morality across the three contentious …

From Beijing To Budapest: Did U.S. Tariffs Rewire Global Value Chains Toward Central And Eastern Europe?, Neli Petric '27, Guangjun Qu

Annual Student Research Poster Session

The main research question guiding our work was whether the U.S.-China trade war, which began in 2018 and has continued through new rounds of tariffs and policy uncertainty, has generated meaningful and lasting economic effects for CEE economies. In addressing this question, we were interested not only in whether trade volumes changed, but also in how the region may be repositioning itself among three major economic partners: the European Union (EU), China, and the United States. We deliberately placed the European Union first in our analysis because CEE economies are geographically, institutionally, and economically part of Europe, even though their …

School Funding Allocation And Non-Beneficiary Stakeholders, Ngoc Pham '27, Kavi Thakkar, Ryan Rudderham

Annual Student Research Poster Session

Do non-beneficiaries care about how school districts allocate funding gained from taxes paid by them?

Unlocking The Performance Of Racial Dissimilarity In Subordinate-Supervisor Dyads: Collectivism And Communication Media Are Key, Orlando Richard, Rawia Ahmed, María Del Carmen Triana, M. Fernanda Garcia

All Works

As opposed to past literature in which racial dissimilarity has been largely examined through a negative lens, this study fills an important gap by revealing that racial dissimilarity between supervisor and subordinate can lead to a knowledge advantage. Based on the Ability-Motivation-Opportunity (AMO) framework, we conducted a field study of 151 subordinate-supervisor dyads to examine how dyadic racial dissimilarity impacts Elaboration of Task-Relevant Information (ETRI) and subordinate job performance when jointly moderated by subordinate cultural values and communication media. Data were analyzed using hierarchical regression and mediation analysis. We found that ETRI was higher under conditions of dyad racial dissimilarity …

Where Do I Live, Again?: Finding Kentucky Geographic Information, Kurt X. Metzmeier

Brandeis School of Law Faculty Scholarship

Since the foundation of the United States, Americans have surveyed and recorded deeds to their properties in the county where they resided. However, until recently, those property surveys, as well as county maps, were the product of human surveyors drawing lines on paper. Only in the late 20th century, when satellites began surveying the globe and the internet made information readily accessible, did human maps give way to geographic information systems (GIS). This article surveys the GIS systems available to Louisville lawyers.

Nbc Peacock North Fall 2026 Newsletter, Peacock North Staff

NBC Peacock North Newsletter

Highlights include:  We Remember 9/11 -- Organic Intelligence: What the Grocery Aisle Can Teach Us About AI -- Roxbury Massachusetts Library Honors Journalist --Karen Cape’s Emmy -- Two Centennial Celebrations -- Maurice DuBois to National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame -- Tributes to Silent Microphones

Bibliography For "Commemorating The American Revolution 250 Years Later" Display, Victoria Perez, Sally Park

Library Displays and Bibliographies

A bibliography created to support a display about the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution in fall 2026 at the Leatherby Libraries at Chapman University.

The Lender Center For Social Justice Bibliography 2025-2026, The Lender Center For Social Justice

The Lender Center for Social Justice

The Lender Center for Social Justice Bibliography (2025-2026) is a document containing all Lender-Center scholarship written between 2020-2026. The title references the newest entries, which were created in the 2025-2026 academic year.

Key Library Resources: Library Resources To Get You Started, Raquel Estrada

Library Display Posters

No abstract provided.

Nonresident Travel Pattern Analysis, 2021-2025, Kira Minehart

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

This report summarizes nonresident travel patterns across Montana for the 2021– 2025 survey period, prepared by an independent contractor for the Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research (ITRR) at the University of Montana.

The analysis reconstructs each survey respondent’s most likely travel route through Montana using their recorded entry gateway, towns marked along the route, and exit gateway. Of the 40,837 nonresident survey respondents collected from 2021 through 2025, 5,004 (12.3%) could be reconstructed into mappable routes; these routed respondents are the basis for the analysis that follows and are referred to throughout as “visitors.” Non-routable respondents either did not …

Exploring Bias Filters As A Source Evaluation Tool, Mandi Goodsett, Ben Richards, David N. Rapp

Michael Schwartz Library Publications

Today's complex, algorithmically-driven information landscape can be difficult to navigate. While media literacy skills are important for negotiating this complexity, a pedagogical focus on misinformation and fact-checking can have the unintended effect of increasing already widespread cynicism, including among young people. In this exploratory study, we introduced college students to a new pedagogical concept: bias filters. Bias filters are aspects of the information creation process that help to reduce bias in the final product. The findings suggest that bias filters have considerable promise as an instructional tool, encouraging students to approach information sources with a more nuanced, less cynical perspective. …

Monetary Policy Transmission And Real-Sector Growth In Nigeria: A Critical Review Of Channels, Constraints And Enterprise Implications, Olusegun Timothy Odesola Dr., Oluwatoyin A. Kayode‑Akeremale

Bullion

This article critically reviews monetary policy transmission in Nigeria and its implications for real-sector growth and enterprise performance. It demonstrates that the credit channel dominates, while the interest rate channel remains weak due to structural rigidities, low pass-through, and supply-side constraints. The exchange rate and expectations channels play contingent roles but are undermined by heavy central bank intervention and fiscal dominance. Transmission effectiveness is constrained by shallow financial intermediation (private credit <20% of GDP), financial dualism (large informal finance sector), fiscal dominance (CBN financing of government deficits), underdeveloped capital markets, and institutional weaknesses (weak contract enforcement, information asymmetries). These constraints impose asymmetric burdens on small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which are disproportionately harmed by monetary tightening due to limited access to alternative finance and higher information opacity. The paper proposes a novel conceptual framework integrating transmission channels, structural constraints, and enterprise heterogeneity. It identifies critical research gaps firm-level micro-mechanisms, non-bank intermediaries, comparative African perspectives, targeted policy instruments, digital finance, nonlinearities, expectations, and spatial dimensions and outlines a forward-looking research agenda. Key recommendations include strengthening banking competition, addressing fiscal dominance via statutory limits on ways and means, scaling credit guarantee schemes for SMEs, deepening capital markets, enhancing monetary-fiscal coordination, and developing a coherent digital finance regulatory framework.

Inflation, Food Affordability And Consumer Adaptation In Nigeria: Evidence From The Akara And Kuli Kuli Social Media Debate, Godwin Okatahi Oniwon Dr

Bullion

Nigeria's persistent inflation has made food affordability and purchasing power prominent concerns in public discourse. This study examines social media discourse surrounding the Akara and Kuli Kuli debate in Nigeria, focusing on how users framed food affordability, purchasing power, household coping and wider economic hardship. using quantitative content analysis complemented by qualitative interpretation, the study analysed 1,200 publicly accessible posts from X, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Threads. Findings show that rising food prices and food affordability dominated the discourse, alongside purchasing pov,'er decline, perceived household coping and consumer adaptation. The study shows how social media provides insight into public interpretations …

Technology, Green Finance, And Monetary Policy Transmission: A New Framework For Sustainable Economic Transformation, Bandele Amoo, Adedapo Adenekan

Bullion

Conventional monetary policy transmission frameworks pay limited attention to the growing roles of technological innovation and green finance in shamng financial intermediation and sustainable economic development. This paper addresses this gap by developing the Technology-Driven Green Finance Transmission (TGFT) Framework, a conceptual framework that explains how technology strengthens monetary policy transmission through green financial markets to support sustainable economic transformation. Drawing on monetary economics, institutional economics, information economics, and sustainable finance, the paper integrates these perspectives into a unified analytical framework and applies it to the Nigerian context to illustrate the interactions among digital financial infrastructure, green finance, and monetary …

Effect Of Forensic Accounting Techniques On Financial Statement Fraud In Microfinance Banks In Nigeria, Ajewole Oluwasola Dada, Professor Adeoye A. Afolabi

Bullion

Financial statement fraud threatens confidence in Nigeria's microfinance banking sector. Anchored on the fraud diamond theory, this study examined the effects of anonymous communication, ratio analysis, inspection and observation, and fraud risk assessment. A cross-sectional survey of 225 professionals across Nigeria's six geopolitical zones yielded 222 usable responses. Regression results showed a significant inverse relationship between the techniques and fraud (Ra = .583; adjusted = .575; p < .001). The study concludes that forensic accounting techniques materially constrain fraudulent reporting and recommends their formal integration into microfinance banks' enterprise-risk, audit, and supervisory frameworks.

Artificial Intelligence, Economic Governance And Financial Stability In Nigeria: Emerging Risks And Policy Opportunities, Suleiman Usman Yusuf

Bullion

This paper examines how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping economic governance and financial stability in Nigeria between 2024 and 2026. Using qualitative analysis of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) regulations, national AI policy documents, reports of international standard-setters, and recent empirical studies, it finds that AI strengthens fraud detection, economic nowcasting and oversight of public expenditure. However, it also introduces risks, including cybersecurity threats, market concentration, algorithmic bias, herding behaviour, and explainability risks, which gaps in regulatory capacity, data, and infrastructure magnify. The paper concludes that Nigeria needs a risk-proportionate AI supervisory framework, mandatory algorithmic audits and phased institutional capacity …

Central Bank Of Nigeria (Cbn) Global Award 2026: Strategic Reforms, Economic Stabilisation And Institutional Excellence Under The Leadership Of Governor Olayemi Cardoso, Polycarp M. Ishaku

Bullion

This paper examines the recognition of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as Central Bank of the Year 2026 within the context of the reform agenda initiated under Governor Olayemi Cardoso in September 2023. Using a descriptive analytical approach and evidence from the CBN, IMF, World Bank, and FATF, the study assesses reforms in monetary policy, foreign exchange market liberalisation, institutional governance, and digital financial inclusion. Findings indicate that the reforms contributed to moderating inflationary pressures, clearing a US$7 billion FX backlog, strengthening external reserves, facilitating Nigeria's exit from the FATF grey list, and enhancing banking sector resilience. The paper …

Global Tax Governance And The Digital Economy: The Limits Of Democratizing From Below?, Yujia He, Michael Tyrala

Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce Faculty Publications

As Big Tech firms exploit existing rules to minimize their tax obligations, calls to reform the institutions of global tax governance that have historically favored capitalist elites in advanced economies have amplified. Progressive movements have garnered international pressure on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to undertake major reforms and address uneven power relations in international negotiations, which have historically produced a skewed distribution of taxing rights. Despite increasing democratization of global tax governance, substantial challenges remain, particularly as intensifying hegemonic resistance threatens to negate reform efficacy and perpetuate power asymmetries. This essay outlines this complex issue and …

Intimate Partner Violence Victimization, Endorsement Of Masculinity Norms, And Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Non-Latino Black, Latino, And Non-Latino White Male Ipv Victims: A Moderation Analysis, Kerry A. Lee, Denise A. Hines, Chiara Sabina, Lyric N. Russo, Jennifer L. Mezzapelle, Emily M. Douglas, Amanda J. Grolig

Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Objective: We examined racial/ethnic differences in endorsement of masculinity norms, intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and sociodemographic factors among non-Latino Black, Latino, and non-Latino White men. We also assessed the direct effects of IPV and endorsement of masculinity norms on PTSD, and the moderating effects of endorsement of masculinity norms on the IPV-PTSD relationship, controlling for relevant covariates.

Method: Participants (N = 1194; non-Latino Black: n = 299, non-Latino White: n = 299, and Latino: n = 596 men) were recruited via Centiment, a crowd-sourcing platform. Bivariate analyses examined racial/ethnic differences across study variables. Structural equation …

Build Back Better: What Rebuilding Clemson’S Naco Program Taught Us About Resilience, Collaboration, And Succession Planning, Charlotte Grubbs, Scott Dutkiewicz

Presentations

No abstract provided.

Sacred Loss And Moral Authority: Religious Leadership And Identity Reconstruction In Post-Conflict Societies, Kimberly C. Kennedy

Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies

This paper examines how religious leaders shape narratives of identity formation and reconciliation in post-civil conflict societies where violence, defeat, or political transition produces moral injury and crises of meaning. By drawing on themes of justice, forgiveness, and accountability, religious leadership can wield moral authority to influence public perception, guide healing processes, and support transitions from active conflict to more stable forms of peace. The paper explores how religious leaders reframe narratives of defeat, particularly in cases where a community’s cause was endowed with sacred meaning, creating a crisis of faith. It argues that this work is best understood as …

Promoting Member Participation And Dialogue Across Differences: A Mixed Methods Study Of One Diocese’S Implementation Of The Catholic Church’S Synodality Initiative, Robert Donmoyer, Fred J. Galloway

Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies

In recent years, leaders of the Catholic Church have attempted to promote more participatory ways of operating. A few years ago, for example, Church leaders initiated what they referred to as a synodality initiative worldwide. Catholics were asked to share publicly a time the Church brought them joy and a time it disappointed them, along with a hope they have for the Church's future.  One diocese organized the process around the sort of talking circles used by Indigenous groups to make decisions and connect members.  This diocese also enlisted researchers to lead a systematic study of the process; they employed …

Measuring The Effectiveness Of Social Work Practice In Health Care Settings: An Annotated Bibliography, Uab Social Work Partnership, Lana Turner Msw, Laurel Iverson Hitchcock Phd Mph Licsw-S

College of Arts & Sciences Professional Work

This annotated bibliography brings together recent research on how the effectiveness of social work practice is measured in medical and health care settings. It examines outcomes linked to social work interventions, including hospital readmissions, length of stay, treatment engagement, equity of access, and team collaboration, as well as the tools and frameworks used to evaluate them. The collection is organized around five themes: social work interventions improve patient outcomes; social workers enhance interdisciplinary team effectiveness; structured assessment tools improve care planning; social workers promote equity and patient advocacy; and social work supports hospital efficiency and resource optimization. It helps students, …

Subjective Time Estimation In Rats: Seconds To Minutes, Alissa Christensen

Holster Scholar Projects

Time estimation is important for survival. Importantly, time estimation is subjective, influenced by a variety of factors.

We used a temporal bisection task (Church & Deluty, 1977) to determine the degree to which a rat “feels” a stimulus is long/short in reference to predetermined anchor durations.

Animals were first trained to respond differently to a short (3s) and long (6s) duration light-cue. This was followed by intermediate duration probes (averaging 4.5s). Most animals treated the intermediate intervals as long. The function varied, some showing a more linear response while others a step function.

The second phase examines longer time estimation, …

I, Too, Am America: Latino Men, American Identity, And Support For Conservative Immigration Policy, Nadia Ratib-Eixarch

Holster Scholar Projects

In the 2024 Presidential election, Donald Trump won 43% of the Latino male vote and 32% of the Latina vote, despite his history of anti-immigration and anti-Latino rhetoric. This 11-point gender gap among Latino voters exceeded the seven-point gender gap among white voters. Although Trump ran on anti-immigration policy, Latino male voters recorded their main concerns as inflation and jobs, suggesting a divergence between Latino male voters’ perceptions of their interests and those of the larger Latino community. Schaffner and Soler (2025) argue that this divergence is because Latino men who support Trump no longer identify primarily as Latino.

This …

Public Rhetoric And Private Strategy: The World Bank's Relationship With Mexico Through The 1980s Debt Crisis, Phillip Purcell

Holster Scholar Projects

This project investigates how the World Bank's relationship with Mexico changed through the 1980s debt crisis and whether the institution's internal assessments differed from its public presentation. Drawing on archival memoranda, correspondence, briefing papers, and publicly available reports, the study compares World Bank deliberations with official statements and publications. It demonstrates that examining these private and public records together provides a clearer understanding of how the Bank formulated policy, exercised influence over Mexico's economic strategy, and responded to the challenges of debt, adjustment, and reform. More broadly, the project contributes to understanding the role of international financial institutions in shaping …

October 2026 Library & Learning Newsletter, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Library & Learning Dean's Office Communication Team

Library & Learning Newsletters

PDF version of the October 2026 (Volume 5, Issue 2) Library & Learning Newsletter.

Sociotechnical Factors Influencing The Shared Understanding Of Criminal Justice Data, Grace Cairo

Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

The Justice Information Sharing Council (JISC) is an interagency committee created to increase collaboration and data sharing among criminal justice stakeholders in New Mexico. This research explores how JISC stakeholders develop a shared understanding of criminal justice data through a sociotechnical lens. This issue is imperative because a lack of shared understanding can hinder decision-making and potentially compromise public safety. This research presents a novel approach by applying human factors concepts and theories to information sharing within the criminal justice system. Using a qualitative case study method, semi-structured interviews were conducted with six JISC stakeholders to gain insight into their …

Info 7009 / Lbsci 709: Research In Library And Information Studies, Ping Li

Open Educational Resources

This is a syllabus of INFO 7009 / LBSCI 709: Research in Library and Information Studies. Funded in part by the CUNY OER Initiative, this class uses open educational resources or zero-textbook-cost materials.