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Assessing the Efficacy of a Justice-Mental Health Collaborative Program to Reduce Violence
No full textIn the aftermath of tragic mass violence events, there has been increasing attention to strategies for improving police responses to mental health crises and the risk of violence. In light of these concerns, this study comprises an evaluation of the Linking Individuals in Need of Care (LINC) Program—a collaborative initiative involving a sheriff’s office and behavioral health network in a large Florida county. Implemented as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance funded Justice and Mental Health Collaborative Program, the LINC Program aims to identify and support at-risk individuals, with an emphasis on preventing school and community mass violence incidents. This study evaluates the program’s processes in identifying these individuals, examines protocols for intervention, identifies implementation factors, and assesses the program’s impact on reducing the risk of violence. The study also makes recommendations for future study and evidence-based practices in policing and mental health partnerships
SASH: Student Academic Showcase and Honors 2025
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North Farm Home Owners Ass’n, Inc. v. Bristol County Water Authority, 315 A.3d 933 (R.I. 2024)
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Colonial architecture modulates the speed and efficiency of multi-jet swimming in salp colonies
No full textSalps are marine pelagic tunicates with a complex life cycle including a solitary and colonial stage. Salp colonies are composed of asexually budded individuals that coordinate their swimming by multi-jet propulsion. Colonies develop into species-specific architectures with distinct zooid orientations. These distinct colonial architectures vary in how frontal area scales with the number of zooids in the colony. Here, we address how differences in frontal area drive differences in swimming speed and the relationship between swimming speed and cost of transport in salps. We (1) compared swimming speed across salp species and architectures, (2) evaluated how swimming speed scales with the number of zooids across colony in architectures, and (3) compared the metabolic cost of transport across species and how it scales with swimming speed. To measure swimming speeds, we recorded swimming salp colonies using in situ videography while SCUBA diving in the open ocean. To estimate the cost of transport, we measured the respiration rates of swimming and anesthetized salps collected in situ using jars equipped with non-invasive oxygen sensors. We found that linear colonies swim faster, which supports the idea that their differential advantage in frontal area scales with an increasing number of zooids. We also found that higher swimming speeds predict lower costs of transport in salps. These findings underscore the importance of considering propeller arrangement to optimize speed and energy efficiency in bioinspired underwater vehicle design, leveraging lessons learned from the diverse natural laboratory provided by salp diversity
Creating cool: The crafting, development, and management of cool brands
No full textFor a brand, being cool can be an important driver of consumer purchase, yet little is known about how marketers can make a brand cool. This study aims to understand how cool brands are created and maintained. To this end, this paper leverages qualitative and quantitative studies to determine how cool brands are created, and in turn, develops a formative scale for measuring brand coolness. More specifically, in-depth interviews were conducted with 19 high-level sportswear/streetwear marketing practitioners to identify the five key drivers of coolness—Authenticity, Associations, Originality, Storytelling, and Accessibility. Based on these findings, a reliable and valid formative scale for cool is constructed which is shown to have a causal relationship with pre-existing (reflective) measures of cool. Further, these measures are demonstrated to influence consumers’ perception of brands and capture meanings and drivers of cool(ness) not previously identified. As the first study to explore marketers’ role in the cultural production of cool and the formative measures for cool, the findings provide valuable insights regarding how managers attempt to imbue their brands with cool
