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How does gender, race, and activism engagement influence perceptions of environmentalists?
No full textThis poster was presented at The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) on 02/20/2025.Negative stereotypes associated with environmentalists may create obstacles to the environmentalist movement. The actions environmentalists engage in can also increase the backlash against them. However, past research has found that atypical environmentalists are perceived more favorably. Thus, it is important to understand who a “typical” environmentalist is and how being “atypical” may impact perceptions towards them. In a past study we found that the modal prototype of an environmentalist is a White woman. In this study, we therefore examined how participants react to a typical environmentalist (i.e., White and female) in comparison to an atypical environmentalist (i.e., Black and male). We also tested whether engaging in activism may impact participants’ perceptions towards environmentalists. To do so, we conducted a 2 X 2 X 2 between-subjects experimental design where we manipulated the gender (female, male), race (White, Black), and activism (yes, no) of an environmentalist’s profile. Preliminary analyses suggest more negative views of activists than nonactivists (e.g., on warmth/competence) and social distance, and occasional main effects of gender and race on some outcomes
Exploring and Connecting the Within-person Factor Structures of Psychosis-related EMA and Clinician-Rated Symptoms
No full textThese are the slides from a presentation given at HiTOP Conference on 03/28/2025.The transdiagnostic approach to understanding affective and non-affective psychotic disorders highlights the need for examining factor structures. Recent studies have explored transdiagnostic factors across individuals. However, within-person factor structure remains under-investigated. Given the importance of daily symptom tracking in outpatient settings, mapping the transdiagnostic factor structure onto daily affective and symptomatic experiences is crucial. We employed ecological momentary assessment (EMA) of self-reported daily symptoms and monthly clinical interviews to examine how within-person transdiagnostic factors align with clinical factor structures over time. A sample of 70 outpatients with bipolar, psychotic, and related disorders were recruited from McLean Psychiatric Hospital, resulting in 31,869 EMA observations and 965 clinical interviews. Factor analyses identified six latent EMA factors: irritability, positive activation, negative arousal, distress, anxious stress, and social activity; and seven clinical factors: mania, disorganized thinking, affective and cognitive depressive symptoms, interpersonal and intrapersonal negative symptoms, and anxiety. Multilevel modeling will assess associations between EMA and clinical factors. Findings are expected to enhance understanding of within-person transdiagnostic structures in psychotic and related disorders, aiding symptom monitoring and personalized treatments
Introduction to spiritually sensitive social work practice: For trainings at social welfare organizations in South Korea
No full textThis book contains English and Korean bilingual resources for teaching and training about spirituality in professional social work practice in South Korea. The four chapters present slides for training based on the author's presentations and research for more than 35 years in collaboration with Korean colleagues regarding spiritual diversity and social welfare. Chapter One presents an introduction to values and principles for spiritually sensitive social work; Chapter Two presents relevant definitions and theory base; Chapter Three provides guidelines for spiritually attuned assessment of clients and human service organizational workplaces; and Chapter Four addresses spiritually sensitive helping activities for social workers and clients. The Appendix offers a list of additional publications and videos by the author and colleagues as training resources for educators and practitioners; many of these are open access. The translator of this book is Sungsim Lee, PhD Candidate, Loyola University Chicago
Long-Lived Charge-Transfer Excitons in a Graphene-PTCDI-TiOPc Trilayer Heterostructure (Dataset)
No full textThe excel file contains all experimental data. The zip file contains all code and data of DFT calculations presented in Figure 5.Excitation transfer across the interfaces between graphene, perylenetetracarboxylic diimide (PTCDI), and titanyl phthalocyanine (TiOPc) was studied using transient absorption and photoluminescence spectroscopy. Both photoluminescence quenching and transient absorption measurements confirm the presence of a type-II interface between PTCDI and TiOPc. While the graphene/PTCDI interface is expected to exhibit type-I behavior, transient absorption measurements indicate that only electrons transfer from PTCDI to graphene, with no evidence of hole transfer. Density functional theory calculations reveal significant ground-state electron transfer from graphene to PTCDI, resulting in band bending that prevents excited holes from transferring from PTCDI to graphene. This feature is exploited in a trilayer heterostructure of graphene/PTCDI/TiOPc, where the spatial separation of photoexcited electrons and holes in graphene and TiOPc, respectively, leads to the formation of long-lived photoexcitations with a lifetime of approximately 500 ps. Furthermore, spatially resolved transient absorption measurements reveal the immobile nature of these excitations, confirming that they are charge-transfer excitons rather than free electrons and holes. These results provide valuable insights into the complex interlayer photoexcitation transfer properties and demonstrate precise control over layer population and the recombination lifetime of photocarriers in such hybrid heterostructures
Course-Based Research Assignment: Algorithms for High-Performance Computing (EECS 690)
No full textThis assignment was the product of a Research-Intensive Course Grant through KU’s Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships. These grants provide financial support and advising for instructors who want to incorporate larger research and creative projects into their classes.This assignment was created for EECS 690: Algorithms for HPC, which is a senior elective class, and at the same time offered to graduate students. Students were asked to conduct a research project spanning half a semester on a selected topic in high-performance computing (HPC). The topic could be of theoretical or empirical nature, or a combination of both. The objective is to get students familiar with the process of conducting academic research, have students develop critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills, and promote an understanding of research methodology. The project consists of five weeks of intense research activities, with each week achieving a specific milestone of the research cycle. After conducting the research, students wrote a project report and presented the findings to the class and at the 2025 Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium hosted by the Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships (CURF) at The University of Kansas
Audience, Power, Identity, and Language Ideologies in Graduate Writing Consultations
No full textThese slides are from a presentation given at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Baltimore, Maryland on April 11, 2025This project investigates how graduate writers and graduate writing consultants understand, negotiate, and talk about their powerful writing audiences (such as advisors, reviewers, and editors) during writing consultations. This study also asks how graduate writers and consultants understand their own identities as relating to their writing audiences, processes, and experiences in the writing center. Using recordings of consultations, interviews, and surveys, and grounded in the methodology of Critical Discourse Analysis, this speaker explores how the heart of the writing consultation - the talking - can reinforce or challenge oppressive and powerful language ideologies which exist in discourse about audience, with the objective of pursuing linguistic justice in the writing center
International Trade Law: A Comprehensive E-Textbook, Volume 4 National Security (6th Revised Edition)
No full textThis book is Volume Four of an Eight-Volume set. All of the Volumes are available in KU ScholarWorks. Links to all eight volumes are available in the Abstracts file in this record.
About the Author:
Born in Toronto of Indian and Celtic heritage, Rakesh (Raj) Kumar Bhala is a dual Canadian-U.S. citizen prominent in the fields of International Trade Law, Islamic Law (Sharī‘a), and Law and Literature. Raj is a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, School of Law (KU Law). He is published widely world-wide – authoring over 100 scholarly articles and 13 books, including the International Trade Law Textbook, which has been used at over 100 law schools around the globe. Ingram’s Business Magazine designated him as one of “50 Kansans You Should Know.”
Raj has testified before the U.K. Parliament, House of Commons, International Trade Committee, on trade and human rights. Media frequently call upon Raj. Across 65 consecutive months (from January 2017-October 2022), “On Point” was his column on International Law and Economics, which Bloomberg Quint / BQ Prime (Mumbai) published and distributed to approximately 6.2 million readers globally.
Raj is a Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate (Cum Laude). As a Marshall Scholar, Raj earned two Master’s degrees, from the London School of Economics (LSE) in Economics, and from Oxford (Trinity College) in Management (Industrial Relations). His undergraduate degree is from Duke (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), where he was an Angier B. Duke Scholar and double-majored in Economics and Sociology. After HLS, Raj practiced at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he twice won the President’s Award for Excellence thanks to his service as a delegate to the United Nations Conference on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), along with a Letter of Commendation from the U.S. Department of State. He is a member of the State Department’s Speaker Program.
Raj has served in officer positions at the International Bar Association (IBA) and Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA), on the Executive Board of Directors of the Carriage Club of Kansas City (including as Treasurer), and been on the Alumni Association Board of the University School of Milwaukee (USM), his high school alma mater. He is grateful to his USM teachers for a liberal arts education that made all good things possible. Raj loves fitness training, has finished 115 marathons, including the “Big Five” of the “World’s Majors” (Boston twice, New York twice, Chicago twice, Berlin, and London). He enjoys studying Shakespeare and (especially since becoming Catholic at Easter Vigil 2001) Theology – and watching baseball.The significance of the link between trade and national security cannot be overstated. While it is a link dating to ancient times (as Volume One observes), in the post-Cold War era, it is fair to say trade policy is national security policy, or a part thereof, and vice versa. Thus, Volume Four is about the theory and practice of this link.
Part One covers border security in a post-9/11 world. After that terrorist attack, the function of the U.S. Customs Service – renamed Customs and Border Protection (CBP) – enlarged from clearance of merchandise (discussed in Volume Two) to protecting America’s borders. The job of CBP now includes ensuring only “good goods and good people” enter the U.S. customs territory. That is likewise the task of customs authorities around the globe. Here, again, the U.S. national-level measures have been studied in other countries, and at the World Customs Organization (WCO), as role models to one degree or another.
Part Two is about how “national security” is defined in theory and practice. Both the multilateral level, i.e., Article XXI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and Article V of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and the U.S. level, i.e., the array of Presidential authorities to deal with “national security” challenges, are reviewed. So, too, is the controversy as to whether World Trade Organization (WTO) adjudicators do, or even should, have any subject matter jurisdiction over the invocation by WTO Members of national security as a reason to derogate from a GATT-WTO obligation.
Parts Three and Four concern two of the most important manifestations of the link between trade and national security – Section 232 and export controls, respectively. Again, both theory and practice are discussed. Section 232 allows the President to adjust imports to avoid an impairment to national security. Steel and aluminum imports are among the key targets for this weapon. Export controls are relevant to nuclear, military, or dual-use (civilian and military) items. The U.S. reasons for controlling such exports, and how it does so, are evaluated.
Parts Five, Six, and Seven treat a third key instance of the trade-national security nexus, namely, trade sanctions. Part Five is theoretical, asking whether trade sanctions are “moral.” Different criteria for evaluating what constitutes “moral” behavior are laid out. Parts Six and Seven are practical, with two major case studies, Iran and Russia, respectively. Like the U.N., and other WTO Members, the U.S. has maintained a dizzying array of sanctions against Iran ever since the 1979-1981 Hostage Crisis. These sanctions are explained chronologically. Associated with those sanctions is Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program. So, a critical analysis of the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA, i.e., the July 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal) is offered. Further, since Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, America and its Allies have slapped sanctions on Russia, and ratcheted them up. These punishments include innovative actions, such as price caps on oil and natural gas
To Drive or Not to Drive: The Dose-Response Effect of Driving Latency on Cannabis Use
No full textThis poster was presented at Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction on 04/04/2025.Controlled studies show that cannabis use impairs driving and may raise crash risk. Behavioral economists have recently used marijuana purchase tasks (MPTs) to examine driving after cannabis use (DACU). One key factor is the time between smoking and driving. A crowdsourced sample of monthly cannabis users (n = 167; 77% White; 45% women; mean age = 38.55) completed four MPTs based on vignettes with varying delays between smoking and driving (no driving; 20 min; 1 hr; 6 hrs). Participants also reported DACU frequency and perceived risk. Demand was measured via intensity (consumption when free), breakpoint (last price with consumption), Omax (max spending), and Pmax (price at Omax). Repeated measures ANOVAs found main effects of latency on all demand indices (ps<.001), with lower demand in all DACU scenarios compared to the no-driving scenario (ps<.015; ds = .09–1.52). Demand rose linearly with longer delays. Those with DACU history showed smaller reductions in demand (except breakpoint) at each delay than those without (ps<.043; ηp² = .008–.043). Higher perceived danger was linked to lower demand (except breakpoint) (rs = -.29 to -.62, ps<.05). Cannabis demand is influenced by driving-related factors, and latency and risk perceptions may help explain these effects. More research is needed to explore other influences on DACU, like consumption methods or road conditions
Artificial Intelligence for Lawyers: Navigating Novel Methods and Practices for the Future of Law
No full textThe book comprises six chapters: Chapter 1 is an introduction and briefly describes AI and its significance, historical development, and modern trends in AI applications across various sectors, emphasizing AI's versatility and potential. This chapter explains basic terminologies and concepts such as algorithms, big data, datasets, deep learning, generative AI, machine learning, neural networks, and Large Language Models (LLMs).
Chapter 2 focuses on AI-powered research tools, which are rapidly becoming indispensable assets for legal professionals. The book meticulously analyzes various AI tools, such as Lexis+ AI, Westlaw Edge, and DeepSeek AI, highlighting their features, functionalities, and real-world applications. Through detailed case studies, I illustrate how these tools are reshaping legal research, enabling practitioners to conduct more thorough and efficient analyses.
Chapter 3 considers the core AI techniques employed in legal research, including automating document review, legal drafting, and predictive analytics. By demystifying these complex technologies, I aim to equip readers with the knowledge necessary to harness AI's full potential. The practical aspects of integrating AI into traditional research methods are also addressed, offering step-by-step instructions and best practices to ensure seamless adoption.
Chapter 4 is central to the book and examines ethical considerations and challenges associated with AI in legal research, ensuring that readers are cognizant of the potential pitfalls and how to navigate them. Issues such as data privacy, algorithmic bias, and the transparency of AI decision-making processes are critically analyzed. This chapter critically examines the judicial scholarship and guidelines on the use of AI that evolved in the USA, Canada, Australia, the UK, the EU, India, and Pakistan. By addressing these concerns, I underscore the importance of ethical AI usage and the need for robust regulatory frameworks to safeguard the integrity of legal practice.
Chapter 5 explains neural networks such as ANNs, CNNs, LSTMs, and RNNs and advanced computing technologies, such as black box AI, blockchain, quantum computers, and cyber security, which are poised to further revolutionize the legal field. By exploring these technologies, I provide a forward-looking perspective on the future trends in AI and legal research. This forward-thinking approach is essential for legal professionals who seek to stay ahead of the curve and anticipate the next wave of technological innovations.
Chapter 6 provides practical applications of AI in legal practice through a series of illustrative examples and case studies. From automating document review and analysis to enhancing legal drafting and contract management, I demonstrate how AI is being employed to streamline various aspects of legal work. These real-world applications serve as a testament to AI's transformative potential and its ability to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of legal processes.
The book concludes with a comprehensive guide to using AI in legal research, offering readers actionable insights and practical tips for leveraging AI tools effectively. By providing a roadmap for integrating AI into legal workflows, I aim to empower legal professionals to embrace this technology with confidence and competence. This guide is designed to be a valuable resource for both seasoned practitioners and those new to the field of AI.In an era marked by rapid technological advancements, the legal profession stands at the precipice of a transformative evolution. The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into legal research and practice heralds a new dawn, promising unprecedented efficiency, accuracy, and strategic insight. This book, "Artificial Intelligence for Lawyers: Navigating Novel Methods and Practices for the Future of Law," delves into the profound impact of AI on the legal landscape, offering a comprehensive guide to understanding and leveraging these cutting-edge technologies
Utility-Scale Social Equity: Electric Utility Planning and Energy Justice
No full textThese are the slides from a presentation given at 2025 ASPA Annual Conference on 03/31/2025.As the world undergoes a pivotal energy transition, the role of electric utilities in shaping a sustainable future is paramount. Despite their critical influence on the energy landscape, there remains a significant gap in understanding how they integrate social equity into their planning processes. This research addresses this gap by scrutinizing U.S. investor-owned electric utilities’ Integrated Resource Plans (IRPs) from an energy justice perspective.
Examining utility planning processes during this era of energy transition is crucial for several compelling reasons. First, social equity has historically been overlooked in utility planning, necessitating a focused effort to integrate it into current and future strategies. Second, the choices utilities make now will define the future energy landscape for generations. Consequently, utilities must tackle climate change while ensuring advanced technology remains accessible and affordable, and stakeholders have a say in these critical decisions. Third, investor-owned utilities (IOUs) provide services to 72% of U.S. customers, making their role in this transition particularly significant. The vast customer base of IOUs underscores the widespread impact their decisions have on the national energy system. Fourth, Integrated Resource Plans (IRPs) are indispensable strategic documents for electric utilities, guiding their evaluation and planning to meet current and future electricity supply and demand, underscoring the importance of incorporating social equity into their frameworks to ensure a just and inclusive energy system.
Despite their importance, the social aspects of IRPs have received limited scrutiny, with the focus often limited to variables such as cost-effectiveness, technological advancements, regulatory compliance, risk assessment, and environmental impact. The specifics of IRPs, including planning horizon, revision cycles, resource portfolio composition, forecasting models, and adherence to state-specific mandates such as renewable portfolio standards (RPS), differ widely across states. While stakeholder involvement is mandated in many jurisdictions, the intricate and technical nature of the energy sector can reduce the effectiveness of this engagement. These varied parameters can influence the attainment of social justice goals in multiple ways, necessitating further investigation.
This research illuminates the extent to which electric utilities incorporate social equity into their planning processes. By purposively sampling IRPs from the largest investor-owned utility (IOU) and a randomly selected IOU in each state, this study offers a comprehensive analysis of 100 IRPs across the United States. Utilizing an energy justice framework for exploratory content analysis and a comparative cross-sectional study reveals insightful patterns and provides a deeper understanding of how social equity considerations are integrated into utility planning.
Preliminary findings reveal a nuanced understanding and implementation of energy justice within IRPs across utilities, although the extent and consistency of these efforts vary widely. Numerous factors influence the integration of energy justice principles, including energy policies, regulatory frameworks, stakeholder engagement practices, governance structures, administrative capacity, and the unique characteristics of individual utilities. Contrary to the conventional expectation that investor-owned utilities (IOUs), driven by profit-maximization motives, would avoid energy justice initiatives, some IOUs demonstrate proactive leadership in this domain. This leadership is driven by progressive corporate governance, effective stakeholder engagement, regulatory incentives, technological adoption, public accountability, inter-organizational collaboration, and increasing consumer demand for equitable energy solutions. This paper further contributes to the limited research on the social equity aspects of electric utilities by proposing a dimensional typology of IOUs based on their potential to incorporate energy justice into their operations. Additionally, it identifies key explanatory variables that facilitate the adoption of social equity measures through Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), laying the groundwork for further quantitative exploration in future studies.
The insights gained from this research underscore the critical importance of integrating social equity into the planning processes of electric utilities. By examining the diverse approaches and varying degrees of commitment to energy justice among investor-owned utilities, this study provides a foundation for future policy development and regulatory reforms aimed at promoting a more inclusive energy transition. This analysis identifies significant gaps that need to be addressed to ensure that all communities benefit equitably from advancements in the energy sector. This research offers a valuable resource for policymakers, regulators, social justice advocates, and utility managers committed to fostering a more equitable energy future