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Prisoners, Patients, and Privatization: Accountability for Corrections Contractors Under the New Mexico Civil Rights Act
No full textNew Mexico dedicates significant resources to incarceration—particularly with respect to prison medical care. Although New Mexico has mostly transitioned away from privately operated prisons, the New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) continues to contract with various corporations to provide health services in state-owned prisons. Not surprisingly, the private contractors’ cost-saving measures often result in the provision of grossly inadequate healthcare that constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. Prisoner litigation under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, however, is fraught with substantive and procedural barriers to recovery. The New Mexico Civil Rights Act (NMCRA or “the Act”) provides an avenue of redress by which prisoners can vindicate their rights under the state constitution without the barriers imposed by federal jurisprudence. However, the Act itself is inconsistent and reveals a disconnect to its federal counterpart. While § 1983 allows claims against not only those employed by the government but also those acting “under color of law,” the NMCRA only provides a cause of action against a “public body.” The Act does not account for state constitutional deprivations committed by individuals acting “under color of law” and thus fails to give New Mexico prisoners an avenue to recover for harm caused by private corporations contracting with the State to provide medical services. NMCD’s medical contractors operate in the prison setting, an area exclusively controlled by the government. By stepping into the shoes of the government, they should be subject to liability for violations of the New Mexico Constitution. Accordingly, this Comment advocates for an amendment to the NMCRA to allow claims against private parties who contract with the state to provide medical care
Drug Targets Illumination: An Evidence-Based Data Analytics & Informatics Approach to Hypothesis Generation Through Clinical Trials and Genomic Variants
No full textDRUG TARGETS ILLUMINATION: AN EVIDENCE-BASED DATA ANALYTICS & INFORMATICS APPROACH TO HYPOTHESIS GENERATION THROUGH CLINICAL TRIALS AND GENOMIC VARIANTS
Target Illumination Clinical Trial Analytics with Cheminformatics (TICTAC) introduces a scalable data integration pipeline that aggregates multivariate clinical trial evidence to systematically rank disease–target associations. By harmonizing metadata from AACT and employing confidence-scoring techniques, TICTAC facilitates hypothesis-driven target selection for drug discovery, enabling a data-driven approach to therapeutic development. In parallel, a bioinformatics-driven analysis of gnomAD exome mutations in the ZPR1 gene highlights the broader role of genetic variants in disease association. By employing variant effect predictors, protein stability modeling, and ACMG/AMP guidelines, this study identifies high-impact ZPR1 mutations and reveals significant ethnic disparities in their prevalence. These findings emphasize that genetic variants contribute to disease mechanisms beyond traditional biological targets and merit further exploration in drug discovery workflows. While these two approaches operate independently, they collectively reinforce the need for a multifaceted strategy in drug discovery and development. Researchers can enhance disease modeling, refine biomarker discovery, and optimize therapeutic target selection by integrating insights from clinical trial analytics and genomic variant interpretation. Future efforts should explore deeper incorporation of genetic insights into cheminformatics-driven analytics to advance targeted therapeutic interventions and improve precision medicine strategies
EL PRESIDIO HISPANO-COLONIAL: ESTUDIO DEL DISCURSO MODERNO DE FORTIFICACIÓN DEL IMPERIO ESPAÑOL A TRAVES DE PLANOS Y MAPAS
No full textThis dissertation project delves into the processes of ideation, design, projection, and knowledge-transfer around the Presidio, an iconoclastic fortification system deployed by the Spanish Empire while projecting its colonial power toward the Transatlantic region. Based on Bruno Latour’s classic theory on the agency of networks of meanings (also known as new materialism) applied to historical cartography, my investigation examines the production of techno-military knowledge around the presidios as they were depicted through plans, maps, and manuals while mapping out border areas over North America and the Caribbean, from the 17th to the 19th centuries. With archival research work performed at the Spanish Colonial Research Center (Zimmerman Library Special Collections, UNM) and other relevant physical and digital repositories, this project seeks to explain the legacies of colonial coercion in the pre-industrial and military territorialization of the modern state forming in North America and the Caribbean
Application of Neutrosophic Statistics and the Communicative Pedagogical Model to Optimize Pronunciation Teaching in A1 Students of Technical Careers in Higher Education
No full textThis study presents findings aimed at improving English pronunciation instruction for A1-level students enrolled in technical programs at a public institution in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The research integrates neutrosophic statistics with the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach to address ambiguity and complexity in educational contexts. Key factors such as teaching methodology effectiveness, instructors\u27 content knowledge, CEFR implementation, course-objective alignment, module relevance, and departmental management were assessed. The neutrosophic framework enabled the identification of strengths, weaknesses, and areas of indeterminacy requiring contextual intervention. Based on the findings, the study proposes pedagogical alternatives through an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) model aligned with the technical profiles of each program. Emphasis is placed on communicative strategies to enhance pronunciation and foster active language use. The proposed integrative strategy offers a comprehensive and innovative approach to improving the quality of English instruction in higher education
New measures of consistency and coverage for social research based on neutrosophic logic
No full textThe mathematical methods systematically used in social sciences often rely on statistical tools like correlation, which may not optimally model social phenomena, frequently described using words. Set theory, as proposed by C.C. Ragin, provides a more suitable tool, leveraging set asymmetry to measure set-theoretic consistency and coverage, which were later generalized to fuzzy sets. Subsequent extensions into the neutrosophic field are significant because the underlying binary logic in traditional models often fails to capture the complexities and nuances of social realities, such as those found in Afro-Latin American and Caribbean cosmovisions that encompass ambiguity and indeterminacy. This paper proposes new, logically grounded measures for consistency and coverage, derived naturally from logical operators known as neutrosophic R-implications (generalizations of fuzzy R-implications). By explicitly incorporating Indeterminacy alongside Truth and Falsity, these new measures gain a deeper theoretical connotation, emphasize the logical relationships central to Ragin\u27s methods, and offer tools better aligned with complex, non-exclusive realities
Neutrosophic Causal Analysis of Gamification Strategies for Promoting Reading Habits in Eighth-Grade Students
No full textThis study explores the connection between gamification elements and the development of reading habits among eighth-grade students through neutrosophic set theory and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). This investigation is different from previous ones because most studies focused on gamification fail to embrace the uncertainty and complexity of real life when it comes to generalizability. As a result, a neutrosophic framework was established for this study. To this end, 15 individuals answered a neutrosophic Likert scale questionnaire which resulted in a conglomerate of ratings that depicts their opinion on the gamified elements, technology use, and feedback loop systems afforded to them in the experience. Through fuzzifying the results, it became clear that one of the strongly relevant adjustments was that technology use and feedback loops generated more motivation to read than gaming elements alone. Ultimately, the pathways to developing reading habits exist in a conjunctural and equifinal manner no one has applied neutrosophic logic to the field of education with results that teachers can use to determine the best way to configure gamified reading experiences. Technology should be used as well as acknowledged and learners need to be flexible creatures on which design decisions are based to create a gamified experience that fosters adolescent reading habits
Neutrosophic Evaluation of Conventional and Non-Conventional Resources in Higher Education
No full textEvaluating the effectiveness of teaching resources in higher education faces the challenge of inherent subjectivi-ty and ambiguity in pedagogical processes. Existing studies often oversimplify the complexity of the educa-tional phenomenon. This research proposes an innovative model combining neutrosophic theory with mul-ticriteria decision-making methods (specifically SVNLOWAD-TOPSIS) to simultaneously assess truth, falsity, and indeterminacy in resource effectiveness. The methodological framework, acknowledging the plithogenic nature of educational processes, uses a mixed-method design integrating expert perceptions synthesized via neutrosophic operators. A case study evaluating four resource types—traditional classes, online platforms, vir-tual simulations, and Project-Based Learning (PBL)—demonstrated that PBL is the most effective, followed by online platforms and virtual simulations, while traditional classes were least effective. The model effectively managed uncertainty, offering a robust tool for informed decision-making on selecting teaching resources in complex educational contexts and enriching pedagogical debate with a formal language for uncertainty
Multicriteria Analysis of Peruvian Salad as a Tourism Product Using Plithogenic Offsets
No full textThis study is relevant to the evaluation of Peruvian salad as a tourism product, filling an unexamined research gap as the literature does not currently possess a sound evaluation of gastronomic products by valuing the cultural element generated by and for the tourists. This is especially important in today\u27s world where gastronomic tourism is the wave of the future socio-economically and as a cultural signifier in Peru. Where salads could be considered a secondary plate, for example, it may be the perfect avenue to supplement variety in culinary projects from within the scope of Peru. Yet there is no reliable methodology for food product tourism valuation. Existing food tourism evaluation measures do not value uncertainty, contradiction, and multi-dimensionality based upon one\u27s gestation with said products. Thus, the Plithogenic Offsets approach was applied here—an assessment that acknowledges multiple criteria and levels of contradiction against the most relative value. This contribution adds to the theoretical literature by applying plithogenic offset approaches to culinary tourism scholarship and, practically, as an assessment method applicable to future policy of gastronomic intentions, tourism trail recommendations, and sustainable experiences created through culinary offerings with cultural substantiation
