St. Norbert College

Caryophyllidean tapeworms (Cestoda) are widespread parasites of suckers (Catostomidae) in North America, but their phylogenetic relationships remain poorly understood. This study presents molecular data on species of the recently established genus Pseudoglaridacris Oros, Uhrovič et Scholz, 2018. The type species, P. laruei (Lamont 1921), a very common parasite of the white sucker Catostomus commersonii (Catostomidae) in North America, is characterised both molecularly and morphologically based on recently collected, properly fixed specimens from the type host (C. commersonii) and four species of redhorse (Moxostoma spp.), including new host and geographical records from Canada and the United States. Pseudoglaridacris laruei differs from other species in the genus by its size, being the largest species (body length up to 12.7 mm), a high number of testes (62–119) and very few (0–6) postovarian vitelline follicles. Mackiewiczus etowanum from Hypentelium etowanum and Mackiewiczus rarus from Moxostoma poecilurum in Alabama are nomina nuda. The taxonomic status of P. confusa (Hunter 1929), which occurs in ictiobines, and of P. oligorchis (Haderlie 1953), which is most probably a junior synonym of P. laruei with a reduced number of testes, is also discussed, based on molecular data indicating the presence of a putative new species from ictiobines that has not yet been described.

The particle filter for most diesels and some petrol categories is now state of the art. The worldwide population is estimated to be >250 million vehicles with filters. The nanoparticle concentration in ambient air is thus reduced in Switzerland to one third of the status of 2005 and worldwide premature deaths by traffic related ambient air is reduced by >2 million cases annually. This success story started in 1995 when SUVA, the Swiss occupation health authority, had to guarantee safety and health in the world's largest railway transalpine tunnelling system, NEAT, scheduled to be built from the year 2000. The solution was VERT certified diesel particle filters (DPFs) on all engines without any exceptions. Transfer to other applications and other countries, however, had to overcome serious resistance of industry and politics which delayed the process remarkably until filters became mandatory by the EU-legislation 2011. The decisive element was the introduction of the particle number (PN) limit for solid particles of sizes 10-500 nm in place of particulate matter (PM) mass in 1995. Many vehicles are still waiting for filters worldwide and the effect of this highly effective and cost-efficient tool on health and global warming could be more than tripled.

This study evaluates the pedagogical impact of the Center for Artistic Activism’s (C4AA) Creative Campaign Framework, as implemented through the 2024 Unstoppable Voters Faculty Fellowship. The fellowship was a United States-based initiative designed to foster creative, non-partisan civic engagement in higher education using C4AA trainings and materials as outlined in their Creative Campaign Framework. The fellowship supported a cohort of nine faculty members across seven institutions, ranging from research universities to liberal arts colleges and a historically black university, that integrated C4AA materials into courses spanning clinical psychology, political science, theatre, design and the visual arts. Using a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) model and grounded in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), the study employed qualitative methods to examine how fellows adapted the Creative Campaign Framework, the strategies they used to engage students and the outcomes of their campus-based civic engagement projects. Key findings include the Framework’s adaptability across disciplines, student responses to this approach to creative civic learning and the opportunities and challenges of translating activist language to academic settings. This is the first study to assess the application of the C4AA’s artistic activism pedagogy in a coordinated higher education initiative, offering new insights into the potential of creative civics pedagogy using the C4AA Creative Campaign Framework as an impactful and adaptable approach to teaching democratic habits and civic engagement.

O livro Adorno and Marx: Negative Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy, organizado por Werner Bonefeld e Chris O’Kane, apresenta a recente história intelectual de um programa de pesquisa que compreende a crítica da economia política como uma teoria social crítica. Reunindo sucessivas gerações de estudiosos, esta abordagem possui quatro fontes principais: (i) a Escola de Frankfurt, notadamente os trabalhos de Adorno, Horkheimer e Marcuse; (ii) as análises sobre “forma social” apresentadas na Conferência de Economistas Socialistas, no Reino Unido, e sintetizadas nas publicações de Simon Clarke; (iii) a chamada Nova Leitura de Marx, cuja origem está associada aos trabalhos de alunos de Adorno – em especial, Hans-Georg Backhaus e Helmut Reichelt – que procuravam reconstruir a teoria marxiana, com especial atenção à teoria do valor; e, por fim, (iv) as contribuições da série Open Marxism, as quais tinham como objetivo libertar a crítica do capitalismo das sempre constantes tentativas de regulá-lo em favor da classe trabalhadora.

Resumo Neste artigo apresentamos as convergências entre a teoria social de Adorno e a crítica marxiana da economia política, bem como indicamos seu potencial para avançar em leituras alternativas à posição do valor na reprodução capitalista. Em primeiro lugar, examinamos os dasacertos das recepções de Adorno que insistem em seu suposto giro subjetivista. Logo após, sustentamos que a Nova Leitura de Marx foi essencial para a continuação da crítica do capitalismo, mas seu desenvolvimento desaguou em morfologias de O capital com risco de fetichização do texto marxiano. Nossa proposta é mostrar que a teoria social adorniana pode ser um antídoto a esse risco, liberando a crítica da economia política das amarras que impedem sua evolução de pensar as ambivalências do valor, cada vez mais reivindicadas pela dominação capitalista.

Research methodology Public data such as news reports, interviews and memos were used to craft the case. In addition, the technical reports released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), along with secondary data in the form of expert accounts and congressional hearings were used to round out the synopsis of the case study. Case overview/synopsis This case explores the Boeing–McDonnell Douglas merger and its impact on Boeing’s corporate culture, ethics and strategic decision-making. After the merger, Boeing shifted from a culture focused on engineering excellence to one emphasizing cost-cutting and shareholder value. This cultural shift contributed to the development failures and ethical lapses that resulted in the 737 MAX crisis, which involved two fatal crashes. The case is designed for courses in Strategic Management or Organizational Behavior. Complexity academic level Strategic Management or Organizational Behavior

The problem of sexual violence on college campuses is a substantial one. While statistics vary on the prevalence of campus sexual assault (CSA), the evidence suggests an epidemic level of sexual violence in the United States’ colleges and universities. For women of traditional college age (18–25), experts estimate 20–25% of women will be sexually assaulted during their time in college. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore how the fear of sexual violence shaped woman-identified individuals’ experiences in higher education. Drawing from a power-conscious approach to understanding sexual violence within college and university contexts, this study found that the fear of sexual violence was a looming presence in participants’ everyday lives. Participants discussed feeling a burden to protect themselves from sexual violence as well as feelings of powerlessness to prevent it if their safety precautions fail. Implications for practice discuss the importance of taking a power-conscious approach to addressing sexual violence on campus.

In the fifteenth-century Play of the Sacrament, a group of Jewish men torture a consecrated wafer, seeking to prove or disprove the Real Presence. The play juxtaposes their misguided empiricism, rooted in stereotypes about the literalism of Jewish reading, with an experimentalist hermeneutics that recognizes that knowledge of the material world requires the intellectual cognition of imperceptible operations. This hermeneutics, associated with later scientific inquiry, emerges from a broader scholastic project that approached transubstantiation with the tools of natural philosophy. The essay considers, in turn, how the play leverages theatrical devices to prompt its audience to grapple with the physical impossibilities of eucharistic change. It encourages the spectating Christians, like literal-minded Jews, to long for spectacular theatrical effects that will furnish empirical proof of transubstantiation. However, the artificiality or absence of these effects ultimately signals that eucharistic change is not an observable phenomenon that can be confirmed with the senses.

This essay argues that the current Roman Catholic ecclesial climate with respect to its teachings on gender identity and sexual orientation constitutes our own contemporary version of the Galileo Affair. After a consideration of the historical circumstances of the Galileo Affair of the 17th century, I argue not only that the institutional risk factors for a subsequent Galileo Affair have not been adequately mitigated; I argue also that the presence of discourse impasse, preemptive judgments, and exclusionary policies on the part of Church leaders make it likely that we are in the midst of another Galileo Affair.

Increasing student interest and success in STEM education is a top priority for many postsecondary educational institutions. One well-documented approach to both priorities is to have students participate in a Course Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE). Faculty from several technical colleges and universities in Wisconsin teamed up with the Tiny Earth organization to offer a CURE to address the search for new antibiotics. Students enrolled in undergraduate microbiology courses engaged in research and participated in community outreach. To involve the community, faculty from various institutions joined an NFL team, the Green Bay Packers, and created the Tiny Earth in Titletown symposium. Here, students presented their work via scientific posters, to community and industry members, and networked with other scientists from around the region. The Tiny Earth in Titletown symposium started in 2018, was held again in 2019, and returned in 2022 following a 2-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Record attendance in 2022 suggests that community outreach and education may be helping restore trust in science that was lost during the pandemic.