Kean University

Accuracy of commercial pollen forecasts in the United States

Approximately 80 million Americans suffer from seasonal pollen allergies, and many rely on commercial pollen forecasts to guide exposure reduction and medication timing. However, these forecasts are proprietary, and their accuracy has never been comprehensively evaluated. Here, w...

Cultivating Social Interprofessional Identity: Service Learning for Post-Pandemic Student, Clinician and Family Development

Date presented: April 25, 2026 Primary Author and Speaker: Lauren Arnone, laurenarnone@hotmail.com

Illegal Mining and the Crisis of Rural Development in Nigeria: Implications for Livelihoods and the Changing World of Work

Illegal mining has become an important rural development concern in Nigeria because the pursuit of mineral wealth increasingly intersects with livelihoods, environmental resources and changing patterns of rural employment. Against this background, this paper, titled “Illegal Mini...

From Curriculum Obsolescence to Curriculum Intelligence: Rethinking Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Global classrooms are ageing faster than the knowledge they are meant to transmit, and this widening gap between what curricula teach and what artificial intelligence now makes possible forms the departure point for the paper “From Curriculum Obsolescence to Curriculum Intelligen...

From Curriculum Obsolescence to Curriculum Intelligence: Rethinking Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Global classrooms are ageing faster than the knowledge they are meant to transmit, and this widening gap between what curricula teach and what artificial intelligence now makes possible forms the departure point for the paper “From Curriculum Obsolescence to Curriculum Intelligen...

The Economics of Compliance: Measuring Market and Innovation Effects of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act's High-Risk Classification System

This dissertation measures the early economic footprint of the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation [EU] 2024/1689), the first comprehensive, risk-tiered statute to impose binding obligations on artificial intelligence systems. The problem it addresses is that...

The Economics of Compliance: Measuring Market and Innovation Effects of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act's High-Risk Classification System

This dissertation measures the early economic footprint of the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation [EU] 2024/1689), the first comprehensive, risk-tiered statute to impose binding obligations on artificial intelligence systems. The problem it addresses is that...

La obra me curó : A Case Study of Las Curanderas Teatro and Their Theater Healing Praxis in Guatemala

Abstract This article examines how Maya Kaqchikel women from Iximulew (Guatemala) conceptualize and respond to gender-based violence through a theater-making praxis rooted in ancestral healing traditions. Focusing on Las Curanderas Teatro as a case study, I theorize performing he...

THE INFLUENCE OF PONZI SCHEME CRASHES ON THE MENTAL HEALTH OF VICTIMS IN ANYIGBA, KOGI STATE, NIGERIA

This study examined the influence of Ponzi scheme crashes on the mental health of victims in Anyigba, Kogi State, Nigeria. Specifically, it investigated the prevalence of Ponzi scheme participation, the perceived causes of scheme crashes, victims' knowledge of the legal and regul...

Marxism Under Scrutiny: Wealth, Class Consciousness, Human Aspirations and the Utopian Promise of an Egalitarian Society

Marxism remains one of the most influential, and most contested, bodies of social and economic thought produced in the modern era, offering both a diagnosis of capitalist exploitation and a promise of an egalitarian future. This paper subjected Marxism to critical scrutiny, focus...

Character Education and Value Reorientation as Catalysts for National Development in Nigeria

Nigeria's persistent developmental challenges, including corruption, insecurity, weak institutional trust and declining civic responsibility, have increasingly been linked by scholars to a deficit in character formation and a broader erosion of societal values. This paper therefo...

Character Education and Value Reorientation as Catalysts for National Development in Nigeria

Nigeria's persistent developmental challenges, including corruption, insecurity, weak institutional trust and declining civic responsibility, have increasingly been linked by scholars to a deficit in character formation and a broader erosion of societal values. This paper therefo...

Character Development and Responsible Citizenship Among University Students in Nigeria: Examining the Role of Higher Education

Nigerian universities are formally charged, under national policy, with producing graduates who are not merely academically competent but also possessed of sound character and a disposition toward responsible citizenship. Yet campus life in Nigeria continues to be marked by culti...

Marxism Under Scrutiny: Wealth, Class Consciousness, Human Aspirations and the Utopian Promise of an Egalitarian Society

Marxism remains one of the most influential, and most contested, bodies of social and economic thought produced in the modern era, offering both a diagnosis of capitalist exploitation and a promise of an egalitarian future. This paper subjected Marxism to critical scrutiny, focus...

Marxism Under Scrutiny: Wealth, Class Consciousness, Human Aspirations and the Utopian Promise of an Egalitarian Society

Marxism remains one of the most influential, and most contested, bodies of social and economic thought produced in the modern era, offering both a diagnosis of capitalist exploitation and a promise of an egalitarian future. This paper subjected Marxism to critical scrutiny, focus...

THE INFLUENCE OF PONZI SCHEME CRASHES ON THE MENTAL HEALTH OF VICTIMS IN ANYIGBA, KOGI STATE, NIGERIA

This study examined the influence of Ponzi scheme crashes on the mental health of victims in Anyigba, Kogi State, Nigeria. Specifically, it investigated the prevalence of Ponzi scheme participation, the perceived causes of scheme crashes, victims' knowledge of the legal and regul...

Global Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Convergence and Divergence: Comparative Governance Frameworks and Implications for United States Trade and Diplomatic Policy

Artificial intelligence has entered the infrastructure of trade, finance, health, and public administration faster than governments have agreed on how to govern it. The European Union has enacted a comprehensive risk-based statute, the United States relies on executive guidance a...

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Heart Failure Rates (2019–2026)

Cardiovascular disease was the leading cause of death worldwide when a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, began spreading in late 2019, and the collision of these two forces reshaped population cardiovascular health in ways that are still being measured. This dissertation examined wh...

An Interprofessional Education Model for Early Childhood Therapy and Caregiver Support

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored critical deficiencies and emerging opportunities within the healthcare sector, particularly highlighting the importance of concentrating on early childhood therapy and caregiver support via interprofessional education (IPE). This program deve...

Security through decommodification: Limited equity cooperatives in the gentrifying city

Limited equity cooperatives (LECs) are a form of affordable homeownership, where someone can buy a home below market rate on the condition that they also resell it below market rate. New York City is home to over 95,000 units of LEC housing, most of which has its origins in the u...