The University of Texas at San Antonio

“It's Not Equality, …It's Not Humanizing:” Content‐Area Teachers' Tensions Between CCR Curriculum and Linguistically Responsive Professional Development

Abstract This qualitative study explores how secondary content‐area teachers of emergent bilingual (EB) students navigate tensions between linguistically responsive professional development (PD) and the implementation of state‐mandated College and Career Readiness (CCR) curricula...

Towards Automating Junctional Hemorrhage Control Using AI for Interpretation of Human Tissue

Junctional hemorrhage has a high fatality rate due to how difficult it is to control rapid bleeding from major vessels. The available methods to stop junctional blood loss are prone to placement errors as well as failure during transport and during prolonged field care. On the ba...

Emerging Ethical Considerations in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery

OBJECTIVES: To perform a scoping review of ethics-based literature published in the last 5 years in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery (OHNS), and to identify and reflect on emerging topics of ethical consideration for otolaryngologists. DATA SOURCES: A comprehensive literature...

Religion and Breastfeeding Reconsidered: Exploring the Roles of Congregational and Community Support Along the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Background/Objectives: Previous research has linked religious involvement to increased rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration, as well as improved lactation-related health outcomes. However, affiliation with certain faith traditions may also constrain breastfeeding practi...

Does Political Decoupling Through Fair Market Privatization Improve Managerial and Political Outcomes? Insights From Water Utility Sales

ABSTRACT Many U.S. municipalities face environmental service delivery challenges, including aging infrastructure and rising debt. In response, several states have adopted Fair Market Value (FMV) legislation, which aims to incentivize private firms to acquire and invest in municip...

Plasma wave observations from Juno spacecraft at the Jovian bow shock

Recent observations of Jupiter’s bow shock have provided new insights into the energy dissipation mechanisms associated with bow shocks of outer planets. At greater distances from the Sun, the typically increasing super-Alfvénic nature of the solar wind leads to higher-energy bow...