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    Undergraduate Catalog of Studies, 2023-2024

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    Undergraduate Catalog of Studies, 2023-2024

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    Undergraduate Catalog of Studies, 2022-2023

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    DEPORTATION OF REFUGEES: THE POLITICS OF REFUGEE CONTROL IN THE UNITED STATES

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    This dissertation offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the emergence of a deportation regime in the United States that increasingly targets refugees as subjects of removal. Its aim is to investigate how and why some refugees are deported from the United States to places of persecution or to places where they have no ties. Despite the fact that it is formally illegal to deport refugees, the Untied States government has maintained and strengthened this practice of governing noncitizens since the 1980s. By doing so, I illustrate that U.S. refugee deportation policies are a historical result of the hegemony of the executive branch over the interpretation of immigration policy, combined with a justice system that seldom challenges executive enforcement agencies like the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). I evaluate the roles played by the culture of “crimmigration” and the American courts’ judicial compliance with the international refugee regime in refugee deportation. I utilize original data from archived government records of the federal courts, executive agencies like the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR), Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), and the Congressional committee hearing transcripts. I interpret this data using insights from legal studies and political science, with the aim of better understanding the treatment of noncitizens in the United States

    Northeastern Illinois University, Academic Catalog 2023-2024

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    Constitutions of Value

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    Gathering an interdisciplinary range of cutting-edge scholars, this book addresses legal constitutions of value. Global value production and transnational value practices that rely on exploitation and extraction have left us with toxic commons and a damaged planet. Against this situation, the book examines law’s fundamental role in institutions of value production and valuation. Utilising pathbreaking theoretical approaches, it problematizes mainstream efforts to redeem institutions of value production by recoupling them with progressive values. Aiming beyond radical critique, the book opens up the possibility of imagining and enacting new and different value practices. This wide-ranging and accessible book will appeal to international lawyers, socio-legal scholars, those working at the intersections of law and economy and others, in politics, economics, environmental studies and elsewhere, who are concerned with rethinking our current ideas of what has value, what does not, and whether and how value may be revalued

    The mad manifesto

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    The “mad manifesto” project is a multidisciplinary mediated investigation into the circumstances by which mad (mentally ill, neurodivergent) or disabled (disclosed, undisclosed) students faced far more precarious circumstances with inadequate support models while attending North American universities during the pandemic teaching era (2020-2023). Using a combination of “emergency remote teaching” archival materials such as national student datasets, universal design for learning (UDL) training models, digital classroom teaching experiments, university budgetary releases, educational technology coursewares, and lived experience expertise, this dissertation carefully retells the story of “accessibility” as it transpired in disabling classroom containers trapped within intentionally underprepared crisis superstructures. Using rhetorical models derived from critical disability studies, mad studies, social work practice, and health humanities, it then suggests radically collaborative UDL teaching practices that may better pre-empt the dynamic needs of dis/abled students whose needs remain direly underserviced. The manifesto leaves the reader with discrete calls to action that foster more critical performances of intersectionally inclusive UDL classrooms for North American mad students, which it calls “mad-positive” facilitation techniques: 1. Seek to untie the bond that regards the digital divide and access as synonyms. 2. UDL practice requires an environment shift that prioritizes change potential. 3. Advocate against the usage of UDL as a for-all keystone of accessibility. 4. Refuse or reduce the use of technologies whose primary mandate is dataveillance. 5. Remind students and allies that university space is a non-neutral affective container. 6. Operationalize the tracking of student suicides on your home campus. 7. Seek out physical & affectual ways that your campus is harming social capital potential. 8. Revise policies and practices that are ability-adjacent imaginings of access. 9. Eliminate sanist and neuroscientific languaging from how you speak about students. 10. Vigilantly interrogate how “normal” and “belong” are socially constructed. 11. Treat lived experience expertise as a gift, not a resource to mine and to spend. 12. Create non-psychiatric routes of receiving accommodation requests in your classroom. 13. Seek out uncomfortable stories of mad exclusion and consider carceral logic’s role in it. 14. Center madness in inclusive methodologies designed to explicitly resist carceral logics. 15. Create counteraffectual classrooms that anticipate and interrupt kairotic spatial power. 16. Strive to refuse comfort and immediate intelligibility as mandatory classroom presences. 17. Create pathways that empower cozy space understandings of classroom practice. 18. Vector students wherever possible as dynamic ability constellations in assessment

    2nd ACCESS 2020

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    2nd ACCESS 202

    Factors affecting diagnostic and prognostic performance of a transcriptomic signature of risk of tuberculosis in HIV-uninfected South African adults

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    Background Host blood transcriptomic signatures, such as RISK11, have potential as tests for diagnosing and predicting tuberculosis. This thesis aimed to review the literature, evaluate host and non-host factors associated with variability of the RISK11 signature and impact on discriminatory performance and evaluate RISK11 performance in combination with tests of Mycobacterium tuberculosis sensitization. Methods A systematic review of discriminatory performance of transcriptomic signatures for tuberculosis was conducted. RISK11, QuantiFERON-TB Gold-Plus and host factors were analysed in a prospective cohort, in which a cross-sectional study of upper respiratory organisms was nested. Effects on RISK11 were quantified using multivariable generalised regression. Discriminatory performance of RISK11, and RISK11/QuantiFERON combinations, were quantified by area under the curve and/or sensitivity and specificity. Results In the literature, one signature (90% sensitivity; 74% specificity) met the minimal criteria for a triage test; one signature (86% sensitivity; 84% specificity) met the minimal criteria for a predictive test. In the prospective cohort, RISK11 scores were higher among individuals with prevalent tuberculosis (+18.90%), night sweats (+14.65%) and incident tuberculosis (+7.29%). Cough was associated with 72.55% higher RISK11 score in prevalent tuberculosis cases. Stratification by cough improved diagnostic performance from area under curve of 0.74 overall, to 0.97 in cough-positive participants. Adjustment for host factors affecting controls did not change RISK11 discriminatory performance. In the cross-sectional study, RISK11 scores were higher by +16.7%, +67.8% and +13.5% in participants with coronavirus, influenza and rhinovirus, respectively, such that RISK11 could not differentiate prevalent tuberculosis from upper respiratory viruses. Compared to RISK11, the Either-Positive test combination decreased diagnostic negative likelihood ratio from 0.7 to 0.3, and prognostic negative likelihood ratio from 0.9 to 0.3, but did not improve upon QuantiFERON alone. Compared to QuantiFERON, the Both-Positive test combination increased diagnostic positive likelihood ratio from 1.3 to 4.7, and prognostic positive likelihood ratio from 1.4 to 2.8, but did not improve upon RISK11 alone. Conclusion RISK11 holds promise as a triage test for tuberculosis. Further optimisation, or development of new signatures is needed to improve discrimination of subclinical tuberculosis, without cough, and to mitigate the impact of viral co-infection. RISK11/QuantiFERON combination testing is not recommended
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