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Residential Metals Abatement Program Construction Completion Report (Non-Residential Parcels – Indoor Soil) - Butte High School, Environmental Resource Management (Erm)

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

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Umaine Marine News, February 12, 2024, Umaine Marine

General University of Maine Publications

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February 12, 2024 - Passed - P&T - Resolution To Change University-Level Promotion And/Ortenure Requirements, Angela Brock

Faculty Senate Resolutions

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Mercy Signs As Official Medical Provider For Lindenwood, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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Studying Fisher Mortality In The Granite State, Robbin Ray

UNH Today Archive

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Insights From The Histopathologic Analysis Of Acquired And Genetic Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms And Dissections., L Maximilian Buja, Bihong Zhao, Humaira Sadaf, Michelle Mcdonald, Ana M Segura, Li Li, Alana Cecchi, Siddharth K Prakash, Rana O Afifi, Charles C Miller, Anthony L Estrera, Dianna M Milewicz

Journal Articles

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to apply contemporary consensus criteria developed by the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology and the Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology to the evaluation of aortic pathology, with the expectation that the additional pathologic information may enhance the understanding and management of aortic diseases.

METHODS: A scoring system was applied to ascending aortic specimens from 42 patients with heritable thoracic aortic disease and known genetic variations and from 86 patients from a single year, including patients with known genetic variations (n = 12) and patients with sporadic disease (n = 74).

RESULTS: The various types …

Navigating The Landscape Of Csr And Inclusive-Exclusive Marketing: Leveraging Authenticity, Kimberly Flanders, Laurie Lawrence, Natalya Vodopyanova, Darlene Natale

Association of Marketing Theory and Practice Proceedings 2024

This research investigates the inclusive and exclusive nature of marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The researchers conducted an extensive literature review as a prerequisite to a future quantitative study, investigating research about the key differences between inclusive and exclusive marketing strategies. Further investigation explored the impact of inclusive and exclusive marketing on a company's image and reputation, citing specific examples of marketing efforts from various organizations. This paper offers insights into the challenges organizations face while striving for inclusive marketing practices and explores ways to overcome obstacles and leverage advantages in developing CSR initiatives. Additionally, it discusses the role …

Identifying Technological Factors Influencing Personal Branding In The Field Of Consulting And Education (Case Study: Entrepreneurship Students University Of Tehran), Fargol Saberi Qomi, Reza Mohammadkazemi, Ayatollah Momayez

Association of Marketing Theory and Practice Proceedings 2024

This study aimed to identify the technological factors influencing personal branding in counseling and education. This research used the qualitative-quantitative method to create a deeper understanding and a comprehensive view of the study subject. Several factors were extracted using library studies and semi-structured interviews with ten experts and professors. These factors were divided into the general format of 2 technological factors influencing information and communication technology and three factors, including personal branding of individual, job, and environmental-cultural. The questionnaire was distributed among a sample of 110 members of the statistical population, and a statistical analysis of the data was …

Esg To Brand Equity: Stake Holders, Social Media & Signaling., Sowmdeb Sen

Association of Marketing Theory and Practice Proceedings 2024

The value of the companies increasingly consists largely of intangible values such as brand equity. Intangible decisions like involvement in ESG present a considerable opportunity for different stakeholders to impact brand equity. Signaling theory suggests that firms use signals to overcome information asymmetry (Karanges et al, 2018; Grinblatt et al,1998) when firms signal achievements and ESG. How do stakeholders share and signal ESG information and achievements in social media to drive brand equity? The author argues that CEO characteristics and investor base shape the firm’s social media ESG-brand management strategy in driving brand equity.

Making Customers More Loyal: The Role Of Value Cocreation In Branded Apps, Trang Phuc Tran, Adrienne Muldrow, Charlene Dadzie

Association of Marketing Theory and Practice Proceedings 2024

The paper develops a conceptual model that examines how value in use enhances value co-creation and then brand loyalty, and captures how value-in-use could change customer perception of branded app entertainment and perceived usefulness, leading to value co-creation. Data from 463 brand app users show that all hypothesized relationships are supported, except H5 (ENT -> COC). That means value co-creation is driven by value-in-use and perceived usefulness, but not by app entertainment. Moreover, value co-creation, in turn, has an impact on brand loyalty. Additionally, mediation effects exist in two paths: first, branded app entertainment and perceived usefulness mediate the effect …

Segmenting The Retired Travelers Market: An Approach Based On Travel Barriers, Corinne Chevalier, Gaelle M. Moal

Association of Marketing Theory and Practice Proceedings 2024

In a context of intensive demographic ageing, older travelers make a strategic target for tourism professionals. The latter need to understand their travel behavior well, including what might prevent them from travelling as often as they wish they would. This research identifies travel barriers at old age, presents a travel barrier measurement scale and applies it to the French senior travelers’ market. The resulting segmentation is presented, and recommendations made to help tourism professionals adapt their offers to this specific target.

Enhancing Global Learning: Knowledge Acquisition And Organizational Practices In Internationalization, Christine A. Makama

Association of Marketing Theory and Practice Proceedings 2024

This study explores the pivotal role of international learning and knowledge acquisition in shaping organizational practices within the context of internationalization. It underscores the value of sourcing knowledge from external sources, learning from others, and creating a culture supportive of internationalization efforts. Drawing from the works of prominent scholars, this research highlights the interconnectedness of international learning, domestic practices, and knowledge acquisition. The study emphasizes the need for organizations to actively seek external knowledge, establish a culture conducive to internationalization, and efficiently manage both explicit and tacit knowledge to facilitate successful knowledge transfer and application in a global context. Tacit …

Optimizing Customer Experience In The Luxury Industry Through Ai Technologies. A Firm Perspective, Pradeep Kumar Ponnamma Divakaran, Louise Ivars

Association of Marketing Theory and Practice Proceedings 2024

The aim of this study is to examine the possible impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on enhancing customer experience throughout the customer purchasing process, specifically within the luxury sector. To achieve this objective, we carried out a qualitative investigation consisting of semi-structured interviews with experts in artificial intelligence and managers specializing in customer experience. The findings show that customer experience plays a significant role in luxury brands' ability to win customer loyalty. AI has the ability to improve customer experience by offering highly personalized services through the use of purchase forecasting and automatic customization. This allows luxury brands to provide …

Estimating Costs And Markups For Marketing Plans: Three Approaches, Mary Lee Stansifer Phd

Association of Marketing Theory and Practice Proceedings 2024

This paper addresses challenges encountered by undergraduate students when tasked with crafting marketing plans, particularly in determining realistic costs and prices. Faculty can proactively estimate the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), markup percentages, and retail prices for a range of products. Three approaches are presented to guide this process.

The first approach is using real-life products featured on Shark Tank. By extracting accurate cost information, it is possible to detail costs and prices at each stage of the supply chain. The second approach is to start with production costs. This approach allows faculty to work from the retail price and …

Dean Melanie Leslie’S Office Hours, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Event Invitations 2024

Join Dean Leslie and University Professor Michel Rosenfeld for a discussion on “Hate Speech, Academic Freedom and Student Intimidation on College Campuses,” as well as any questions raised by student attendees.

Taylor-Made Super Bowl: Taylor Swiftmania On Social Media Regarding The Big Game, Yi Luo, Jin-A Choi, Bond Benton

School of Communication and Media Scholarship and Creative Works

Celebrity couples occupy a unique space in popular culture. Similar to the royal unions of history and the present, the combination of notoriety and the voyeuristic appeal of watching a relationship play out in public spaces, celebrity couples energize popular discourse and invite public commentary and interest. The opportunity to become a spectator in ongoing celebrity coupling invites a level of perceived intimacy in what feels like a relationship with famous people.

Data collected for this study suggests Taylor Swift’s connection to Super Bowl LVIII has elevated the meaning of the game beyond the stratospheric levels of cultural significance the …

Stabilizing Two-Qubit Entanglement With Dynamically Decoupled Active Feedback, Sacha Greenfield, Leigh Martin, Felix Motzoi, K. Birgitta Whaley, Justin Dressel, Eli M. Levenson-Falk

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

We propose and analyze a protocol for stabilizing a maximally entangled state of two noninteracting qubits using active state-dependent feedback from a continuous two-qubit half-parity measurement in coordination with a concurrent, noncommuting dynamical decoupling drive. We demonstrate that such a drive can be simultaneous with the measurement and feedback, while also playing a key part in the feedback protocol itself. We show that robust stabilization with near-unit fidelity can be achieved even in the presence of realistic nonidealities, such as time delay in the feedback loop, imperfect state-tracking, inefficient measurements, dephasing from 1/f-distributed qubit-frequency noise, and relaxation. We …

Snow Water Equivalent Retrieval Over Idaho – Part 2: Using L-Band Uavsar Repeat-Pass Interferometry, Zachary Hoppinen, Shadi Oveisgharan, Hans-Peter Marshall, Ross Mower, Kelly Elder, Carrie Vuyovich

Geosciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study evaluates using interferometry on low-frequency synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images to monitor snow water equivalent (SWE) over seasonal and synoptic scales. We retrieved SWE changes from nine pairs of SAR images, mean 8 d temporal baseline, captured by an L-band aerial platform, NASA's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), over central Idaho as part of the NASA SnowEx 2020 and 2021 campaigns. The retrieved SWE changes were compared against coincident in situ measurements (SNOTEL and snow pits from the SnowEx field campaign) and to 100 m gridded SnowModel modeled SWE changes. The comparison of in situ to …

Snow Water Equivalent Retrieval Over Idaho – Part 1: Using Sentinel-1 Repeat-Pass Interferometry, Shadi Oveisgharan, Robert Zinke, Zachary Hoppinen, Hans Peter Marshall

Geosciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Snow water equivalent (SWE) is identified as the key element of the snowpack that impacts rivers' streamflow and water cycle. Both active and passive microwave remote sensing methods have been used to retrieve SWE, but there does not currently exist a SWE product that provides useful estimates in mountainous terrain. Active sensors provide higher-resolution observations, but the suitable radar frequencies and temporal repeat intervals have not been available until recently. Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) has been shown to have the potential to estimate SWE change. In this study, we apply this technique to a long time series of 6 …

Unveiling The Feeling Effect: How Sentiment Orientation Deceives Traditional Survey Findings In Marketing Research, Junhong Min, Matthew Monte, Ulrich Schmelzle

Association of Marketing Theory and Practice Proceedings 2024

This study inspected the influence of sentiment orientation (positive vs negative) on parameter estimation in marketing research models, specifically addressing gaps in previous research focused on online review platforms but not traditional surveys. Examining 627 participants assessing city residents' quality of life, the survey analyzed sentiment using the lexicon-based sentiment analysis. Three contextual factors affecting sentiment orientation—reasoning strength, cognitive strength, and factual information strength—were discovered. The analysis revealed higher adjusted R-squared scores for negative sentiment, suggesting potential errors in survey research when sentiment orientation is ignored. The study advocates combining automatic sentiment analysis with quantitative research findings to enhance survey …

Perioperative Blindness In Spine Surgery: A Scoping Literature Review, Jacob Sperber, Edwin Owolo, Tanner Zachem, Brandon Bishop, Eli Johnson, Eleonora M. Lad, C. Rory Goodwin

Student Publications

Perioperative vision loss (POVL) is a devastating surgical complication that impacts both the recovery from surgery and quality of life, most commonly occurring after spine surgery. With rates of spine surgery dramatically increasing, the prevalence of POVL will increase proportionately. This scoping review aims to aggregate the literature pertinent to POVL in spine surgery and consolidate recommendations and preventative measures to reduce the risk of POVL. There are several causes of POVL, and the main contribution following spine surgery is ischemic optic neuropathy (ION). Vision loss often manifests immediately following surgery and is irreversible and severe. Diffusion weighted imaging has …

Can The Ada Protect Persons With Disabilities In Their Ability To Get To Work?, Jack Gatcliffe

ERSJ Blog

James Kimmons worked at a Charter Communications call center. He suffered cataracts in both eyes, which made it difficult to drive in the dark. Kimmons requested a modification to his work schedule, seeking permission to work earlier hours so he could commute home in the daylight. Notably, the work-schedule accommodation Kimmons sought is one that many other Americans may need, as 22.8% of all working age adults are considered accommodation-sensitive and 47% to 58% “of those who would actually benefit from a workplace accommodation do not receive one.” His employer granted his request for a short period of time but …

Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (February 12, 2024), Dmacc

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

This file contains the minutes from the Des Moines Area Community College Board meeting held on February 12, 2024.

Hazara University's Monocot Specimen Data In Openherbarium.Org On 20 December 2023, Mary Barkworth, Liaqat Ullah, Abdul Majid, Ghulam Mujtaba Shah, Jan Alam

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Northern Pakistan is interpreted here as including three administrative regions: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. It is dominated by multiple mountain ranges whose valleys drain, directly or indirectly, into the Indus River. Hazara University, which is in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was started in 2002 and its herbarium (HUP) in 2005. Digitization of the herbarium's vascular plants began in 2021 with its records being shared in OpenHerbarium and GBIF. Its online presence is now growing more rapidly than any other Pakistani herbarium. This paper summarizes the taxonomic diversity and geographic origin of its monocot holdings in 2023. In 2023, …

Aaron Henderson V. Attorney General Pennsylvania

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Suget Thompson V. Anthem Companies Inc

2024 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Usa V. Shawn Christy

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Correlation Enhanced Distribution Adaptation For Prediction Of Fall Risk, Ziqi Guo, Teresa Wu, Thurmon Lockhart, Rahul Soangra, Hyunsoo Yoon

Physical Therapy Faculty Articles and Research

With technological advancements in diagnostic imaging, smart sensing, and wearables, a multitude of heterogeneous sources or modalities are available to proactively monitor the health of the elderly. Due to the increasing risks of falls among older adults, an early diagnosis tool is crucial to prevent future falls. However, during the early stage of diagnosis, there is often limited or no labeled data (expert-confirmed diagnostic information) available in the target domain (new cohort) to determine the proper treatment for older adults. Instead, there are multiple related but non-identical domain data with labels from the existing cohort or different institutions. Integrating different …

“To Be Straight Or Closeted:” Lesbian, Gay, And Bisexual College Women In Greek Life In The Context Of The Lgb Experience In The United States, Olivia Morreale

Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics

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Online Bilingual Co-Design: Developing Resources With People With Disability And Family Members From Refugee Backgrounds, Angela Dew, Mahmoud Murad, Louisa Smith, Joanne Watson, Kim Robinson, Maree Higgins, Cathy Preston-Thomas, Mardi Stow, Ingrid Culos, Mariano Coello, Shakeh Momartin, Christian Astourian, Kelley Johnson, Caroline Lenette, Katherine Boydell

The Qualitative Report

People with disability from Syrian and Iraqi refugee backgrounds living in Australia have limited access to information and resources in Arabic language. Our study aim was to use a co-design process to create a suite of Arabic-language resources to increase information access and build capacity of people with disability and family members from refugee backgrounds to use services, and of disability and refugee services to provide relevant support. Following a rapid literature review about access to supports and services for people with disability from refugee backgrounds, workshops were held with 38 people with disability and family members from Syrian and …