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Pulsed Chronopotentiometry With Polymer-Based Potassium-Selective Electrodes, Roland A. Long, Kebede L. Gemene Dr. Dec 2021

Pulsed Chronopotentiometry With Polymer-Based Potassium-Selective Electrodes, Roland A. Long, Kebede L. Gemene Dr.

Posters-at-the-Capitol

This research aimed to develop ion-selective electrodes selective to potassium for use in measuring potassium concentration in blood. Potassium is an important electrolyte within the body, orchestrating nerve excitation, muscular function, and heart rate. Excessive or insufficient potassium levels can cause breakdowns in these systems difficult to differentiate from other potential causes. Isolating potassium concentration as the sole cause necessitates selective measurement. Pulsed Chronopotentiometry with polymer-based membrane electrodes offered a versatile route of interrogation: membrane composition and magnitude of applied current can be altered to assess selectivity in a fast and controlled manner. All potential measurements recorded corresponded to known …

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Demographic Analysis Of African Americans Enrolled In A Community-Based Diabetes Prevention Program, Kennedy Palmer, Lovoria B. Williams, Hannah Bowman Dec 2021

Demographic Analysis Of African Americans Enrolled In A Community-Based Diabetes Prevention Program, Kennedy Palmer, Lovoria B. Williams, Hannah Bowman

Posters-at-the-Capitol

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is preventable. While all racial and ethnic groups are susceptible to the condition, African Americans (AAs) are among the groups with the highest T2D prevalence (13.3%:9.4 %) among their white counterparts. Lifestyle interventions, such as the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) effectively decrease incident diabetes by 58%. Moreover, evidence indicates that culturally adapted health interventions enhance subject participation and increase adherence to lifestyle programs. The purpose of this project is to examine the baseline demographics of AA participants of Fit & Faithful, a culturally adapted DPP. Fit & Faithful concentrates on the prominent religious aspect of AA …

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Effects Of Covid-19 On Kentucky Air Pollutant Levels, Sarah Hartman, Ritchie Taylor, Jacqueline Basham Dec 2021

Effects Of Covid-19 On Kentucky Air Pollutant Levels, Sarah Hartman, Ritchie Taylor, Jacqueline Basham

Posters-at-the-Capitol

The COVID-19 pandemic is the first of the 21st century. Nearly 100 years ago, the Spanish Flu killed nearly 50 million people worldwide, including an estimated 675,000 people in the US.12 COVID-19 has proved a deadly disease as well, with nearly 28.1 million cases and 496,000 deaths in the US alone as of February 20th, 2021.4 Only a few studies have been conducted regarding air quality response before and after the start of the pandemic. The study found that the NO2 levels decreased and the PM levels also decreased from before to after the beginning …

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A Note From The Co-Editors, Jada C. Johnson Dec 2021

A Note From The Co-Editors, Jada C. Johnson

Ideas: Exhibit Catalog for the Honors College Visiting Scholars Series

An introduction to the second issue of the third volume of Ideas Magazine, concerning the research and work of M. Adam Howard.

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A Note From The Co-Editors, Jada C. Johnson Dec 2021

A Note From The Co-Editors, Jada C. Johnson

Ideas: Exhibit Catalog for the Honors College Visiting Scholars Series

An introduction to the third issue of the third volume of Ideas Magazine, concerning the work and experience of Stone Soup Shakespeare.

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A Note From The Co-Editors, Jada C. Johnson Dec 2021

A Note From The Co-Editors, Jada C. Johnson

Ideas: Exhibit Catalog for the Honors College Visiting Scholars Series

An introduction to the fifth issue of the third volume of Ideas Magazine, concerning the thoughts, experience, and work of Dr. Marcelo J.S. de Lemos.

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Covid-19 Vaccinations In Brazil, Anastasia Pinopoulos Dec 2021

Covid-19 Vaccinations In Brazil, Anastasia Pinopoulos

Ideas: Exhibit Catalog for the Honors College Visiting Scholars Series

In December 2019, the world watched the city of Wuhan, China enter a lockdown due to an outbreak of COVID-19. This outbreak turned into a pandemic that has transformed all of our lives in various ways. One country that was gaining worldwide attention for how they handled the pandemic was Brazil. Dr. Marcelo J.S. de Lemos, got to experience and live through Brazil’s response. As a society, we can evaluate what Brazil did, both good and bad, to learn how to better prepare for a future pandemic. Vaccines were vital for the prevention of any outbreak and unnecessary deaths.

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Covid-19 Pandemic Response In Brazil, Maria P. Ruiz Dec 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic Response In Brazil, Maria P. Ruiz

Ideas: Exhibit Catalog for the Honors College Visiting Scholars Series

In 2020, the world got struck by a pandemic no one was ready for. Due to the lack of preparation, the world was forced to go into quarantine while scientists tried to create a vaccine. Every country took the actions they thought would be best, however not all of them saw positive outcomes from those decisions. In this paper Brazil’s decision on how to tackle the pandemic is analyzed, specifically how they tried to go for herd immunity, and their outcomes will be compared to the outcomes of the United States, who followed mask and quarantine mandates from specialists.

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Covid-19 Pandemic Increases Accessibility To Theatre Performances, Katelyn M. Biggs Dec 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic Increases Accessibility To Theatre Performances, Katelyn M. Biggs

Ideas: Exhibit Catalog for the Honors College Visiting Scholars Series

The pandemic has caused many industries to alter their functionality to stay afloat, specifically the theater. Changes made because of the pandemic have opened the doors for a new audience. This included the theater becoming more accessible financially and for people with disabilities. This article highlights how when transitioning back to a post-pandemic world, these new patrons should be kept in mind.

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Holistic Well-Being And Humanitarian Workers During Covid-19: Concepts, Challenges, And Recommendations, Nicholas Sherwood Dec 2021

Holistic Well-Being And Humanitarian Workers During Covid-19: Concepts, Challenges, And Recommendations, Nicholas Sherwood

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated conflict dynamics and humanitarian disasters around the world, including Syria, Yemen, and East Africa. Humanitarian efforts designed to address these dynamics and disasters are also falling prey to the fallout of COVID, most notably increases in psychological distress experienced by humanitarian workers (HW) operating on the front lines of humanitarian zones. As such, new and innovative practices must be explored to support HW as they continue their desperately needed work; this imperative is further bolstered by calls in international human rights-based documents (e.g., Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant …

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A Case Study Of Pregnant Migrants In Detention, Abby Wheatley, Samantha Nabaty Dec 2021

A Case Study Of Pregnant Migrants In Detention, Abby Wheatley, Samantha Nabaty

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

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De-Identified Post-Conference Survey Results, Mirl 2021 Nov 2021

De-Identified Post-Conference Survey Results, Mirl 2021

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Includes the data file produced during the assessment phase of the MIRL 2021 symposium. Data was collected from a survey set to MIRL 2021 symposium participants.

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Development Of An Archive At Monmouth Medical Center, Frederic Pachman Nov 2021

Development Of An Archive At Monmouth Medical Center, Frederic Pachman

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Monmouth Medical Center, founded in 1887, was the first hospital at the Jersey Shore. Over the past thirty years there was a limited effort to develop archival and historical collections that document this rich history. In conjunction with the medical center's 125th anniversary in 2012, a consultant was retained to evaluate the archives, develop operational policies and prepare exhibits. Public programs and exhibits about the medical center have been presented to state and local organizations, and a schedule of historical programs is offered in-house during National Hospital Week. The archival collections were actively used to celebrate the medical center's anniversary …

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Building A Unique Collection Through Collaboration, Patricia Hinegardner, Na Lin Nov 2021

Building A Unique Collection Through Collaboration, Patricia Hinegardner, Na Lin

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

The UMB Digital Archive (DA) is the institutional repository for the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), the health sciences and human services campus of the University System of Maryland. The Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HSHSL) launched the DA over ten years ago. Its purpose is to collect, preserve, and distribute the academic works and history of UMB as well as highlight special collections within the HSHSL. Content in the DA ranges from historical collections such as the original James Carroll, Yellow Fever Commission Letters to current UMB dissertations. This lightning talk will focus on a unique collection within …

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Re-Envisioning The Virginia Journal Of Public Health: Leveraging The Institutional Repository For Publishing Success, Mark Lane, Maria Devalpine, Rebecca Kruse, Carolyn Schubert Nov 2021

Re-Envisioning The Virginia Journal Of Public Health: Leveraging The Institutional Repository For Publishing Success, Mark Lane, Maria Devalpine, Rebecca Kruse, Carolyn Schubert

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

This case study presents what happened when new leadership for the Virginia Journal of Public Health brought new questions about journal quality, value, and impact. Conversations initially began with the liaison librarian about the nature of journal publishing and open access today. As the conversation evolved, the Digital Collections team joined the working group to think through journal publishing for this title. This session will describe this collaborative evolution and how we worked to re-envision and migrate the journal from its prior website to the university’s institutional repository. The session will feature considerations for publishing with the institutional repository, highlight …

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A Scholarly Publishing Opportunity For Residents And Fellows, Heather Brown, Kari Nelson Nov 2021

A Scholarly Publishing Opportunity For Residents And Fellows, Heather Brown, Kari Nelson

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Purpose: This lightning talk describes the development and impact of an institutional repository-based journal created to promote scholarship within the graduate medical education community. Description: Scholarly and professional communication is an important educational activity for residents and fellows at academic medical centers. The Office of Graduate Medical Education (GME) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center established a journal to provide medical residents and fellows with the opportunity to publish scholarly journal articles. The GME department partnered with the McGoogan Health Sciences Library, which provides a journal platform through its institutional repository, DOI minting, and publishing advice and information. Launched …

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Individual Authorship Reports, Sarah Ellsworth Nov 2021

Individual Authorship Reports, Sarah Ellsworth

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

While authors can access the IR dashboard and readership directly, creating a streamlined highlights and stats annual report for individual authors has been very popular. I will show examples, how it has improved IR investment, and how I will improve upon these reports for the end of 2021.

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Manuscript Repository To Support Rigor In Dnp Scholarship, Marina Cuneo, Claire Sharifi, Jo Ann Loomis Nov 2021

Manuscript Repository To Support Rigor In Dnp Scholarship, Marina Cuneo, Claire Sharifi, Jo Ann Loomis

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree process supports the dissemination of nursing scholarship. Peer reviewed nursing journals have reported an increase in volume of student submissions over the past decade, but only some of them are initially publishable. As an alternative or supplement to journal submission, the University of San Francisco has developed a library-based institutional repository collection for these manuscript submissions that is globally findable, searchable, and accessible. Submission to the repository does not compromise rigor, and manuscripts can be submitted to peer reviewed journals when and if student and faculty are committed to the editorial process.

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Grass Roots Efforts To Find Champions For Share, Heather Steel Nov 2021

Grass Roots Efforts To Find Champions For Share, Heather Steel

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

The IR at Children’s Mercy Kansas City (SHARE@Children’s Mercy) has technically existed for four years; however, the IR previously operated in a silo and few staff members were aware of its existence. In the last year and a half, the IR has experienced a complete overhaul not only in administration, but also in terms of self-promotion. This change was brought about due to staff changes in the library team responsible for the IR and a dedicated effort to promote the IR across the hospital. This presentation will address the steps the library services team undertook to bring the IR out …

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Data Catalogs, Metadata, And Data Discovery: How Data Catalogs Extend And Enhance The Ir Ecosystem, Anthony Dellureficio Nov 2021

Data Catalogs, Metadata, And Data Discovery: How Data Catalogs Extend And Enhance The Ir Ecosystem, Anthony Dellureficio

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Data catalogs contain metadata-only records for datasets, code, analytical tools, or other research outputs not traditionally included in bibliographic catalogs. The records include curated, enhanced descriptive metadata in order to supply additional access points, provide access instructions or explain data restrictions, connect researchers working on common topics, connect datasets with relevant analytical tools, track publications and funding associated with datasets, and highlight otherwise undiscoverable datasets while still accommodating concerns over PHI exposure. The Data Discovery Collaboration (DDC), a multi-institutional consortium providing a platform-agnostic community of practice to support research data discoverability through metadata, outreach, and software development, is focusing on …

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Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal (1953-1992): Modernizing Historical Research, Joann Krzeminski, Steven Moore, Julia Pope Nov 2021

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal (1953-1992): Modernizing Historical Research, Joann Krzeminski, Steven Moore, Julia Pope

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

The Henry Ford Hospital Medical Bulletin began publication in 1953, and was published quarterly by Henry Ford Hospital and the Edsel B. Ford Institute for Medical Research. It was meant as a venue for recording and distributing the professional activities of Henry Ford Hospital staff, residents, and alumni, as well as materials related to academic and scientific meetings and symposia hosted by Henry Ford Hospital. In 1967, the bulletin's name changed to the Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal. The journal ceased publication in 1992. In 2019, Sladen Library of Henry Ford Hospital created an institutional repository to preserve and publicize …

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Publishing Partnership: Facilitating Open Access Through Libraries Collaboration With Clinical Departments, Jessica Petrey, Sarah Frankel, Rachel Howard Nov 2021

Publishing Partnership: Facilitating Open Access Through Libraries Collaboration With Clinical Departments, Jessica Petrey, Sarah Frankel, Rachel Howard

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

When the University of Louisville Libraries launched the ThinkIR institutional repository on the bepress Digital Commons platform in 2015, we anticipated offering open access journal publishing several years in the future. However, the Division of Infectious Diseases’ eagerness to find a venue to facilitate the equitable movement of research and information into the larger global community resulted in a partnership beginning in 2016 to publish two open access journals on the platform, which then served as a model for other health sciences journals, including one from the Emergency Medicine Department. The benefits, including the opportunity to provide free open access …

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When Mergers Happen: Doubling Your Institutional Repository’S Scope Overnight, Jennifer Deal, Karen Hanus Nov 2021

When Mergers Happen: Doubling Your Institutional Repository’S Scope Overnight, Jennifer Deal, Karen Hanus

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin and Advocate Health Care in Illinois merged into Advocate Aurora Health in 2018. Advocate Aurora Health is a large, multistate health care system that has 26 hospitals, over 500 sites of care, and 75,000 employees. Aurora Health Care implemented an institutional repository (IR) in 2013. Through the merger we were able to expand our IR to include Advocate content in the summer of 2020. In this presentation, we will discuss: Key stakeholder relationships that helped us build the reputation of the IR at legacy Aurora Health Care and ultimately secured support at a system level …

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Undertaking A Digital Collection Platform Evaluation At A Health Sciences Library, Pamela Pierce, Steve Duckworth, Marijane White Nov 2021

Undertaking A Digital Collection Platform Evaluation At A Health Sciences Library, Pamela Pierce, Steve Duckworth, Marijane White

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

This presentation will discuss the process of completing a comprehensive digital collection platform evaluation at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Guided by its mission to advance the effective, efficient and ethical use of information in support of education, research and healthcare, the OHSU Library serves institutional faculty, staff and students, as well as external health science professionals and researchers, and residents of the State of Oregon and surrounding areas. Our unique physical and virtual collections include over 8 TB of digital files, which document the institution’s history, research and scholarly output.; learning from primary source materials is facilitated by …

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Next Generation Research Information Hub: Esploro Smart Harvesting In 2021—Enabling Comprehensive, Accurate, And Automated Coverage Of Your Scholarly Assets And Expertise, Dave Stout Nov 2021

Next Generation Research Information Hub: Esploro Smart Harvesting In 2021—Enabling Comprehensive, Accurate, And Automated Coverage Of Your Scholarly Assets And Expertise, Dave Stout

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Historically, a primary challenge for repository managers has been successfully capturing and exposing as close to 100% of an institution’s research assets and activities as possible. It is traditionally a resource- and time-intensive endeavor. Ex Libris’s Esploro addresses this challenge head-on with our Smart Harvesting AI, first by leveraging the industry leading Central Discovery Index (CDI) (which drives the Primo and Summon discovery services), and second by automating the routines needed to harvest repository content. The CDI provides clients immediate access to an incredible foundation of over 4.5 billion records from which they can populate their Esploro IR and comprehensively …

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Community-Driven Repository Infrastructure Programs At Lyrasis—An Overview, Paolo P. Gujilde, Sheila Rabun, Hannah Rosen Nov 2021

Community-Driven Repository Infrastructure Programs At Lyrasis—An Overview, Paolo P. Gujilde, Sheila Rabun, Hannah Rosen

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Academic libraries, and institutional repositories in particular, play a key role in the ongoing quest for ways to gather metrics and connect the dots between researchers and research contributions in order to measure “institutional impact,” while also streamlining workflows to reduce administrative burden. Identifying accurate metrics and measurements for illustrating “impact” is a goal that many academic research institutions share, but these goals can only be met to the extent that all organizations across the research and scholarly communication landscape are using best practices and shared standards in research infrastructure. For example, persistent identifiers (PIDs) such as ORCID iDs (Open …

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Figshare Repositories: New Data-Sharing Features For Researchers And Librarians, Andrew Mckenna-Foster Nov 2021

Figshare Repositories: New Data-Sharing Features For Researchers And Librarians, Andrew Mckenna-Foster

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

With expanding funder data sharing policies, especially the new NIH data management and sharing policy slated for 2023, we expect that researchers from medical research institutions will increasingly need trusted repositories to share data and all of the other products of their research. However, the complexity of sharing medical research data, even when anonymized, means data are often not shared despite funder policies. In the past year, Figshare, a trusted repository platform that meets funder requirements across the globe, released a suite of new features to fit data sharing needs, increase impact, and encourage sharing. Useful to both researchers and …

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A New Partnership: An Institutional Repository And A Systematic Review Search Deposit Service, Stephanie Roth, Will Dean Nov 2021

A New Partnership: An Institutional Repository And A Systematic Review Search Deposit Service, Stephanie Roth, Will Dean

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

In fall 2020, Temple University Libraries launched the university’s first institutional repository, TUScholarShare, as a place to collect, manage, and provide public access to Temple’s research, data, and teaching outputs. Shortly thereafter, this initiative prompted a collaborative effort of the Libraries Research Data Services and Systematic Review Search Service to deposit search strategies and citation results as data in TUScholarShare. With these deposits, we hope to make systematic reviews more open and reproducible by making the search strategies and results discoverable to the research community at Temple University and beyond. We created specialized documentation for these deposits to streamline the …

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Finding Our Stride – A Health System Repository 4 Years In / “Providence Patents – Using An Institutional Repository To Promote Technology Transfer, Heather J. Martin, Amanda Schwartz Nov 2021

Finding Our Stride – A Health System Repository 4 Years In / “Providence Patents – Using An Institutional Repository To Promote Technology Transfer, Heather J. Martin, Amanda Schwartz

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

In 2018 Providence launched its Digital Commons Institutional Repository (IR) becoming one of only a small group of large health systems providing such a service. In nearing the end of Year 4 there has been sustained growth and continued engagement of this initiative. Expanding on the initial ask from senior leadership to simply track and compile Providence scholarly activity, subsequent years saw significant development in scope and scale of the IR. New projects included the creation of special collections, including: COVID-19 Research; Environmental Stewardship; Genomics; Diversity & Inclusion; and a Patents collection. The library partnered with nursing and graduate medical …

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Going Beyond The Ir: Using Content-Specific Platforms And Targeted Outreach To Provide Integrated Access To A Medical School’S Education Scholarship, Brandon T. Pieczko, Hannah J. Craven Nov 2021

Going Beyond The Ir: Using Content-Specific Platforms And Targeted Outreach To Provide Integrated Access To A Medical School’S Education Scholarship, Brandon T. Pieczko, Hannah J. Craven

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

To increase local contributions to medical education scholarship, a medical school began hosting an annual school-wide conference in 2020. Two librarians worked proactively with conference organizers to preserve and provide access to presentation materials and session recordings. This targeted outreach became more effective in the second year as students and faculty were invited on the conference submission form to express interest in contributing materials to the university’s institutional repository. The librarians were able to use this list of interested participants to obtain permissions, additional information, and address potential questions rather than relying on a post-hoc solicitation of conference materials. Workflow …

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