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The Spur Adherence Profiling Tool: Preliminary Results Of Algorithm Development, Elodie De Bock, Kevin Dolgin, Benoit Arnould, Guillaume Hubert, Aaron Lee, John D. Piette Jan 2022

The Spur Adherence Profiling Tool: Preliminary Results Of Algorithm Development, Elodie De Bock, Kevin Dolgin, Benoit Arnould, Guillaume Hubert, Aaron Lee, John D. Piette

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Objective: The SPUR (Social, Psychological, Usage, and Rational) Adherence Profiling Tool is a recently developed adaptive instrument for measuring key patient-level risk factors for adherence problems. This study describes the SPUR questionnaire’s psychometric refinement and evaluation. Methods: Data were collected through an online survey among individuals with type 2 diabetes in the United States. 501 participants completed multiple questionnaires, including SPUR and several validated adherence measures. A Partial Credit Model (PCM) analysis was performed to evaluate the structure of the SPUR tool and verify the assumption of a single underlying latent variable reflecting adherence. Partial least-squares discriminant analyses (PLS-DA) were …

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Search For The Decay Bs0 →Ηη, B. Bhuyan, K. J. Nath, J. Borah, I. Adachi, H. Aihara, S. Al Said, D. M. Asner, H. Atmacan, V. Aulchenko, T. Aushev, R. Ayad, V. Babu, I. Badhrees, A. M. Bakich, P. Behera, J. Bennett, V. Bhardwaj, T. Bilka, J. Biswal Jan 2022

Search For The Decay Bs0 →Ηη, B. Bhuyan, K. J. Nath, J. Borah, I. Adachi, H. Aihara, S. Al Said, D. M. Asner, H. Atmacan, V. Aulchenko, T. Aushev, R. Ayad, V. Babu, I. Badhrees, A. M. Bakich, P. Behera, J. Bennett, V. Bhardwaj, T. Bilka, J. Biswal

Faculty and Student Publications

We report results from a search for the decay Bs0→ηη using 121.4 fb-1 of data collected at the (5S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. We do not observe any signal and set an upper limit on the branching fraction of 14.3×10-5 at 90% confidence level. This result represents a significant improvement over the previous most stringent limit.

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Climate Change And Food Security In Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries, Ahmed Adefemi Adesete, Oluwanbepelumi Esther Olanubi, Risikat Oladoyin Dauda Jan 2022

Climate Change And Food Security In Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries, Ahmed Adefemi Adesete, Oluwanbepelumi Esther Olanubi, Risikat Oladoyin Dauda

Faculty and Student Publications

This study examined the nexus between climate change and food security in Sub-Saharan African Region (SSA). With focus on 30 countries within the region, the study employed the dynamic panel data analysis using the one-step and two-step system generalized method of moments (GMM) model. The time observed spanned from 2000 through 2019. The study found that increase in greenhouse gas emission would lead to an increase in prevalence of malnourishment rate, resulting in a decrease in food security in SSA. In addition, climate change and food price have a negative significant effect on food security, while income and food supply …

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The Criticality Of Financial Development And Energy Consumption For Environmental Sustainability In Oecd Countries: Evidence From Dynamic Panel Analysis, Olatunji Abdul Shobande, Lawrence Ogbeifun Jan 2022

The Criticality Of Financial Development And Energy Consumption For Environmental Sustainability In Oecd Countries: Evidence From Dynamic Panel Analysis, Olatunji Abdul Shobande, Lawrence Ogbeifun

Faculty and Student Publications

This study explored whether financial development and energy consumption affect environmental sustainability in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. The empirical evidence used in this study was based on the standard fixed effects and the Arellano-Bover/Bundell Bond dynamic panel approach. Our empirical results demonstrated the importance of a financial development index and energy efficiency for reducing carbon emissions and promoting sustainability in the OECD. The mechanism through which financial development affects carbon emissions has been identified as energy consumption and foreign direct investment. Our study recommends that financial development be prioritised alongside investments in energy efficiency to promote …

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Optimal Frequency Intensity Of Physical Activity To Reduce The Risk Of Hypertension In The Korean Population, Jang Won Son, Sukho Lee, Minsoo Kang, Yun A. Shin, Jae Hyun Kim Jan 2022

Optimal Frequency Intensity Of Physical Activity To Reduce The Risk Of Hypertension In The Korean Population, Jang Won Son, Sukho Lee, Minsoo Kang, Yun A. Shin, Jae Hyun Kim

Faculty and Student Publications

PURPOSE: Regular physical activity (PA) is an effective lifestyle modification for preventing hypertension. This study aimed to analyze the optimal frequency of PA required to reduce the incidence of hypertension in the Korean population. Most Korean studies have included only small samples and limited age ranges. METHODS: The present study analyzed 16,299,865 participants aged ≥20 years (44.25±12.74 years) from the 2009 to 2012 Korean National Health Insurance Corporation Survey database. The International Physical Activity Questionnaire was used to assess the frequency and intensity of physical activity. Hazard ratios for incident hypertension were analyzed by physical activity participation, age, and sex …

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Pharmacy Matters - December 2021/January 2022, University Of Mississippi. School Of Pharmacy Jan 2022

Pharmacy Matters - December 2021/January 2022, University Of Mississippi. School Of Pharmacy

Pharmacy Matters Newsletters

Featured stories: "School of Pharmacy Joins Effort to Change Medicine and Vaccine Delivery," "School of Pharmacy Partners with Takeda Pharmaceuticals on Fellowship," "Two Student Pharmacists Named AACP Walmart Scholars"

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Southern Register. 2022.1 (Winter 2022), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture Jan 2022

Southern Register. 2022.1 (Winter 2022), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

No abstract provided.

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Graphene-Metal Metasurface For Cloaking Of Cylindrical Objects At Low-Terahertz Frequencies, Shefali Pawar, Hossein Mehrpour Bernety, Alexander B. Yakovlev Jan 2022

Graphene-Metal Metasurface For Cloaking Of Cylindrical Objects At Low-Terahertz Frequencies, Shefali Pawar, Hossein Mehrpour Bernety, Alexander B. Yakovlev

Faculty and Student Publications

Most of the theoretical studies involving graphene, typically assume an ultra-high mobility and/or high value of Fermi energy to achieve exciting functionalities such as polarization conversion, absorption, cloaking, among others. In practice, however, graphene with such high mobility is very difficult to realize, on account of the numerous flaws and impurities that inevitably are introduced during the graphene growth and transfer process. This severely compromises graphene's practical performance, despite the appeal of theoretical predictions. A novel design was presented in 'X. Wang et al., IEEE Trans. Antenna Propagat., vol. 67, pp. 2452-2461, 2019', wherein a graphene metasurface was devised to …

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Beta Invariant And Chromatic Uniqueness Of Wheels, Sooyeon Lee, Haidong Wu Jan 2022

Beta Invariant And Chromatic Uniqueness Of Wheels, Sooyeon Lee, Haidong Wu

Faculty and Student Publications

A graph G is chromatically unique if its chromatic polynomial completely determines the graph. An n-spoked wheel, Wn, is shown to be chromatically unique when n ≥ 4 is even [S.-J. Xu and N.-Z. Li, The chromaticity of wheels, Discrete Math. 51 (1984) 207–212]. When n is odd, this problem is still open for n ≥ 15 since 1984, although it was shown by di erent researchers that the answer is no for n = 5, 7, yes for n = 3, 9, 11, 13, and unknown for other odd n. We use the beta invariant of matroids to prove …

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A Framework For Estimating Future Traffic Operation And Safety Performance Of Restricted Crossing U-Turn (Rcut) Intersections, Amirarsalan M. Molan, Jonathan Howard, Mouyid Islam, Anurag Pande Jan 2022

A Framework For Estimating Future Traffic Operation And Safety Performance Of Restricted Crossing U-Turn (Rcut) Intersections, Amirarsalan M. Molan, Jonathan Howard, Mouyid Islam, Anurag Pande

Faculty and Student Publications

Background: Despite numerous studies demonstrating the effectiveness of Restricted Crossing U-Turn (RCUT) intersection design, its implementation remains uneven and close to zero in some large states, including California. This paper provides a comprehensive framework to estimate the operational and safety performance of future RCUT designs. The framework is demonstrated for a geometrically constrained intersection located on a highspeed rural expressway. The operational evaluation relies on microscopic simulation models of existing TWSC and alternate RCUT designs used to estimate network-wide performance measures. Methods: Two approaches are demonstrated for future safety estimation; first, an HSM-prescribed Empirical Bayes (EB) approach that uses Safety …

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Application Of Artificial Neural Network To Predict The Properties Of Permeable Concrete, Hatem H. Almasaeid, Donia G. Salman Jan 2022

Application Of Artificial Neural Network To Predict The Properties Of Permeable Concrete, Hatem H. Almasaeid, Donia G. Salman

Faculty and Student Publications

The structure of permeable concrete has been the primary reason for its use in construction. Permeable concrete is composed of water, cement, aggregate, and little-to no-fines resulting in the presence of a significant number of voids. This makes permeable concrete an ideal solution to water accumulation issues as it acts as a drainage system. This study employs a feedforward backpropagation artificial neural network model that combines experimental laboratory data from previous studies with appropriate network architectures and training techniques. The purpose of the analysis is to develop a reliable functional relationship, based on water-cement ratio, aggregate-cement ratio, and density parameters, …

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Discovery Of New 1h-Pyrazolo[3,4-D]Pyrimidine Derivatives As Anticancer Agents Targeting EgfrWt And EgfrT790m, Ahmed A. Gaber, Mohamed Sobhy, Abdallah Turky, Hanan Gaber Abdulwahab Jan 2022

Discovery Of New 1h-Pyrazolo[3,4-D]Pyrimidine Derivatives As Anticancer Agents Targeting EgfrWt And EgfrT790m, Ahmed A. Gaber, Mohamed Sobhy, Abdallah Turky, Hanan Gaber Abdulwahab

Faculty and Student Publications

New 1H-pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine derivatives were designed and synthesised to act as epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors (EGFRIs). The synthesised derivatives were assessed for their in vitro anti-proliferative activities against A549 and HCT-116 cancer cells. Compounds 8, 10, 12a, and 12b showed potent anti-proliferative activities. Compound 12b was the most promising member with IC50 values of 8.21 and 19.56 µM against A549 and HCT-116, respectively. Compounds 8, 10, 12a, and 12b were evaluated for their kinase inhibitory activities against wild EGFR (EGFRWT). Compound 12b was the most potent member showing an IC50 value of 0.016 µM. In addition, compound 12b showed noticeable …

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Measurement Of B (Bs →Dsx) With Bs Semileptonic Tagging, B. Wang, K. Kinoshita, H. Aihara, D. M. Asner, T. Aushev, R. Ayad, V. Babu, I. Badhrees, A. M. Bakich, P. Behera, C. Beleño, J. Bennett, M. Bessner, V. Bhardwaj, T. Bilka, J. Biswal, A. Bobrov, G. Bonvicini, A. Bozek Jan 2022

Measurement Of B (Bs →Dsx) With Bs Semileptonic Tagging, B. Wang, K. Kinoshita, H. Aihara, D. M. Asner, T. Aushev, R. Ayad, V. Babu, I. Badhrees, A. M. Bakich, P. Behera, C. Beleño, J. Bennett, M. Bessner, V. Bhardwaj, T. Bilka, J. Biswal, A. Bobrov, G. Bonvicini, A. Bozek

Faculty and Student Publications

We report the first direct measurement of the inclusive branching fraction B(Bs→DsX) via Bs tagging in e+e-→ (5S) events. Tagging is accomplished through a partial reconstruction of semileptonic decays Bs→DsXℓν, where X denotes unreconstructed additional hadrons or photons and ℓ is an electron or muon. With 121.4 fb-1 of data collected at the (5S) resonance by the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider, we obtain B(Bs→DsX)=(60.2±5.8±2.3)%, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic.

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Research News, Grants, 2022, Volume 1, Soumyajit Majumdar Jan 2022

Research News, Grants, 2022, Volume 1, Soumyajit Majumdar

Grants (2015-)

Grants and contracts awarded during January - March 2022.

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Research News, Grants, 2022, Volume 4, Soumyajit Majumdar Jan 2022

Research News, Grants, 2022, Volume 4, Soumyajit Majumdar

Grants (2015-)

Grants and contracts awarded during October - December 2022

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Newsletter Winter 2022, Annette Kluck, Margaret Savoie Jan 2022

Newsletter Winter 2022, Annette Kluck, Margaret Savoie

Newsletters of the Graduate School

No abstract provided.

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Applied Statistics Course Offerings: Spring 2022, University Of Mississippi. Graduate School Jan 2022

Applied Statistics Course Offerings: Spring 2022, University Of Mississippi. Graduate School

GMAS Course List

No abstract provided.

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Mission Acceleration: Final Evaluation Report, Rachel Scott, Sarah K. Mason Jan 2022

Mission Acceleration: Final Evaluation Report, Rachel Scott, Sarah K. Mason

K-12 Education

No abstract provided.

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Does The Contraction History Of The Muscle Dictate Changes In Strength Following Resistance Training?, Zachary William Bell Jan 2022

Does The Contraction History Of The Muscle Dictate Changes In Strength Following Resistance Training?, Zachary William Bell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Within-subject training models, whereby researchers apply an exercise condition to one limb, and a separate exercise condition to the opposing limb, have become routine amongst the exercise literature. However, no study has directly tested whether exercising one limb with a high-load condition will influence strength adaptations within the opposing limb, even when the opposite limb is training. Furthermore, muscle post-activation performance enhancement (PAPE) is representing local level changes, however, more research is warranted to understand if this can be differentially impacted with different types (e.g. low load vs. high load) of resistance training. The purpose of this study was to …

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Good Love Is Black: Stories On Black Queer Living In The American South, Danielle Buckingham Jan 2022

Good Love Is Black: Stories On Black Queer Living In The American South, Danielle Buckingham

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Black Queer and Trans folks conjure love in their lives, by any means necessary, even in the face of terror. This is what has been at the root of their survival against the anti-Blackness and heterosexism that permeates the nation. Good Love Is Black, highlights their journeys navigating multiple marginalized identities, particularly in the American South. For this project, I spoke with folks who are natives of or currently residing in Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Texas, and Kentucky. This written thesis accompanies a narrative podcast that explores the ways in which their Black, Queer, and Southern Identity informs how they …

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"How It Was Made", Bethany Fitts Jan 2022

"How It Was Made", Bethany Fitts

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This is a meta-autoethnography describing the researcher’s unfocused, rhizomatic research process throughout the COVID19 pandemic. Themes explored are the COVID19 pandemic, family, death, climate change, queer love, represenation, academia, genre, and religion. The study shows how multiple scales of grief arise during the research process. I locate this method within postcolonial theory of autoethnography that seeks to diversify structures within the academic genre.

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Casting The Ballot: An Analysis Of Voting Method Prefernces From 2012 – 2020, Bailey Rose Griffin Jan 2022

Casting The Ballot: An Analysis Of Voting Method Prefernces From 2012 – 2020, Bailey Rose Griffin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Voting is an important aspect of a democracy because it allows people get involved in the political world and it is one of the relatively cheapest ways to do with no monetary costs. Moreover, voting helps keep elected officials accountable. Over the years there have been barriers to disenfranchise groups but over the years they have been abolished. Up to date, there are four voting methods a voter could do: in-person on Election Day, in-person prior to Election Day, absentee ballots, and all-mail ballots. In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic swept through the United States changed all aspects of life, including …

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Serially Concatenated Continuous Phase Modulation With Sova Turbo Decoding, Zhijie Guo Jan 2022

Serially Concatenated Continuous Phase Modulation With Sova Turbo Decoding, Zhijie Guo

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

For a Serially Concatenated Continuous Phase Modulation (SCCPM) system that concatenates a rate of 1/2 Convolutional Code (CC) and an M-ary full response continuous phase modulation (CPM) signal, we design a turbo decoding scheme using the Soft Output Viterbi algorithm (SOVA) and study the system performance. A decomposition model is used in CPM to reduce the number of states and separate the continuous phase encoder (CPE) with the modulator. As a soft-input soft-output (SISO) decoding algorithm, SOVA is used to generate and update the soft information of decoded signal symbols during the iterative process for both the CPM signal and …

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Hot Melt Extrusion (Hme) And Amorphous Solid Dispersions (Asds) Strategies For Poorly Water-Soluble Drugs, Zhiqing Hu Jan 2022

Hot Melt Extrusion (Hme) And Amorphous Solid Dispersions (Asds) Strategies For Poorly Water-Soluble Drugs, Zhiqing Hu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Amorphous solid dispersion (ASD) has been well known as a potential strategy to improve the bioavailability and dissolution performance of poorly water-soluble drugs. The primary concern of this approach is the long-term stability of the amorphous drug in the solid dispersion. Accurate prediction and detection of the solubility and miscibility of drugs in polymeric binary systems will be a milestone in the development of ASDs. In Chapter Ⅰ, a method based on Flory-Huggins (F-H) theory was proposed to predict and calculate the solubility and miscibility of the drug in the polymeric matrix and construct the phase diagram to identify the …

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Spectroscopic Investigations Of Photoinduced Electron Transfer Processes At Interfaces And In Solution, Leigh Anna Hunt Jan 2022

Spectroscopic Investigations Of Photoinduced Electron Transfer Processes At Interfaces And In Solution, Leigh Anna Hunt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Photoinduced electron transfer is an essential reaction in artificial solar energy conversionapplications. The challenge for decades of research has been to demonstrate a long-lived charge separated state with high energy that in principle can be used for chemical or solar-to-electric energy conversion.[1] For example, the primary energy conversion process in a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) is a photoinduced charge separation at the metal oxide-dye interface, making the formation and decay lifetime of the charge separated state an important aspect of these systems.[2, 3] Upon photon absorption, a surface-bound chromophore is promoted to a higher energy excited state, whereby it can …

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Memoria, Historia Y El Feminismo Decolonial: Un Análisis De La Poesía De Cristina Rodríguez Cabral Y Otras Poetas Afrolatinas, Margaree Gabrielle Obioha Jan 2022

Memoria, Historia Y El Feminismo Decolonial: Un Análisis De La Poesía De Cristina Rodríguez Cabral Y Otras Poetas Afrolatinas, Margaree Gabrielle Obioha

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study explores the poetic works of Afro-Uruguayan poet Cristina Rodríguez Cabral and other Afro-Uruguayan and Afro-Latina poets and identifies how their works contribute to the body of decolonized feminist literature. The investigation includes the historical context of Black women and Black women poets in Uruguay to set the stage for analyzing the main themes of Rodríguez Cabral’s poetry which include questioning the presentation of Afro-Uruguayan women from a European perspective, the construction of a firm and resilient Afro-Uruguayan woman and the embracing of sisterhood within the African Diaspora. These themes are strongly connected to decolonized feminism in that they …

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Clean. Freaks., Christopher Jackson Morris Jan 2022

Clean. Freaks., Christopher Jackson Morris

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

An excerpt from an experimental literary crime novel interrogating adolescent identity, internalized anti-queerness, mental illness, and white moderatism.

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Ever Higher, Kacie Reilly Jan 2022

Ever Higher, Kacie Reilly

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This is part one of my first novel.

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Examining The Effect Of The Florida Talented Twenty Program On Black Acceptance Rates At Flagship Institutions In Alabama, Juwan D. Robinson Jan 2022

Examining The Effect Of The Florida Talented Twenty Program On Black Acceptance Rates At Flagship Institutions In Alabama, Juwan D. Robinson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Americans are more college-educated today than at any point in history. Black Americans have experienced persistent inequities in higher education, especially in southern states. Alabama’s history of inequity, segregation, and lack of signature initiative to generate college access maintain and sustain gaps in higher education for Black Alabamians. Black students are especially underrepresented at the two flagship institutions in the state of Alabama. In a complex legal and political context, race-conscious efforts are often challenging to advance. This positions race-neutral efforts such as percentage plans as more viable in states such as Alabama. This study examines the application of the …

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Investigations Of Molecular Complexes For Catalytic Water Oxidation And Carbon Dioxide Reduction, Sha Tamanna Sahil Jan 2022

Investigations Of Molecular Complexes For Catalytic Water Oxidation And Carbon Dioxide Reduction, Sha Tamanna Sahil

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Modern society and technological advancements rely on a reliable and continuous supply of energy. The sun has always been the ultimate source of energy and mediated by mother nature; however, the continued reliance and use of fossil fuel resources (i.e. coal, oil, and natural gas) is causing increasingly negative environmental effects. For instance, the emission of tons of greenhouse gases from fossil fuel combustion is a leading cause of global warming, rising sea levels, and human health issues. Indeed, the concentration of CO2, a product of combustion, recently exceeded 415 ppm, rising from a pre-industrial level of less than 300 …

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