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2020-05-01 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Ingrid Hendrix, Lori D. Sloane, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Melissa Cossé, Jenny Situ, Jennifer Thompson, Ariel Hurwitz, Alexandra Yingling, Cristian Bologa, Tudor I. Oprea, George Uhl, Gregory Mertz, Kristine Tollestrup, Orrin Myers, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

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Relaxing emergency orders. UNMH remdesivir patient. NM case update. Gallup lockdown. Aid for arts. Nursing facility boost. More NM layoffs. Public relief programs. Insurance call center. Capturing COVID-19 stories. More NYT NM praise. Belief enhances compliance. Italy cardiac arrests. Non-COVID vaccine backlog. Africa investments. US airlines require facemasks. Pandemic timeline prediction. Convalescent plasma. Viral shedding. Laboratory information systems. Internet searches. Practice guidelines for: skull surgery, cardiac electrophysiology, blood purification, electroconvulsive therapy, quantitative CT. Testing methods review. FDA authorizes remdesivir. Stillbenoid analogs. Favipiravir. HCQ reanalysis. Hypercoagulation and antithrombotic. ChAdOx1 MERS and animal immunity. New drug trials. Enterocytes infections. Cardiovascular …

Preliminary Incidence And Trends Of Infections With Pathogens Transmitted Commonly Through Food - Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, 10 U.S. Sites, 2016-2019, Danielle M. Tack, Logan Ray, Patricia M. Griffin, Paul R. Cieslak, John Dunn, Tamara Rissman, Rachel Jervis, Sarah Lathrop, Alison Muse, Monique Duwell, Kirk Smith, Melissa Tobin-D'Angelo, Duc J. Vugia, Joanna Zablotsky Kufel, Beverly J. Wolpert, Robert Tauxe, Daniel C. Payne

Pathology Research and Scholarship

To evaluate progress toward prevention of enteric illnesses, the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) of CDC's Emerging Infections Program monitors the incidence of laboratory-diagnosed infections caused by eight pathogens transmitted commonly through food at 10 U.S. sites.* This report summarizes preliminary 2019 data and describes changes in incidence compared with that during 2016-2018. The incidence of enteric infections caused by these eight pathogens reported by FoodNet sites in 2019 continued to increase or remained unchanged, indicating progress in controlling major foodborne pathogens in the United States has stalled. Campylobacter and Salmonella caused the largest proportion of illnesses; trends in …

Neutrosophic Fuzzy Soft Bck-Submodules, R. S. Alghamdi, N. O. Alshehri

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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The Sociality Of Charitable Giving In An Evolutionary Perspective, Wesley Allen-Arave

Anthropology ETDs

This dissertation draws on an evolutionary perspective to document and examine the social contexts in which charitable donations and appeals occur to increase our understanding of the role that social reputation may play in people’s charitable giving decisions. Charitable giving challenges theorists to contemplate pathways to cooperation that do not require shared genes, direct reciprocity, or immediate direct gains. This dissertation investigates the extent to which people give charitable donations in settings where donations are likely to have reputational consequences and how social relationships relate to charitable giving behavior. Data is based on face-to-face interviews with 512 participants covering the …

El Duende: Folktale, Oral History, And The Construction Of Gendered And Racialized Discourses In Quito, Carolina Bucheli Penafiel

Latin American Studies ETDs

El Duende is a popular mythical character featured in written and oral traditions in Latin America and Spain, where it is often described as particularly dangerous for women. In this research project, I focus on this character to explore the cultural and social meanings of these narratives in the Ecuadorian context, specifically in the city of Quito. Applying oral history methodology, I collected nine participants’ narratives about El Duende and conducted a discourse analysis of these stories. In this thesis, I discuss ways in which the stories about El Duende reproduce narratives of traditional gender role expectations and violence against …

"Maa-Multh-Nii" People Who Came Floating In: Analogues Between Nuu-Chah-Nulth And Tlingit With Spanish Colonial Expeditions In The Eighteenth Century, Suzanne Rita Mcleod

Art & Art History ETDs

Spanish explorers first navigated the 2,400-kilometer stretch of the Pacific Northwest Coast in the latter part of the eighteenth-century, largely in response to rumors that Russian traders had established a presence in lands north of Alta California (then considered Spanish territory). Spain launched a series of expeditions to the region, the first in 1774 under Juan Josef Pérez Hernández, and the final, in 1792, under Alejandro Malaspina. The Spanish remained in the area until 1794 when political and territorial tensions with the incoming British forced a negotiation known historically as the Nootka Convention. By 1795, the empire abandoned its aspirations …

The Ontogeny Of Sex-Typed Social Strategies Among East African Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodyes Schweinfurthii), Kristin H. Sabbi

Anthropology ETDs

Although many differences in the behavior of men and women resemble those of other mammals, their developmental roots remain hotly debated due to the strong force of culture, including gender socialization, on human behavior. However, we can examine alternative and complementary mechanisms by studying chimpanzees, a closely-related species with complex sociality but without gender socialization. This dissertation comprises a multi-year, observational study of wild chimpanzee development examining three potential drivers of sex-typed social behavior: social experience, underlying differences in attention, and hormonal physiology. Immature chimpanzees experienced differential aggressive exposure that was shaped by their own early-emerging behavioral patterns. Both sexes …

How Do Farmers Experience Agroecology In Rural Communities Of Northern Ecuador?, Neil Michael Ayala Ayala

Latin American Studies ETDs

Agroecology, a concept in continuous evolution embraces science, practice and sociopolitical aspects. Its meaning is gaining space of debate and global interest as an alternative for building sustainable food systems and resilient communities, not only from the environmental perspective, but from all the dimensions of sustainability. The Andes region is recognized for its agrodiversity and for its history of agricultural activity; nevertheless, the effects of unsustainable agricultural practices inspired in the principles of the so called “Green Revolution” are evident. Conventional agriculture has decreased the capacity of resilience of the agroecosystems and their associated communities. Agroecology is often perceived as …

“This Is How You Navigate The World”: Impacts Of Mormon Rhetoric On White Queer Members' Identity Performances, Ben Brandley

Communication ETDs

The Mormon Church is one of the fastest growing and most conservative religious organizations in the world. The Church’s conservatism has meant that its rhetorics, doctrines, and discourses have cultivated a culture of queerphobia and anti-queer sentiments. By interviewing 15 transgender, bisexual, and gay Mormons who are active in the Church, I conducted a critical thematic analysis that yields insights and critiques into how Mormon rhetoric impacts the identity performances and relationships of queer members. Using queer theory and Whiteness as conceptual and theoretical lenses, the analysis revealed four major themes: 1) queerness as non-identity, 2) the primacy of divine …

Manipulation Of Human Behavior By Sexually Transmitted Organisms: Sto Infection Status As A Predictor Of Later Sexual Behavior, Ruth Sarafin

Psychology ETDs

Research into the epidemiology of sexually transmitted organisms has found a strong relationship between number of sexual partners and likelihood of infection; STO interventions have therefore focused on reducing number of sexual partners. However, this work assumes that multiple partnerships cause infection, when there is reason to believe that infection causes an increase in short-term mating behavior as a means of increasing transmission opportunities. This dissertation tests STO infection status as a predictor in follow-up sexual behavior on data from the National Longitudinal Study from Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). Four dependent variables related to short-term mating were regressed …

2020-04-28 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Lori D. Sloane, Susan Atlas, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Kathryn Foos, Emma Wolinsky, Melissa Cossé, Jenny Situ, Susie Pham, Jennifer Thompson, Fiona Nguyen, Ryen Ormesher, Avanika Mahajan, Timothy Campbell, Lynnmarie Jarratt, Samantha Paltrow-Krulwich, Alyse Raboff, Stephen Esguerra, Lauren Tagliaferro Epler, Ariel Hurwitz, Alexandra Yingling, Clinton Onyango, Perez Olewe, Cristian Bologa, Jens Langsjoen, Orrin Myers, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

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NM case update. NM antibody testing. Las Cruces essential worker screening. Small business closure inequity. More jobless benefits. Santa Fe furloughs. NM Funeral homes prepared. NM oil sector hit. State-by-state restrictions/reopenings. US testing expansion. JAMA on prisons. NY reopening focus. Farmers euthanizing animals. New Zealand success. Stockholm herd immunity. UK worst-hit in Europe. Japanese island lockdown. Spain multi-phase plan. Economic damage lockdown duration. Oil price impacts. Aerosol intubation box. Family cluster transmission. US contact tracing lacking. Chinese tracing system. Early US deaths undercounted. More poison center calls. Homeless shelter infection. Reduced coronary syndrome admissions. Italian predicted model. GIS …

Good Bye, Socialist Paradise: Representations Of Postreunification Nostalgia In Sonnenallee And Good Bye, Lenin!, Hannah L. Garver

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

This thesis analyzes the experiences constituting the protagonists’ adolescence in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as portrayed in Thomas Brussig’s book Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee, Leander Haußmann’s film Sonnenallee, and Wolfgang Becker’s film Good Bye, Lenin!. These narratives challenge assumptions that the phenomenon Ostalgie indicates a desire to return to the actual conditions of life in the former East. Using Svetlana Boym’s work on post-communist nostalgia as a theoretical framework, I argue that the representations of life in the East as presented in these texts are the protagonists’ reinterpretations of the past. The protagonists develop nostalgia for their youth …

Applications Of The Negatively-Charged Silicon Vacancy Color Center In Diamond, Forrest A. Hubert

Optical Science and Engineering ETDs

The spatial resolution and fluorescence signal amplitude in stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy is limited by the photostability of available fluorophores. Here, we show that negatively-charged silicon vacancy (SiV) centers in diamond are promising fluorophores for STED microscopy, owing to their photostable, near-infrared emission and favorable photophysical properties. A home-built pulsed STED microscope was used to image shallow implanted SiV centers in bulk diamond at room temperature. We performed STED microscopy on isolated SiV centers and observed a lateral full-width-at-half-maximum spot size of 89 ± 2 nm, limited by the low available STED laser pulse energy (0.4 nJ). For a …

2020-04-25/26 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Ingrid Hendrix, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Ariel Hurwitz, Lauren Tagliaferro Epler, Alexandra Yingling, Samuel Anyona, Perez Olewe, Tudor I. Oprea, Cristian Bologa, Orrin Myers, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

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NM and Navajo Nation case reports. NM unemployment assistance. Mount Sinai experience. NYC antibody testing starts. US states reopening. US hospitals closure risk. UK universal weekly testing. Russia holiday spikes. Assessments of double-layered cloth masks. Microwave steam disinfection. N95 reuse. Ophthalmic equipment shields. Phased reopening. Inverse quarantine. Low GI endoscopy transmission. Nursing facility transmission. Predicting per-state cases. Forecasting hospital demand. Ventilator triage policies. CDC/OSHA meat processing. Antivirals and DOACs. Thrombotic ultrasound screening. Thromboembolic complications. CT findings reporting. Nasal cannulas over ventilators. Safe intubation/extubation. Convalescent plasma eligibility. Safe ultrasound. Invasive cardiac electrophysiology. Esophageal oncologic surgery. Mental health COPD. Antibody …

2020-04-22 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Ingrid Hendrix, Lori D. Sloane, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Hannah Groves, Kathryn Foos, Emma Wolinsky, Ariel Hurwitz, Alexandra Yingling, Elly Munde, Evans Raballah, Cristian Bologa, Jens Langsjoen, Gregory Mertz, Kristine Tollestrup, Orrin Myers, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

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NM Governor update. NM case update. 20 million tests/day. 2nd COVID wave? Contact tracing civil liberties. Missouri sues China. National parks reopening. Malaysia mass transmission. South Africa deploys 70k troops. COVID impact measurement. N95 H2O2 decontamination. COVID hit US earlier. Homeless shelter prevalence. Hong Kong interventions. Pediatric severity meta-analysis. Italian prediction model. Chinese re-emergence travelers. Pet cats positive. CDC: food delivery. Telehealth transformations. Sustaining distancing. Testing infographic. Policy simulation. CDC homeless testing. Pre-surgery testing. Korean lab guidelines. Anesthetic machine daily checks. ADHD management. Oncology department reorganization. REMS vs. MEWS. Saliva vs. nasopharyngeal collection. Automated immunoassays. RT-LAMP detection. Clinical …

2020-04-21 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Lori D. Sloane, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Hannah Groves, Rachel D. King, Alexandra Yingling, Jenny Situ, Allison Price, Lynnmarie Jarratt, Ariel Hurwitz, Shahad Hersi, Ryen Ormesher, Samuel Anyona, Perez Olewe, Elly Munde, Cristian Bologa, Kristine Tollestrup, Orrin Myers, Gregory Mertz, Ingrid Hendrix, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

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NM updates. YesNM assistance. Ventilator production. Georgia reopening. Wisconsin legal challenge. Pending immigration suspension. Religious restriction parity. Hong Kong restrictions. Global food shortages. Mexico rapid spread. Oil futures negative. Socio-economic implications. Clinical disease patterns. Healthcare worker testing. WHO courses. Vaccine volunteers to be infected. Intervention impacts. Social distancing tribal. NIH releases treatment guidelines. Guidelines on: thromboembolism Tx, IBD endoscopy, vascular surgery, nutritional management, cutaneous lymphomas, cardiac surgery triage, cellular therapy. LA has 40X known cases. At-home testing. ELISA diagnostic tool. CRISPR vs. PCR. Testing coordination. Hydroxychloroquine prophylaxis. VA hydroxychloroquine study. 52 new clinical trials. Coagulation disorders. Cardiac injury. …

2020-04-20 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Ingrid Hendrix, Lori D. Sloane, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Hannah Groves, Rachel D. King, Estefania Montanez, Malik Alqawasmi, Samuel Anyona, Evans Raballah, Elly Munde, Cristian Bologa, Alexandra Yinglng, Gregory Mertz, Kristine Tollestrup, Orrin Myers, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

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NM highlights. Immigration detention centers. US outbreak perceptions. States lockdown protests. Drones sample transport. Black market antivirals. NZ eases lockdown. Germany partial reopening. Low temperature/humidity favors transmission. Wastewater epidemiology. Contact tracing privacy. D-dimer severity prediction. China fatality factors. Group testing. High throughput testing. Pet testing. WHO misinformation countermeasure. WHO produce washing. Public health strategies. Fellows education adaptations. Mental health priorities. Practice guidelines: immunocompromised cancer patients, IBD, tracheostomy, trauma surgery, neurovascular management, head & neck cancer surgery, long-term care, and respiratory home care. Remdesivir macaque clinical benefit. Hydroxychloroquine meta-analysis. Heparin anticoagulant therapy. Hypothiocyanite hypothesis. 36 new clinical trials. Neutrophil …

Neshnabé Futurisms: Indigenous Science And Eco-Politics In The Great Lakes, Blaire Kristine Topash-Caldwell

Anthropology ETDs

In the wake of global climate change anthropological work in Indigenous contexts has focused on crisis intervention. Well-intentioned scholarship has emphasized how climate change disproportionately affects Indigenous communities but in the process has also erased Native voice and agency—deleting them from the future all together. In this dissertation I argue that ecological revitalization projects by tribes, Women’s Water Walks from the ceremonial Midéwiwin Lodge, and Indigenous science fiction media together constitute “Neshnabé futurisms” that challenge or disrupt these dominant narratives. Neshnabé futurisms guide Native American ecologists, theorists, and activists in the Great Lakes region in mitigating and surviving ecological destruction …

Indigenous Wisdom, Storytelling, And Language Renewal Ꭰꮒᏸꭺꭹ, Ꭰꮒᏼꮻꮿ Ꭰꭷꮩꭵꭿꮝꮧ Ꭴꮒꭽ, Ꭰꮴꭿꮠꮧᏹ Ꭶꮼꮒꭿꮝꮧ, Arlo Starr

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

Abstract ᎧᏃᎮᏍᎩ

Language, cultural immersion, and intergenerational land-based education have shown the potential to vastly improve dire health issues that Indigenous people face. What is the most effective way to produce a large number of second language learners who speak at a basic level in order to improve Indigenous health?

Relationship is a vital part of Indigenous cosmology. Rather than promoting the consumption of words as things, acquisition will be more readily integrated into relationship-based thought when also interacting with them in context through story, and cultural activities that are fun, understandable, and engage community. Many successful language immersion models …

Remixing The Archives: Indigenous Interpretations Of History And The Future, Marcella Alexis Ernest

American Studies ETDs

This dissertation examines how Native art makes critical interventions that are aesthetically and intellectually arranged with the intention of displacing the master narratives. The project tracks how film and photography—historically used by non-Native people as a tool of colonialism—are being reclaimed by the visual and sonic scholarship of contemporary Native artists. The project shows how multidisciplinary artists use technology to remix audiovisual archives from a specific time in American history: portrait photography and ethnographic filmmaking at the turn of the twentieth century, Hollywood’s frontier representations of Indianness in twentieth-century motion pictures, social guidance classroom films from the 1950s, and digital …

#Abolishice: An Anti-Capitalist And Anti-Colonial Approach To Black, Indigenous, And Migrant Solidarity Building, Cecilia I. Frescas-Ortiz

American Studies ETDs

This thesis project interrogates possible sites of alignment and solidarity building between the migrant justice movement, Black liberation and Indigenous decolonization. By first looking at the use of tear gas in Ferguson, Standing Rock and at the U.S.-Mexico border, I argue that a solidarity between Black, Indigenous and migrant communities rooted in an anti-capitalist and anti-colonial desire is absolutely necessary. Moreover, by focusing primarily on the migrant justice movement, I argue that the current iterations centered on inclusion and recognition reinforce the State’s dominion over bodies of color and exacerbate Black death and Indigenous genocide. As such, this thesis proposes …

Zinc Finger Dna Repair Protein Targets Of Arsenite In The Nucleotide Excision Repair Pathway, Juliana M. Huestis

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

Environmental arsenic exposure affects around 100 million people worldwide. Recent evidence shows that arsenite, even at low concentrations, may act as a co-carcinogen, by displacing zinc from the zinc finger motifs of certain DNA repair proteins, leaving them vulnerable to redox modification and loss of protein function. This study probes the physical chemistry underlying arsenite and zinc binding to XPA and PARP1, in the hope of illuminating some of the aspects of protein structure that determine susceptibility to arsenite binding. In this study, dissociation constants are determined for zinc and arsenite binding to peptides corresponding to the C4 zinc finger …

Advancing Elastic Solid Dynamics In Computer Graphics, Ran Luo

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

This dissertation proposes novel algorithms and applications and provides a real-time and easy-to-use simulator for realistic animation of the 3D solid model. The Finite Element Method (FEM) is a popular tool in the community because of its accurate result, however, the FEM is computationally expensive to handle a large number of DOFs. We present novel techniques to combine linear and nonlinear elasticity with model reduction to provide fast and realistic animation. On the other hand, one of the most important computation tasks of solid simulation is to evaluate the gradient vector and Hessian matrix of elastic energy function. We present …

2020-04-14 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Hannah Groves, Danielle Rivera, Rachel D. King, Estafania Montanez, Jolene Lobo, Samuel Anyona, Evans Raballah, Cristian Bologa, Andrew S. Rowland, Kristine Tollestrup, Tudor I. Oprea, Orrin Myers, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

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NMDOH county demographics online. NM emergency business loans. ABQ businesses violations. NM 5 new deaths 62 more cases. May 1 reopening too optimistic. MA contract tracing. Federal Ventilator Reserve. GM mass ventilator production. Ventilator-sharing device. $400M N-95 mask sterilization 60 sites. UNM PPE reprocessing online. Drug quality vulnerable. Managing urgent airway calls. Social distancing until 2022. SARS-Cov-2 blood supply. Contact tracing national blueprint. Mental health endangered. Successful surgical rapid response. Contact tracing medical ethics. Animal coronaviruses: human lessons. IDSA management guidelines. Ophthalmic practice. Pain management. Obstetrics management. Oncology practice. Forward triage. Scoring time-sensitive procedures. Outpatient structural heart disease. …

Evolutionary Ecology Of Host-Parasite Relationships: Role Of Host Ecology, Phylogeny, And Demographics In Shaping Parasite Evolution, Erika Taylor Gendron

Biology ETDs

Host-parasite systems exist across complex and ecologically heterogeneous landscapes, and may occur across taxonomically and ecologically disparate host species. Under these conditions, mechanisms underlying microevolutionary processes (i.e. gene flow, genetic drift) are not always clear, and may be mediated by numerous co-occurring factors specific to individual hosts. Host traits such as host immunology, demographics, phylogeny and ecology may act in concert to shape host-parasite relationships, and ultimately evolutionary processes. The research described herein used phylogeographic, phylogenomic, and population genetic methods to further understanding of how host traits impact the evolutionary ecology of trematode systems, using avian schistosomes (Digenea: Schistosomatidae) as …

Contemporary Alaska Native Identities: Creation And Curation By Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Tess Mccoy

Art & Art History ETDs

I focus on contemporary Alaska Native artist, Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Iñupiaq, Athbaskan, Irish, German), her works of art, exhibitions, and her curatorial practices to explain the presentation history of Native American people and how this affects present-day exhibitions. Through her work, I explore the importance of agency of Native people through identity, depictions of themselves, and their people in museum spaces. I examine the history of museum culture as the way in which indigenous agency is removed and reconstructed to fit the needs of interest groups. In contrast, Kelliher-Combs and other advocates attempt to intervene and interrogate the persistence of archaic …

2020-04-11/12 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Samuel Anyona, Evans Raballah, Perez Olewe, Hannah Groves, Danielle Rivera, Estefania Montanez, Rachel D. King, Cristian Bologa, Jeremy Yang, Tudor I. Oprea, Orrin Myers, Andrew S. Rowland, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

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No NM church gatherings. NM a testing champ. Consolidation of elderly care. NM case update. 50-state disaster. Ventilator haggling. Economy reopening planning. PPE decontamination. Hospital ward contamination. Prolonged return to normal. FEMA projections. WHO tracking app. China SEIR model. Hubei epi. Mortality best measure. Covid-19 wave 2. Public should wear masks. Civil liberties. Safe grocery shopping. School closure impact. CDC caretaker guidelines. Psychiatric mobilization. Keep newborns with mom. C-section protocol. Italian obstetrics. Pediatric cardiac catherization. Chinese anesthesiology consensus. Cancer guidelines. Neuro-oncologic Tx. Radiology algorithm. Lung ultrasonography. ARF care. VTE common and predictable. Liver transplantation. Auto-immune treatments. Extracorporeal kidney …

Backyard Wildlife Refuges In Albuquerque, Nm: An Urban Land Ethic In Practice, Laurel E. Ladwig

Geography ETDs

In the urban setting, biodiversity conservation requires intentionally creating spaces humans and wildlife can share. An urban land ethic can guide this process. Developing and practicing this ethic requires asking questions that consider approaches from multiple disciplines and avoid anthropocentric framing. Both More-Than-Human and Critical Physical Geography bring multiple knowledges into conversation to make complex realities visible. This project explores these fields of scholarship as guides for reconciling the needs of the land community.

Sharing familiar spaces creates opportunities for developing ethical relationships between humans, non-humans, and natural systems. Wildlife gardening creates habitat in our residential and community areas, providing …

Climate Change Adaptation In Highland Ecuador: Intersections Of Gender, Geography, And Knowledge In Farming Communities, Dinka Natali Caceres Arteaga

Latin American Studies ETDs

This dissertation uses a feminist political ecology perspective to explore the socioeconomic impacts of climate change in Ecuador, especially but not limited to the agriculture sector. It is based on the use of mixed methods that allowed the participation and validation of the local population, surpassing their role as beneficiaries to co-authors of this research.

The significance of this study relies on the position the local population holds in the fields of human geography, under a community local-planning perspective, as they attempted to collaborate in the process of adaptation to climate change by presenting analysis and calculation of an index …

2020-04-08 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Sammy Anyona, Shawn Stoicu, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Hannah Groves, Danielle Rivera, Estefania Montanez, Rachel D. King, Andrew S. Rowland, Tudor I. Oprea, Orrin Myers, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

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Call for all UNMH healthcare workers to wear masks. Navajo Nation curfew. Congress introduces $250B local aid legislation. State cash stimulus for self-employed. Domestic travel curtailment. Measles threat looms as vaccinations paused. UK expanding hospital sites. African Americans worse risk of infection and death. 40k healthcare worker hydroxychloroquine trial. Employment woes for early career US and foreign scientists. Measles threat looms. UK makeshift hospital expansion. African Americans more vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2. Large prophylactic hydroxychloroquine trials for healthcare workers. New CDC and WHO face covering guidelines. UK NICE guidance: Paracetamol, not NSAIDs for managing COVID-19 fever. Large review of …