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Open-Ish Access:" Collaborative Solutions For Sensitive Information In Unm's Native Health Database, Jonathan M. Pringle

Posters and Presentations

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Cognizant Composites: Seamless Integration Of Circuitry And Sensors Into Structural Composites, Reuben Fresquez

Computer Science ETDs

This thesis describes a set of novel techniques for embedding sensors, circuitry, and electronics into structural composites. I leverage recent developments in human computer interaction to create sensors and circuitry that are seamlessly incorporated into structural composites. I fabricate bend and compression sensors, along with circuitry, from textiles, which enables me to add electronic capabilities without impacting the composite’s structural integrity. I describe the construction of these “cognizant composites” and demonstrate their functionality. I also explore techniques for embedding standard electronic components, including microcontrollers, into structural composites. Potential applications of this technology include buildings that can warn occupants if load-bearing …

Beauty, Real Or Apparent: Christian Kings, Muslim Artisans, And The Development Of An Imperial Image Through The Silk And Horticulture Industries In Sicily. (Ca. 1090-1190), Casey K. Brown

History ETDs

In the wake of the Norman conquest of Sicily in the second half of the eleventh century, the Mediterranean island housed a diverse collection of Greek, Latin, and Muslim communities. Norman kings chose Palermo to become the seat of Latin-Christian Sicilian government for its productivity and strategic location and included the island into the complex world of self-fashioning politics and exchange. For Sicilian and ‘foreign’ Muslims alike, the imperious pose Roger II and his successors held created a precarious balancing act between the real and imagined worlds of Sicily. The content of this thesis is primarily concerned with the impact …

The Profound Photophysical Effects Of Organic Chromophore Connectivity And Coupling, David J. Walwark Jr

Nanoscience and Microsystems ETDs

Through-bond and through-space interactions between chromophores are shown to have wide-ranging effects on photophysical outcomes upon light absorption in organic molecules. In collapsed poly(3-hexylthiophene), through-space coupling creates hybrid chromophores that act as energy sinks for nearby excitons and favorable sites for molecular oxygen to dock. Upon excitation with visible light the highly-coupled chromophores react with the docked oxygen and subsequently do not quench nearby excitons as efficiently. In tetramer arrays of perylene diimide chromophores the central moiety through-bond connectivity is synthesized in two variants which exhibit vastly different single-molecule blinking behavior and theoretically-predicted electronic transition character. In the more-connected tetramer …

Measurement Of Resilience Performance For Infrastructure Construction Project Delivery, Fei Han

Civil Engineering ETDs

In the past decade, infrastructure resilience in the U.S. has become critical due to increasing disruptions to the built environment and the resultant consequences on economic, social, and environmental goals. This attention to resilience research is drawn to investigating the ability of existing structures and facilities to resist and recover from natural and human-caused hazards. From a broader view, resilience also applies to processes, such as infrastructure project delivery processes. During these processes, a project often suffers inevitable threats and disruptions, which can significantly delay or derail the project if the process is not resilient.

This research aimed to conceptualize …

African American Female Caregivers’ Perceptions, Experiences, And Expectations Of The Special Education Process, Lenell Denise Walton

Special Education ETDs

A select few African American families who have a child with a disability have the skills and knowledge to be proactive in the special education process. Special education teams must guide and mentor African American students and their families through the special education process. However, African American families have consistently contended that their child’s special education team does not provide the services necessary to meet their child’s academic goals. This qualitative study examined the perceptions, experiences, and expectations of African American female caregivers regarding the special education process. Participants were nine African American mothers and one sibling whose family members …

Staying Afloat: Experiences Of Previously Incarcerated Students, Jodi Burshia, Jodi Burshia

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The experiences of Previously Incarcerated Indigenous Students (PIIS) need to be understood so that educators and administrators can include the experiences, perspectives, and realities of Indigenous students who have been previously incarcerated in Adult Basic Education (ABE) and collegiate programs at Tribal Community Colleges and Universities (TCUs). To date, considering and providing targeted support for this population has not been part of the focus of TCUs even when all tribal colleges work to strengthen the cultural heritage of their respective tribes (Bad Wound, 1990) and some students at TCUs are PIIS. This qualitative study offers a respectful critique of higher …

Improving Peer Review Of Systematic Reviews By Involving Librarians And Information Specialists: Protocol For A Randomized Controlled Trial, Melissa L. Rethlefsen, Sara Schroter, Lex M. Bouter, David Moher, Ana Patricia Ayala, Jamie J. Kirkham, Maurice P. Zeegers

Publications

BACKGROUND: Problems continue to exist with the reporting quality and risk of bias in search methods and strategies in systematic reviews and related review types. Peer reviewers who are not familiar with what is required to transparently and fully report a search may not be prepared to review the search components of systematic reviews, nor may they know what is likely to introduce bias into a search. Librarians and information specialists, who have expertise in searching, may offer specialized knowledge that would help improve systematic review search reporting and lessen risk of bias, but they are underutilized as methodological peer …

Social Informatics Techniques Used To Develop A Tool For Testing Electronic Prescription Systems For Substance Use Management In A Pandemic, Azka Riaz Naru

Biomedical Informatics Seminar Series (BioMISS)

Learning Objectives

Effective prescription practices for opioid addicts involve a complex process. This seminar describes how informatics need assessment techniques clarified prescribers’ needs for a software interface.

By completion of this seminar, participants should be able to:

1. Describe how the Covid-19 Pandemic complicated an already complex prescribing decision making process.
2. Summarize how the investigator conducted the needs assessment process using social informatics techniques.

Target Audience

Anyone from UNM or who has an interest in biomedical informatics including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, educators, researchers, faculty, and staff.

Explorations And Developments In Multifunctionality, 3d Printing, And Accelerated Aging For Thermoplastics And Thermosets, Zachary Brounstein

Nanoscience and Microsystems ETDs

If the world is to progress through the fourth industrial revolution, rapid advances in materials science must complement new technological feats in manufacturing, computation and device functionality, and a broader understanding of how materials behave as they age and degrade. To this effect, much effort has been directed towards polymeric materials to address and solve many problems in this new era. This includes developing polymer composites that incorporate fillers to imbue multifunctionality, fabricating novel formulations for additive manufacturing, and conducting aging studies to assess the performance of these materials over long time spans. Building and expanding on the latest research …

Faena: A Narrative-Based Language Learning Video Game, Isabel Last

Shared Knowledge Conference

In 2018, the Modern Language Association revealed that Spanish as a second-language higher education enrollment decreased by 9.8% and those who were enrolled in large part are not reaching minimal communicative fluency in Spanish. Both traditional classrooms and non-traditional methods such as Duolingo, Babbel, and Rosetta Stone are part of the problem of failing to provide learners a successful path towards actually speaking and interacting in the target language nor do they successfully maintain motivation long enough for learners to have a chance to even reach communicative fluency. Usage-based, second-language acquisition (SLA) theorists and data on cognition and memory posit …

Life-Or-Death: An Assessment Of Covid-19 Messaging In New Mexico And Potential Consequences For The Spanish-Speaking Population, Victoria Pena-Parr

Shared Knowledge Conference

A common theme throughout history is that marginalized communities are typically the communities hit the hardest during times of crisis. When the fatal coronavirus put the entire world on lockdown in 2020, there were great concerns that marginalized communities would be the most affected by the disease. This was met directly with promises from government officials ensuring that minority populations would not be left out of COVID-19 relief efforts. These promises included some from New Mexico's own Governor Michelle Luján Grisham. However, our study shows that the state of New Mexico not only neglected but failed to provide equity for …

Highly Durable Doped Barium Niobate Perovskite Electrodes For Electrochemical Oxidative Coupling Of Methane, Luke Denoyer

Shared Knowledge Conference

Highly Durable Doped Barium Niobate Perovskite Electrodes for Electrochemical Oxidative Coupling of Methane Luke H. Denoyer1,2, Kyle J Troche Angelica Benavidez1, Fernando H. Garzon*,1,2, Kannan P. Ramaiyan*,1,2 1 Primary Affiliation: University of New Mexico Contact: [email protected] 2 CISTAR/NSF Abstract Recently discovered large, and unused shale gas reserves provide an inexpensive methane source which is unfortunately difficult to transport in an economically viable manner. Hence, the on-site conversion of methane to ethylene for better utilization of the trapped methane gas is highly intriguing. Our studies here focus on the electrochemical oxidative coupling of methane (EC-OCM), which aims to convert methane using …

The Development Of Discourse Markers In Narrations Written By Spanish Heritage Language Learners, Mark Cisneros

Shared Knowledge Conference

Studies in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) indicate that the use of discourse markers (DMs) in the academic writing of second language learners improves the overall quality of these written texts by contributing to their cohesion and comprehensibility (Saif Modhish 2012; Jalilifar 2008; Intaraprawat & Steffensen 1995). The use of DMs not only improves the quality of second language (L2) written texts, but also that of texts produced by speakers in their first language (L1). Learning how to properly use DMs allows L1 writers to become more conscious of how they present the information in their texts (Steffensen & …

Horrible Networks - When Media Kill Ethics, Sudhiti Naskar

Shared Knowledge Conference

Networks are organizations of people and their interests. Without networks, societies would collapse. However, in recent times, several societies in various nations have observed that networks can breed hatred, lies, increased discrimination, and racism, thereby crippling democracies and eroding their ethical fabrics. In an increasingly digital and technology-empowered world that's mutually networked, the functions and objectives of networks need special attention, mainly because there is scarce understanding about their compositions, organizations, and operations. In Communication, one of the ways networks are understood is through the concepts of first-order networks that include infrastructural units like TV stations, towers, switches, devices, and …

20211108_Hslic Is Hiring - Graduate Project Assistant Position, Tamara Wheeler

HSLIC Blog Post

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11/08/2021 Meeting, Kelleen Maluski

Meeting Minutes

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Intelligent Internet Of Things Frameworks For Smart City Safety, Dimitrios Sikeridis

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

The emerging Smart City ecosystem consists of a vast edge network of Internet of Things (IoT) devices that continuously interact with mobile devices carried by its citizens. In this setting, the IoT infrastructure, apart from the main communications facilitator, acts as a crowdsourcing mechanism that collects massive amounts of user data, and can support public safety applications for the Smart City. In this thesis, we design and analyze learning mechanisms that extract intelligence from crowd interactions with the wireless IoT infrastructure, and optimize its energy efficiency while operating as a public safety network. First, we deploy a multi-story facility testbed …

20211103_You're Invited. More Than Words- Without Action, It's Just Musical Acronyms, Kelleen Maluski

HSLIC Blog Post

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Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements For Children Age 6-24 Months: A Systematic Review And Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis Of Effects On Developmental Outcomes And Effect Modifiers, Elizabeth L. Prado, Charles D. Arnold, K Ryan Wessells, Christine P. Stewart, Souheila Abbeddou, Seth Adu-Afarwuah, Benjamin F. Arnold, Ulla Ashorn, Per Ashorn, Elodie Becquey, Kenneth H. Brown, Jaya Chandna, Parul Christian, Holly N. Dentz, Sherlie J L Dulience, Lia C H Fernald, Emanuela Galasso, Lotta Hallamaa, Sonja Y. Hess, Lieven Huybregts, Lora L Iannotti, Elizabeth Yakes Jimenez, Patricia Kohl, Anna Lartey, Agnes Le Port, Stephen P. Luby, Kenneth Maleta, Andrew Matchado, Susana L. Matias, Malay K. Mridha, Robert Ntozini, Clair Null, Maku E. Ocansey, Sarker M. Parvez, John Phuka, Amy J. Pickering, Andrew J. Prendergast, Abu A. Shamim, Zakia Siddiqui, Fahmida Tofail, Ann M. Weber, Lee S F Wu, Kathryn G. Dewey

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: Small-quantity (SQ) lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNSs) provide many nutrients needed for brain development.

OBJECTIVES: We aimed to generate pooled estimates of the effect of SQ-LNSs on developmental outcomes (language, social-emotional, motor, and executive function), and to identify study-level and individual-level modifiers of these effects.

METHODS: We conducted a 2-stage meta-analysis of individual participant data from 14 intervention against control group comparisons in 13 randomized trials of SQ-LNSs provided to children age 6-24 mo (total n = 30,024).

RESULTS: In 11-13 intervention against control group comparisons (n = 23,588-24,561), SQ-LNSs increased mean language (mean difference: 0.07 SD; 95% CI: 0.04, …

Shea Pediatric Leadership Council Commentary: Inpatient Visitor Considerations For Pediatric Patients During The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) Pandemic, Allison H. Bartlett, Karen A Ravin, Lorry G Rubin, Caitlin Mcgrath, Annabelle De St Maurice, W Matthew Linam, Latania K. Logan, Martha Muller, Carolyn Caughell, Lynn Ramirez-Avila, Shea Pediatric Leadership Council

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

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Guidance On The Critical Shortage Of Sodium Citrate Coagulation Tubes For Hemostasis Testing, Robert C. Gosselin, Annette Bowyer, Emmanuel J. Favaloro, Jill M. Johnsen, Giuseppe Lippi, Richard A. Marlar, Keith Neeves, Marian A. Rollins-Raval

Pathology Research and Scholarship

Recent manufacturing problems and increased utilization has created a shortage of 3.2% sodium citrate blood collection tubes used for coagulation testing, causing stakeholders such as hospitals, clinics and laboratories, to find suitable alternatives. Considerations for in-house citrate blood collection tube preparations or purchasing commercial products from unknown manufacturing sources is of particular concern to laboratories that perform coagulation testing. It is well recognized that variability exists between citrate blood collection tube manufacturers, thereby making any transition to new blood collection methods more challenging than simply switching to a new source. This document provides provisional guidance for validating alternative sources of …

Correlates Of Co-Rumination Among Married Women And Men In Pakistan, Mohib Rehman

Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs

This dissertation examined co-rumination among married men and women and its effects on their marital quality and depressive outcomes. The study addressed the concept of co-rumination in the Pakistani family context as the notion of gender role affects many aspects of people’s lives in Pakistan including their self-disclosure. Data were collected online through social media from 150 married men and women who were in a marital relationship for at least a year. Using multiple regression, the association between co-rumination and depression was assessed and the moderating role of gender was examined to see if co-rumination results in different outcomes among …

Fast Video-Based Face Recognition In Collaborative Learning Environments, Phuong Tran

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

Face recognition is a classical problem in Computer Vision that has experienced significant progress recently. Yet, face recognition in videos remains challenging. In digital videos, face recognition is complicated by occlusion, pose and lighting variations, and persons entering and leaving the scene. The goal of the thesis is to develop a fast method for face recognition in digital videos that is applicable to large datasets. Instead of the standard video-based methods that are tested on short videos, the goal of the approach is to be applicable to long educational videos of several minutes to hours, with the ultimate goal of …

Contract-Theoretic Demand Response Management In Smart Grid Systems, Nafis Irtija

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

The sheer growth of electricity demand and the rising number of electricity-hungry devices have highlighted and elevated the need of addressing the demand response management problem in residential smart grid systems. In this thesis, a novel contract-theoretic demand response management (DRM) framework in residential smart grid systems is introduced based on the principles of labor economics. The residential households produce and consume electricity, acting as dynamic prosumers. Initially, the prosumers' personal electricity generation and consumption characteristics are captured by introducing the concept of prosumers' types. Then, the prosumers' and the electricity market's profit is depicted in representative utility functions. Based …

Smart Energy Harvesting For Internet Of Things Networks, Fisayo Sangoleye

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

In this thesis, we address the problem of prolonging the battery life of Internet of Things (IoT) nodes by introducing a smart energy harvesting framework for IoT networks supported by femtocell access points (FAPs) based on the principles of Contract Theory and Reinforcement Learning. Initially, the IoT nodes’ social and physical characteristics are identified and captured through the concept of IoT node types. Then, Contract Theory is adopted to capture the interactions among the FAPs, who provide personalized rewards, i.e., charging power, to the IoT nodes to incentivize them to invest their effort, i.e., transmission power, to report their data …

Data Sharing Workshop, Lori D. Sloane

Posters and Presentations

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the key elements of planning clinical research data management
• Outline steps needed to develop a data collection plan
• Locate standards, validated instruments, and coding schemes for research
• Describe and implement the different components of a data management plan
• Introduction to OpenRefine data tool

Building Consensus Around The Future Remote Work: One Library’S Study, Sally Bowler-Hill

Posters and Presentations

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to explore and understand employee perceptions of remote work as a potential option after the library returns to “normal” operations. This survey was used to develop the library’s telecommuting and remote work guideline.

METHODS: An 8-question, web-based survey was sent to all library faculty and staff, asking their opinions about working remotely after the COVID-19 pandemic. The study was declared minimal risk by our institutional IRB. The questions included multiple choice and free-text responses about how often employees wanted to work remotely; what tasks they believed could be done productively from home; what …

10/11/2021 Meeting, Kelleen Maluski

Meeting Minutes

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Fundamental Homomorphism Theorems For Neutrosophic Triplet Module, Mehmet Çelik, Necati Olgun

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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