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When High-Water-Use Neighbors Move In: Farming Pecans In Valencia County, New Mexico, Tylee M. Griego

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

Valencia County, comprised of a collection of farming communities in the Middle Rio Grande of central New Mexico, is undergoing a fundamental change in its irrigated agriculture. Historically, over recent decades, it has had many smaller-sized farms, or “hobby farms”, with fewer larger commercial enterprises, and with alfalfa as its dominant crop. But in recent years, it has seen a significant expansion of acreage devoted to pecan orchards – a higher value commercial crop that also is substantially higher in water use. Some of these orchards have been planted on land not previously irrigated. The Rio Grande flows through the …

Judicial Philosophy 2022: Ethics & Professionalism In Appellate Decision-Making, Verónica C. Gonzales

Faculty Scholarship

Handout

Virtual Continuing Legal Education Program, Judicial Education Center, University of New Mexico School of Law

Judicial philosophy often plays a role in judicial appointments and elections. Members of the public ask candidates about their approach to the decision-making and law-making functions of the courts. The panel will delve into the ethical implications and challenges of serving on a court whose primary functions are error correction, statutory and regulatory interpretation, determinations of public policy, and development of common law. In discussing their personal philosophies and the challenges of deciding cases in panels, the panelists will also emphasize the impact of …

Hydrocortisone To Improve Survival Without Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia, Kristi L. Watterberg, Michele C. Walsh, Lei Li, Sanjay Chawla, Carl T. D'Angio, Ronald N Goldberg, Susan R. Hintz, Matthew M Laughon, Bradley A. Yoder, Kathleen A. Kennedy, Georgia E. Mcdavid, Conra Backstrom-Lacy, Abhik Das, Margaret M. Crawford, Martin Keszler, Gregory M. Sokol, Brenda B. Poindexter, Namasivayam Ambalavanan, Anna Maria Hibbs, William E. Truog, Barbara Schmidt, Myra H. Wyckoff, Amir M. Khan, Meena Garg, Patricia R. Chess, Anne M. Reynolds, Mohannad Moallem, Edward F. Bell, Lauritz R. Meyer, Ravi M. Patel, Krisa P. Van Meurs, C Michael Cotten, Elisabeth C. Mcgowan, Abbey C. Hines, Stephanie Merhar, Myriam Peralta-Carcelen, Deanne E. Wilson-Costello, Howard W. Kilbride, Sara B. Demauro, Roy J. Heyne, Ricardo A. Mosquera, Girija Natarajan, Isabell B. Purdy, Jean R. Lowe, Nathalie L. Maitre, Heidi M. Harmon, Laurie A. Hogden, Ira Adams-Chapman, Sarah Winter, William F. Malcolm, Rosemary D. Higgins, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Nichd Neonatal Research Network

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia is a prevalent complication after extremely preterm birth. Inflammation with mechanical ventilation may contribute to its development. Whether hydrocortisone treatment after the second postnatal week can improve survival without bronchopulmonary dysplasia and without adverse neurodevelopmental effects is unknown.

METHODS: We conducted a trial involving infants who had a gestational age of less than 30 weeks and who had been intubated for at least 7 days at 14 to 28 days. Infants were randomly assigned to receive either hydrocortisone (4 mg per kilogram of body weight per day tapered over a period of 10 days) or placebo. Mandatory …

Alternative Chicanx Educational Activism In The U.S. Southwest, 1935–1975, Moises Santos

History ETDs

This project studies the use of independent newspapers, community theater, and independent Chicana/o colleges by activists to educate their community. Geographically, this study is placed in the Southwest states of New Mexico, Texas, and California. Using the theoretical frameworks of Southwest Borderlands Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education, this project contextualizes the historical racial power dynamics of U.S. takeover in the Southwest region that influence oppressive educational practices, and the challenge to those institutions by the alternative educational activism among Chicanx communities.

Activists employed ingenuity to provide educational materials to their communities when they needed them the most. These …

Monitoring Of Structural Quality Under Construction Using 3d Point Cloud Data, Xinxing Yuan

Civil Engineering ETDs

Inspection of infrastructure under construction has become an active research topic in the past few decades. Due to rising costs and safety concerns of current inspection methods, automated inspection methods are proposed. In this context, this dissertation has developed a framework that uses 3D point cloud data from the bridge under construction and evaluates the design specifications and the strength capacity of the structure while is being built. This study presents a slicing algorithm for automatically evaluating rebar placement using 3D point cloud data. The outcomes of this research provide structural engineering with (i) automatic inspection of reinforcement during construction; …

Educating Health Professionals About Covid-19 With Echo Telementoring., Joanna G Katzman, Karla Thornton, Nestor Sosa, Laura Tomedi, Leslie Hayes, Marla Sievers, Karissa Culbreath, Kent Norsworthy, Chamron Martin, Alaina Martinez, Jinyang Liu, Sanjeev Arora

Project ECHO Bibliography

BACKGROUND: When the COVID-19 pandemic began, primary care clinicians had almost no knowledge regarding best practices COVID-19 treatment. Project ECHO developed a COVID-19 Infectious Disease Office Hours (Office Hours) program to respond to the needs of clinicians seeking COVID-19 information.

METHODS: This mixed-methods evaluation analyzed weekly post-session data and focus group results from the weekly Office Hours ECHO sessions during June 1, 2020- May 31, 2021.

RESULTS: A total of 1,421 participants attended an average of 4.9 sessions during the 45 Office Hours sessions studied. The most common specialties included: nurses= 530 (37%), physicians= 284 (20%), and 493 (34%) having …

From Zero-Sum To Economic Partners: Reframing State Tax Policies In Indian Country In The Post-Covid Economy, Pippa Browde

New Mexico Law Review

The disparate impact COVID-19 has had on Indian Country reveals problems centuries in the making from the legacy of colonialism. One of those problems is state encroachment in Indian Country, including attempts to assert taxing authority within Indian Country. The issue of the reaches of state taxing authority in Indian Country has resulted in law that is both uncertain and highly complex, chilling both outside investment and economic development for tribes. As the United States emerges from COVID-19, to focus only on the toll exacted on tribes and their peoples ignores the tremendous opportunities for states to right these historical …

Surviving The Field: Providing The Bare Minimum For Farmworkers In New Mexico, Annie Swift

New Mexico Law Review

People have cultivated the land now known as New Mexico for millennia. Throughout the last century, however, state law has denied important protections to agricultural workers and thereby contributed to the creation of an agrarian working class that is especially vulnerable to political majorities and powerful interests. For example, the New Mexico legislature explicitly exempted certain farm workers from the Workers’ Compensation Act in 1937, and from the Minimum Wage Act in 1966. Nationally, farm workers have faced exclusion from various labor, health, and safety laws. Consequently, farm workers have enjoyed few legal safeguards against the risk of injury and …

“Reverse” 404(B) Is Not An Evidence Law Issue: A Call To Revive The Compulsory Process Clause As A Vehicle For Evidence Admission, Clay Wilwol

New Mexico Law Review

In criminal cases, Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) is typically used by prosecutors seeking to introduce non-propensity “crimes, wrongs, or other acts” evidence against defendants. However, sometimes it is the defendant who seeks to use the Rule as a vehicle for evidence admissibility, either to provide such evidence to implicate the guilt of a third party or to help prove the intent or motive of alleged victims in violent crimes involving altercations. This latter defense-proffered use of Rule 404(b) has been termed “reverse” 404(b), and currently there is disagreement among courts (both federal and state) regarding how to assess the …

Jemez Pueblo Tribal Court Handbook (2022), Tribal Law Journal Staff

Tribal Law Journal

This handbook helps take some of the mystery out of practicing in tribal courts. Without the necessary information to learn new rules and protocols many attorneys are understandably reluctant to practice in a new jurisdiction. As a result, tribal courts are underused or misused. This handbook is intended to help attorneys and advocates become more aware of the various individual tribal court systems and to learn their rules and protocol.

Educating Health Professionals About Covid-19 With Echo Telementoring, Joanna G. Katzman, Karla Thornton, Nestor Sosa, Laura Tomedi, Leslie Hayes, Marla Sievers, Karissa Culbreath, Kent Norsworthy, Chamron Martin, Alaina Martinez, Jinyang Liu, Sanjeev Arora

Pathology Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: When the COVID-19 pandemic began, primary care clinicians had almost no knowledge regarding best practices COVID-19 treatment. Project ECHO developed a COVID-19 Infectious Disease Office Hours (Office Hours) program to respond to the needs of clinicians seeking COVID-19 information.

METHODS: This mixed-methods evaluation analyzed weekly post-session data and focus group results from the weekly Office Hours ECHO sessions during June 1, 2020- May 31, 2021.

RESULTS: A total of 1,421 participants attended an average of 4.9 sessions during the 45 Office Hours sessions studied. The most common specialties included: nurses= 530 (37%), physicians= 284 (20%), and 493 (34%) having …

Phase I Treatability Study Report For In-Situ Bioremediation At The Technical Area-V Groundwater Area Of Concern, March 2022, Sandia National Laboratories/Nm

Environmental Restoration

To test an active remedy for treating the groundwater contamination at the Technical Area-V (TA-V) Groundwater (TAVG) Area of Concern (AOC), the U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) and Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico (SNL/NM) personnel implemented a Treatability Study of In-Situ Bioremediation (ISB) to remediate the two constituents of concern, trichloroethene (TCE) and nitrate. Both contaminants were detected in the groundwater at TA-V at concentrations above their respective U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maximum contaminant levels (MCLs). The EPA MCLsare the cleanup goals for groundwater remediation at the TAVG AOC as specified in the Compliance Order on …

The United States Supreme Court’S Enduring Misunderstanding Of Insanity, David Dematteo, Daniel A. Krauss, Sarah Fishel, Kellie Wiltsie

New Mexico Law Review

Within mental health law, the legal defense of insanity has received a disproportionate amount of attention. Classified as a legal excuse, the insanity defense generally negates legal blameworthiness for criminal defendants who successfully prove that at the time of the offense, they did not know right from wrong or were unable to conform their conduct to the requirements of the law, due to an underlying mental health condition. The insanity defense has a lengthy history in the United States, with several different formulations and numerous court decisions addressing various aspects of the defense. Despite its firm entrenchment in U.S. criminal …

Pueblo Of Pojoaque Tribal Court Handbook (2022), Tribal Law Journal Staff

Tribal Law Journal

This handbook helps take some of the mystery out of practicing in tribal courts. Without the necessary information to learn new rules and protocols many attorneys are understandably reluctant to practice in a new jurisdiction. As a result, tribal courts are underused or misused. This handbook is intended to help attorneys and advocates become more aware of the various individual tribal court systems and to learn their rules and protocol.

Data And How To Manage It, Lori D. Sloane

Posters and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Seeing Is Believing: The Role Of The Visual Stimulus In Cognitive Knowledge Of Sound Structure, John M. Sances

Linguistics ETDs

Usage-based Phonology proposes that language users’ knowledge is stored in the form of exemplars reflecting experience of language usage. Exemplars encompass all visual and auditory information perceived during a language interaction, but few studies have examined the role that visual information plays. This dissertation addresses this question through two experiments. Experiment 1 tested perceptions of rounding via the visual signal (lip protrusion) in native French speakers. Participants perceived rounding in both visual and auditory signals, suggesting they may store the visual stimulus in their exemplars. Experiment 2 tested native American English speakers learning French on perceptions of rounding using audio …

Long-Term Monitoring And Maintenance Plan For The Mixed Waste Landfill - March 2012, Revision I February 16, 2022, Sandia National Laboratories/Nm

Facilities-Units

This Revision I_February 16, 2022 version of the Long-term Monitoring and Maintenance Plan for the Mixed Waste Landfill replaces the original March, 2012 MWL LTMMP.

Hydrometrocolpos And Postaxial Polydactyly In A Girl Newborn: A Case Report, Morgan L. Day, Crystal C. Avila, Dawn L. Novak

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

This case report is of a 35-week female neonate with a cystic abdominal mass. Physical examination was notable for post-axial polydactyly, distended abdomen, and abnormal urethral opening. Differential diagnosis includes Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (BBS), an autosomal recessive ciliopathy. Genetic panel revealed she was a carrier for a BBS mutation.

Association Of State Social And Environmental Factors With Rates Of Self-Injury Mortality And Suicide In The United States, Ian R H Rockett, Haomiao Jia, Bina Ali, Aniruddha Banerjee, Hilary S. Connery, Kurt B. Nolte, Ted Miller, Franklin M M White, Bernard D. Digregorio, G Luke Larkin, Steven Stack, Kairi Kõlves, R Kathryn Mchugh, Vijay O. Lulla, Jeralynn Cossman, Diego De Leo, Brian Hendricks, Paul S. Nestadt, James H. Berry, Gail D'Onofrio, Eric D. Caine

Pathology Research and Scholarship

IMPORTANCE: Self-injury mortality (SIM) combines suicides and the preponderance of drug misuse-related overdose fatalities. Identifying social and environmental factors associated with SIM and suicide may inform etiologic understanding and intervention design.

OBJECTIVE: To identify factors associated with interstate SIM and suicide rate variation and to assess potential for differential suicide misclassification.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This cross-sectional study used a partial panel time series with underlying cause-of-death data from 50 US states and the District of Columbia for 1999-2000, 2007-2008, 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. Applying data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, SIM includes all suicides and the preponderance …

Blinded Review Of Hippocampal Neuropathology In Sudden Unexplained Death In Childhood Reveals Inconsistent Observations And Similarities To Explained Paediatric Deaths, Dominique F. Leitner, Declan Mcguone, Christopher William, Arline Faustin, Manor Askenazi, Matija Snuderl, Melissa Guzzetta, Heather S. Jarrell, Katherine Maloney, Ross Reichard, Colin Smith, Victor Weedn, Thomas Wisniewski, Laura Gould, Orrin Devinsky

Pathology Research and Scholarship

AIMS: Hippocampal findings are implicated in the pathogenesis of sudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC), although some studies have identified similar findings in sudden explained death in childhood (SEDC) cases. We blindly reviewed hippocampal histology in SUDC and SEDC controls.

METHODS: Hippocampal haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) slides (n = 67; 36 SUDC, 31 controls) from clinical and forensic collaborators were evaluated by nine blinded reviewers: three board-certified forensic pathologists, three neuropathologists and three dual-certified neuropathologists/forensic pathologists.

RESULTS: Among nine reviewers, about 50% of hippocampal sections were rated as abnormal (52.5% SUDC, 53.0% controls), with no difference by cause of death …

Mortality, In-Hospital Morbidity, Care Practices, And 2-Year Outcomes For Extremely Preterm Infants In The Us, 2013-2018, Edward F. Bell, Susan R. Hintz, Nellie I. Hansen, Carla M. Bann, Myra H. Wyckoff, Sara B. Demauro, Michele C. Walsh, Betty R. Vohr, Barbara J. Stoll, Waldemar A. Carlo, Krisa P. Van Meurs, Matthew A. Rysavy, Ravi M. Patel, Stephanie L. Merhar, Pablo J. Sánchez, Abbot R. Laptook, Anna Maria Hibbs, C Michael Cotten, Carl T. D'Angio, Sarah Winter, Janell Fuller, Abhik Das, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health And Human Development Neonatal Research Network

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

IMPORTANCE: Despite improvement during recent decades, extremely preterm infants continue to contribute disproportionately to neonatal mortality and childhood morbidity.

OBJECTIVE: To review survival, in-hospital morbidities, care practices, and neurodevelopmental and functional outcomes at 22-26 months' corrected age for extremely preterm infants.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Prospective registry for extremely preterm infants born at 19 US academic centers that are part of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network. The study included 10 877 infants born at 22-28 weeks' gestational age between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2018, including 2566 infants born …

Clinical Performance Of Methylation As A Biomarker For Cervical Carcinoma In Situ And Cancer Diagnosis: A Worldwide Study, Cristiana Banila, Attila T. Lorincz, Dorota Scibior-Bentkowska, Gary M. Clifford, Birhanu Kumbi, Dereje Beyene, Cosette M. Wheeler, Kate Cuschieri, Jack Cuzick, Belinda Nedjai

Pathology Research and Scholarship

The shift towards primary human papillomavirus (HPV)-based screening has necessitated the search for a secondary triage test that provides sufficient sensitivity to detect high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) and cancer, but also brings an improved specificity to avoid unnecessary clinical work and colposcopy referrals. We evaluated the performance of the previously described DNA-methylation test (S5) in detecting CIN3 and cancers from diverse geographic settings in high-, medium- and low-income countries, using the cut-off of 0.80 and exploratory cut-offs of 2.62 and 3.70. Assays were performed using exfoliated cervical specimens (n = 808) and formalin-fixed biopsies (n = 166) from women …

Interlaboratory Performance In Measurement Of Dabigatran And Rivaroxaban, Oksana Volod, Marian Rollins-Raval, Andrew J. Goodwin, Russell A. Higgins, Thomas Long, Wayne L. Chandler, Neil Sa Harris, Huy P. Pham, James Alexander Isom, Karen Moser, John D. Olson, Kristi J. Smock, Amanda Vansandt, Geoffrey Wool, Dong Chen

Pathology Research and Scholarship

CONTEXT.—: Assessing direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) drug levels by reliable laboratory assays is necessary in a number of clinical scenarios.

OBJECTIVE.—: To evaluate the performance of DOAC-specific assays for various concentrations of dabigatran and rivaroxaban, assess the interlaboratory variability in measurement of these DOACs, and investigate the responsiveness of the routine clotting assays to various concentrations of these oral anticoagulants.

DESIGN.—: College of American Pathologists proficiency testing survey data from 2013 to 2016 were summarized and analyzed.

RESULTS.—: For dabigatran, the interlaboratory coefficient of variation (CV) of ecarin chromogenic assay was broad (ranging from 7.5% to 29.1%, 6.3% to 15.5%, …

Main Concept, Sequencing, & Story Grammar (Mssg) Analyses Of The Cinderella Story In Primary Progressive Aphasia, Janet Adams, Sarah Grace Dalton, H Isabel Hubbard, Erika Partridge, John Adair, Janice Knoefel, Elizabeth Ott, Gary Rosenberg, Jessica D. Richardson

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) is a neurodegenerative condition where speech and language deficits are the initial and most prominent symptoms. There are three recognized PPA variants with distinctive speech-language features, areas of atrophy, and underlying neuropathology. In the early stages of all variants, language symptoms may be very mild, such that they can only be seen on more complex and generative tasks (e.g., discourse production) rather than naming, repetition, etc. Previous work by Dalton et al. (2020) focused on MCA and Core Lexicon demonstrated that, compared to HCs, PWPPAs produced discourse that was less informative and efficient, with fewer typical …

Issue No. 116: Spring 2022

La Crónica de Nuevo México

2 A Letter from the President

3 White Sands Missile Range Museum evolves by Darren Court

7 Creating a Historic Site: Fort Selden by Alexandra McKinney

12 A Man for his Time: James Silas Calhoun by Sherry Robinson

18 Nancy Owen Lewis: A loss to HSNM by Susan M. Berry

19 New Books

Project Echo Annual Report 2022, University Of New Mexico, Health Sciences Center, Project Echo Communications Team

Project ECHO Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Too Male To Fail: How Gender Disparity Manifests Within Owensboro's K-12 Education System Under The Status Quo, Kori Szabo-Smith

2023 Award Winners

No abstract provided.

Reduced Cleavage Of Von Willebrand Factor By Adamts13 Is Associated With Microangiopathic Acute Kidney Injury Following Trauma, William E. Plautz, Shannon H. Haldeman, Mitchell R. Dyer, Jason L. Sperry, Francis X. Guyette, Patricia A. Loughran, Jurgis Alvikas, Adnan Hassoune, Lara Hoteit, Nijmeh Alsaadi, Brian S. Zuckerbraun, Marian A. Rollins-Raval, Jay S. Raval, Roberto I. Mota, Matthew D. Neal

Pathology Research and Scholarship

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common after trauma, but contributory factors are incompletely understood. Increases in plasma von Willebrand Factor (vWF) with concurrent decreases in ADAMTS13 are associated with renal microvascular thrombosis in other disease states, but similar findings have not been shown in trauma. We hypothesized that molecular changes in circulating vWF and ADAMTS13 promote AKI following traumatic injury. VWF antigen, vWF multimer composition and ADAMTS13 levels were compared in plasma samples from 16 trauma patients with and without trauma-induced AKI, obtained from the Prehospital Air Medical Plasma (PAMPer) biorepository. Renal histopathology and function, vWF and ADAMTS13 levels were …

A Deep Learning Convolutional Neural Network Can Differentiate Between Helicobacter Pylori Gastritis And Autoimmune Gastritis With Results Comparable To Gastrointestinal Pathologists, Michael M. Franklin, Fred A. Schultz, Marissa A. Tafoya, Audra A. Kerwin, Cory J. Broehm, Edgar G. Fischer, Rama R. Gullapalli, Douglas P. Clark, Joshua A. Hanson, David R. Martin

Pathology Research and Scholarship

CONTEXT.—: Pathology studies using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have focused on neoplasms, while studies in inflammatory pathology are rare. We previously demonstrated a CNN that differentiates reactive gastropathy, Helicobacter pylori gastritis (HPG), and normal gastric mucosa.

OBJECTIVE.—: To determine whether a CNN can differentiate the following 2 gastric inflammatory patterns: autoimmune gastritis (AG) and HPG.

DESIGN.—: Gold standard diagnoses were blindly established by 2 gastrointestinal (GI) pathologists. One hundred eighty-seven cases were scanned for analysis by HALO-AI. All levels and tissue fragments per slide were included for analysis. The cases were randomized, 112 (60%; 60 HPG, 52 AG) in the …

Cultural Identity Central To Native American Persistence In Science., Nizhoni Chow-Garcia, Naomi Lee, Vanessa Svihla, Claira Sohn, Scott Willie, Maija Holsti, Angela Wandinger-Ness

Pathology Research and Scholarship

Native Americans are the least represented population in science fields. In recent years, undergraduate and graduate level summer research programs that aimed to increase the number of Native Americans in science have made some progress. As new programs are designed, key characteristics that address science self-efficacy and science identity and provide supports for Native American students' commitment to a scientific career should be considered. In this study, we used sequential mixed methods to investigate the potential of culturally tailored internship programs on Native American persistence in science. We analyzed surveys (n = 47) and interviews (n = 4) …