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Sex- And Age - Specific Migratory Strategies Of Blue Whales In The Northeast Pacific, Christina Blevins

Biology ETDs

Sequential subsampling of blue whale baleen plates can yield information of individual migratory plasticity of this endangered species in the northeast Pacific Ocean. We measured δ13C and δ15N isotope values along baleen from thirteen whales of different age and sex. Results showed sex/age-specific migratory strategies. Adult females exhibited relatively stable cyclical movements between temperate and subtropical regions. Adult males exhibited two strategies, most remained within temperate latitudes, whereas two migrated to subtropical latitudes. Movement patterns in juveniles were erratic. These patterns are potentially driven by energetic requirements of females, intraspecific competitions among adult males, and inexperience in locating prey in …

Cardiovascular Diseases Risk Analysis Using Distance-Based Similarity Measure Of Neutrosophic Sets, Norzieha Mustapha, Suriana Alias, Roliza Md Yasin, Ilyani Abdullah, Said Broumi

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

An Efficient Enumeration Technique For A Transportation Problem In Neutrosophic Environment, Ashok Kumar, Ritika Chopra, Ratnesh Rajan Saxena

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

A Nonlinear Programming Model To Solve Matrix Games With Pay-Offs Of Single-Valued Neutrosophic Numbers, Mijanur Rahaman Seikh, Shibaji Dutta

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Practical Applications Of The Independent Neutrosophic Components And Of The Neutrosophic Offset Components, Florentin Smarandache

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Practice Development Trajectories Of Experienced Nurses: Adaptive Experts, Routine Experts, And Non-Experts, Dee Mulcahy

Nursing ETDs

This qualitative study examined practice development among experienced, acute care nurses (n = 9) with at least 10 years of experience. Using an interpretive biographical approach, with participants’ written practice narratives and in-depth interviews, the study focused on how the work environment and life experiences influenced or impeded practice development. Participants were classified as routine- or adaptive experts (n = 3 of each type) with one intermediate case and two not readily classifiable. Antecedents to becoming a nurse included family influences, personal interests, altruistic values, and financial need. Experience was necessary but not sufficient for adaptive expertise. Compared …

What Does Social Entrepreneurship Mean To Change Agents In New Mexico? A Phenomenographic Approach To Understanding Social Entrepreneurship, Audriana Stark

Organization, Information and Learning Sciences ETDs

Social entrepreneurship has been identified as a solution to some of the world’s most pressing problems, including health, education, and environmental issues. Despite the rise in literature about social entrepreneurship, there is still a lack of understanding how place-based social entrepreneurship is being conceived and experienced by practitioners. Therefore, this study uses a phenomenographic approach to understand what social entrepreneurship means to change agents in New Mexico, a place characterized by social and economic challenges, as well as an abundance of natural and cultural resources. The findings revealed five distinct categories of description for social entrepreneurship including: Category 1. No …

Telehealth During The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Survey Of Registered Dietitian Nutritionists, Mary Rozga, Deepa Handu, Kathryn Kelley, Elizabeth Yakes Jimenez, Hannah Martin, Marsha Schofield, Alison Steiber

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

During the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, health care practices have shifted to minimize virus transmission, with unprecedented expansion of telehealth. This study describes self-reported changes in registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) practice related to delivery of nutrition care via telehealth shortly after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. This cross-sectional, anonymous online survey was administered from mid-April to mid-May 2020 to RDNs in the United States providing face-to-face nutrition care prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. This survey included 54 questions about practitioner demographics and experience and current practices providing nutrition care via telehealth, including billing …

Burden Of Mycoplasma Genitalium And Bacterial Coinfections In A Population-Based Sample In New Mexico, Anne Hammer, Patti E. Gravitt, Rachael Adcock, Nicole Patterson, Jack Cuzick, Cosette M. Wheeler

Pathology Research and Scholarship

In this population-based US study, the overall prevalence of Mycoplasma genitalium was 1.95% (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.62%-2.34%), declining from 6.12% (95% CI, 4.72%-7.92%) in women aged 21 to 24 years to 0.48% (95% CI, 0.25%-0.94%) in women aged 40 to 64 years. The prevalence of coinfections with Chlamydia trachomatis and Trichomonas vaginalis was low.

Request For Modification 21-019 To Resource Conservation And Recovery Act (Rcra) Facility Operating Permit, Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico (Snl/Nm), Sandia National Laboratories/Nm Snl

Facilities-Units

The Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) and Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico (SNL/NM) have requested modifications to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Facility Operating Permit (Permit) for Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico. The requested modifications consist of revisions to the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) Long-Term Monitoring and Maintenance Plan (LTMMP), which is incorporated by reference into Permit Attachment M, "Long-Term Monitoring and Maintenance Plan for Solid Waste Management Units and Areas of Concern Granted Corrective Action Complete with Controls." The MWL is also known as Solid Waste Management Unit (SWMU) 76.

The DOE/NNSA and SNL/NM propose to make …

Glomerular Disease In Temporal Association With Sars-Cov-2 Vaccination: A Series Of 29 Cases, Tiffany N. Caza, Clarissa A. Cassol, Nidia Messias, Andrew Hannoudi, Randy S. Haun, Patrick D. Walker, Rebecca M. May, Regan M. Seipp, Elizabeth J. Betchick, Hassan Amin, Mandolin S. Ziadie, Michael Haderlie, Joy Eduwu-Okwuwa, Irina Vancea, Melvin Seek, Essam B. Elashi, Ganesh Shenoy, Sayeed Khalillullah, Jesse A. Flaxenburg, John Brandt, Matthew J. Diamond, Adam Frome, Eugene H. Kim, Gregory Schlessinger, Erlandas Ulozas, Janice L. Weatherspoon, Ethan Thomas Hoerschgen, Steven L. Fabian, Sung Yong Bae, Bilal Iqbal, Kanwalijit K. Chouhan, Zeina Karam, James T. Henry, Christopher P. Larsen

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

Background: Immune responses to vaccination are a known trigger for a new onset of glomerular disease or disease flare in susceptible individuals. Mass immunization against SARS-CoV-2 in the COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to study vaccination-associated autoimmune kidney diseases. In the recent literature, there are several patient reports demonstrating a temporal association of SARS-CoV-2 immunization and kidney diseases.

Methods: Here, we present a series of 29 cases of biopsy-proven glomerular disease in patients recently vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 and identified patients who developed a new onset of IgA nephropathy, minimal change disease, membranous nephropathy, ANCA-associated GN, collapsing glomerulopathy, or diffuse …

Microrna Analysis Of Human Stroke Brain Tissue Resected During Decompressive Craniectomy/Stroke-Ectomy Surgery, Andrew P. Carlson, William Mckay, Jeremy S. Edwards, Radha Swaminathan, Karen S. Santacruz, Ron L. Mims, Howard Yonas, Tamara Roitbak

Pathology Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: Signaling pathways mediated by microRNAs (miRNAs) have been identified as one of the mechanisms that regulate stroke progression and recovery. Recent investigations using stroke patient blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) demonstrated disease-specific alterations in miRNA expression. In this study, for the first time, we investigated miRNA expression signatures in freshly removed human stroke brain tissue.

METHODS: Human brain samples were obtained during craniectomy and brain tissue resection in severe stroke patients with life-threatening brain swelling. The tissue samples were subjected to histopathological and immunofluorescence microscopy evaluation, next generation miRNA sequencing (NGS), and bioinformatic analysis.

RESULTS: miRNA NGS analysis detected …

Interferometric Lithography- An Approach To Large Area And Cost Effective Nanopatterning, Vineeth Sasidharan

Optical Science and Engineering ETDs

In this dissertation interferometric lithography is approached in two different ways to address two important constraints of nanopatterning. One approach solves the problem of scaling up interferometric lithography to wafer scale (4 inch or larger) area. Through the second approach we have developed a nanopatterning technique based on interferometric lithography by using an inexpensive (~$100) diode laser as source, making interferometric lithography a very cost-effective technique.

Wafer-scale large-area nanopatterning was developed using an amplitude grating mask as a grating beam splitter along with spatial averaging of laser intensity by wobbling. The longitudinal and transverse coherence issues both are eased by …

Relief And Reward Drinking Across Time In Community And Treatment-Seeking Samples, Julia E. Swan

Psychology ETDs

Classifying people with alcohol use disorder into homogenous groups based on observed characteristics (i.e., phenotypes) could match individuals to specific treatments. The reward-relief phenotype classifies individuals based on whether they drink to enhance rewarding experiences and/or to relieve negative states. The current study is a secondary data analysis of a community sample of non-treatment seeking heavy drinkers (n = 189) and two randomized clinical trial samples of individuals with alcohol use disorder (n = 1726, 1383) that aimed to determine if the reward-relief phenotype is identified across samples, is stable over time, and predicts long-term alcohol consumption and consequences. We …

Silica Sol-Gel Control With High Voltage Contactless Electrodes, Jonathan C. Hebert

Nanoscience and Microsystems ETDs

High Voltage Contactless Electrodes (HVE) non-evasively modulates silica sol-gel reactions by redistributing charge in solution. HVE induces formation of local neutral band (LNB) strata (pseudo interfacial surfaces) where the gradient of potential is zero ∇𝜓𝜓=0. HVE LNB shape corresponds to solubility and ultimately sol-gel form. HVE silica sol-gel control works by localizing pH and creating conditions where silanol polymerization is biform; condensation by protonation (cathodic), or by deprotonation (anodic). Steric modified Poisson-Boltzmann equation is used to develop a theory on HVE control of silica sol-gel formation and a nucleate potential functional of potential 𝜓𝜓. Technologies developed during this research are …

Cyber Physical Systems For Non-Contact Infrastructure Monitoring, Roya Nasimi

Civil Engineering ETDs

In recent decades, the decay of infrastructure has become a relevant challenge of both developed and under developing countries. Prioritization of maintenance and repairs of transportation infrastructure is a new worldwide priority since it is important to quantify the rate of decay of assets to increase both safety and cost-efficient operations. Infrastructure owners need frequent inspections on their assets to predict and to avoid unsafe conditions prone to cause disasters. Frequent infrastructure inspections call for cost-effective methods. Traditional measurement methods require human access to the infrastructure, are subjective, expensive, and unsafe. Therefore, infrastructure managers are interested in exploring new non-contact …

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 …

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 …

The Personal And Relational Impact Of Varying Responses To Fat Talk In The Context Of Female Friendship, Riley M. Sebastian

Psychology ETDs

The current study aimed to measure the immediate impact of various responses to Fat Talk on college women. Participants were given trait-level questionnaires followed by prompts to imagine a scenario in which they engaged in Fat Talk. Participants were presented with four counterbalanced audio response conditions followed by several single-item measures. Repeated-measures one-way ANOVAs examined the impact of response and significant differences in personal and relational factors across the four response conditions were found. A mixed-model ANOVA demonstrated that baseline variables did not impact participants’ reactions to the different Fat Talk responses. Finally, frequency of Fat Talk was correlated with …

The Reward Positivity In Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorder, Garima Singh

Psychology ETDs

The Reward Positivity (RewP) is a positive deflection in the EEG after receiving a reward. Recent evidence suggests that the RewP is modulated by both reward probability aside from affective liking. Here we examined the sensitivity of the RewP to affective and alcohol images in individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD). We recruited 55 participants (AUD =28, Control= 27). Participants completed an image rating task and a reinforcement learning task with picture feedback (puppy or alcohol images over a green or red screen). Although there was no between group differences in puppy image ratings, there was a significant group difference …

Monte Carlo Perturbation Analysis Of Dimension And Density Variations Of The Annular Core Research Reactor Model Fuel, Karissa Currie

Nuclear Engineering ETDs

This thesis assesses sources of uncertainty in the neutron energy spectrum of the Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR) Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport Code (MCNP) model. Uncertainty evaluations have been performed on the ACRR core but were computationally intensive and could not isolate the uncertainties associated with discrete sources. Monte Carlo Perturbation Theory (MCPT) is used in MCNP to calculate 640-group neutron energy fluences and their associated uncertainties [1]. To understand the uncertainties associated with only the UO₂-BeO fuel, perturbations in densities and dimensions were evaluated. A 640 by 640 covariance and correlation matrices were produced and compared to …

Effectiveness Of Growth Mindset Intervention On Elementary Students’ Academic Performance: A Systematic Review, Salma Yeasmin

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The lack of academic success of the U.S. adolescents and wide achievement gap have become a persistent problem of the United States. Therefore, several educational reforms have been made to increase U.S. students’ academic performance as well as close achievement gap. However, despite the various reforms and efforts that have been enacted in educational sectors, U.S. students’ academic performance seemed not enough. Therefore, psychological factors were considered in the educational reform strategy, in which promoting growth mindset among students has become a way to accelerate students’ academic performance as well as reduce the achievement gap. Since then, numerous growth mindset …

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.

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 …

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 …

Sociolinguistic Analysis Of Spanish R- Variation By New Mexican Child Heritage Speakers: How Speech Analysis Can Improve Speech Impairment Diagnosis And Teaching Techniques, Mariana Marchesi

Shared Knowledge Conference

Sociolinguistic Analysis of Spanish r- Variation by New Mexican Child Heritage Speakers: How Speech Analysis Can Improve Speech Impairment Diagnosis and Teaching Techniques Mariana Marchesi, PhD Student, Linguistics, University of New Mexico Abstract In many varieties of Spanish, variation among rhotic segments - r-sounds - is a salient dialectal feature (Lipski, 2008; Hualde, 2014), and this variability is due to a combination of sociolinguistic and phonetic factors (Melero Garcia, 2015). Previous research on adult speakers of Spanish in New Mexico shows that trill (carro) and tap (roca) productions are not as common as assibilated (shower) and approximant (rest) segments (C.E. …

Evaluation Of Thermal Infrared Imaging From Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles For Arboreal Wildlife Surveillance, Blair Mirka

Shared Knowledge Conference

An important component of wildlife management and conservation is monitoring the health and population size of wildlife species. Monitoring the population size of an animal group can inform researchers of habitat use, potential changes in habitat and the resulting behavioral adaptation, individual health, and the effectiveness of conservation efforts. Arboreal primates are difficult to monitor as their habitat is often poorly accessible and most primate species have some degree of camouflage, making them hard to observe in and below the tree canopy. Surveys conducted using uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with thermal infrared (TIR) cameras can help overcome these limitations …

Igniting Artificial Stars With Semiconductor Disk Lasers, Mingyang Zhang

Shared Knowledge Conference

Vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) have recently emerged as alternative sources to existing solid-state lasers due to their relatively simple and low-cost architecture, high powers, flexible bandgap engineering, good beam quality, ultrashort pulse operation, and intracavity accessibility. Those unique features make it possible to achieve wavelengths and power levels that can be utilized ranging from spectroscopy and biomedical applications, to creating an artificial star for adaptive optics astronomy. My PhD work at UNM primarily focuses on the latter application. Sodium laser guide stars (LGS) play an essential role for adaptive optics (AO) in ground-based telescopes. A narrow linewidth 589.2 nm laser …

Fabrication Of Oxide-Based Memristors For Neural Networks, Jamison E. Wagner

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

This thesis discusses what a memristor is, how it is hypothesized to work and the fabrication work undertaken with hafnia and titania-based ultrathin oxide films. In addition, the electrical tests utilized to characterize the physical performance of the memristors including but not limited to, their IV hysteresis responses, yield rates and overall reliability. The results and discussion of this work are aimed at better understanding how fabrication of memristive devices can be further improved for future work.

Factors Contributing To Activism Among Advantaged-Group And Disadvantaged-Group Undergraduate Students, Anne Guzman

Psychology ETDs

Identifying factors that contribute to activism may be helpful in increasing activism. This study investigated how experiences, personality characteristics, beliefs, attitudes, group membership (i.e., POC, women, LGBTQ, and disabled individuals), and intersectional group membership defined by social location related to reported engagement in racial justice activism. A sample of 155 undergraduate students completed measures of empathy, openness to diversity, authoritarianism, multicultural experiences, level of prejudice, motivation to respond without prejudice, allophilia, understanding of privilege, racial/ethnic identity, and social support. Results supported that engagement in activism differed based on group membership for gender, LGBTQ+, and primary race and based on social …