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Harvard Crimson Interviews Vinay Harpalani: ‘Complete Switch In Position’: Legal Experts Say Biden Likely To Back Harvard In Race-Conscious Admissions Suit, Vinay Harpalani, Benjamin L. Fu, Vivi E. Lu

Faculty Scholarship

Many education and legal experts expect President-elect Joe Biden's Justice Department will extend support to universities — including Harvard — currently embroiled in legal challenges from anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions.

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Vinay Harpalani, a law professor at the University of New Mexico, said he believes the Department of Justice will reverse course and file an amicus brief in support of Harvard if the case is appealed even further.

“If the case goes to the U.S. Supreme Court, I would expect the Biden administration to file an amicus brief in favor of Harvard — so complete switch in …

Incorporating A Flipped Classroom In A Medical Spanish Course Designed With Role-Playing Experiential Learning, Rose Vallejo

HSC Education Days

The Division of Physical Therapy has offered an elective Medical Spanish course to all 2nd year doctoral students for the last 10 years. The curriculum was recently re‐designed to meet the needs of DPT students who have various levels of linguistic proficiency and to incorporate physical therapy‐specific experiential learning. The students in the course self‐identified as beginner, intermediate, or advanced Spanish speakers with general guidance from the instructor. The students were heterogeneously paired by ability so that advanced and beginner students worked together and homogenously paired so that intermediate level students worked together during the clinically‐based experiential lab sessions. Additionally, …

A Randomized Control Trial To Test A Peer Support Group Approach For Reducing Social Isolation And Depression Among Female Mexican Immigrants, Janet Page-Reeves, Cristina Murray-Krezan, Lidia Regino, Jackie Perez, Molly Bleecker, Daniel Perez, Bill Wagner, Susan Tigert, Elaine L. Bearer, Cathleen E. Willging

Pathology Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: Female Mexican Immigrants (FMIs) experience high rates of depression compared with other populations. For this population, depression is often exacerbated by social isolation associated with the experience of immigration. Aim 1. To measure whether a culturally situated peer group intervention will reduce depression and stress associated with the experience of immigration. Aim 2. To test whether an intervention using a "women's funds of knowledge" approach results in improved resilience, knowledge and empowerment. Aim 3. To investigate whether a culturally situated peer group intervention using a women's funds of knowledge approach can give participants a sense and experience of social …

Neutrosophic Sets And Systems, Vol. 39, 2021, Florentin Smarandache, Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Said Broumi

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Performing Multiculturalism: Ukrainian-Canadian Identities In Transnational Politics Of Recognition, Olga Glinskii

Anthropology ETDs

As a result of specific aspects of history, including historically complex diasporas, contemporary Ukrainian identities -- both socially normative and personal -- are subject to a transnational politics of recognition. Whereas Charles Taylor has done more than any other scholar to highlight obligatory and unavoidable character of the politics of identity today, his univocal approach to the relations among language, culture, and identity is inadequate for illuminating the Ukrainian situation. In this dissertation I show that Ukrainians of different sorts employ situational strategies for mobilizing a set of perspectively valid --though not always logically consistent -- historically based ontologies. I …

Microstructural And Microchemical Studies Of Fluid–Chondrule Interactions In A Pristine Cr Carbonaceous Chondrite And Apatite In Martian Nakhlites, Marina Martínez

Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

PROJECT 1: Chondrites are the most primitive objects in the solar system, aggregates of the material that formed in the solar protoplanetary disk during the first 1-5 million years of its formation. However, petrographic observations indicate that most chondrites have been modified by secondary processes, including aqueous alteration, thermal metamorphism, and shock. Fortunately, a few chondrites largely escaped these processes and are considered pristine, such as the CR carbonaceous chondrite Queen Alexandra Range (QUE) 99177. QUE 99177 is an excellent sample for deciphering information about the reactions that took place between unaltered anhydrous solar nebular components and water under highly …

Statistical Modeling Of Hpc Performance Variability And Communication, Jered B. Dominguez-Trujillo

Computer Science ETDs

Understanding the performance of parallel and distributed programs remains a focal point in determining how compute systems can be optimized to achieve exascale performance. Lightweight, statistical models allow developers to both characterize and predict performance trade-offs, especially as HPC systems become more heterogeneous with many-core CPUs and GPUs. This thesis presents a lightweight, statistical modeling approach of performance variation which leverages extreme value theory by focusing on the maximum length of distributed workload intervals. This approach was implemented in MPI and evaluated on several HPC systems and workloads. I then present a performance model of partitioned communication which also uses …

Bubonic Plague: Public Health Warnings From An Ancient Disease, Mikenzie E. Chessman

2022 Award Winners

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2021 Multi-Sector General Permit Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan V.1, Notice Of Intent, 2020 Msgp Annual Report, National Technology & Engineering Solutions Of Sandia

2015 Multi-Sector General Permit

Stormwater discharges from industrial activities at Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico (SNL/NM) are eligible for coverage under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Multi-Sector General Permit (MSGP). This Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) was prepared by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia (NTESS) for the Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sandia Field Office (SFO), owner of SNL/NM, located in Albuquerque, NM. This SWPPP was prepared in compliance with the 2021 MSGP (effective March 1, 2021) and includes a description, potential pollutant sources, and control measures for each permitted site; and stormwater monitoring and compliance plans.

Southwestern Acequia Systems And Communities; Nurturing A Culture Of Place, Eric Romero

Natural Resources Journal

El Aqua es La Vida” (Water is Life) is a ubiquitous bumper sticker on trucks, mini vans and tractors in New Mexico, Colorado and the greater southwest. Besides a succinct, pithy statement for natural resource management, the maxim references a land ethic that is particularly evidenced in acequia communities. Put simply, acequias are human-constructed hydrological systems that deliver water to agricultural fields. These community-governed irrigation systems are common in southwestern states– particularly northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. However, the English connotation of ‘irrigation ditch” fails to reflect the different levels of meaning associated with these important water channels. A …

Acoma Pueblo Tribal Court Handbook (2021), 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.

Taos Pueblo Tribal Court Handbook (2021), 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.

A Call To Action For Librarians: Countering Conspiracy Theories In The Age Of Qanon, Stephanie Beene, Katie Greer

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

Librarians empower learners to become discerning citizens through a set of diverse skills and literacies. To cultivate critical thinkers, librarians continue to build innovative practices, even as technology rapidly evolves. However, the pervasiveness of misinformation and disinformation, most recently seen in the conspiratorial worldviews of QAnon, challenges librarians to center critical thinking in their information literacy praxis. In this article, we provide a concise overview of QAnon and the problems that contemporary internet conspiracy theories like it pose. We offer an epistemological shift for information literacy, from heuristics to mindsets and behaviors, drawing on disciplines external to librarianship. Finally, we …

Planning And Hosting A Virtual Science-Fiction Event Series, Holly M. Surbaugh, Glenn Koelling

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

As the University of New Mexico responded to the coronavirus pandemic with emergency building closures and a shift to online services, the University Libraries faced challenges making and maintaining personal connections with users in the absence of face-to-face contact. Recognizing that necessary public health restrictions isolated all students, faculty, and staff to some extent, a science librarian and an English librarian collaborated to develop a series of three Zoom-facilitated programs that provided fun activities (i.e., a movie watch party, a book discussion, and a team trivia game) to engage a socially distanced campus community while highlighting various library resources. They …

Primary Temporal Bone Meningioma Presenting As Chronic Mastoiditis And Sigmoid Sinus Thrombosis: Report Of A Case With Literature Analysis, Mary Torrez, Edgar Fischer, Shweta Agarwal

Pathology Research and Scholarship

Primary extra cranial meningioma of the ear and temporal bone are exceedingly rare, making up less than 1% of all meningiomas. Histologically, they are indistinguishable from their intracranial counterpart. The histopathologic diagnosis is often challenging, and the differential diagnosis for neoplasms in this unusual location is quite extensive. We report a 64-year-old male patient with history of seizures who presented with coalescing mastoiditis and sigmoid sinus thrombosis. CT and MRI findings were suggestive of a chronic inflammatory process. Operative findings included a flesh-colored mass extending from the mastoid antrum posteriorly towards the Sigmoid sinus. Intraoperative consultation was requested, yielding a …

Alcohol Use, Psychological Stress, And Mental Health In U.S. Spanish - And English-Speaking Pregnant Women, L Enriquez-Marquez, D Rodriguez, X Ma, M H. Roberts, S Ruyak, S W. Jacobson, L N. Bakhireva

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Purpose: The “Latina paradox” and mitigating cultural/social-support factors have been extensively studied. However, further investigation is warranted comparing the complex interplay among substance use, psychosocial stress, mental health, and socioeconomic factors between Spanish-speaking and English-speaking pregnant women.

Methods: Data were collected from 311 pregnant women (275 English-speaking, 36 Spanish- speaking), screened for eligibility into the ENRICH-2 prospective cohort study, and 98 enrolled. Screening questionnaires included questions about demographics, AUDIT-C, and binge (≥4 drinks/occasion) and heavy drinking (≥14 drinks) around last menstrual period (LMP).

Following enrollment, perceived stress (Perceived Stress Scale, PSS), symptoms of anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, GAD-7) and depression …

Accuracy Of Spanish Translation Of Alcohol Screening Questionnaires For Use In Brain And Behavioral Health Research, D E. Rodriguez, L Enriquez, L Stacy, R Rai, L N. Bakhireva, J Lowe

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Purpose: Spanish speakers represented 13% of the U.S. population in 2015. Alcohol use in pregnancy, including Spanish-speakers, affects 1 in 10 U.S. women. The rising population of U.S. Spanish-speakers necessitates availability of Spanish-language tools to consistently measure alcohol consumption. This study compares existing Spanish translations of alcohol questionnaires to English questionnaire items and examines dialectal differences.

Methods & Data: Spanish-translations of common alcohol screening questionnaires, including AUDIT (1 translation, validated), CAGE (4 total, 2 validated), and TWEAK (1, unvalidated) were compiled from peer-reviewed articles, government-agencies and universities. Each item was back-translated to English separately (by two bi-lingual English/Spanish speakers with …

Indeterminacy In Neutrosophic Theories And Their Applications, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

Indeterminacy makes the main distinction between fuzzy / intuitionistic fuzzy (and other extensions of fuzzy) set / logic vs. neutrosophic set / logic, and between classical probability and neutrosophic probability. Also, between classical statistics vs. neutrosophic and plithogenic statistics, between classical algebraic structures vs. neutrosophic algebrais structures, between crisp numbers vs. neutrosophic numbers. We present a broad definition of indeterminacy, various types of indeterminacies, and many practical applications.

Techno-Art Of Selariu Supermathematics Functions, Vol. Iii, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

The name of supermathematics (SM) was coined by the late mathematician Prof. em. Dr. doc. eng. Gheorghe Silaş who, at the presentation of the first works in this field, at the First National Conference of Vibrations in Machine Construction, Timişoara, 1978, entitled “EXCENTRIC CIRCULAR FUNCTIONS” declared: “Young man, you didn't just discover some new functions, but a new mathematics, a supermathematics”. Then, at my age of 40, I was as happy as I was when a teenager. And I found, with great satisfaction, that he might be right! In 1978! In 2000, after 22 years, he offered me to write …

A Review On Electroculture, Magneticulture And Laserculture To Boostplant Growth, Victor Christianto, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

While several reviews on potential applications of electroculture are available, in this survey, we discuss these issues from history, starting from earliest experiments by Ross. And in the last section, we discuss possible application of laserculture, another form of potential improvement. It is our hope that what we present here may be found useful for improving agricultural performance in many countries, as well as reducing dependence on fertilizer.

Neutroalgebra Theory, Vol. I, Florentin Smarandache, Memet Şahin, Derya Bakbak, Vakkas Uluçay, Abdullah Kargın

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In general, in any field of knowledge, with respect to any structure, one has the following neutrosophic triplet . They were introduced by Smarandache in 2019 and 2020.

1) A classical Structure is a structure whose all elements are characterized by the same given Relationships and Attributes and Laws.

2) A NeutroStructure is a structure that has at least one NeutroRelation or one NeutroAttribute or one NeutroLaw, and no AntiRelation and no AntiAttribute and no AntiLaw.

3) An AntiStructure is a structure that has at least one AntiRelation or one AntiAttribute or one AntiLaw.

As a particular case, in the …

Improvement Of Proportional Conflict Redistribution Rules Of Combination Of Basic Belief Assignments, Theo Dezert, Jean Dezert, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

This paper discusses and analyzes the behaviors of the Proportional Conflict Redistribution rules no. 5 (PCR5) and no. 6 (PCR6) to combine several distinct sources of evidence characterized by their basic belief assignments defined over the same frame of discernment. After a brief review of these rules, the paper shows through simple examples why their behaviors can sometimes increase the uncertainty more than necessary, which is detrimental to decision-making support drawn from the result of the combination.We present a theoretical improvement of these rules, and establish new PCR5+ and PCR6+ rules of combination. These new rules overcome the weakness of …

Comments On “A New Combination Of Evidence Based On Compromise” By K. Yamada, Jean Dezert, Arnaud Martin, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

Yamada (2008) presents an interesting new model of combination of evidence called combination by compromise based on previous works published in Yamada (2006b,a). In the theory of belief functions, one of the most important problems is the one of reassigning the conflicting belief mass, as highlighted by the famous Zadeh’s example, see Zadeh (1979). To date, many combination rules have been developed, proposing a solution to this problem.

Santa Clara Pueblo V. Martinez In The Evolution Of Federal Law, Richard B. Collins

Tribal Law Journal

Few Indian law decisions have evoked as much scholarly attention as Santa Clara Pueblo.1 Shepard's pulls up over 1000 law review references, and Google reports almost 3,000,000 hits.2 It is a major case in all Indian law treatises and casebooks and is important in several other books.3 Most analyze the decision as an event and focus on its principal holding, denying a federal cause of action for civil enforcement of the Indian Civil Rights Act.4 Policy discussions parse tribal sovereignty and discrimination against women.

Native American Oral Evidence: Finding A New Hearsay Exception, Max Virupaksha Katner

Tribal Law Journal

The Federal Rules of Evidence hearsay rules unjustifiably exclude legitimate and trustworthy evidence that support many Native American legal claims. Native American communities traditionally were not literate and rarely recorded the treaties, contracts, and other legal instruments they drew up or honored in any kind of written format, oftentimes recording their histories and diplomatic events in other ways; take for example wampum belts used by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, among others. While the U.S. legal system presupposes that evidence in written statements provides a greater assurance of accuracy and truth than oral statements, this is not always the case. Writing is …

Tribal Opposition To Enbridge Line 5: Rights And Interests, John Minode’E Petoskey

Tribal Law Journal

This paper will examine the tribal interests at stake in the controversy surrounding Enbridge Oil Pipeline 5 (“Line 5”), and will explore why it is consistent with Michigan’s treaty obligations and public trust principles to remove the pipeline from the Straits of Mackinac. The Line runs beneath the Straits of Mackinac, the convergence of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, and is nearly 70 years old. Should the pipeline burst, the resulting spill would irreparably harm fisheries in the Straits and impair tribal treaty rights to fish in the Great Lakes. Part I will provide a roadmap overview. Part II will …

Mental Illness And Human Dignity In Jane Eyre, Haley G. Hughes

2022 Award Winners

No abstract provided.

Soe And Its Contribution To The Allied War Effort During The Second World War, Etienne G. Allred

2022 Award Winners

No abstract provided.

Vacteens.Org: A Mobile Web App To Improve Hpv Vaccine Uptake, W Gill Woodall, Gregory Zimet, Alberta Kong, David Buller, Jeannyfer Reither, Lance Chilton, Valerie Myers, Randall Starling

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

U.S. HPV vaccine uptake remains below the Healthy People 2030 goal of 80% series completion. Parental concerns and misinformation about the efficacy and safety of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine remain, and may be addressed by digital interventions tailored to their concerns. Reported here are results from a small scale randomized trial testing a mobile web app for parents and their adolescent daughters (ages 11-14 years) encouraging HPV vaccination in New Mexico, an ethnically-diverse U.S. state.

Metabolic Reprogramming And Cell Adhesion In Acute Leukemia Adaptation To The Cns Niche, Nitesh D. Sharma, Esra'a Keewan, Ksenia Matlawska-Wasowska

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

Involvement of the Central Nervous System (CNS) in acute leukemia confers poor prognosis and lower overall survival. Existing CNS-directed therapies are associated with a significant risk of short- or long-term toxicities. Leukemic cells can metabolically adapt and survive in the microenvironment of the CNS. The supporting role of the CNS microenvironment in leukemia progression and dissemination has not received sufficient attention. Understanding the mechanism by which leukemic cells survive in the nutrient-poor and oxygen-deprived CNS microenvironment will lead to the development of more specific and less toxic therapies. Here, we review the current literature regarding the roles of metabolic reprogramming …