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Driver Of Avian Haemosporidian Diversity And Host Specificity In The Solomon Islands, Xena Marie Mapel

Biology ETDs

Avian haemosporidians are protist parasites that are distributed worldwide. We investigated these parasites in a tropical South Pacific archipelago to answer two questions: 1) Which community characteristics influence haemosporidian diversity; 2) Does host specificity vary across islands? To answer these questions we sequenced a mitochondrial gene and created linear models to establish relationships between select variables and diversity. In addition, we calculated host breadth of each lineage and constructed models to infer predictors of diversity. The percent of infected individuals on each island was correlated with island area. Haemosporidian phylogenetic diversity on a given island was associated with the proportion …

Academic Resilience In An Academic Setting: A Case Study Of The Unm German Summer School, John Reinert

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This dissertation is a historical case study that focused on the founding and continuation of the GSSch to define the term, academic resilience and to determine how the GSSch had impacted academic resilience. I examined qualitative data from interviews alongside research published during the founding (i.e. mid-1970s) and continuation (i.e. 1975-2020) of the GSSch. I used the research to examine how the actions of the leadership fit within the social and political climates of their time. This dissertation has gone above and beyond expectations by not only defining the term, academic resilience but also by providing authentic examples of both …

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

Latin American Studies ETDs

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

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

Qualitative Investigation Of Gaseous Hydrodynamic Mixing Model Efficacy And Associated Sensitivity, Caleb White

Mechanical Engineering ETDs

A mixing model analyzes the mixing of helium (He) and sulfur hexafluoride (SF₆) according to two classical gaseous equations of state (EOS), namely, Amagat’s Law and Dalton’s Law, undergoing planar traveling shocks in three dimensions (3D). Numerical simulations utilize the Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) shock hydrodynamic code CTH and other codes including the SNL thermochemical equilibrium code TIGER and the uncertainty qualification (UQ) and sensitivity analysis code DAKOTA. Comparison with experimental results show that none of the equations of state are able to accurately predict the properties of the shocked mixture; similar discrepancies have been observed in previous …

Physical Unclonable Functions Based On Delay Paths And An Interdigital Microstrip Notch Filter, Mitch Martin

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

A Physical Uncloneable Function (PUF) is an integrated circuit hardware primitivethat is designed to leverage naturally occurring variations to produce a randombitstring. The Aribiter (ARB) PUF is one of the first to be described in the literature.It derives its entropy from variations that occur in the delays of identically configuredlogic paths. The ARB PUF uses a phase comparator to decide which path of a pairis faster under a given challenge, and generates a 0 or 1 as a response indicatorbit. Unfortunately, the ARB PUF is not reliable, requiring error correction in caseswhere the sequence of response bits (the bitstring) needs …

Anderson School Of Management 2020 Apr Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Anderson School of Management APR self-study report and review team report for Spring 2020, fulfilling requirements of the Higher Learning Commission.

"Mommy Track" On Steroids: How The Pandemic Is Further Derailing "Moms Of Law", Lysette Romero Córdova

Faculty Scholarship

As students or professors with children to raise, we inherently experience law school differently from our male and childless peers—and not in a good way. Even before the pandemic hit, the Moms of Law were at a disadvantage because we must divide our time and attention between the demands of law school and parenting. Thus, while the pandemic has created challenges for everyone involved in legal education, the inequitable impact on those raising young children has brought new meaning to the term “mommy track.” Part I of this essay describes the mommy track experience and how the inequity that it …

Give Me Liberty, Or Give Me Breath: A Call For Economic Justice, Verónica C. Gonzales

Faculty Scholarship

In Part I of this essay I interpret this unique moment in history through a retelling of the folk story La Llorona in order to identify the monsters and ghosts of the past and the present. Domino Renee Perez describes her own critical reflection of La Llorona as reinforcing 'a valuable lesson about power and authority' because her family’s 'storytelling circle was more than simply an arbitrary setting; it was a safe place for them to create, however problematically, a world of words, where they faced the dangers and challenges of life, embodied by a woman, and survived.' The lore …

The Effect Of Including Pressure Within Cracks On Failure Times Of Cylinders Subjected To Internal Air Blast Loading, Molly M. Bailey

Mechanical Engineering ETDs

The importance of internal crack pressure on the extent of crack propagation is studied using both numerical and experimental results. Experimental data were obtained from shock tube testing of internally pressurized quasi-brittle hollow cylinders loaded to failure. Half of the samples were tested with an inserted membrane that transferred the shocked fluid load but prevented the fluid from entering the developing cracks. In the other cases, the membrane was removed allowing the fluid to enter the crack and assist development of fracture. A novel approach to modeling this complex structural response involving dynamic failure and fluid structure interaction is presented, …

Hora De Las Noticias: The Importance Of Spanish- Language News Media For Us Latinos, Barbara Gomez-Aguinaga

Political Science ETDs

This dissertation examines the mechanisms that set Spanish-language (SL) news media apart from mainstream media, and how they influence political behavior and identity among US Latinos. Specifically, it analyzes (1) the role of content coverage of SL news on issue salience, (2) the use of Spanish as a US minority language in the dissemination of information and its effects on Latino identity, and (3) the presence of Latino reporters and its implications on media trust. By leveraging original data collection, including conceptual content analyses and population-based survey experiments, and by engaging in multiple theories from political science and other fields …

Contested Ground: Indigenous Territoriality And European Sovereignty In The Early Centuries Of European Discovery Of And Claim To North America, Joseph P. Sánchez

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Unm Staff Council: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee Letter Condemning Racist Threats Against Faculty Member, Unm Staff Council

Black History at UNM

Open letter by UNM Staff Council Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee, condemning racist attacks on a UNM faculty member with 439 signatories.

Full Issue

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

On The Complexity Of Boson Sampling Using Atoms In Optical Lattices, Gopikrishnan Muraleedharan

Physics & Astronomy ETDs

The extended Church-Turing thesis says that any computation that can be done by a physically realizable model of computers can be efficiently computed by the simplest model of classical computer, a Turing machine. Since the introduction of the concept of quantum computers, a central goal has been to find instances where the extended Church- Turing thesis fails. In the current noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices era, one looks for such instances that can be simulated on modest devices of small scale in the presence of noise. In this thesis, we work with one such problem, namely the Boson Sampling problem. We …

A Brief Essay Defending The Doctrine Of Objective Chances As A Valid Theory For Introducing Evidence Of An Accused’S Uncharged Misconduct, Edward J. Imwinkelried

New Mexico Law Review

Rule 404(b) has been described as the most controversial of the Federal Rules of Evidence. In many states, errors in the admission of uncharged misconduct evidence are the most common ground for reversal in criminal cases. Testimony about an accused’s other crimes can be so prejudicial that it is “often virtually decisive of the whole case.”

It would be a mistake to jettison the character evidence prohibition altogether. Evidence reformers should focus on improving the administration of the doctrine of objective chances rather than seeking its abolition.

Illuminating The Dark Corners: The New Mexico Inspection Of Public Records Act’S Law Enforcement Exception, Nicholas T. Davis

New Mexico Law Review

The New Mexico’s Inspection of Public Records Act is a sunshine law created to allow the public access to its government’s operations. From its inception, the IPRA has been interpreted broadly towards disclosure of documents to keep government agents accountable for their conduct. While there are enumerated exceptions to the IPRA, they are narrowly construed and specific. However, of late government agencies have been pressing to enlarge the construction of these exceptions. A series of cases have been brought under the IPRA to challenge the use of the Law Enforcement Exception by New Mexico’s Department of Public Safety as a …

Unsettled Weather: The Need For Clear Rules Governing Intrusion Into Attorney-Client Communications, Blake R. Hills

New Mexico Law Review

The Sixth Amendment right to counsel is one of the most crucial parts of the criminal justice system. Because of the nature of crimes and investigations, the government or its agents will sometimes intrude into attorney-client conversations. The Supreme Court last addressed the impact of these intrusions over fifty years ago in Weatherford v. Bursey. Unfortunately, the Court failed to address many of the issues surrounding these intrusions. This failure has led to a split amongst the circuit courts of appeal, with a resulting system of rules that is based on where the intrusion occurred. This situation is untenable in …

Wagon Tracks Volume 34, Issue 2 (February 2020), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

2 On the Cover: -30 Degrees in the Sunshine

4 Insights from your President

5 Joanne's Jottings

7 Trail News

8 "A Taste of History": Films on the Santa Fe Trail

13 Newspapers Spread the News from Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Trail

23 Domestic Manufacturers and the Santa Fe Trade, 1831-1846

28 Chapter Reports

29 Membership Form

32 Calendar of Events

Data Mining Of Chinese Social Networks: Factors That Indicate Post Deletion, Meisam Navaki Arefi

Computer Science ETDs

Widespread Chinese social media applications such as Sina Weibo (Chinese Twitter), the most popular social network in China, are widely known for monitoring and deleting posts to conform to Chinese government requirements. Censorship of Chinese social media is a complex process that involves many factors. There are multiple stakeholders and many different interests: economic, political, legal, personal, etc., which means that there is not a single strategy dictated by a single government authority. Moreover, sometimes Chinese social media do not follow the directives of government, out of concern that they are more strictly censoring than their competitors.

One crucial question …

Process Improvement For Implementation Of A Verified Substance Use Screening Tool For All Patients In A General Medicine Inpatient Unit, Jera Davis, Dung Mac, Alexis Leyba, Alicia Meador, Cees Whisonant, Joanne Clinton, Loren Kelly, Charles Pizanis

Quality Improvement/Patient Safety Symposium

Introduction:

As of 2017, an estimated 21 million US adults, equivalent to 1 in 13 people, had a substance use disorder. Of those with a substance use disorder it was estimated that only 2.2 million received treatment. In 2015, New Mexico had the 8^th highest overdose death rate in the nation with the highest number of overall deaths attributed to Bernalillo County. The most common drugs used in overdose related deaths included heroin, benzodiazepines and prescription opioids. At the time of this study, it was found that the University of New Mexico Hospital did not have an identification tool …

Improving The Quality And Delivery Of Substance Use Disorder Resource List, Tenzin Desel, Monica Goodman, Susie Pham, Andrew Sanchez, Madeline Starkweather, Jennifer Thompson, Eva Angeli, Leonard Noronha, Reed Otten, Mary Lacy

Quality Improvement/Patient Safety Symposium

Introduction

The state of New Mexico has numerous organizations that help individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs). University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) social workers had previously started a list of these resources; however, it was neither updated nor used often. We aim to improve the quality, awareness, and delivery of this list on UNMH internal medicine (IM) inpatient units.

Methods

To improve the quality of the list we developed a concise SUD resource document using the pre-existing list as a template. We modified the list after feedback from patients, providers and literacy specialists. The final list was organized alphabetically …

Development Of A Tool To Qualitatively Access Impact Of Customized Patient Education Materials On Patient Satisfaction During Labor And Delivery Experience, Austin Graham, Kylee Greider, Timothy Petersen, Katherine M. Seligman

Quality Improvement/Patient Safety Symposium

The Painless Push (www.thepainlesspush.com) is an engaging and interactive patient education website that is tailored to the New Mexican population to provide patients evidence-based information about pain relief options for labor and delivery. We hypothesized that having an increased knowledge base and understanding of pain relief options during labor and delivery may help patients feel more prepared for delivery, more comfortable with their various pain relief options, and overall more satisfied with the experience of child birth. In review of the current literature, it was identified there has not been a validated tool developed to analyze this experience

In a …

Comparing Tdap In Pregnancy Rates Between Unm-Based Clinics: A Quality Improvement Project, Amber Lalla, Katarina Leyba, Taryn Mccue, Sarah Friedburg, Jody Stonehocker, Melissa Martinez

Quality Improvement/Patient Safety Symposium

Background: The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) recommends the Tdap vaccine during 27-36 weeks of pregnancy protect the neonate from pertussis between birth and their first DTaP vaccine. Nationally the rate of Tdap vaccination in pregnant women is 48-55% with lower rates for women of color, uninsured, and non-English speakers. The Maternity and Family Planning (MFP) clinics at UNM are a federally funded clinics that provide comprehensive prenatal and postnatal care for women, especially low-income and/or at-risk pregnant women. The MFP clinics at UNM do not have Tdap vaccines on site and refer women to the Department of …

Hobnail Cells In Encapsulated Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Report Of 2 Cases With Immunohistochemical And Molecular Findings And Literature Analysis, Shweta Agarwal, Qandeel Sadiq, Ibrahim Ortanca

Pathology Research and Scholarship

Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common malignant tumor of the thyroid gland with most tumors behaving in an indolent fashion. However, morphologic variants have been described, such as tall cell, diffuse sclerosing, columnar cell etc. which are biologically more aggressive. One of these variants includes the more recently described hobnail variant (HVPTC) which shows micropapillae and presence of large cells with apically placed hyperchromatic nuclei, reverse polarity, and eosinophilic cytoplasm, akin to hobnail cells. The presence of >30% hobnail cells in a PTC deserves categorization as a hobnail variant. This variant is usually associated with extra thyroidal extension, …

Deconstructing Foundational Principles Of Trusts And Estates Law, Sergio Pareja

Faculty Scholarship

REVIEW: Naomi R. Cahn, Dismantling the Trusts and Estates Canon, 2019 Wis. L. Rev. 165 (2019).

All areas of the law have certain foundational principles or beliefs that are widely shared. These underlying assumptions often go unchallenged. In the trusts and estates field, these principles include: (1) giving a certain amount of ongoing control to the transferor, or in the case of a decedent, to the “dead hand,” (2) respect for formality, (3) the importance of the traditional, legally-recognized family, and (4) the “wealth” narrative that focuses on the transmission of conventional forms of wealth.

In her …

The Mystery Room: Discovering The Flexibility Of An Information Literacy-Based Educational Escape Room, Glenn Koelling, Alyssa Russo

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

The Mystery Room is an educational escape room based on information literacy and applied to multiple audiences, including first-year students and library student employees. In this article, we explain how we developed the game, its theoretical underpinnings, and why it’s a flexible workshop for a variety of audiences.

Inhibiting Surface Flashover In Vacuum With High Gradient Insulators, Cameron Harjes

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

In high voltage systems, insulators may be used to separate conductors and these insulators are typically the limiting factor in the system’s operating voltage. When the voltage between two conductors is too large, the insulators can fail due to surface flashover. As systems become more compact, the threat of failure by insulator flashover increases, making the optimization of insulators a critical task for reliability.

Insulators at a vacuum interface are especially vulnerable to surface flashover. Insulators have been shown to holdoff more voltage in vacuum after being baked to remove imbedded surface gases. Ceramic materials are particularly attractive because, unlike …

Full Issue

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Multi-Sector General Permit 2019 Annual Reports, National Technology & Engineering Solutions Of Sandia (Permit No. Nmr053122), National Technology & Engineering Solutions Of Sandia, Llc

2015 Multi-Sector General Permit

The Multi-Sector General Permit (MSGP) Annual Reports are submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) annually as a requirement of the MSGP. The Reports summarize MSGP compliance activities at Sandia National Laboratories for the previous calendar year. NTESS and DOE, as permittees, submit identical reports under their respective permit numbers.

Multi-Sector General Permit 2019 Annual Reports, Department Of Energy/Sandia Field Office (Permit Number Nmr053114), National Technology & Engineering Solutions Of Sandia, Llc

2015 Multi-Sector General Permit

The Multi-Sector General Permit (MSGP) Annual Reports are submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) annually as a requirement of the MSGP. The Reports summarize MSGP compliance activities at Sandia National Laboratories for the previous calendar year. NTESS and DOE, as permittees, submit identical reports under their respective permit numbers.