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Positioning Disability In Wilderness Space, Rebecca Hobart

Geography ETDs

This thesis examines the social construction of the disabled body in recreational wilderness space. A political ecology framework guides the research questions: What are the actual or perceived barriers to participation for differently abled hikers in wilderness recreational spaces, and how do these challenges manifest in long-distance hiking spaces? In situating Foucault’s theories of the body as shaped by power relations, this thesis asserts wilderness spaces to be privileged based on power conceptualized in normative notions of ability. 44 participants who self-identified as wilderness recreationalists with a disability and/or chronic health illness completed this study’s mixed-method questionnaire. Themes around practices, …

Hsc Connects Newsletter - April 5, 2024, Unm Hsc Communications

HSC Connects Newsletters

Weekly newsletter of the UNM Health Sciences Center.

Formulation, Characterization, And In Vivo Immunogenicity Evaluation Of Heat-Stabilized Dissolvable Polymeric Microneedles, Aidan Lane Leyba

Biomedical Engineering ETDs

Since its introduction, vaccination has improved health outcomes tremendously. However, modern vaccination efforts are still difficult to implement, particularly in developing countries with warm climates. This includes complex and expensive cold-chain management of vaccines to maintain stability, a lack of medical personnel to administer parental vaccines, and needle phobia. As an alternative, dissolvable microneedles have recently been studied for their simple and painless application. In this thesis, I present a novel manufacturing process for polymer-based dissolvable microneedles, loaded with virus-like particles vaccines conjugated to TRIO or Sialokinin peptides to target malaria and arboviruses, respectively. We have performed multiple characterization studies …

Building Queer Families: Supports And Barriers, Annie Bright

Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs

A qualitative study was conducted with six participants who identify as Queer and/or Lesbian investigating supports and barriers to family building using Assisted Human Reproduction. Semi-structured interviews were conducted allowing participants to share their experiences and self-identify the significant supports and barriers in their process. Interviews were transcribed and coded using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis identifying three supports and four barriers. Results demonstrated that all participants identified their community and/or their Queer community and their partner and/or family as key supports and two-thirds of participants identified as a support their own background or knowledge. All participants described the high cost or …

5.2.24 Hsc Committee Meeting Notice, Helen Maestas

HSC Committee (A subcommittee of the UNM Board of Regents)

5.2.24 HSC Committee Meeting Notice

Holistic Health & Healing Arts 2024 Taos Self-Study, Academic Program Review

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Taos Holistic Health & Healing Arts self-study report for Spring 2024.

Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies, Unm Academic Program Review

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Department of Language, Literacy & Sociocultural Studies self-study & review team report for Spring 2024, fulfilling requirements of Higher Learning Commission.

In Vivo Tissue Distribution Of Polystyrene Or Mixed Polymer Microspheres And Metabolomic Analysis After Oral Exposure In Mice, Marcus M. Garcia, Aaron S. Romero, Seth D. Merkley, Jewel L. Meyer-Hagen, Charles Forbes, Eliane El Hayek, David P. Sciezka, Rachel Templeton, Jorge Gonzalez-Estrella, Yan Jin, Haiwei Gu, Angelica Benavidez, Russell P. Hunter, Selita Lucas, Guy Herbert, Kyle Joohyung Kim, Julia Yue Cui, Rama R. Gullapalli, Julie G. In, Matthew J. Campen, Eliseo F. Castillo

Pathology Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: Global plastic use has consistently increased over the past century with several different types of plastics now being produced. Much of these plastics end up in oceans or landfills leading to a substantial accumulation of plastics in the environment. Plastic debris slowly degrades into microplastics (MPs) that can ultimately be inhaled or ingested by both animals and humans. A growing body of evidence indicates that MPs can cross the gut barrier and enter into the lymphatic and systemic circulation leading to accumulation in tissues such as the lungs, liver, kidney, and brain. The impacts of mixed MPs exposure on …

Unm Taos Massage Therapy Certificate Program Apr Document Spring 2024, Unm Academic Program Review

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Taos Massage Therapy Certificate Program academic program review Self-Study Report Spring 2024

Linguistics Apr Spring 2024 Self-Study & Documents, Unm Academic Program Review

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Department of Linguistics self-study & review team report for Spring 2024, fulfilling requirements of Higher Learning Commission.

Neutrosophic Sets And Systems, Vol. 66,2024, Florentin Smarandache, Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Said Broumi

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Heat Mitigation Impacts Of Agriculture, Greenspace, And Riparian Forest In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Brennan Davis

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

Albuquerque, New Mexico, alongside the larger American desert Southwest, is already living the reality of climate change – temperatures have risen faster than the global average and, left unchecked, will continue to rise at an ever-increasing pace (NOAA 2022, Garfin et al. 2014). Alongside this disproportionate warming, the Southwest has experienced worsening drought which further stresses an already arid system (White et al. 2023, Dunbar et al. 2022). At the intersection of these changes lie a myriad of interrelated consequences for both ecosystems and communities. The urban heat island effect is one of many such consequences and is responsible for …

Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps For Clinical Decision Making In Mental Healthcare: A Federated Learning Approach, Jagan M. Obbineni, Ilanthenral Kandasamy, Madhumitha Ramesh, Florentin Smarandache, Vasantha Kandasamy

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Due to data privacy concerns and a lack of broadly applicable modelling approaches, mental health prediction encounters substantial challenges. This research introduces a pioneering decentralized framework integrating federated learning with Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps (NCMs) to facilitate secure and accurate mental health predictions while preserving data privacy. This innovative approach allows collaborative NCMs training on sensitive patient data across diverse sites without centralizing or transferring the data. The NCMs incorporated into the framework effectively model relationships between various symptoms and mental health states, offering interpretable insights into the complex dynamics of mental health. To address the limitations of local data availability, …

Integration Between Bioinformatics Algorithms And Neutrosophic Theory, Romany M. Farag, Mahmoud Y. Shams, Dalia A. Aldawody, Huda E. Khalid, Hazem M. El-Bakry, Ahmed A. Salama

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

This paper presents a neutrosophic inference model for bioinformatics. The model is used to develop a system for accurate comparisons of human nucleic acids, where the new nucleic acid is compared to a database of old nucleic acids. The comparisons are analyzed in terms of accuracy, certainty, uncertainty, neutrality, and bias. The proposed system achieves good results and provides a reliable standard for future comparisons. It highlights the potential of neutrosophic inference models in bioinformatics applications. Data mining and bioinformatics play a crucial role in computational biology, with applications in scientific research and industrial development. Biological analysts rely on specialized …

Empowering Artificial Intelligence Techniques With Soft Computing Of Neutrosophic Theory In Mystery Circumstances For Plant Diseases, Ahmed El-Massry, Florentin Smarandache, Mona Mohamed

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Plant diseases are one of the factors that lead to yield and economic losses, which have a direct effect on national and international food production systems. One of the most essential ways to avoid agricultural product loss or reduction in amount is to diagnose plant diseases promptly and accurately. Hence, the diagnosis process for plants is crucial and should be conducted accurately. Moreover, this study focuses on this process by constructing an Artificiality Diagnostics Framework (ADF) to serve the study’s objectives which entailed conducting diagnosis for plants in a professional and precise manner over uncertain environments. Thus, neutrosophic theory is …

Child Labor, Informality, And Poverty: Leveraging Logistic Regression, Indeterminate Likert Scales, And Similarity Measures For Insightful Analysis In Ecuador, Arnaldo Vergara-Romero, Guido Macas-Acosta, Fidel Márquez-Sánchez, Orlando Arencibia-Montero

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The paper presents a comprehensive analysis of child labor in Ecuador, employing advanced statistical tools like logistic regression, neutrosophic Likert scales, and similarity measures to deepen the understanding of this social issue. The integration of these methodologies allows for a nuanced assessment of the various socio-economic factors contributing to child labor. By capturing the uncertainty in human responses, the research highlights the complex interplay between poverty, household income, education levels, and labor types on the incidence of child labor. Key findings suggest that rural location, the age of the child, and the informal nature of the head of the household's …

An Efficient Neutrosophic Type-2 Model For Selecting Optimal Internet Of Things (Iot) Service Provider: Analysis And Applications, Ibrahim Alrashdi

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The Internet of Things, or IoT, is a rapidly expanding technology, and one of its most important application areas is sustainable transportation. Choosing the right IoT service provider is a complex process that is considered a multi-criteria decision issue. The multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methodology deals with massive criteria. This study proposed an MCDM methodology for selecting the best IoT service provider under different sustainable criteria. The Multi-Objective Optimization Ratio Analysis (MOORA) method is an MCDM methodology used to rank the alternatives. The MOORA method is integrated with a type 2 neutrosophic set to deal with uncertain information. The proposed MCDM …

Inhaled Microbiomics: Targeted Delivery Of Prebiotics And Antibiotics In Patients With Cystic Fibrosis, David Arran Mcchesney, Seth M. Daly, Patricia Marshik, Pavan Muttil

Pharmaceutical Sciences ETDs

Adults with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) are a unique and expanding patient population in the context of massive progress in disease screening and treatment. However, exacerbations remain a significant complication of the disease associated with its decline. CF pathophysiology promotes chronic respiratory bacterial infections, which are implicated in exacerbations. An important finding in research surrounding the respiratory microbiome has correlated the loss of diversity being with a worse prognosis in chronic lung diseases. We developed an aerosol formulation towards supporting the existing, diverse respiratory microbiome. Our formulation of prebiotics with and without antibiotics was designed to fit within the complex, multistep, …

Newark To Navajo: An Autoethnography Of A Cultural Outsider, Vincent Lloyd Mays

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This study aims to explore the experiences of an African American Male leader in the Bureau of Indian Education. The focus of the study is to understand how I experienced inequitable workplace opportunities that may prohibit me from attaining and advancing into executive leadership roles. A qualitative Autoethnographic approach explores how my lived experiences may help the human resources division recruit and retain “Cultural Outsiders.” It denoted the career trajectory for an African American Male in the Bureau of Indian Education sector to capture the essence of their experiences navigating inequities along the leadership pipeline. To examine my experiences, adaptative …

The Physiological And Perceptual Responses To Continuous- And Interval-Based High-Intensity Functional Training, Jessica Smith

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

The purpose of this study was to compare the acute physiological and perceptual responses to rest intervals during high-intensity functional training (HIFT) using a “rounds for time” (RFT) and an “every minute on the minute” (EMOM) design. Two studies were conducted in twelve trained and nine untrained individuals who performed two HIFT trials (EMOM and RFT). Blood lactate, oxygen consumption, heart rate, and rating of perceived exertion were significantly higher for the RFT compared to the EMOM. There was no difference between the EMOM and RFT for muscle damage responses. Lastly, there was no difference between the EMOM and RFT …

Hsc Connects Newsletter - March 28, 2024, Unm Hsc Communications

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Weekly newsletter of the UNM Health Sciences Center.

Hsc Connects Newsletter - March 22, 2024, Unm Hsc Communications

HSC Connects Newsletters

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Processes And Mechanisms Of Change In Mindfulness-Based Interventions For Substance Use Disorders: A Contextually Sensitive Systematic Review, David I.K Moniz-Lewis, Katie Witkiewitz

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

This review investigates the core processes that make mindfulness-based treatments for substance use disorders effective. It specifically investigates the rigor of the methods used to investigate these processes, as well as how these studies contextualized processes within the sociocultural contexts of participants. The review identified various processes that make mindfulness treatments effective. Further, it highlights that most studies employed rigorous methods but very few accounted for sociocultural context.

Funding: DML is supported via the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism T32 Predoctoral Fellowship (5T32AA018108) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse POSITIVE Research Study (UG3/UH3DA051441). KW is supported by …

Third Trimester Equivalent Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Leads To Impaired Contextual Conditioning Paralleled By Blunted Activity Of The Anteroventral Thalamus, Mitchell Morningstar, David Linsenbardt, Katalina Lopez, Fernando Valenzuela

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders result in a variety of learning and memory deficits. In this original study, we examined learning deficits between a third trimester equivalent alcohol exposure (TTAE) mouse model and their saline control counterparts. Additionally, we assessed the functional connectivity between 100+ brain regions using a marker of neural activity, cFOS. Overall, TTAE mice showed deficits in learning and differential network activation.

Identifying Barriers And Pathways To Care Among College Students With Early Psychosis, Natasha Dark, Annette S. Crisanti, Perla M. Romero, Justine L. Saavedra, Bess R. Friedman, Sam Barans, David Lardier, Juan Bustillo, Mauricio Tohen, Rhoshel Lenroot, Dawn Halperin

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

In this study, young college students in New Mexico, under 25yo, were asked for how they seek mental health care. It was found that those who first sought non-psychiatric help faced more delays in getting specialized treatment for their first signs of psychosis. Trust issues and fear of being judged were common barriers to seeking care, unaffected by ethnicity or gender, suggesting a need for better psychiatric care access and support systems.

Project Aware Third Year Successes: Improvements In Everyday Life, Social Connectedness, And Overall Mental Health, Haely Katt, Carolina Verdezoto, Abigail Thompson, Sondra Samaniego, Ariel Homer, Tyler Kincaid, Thomas Chavez, Cynthia Melugin, David Lardier

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education) is a collaborative initiative led by New Mexico’s Public Education Department to enhance the mental health support system for school-aged youth. Specifically, AWARE focuses on raising mental health awareness, training adults to identify and respond to concerns, and connecting youth with needed services. Recent evaluation shows significant improvements in enhancing students’ ability to deal with everyday life, social connectedness, and overall mental health.

Long-Term Potentiation Disruption Underlying Cognitive Impairment In Electroconvulsive Therapy, Danielle Farrar, Karen Luo, Jude Chavez, Bibh Nguyen, Kevin Wilson, Sarah Ward, Christopher Abbott

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a highly effective treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD) yet many candidates for ECT treatment are reluctant due to the risk of cognitive side effects. It’s not currently known what underlies this cognitive impairment, but it has been proposed that long-term potentiation (LTP), which is a strengthening of neuronal connections underlying learning and memory, is disrupted during ECT treatment. We are measuring changes in LTP during ECT using electroencephalography (EEG).

Bacteriophage Virus-Like Particle-Based Vaccines Against Opioids, Isabella G. Romano, Brandi Johnson-Weaver, Herman Staats, William Wetstel, Yumei Huang, Bruce Blough, Susan B. Core, Bryce Chackerian, Kathryn M. Frietze

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

The opioid crisis is an increasing issue globally, and particularly in the United States. Recent advancements have shown that vaccines targeting opioid drugs are a promising new therapeutic option to combat opioid use disorder and overdose. Our group has developed a novel opioid vaccine using a virus-like particle based design. Here we demonstrate its efficacy in targeting multiple opioid drugs.

Economic Cost To Society Due To Community Nonacceptance Of Lgbtq Youth In Florida Based On Fatal And Non-Fatal Suicide Attempts, Seiji Imai

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

The LGBTQ youth suicide rate is higher in communities with higher community nonacceptance. This research examines the economic cost to society of the difference in suicide rates attributed to community nonacceptance. In Florida, a state with recent increases in hostility towards the LGBTQ community and LGBTQ rights, the annual cost of community nonacceptance of LGBTQ youth was found to be $309.43 million.

Nm Start: Serving The Needs Of Individuals With Developmental Disabilities And Mental Health Needs, Tiffany L. Otero, Felicia Nevarez, Pat Osbourn, Michelle Lafont, Collin Massey, Cynthia King, Mohammad Murtuza, Heather Krapf

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

The NM START Program, housed at the UNM Center for Development and Disability, launched in August 2023, as an initiative to address the issues experienced by individuals with disabilities in the State of New Mexico. The START (Systemic-Therapeutic-Assessment-Resources-Treatment) model is an evidence-informed model of integrated community crisis prevention & intervention services for individuals ages 6 and older with intellectual and developmental disabilities and mental health needs. START was first developed in 1988 by Dr. Joan B. Beasley and was cited as a best practice in the 2002 US Surgeon General’s report and by the National Academy of Sciences in 2016. …