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20230703_Independence Day Hours, Brandon Carroll

HSLIC Blog Post

No abstract provided.

20230703_Celebrate National Stay Out Of The Sun Day, Gale G. Hannigan Phd

HSLIC Blog Post

No abstract provided.

New Mexico Teachers’ Perceptions Of Students Who Stutter, Kyla Evelyn Cook

Speech and Hearing Sciences ETDs

Although stuttering may have a negative impact on quality of life, social support can mediate this impact and result in better outcomes. Teachers can be an important support for children. However, studies have shown that teachers have similar biases and knowledge compared to the public, and therefore may hold harmful beliefs about their students who stutter. This online survey is part of the assessment phase that aims to investigate the local attitudes and beliefs of K-12 school teachers in New Mexico. The data showed that New Mexico teachers have similar knowledge and biases as teachers globally. Results indicate New Mexico …

The Association Between Intrauterine Exposure To Opioids, Tobacco, Alcohol, And Cannabis And Length Of Birth Hospitalization Among Neonates Without Nows, Steven J. Ondersma, Amii M. Kress, Annemarie Stroustrup, Robert D. Annett, Lyndsay A. Avalos, Maria Talavera-Barber, Patricia A. Brennan, Carlos A. Camargo Jr, Elisabeth Conradt, Anne L. Dunlop, Amy J. Elliott, Monique M. Hedderson, Ximin Li, Monica Mcgrath, Ruby H N Nguyen, Grier P. Page, Sheela Sathyanarayana, Barry Lester

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Unm Pathology, Pathfinder Summer 2023, Unm Department Of Pahtology

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Validation Of The Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment Among Diverse Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorder, Elena R. Stein

Psychology ETDs

Individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD) are heterogeneous in terms of etiology, maintenance, symptoms, and recovery, yet current diagnostic categories fail to adequately capture this heterogeneity. Corresponding to the neurobiological addiction cycle, the Alcohol and Addictions Research Domain Criteria proposes a framework of three core domains disrupted in AUD: negative emotionality, incentive salience, and executive function. The Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment (ANA) is a hypothesized multimodal assessment battery of these three domains, which may better characterize AUD heterogeneity. The current study validated the ANA in a sample of drinkers (N=245) who were diverse with respect to ethnicity and alcohol treatment-seeking status. …

Non-Invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation Improves Brain Lesion Volume And Neurobehavioral Outcomes In A Rat Model Of Traumatic Brain Injury, Afshin A. Divani, Pascal Salazar, Hafiz A. Ikram, Erik Taylor, Colin M. Wilson, Yirong Yang, Javad Mahmoudi, Alina Seletska, Karen S. Santacruz, Michel T. Torbey, Eric J. Liebler, Olga A. Bragina, Russel A. Morton, Denis E. Bragin

Pathology Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Clear Path: A Framework For Enhancing Information Literacy Through Prompt Engineering, Leo S. Lo

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

This article introduces the CLEAR Framework for Prompt Engineering, designed to optimize interactions with AI language models like ChatGPT. The framework encompasses five core principles—Concise, Logical, Explicit, Adaptive, and Reflective—that facilitate more effective AI-generated content evaluation and creation. Additionally, the article discusses technical aspects of prompts, such as tokens, temperature, and top-p settings. By integrating the CLEAR Framework into information literacy instruction, academic librarians can empower students with critical thinking skills for the ChatGPT era and adapt to the rapidly evolving AI landscape in higher education.

High Extracellular Glucose Promotes Cell Motility By Modulating Cell Deformability And Contractility Via The Camp-Rhoa-Rock Axis In Human Breast Cancer Cells, Mijung Oh, Skylar Batty, Nayan Banerjee, Tae-Hyung Kim

Pathology Research and Scholarship

The mechanical properties, or mechanotypes, of cells are largely determined by their deformability and contractility. The ability of cancer cells to deform and generate contractile force is critical in multiple steps of metastasis. Identifying soluble cues that regulate cancer cell mechanotypes and understanding the underlying molecular mechanisms regulating these cellular mechanotypes could provide novel therapeutic targets to prevent metastasis. Although a strong correlation between high glucose level and cancer metastasis has been demonstrated, the causality has not been elucidated, and the underlying molecular mechanisms remain largely unknown. In this study, using novel high-throughput mechanotyping assays, we show that human breast …

Pregnancy In United States Immigration Detention: Listening To Migrant Women's Stories, Amanda Heffernan

Nursing ETDs

Over the last five years, dramatic shifts in immigration policy across three presidential administrations have impacted migrants arriving at the U.S.’ southern border, with unique impacts on pregnant migrants. The purpose of this study was to document, analyze and contextualize the experience of pregnancy in United States immigration detention. Specifically, the study aimed to: 1) understand the situation of pregnant migrants detained in United States immigration detention facilities between 2017-2022; 2) situate the experience of detained pregnant migrants within multiple contexts, including their own individual and family migration stories and the larger context of United States immigration policy; and 3) …

Long-Term Monitoring And Maintenance Plan For The Mixed Waste Landfill – March 2012, Revision 2, July 2023, Sandia National Laboratories/Nm Snl

Facilities-Units

The New Mexico Environment Department approved the Class 2 Permit Modification Request (23-024) to plug and abandon monitoring well MWL-MW4. The proposed revisions to the LTMMP have been incorporated as Revision 2 (July 2023) of the Long-Term Monitoring and Maintenance Plan for the Mixed Waste Landfill and replaces Revision 1 (dated February 2022). 268 pages.

Dynamic Fallowing In The Middle Rio Grande: A Look At The Environmental Water Leasing Program, Jared Wood

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

The Environmental Water Leasing Program (EWLP) is a federally-funded collaborative effort of the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation that has paid irrigators in the Middle Rio Grande to temporarily lease water rights and forgo their water use so that it may be used to provide environmental flows for the endangered Rio Grande Silvery Minnow. The program operates in a sometimes socially contentious context, in a region with an overallocated, legally constrained water system, to offer much needed water management flexibility. While dynamic fallowing payments for ecosystem services programs like the EWLP are common policy …

Groundwater Budgeting And Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Of Water Supply At Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Maximiliano Trujillo

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

Water resources management is becoming increasingly complex in the Middle Rio Grande Valley, where the negative impacts of climate change and growing demand for a fully allocated river put further strain on diminishing water supply. The precarity of future water availability emphasizes the importance of fully accounting for existing water rights allocations and understanding how ever changing social and ecological processes might hinder those rights from being fully realized. This study aimed at improving knowledge of the groundwater budget at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico by utilizing experimental methods of Darcy Flow analysis to estimate groundwater flow …

Capacity And Communication: Addressing Barriers To Agricultural Innovations In The Middle Rio Grande Basin, Corina Michelle Gomez

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

Farmers and ranchers across the American Southwest are battling intense droughts, leaving them with decreasing water supplies to irrigate their fields or perform the necessary activities their operations require. These shortages have placed mounting pressures on agricultural water users and water managers alike to seek techniques and innovations that will stretch water supplies further and help them survive into the future. In an area like the Middle Rio Grande (MRG) basin in central New Mexico, for many farmers agriculture is more than a way to generate income, it’s a way of life. It is closely intertwined with the history of …

Irrigation And Innovation: Understanding Barriers To Innovative Actions To Manage Drought On Middle Rio Grande Farms, Eleanor C. Hasenbeck

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

The Rio Grande has irrigated agricultural land in central New Mexico since time immemorial. Today, agriculture in New Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande valley is adapting to an increasingly scarce water supply due to long-term drought and climate change (Dunbar et al., 2022). As supply is decreasing, demands are increasing because of several factors: an increase in evapotranspiration (Dunbar et al., 2022); population growth in the Middle Rio Grande valley (NM LFC, 2021); and legal obligations to provide water for endangered species and to Texas and Mexico (NM ISC, 2017). Agriculture is largest water use by sector in the Rio Grande …

Preliminary Incidence And Trends Of Infections Caused By Pathogens Transmitted Commonly Through Food - Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, 10 U.S. Sites, 2022, Miranda J. Delahoy, Hazel J. Shah, Daniel Lowell Weller, Logan C. Ray, Kirk Smith, Suzanne Mcguire, Rosalie T. Trevejo, Elaine Scallan Walter, Katie Wymore, Tamara Rissman, Marcy Mcmillian, Sarah Lathrop, Bethany Laclair, Michelle M. Boyle, Stic Harris, Joanna Zablotsky-Kufel, Kennedy Houck, Carey J. Devine, Carey E. Lau, Robert V. Tauxe, Beau B. Bruce, Patricia M. Griffin, Daniel C. Payne

Pathology Research and Scholarship

Each year, infections from major foodborne pathogens are responsible for an estimated 9.4 million illnesses, 56,000 hospitalizations, and 1,350 deaths in the United States (1). To evaluate progress toward prevention of enteric infections in the United States, the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) conducts surveillance for laboratory-diagnosed infections caused by eight pathogens transmitted commonly through food at 10 U.S. sites. During 2020-2021, FoodNet detected decreases in many infections that were due to behavioral modifications, public health interventions, and changes in health care-seeking and testing practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. This report presents preliminary estimates of pathogen-specific annual incidences during …

20230629_What Is The Hslic Biomedical Informatics Seminar Series (Biomiss), Brandon Carroll

HSLIC Blog Post

No abstract provided.

Hsc Connects Newsletter - June 29, 2023, Unm Hsc Communications

HSC Connects Newsletters

Weekly newsletter of the UNM Health Sciences Center.

Canada's Indigenous Health Information: Creating Collaborative Space For Archives And Community In The Native Health Database, Jonathan M. Pringle

Posters and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Gold Thin Film Electrodes For High Sensitivity & Selectivity Electrochemical Detection Of Arsenite In Water, Tybur Q. Casuse Driovínto

Civil Engineering ETDs

This is partial fulfillment of a dissertation defense on electrochemical detection of Arsenic (As) in water using gold (Au) nanofilms as sensing electrodes. The maximum contaminant level of Arsenic in drinking water is set at 10 g L^-1 by the WHO and USEPA. Electrochemical detection by linear stripping voltammetry has comparable detection limits to more expensive laboratory-based methods but with added benefits of being portable and manufacturable. The work has developed sputtered and crystallographically oriented nanofilms for detection of trace As (III). Ultraflat Au(111) oriented thin films, Au(UTF), were compared to single crystal model electrodes to identify the impacts …

20230627_Take The Test & Take The Next Step – National Hiv Testing Day, Brandon Carroll

HSLIC Blog Post

No abstract provided.

Associations Between Nonsuicidal Self-Injury And School-Based Health-Promotive Factors For Sexual And Gender Minority Youth And Their Peers, Alena Kuhlemeier, Daniel Shattuck, Cathleen Willging, Mary M. Ramos

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Eat, Sleep, Console Approach Or Usual Care For Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal, Leslie W. Young, Songthip T. Ounpraseuth, Stephanie L. Merhar, Zhuopei Hu, Alan E. Simon, Andrew A. Bremer, Jeannette Y. Lee, Abhik Das, Margaret M. Crawford, Rachel G. Greenberg, P Brian Smith, Brenda B. Poindexter, Rosemary D. Higgins, Michele C. Walsh, Ward Rice, David A. Paul, Jessie R. Maxwell, Sucheta Telang, Camille M. Fung, Tanner Wright, Anne Marie Reynolds, Devon W. Hahn, Julie Ross, Jennifer M. Mcallister, Moira Crowley, Sophie K. Shaikh, Karen M. Puopolo, Lori Christ, Jaime Brown, Julie Riccio, Kara Wong Ramsey, Akshatha Akshatha, Erica F. Braswell, Lauren Tucker, Karen R. Mcalmon, Krishna Dummula, Julie Weiner, Jessica R. White, Meghan P. Howell, Sarah Newman, Jessica N. Snowden, Lori A. Devlin, Act Now Collaborative

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: Although clinicians have traditionally used the Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scoring Tool to assess the severity of neonatal opioid withdrawal, a newer function-based approach - the Eat, Sleep, Console care approach - is increasing in use. Whether the new approach can safely reduce the time until infants are medically ready for discharge when it is applied broadly across diverse sites is unknown.

METHODS: In this cluster-randomized, controlled trial at 26 U.S. hospitals, we enrolled infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome who had been born at 36 weeks' gestation or more. At a randomly assigned time, hospitals transitioned from usual care …

Hsc Connects Newsletter - June 22, 2023, Unm Hsc Communications

HSC Connects Newsletters

Weekly newsletter of the UNM Health Sciences Center.

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, Environmental Quality And Public Health, Suraj Ghimire

Economics ETDs

Using dairy farm data, this dissertation investigates the environmental and health implications of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in New Mexico. It seeks to answer three primary research questions: (1) the relationship between environmental justice indicators and proximity to dairy farms; (2) the overall health consequences of dairy air pollutants; and (3) the viability of implementing an anaerobic digester (AD) system as a potential solution to externality concerns while maintaining dairy farm economic sustainability.

The first study demonstrates that foreign-born populations and Hispanics disproportionately experience emissions from CAFOs, with living near dairy farms or in areas with elevated ammonia levels …

Short-Term Fasting Lowers Glucagon Levels Under Euglycemic And Hypoglycemic Conditions In Healthy Humans, Shana O. Warner, Yufei Dai, Nicole Sheanon, Michael V. Yao, Rebecca L. Cason, Shahriar Arbabi, Shailendra B. Patel, Diana Lindquist, Jason J. Winnick

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

Fasting is associated with increased susceptibility to hypoglycemia in people with type 1 diabetes, thereby making it a significant health risk. To date, the relationship between fasting and insulin-induced hypoglycemia has not been well characterized, so our objective was to determine whether insulin-independent factors, such as counterregulatory hormone responses, are adversely impacted by fasting in healthy control individuals. Counterregulatory responses to insulin-induced hypoglycemia were measured in 12 healthy people during 2 metabolic studies. During one study, participants ate breakfast and lunch, after which they underwent a 2-hour bout of insulin-induced hypoglycemia (FED). During the other study, participants remained fasted prior …

Parents' Perspectives On The Utility Of Genomic Sequencing In The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Amy A Lemke, Michelle L Thompson, Emily C Gimpel, Katelyn C Mcnamara, Carla A Rich, Candice R Finnila, Meagan E Cochran, James M J Lawlor, Kelly M East, Kevin M Bowling, Donald R Latner, Susan M Hiatt, Michelle D Amaral, Whitley V Kelley, Veronica Greve, David E Gray, Stephanie A Felker, Hannah Meddaugh, Ashley Cannon, Amanda Luedecke, Kelly E Jackson, Laura G Hendon, Hillary M Janani, Marla Johnston, Lee Ann Merin, Sarah L Deans, Carly Tuura, Trent Hughes, Heather Williams, Kelly Laborde, Matthew B Neu, Jessica Patrick-Esteve, Anna C E Hurst, Brian M Kirmse, Renate Savich, Steven B Spedale, Sara J Knight, Gregory S Barsh, Bruce R Korf, Gregory M Cooper, Kyle B Brothers

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: It is critical to understand the wide-ranging clinical and non-clinical effects of genome sequencing (GS) for parents in the NICU context. We assessed parents' experiences with GS as a first-line diagnostic tool for infants with suspected genetic conditions in the NICU.

METHODS: Parents of newborns (N = 62) suspected of having a genetic condition were recruited across five hospitals in the southeast United States as part of the SouthSeq study. Semi-structured interviews (N = 78) were conducted after parents received their child's sequencing result (positive, negative, or variants of unknown significance). Thematic analysis was performed on all interviews.

RESULTS: …

From Austin To Santa Fe: Exploring The Prosecution Of Environmental Crimes Within Epa Region 6, Dr. Joshua Ozymy, Dr. Melissa Jarrell Ozymy

Natural Resources Journal

Criminal violations of environmental law are prosecuted by EPA and DOJ. Despite decades of such prosecutions, there has been relatively little analysis done towards understanding existing patterns in criminal prosecution of environmental crimes, especially on a regional basis. This article analyzes the 287 prosecutions which occurred in EPA Region 6 between 1983–2022, out of the 2,807 total environmental crimes prosecuted by all of EPA during that period. In the selected cases, defendants were cumulatively assessed with over $908 million in monetary penalties, 225 years of incarceration, and 1,032 years of probation. At 43 percent of the selected prosecutions, water pollution …

Case Note: Up In The Air: Environment Texas And The New Violation-Based Approach To Determining Standing In Environmental Citizen Suits, Noah T. Allaire

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Case Note: Mind The (Federal) Gap: Nuisance Claims In The Tenth Circuit To Address Climate Change, Serafina Seluja

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.