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Does Health Insurance Affect Patient's Doctor Visit?, Samsun Naher, Dinah Amoah, Kate Cartwright, David Van Der Goes

Shared Knowledge Conference

As of July 2016, 11.2% of the United States' population is Mexican Americans (United States Census Bureau 2017, American Community Survey). Mexican Americans comprised 63.2% of all Hispanics and Latinos in the United States (United States Census Bureau 2017, American Community Survey). About 52% of all Mexican Americans reside in the West and 35% in the South (U.S. Census, Hispanic Population 2010). Our objective is to seek how health insurance coverage rates affect the Mexican Americans population's doctor visit between these two different regions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We use the 2010 - 2017 NHIS where 2010 - …

Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing Of Proton Pump Inhibitors Among Older Patients In The Us, Shannon Kindilien, Cheng Chen

Shared Knowledge Conference

The American Geriatrics Society list of Potentially Inappropriate Medication (Beers Criteria) use in older adults (>64-years) includes Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs), and specifically cautions against their use for >8 weeks. PPIs are prescribed to reduce the production of stomach acid, however there is strong evidence older adults are at risk of infection and bone loss from prolonged exposure to PPIs. This study used data from the 2017 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) and the FDA Adverse Event Report System (FAERS, as of June 30, 2019) to characterize the current prescribing practices of PPIs to older adults and the risks …

Speech Characteristics Of Professional Fighters, Sofiya Krasilshchikova, Amy Neel, Jessica Richardson

Shared Knowledge Conference

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a degenerative neurological disease that affects 7% of people who have had at least one instance of a moderate to severe concussion. The populations at higher risk for developing this disorder include military veterans who have been exposed to blast damage, victims of domestic violence, and athletes who participate in contact sports. Previous research conducted about CTE has been centered around two methods of diagnosis: clinical and pathological. A diagnosis based on pathology currently impossible to make in vivo. The type of testing required can only be completed on autopsy. A clinical diagnosis is also …

Promoting Social-Emotional Learning Through Physical Activity, Caitlin Olive, Karen Lux Gaudreault, Bryan A. Mccullick, Phillip Tomporowski

Shared Knowledge Conference

Social-emotional learning has become an increasingly popular topic in education as today's students are expected to attend to an exceeding amount of expectations, such as academic achievement, responsible decision making, cooperating with others, and resisting negative tendencies (Elias et al., 1997). SEL is founded on the notion that social-emotional learning and academic achievement are interdependent and should be deliberately taught in order to maximize student learning (Greenberg et al., 2003). Accordingly, CASEL developed guides for implementing district-wide SEL programming to ensure competencies are taught across subject areas (Durlak et al., 2011). SEL programs can occur during the school day or …

Rac1 As A Therapeutic Target In Ovarian Cancer, Melanie Rivera, Martha M. Grimes, Dayna Dominguez, S. Ray Kenney, Yuna Guo, Elsa Romero, Kathryn J. Brayer, Yan Guo, Scott A. Ness, Sarah F. Adams, Carolyn Muller, Laurie G. Hudson

Shared Knowledge Conference

Rac1 is a high value therapeutic target for cancer based on its tumor promoting activities, yet clinical applications targeting Rac1 are in their infancy. High expression and hyperactivation of Rac1 in ovarian cancer, along with our identification of R-ketorolac as a novel Rac1 and Cdc42 selective inhibitor with translational potential, prompt us to test the hypothesis that targeting Rac1 has therapeutic utility for ovarian cancer. Ascites tumor cell samples from ovarian cancer patients in a prospective study receiving racemic ketorolac for clinically indicated use in pain relief were previously reported to show time dependent reduction of Rac1 and Cdc42 activities …

Classifying Livestock Grazing Behavior And Gis-Modeling Potential Cumulative Risks From Exposure To Abandoned Uranium Mine Waste In The Cove Wash Watershed, Arizona, Usa, Zhuoming Liu

Shared Knowledge Conference

Abandoned uranium mines (AUMs) are sources of metals and radioactive substances that are harmful to human health. There are 50 AUMs in the Cove Wash Watershed; as a result, community members are concerned that when domesticated sheep, goat and cattle graze on or near these features they are exposed to harmful substances. Sheep in particular are culturally important and consumption of meat and organs may result in human exposure and potential health impacts. As part of a larger ongoing research project, this thesis examines the geospatial and temporal grazing patterns of domesticated livestock to use GIS to model potential for …

Knowledge And Desires Of Parents Of Middle School Students With Intellectual Disability Regarding Inclusive Education Laws And Practices In South Korea: Qualitative Case Study, Yunji Jeong

Special Education ETDs

The purpose of this study was to examine the knowledge and desires of parents of middle school students with ID regarding inclusive education practices and laws in South Korea. I interviewed seven mothers of children with ID who attended South Korean middle school. Three themes emerged including (a) mother-teacher communication, (b) particular knowledge that suppressed further desires for inclusive education, and (c) culture-based advocacy for inclusive education. I discussed these findings based on Confucianism, collectivism, social and medical models of disability, and Rawls’s theory of justice. The mothers neither knew about inclusive education laws nor valued the laws. Instead, they …

The Role Of Adaptive Immunity In Chronic Hypoxia-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension, Levi David Maston

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

Inflammation is a prominent pathologic feature in pulmonary arterial hypertension as demonstrated by pulmonary vascular infiltration of inflammatory cells, including T and B lymphocytes. However, the contribution of the adaptive immune system is not well characterized in pulmonary hypertension (PH) caused by chronic hypoxia (CH). Inflammatory cells, through various mechanisms, have the capability to increase pulmonary vascular resistance in various disease states. CD4⁺T cells have the potential to play a significant role in the disease process initiated by hypoxia. CD4⁺T cells are largely responsible for orchestrating downstream immune processes and are critical in focusing and amplifying …

From Data To Action: Using Qualitative Research To Increase Healthcare Provider Referrals To Early Childhood Home Visiting, Theresa H. Cruz, Leona Woelk, Ivy Cervantes

Posters and Presentations

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Preservice Teachers' Perceptions Of Readiness For Teaching In A 1:1 Classroom, Laura Jeffery

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

With the emergence of digital technology as a primary means to communicate and learn, it is imperative that educators become proficient in utilizing 21^stcentury digital tools and apps. However, research has shown that preservice teachers' levels of readiness for teaching in 1:1 classrooms are not sufficient. Preservice teachers need to increase their proficiency with technology, both hardware and software, in order to maximize student achievement and prepare their future students for a wide array of post-secondary options.

This study examined the perceptions that preservice teachers held regarding their readiness to step into 1:1 classrooms upon completion of their …

Multi-Model Implementation Of Evidence-Based Care In The Treatment Of Opioid Use Disorder In Pennsylvania, Sarah Kawasaki, Erica Francis, Sara Mills, Glenn Buchberger, Ruth Hogentogler, Jennifer Kraschnewski

Project ECHO Bibliography

Pennsylvania has the third highest rate of death due to drug overdose (44.3 per 100,000) in the country, which is significantly higher than the national rate. This continues to have drastic societal impact. Medication assisted treatment (MAT), which includes opioid agonist medications, is the gold standard in treatment for OUD; however, a significant gap remains between the number of individuals in need of treatment and the number of MAT providers. Penn State Health established a system to address the opioid epidemic through the Pennsylvania Coordinated Medication Assisted Treatment program utilizing lessons learned from existing validated models. Connecting primary care sites …

Expanding Treatment For Opioid Use Disorder In Publicly Funded Primary Care Clinics: Exploratory Evaluation Of The Nyc Health + Hospitals Buprenorphine Echo Program, Babak Tofighi, Noah Isaacs, Hannah Byrnes-Enoch, Rebecca Lakew, Joshua D Lee, Carolyn Berry, Daniel Schatz

Project ECHO Bibliography

Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (Project ECHO) offers an innovative and low-cost approach to enhancing the management of complex conditions among primary care providers. The NYC Health + Hospitals Buprenorphine ECHO (H + H ECHO) program offers primary care providers (PCPs) training and support in managing opioid use disorder (OUD). This exploratory study assessed the feasibility of a 16-session video conferencing platform led by Addiction Medicine experts in improving addiction knowledge, perceived self-efficacy, and buprenorphine prescribing among PCPs located in 17 publicly-funded ambulatory care clinics. A pre- and post-training survey assessed changes in knowledge and self-efficacy. Buprenorphine prescribing patterns …

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 44-A, No. 11, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletters

Accomplishments: Positive, Negative

Por la Independencia en Puerto Rico

Human Rights Pen Pals

The Jail

Stay of Execution

Mass Commutation

The Right to Vote

Vote No Rikers, Old or New

How Do Trainers In Empirically Supported Treatments Decide What To Train?: An Investigation Of The Trainer’S Role In The Science-To-Service Pathway, David Pendleton Forman

Psychology ETDs

BACKGROUND: Despite significant progress in identifying empirically supported

elements of psychotherapy treatments over the last 20 years, the integration of these findings into clinical practice remains low. Practitioner training has been identified as a core component of successful translation of scientific findings into practice. Yet, little research has been conducted on the role of the trainer in the dissemination of empirically supported treatments (ESTs). This exploratory study investigated the practices and attitudes of trainers of an EST, Motivational Interviewing (MI), to identify potential factors related to successful and/or unsuccessful dissemination efforts. METHOD: A measure of Motivational Interviewing components (MIC) and …

From Cymatics To Sound Therapy: Their Role In Spirituality And Consciousness Research, Victor Christianto, Kasan Susilo, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

Sound is one of the types of waves that can be felt by the sense of hearing (ears). In physics, the definition of sound is something that is produced from objects that vibrate. Objects that produce sound are called sound sources. The sound source that vibrates will vibrate the molecules into the air around it. Sound is mechanical compression or longitudinal waves that propagate through the medium. This medium or intermediate agent can be liquid, solid, gas. So, sound waves can propagate for example in water, coal, or air. Most sounds are a combination of various vibratory signals composed of …

Essays On Nutrition And Cognitive Production In Developing Countries: Evidence From Ethiopia & Nepal, Mohammad Ali

Economics ETDs

This dissertation is comprised of five chapters. The first chapter provides an outline of the three separate research papers that are combined in this dissertation. It highlights the goals of each paper, discusses their importance to the field of economics, and outlines their contributions to the existing literature. The final chapter summarizes the main conclusions from the three research articles and points to how my future research trajectory is shaped by my dissertation research.

The second chapter explores the effect of current health (denoted by BMI for age scores) on cognitive test scores directly and indirectly, through time allocated to …

20191025_Hslic Faculty Published In New Book, Unknown User

HSLIC Blog Post

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Integrating Treatment For Co-Occurring Mental Health Conditions, Amy M Yule, John F Kelly

Project ECHO Bibliography

Given the high co-occurrence between alcohol use disorder (AUD) and mental health conditions (MHCs), and the increased morbidity associated with the presence of co-occurring disorders, it is important that co-occurring disorders be identified and both disorders addressed in integrated treatment. Tremendous heterogeneity exists among individuals with co-occurring conditions, and factors related to both AUD and MHCs, including symptom type and acuity, illness severity, the chronicity of symptoms, and recovery capital, should be considered when recommending treatment interventions. This article reviews the prevalence of co-occurring AUD and MHCs, screening tools to identify individuals with symptoms of AUD and MHCs, and subsequent …

Perpetual Affordability Covenants: Can These Land Use Tools Solve The Affordable Housing Crisis?, Elizabeth Elia

Faculty Scholarship

Approximately 3.8 million privately-owned residential housing units in America today contain affordability covenants recorded in their chains of title. State and local agencies and the District of Columbia use these covenants to ensure that publicly-subsidized properties are actually used to provide affordable housing. With rents at all-time highs and stagnant wages, the affordable housing crisis has reached a fever pitch. House Democrats are proposing billions more in housing subsidy. To the extent those funds subsidize privately-owned housing development they, too, will be secured by affordability covenants. In response to this crisis, a new trend in high cost markets is to …

20191021_Open Access Week, Jonathan M. Pringle

HSLIC Blog Post

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Regarding Docket No. Fr-6111-P-02, Hud’S Implementation Of The Fair Housing Act’S Disparate Impact Standard, Sonia Gipson Rankin, Alfred Mathewson, Melanie Moses, G. Matthew Fricke, Kathy Powers, Gabriel R. Sanchez, Christopher Moore, Elizabeth Bradley, Mirta Galesic, Joshua Garland

Faculty Scholarship

The is a Comment on the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Proposed Rule: FR-6111-P-02 HUD’s Implementation of the Fair Housing Act’s Disparate Impact Standard . This comment examines how algorithms in housing applications may be inherently biased against certain groups of people.

Their arguments against the proposed legislation:

1. To ensure that an algorithm does not have disparate impact, it is not enough to show that individual input factors are not “substitutes or close proxies” for protected characteristics.

2. It is impossible to audit an algorithm for bias without an adequate level of transparency or access to the …

Fourteenth Annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference (2019), Nepal Study Center

Himalayan Policy Research Conference

Proceedings and paper abstracts of the Himalayan Policy Research Conference (Twelfth Annual) from the Nepal Study Center. Thursday, October 17, 2019, Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor's Club, Preconference Venue of the 48th South Asian Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Multi-Year Water Quality Data Reveal Highly Variable Timing And Magnitude Of Metabolism And Physicochemical Drivers In An Aridland River Network, Betsy Marie Summers

Civil Engineering ETDs

Streams and rivers process and transport carbon to downstream systems and are important components of global and regional carbon budgets. Ecosystem functions, including gross primary production (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (ER), can be used to improve understanding of carbon cycling and ecosystem health in lotic systems. Whole-stream metabolism (GPP and ER) has been studied extensively in headwater streams. However, we know less about the variability in GPP and ER in aridland rivers and tributary streams despite being globally abundant and vulnerable systems to changing climate. This dissertation explores temporal and spatial variation of GPP and ER in a montane stream …

Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps For Situation Analysis, Aasim Zafar, Mohd Anas

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Data Envelopment Analysis For Simplified Neutrosophic Sets, S. A. Edalatpanah, F. Smarandache

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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20191014_Biomedical Informatics Seminar Series Presents- Meghan Brett, Md, Tamara Wheeler

HSLIC Blog Post

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Diagnostic Sequence Detection Against A Complex Background Using A Dna Molecular Computation Framework, Adan Leon Myers Y Gutierrez

Nanoscience and Microsystems ETDs

Diagnostic assays are designed to detect a unique analyte profile in a disease of interest. Nucleic acids contain an information-dense sequence, and thus are ideal candidates for unique analytes. The gold-standard of nucleic-acid-based detection is PCR which has high sensitivity, but involves time, expertise, and cost. DNA molecular logic technology holds much promise as an alternative molecular detection method due to the potential to save cost and expertise, while also achieving a high sensitivity. However, nucleic acid detection in biomedical applications carries with it the difficulty of choice of appropriate sequence and potential biological sample background.

This work describes the …

A Remark On How A Consciousness Model And Entanglement Can Lead Us To Quantum Communication, Victor Christianto, Robert N. Boyd, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In a recent paper, we describe how a model of quantum communication based on combining consciousness experiment and entanglement can serve as impetus to stop 5G-caused diseases. Therefore, in this paper we will discuss how entanglement can be explained in terms of quantum theory. This short review may be considered as an effort to bring QM into real problem solving, i.e. telecommunication.

An Approach To Similarity Measure Between Neutrosophic Soft Sets, K. Sinha, P. Majumdar

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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20191009_Hsc Education Day 2019 Has Been Preserved & Is Available In The Unm Digital Repository., Lori D. Sloane

HSLIC Blog Post

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