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Predictors In Finishing Position Of Ncaa Division Ii Schools In The Learfield Sports-Nacda Directors’ Cup: Culture Type As A Potential Mediator, Ryan D. Kettler

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

Predictor variables, institution type and annual allocated revenue, were investigated as potential predictors of success in NCAA Division II Athletic Departments, on the outcome variable (points scored in the Learfield sports-NACDA Directors’ Cup), working through mediating variables representing culture type (clan, adhocracy, market, and hierarchy). Data were collected through an electronic survey emailed to all NCAA Division II institution athletic directors and head coaches. Data specific to institution type (public vs private) and the number of points an athletic department earned in the Learfield sports-NACDA Directors’ Cup was also collected from archived records. Statistical testing included the use of SPSS …

Fatigue Crack Modeling Of Additively Manufactured Abs Cantilever Beam, Jason W. Booher

Mechanical Engineering ETDs

A Finite Element model was developed to model crack development in additively manufactured additively manufactured Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) cantilever beams. Experiments were conducted on the beams with both shock and random vibration base excitations. The base excitations induced damage in the beam that cause crack propagation. It was observed during the cracks developmental stages that an increase in damping occurred. The proposed Finite Element model also showed similar increases in damping from the addition of Coulomb damping forces.

04-10-2018 Revised Hsc Committee Meeting Agenda, Patrice Martin

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

No abstract provided.

04-10-2018 Hsc Committee Agenda, Patrice Martin

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

No abstract provided.

Facilitators And Barriers To Implementing Community Guide Recommendations To Increasing Physical Activity In Rural Communities, University Of New Mexico Prevention Research Center

Events

The Prevention Research Center will be hosting a panel at this year’s New Mexico Public Health Association conference in Albuquerque

Associations Among Desirability Of First Sexual Experience, Sexual Risk-Taking Behaviors And Attitudes, And Substance Use In Justice-Involved Male Adolescents, Ryan S. Ross

Psychology ETDs

Justice-involved adolescents are particularly vulnerable to engaging in risky sex and developing substance use disorders. Given these negative sequelae, identifying risk factors that place these adolescents at increased risk and potentially influence changes over time is important. Data from 347 justice-involved male adolescents was used for the current study. Participants completed baseline assessments of adverse childhood experiences, impulsivity, sociosexuality, substance use histories, and sexual histories, as well as 3, 6, 9, and 12-month assessments of sexual risk taking and alcohol/marijuana problems.

Structural equational modeling (SEM) was used to examine the influence of impulsivity, adverse childhood experiences, and desirability of first …

Knowledge Sharing As A Means For Capacity Building In International Non-Governmental Organizations In Ecuador, Yolanda E. Ledesma Silva

Latin American Studies ETDs

The purpose of this research was to study factors that facilitate technical knowledge sharing internally in international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) in Ecuador. Using a qualitative design, and semi-structured interviews this study examined knowledge sharing practices in four INGOS located in Quito, capital of Ecuador.

The findings supported nine factors identified in the literature as influencing knowledge sharing practices. These factors included (1) organizational culture, (2) role in organization, (3) procedures for managing knowledge, (4) perceived value of knowledge sharing, (5) media used for sharing information, (6) management practices, (7) organizational structure, (8) mission and strategy, and (9) organizational climate and …

An Integrated Approach To Studying And Engineering Bacterial Type Ii Polyketide Core Structure Biosynthesis, Xuechen Zhu

Chemistry and Chemical Biology ETDs

Natural products including alkaloids, phenylpropanoids, polyketides, terpenoids and antibiotics provide abundant resources for drugs and drug leads. Type II polyketides (PK-IIs) are a large array of aromatic polyketides that have exhibited various bioactivities including anti-tumor, anti-cancer, anti-fungal and anti-bacteria. Based on the lengths of carbon chains and the cyclization patterns in their core structures, most bacterial PK-IIs have been classified into 6 typical classes: benzoisochromanequinone (BIQ), anthracycline (ANT), angucycline (ANG), tetracycline (TET), tetracenomycin (TCM) and pentangular (PEN). Bioengineering for diversification of PK-II core structures will generate libraries of bioactivities, which can serve the drug discovery in this family of compounds. …

Evaluation Of The Impact Of Telementoring Using Echo© Technology On Healthcare Professionals' Knowledge And Self-Efficacy In Assessing And Managing Pain For People With Advanced Dementia Nearing The End Of Life, Bannin De Witt Jansen, Kevin Brazil, Peter Passmore, Hilary Buchanan, Doreen Maxwell, Sonja J Mcilfatrick, Sharon M Morgan, Max Watson, Carole Parsons

Project ECHO Bibliography

BACKGROUND: Pain assessment and management in advanced and end-stage dementia are challenging; patients are at risk of under-diagnosis, under-assessment and under-treatment. Previous research has highlighted the importance of needs-driven training and development in this area for physicians, nurses and healthcare assistants (HCAs) across specialties, disciplines and care settings. This study used teleconferencing technology to connect healthcare professionals across multiple settings and disciplines in real-time clinics, based on the Project ECHO© model. This paper reports the evaluation of the clinics by physicians, nurses and HCAs, including their knowledge and self-efficacy in pain assessment and management for patients with advanced and end-stage …

Drama As Dream: Sophoclean Tragedy And The Cult Of Asclepius, Molly C. Mata

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

This thesis explores tragic drama as a corresponding ritual to the incubation ritual in the cult of Asclepius and theorizes that this ritual is psychologically cathartic and healing. I argue that in Ajax and Philoctetes, Sophocles marks this cathartic ritual through nosological language, setting, and social context. In my first chapter, I explore Sophocles’ use of the language of madness (mania) and illness (nosos) in Ajax to show the exacerbation of the audience’s psychological state. Next, I show that catharsis is achieved through the negotiation and subsequent burial of Ajax. In my second chapter, I argue that Sophocles uses both …

Negotiation And The Construction Of Intimacy In The Letters Between Fronto And Marcus Aurelius, Sarah C. Keith

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

This project analyzes the letters between Marcus Cornelius Fronto and his student Marcus Aurelius as works of literature, rather than merely sites for historical mining. The letters, I argue, contain carefully constructed tropes of rhetoric and feature intentional polish that serve as opportunities for discussion about the virtues of philosophy and rhetoric during the Second Sophistic. Topics of discussions between both parties range between the imagery of sleep, and intimate spaces, like bedrooms, to substantive allusions to Plato’s philosophy and his dialogue Phaedrus. By looking beyond the identification of concrete names and dates to the literary, referential, and personal world …

Federalism And The State Police Power: Why Immigration And Customs Enforcement Must Stay Away From State Courthouses, George Bach

Faculty Scholarship

The Trump Administration’s rhetoric and increased immigration enforcement actions have raised the level of fear in immigrant communities. The increased enforcement has included having United States Immigrant and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents appear at state and local courthouses to detain undocumented immigrants when they arrive for court. This presence has had an adverse effect on domestic violence victims who are immigrants, as they fear encountering immigrations officials at the courthouse. In El Paso, for example, agents detained a woman who was bringing a case of domestic violence against her abuser. There were claims that ICE was tipped off about the …

Civil Engineering 2018 Apr Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Civil Engineering APR self-study report and review team report for Spring 2018, fulfilling requirements of the Higher Learning Commission.

An Update And Analysis Of The Corrales Bosque Preserve Vegetation Map, Brett Feldhahn

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

An updated vegetation map of the Corrales Bosque Preserve in Corrales, New Mexico was developed for this project using Hink and Ohmart community-structure survey protocol and vegetation classifications. The vegetation composition was analyzed and compared to the Middle Rio Grande Conservation Action Plan (MRG-CAP) rating criteria for dynamic mosaic vegetation, also known as the Dynamic Patch Mosaic (DPM). The DPM attribute indicates the mix of vegetation community types—the vegetation mosaic—that facilitates the best outcome for ecosystem resilience and biodiversity in the bosque. The updated vegetation community-structure types were used to classify each polygon into general vegetation types per the MRG-CAP, …

Full Issue, New Mexico Historical Review

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

'Birth Control Was Just A Part Of It": The Santa Fe Maternal Health Center, 1937-1996, Lena Mcquade

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Chemical & Biological Engineering 2018 Apr Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Chemical & Biological Engineering APR self-study report and review team report for Spring 2018, fulfilling requirements of the Higher Learning Commission.

Hls 200: A Latina's Story About The Bicentennial, Margaret E. Montoya

Faculty Scholarship

This essay sketches an arc from my childhood to being an Harvard Law School student to my academic work and professional commitments as a law professor and an alumna of Harvard Law School, working to increase access and success in the legal and medical professions for students and faculty of color. I compare aspects of legal and medical education using demographic data as well as some observations about how diverse faculty have transformed the two professions in their respective approaches to and rationales for diversifying the professions and examine the work being done by diverse faculty in law and health. …

Water Planning, Tribal Voices, And Creative Approaches: Seeking New Paths Through Tribal-State Water Conflict By Collaboration On State Water Planning Efforts, Stephen H. Greetham

Natural Resources Journal

More than a century after the Supreme Court issued its foundational Indian water law cases, only a handful of American Indian tribes have secured decrees or settlements of legally enforceable water rights. Efforts to resolve tribal water claims are typically hampered by legal and factual complexities as well as the equitable and political legacy of the United States’ western expansion. Meanwhile, those difficulties notwithstanding, planners are refining their methodologies and rising to new challenges our water resource management systems now face (e.g., climate variability, aging infrastructure, changing use-value priorities, etc.). Signaling a departure from exclusive reliance on formal dispute resolution …

Grains By Bill Winders (Polity Press, 240 Pages; 2017), Sabina Gaynor

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Shooting Stars And Dancing Fish: A Walk To The World We Want By Antonio A. Oposa Jr. (Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc., 261 Pages; 2017), Olga Starcher

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

New Mexico Tribal Cannabis: Policy, Politics, & Guidance For Government-To-Government Cooperation In State-Tribal Cannabis Compacting, Matthew Ramírez

Natural Resources Journal

The purpose of this article is three-fold. First, it aims to provide a systematic review of international, United States, state, and federal Indian law and policy surrounding cannabis cultivation, possession, and use in Indian Country. Second, it argues that the 2017 New Mexico tribal medical cannabis bills (SB 345 & HB 348), which were introduced in the first regular session of the New Mexico State Legislature and would have permitted the state to enter into intergovernmental agreements (or compacts) with tribes who choose to implement the state’s medical cannabis program on tribal lands, contained legal vulnerabilities likely to hinder their …

Environmental Restoration Operations Consolidated Quarterly Report, April 2018, Sandia National Laboratories/Nm

Environmental Restoration

Environmental Restoration Operations Consolidated Quarterly Report, April 2018 for the Department of Energy Natural Nuclear Security Administration, Sandia National Laboratories that addressees all quarterly reporting (October to December 2017) required under the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments Module of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Permit and the Compliance Order on Consent for SNL/NM. EPA ID# NM5890110518

Human Rights And The Global Climate Change Regime, Atieno Mboya Samandari

Natural Resources Journal

This article discusses human rights implications of the market-based mechanisms operationalized under the global climate change regime. It examines greenhouse gas emissions rights created by the Kyoto Protocol and continued by the Paris Agreement. This article discusses implications of these rights for the protection and realization of human rights in the wake of climate change and argues that greenhouse gas emissions rights, as currently constituted, are incompatible with human rights protections. While the Paris Agreement’s recognition of human rights is a significant development, the protection and realization of human rights by states under a free-market approach to climate change remains …

Alchemical Rulemaking And Ideological Framing: Lessons From The 40-Year Battle To Regulate Mercury Emissions From Electric Power Plants, Andrew Carter

Natural Resources Journal

Environmental mercury has long been linked to adverse health impacts on human populations. Globally ubiquitous at ambient levels in air and water, it can reach potentially unsafe levels in fish as it biologically magnifies and accumulates through aquatic and marine food webs. Vulnerable communities, including many communities of color, are particularly at risk from fish-borne mercury. Despite the fact that coal-fired electric generating units have been recognized as major sources of environmental mercury since the 1970s, and that the Environmental Protection Agency discussed possible future regulations of mercury emissions from such plants in 1975, it was not until 2014 that …

A Lot To Digest: Advancing Food Waste Policy In The United States, Alexandra Evans, Robin Nagele

Natural Resources Journal

An estimated thirty-one percent of the food grown, produced, and transported in the United States is wasted annually. This waste translates into ninety-six billion pounds of food and $165 billion in lost economic value. Food waste occurs at all phases of the supply chain, stretching from farm to table, and imposes substantial economic, environmental, and social costs. This Article highlights the staggering quantity of food waste in the United States and argues that certain innovative policies and market-based initiatives that strategically target the most egregious and unjustifiable types of food waste can efficiently reduce this problem. Applying a simple cost-benefit …

Perceptions Of Career And Technical Education (Cte) Teachers On Indicators Of Teaching Quality, Jesse Seth Chenven

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of career and technical education (CTE) teachers regarding the importance they assign to indicators of quality teaching practice. The population consisted of CTE teachers who teach or taught in New Mexico. The first research question asked how CTE teachers perceive the importance of quality teaching indicators as they relate to what CTE teachers should know and be able to do. Subsequent research questions examined the degree to which four demographic categories (years of experience, level of education, discipline of instruction, and licensure type) influence CTE teachers’ opinions regarding the importance …

Electrical & Computer Engineering 2018 Apr Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Electrical & Computer Engineering APR self-study report and review team report for Spring 2018, fulfilling requirements of the Higher Learning Commission.

Mechanical Engineering 2018 Apr Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Mechanical Engineering APR self-study report and review team report for Spring 2018, fulfilling requirements of the Higher Learning Commission.

Development Of A Novel Framework For The Application Of Signature Based Safeguards (Sbs) To Pyroprocessing, Philip Leo Lafreniere

Nuclear Engineering ETDs

Traditional nuclear material accountancy (NMA) faces several challenges when applied to pyroprocessing facilities. To address these challenges, alternative methods of safeguarding nuclear material are being developed. One method is process monitoring (PM). PM involves taking operational process data and applying it to safeguards using an advanced framework. Signature Based Safeguards (SBS), a proposed PM framework, involves the identification of anomalous scenarios and the subsequent identification and detection of their respective PM signatures from a system of measurements. SBS has previously focused on failure modes that result in transfer of mass to unexpected places in the mass flowsheet. This work developed …