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Adobe Medicus 2017 1 January-February, Health Sciences Library And Informatics Center

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The bimonthly newsletter published by UNM's Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center, adobe medicus announces new programs, services and activities at the library and at the UNM Health Sciences Center. It also reports on recent activities, events and awards associated with the library and includes articles about services that patrons may not be aware of.

Low Serum Sodium Levels At Hospital Admission: Outcomes Among 2.3 Million Hospitalized Patients, Saleem M. Al Mawed, Vernon Shane Pankratz, Shiraz Mishra, Mark Unruh

Hospital Medicine

Background: Hyponatremia is the most common electrolyte disorder among hospitalized patients. Controversies still exist over the relationship between hyponatremia and outcomes of hospitalized patients. Methods: To analyze the association of low serum sodium levels at hospital admission with in-hospital mortality and patient disposition and to compare the distribution of the risk of death associated with hyponatremia across the lifespan of hospitalized patients, we conducted an observational study of 2.3 million patients using data extracted from the Cerner Health Facts database between 2000 and 2014. Logistic regression models were used in the analyses. Results: 14.4% of hospitalized patients had serum sodium …

Phillip's Tune, For Strings, Michael D. Mauldin

New Mexico Composers' Archive

Phillip, a neighbor at my composing and teaching retreat in northern New Mexico, was a self-taught artist and poet. Over coffee one morning, he recalled a dream he had the night before. The Southwestern Indians believe that “silver birds” (their name for ravens) are messengers from the gods. Phillip's dream was about a large raven that was protecting a boy who was lost in the forest. Phillip said he heard a melody in the dream, and he played it for me on his harmonica. I was struck by both its simplicity and its richness. The changing meters were not self-conscious …

The Effect Of School Construction On Educational Outcomes Among Females: Evidence From Nepal, Animesh Giri, Vinish Shrestha

Development Journal of the South

We estimate the impact of increases in schools constructed from 1985 to 1995 on girls educational outcomes in Nepal. We use a difference-in-differences framework by combining the across-district differences in the number of new schools with variation in exposure to these schools created by the virtue of individuals being of school-going-age during the school construction period. Our results indicate that the construction of an additional school (per 1,000 square kilometers) increased the probability to read and write among females by 1.5 percentage points and increased their highest level of schooling attained by 0.12 units but did not affect basic literacy …

Navigating Institutional Racism And Improving Campus Climate: Culturally Diverse Graduate Students Breaking The Mold, Gabriela Lopez

Research and Development Supported by El Centro

Institutions are widget factories. They have become the handmaiden of the status quo, cranking out clinicians and researchers who view the world through a universal lens. A universal perspective to the understanding of human health and education leads to the assumption that all humans are the same and fails to acknowledge human diversity. We know this prac tice to be harmful; institutions, researchers and healthcare providers have a history of discounting the importance of culture, race and ethnicity resulting in harm to students, patients and humankind. A diversity of perspectives promote ingenuity and scientific progress. We need to train diverse …

Issue No. 106: Winter 2017

La Crónica de Nuevo México

1 Arizona-New Mexico History Conference Set for April 20-22, 2017

1 Little Known Bankhead Highway Linked Two Coasts, Delivered Commerce and Tourists to New Mexico

2 Chautaqua Performance

3 Research Grants Made to Individuals, Institutions

4 HSNM, Jewish Historical Society Partner in Speakers Bureau

5 Presidents Message, Winter 2017

5 A Look at Two Member Organizations of HSNM

5 Book Review - Jack M. Campbell: The Autobiography of New Mexico's First Modern Governor

Issue No. 107: Summer 2017

La Crónica de Nuevo México

1 The Abreu Family: Movers and Shakers in Nineteenth Century New Mexico

1 Treasures Hidden in County Records: The Unveiling of the 1908 Coroner's Reports on the Death of Pat Garrett

2 A "Railroad Town" is Getting More Books While Recognizing Its History: Carrizozo and Educator and Historian Bill Thorpe Celebrates the Local Heritage

3 Meet the Officers and Board of the Historical Society of New Mexico

3 President's Message

3 2017 Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of New Mexico

4 Remarks by Dr. Robert J. Stahl at the Doña Ana County Clerk's Office Unveiling of the Pat Garret …

Chief Justice William Howard Taft's Conception Of Judicial Integrity: The Legal History Of Tumey V. Ohio, Joshua E. Kastenberg

Faculty Scholarship

In 1927, Chief Justice William Howard Taft led a unanimous Court to determine that, at minimum, the right to an impartial and independent judiciary meant that the judge had to lack a personal interest in the outcome of the trial. While the decision, Tumey v. Ohio, was based on a judge’s pecuniary interest, it was also part of Taft’s efforts to ensure that the nation’s judges, from the municipal courts to the Supreme Court had the public’s confidence in their integrity. Tumey, therefore, is not simply a decision on pecuniary interests. It can, and should, be applied to …

Unm Hslic Organizational Chart 2017, Sally Bowler-Hill

HSLIC Organizational Charts

No abstract provided.

Unm Health Sciences Center Data Book 2016-17, University Of New Mexico - Health Sciences Center

Health Sciences Center Databook (1990-ongoing)

No abstract provided.

Echo Ontario Annual Report 2017/18, Allison Crawford, John Flannery, Eva Serhal, Rhonda Mostyn

Project ECHO Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Report Of The Faculty Senate General Education Task Force, Faculty Senate

UNM HLC 2018-19 Assurance Argument Evidence

Among other things, this Faculty Senate GE Task force report includes the task force's recommendation that GE assessment should happen on the program level (pg. 22). In general, this document shows one broad example of faculty involvement in concerns of curriculum.

Office Of Community Engaged Learning & Research, 2016-17, Office Of Academic Affairs

UNM HLC 2018-19 Assurance Argument Evidence

A comprehensive report from the Office of Community Engaged Learning & Research (CELR), detailing the history and then-recent accomplishments of the office.

Administrative Letters To University, January-February 2017, Office Of The President

UNM HLC 2018-19 Assurance Argument Evidence

In this piece of evidence there are two letters addressed to the students, faculty, and staff of the university concerning, in part, the then recent travel bans following a Presidential executive order. Both letters express support to those affected by the bans, and urges those people to utilize services available to them within the university.

New Strategies For Reducing Transportation Emissions And Preparing For Climate Impacts, Gabriel Pacyniak, Kathryn Zyla, Vicki Arroyo

Faculty Scholarship

The transportation sector is becoming the largest source of greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions in the United States. The Obama Administration put in place federal vehicle and fuel standards that are significantly reducing emissions. However, these regulations will be insufficient to put the United States on track to achieve needed reductions needed long-term. This is especially true if the 2025 standards announced by the Obama Administration are rolled back by the new Trump Administration. Because current federal standards alone will not attain ambitious climate goals and may be rolled back, state and local activity is essential to make progress towards meeting …

Right Scholarship And The Goddesses Of Commercial Law, Nathalie Martin

Faculty Scholarship

This Essay combines many topics about which I am deeply passionate, including religion, sex, yoga philosophy, and the influential works of two women I admire greatly. Hopefully, this brief Essay does not try to do too much at the expense of all of these topics. In Part I of this Essay, I describe the concept of right scholarship through various religious traditions and yoga philosophy’s principles for living known as the yamas. I then describe, through the works of young scholar Shari Motro, scholarship that has gone wrong. Finally, through the psychological concept of flow, I describe how we know …

Transforming Societies After Violence: Conceptualizing And Contextualizing Transitional Justice In Africa, Jennifer Moore

Faculty Book Display Case

This chapter first analyses three facets of transitional justice -- the criminal-retributive, the historical-reconciliative, and the social-redistributive -- and identifies some of the synergies and tensions among them. The second section shines a spotlight on the post-independence, conflict, and post-conflict histories of Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Burundi, generally characterizing their distinct approaches to transitional justice, and the differing degrees of attention they devote to the various strands of justice. For each of the three countries, the text points to the work of a community-based civil society organization, and spotlights its approach to post-conflict transition in that country. The final section …

Full Issue, New Mexico Historical Review

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

The Double Sapphire Anniversary Of The New Mexico Historical Review, Rick Hendricks

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Introducing A Theory Of Neutrosophic Evolution: Degrees Of Evolution, Indeterminacy, And Involution, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

During the process of adaptation of a being (plant, animal, or human), to a new environment or conditions, the being partially evolves, partially devolves (degenerates), and partially is indeterminate i.e. neither evolving nor devolving, therefore unchanged (neutral), or the change is unclear, ambiguous, vague, as in neutrosophic logic. Thank to adaptation, one therefore has: evolution, involution, and indeterminacy (or neutrality), each one of these three neutrosophic components in some degree. The degrees of evolution/indeterminacy/involution are referred to both: the structure of the being (its body parts), and functionality of the being (functionality of each part, or inter-functionality of the parts …

Cosmopolitan Democracy And The Detention Of Immigrant Families, Rebecca Sharpless

New Mexico Law Review

This Article employs the cosmopolitan political theory of Seyla Benhabib as a framework for understanding the U.S. government’s shifting decisions about family detention and immigration policy more generally. Although Benhabib is a leading political theorist, few have used her work to analyze particular immigration policies or laws. This Article begins to fill that gap. Benhabib has much to offer scholars and advocates who envision a world of expanded opportunities for immigrants seeking to enter and for those already here. She calls for increasingly porous, but not open, borders, providing a middle-ground between utopian open-border positions and the exclusionary bent of …

Protecting Persons With Mental Disabilities From Making False Confessions: The Americans With Disabilites Act As A Safeguard, Lauren Rogal

New Mexico Law Review

Individuals with mental disabilities are uniquely vulnerable to making false confessions under police interrogation, prompting a cavalcade of devastating consequences for both the individual confessors and the cause of justice. A growing body of evidence shows that mental disabilities impair the ability of sufferers to withstand the pressures of interrogation, as well as understand and invoke their Constitutional rights during questioning. Most current reform efforts focus on piecemeal legislation on the State level, such as mandatory electronic recording of interrogations. This article argues that Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act provides an existing, nationwide framework for meaningful protection. …

How Governments Can Promote Automated Driving, Bryant Walker Smith

New Mexico Law Review

This Article presents steps that governments can take now to encourage the development, deployment, and use of automated road vehicles. After providing technical and legal context, it describes key administrative, legal, and community strategies to promote automated driving. It concludes by urging policymakers to facilitate automated driving in part by expecting more from today’s drivers and vehicles.

In The Crosshairs Of Condemnation: A Look At Pre-Condemnation Planning And Publicity In Santa Fe Pacific Trust V. City Of Albuquerque, Jennifer Kittleson

New Mexico Law Review

In Santa Fe Pacific Trust v. City of Albuquerque, the New Mexico Court of Appeals considered whether a city’s pre-condemnation planning and publicity activities could constitute a taking when the property condemnation itself never comes to fruition. This Note takes a critical look at the Court’s analysis of this unique issue under both federal and state law. Under the federal Fifth Amendment takings analysis, this Note argues that the Court should have provided a more thorough examination of the plaintiff’s claim using the ad hoc balancing test first articulated in Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York. Next, …

Officers At The Gate: Why United States V. Medina-Copete Should Be The Rule And Not The Exception, Mixcoatl Miera-Rosete

New Mexico Law Review

The war on drugs continues to intensify and experience-based expert testimony by law enforcement officers has become an integral part of the prosecution of suspected drug traffickers. Most recently, prosecutors have sought to qualify officers as experts to testify about the religious practices of individuals involved in the illegal drug trade. Are these officers being properly scrutinized under the standards set out in Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharm., Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993), Gen. Elec. Co. v. Joiner, 522 U.S. 136, 141, 143 (1997), Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael, 526 U.S. 137 …

Law Schools Harm Genízaros And Other Indigenous People By Misunderstanding Aba Policy, Bill Piatt, Moises Gonzales, Katja Wolf

New Mexico Law Review

Law schools justifiably seek to enroll a diverse student body in order to enrich the academic experience and environment, and to provide attorneys who will serve all segments of our society. American law schools enjoy the constitutional right to maintain such diversity. Indeed, accreditation standards promulgated by the American Bar Association (“ABA”) require it. The Association of American Law Schools carries a similar mandate. In seeking to create a diverse student body, law schools offer applicants the opportunity to identify their backgrounds. There generally is no “diversity police” checking on the accuracy of the self-identification as a member of a …

What Communities Can Do To Rein In Payday Lending: Strategies For Successful Local Ordinance Campaigns Through A Texas Lens, Nathalie Martin, Robert Mayer

Faculty Scholarship

Because New Mexico has one of the highest consumer usage rates and highest concentrations of payday and title loan shops in the nation,2 we thought it would be an ideal place to measure the public’s knowledge of and interest in these ubiquitous loans. We also measured knowledge of interest rate caps in the context of credit cards, as a point of comparison. Our data are consistent with that of previous studies showing that the general public overwhelmingly supports interest rate caps both in general and for certain types of loans. More uniquely, we also found that many consumers are unaware …

February 7, 2017 Finance And Facilities (F&F) Committee Meeting, Senior Vice President For Finance And Administration

Finance and Facilities Committee

Documents related to the February 7, 2017 Board of Regents' Finance and Facilities Committee Meeting. (Agenda, Minutes, eBook, Notice)

September 5, 2017 Finance And Facilities (F&F) Committee Meeting, Senior Vice President For Finance And Administration

Finance and Facilities Committee

Documents related to the September 5, 2017 Board of Regents' Finance and Facilities Committee Meeting. (Agenda, Minutes, eBook, Notice)