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2020-04-16 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Hannah Groves, Estefania Montanez, Rachel D. Montanez, Elly Munde, Perez Olewe, Cristian Bologa, Gregory Mertz, Kristine Tollestrup, Andrew S. Rowland, Orrin Myers, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

Executive Summary:

Daily NM recap. Public Catholic masses resume. Chaplains stand down. Food delivered to tribal communities. Governors order face coverings use. Campfires restricted. NY hospitalizations fall. Nursing home probe in NJ. GOP call WHO Chief resignation. Africa cases up 51% and deaths up 60%. Sub-Saharan Africa prediction. Resurgence in Japan. UK conditions to reopen. France deaths up. UNMH protests over PPE. Med center financial stress. Hospitals bailout insufficient. 55% US healthcare worker cases hospital spread. Cruise ship transmission. Essential contact tracing. JAMA editors discuss policy. Guideline updates: treatment, emergency dep, ophthalmology, cath lab, telemedicine, liver disease, caregiver, health care …

Response To Pitkanen’S Solar System Model: Towards Gross-Pitaevskiian Description Of Solar System And Galaxies And More Evidence Of Chiral Superfluid Vortices, Victor Christianto, Florentin Smarandache, Yunita Umniyati

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In a new paper in recent issue of this journal (PSTJ), Prof. M. Pitkanen describes a solar system model inspired by spiral galaxies. While we appreciate his new approach, we find it lacks substantial discussion on the nature of vortices and chirality in galaxy. Therefore we submit a viewpoint that Gross-Pitaevskii model can be a more complete description of both solar system and also spiral galaxies, especially taking into account the nature of chirality and vortices in galaxies. In this article, we also hope to bring out some correspondence among existing models, so we discuss shortly: the topological vortice approach, …

Remixing The Archives: Indigenous Interpretations Of History And The Future, Marcella Alexis Ernest

American Studies ETDs

This dissertation examines how Native art makes critical interventions that are aesthetically and intellectually arranged with the intention of displacing the master narratives. The project tracks how film and photography—historically used by non-Native people as a tool of colonialism—are being reclaimed by the visual and sonic scholarship of contemporary Native artists. The project shows how multidisciplinary artists use technology to remix audiovisual archives from a specific time in American history: portrait photography and ethnographic filmmaking at the turn of the twentieth century, Hollywood’s frontier representations of Indianness in twentieth-century motion pictures, social guidance classroom films from the 1950s, and digital …

Mid-Ir Optical Refrigeration And Radiation Balanced Lasers, Saeid Rostami

Optical Science and Engineering ETDs

This dissertation reports recent advances in mid-infrared (mid-IR) optical refrigeration and Radiation Balanced Lasers (RBLs). The first demonstration of optical refrigeration in Ho:YLF and Tm:YLF crystals as promising mid-IR laser cooling candidates is reported. Room temperature laser cooling efficiency of Tm- and Ho-doped crystals at different excitation polarization is measured and their external quantum efficiency and background absorption are extracted. Complete characterization of laser cooling samples is obtained via performing detailed low-temperature spectroscopic analysis, and their minimum achievable temperature as well as conditions to achieve laser cooling efficiency enhancement in mid-IR are investigated. By developing a Thulium-doped fiber amplifier, seeded …

2020-04-15 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Hannah Groves, Danielle Rivera, Estefania Montanez, Rachel D. King, Samuel Anyona, Evans Raballah, Elly Munde, Cristian Bologa, Tudor I. Oprea, Andrew S. Rowland, Kristine Tollestrup, Orrin Myers, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

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Daily NM recap. NM Hospital financial challenges. NM absentee voting. NM dairy farmers impact. 19-20 states open May 1? USA halts WHO funding. More NYC deaths. 250K tests AZ first responders. Global pandemic updates. Imported cases China. Masked South Korea elections. Danish children school return. PPE angiography. NYC cancels healthcare workers. GI shedding endoscopes. Blockade reduces transmission. Fever screening. Viral shedding post seroconversion. Radiology mitigations. Endoscopy units. Tracheostomy reduced transmission. Survivors plasma. Medical Imaging. Useful CTs. Electrophysiology procedures. Renin angiotensin blockers. Hemostasis. Dermatologic surgery. Pediatric gastroenterology. Autoimmune liver disease. Orthopedic surgical care. Updated treatment evidence. Asymptomatic detection. CVD …

Undocumented Youth Challenging Borders: Detentions, Deportations, And Family Separations In The 21st Century, Rafael A. Martínez

American Studies ETDs

My dissertation project explores the rise of undocumented youth social movements in the U.S. in the early 21st century. Undocumented youth have increasingly drawn on their own social capital to produce forms of activism that highlight and critique increasingly repressive forms of state control and violence. This inquiry is particularly generative in relation to how immigrant bodies are erased, contained and imagined as ‘aliens’ or ‘illegal’. I argue that undocumented youth and their activism represent a disruption to the social imaginary of the U.S. nation-state and rigid nationalist formations.

#Abolishice: An Anti-Capitalist And Anti-Colonial Approach To Black, Indigenous, And Migrant Solidarity Building, Cecilia I. Frescas-Ortiz

American Studies ETDs

This thesis project interrogates possible sites of alignment and solidarity building between the migrant justice movement, Black liberation and Indigenous decolonization. By first looking at the use of tear gas in Ferguson, Standing Rock and at the U.S.-Mexico border, I argue that a solidarity between Black, Indigenous and migrant communities rooted in an anti-capitalist and anti-colonial desire is absolutely necessary. Moreover, by focusing primarily on the migrant justice movement, I argue that the current iterations centered on inclusion and recognition reinforce the State’s dominion over bodies of color and exacerbate Black death and Indigenous genocide. As such, this thesis proposes …

2020-04-14 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Hannah Groves, Danielle Rivera, Rachel D. King, Estafania Montanez, Jolene Lobo, Samuel Anyona, Evans Raballah, Cristian Bologa, Andrew S. Rowland, Kristine Tollestrup, Tudor I. Oprea, Orrin Myers, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

Executive Summary:

NMDOH county demographics online. NM emergency business loans. ABQ businesses violations. NM 5 new deaths 62 more cases. May 1 reopening too optimistic. MA contract tracing. Federal Ventilator Reserve. GM mass ventilator production. Ventilator-sharing device. $400M N-95 mask sterilization 60 sites. UNM PPE reprocessing online. Drug quality vulnerable. Managing urgent airway calls. Social distancing until 2022. SARS-Cov-2 blood supply. Contact tracing national blueprint. Mental health endangered. Successful surgical rapid response. Contact tracing medical ethics. Animal coronaviruses: human lessons. IDSA management guidelines. Ophthalmic practice. Pain management. Obstetrics management. Oncology practice. Forward triage. Scoring time-sensitive procedures. Outpatient structural heart disease. …

2020-04-13 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Orrin Myers, Andrew S. Rowland, Evans Raballah, Elly Munde, Samuel Anyona, Rachel D. King, Hannah Groves, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

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Disproportionate Native American burden. CYFDNM feeding 20-25K children/day. Additional unemployment insurance. Enhanced SNAP payment. UNMH drug trials. Medical Advisory Team profiled. Efforts to reopen 6 States. Regional strategy to support Navajo Nation. England’s PPE unprotective droplet spray. Health economics early stages. Targeting rural priority areas. Hong Kong and Singapore success unstable. End shutdown - army of PH workers. Tragedy of insufficient tests. Global food industry. Japan plastic barrier control. China healthcare worker death cause. India lacks testing, so contact tracing. Persistent viral shedding children. Fecal-oral transmission concern. Shop safely guidelines. UN humanitarian response recommendations. Self-interest to shared interest. …

Contemporary Alaska Native Identities: Creation And Curation By Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Tess Mccoy

Art & Art History ETDs

I focus on contemporary Alaska Native artist, Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Iñupiaq, Athbaskan, Irish, German), her works of art, exhibitions, and her curatorial practices to explain the presentation history of Native American people and how this affects present-day exhibitions. Through her work, I explore the importance of agency of Native people through identity, depictions of themselves, and their people in museum spaces. I examine the history of museum culture as the way in which indigenous agency is removed and reconstructed to fit the needs of interest groups. In contrast, Kelliher-Combs and other advocates attempt to intervene and interrogate the persistence of archaic …

2020-04-11/12 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Samuel Anyona, Evans Raballah, Perez Olewe, Hannah Groves, Danielle Rivera, Estefania Montanez, Rachel D. King, Cristian Bologa, Jeremy Yang, Tudor I. Oprea, Orrin Myers, Andrew S. Rowland, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

Executive Summary:

No NM church gatherings. NM a testing champ. Consolidation of elderly care. NM case update. 50-state disaster. Ventilator haggling. Economy reopening planning. PPE decontamination. Hospital ward contamination. Prolonged return to normal. FEMA projections. WHO tracking app. China SEIR model. Hubei epi. Mortality best measure. Covid-19 wave 2. Public should wear masks. Civil liberties. Safe grocery shopping. School closure impact. CDC caretaker guidelines. Psychiatric mobilization. Keep newborns with mom. C-section protocol. Italian obstetrics. Pediatric cardiac catherization. Chinese anesthesiology consensus. Cancer guidelines. Neuro-oncologic Tx. Radiology algorithm. Lung ultrasonography. ARF care. VTE common and predictable. Liver transplantation. Auto-immune treatments. Extracorporeal kidney …

2020-04-10 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Samuel Anyona, Shawn Stoicu, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Evans Raballah, Perez Olewe, Carolyne Ndege, Hannah Groves, Danielle Rivera, Estefania Montanez, Tudor I. Oprea, Orrin Myers, Rachel D. King, Andrew S. Rowland, Kristine Tollestrup, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

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Extra NM HSD SNAP benefits. NM cases >1000. Meds supply chain threatened. Mass graves in NY. Surgeon General screening app. Presidential briefing. Italian healthcare worker deaths. Taiwan tiered care model. Communicating risks to public. French public demand hydroxychloroquine. Vaccination pause dangers. Retesting needed after discharge. CDC report geography and incidence. UW clinical informatics response. UW preparedness guidelines. Wuhan outbreak control. CDC asymptomatic exposed worker guidelines. Mask innovation. Unemployment spikes. Workforce gaps. Workspace modifications reduce transmission. Guidelines and recommendations: ER physician, surgery, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, chest imaging, geriatrics, critically ill children, postpyloric tube placement, genitourinary malignancies, obstetrics, and home work …

Backyard Wildlife Refuges In Albuquerque, Nm: An Urban Land Ethic In Practice, Laurel E. Ladwig

Geography ETDs

In the urban setting, biodiversity conservation requires intentionally creating spaces humans and wildlife can share. An urban land ethic can guide this process. Developing and practicing this ethic requires asking questions that consider approaches from multiple disciplines and avoid anthropocentric framing. Both More-Than-Human and Critical Physical Geography bring multiple knowledges into conversation to make complex realities visible. This project explores these fields of scholarship as guides for reconciling the needs of the land community.

Sharing familiar spaces creates opportunities for developing ethical relationships between humans, non-humans, and natural systems. Wildlife gardening creates habitat in our residential and community areas, providing …

Academic Resilience In An Academic Setting: A Case Study Of The Unm German Summer School, John Reinert

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This dissertation is a historical case study that focused on the founding and continuation of the GSSch to define the term, academic resilience and to determine how the GSSch had impacted academic resilience. I examined qualitative data from interviews alongside research published during the founding (i.e. mid-1970s) and continuation (i.e. 1975-2020) of the GSSch. I used the research to examine how the actions of the leadership fit within the social and political climates of their time. This dissertation has gone above and beyond expectations by not only defining the term, academic resilience but also by providing authentic examples of both …

2020-04-09 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Samuel Anyona, Evans Raballah, Shawn Stoicu, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Hannah Groves, Danielle Rivera, Estefania Montanez, Rachel D. King, Andrew S. Rowland, Orrin Myers, Kristine Tollestrup, Tudor I. Oprea, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

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Today we began curating the firehose of National Library of Medicine COVID-19 Literature released daily. NM Governor gave weekly update. School online instruction starts Monday. Tribal communities in crisis. COVID-19 scams. NY food banks overwhelmed. Public sentiment survey. Arizona tracing outbreak with genomics. Abortion controversy continues. WHO Solidarity-II antibody study. South Korea epidemiology released. Preventing second COVID-19 wave. Institutional case reporting required. Gynecological procedure safety. Rationing ethics and advanced directives. CDC advice on exposed critical workers. Triaging urological procedures. Pathology safety and remote work. Healthcare workforce expansion. Involve and educate medical students. CDC no longer recommends hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). …

2020-04-08 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Sammy Anyona, Shawn Stoicu, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Hannah Groves, Danielle Rivera, Estefania Montanez, Rachel D. King, Andrew S. Rowland, Tudor I. Oprea, Orrin Myers, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

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Call for all UNMH healthcare workers to wear masks. Navajo Nation curfew. Congress introduces $250B local aid legislation. State cash stimulus for self-employed. Domestic travel curtailment. Measles threat looms as vaccinations paused. UK expanding hospital sites. African Americans worse risk of infection and death. 40k healthcare worker hydroxychloroquine trial. Employment woes for early career US and foreign scientists. Measles threat looms. UK makeshift hospital expansion. African Americans more vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2. Large prophylactic hydroxychloroquine trials for healthcare workers. New CDC and WHO face covering guidelines. UK NICE guidance: Paracetamol, not NSAIDs for managing COVID-19 fever. Large review of …

2020-04-07 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Hannah Groves, Danielle Rivera, Estefania Montanez, Tudor I. Opera, Andrew S. Rowland, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

Executive Summary:

Today we celebrate World Health Day: JAMA suggests ways to support healthcare workers in the crisis. NM Emergency orders extended. Some NM prisoners freed. Pueblos threatened by outbreaks. CDC to provide $186M in state funding for surveillance programs. Colleges hit hard financially. Nine states refuse to issue stay-at-home order. Wuhan cautiously ends its 76-day lockdown. Lack of cough and fever for children creates special challenges. Fauci JAMA interview tomorrow. WHO guidelines and megatrial of 4 therapies. Numerous CDC guidelines. 23 clinical trials registered today. One negative result on hydroxychloroquine efficacy. In vitro screens suggest promising FDA drugs for …

2020-04-06 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Hannah Groves, Rachel D. King, Estefania Montanez, Andrew S. Rowland, Orrin Myers, Kristine Tollestrup, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

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NM case updates. Several NM policy and legislative actions. Federal vs. state conflict over medical supply lines. Healthcare workers sleep in cars to prevent family exposure. Same-day in-house testing at Cedars-Sinai. Debate over hydroxychloroquine Tx. Death rate differences: Germany and Italy. African innovations. Testing recommended with mild symptoms. CDC guidelines for law enforcement PPE. New WHO first responder training and CDC sign language resources. COVID-19 droplets can travel up to 27 feet. Transmission from the asymptomatic. Humidifiers help. Drug and vaccine progress.

2020-04-05 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Hannah Groves, Rachel D. King, Estefania Montanez, Andrew S. Rowland, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

Executive Summary:

Cumulatively: 624 coronavirus cases and 12 deaths in New Mexico. State to receive $1B in federal relief. Animals can be infected with coronavirus – individuals with COVID-19 should minimize contact with pets. CDC recommends everyone wear cloth face coverings in public, releases guidelines for pharmacies, and updates guidance on N95 respirator conservation. Repeat COVID-19 testing may be required for accurate incidence estimates. FDA-approved antiparasitic drug, Ivermectin, may kill the virus within 48 hours. Hydroxychloroquine evidence remains inconclusive. New drug targets identified for SARS-CoV-2.

Who Decides: Is Water Life Or Capital? Contesting Visions Of Western Water Management In The 21st Century, Ceorl

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

There is an ideological divide between the goal of universal access to clean water and the outcomes of how water regulations are implemented. John Fleck, author of Water is for Fighting Over: and Other Myths about Water in the West and Sivas, et al. in California Water Governance in the 21st Century present contesting prescriptions for Western water management. The ideologies advocated by Fleck and Sivas, et al. differ as to who enacts and profits from each and exemplify the divide between the goals of water regulations and how they are implemented. Fleck regards water as property and an economic …

Inlp Newsletter, April 2020, Indigenous Nations Library Program

Monthly Newsletters

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Including Pressure Within Cracks On Failure Times Of Cylinders Subjected To Internal Air Blast Loading, Molly M. Bailey

Mechanical Engineering ETDs

The importance of internal crack pressure on the extent of crack propagation is studied using both numerical and experimental results. Experimental data were obtained from shock tube testing of internally pressurized quasi-brittle hollow cylinders loaded to failure. Half of the samples were tested with an inserted membrane that transferred the shocked fluid load but prevented the fluid from entering the developing cracks. In the other cases, the membrane was removed allowing the fluid to enter the crack and assist development of fracture. A novel approach to modeling this complex structural response involving dynamic failure and fluid structure interaction is presented, …

Hora De Las Noticias: The Importance Of Spanish- Language News Media For Us Latinos, Barbara Gomez-Aguinaga

Political Science ETDs

This dissertation examines the mechanisms that set Spanish-language (SL) news media apart from mainstream media, and how they influence political behavior and identity among US Latinos. Specifically, it analyzes (1) the role of content coverage of SL news on issue salience, (2) the use of Spanish as a US minority language in the dissemination of information and its effects on Latino identity, and (3) the presence of Latino reporters and its implications on media trust. By leveraging original data collection, including conceptual content analyses and population-based survey experiments, and by engaging in multiple theories from political science and other fields …

Book Reviews Spring 2020

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Contested Ground: Indigenous Territoriality And European Sovereignty In The Early Centuries Of European Discovery Of And Claim To North America, Joseph P. Sánchez

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Join With Me, Won't You? Civic Engagement, Covid-19, And The Millennial Generation Of Law Professors, Joseph A. Schremmer

Faculty Scholarship

My goals in this essay are to place legal education’s COVID-19 crisis into this broader context and illuminate the unique opportunity that millennial law professors have to create the conditions for more robust community participation within and outside of our law schools. Part I summarizes the decline of civic engagement and social capital in preceding decades and its consequences for law, public discourse, and quality of life. Part II outlines how this deficit of social capital exacerbates the challenges facing law schools and professors in delivering legal education and constructing community during the coronavirus pandemic. Part III explores the unique …

Give Me Liberty, Or Give Me Breath: A Call For Economic Justice, Verónica C. Gonzales

Faculty Scholarship

In Part I of this essay I interpret this unique moment in history through a retelling of the folk story La Llorona in order to identify the monsters and ghosts of the past and the present. Domino Renee Perez describes her own critical reflection of La Llorona as reinforcing 'a valuable lesson about power and authority' because her family’s 'storytelling circle was more than simply an arbitrary setting; it was a safe place for them to create, however problematically, a world of words, where they faced the dangers and challenges of life, embodied by a woman, and survived.' The lore …

An Introduction To The Collection [Get In Good Trouble: A Collection Of Essays By Millennial Law Scholars], Verónica C. Gonzales

Faculty Scholarship

Get in Good Trouble: A Collection of Essays by Millennial Law Scholars Introduction by Verónica C. Gonzales-Zamora with essays by Kinda Abdus-Saboor, Ernestine Chaco, Marcus Gadson, Verónica Gonzales-Zamora, Camilo Romero, Lysette Romero Córdova, Morenike Saula, Joseph Schremmer, and Hon. Roshanna Toya. Afterword by Marcus Gadson. In response to the global pandemic, legal education in the United States shifted almost immediately to new tools and methods of delivery. Unsure of the lasting impact of these shifts, law faculty and law students around the country remain in limbo preparing for different scenarios when instruction resumes. Millennial law professors and scholars, with decades …

The Mk2 Pathway Is Linked To G-Csf, Cytokine Production And Metastasis In Gastric Cancer: A Novel Intercorrelation Analysis Approach, Fares Qeadan, Pranshu Bansal, Joshua A. Hanson, Ellen J. Beswick

Pathology Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: Gastric cancer is associated with chronic inflammation, but there is still much to understand about the tumor microenvironment and the underlying tumor-promoting mechanisms. The Map kinase-activated protein kinase 2 (MK2) pathway is a regulator of inflammatory cytokine production that we have been studying in gastrointestinal cancers. Here, we set out to determine the significance of this gene in gastric cancer along with its downstream mediators and if there were differences in the primary tumors with and without metastasis.

METHODS: Human gastric cancer tissues with and without metastasis were examined for MK2 expression and cytokine profile in organ culture supernatants. …

20200323_Supporting Our Hsc Faculty Transitioning To Virtual Instruction, Jonathan M. Pringle

HSLIC Blog Post

No abstract provided.