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Sharp Knives, Dark Hearts: Class, Colonialism, And Rebellion On Anthony Bourdain's Bookshelf, Carl Cactus Warmuth

American Studies ETDs

Though often characterized as a celebrity chef, Anthony Bourdain achieved stardom from his lively writing rather than skills in the kitchen. As such, the sociopolitical importance of his life and work is greatly illuminated by his compulsive literary references. Through George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London, Émile Zola’s The Belly of Paris, Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and the personas of William S. Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson, the tensions central to Bourdain’s legacy are unveiled. This thesis offers a portrait of Bourdain as a complicated figure of …

The Emotions Of Uncertainty: Science, Politics, And The Social Dynamics Of Decision Making, Alisa N. Rogers

Sociology ETDs

This dissertation examines how social and emotional factors influence attitudes toward science and decision making regarding science-based policy recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic. I examine boundary work practices among the public as they evaluate experts during the pandemic and the social sources of information people used to construct knowledge. Then I examine the social and emotional factors that participants indicated influenced their own attitude formation and decisions to act regarding public health recommendations during the pandemic. I find that emotions influence each element of the decision process: information gathering, information evaluation, attitude formation, and decisions to act. Affective commitment and …

Sobre El Arcoíris: The Queering Of Mariachi, Tyician Charles Knight

Music ETDs

Mariachi is an internationally renowned artform and tradition whose history spans over decades and several continents. However, there are many aspects still embedded in mariachi culture that remain problematic; machismo (toxic masculinity), alcoholism, and homophobia to name a few. While there has been an increase of mariachi scholars who have critically examined these issues, mariachi culture itself has yet to address the challenges brought forth by its history of gender discrimination and homophobia and embrace practical changes that would enable the creation of a more equitable environment and further develop this living tradition. This thesis analyzes the trajectory of queering …

The Frequency And Nature Of Nepal Discussion In Official China, Ashis Adhikary

Himalayan Research Papers Archive

There is a gap in comprehensive understanding of Nepal’s discussion inside China. To fill this gap, this study attempts to understand the frequency and nature of discussion about Nepal. It uses a mixed method and employs computational tools of Python libraries, namely BeautifulSoup and Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), for data collection and processing. It counts the frequency of the word “Nepal” and performs a content analysis of textual documents with discussion about Nepal. The study discovered three major findings. First, although Nepal gets notable attention inside China, major agents are media houses, not the formal foreign ministry. Second, the Chinese …

Cyber Physical Emulation Of Power Grids: Co-Simulation Of Exata Cps And Hypersim, Mckayla Snow

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

This thesis explores the use of cyber-physical emulation of power grids to analyze the impact of different types of cyberattacks. It outlines the co-simulation process of HYPERSIM and EXata CPS within the OPAL-RT real-time digital simulator, demonstrating various cyberattacks on two power system models. The first model is a simple communication-focused testbed for easy demonstration of co-simulation setup, while the second is a power system model of a secondary network used to assess the cybersecurity of network protector units in low-voltage networks through a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testbed. Using this testbed, the cybersecurity of the direct transfer trip (DTT) scheme is …

“I Never Wanted This”: Examining Maintenance Of White Femininity Within Abortion Stories On Tiktok, Brooke Pope

Communication ETDs

The invocation of tragedy in abortion stories has been acknowledged as a rhetorical tool that creates affective prescriptions and marginalization. Expanding on this concept, this work identifies how these strategies are used to maintain white femininity structurally through individual narratives. An intersectional feminist rhetorical analysis of abortion stories told on the platform TikTok is used to identify discursive practices that signal to white femininity. These practices are organized into three prominent themes within narratives: moves toward victimization, moves toward innocence, and prescribed punishments. Thematically, these serve to identify how pro-choice rhetoric fails to be intersectional and underscore the importance of …

The Role Of The Church In The German Democratic Republic: Examining The Representation Of Christianity In The Novel Einer Trage Des Anderen Last Within Its Cultural And Historical Context, Arden Remnant Gewirtz Levine

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

The attitude towards the Protestant Church in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) changed overtime and was not homogenous during the approximately forty years of the GDR’s existence. This thesis will use this established cultural and historical context in order to analyze the representation of Christianity in the novel Einer trage des anderen Last, written by Wolfgang Held. The premise of the novel is two men diagnosed with tuberculosis are forced to share a room in the Sanatorium, however, one is a protestant pastor and the other is a member of the Volkspolizei (the People’s police). Through their distinct ideologies …

Neutrosophic Sets And Systems, Vol. 81,2025, Florentin Smarandache, Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Maikel. Leyva Vazquez

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies 2025 Apr Self-Study & Documents, Unm Academic Program Review

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies APR self-study report, review team report, response report, and initial action plan for Spring 2025, fulfilling requirements of the Higher Learning Commission.

Biology 2025 Apr Self-Study & Documents, Unm Academic Program Review

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Biology APR self-study report, review team report, response report, and initial action plan for Spring 2025, fulfilling requirements of the Higher Learning Commission.

Tracking Social Media Platform Shifts In Academic Libraries, 2019-2025 [Dataset], Holly M. Surbaugh

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

The author created this supplementary data file during a research study completed in January 2025. For a sample of 233 university libraries located in the United States, the author examined current and archived versions of the organizations’ websites and noted changes in links to library-specific accounts on popular social media platforms. The goal of this research was to explore how academic libraries have responded to a period of significant change and disruption in the social media landscape. The Excel file contains the final version of the compiled data, including URLs for the reviewed websites and Internet Archive Wayback Machine captures …

Global Gender Inequality In Industry: A Systematic Review With Neutrosophic Analysis, Jimmy Hurtado Paspuel, Raquel Vera-Ortega, Angel M. Plaza, Bernardo Hubert Ovalle Correa

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

This study examines gender inequalities in the worldwide sector via a systematic review employing a neutrosophic approach, focusing on income discrepancies, workplace harassment, preventative strategies, professional hurdles, and leadership representation. The neutrosophic methodology categorizes findings into components of truth, falsehood, and indeterminacy, assessing evidence via four metrics: neutrosophic score, reliability index, certainty level, and information quality index. In accordance with PRISMA 2020 standards, 282 studies published from 2020 to 2024 were examined. The findings indicate that workplace harassment exhibits the most substantial evidence (reliability=0.828, IQI=0.496), succeeded by wage disparities (reliability=0.813, IQI=0.400), whereas prevention policies reveal the greatest uncertainty (reliability=0.696). Robust …

Analysis Of The Potential Impacts Of Brine And The Main Challenges Of The Water Importing Project From The Gulf Of California To Phoenix, Arizona (Arizona Water Project Solution), Alejandro Corral Hernandez

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

In December 2022, the Arizona Water Project Solution (AWPS) was presented to the Water Infrastructure Finance Authority of Arizona (WIFA). The project proposes to develop, construct, and operate a Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) plant in Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico, and transport potable water through a 200-mile pipeline to supply the city of Phoenix, Arizona, in the United States.

This study includes a cross-multiple-case analysis, incorporating expert data and information, to evaluate the brine impacts and challenges faced in developing the five operational SWRO plants in Israel and the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad plant in California, United States. By identifying patterns, …

Spatial And Equity Analysis Of The Xeriscape Conversion Rebate Program In Albuquerque, Nm., Claire Jordy

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

With increasing water scarcity concerns threatening water supplies, many cities in the Western U.S. are focusing more effort on their water conservation programs to reduce consumptive water use. The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority (Water Authority) in Bernalillo County, NM has had several water conservation programs in place since the 1990s, and still, they aim to further reduce water consumption. The Xeriscape Conversion Rebate Program is one of the primary tools to achieve this goal, encouraging customers to convert their high water-use turfgrass lawns to desert-friendly xeriscaping by providing a one-time rebate on their water bill. This rebate program …

Quality Assessment Of Innovation And Entrepreneurship Talent Cultivation In Universities From The Perspective Of Collaborative Education Under Triangular Neutrosophic Cubic Linguistic Hesitant Fuzzy Set, Qing Tan, Chengcheng Wu, Xuan Li, Yao Yao

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

A technique for representing mathematical models of confusion, ambiguity, confusion, inconsistency, and inconsistency, neutrophilic logic is built on non-standard analysis. While truth membership, indeterminacy membership, and falsity membership are independent, indeterminacy is explicitly quantified in the Neutrosophic set. In many circumstances where we deal with conflicting and partial information, this is crucial. Differential equations are widely used in science and engineering to represent issues, and one of the newest areas of study is the study of differential equations with uncertainty. We used the Triangular Neutrosophic Cubic Linguistic Hesitant Fuzzy Set with the decision-making methods. Two methods are used in this …

New Approach Single Valued Neutrosophic Sets For Teaching Quality Challenges Evaluation In College Public English Broad Impacts, Xiao Ma

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Previous research on teaching quality challenges in college public English has relied on methods that accept vague or fuzzy inputs. Single-valued neutrosophic Sets (SVNSs) are used to handle uncertain or unclear expert assessments by allowing both precise and imprecise data to be analyzed together. This approach ensures that valuable information is not lost during the evaluation process. To improve decision-making in multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems, this study introduces a new integrated framework that combines the EDAS method with the MEREC method for criteria weight computation under the SVNS environment. The MEREC method is applied to determine the importance of each …

Quality Review Of Computer Digital Media Art Design Using Neutrosophic Logic: A Case Study, Gao Huijuan, Fu Licheng

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Evaluating the quality of Computer Digital Media Art Design is complex because it involves both subjective artistic elements and objective technical criteria. This study uses the multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method to deal with different criteria. Two MCDM methods are used in this study such as Preference Selection Index (PSI) Method to compute the criteria weights and the RATGOS method to rank the alternatives. These methods are used neutrosophic sets to dela with vague and uncertainty information. Eight criteria and seven alternatives are used to select the best alternatives. Four experts have evaluated these criteria and alternatives. An example is …

Colombia Revisited: A Conversation, Lina Britto, A. Ricardo López-Pedreros

LAII Events

Tuesday, March 25, 2025 3:00-5:00 pm

History Department Common Room (1104) in Mesa Vista Hall

Join us as we welcome historians A. Ricardo López-Pedreros and Lina Britto for the launch of their new edited volumes, Histories of Solitude (Vol 1) and Histories of Perplexity (Vol 2), which bring together over 40 scholars based in Colombia, the United States, England, and Canada to discuss how the history of Colombia illustrates central questions about democracy in the Americas. What could the histories of Colombia explain about Latin America and the world, if anything at all? What does it mean to work on …

The Relationship Between Closed-Loop Auditory Stimulation During Sleep And Eeg On Memory Consolidation, Hector Patricio Valverde

Psychology ETDs

Slow-wave sleep is critical for consolidating information into long-term memory. Past research has found this process can be enhanced using closed-loop auditory stimulation (CLAS), where pink noise tones are timed to slow oscillations using live EEG to increase slow wave amplitude and synchronize connections across the neocortex, thalamus, and hippocampus. In this study, subjects slept in our laboratory while receiving counterbalanced sham or verum CLAS. Memory retention scores were calculated using a paired associates word task completed before and after sleep. Subjective sleep quality scores were also obtained. A total of 33 verum and 35 sham nights of data were …

A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach For Teaching Quality Evaluation In University Music Programs Using Plithogenic Sets And Weighted Decision Models, Mingjiao Liu, Hongdan Wang

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Chinese colleges and universities have been studying and implementing quality monitoring systems for music art instruction as a key teaching management project. How to fairly and impartially evaluate the teaching skills of professors of art and music is a crucial problem in college and university administration. Evaluation of university music program have various criteria affecting the decision-making process. So, we used the multi-criteria decision-making methodology (MCDM) to deal with these criteria and select best program. We used the Plithogenic sets with the MCDM methodology to deal with uncertainty information. We used the operators of Plithogenic to combine the Plithogenic numbers. …

Predicting Customer Satisfaction Based On Neutrosophic Sets: Applied On Mobile Food Ordering Application, Walaa Elsanabary, Nouran M. Radwan

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Customers’ satisfaction prediction is a vital process for all business organizations to draw new customers and maintain existing customers. One of the most efficient methods to predict customers' satisfaction is classifying customers' feedback. In the real world, customer’s feedback is ambiguous, confusing and inconsistent. This option can be stated in neutrosophic logic as indeterminacy membership, associated with truth and falsity membership. In this study, a classification model based on neutrosophic sets to handle the inconsistency of customer responses is presented. Also, significant factors that impact customers' satisfaction are defined. In order to show the procedures and the application of the …

, Combine Knowledge And Similarity Measure To Solve Single Valued Neutrosophic Set Mcdm Problems, Nguyen Xuan Thao, Truong Thi Thuy Duong

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The Neutrosophics set have been paid attention of researchers using in many fields in the practice. It is a useful tool to deal with those complex problems. In this paper, we first investigat the knowledge measures on the Single neutrosophic set. Then, we introduce a new similarity measure of SNS that overcomes the restriction of some already existing similarity measure cases. A proposed measure-based multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model was constructed. In this model the knowledge measure to determine the weight of each criterion and similarity measure to rank the alternatives. This model applied to solve the agricultural land selection. Finally, …

Neutrosophic Analysis Of The Cultural Impact Of The Pinkullo In Llata: Integrating Chatgpt And Fsqca, Fredy Romulo Marcellini Morales, Betty Leon Trujillo, Esio Ocana Igarza, Roberto Carlos Cardenas Viviano

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

This study explores the cultural impact of the Pinkullo, a traditional Andean aerophone, on the community of Llata, Peru, through an innovative approach that integrates neutrosophic set theory with computational methods. By employing fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) and a novel application of ChatGPT for neutrosophic sentiment analysis, the research investigates the complex interplay between the Pinkullo and various aspects of community life, including cultural participation, social impact, and cultural preservation. Textual data collected from surveys was analyzed using the "ChatGPT Constructor" add-on in Orange Data Mining to generate neutrosophic scores, representing the truth, indeterminacy, and falsity of expressed sentiments …

Mapping Barriers To Sustainable Fashion Consumption: Insights From Neutrosophic-Z Number And Delphi-Dematel Integration, Phi-Hung Nguyen, Lan-Anh Thi Nguyen, The-Vu Pham, Tra-Giang Vu, Duc-Minh Vu, Thu-Hoai Thi Nguyen, Hong-Quan Le, Huong-Giang Hoang Le

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

This study investigates the barriers to sustainable consumption within the Vietnamese fashion industry, a critical issue given the sector’s significant environmental impact and growing consumer awareness. The research employs an innovative combination of Neutrosophic Z-number sets (NZN), Delphi, and Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) methodologies to systematically identify and analyze 47 barriers across five key dimensions: Social and Cultural Factors, Pricing and Affordability, Policy and Education, Perception and Image, and Supply Chain and Industry Practices. Through expert evaluations and causal analysis, the study reveals that Policy and Education are the most influential factors, highlighting the need for robust policy …

Buy Now, Pay Dearly Later?: Minimizing Consumer Harm Under New Mexico’S Small Loan Regulations, Laura Creech

New Mexico Law Review

American consumers are carrying record-breaking credit card debt. As prices remain high and wages remain stagnant, short-term borrowing is common practice for many and unavoidable for some. Meanwhile, borrowing has never been easier. Several years ago, few consumers could imagine the widespread availability of “zero-interest, no-credit-impact” lending. Now, consumers can quickly obtain these pay-in-four “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) loans to purchase just about anything. The BNPL companies offering these loans market themselves as the smart shopping credit alternative for responsible budget management, and Millennial and Generation Z shoppers have rapidly embraced this new lending option. Yet, BNPL companies insufficiently …

Actualizing Indigenous Data Sovereignty Through Tribal Self-Governance, Bailey Ulbricht

New Mexico Law Review

Data, as described by a Yurok Tribe council member, is “the original theft”—the first thing stolen from Native peoples in the United States. Indigenous data sovereignty seeks to redress this and prevent future data infractions by placing Indigenous communities in charge of decision-making about their own data. Yet with no established body of federal case law on tribal data authority, it is not immediately clear how Indigenous data sovereignty would fit within the complex and contradictory web of federal caselaw that confines tribes’ inherent sovereignty. This Article seeks to address this gap. First, as a policy matter, it argues that …

The Pulse - February 27, 2025, Unm Hsc Marketing & Communications

The Pulse

Weekly newsletter of the UNM Health Sciences Center.

Data Plan, Jennifer Jordan

Data Collection

The New Mexico Open Educational Resources (NMOER) Consortium was developed to improve student success and retention by supporting the use of course materials that are free to students. The following plan will gather data to demonstrate the need for this program, assess the impact of the program, and to further gather information about the use of free and open resources at NMOER Consortium schools.

Clinical Communication In Spanish In A Hispanic Serving Medical School, Veronica Plaza, Marlene Ballejos, Evelyn Lozano, Linda Hodes Villamar

HSC Education Days

No abstract provided.

Forever Chemicals And Livestock: Exploring Contmination Of Per- And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances On Farms And Assessing Usda's Role In Indemnification, Chance Mitchell

Natural Resources Journal

This article examines the limitations of existing federal authorities in addressing the growing threat of PFAS contamination in livestock production operations. While existing programs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), such as the Livestock Indemnity Program, provide critical support for producers facing natural disasters, they do not cover losses related to toxic substances like PFAS. The only USDA program offering PFAS-related indemnity is the Dairy Indemnity Payment Program (DIPP), but its narrow scope limits coverage to dairy farms. Efforts to amend the statutory language of existing programs or create new ones face significant hurdles, including Congress’s rigid approach to …