Digital Commons Network^™

Modification Of Existing Head Circumference Charts For New Mexico Native American Children, Myranda Robinson, Holly Jones, Sahana Ummadi, Julianne Olguin, Jewel Meyer-Hagen, Hengameh Pajer, James Botros, Ariana Barkley, Orrin Myers, Heather Spader

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Background

Current Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) growth charts are based on normative data that do not adequately represent the distinct pattern of head growth observed by providers for New Mexican Native American children.¹ Therefore, Native American children with normal but larger head circumferences (HC), can be inaccurately diagnosed with macrocephaly and undergo unnecessary diagnostic workups.² The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether HCs for Native American children in New Mexico distribute differently than established growth charts.

Methods

This is an IRB-approved retrospective chart review of all Native American well-child visits …

1960s Colombia: Cold War & Culture, Dave Corcoran, Latin American And Iberian Institute

LAII Events

In Colombia, as across the Americas, the 1960s was a decade of change. As the global Cold War was then intensifying, regional groups with revolutionary objectives (FARC, ELN, EPL) took inspiration from abroad and mounted new challenges to the Colombian state. Much of the armed conflict of the decade played out in rural areas with all sides appealing for campesino support, but urban centers became a different type of battleground. There, educational and cultural programming targeted the urban middle class to counteract support for revolution, and in the climate of the Cold War, international influences were strong. This talk examines …

20230328_March Is Brain Injury Awareness Month, Kelleen Maluski

HSLIC Blog Post

No abstract provided.

Essays On The Economics Of Grid Modernization, Jesse Kaczmarski

Economics ETDs

I present three chapters on the economics of grid modernization. The first chapter examines the consumer acceptance of community microgrid services. In this chapter I present the results of a split-sample contingent valuation experiment in which electric bill payers across Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah are asked about the willingness-to-pay for the installation of a community microgrid contingent on costs and benefits. In the second chapter, I examine the role of contractual hydropower receipts in the fuel mix for a medium size power authority in Colorado. I show that hydropower offsets fossil fuel generation sources and contribute to reductions …

Measuring Energy Deposition From A Laser Induced Plasma In Air Which Generates Broadband Microwave Radiation, Anna M. Janicek

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

The absorbed energy from a short pulse laser produced plasma is proportional to the magnitude of the acoustic wave the plasma launches; however, methods to resolve absolute energy from the acoustic signal are still being developed. This is the first report of quantitatively estimating the energy deposited by a femtosecond laser-induced plasma using a shock wave approximation from acoustic measurements. To further understand energy deposition mechanisms, two diagnostics, a single microphone which measures the acoustic signal propagation and an array of microphones which measure the changing acoustic signal longitudinally along the plasma were developed and implemented to measure the energy …

Wagon Tracks Volume 37, Issue 2 (February 2023)

Wagon Tracks

Contents

2 On the Cover: Flint Hills Fire by Jim Richardson

4 Insights from your President

5 Joanne’s Jottings

6 2023 Symposium

7, 15, 21, 28 Trail News

8-10 Copies Found of Kanza Treaties: October 28, 1815, and August 16, 1825 by L. Stephen Schmidt

10 In Memoriam: Morris Alexander, John Conoboy

11 Roots Run Deep: Nicholas Gentry and George Franklin 1

12-15 Santa Fe Trail Documented in Marion County, Kansas by L. Stephen Schmidt

16-21 Rebecca Mayer's 1852 Honeymoon with 50 Men and 500 Mules by Joy Poole

22-27 Hell on Wheels: Las Animas and La Junta by Dr. …

04-07-23 Hsc Committee Notice, Hsc Committee

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

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Ligase I Deficiency On Replication Fork And Chromatin, Seema Khattri Bhandari

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

Half of all the eukaryotic nuclear genome is synthesized as Okazaki fragments on the lagging strand at the replication fork. Okazaki fragment synthesis begins with repeated production of short RNA-DNA primers synthesized by the DNA Polymerase α (Pol α)-primase complex. The primer terminus is recognized by Replication Factor C (RFC) which then loads the sliding clamp protein, proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), resulting in the recruitment of DNA Polymerase δ (Pol δ) which carries out the gap filling DNA synthesis displacing the 5’ end of the preceding Okazaki fragment which is cleaved by Flap Endonuclease 1 (FEN-1), and ultimately the …

Brief Of Amici Curiae Law Professors & Indian Law Experts In Support Of Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari, Smith V. United States, Barbara L. Creel, Marc-Tizoc Gonzaléz, Verónica C. Gonzales

Faculty Scholarship

The decision reached by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, permitting the application of state criminal law to punish a tribal member whose alleged criminal conduct occurred on an Indian reservation and caused no harm to another person—solely based on the Assimilative Crimes Act (ACA), 18 U.S.C. § 13 is contrary to numerous treaties, acts of Congress, and foundational principles
/="/">of tribal sovereignty as construed and upheld by this Court’s federal Indian law jurisprudence. Allowing the Ninth Circuit decision to stand renders express
/="/">congressional authorizations and limitations on federal and state criminal jurisdiction over …

20230316_Hslic Welcomes Our New Outreach And Community Engagement Librarian, Ingrid C. Hendrix

HSLIC Blog Post

No abstract provided.

Additive Manufacturing Of Engineered Cementitious Composites With Ultra-High Tensile Ductility, Amir Bakhshi

Civil Engineering ETDs

One of the critical factors in the development of additive manufacturing in the construction industry is designing suitable materials for 3D printing applications. 3D concrete printing (3DCP) has gained significant attention due to the abundance and availability of concrete. However, concrete is a brittle material and, without proper reinforcement, cannot meet the requirements for structural purposes. Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC), known for high ductility, and strain-hardening with low fiber contents, can potentially eliminate the need for steel reinforcement in 3D printing without any need for manual placement of reinforcement. A set of systematic tests on ECC mix designs' fresh and …

It's Harder Than It Looks: How Students Identify Original Research Articles In An Undergraduate Biology Course, Alyssa Russo, Amy Jankowski

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

Biology students must develop a foundational understanding about the role information plays in the scientific research process. Key to this is understanding that original research articles are the primary method of communicating findings from original scientific research. We analyzed data from an information literacy tutorial and worksheet integrated in a core undergraduate biology course to investigate how students identify original research articles. Our results suggest that students conceptually comprehend original research, but they need practice at identifying original research articles in real time and benefit from librarian feedback when they are actively searching for and selecting articles.

The Influence Of Mediators On The Relationship Between Antenatal Opioid Agonist Exposure And The Severity Of Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome, Lori A Devlin, Zhuopei Hu, Songthip Ounpraseuth, Alan E. Simon, Robert D. Annett, Abhik Das, Janell F. Fuller, Rosemary D. Higgins, Stephanie L. Merhar, P Brian Smith, Margaret M. Crawford, Lesley E. Cottrell, Adam J. Czynski, Sarah Newman, David A. Paul, Pablo J. Sánchez, Erin O. Semmens, M Cody Smith, Bonny L. Whalen, Jessica N. Snowden, Leslie W. Young, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health And Human Development Neonatal Research Network And The Nih Environmental Influences On Child Health Outcomes (Echo) Program Institutional Development Awards States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

OBJECTIVES: (1) To evaluate the direct (un-mediated) and indirect (mediated) relationship between antenatal exposure to opioid agonist medication as treatment for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and the severity of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS), and (2) to understand the degree to which mediating factors influence the direct relationship between MOUD exposure and NOWS severity.

METHODS: This cross-sectional study includes data abstracted from the medical records of 1294 opioid-exposed infants (859 MOUD exposed and 435 non-MOUD exposed) born at or admitted to one of 30 US hospitals from July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017. Regression models and mediation analyses were …

Latinx Visions: Speculative Worlds In Latinx Art, Literature, And Performance, Latin American And Iberian Institute

LAII Events

Latinx artists, writers, and performers are envisioning speculative worlds, including dystopias, utopias, apocalyptic lands, fantastic futures, and horrifying worlds, at a greater rate than ever before. This creative renaissance raises the following questions: Why are Latinx creators drawn to the speculative genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, and why now? What is aesthetically exceptional about these new Latinx speculative worlds? With these questions in mind, the Latinx Visions project is gathering, for the first time, some of the most prominent scholars working on this topic for a conference at the University of New Mexico on March 9-11, 2023. The …

Disrupted Dynamic Functional Network Connectivity In Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, Felicha T. Candelaria-Cook, Megan E. Schendel, Lucinda Flynn, Cassandra Cerros, Dina E. Hill, Julia M. Stephen

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) can result in harmful and long-lasting neurodevelopmental changes. Children with PAE or a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) have decreased white matter volume and resting-state spectral power compared to typically developing controls (TDC) and impaired resting-state static functional connectivity. The impact of PAE on resting-state dynamic functional network connectivity (dFNC) is unknown.

METHODS: Using eyes-closed and eyes-open magnetoencephalography (MEG) resting-state data, global dFNC statistics and meta-states were examined in 89 children aged 6-16 years (51 TDC, 38 with FASD). Source analyzed MEG data were used as input to group spatial independent component analysis to derive …

Marketing The Libkey Suite: Our Trail To Creating Sustainable Marketing Techniques, Robyn Gleasner, Moses L. Moya, Laura J. Hall

Posters and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Brief Of Amici Curiae The Navajo Nation Et Al. In Support Of Petitioners, Paul Spruhan

Faculty Scholarship

The lower court’s decision abrogates the sovereign immunity of tribal nations, including their businesses and related entities, in more than 50 separate sections of the United States Bankruptcy Code. The lower court does this in contravention of both the principles of statutory construction and the precedent of this Court.

Tribal nations are engaged in extensive governmental and regulatory activities. In this role, they interact regularly with individuals and businesses that may become debtors under the United States Bankruptcy Code. Preserving the sovereign immunity of tribal nations in these instances is essential to preserving their rights to self-determination and self-governance.

Tribal …

Unm Hslic Organizational Chart 2023, Sally Bowler-Hill

HSLIC Organizational Charts

No abstract provided.

20230228_Universal Restroom Coming Soon, Sally Bowler-Hill

HSLIC Blog Post

No abstract provided.

Precision Medicine Approaches To Alcohol Use Disorder For American Indians: Assessment And Phenotypic Differentiation Of Reward And Relief Drinking, Hanna M. Hebden

Psychology ETDs

American Indian (AI) communities endorse high rates of abstinence from alcohol and substance use, yet experience disparate rates of alcohol and substance-related consequences. Alcohol and substance use is conceptualized as interwoven with unique AI contextual factors, which are often not incorporated into examination of related constructs. Current knowledge gaps exist in study of precision medicine approaches to treatment for reward and relief drinking in AI. This study aimed to understand reward and relief substance use phenotypes in AI. We described a contextually-informed model of relief assessment and to compare this assessment to the original reward and relief models using latent …

Characteristics Of Patient Navigation Programs In The Cancer Moonshot Accsis Colorectal Cancer Screening Initiative, Gloria D. Coronado, Renée M. Ferrari, Autumn Barnes, Sheila F. Castañeda, Mark Cromo, Melinda M. Davis, Mark Doescher, Kevin English, Jenna Hatcher, Karen E. Kim, Sarah Kobrin, David Liebovitz, Shiraz I. Mishra, Jesse N. Nodora, Wynne E. Norton, Jill M. Oliveri, Daniel S. Reuland, Sujha Subramanian, Jamie H. Thompson, Electra D. Paskett

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: Although patient navigation has shown promise for increasing participation in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening and follow-up, little evidence is available to guide implementation of patient navigation in clinical practice. We characterize eight patient navigation programs being implemented as part of multi-component interventions of the National Cancer Institute's Cancer MoonshotSM Accelerating Colorectal Cancer Screening and Follow-Up Through Implementation Science (ACCSIS) initiative.

METHODS: We developed a data collection template organized by ACCSIS framework domains. The template was populated by a representative from each of the eight ACCSIS research projects. We report standardized descriptions of 1) the socio-ecological context in which the …

Saved Babies, Dead Doctors: Settler Colonial Anxiety And Strategic Rhetorics Of/In The Anti-Abortion Cultural Narrative, Cassidy Ellis

Communication ETDs

In this dissertation I identify and analyze the rhetoric that creates the anti-abortion cultural narrative and locate its toxic secrets by exposing the logics and ideologies the secrets obscure and sustain, and finally, ascertaining the strategic rhetorics that enable the narrative’s power and centrality. There are two primary arguments proposed in this dissertation. First, I argue that settler colonialism is the primary toxic secret nestled just beneath the surface of the anti-abortion cultural narrative. It is the secret that animates and sustains the narrative in service of maintaining settler colonial social order via control and maintenance of the population. Second, …

Public Support For Community Microgrid Services, Janie M. Chermak, Jesse Ian Kaczmarski

SMART Grid Center (NM EPSCoR RII V)

Survey instrument, codebook, summary statistics, and simulation code in STATA v16.1 format for the analysis reported in:

Kaczmarski, Jesse I. "Public support for community microgrid services." Energy Economics 115 (2022): 106344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106344

Accompanying files include a STATA log file and a README. Information from the README file is also included below.

Per the consent language in the included survey instrument, raw data from the reported study are not publicly available.

This readme file was generated on 2023-02-20 by Jesse Kaczmarski

GENERAL INFORMATION

Title of Dataset: Public Support for Community Microgrid Services

Principal Investigator Information Name: Janie Chermak ORCID: N/A Institution: …

Evaluating A Web-Based Training Curriculum For Disseminating Best Practices For The Care Of Newborns With Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome In A Rural Hospital, The Nows-Nm Program, Heather Pratt-Chavez, Heidi Rishel Brakey, Sarah G. Sanders, Juhee Patel, Tim Ozechowski, Chloe Stoffel, Andrew L. Sussman, Jessie Marquez, David R. Smith, Alberta S. Kong

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: The incidence of neonatal opiate withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) in the US has grown dramatically over the past two decades. Many rural hospitals not equipped to manage these patients transfer them to hospitals in bigger cities.

METHODS: We created a curriculum, the NOWS-NM Program, a mobile/web-based curriculum training in best practices. To evaluate the curriculum, we conducted pre- and post-surveys of NOWS knowledge, attitudes, and care practices, plus post-curriculum interviews and focus groups.

RESULTS: Fourteen participants completed both pre- and post-curriculum surveys. They indicated an increase in knowledge and care practices. A small number of respondents expressed negative attitudes about …

Machine Learning Methods For Computational Phenotyping Using Patient Healthcare Data With Noisy Labels, Praveen Kumar

Computer Science ETDs

Positive and Unlabeled (PU) learning problems abound in many real-world applications. In healthcare informatics, diagnosed patients are considered labeled positive for a specific disease, but being undiagnosed does not mean they can be labeled negative. PU learning can improve classification performance, and estimate the positive fraction, α, among unlabeled samples. However, algorithms based on the Selected Completely At Random (SCAR) assumption are inadequate when the SCAR assumption fails (e.g., severe cases overrepresented), and when class imbalance is substantial. This dissertation presents and evaluates new algorithms to overcome these limitations. The proposed methods outperform the state-of-art for α-estimation, enhance classification performance, …

Concepts In Climate Change & Public Health Preparedness Ipep 305/Ipep 505, Heidi H. Rogers, Alexis Ellsworth-Kopkowski, Mary Pat Couig, Megan Tucker

InterProfessional Education Faculty Resources

No abstract provided.

Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Adults In Zuni Pueblo: Factors Associated With Fobt And Colonoscopy Utilization, Nicholas Edwardson, Kate Cartwright, Judith Sheche, V Shane Pankratz, Mikaela Kosich, Deborah Kanda, Samantha Leekity, Shiraz I. Mishra

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

Although strategies to mitigate barriers to colorectal cancer (CRC) screening have proven successful in some parts of the US, few of these strategies have been studied in rural, American Indian communities that may exhibit unique culturally driven attitudes toward and knowledge of colorectal cancer and experience increased barriers to healthcare access. In this study, we describe the results of a survey among CRC screen-eligible members of Zuni Pueblo (N = 218) on an array of questions regarding CRC screening behaviors, knowledge, satisfaction with and access to healthcare services, social support for CRC screening, perceptions toward FOBT, and preference for evidence-based …

Chamisa Volume 2 Full Pdf

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of New Mexico and the Greater Southwest

No abstract provided.

Escalating Costs Of Self-Injury Mortality In The 21st Century United States: An Interstate Observational Study., Ian Rh Rockett, Bina Ali, Eric D. Caine, Donald S. Shepard, Aniruddha Banerjee, Kurt B. Nolte, Hilary S. Connery, G Luke Larkin, Steven Stack, Franklin M M White, Haomiao Jia, Jeralynn S. Cossman, Judith Feinberg, Amanda N. Stover, Ted R. Miller

Pathology Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: Estimating the economic costs of self-injury mortality (SIM) can inform health planning and clinical and public health interventions, serve as a basis for their evaluation, and provide the foundation for broadly disseminating evidence-based policies and practices. SIM is operationalized as a composite of all registered suicides at any age, and 80% of drug overdose (intoxication) deaths medicolegally classified as 'accidents,' and 90% of corresponding undetermined (intent) deaths in the age group 15 years and older. It is the long-term practice of the United States (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to subsume poisoning (drug and nondrug) deaths …

20230206_Keep Current With Information In Your Field With Browzine, Robyn M. Gleasner

HSLIC Blog Post

No abstract provided.