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The Lying Woman: Avant-Garde Collaboration In Jo Harvey Allen's Alt-Country, Caitlin C. Grann

American Studies ETDs

Jo Harvey Allen is an artist, writer, and actress whose work is cited as transforming performance art in the 1980s. In this dissertation, I analyze the nature of Jo Harvey’s collaborative process, which spans over five decades, to better understand her positionality in avant-garde and alt-country genres. I argue that Jo Harvey’s collaboration is familial, gendered, and emplaced. My goal with this project is to intervene with literature on musicians and artists from West Texas, specifically Lubbock, through an expansion of the contributions of women. This dissertation is a product of my own collaborative efforts with Jo Harvey, as I …

Presidential Unilateralism In Contemporary U.S. Trade Policymaking: An Analysis Of The Section 232 Tariff Exclusion Process By The Trump Administration, Miao Wang

Political Science ETDs

On March 1, 2018, President Trump declared a 25% tariff on certain steel imports by invoking Section 232 of the 1962 Trade Expansion Act. Despite the extraordinary tariff measure, my research with logit regression and negative binomial regression analysis finds that the Trump Administration in its tariff exclusion process favored constituencies with a higher share of the president’s supporters and allowed import products from China more likely to receive the exclusions. I argue that the Trump Administration took these contradictory trade actions to achieve multiple goals at the same time: to pressure foreign trade partners and to protect vulnerable domestic …

Positioning Disability In Wilderness Space, Rebecca Hobart

Geography ETDs

This thesis examines the social construction of the disabled body in recreational wilderness space. A political ecology framework guides the research questions: What are the actual or perceived barriers to participation for differently abled hikers in wilderness recreational spaces, and how do these challenges manifest in long-distance hiking spaces? In situating Foucault’s theories of the body as shaped by power relations, this thesis asserts wilderness spaces to be privileged based on power conceptualized in normative notions of ability. 44 participants who self-identified as wilderness recreationalists with a disability and/or chronic health illness completed this study’s mixed-method questionnaire. Themes around practices, …

Hsc Connects Newsletter - April 5, 2024, Unm Hsc Communications

HSC Connects Newsletters

Weekly newsletter of the UNM Health Sciences Center.

Formulation, Characterization, And In Vivo Immunogenicity Evaluation Of Heat-Stabilized Dissolvable Polymeric Microneedles, Aidan Lane Leyba

Biomedical Engineering ETDs

Since its introduction, vaccination has improved health outcomes tremendously. However, modern vaccination efforts are still difficult to implement, particularly in developing countries with warm climates. This includes complex and expensive cold-chain management of vaccines to maintain stability, a lack of medical personnel to administer parental vaccines, and needle phobia. As an alternative, dissolvable microneedles have recently been studied for their simple and painless application. In this thesis, I present a novel manufacturing process for polymer-based dissolvable microneedles, loaded with virus-like particles vaccines conjugated to TRIO or Sialokinin peptides to target malaria and arboviruses, respectively. We have performed multiple characterization studies …

Building Queer Families: Supports And Barriers, Annie Bright

Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs

A qualitative study was conducted with six participants who identify as Queer and/or Lesbian investigating supports and barriers to family building using Assisted Human Reproduction. Semi-structured interviews were conducted allowing participants to share their experiences and self-identify the significant supports and barriers in their process. Interviews were transcribed and coded using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis identifying three supports and four barriers. Results demonstrated that all participants identified their community and/or their Queer community and their partner and/or family as key supports and two-thirds of participants identified as a support their own background or knowledge. All participants described the high cost or …

Narrative Research: You Did What With Technology? Exploring Student Narratives Of Technology At A Research-Based University In The Southwest, Alma M. Sanchez

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This qualitative study examined the impact of high school instructional technology on college students' academic strategies. It examined the historical and modern advancements of technology in education, uncovering significant milestones in technology integration within classrooms in the United States. Using a narrative inquiry approach grounded in John Dewey's philosophy of experience, it centered on the narratives of students in their second and third semesters of college. The study highlighted the gap in understanding students’ personal experiences with technology and emphasized the role their narratives play in shaping future technology integration strategies.

The methodology involved utilizing digital surveys and online semi-structured …

5.2.24 Hsc Committee Meeting Notice, Helen Maestas

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

5.2.24 HSC Committee Meeting Notice

Dialogue Journals In Assessment Of Student Writing, Brigid Elise Ovitt

Special Education ETDs

Because writing is complex and draws upon so many psychological and cognitive processes, learning to write is even more challenging for students with disabilities than it is for typically developing students. Nonetheless, writing research in the field of education and special education lags behind that of many other academic subjects. The body of research that does exist, indicates that affective factors (attitude toward writing, evaluation of self as writer, enjoyment of writing) impacts students’ writing achievement. This paper proposes a multiple baseline across settings study to determine whether including a response journal element as part of classroom writing assessment writing …

Holistic Health & Healing Arts 2024 Taos Self-Study, Academic Program Review

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Taos Holistic Health & Healing Arts self-study report for Spring 2024.

Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies, Unm Academic Program Review

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Department of Language, Literacy & Sociocultural Studies self-study & review team report for Spring 2024, fulfilling requirements of Higher Learning Commission.

In Vivo Tissue Distribution Of Polystyrene Or Mixed Polymer Microspheres And Metabolomic Analysis After Oral Exposure In Mice, Marcus M. Garcia, Aaron S. Romero, Seth D. Merkley, Jewel L. Meyer-Hagen, Charles Forbes, Eliane El Hayek, David P. Sciezka, Rachel Templeton, Jorge Gonzalez-Estrella, Yan Jin, Haiwei Gu, Angelica Benavidez, Russell P. Hunter, Selita Lucas, Guy Herbert, Kyle Joohyung Kim, Julia Yue Cui, Rama R. Gullapalli, Julie G. In, Matthew J. Campen, Eliseo F. Castillo

Pathology Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: Global plastic use has consistently increased over the past century with several different types of plastics now being produced. Much of these plastics end up in oceans or landfills leading to a substantial accumulation of plastics in the environment. Plastic debris slowly degrades into microplastics (MPs) that can ultimately be inhaled or ingested by both animals and humans. A growing body of evidence indicates that MPs can cross the gut barrier and enter into the lymphatic and systemic circulation leading to accumulation in tissues such as the lungs, liver, kidney, and brain. The impacts of mixed MPs exposure on …

Unm Taos Massage Therapy Certificate Program Apr Document Spring 2024, Unm Academic Program Review

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Taos Massage Therapy Certificate Program academic program review Self-Study Report Spring 2024

Linguistics Apr Spring 2024 Self-Study & Documents, Unm Academic Program Review

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Department of Linguistics self-study & review team report for Spring 2024, fulfilling requirements of Higher Learning Commission.

Remote Sensing Techniques To Determine Volcanic Gas Components And Fluxes: Application For Lascar, Chile And Fagradalsfjall, Iceland Volcanos., Felipe S. Rojas Vilches

Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

Volcanic plumes allow us to understand different aspects of a volcanic system including magma movements, dynamics, mass transfer, overall gas emissions to the atmosphere, and many processes that impact human life. However, the H₂O gas is poorly constrained due to the intrinsic difficulties of this gas, with high background values and easily dispersed/integrated into the background. In this work we study the gas emissions from Lascar volcano, and Fagradalsfjall volcano, in Chile and Iceland, respectively, using a combination of different ground-based remote sensing techniques and in situ plume measurements, we measure H₂O, SO₂, CO₂, CO, and H₂S from longer and …

A Generalization Of Neutrosophic Metric Space And Related Fixed Point Results, Fahim Ud Din, Umar Ishtiaq, Lakhdar Ragoub, Khalil Javed, Muhammad Arshad

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Neutrosophic set is a generalization of classical sets, fuzzy set, intuitionistic sets etc. A mathematical notion neutrosophic set dealing issues containing inconsistent, indeterminate and imprecise data. In this manuscript, we toss the notion of Neutrosophic b-metric-like spaces and obtain some fixed point results in the sense of Neutrosophic b-metric-like spaces. Our results are improvements of recent results in the existing literature. For the validity of these results some non-trivial examples are imparted.

N-Closure And N-Interior In Neutrosophic Topological Spaces, K. Damodharan, M. Vigneshwaran

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Toplology greatly bene ts from the concept of-cloure. Its quiet nature to extended its proper ties in other topological spaces. So, with the concept of quasi-coincidence Ganguly and Saha pioneered and extensively examined the notion of-closure within the domain of fuzzy topological spaces.(FTS). The theory of-closure in intuitionistic fuzzy topological spaces (IFTS) was further extended by Seok Jong Lee and Yeon Seok Eom. In this work, the notion of N-closure in Neutrosophic Topological Spaces (NTS) is put forward and discussed.

Analysis Of Neutrosophic Set, Julia Set In Aircraft Crash, M.N. Bharathi, G. Jayalalitha

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

A neutrosophic fuzzy set that generalizes the classical set is represented by a closed interval [0,1]. Let us generalize the fuzzy set to the Neutrosophic set, which is defined as three membership functions between interval]-0,1+ [. This paper examines the bird collision problem within a more grounded Neutrosophic framework. The collision between the bird and the aircraft is represented in the Neutrosophic domain as a stationary point because it occurs at a distance too great for any other auditory signal to discern. Numerous methods exist for solving the airplane problem, including a Julia set in complex numbers. Bird collisions resulting …

Neutrosophic Sets And Systems, Vol. 66,2024, Florentin Smarandache, Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Said Broumi

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Heat Mitigation Impacts Of Agriculture, Greenspace, And Riparian Forest In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Brennan Davis

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

Albuquerque, New Mexico, alongside the larger American desert Southwest, is already living the reality of climate change – temperatures have risen faster than the global average and, left unchecked, will continue to rise at an ever-increasing pace (NOAA 2022, Garfin et al. 2014). Alongside this disproportionate warming, the Southwest has experienced worsening drought which further stresses an already arid system (White et al. 2023, Dunbar et al. 2022). At the intersection of these changes lie a myriad of interrelated consequences for both ecosystems and communities. The urban heat island effect is one of many such consequences and is responsible for …

Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps For Clinical Decision Making In Mental Healthcare: A Federated Learning Approach, Jagan M. Obbineni, Ilanthenral Kandasamy, Madhumitha Ramesh, Florentin Smarandache, Vasantha Kandasamy

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Due to data privacy concerns and a lack of broadly applicable modelling approaches, mental health prediction encounters substantial challenges. This research introduces a pioneering decentralized framework integrating federated learning with Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps (NCMs) to facilitate secure and accurate mental health predictions while preserving data privacy. This innovative approach allows collaborative NCMs training on sensitive patient data across diverse sites without centralizing or transferring the data. The NCMs incorporated into the framework effectively model relationships between various symptoms and mental health states, offering interpretable insights into the complex dynamics of mental health. To address the limitations of local data availability, …

Integration Between Bioinformatics Algorithms And Neutrosophic Theory, Romany M. Farag, Mahmoud Y. Shams, Dalia A. Aldawody, Huda E. Khalid, Hazem M. El-Bakry, Ahmed A. Salama

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

This paper presents a neutrosophic inference model for bioinformatics. The model is used to develop a system for accurate comparisons of human nucleic acids, where the new nucleic acid is compared to a database of old nucleic acids. The comparisons are analyzed in terms of accuracy, certainty, uncertainty, neutrality, and bias. The proposed system achieves good results and provides a reliable standard for future comparisons. It highlights the potential of neutrosophic inference models in bioinformatics applications. Data mining and bioinformatics play a crucial role in computational biology, with applications in scientific research and industrial development. Biological analysts rely on specialized …

Neutrosophic Inventory System For Decaying Items With Price Dependent Demand, R. Surya, M. Mullai, G. Vetrivel

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

This study presents an empirical investigation of a specific problem in inventory control, notably the manage ment of decaying commodities with demand that is influenced by price. The approach taken in this research incorporates the effective use of trapezoidal neutrosophic numbers. The present model is employed for the objective of finding the neu trosophic optimal total cost and neutrosophic optimal interval of time for the inventory system. Defuzzification process is done with the help of signed distance method. Moreover, a mathematical evaluation is conducted in order to assess the stated model, and the findings are elucidated through the use of …

Decision Making By Neutrosophic Over Soft Topological Space, R.Narmada Devi, Yamini Parthiban

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The empirical correlation system serves as a crucial tool for unveiling the linear interconnections between two variables. Its significance lies in providing a prominent approach to depict a straightforward relationship without explicitly indicating a causal link between the sets involved. In the current research, an innovative concept of correlations is introduced specifically for Neutrosophic Over Soft Sets (No s-sets). This novel framework involves a meticulous examination of basic definitions and operations associated with Neutrosophic Over Soft Sets. Furthermore, the study extends to the introduction of a groundbreaking concept: a topological space integrated with Neutrosophic Over Soft Sets (No s-sets). This …

Empowering Artificial Intelligence Techniques With Soft Computing Of Neutrosophic Theory In Mystery Circumstances For Plant Diseases, Ahmed El-Massry, Florentin Smarandache, Mona Mohamed

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Plant diseases are one of the factors that lead to yield and economic losses, which have a direct effect on national and international food production systems. One of the most essential ways to avoid agricultural product loss or reduction in amount is to diagnose plant diseases promptly and accurately. Hence, the diagnosis process for plants is crucial and should be conducted accurately. Moreover, this study focuses on this process by constructing an Artificiality Diagnostics Framework (ADF) to serve the study’s objectives which entailed conducting diagnosis for plants in a professional and precise manner over uncertain environments. Thus, neutrosophic theory is …

Translation Of Neutrosophic Ink-Algebra, Wadei Faris Al-Omeri, M Kaviyarasu, M Rajeshwari

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

This study investigates the philosophical foundations of the neutrosophic set(NS), as rst proposed by Smarandache. It clari es the connection between single-valued Nss and their function as a specialized subset in the larger context of Nss, particularly in the elds of science and engineering. This paper investigates neutro sophic INK-ideals(NINK-Is) within INK-algebras(INK-A) by using the notion of translation, which is positioned as an extension of intuitionistic fuzzy sets. The notion of translation neutrosophic INK-algebras(NTINK-A) is introduced and their fundamental characteristics are explored. In addition, properties associated with the translation of INK-subalgebra(INK-Ss) and INK-ideals(INK-I) are investigated, along with the dynamics of …

Child Labor, Informality, And Poverty: Leveraging Logistic Regression, Indeterminate Likert Scales, And Similarity Measures For Insightful Analysis In Ecuador, Arnaldo Vergara-Romero, Guido Macas-Acosta, Fidel Márquez-Sánchez, Orlando Arencibia-Montero

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The paper presents a comprehensive analysis of child labor in Ecuador, employing advanced statistical tools like logistic regression, neutrosophic Likert scales, and similarity measures to deepen the understanding of this social issue. The integration of these methodologies allows for a nuanced assessment of the various socio-economic factors contributing to child labor. By capturing the uncertainty in human responses, the research highlights the complex interplay between poverty, household income, education levels, and labor types on the incidence of child labor. Key findings suggest that rural location, the age of the child, and the informal nature of the head of the household's …

The Problem Of Planning Neutrosophic Hydropower Systems (Converting Some Nonlinear Neutrosophic Models Into Linear Neutrosophic Models), Maissam Jdid

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The core of operations research activity focuses on creating and using models. These models may be linear models, non-linear models, dynamic models, and others. Linear models are considered one of the most important and most widely used operations research models due to the availability of appropriate algorithms through which we can obtain the optimal solution, which prompts us to benefit from the nature of the topic under study and the information available to us about the variables in it to transform it into linear models. In classical logic, many nonlinear programming problems have been processed and transformed into linear programming …

Exploring Neutrosophic Linear Programming In Advanced Fuzzy Contexts, Shubham Kumar Tripathi, Arindam Dey, Said Broumi, Ranjan Kumar

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

A neutrosophic set is a mathematical framework that extends fuzzy and intuitionistic sets to han dle indeterminate or contradictory information using three components: truth, falsity, and indeterminacy membership degrees which deal with handling indeterminate, imprecise, and uncertain data, while Extended Fuzzy Theory extends the standard fuzzy set theory to manage more intricate membership degrees. The pri mary objective of this review is to thoroughly investigate and summarize the existing literature on trapezoidal neutrosophic environments, particularly focusing on aspects such as the NFMOLP Problems in SVTpN envi ronments. Ultimately, this comprehensive review article aims to enhance the understanding of the potential …

Logarithmic Similarity Measure Of Neutrosophic Z-Number Sets For Undergraduate Teaching Quality Evaluation, Wen-Ping Chen, Yi-Ming Fang, Wen-Hua Cui

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

In practical decision-making problems, the different reliability levels of decision-makers in their evaluation information are usually ignored by most existing decision-making methods. Then, a neutrosophic Z-number (NZN) is a powerful model for simultaneously describing the restraint and associated reliability of evaluation information in view of truth, indeterminacy, and falsity Z-numbers. This paper first proposed a logarithmic similarity measure (LSM) of NZN sets, which is more flexible and can change its measure result by adjusting the exponential parameters of the restraint and reliability. Then, a multi-attribute decision-making approach is developed based on the presented LSM of NZN sets, and its applicability …