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20210408_Creating Empowering Mental Health Care Plans- From (A)Dvance Directives To (Z)Ines With Amanda Meeks, Kelleen Maluski

HSLIC Blog Post

No abstract provided.

The Covid Ceiling: Super-Moms Are Struggling, Verónica C. Gonzales

Faculty Scholarship

COVID Ceiling is the unique combination of identity, discipline, and academic work requirements with care crisis and public health crisis that is contributing to the current and soon larger wave of mental health crises.

Unfreezing The Flamenca: The Stereotype Of The Sensual Bailaora Through The Lens Of Hollywood Film Noir, Amy Schofield

Theatre & Dance ETDs

This essay accompanies my Master of Fine Arts thesis project, a dance film entitled Haunted (premiered online March 12, 2021; made in collaboration with Jenny Serrano as Director of Photography), that employs themes and aesthetics from film noir to an exploration of the stereotype of the sensual female flamenco dancer. By combining concepts from dance studies with feminist and postcolonial theories, I trace the legacy of the bailaora (female flamenco dancer) presented as sexualized, Orientalized Other from the nineteenth century to the present day. An overview of film noir and neo-noir bolsters a thorough description and analysis of select scenes …

Ashley Gurule Oral History Interview April 2021, Marisa Gurule

Oral Histories HIST300, Spring 2021

This interview was with Ashley Gurule who is an elementary ESL teacher in North Carolina. This interview covers the topic of the current education system, and its struggles and victories over the past two years.

Animal Texts: Critical Animal Concepts In Environmental Literature For The Anthropocene, Lauren Perry

English Language and Literature ETDs

This dissertation examines how key environmental texts from the late nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries portray animals and the changing conception of animal lives. Beginning with short stories by Sarah Orne Jewett and Jack London, the first chapter examines how early environmentally-minded writers developed animals' independent subjectivity. The second chapter analyzes how Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac (1949) and Sarah Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) promote ecological awareness by paying attention to animal time. Chapter three argues that Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire (1968) develops a layered understanding of animal consciousness. Chapter four contends that Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge (1991) merges …

On The Dynamic Generation Of Megagauss-Level Magnetic Fields On 100-Ns Timescales To Stabilize And Magnetize Pulsed-Power-Driven Liner Implosions, Gabriel A. Shipley

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

This dissertation presents analysis of experiments and simulations executed to develop the auto-magnetizing liner concept (AutoMag) for use as an alternative premagnetization mechanism for MagLIF. Tests of each stage of AutoMag (magnetization, dielectric breakdown, and implosion) were executed on the Mykonos accelerator and the Z accelerator. Experiments demonstrate strong peak axial magnetic field production (20 – 150 T), dielectric breakdown initiation that depends on global induced electric field across the target, and a level of cylindrical implosion uniformity high enough to be useful for prospective fusion-fuel-filled (auto-magnetized MagLIF) experiments.

This dissertation also presents detailed simulations of the Solid Liner Dynamic …

20210405_Celebrating Public Health, Gale G Hannigan

HSLIC Blog Post

No abstract provided.

Computational_Electromagnetic Modeling (Cem) Of Foliage Penetration (Fopen), Monica R. Jaramillo

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

Foliage penetration (FOPEN) radar at lower frequencies (UHF, VHF) is a well-studied area with a wide set of contributions. However, there is growing interest in using higher Ku-band frequencies (12-18 GHz frequency range) for FOPEN. In particular, the reduced wavelength sizes (centimeters range) provide some key saliencies for developing more optimized foliage detection solutions. The disadvantage is that exploiting Ku-band for FOPEN is complicated because higher frequencies have much more pronounced scattering effects due to their smaller wavelengths. Despite these challenges, certain foliage characteristics and signal parameters can help improve electromagnetic (EM) wave penetration in the Ku-band such as foliage …

Technological Tethereds: Potential Impact Of Untrustworthy Artificial Intelligence In Criminal Justice Risk Assessment Instruments, Sonia M. Gipson Rankin

Faculty Scholarship

Issues of racial inequality and violence are front and center in today’s society, as are issues surrounding artificial intelligence (AI). This Article, written by a law professor who is also a computer scientist, takes a deep dive into understanding how and why hacked and rogue AI creates unlawful and unfair outcomes, particularly for persons of color.

Black Americans are disproportionally featured in criminal justice, and their stories are obfuscated. The seemingly endless back-to-back murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, and heartbreakingly countless others have finally shaken the United States from its slumbering journey towards intentional criminal justice …

Nurse Educators Influence On Student Success, Callie Whittington

Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Projects

Passing nursing licensure exams is important to promising nurses. The number of times a graduating nursing student must take The National Council Licensure Examination-Registered Nurse (NCLEX-RN), reflects upon the institution of higher education as a gauge of the quality of their training programs and preparation. Student outcomes are very important to overall standing of the nursing programs, as the first attempt NCLEX-RN pass rates affect status of the nursing program. The nurse educator’s role in student success is vital and the level of education for the nurse educator can play a valuable part in this as well.

The researcher of …

20210401_Implicit Bias- An Opportunity To Learn More, Kelleen Maluski

HSLIC Blog Post

No abstract provided.

When Imitation Is Not Flattery: Addressing Cultural Exploitation In Guatemala Through A Sui Generis Model, Paul Figueroa

Faculty Scholarship

Indigenous Guatemalan weavers are fighting for intellectual property laws that better protect their designs and other cultural expressions. The exploitation and appropriation by local and international companies has negatively affected the weavers’ livelihoods and resulted in culturally inappropriate uses of spiritual and traditional symbols. Adhering to Western ideals of individual creativity and utility, intellectual property laws in most of the world (including Guatemala) are not suited to protect indigenous creations. To address this legal gap, some countries have adopted sui generis legal regimes that align with communal notions of creation, ownership and stewardship found in indigenous knowledge systems. Based on …

Can “Asians” Truly Be Americans?, Vinay Harpalani

Faculty Scholarship

Recent, tragic events have brought more attention to hate and bias crimes against Asian Americans. It is important to address these crimes and prevent them in the future, but the discourse on Asian Americans should not end there. Many non-Asian Americans are unaware or only superficially aware of the vast diversity that exists among us, along with the challenges posed by that diversity. Some have basic knowledge of the immigration and exclusion of Asian Americans, the internment of Japanese Americans which was upheld in Korematsu v. United States, and the “model minority stereotype”, but these are Asian Americans 101. This …

Unm Medicine Spring 2021, University Of New Mexico, Health Sciences Center, School Of Medicine

School of Medicine Alumni Magazine

No abstract provided.

Encompassing Access To Improved Liver Care–Ilbs Echo, Revolution In Specialty Care, Sabin Syed, Akanksha Bansal, Dinesh Taneja, Pranav Keshan, Ashish Kumar, Arpit Kumar

Project ECHO Bibliography

Project ECHO is aimed at developing capacity for safe and effective treatment of chronic, common and complex diseases in rural and underserved areas while monitoring outcomes to ensure quality of care. ILBS is the rst institute to replicate this model in India under the aegis of ILBS-ECHO program with a goal to identify, treat and manage liver related disorders across the country. Using state of the art tele health technology and clinical management tools ILBS-ECHO trains and supports physicians in the community to develop knowledge and self-efcacy on a variety of diseases not usually considered within their scope of practice. …

Design And Construction Of A Biosafety Level 3 Autopsy Laboratory, Kurt B. Nolte, Timothy B. Muller, Adam M. Denmark, Ron Burstein, Yvonne A. Villalobos

Pathology Research and Scholarship

Context.—: Autopsy pathologists, including medical examiners, provide valuable public health support for infectious disease deaths through surveillance for deaths of public health concern including emerging infections, identifying causative organisms for unexplained deaths, and providing insights into the pathology and pathogenesis of novel or unusual infections. However, autopsy poses biosafety risks to workers within and outside the laboratory. The highest rates of laboratory-acquired infections occur in autopsy workers.

Objective.—: To design and construct an appropriately biosafe autopsy laboratory.

Design.—: We conducted a biosafety risk assessment for autopsy workers using the process developed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …

Covid-19 Convalescent Plasma: Interim Recommendations From The Aabb, Claudia S. Cohn, Lise Estcourt, Brenda J. Grossman, Monica B. Pagano, Elizabeth S. Allen, Evan M. Bloch, Arturo Casadevall, Dana V. Devine, Nancy M. Dunbar, Farid Foroutan, Thomas J. Gniadek, Ruchika Goel, Jed Gorlin, Michael J. Joyner, Ryan A. Metcalf, Jay S. Raval, Todd W. Rice, Beth H. Shaz, Ralph R. Vassallo, Jeffrey L. Winters, Gregory Beaudoin, Aaron A R Tobian

Pathology Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology 2021 Apr Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Chemistry & Chemical Biology APR self-study and review team report for Spring 2021, fulfilling requirements of the Higher Learning Commission.

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol. 46-C, No. 4, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletters

No abstract provided.

04-06-2021 Hsc Committee Agenda - Revised, Hsc Committee

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

No abstract provided.

Project C.O.P.E Sexual Health Intervention On Sexual Negotiations Skills Among Black And Hispanic Adolescents In An Under-Resourced Northeastern Urban Community, Irene N. Cantu

Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs

Decades of sexual health interventions have focused on the disparities youth of color face; however, inequalities in health outcomes and resources remain. This study evaluated Project C.O.P.E. (Communities Organizing for Prevention and Empowerment), a sexual health intervention in an under-resourced northeastern urban community. The goal of the study was to determine if the intervention, personal domains (ethnic identity and family support), or sexual health domains (Viral Hepatitis [VH] knowledge and human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] knowledge) had an impact on sexual negotiation skills in Black and Hispanic adolescent participants (n =510; M_age =16.78 ± 1.14). Between group analyses found significant …

Tool Kit For Community Control, Evan Beck, Emily Griffin Kim, Elena Hamburg, Emily Ontiveros, Brittney Sawyer, Heem Yang

Design and Planning Assistance Center - Projects

This publication reveals how community organizations can take control, shaping the built environment around them. It catalogs contemporary initiatives, from green jobs programs to housing cooperatives, to reveal how grassroots organizations can shape housing, new business development, public space, education, and transportation. This work complements DPAC’s community engagement work in Midtown, Santa Fe, in its efforts to spark change.

04-06-21 Hsc Committee Notice, Hsc Committee

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

No abstract provided.

Characterizing And Assessing The Hydrological Connection Of Sawyer Fen To Nearby Bluewater Creek In The Zuni Mountains, New Mexico, Luke Collis

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

Wetlands can hydrologically connect to nearby surface waters allowing for interaction with other landscape elements through spatial and temporal variation. The hydrologic connection of wetlands to surface waters is an important issue due to policies and regulations of the Clean Water Act (CWA) which emphasize the physical connection that wetlands have with nearby surface waters. The goal of this research was to quantify the hydrological connection of Sawyer Fen to a nearby Bluewater Creek in the Zuni Mountains, western New Mexico. Data were collected in the summer through the winter of 2019 at seven locations including Sawyer Fen, Bluewater Creek …

How Do Dairy Feedlot Size And Land Use Practices Affect Groundwater Quality Over Time? A Preliminary Study In New Mexico, Nancy J. Mcduffie

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

Agricultural activities in general and dairy operations in particular, have been identified as a potentially significant source of nitrate contamination in groundwater. The late 1990s was a period of rapid growth for New Mexico’s dairy industry. The New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service reports that the industry grew from 105 producers and 80,000 cows statewide in 1990 to 175 producers and 310,000 cows in 2003, to 145 producers and 323,000 cows in 2015. New Mexico now ranks ninth in the nation in milk production by volume, fifth in the nation for cheese production, and has the largest number of …

04-06-21 Hsc Committee Agenda, Hsc Committee

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

No abstract provided.

Bad Apples Or A Rotten Tree: Ameliorating The Double Pandemic Of Covid-19 And Racial Economic Inequality, Nathalie Martin

Faculty Scholarship

Black Lives Matter signs pepper our rural, middle class neighborhood. The lawn signs raise a fundamental question: if Black Lives Matter, what will it take to reverse the longstanding trend that has left many dead and so many others, perhaps all others, suffering? What will it take to create some semblance of equality and equity across racial lines in America?

Part I of this essay discusses race and Covid 19. It reviews and updates statistics on Covid deaths and race, and discusses some of the reasons for the racial disparities in Covid deaths. Part II briefly reviews the stratification of …

Earth & Planetary Sciences 2021 Apr Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences APR self-study and review team report for Spring 2021, fulfilling requirements of the Higher Learning Commission

Speech & Hearing Sciences 2021 Apr Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences APR self-study and review team report for Spring 2021, fulfilling requirements of the Higher Learning Commission.

International Studies Institute 2021 Apr Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM International Studies Institute APR self-study report and review team report for Spring 2021, fulfilling requirements of the Higher Learning Commission