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The Time-To-Graduation Problem (Survival Analysis For Education Outcomes), Don R. Hush, Tushar Ojha, Wisam Al-Doroubi

Electrical & Computer Engineering Technical Reports

This report provides a comprehensive treatment of the time-to-graduation (TTG) problem. The goal of this problem is to make predictions about the time it takes for a student to graduate from a particular institution. We develop a complete mathematical description of the TTG problem which includes data synthesis models that reveal details of the problem that are often hidden or overlooked in the literature. This report explores two vastly different approaches to this problem, including detailed algorithmic descriptions and practical examples where specific solution methods are applied to both synthetic data and real UNM student data. The first approach is …

Committee Charge, Kelleen Maluski

Charge and Committee Documentation

No abstract provided.

Creating A Cancer Genomics Curriculum For Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellows: A National Needs Assessment, Alise K Murray, Rose B Mcgee, Roya M Mostafavi, Xiaoqing Wang, Zhaohua Lu, Jessica M Valdez, Michael A Terao, Kim E Nichols

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: With the advent of next generation sequencing, tumor and germline genomic testing are increasingly being used in the management of pediatric cancer patients. Despite this increase in testing, many pediatric hematology-oncology (PHO) providers are not confident interpreting or utilizing tumor or germline genomic results to care for their patients.

METHODS: We developed and delivered a needs assessment survey to PHO program directors, attendings, and fellows in the United States to understand this deficiency, gather data on existing cancer genomics educational initiatives, and query preferences for creating a future curriculum.

RESULTS: The survey includes 31 (41%) of 74 invited PHO …

Neutrosophic Logic Theory And Applications, Eman Aboelhamd, Hamed M. Shamma, Mohamed Saleh, Ihab El-Khodary

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Perceived Critical Success Factors For Native American And Non-Native American Pre-Licensure Nursing Students In Northern New Mexico, Karen E. Nielsen

Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Projects

Considering the consistent healthcare system load demands, nursing shortages persist, especially in remote areas of the United States. It is vital that students interested in attending nursing school and working in their home communities have expanded nursing program access and supports in order to supply the necessary nursing workforce in remote areas. Lack of diversity in the nursing profession weakens healthcare delivery. Native Americans are underrepresented as nursing students and employed nurses. Measures to provide a more diverse workforce should concentrate on recruitment, retention, and graduation rates of underrepresented minority nursing students. Limited research is available surrounding Native American nursing …

Implementation Of The First Project Echo Superhub In Australia, Perrin Moss, Phil Nixon, Dana Newcomb

Project ECHO Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Harvard Crimson Interviews Vinay Harpalani, Students For Fair Admissions Petitions Scotus To Take Up Suit Against Harvard’S Race-Conscious Admissions, Vinay Harpalani, Vivi E. Lu

Faculty Scholarship

University of New Mexico law professor Vinay Harpalani and Dana N. Thompson-Dorsey, chair of education innovation at the University of South Florida, told the Crimson in January that if the Supreme Court were to take up the case, the practice of affirmative action could be endangered, noting the court’s conservative composition.

Ella Anagick Oral History Interview Feb 2021, Holly Guise

Oral Histories HIST300, Spring 2021

Oral History interview with Ella Anagick about the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) school Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Alaska in the late 1960s.

Students Navigating Covid-19: An Oral History Project, Leo L. Williams

Oral Histories HIST300, Spring 2021

McKenna Johnston and Leo Williams met over Zoom on February 23rd, 2021. At the time of the interview, New Mexico’s Bernalillo County had advanced to the Yellow COVID tier. It had been nearly a year since the COVID-19 pandemic had shifted the world to increasingly rely on virtual platforms. Since March 13th, 2020, McKenna had been participating in classes at the University of New Mexico over Zoom. In this interview, she speaks to her experience navigating the past year through virtual platforms.

Lorenzo Romero-Ramos Oral History Interview February 23rd, 2021, Henry B. Hammel

Oral Histories HIST300, Spring 2021

Oral History Interview with Lorenzo Romero-Ramos

Henry Hammel, Edgar Romero Ramos

Oral Histories HIST300, Spring 2021

I had the pleasure of interviewing one of my classmates, Henry Hamal regarding his experience during the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. It was interesting to note that this event had a shunting effect on Henry’s emotional development, as he noted in his interview. It was helpful to see a different perspective regarding people’s ability to adapt, or not, to a global crisis.

Austin Thomas Oral History Interview February 2021, Marisa Gurule, Austin Thomas

Oral Histories HIST300, Spring 2021

This interview with Austin Thomas covered the COVID Pandemic. We specifically talked about the effects of COVID on him as a college student. Austin talks about the effects on his personal life and work life as well.

Kendra Murphy Interview - The Pandemic, Julian T. Gunther

Oral Histories HIST300, Spring 2021

An interview with classmate Kendra Murphy. about how the pandemic affected Homelife and school.

Erik Warren Oral History Interview With Katrina Keller February 2021, Phillip Erik Warren, Katrina Keller

Oral Histories HIST300, Spring 2021

Insight into how COVID-19 affected the life of a UNM Student living on campus.

Building Long-Term Care Staff Capacity During Covid-19 Through Just-In-Time Learning: Evaluation Of A Modified Echo Model, Navena R. Lingum, Lisa Guttman Sokoloff, Raquel M. Meyer, Shaen Gingrich, Devin J. Sodums, Anna Theresa Santiago, Sid Feldman, Stacey Guy, Andrea Moser, Salma Shaikh, Cindy J. Grief, David K. Conn

Project ECHO Bibliography

Objectives: The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic significantly challenged the capacity of long-term care (LTC) homes in Canada, resulting in new, pressing priorities for leaders and health care providers (HCPs) in the care and safety of LTC residents. This study aimed to determine whether Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) Care of the Elderly Long-Term Care (COE-LTC): COVID-19, a virtual education program, was effective at delivering just-in-time learning and best practices to support LTC teams and residents during the pandemic. Design: Mixed methods evaluation. Setting and Participants: Interprofessional HCPs working in LTC homes or deployed to work in LTC …

20210222_Pubmed Like A Pro, Kelleen Maluski

HSLIC Blog Post

No abstract provided.

Autism Edu-Echo -Supporting Educators, Students And Families, Vicky Booth, Perrin Moss, Honey Heussler, Dana Newcomb

Project ECHO Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Emergence In Late 2020 Of Multiple Lineages Of Sars-Cov-2 Spike Protein Variants Affecting Amino Acid Position 677, Emma B. Hodcroft, Daryl B. Domman, Daniel J. Snyder, Kasopefoluwa Y. Oguntuyo, Maarten Van Diest, Kenneth H. Densmore, Kurt C. Schwalm, Jon Femling, Jennifer L. Carroll, Rona S. Scott, Martha M. Whyte, Michael W. Edwards, Noah C. Hull, Christopher G. Kevil, John A. Vanchiere, Benhur Lee, Darrell L. Dinwiddie, Vaughn S. Cooper, Jeremy P. Kamil

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike protein (S) plays critical roles in host cell entry. Non-synonymous substitutions affecting S are not uncommon and have become fixed in a number of SARS-CoV-2 lineages. A subset of such mutations enable escape from neutralizing antibodies or are thought to enhance transmission through mechanisms such as increased affinity for the cell entry receptor, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). Independent genomic surveillance programs based in New Mexico and Louisiana contemporaneously detected the rapid rise of numerous clade 20G (lineage B.1.2) infections carrying a Q677P substitution in S. The variant was first detected in …

Interactive Effects Of Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids And Secondhand Smoke In Mice And Human Subjects, Emily Wheeler, Mary Walsh-Wilcox, Meer Shah, Abinash Achrekar, Joe R. Anderson, Mary K. Walker

Research and Scholarship

Active smoking and secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure increase the risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Active smoking is associated with reduced levels of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA) and studies show that n-3 PUFA supplementation can improve smoking-induced vascular dysfunction. However, the relationship between n-3 PUFA and SHS exposure has not been studied. Fat-1 transgenic mice, which convert n-6 to n-3 PUFA, were fed diets with n-3 PUFA or without (n-6 PUFA diet), exposed to air or SHS for 4 weeks, and vasoreactivity, antioxidant indices, and omega-3 index (percent eicosapentaenoic+docosahexaenoic acids in RBC) measured. Compared to air-exposed mice, SHS …

20210219_Moving Beyond Impostor Syndrome Workshop, Kelleen Maluski

HSLIC Blog Post

No abstract provided.

Benefits Derived From Full Laboratory Automation In Microbiology: A Tale Of Four Laboratories, Karissa Culbreath, Heather Piwonka, John Korver, Mir Noorbakhsh

Pathology Research and Scholarship

Automation in clinical microbiology is starting to become more commonplace and reportedly offers several advantages over the manual laboratory. Most studies have reported on the rapid turnaround times for culture results, including times for identification of pathogens and their respective antimicrobial susceptibilities, but few have studied the benefits from a laboratory efficiency point of view. This is the first large, multicenter study in North America to report on the benefits derived from automation measured in full-time equivalents (FTE), FTE reallocation, productivity, cost per specimen, and cost avoidance. Pre- and post-full automation audits were done at 4 laboratories that have vastly …

Inhibition Of The Heg1-Krit1 Interaction Increases Klf4 And Klf2 Expression In Endothelial Cells, Miguel Alejandro Lopez-Ramirez, Sara Mccurdy, Wenqing Li, Mark K. Haynes, Preston Hale, Karol Francisco, Killian Oukoloff, Matthew Bautista, Chelsea H J Choi, Hao Sun, Brendan Gongol, John Y. Shyy, Carlo Ballatore, Larry A. Sklar, Alexandre R. Gingras

Pathology Research and Scholarship

The transmembrane protein heart of glass1 (HEG1) directly binds to and recruits Krev interaction trapped protein 1 (KRIT1) to endothelial junctions to form the HEG1-KRIT1 protein complex that establishes and maintains junctional integrity. Genetic inactivation or knockdown of endothelial HEG1 or KRIT1 leads to the upregulation of transcription factors Krüppel-like factors 4 and 2 (KLF4 and KLF2), which are implicated in endothelial vascular homeostasis; however, the effect of acute inhibition of the HEG1-KRIT1 interaction remains incompletely understood. Here, we report a high-throughput screening assay and molecular design of a small-molecule HEG1-KRIT1 inhibitor to uncover acute changes in signaling pathways downstream …

Copy Number Variant Analysis And Genome-Wide Association Study Identify Loci With Large Effect For Vesicoureteral Reflux, Miguel Verbitsky, Priya Krithivasan, Ekaterina Batourina, Atlas Khan, Sarah E Graham, Maddalena Marasà, Hyunwoo Kim, Tze Y Lim, Patricia L Weng, Elena Sánchez-Rodríguez, Adele Mitrotti, Dina F Ahram, Francesca Zanoni, David A Fasel, Rik Westland, Matthew G Sampson, Jun Y Zhang, Monica Bodria, Byum Hee Kil, Shirlee Shril, Loreto Gesualdo, Fabio Torri, Francesco Scolari, Claudia Izzi, Joanna A E Van Wijk, Marijan Saraga, Domenico Santoro, Giovanni Conti, David E Barton, Mark G Dobson, Prem Puri, Susan L Furth, Bradley A Warady, Isabella Pisani, Enrico Fiaccadori, Landino Allegri, Maria Ludovica Degl'innocenti, Giorgio Piaggio, Shumyle Alam, Maddalena Gigante, Gianluigi Zaza, Pasquale Esposito, Fangming Lin, Ana Cristina Simões-E-Silva, Andrzej Brodkiewicz, Dorota Drozdz, Katarzyna Zachwieja, Monika Miklaszewska, Maria Szczepanska, Piotr Adamczyk, Marcin Tkaczyk, Daria Tomczyk, Przemyslaw Sikora, Malgorzata Mizerska-Wasiak, Grazyna Krzemien, Agnieszka Szmigielska, Marcin Zaniew, Vladimir J Lozanovski, Zoran Gucev, Iuliana Ionita-Laza, Ian B Stanaway, David R Crosslin, Craig S Wong, Friedhelm Hildebrandt, Jonathan Barasch, Eimear E Kenny, Ruth J F Loos, Brynn Levy, Gian Marco Ghiggeri, Hakon Hakonarson, Anna Latos-Bieleńska, Anna Materna-Kiryluk, John M Darlow, Velibor Tasic, Cristen Willer, Krzysztof Kiryluk, Simone Sanna-Cherchi, Cathy L Mendelsohn, Ali G Gharavi

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is a common, familial genitourinary disorder, and a major cause of pediatric urinary tract infection (UTI) and kidney failure. The genetic basis of VUR is not well understood.

METHODS: A diagnostic analysis sought rare, pathogenic copy number variant (CNV) disorders among 1737 patients with VUR. A GWAS was performed in 1395 patients and 5366 controls, of European ancestry.

RESULTS: Altogether, 3% of VUR patients harbored an undiagnosed rare CNV disorder, such as the 1q21.1, 16p11.2, 22q11.21, and triple X syndromes ((OR, 3.12; 95% CI, 2.10 to 4.54;

CONCLUSIONS: These data demonstrate the genetic heterogeneity of VUR. …

A Class That Does (Not) Matter: Rethinking Cold War Latin America From The Middle, A. Ricardo López-Pedreros Dr.

LAII Events

Join the LAII for a presentation with Dr. A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, professor of History at Western Washington University. This presentation seeks to bring together recent interdisciplinary scholarship to initiate a critical conversation on how to rethink the historical formation of the middle classes—as a social category, a political project, a subjectivity, and a material reality—in Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century.

The presentation proceeds in two ways. First, it offers a transnational genealogy of the idea of the middle class in the Americas to explain why, despite scholarly commitment to its study, the middle class appears …

University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents Minutes For February 16, 2021, University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Optimizing The Use Of Telemedicine In Oncology Care: Postpandemic Opportunities, Karen E. Knudsen, Cheryl Willman, Robert Winn

Pathology Research and Scholarship

Utilization of telehealth as part of the cancer care delivery continuum dramatically escalated in response to the COVID-19 pandemic at major cancer centers across the globe. The rapid shift toward telehealth visits for nontreatment cancer care provided immediate benefit through reducing unnecessary risk of exposure, overcoming transportation barriers faced by both patients and caregivers, and fast-tracking care transformation. As such, delineating the impact of telehealth on access, health equity, quality, and outcomes will be essential for refining the use of digital strategies and telehealth toward optimizing cancer care. Herein, experiences to date with telehealth usage for oncology care are reviewed, …

Molecular Mechanisms Of Circular Rna-Mediated Regulation Of Synaptic Gene Expression - Implications For Psychiatric Disorders, Alexander K. Hafez

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are highly stable non-coding RNAs, derived from the covalent back-splicing of precursor mRNA molecules. Although circRNAs are highly enriched in the brain, the mechanism of action of brain expressed circRNAs and their relevance for psychiatric disorders remains largely unknown. Here we show that circHomer1, a neuronal-enriched circRNA abundantly expressed in the frontal cortex, derived from the Homer protein homolog 1 (HOMER1) gene, is significantly reduced in the prefrontal cortex and induced pluripotent stem-cell-derived neuronal cultures from patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and is associated with the age of onset of schizophrenia. Furthermore, circHomer1 …

20210215_Hslic's Biomedical Informatics Seminar Series Presents- Christophe Lambert, Phd, Tamara Wheeler

HSLIC Blog Post

No abstract provided.

20210211_Springer Nature Experiments, Robyn Gleasner

HSLIC Blog Post

No abstract provided.

Hausdorff Measures On Generalized Set Valued Neutrosophic Quadruple Numbers And Decision Making Applications For Adequacy Of Online Education, Sevilay Şahin, Abdullah Kargın, Murat Yücel

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.