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Elementary Set Theory, Richard P. Millspaugh

Open Educational Resources

This text is appropriate for a course that introduces undergraduates to proofs. The material includes elementary symbolic logic, logical arguments, basic set theory, functions and relations, the real number system, and an introduction to cardinality. The text is intended to be readable for sophomore and better freshmen majoring in mathematics.

The source files for the text can be found at https://github.com/RPMillspaugh/SetTheory

Simmering With Rage: Kitchens And Intimate Partner Violence In Eva Sørhaug’S 90 Minutes, Melissa Gjellstad

Languages & Global Studies Faculty Publications

This article examines domestic violence committed by white heterosexual men in a 2010s Norwegian film by a female director. This film stands out for its focus on male perpetrators, not female victims, contributing a fictional presentation of three men who struggle to meet societal norms for parents and partners in the Nordic gender-equal family of the twenty-first century. Eva Sørhaug’s use of cinematic space drills deep to probe the men’s pain, employing both the camera’s perspective and the significance of interiors of family homes to visually assess the male characters as they break. The socially constructed spaces of the kitchen …

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints From Galaxy Clustering And Weak Lensing, T. M. C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla, A. Alarcon, J. Aleksic, S. Allam, S. Allen, A. Amara, J. Annis, J. Asorey, S. Avila, D. Bacon, E. Balbinot, M. Banerji, N. Banik, Wayne Barkhouse

Physics Faculty Publications

We present cosmological results from a combined analysis of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing, using 1321  deg2 of griz imaging data from the first year of the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y1). We combine three two-point functions: (i) the cosmic shear correlation function of 26 million source galaxies in four redshift bins, (ii) the galaxy angular autocorrelation function of 650,000 luminous red galaxies in five redshift bins, and (iii) the galaxy-shear cross-correlation of luminous red galaxy positions and source galaxy shears. To demonstrate the robustness of these results, we use independent pairs of galaxy shape, photometric-redshift estimation and validation, …

Developing A New Storage Format And A Warp-Based Spmv Kernel For Configuration Interaction Sparse Matrices On The Gpu†, Mohammed Mahmoud, Mark Hoffmann, Hassan Reza

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) can be used to solve diverse-scaled linear systems and eigenvalue problems that exist in numerous, and varying scientific applications. One of the scientific applications that SpMV is involved in is known as Configuration Interaction (CI). CI is a linear method for solving the nonrelativistic Schrödinger equation for quantum chemical multi-electron systems, and it can deal with the ground state as well as multiple excited states. In this paper, we have developed a hybrid approach in order to deal with CI sparse matrices. The proposed model includes a newly-developed hybrid format for storing CI sparse matrices on …

Utility Of International Normative 20 M Shuttle Run Values For Identifying Youth At Increased Cardiometabolic Risk, Duncan S. Buchan, Gareth Knox, Anwen M. Jones, Grant Tomkinson, Julien S. Baker

Education, Health & Behavior Studies Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study was to examine the ability of international normative centiles for the 20 m shuttle run test (20mSRT) to identify youth at increased cardiometabolic risk. This was a cross-sectional study involving 961 children aged 10–17 years (53% girls) from the United Kingdom. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves determined the discriminatory ability of cardiorespiratory fitness percentiles for predicting increased cardiometabolic risk. ROC analysis demonstrated a significant but poor discriminatory accuracy of cardiorespiratory fitness in identifying low/high cardiometabolic risk in girls (AUC = 0.58, 95% CI: 0.54–0.63; p = 0.04), and in boys (AUC = 0.59, 95% CI: …

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy For Radiation Injury To Soft Tissue And Bone: A Novel Application, Edward B. Arenson

International Symposium for Hyperbaric Medicine

• To realize that HBOT is an effective and approved treatment for radiation injury to bone and soft tissue through its ability to induce neo-angiogenesis in tissues rendered ischemic (not necrotic) by radiation therapy.
• To realize that HBOT is not only effective in osteoradionecrosis of the jaw and radiation injury to pelvic organs, but also is effective in radiation vascular injury to brain.
• To realize that the benefit of HBOT on brain tumor survivors is through its amelioration of small vessel depletion which can be demonstrated best by color perfusion MRI imaging.
• Realize that rather than just slowing or arresting progressive …

Clinical Presentation Non-Cme: How Voltage Controls Oxygen Levels In Health And Disease, Jerry Tennant

International Symposium for Hyperbaric Medicine

As a world leading expert on healing and voltage, and developer of the Tennant Biomodulator frequencies, Dr. Jerry Tennant, will be discussing “How Voltage Controls Oxygen Levels in Health and Disease”.

Hbot + Stem Cells In Near Fatal Congenital Cardiomyopathy And Some Other Intractable Disorders, Arun Mukherjee, Vinod Sharma, Mehnaz Atiq, Indrajit N. Roy, Meena Gupta

International Symposium for Hyperbaric Medicine

No abstract provided.

Reversing Aging, Regenerative Medicine, And Optimal Performance: The Future Of Hyperbaric Medicine, Scott Sherr

International Symposium for Hyperbaric Medicine

• Understand field of regenerative medicine and how HBOT applies
• Understand field of reverse aging and how HBOT applies
• Understand field of Optimization and how HBOT applies

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy In In Neurodegenerative Disease With Case Presentations Of Alzheimer's Disease, Paul G. Harch, Edward F. Fogarty

International Symposium for Hyperbaric Medicine

Dr. Harch’s keynote will outline his case presentations on Alzheimer’s, supported by Dr. Fogarty.

• To better understand that neurodegenerative diseases result from a combination of genetic factors and cumulative environmental factors that generate central nervous system inflammation and wounding.
• To understand the positive and negative literature on HBOT in a variety of neurodegenerative and neurodevelopment diseases and the effects of HBOT on inflammation.

Low-Cost Experimental System For Center Of Mass And Center Of Pressure Measurement, Cai Xia Yang

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

Falls happen when the center of mass of body is outside of its base of support and the recovery of the center of mass back to the base of support failed. Balance ability is an essential ability needed for humans' daily routine activities. Improving balance ability should result in a better and more convenient way of living. There are various factors influence on balance ability. The focus of this paper is to investigate which factors have the greatest effect on balance. Balance ability is measured by deviations of center of pressure in both x-direction (side-to-side) and y-direction (front-to-back) with the …

The Impact Of Translation On Constructed Action And Constructed Dialogue In Asl Texts, Beth C. Gray

Theses and Dissertations

Depiction, a phenomenon similar to iconicity, involves representing what something "looks like or is like" (Streeck 2008:289). Because depiction is used more heavily in sign languages than spoken languages (Dudis 2007), people interpreting or translating spoken/written texts into signed languages struggle to use depiction naturally (Thumann 2011). This thesis analyzes constructed action (CA) and constructed dialogue (CD), two types of depiction in which the signer's hands represent those of a discourse participant. Using Tannen (1989) & Metzger's (1995) framework of non-directly-quoted CACD and Quinto-Pozos & Mehta's (2010) degrees of CA, I examine differences between narratives originally composed in ASL and …

Modest Dress As Literacy Practice In English-Speaking Conservative Mennonite Groups, Megan Lois Mong

Theses and Dissertations

English-speaking conservative Mennonites exercise a distinct set of dress practices that are not often understood by people outside the community. Advances in New Literacy Studies pave the way to understand their dress practices as a type of literacy. Multiple literacies work together to inform conservative Mennonite dress practices. One of these literacies is the reading and writing of religious texts. A second literacy is a form of heritage literacy where clothing functions as a multimodal text. Conservative Mennonites use their clothing to codify their Christian identity, gender roles and church affiliation. They intend their clothing to represent who they are …

A Phonology Of Hill (Kone-Tu) Asho, Daniel Tignor

Theses and Dissertations

Asho (ISO 639-3: csh) is a Tibeto-Burman language in the Southern Chin branch of Kuki-Chin. It is spoken by about 170,000 people, primarily in western and west-central Myanmar (Simons & Fennig 2018). Although Asho received some early attention in the studies of Tibeto-Burman languages (Houghton 1892; Joorman 1906), it has remained mostly unstudied for the past century. Current data confirm the traditional distinction of two basic dialects of Asho (Hill and Plains), and this paper focuses on the Hill or "Kone-tu" dialect. The Hill dialect has 26 consonants (compared to 29 in the Plains dialect), and both dialects have 14 …

Accurate Documentation Of Smoking History Through A Clinical Workflow Improvement Project, Heidi A. Bender

Nursing Capstones

No abstract provided.

Globular Cluster Population Of The Hst Frontier Fields Galaxy J07173724+3744224, Nathan L. Carlson, Madina R. Sultanova, Sandanuwan P. Kalawila Vithanage, Wayne A. Barkhouse, Gihan L. Ipita Kaduwa Gamage, Cody M. Rude, Omar López-Cruz

Physics Faculty Publications

We present the first measurement of the globular cluster (GC) population surrounding the elliptical galaxy J07173724+3744224 (⁠z" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: normal; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; word-spacing: normal; overflow-wrap: normal; white-space: nowrap; float: none; direction: ltr; max-width: none; max-height: none; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;">zz = 0.1546). This galaxy is located in the foreground in the field-of-view of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Frontier Fields observations of galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745 (⁠z" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: …

Implementation Of A Human Trafficking Response Protocol In A Reproductive Healthcare Setting: The Impact On Clinician Preparedness, Gina Liverseed

Nursing Capstones

No abstract provided.

Anesthesia Considerations For Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring, Kimberly A. Moon

Nursing Capstones

No abstract provided.

Transnasal Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block: A Novel Solution For Postdural Puncture Headaches, Kaira Schefter

Nursing Capstones

No abstract provided.

Pediatric Lung Isolation Techniques, Kasey J. Trontvet

Nursing Capstones

No abstract provided.

Intraoperative Ketamine To Reduce Postoperative Opioid Consumption In Chronic Pain Patients, Allyssa Wutzke

Nursing Capstones

No abstract provided.

Anesthesia Considerations For Spinal Anesthesia In Infants, Cody Grassel

Nursing Capstones

No abstract provided.

Anesthetic Considerations For The Parturient With Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura, Leah A. Davis

Nursing Capstones

No abstract provided.

Vertical Ground Reaction Force Marker For Parkinson’S Disease, Md Nafiul Alam, Amanmeet Garg, Tamanna Tabassum Khan Munia, Reza Fazel-Rezai, Kouhyar Tavakolian

Electrical Engineering Faculty Publications

Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients regularly exhibit abnormal gait patterns. Automated differentiation of abnormal gait from normal gait can serve as a potential tool for early diagnosis as well as monitoring the effect of PD treatment. The aim of current study is to differentiate PD patients from healthy controls, on the basis of features derived from plantar vertical ground reaction force (VGRF) data during walking at normal pace. The current work presents a comprehensive study highlighting the efficacy of different machine learning classifiers towards devising an accurate prediction system. Selection of meaningful feature based on sequential forward feature selection, the swing …

Vol. 43, No. 2: Summer 2018, School Of Medicine & Health Sciences

North Dakota Medicine Archive

No abstract provided.

Vol. 43, No. 3: Summer 2018, School Of Medicine & Health Sciences

North Dakota Medicine Archive

No abstract provided.

Stigma, Substance Use, And Help-Seeking Attitudes Among Rural And Urban Individuals, Zach A. Dschaak, Cindy L. Juntunen

Education, Health & Behavior Studies Faculty Publications

The current study examined the differences between public stigma, self-stigma, substance use (i.e., alcohol and/or drugs), and attitudes toward psychological help-seeking among rural and urban individuals, and found meaningful differences in public stigma by alcohol use. Two hundred and sixty participants recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk completed an online survey that included the Perceptions of Stigmatization by Others for Seeking Help scale, the Self-Stigma of Seeking Help scale, the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help scale, the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, the Drug Abuse Screening Test–10, and demographics. The authors found significant between-groups differences in public stigma for individuals …

Und Today: July 2018, University Of North Dakota

UND Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Multiscale Modeling To Evaluate The Mechanisms Controlling Co2-Based Enhanced Oil Recovery And Co2 Storage In The Bakken Formation, José A. Torres Rivero, Lu Jin, Nicholas W. Bosshart, Lawrence J. Pekot, James A. Sorensen, Kyle J. Peterson, Parker W. Anderson, Steven B. Hawthorne

EERC Publications, Papers, & Presentations

This work presents the main findings of a research project conducted to integrate well logs and advanced laboratory- based data from Bakken core samples into geocellular and simulation models at multiple scales. The objective of this effort was to improve the accuracy of modeling approaches for predicting potential incremental oil production through carbon dioxide (CO₂)-based enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in unconventional tight oil reservoirs and to evaluate the ability of organic-rich shales to store CO₂ and, possibly, produce incremental oil.

Field Test Of Co2 Injection In A Vertical Middle Bakken Well To Evaluate The Potential For Enhanced Oil Recovery And Co2 Storage, James A. Sorensen, Lawrence J. Pekot, José A. Torres Rivero, Lu Jin, Steven B. Hawthorne, Steven A. Smith, Lonny L. Jacobson, Thomas E. Doll

EERC Publications, Papers, & Presentations

In 2017, an injection test was conducted in a vertical well completed in the Middle Member of the Bakken Formation. The objectives of the field test were to quantitatively determine the injectivity of an unstimulated Bakken reservoir and the ability of injected CO₂ to mobilize oil.