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Correction To: Hif Prolyl Hydroxylase Inhibition Protects Skeletal Muscle From Eccentric Contraction Induced Injury, Andrew N. Billin, Samuel E. Honeycutt, Alan V. Mcdougal, Jaclyn P. Kerr, Zhe Chen, Johannes M. Freudenberg, Deepak K. Rajpal, Guizhen Luo, Henning Fritz Kramer, Robert S. Geske, Frank Fang, Bert Yao, Richard V. Clark, John Lepore, Alex Cobitz, Ram Miller, Kazunori Nosaka, Aaron C. Hinken, Alan J. Russell

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors flagged that there is a discrepancy with the Availability of data and materials statement on page 12 of the article.

The Secret Life Of Otto And Hilda, Jody Hobbs Hesler

Valparaiso Fiction Review

No abstract provided.

Crossing Borders, Jo-Anne Rosen

Valparaiso Fiction Review

No abstract provided.

Floating Island, Willa Elizabeth Schmidt

Valparaiso Fiction Review

No abstract provided.

Questioning Combatant’S Privilege In Unjust Wars, Harry Van Der Linden

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Following international humanitarian law, soldiers who are authorized by their states to fight wars of aggression have a legal right to kill enemy soldiers, and (indirectly) even enemy civilians, as long as they respect such jus in bello norms as discrimination and proportionality. I criticize a variety of arguments in support of this “combatant’s privilege” of aggressor soldiers that maintain that these soldiers have a moral right to kill or are not culpable for their wrongful killing. I also contest some arguments in support of the view that even though soldiers executing wars of aggression may be morally liable for …

Desire: A Look At Tennessee Williams, Olivia J. Hulett

Honors Capstones

This is a 20-minute directing project exploring the usage of acting exercises to generate a better performance. Some methods involved include the teachings of: Konstantin Stanislavksi, Jacques Lecoq, Anne Bogart, and Peter Brook. The pieces being performed were “The Field of Blue Children” and “You Lied to Me About Centralia” from the collection Desire: A Look at Tennessee Williams. The usage of rehearsal time was dedicated to exploration and discovery of the character motivations and how each character’s unique desires impacted the scene. Actors were asked to perform various exercises from different schools of acting with the goal of further …

Instructional Materials For Stac 139 Course, Jesse Welsh

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

Every semester, nearly 150 undergraduate and graduate students enroll in STAC 139 courses at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. This course, initially aimed to inspire physical activity and wellness in BYU students interested in running, has evolved and matured in its objectives as new instructors have made alterations to the course in both structure, content, and execution as they have worked within loose-fitting parameters.

This evolution has brought with it a tension between the objectives of the STAC 139 instructors and the legacy elements of the course provided to them from the STAC organization. Recognizing this tension, the project …

Analysis Of State Unfunded Retirement Benefits In The United States, Darian Los

Honors Capstones

States have not been required to include underfunded pension liabilities on their financial statements until GASB No. 67 and No. 68 was issued in 2012. This means that citizens have not be getting all of information relating to the financial stability of the state. In this project, I gather pension liability data from the states Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports. The data gathered will be used by Truth In Accounting for analysis and reporting to the public. This information will allow citizens to determine the financial stability of their state and if plans are being underfunded, they can call for major …

Effecting Change In Their Community: The Pilsen Neighbors Community Council And Teresa Fraga, 1970-1990, Benjamin E. Skipor

Honors Capstones

The purpose of my research was to find how the Pilsen Neighbors Community Council (PNCC) and Teresa Fraga were able to affect change within the Pilsen neighborhood located in the near Southwest Side of Chicago. This paper outlines the issues that the PNCC worked to correct and the methods that they used. This research is primary source driven. Most documents were accessed through the Community Archives located at University of DePaul Library. Additional materials were found from the Chicago Tribune. The research resulted in an outline of the groups most successful methods: making the community aware and invested in solving …

Supporting Students With Adhd In The Classroom, Alexandria Patinka

Honors Capstones

Students with ADHD often face academic challenges (Rawe, 2014). Researchers have examined ways in which various levels of assistive technology (AT) devices to help mediate some of these challenges. A selection of AT options range from high-tech, mid-tech, to low-tech, and each level were examined for their effectiveness, ease of use, and affordability. Additionally, researchers used AT with an at-risk student with ADHD in order to examine the effectiveness when improving the student’s academic success. Researchers discuss and examine applications of AT in the classroom in order to provide educators with information on how to assist students who have ADHD …

Getting Started With Tippytalk Edu: An Evidence-Based Manual For Use Of Assistive Communication Mobile Application, Kylie E. Cousins

Honors Capstones

Individuals who are nonverbal do not have the freedom to communicate outside of the room they are in without the help of technology. Through apps like TippyTalk EDU, individuals with this need for communication freedom can send messages to anyone, anywhere. This app can be used inside or outside of the classroom to communicate needs and wants, as well as engage in meaningful communication. Through collaboration with creator of TippyTalk EDU Rob Laffan, his creative team, and NIU faculty advisor Toni Van Laarhoven, and NIU student Kylie Cousins, a comprehensive, evidence-based manual was created to instruct teachers, parents, and caregivers …

Surveying Research On The Teaching And Learning Of Conceptual Understanding Of Fraction Arithmetic, Sabreen Abedrabo

Honors Capstones

In the US, fractions are often taught in an incoherent way and fraction operations are taught without meaning. Reform efforts continue to try to improve this situation and many rich tools have been developed for teaching fraction computation with meaning. In particular, students need to be able to think of fractions as quantities and understand how operations like multiplication and division relate those quantities. To think about these operations coherently, students must be able to think of fractions themselves as units of which other fractions can be formed (e.g. 2/3 of 3/7). We will investigate which is known about student …

Project Icarus, Amro A. Shanshal

Honors Capstones

Project Icarus is an autonomous surveillance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) prototype designed to aid first responders by providing rapid aerial assessment of locations affected by disaster. Additionally, Project Icarus is capable of restoring local Wi-Fi based communications during grid failure. Icarus has the capabilities to provide logistical assistance to emergency personnel by providing immediate aerial surveillance of ongoing dangerous situations. Furthermore, the Icarus platform operates on an umbilical system that provides a long-term aerial surveillance solution and can be easily modified to accommodate specific situations using its modular design. The low-cost system that does not require a drone pilot is …

Motorized Assistive Walker For Improving Mobility In Cerebral Palsy Patients, Hnin Eaindray Lin

Honors Capstones

For this project, the CIS mobility team from the College of Engineering & Engineering Technology was approached by the family of a 13-year-old high school student named Kelly, who is diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy symptoms and has severe mobility issues. She has involuntary muscle movements, especially in the lower extremities, and problems with posture, balance and depth perception, making it difficult for her to walk. Kelly is currently relying on a wheelchair, and the family has concerns that if she remains bound to her wheelchair, she will need to undergo more surgeries that could potentially lead to her losing the …

Creating Theatre: Historical Women's Stories For Here And Now, Abby M. Ferree

Honors Capstones

One of the most instinctual ideals of humanity is the necessity of sharing stories, past or fiction, to inform what we decide to do in the here and now. Storytelling is a part of all of us. It’s innate. As an actor, my role in storytelling is generally to be the sounding piece for the voices of others. I bring to life the story and the life of another person or character in order to bring new questions to light for my audience. However, as an actor, we rarely get to choose what stories are being told, and the gift …

Proposing An Analysis System To Monitoring Weightlifting Based On Training (Snatch And Clean And Jerk), Abdul Monem S. Rahma, Maisa'a Abid Ali K.

Baghdad Science Journal

Analysis system of sports players is very important for individuals in weightlifting. Assessment of player and strength is important for the performance of weightlifting. This paper proposes an analytical method for weightlifters with check-by-frame video. This analysis system can compute the major steps of seven positions in both snatch and clean and jerk methods in frame-video weightlifting monitoring of movements. Each user can compute the major steps of the seven positions of Hu moments among two frames in the video during training, and the Euclidian distance can be computed for the Hu moment values and lifting moment values in the …

High Reliability + Value Improvement = Learning Organization, Sheri Feeney, Liga Mezaraups, Douglas Meyer, Glenda Battey, Linda Severs

Books, Presentations, Posters, Etc.

Experience how the 3^rd largest nonprofit health-system is becoming a learning organization. Engaging frontline staff in high reliability and improvement skills is critical to a High Reliability Learning Organization (HRLO). Leaders and staff pursuing daily improvement deliver greater value to patients, each other, business operations, and their communities. Participants will learn how to combine HRO and improvement science so everyone has the skills, will, and freedom to provide more affordable care and attain zero harm.

Objectives:

1. Identify successful elements and challenges of implementation and spread of our high reliability behaviors.
2. Demonstrate how HRO behaviors are the foundation for daily …

Pose Invariant Palm Vein Identification System Using Convolutional Neural Network, Nidaa Flaih Hassan, Husam Imad Abdulrazzaq

Baghdad Science Journal

Palm vein recognition is a oneof the most efficient biometric technologies, each individualcan be identified through its veins unique characteristics, palm vein acquisition techniques is either contact based or contactless based, as the individual's hand contact or not the peg of thepalm imaging device, the needs a contactless palm vein system in modern applications rise tow problems, the pose variations (rotation, scaling and translation transformations) since the imaging device cannot aligned correctly with the surface of the palm,and a delay of matching process especially for large systems, trying to solve these problems. This paper proposed a pose invariant identification system …

Input: An Academic–Practice Partnership To An Underserved Rural Community, Judy Neubrander, Susan Franzen, Rebecca Mathis

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

The INPUT project is a model partnership that changed the way health care was offered to the underserved in rural Western North Carolina. Grant funding provided a full‐time Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) to a free clinic and created clinical placements for FNP students. Students had opportunities to learn about unique aspects of care for vulnerable, underserved populations to encourage them to consider working in rural communities. The clinic saw an increase in patient visits and offered more continuity in follow‐up care. This academic–practice partnership represents a successful example of how working together can benefit the collaborators and community.

High-Energy Nutrition In Paediatric Cardiac Critical Care Patients: A Randomised Controlled Trial, Huiwen Zhang, Ying Gu, Ya Ping Mi, Yun Jin, Weijia Fu, Jos M. Latour

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Background: Previous studies have shown that feeding high-energy formula to infants after cardiac surgery increased energy intake with fewer side effects on cardiopulmonary function. However, impacts on weight gain and gastrointestinal function remain unclear. Aims: To determine the impact of high-energy formula compared to standard formula on weight gain and gastrointestinal tolerance in postoperative infants with congenital heart disease. Design: Randomised Controlled Trial. Method: The setting of the study was at a 20-bed Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at a tertiary children’s hospital in China. Study population were infants <1 year of age who underwent cardiac surgery were allocated to the intervention group (n=32) and control group (n=32). The intervention group received high-energy formula (100kcal/100 mL) and the control group received standard formula (67kcal/100 mL) for 7 days during the stabilized postoperative period at the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. Primary outcomes were weight gain and gastrointestinal intolerance. Secondary outcomes were energy intake and standard intensive care characteristics. Results: Infants who received high-energy formula (n=30) showed greater mean weight gain than those who received standard formula (n=29); -16g (95% CI: -74 to 42) versus -181g (95%CI: -264 to -99), P =0.001. The evaluation of gastrointestinal intolerance showed that the intervention group had several side effects, such as abdominal distension (n=1), gastric retention (n=2), and diarrhea (n=1), while the control group had no problems. Enteral energy intake in the intervention group was higher than control group from day three. Conclusion: Infants after cardiac surgery fed with high-energy formula gained more weight but had increased feeding intolerance. However, the feeding intolerance symptoms could be relieved by medication and did not affect feeding advancement. Relevance to Clinical Practice: Paediatric intensive care clinicians should consider gradually increasing energy density of the formula during feeding and assess feeding intolerance signs in children with malnutrition after cardiac surgery.

Context Analysis Of Top Seven Retracted Articles: Should Retraction Watch Revisit The List?, Rosy Jan, Shohar Bano, Ikhlaq Ur Rehman Syed, Midhat Mehraj

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Significant and serious scientific misconduct in a research article leads to its retraction. Citing such articles further perpetuates the erroneous work. An article unknowingly builds on false claims of a

retracted article, the new and unsuspicious article may compromise the integrity of the scientific literature. This type of implicit dependency on a retracted article can be highly risky and harmful. Thus the focus of the study is to identify the journals citing the retracted articles with emphasis on the examination of context of citations received by top seven highly cited retracted papers identified and listed by Retraction watch. In-depth analysis …

Investigating The Relationship Between Centrality Measures And Productivity Of Persian Language And Literature Researchers, Oranus Tajedini Dr., Narges Shirazi, Enayatollah Sharifpour

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Objectives: The present study was to identify the structure of co-authorship networks in the field of Persian language and literature, and to investigate how these structures assist researchers in successfully publishing their research works. More specifically, this study investigated the relationship between centrality and productivity of researchers in the field of Persian language and literature.

Methodology: This descriptive study was conducted through scientometric approach using social network analysis. The population of the study included all documents which were published by Persian language and literature researchers and have been indexed in ISC since 2012.

Findings and conclusion: The results …

Information Literacy Assessment Among Students – Madurai Kamaraj University And Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Govindarajan R, Dhanavandan S

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information literacy enables the society to utilize the information power in holistic way. Information literacy helps to extend the learning beyond formal classroom settings. The main aim of this study is to assess the information literacy level of students undergoing higher education in Tamil Nadu. In order to do this, the study enrolled a total of 207 students from Madurai Kamaraj University and Manonmaniam Sundaranar University. A total of 68 female students and 134 male students were included in the study. Majority of the students are in the age group

Maritime Information Databank – A Suggested Model, Samavedam Padmashree, Sasikala

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

As a part of continuing research, it is important for any country to identify technological advances in any field and create a national trust of information for use by researchers and general users. With reference to the marine sector, which is a prime sector for the development of any country, it is essential to create such data banks of information to cater to the needs of ship builders, ship owners and the researchers. This article discusses few of the processes involved for the creation of a maritime data bank.

The Detection Of Hazardous Materials Using Genetically Engineered Bacteria, Daniel Wynn

Open Access Dissertations

The development of technology that can be used to quickly and reliably assay a wide variety of matrices for the presence of specific small molecules has long been a high priority for scientists. These methods are valuable tools that see use in many fields, including biomedicine and environmental analysis. Although many contemporary technologies exist, their use is, for the most part, limited by their expense, required instrumentation, and long assay times. In an effort to address these limitations, many examples of biotechnology have been produced and this interest in biosensors continues. Herein, a number of projects to develop new bioanalytical …

Merger And Acquisition Integration: Exploring Uncertainty From The Perspective Of The Middle Manager, Joseph J. Pazmany

Dissertations

Purpose. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore middle managers’ perceptions about how organizations managed job-related, structural, and strategic uncertainty during a merger and acquisition (M&A) integration process. Furthermore, this research investigated what strategies middle managers perceived effective and ineffective for managing uncertainty and recommendations for managing uncertainty during future integrations.

Methodology. This qualitative study utilized a phenomenological research design that collected data through open-ended interviews. Fifteen middle managers participated in the study and were asked 12 questions that explored their perceptions about managing uncertainty during an M&A integration.

Findings. Overall, participants perceived strategic uncertainty …

Barriers And Solutions For Indigenous Leadership Development: An Outline For Equipping A New Generation For Dynamic Mission Among The Poor, Don Davis

Essays

No abstract provided.

An Examination Of Cultural Sharing By Saudi Citizens Using Instagram, Hind Mouria

Student Theses and Dissertations

Cultural sharing has been expedited due to the rapid spread of social media in Saudi Arabia, one of the largest and most prosperous countries in the Middle East. Saudi citizens are extremely active on social media, and even government officials use it to share information. Through social media, Saudi citizens have been able to share their forward-thinking culture with the world and learn about other cultures. This study seeks to understand how Saudi citizens use Instagram, one of the most popular social media sites in the country, to share and learn about other cultures. The “snowball” sampling method was used …

A Speech Recognition Noise Analysis Using A Biological Neural Network, Logan Matthew Walters

Student Theses and Dissertations

Typically, modern Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) engines are developed using artificial neural networks (ANN) that utilize probabilistic and stochastic models for analyzing data and computing outputs. As such, limitations are seen with this structure of implementation due to the volume of data required for accuracy and scalability. Resultantly, different software solutions are being considered to improve the accuracy of ASR engines in these unique cases where commonly used models fall short. The presented research illustrates the potential of a biological neural network (BNN) if implemented as an ASR engine. Theoretical comparisons are made between the efficiency of a BNN and …

Age-Tastic! An Evaluation Of An Evidence-Based Intervention For Older Adults, Manoj Pardasani, Jackie Berman, Mebane Powell

Publications and Research

Background: Raising awareness of holistic health and safety among older adults is critical to enhancing their wellbeing in many cases, improving health outcomes and motivating positive behavioral changes. Age-Tastic! is a comprehensive health and safety promotion intervention that uses the concept of a competitive board game to entice older adults to participate and stay engaged.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of Age-Tastic! on the level of awareness, health literacy, self-efficacy and positive behavioral change among the participants.

Methods: A randomized control trial was conducted with 98 older adults assigned to an experimental and control …