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December 2019 General Studies Council Minutes, University Of Nebraska At Kearney General Studies Council

General Education Council

No abstract provided.

Dance 2019: Together Again, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2019-2020 Season

It is a joy to collaborate with Kathy Bartelt, Maria Glimcher and Tammy Plaxico, and to gather together again in recreating some of our past favorites. It is wonderful to see a new generation of students tell these stories with a fresh and unique perspective in movement and design. As we share these stories of community, family and love, we remember a special member of our family, Andy Baker. Andy, a 2009 Otterbein Theatre Design Technology graduate, created beautiful magic in his many lighting designs for the Department of Theatre and Dance and with his mentorship of so many Otterbein …

Medication Use Evaluation Of Vaccines In Patients With Asplenia, Clarence Kyle Walker Pharmd, Jarrod W. Kile Rphd

Department of Pharmacy

No abstract provided.

What’S Up With Textbooks?, Janelle Wertzberger

All Musselman Library Staff Works

Presentation at a faculty meeting on textbook costs and actions that instructors can take to improve student learning

Novel Bioprinter Shows Potential To Speed Tissue Engineering, Jeff Hansen

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Purcell Re-Elected President For Calea, Ashley Silver

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Maternal Characteristics And Outcomes Affected By Hypothyroidism During Pregnancy (Maternal Hypothyroidism On Pregnancy Outcomes, Mhpo-1), Zareen Kiran, Aisha Sheikh, Sarwar Malik, Areeba Meraj, Maha Masood, Safana Ismail, Owais Rashid, Quratulain Shaikh, Numan Majeed, Lumaan Sheikh, Najmul Islam

Section of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism

Background: Hypothyroidism in pregnancy is an arena of ongoing research, with international conflicts regarding screening, management, and outcomes. Various studies have described the outcomes depending on geographical and international diagnostic criteria. No study has been conducted in this regard from the region of Pakistan. Therefore, we aim to report the clinical features and maternal outcomes of hypothyroid pregnancies and compare the maternal outcomes between uncontrolled and controlled TSH levels in the preconception as well as the gestational period.
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional retrospective study on 718 cases in the Aga Khan University Hospital after ethical approval. We collected information …

St. Norbert College Announces New Board Chair, St. Norbert College

Press Releases 2019

No abstract provided.

Hardware Implementation Of Assistive Technology Robot, Joycephine Li

Publications and Research

SuperHERO is an on-going research project in Computer Engineering Technology department which involves upgrading Heathkit Education Robot (HERO) hardware circuits and features by using modern hardware devices and sensors. The current phase of the project will focus on upgrading the motor drive system hardware as well as implementation and testing of features such as mobile robot obstacle detection and other assistive technologies to help people with disabilities. This involves the reattachment of the robot arm after repairing and updating with 3D printing and using modern hardware and software technology. We observed that the robotic arm has rotary and translation movements …

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, December 5, 2019, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Program Proposals

• Discontinuing the Bachelor of Science Environmental and Natural Resources Economics degree
• Changing the Agricultural Economic Minor to Applied Economics
• Redefining Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs offered by USU at three statewide campuses
• Creating a new emphasis in the Technology Systems Bachelor of Science degree for Quality and Reliability
• Creating a Minor in Middle East Studies
• Offering a Master of Science in Sports Management
• Restructuring the School of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education

Semester Course Approval Reviews

Other

• Rescheduling the January Curriculum Committee meeting

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes December 5, 2019, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Réadaptation Au Travail Chez Les 45 Ans Et Plus Dans Le Secteur De La Santé Et Des Services Sociaux, Carl-Ardy Dubois, Kathleen Bentein, Alain Marchand

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Au Québec, les 45 ans et plus représentent une part croissante de la main-d'œuvre du secteur de la santé et des services sociaux. Pour assurer l’équilibre nécessaire entre la demande croissante de services de santé et l’offre de main-d’œuvre dans ce contexte de changement sociodémographique, les organisations du secteur font face au défi d’optimiser la participation au travail des plus âgés. Cela exige non seulement la prise en charge efficace des situations incapacitantes au travail chez les 45 ans et plus, mais aussi la prévention de ce type de lésions et le maintien ou la réinsertion en emploi de ceux …

Investigation Of Retrieved Cardiac Devices, Anmar Salih, Iosif Papadakis Ktistakis, Spyridon Manganas, Abdul Wase, Tarun Goswami

Biomedical, Industrial & Human Factors Engineering Faculty Publications

Damage assessment of lead and pulse generator with various exposure times is important in the development of cardiac devices. Approximately, 92.1 million patients in the US suffer from cardiovascular diseases with an estimated healthcare cost of over $300 billion and at least one million with implantable cardiac devices. These devices are complex and composed on multiple levels and present challenges while assessing the damage. However, the study on the analysis of cardiac devices may lend insight into common damage patterns and improve future cardiac devices design. The objective of this work is to perform a thorough in vivo damage assessment …

Quantum-Enhanced Advanced Ligo Detectors In The Era Of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy, M. Tse, Haocun Yu, N. Kijbunchoo, A. Fernandez-Galiana, P. Dupej, L. Barsotti, C. D. Blair, D. D. Brown, S. E. Dwyer, A. Effler, M. Evans, P. Fritschel, V. V. Frolov, A. C. Green, G. L. Mansell, F. Matichard, N. Mavalvala, D. E. Mcclelland, L. Mcculler, T. Mcrae, J. Miller, A. Mullavey, E. Oelker, I. Y. Phinney, D. Sigg, B. J.J. Slagmolen, T. Vo, R. L. Ward, C. Whittle, R. Abbott, C. Adams, R. X. Adhikari, A. Ananyeva

Faculty Publications

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) has been directly detecting gravitational waves from compact binary mergers since 2015. We report on the first use of squeezed vacuum states in the direct measurement of gravitational waves with the Advanced LIGO H1 and L1 detectors. This achievement is the culmination of decades of research to implement squeezed states in gravitational-wave detectors. During the ongoing O3 observation run, squeezed states are improving the sensitivity of the LIGO interferometers to signals above 50 Hz by up to 3 dB, thereby increasing the expected detection rate by 40% (H1) and 50% (L1).

Barriers To Prenatal Care In Low-Income Women, Lynne Porter Lewallen

Dissertations

The purposes of this study were to: investigate barriers to prenatal care, both structural and psychosocial; test the Pender Health Promotion Model and the Triandis Model of Social Behavior to determine their effectiveness in predicting utilization of prenatal care; and document behaviors women perform during pregnancy to stay healthy.

A Dual Inhibitor Of The Proteasome Catalytic Subunits Lmp2 And Y Attenuates Disease Progression In Mouse Models Of Alzheimer's Disease, In Jun Yeo, Min Jae Lee, Ahruem Baek, Zachary Miller, Deepak Bhattarai, Yu Mi Baek, Hyun Jung Jeong, Yun Kyung Kim, Dong-Eun Kim, Jin Tae Hong, Kyung Bo Kim

Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications

The immunoproteasome (iP) is a variant of the constitutive proteasome (cP) that is abundantly expressed in immune cells which can also be induced in somatic cells by cytokines such as TNF-α or IFN-γ. Accumulating evidence support that the iP is closely linked to multiple facets of inflammatory response, eventually leading to the development of several iP inhibitors as potential therapeutic agents for autoimmune diseases. Recent studies also found that the iP is upregulated in reactive glial cells surrounding amyloid β (Aβ) deposits in brains of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, but the role it plays in the pathogenesis of AD remains …

Amodal Instance Segmentation And Multi-Object Tracking With Deep Pixel Embedding, Yanfeng Liu

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This thesis extends upon the representational output of semantic instance segmentation by explicitly including both visible and occluded parts. A fully convolutional network is trained to produce consistent pixel-level embedding across two layers such that, when clustered, the results convey the full spatial extent and depth ordering of each instance. Results demonstrate that the network can accurately estimate complete masks in the presence of occlusion and outperform leading top-down bounding-box approaches.

The model is further extended to produce consistent pixel-level embeddings across two consecutive image frames from a video to simultaneously perform amodal instance segmentation and multi-object tracking. No post-processing …

Senior Recital: Craig Sheehan, Euphonium, Craig Sheehan, Eric Jenkins

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Music Education. Mr. Sheehan studies euphonium with Jason Casanova.

Uni Jazz Band Two And Uni Jazz Band Three, December 5, 2019 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

A Multivariate Ecological Approach To Delineate Unionid Freshwater Mussel Species, Ava M. Laszlo

Biology Theses

Freshwater mussels represent one of the most imperiled faunal groups on the planet and are critical to freshwater ecosystems. If mussel species are not carefully defined, our conservation plans may miss differences in the habitat needs of different species and the conservation strategies may not be as successful. Because ecological niche models can be used to provide evidence to support similar or dissimilar ecological niches and habitat requirements, I used modelling to forecast suitable habitat for Fusconaia askewi and F. lananensis, two purported threatened Texas species. The modeling results indicated that these species are not ecologically different. Based upon …

Faculty Senate Chronicle November 7, 2019, Heather Howley

The University of Akron Faculty Senate Chronicle

No abstract provided.

Minutes, Faculty Research And Development Committee, Thursday, December 5, 2019, Faculty Research And Development Committee

Faculty Research and Development Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Ud In The News Nov. 23-Dec. 5, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Historian Haimanti Roy wrote about India’s plan to identify illegal immigrants for The Conversation. U.S. News & World Report included the University in a slideshow of 10 environmentally friendly colleges. At least 18 affiliates in 14 states picked up a WDTN-TV story about the Marian Library's Nativities.

Exploring The Use Of The Bimanual Arm Trainer For Improving Upper Extremity Motor Function In Stroke Patients., Manuel G. Wilfred

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Background and purpose

There are few evidence-based treatment options to address recovery in patients with severe upper extremity impairment post-stroke. Although robotic treatment options have been widely explored with variable outcomes, the contribution of bimanual training to improve upper extremity control and coordination has not yet been fully explored. To date, the mirrored motion Bimanual Arm Trainer (BAT) has not specifically been investigated for its effectiveness in stroke patients. This study explored the usefulness of the bimanual arm trainer in improving upper extremity function in stroke patients with severe deficits and its impact on quality of life.

Methods

Twenty-three patients …

Chanticleer | Vol 85, Issue 22, Jacksonville State University

Chanticleer

No abstract provided.

December 2019 Faculty Senate Packet, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Packets

No abstract provided.

Mixed Chamber Ensembles; William Knuth, Director, William Knuth

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

No abstract provided.

Sepsis Screening Tool Increased The Usage Of Sepsis Order Set, Raweewan Liengsawangwong

Applied Research Projects

Introduction: The sepsis screening tool was launched to improve the usage of the sepsis order set.

Objectives: The purposes of this study were to determine whether the sepsis screening tool increased the usage of sepsis order set and whether the tool improved the primary outcomes. This study assessed the association between using sepsis order set and the compliance of the SEP-1 measure (represented by achieving total perfect care), and the primary outcomes. Furthermore, this study assessed association between the compliance with SEP-1 and the primary outcomes. The primary outcomes were a) time zero to antibiotics, b) inpatient length of stay, …

Health Status And Adults Willingness To Encounter A Provider By Telehealth, Jacqueline Perry

Applied Research Projects

Telehealth has proven to be a growing sector providing on-demand health services for consumers. A long history of development and refinement precede what we now know as telehealth technology. Access to telehealth technology has become widely available changing the landscape of healthcare. However, does that mean that consumers desire to use the technology? How does a factor such as health status play a role in the consumers’ willingness to encounter a provider using telehealth as the method for delivery of care? This research project aims to compare self-selected health status to consumers’ willingness to engage with telehealth services.

Women's Basketball To Host National Girls And Women In Sports Day Clinic Jan. 4, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Women's Basketball To Host National Girls and Women in Sports Day Clinic Jan. 4