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Energy-Based Neural Modelling For Large-Scale Multiple Domain Dialogue State Tracking, Anh Duong Trinh, Robert J. Ross, John D. Kelleher

Conference papers

Scaling up dialogue state tracking to multiple domains is challenging due to the growth in the number of variables being tracked. Furthermore, dialog state tracking models do not yet explicitly make use of relationships between dialogue variables, such as slots across domains. We propose using energy-based structure prediction methods for large-scale dialogue state tracking task in two multiple domain dialogue datasets. Our results indicate that: (i) modelling variable dependencies yields better results; and (ii) the structured prediction output aligns with the dialogue slot-value constraint principles. This leads to promising directions to improve state-of-the-art models by incorporating variable dependencies into their …

Epidemiology And Pathophysiology Of Common Skin Diseases In West Africa: An Immunodermatological Framework, Osazomon Imarenezor

All HCAS Student Capstones, Theses, and Dissertations

This capstone reviews the common skin diseases on a global scale. With these dermatoses being further funneled into Africa and then magnified into common West African dermatoses, the meta-analyses of literature available paints a clear picture of the epidemiological & pathological factors and their contribution to the skin disease. Each article analysed in this analysis was taken from a 20-year span of January 2000 to December 2019. The selection of articles was fine-tuned by identifying the distribution of skin disease, revealing the populations affected (age, gender, ethnicity, etc), the main causes, country of origin, the prognosis of disease, and the …

Molecular Landscape And Actionable Alterations In A Genomically Guided Cancer Clinical Trial: National Cancer Institute Molecular Analysis For Therapy Choice (Nci-Match)., Keith T Flaherty, Robert J Gray, Alice P Chen, Shuli Li, Lisa M Mcshane, David Patton, Stanley R Hamilton, P Mickey Williams, A John Iafrate, Jeffrey Sklar, Edith P Mitchell, Lyndsay N Harris, Naoko Takebe, David J Sims, Brent Coffey, Tony Fu, Mark Routbort, James A Zwiebel, Larry V Rubinstein, Richard F Little, Carlos L Arteaga, Robert Comis, Jeffrey S Abrams, Peter J O'Dwyer, Barbara A Conley

Department of Medical Oncology Faculty Papers

PURPOSE: Therapeutically actionable molecular alterations are widely distributed across cancer types. The National Cancer Institute Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice (NCI-MATCH) trial was designed to evaluate targeted therapy antitumor activity in underexplored cancer types. Tumor biopsy specimens were analyzed centrally with next-generation sequencing (NGS) in a master screening protocol. Patients with a tumor molecular alteration addressed by a targeted treatment lacking established efficacy in that tumor type were assigned to 1 of 30 treatments in parallel, single-arm, phase II subprotocols.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: Tumor biopsy specimens from 5,954 patients with refractory malignancies at 1,117 accrual sites were analyzed centrally with …

An Analysis Of Patient-Generated Health Data In Assisting Nurses And Physicians To Better Treat Patients With Hypertension, Diana Chaparadza

Applied Research Projects

Patient Generated Health Data (PGHD is not new but it has gained more attention these past years due to the advent of smart devices, remote monitoring devices and many applications on various smart devices. PGHD reflects medications and treatment, lifestyle choices, and health history. Unlike traditional medical visits, where clinicians collect and manage data within their offices, PGHD is collected by patients throughout the course of their day and provides an insight of how they are responding to treatments or lifestyle choices. Examples include blood glucose monitoring or blood pressure readings using home health equipment, exercise and diet tracking using …

Economic Analyses Of Federal Scientific Collections: Methods For Documenting Costs And Benefits, David E. Schindel, Economic Study Group Of The Interagency Working Group On Scientific Collections

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Federal object-based scientific collections have been created to serve agency missions and, in a few cases, to comply with legislative and regulatory mandates. “Project collections” (those managed by the researchers who obtained them for restricted use) and their costs and benefits were considered too varied for standard methodologies that assess costs and benefits. In a few cases, departments and agencies are required by legislation or regulations to retain objects in long-term “institutional collections.” In most cases, decisions to retain objects are based on long-term costs relative to the perceived potential for benefits to taxpayers. Federal collections vary in their philosophies …

How One Woman's Resilience Through Ovarian Cancer Treatment Motivates Others, Staff

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Uab Gets Nih Grant To Improve Covid-19 Testing In Underserved Populations, Alicia Rohan

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Generalized Neutrosophic Topsis To Solve Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Problems, Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain, Xiao Long Xin, Muhammad Saeed, Florentin Smarandache, Nadeem Ahmad

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Neutrosophic Linear Diophantine Equations With Two Variables, Hasan Sankari, Mohammad Abobala

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Lindenwood Digest, November 20, 2020, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been a digital employee newsletter since 2009.

Role For Carbohydrate Response Element-Binding Protein (Chrebp) In High Glucose-Mediated Repression Of Long Noncoding Rna Tug1, Jianyin Long, Daniel L Galvan, Koki Mise, Yashpal S Kanwar, Li Li, Naravat Poungavrin, Paul A Overbeek, Benny H Chang, Farhad R Danesh

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been shown to play key roles in a variety of biological activities of the cell. However, less is known about how lncRNAs respond to environmental cues and what transcriptional mechanisms regulate their expression. Studies from our laboratory have shown that the lncRNA Tug1 (taurine upregulated gene 1) is crucial for the progression of diabetic kidney disease, a major microvascular complication of diabetes. Using a combination of proximity labeling with the engineered soybean ascorbate peroxidase (APEX2), ChIP-qPCR, biotin-labeled oligonucleotide pulldown, and classical promoter luciferase assays in kidney podocytes, we extend our initial observations in the current …

Market Trends In Food Consumption Expenditures Away From Home Prior To The Covid-19 Pandemic, Rebecca Weir

Undergraduate Economic Review

U.S. food consumption expenditures away from home increased from 19 percent of total food expenditures in 1955 to 48 percent in 2015. Simultaneously, female participation in the labor force grew by 52.7 million women from 35 to 57 percent, signifying increased opportunity cost for women to prepare meals at home. This research uses an ordinary least squares regression to examine socioeconomic factors influencing the rise in U.S. food consumption expenditures away from home in 2018. Results inform food production and service industries’ marketing strategies, and set the stage for whether a new pattern emerges in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Accounting For Work From Home In The Time Of Covid, Ardis Hanson, Allison Howard, Stephanie Tomlinson, Krystal Bullers

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: As our university moved to a work from home model in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, our research unit needed to reconsider how we accounted for our daily work. Our objective was to consolidate and standardize our data collection to meet requirements for a variety of different time-, project-, or college/program-based reports. Methods: We started by reviewing all the data elements that we might be asked to provide for internal and external reporting. Using the categories in our university activity report as the foundation, we discussed the level of granularity required and assigned activities to each group. We established …

Journal Usage Level Changes At Morehouse School Of Medicine Library 2011-2020, Joe Swanson, Roland B. Welmaker, Monica Riley, Tara Douglas-Williams

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

OBJECTIVE: To determine faculty and researcher journal usage levels and their implications on library’s journal collection and access models for the past five years and compare to previous usage and implications.

1. The librarians would like to investigate changes made in the journal collection as we moved to fewer print based resources through a comparison of usage levels prior to the changes to usage levels after the changes. We had sought to seek optimum pathways for supporting the school’s curricula, research agendas, and health care enterprise. Our ultimate question is ‘How have changes correlated and compared to previous usage and …

“How Could You Even Ask That?”: Moral Considerability, Uncertainty And Vulnerability In Social Robotics, Alexis Elder

The Journal of Sociotechnical Critique

When it comes to social robotics (robots that engage human social responses via “eyes” and other facial features, voice-based natural-language interactions, and even evocative movements), ethicists, particularly in European and North American traditions, are divided over whether and why they might be morally considerable. Some argue that moral considerability is based on internal psychological states like consciousness and sentience, and debate about thresholds of such features sufficient for ethical consideration, a move sometimes criticized for being overly dualistic in its framing of mind versus body. Others, meanwhile, focus on the effects of these robots on human beings, arguing that psychological …

What Medical Students Want: A Ten Year Library Survey At A New Medical School, Luda Dolinsky, Francisco Fajardo, Rebecca Roth

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: To assess and evaluate the past and current performance of library services, resources, and space with the purpose of informing decisions in designing a library serving a new medical school.

Methods: The Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (HWCOM) at Florida International University opened its doors to its first class in 2009. Shortly after, the medical library began seeking student feedback by administering a 15-question survey to each class. The inaugural Class of 2013 and other cohorts were queried at various points in their curriculum. Starting with the Class of 2017, the library began consistently administering its survey to students …

Promoting Global Health Awareness Through Community-Based Screenings In Belize, Liz Daniel, Caroline Harpe, Maggie Huss, Zoe Irvin, Sophia Lamarca, Montana Moreno

The Corinthian

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to:1) Collect descriptive data regarding participant health levels based on glucose, cholesterol, blood-pressure, heart-rate, height, weight, and body-composition measurements over a five-year time period and 2) Determine if study abroad health screenings and educational workshops were effective in balancing participant health level metrics to within known ideal norm-ranges over the course of the intervention.

Methods: Eighteen graduate and undergraduate study abroad students were trained each of the five years of the study to collect glucose, cholesterol, blood-pressure, heart-rate, height, weight, and body-composition measurements. Testing was conducted in hospitals, clinics, elderly care facilities, open …

The Collective Submitted Works From Honors 2030, Rob Wilson, Odette Beagrie, Sophia Bell, Neeha Chaudhry, Allison Christman, Zahrak Farese, Olivia Fuller, Kathryn Grothen, Meghan Hruskocy, Cullen Landolt, Maddesyn Langley, Sarah Jane Matt, Samantha Mcklin, Hunter Moore, Maxwell R. Wootten

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Students in the Honors 2030, Inquiries in the Social and Behavioral Sciences course each participated in the URS 2020 as their final project for the course. Dr. Wilson worked with each student as a faculty mentor to create, draft, edit, approve and publish each of the final posters and papers submitted to the 2020 URS for the course.

Historical Trauma Response Scores As A Function Of Unresolved Grief And Substance Use Disorder In American Indian Populations, Andrew R. Saunders

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Abstract

Researchers are interested in the outcomes of interventions, specifically, measuring historical trauma (HT) among American Indian/Alaska Native communities and the long-term distress and substance abuse as a result of historical trauma response (HTR). Previous literature has implicated limitations in the clinical conceptualization of the relationship between intergenerational transfer of HTR and substance abuse. The aim of the current study is to examine treatment efficacy of 50 homosexual, American Indian males randomized to a culturally-adapted juxtaposition of (1) Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), (2) Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and (3) Historical Trauma and Unresolved Grief Intervention (HTUG), or (4) waitlisted on …

Stressful Life Events Correlate With Depression Symptoms, Michelle Mercedes Meng

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Stressful life events, such as abuse, divorce, or spending time in jail have been known to cause psychological and physical symptoms (Billings, 1982). Previous research has examined the association between the amount of stressful life events and the onset of depression(Kendler, 1999). The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between stress and depression in a sample of college students. As a part of a larger study, participants (N = 223) completed online questionnaires that measured their exposure to life stressors on the Life Stress Checklist - Revised (Wolfe and Kimerling, 1997) and depression symptoms on the Beck Depression Inventory …

Rurality Of Medical Provider And Race Of Patient As Risk Factors For Overdose In Opioid Use Disorder Populations, Christopher Vance, Colleen Mulligan, David Von Nordheim, Jodi Heaps-Woodruff Ph.D.

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Title: Rurality of medical provider and race of patient as risk factors for overdose in opioid use disorder populations

Background

This study examines the outcomes of medication assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorders (OUD) based on location of treatment and race of the individual seeking treatment. Opioid use in the United States has been disproportionately rising in the last decade and there is evidence of unequal treatment based on different social disparities, namely rurality and race. Discriminatory distribution of medication and treatment for individuals seeking OUD along the lines of race and rurality is an issue of grave importance …

Chronic Stress In Relation To Locus Of Control, Kendra Clark, Miranda Jany, Carissa Philippi

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Stress is prominent in everyone’s lives, and if the right precautions are not taken, stress can become chronic and harmful to an individual’s health (Schmitz, Neumann, & Oppermann, 2000). To prevent chronic stress, researchers seek to find out important factors that lead to chronic stress. One of the most prominent factors leading to chronic stress is locus of control (LOC), or how much control people feel they have over situations (Cummins, 1988). People can endorse an internal locus of control which means individual attributes events occurring in their life to their own behavior, or an external, which one would consider …

The Crisis Of The Identity And Its Relationship To Satisfaction With Life Among The Palestinian University Youths In The Israeli Universities (Haifa University Is A Model), Rihab Alsadi

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The study aimed to know the relationship between the crisis of the identity and satisfaction with life among a sample consisting of (265) male and female Palestinian students who are studying at Israeli universities (Haifa University is a model), in the second semester of the year 2016/2017. The results of the study revealed the existence of an identity crisis in a medium degree and a high degree of satisfaction with life. The results of the study also revealed that there are no differences in the identity crisis according to the two variables (gender, the study year, and place of residence). …

The Impact Of The Development Of The Motor Sensory System On Learning Performance Skill On The Parrallel For Elementery School Students, Husssam Albdaiwi, Mohammad Abu Alkishek

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The aim of the study was to identify the effect of the development of the dynamic sense of movement on the learning of the skill performance of the basic movements on the parallel machine (forward, deep, backward, high, balance, standing on the shoulders, exit) of the primary stage students (11/13) Al-Waleed, where the study sample consisted of (32) male students ranging in age from (11-13) year on the second semester, randomly divided into two experimental groups that used the sense of development program in addition to the regular educational program. The officer used the regular educational program, of the director …

Health Behavior Among Gifted And Normal Students At Ajloun District, And Its Relationship With Their Academic Achievements, Faisal Al Nawasreh, Bothenh Awas, Safa Al Horany

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aimed to unveilthehealthy behavioramong a sample of talented and ordinary students from schools at Ajloun city /Jordan, and its relationship to some demographic variables (gender, class)andeconomic levelof the family and academic achievement. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher usedHealthy BehaviorTest which wasprepareddepending on Smadi & Smadi scale(2011).To ensure thevalidity and reliability of the study, the sample consisted of 92talented and 138ordinary students who were randomlystratified selectedfrom class of supreme basic and secondary schools. The researcher came up with the findings using up the arithmetic averages,standard deviations andvalue of (T),the multi variance analysis correlation …

Religious Behavior And Its Impact On The Psychological And Social Adjustments For Deaf People In The Hashemite Kingdom Of Jordan, Ayman Karib, Ali Allan

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The current study aimed at identifying the effect of religious behavior and its impact on the psychological and social adjustment among deaf people in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.The study sample was selected purposely to represent all deaf people, consisting of (100) deaf persons equally distributed of male and female persons. In order to verify the objectives of the current study, the researchers used two tools for data collection and to examine hypotheses of the study, namely religious behaviorA questionnaire, psychological and social adjustmentA questionnaire. The researchers has designed both tools consistent with the purposes of the current study, and …

Recognizing The Importance Of Dealing With Missing Data In Research Questionnaires And Test Students Of The Faculty Members At King Faisal University, Ali Bany Awad, Khaled Momani

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The study aimed to determine the level of recognition of the teaching staff of the importance of the use of methods of dealing with missing data in research questionnaires and tests student members, and determine the relationship between the independent variables in terms of its dimensions (sex, academic rank and college) and the level of perception when faculty members, and the use researcher’squestionnaire distributed to the (130) a members of the faculty at King Faisal University members. the study results showed awareness of the teaching staff of the importance of the use of methods of dealing with missing data in …

The Level Of Job Satisfaction And The Ability To Psychosocial Adjustment For Workers Special Needs In The Irbid Governorate In View Of Some Variables, Mahdi Rababa'h, Seiaeh Alshamaly

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aimed to detect the level of job satisfaction and psychological and social adjustment among a sample of workers special needs in the Irbid governorate, the sample consisted of 236 male and female. The results indicated that level of job satisfaction and its dimensions were in come moderately except the relationship with co-worker’s dimension came highly. The psychosocial adjustment level and its dimensions in come moderately with the exception of the social dimension came highly. The results showed a statistically significant due to the variable-gender job satisfaction and psychosocial adjustment scales differences in favor of females, and there were …

Job Satisfaction Among Sports Journalists In The State Of Palestine, Mouath Alghanem

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aimed to identify the Degree of Job Satisfaction among Sports Journalists in the State of Palestine, as well as identify the impact of each of the following variables: Scientific qualification, Age and Years of experience in their job satisfaction. The study sample consisted of (47) sports journalists who were intentionally selected, they have answered a questionnaire that consisted of (32) items distributed into five areas (job nature and conditions, financial returns, the relationship with colleagues, incentives, and the relationship with the administration).The results showed that the overall level of job satisfaction was moderate, the level of job satisfaction …

Variations Of Childbearing Among Women In The Palestinian Territories, Hussein Ahmad, Maha Haj Yahya

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

To explain the variation in the average of the number of children ever-born of women in the Palestinian territories, this study used the data based on the Palestinian Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey, 2014. It used the descriptive and analytical approaches to achieve the goals of the research. The study found that the difference was evident between the average numbers of children ever-born of women in the West Bank compared to that in the Gaza Strip. There are also variables that have a positive relation to the average number of children ever-born like the current age of the mother, the duration …