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The State Of Utah, Plaintiff/ Appellee V. Dylan James Kitzmiller, Defendant Appellant., Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

Appeal from a conviction for two counts of child abuse, second-degree felonies in violation of Utah Code section 76-5-109(2)(a). The conviction followed a jury trial in the Third Judicial District, in and for Salt Lake County, State of Utah, the Honorable William K. Kendall presiding.

WILLIAM M. HAINS, SEAN D. REYES, Attorney for Appellee

WENDY M. BROWN, Attorney for Appellant

Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (December 14, 2020), Dmacc

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

This file contains the minutes from the Des Moines Area Community College Board meeting held on December 14, 2020.

Considerations For Outdoor Dining Handout 12.14.2020, Stephen Meno

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.

Watson V. Nycha-Brevoort Houses

All Decisions

No abstract provided.

Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound In Association With Serum Biomarkers For Differentiating Combined Hepatocellular-Cholangiocarcinoma From Hepatocellular Carcinoma And Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma., Jie Yang, Ya-Han Zhang, Jia-Wu Li, Ying-Yu Shi, Jia-Yan Huang, Yan Luo, Ji-Bin Liu, Qiang Lu

Department of Radiology Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Combined hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma (CHC) is a rare type of primary liver cancer. Due to its complex histopathological characteristics, the imaging features of CHC can overlap with those of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC).

AIM: To investigate the possibility and efficacy of differentiating CHC from HCC and ICC by using contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) and tumor biomarkers.

METHODS: Between January 2016 and December 2019, patients with histologically confirmed CHC, ICC and HCC with chronic liver disease were enrolled. The diagnostic formula for CHC was as follows: (1) LR-5 or LR-M with elevated alpha-fetoprotein …

Newborn Screening For Congenital Hypothyroidism: Improvement In Short-Term Follow-Up By Audit And Monitoring, Hafsa Majid, Sibtain Ahmed, Imran Siddiqui, Khadija N Humayun, Hussain Karimi, Aysha Habib Khan

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Objective: Newborn screening for congenital hypothyroidism (CH) at our hospital during this study was by measurement of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) in serum samples. This audit was conducted over a 2 year period, to determine the compliance of reporting of results greater than the screening cutoffs for serum TSH. Gaps of non-compliance were identified, and re-audit was undertaken after the corrective actions were taken.
Results: The critical limit was defined as serum TSH (≥ 20 µIU/ml) following consultation with a pediatric endocrinologist. All results above this limit were reported urgently to physicians. During the audit period, 27,407 tests were performed, …

Interrater Reliability Of Novice Examiners Using A-Mode Ultrasound And Skinfolds To Measure Subcutaneous Body Fat, Dale R. Wagner, Masaru Teramoto

Kinesiology and Health Science Faculty Publications

Examiners with minimal training and skill are often called upon to make body composition assessments using field methods. This study compared the interrater reliability of novice examiners for the skinfold (SKF) and A-mode ultrasound (US) methods of body composition assessment. Undergraduate Kinesiology majors (48 males, 32 females) with minimal training took both SKF and US measurements at three sites (males: chest, abdomen, thigh; females: triceps, suprailiac, thigh). Interrater reliability was significantly better for US compared to SKF at the thigh (ICC_US = 0.975, ICC_SKF = 0.912) and abdomen (ICC_US = 0.984, ICC_SKF = 0.693) for men …

Research From Around The World: Hiv/Aids In Africa And The Us, Jason E. Farley

SigmaCast [Podcast]

This episode we will be discussing the body of nursing research from Jason E. Farley, PhD, MPH, ANP-BC, FAAN, FAANP, AACRN, a Sigma International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame inductee in July of 2020 and a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

Host: Matt Howard, DNP, RN, CEN, TCRN, CPEN, CPN: Director of Scholarship Resources, Sigma Theta Tau International, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Role Of A Croatian National Repository Infrastructure In Promotion And Support Of Research Data Management, Kristina Posavec, Draženko Celjak, Ljiljana Jertec Musap

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

The paper will give an overview of national infrastructure for digital repositories, Digital Academic Archives and Repositories (DABAR), and its role as technology steward in raising awareness about research data management (RDM) and promoting good practices in the Croatian A&R community. The University of Zagreb, University Computing Centre (SRCE) is providing national infrastructure DABAR suitable for storing and dissemination of different types of digital objects. Through DABAR, all Croatian higher education and research institutions can establish their digital repository. A strong collaboration between SRCEs DABAR team and institutions repository managers has proven to be important in the process of disseminating …

Implementing The Rda Research Data Policy Framework In Slovenian Scientific Journals, Janez Štebe, Maja Dolinar, Sonja Bezjak, Ana Inkret

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

The paper aims to present the implementation of the RDA research data policy framework in Slovenian scientific journals within the project RDA Node Slovenia. The activity aimed to implement the practice of data sharing and data citation in Slovenian scientific journals and was based on internationally renowned practices and policies, particularly the Research Data Policy Framework of the RDA Data Policy Standardization and Implementation Interest Group. Following this, the RDA Node Slovenia coordination prepared a guidance document that allowed the four pilot participating journals (from fields of archaeology, history, linguistics and social sciences) to adjust their journal policies regarding data …

Association Between Vitamin D Supplementation And Mortality In Critically Ill Patients: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis Of Randomized Clinical Trials., Liyuan Peng, Linjie Li, Peng Wang, Weelic Chong, Yin Li, Xi Zha, Haidong Deng, Huaqian Fan, Yu Zhang

Student Papers, Posters & Projects

BACKGROUND: Observational studies suggest that low 25-hydroxyvitamin D status is common and has been associated with higher mortality in critically ill patients. This study aim to investigate whether vitamin D supplementation is associated with lower mortality in critically ill patients.

METHOD: We searched Medline, Embase, and Cochrane databases from inception to January 12, 2020, without language restrictions, for randomized controlled trials comparing the effect of vitamin D supplementation with placebo in critically ill patients. Two authors independently performed data extraction and assessed study quality. The primary outcome was all-cause mortality at the longest follow-up.

RESULT: We identified nine trials with …

Dean's Spotlight December 14, 2020, Seattle University School Of Law Dean

Dean's Spotlight

No abstract provided.

Financial Reporting And Moral Sentiments, Radhika Lunawat, Timothy W. Shields, Gregory B. Waymire

ESI Working Papers

Dating back at least to Adam Smith (1790), philosophers and researchers expect that people will behave differently when they know their actions are observable to others. We hypothesize that financial reporting reveals managers’ actions and leads them to take different actions that are better aligned with investor interests. We posit that the reason why is the activation of our internal mental self-evaluation that Smith refers to as an “Impartial Spectator.” We test this hypothesis with an experiment in which we manipulate the availability of a financial report that makes managerial actions transparent. Our evidence shows that financial reporting leads a …

Large-Scale Characterization Of Drug Responses Of Clinically Relevant Proteins In Cancer Cell Lines, Wei Zhao, Jun Li, Mei-Ju M Chen, Yikai Luo, Zhenlin Ju, Nicole K Nesser, Katie Johnson-Camacho, Christopher T Boniface, Yancey Lawrence, Nupur T Pande, Michael A Davies, Meenhard Herlyn, Taru Muranen, Ioannis K Zervantonakis, Erika Von Euw, Andre Schultz, Shwetha V Kumar, Anil Korkut, Paul T Spellman, Rehan Akbani, Dennis J Slamon, Joe W Gray, Joan S Brugge, Yiling Lu, Gordon B Mills, Han Liang

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Perturbation biology is a powerful approach to modeling quantitative cellular behaviors and understanding detailed disease mechanisms. However, large-scale protein response resources of cancer cell lines to perturbations are not available, resulting in a critical knowledge gap. Here we generated and compiled perturbed expression profiles of ∼210 clinically relevant proteins in >12,000 cancer cell line samples in response to ∼170 drug compounds using reverse-phase protein arrays. We show that integrating perturbed protein response signals provides mechanistic insights into drug resistance, increases the predictive power for drug sensitivity, and helps identify effective drug combinations. We build a systematic map of "protein-drug" connectivity …

A Human Gene Placed In Fruit Flies Reveals Details About A Human Developmental Disorder, Public Relations

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Elusive Diagnosis Of Behcet's Disease In Setting Of Painless Vision Loss, Arti A. Patel, Amelia Stutman, Prarak Patel, Madhavi Capoccia

Student Publications

Behcet's disease is a chronic, idiopathic vasculitis with multisystem involvement commonly characterized by the classic triad of oral lesions, genital ulcerations, and uveitis. We discuss the case of a 22-year-old woman with a long-standing history of oral ulcers and vulvovaginal burning who presented with acute painless uveitis. With this presentation, there was an initial concern for infectious retinitis for which she was started on systemic antiviral therapy. Subsequent infectious disease workup was ultimately negative. Given her medical history and current presentation, she was diagnosed and treated for an acute inflammatory episode of ocular Behcet's disease. The patient's vision returned to …

College Of Business News, Georgia Southern University

College of Business: News & Publications

• Parker’s Founder and CEO Greg Parker Inducted into Convenience Store News Hall of Fame

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

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Fractal And Edge-Based Techniques For Kidney Enhancement And Segmentation On Magnetic Resonance Images (Mri), Alaá Rateb Mahmoud Al-Shamasneh

Student Works (2020-2029)

Recently, many rapid developments in digital medical imaging have made further contributions to healthcare systems. However, the segmentation of regions of interest in medical images plays a vital role in assisting doctors in their medical diagnoses and for the early detection of disease. Since health issues related to the kidneys are increasing exponentially, this thesis focused on developing methods for the segmentation of MRI images of the kidney. Kidney images frequently suffer from low contrast, low resolution and noise, and are blur. Hence, it is necessary to enhance the images in order to improve the segmentation. Therefore, the current thesis …

The Impact Of Wrong-Site Surgery On Dental Undergraduate Teaching: A Survey Of Uk Dental Schools, Anna Dargue, Eithne Fyfe, Kathryn French, Kamran Ali, Edmund Bailey, Aileen Bell, Robert Bolt, Yogesh Bulsara, James Carey, Charlotte Emanuel, Rachel Green, Nadine Khawaja, Evgeny Kushnerev, Neil Patel, Simon Shepherd, Binthan Smart, Joanna Smyth, Kate Taylor, Datla K Varma

Peninsula Dental School

Abstract Introduction Patient safety within dental education is paramount. Wrong site surgery (WSS) tooth extraction is not uncommon and is a significant Never Event (NE) in dentistry. This study aims to explore dental schools’ undergraduate experience of NEs, safety interventions implemented and the impact on student experience. Methods All 16 UK Dental Schools were surveyed via e-mail. Results The response rate was 100%. A modified WHO checklist was used within institutions (94%) including pre-operative briefings and recording teeth on whiteboards (81% respectively). Students were directly supervised performing extractions (63%) utilising a 1:4 Staff: Student ratio. WSS by students was reported …

Developing A Blockchain-Based Supply Chain System For Advanced Therapies: Study Protocol, Edward Meinert, Ching Lam, Velthoven M Van

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Advanced therapies, including cell and gene therapies, have shown therapeutic promise in curing life-threatening diseases such as leukaemia and lymphoma. However, they can be complicated and expensive to deliver due to their sensitivity to environment, troublesome tissue, cell, or genetic material sourcing and complicated regulatory requirements.

Majority In Nh Plan To Get Covid-19 Vaccine When Available 12/14/2020, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

A majority of New Hampshire residents say they will get a COVID-19 vaccine when one is available, however, some groups remain unwilling to get a vaccine. Respondents most frequently cite their PCP, Dr. Fauci, New Hampshire epidemiologist Dr. Benjamin Chan, or their friends and family as people whose endorsement would make them more likely to get vaccinated. Those who are currently unwilling to get vaccinated say they are not likely to be convinced to do so by anyone. Republicans and Democrats disagree about the pandemic as a majority of Republicans believe the danger posed by COVID-19 is exaggerated and has …

Five Things You Should Know This Week, Georgia Southern University

A Few Things You Should Know This Week (2020-2023)

• 1. Georgia Southern has updated its quarantine guidance
• 2. CDC offers guidance to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 during the holiday season
• 3. CARES Center will be available during the break
• 4. Keep up with Eagle athletics
• 5. Fall 2020 commencement ceremonies continue this week

Corporations And The American Polity, Patrick Labossiere

Student Theses and Dissertations

Research on corporate communications’ effects on politics presents an acknowledgement of a relationship between the two topics, leaving a void in the explanation and examination of this topic. The void presents an opening to introduce a conceptual process for how corporations are able to craft communications to influence the American Polity, the democratic social organization within the United States. This research begins with a historical review of how corporations gain prominence in American society, capturing the ability to participate in the democratic social organization of the polity. A qualitative analysis of several conceptual frameworks serves as data, to establish an …

Fda Regulation Impact On Early Stage Medical Device Innovation In Academia, Keyana Fariello

Theses

The commercialization of medical products at the university level is a multilayered and challenging process. One barrier to commercialization is the difficulty of meeting Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory requirements. Regulations and standards are undoubtedly necessary to maintain the highest product safety levels, but it creates many obstacles. This paper will analyze how researchers involved with early-stage medical device innovation in a university setting deal with FDA compliance issues and the implications of this engagement for innovation. I conducted an exploratory case study of ten medical product development projects at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Overall, I found …

High-Resolution Analyses Of Human Sperm Dynamic Methylome Reveal Thousands Of Novel Age-Related Epigenetic Alterations., Mingju Cao, Xiaojian Shao, Peter Chan, Warren Cheung, Tony Kwan, T Pastinen, Bernard Robaire

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

BACKGROUND: Children of aged fathers are at a higher risk of developing mental disorders. Alterations in sperm DNA methylation have been implicated as a potential cause. However, age-dependent modifications of the germ cells' epigenome remain poorly understood. Our objective was to assess the DNA methylation profile of human spermatozoa during aging.

RESULTS: We used a high throughput, customized methylC-capture sequencing (MCC-seq) approach to characterize the dynamic DNA methylation in spermatozoa from 94 fertile and infertile men, who were categorized as young, 48 men between 18-38 years or old 46 men between 46-71 years. We identified more than 150,000 age-related CpG …

Outdoor Air Pollution Exposure And Inter-Relation Of Global Cognitive Performance And Emotional Distress In Older Women, Andrew J. Petkus, Xinhui Wang, Daniel P. Beavers, Helena C. Chui, Mark A. Espeland, Margaret Gatz, Tara Gruenewald, Joel D. Kaufman, Joann E. Manson, Susan M. Resnick, James D. Stewart, Gregory A. Wellenius, Eric A. Whitsel, Keith Widaman, Diana Younan, Jiu-Chiuan Chen

Psychology Faculty Articles and Research

The interrelationships among long-term ambient air pollution exposure, emotional distress and cognitive decline in older adulthood remain unclear. Long-term exposure may impact cognitive performance and subsequently impact emotional health. Conversely, exposure may initially be associated with emotional distress followed by declines in cognitive performance. Here we tested the inter-relationship between global cognitive ability, emotional distress, and exposure to PM2.5 (particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter 2 (nitrogen dioxide) in 6118 older women (aged 70.6 ± 3.8 years) from the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study. Annual exposure to PM_2.5 (interquartile range [IQR] = 3.37 μg/m³) and NO₂ (IQR …

Cardiorespiratory And Metabolic Responses To Hexagonal Barbell Deadlift Task Performed At An Intensity Corresponding To The Anaerobic Threshold, Christopher C. Frankel Dr.

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

The objectives of this study were to identify the lactate threshold (LT) and the first ventilatory threshold (VT) during resistance exercise in a discontinuous incremental test, determine if both thresholds were observed at the same relative workload, and to analyze the acute cardiorespiratory and metabolic responses during a separate constant load resistance exercise protocol. Twelve healthy, trained women (n = 6) and men (n = 6) performed a maximal running test on a treadmill followed by three protocols using the hexagonal bar deadlift (HBDL) exercise. The treadmill test was performed to determine maximal oxygen consumption, peak heart rate, and lactate …

From A Conventional To An Inclusive Teaching Classroom, David Tadeo Martinez Guido, Gerardo Torres Gutiérrez, Roberto Bernardo Ortiz Gonzalez, Dulce Marisol Arteaga Godoy, Jorge A. Garcia

Research and Development Supported by El Centro

Inclusive education constitutes a point of inclination in policy development and care practices to student populations and social diversity. There are goals and strategies in the Mexican educational system which demonstrate the government’s interest to promote equity and equality opportunities for the entire vulnerable population. These policies are based on the need to recognize the right of people with special educational needs to quality education. Consequently, one of the goals of Plan Nacional de Desarrollo 2019-2024, it is a social policy which has actions to offer education for the entire population and sustainable development.

Therefore, El Tecnológico Nacional de México …