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Exploiting Feedback Information In Cognitive Radio Systems, Sara Abozeid Attlla

Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis, we consider a cognitive radio (CR) network where the primary network's feedback information is utilized to design access schemes for the secondary network, to exploit the underutilized primary spectrum resources. Secondary users (SUs) identify the spectrum opportunities by sensing the spectrum for primary users (PUs) activities and by listening to the PUs feedback. The feedback signals monitored in this research work are the channel quality indicator (CQI) and automatic repeat request (ARQ) available in the PUs network. For detecting the PUs activities, SUs employ hard/soft energy sensing. The secondary access decisions are optimized to maximize the SUs …

Net Neutrality And Consumer Welfare: Divergent Approaches To The Egyptian Telecommunication Regulation, Mennatullah Helmy Hamada

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the implications of the debate on net neutrality on telecommunication policy in Egypt. I argue that consumer welfare should be the main determining factor of the effects of net neutrality obligations on the telecom sector. Consumer welfare must remain the focus of any regulator while applying net neutrality obligations. Consumers in any telecom market care about three elements, namely, prices, quality and speed of the internet, and openness and accessibility of the content available over the internet. Meanwhile, the main controllers of the telecom market are torn between preserving the nature of the internet and their own …

Exploring Cryotherapy As A Therapeutic Approach For Stress-Induced Tension Headaches In College Students, Mona Hassan Abdelaal

Nursing

ABSTRACT Tension-type headaches and stress are common problems for students. It is one of the most neglected headache types, with prevalence of ~ 15–20% in population-based studies. Alternative and complementary medicine such as cryotherapy is effective for relieving physical and psychological pain; using ice compresses by placing it at the back of the neck, leads to relief of tension and anxiety, and gives the feeling of relaxation and full of energy for doing daily life activities. The findings from this study provide the basis for the formulation of future research questions that can explore the effect of cryotherapy on the …

Inside The Margins: Favelas Beyond The Tourist Lens, Maria Clara Pedroza Santos

2025 Award Winners

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Crystal Gazing: Foretelling The Next Decade In Oil And Gas Law, Joseph A. Schremmer

Faculty Scholarship

This chapter attempts to predict the major issues oil and gas law will encounter in the 2020s. Yet even before the first draft could be completed, the industry landscape changed unexpectedly. As this chapter goes to press, the global and domestic economies are just starting to emerge from a sharp downturn brought on by the outbreak of COVID-19. Oil and natural gas prices collapsed to levels not seen in decades. Against this unforeseen backdrop, the legal changes facing oil and gas development in the United States look somewhat different. But one element of our new reality is consistent with this …

Open Government Data: Initiatives, Challenges, And Myths, Azeem Akbar, Abdul Jabbar Awan, Qurat Ul Ain Saleem Phd. Scholar, Nosheen Fatima Warriach

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study has been carried out to identify the open data initiatives taken by different governments. The study also incorporated the benefits and challenges and myths of open data applications. It is a qualitative study based on the review of already published literature. Literature was searched from scholarly databases by using multiple keywords. Articles were selected based on relevance to the topic. The UK, US, Maldova, Pakistan, and Fingal Country Catalog cases have been elaborated. The challenges include technical, legal, organizational, managerial, financial, methodological, and conceptual issues. The myths of open data include; 1) All information should be unrestrictedly publicized, …

Impact Of Digital Media On Information Needs And Seeking Behavior Of University Teachers In Pakistan, Gulnaz Akhtar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The core objective of this study was to examine the impact of digital media on information needs and seeking behavior of university teachers in Pakistan: A study of federal area universities. There are thirteen (13) federally chartered universities located in the federal capital, having faculties of applied/natural sciences, social sciences/humanities, and engineering covered by the study. With the insurrection of Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs) flow of information is rapidly enhanced. User needs are fulfilled through a single mouse click. Wide-ranging reading of volume of information is an additional dilemma. It is a reality that wide mountain range information creates …

Right-Sided Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Caused By Hepatopulmonary Fusion, Sonal Patel, Jennifer Rael

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

INTRODUCTION: Hepatopulmonary fusion is a very rare finding associated with right-sided congenital diaphragmatic hernia. With less than 50 reported cases, management and outcomes of hepatopulmonary fusion are poorly understood. This report highlights that clinical presentation is not a reliable indicator of outcomes in this rare disease.

CONCLUSIONS: Many patients with hepatopulmonary fusion and only mild symptoms die postoperatively from severe pulmonary hypertension and progressive respiratory failure. Preoperative clinical status is not indicative of postoperative outcomes, and literature suggests that patients who require less support preoperatively have high mortality rates. The availability of ECMO for postoperative complications may be necessary in …

Latinx/@ Immigrant Inclusion Trajectories: Individual Agency, Structural Constraints, And The Role Of Community-Based Organizations In Immigrant Mobilities., Cirila Estela Vasquez Guzman, Julia Meredith Hess, Norma Casas, Dulce Medina, Margarita Galvis, Diana Anahi Torres, Alexis J. Handal, Annette Carreon-Fuentes, Alexandra Hernandez-Vallant, Mario J. Chavez, Felipe Rodriguez, Jessica R. Goodkind

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

Immigration is at the forefront of national, state, and local policy struggles in the United States, and Latinx/@ immigrants have experienced increased deportations, detention, and individual threats. A mobilities perspective allows analysis to extend our view of migration beyond frameworks confined to pre- and postmigration, examining trajectories of social inclusion and exclusion that are influenced by multiple factors in the receiving country. The Immigrant Well-being Project, a community-based participatory research project involving university faculty, students, staff, and representatives from 4 community-based organizations (CBOs), was initiated in New Mexico in 2017 to better understand and promote Latinx/@ immigrant mental health and …

Neural And Visceral Manipulation In Infants With Congenital Muscular Torticollis: A Feasibility Study, Jean Anne Zollars, Patricia A Burtner, Gail Stockman, Prisca Werbelow, Jessie Swartzentruber, Jean R Lowe

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

[Purpose] As an alternative to manual stretching, the aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of using neural/visceral manipulation as a safe and effective intervention to increase neck range of motion of infants with congenital muscular torticollis. [Participants and Methods] Ten 4-month old infants with congenital muscular torticollis received eight sessions of neural/visceral manipulation administered for 30-50 minutes without observed pain. Specific palpation techniques addressed restricted tissue areas of neck, head, trunk and extremities. Neck rotation and lateral flexion were assessed by still photography and a computer program calculating ROM angles before, immediately following, and 4 months post …

Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy Yields Permanent Deficits In Learning Acquisition: A Preclinical Touchscreen Assessment, Jessie R Maxwell, Amber J Zimmerman, Nathaniel Pavlik, Jessie C Newville, Katherine Carlin, Shenandoah Robinson, Jonathan L Brigman, Frances J Northington, Lauren L Jantzie

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

Neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) remains a common problem world-wide for infants born at term. The impact of HIE on long-term outcomes, especially into adulthood, is not well-described. To facilitate identification of biobehavioral biomarkers utilizing a translational platform, we sought to investigate the impact of HIE on executive function and cognitive outcomes into adulthood utilizing a murine model of HIE. HIE mice (unilateral common carotid artery occlusion to induce ischemia, followed by hypoxia with a FiO

Perinatal Opioid Exposure Primes The Peripheral Immune System Toward Hyperreactivity, Jessie Newville, Jessie R Maxwell, Yuma Kitase, Shenandoah Robinson, Lauren L Jantzie

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

The increased incidence of opioid use during pregnancy warrants investigation to reveal the impact of opioid exposure on the developing fetus. Exposure during critical periods of development could have enduring consequences for affected individuals. Particularly, evidence is mounting that developmental injury can result in immune priming, whereby subsequent immune activation elicits an exaggerated immune response. This maladaptive hypersensitivity to immune challenge perpetuates dysregulated inflammatory signaling and poor health outcomes. Utilizing an established preclinical rat model of perinatal methadone exposure, we sought to investigate the consequences of developmental opioid exposure on

Building Capacity For Productive Indigenous Community-University Partnerships, Joel Gittelsohn, Annie Belcourt, Maya Magarati, Cathryn Booth-Laforce, Bonnie Duran, Shiraz I Mishra, Lorenda Belone, Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

This paper describes capacity development as a key aspect of community-based research with indigenous communities. University research engagement with indigenous communities includes extensive, and often negative, historical antecedents. We discuss strategies for developing effective, egalitarian, and balanced indigenous community-university relationships to build research capacity of these communities, and to create sustainable partnerships to improve health and wellness, and to reduce health disparities. We draw on the experience of eight investigators conducting research with indigenous communities to assess effective strategies for building and enhancing partnerships, including (1) supporting indigenous investigator development; (2) developing university policies and practices sensitive and responsive to …

Overlapping Roles Of Nadph Oxidase 4 (Nox4) For Diabetic And Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agent-Induced Systemic Fibrosis-Animal Equivalent Dosing Of Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents Supplementary Figure 1, Francesca Bruno, Joshua Deaguero, Catherine Do, Doug Yoon Lee, Chunyan Tan, G Patricia Escobar, Brent Wagner

The Kidney Institute of New Mexico

This is supplementary material for the forthcoming publication entitled “Overlapping roles of NADPH Oxidase 4 (Nox4) for diabetic and gadolinium-based contrast agent-induced systemic fibrosis”. This supplementary material utilizes a model for gadolinium retention and renal elimination of pharmaceuticals, interspecies allometric scaling to determine animal equivalent dosing, label dosing and published studies of varying and repetitive dosing of gadolinium-based contrast agents used to determine dosing of gadolinium-based contrast agents in our preclinical model. Supplementary Figure 1 demonstrates modeling plasma gadolinium-based contrast agent concentrations based on the Hirano Suzuki equation.

Rent Seeking, Wealth Transfers And Water Rights: The Hawaii Case, Richard L. Bowen, James E. Moncur, Richard L. Pollock

Natural Resources Journal

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Environmental Standards And International Trade In Automobiles And Copper: The Case For A Social Tariff, Duane Chapman

Natural Resources Journal

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Legal And Administrative Uses Of Economic Paradigms: A Critique, Ronald G. Cummings

Natural Resources Journal

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Water Resources Planning And Management In The United States Federal System: Long Term Assessment And Intergovernmental Issues, Leonard B. Dworsky, David J. Allee, Ronald M. North

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

International Boundary Cities: The Debate Of Transfrontier Planning In Two Border Regions, Lawrence A. Herzog

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Transboundary Hydrocarbon Resources: The Puerto Vallarta Draft Treaty, Alberto Szekely, Albert Utton, Carmen Pedrazzini, Ross Shipman

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Bibliometric Review On Classification Of Alzheimer’S Disease, Nishad Vyas, Keta Modi, Saanil Khanna, Chinmay Katpatal, Mrinal Bachute Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

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Use Of Web Resources And Services By The Research Scholars In The Field Of Social Sciences Of Selected Central Universities (Du, Bhu, Amu, Jnu), Utkarsh Dwiwedi, Rajani Mishra (Associate Professor)

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The current study was conducted with the objective to study the usage of Web Resources and services by the Researchers in the field of social sciences of selected Central Universities (DU, BHU, AMU, JNU). A well-structured questionnaire was directed through irregular testing strategy to the Research Scholars of the Institutes to gather the information with respect to the utilization of Web Resources. This paper confines the investigation only to utilization of Web Resources by Researcher of Language and Literature in selected Central Universities (DU, BHU, AMU, JNU). The extent of the examination can be stretched out to former Indian Universities …

Current Status Of Information Literacy Practices In Medical Libraries Of Pakistan, Muhammad Ibrahim, Abid Hussain, Arif Khan, Abdus Salaam, Sarah Saeed

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paradigm shift in medical academic practices in Pakistan is becoming a challenge for medical librarians. Majority of medical schools in Pakistan have started problem based learning, undergrads medical research program and Postgraduate programs. This quantitative study aims to investigate the information literacy program in medical libraries situated in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province of Pakistan. The questionnaire administered with in 20 medical colleges libraries using Google Forms as an instrument for data collection and distributed link among all medical college librarians of the province. Findings of the study revealed that majority medical libraries are providing informal information literacy using …

Influence Of Social Media Networking On Usage Of Electronic Information Resources In Academic Libraries In Nigeria, Mujidat Adeola Bello, Tolulope Tosin Ogunjinmi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study adopted the descriptive research design of the correlational type because it is used to show the relationship between two variables and also to obtain current information on the phenomena. A questionnaire survey was conducted to collect the information regarding the types of social media networking tools, frequency of use of electronic information resources, electronic resources available, the influence of social media networking tools and challenges of social media networking tools while using electronic information resources in academic libraries. The population of this study consisted of One hundred and three (103) library users in two universities in South-west, Nigeria …

Airport Ceos And The Decentralized System Of Airports: A Case Study, Marjan Mazza

Publications

The job of the airport CEO is complex with responsibility for the security and safety of a large and dynamic facility and, yet the FAA does not have regulatory qualification and performance standards for the position. The purpose of this qualitative multi-case study was to explore the primary attributes that could be the leading indicators in the event national standards for the hiring of airport CEOs are pursued at major commercial airports. The guiding conceptual framework of the study was to combine competency with the concept of training and development. Airport CEOs from six airport facilities were interviewed, and an …

Examining Usability Of The Internet By The Teaching Staff Of The Peshawar Medical College, Muhammad Ibrahim, Abid Hussain, Sarah Saeed, Abdus Salaam

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: This study aims to examine the access and purpose of internet use by the teaching staff of Peshawar Medical College, Peshawar.

Method(s)/Materials: Data were collected through a tested questionnaire from 115 teaching staff members of two major groups’ basic sciences and clinical sciences with a response rate (57.39%) of 66 members positively. Teaching faculty comprising 71.40% Male faulty members and 28.60% female took part in the study. Data were analyzed and tabulated using the SPSS tool.

Research Limitation(s): This study was limited to the teaching faculty of basic and clinical science departments of Peshawar Medical College Peshawar.

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Spring 2020_95.2_Full Issue

New Mexico Historical Review

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Voces Nuevo Mexicanas: Power, Gender, And Recovery Of “El Corrido De La Votación” For The Centennial Celebration Of New Mexico’S Suffrage Movement, Carmella Scorcia Pacheco

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Fall 2020, 95.4, Full Issue

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

“Because Of His Wild Blood”: Race, The Frontier, And The American Imagination In The Bluff War And The Trial Of Tse-Ne-Gat, Reilly Ben Hatch

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.