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Diverse And Complex Muscle Spindle Afferent Firing Properties Emerge From Multiscale Muscle Mechanics, Kyle P. Blum, Kenneth S. Campbell, Brian C. Horslen, Paul Nardelli, Stephen N. Housley, Timothy C. Cope, Lena H. Ting

Physiology Faculty Publications

Despite decades of research, we lack a mechanistic framework capable of predicting how movement-related signals are transformed into the diversity of muscle spindle afferent firing patterns observed experimentally, particularly in naturalistic behaviors. Here, a biophysical model demonstrates that well-known firing characteristics of mammalian muscle spindle Ia afferents – including movement history dependence, and nonlinear scaling with muscle stretch velocity – emerge from first principles of muscle contractile mechanics. Further, mechanical interactions of the muscle spindle with muscle-tendon dynamics reveal how motor commands to the muscle (alpha drive) versus muscle spindle (gamma drive) can cause highly variable and complex activity during …

Local Electronic And Magnetic Properties Of The Doped Topological Insulators Bi₂Se₃:Ca And Bi₂Te₃:Mn Investigated Using Ion-Implanted ⁸Li Β-Nmr, Ryan M. L. Mcfadden, Aris Chatzichristos, David L. Cortie, Derek Fujimoto, Yew San Hor, Huiwen Ji, Victoria L. Karner, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We report β-NMR measurements in Bi₂Se₃:Ca and Bi₂Te₃:Mn single crystals using ⁸Li⁺ implanted to depths on the order of 100 nm. Above ∼200K, spin-lattice relaxation reveals diffusion of ⁸Li⁺, with activation energies of ∼0.4eV (∼0.2eV) in Bi₂Se₃:Ca (Bi₂Te₃:Mn). At lower temperatures, the NMR properties are those of a heavily doped semiconductor in the metallic limit, with Korringa relaxation and a small, negative, temperature-dependent Knight shift in Bi₂Se₃:Ca. From this, we make a detailed comparison with …

Explorations In The Crafting Of Government’S Authority And Power Using Institutional Ethnography: The Case Of The 2013 Zamboanga Crisis, Leslie Advincula-Lopez, Nota F. Magno

Development Studies Faculty Publications

Crisis response is a clear illustration of what Migdal (2004) posits in his Statein-society approach: the iterative relationship between State authority and social actors' everyday practices. As the rise in recent natural and humanmade disasters call for proficiencies in crisis response, it becomes essential to observe how the variabilities in State-in-society responses unfold through institutionally coordinated everyday social relations. The situation reveals the need to theorize these relationships on the grounds of the dynamic coconstitution of State-in-society. This study employed institutional ethnography (Devault & McCoy, 2002; Smith, 2005); observing the interplay of various actors' interests and strategies within institutional processes …

A Genetic-Based Approach For Solving Optimal Power Flow Problem., Magdy Mohamed El-Saadawi

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The optimal power flow (OPF) is an optimization problem, in which the utility strives to minimize its costs while satisfying all of its constraints. Artificial intelligence is used to help a hypothetical electric utility nieet its electric load economically. A genetic algorithm (GA) —a specific type of artificial intelligence—is employed to perform this optimization. In this paper, a genetic algorithm is used to solve the OPF problem. A new genetic chromosome is structured to represent the solutions. The new chromosome structure is chosen in such a way that it greatly reduce the number of times the algorithm must solve the …

Citation Analysis Of Scholarly Publications On Indigenous Knowledge, Sangita Sarkar, Himanish Roy, Sourav Mazumder

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Indigenous Knowledge (IK) refers to traditional knowledge that play a key role in the sustainable development of human society. Nowadays, the importance of IK is recognized significantly. We focus on a citation analysis of scholarly publications on IK during 2015-2019. The main contribution of this paper is to highlight the most productive journals; author impact; ranking of cited journals, non-journals, authors, and documents; reference spectroscopy; the shared coupling of articles; and co-citation of cited-authors. The scholarly citation data (n=2000) were collected from the Web of Science database and analyzed using bibliometrics software. The findings reveal that the “Journal of …

State V. Fiscus Respondent's Brief Dckt. 47938

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State V. Glandon Appellant's Brief Dckt. 48131

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Normal And High-Strength R/C Deep Beams Under Pure Torsion And Codes Evaluation., Ahmed Yousef

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Fourteen reinforced concrete deep beams were tested under pure torsion in order to evaluate the torsion design provisions of ACI 318-02 Building Code, the Egyptian code (ECCS-2001), the New Zealand code (NZS 3101-95), and the Eurocode 2 (EC-2) when applied to High Strength Concrete (HSC) deep beams. The results of these tests have been used to compare the torsional behavior of reinforced deep beams constructed from Normal-Strength Concrete (NSC with characteristic cube compressive strength fcu of about 35 MPa) and HSC (with fcu of about 81 MPa). The main parameters examined in this study were the design compressive strength, the …

A Comparison Of Match Outcomes Between Traditional Medical Degree And Dual-Degree Applicants, Bryce R. Christensen, Chad M. Becnel, Leland P. Chan, Paul D. Minetos, John F. Clarke, Marc J. Kahn

School of Medicine Faculty Research

Background: Dual degrees combining and MD with another professional degree (MPH, MBA, or PhD) are becoming more common in an attempt to increase an applicant’s competitivity for a residency. Objective: This study was designed to assess differences in MD-only and dual degree MD applicants with respect to applicant characteristics and match outcomes. Methods: Utilizing the voluntarily-reported publicly available 2017–2019 Texas STAR database, we assessed applicants from 115 medical schools. Texas STAR indicates that over this time period, there were 18,224 responses for a response rate of 43.8%. Comparisons were made between groups using student’s t-test and chi-squared analysis. Results: Compared …

Incorporating Pacific Ocean Climate Information To Enhance The Tree-Ring Based Streamflow Reconstruction Skill, Saria Bukhary, Ajay Kalra, Sajjad Ahmad

Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction Faculty Research

The Sacramento River Basin (SRB) and the San Joaquin River Basin (JRB) have a history of recurring droughts. Both are important for California, being the crucial source of water supply. The available instrumental records may not depict the long-term hydrologic variability encompassing the duration and frequency of the historic low flow events. Thus, streamflow reconstruction becomes important in the current scenario of climatic alteration, escalating population and growing water needs. Studies have shown that Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), Southern Oscillation Index (SOI), and Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature (SST) influence the precipitation and streamflow volumes of southwestern United States, particularly …

Modeling By Disruption And A Selected-For Partner For The Nude Locus, Jian Li, Yun-Kyoung Lee, Wenyu Fu, Anne M. Whalen, Mario C. Estable, Laurel A. Raftery, Kristin White, Lorin Weiner, Janice L. Brissette

Life Sciences Faculty Research

A long‐standing problem in biology is how to dissect traits for which no tractable model exists. Here, we screen for genes like the nude locus (Foxn1)—genes central to mammalian hair and thymus development—using animals that never evolved hair, thymi, or Foxn1. Fruit flies are morphologically disrupted by the FOXN1 transcription factor and rescued by weak reductions in fly gene function, revealing molecules that potently synergize with FOXN1 to effect dramatic, chaotic change. Strong synergy/effectivity in flies is expected to reflect strong selection/functionality (purpose) in mammals; the more disruptive a molecular interaction is in alien contexts (flies), the more beneficial it …

Pyxtal_Ff: A Python Library For Automated Force Field Generation, Howard Yanxon, David Zagaceta, Binh Tang, David S. Matteson, Qiang Zhu

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Research

We present PyXtal_FF—a package based on Python programming language—for developing machine learning potentials (MLPs). The aim of PyXtal_FF is to promote the application of atomistic simulations through providing several choices of atom-centered descriptors and machine learning regressions in one platform. Based on the given choice of descriptors (including the atom-centered symmetry functions, embedded atom density, SO4 bispectrum, and smooth SO3 power spectrum), PyXtal_FF can train MLPs with either generalized linear regression or neural network models, by simultaneously minimizing the errors of energy/forces/stress tensors in comparison with the data from ab-initio simulations. The trained MLP model from PyXtal_FF is interfaced with …

An Integrated Three-Flow Approach For Front-End Service Composition, Lim Mei Ting

Student Works (2020-2029)

End-User Service Composition (EUSC) aims to enable end-user programmers who are not professional developers, develop applications by composing or aggregating existing web services. Despite the effort, studies have shown that end-user programmers are not able to deal with the technical complexities involved in EUSC. One way to deal with this issue is Front-End Service Composition (FESC), which allows end-user programmers to compose web services at the presentation layer of an application by configuring User Interface (UI) widgets that represent the back-end web services. However, apart from there not being enough studies on FESC, end-user programmers also experience a number of …

Epitaxial Growth Of Semi-Polar (11-22) Gallium Nitride For Uv Photosensing Application, Abdullah Haaziq Ahmad Makinudin

Student Works (2020-2029)

Semi-polar (11-22) gallium nitride (GaN) epilayers have attracted numerous interests in GaN based technology as it possess significant advantages over its polar (c-plane) counterparts such as low to none spontaneous and piezoelectric polarization which is known to impair the device performance. However, growth along semi-polar (11-22) orientation has been known to exhibit numerous defect densities such as dislocations and stacking faults (SFs). In order to acquire high quality semi-polar (11-22) GaN epilayers, various growth optimizations must be employed. In this work, the semi-polar (11-22) GaN epilayers were grown on planar m-plane sapphire substrate with the use of a 2-inch capability …

Impact Of Psychoeducation Program On Turkish Students' Negative Attitudes Towards Refugee Peers, Ali Çekiç, Zeynep Hamamcı

Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

About 26% of the Syrian population in Turkey is made up of school-age children. In the 2017–2018 academic year, 608,000 Syrian students enrolled in the education system, and 50% attended temporary education centers established for only Syrian students, while the other half attended public schools with their Turkish peers. One of the main factors that complicate the adaptation process of Syrian refugee students who have come to a different culture and have been placed in a foreign education system is the discriminatory attitudes from the locals’ prejudices. Thus, in this study, a five-week psychoeducation program was developed and implemented by …

Adrenal Ectopy And Lipoma Of An Inguinal Hernia Sac: A Case Report & Literature Review., Jenna R Adalbert, Rafael E Pajaro

Student Papers, Posters & Projects

INTRODUCTION & IMPORTANCE: Ectopic adrenocortical tissue is the presence of accessory adrenal cortex tissue located outside of the adrenal glands. It is a rare, incidental finding during inguinal hernia repair. This case report aims to discuss the anatomy and important patient implications related to this finding.

CASE PRESENTATION: A 61-year-old male presented with a long-standing right direct inguinal hernia increasing in size and pain frequency. During open right anterior inguinal hernia repair, a lipoma was identified inside the hernia sac and removed. Further histopathological examination of the specimen revealed the presence of adrenocortical tissue inside the lipoma. No further interventions …

A Quality Improvement Learning Collaborative For Human Papillomavirus Vaccination., Kristin Oliver, Kera Beskin, Laura Noonan, Amy Shah, Rebecca Perkins, Sharon Humiston

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

Many published accounts have shown that quality improvement (QI) initiatives within medical practice settings can increase vaccination rates. Project ECHO is a telementoring platform that uses video conferencing technology to educate and support healthcare professionals through case-based learning and brief lectures. This manuscript explores the results of a learning collaborative focused on combining QI and Project ECHO to increase human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates within pediatric practices.

Methods: The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recruited 3 AAP chapters that then recruited individual pediatricians and their practices for participation. Participants responded to surveys regarding chapter and pediatrician experience and satisfaction. Impact …

Optimal Utilization Of Coastal Unonfined Aquifers., Hossam Abdel-Gawad Mohamed, Mohamed Tarek Shamaa

Mansoura Engineering Journal

This research concerns with optimal utilization of unconfined coastal aquifers under different constraints. This problem is a complicated, nonlinear, and constrained one. Therefore, the Genetic Algorithm nonlinear optimization method was selected to handle the present problem. Analytical solution was applied for the groundwater flow equation under assumption of steady sharp interface in homogenous aquifer. Image theory and the superposition principle were the main tools used through the analytical procedure. A Fortran program was written to apply the mathematical concepts of the problem. The method was applied to aquifer system underlain the City of Miami Beach at north of Spain.

The Effect Of Rust Removal Agent On Bond Strength Of Reinforcing Steel Bars., Sayed Abdelbaky

Mansoura Engineering Journal

When reinforcing bars start corroding inside the concrete, it is difficult to arrest the corrosion process without using any technique to protect the reinforcing bars against corrosion. One of these techniques, is removing the contaminated concrete around steel bars and cleaning them by using sand blast to remove the rust. Sand blast is not easy to use especially in closed areas where it results in high pollution and may cause suffocation to workers. Thus, a chemical agent was developed by chemical called rust ̶ stop or rust removal to clean the corroded reinforcing bars instead of sand blast. The purpose …

Experimental Analysis Of Impulse Characteristics Of Grounding Grids With And Without Rods., S. El-Drieny, Magdy Mohamed El-Saadawi, I. Metwally

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Impulse characteristics of grounding systems have a great influence on proper evaluation of substation equipment stresses from lightning overvoltages, protection and design points of view. The grounding grid impulse characteristics depend on: grid parameters and soil characteristics as well as on the impulse current shape, magnitude and discharge point. The addition of driven rods to the grid has an action on grounding grid impulse characteristics. This paper presents an experimental study for determining the impedance of grounding grid with and without driven rods. Tests are conducted on three scale models to simulate single-, double- and triple layer soils. Also, the …

To What Extent Do Local Nursing Home Prescribing Patterns Relate To Psychotropic Prescribing In Assisted Living?, Kali Thomas, Christopher J. Wretman, Philip D. Sloane, Paula Carder, Lindsay Schwartz, Anna S. Beeber, Sheryl Zimmerman

Institute on Aging Publications

In nursing homes (NHs), psychoactive medication use has received notable attention, but less is known about prescribing in assisted living (AL). This study examined how antipsychotic and antianxiety medication prescribing in AL compares with NHs.

Predictors Of Mortality In Hospitalized Patients With Influenza: A Five-Year Experience From A Tertiary Care Centre In Pakistan, Iffat Khanum, Amber Sabeen Ahmed, Safia Awan, Sabiha Banu, Bushra Jamil

Department of Medicine

Influenza outbreaks are associated with significant morbidity. Our aim was to determine the factors associated with increased mortality in hospitalized patients admitted with diagnosis of influenza, at a tertiary care center in Pakistan. This study included all adult patients with an influenza infection, confirmed by realtime reverse-transcriptase polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-PCR) at Aga Khan University Hospital Pakistan. In our study, 112 patients with laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infection were admittedat our hospital from the 1st of January 2013 to the 31st of December 2018. Eighty-nine patients (79.46%) were managed in ward or special care units and 23 patients (20.5%) received treatment in intensive …

A Distant Reading Of Khamphun Bunthawi’S Luk Isan (A Child Of The Northeast) As World Literature, Ram Prasansak

Journal of Letters

This article offers a distant reading of Khamphun Bunthawi’s Luk Isan (A Child of the Northeast) as world literature. By attending to its production, circulation, translation, and reception in an interlocking literary system, it shows that the novel borrows the bildungsroman form from an American children’s novel. This borrowing underlines the role of translated literature and editors in establishing a profoundly unequal relationship between the Western core and peripheral literatures. This article also examines the English translation of Luk Isan. It argues that while the translation creates an intertext that aids Anglophone audiences in comprehending the novel’s foreignness, it …

Friendship Across Ethnic Boundaries In John Boyne’S The Boy In The Striped Pajamas And Daniella Carmi’S Samir And Yonatan, Siriporn Sriwarakan

Journal of Letters

This paper examines friendship across ethnic boundaries in two young adult novels: John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Daniella Carmi’s Samir and Yonatan. In the first novel, the author recounts a story of the Holocaust during the Second World War while the latter deals with the conflict between Palestine and Israel. Although both young adult novels concern different ethnic backgrounds, they are both set in the midst of conflicts and wars between two nations. They present themes of crossing over ethnic boundaries and rejection of racial prejudice and violence. Although it seems that both authors create …

Burmese, Mon, Thai, And Pali: The Diversity Of Rachathirat Literatures In Thailand, Jiaranai Vithidkul, Chanwit Tudkeao

Journal of Letters

The story of the Mon King ‘Rachathirat’ or ‘Rājādhirāj’ has been familiar to the Mon, Burmese and Thai people for centuries. There are numerous manuscripts in various versions found in Myanmar, written in Burmese or Mon. Thailand, as the neighboring state and a popular destination of the migratory Mon, also holds the collections of Rājādhirāj manuscripts in many different versions, composed either in Thai, Mon, or Pali, the latter being the language of the most recently discovered Rājādhirāj manuscripts. Despite a wide variety of versions of the story, only two have been extensively mentioned by Thai researchers: the Royal Version …

A Study Of Conveying Thai Serial Verb Constructions Into English: Case Study Of The Sweet Scent Of Hay, Poonsak Suwanarat, Prima Mallikamas

Journal of Letters

This article examines the strategies used in translating Thai serial verb constructions (SCVs) into English. The data used in this research is from a 64,879-word parallel corpus of Klin Fang The Sweet Scent of Hay, a collection of 10 short stories. The scope of the study is limited to SVCs containing 2 verbs that describe simultaneous events. Quantitative analysis reveals that out of 61 samples, including those that occur more than once but are translated differently, 50 constructions or 81.97% show the same equivalent effects between the original text and the target text, while 11 constructions or 18.03% do …

Representation Of Thailand In Chinese Newspaper Headlines: The Analysis Of Contents And Language Use, Seubpong Changboonchu

Journal of Letters

This article studies the content, structure, and language used in Chinese newspaper headlines related to Thailand and examines images that represent Thailand in the same headlines, collecting 474 pieces of data from a Chinese daily newspaper, People’s Daily, from a 5-year period from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2019. The study found that news related to Thailand has been constantly featured in Chinese daily newspapers. The most commonly featured stories are about politics, followed by social and economic news. The unique structures of Chinese newspaper headlines found in political news are as follows; real names and positions of the …

An Analysis Of Writing Assignments In German Textbooks Schritte International Neu I And Ii, Supatcha Jennasombut

Journal of Letters

The purpose of this research is to analyze the writing assignments in German textbooks, Schritte international neu I and II, which are used in German classes at the Faculty of Humanities, Srinakharinwirot University. Rainer Bohn’s theory of writing assignment classification is used as an analytical framework.  According to this theory, writing assignments can be classified into two main types: writing assignments for developing vocabulary, grammar, listening skills, speaking skills, and reading skills; and assignments for developing writing skills. It is found that the writing assignments in these two textbooks are mostly for vocabulary and grammar review. The types of …

The Comparative Study On The Composition And Motifs In Heaven Scene From Edo Period’S Oujouyoushuu And Early Rattanakosin Period’S Triphum Paintings, Namsai Tantisuk

Journal of Letters

This paper is a part of a research project titled “The concept of “heaven” through its expression in Japanese and Thai paintings”. The objective of this research is to investigate the concepts and representations of heaven in Japanese and Thai paintings, focusing on Japanese Rokudou-e and Oujouyoushuu paintings from the Edo period and Thai Triphum paintings from the Early Rattanakosin period. In this paper, results pertaining to Oujouyoushuu and Triphum paintings will be presented. After analyzing the motifs and composition of the paintings, works from the Edo period which depicted heaven as one of the Six Realms can be found …

From The Hague To Jakarta: Changes In Thai Foreign Policy Towards The Netherlands In 1949, Thanat Preeyanont

Journal of Letters

In 1945, a few days after the Japanese Imperial Army had surrendered, the indigenous people on the Indonesian archipelago established the Republic of Indonesia and declared independence from their colonizers, the Dutch. The events led to a 4-year conflict including physical war and negotiations, before the Dutch government finally transferred its sovereignty over the archipelago to the indigenous government in 1949. Through historical diplomatic correspondence from both Thai and Dutch archives, this article examines changes in Thai foreign policy towards the Netherlands in the last year of the conflict. Between 1945-1949 the Thai government almost always recognized Dutch sovereignty over …