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Underutilized Potential Of Small-Scale Oyster Reef Restoration Units As Habitat For Invertebrates, Jillian Hanley

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2020 - Present

Oyster reefs play vital roles in an estuary’s health by filtering the water and by serving as nurseries for many aquatic animals. The objective of this research was to investigate habitat use of smaller macroinvertebrates on restored oyster reefs. Small-scale (approx. 10 cm3) cage (bagged shell) and string (hanging shell) oyster cultch units were deployed on two restored oyster reefs in the Loxahatchee River Estuary for one year. Fauna inhabiting the units were monitored monthly, identified to the lowest practical taxonomic level, and categorized into functional groups based on feeding mode, living position, and mobility. Results showed similar abundance, richness, …

Folkway To National Religion: The Metamorphosis Of Shinto During The Meiji Era, Jorge Rafael Hernanez

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2020 - Present

During the Meiji era (1869-1912) a group of academics known as the National learning school helped create and then institute a civic religion known as State Shinto. This belief system took aspects of the folkway known as Shinto and modified it into a form of nationalism which centered on the figure of the Japanese Emperor. This Thesis examines the applications of State Shinto, how affected the lives of those living in Imperial Japan, and how State Shinto differs from its namesake.

Modeling Symmetries: An Analysis On The Interdisciplinary Applications Of Lie Groups, Reece Humphreys

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2020 - Present

Symmetries are a driving force in the universe and continue to reveal themselves the deeper we look. While many undergraduate mathematics students are introduced to symmetries with group theory, many practical applications are often overlooked. The application of symmetries provides deep insights into various problems and can frequently simplify complex mathematics. Applying symmetries typically requires high-level mathematics that can be prohibitive for people within other disciplines. As such, this paper explores how Lie groups, a mathematical structure for representing symmetries, can be utilized in computing, physics, and control theory to solve practical problems from within these elds. It also serves …

The Impact Of A Traumatic Brain Injury, Sarah Hemmen

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2020 - Present

A traumatic brain injury (TBI) diagnosis is devastating for any family. This devastation is often increased and emphasized by the evident lack of resources for these families and caregivers, to maneuver through the steps of recovery. TBI's have been given the nicknae of "the silent epidemic,” and there is increasing, though still minimal, recognition or discussion of this injury. This thesis looks at the causes, types, and frequencies of traumatic brain injuries, as well as the psychological, financial, and burden experienced by the parents, siblings, and caregivers in addition to the patient themselves. We can conclude that more resources need …

From Treatment To Trauma: First-Line Cancer Treatment And Cancer-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, An Ly

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2020 - Present

The epidemiology of cancer-related PTSD is well-documented, but the effect of first-line cancer treatments on the prevalence and severity of PTSD has yet to be consolidated. Unlike many other traumatic events preceding the onset of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the cancer experience has ongoing stages of diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship that each present their own stressors. Due to the multifaceted nature of cancer-related trauma, it is important to understand how each component of the experience plays a role in the onset of mental illness. Thus, I review the existing literature to elucidate how the biochemical changes induced by chemotherapy, radiation, …

Orbital Debris Cloud Evolution: An Analysis Of Fragmentation Events In Low Earth Orbit, Reece Humphreys

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2020 - Present

The amount of orbital debris has rapidly grown due to humanity's de- sire to work in, explore, and utilize space. However, compared to most types of pollution that people experience daily, it is unlikely that the aver- age person will ever encounter space pollution. Yet, it poses a signi cant threat to many technologies we depend on daily such as GPS and weather prediction satellites. Orbital debris are the remnants of orbital collisions, weapons tests, decommissioned satellites, and spent rocket stages that are passing over our heads faster than bullets and containing similar energy to hand grenades. This paper explores …

The Efficacy Of Vaccines For Sars.Cov-2, Kartikk Musiri Ilamadi

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2020 - Present

Coronavirus disease 2019, also known as the COVID-19, is the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). This disease is first identified in Wuhan, China and has spread across the world causing a pandemic. With the majority of countries shutting down and the infection spreading exponentially, countries raced to find safe and effective vaccines. Nearly a year after the first confirmed case in the United States, vaccines were ready to be administered. The three major vaccines in the United States were Pfizer- BioNTech, Johnson and Johnson and the Moderna Vaccines. The Pfizer-BioNTech and the Moderna required two …

The Merits Of Neurofeedback Integration Into The Treatment Of Opioid Use Disorder, Shelley Machado

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2020 - Present

Opioid use disorder (OUD) is of significant concern and continues to pose a challenge to many. It is well established that despite the standard treatment options currently utilized, many are still dying from opioid overdose each year. This research aimed to create a plan integrating neurofeedback training into the treatment for opioid use disorder and evaluate the merits of doing so. Neurofeedback is an operant conditioning-based approach that uses EEG or fMRI to measure brain wave activation and alter brain wave patterns. Research articles currently testing samples of individuals with opioid addiction and co-occurring conditions were reviewed and favored in …

Neurofeedback Training Therapy: The Future Of Treatment Options For Alzheimer’S Disease, Alyssa Maria Payne

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2020 - Present

This exploratory investigation seeks to evaluate the efficacy of Neurofeedback (NFB) Training Therapy, a type of biofeedback that works with the brain’s natural capacity for plasticity, as a viable treatment for patients with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Strengthening connections among remaining neurons despite neurogenesis may benefit patients. However, the vast array of methodologies utilizing different technologies and focusing on varying brain waves makes it challenging to determine the true efficacy of the treatment methods, especially when compounded with the number of disorders each method is claimed to treat. Therefore, this investigation aims to address 1) technology that will best target specific …

Self-Driving Cars And The Value Of Human Life, Madison Nissan

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2020 - Present

There are several different normative ethical frameworks one can use for determining or measuring the value of a human life, including deontological and utilitarian theories on how we ought to make decisions regarding which lives have more value. I intend to evaluate these frameworks and apply them to the problem of self driving cars, which pose both ethical and legal issues. These cars will have to be programmed to make decisions in the case of emergency situations, and the question of who and how we should be programming these vehicles to best promote the common good is a difficult one. …

Economics In Literature: An Analysis Of Economic Theory In John Milton’S Paradise Lost, Thalita Saide

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2020 - Present

John Milton’s Paradise Lost is a poetry text rife with economic thought that precedes the publications of the most prominent thinkers in modern economics. Centered mostly around ideas of Christianity, Milton’s work uses allegory and imagery to emphasize the economic dynamics that are embedded in religious thought. I will analyze Paradise Lost as a theoretical economic framework that consolidates the never-ending struggle between free-market capitalism and communism—represented by the Devil and God. Looking closely at key features of Christian theology and analyzing it through the lens of Milton’s work, I will relate key events in Genesis to modern economic theory.

Stinging Ants At Gopher Tortoise Burrows, Valerie Viluan

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2020 - Present

Several predatory ant species are known to attack, injure, and even kill vertebrates. Perhaps the most notorious of these are the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta and the little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata. In areas where they invade, both are most common in disturbed habitats. Solenopsis invicta often dominates open, grassy areas, while Wasmannia auropunctata more often dominates in forested areas. This study compares the distribution of ant species, including Solenopsis invicta and Wasmannia auropunctata at the burrows of Gopher Tortoises at the Abacoa Greenway located in Jupiter, Florida. Wasmannia auropunctata replaced Solenopsis invicta as the dominating species at …

Automatic Fish Tracking: Keeping Track Of Who's Who, Ari Spraggins

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2020 - Present

Automatic video tracking has had a major impact on animal behavior studies. One of the challenges of this technique is keeping track of the identities of the sh, especially when they swim together and exchange positions. In this project we use the python programming language to address this problem for groups of sh. The video data comes from schooling assays performed at FAU's Cave sh Trilab (Dr. Keene, Dr. Duboue, and Dr. Kowalko). The method is inspired by the idTracker animal tracking software: we track patterns of brightness as a visual identi er of each sh which we then use …

Unm Health Sciences Center Data Book 2020-21, University Of New Mexico - Health Sciences Center

Health Sciences Center Databook (1990-ongoing)

No abstract provided.

Unm Pathology Pathfinder Winter 2021, Unm Department Of Pathology

Newsletters

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Inter-Organisational Relationships For Social Impact: A Systematic Literature Review, Dariusz Siemieniako, Krzysztof Kubacki, Maciej Mitręga

Plymouth Business School

No abstract provided.

Knowledge Mobilisation Crossing Boundaries: A Multi-Perspective Framework For Agri-Food Value Chains, S. Liu, G. Zhao, H. Chen, A. Fernandez, D. Torres, L. Antonelli, H. Panetto, M. Lezoche

Plymouth Business School

No abstract provided.

Covid-19, Politics, Economics And How The Future Pans Out Are Inseparable, Stephen Thomas Green, Lorenzo Cladi

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

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Children And Crime: In The Moment, K Haines, S Case, R Smith, Laidler K Joe, N Hughes, C Webster, T Goddard, J Deakin, D Johns, K Richards, P Gray

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

Traditional approaches to understanding and responding to children and crime are fundamentally based on ‘miniaturised’ adult models. The assumption appears to be that children are adults in the making, essentially just smaller, developing versions of grown-ups. This view of children is increasingly being challenged. Children are not simply putative adults, they are different, distinct and developing. This article sets out to explore the notion that children essentially think and behave ‘in the moment’. The implications of this for our understanding of children and crime are also explored.

Empowered!® Tool, Andrea Merriam

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

The emPowered!® Tool is a communication resource to help people with Parkinson’s, family members, and clinicians discuss symptoms and disease progression more effectively and efficiently.

In a PMD Alliance survey, 63% of people with Parkinson’s (PwP) reported that they forgot to share something important with their doctor, 57% reported that they minimize the impact of their symptoms when talking with their doctor, and 30% were concerned that they would be perceived as a complainer. This data, combined with ethnographic research of hundreds of PwP, care partners, and clinicians, motivated PMD Alliance to develop the emPowered!® Tool.

Not simply a symptom …

Neuro Life Online®, Andrea Merriam

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Neuro Life Online® is an online platform delivering live-stream social and educational programs to the movement disorder community via Zoom video conferencing.

In 2016, PMDAlliance began testing Neuro Life Online® (NLO) as a pilot initiative to expand Parkinson’s disease education services in rural/underserved areas. NLO offers live-stream physician-based education, wellness coaching, social opportunities, and assistance in setting up telemedicine services for unserved and underserved populations across the US and internationally.

The need for more services is obvious. 19% of people in the US (60 million people) and 45% worldwide live in rural areas, based on a 2007 UN report. A …

Adult Children Private Facebook Group, Andrea Merriam

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

An online forum for adult children of people with Parkinson’s allows peers living a shared experience to offer support, share tips and information, and be heard.

Living optimally despite the complex and progressive symptoms of Parkinson disease requires a team effort with caregivers and family members playing both offense and defense positions. They alternate planning and preparing for the future with responding and adjusting to the constant demands and problems encountered every day. In nearly all aging populations, adult children at some point become heavily involved in screening treatments, interventions and support. This is particularly true with PD due to …

Targeted Measures To Enhance Research Conduct During The Covid-19 Pandemic In The Field Of Brain And Behavioral Health, L Stacy, D Rodriguez, L Enriquez-Marquez, R Rai, S Chambers, S Ruyak, L N. Bakhireva

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic brought two months of campus-wide limited operations at UNM, which resulted in restricted access to clinic populations, limiting in-person study recruitment and assessment opportunities. This presentation highlights the innovative measures taken by the UNM College of Pharmacy’s Substance Use Research and Education (SURE) Center in response to pandemic-induced constrains to ensure continuous enrollment and data collection in ongoing studies.

Methods: Research activities were maintained remotely through novel implementation of several technologies. To recruit participants remotely, a study coordinator contacts providers with the names of potentially eligible patients, after which a contact form is submitted via REDCap …

Neural Network Based Occupancy Prediction Using Patterns Detected In Wifi Occupancy, Krishna Chaitanya Jagadeesh Simma, Thomas P. Caudell, Susan M. Bogus

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

The role of occupants in building energy management is well established. Occupant information from commercial buildings can function as a metric for the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) loads. Predicting these loads ahead in time could aid in setting up HVAC protocols to minimize wasteful energy demand and improve occupant comfort. To this extent, several frameworks were proposed that use occupancy data collected from commercial office buildings and graduate student offices to predict occupancy. However, the occupancy data collected in these frameworks are controlled and have limited complexity compared to larger commercial spaces such as airports, libraries, lecture halls, …

Solving Neutrosophic Linear Equations Systems Using Symbolic Computation (Resolucion De Sistemas De Ecuaciones Lineales Neutrosóficas Mediante Computación Simbólica), Maykel Leyva-Vazquez, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In this paper, we apply the concept of neutrosophic numbers to solve a systems of neutrophic linear equations using symbolic computation. Also, we utilize Jupyter, which is supported in Google Colaboratory for performing symbolic computation. The sympy library of Python is used to perform the process of neutrosophic computation. Systems of neutrosophic linear equations are solved through symbolic computation in Python. A case study was developed for the determination of vehicular traffic with indeterminacy. This king of computation opens new ways to deal with indeterminacy in real-world problems.

Indeterminacy In Neutrosophic Theories And Their Applications, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

Indeterminacy makes the main distinction between fuzzy / intuitionistic fuzzy (and other extensions of fuzzy) set / logic vs. neutrosophic set / logic, and between classical probability and neutrosophic probability. Also, between classical statistics vs. neutrosophic and plithogenic statistics, between classical algebraic structures vs. neutrosophic algebrais structures, between crisp numbers vs. neutrosophic numbers. We present a broad definition of indeterminacy, various types of indeterminacies, and many practical applications.

Techno-Art Of Selariu Supermathematics Functions, Vol. Iii, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

The name of supermathematics (SM) was coined by the late mathematician Prof. em. Dr. doc. eng. Gheorghe Silaş who, at the presentation of the first works in this field, at the First National Conference of Vibrations in Machine Construction, Timişoara, 1978, entitled “EXCENTRIC CIRCULAR FUNCTIONS” declared: “Young man, you didn't just discover some new functions, but a new mathematics, a supermathematics”. Then, at my age of 40, I was as happy as I was when a teenager. And I found, with great satisfaction, that he might be right! In 1978! In 2000, after 22 years, he offered me to write …

A Review On Electroculture, Magneticulture And Laserculture To Boostplant Growth, Victor Christianto, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

While several reviews on potential applications of electroculture are available, in this survey, we discuss these issues from history, starting from earliest experiments by Ross. And in the last section, we discuss possible application of laserculture, another form of potential improvement. It is our hope that what we present here may be found useful for improving agricultural performance in many countries, as well as reducing dependence on fertilizer.

Neutroalgebra Theory, Vol. I, Florentin Smarandache, Memet Şahin, Derya Bakbak, Vakkas Uluçay, Abdullah Kargın

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In general, in any field of knowledge, with respect to any structure, one has the following neutrosophic triplet . They were introduced by Smarandache in 2019 and 2020.

1) A classical Structure is a structure whose all elements are characterized by the same given Relationships and Attributes and Laws.

2) A NeutroStructure is a structure that has at least one NeutroRelation or one NeutroAttribute or one NeutroLaw, and no AntiRelation and no AntiAttribute and no AntiLaw.

3) An AntiStructure is a structure that has at least one AntiRelation or one AntiAttribute or one AntiLaw.

As a particular case, in the …

Improvement Of Proportional Conflict Redistribution Rules Of Combination Of Basic Belief Assignments, Theo Dezert, Jean Dezert, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

This paper discusses and analyzes the behaviors of the Proportional Conflict Redistribution rules no. 5 (PCR5) and no. 6 (PCR6) to combine several distinct sources of evidence characterized by their basic belief assignments defined over the same frame of discernment. After a brief review of these rules, the paper shows through simple examples why their behaviors can sometimes increase the uncertainty more than necessary, which is detrimental to decision-making support drawn from the result of the combination.We present a theoretical improvement of these rules, and establish new PCR5+ and PCR6+ rules of combination. These new rules overcome the weakness of …