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Cardiovascular Metrics Associated With Prevention Of Aging-Related Parkinsonian Signs Following Exercise Intervention In Sedentary Older Rats, Ella A. Kasanga, Joel Little, Tamara R. Mcinnis, Nicoleta Bugnariu, J. Thomas Cunningham, Michael F. Salvatore

Pacific Faculty Work

Preservation of motor capabilities is vital to maintaining independent daily living throughout a person's lifespan and may mitigate aging-related parkinsonism, a progressive and prevalent motor impairment. Physically active lifestyles can mitigate aging-related motor impairment. However, the metrics of physical activity necessary for mitigating parkinsonian signs are not established. Consistent moderate intensity (~10 m/min) treadmill exercise can reverse aging-related parkinsonian signs by 20 weeks in a 2-week on, 2-week off, regimen in previously sedentary advanced middle-aged rats. In this study, we initiated treadmill exercise in sedentary 18-month-old male rats to address two questions: (1) if a rest period not longer than …

Graph Based Management Of Temporal Data, Alex Fotso

Master of Science in Computer Science Theses

In recent decades, there has been a significant increase in the use of smart devices and sensors that led to high-volume temporal data generation. Temporal modeling and querying of this huge data have been essential for effective querying and retrieval. However, custom temporal models have the problem of generalizability, whereas the extended temporal models require users to adapt to new querying languages. In this thesis, we propose a method to improve the modeling and retrieval of temporal data using an existing graph database system (i.e., Neo4j) without extending with additional operators. Our work focuses on temporal data represented as intervals …

Nursing Management To Reduce Hospital Readmissions After Percutaneous Coronary Interventions- Integrative Review, Jeena S. Daniel, Doreen Wagner

Master of Science in Nursing Final Projects

Abstract

Percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) are considered life-saving techniques in the event of myocardial infarction and remain the standard of care for managing acute heart attack. Given the success of the procedures, decreased complications, and the economic advantage over open-heart surgery, coronary interventions continue to be the preferred treatment choice. However, amidst the growth and success of these procedures, readmissions after percutaneous coronary interventions have been identified and still prevail among hospitals. Hence, the goal was to conduct an integrative review to identify and synthesize literature on the interventions that help reduce readmissions after percutaneous coronary interventions and illuminate nurses' …

University Policy Committee Recommendation, University Senate

University Senate Actions

Recommendation for University-wide Policy Process and Formation of University Policy Committee (2021)

Shared-Governance Video-Conferencing Access Resolution, University Senate

University Senate Actions

Resolution for Video Conferencing Access to Shared Governance Meetings (2021)

Reusable Containers Access Recommendation, University Senate

University Senate Actions

Recommendation for Access to Reusable “To-Go” Containers for Individuals with Block-Based Meal Plans (2021)

Single Use Plastics Recommendation, University Senate

University Senate Actions

Recommendation on Single Use Plastics (2021)

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks For Accurate Diagnosis Of Covid-19 Patients Using Chest X-Ray Image Databases From Italy, Canada, And The Usa, Amgad A. Salama, Samy H. Darwish, Samir M. Abdel-Mageed, Radwa A. Meshref, Ehab I. Mohamed

The University of Louisville Journal of Respiratory Infections

Introduction: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), famously known as COVID-19, has quickly become a global pandemic. Chest X-ray (CXR) imaging has proven reliable, fast, and cost-effective for identifying COVID-19 infections, which proceeds to display atypical unilateral patchy infiltration in the lungs like typical pneumonia. We employed the deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) ResNet-34 to detect and classify CXR images from patients with COVID-19 and Viral Pneumonia and Normal Controls.

Methods: We created a single database containing 781 source CXR images from four different international sub-databases: the Società Italiana di Radiologia Medica e Interventistica (SIRM), the GitHub Database, the …

Utilizing Software Engineering And Cloud Computing Principles To Develop The Revised Self-Report Assessment Of Functional Visual Performance (R-Srafvp) Application, Kirk Hedlich

Masters Projects

Can principles from software engineering and concepts from cloud computing be applied to and aid in the development of a small project, specifically improving the use of the Revised Self-Report Assessment of Functional Visual Performance (R-SRAFVP)? The target for this project is to create a new application and improve on existing attempts to move the R-SRAFVP assessment from an electronic document format to a web-based application. The new application should provide better ease of use, simplicity in design and understanding for use, and hopefully increased access and adoption by Occupation Therapists who specialize in low vision rehabilitation. The benefits of …

Detecting Apple Crop Pest Insects From Eptesicus Fuscus (Big Brown Bat) Feces Using Metabarcoding In Southern Michigan Apple Orchards, Randi Lesagonicz

Masters Projects

Michigan is ranked third in the U.S. for apple production. Michigan State University identified 78 pest insect species that cause damage to Michigan’s crop. Orchards using conventional and integrated pest management (IPM) spend thousands of dollars on pest control substances, which are hazardous to the environment and human health, and do not prevent 100% of crop damage and losses. The public’s increasing desire for “cleaner” foods has led to studies on how to incorporate more naturally occurring pest biocontrol agents. Bats have been recognized as pest insect biocontrol agents in numerous U.S. agroecosystems like corn, cotton, and pecans; however, little …

Depression As A Moderator Of The Relationship Between Perceived Injustice And Neuropsychological Performance Validity Among Individuals Previously Diagnosed With A Concussion, Jeremiah Lum

Clinical Psychology Dissertations

Concussion is one of the most common conditions seen within rehabilitation and neuropsychology. Given that many concussions are diagnosed following litigation-associated injuries, it is unsurprising that malingered neurocognitive deficit (i.e., deliberate underperformance on cognitive instruments in the interest of secondary gain) has dominated the concussion literature. Although the identification of malingering is essential to ethical assessment, its presence or absence is not the sole determinant of performance validity as a whole. Rather, performance validity is a broad construct involving effort, which refers to examinees’ investment in performing at capacity levels; emerging research suggests this can be affected by psychological factors …

Informetrics Of Webinars Through Video Conferencing Platforms For Teaching And Learning By Different Lis Professional During Covid-19 Period: An Evaluative Study, Laltu Aich, Ankit Das

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Now-a-days education and educational resources are open to all but we are facing a terrible epidemic situation due to Corona virus (COVID-19), so we need different electronic learning platforms for e-learning. In this present study, authors have explained, how many webinars are organized by Library and Information Science (LIS) professional during this period April 2020 to June 2021, distribution of webinars based on month capacity, how many web conferencing platforms used in LIS related webinars, distribution of types of organizers of webinars, distribution of webinars based on the respective region, distribution of webinars by time duration and time schedule. The …

Piezoelectricity In Hafnia, Sangita Dutta, Pratyush Buragohain, Sebastjan Glinsek, Claudia Richter, Hugo Aramberri, Haidong Lu, Uwe Schroeder, Emmanuel Defay, Alexei Gruverman, Jorge Íñiguez

Department of Physics and Astronomy: Faculty Publications

Because of its compatibility with semiconductor-based technologies, hafnia (HfO₂) is today’s most promising ferroelectric material for applications in electronics. Yet, knowledge on the ferroic and electromechanical response properties of this all-important compound is still lacking. Interestingly, HfO₂ has recently been predicted to display a negative longitudinal piezoelectric effect, which sets it apart from classic ferroelectrics (e.g., perovskite oxides like PbTiO₃) and is reminiscent of the behavior of some organic compounds. The present work corroborates this behavior, by first-principles calculations and an experimental investigation of HfO₂ thin films using piezoresponse force microscopy. Further, the simulations …

Cold Conditioned: Discovery Of Novel Alleles For Low-Temperature Tolerance In The Vavilov Barley Collection, Ahmad H. Sallam, Kevin P. Smith, Gongshe Hu, Jamie Sherman, Peter Stephen Baeziger, Jochum Wiersma, Carl Duley, Eric J. Stockinger, Mark E. Sorrells, Tamas Szinyei, Igor G. Loskutov, Olga N. Kovaleva, Jed Eberly, Brian J. Steffenson

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Climate changes leading to higher summer temperatures can adversely affect cool season crops like spring barley. In the Upper Midwest region of the United States, one option for escaping this stress factor is to plant winter or facultative type cultivars in the autumn and then harvest in early summer before the onset of high-temperature stress. However, the major challenge in breeding such cultivars is incorporating sufficient winter hardiness to survive the extremely low temperatures that commonly occur in this production region. To broaden the genetic base for winter hardiness in the University of Minnesota breeding program, 2,214 accessions from the …

Low-Level Groundwater Atrazine In High Atrazine Usage Nebraska Counties: Likely Effects Of Excessive Groundwater Abstraction, Moses New-Aaron, Olufemi P. Abimbola, Raheleh Mohammadi, Oluwaseun Famojuro, Zaeema Naveed, Azar M Abadi, Jesse E. Bell, Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, Eleanor G. Rogan

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

Recent studies observed a correlation between estrogen-related cancers and groundwater atrazine in eastern Nebraska counties. However, the mechanisms of human exposure to atrazine are unclear because low groundwater atrazine concentration was observed in counties with high cancer incidence despite having the highest atrazine usage. We studied groundwater atrazine fate in high atrazine usage Nebraska counties. Data were collected from Quality Assessed Agrichemical Contaminant Nebraska Groundwater, Parameter–Elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM), and water use databases. Descriptive statistics and cluster analysis were performed. Domestic wells (59%) were the predominant well type. Groundwater atrazine was affected by well depth. Clusters consisting …

On The Bookshelf, Susan Dumais

UNH Today Archive

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“Many Thanks For Your Words”, Dave Moore

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Hope Is A Discipline, Susan Dumais

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

The Language Of Stem, Robbin Ray

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Unearthing Great Bay's Past, Rebecca Irelan

UNH Today Archive

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Going Local, Emma Joyce

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Rolling Up Our Sleeves, Susan Dumais

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Ward Based Goal Directed Fluid Therapy (Gdft) In Acute Pancreatitis (Gap) Trial: A Feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial [Isrctn 36077283], F Froghi, F Soggiu, F Ricciardi, C Vindrola-Padros, L Floros, D Martin, H Filipe, M Varcada, K Gurusamy, S Bhattacharya, A Fanshawe, B Dolcea, P Mathur, B Davidson

Peninsula Medical School

Background: Goal-directed fluid therapy (GDFT) reduces complications in patients undergoing major general surgery. There are no reports of cardiac output evaluation being used to optimise the fluid administration for patients with acute pancreatitis (AP) in a general surgery ward. Method: 50 patients with AP were randomised to either ward-based GDFT (n=25) with intravenous (IV) fluids administered based on stroke volume optimisation protocol or standard care (SC) (n=25), but with blinded cardiac output evaluation, for 48-hours following hospital admission. Primary outcome was feasibility. Results: 50 of 116 eligible patients (43.1%) were recruited over 20 months demonstrating feasibility. 36 (72%) completed the …

P-P06 Ward Based Goal Directed Fluid Therapy (Gdft) In Acute Pancreatitis (Gap) Trial: A Feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial [Isrctn 36077283], F Froghi, F Soggiu, F Ricciardi, C Vindrola-Padros, L Floros, D Martin, H Filipe, M Varcada, K Gurusamy, S Bhattacharya, A Fanshawe, B Dolcea, P Mathur, B Davidson

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

Panel With Governor Chris Christie And The Honorable Judge Paul Matey, Seton Hall Legislative Journal Sports Law Symposium

Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Money Laundering And The Art Market: Closing The Regulatory Gap, Adriana M. Baranello

Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Numerical Modeling Of Mineralizing Processes During The Formation Of The Yangzhuang Kiruna-Type Iron Deposit, Middle And Lower Yangtze River Metallogenic Belt, China: Implications For The Genesis And Longevity Of Kiruna-Type Iron Oxide-Apatite Systems, Xunyu Hu, Simon Jowitt, Feng Yuan, Guangxian Liu, Jinhui Luo, Yuhua Chen, Hui Yang, Keyue Ren, Yongguo Yang

Geoscience Faculty Research

The Yangzhuang iron deposit is a Kiruna-type iron oxide-apatite (IOA) deposit within the Ningwu mining district of the Middle and Lower Yangtze River Metallogenic Belt (MLYRMB), China. This study applies a numerical modeling approach to identify the key processes associated with the formation of the deposit that cannot be easily identified using traditional analytical approaches, including the duration of the mineralizing process and the genesis of iron orebodies within intrusions associated with the deposit. This approach highlights the practical value of numerical modeling in quantitatively analyzing mineralizing processes during the formation of mineral deposits and assesses how these methods can …

Minutes From December 15 2021, University Senate

University Senate Minutes

Minutes from December 15 2021 University Senate Meeting

The Effects Of Swamping On Nurses And The Implications For Professional Development, Barbara Ann Hocking

Dissertations

Nursing is a profession that is essential to the successful functioning of the health care system. The problems that compromise essential nursing practice within the work environment result in a costly health care quality crisis with three detrimental outcomes: (1) medical errors, (2) fragmentation of the care continuum, and (3) inefficiencies in health care processes.

This study aimed to investigate, through interviews and researcher observations, how nurses are affected by their environment in order to inform a plan for professional development.

License To Heal: Understanding A Healthcare Platform Organization As A Multi-Level Surveillant Assemblage, Handan Vicdan, Mar Pérezts, Asım Fuat Fırat

Management Faculty Publications

Platform organizations bring renewed attention to power disparities and risks in the rise of surveillance capitalism. However; such critical accounts provide a partial understanding of the complexity of surveillance phenomena in such shifting socio-technical and digital environments.The findings from a netnographic investigation of a healthcare platform organization, PatientsLikeMe, unravel how platforms become the locus where multi-level flows of surveillance converge, thereby constituting what we identify as a surveillant assemblage. We develop a comprehensive approach for understanding how platforms constitute a dynamic crossroads of micro-, meso- and macro-surveillance phenomena within and beyond the online communities they create.This study highlights this surveillant …