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Cannabinoid And Substance Relationships Of European Congenital Anomaly Patterns: A Space-Time Panel Regression And Causal Inferential Study, Albert Stuart Reece, Gary Kenneth Hulse

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

With reports from Australia, Canada, USA, Hawaii and Colorado documenting a link between cannabis and congenital anomalies (CAs), this relationship was investigated in Europe. Data on 90 CAs were accessed from Eurocat. Tobacco and alcohol consumption and median household income data were from the World Bank. Amphetamine, cocaine and last month and daily use of cannabis from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. Cannabis herb and resin Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol concentrations were from published reports. Data were processed in R. Twelve thousand three hundred sixty CA rates were sourced across 16 nations of Europe. Nations with a higher or …

The Effects Of Building Envelope Parameters On Energy Performance For High-Rise Buildings In Central Saudi Arabia, Nadia Arafah

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Sustainable design is achievable based on the social, economic, and environmental pillars interrelated with energy consumption worldwide. Saudi Arabia is one of the largest countries that consume massive amounts of energy, mainly for generating electricity to operate buildings and cope with population growth. Despite Saudi Arabia’s fast economic development, building envelopes in Saudi Arabia deserve more research attention to address energy consumption and environmental challenges. With the extremely hot weather in the country, building occupants use air conditioning extensively to overcome the heat and achieve thermal comfort. This research analyzed building envelope variables in an existing building in Riyadh, Saudi …

When Cpr Is Needed, Robert E. Zdor

Faculty Publications

Column: Practical Pointers

Eight Tips For Teaching Through Tough Times, Glynis M. Bradfield

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Eight Approaches To Values Education, Glynis Bradfield

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A Three-Story Approach To Teaching Scripture, Scott R. Ward

Faculty Publications

As we interact with youmg people, we must remember that as Christian educators, our primary goal is to help them find their place in the story of God. We must show them where they appear and how choosing Jesus can change their lives. Then we must show them where they fit into the community of believers and provide opportunities for them to “live” their stories in mission and outreach opportunities in the world around them. We must play our part by being ready daily to share how our devotional times with Jesus each day are impacting our lives and decisions …

With All Your Heart For A Lifetime, Jasmine Fraser

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Discipling Our Children With Love, David Sedlacek, Beverly Sedlacek

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Digital Channels In Predicting Objective And Subjective Negotiation Outcomes, Roshni Raveendhran, Tami Kim, Ji Woon Ryu

Business Faculty Publications and Presentations

Today’s hiring and workplace communications are increasingly occurring in the digital space, a trend accelerated by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. In two preregistered experiments and an internal meta-analysis, we test the subjective and objective impact of two digital channels—video and synchronous text—that are popularly used in today’s workplace contexts. In doing so, we isolate the role that richness of digital channels plays in influencing negotiation outcomes while holding synchrony constant. Specifically, we predicted that negotiating via video (vs. synchronous text) will foster better integrative outcomes and improve negotiators’ subjective outcomes. Results indicated that negotiating via video, compared to synchronous …

Détection Moléculaire Et Quantification Absolue Des Bactéries Du Genre Legionella Par Ddpcr, Delphine Lanoie, Audrey Bernèche-D'Amours, Nancy Lacombe, Thi Thanh Tam Nguyen, Geneviève Marchand

Microbiologiques

L’équipe de la direction des laboratoires de l’IRSST vient de publier une nouvelle méthode, MA-410 intitulée Détection moléculaire et quantification absolue des bactéries du genre Legionella par ddPCR.

La MA-410 utilise une technique de pointe en biologie moléculaire et comporte de nombreux avantages, notamment la détection de l’ADN de Legionella dans des échantillons où il y a prépondérance d’une flore hétérotrophe ou présence d’autres contaminants normalement inhibiteurs. De plus, la MA-410 est considérablement plus rapide que la méthode conventionnelle par culture, tout en étant moins dispendieuse.

La méthode MA-410 analyse l’eau ou les sols et permet de déterminer si …

Cradle-To-Grave Life Cycle Assessment Of Production And Consumption Of Pulses In The United States, Prathamesh A. Bandekar, Ben Putman, Greg Thoma, Marty Matlock

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Environmental impact associated with production and consumption of pulses in the United States was evaluated using life cycle assessment (LCA). The system boundary was set to cradle-to-grave with a functional unit of 60 g (dry basis) of pulses consumed in a US household. Varieties of pulses modeled in the study included field pea (Pisum sativum), lentil (Lens culinaris), chickpea (Cicer arietinum), and dry bean. Three methods of cooking pulses at the consumer stage tested in the study were cooking in open vessel on electric cooking range (OVC), cooking in stovetop pressure cooker on electric cooking range (SPC), and cooking in …

Understanding The Influence Of Authentic Leadership And Employee-Organization Relationships On Employee Voice Behaviors In Response To Dissatisfying Events At Work, Young Kim, Ejae Lee, Minjeong Kang, Sung-Un Yang

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

This study demonstrates how authentic leadership and the quality of employee-organization relationships (EOR) influence employee behavioral reactions to dissatisfying events at work. We conducted a nationwide survey of 644 full-time employees in the United States. The results from the structural equation modeling (SEM) revealed that authentic leadership was positively and directly related to employees’ considerate voice but was not directly associated with other behavioral responses. Additionally, the quality of EOR was found to be a strong mediator between authentic leadership and employee behaviors—particularly in enhancing considerate voice and patience and reducing exit—in the context of dissatisfying workplace events. The implications …

Exploring Effects Of Message Framing On Supportive Behaviors Toward Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility, Young Kim, Myoung-Gi Chon

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to shed light on how effective environmental corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication can be achieved through persuasive communication strategies using message framing.

Design/methodology/approach

This study conducted an online experimental study with a 2 (narrative: narrative or non-narrative) × 2 (framing: gain or loss) between-subjects design.

Findings

The findings showed that environmental CSR communication using narrative framing messages is most effective in creating strong CSR associations between a company and the environmental CSR domain and sharing the company's CSR information on supportive communication and advocating for the environmental campaign.

Originality/value

This study highlights the …

2022 Stem Research Showcase Program, Seattle University

STEM Research Showcase Programs

No abstract provided.

Ypsi Residents Celebrate City's Bicentennial By Writing Love Letters To Ypsilanti, Sarah Rigg

YpsiWrites Publicity

No abstract provided.

What Are You Most Excited For In Washtenaw County In 2023?, Concentrate Staff

YpsiWrites Publicity

No abstract provided.

Upcoming Ypsilanti Events To Celebrate Black History Week, Breanna Harris

YpsiWrites Publicity

No abstract provided.

Nonprofit Ypsiwrites Launches Writers Room Pilot Program To Create Community For Local Writers, Sarah Rigg

YpsiWrites Publicity

No abstract provided.

Photo Essay: Scenes From Ypsilanti's 2022 Parkridge Summerfest And Joe Dulin Community Day, Sarah Rigg, Nick Hagen

YpsiWrites Publicity

No abstract provided.

Life & Work With Ann Blakeslee, Staff

YpsiWrites Publicity

No abstract provided.

Approaching An Untamed Poetry: Arab North American Poetry In The Classroom, Rachel Norman

Faculty Publications

This essay by Rachel Norman originally appeared in the edited volume, Teaching Asian North American Texts.

#Fintok And Financial Regulation, Nikita Aggarwal, D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Christopher K. Odinet

Faculty Scholarship

Social media platforms are becoming an increasingly important site for consumer finance. This phenomenon is referred to as “FinTok,” a reference to the “#fintok” hashtag that identifies financial content on TikTok, a popular social media platform. This Essay examines the new methodological possibilities for consumer financial regulation due to FinTok. It argues that FinTok content offers a novel and valuable source of data for identifying emerging fintech trends and associated consumer risks. As such, financial regulators should use FinTok content analysis—and social media content analysis more broadly—as an additional method for the supervision and regulation of consumer financial markets. The …

Proportional Fair Clustered Federated Learning, Mohamed Nafea, Eugine Shin, Aylin Yener

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper studies federated learning (FL) with non-identical data generating distributions and under the notion of proportional fairness. Users are partitioned into disjoint clusters based on their data distributions, and a distinct model is learnt for each cluster. Different than previous work that considered clustering to optimize personalized learning performance, here clustering is inspected under the disparate impact doctrine which requires that protected classes (e.g., those of certain race or gender) have representations in every cluster that are approximately equal to their representation in the overall set of users. A family of iterative algorithms that balance the learning performance and …

Detection Of Epilepsy Using Machine Learning, Balamurugan Murugesan

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

Epilepsy is a complex neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures. An electroencephalogram (EEG) is typically used in the diagnosis of Epilepsy. Normally, EEGs are reviewed and analyzed by trained neurologists, but this can be time-consuming and error-prone. In this paper, we propose combining multiple classifiers in a multi-level fashion using stacked generalization to develop an effective solution for the detection of epilepsy using EEG data. Different classifiers such as Random Forest (RF), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), and XGBoost (XGB) were tested. The method was evaluated using Children’s Hospital Boston and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (CHB-MIT) dataset. The experimental results demonstrated …

Borderplex Business Barometer, Volume 6, Number 1, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Steven L. Fullerton

Border Region Modeling Project

No abstract provided.

Highlights Of The Borderplex Economic Outlook To 2023, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Steven L. Fullerton

Border Region Modeling Project

No abstract provided.

Mexico Consensus Economic Forecast, Volume 25, Number 1, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Steven L. Fullerton

Border Region Modeling Project

No abstract provided.

The Nhlbi Study On Long-Term Outcomes After The Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome In Children (Music): Design And Objectives, Dongngan T Truong, Felicia L Trachtenberg, Gail D Pearson, Audrey Dionne, Matthew D Elias, Kevin Friedman, Kerri H Hayes, Lynn Mahony, Brian W Mccrindle, Matthew E Oster, Victoria Pemberton, Andrew J Powell, Mark W Russell, Lara S Shekerdemian, Mary Beth Son, Michael Taylor, Jane W Newburger

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

BACKGROUND: The Long-terM OUtcomes after the Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome In Children (MUSIC) study aims to characterize the frequency and time course of acute and long-term cardiac and non-cardiac sequelae in multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children associated with COVID-19 (MIS-C), which are currently poorly understood.

METHODS: This multicenter observational cohort study will enroll at least 600 patientsyears, and optional genetic testing. Cardiac imaging at specific time points includes standardized echocardiographic assessment (all participants) and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) in those with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF)

CONCLUSION: The MUSIC study, with the largest cohort of MIS-C patients and the longest …

Biomarkers Of Response And Resistance To Palbociclib Plus Letrozole In Patients With Er+/Her2- Breast Cancer, Mitch Dowsett, Lucy Kilburn, Mothaffar F Rimawi, C Kent Osborne, Katherine Pogue-Geile, Yuan Liu, Samuel A Jacobs, Melanie Finnigan, Shannon Puhalla, Andrew Dodson, Vera Martins, Maggie Cheang, Sophie Perry, Chris Holcombe, Nick Turner, Claire Swift, Judith M Bliss, Stephen Johnston

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

PURPOSE: To determine (i) the relationship between candidate biomarkers of the antiproliferative (Ki67) response to letrozole and palbociclib alone and combined in ER

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: 307 postmenopausal women with ER+/HER2− primary breast cancer were randomly assigned to neoadjuvant treatment with letrozole for 14 weeks; letrozole for 2 weeks, then letrozole+palbociclib to 14 weeks; palbociclib for 2 weeks, then letrozole+palbociclib to 14 weeks; or letrozole+palbociclib for 14 weeks. Biopsies were taken at baseline, 2 and 14 weeks and surgery at varying times after stopping palbociclib. Immunohistochemical analyses were conducted for Ki67, c-PARP, ER, PgR, RB1, CCNE1, and CCND1.

RESULTS: Higher baselines …

Nh 4-H Community Ambassador, Kristen Landau

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.