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Mount Sinai Tablet, 1964, V14, December, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Mount Sinai Hospital, Milwaukee, WI: Internal publication by and for hospital personnel, medical staff, Ladies' Auxiliary, and friends. This issue includes articles on the opening of a new students' hall, the 50th anniversary of the nursing school, a symposium on head injuries, and updates from the Ladies' Auxiliary.

Mount Sinai Tablet, 1967, V20, August, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Mount Sinai Hospital, Milwaukee, WI: Internal publication by and for hospital personnel, medical staff, Ladies' Auxiliary, and friends. This issue includes a cover photocollage from the night of the 1967 civil disturbances. Inside there are articles on the nursing school's graduation, employee benefits, new staff hires, promotions, and a directory of new residents, interns, and fellows.

Inferential Survival Analysis For Type Ii Censored Truncated Exponential Topp Leone Exponential Distribution With Application To Engineering Data, Samia A. Salem, Osama E. Abo-Kasem, Rania M. Agwa

Information Sciences Letters

This study focuses on estimating the unknown parameters of the truncated exponential Topp-Leon distribution using a type II scheme. We estimate the unknown parameters, survival, and hazard functions using maximum likelihood estimation methods. Additionally, we derive the approximate variance covariance matrix and asymptotic confidence intervals. Furthermore, we compute Bayesian estimates of the unknown parameters under squared error and linear loss functions. To generate samples from the posterior density functions, we use the Metropolies-Hastings algorithm. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed distribution by applying it to two data sets: Monte Carlo simulation and real data set. Our results show that …

Designing An Algorithm For Students Impact On Social Adaptive Behavior In Political Education Context, Reem. A. Alkenani, Nayef A. Wahsheh, Elham M. Alqsaireen, Rabie. H. Al-Zgool

Information Sciences Letters

This study aimed to discuss the social adjustment behaviors of university students. The social adjustment behaviors of university students not only relate to their healthy development but also significantly affect social development., the ideological and political education model combines with the impact on social adaptation behaviors of university students. It optimizes the article algorithm design and creates a theoretical model in the field of social adaptation of university students. The articles limitation is that it was made with a sample of 966 subjects. The methodology involved statistical analysis of students social adaptation status, understanding the average and standard deviation of …

Polypropylene Composites Reinforced By Marine Posidonia Fiber Waste: Effect Of Silane And Alkali Treatment, Saoussen Zannen, Mohammad Kanan, Mohamed Ben Hassen, Mohammed Khouj, Faouzi Sakli, Ahmad S. Barham

Information Sciences Letters

This paper investigates the effects of chemical treatment and the reinforcement rate on the mechanical properties of polypropylene composites reinforced with Posidonia waste fibers. Increasing the reinforcement rate from 20% to 30% improved Young’s modulus and the flexural modulus of the composite. Silane treatment had a positive effect on all the mechanical properties of the composite; on the other hand, the alkali treatment improved the tensile strength but decreased the flexural property of the composite. The greatest Young’s and flexural moduli were obtained in the case of 30% reinforcement treated with silane. The increases in these properties were 57.95% and …

Effect Of Self-Healing Concrete On Building Durability In The Uk Construction Market, Nizar N. Romman, Rodolphe Ocler, Hesham Abusaimeh

Information Sciences Letters

This study explores the effect of self-healing concrete in existing buildings and its crucial impact in terms of sustainability, permanence, and access to the internal strength of concrete in order to contribute to the process of protecting the internal parts of the building from the reinforcing steel structure as well as prevent the internal corrosion of iron reinforcement. This study also highlights the market growth side of the cement sector for self-healing products and access to growth in markets from (24 to 26%). Self-healing concrete technology is an advanced technology with self-healing compound. It allows for the repair of small …

Detecting Heart Attacks Using Learning Classifiers, Manar M. Hafez, Ramy S. Ebeid, Diana T. Mosa

Information Sciences Letters

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have emerged as a critical global threat to human life. The diagnosis of these diseases presents a complex challenge, particularly for inexperienced doctors, as their symptoms can be mistaken for signs of aging or similar conditions. Early detection of heart disease can help prevent heart failure, making it crucial to develop effective diagnostic techniques. Machine Learning (ML) techniques have gained popularity among researchers for identifying new patients based on past data. While various forecasting techniques have been applied to different medical datasets, accurate detection of heart attacks in a timely manner remains elusive. This article presents a …

A Proposed Framework To Improve Diagnosis Of Covid-19 Based On Patient’S Symptoms Using Feature Selection Optimization, Manar Elhussiny, O. E. Emam, Safaa.M.Azzam

Information Sciences Letters

Recently, an epidemic called COVID-19 appeared, and it was one of the largest epidemics that affected the world in all economic, educational, health, and other aspects due to its rapid spread worldwide. The surge in infection rates made traditional diagnostic methods ineffective. Systems for automatic diagnosis and detection are crucial for controlling the outbreak. Other than PCR-RT, further diagnostic and detection techniques are needed. Individuals who receive positive test results often experience a range of symptoms, ranging from mild to severe, including coughing, fever, sore throats, and body pains. In more extreme cases, infected individuals may exhibit severe symptoms that …

Green Synthesis Of Niobium Doped Calcium Magnesium Silicate Phosphor Using Stenotaphrum Secundatum Grass Extract, Solomon H. Didu, Menberu M. Woldemariam, Nebiyu G. Debelo

International Journal of Thin Film Science and Technology

Calcium magnesium silicate was synthesized via sol-gel route using calcium carbonate (CaCo3), magnesium carbonate (MgCo3) and Stenotaphrum secundatum grass extract (in place of tetraethylorthosilicate - TEOS) as a starting materials. The x-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier Transform Infra-Red Spectroscopy (FTIR), UV Visible (UV-Vis), Photoluminescence’s (PLs) as well as scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDX) were used to study the phase composition, functional groups identification, absorption spectra determination, examining excitation and emission spectra, surface morphology /microstructure and elemental composition analysis or mapping of the calcined product. The XRD analysis shows that the synthesized samples have tetragonal Calcium Magnesium …

Impact Of Rehabilitative Ultrasonography Imaging On Core Muscle Function In Patients With Visceral Adiposity: Randomized Controlled Trail, Omar M. Mabrouk, Amal H. Mohamed Ibrahim, Mayada Ashraf, Mohamed A. Shwiel

International Journal of Thin Film Science and Technology

Background: Overweight is an excessive fat accumulation that may impair health. Visceral adiposity is one of the common causes of decreased endurance and strength of core stabilizing muscles, lumbar spine dysfunction and respiratory impairment. Consequently, this study aimed to determine the impact of rehabilitative ultrasonography imaging (RUSI) guided core muscle exercise, cavitation lipolysis and their combination on visceral fat thickness, waist circumference (WC), transverse abdominis (TrA) activation ratio, and diaphragmatic excursion in patients with visceral adiposity. Methods: forty-five patients diagnosed as overweight with localized abdominal visceral fat deposits, recruited from clinical nutrition unit, Elminya University Hospital. Patients age ranged from …

Effect Of Endurance Training On Homocysteine Level In Elderly With Megaloblastic Anemia, Amir Abdel Moaty Serag, Nesreen Ghreeb Al Nahas, Gehan Mohamed Shaera, Azza Abdel Aziz Abdel Hady

International Journal of Thin Film Science and Technology

Background: Vitamin B12 deficiency causes megaloblastic anemia and it’s a major contributor to hyper-homo- cysteinemia which have been linked to the risk of vascular disease, stroke, and dementia and are relatively common in elderly. Aim of Study: To investigate effect of endurance training program on homocysteine level in elderly patients with megaloblastic anemia. Methods: Sixty elderly patients suffered from megaloblastic anemia, participated in this study were selected randomly from out-patient clinic of internal medicine in Sers Ellyan hospital with age mean ± SD values in groups (A) and (B) were 68.23±2.74 and 67.83±2.19 years, respectively. The study design was pre-post …

Finding The Why: Trauma's Origins And Effects In Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Hope Lopez

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis analyzes the effects of Toni Morrison’s first novel, The Bluest Eye, on its readers and the public discourse surrounding the central issue of systemic racism and incest. The central focus of the analysis is trauma in the novel: how Morrison captures that trauma in writing, how the reader encounters and interprets that trauma, and the effects of that trauma on the narrative and the reader. To construct this argument, I apply the lenses of reader response criticism, psychoanalysis, and trauma studies to the novel.

Morrison expressed concern that readers would miss the crucial message of why the …

Cpg Odn/Mangiferin Dual Delivery Through Calcium Alginate Hydrogels Inhibits Immune-Mediated Osteoclastogenesis And Promotes Alveolar Bone Regeneration In Mice., Yingzhi Gu, Yang Hu, Shengyuan Huang, Sunniva Ruiz, Toshihisa Kawai, Yuxing Bai, Xiaozhe Han

HPD Articles

The immune system plays an important role in the skeletal system during bone repair and regeneration. The controlled release of biological factors from the immune system could facilitate and optimize the bone remodeling process through the regulation of the activities of bone cells. This study aimed to determine the effect of the controlled delivery of immunomodulatory biologicals on bone regeneration. Immunostimulatory cytosine-phosphate-guanosine oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG ODN) and glucosylxanthone Mangiferin (MAG)-embedded microbeads were incubated with P. gingivalis-challenged splenocytes, or co-cultured with RAW264.7 cells. The effect of CpG ODN/MAG-containing microbeads on bone regeneration was then tested in vivo in a mouse alveolar bone …

Diving Into Aquatic Microbial Ecology And Evolution With Anne Thompson, Anne Thompson

PDXPLORES Podcast

On this episode of PDXPLORES, Assistant Professor of Biology, Anne Thompson, discusses her award-winning research work studying the diverse ecology of microorganisms found in Earth’s oceans. Thompson’s research examines microbial mortality impacts on the structure of oceanic food webs, carbon flow, and cell interactions that create dynamic patterns of nutrient and energy abundance within diverse aquatic ecosystems.

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Impact Of Forest Management On Ozark Big-Eared Bat (Corynorhinus Townsendii Ingens) Prey And Foraging Ecology, Gemma L. Marsh

ATU Theses and Dissertations 2021 - Present

Ozark big-eared bats (Corynorhinus townsendii ingens) are an endangered species of bat found only in Oklahoma and Arkansas. I conducted a study on the impact of forest management treatments, such as prescribed fire and mechanical thinning, in White Rock Mountain Wildlife Management Area, which is home to a maternity colony of Ozark big-eared bats. My goal was to understand how prescribed fire and mechanical thinning influence Ozark big-eared bat prey and foraging, and therefore be able to provide management recommendations for the habitat of this endangered species. My results indicated that bat prey availability was influenced by forest structure, …

The Impact Of Collaboration, Problem Solving, And Creativity On Computer Programming Education For Middle School Girls, Amanda Meek

Dissertations

Despite high scores and abilities, girls lose interest in science and math throughout middle school. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, jobs in the computer science research field will grow 19% by 2026; however, only 18% of the bachelor’s degrees in computer science are earned by women in the United States (ComputerScience.org, 2021). New technology and inventions are being created without the benefit of more diverse perspectives and input from females. There is a need to engage girls and maintain their interest throughout middle school and beyond. Additional research needs to be conducted about the impact and best practices …

Cara Rowland V. Bissell Homecare Inc

2023 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Exploring The Lived Experience And Meaning Of Resilience For Nurses: A Descriptive Phenomenological Inquiry, London Draper Lowe

Dissertations

Using descriptive phenomenological investigation, this study shed light on the phenomenon of resilience for nurses in high acuity clinical settings. The purpose of this study was to explore, understand, and describe experiences of resilience by nurses in the clinical setting who demonstrate characteristics of resilience and investigate the meaning these experiences held for them. Another purpose for this study was to increase the knowledge base that nurses and nurse educators have regarding resilience including what factors contribute to the emergence and maintenance of resilience.

Local Chlorhexidine Delivery For Periodontal Infection Therapy: A Short Review, Muhammad Guruh Najmudin, Azizah Intan Pangesty, Rini Riastuti, Sunarso Sunarso, Abdul Halim Abdullah

Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings

Oral diseases affected more than half of the world’s population. Periodontitis is the second biggest threat to oral health after dental caries. Periodontitis is an inflammation inside periodontal pockets caused by pathogenic microbial colonies which lead to destruction of bone tissue and soft tissue. Chlorhexidine gluconate is an antimicrobial agent that effective to destroy pathogenic microbial and cure periodontitis. Chlorhexidine gluconate is given locally using a carrier material to the infected area. There are several materials that can be used to deliver Chlorhexidine gluconate to the infected periodontal tissue such as gel, liquid (mouthwash), and chip. This short review aims …

Effects Of Poloxamers As Excipients On The Physicomechanical Properties, Cellular Biocompatibility, And In Vitro Drug Release Of Electrospun Polycaprolactone (Pcl) Fibers, Addison Fagile, Rachel Emerine, Shih-Feng Chou

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Electrospun microfibers are emerging as one of the advanced wound dressing materials for acute and/or chronic wounds, especially with their ability to carry drugs and excipients at a high loading while being able to deliver them in a controlled manner. Various attempts were made to include excipients in electrospun microfibers as wound dressing materials, and one of them is poloxamer, an amphiphilic polymer that exhibits wound debridement characteristics. In this study, we formulated two types of poloxamers (i.e., P188 and P338) at 30% (w/w) loading into electrospun polycaprolactone (PCL) fibers to evaluate their physicomechanical properties, biocompatibility, and in vitro drug …

Real-Time Environmental Surveillance Of Sars-Cov-2 Aerosols, Joseph V Puthussery, Kevin R Mcbrearty, Brookelyn M Doherty, Woodrow D Gardiner, Jordan P Magrecki, Traci L Bricker, Adrianus C M Boon, Carla M Yuede, John R Cirrito, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Real-time surveillance of airborne SARS-CoV-2 virus is a technological gap that has eluded the scientific community since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Offline air sampling techniques for SARS-CoV-2 detection suffer from longer turnaround times and require skilled labor. Here, we present a proof-of-concept pathogen Air Quality (pAQ) monitor for real-time (5 min time resolution) direct detection of SARS-CoV-2 aerosols. The system synergistically integrates a high flow (~1000 lpm) wet cyclone air sampler and a nanobody-based ultrasensitive micro-immunoelectrode biosensor. The wet cyclone showed comparable or better virus sampling performance than commercially available samplers. Laboratory experiments demonstrate a device sensitivity of …

Perioperative Redox Changes In Patients Undergoing Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Cancer Surgery, Jl Stevens, Ht Mckenna, H Filipe, L Lau, Bo Fernandez, Aj Murray, M Feelisch, Ds Martin

Peninsula Medical School

Abstract Background Tissue injury induces inflammation and the surgical stress response, which are thought to be central to the orchestration of recovery or deterioration after surgery. Enhanced formation of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species accompanies the inflammatory response and triggers separate but integrated reduction/oxidation (redox) pathways that lead to oxidative and/or nitrosative stress (ONS). Quantitative information on ONS in the perioperative period is scarce. This single-centre exploratory study investigated the effects of major surgery on ONS and systemic redox status and their potential associations with postoperative morbidity. Methods Blood was collected from 56 patients at baseline, end of surgery (EoS) …

Neural Network Models For Generating Synthetic Flight Data, Nathaniel Sisson

Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

Flight test data is a valuable resource used in many aerospace applications. However, procuring a sufficiently large database of flight test data poses several challenges. Nominal flight tests can be expensive and time-consuming and require much post-processing depending on the availability of sensors and the quality of the sensor output. Flight test performed outside of nominal flight conditions, or flight tests in which failures are introduced, add to the inherent risk and danger associated with flight tests. The most popular alternative to flight test, numerical simulations, may fail to fully capture all non-linear behavior. While flight tests will always be …

Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (July 10, 2023), Dmacc

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

This file contains the minutes from the Des Moines Area Community College Board meeting held on July 10, 2023.

2023-July-10-A Love Letter To Mama.Pdf, University Advancement, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Rosaminda Moog Husmillo immigrated to the United States in 1989, arriving in Queens, New York where she worked as a nurse. Her next goal: to bring her family to this country as soon as possible. Rosaminda Moog Husmillo

To her husband Leo and three children waiting back in the Philippines, she was the family’s brave pioneer in the land of opportunity. In 1992, the Husmillo family joined her in the United States and called the Big Apple home until 1996, at which time they moved “onward to Johnson City,” according to son Augie.

“The catalyst for the move was my …

Meta-Analysis Of United States Seabird Populations Based On Ocean Biodiversity Information System (Obis) Records (1965–2018), Savannah Hartman

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Understanding the distribution of organisms is an important priority for society as we live through ecosystem transformations that threaten the well-being of all organisms. I have approached the dynamic and complex issue of studying biodiversity by using open-access seabird data collected along the Americas since the 1960s. I explained how these data have changed over time and space, how certain species populations could have shifted over time, and possible correlations between this potential geographic change and select environmental variables.

In Chapter 2 I evaluated the suitability of the open-access data archive Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) for supporting detailed inquiry …

The Mif Promoter Snp Rs755622 Is Associated With Immune Activation In Glioblastoma, Manmeet Ahluwalia

All Publications

tratumoral heterogeneity is a defining hallmark of glioblastoma, driving drug resistance and ultimately recurrence. Many somatic drivers of microenvironmental change have been shown to affect this heterogeneity and, ultimately, the treatment response. However, little is known about how germline mutations affect the tumoral microenvironment. Here, we find that the single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs755622 in the promoter of the cytokine macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is associated with increased leukocyte infiltration in glioblastoma. Furthermore, we identified an association between rs755622 and lactotransferrin expression, which could also be used as a biomarker for immune-infiltrated tumors. These findings demonstrate that a germline SNP …

Development And Validation Of Epidemiological Models For Informing Intervention Strategies And Preventing Critical Resource Shortages, Kimberly A. Dautel

Theses

Epidemiological models have been used to measure, understand, and respond to infectious disease outbreaks. Both model development and model validation are important when utilizing models to help inform public health responses. The goal of this work is to advance mathematical modeling efforts of infectious diseases of current worldwide importance through model development and validation. The model development portion focuses on modeling interventions strategies for two infectious diseases. The first model formulated captures education campaign as the collective effort aimed at educating the public about the nature of the Ebola virus, its transmission routes, and the importance of early detection and …

Gender (In)Equity In Global Mental Health Research: A Call To Action, The Women In Global Mental Health Research Group, Kelly Rose-Clarke

Faculty Publications

In this commentary, we build on work by Gurung and colleagues which highlighted gender inequity in the global mental health research workforce in Nepal (Gurung et al., 2021). We seek to increase awareness of the under-representation of women in global mental health research and its consequences, and we call for change. By women, we refer to all people who identify as women, including trans people. The commentary is informed by conversations with women who are global mental health researchers in the Global North and South at various stages of their careers.

Effects Of Smartstax® And Smartstax® Pro Maize On Western Corn Rootworm (Diabrotica Virgifera Virgifera Leconte) Larval Feeding Injury And Adult Life History Parameters, Jordan D. Reinders, William J. Moar, Graham P. Head, Safeer Hassan, Lance J. Meinke

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

Field-evolved resistance of the western corn rootworm (WCR), Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte, to Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner (Bt) proteins Cry3Bb1 and Cry34/35Ab1 (now classified as Gpp34Ab1/Tpp35Ab1) expressed in the pyramid SmartStax^® has been documented in areas of the United States (U.S.) Corn Belt. SmartStax^® PRO is a recently registered rootworm-active pyramid containing the same Bt proteins expressed in SmartStax^® plus DvSnf7 dsRNA. Little to no published data is available comparing efficacy of the technologies or potential effects of dietary exposure on adult WCR fitness. Therefore, experiments were conducted to compare effects of adult WCR dietary exposure to SmartStax …