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20231205_Library’S Entry-Level Floor Is Getting A Refresh!, Sally Bowler-Hill

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Registration Status, Reading Interest Level, And Library Use Habits Of Teaching Staff In Akwa Ibom State University, Nigeria: An Investigation, Nse Emmanuel Akwang Phd, Cln

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study investigated registration status, reading interest level, and library use habits of teaching staff in Akwa Ibom State University, Nigeria. The study adopted survey research design, with a total population of 467 teaching staff from eight (8) academic faculties. Out of the total study population, a sample of 212 was selected using an online sample calculator known as Survey Monkey Sample Size Calculator at 95% confidence level and confidence interval of 5%. The instrument used for data collection was a researcher-developed questionnaire, which was subjected to face and content validity and reliability coefficient of 0.80 using Cronbach’s Alpha technique. …

Systematic Analysis Of Adoption Of Innovative Technologies In The Provision Of Electronic Information Services In Public University Libraries In Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, Chukwudi P. Mensa Phd, Inemesit Udom Udoh Mr., Priscilla Odeyovwi Osiebe Mrs.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study systematically analysed the adoption of innovative technologies in the provision of electronic information services in public university libraries in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. It adopted the descriptive survey design with three specific objectives. The population of the study consisted of eighty-nine (89) librarians and library officers from Akwa Ibom State University (AKSU) and University of Uyo (UNIUYO) libraries. The census sampling technique was adopted in the study. Data for the study were collected using structured questionnaire with a reliability index of 0.79 using Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient. The data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics of percentage counts, …

College Student Mental Health In The Covid-19 Era: Results Of An Expressive Writing Prompt, Carissa Daniello-Heyda, Kevin Hynes, Rachel R. Tambling

The Qualitative Report

The novel SARS-CoV-2, or coronavirus, has greatly altered the landscape of college life for students across the United States. The ever-present health concerns and quarantine have been linked to increased anxiety, depression, stress, and post-traumatic stress disorder. To this end, we examined the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the psychosocial health of college students. We explored the impact of COVID-19 on levels of stress and distress in college students using a qualitative expressive writing methodology. Results of this study suggested that the college students included in the sample were moderately distressed – their scores on inventories of depression, anxiety, …

Futuros Posibles En Adversidad: Las Experiencias De Rebusque De Familias En Medellín Durante La Pandemia Covid-19, Doris Elena Muñoz-Zapata, Katherine García-Vásquez, Johanna Jazmín Zapata-Posada

The Qualitative Report

Este artículo es resultado de una investigación sobre los significados atribuidos por las familias a las experiencias de satisfacción de necesidades básicas y el rebusque para la supervivencia durante el confinamiento obligatorio, derivado por la pandemia COVID-19. Se realizó una investigación cualitativa con diseño fenomenológico, método narrativo, con seis familias en situación de exclusión social y pobreza, mediante la estrategia metodológica de visita domiciliaria, en Medellín, Colombia. Se concluye que, pese a la falta de oportunidades laborales para la satisfacción de las necesidades básicas, de manera paradójica, fue una oportunidad para descansar y compartir en el entorno familiar, dado que …

Outcomes Of Penile Inversion Vaginoplasty And Robotic-Assisted Peritoneal Flap Vaginoplasty In Obese And Nonobese Patients, Juan Cedeno Gaviria

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Acss2 Gene Variants Determine Kidney Disease Risk By Controlling De Novo Lipogenesis In Kidney Tubules, Dhanunjay Mukhi, Lingzhi Li, Hongbo Liu, Tomohito Doke, Lakshmi P Kolligundla, Eunji Ha, Konstantin Kloetzer, Amin Abedini, Sarmistha Mukherjee, Junnan Wu, Poonam Dhillon, Hailong Hu, Dongyin Guan, Katsuhiko Funai, Kahealani Uehara, Paul M Titchenell, Joseph A Baur, Kathryn E Wellen, Katalin Susztak

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Worldwide, over 800 million people are affected by kidney disease, yet its pathogenesis remains elusive, hindering the development of novel therapeutics. In this study, we used kidney-specific expression of quantitative traits and single-nucleus open chromatin analysis to show that genetic variants linked to kidney dysfunction on chromosome 20 target the acyl-CoA synthetase short-chain family 2 (ACSS2). By generating ACSS2-KO mice, we demonstrated their protection from kidney fibrosis in multiple disease models. Our analysis of primary tubular cells revealed that ACSS2 regulated de novo lipogenesis (DNL), causing NADPH depletion and increasing ROS levels, ultimately leading to NLRP3-dependent pyroptosis. Additionally, we discovered …

Experimental Investigation Of Temperature Polarisation By Capturing The Temperature Profile Development Over Dcmd Membranes, Hiras Ahamed Hijaz, Masoumeh Zargar, Abdellah Shafieian, Amir Razmjou, Mehdi Khiadani

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Temperature polarisation (TP) is a major drawback limiting the global acceptance of membrane distillation (MD) technology. TP is typically quantified using a dimensionless index known as Temperature Polarisation Coefficient (TPC). TPC has significant limitations, whereby it cannot be used to compare different MD configurations or design conditions, nor to analyse the TP phenomenon along the membrane. In this research, the temperature profile over and along a lengthy DCMD membrane has been measured under various operational conditions, where its impact on TP has been explored for the first time. A specialised DCMD membrane cell was manufactured to capture temperature profiles, both …

Microbiome-Enabled Genomic Selection Improves Prediction Accuracy For Nitrogen-Related Traits In Maize, Zhikai Yang, Tianjing Zhao, Hao Cheng, Jinliang Yang

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Root-associated microbiomes in the rhizosphere (rhizobiomes) are increasingly known to play an important role in nutrient acquisition, stress tolerance, and disease resistance of plants. However, it remains largely unclear to what extent these rhizobiomes contribute to trait variation for different genotypes and if their inclusion in the genomic selection protocol can enhance prediction accuracy. To address these questions, we developed a microbiome-enabled genomic selection method that incorporated host SNPs and amplicon sequence variants from plant rhizobiomes in a maize diversity panel under high and low nitrogen (N) field conditions. Our cross-validation results showed that the microbiome-enabled genomic selection model significantly …

Trends In Ductus Arteriosus Stent Versus Blalock-Taussig-Thomas Shunt Use And Comparison Of Cost, Length Of Stay, And Short-Term Outcomes In Neonates With Ductal-Dependent Pulmonary Blood Flow: An Observational Study Using The Pediatric Health Information Systems Database, Bethan A Lemley, Lezhou Wu, Amy L Roberts, Russell T Shinohara, William O Quarshie, Athar M Qureshi, Christopher L Smith, Yoav Dori, Matthew J Gillespie, Jonathan J Rome, Andrew C Glatz, Sandra Amaral, Michael L O'Byrne

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Background: The modified Blalock-Taussig-Thomas shunt is the gold standard palliation for securing pulmonary blood flow in infants with ductal-dependent pulmonary blood flow. Recently, the ductus arteriosus stent (DAS) has become a viable alternative.

Methods and results: This was a retrospective multicenter study of neonates ≤30 days undergoing DAS or Blalock-Taussig-Thomas shunt placement between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2020 at hospitals reporting to the Pediatric Health Information Systems database. We performed generalized linear mixed-effects modeling to evaluate trends in intervention and intercenter variation, propensity score adjustment and inverse probability weighting with linear mixed-effects modeling to analyze length of stay …

County-Level Cardiologist Density And Mortality In The United States, Abdul Mannan Khan Minhas, Purvi Parwani, Marat Fudim, Salim S Virani, Sadiya S Khan, Michael W Cullen, Arunima Misra, Christie Ballantyne, Vijay Nambi, Dmitry Abramov

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

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Suspicious Call Detection And Mitigation Using Conversational Ai, Kolati Mallikarjuna Rao, Bhavikkumar Patel

Defensive Publications Series

Spam or scam calls and messages are an annoyance, pose security risks, and can harm users that fall prey to calls that request money transfer or other action. Detection of such calls is difficult as scammers evade detection through tactics such as changing numbers they call from, modifying the call script, etc. While some smartphone applications can detect such calls or text based on caller ID, call origination, etc., such techniques cannot easily adapt to new scams. This disclosure describes the use of a conversational AI model to detect suspicious calls. The conversational AI model is trained on a dataset …

Corrigendum To “Logistics Outsourcing In Large Manufacturing Companies: The Case Of Slovenia And Lessons From Other Countries”, Marko Budler, Teja Vilfan, Marko Jakšič

Economic and Business Review

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Development And Validation Of Ethical Blindness Scale, Darija Aleksić, Guido Palazzo

Economic and Business Review

Recent models of ethical decision making have underlined the influence of unconscious processes of unethical behavior, and ethical blindness has been identified as a construct that deepens the understanding of unintentional unethical behavior. However, to date, no empirically tested measure of ethical blindness exists. Consequently, we have explored and developed a tool for measuring ethical blindness, which is presented in this paper. Based on qualitative data from interviews with individuals employed in different industries and a literature review, we developed a multidimensional measure of ethical blindness. The measure was tested and validated in several consecutive steps on three quantitative data …

Smes “Growing Smart”: The Complementarity Of Intangible And Digital Investment In Small Firms And Their Contribution To Firm Performance, Eva Erjavec, Tjaša Redek, Črt Kostevc

Economic and Business Review

Like large companies, small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) are turning to new digital technologies and knowledge-based capital to bolster their productivity and growth. However, data show that smaller companies lag significantly in implementing new Industry 4.0 technologies and in the intensity of their use. Lack of skills and human capital is often cited as one of the biggest barriers. This paper examines the benefits of digital technologies, intangible capital, and in particular the role of complementary investments in new technologies and intangible capital to maximize the impact on productivity growth. The analysis draws on extensive firm-level datasets combining business and …

Human Resource Management Systems And Firm Innovation: A Meta-Analytic Study, Yang Zhang, Matthew D. Griffith

Economic and Business Review

Building on the resource-based view, this paper examines the meta-analytic relationships between Human Resource Management (HRM) systems and different types of firm innovation (innovation in products or services, innovation in processes, and innovation in people and organizations) and the moderating role of sampled industries and sampled cultural clusters in these relationships. With 119 records from 57 unique papers published between 2000 and 2020, this study found that HRM systems positively contribute to innovation in products or services, innovation in processes, and innovation in people and organizations. Sampled industries and cultural clusters significantly moderate the relationships between HRM systems and innovation …

The Effect Of Primary School Entrepreneurship Education Programs On The Evolution Of Pupils’ Human Capital Assets, Janez Gorenc, Alenka Slavec Gomezel, Željka Kitić, Blaž Zupan

Economic and Business Review

The formation of entrepreneurship-related human capital in primary-school entrepreneurship education programs (EEPs) is of great interest to European policymakers. European education systems have widely implemented EEPs since the Oslo Agenda for entrepreneurship education in Europe was passed in 2006. However, primary-school EEPs remain an underresearched domain of entrepreneurship education. The present article investigates the development of entrepreneurship-related human capital in EEPs for 9–14-year-olds in 22 primary schools. It uses a quasi-experimental design with repeated measures. Based on data obtained from a sample of 180 participants, the analysis finds that the whole group partly improved only one of the components of …

Data Lineage Resolver For Grounding Large Language Model Inference, Hari Bhaskar S

Defensive Publications Series

An important challenge when using LLMs in business applications is to account for different sources of information that have conflicting values for the same data at the time the LLM performs the inference task based on such data. When multiple potentially conflicting sources of data are available, LLMs used in business applications may need grounding with facts. This disclosure describes a data lineage resolver that can utilize a data lineage catalog to enable LLM output to be verified for grounding based on the data source(s) used for the output and once verified, provided to the business application. The data lineage …

Container-Based Isolation For Managed On-Device Machine Learning, Hari Bhaskar S

Defensive Publications Series

Bundling ML models can compromise model security and tightly couples model execution with application execution. Managing computing resources can be difficult if multiple applications access the same model and maintaining multiple ML models through their life cycle can become increasingly complex as the application grows. This disclosure describes techniques that utilize a function-based paradigm for on-device machine learning models. The functions can be implemented using various ML models, implemented in isolated containers. Per the techniques, on-device applications (e.g., mobile apps) can be defined with IAM/roles to access one or more functions that provide ML functionality. The techniques provide enhanced security …

Generating Cloud Resource Descriptions Using Generative Artificial Intelligence, Paras Mamgain, Sameer Adhikari, Hariharan Balasubramanian

Defensive Publications Series

The description fields of networking resources within cloud services are optional, and, as such, developers often leave description fields empty. Description fields can be important when the cloud service faces an outage or malfunction. An empty or out-of-date description field is of little use to personnel trying to determine whether the resource under consideration is a cause of the malfunction. This disclosure describes the use of generative artificial intelligence to automatically generate description fields for cloud resources leveraging aspects of the integration of a network resource with other components in a cloud service. Detailed descriptions and descriptive names can be …

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Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

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Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

F.A.R.M.S. expresses its deep-felt gratitude to the many substantial donors whose support this year has made it possible for the Foundation to continue research and service operations.

President's Message

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

New procedures have been introduced to standardize the review process for FARMS' publications. The Evaluation Committee, one of three standing units directing the Foundation's activities, has instituted a more formal system of judging each paper submitted for issuance under FARMS auspices. An evaluation editor, currently John Sorenson, and a dozen respected researchers constitute an evaluation board. Where necessary, they will be aided by the special knowledge of a panel of more than 100 others.

New Version Of Scripture Index Announced

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Last summer, a Scripture Index of F.A.R.M.S. Reprints and Preliminary Reports (CAM-87) was introduced. It lists every scripture by chapter and verse that is mentioned In F.A.R.M.S. materials. The Index is now available In a second format.

Bibliography Of Chiasmus Completed

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John W. Welch, aided by Don Parry and DeeAnn Hofer, has compiled an extensive bibliography of scholarly books and articles dealing with the literary form of chiasmus. Listed are several hundred works from a broad range of sources, most scholarly. Collectively they demonstrate the widespread use of chiasmus in modern biblical studies. Anyone interested in thorough research into this distinctive form of parallel composition will find this bibliography indispensable.

A Service To Lds Gospel Doctrine Teachers And Students

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The 1988 adult Sunday School curriculum will be the Book of Mormon. Free upon request are two lists of resources recommended as helpful background reading for the new curriculum.

Interest In Book Of Mormon Warfare Spurs Research

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Although It Is a prominent Book of Mormon theme, Nephite warfare has yet to be comprehensively examined. To promote such research, F.A.R.M.S. sponsored a working conference Aug. 21-22. Papers dealing with military technology, strategies, fortifications, rituals, and other Issues were presented and critiqued. Other topics were Identified. Two new papers on war and the Book of Mormon are now available; others will be forth-coming soon.

Collected Biographies Of Book Of Mormon Scholars Available

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

In 1986, the Ensign magazine Issued a series of articles about prominent LDS Book of Mormon scholars, Including B. H. Roberts, George Reynolds, Francis W. Kirkham, Sidney B. Sperry, and Hugh W. Nibley. These articles, which have been available separately, are now combined Into a single reprint, together with the final article In that series.

Lehi's Vision In 1 Nephi 1 Analyzed

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The Book of Mormon begins with an account of the vision in which Lehi beheld God seated in the midst of a heavenly congregation. In this experience, Lehi learned of the judgments of God that were about to befall the arrogant and unrighteous city of Jerusalem. Comparing this vision of Lehi's with similar so-called Council Visions had by other prophets near the time of Lehi is the aim of a new paper.

Cost To Receive Updates Cut In Half

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

For the past three years, new discoveries and advances In Book of Mormon research have been reported In the F.A.R.M.S. monthly Updates. These scholarly, documented, quickly readable reports have been mailed exclusively to researchers, active volunteers, and annual donors of $100.00 or more. Because increasing the number who receive this service will but marginally Increase our costs, we can now offer the Updates to all annual donors of as little as $50.00.