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Past And Future Storm-Driven Changes To A Dynamic Sandy Barrier System: Outer Cape Cod, Ma, Daniel Jacob Harrington

Open Access Master's Theses

Sandy barrier systems are highly dynamic, with the most significant natural morphological changes to these systems occurring during the high energy conditions present during storms. These systems provide a range of economic and ecosystem benefits and protect inland areas from flooding and storm impacts, but the persistence of many coastal barriers is threatened by storms and sea-level rise (SLR). This study employs observations and modeling to examine recent and potential future influence of storms on a sandy coastal barrier system in Nauset Beach, MA. Drone-derived imagery and digital elevation models (DEMs) of the study area collected throughout the 2023-2024 winter …

Accessioning Practices Of University Teaching Collections, Arianna Gutierrez

Open Access Master's Theses

Many universities with historic textile and costume collections are not able to follow museum standard accessioning practices or policies because the unique nature of university teaching collections often necessitates the creation of custom practices. As a result, collections managers must create custom accessioning practices that address the specific challenges that their collections face.

This study meticulously surveyed university historic textile and costume collections in the United States to determine their accessioning practices and policies and how the challenges they faced influenced these practices. A comprehensive literature review was conducted to create a list of interview questions that accurately evaluated accession …

Effects Of Sea Level Rise And Anthropogenic Forcings On Salt Marsh Persistence In Upper Narragansett Bay, Ri, Dasan L. Mcelroy

Open Access Master's Theses

Salt marshes provide a wide range of ecological services to the coastal areas they inhabit, but today, salt marshes around the world are increasingly threatened by shoreline development, shoreline erosion, and submergence associated with accelerating sea level rise (SLR). Due to these threats, researchers and coastal managers have become more concerned about the fate of salt marsh systems. This study is focused on the past, present and future of salt marsh units in the upper Narragansett Bay, specifically near Providence, RI. Shoreline and elevation changes were analyzed using available aerial imagery and GPS elevation profiles, as well as accumulation rates …

Lidar Sensing Systems: A Viable Approach To Near-Field Wave Elevation Measurements, Megan Gimple

Open Access Master's Theses

Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs), which operate in uncertain and irregular sea states, face challenges such as unpredictable loading and unloading of the structure, potentially reducing their operational lifespan. As the offshore wind energy industry moves farther from shore to access stronger wind resources, there is a growing need for reliable remote sensing methods for measuring wave elevations, to ensure the stability and longevity of these floating turbines. This thesis investigates the potential of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology as a reliable method for near-field ocean surface elevation measurements. A series of controlled laboratory experiments and field tests conducted …

Assessment Of Multi-Fidelity Hydrodynamic Models Of Floating Wind Turbines In Extreme Wave Events, Jacob Fontaine

Open Access Master's Theses

This paper compares the effectiveness of viscous Navier-Stokes solvers, potential flow-based methods, and linear state-space models in estimating the dynamics of offshore wind platforms subjected to extreme wave events in head-seas and still-wind conditions. The study demonstrates that potential flow-based models, when properly augmented, provide proficient estimates of maximum displacements and mooring line tensions. However, while the linear state-space model offers significant numerical efficiency, it struggles to maintain accuracy under these large wave events.

Estimating The Logistic Regression From Label Proportions, Anamika Dey

Open Access Master's Theses

With the advancement of artificial intelligence and deep learning, effective learning processes have become increasingly crucial. This thesis explores methods for logistic regression analysis in the context of grouped or clustered data, where only the number or proportion of positive binary responses within each group is observed. The primary focus is on developing and evaluating a proposed method designed to handle such grouped data structures effectively. The study compares the performance of the proposed method with several established techniques, including Generalized Linear Models (GLM), Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM), Easy Learning from Label Proportions (Easy LLP), and Proportion Matching (PropMatch).

The …

Effects Of Water Temperature On Solemya Velum Porewater Nutrient Consumption, David Jay Dickey

Open Access Master's Theses

Despite playing a potentially important role in seagrass bed climate resilience, the effects of global warming on Solemya velum metabolism have not been thoroughly explored. The Atlantic Awning clam (Solemya velum) is a gutless, soft shelled, infaunal clam native to the intertidal, eastern coast of North America, which hosts endosymbiotic bacteria in its gills that oxidize sulfide as the energy source for its nutrition. This clam and other symbiotic species with similar metabolisms increase seagrass bed resilience to global warming by oxidizing excess sulfide in sediment porewater. This study used an outdoor temperature controlled mesocosm system to simulate …

Helicsauto: Automating The Development Of Cyber-Physical Co-Simulation Framework For Smart Grids, Sayeb Mohammad Tadvin

Open Access Master's Theses

Modern smart grids are evolving into more complex systems than conventional power grids. Intelligent electronic devices equipped with off-the-shelf computing and communication technologies within the distribution and transmission systems of the power grids are replacing legacy sensors and actuators in conventional bulk power grids. Significant disparities between the characteristics of cyber and physical components of smart grids create substantial challenges for analyzing the runtime states of grids and planning for long-term stability.

Co-simulation is an essential tool for analyzing the behavior of modern smart grids. In co-simulation, various subsystems or components of large complex systems like smart grids are modeled …

Higher Procedural Volumes Are Associated With Faster Treatment Times, Better Functional Outcomes, And Lower Mortality In Patients Undergoing Endovascular Treatment For Acute Ischemic Stroke, Raul G. Nogueira, Diogo C. Haussen, Eric E. Smith, Jie-Lena Sun, Ying Xian, Brooke Alhanti, Rosalia Blanco, Brian Mac Grory, Mohamed F. Doheim, Ameer E. Hassan

School of Medicine Publications

Objective We aimed to characterize the association of hospital procedural volumes with outcomes among acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients undergoing endovascular therapy (EVT).

Methods This was a retrospective, observational cohort study using data prospectively collected from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2019, in the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke registry. Participants were derived from a cohort of 60,727 AIS patients treated with EVT within 24 hours at 626 hospitals. The primary cohort excluded patients with pretreatment NIHSS6 hours, and inter-hospital transfers. There were two secondary cohorts: (1) EVT metrics cohort: excluded patients with missing data on time from door-to-arterial-puncture; (2) …

Queer Formations Of The Self In Woolf And Forster, Margaret M. Bancroft

Scripps Senior Theses

This thesis examines queerness and the Bildungsroman in three novels by Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster: Jacob’s Room (1922), Maurice (1971), and Orlando (1928).

Refining The Scope Of Genetic Influences On Alcohol Misuse Through Environmental Stratification And Gene-Environment Interaction, Jeanne E. Savage, Christiaan A. De Leeuw, Josefin Werme, Spit For Science Working Group, Danielle M. Dick, Danielle Posthuma, Sophie Van Der Sluis

Psychology Faculty Publications

Background

Gene-environment interaction (G X E) is likely an important influence shaping individual differences in alcohol misuse (AM), yet it has not been extensively studied in molecular genetic research. In this study, we use a series of genome-wide gene-environment interaction (GWEIS) and in silico annotation methods with the aim of improving gene identification and biological understanding of AM.

Methods

We carried out GWEIS for four AM phenotypes in the large UK Biobank sample (N = 360,314), with trauma exposure and socioeconomic status (SES) as moderators of the genetic effects. Exploratory analyses compared stratified genome-wide association (GWAS) and GWEIS modeling approaches. …

Preventive Genetic Screening: Genetics And Ethics, Elena Vinton

Scripps Senior Theses

For completion of my dual thesis at Scripps College in Biology and Bioethics, I analyzed the feasibility of preventive genetic screening both ethically and genetically. Because each discipline approaches academic inquiry differently, I decided to ask two sequential questions: (1) How are variants analyzed in preventive genetic screening? (Biology) (2) Do patients who undergo preventive genetic screening have the ‘right not to know’ their genetic status – including medically actionable genetic information? (Bioethics). I have separated my ethical and biological inquiries into two sections. The first section is an ethical inquiry into the justification of the ‘right not to know’ …

Communicating Through Dance: Examining Dance & Behavioral Therapy To Treat Selective Mutism, Clara Spitz

Scripps Senior Theses

Very little research has been done to examine the efficacy of treatments for adolescents with selective mutism (SM). Although cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been distinguished as one of the optimal treatment styles for SM, a significant portion of research in this area has focused on children. Additionally, it often incorporates play therapy, which may not necessarily apply as effectively to older populations. Dance therapy has emerged as a promising and innovative treatment for various anxiety and communication issues. Although specific studies on its application to SM are limited, existing research suggests its potential effectiveness in addressing this condition as …

Nitrate Contamination In Two California Groundwater Basins: What Creates Disparities?, Catherine Protiva

Scripps Senior Theses

Nitrate contamination is a major problem within California groundwater basins. A form of nitrogen, nitrates leach into groundwater aquifers from the surface where they remain for many decades. The most common source for the contaminant is agricultural sources like nitrogen fertilizer. Consequently, the problem is concentrated in regions of the state with a history of large-scale agricultural production. When water is pulled from contaminated basins and used as drinking water, the nitrates can cause serious negative health consequences, most commonly methemoglobinemia, also known as blue baby syndrome. In this thesis, I will examine what factors contribute to a region’s ability …

Rainbow-Washing The Occupation: A Critical Examination Of Israeli Claims To Feminist And Gay-Friendly Modernity, Melia Oliver

Scripps Senior Theses

In this thesis, I employ a queer analytic to uncover how Israel weaponizes claims to feminist and gay-friendly modernity—referred to as pink- and purple washing, respectively—as forms of propaganda to justify their occupation of Palestine. Pink- and purplewasing narratives rely on racist and Orientalist conceptions of Palestinian “barbarism” which Israel reproduces in order to bolster their settler colonial project. I analyze pink- and purplewashing propaganda as symptoms of larger homo- and femonationalist formations which stem from and further reinforce settler colonialism. I address allegations of “weaponized rape” during and after the events of October 7th and argue that this form …

Good Enough To Eat: How College Students Are (Re)Forming Their Relationships To Food, Sophia Lewis

Scripps Senior Theses

In this thesis, I seek to critically examine how college students at American liberal arts institutions relate to food in their everyday lives and how those relationships to food are formed in a cultural landscape where what and how one eats can carry significant moral implications. Through a series of ethnographic interviews, I found that college students are negotiating a variety of interconnected social influences that have shaped their relationships to food, the most prominent being the ways that their parents taught them to relate to food in childhood and adolescence, cultural conceptions of health, and their own embodied reactions …

The Modern Way To Write A Statute Is To Tell A Story, Richard K. Neumann Jr.

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Except for the United States, the English-speaking world has been moving toward writing statutes as stories with characters and plot tensions. British statutes are the most advanced in this respect.

To illustrate the British method, the key statutes in the Mar-a-Lago Indictment are redrafted in this article to resemble the form they would take if recently enacted by Parliament. l compare the statutes and the redrafts side-by-side. And I do the same thing with two sections of the Electoral Count Act, which governs what Congress does on every January 6 following a presidential election year.

The article explains how the …

Guido Speaks, Jill E. Martin

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

After Smith Falls: Corporate Free Exercise Lochnerism, Daniel J.H. Greenwood, Nicholas E. Tramposch

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

While the Supreme Court has extended many constitutional privileges to business corporations, it has not held that they have a full constitutionally protected right to practice religion comparable to that of citizens. Employment Division v. Smith long served as a barrier to Free Exercise claims for special exceptions to neutral and generally applicable laws. But as the Court moves away from Smith, the issue of corporate Free Exercise rights must be confronted. The freedom of religion is a critically important individual right in a free country. But individual rights often conflict with collective religious practice; religious freedom is the opposite …

Ai And The Regulation Of Tax Return Preparers, Linda Galler, Jay A. Soled

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Tax return preparers play a pivotal role for millions of taxpayers, and

their number ranges in the hundreds of thousands. Despite preparers'

importance in the tax return submission process and their numerical size,

they are largely unregulated. Because of this lack of oversight, a significant

number of tax returnp reparersp ut their ownfinanciali nterests and

those of their clients ahead of the government's financial interests.

In the past, there have been calls for increased regulatory

oversight to keep wayward practitioners' actions in check. Therefore,

a decade and a half ago, Congress, in conjunction with the Treasury

Department, mandated that every …

Procalcitonin In Bacterial Pneumonia, Children's Mercy Kansas City

Clinical Critically Appraised Topics

No abstract provided.

2024 Finance Calendar, Amanda Christensen, Melanie Jewkes, Andrea Schmutz, Vincenza Vicari-Bentley, Kelan Combe, Rochelle Allen, Jenny Weller, Lauren Olsen, Rachel Booth

All Current Publications

The 2024 Finance Calendar outlines monthly steps to improve your personal finances over the course of the year.

Fleeting Fashions In The Assessment Of Medical Students, Mult Henk J.M. Van Berkel

Health Professions Education

No abstract provided.

Developing A Competency-Based Outcomes Framework For Doctor Of Physical Therapy Education, Catherine T. Schmidt, Sara Knox, Jane Baldwin, K. Douglas Gross, Jackie Tang, Diane U. Jette

Health Professions Education

Purpose. Physical therapist education programs rely on outcomes to evaluate a student’s competence in performing skills essential to the physical therapy profession. However, current outcomes, such as, graduation, employment, and licensure pass rates fail to assess comprehensive competence in the professional abilities of a physical therapist and offer variability in the expectations of competence in professional practice. Competency-based education (CBE) offers a learner-centered and evidence-based process to assess performance on consensus-driven outcomes over a period of time. While other medical professions have adopted this process it is new to physical therapist education programs. The purpose of this manuscript is …

Effects Of Physical Exercise On Academic Performance In University Students: A Systematic Review, Yury Rosales-Ricardo, Verónica Cáceres-Manzano

Health Professions Education

Purpose: to evaluate the scientific evidence on the effects of physical exercise on the academic performance of university students, through a systematic review.

Methods: Eleven hundred and fifty-three studies emerged from this search, based on the following selection criteria: articles published in the last 5 years, original studies of different types: experimental at any level, correlational, analytical, and observational, where any type of physical exercise is applied, in undergraduate university students, of any sex and university career. The review was finally performed with only 11 studies. Search for appropriate manuscripts was based on the following descriptive terms: "Exercise" …

Academic Well-Being In Medical Students: The Role Of Spiritual Health And Academic Hope, Zahra Taheri-Kharameh, Zohreh Khalili, Hossein Sharafi, Iman Khahan-Yazdi

Health Professions Education

Purpose. Academic well-being plays a crucial role in the success and satisfaction of medical students. However, the factors that contribute to academic well-being in this population are not well understood. This study aims to investigate the impact of spiritual health and hope on predicting academic well-being in a sample of medical students from Iran.

Method. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 180 medical students from a university in Iran. The participants completed the Spiritual Health Scale, the Hope for Education Scale and the Academic Well-being Scale. The data collection was conducted in the second semester of the academic year 2022-2023. …

Informing Academia: Predictors Of Decision Fatigue Among Nursing Students, Mohammed Munther Al-Hammouri, Jehad Rababah, Jorn Dormans

Health Professions Education

Objectives: The academic life of health professions students, especially nursing, is highly demanding and involves frequent and sequential critical decisions, leading to decision fatigue (DF) and declining decision-making quality. While decision fatigue has been studied in other fields, its implications in health professions, especially nursing, are relatively new. This study aimed to identify predictors of decision fatigue among nursing students, focusing on behavioral, psychological, and spiritual aspects.

Methods: The current study employed a cross-sectional design, recruiting nurses from three major referral hospitals in Jordan via online surveys using valid and reliable measures.

Results: The data from 446 …

Predicting Medical Laboratory Science Certification Examination Success: The Role Of Affective Performance, Jed Doxtater, Charlie P. Cruz

Health Professions Education

Purpose: This study aimed at associating the Board of Certification (BOC) pass rates with the affective performances of Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) students.

Method: Retrospective data analysis on the BOC pass rates, advanced clinical practicum (ACP) routes, affective assessment, grade point average (GPA), highest academic degree (HAD) upon graduation, years to degree completion, and gender was conducted on thirty-three (33) MLS graduates between 2017 and 2022 from a higher education institution (HEI) in Wyoming.

Results: Based on the Chi-square (X2) test, BOC was associated with HAD and affective performance, but no significant statistical association was established between …

Replacing Alumni Surveys With Web Searches, Farrokh Alemi, Peggy Maddox

Health Professions Education

Purpose: To examine which components of an alumni survey can be replaced with information posted on the Internet by alumni.

Methods: Surveys were conducted for four programs, including 41 alumni of Master of Health Administration, 50 alumni of Master of Science in Health Informatics, 75 alumni of Master of Science in Social Work and 90 alumni of Bachelor of Art History. Demographic, career advancement, industry, location of work, and estimated salary were available through searching the web. Program reviews was not widely available and emailing alumni allowed to supplement web-available data with comments on the program.

Results: …

Using Electro-Peroxone Process To Remediate Stabilized Clay, Elaheh Faghih Nasiri, Farhad Qaderi, S. Mustapha Rahmaninezhad

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

Industrial processes are among human activities that cause the production of a large volume of wastewater containing organic pollutants such as phenol and its derivatives. These pollutants are among the substances that are considered a serious threat to the health of the environment, soil and humans. Soil remediation is crucial for enhancing environmental quality for both humans and other living organisms. This study investigated the use of an electro-peroxone system to remove environmental pollutants from soil. In conjunction with ozonation, the study employed electrochemically generated hydrogen peroxide using a carbon electrode, addressing concerns about transportation and storage. Experiments were structured …