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Mitigating Financial Waste In The U.S. Healthcare System: An Ai-Driven Framework For Real-Time Fraud Detection In Medicare And Medicaid, Umma Twaha

Finance, Economics, and Data Analytics

The financial waste associated with fraud, abuse, and inefficient claims processing remains a significant challenge to the sustainability of the United States healthcare system, specifically in Medicare and Medicaid programs. The traditional fraud detection systems are mostly reactive, and they are unable to cope up with the increasing volume and complexity of the healthcare claims data. The recent developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) present the potential of improving the process of detecting fraud by applying real-time surveillance and predictive analytics. This paper will discuss the perception of stakeholders on the problem of financial waste in the U.S. …

Becoming Connective: Strengthening Diversity In Nursing Education, Melanie Jacobs

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Abstract Diversity in the nursing profession does not match the demographic of patients in the United States and correcting this mismatch could positively impact health disparities in the country. This post-intentional phenomenological study examines the current relationship between nursing education, as the pipeline into the profession, and students from underrepresented racial and ethnic (URRE) groups in the nursing profession to offer movement into the development of a stronger connection. In this qualitative study, phenomenological and poststructural tenets were used to seek the phenomenon of becoming connective, the creative tendency toward connection between URRE and nursing education. Data were generated from …

Rdn Diagnosed Malnutrition At St. Jude Children’S Research Hospital: Onset To Resolution Using And/Aspen Criteria, Madison Domek

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This quality improvement (QI) project investigates the incidence and management of malnutrition in pediatric oncology patients at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (SJCRH) from October 2022 to September 2023. The study aims to quantify malnutrition diagnoses made by registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs) and to identify patients at higher risk of severe malnutrition based on their primary cancer diagnosis and clinic location. A total of 161 patients were identified, resulting in 238 documented instances of malnutrition, classified as mild, moderate, or severe. The majority of unresolved cases were attributed to inadequate follow-up, particularly in the Hematology Clinic, which had a 100% …

Anthocyanin-Rich Extract From Purple Sweet Potatoes Modified Body Weight, Visceral Fat And Circulatory Il-10 In Stressed-Mice, Nia Kurnianingsih, Oktivani Adelathifa Rahma, Nabila Putri Prayogo, Qanitha Ailsya Rayhanna, Agwin Fahmi Fahanani, Ratih Paramita Suprapto, Ardani Galih Prakosa, Retty Ratnawati

Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research

Stress-induced inflammation and oxidative stress mechanisms thus plant bioactive compounds as anti-inflammation and antioxidants are placed as novel strategies to resist the adverse effects of stress. Purple sweet potatoes (PSP) as a rich source of macronutrients and anthocyanin showed health benefits as neuroprotective and metabolic diseases. However, limited research explored the effect of PSP extract on stressed animal models. This study aimed to evaluate the bioactive compound analysis of PSP and the effect on body weight gain (BW), visceral fat (VF), and interleukin-10 (IL-10) of stressed model mice. Adult male BALB/c mice (6-8 weeks) were divided into control (CTRL), and …

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Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

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Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

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"Everything That He Sees": Placing The Egotistical Wordsworth In The Yarrow Poems, Gabriella Schwartz

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

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Migrating Languages: Cultural Mistranslation In Sembène Ousmane’S “The Promised Land” And Ágota Kristóf’S The Illiterate, Ester Luna

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

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Acquisition Targeting: Toward Modelling Small Business Acquisition With Machine Learning, Jeremy Chambers

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Small business acquisition suffers from a lack of information transparency, and many business buyers consequently value acquisitions differently. This project uses the case study methodology to analyze Sound Hardware Inc. and its management team to understand its context in-depth and provide a model that calculates an acquisition price in addition to offering business planning. It does this by using machine learning algorithms to reduce the number of engineered variables resulting in a priority list of factors contributing to value. This core process of dimensionality reduction is followed by a sample valuation that uses the results of the dimensionality reduction in …

Art Inquiries, Xix:1, Front Matter, Mysoon Rizk

Art Inquiries

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An Interview With Sharon Lee Hart, Mysoon Rizk, Sharon Lee Hart

Art Inquiries

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Spirit And Invention: Drawings By Giambattista And Domenico Tiepolo, Roberto G. Peredo

Art Inquiries

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Speculations On Brunelleschi’S Pazzi Chapel, Howard A. Risatti Professor Emeritus, Donald Schrader

Art Inquiries

Why speculate on Filippo Brunelleschi’s Pazzi Chapel? As Giorgio Vasari wrote, many of Brunelleschi’s projects were not finished in his lifetime and not as he wished. The lesson to be drawn, says Vasari, who was writing a century after Brunelleschi’s death, is that “anyone who wishes to leave a memorial of his existence should complete it in his own lifetime and not put faith in anyone else.” Since Brunelleschi died well before the chapel was completed, issues have been raised for over a century about its inconsistencies regarding the open loggia, the barrel-vaulted portico, and the façade. This paper addresses …

Corsets Off. Camille Claudel And Polish Women Sculptors Of The 19th Century, Beata Niedzialkowska

Art Inquiries

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Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, And Self-Determination Since 1969, Shannon Bewley

Art Inquiries

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Art Inquiries, Xix:1, Full Issue, Mysoon Rizk

Art Inquiries

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Black Artists In America: From Civil Rights To The Bicentennial, Mallory Sharp

Art Inquiries

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The Shape Of Time: Korean Art After 1989, Saehim Park

Art Inquiries

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Conservation Through Art: Saving Alabama Hemlocks, Kelly A. Wacker

Art Inquiries

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Napoleon’S Corpse And The Subversion Of Historical And Political Authority, Alissa Rachel Adams

Art Inquiries

This article examines printed depictions of Napoleon Bonaparte’s exhumed corpse in conjunction with Romantic historical practice in nineteenth-century France. Current studies on history in the Romantic age emphasize Romantic historicism’s link to a widespread and frustrated yearning for direct access to the past that will settle the upheavals of the revolutionary period. This study considers how the corpse and its representations fulfill the desire for direct access to the past but, in doing so, also contributes to a proliferation of individual understandings of the past—and future. Through an analysis of representations of the corpse, their sources, and their connection to …

A Mother's Understanding Of Her Adolescent: A Social Anxiety Study, Cheronda Pinkard

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) affects 1% to 13% of adolescents, often placing significant demands on their caregivers. Mothers frequently adapt their behaviors to accommodate their child’s anxiety, which may impact their well-being and the parent-child relationship. This qualitative study explored the lived experiences of mothers accommodating adolescents with SAD to understand better the emotional and relational toll of this caregiving role. The problem addressed is the limited understanding of how maternal accommodation affects mothers. Mental health practitioners, educators, and policymakers may benefit from this research by gaining insight into these families' challenges and informing family-centered interventions and support services. Guided …

Molecular Mechanism Governing The Plasticity Of Use-Dependent Spike Broadening In Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons, Tyler D. Alexander, Stephen Tymanskyj, Kyle J. Kennedy, Leonard K. Kaczmarek, Manuel Covarrubias

SKMC Student Presentations and Publications

Use-dependent spike broadening (UDSB) results from inactivation of the voltage-gated K+ (Kv) channels that regulate the repolarization of the action potential. However, the specific signaling and molecular processes that modulate UDSB have remained elusive. Here, we applied an adeno-associated viral vector approach and dynamic clamping to conclusively demonstrate how multisite phosphorylation of the N-terminal inactivation domain (NTID) of the Kv3.4 channel modulates UDSB in rat dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons. The Kv3.4 phosphonull variant promotes slow recovery from inactivation, cumulative inactivation, and UDSB. In contrast, the Kv3.4 phosphomimic variant promotes fast recovery from inactivation and robust resistance to cumulative inactivation …

I Second That Emotion: Examining The Association Between Emotion Regulation Skills And Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms After A Traumatic Event In A Sample Of Black College Students, Cheyenne Ashley

Graduate Masters Theses

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been termed an “emotion disorder” due to its association with obstructing trauma survivors’ ability to regulate their emotions (Frewen & Lanius, 2006, as cited in Tull et al., 2020, p. 295). Previous research consistently shows individuals with PTSD experience significant difficulties in emotion regulation (ER) skills (e.g., Ehring & Quack, 2010). Despite the unique systemic challenges inherent in the experience of Black Folk which can exacerbate PTSD symptom severity (Carter, 2020; Bird et al., 2021), research focusing on Black trauma survivors remains limited.

This study utilized 3 self-report measures: the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale …

Catalyst For Syngas Conversion To Light Olefins, John Kuhn, Babu Joseph, Yang He

USF Patents

The present disclosure provides a composition. In an embodiment, a catalyst composition is provided and includes from 85 mol % to 95 mol % iron metal, and from 15 mol % to 5 mol % indium metal, wherein mol % is based on total moles of iron metal and indium metal. Also provided is a process of contacting, under reaction conditions, a gaseous mixture of carbon monoxide, hydrogen and optionally water with the catalyst composition. The process includes forming a reaction product composed of light olefins.

Functionalized Porous Organic Polymers As Uranium Nano-Traps For Efficient Uranium Extraction, Shengqian Ma, Qi Sun, Briana Aguila

USF Patents

Compositions are provided for efficient uranium extraction, for example from wastewater, seawater, or other water sources. The compositions can include a functionalized porous organic polymer functionalized with one or more uranium binding moieties, e.g. having a plurality of amidoxime or amidrazone groups covalently attached thereto. The compositions can include covalent organic frameworks, porous aromatic frameworks, and various porous organic polymers, especially those having a hierarchical pore size distribution over a range of pore sizes. The compositions can have functional groups such as amidoxime or an amidrazone covalently attached thereto. The hierarchical pore size distribution can be determined based upon at …

Lockout Systems And Methods, Srinivas Katkoori, Sheikh Ariful Islam

USF Patents

An exemplary integrated circuit design lockout system comprises an integrated circuit and a key obfuscated circuit embedded with the integrated circuit. The key obfuscated circuit is configured to verify that a user provides a valid key for the integrated circuit before the user is allowed to operate the integrated circuit. The exemplary integrated circuit design lockout system further comprises a lockout circuit embedded with the key obfuscated circuit, wherein the lockout circuit is configured to allow for a threshold number of failed attempts for the user to provide the valid key before the lockout circuit prohibits the user from making …

Systems And Methods For Immobilizing A Target Protein, Houman Yaghoubi, Arash Takshi, John Thomas Beatty

USF Patents

In some embodiments, a bioelectronic device includes an electrode, target proteins, and attachment mechanisms that immobilize the target proteins on the electrode, the attachment mechanisms comprising linker proteins that interface with the target proteins and attach the target proteins to the electrode.

System And Method For The Activation Of Active Ion Transporters Without The Consumption Of Adenosine Triphosphate (Atp) Molecules For The Treatment Of Muscle Fatigue, Wei Chen, Jason Edward Mast, Pengfei Liang

USF Patents

A system and method to control the Na/K pumps for the treatment or prevention of muscle fatigue by applying a synchronization modulation electric field that is effective in synchronizing the Na/K pumps down to individual steps throughout the pumping cycle, thereby synthesizing one ATP for each pumping cycle. The generated ATP molecule compensates the ATP consumed in extrusion of 3 Na ions and pumping 2 K ions such that the net-consumption of ATP for the Na/K pumps controlled by the system and method of the present invention is significantly reduced, theoretically to zero, thereby providing an effective treatment for muscle …

Epigenetic Modification Of Fungi And Uses Thereof, Bill J. Baker, Dennis E. Kyle, Mario Alberto Rodriguez-Pã©Rez, Anne-Claire D. Limon, Ala Azhari

USF Patents

Described herein are methods of epigenetic modification of fungi and uses thereof. Also described herein are compounds that can have antileishmanial activity and formulations thereof. Also described herein are methods of treating leishmanial infection in a subject that include the step of administering a compound or formulation thereof described herein to the subject.

Quarterly Report - 2nd Quarter, October 1 - December 31, 2024, Etsu Foundation, East Tennessee State University

ETSU Foundation Quarterly Reports

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