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Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes December 12, 2024, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

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Faculty Senate Meeting Agenda December 12, 2024, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Meeting Agendas

No abstract provided.

The Mass Murder Epidemic Of The United States: Policy, Reflections, And The Way Through, Isaiah Johnson

Dissertations, Theses, and Projects

This work is an in-depth look at American culture and how the culture has shaped gun policies in the U.S. I also examine various policies that could be used to mitigate mass shootings in the United States, as well as some of the reasons these incidents have become so prevalent.

Usa V. Maurice Frezzell

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Usa V. Jose Estrada

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

First Choice Women\'S Resource Centers Inc V. Attorney General New Jersey

2024 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Michael Sheliga V. Borough Of Windber

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

From Farm To Future: Ella Simonds’ Path To Veterinary Medicine, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Growing up on a small farm in Gaston County, N.C., Ella Simonds, a senior at Gardner-Webb University, knows firsthand the need for large animal veterinarians in her community. For as long as she remembers, her goal has been to become a veterinarian and provide care to livestock and other animals.

University Of Northern Iowa Graduate Council Minutes, December 12, 2024, University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate Council.

Documents - Graduate Council

Meeting minutes from the Graduate Council of the University of Northern Iowa.

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, December 12, 2024

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on December 12, 2024.

Clarinet Studio Recital, December 10, 2024 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

School Principals’ Perception On Their Job Satisfaction, Arti Narayan

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The school principal’s roles have become quite complex and strenuous causing an impact on school principals’ job satisfaction. The problem that was addressed through this basic qualitative study was the low job satisfaction of school principals at a school district in California. The framework used for the study was the job demands and resource theory. The purpose of this research study was to examine the perceptions of TK-12 school principals regarding their job satisfaction based on the job demands and resource framework. Using a basic qualitative research design, data were gathered through semistructured interviews with nine school principals out of …

A Home Away From Home For Indigenous Environmental Justice, Deborah Mcgregor

Articles & Book Chapters

No abstract provided.

​​Living With Parkinson’S During Covid-19: A Survey Of Parkinson’S Patients During Covid-19​, Sia Shaila Pilgaonkar

Undergraduate Theses

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD), raising concerns about exacerbation of symptoms and vulnerability of the patients. This project first reviews existing literature on the interconnections between COVID-19 and PD, focusing on the physiological, psychological, and treatment-related challenges faced by patients. Then it analyzes survey data examining increased severity of COVID-19 in individuals with PD, alongside the literature researching potential mechanisms linking the two, such as inflammation and neurodegeneration. The survey’s key areas of focus included symptom management, treatment satisfaction, the impact of PD on daily living, and the impact of COVID-19 on motor and …

University Of Dayton Names 2025 Mcintosh Scholar, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Thurgood Marshall High School senior Nealeonn Scott earned the prestigious W.S. McIntosh Memorial Leadership Award.

Mri Alzheimer’S Disease Prediction, Vikram Ayyawari

Masters Projects

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a significant and growing global health issue, affecting millions of people around the world. Despite ongoing research, there is currently no cure or highly effective treatment for AD, making early detection essential to slowing its progression and alleviating its impact on patients and healthcare systems. This project explores the use of the "Augmented Alzheimer MRI Dataset V2," a specialized dataset developed to improve the precision and reliability of machine learning models for diagnosing and classifying different stages of AD from MRI scans. The dataset includes MRI images categorized into four classes representing different stages of cognitive …

Sustainable Talent Management In Banking Through Innovative Hr Strategies, Seyed Ali Shobeiri, Arshia Hossein Zadeh, Fardad Faress

Information Systems Faculty Publications

In the dynamic landscape of the banking industry, human resources (HR) management plays a pivotal role in fostering sustainability and organizational resilience. This abstract explores the imperative of redefining HR strategies within the banking sector to align with sustainable practices and talent development. By examining contemporary challenges and opportunities, this study delves into the necessity of empowering talent management initiatives to drive sustainability agendas. An interview with 15 managers and professionals within the banking industry, each with more than 20 years of work experience, was conducted, and several key factors were derived from these discussions. Through an analysis of current …

Direct Methanol Fuel Cells Using Pure Methanol, Ryan Spragg

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Fuel cell technology has attained significant appeal as a form of renewable energy in recent years due to its diverse applications, various fuel types, and lower greenhouse gas emissions. Of the various fuel cell types, direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) hold a set of distinct advantages for stationary and small portable applications. These advantages include faster refueling compared to battery charging, high gravimetric energy density, and ease of production and use compared to hydrogen. However, the DMFC has numerous technical hurdles that prevent its widespread adoption into the commercial market. Namely, the slow reaction kinetics in the anode and the …

Simple Steps To Help Beat The Blues This Holiday Season, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Preparing Clinic Staff Nurses To Implement A Newly Hired Rn Preceptorship, Eston Sumner White

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense Healthcare Facilities are among the largest collective of healthcare management systems in the United States. The VA facility in this study has a nurse residency program for new hires and new graduate nurses but lacks a stable cohort of nurse educators to facilitate integration into care for a veteran population and to mentor skills and critical thinking. The purpose of this project was to create a sustained cadre of preceptors for a robust Registered Nurse (RN) program that will prepare recently graduated nurses and new hires for the unique set of situations …

Business Governance Strategies Needed To Reduce Corruption, Colin Milverton Jackson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Corruption undermines businesses by distorting competition, reducing performance, and hindering economic growth. Business leaders must understand and implement strategies to address fraud and corruption in order to ensure long-term success, benefiting both their companies and the broader economy. Grounded in stewardship theory, the purpose of this multiple case study was to explore strategies that small manufacturing business leaders use to implement business governance guidelines needed to reduce corruption in international transactions. Data were collected through semistructured face-to-face interviews and a review of company documents. he participants in this study were five business leaders from two firms who implemented successful strategies …

Math Education: A Comprehensive Guide To Teaching The Foundations, Claudia Jayne Staruch

Honors College Theses

This thesis investigates the critical need for strong foundational mathematics education for adults. More specifically, for incarcerated individuals who lack basic numeracy skills because of the systematic inequalities that they have faced, the need for a mathematics foundation is even higher. This work emphasizes a non-technological approach to teaching these basics through qualitative analysis, including teaching strategies and practical lessons, while recognizing the various barriers many learners face. This research serves as a guide for educators to use for how to sequence and pace lessons, address certain learning styles, and gain classroom engagement, comprehension, and long-term retention of the materials. …

Elucidating The Role Of Astrocytes In Norepinephrine Neuromodulation, Katheryn Bry Lefton

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

Norepinephrine, a wakefulness-associated neuromodulator, profoundly reshapes neural systems, from synaptic circuits to behavior. Through decades of research, a substantial catalogue on the effects of noradrenergic signaling on behavior and networks has been generated. How norepinephrine remodels synaptic circuitry is widely thought to underlie the larger changes in neural networks and behavior, highlighting the need for a more thorough understanding of the circuit effects of norepinephrine neuromodulation. However, the mechanistic details of the norepinephrine on synapses are still unclear. In recent decades, a large body of work has shown that norepinephrine acts not just on neurons, but on glial cells including …

Hypernetwork Reconstruction From Time-Series Measurements, Ziyi Peng, Bharat Singhal, Jr-Shin Li

Electrical and Systems Engineering Undergraduate Student Research

Hypernetworks, which enable joint interactions among three or more nodes, reveal complex network dynamics underlying various systems. This study focuses on reconstructing hypernetwork connectivity structures from time-series data. By transforming the inference task into a bilinear optimization problem, we develop an iterative algorithm to recover adjacency matrices and coupling strengths accurately. Our method's robustness is validated with phase-coupled oscillator models, achieving an average AUC score of 0.8 for connectivity reconstruction. Future directions include enhancing algorithm efficiency for larger networks and refining coupling strength estimations. This work advances network inference by offering a scalable and accurate approach to decoding higher-order network …

Auguste V. Lee

All Decisions

The court granted summary judgment based on the petitioner and respondent's relationship as a couple, living together with children in common. After the petitioner moved out, a Family Court child support order was issued. While no general familial eviction exception exists, the support obligation prevented maintaining the summary proceeding. However, the court denied respondent's motion for summary judgment on harassment, ruling that the two-family home status did not allow a rebuttable presumption of harassment. The court dismissed the entire case without opportunity to restore the harassment claim.

Tag-Based Security In C: Writing And Specifying Flexible Protection, Sean Noble Anderson

Dissertations and Theses

The C language is ubiquitous and insecure. Tag-based security policies offer a flexible toolkit for runtime protection, including policies that mitigate the effects of undetected programming bugs and those that enforce security properties of the program logic. But tag policies can be difficult to define, and the protection that they offer can be difficult to specify and to prove.

This dissertation builds from an assembly-level specification of stack safety, encompassing the essential control-flow structure of C and other high level languages, to a C source-level policy definition framework called Tagged C. Tagged C includes a variant C semantics parameterized by …

Investigating Student Expectations, Buy-In, And Engagement In Lower Division Undergraduate Chemistry Labs, Elizabeth Blanche Vaughan

Dissertations and Theses

Laboratory courses constitute an integral aspect of chemistry education at the undergraduate level. Despite their prominence, a growing number of researchers have begun to think more critically about the value of laboratory learning experiences. As pedagogical decisions should be based on evidence, it is necessary for chemistry education researchers and practitioners to investigate the claim that teaching laboratories are a valuable part of science education. Therefore, the aim of this dissertation was to address one small section of this gap in the literature by obtaining a more robust understanding of students' expectations, buy-in, and engagement in lower division, undergraduate, chemistry …

Recovery Of Black Carbon Concentrations In Burned Forests In Wyoming, Usa, Monica Vanesa Zapata Villegas

Dissertations and Theses

Burned forests that remain standing following fire release light-absorbing particles (LAPs), including black carbon (BC), into winter snowpacks, reducing snow surface albedo and accelerating snowmelt timing for decades postfire. Although the role of LAPs in seasonal snow has been extensively studied, the spatiotemporal variability of LAPs' contributions to snowmelt relative to time-since-fire and burn severity remains unknown. This study aimed to quantify the spatiotemporal variability of forest fire effects on LAPs in snow and associated snow albedo in the Triple Divide region of western Wyoming, headwaters of the Colorado, Columbia, and Missouri rivers. Using geochemical analysis and radiative transfer modeling, …

Landslide Mapping, Characterization, And Hazard Assessment With 3d Slope Stability Modeling In White Bluffs, Washington State, Anna Tsitsivas

Dissertations and Theses

Slope failures shape the landscape by moving unstable material downslope and, in doing so, become a great hazard to all those in their path. Understanding the mechanisms that control landslide location, timing, size, type, and runout - and therefore hazards - requires a deep understanding of the local geology, stratigraphy, and groundwater conditions. Along White Bluffs, in south-central Washington, landslides of several failure styles have likely been triggered by an increased water table in recent decades, threatening both farmland behind the bluffs and habitat below. This study focuses on characterizing potential groundwater sources and determining controls on spatial and temporal …

Ire1Α Silences Dsrna To Prevent Taxane-Induced Pyroptosis In Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, Longyong Xu, Fanglue Peng, Qin Luo, Yao Ding, Fei Yuan, Liting Zheng, Wei He, Sophie S Zhang, Xin Fu, Jin Liu, Ayse Sena Mutlu, Shuyue Wang, Ralf Bernd Nehring, Xingyu Li, Qianzi Tang, Catherine Li, Xiangdong Lv, Lacey E Dobrolecki, Weijie Zhang, Dong Han, Na Zhao, Eric Jaehnig, Jingyi Wang, Weiche Wu, Davis A Graham, Yumei Li, Rui Chen, Weiyi Peng, Yiwen Chen, Andre Catic, Zhibin Zhang, Bing Zhang, Anthony M Mustoe, Albert C Koong, George Miles, Michael T Lewis, Meng C Wang, Susan M Rosenberg, Bert W O'Malley, Thomas F Westbrook, Han Xu, Xiang H-F Zhang, C Kent Osborne, Jin Billy Li, Matthew J Ellis, Mothaffar F Rimawi, Jeffrey M Rosen, Xi Chen

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Chemotherapy is often combined with immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) to enhance immunotherapy responses. Despite the approval of chemo-immunotherapy in multiple human cancers, many immunologically cold tumors remain unresponsive. The mechanisms determining the immunogenicity of chemotherapy are elusive. Here, we identify the ER stress sensor IRE1α as a critical checkpoint that restricts the immunostimulatory effects of taxane-chemotherapy and prevents the innate immune recognition of immunologically cold triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). IRE1α RNase silences taxane-induced dsRNA through RIDD (Regulated IRE1-Dependent Decay) to prevent NLRP3 inflammasome–dependent pyroptosis. Inhibition of IRE1α in Trp53−/− TNBC allows taxane to induce extensive dsRNAs that are sensed …