30- And 90-Day Readmission Rates Following Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analyses, Marjan Hesari, Seyed Danial Alizadeh, Hamid Malekzadeh, Reza Tabrizi, Mohammad-Rasoul Jalalifar, Alireza Shahmohammadi, Zahra Eskandari, Zahra Ghodsi, James Harrop, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar

Department of Neurosurgery Faculty Papers

Study Design

Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses.

Objective

To assess the 30- and 90-day readmission rates after a traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI).

Methods

A systematic search of MEDLINE and Embase was performed. The period was from inception to June 2022, with no language restrictions. All studies investigating the 30- and/or 90-day readmission rate following traumatic SCI were included. A random-effects model to combine effect sizes in our meta-analysis was applied.

Results

Seven out of 2959 reports met eligibility. The mean age of the patients was 50.2 ± 19.9, with a male-to-female ratio of 2.4:1. The most common traumatic SCI was …

Comparative Analysis Of Artificial Intelligence And Statistical Models For Li-Ion Battery Cells State Estimation In Electric Vehicles, Rasha H.A. Tabasha

Theses

This graduate paper presents a comparative study of statistical modeling and Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches for estimating essential parameters of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries in electric vehicles (EVs). The key parameters estimated in this study are voltage, current, and temperature of Li-ion battery cells in EVs. A precise state estimation is required to ensure safety operation, to optimize the Battery Management System (BMS), and to enhance the battery life. Variations in EVs batteries parameters may occur due to different reasons such as sensor faults or attacks. As a result, obtaining an accurate estimation is essential to maintain EV battery efficiency. Using …

X-Chromosome-Wide Association Study For Alzheimer's Disease, Julie Le Borgne, Carlos Cruchaga, John Morris, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

No abstract provided.

Deterring School Crime And Violence Through Non-Hardened Approaches: An Examination Of School Threat Assessment Teams, Shane E. Conwell, Nicholas P. Elam

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

The purpose of this quantitative empirical study is to determine whether a non-hardened security measure such as threat assessment teams has a relationship to school crime and violence. This study incorporated descriptive and inferential statistics from a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of 2,762 participating schools administered by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Statistically significant relationships existed between school type and two of the 10 criminal offense variables: number of robberies with a weapon and number of incidents of theft/larceny. For nine of 10 variables, schools that had threat assessment teams, and met more frequently, had higher school crime and …

Trend And Awareness Of E-Cigarettes Among Students In A Private College In Sabah Malaysia, Vitalis Ronald Eden, Hazrina Hamid, Sreemoy Das, Regidor Iii Dioso

AUIQ Complementary Biological System

Objective: This study aims to investigate the trend and awareness of e-cigarette use among students in a private college located in Sabah, Malaysia. Research Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted in a private college in Sabah. A self-administered questionnaire was adapted and distributed to 300 randomly selected students regardless of their e-cigarettes vaping status. IBM SPSS Statistic 27 was utilized to analysed accumulated data. Results: A-245 students participated in the study with a response rate of 81.6%. Majority of the respondent were female (69.8%), Bumiputera Sabah (72.2%), Diploma students (90%) aged 22-25 years’ old. The study revealed that almost all …

A Method And A System For Clustering Similar Transaction Disputes, Rupali Shah

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides a method and a dispute clustering system for Clustering similar transaction disputes. In the present disclosure, during a training phase, a dispute clustering system may receive historical transaction disputes to form sets of historical transaction disputes with similar causes. Each set of historical transaction disputes may be resolved using the same resolving method. In real time, the dispute clustering system may receive one or more transaction disputes. Then, the dispute clustering system may determine a related set of historical transaction disputes for each of the one or more transaction disputes by comparing the causes and rules …

The Concave Mirror Based Light Capturing And Projection Configuration That Structures The Image Projection Into 4 Identical Sections Where The Main Reflection Based Light Projection Procedures Will Be Executed In The Perpendicular Directions To The Original Light Ray Incoming Direction., Punarjeewa Abeysekera

Defensive Publications Series

This paper describes a concave mirror based light capturing and projection configuration that structures the image projection into 4 identical sections where the main reflection based light projection procedures will be executed in the perpendicular directions to the original light ray incoming direction. The entire configuration will consists of a light capturing concave mirror and 2 main light projection systems. Each main light projection system will contain a main beam splitter, 2 distributed light collecting sensors and a reflecting surface. The concave mirror will have the capability to collect the light rays that are coming from the scene in front …

Feature Or Alert Announcement Based On User View Or Hand Position, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Modern vehicles have numerous controls and displays. These controls typically split between touch screen controls (soft buttons) and physical switches (hard buttons), which are often in different locations on the vehicle’s instrument panel or overhead console. While operating the vehicle, it is critical that the driver keeps their eyes on the road. It can be difficult for a driver to both maintain attention on the road and search for the location of a desired control button or read an alert on the HMI. While the driver is watching the road, it is hard for the driver to see all the …

Using Pattern Recognition To Dynamically Dampen User Control Inputs, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

Many games and applications use human machine input devices. The types of operations of the input device fall into two primary categories: large gross movements and small movements for fine adjustments. The sensitivity settings for the input devices work to dampen the movements generated by the input device. The goal of this disclosure is to outline a method of dynamically dampening the inputs from an human input device based on the recognition of the type of movement through pattern matching. The process would allow large movements to be faster through lessened dampening, and would allow small fine adjustments to be …

User Interface Personalization Based On User Preferences And Practices, Ajay Prasad

Defensive Publications Series

While some websites and apps support manually configurable user interface personalization, such personalization approaches do not evolve dynamically with changing user preferences and do not effectively leverage the collective intelligence across the user community as a whole. Non-personalized and difficult to use user interfaces can lead to user frustration and/or reduced engagement. This disclosure describes techniques that, with user permission, leverage individual and community user preferences and practices for dynamic real-time personalization of a UI including one or more of layout, content, and functionality. User interaction with the personalized layout as well as explicit user input is used to fine-tune …

Consumer Based Network Device Malicious Activity Monitoring, Jacques Mouton, James Black, Thomas Piacentini

Defensive Publications Series

Client devices of a local network is identified. Network traffic patterns, packet characteristics, and application behavior is monitored for the client devices of the local network. The network traffic patterns, packet characteristics, and application behavior is analyzed for network abnormalities in the client devices of the local network. Administrator of the local network or users of the client device with network abnormalities are alerted. Connections to the client device with network abnormalities is dropped or blocked.

Web Security Scanner With Accelerate Detection And Verification Of Vulnerabilities, Yash Bhatnagar, Athira M.

Defensive Publications Series

A full scan is performed in response to receiving a request to perform a full scan. A plurality of findings is generated from the full scan. Each finding includes a URL, security vulnerability of the URL, fuzzy payload(s) used to interact with the URL, algorithm of the vulnerability detector used to identify the security vulnerability, and a current status. A verification of a finding is performed using the URL, fuzzy payload(s), and algorithm of the finding. The current status of the finding is updated based on the results of the verification of the finding. A quick scan is performed on …

Discovering Patents: Effective Search Techniques In Uspto, Ibis Anette Moreno-Lozano

Day Family Research Lab Workshop Series

This workshop examined the essential techniques for navigating the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) database.

Présence Et Identité Des Collectionneurs Dans Les Biennales (1948-1965), Sophie Dolto, Anthony Chenevard

Artl@s Bulletin

Using exhibition catalogue data from the Artl@s database, this article seeks to define the typology of collectors/owners of works presented at nine international biennials, while quantifying their presence synchronously and transversally, in order to question the homogeneity of the cohort.

En s’appuyant sur les données de catalogues d’exposition issues de la base Artl@s, cet article cherche à définir la typologie des collectionneurs/propriétaires des oeuvres présentées dans neuf biennales internationales, tout en quantifiant leur présence de façon synchronique et transversale, afin d’interroger l’homogénéité de la cohorte observée.

The Computational Eye. Deconstructing Style In Digital Art History, Paul Guhennec, Ellen Charlesworth

Artl@s Bulletin

With the aim of grounding digital methods in the art historic tradition, this paper uses the discussions around style as a springboard to ask how digital art history can extend beyond providing quantitative confirmation of known trends to enrich our current understanding of visual cultures. Drawing from the examples throughout this issue, we explore how an analysis of computational ways of seeing—or the ‘computational eye’—can expose the underlying preoccupations and priorities of our own research.

Afin de mieux ancrer les méthodes numériques dans la tradition de l’histoire de l’art, cet article se sert des discussions récentes autour du concept de …

Style, Nonetheless. Eight Good Reasons To Reject The Notion Of Style; Three Reasons To Use It Nonetheless, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel

Artl@s Bulletin

This article examines why art historians have distanced themselves from the concept of “style” since the 1960s. It draws on the critiques of Meyer Schapiro and Ernst Gombrich, which were often cited and reinterpreted by post-constructivist and decolonial historiographies since the 1990s. It identifies eight key factors: variability of definitions, normative applications, tendency towards formalism, evolutionary implications, oversimplification, historical ties to racist assumptions, hierarchical effects, and modern Western biases. However, the article argues for distinguishing the cognitive relevance of “style” from its problematic uses, exploring its potential application within a socio-historical framework.

Cet article explore les raisons pour lesquelles les …

How Many Annunciations Are There? Using European Prints To Digitally Explore The Iconographic Style Of Eighteenth-Century Portuguese Azulejos, Rosário S. Carvalho

Artl@s Bulletin

The combination of a computational approach with the expertise of art historians in studying the similarities and differences between European prints and eighteenth-century Portuguese azulejos has led to the emergence of an “iconographic style,” which introduced two major modes of depicting the Annunciation during the period under analysis. The article aims to assess the impact of the circulation of European prints on Portuguese tile coverings to better understand how the images were circulated and to determine their influence in terms of form, style, decoration, iconography and working process on the definition and execution of different iconographic programmes.

En combinant approche …

A Legacy Of Discord: Controversial Meanings In American Mudéjar Style (20th–21st Centuries), Francisco Mamani Fuentes

Artl@s Bulletin

This paper offers an American perspective on the term Mudéjar, examining debates in the study of American colonial art and architecture from the 20th century to the present day. It delves into the debates surrounding its stylistic classification and the resulting ambiguities associated with linking all geometric forms to Islamic aesthetics. The paper concludes that the current application of the term in architectural studies has overlooked criticisms from visual culture studies, which tend to ignore the constructive and design-specific aspects where Mudéjar might hold greater stylistic legitimacy.

Este artículo presenta una perspectiva americana sobre el término Mudéjar, examinando …

No Need Of Styles: Building Up Architectural Historiography, Carmen Popescu

Artl@s Bulletin

If styles lost impetus within the methodology of art historiography, in the (parallel) field of architecture, they were firmly rejected one century ago. One might consider that this more radical positioning (particularly in terms of epistemological tools) constituted the very reason for the undeclared but yet consumed divorce between the two disciplines. Attempting to define its specificity but also the autonomy of the discipline, architectural historiography followed a path less directly preoccupied with aesthetics and closer to functionality and technicity. My paper analyses how architectural historiography built up its idiosyncrasy.

Si les styles en tant que catégorie ont perdu de …

Copy, Style, And Art Historians Scrutiny: A Journey From Aby Warburg Back To C.F. Rumohr, Marco Jalla

Artl@s Bulletin

This article examines J. A. Ramboux’s watercolor copies after Italian Renaissance artworks and their critical reception by art historians. Initially valued for documenting original masterpieces, Ramboux’s copies later drew criticism for stylistic deviations. The analysis reveals the subjective nature of stylistic interpretation and its varying significance in art history, from Rumohr to Warburg. By questioning the criteria for assessing fidelity and authenticity in copy paintings, the article encourages readers to rethink traditional stylistic evaluations and to consider how evolving perspectives shape our understanding of style in art replication.

Cet article examine les copies à l’aquarelle de J. A. Ramboux d’oeuvres …

Manufacturing National Boundaries? The Notion Of Style Between Identity Constructions And Spatial Approaches, Michela Passini

Artl@s Bulletin

Art historians have long been preoccupied by art’s geographical inscription. But it was during the interwar period that research on the geography of art really took off and was recognized as a field of study in its own right. This is evidenced by the organization of an international congress of art history (Stockholm, September 1933) specifically devoted to art geography.

What was the field covered in 1933 by artistic geography? How did it define its objects? And how an art history marked at the time by an extremely present methodological nationalism did shape geographical approaches?

Depuis les débuts de la …

The Inner Form Of Style: On Heinrich Wölfflin’S “Tactical” Formalism, Rémi Mermet

Artl@s Bulletin

In this article, I examine the enduring relevance of Heinrich Wölfflin’s approach to style, in light of the renewed interest in it among “postformalist” art historians. By delving into the theoretical foundations of the Principles of Art History, I explore Wölfflin’s Goethean interpretation of Kantian epistemology, revealing a conception of style characterized by its dynamic and symbolic “inner form” rather than mere static formalism. This analysis not only highlights affinities with Max Weber’s thought but also uncovers a previously overlooked connection to Wilhelm von Humboldt, offering valuable insights for current discussions on style.

Dans cet article, j’étudie la pertinence …

Style Revisited, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Catherine Dossin, Nicola Carboni

Artl@s Bulletin

The resurgence of the concept of 'style' within the realm of artificial intelligence, particularly in the fields of image classification and style transfer, reignites age-old discussions in art history. Despite the success of algorithmic methods, this revival has been met with significant criticism from art historians. A thorough exploration of the history of the concept of style, its evolution, inherent ambiguities, and diverse applications underscores the challenges art history faces in integrating new computational approaches that aim to describe and analyze styles. This is the central theme of this issue of the Artl@s Bulletin, for which we invited a diverse …

Comparing The Effectiveness Of The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (Epds) And Patient Health Questionnaire (Phq-9) In The Identification Of Postpartum Depression/Anxiety, Brianna A. Whitehead

DNP and Student Works

The purpose of this evidence-based improvement project was to evaluate the performance of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) in identifying PPD and/or anxiety. The guiding question for the DNP Project was as follows: In a postpartum population, does the EPDS provide earlier identification of postpartum depression and/or anxiety for postpartum patients presenting at the two through six-week postpartum visit than the PHQ-9?

Full Issue, Nhij V2, Newhouse Impact Journal

Newhouse Impact Journal

No abstract provided.

Chronicling Harriett: Speculative Museology Through Immersive Technology, Synatra Smith

Newhouse Impact Journal

This reimagining of Harriett’s Bookshop, a Black woman-owned bookstore in Philadelphia, renders the space as an interactive virtual reality environment entitled “Harriett’s Microverse” to highlight works by Black artists in Philadelphia. Here, I share my speculative cultural heritage preservation praxis through a discussion of three key questions to consider when developing digital projects. I also share recommendations and resources for cultural heritage professionals interested in replicating this type of project.

Understanding Others In Virtual Reality: Cognitive Empathy & Effort In Processing Idea-Themed Vr Stories, Kandice N. Green, Lyndsay Michalik Gratch, T. Makana Chock, Shengjie Yao, Heejae Lee, David Peters

Newhouse Impact Journal

This paper examines the role of virtual reality (VR) in promoting cognitive empathy for characters in VR narratives with inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility themes. The paper summarizes some of the results of a mixed-methods study we conducted (Green et. al, 2024) that found a complex interplay between prior experiences, cognitive effort, and VR design in fostering cognitive empathy (the ability to understand another person’s thoughts and feelings). The study found that prior experiences, whether personal or through a close other, significantly influenced how individuals engaged with VR narratives. However, the study did not find a significant relationship between prior …

Educational Design Of Xr, Jason Webb

Newhouse Impact Journal

This article explores the potential of Extended Reality, or XR, in higher education through experiential and personalized learning. It highlights the importance of designing XR experiences that are accessible and address deeper learning without creating cognitive overload for students. The future integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with XR is discussed to personalize learning further, allowing students to engage with AI facilitators and virtual historical figures for a more dynamic educational experience.

Gallery Of Shadows: A Modality Comparison Of An Interactive Provenance Research, Sabiha Ghellal

Newhouse Impact Journal

The aim of this research was to investigate the adaptation of the Virtual Reality (VR) museum experience prototype, “Gallery of Shadows,” (GoS) an interactive VR installation that allows visitors to assume the role of a provenance researcher. GoS was developed to engage a younger demographic in a state-owned art museum, bringing the important topic of provenance research closer to them. The use of VR in museums poses various hygienic and administrative challenges, including the maintenance of equipment and ensuring a sanitary environment for users. To address these challenges, we adapted the VR experience into a web-based format. The adaptation process …

How Do We Embody Our Narratives?, Kevin T. Martinez, Ria J. Gualano, Andrea Stevenson Won

Newhouse Impact Journal

Virtual reality (VR) offers immersive experiences that provide unique opportunities for selftransformation, allowing people to both experience and co-author narratives in ways difficult to parallel in more traditional media. Many VR experiences place the user in a virtual world where they are embodied as an avatar. Avatar customization allows users to express and explore aspects of their identities that might otherwise be invisible or difficult to convey through corporeal representation, such as invisible disability, neurodiversity, and chronic pain. This may manifest through affordances translated relatively 1:1 (e.g., clothing) or affordances that expand the bounds of possibility (e.g., enabling the simulation …