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Effectiveness Of Pancreatic Cancer Screening In High-Risk Elderly Individuals In Florida, Adeleke A. Aromolaran

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Routine preventive care supports early identification and management of health conditions among adults at high risk for pancreatic cancer. Evidence is limited regarding socioeconomic and health care access factors associated with engagement in routine preventive care among Florida adults aged 65 years and older at high risk for pancreatic cancer. The purpose of this quantitative cross-sectional correlational study was to examine these associations among this population. The health belief model served as the theoretical framework. Secondary data from the 2022 Florida Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System were analyzed for N = 4,032 participants using two multivariable binary logistic regression models …

The Role Of Counselors In Facilitating Family Involvement In The Treatment Of Individuals With Severe Mental Illness: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Shanice Stephenson-Walcott

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore counselors’ experiences with family involvement in the treatment of individuals with severe mental illness (SMI). Although family involvement has been associated with improved treatment outcomes, limited research has explored counselors’ experiences facilitating family involvement in SMI treatment, leaving a gap in understanding the challenges counselors face in clinical practice. Guided by Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology, this Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) study included six licensed professional counselors experienced in counseling individuals with SMI. The research question asked: How do counselors experience family involvement facilitation in the treatment of individuals with severe mental illness? …

A Qualitative Analysis Of Adopting A Holistic View In Project Management For Natural Skincare Product Development, Kavya Jadhav

Harrisburg University Dissertations and Theses

This qualitative study explored how adopting a holistic view in project management may support natural and holistic skincare product development. The study focused on the interconnected challenges involved in product development, the effects of fragmented decision-making, and the potential benefits of greater cross-functional coordination. Data were collected from 13 current and former professionals with experience in skincare and personal care product development across project management, product management, formulation and R&D, sourcing and supply chain, quality and regulatory, and manufacturing and operations. Thematic analysis identified six themes related to interconnected development challenges, competing project priorities, cascading effects of project decisions, fragmented …

Epistemic Resilience As A Media Literacy Goal: Moving Beyond Detection In The Age Of Generative Ai, Author Information Removed

JMLE Submissions Open for Review

Generative AI, encompassing large language models, image generators, and voice synthesis tools, has transformed the information landscape in ways that extend well beyond the production of fabricated content. By undermining the evidentiary signals through which individuals and communities have historically calibrated epistemic trust, it poses a structural challenge to existing media literacy frameworks. These frameworks, built around a “detect-and-debunk” paradigm, equip learners to identify false content through source verification, fact-checking, and evidence evaluation. These skills remain valuable but rest on assumptions that generative AI has rendered progressively less tenable. This article proposes “epistemic resilience” as a complementary goal: the cultivated …

Online Humiliation And Audience Responsibility In Adolescent Media Literacy Education, Author Information Removed

JMLE Submissions Open for Review

Online humiliation raises an educational problem that extends beyond identifying harmful messages: audience participation can make another person's embarrassment socially rewarding. This essay develops an argument for teaching responsibility for reactions and redistribution. Five student quotations reported in a Ghanaian doctoral manuscript illustrate tensions between recognition, joking, unwanted exposure and silent disagreement. They inform a conceptual discussion rather than a new analysis of focus-group transcripts. Drawing on scholarship on adolescent peer relations, bystander behaviour and media literacy, the essay distinguishes interpreting a message from judging what one's participation does to others. It proposes a classroom sequence using fictional exchanges to …

Adolescent Vulnerability To Disinformation, Polarisation, Filter Bubbles And Echo Chambers: A Systematic Review With Implications For Media Literacy Education, Author Information Removed

JMLE Submissions Open for Review

Disinformation, polarisation, filter bubbles and echo chambers pose growing risks to adolescents, as they are a group that consumes large amounts of information via social media. This paper presents a systematic review, following the PRISMA method, of the available empirical evidence on these risks among adolescents. Twelve empirical studies, published between 2019 and 2025, and collected from Web of Science and Scopus, were analysed. The results evidence that disinformation is the best-documented risk, whilst polarisation receives only marginal coverage and there is no direct empirical evidence regarding filter bubbles and echo chambers. Adolescents’ vulnerability is not uniform: it depends on …

Nucseg: An Effective Detectron2 Architecture For Nuclei Instance Segmentation In Histological Images, Payman Hussein Hussan, Syefy Mohammed Mangj

Baghdad Science Journal

Nuclei are often minuscule objects within histological whole slide imaging (WSI), presenting a labor-intensive task for pathologists to identify and analyze their characteristics. The precise identification of nuclei is essential in cancer pathology to conduct both quantitative and qualitative assessments of cancerous cells found within a slice of a tumor in order to assess the level of malignancy of the tumor; and to predict the outcome of the tumor. Manual identification is labor-intensive and prone to errors, whereas automatic recognition is complicated by the varied appearances and overlapping characteristics of nuclei, along with artifacts from digital photography. To address this …

The Ketupat War As A Cultural Performance: Ritual, Community Participation, And Cultural Preservation In Tempilang, Bangka Belitung, Fawarti Gendra Nata Utami, Budi Setiyono, Muhammad Fazli Taib Saearani

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

This study examines the Perang Ketupat tradition in Tempilang Village, Bangka Belitung Province, Indonesia, as a form of cultural performance. It aims to analyze the tradition through five dimensions: ritual, performing arts, community participation, cultural education, and community-based safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Employing a qualitative approach based on performance ethnography, data were collected through participant observation, in-depth interviews, document analysis, and a literature review during the 2024 Ketupat War Festival. The findings reveal that the tradition functions not only as a ritual for warding off misfortune but also as a living cultural performance that reinforces cultural identity, strengthens …

Quality Improvement Project: The Impact Of Self-Assessed Quality Of Sleep On Illness Experience And Job Satisfaction Among Night Shift Nurses, Eunice Ikpekpe

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Compromised sleep quality, illness experience, and job satisfaction are important concerns among registered nurses working night shifts. The purpose of this quality-improvement project was to evaluate changes in self-assessed sleep quality, illness experience, and job satisfaction following participation in the six-week Sleep Hygiene and Recovery Program (SHRP) among night-shift registered nurses at a large, urban, Level I trauma academic teaching medical center. The project used a quantitative, quasi-experimental, single-group pretest–posttest design guided by the Plan-Do-Study-Act framework and Lewin’s Change Management Theory, with the Neuman Systems Model and Pender’s Health Promotion Model providing the theoretical foundation. SHRP was a structured, evidence-informed …

Examining The Nexus Of Economic Complexity With Energy Transition And Environmental Sustainability: A Systematic Literature Review, Neharika Singh, Meenakshi Gupta

Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development

Economic complexity captures the diversity and sophistication of productive knowledge and capabilities embedded in an economy. Research on the relationship between economic complexity, energy transition, and environmental quality is growing rapidly. However, their findings differ across countries, development levels, and different energy and environmental indicators. As a result, the conditions under which economic complexity contributes to energy transition and environmental sustainability remain unclear across different contexts. To address this gap, this study conducts a systematic literature review following PRISMA guidelines and applies the Theory–Context–Characteristics–Methodology (TCCM) framework to synthesize evidence on economic complexity, energy transition, and environmental sustainability. The studies were …

Securitisation Without Consent: Digital Dissent And State Power In Kenya’S 2024 Protests, Dudley M. Gaciku, Arfin Sudirman, Irman G. Lanti

Jurnal Wacana Politik

This paper examines how digitally mediated dissent is securitised in hybrid regimes using Kenya's 2024-2025 protest cycle as a case study. Although the Copenhagen School gives precedence to audience acceptance in determining the success or failure of a securitising move, the paper critiques this viewpoint drawing on contemporary securitisation scholarship. Through a qualitative case study approach, the research draws on official state communications, social media content, media reports, human rights documentation, and the researcher's reflexive observations during the protests. The findings illustrate that although the #RejectFinanceBill movement was framed by the state as a threat to national stability, public safety, …

Alumni Invited To Join University Of Minnesota's 175th Anniversary Celebration, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

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Identifying Barriers To Reporting Concerning Behaviors In A Public Secondary School, Will Durgin

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

Threat assessment is an effective school safety practice that allows schools to identify concerning behavior and intervene before it reaches a crisis. Because this process often begins with a staff member recognizing and reporting a concern, this study examined how school staff interpret concerning behavior, understand their responsibility to report it, and what can make reporting more difficult.

The study used a two-phase action research design in a small, rural public school district in western New York. The first phase used a survey built around five behavior vignettes, while the second phase consisted of staff interviews.

Staff generally agreed when …

Pediococcus Pentosaceus Osteomyelitis: A Case Report And Scoping Review, Mariana Rodriguez, Jessica Sima, Stephanie Campbell, Amanda L. Killeen

School of Podiatric Medicine - Student Research

Pediococcus pentosaceus (Pep) is a Gram-positive lactic acid bacterium widely utilized in food fermentation and recognized for its probiotic properties. While generally considered non-pathogenic, it can act as an opportunistic pathogen in immunocompromised hosts. Its intrinsic resistance to glycopeptides, with additional reported resistance to tetracycline and novobiocin, limits empiric treatment options and poses a diagnostic challenge when encountered in clinical cultures and deemed to be pathogenic.

We present the case of a male living with type two diabetes mellitus, hypertension, peripheral artery disease and obesity admitted with a non-healing infected diabetic foot ulcer of the great toe. Magnetic resonance imaging …

The Parthenon, September 24, 2026, Trista Honaker, Davina Snyder, Soleil Woolard, Alana Romero-Lozano, Claire Johnson, Hannah Anderson, Tally Mamula

The Parthenon

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System And Method For Reliable App-To-Web Conversion Measurement And Identifier Restoration Via Native Bridges, Aniket Kumar Gupta, Brad Townsend, Dom Quigley, Kevin Smith, Chandan Giri, Khantil Choksi, Anton Ostrovskii

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method are disclosed for restoring and maintaining client-side conversion measurement parameters during app-to-web user navigation journeys across mobile software applications. When a user selects an item or link within a publisher native application that opens a destination web page within an embedded web view container, campaign measurement identifiers and source attributes are intercepted and temporarily stored at the application level. An asynchronous handshake protocol is established between an embedded client-side web measurement script executing on the destination web page and an application-level message handler. Upon receiving a readiness signal from the client-side script, the native application evaluates …

Persistent Delegated Communication Brokering System And Method For Individuals With Intermittent Communication Access, Eric Zavesky

Defensive Publications Series

A system and method for persistent delegated communication brokering on behalf of individuals with intermittent communication access is disclosed. The system captures a requester's outreach objectives during a brief communication session and structures them into a persistent obligation object that survives session termination, continuing to execute outreach, information gathering, and action coordination after the requester's communication channel has closed. The system resolves non-dialable contact references through multi-source discovery with contextual confidence scoring and a trust-tiered no-auto-contact gate. A multi-modal outreach agent conducts autonomous outreach with mandatory self-identification, optionally employing biometric cloning of the requester, and continuously classifies contacted-party responses into …

Adaptive Semantic Chunking With Header-Weighted Embeddings, Theo B. Aguilar, Dan Hu

Defensive Publications Series

Methods related to retrieval-augmented generation are disclosed.  A computer system can receive a requestor query.  The computer system can identify one or more context data elements (comprising e.g., “chunks” of documents) that are relevant to the requestor query based on header-weighted embeddings.  The computer system can generate a prompt by combining the one or more context data elements and the requestor query.  The computer system can generate a requestor query response based on the prompt and cause the requestor query response to be provided to the requestor.  The computer system can additionally collect various performance metrics, which can be used …

Method, System, And Computer Program Product For Extracting Data From A Data File Using A Large Language Model, Ovidiu Dan

Defensive Publications Series

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for extracting data from a data file using a large language model. An example method includes: receiving a first data file having first data in a first format; inputting the first data file and a prompt to a non-deterministic LLM; executing, with the LLM, the prompt a plurality of separate times, thereby generating a plurality of separate output files based on the input file; comparing the plurality of output files to generate a score representing a similarity of the plurality of output files; in response to the score satisfying a threshold, generating …

Security Operations Decision Attribution And Reasoning Trace Evaluation Framework For Autonomous Security Triage And Investigation Agents, Vidya Gopalakrishnan, Benjamin Walter, Nicholas Smith, Ruowen Wang, Jeffrey Bickford

Defensive Publications Series

This publication describes the Security Operations (SecOps) Decision Attribution and Reasoning Trace framework, an integrated ground-truth construction pipeline and evaluation harness for benchmarking autonomous security triage and investigation agents at enterprise scale. Evaluating security agents presents two fundamental challenges: first, historical human closure notes are inherently sparse, unstructured, and omit implicit investigative steps, making it difficult to systematically codify expert reasoning ground truth. Secondly, conventional verdict-based metrics fail to detect when an agent arrives at the correct conclusion through flawed logic, coincidental data lookups, or deficient reasoning paths. The SecOps Decision Attribution and Reasoning Trace framework aims to resolve both …

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Literacy And Competency In Thai Education : A Crosswalk Framework For Curriculum Design And Assessment, Wichai Sawekngam

Journal of Education Studies

This article aims to analyze and position the relationship between literacy and competency in the context of Thai education. It employs conceptual analysis and purposive document synthesis based on relevant international and Thai frameworks, including PIAAC, PISA/OECD, UNESCO, ACRL, the Council of the European Union, DigComp, UNESCO-UNEVOC, PISA Thailand, and CBE Thailand materials on core competencies and learning assessment. The analysis indicates that literacy and competency are related but cannot be used interchangeably. Literacy emphasizes domain-specific abilities to understand, evaluate, use, create, or communicate texts, data, media, symbols, or information in meaningful contexts. Competency, on the other hand, emphasizes the …

Dynamics Of Expectations And Adaptation Strategies: A Study Of Expectation Management Processes Among Chinese Graduate Students, Arpamas Khemanatee, Pisith Nasee

Journal of Education Studies

This research aims to explore the expectations and analyze the expectation management strategies of Chinese master's degree students at a Thai university. Employing a qualitative case study design, data were collected through in-depth interviews with seven key informants, selected through purposive sampling combined with snowball sampling. The informants were Chinese master's degree students aged between 23–28 years, representing diverse genders, fields of study, and regions in China.  Semi-structured in-depth interviews and observation records as research instruments. The data were analyzed using directed content analysis. The findings revealed that students' expectations cover four main dimensions: teaching and learning, services, social and …

Hardware-Rooted Integrity Attestation For Ai Agents, Niranjan M M

Defensive Publications Series

The proposal introduces a hardware-rooted integrity attestation framework for AI agents that enables a platform to verify that a live agent instance is genuine, untampered, and running in an approved execution state before it is trusted with sensitive actions. By measuring agent-specific artifacts such as binaries, models, plugins, policies, and runtime composition, and binding that measured state to a trusted platform identity and freshness evidence, the system enables real-time and continuous trust decisions for AI agents across physical and virtual environments. In some embodiments, the attestation pipeline is further strengthened using a hardware quantum entropy source to improve nonce generation, …