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Impact Of Sexual Orientation On Syphilis Diagnosis Among African American Men In Colorado, Emmanuel Bhatti

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Syphilis remains an ongoing public health concern among African American men. Elevated rates during the COVID-19 pandemic further underscored the need for focused attention on this population. The risk factors driving syphilis diagnosis among African American men during a pandemic like COVID-19 remain poorly understood. The purpose of this quantitative cross-sectional study was to examine the association between sexual orientation and syphilis diagnosis among African American men in Colorado. Social cognitive theory was applied to understand the interaction among sexual orientation, HIV status, age, and syphilis diagnosis. Sexual orientation categories include men who have sex with men (MSM), men who …

2026 - Faculty & Staff Research Symposium, Elizabeth Outka, Lidia Radi

Faculty and Staff Research Symposium Programs

[Excerpt from the "Welcome"]

Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to the third Faculty & Staff Research Symposium!

The Symposium offers us the chance to come together as a community and learn about the inspiring work happening across our campus. Faculty and staff continue to push the boundaries of research, to design and maintain new learning and gathering spaces, to craft remarkable art and performances, and to develop innovative programs that enrich our collective experience. The event is meant to spark curiosity, build connections, inspire partnerships, and open new pathways for exploration. . . .

This symposium is your creation — it thrives …

Trustworthy Golden-Subject Identification For Motor Imagery Brain-Computer Interface Applications Using A Unified Fwzic-Vikor Framework, Ghadeer Ghazi Shayea

Mesopotamian Journal of Computer Science

Motor imagery-based brain-computer interfaces (MI-BCIs) remain limited by inter-subject variability, nonstationary EEG characteristics, and the difficulty of identifying a reliable golden subject for subject-to-subject transfer learning. Previous version of HAFL study used fuzzy decision by opinion score method (FDOSM) to identify a golden subject. However, the decision-making layer can be strengthened by explicitly separating criteria weighting from compromise ranking. This study extends the published framework by developing a unified 9 × 18 Golden Subject Decision Matrix (UGSDM), where nine subjects are evaluated simultaneously across nine training-phase criteria and nine evaluation-phase criteria. FWZIC is used to calculate the importance weights of …

Iatrogenic Pseudoaneurysm After Arthroscopic Knee Procedures: A Systematic Review Of Presenting Features, Injured Vessels, Management, And Outcomes, Ethan J. Sack, Max Deneroff, Zubair Mohammed, Austin Khau, Chadi Ellaham, Jared Nichols

Student Publications

Pseudoaneurysm after arthroscopic knee procedures is uncommon but clinically important because it can initially resemble routine postoperative swelling, hematoma, recurrent hemarthrosis, deep vein thrombosis, infection, or compartment syndrome. PubMed, Embase, and Scopus were searched through July 9, 2026. The original database pathway yielded 312 records and 54 included reports representing 60 patient cases. During peer-review citation audit, three additional potentially eligible reports were identified; two full texts were retrieved and included, while one report could not be retrieved and was not used for patient-level inference. The final synthesis therefore included 56 reports and 62 patient cases. Using a mutually exclusive …

Between Extinction And Hubris: A Dialectical Approach To Ai Risk, Control, And Governance, Elise Annett, James Giordano

Strategic Insights

This Strategic Insights article looks at risks associated with autonomous artificial intelligence systems and the challenges they pose for human control and institutional governance. Dr. Annett and Dr. Giordano argue that near-term risks stem not only from advancing AI capabilities but also from the progressive transfer of human decision-making and agency to AI systems, particularly in military and intelligence contexts. They propose an adaptive governance framework emphasizing continuous testing and evaluation, meaningful human control, clear accountability, graduated autonomy thresholds, independent oversight, and international norms for high-risk AI applications.

Statistical Triangulation: Weighing Multiple Statistical Tools In Macro-Level Housing Research, Julio Montanez, Amy Donley, Jacquelyn Reiss

Journal of Applied Disciplines

Homelessness and housing research has a detection problem, in which understanding housing issues (e.g., substandard housing) is plagued by problems like undercounting and incomplete data. To partially compensate for these pitfalls, the current research engages in an exercise aiming to sharpen the statistical approach to homelessness and housing research. The macro-level sample included Florida’s 27 Continuums of Care geographies (composed of one or more Florida counties). The dependent variables were sheltered homelessness, energy-based substandard housing, and plumbing-based substandard housing. The independent variables were misdemeanor partner violence rates, felony partner violence rates, high school non-completion rates, urbanicity, and population burdens of …

Development Vs. Preservation, Ben Weaver

Fresh Voices: Composition at Cal Poly

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Chatgpt In Education: Examining The Impact And Ethical Dilemmas Of Ai Integration, Noah Alloun

Fresh Voices: Composition at Cal Poly

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Behind The Viral Donut Dumping Clip, Kyle Flora

Fresh Voices: Composition at Cal Poly

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“Outwit, Outplay, Outlast”, Shayna Gayer

Fresh Voices: Composition at Cal Poly

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Where Different Matters, Madeleine Colbert

Fresh Voices: Composition at Cal Poly

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The Pad Slo, Trinity Mak

Fresh Voices: Composition at Cal Poly

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Wàipó, Delanie Crumbleholme

Fresh Voices: Composition at Cal Poly

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Sharpies And Chickens, Emily Gillham

Fresh Voices: Composition at Cal Poly

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Street Haircuts, Olivia Cooper

Fresh Voices: Composition at Cal Poly

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The Small Town Complex, Ellie Conway

Fresh Voices: Composition at Cal Poly

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Federated System For Synchronous Root Cause Analysis Of System Incidents, Nikhil Kumar, Akash Verma

Defensive Publications Series

Initial response to system incidents in complex software environments can involve a manual process of context gathering, which may delay mitigation and increase cognitive load on engineers. A system can utilize a federated network of autonomous diagnostic agents that can trigger in response to a system alert. An agent can autonomously gather telemetry data from various sources, such as logs, metrics, and source code repositories, and can use an analytical model to perform causal synthesis. The system can then generate and deliver a human-readable root cause hypothesis with supporting evidence to a response team. This approach may automate initial data …

Public Sector Experiences Of Disruptions In The Psychological Contract: The Influence Of Ideological Currency And Digital Transformation On Public Servants, Willemijn Van Haeften, Xander Lub, Pascal Ravesteijn, Pascale Peters

Communications of the IIMA

Digital transformation is reshaping public-sector work and may alter how public servants evaluate their psychological contract with their employer. This research-in-progress examines how critical incidents associated with digital transformation disrupt psychological contracts and how ideological currency, the perceived commitment to valued societal causes or principles, shapes subsequent trajectories toward renegotiation, repair, or exit. The study uses a qualitative phenomenological design based on semi-structured interviews with 20 employees from five Dutch municipalities experiencing transformation-related changes. The Critical Incident Technique is combined with the dynamic psychological contract phase model to reconstruct disruption trajectories, while thematic analysis identifies recurring patterns across cases. Preliminary …

September 17, 2026

The Breeze, 2020-

No abstract provided.

2026 September 17 - From My Notepads Newsletter, Office Of The President, East Tennessee State University, Brian Noland

From My Notepads: A Newsletter from President Brian Noland

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Evidence Based Clinical Ladder Program, Jeannie N. Beard, Jennifer Vann, Michele Kane, Catherine Brown

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Introduction: For nurses providing direct bedside care at Athens-Limestone Hospital (ALH) or Medical Village Tower (MVT), there is currently no Clinical Ladder Program (CLP). Purposes of this paper is to determine if there will be an increase interest in CLP education through utilization of a quick response (QR) code.

Problem: Nurses struggle with retention yet want to provide quality care and pursue professional development but are unaware of how to begin. CLPs offer networking, education, and interdisciplinary communication supporting retention.

PICOT: The PICOT question is for registered or licensed practical nurses providing direct bedside care at ALH/MVT (P), does the …

Nurse-Driven, Human-Centered Ai: The Concern Early Warning System, Sarah Collins Rossetti

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Human-centered AI offers a powerful opportunity to advance nursing practice and improve patient outcomes. The CONCERN Early Warning Score (EWS) is a nurse-driven AI-based predictive model that uses patterns of nursing surveillance for early prediction of deterioration outcomes. In a multi-site randomized controlled trial, use of CONCERN EWS was associated with a 35.6% reduction in mortality risk, 7.5% reduction in sepsis risk, shorter length of stay, more timely escalation, and cost savings.

Sukhrob Khamrokilov V. Attorney General United States Of America

2026 Decisions

Agency

Webinar 4 Designing Coherent Systems For Designated Eld Slide Deck, Center On English Language Proficiency

Webinars

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Semiotic Breakdown In Disaster Evacuation Signage For International Tourists, Mario Christopher Fimbrez

Masters Theses

Japan’s disaster evacuation signage systems are highly standardized and widely regarded as effective for the domestic population, who operate within a shared cultural framework shaped by years of earthquake drills, formal disaster education, and a common visual vocabulary for risk and evacuation. In coastal cities like Kamakura, however, the audience composition has changed significantly, with millions of international visitors now navigating these spaces each year without the disaster literacy or cultural familiarity that the existing signage was designed to assume. When those shared assumptions about urgency, symbolism, and environmental threat are absent, the communicative force of the system can be …

Spartan Daily, September 17, 2026, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2026

Volume 167, Issue 12

Evaluating The Physical, Digital, And Sovereign Risks To U.S. Data Centers, Kevin Chen, Katrina Mcdermott

Reports, Projects, and Research

This report is intended to inform DHS officials, law enforcement, critical infrastructure personnel, and the wider Intelligence Community on the urgent physical and digital threat landscape confronting domestic data center infrastructure.

The growth of technologies that are reliant on data centers, most notably AI, has transformed these facilities from passive data repositories into multi-dimensional platforms that are attractive targets for hostile state and non-state actors.

A Circularly Polarized Wideband H-Slot Microstrip Patch Antenna For 5g Applications, Kenneth Kalan John, Zhang Yixiang

Warith Scientific Journal of Engineering and Technology

A circularly polarized wideband H-slot compact patch antenna for 5G applicational implements is proposed. The structure adopts a three-layer architecture with a perfect electric conductor (PEC) copper foil radiation patch on top, Rogers RT5880 dielectric material in between and copper foil grounding plate. Theoretical analysis is conducted on the characteristics, working principles, and microstrip patch antenna parameters to design a wideband H-slot compact structure to achieve high performance. Simulation and measurement analysis are conducted with antenna modeling and optimization on the essential performance parameters. The proposed patch antenna is circularly polarized at the resonant 2.4 GHz frequency in the operational …

Nurse-Led Remote Patient Monitoring In Outpatient Heart Failure, Jackline Ukadike

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Chronic heart failure (HF) remains a leading cause of avoidable hospital readmissions and emergency department visits due to delayed recognition of early symptom exacerbation between routine outpatient encounters. This doctoral quality improvement project evaluated whether the implementation of an evidence-based, nurse-led remote patient monitoring (RPM) standard operating procedure (SOP) improved early identification of symptom exacerbation compared to standard episodic care among adult heart failure patients (NYHA Class II–III) in an outpatient primary care setting over a 10-week period. Guided by the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) framework, an evidence-based clinical practice guideline (CPG) and escalation protocol were developed and appraised by a 3-member …

Quaker Campus, September 17, 2026 (Vol. 25, Issue 2), Whittier College

Quaker Campus

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