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Combating Counterfeit Medicines: A Case Study Of The Egyptian Pharmaceutical Traceability System, Nourhan Yasser Ahmed Abdelfatah

Theses and Dissertations

Counterfeit medicines are a global challenge that has attracted the attention of many authorities in recent years. The problem worsened dramatically, causing adverse public health impacts and significant financial repercussions. Many countries, including Egypt, have attempted to adopt pharmaceutical track-and-trace systems to secure supply chains. Despite the significance of the problem, only a few scholars have studied the topic in Egypt. This qualitative study seeks to bridge the research gap and provide a clearer picture of counterfeit medicines in the Egyptian context. In addition, it aims to understand the role of the Egyptian Drug Authority and the policy motivations behind …

Netflix’S Role In Reshaping The Global Audience’S Perception Of Arabs And Muslims, Menatalla Abbas

Theses and Dissertations

This research study investigates Netflix’s role in reshaping the global audience’s perceptions of Arabs and Muslims. The aim of this study is to understand how Netflix has positioned itself as a powerhouse in the streaming-service industry, and whether or not it has been able to use that power to promote authenticity, diversity, and inclusion. This study employed the triangulation method in order to develop a cohesive understanding of how, and to what extent, Netflix has reshaped the global audience’s perceptions of Arabs and Muslims. A content analysis of four Netflix Original Arabic productions were chosen, consisting of two series: Finding …

The Use Of Artificial Intelligence In Higher Education: A Study On Faculty Perspectives In Universities In Egypt, Farah S. Sharawy

Theses and Dissertations

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an emerging technology that is transforming various aspects of society, including higher education. This paper examines faculty perspectives from five different institutions; The American University in Cairo (AUC), The German University in Cairo (GUC), The Arab Academy for Science and Technology (AAST), Ain Shams University, and Cairo University, on the use of AI in higher education in teaching and learning in Egypt, with all its challenges and resources available to support it, and how it can be used to achieve equity and accessibility. This research was conducted through a qualitative study using semi-structured one- on-one interviews …

Assessing Artificial Intelligence Readiness Of Faculty In Higher Education: Comparative Case Study Of Egypt, Ayatallah Ali

Theses and Dissertations

The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been gaining considerable attention from many countries worldwide due to its rapid development and its potential benefits in different sectors. One of the leading global sectors that are currently considering the adoption of AI is the education sector. As a developing country, Egypt is gradually realizing the importance of AI and has begun considering the integration of AI in numerous sectors. Despite the importance of the field, there is a lack of published research on the integration of AI in education in Egypt or on the readiness levels of any stakeholders in the …

Stochastic Worst-Case Test Vectors For Asic Devices In Single Event Environment, Mostafa Hemeda

Theses and Dissertations

Charged particles and energetic particles can impact the integrated circuit, referred to as single event effects (SEE). Nuclear reactors and space radiation can produce these particles. These effects can negatively affect the reliability and performance of electronics. When SEE occurs, a transient current is created, which can cause electronic devices to have incorrect outputs and ultimately fail. As a result, ensuring the reliability of ASIC circuits is a significant concern.

This thesis discusses the different fault types, then discuss the soft error and, in particular, the Single Event Transient (SET) and its causes and models. Then, this thesis proposes a …

Accessibility Of Blended Learning For Special Needs Students In Higher Education, Reem Yaseen Al-Sulaimani

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigated the experiences of visually impaired students and their faculty members with blended learning at University X. Qualitative research methods were employed to gather data through interviews with six visually impaired students and six professors. The study analyzed the data using two frameworks, Universal Design of Learning (UDL) and Community of Inquiry (CoI). The findings indicate that the course design, personalization of accessibility, social inclusion and classroom dynamics, university support and resources, and technology accessibility and digital literacy have an impact on the experiences of visually impaired students and their professors. The study provides recommendations for improving the …

Exploring The Challenges For Women Trying To Assume Mid And Senior Leadership Positions In Higher Education In Yemen, Shaima Al-Monefie

Theses and Dissertations

Women in higher education have the potential to serve as influential agents of change, impacting the economic and societal growth of their respective countries through acquiring leadership positions. However, in Yemen, female administrators face a range of challenges that hinder their progression into senior leadership positions within higher education institutions. This study shed light on these obstacles by conducting qualitative interviews with female administrators from a university in Northern Yemen. Drawing upon Morales's Academic Resilience Theoretical Framework for women's empowerment, the research examined the interplay of institutional, cultural, educational, and professional barriers and other challenges that prevent women from assuming …

Privacy Perceptions Transformation In Cairo’S Home Designs - A Case Study: Gated Communities, Yasmine Esmat

Theses and Dissertations

The infrastructure of gated communities in Egypt’s New Cairo and 6th of October cities have become the new normal. The streets bordered by fences, walls, and the occasional gate, formed when two or more gated communities face each other, dominate the urban landscape today (Kostenwein, 2021). Nowadays, it is highly common to see billboards advertising new gated communities everywhere on the roads and bridges. Gated communities offer various privileges, and one of them is privacy. Taking Cairo city with its several gated communities as a case study, the research focuses on the transformation of privacy perception for Cairo’s home designs …

Resources Based Planning Framework For Infrastructure Maintenance And Rehabilitation Projects, Heba Gad

Theses and Dissertations

Infrastructure maintenance and rehabilitation projects involve activities scattered over a large geographical area (e.g., scattered road segments maintenance, telecom towers maintenance program, etc.). Planning such projects require a resource-based approach that accounts for the implications of resource mobility between activities’ locations in terms of time & cost. Existing scheduling techniques fall short of addressing the unique challenges of the scattered nature of these projects in combination with organization's limited resources availability. To address this need, this research presents a resources-based planning framework for infrastructure maintenance and rehabilitation scattered projects with the objective of enhancing resources utilization achieving time and cost …

Reasoning The Voice: Toward A Diagnostic And Prescriptive Technique In The Teaching Of Singing, Carlos E. Santelli

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Voice pedagogy literature often draws a parallel between a doctor’s ability to diagnose illness and prescribe treatment, and a voice teacher’s ability to identify vocal obstacles and design solutions. The core of these parallel procedures lies in an ability to utilize critical reasoning skills within highly specific contexts. Medical literature describes this as “clinical reasoning” and has studied it as a learned process. Voice pedagogy literature has traditionally described this as an innate process which is solely developed through experience. This document broadly examines the ways in which medical literature has broken down clinical reasoning into specific cognitive processes and …

E‐Recruitment In Palestine: A Study Into Applicant Perceptions Of An Online Application System, Hussein Abed, Muath Asmar

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This article examines the subject of the employment of Palestinians in the light of the applicants’ perceptions of the online application system. The aim was to examine the level of the university graduated in Palestine for the use of Internet employment in the 12 important dimensions (perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived privacy risk, perceived enjoyment, perceived stress, application-specific self-efficacy, performance expectancy, intention, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, habit, and attitude), and to determine if there are any benefits for graduated in Palestine. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistical analysis. The researchers then used correlation analysis to investigate the …

Personas, Issue 1, 2023, Jonathan Maiullo

Personas: Multilingual Creative Writing Journal

This multilingual creative writing journal from the College of the Redwoods is intended to advance the conversation of multilingualism. Primarily because there is a great deal to be communicated on the subject which has gone under-considered or consigned to the realm of graded writing. Hopefully, in reading this journal, you will find something communicated to you that shifts your understanding and inspires you to (re)examine your perception of culture and language. We hope that you’ll then write something on the subject to share with us for the next issue which will continue to advance this conversation. -Editor, Jonathan Maiullo

Change Management In Education, Betsurmath Cg, Prashanth Sadashiva Murthy

International Journal of Health and Allied Sciences

Social challenges are constantly evolving and organizations need to adapt timely improvisations to stabilize the growth amidst these presenting challenges. The word “social challenges” itself is so varied in its representation, that it circumscribes various “planned” and “forced” challenges and threats that innately has the potential to destabilize the more so stable flow of processes. Educational institutions are expected to steer a variety of domains for a cumulative stable and progressive outcome. When the stakes at hand are so diverse and the challenges so intense, there is no landmark recipe that can be a single solution to all challenging situations …

Designing A 21st Century Corporate Tax—An Advance U.S. Minimum Tax On Foreign Income And Other Measures To Protect The Base, Stephen E. Shay, J. Clifton Fleming Jr., Robert J. Peroni

Florida Tax Review

The 21st Century has seen unprecedented levels of corporate tax aggressiveness and avoidance. This Article continues our exploration of second-best international tax reforms that would protect the U.S. corporate tax base and have some likelihood of adoption. In this case, we consider how a U.S. minimum tax on foreign income earned by a controlled foreign corporation should be designed to protect the United States against erosion of its corporate income tax base and to combat tax competition by low-tax intermediary countries. In the authors’ view, a minimum tax should be an interim levy that preserves the residual U.S. tax on …

Beyond Frustration: Section 162(F) And The Deductibility Of Fines, Penaties, And Settlement Payments, Abraham N.M. Shashy Jr., Sara A. Silverstein, Ariana F. Wallizada

Florida Tax Review

The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines frustration as a deep chronic sense or state of insecurity and dissatisfaction arising from unresolved problems or unfulfilled needs. It lists as synonyms: aggravation, bother, botheration, bugbear, exasperation, annoyance, hairshirt, hassle, headache, inconvenience, irk, irritant, nuisance, peeve, pest, rub, ruffle, thorn, trial, and vexation. It has been said that to conquer frustration one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.

This Article owes its existence to frustration on two counts. The substantive topic is section 162(f). It was Congress's response in 1969 to certain deductions claimed by taxpayers that were thought to …

Second Opinion: Health, Faith, And Ethics, 1992, V18 N1, July, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Park Ridge Center, Park Ridge, IL: The July 1992 issue of "Second Opinion" (ISSN 0890-1570) includes:

• Initial Comment: Homespun (Martin E. Marty) p. 8
• The Turn to Alternative Medicine (Robert C. Fuller) p. 11
• Grass-Roots Reflections on Substance Abuse: A Community Dialogue Approach (Stephen G. Post) p. 33
• Transplants, Justice, and Health Care Reform: What Can Health Insurers Contribute? (Scot D. Yoder) p. 49
• Spiritual Consciousness and Healing: An Interview with Govindappa Venkataswamy, p. 68
• The Case: Hoses and Hope (Joel E. Frader) p. 83
• Commentary: Listening for the Healing Story (Steven H. Miles) p. 87
• Commentary: Stories That Heal, …

Second Opinion: Health, Faith, And Ethics, 1992, V17 N3, January, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Park Ridge Center, Park Ridge, IL: The January 1992 issue of "Second Opinion" (ISSN 0890-1570) includes:

• Initial Comment: On Fine Lines (Martin E. Marty) p. 8
• Women Sexually Abused as Children: The Spiritual Consequences (L.J. "Tess" Tessier) p. 11
• Un-titled (a poem) (Jill P. Baumgaertner) p, 24
• Wholly Responsible for a Part, or Partly Responsible for a Whole? The Concept of Spiritual Care in Nursing (Janet Mayer) p. 26
• Improving Communication in Health Care: The Uses of Literature (Nancy J. Metzger) p. 57
• The Case: An Episode of Noncompliance (Kevin Coleman) p. 69
• Commentary: "Normal" Noncompliance (Arthur W. Frank) …

Climate Change: The Ultimate Cereal Killer: The Impact Of Temperature And Precipitation On Agricultural Yields, Hayley Huber, Robert Salita, Ruth Abraham

Gettysburg College Headquarters

The global food supply depends on agricultural production, but as the negative effects of climate change are exacerbated by human activity, how will agriculture need to change to accommodate both climate change and the increasing population? In order to understand what adaptations will be necessary, we perform analysis on the relationship between climate change (temperature and precipitation) and crop yields (barley, rice, and soybean). We take a multinational approach, using ten countries for each model, to see the global impact of climate change on production. Testing many models, we settle on country-specific time trends, eliminating many confounding variables by focusing …

“A Freedom Rider Before Freedom Rides:” Jackie Robinson Beyond Baseball, Amy Elizabeth Cantrell

Gettysburg College Headquarters

This paper seeks to evaluate the historical discourse surrounding the narrative of Jackie Robinson. Famed for being the first African American player to break the long withstanding color barrier in professional sports, a vast majority of discussion surrounding his story has centered solely on his athletic prowess and triumphs. However, as this paper will explore, Jackie Robinson’s contributions to the wider framework of racial equality and civil rights within America extend far beyond the baseball diamond. Evaluating both his laurels as an activist and socio-political figure as well as how these merits have been depicted, or neglected, in media representations …

Gettysburg College Headquarters Spring 2023

Gettysburg College Headquarters

The Gettysburg College Headquarters is an open access, peer-reviewed, undergraduate research journal that publishes works from specific fields in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Visual Arts.

Nurse's Notes, 2014, V14 N1, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Advocate Christ Medical Center and Hope Children's Hospital, Oak Lawn, IL: Internal publication written by nurses for a nursing audience. This issue highlights award recognitions, sickle cell anemia, lung transplants, and the Magnet conference. The contact hour education section is on congestive heart failure.

Nurse's Notes, 2014, V14 N2, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Advocate Christ Medical Center and Hope Children's Hospital, Oak Lawn, IL: Internal publication written by nurses for a nursing audience. This issue highlights CMC's recognition as a Magnet designated facility for the third time, award recognitions, involvement in a national conference, and professional development. The contact hour education section is on alarm fatigue.

Nurse's Notes, 2014, V14 N3, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Advocate Christ Medical Center and Hope Children's Hospital, Oak Lawn, IL: Internal publication written by nurses for a nursing audience. This is the final print issue. This issue highlights former editors of the publication, award recognitions, involvement in conferences, and charitable events nurses attended. The contact hour education section is on end tidal CO2 monitoring.

Interprofessional Teamwork Through Remote Collaboration: A Mixed-Methods Approach, Sabina Kupershmidt, Tracy Cleveland, Mandy J. Williams, Whitney Lucas Molitor

Aesculapius Journal (Health Sciences & Medicine)

Introduction: Quality health care relies on effective, patient-centered teamwork. Interprofessional education and learning is one of the foundations of health education. These principles were challenged during the COVID-19 pandemic. We sought to determine whether a collaborative, online learning activity would be experienced as interprofessional by learners from eight health professions.

Methods: A mixed-methods, cross-sectional cohort study with retrospective analysis of survey data was utilized. Two custom-designed exit surveys to assess team behaviors: one from the learners’, the second from the faculty observers’ perspective. A thematic analysis of two open-ended questions was completed.

Results: Nursing was the largest discipline (45 %) …

Impact Of Food Environments On Obesity Rates: A State-Level Analysis., Elizabeth Cerceo, Elena Sharma, Anne Boguslavsky, Jean-Sebastian Rachoin

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Departmental Research

INTRODUCTION: Limited access to healthy food in areas that are predominantly food deserts or food swamps may be associated with obesity. Other unhealthy behaviors may also be associated with obesity and poor food environments.

METHODS: We calculated Modified Retail Food Environment Index (mRFEI) to assess food retailers. Using data collected from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey, the NJ Department of Health (NJDOH), and the US Census Bureau, we conducted a cross-sectional analysis of the interaction of obesity with the food environment and assessed smoking, leisure-time physical activity (LPA), and poor sleep.

RESULTS: There were 17.9% food deserts …

Pii-Codex: A Python Library For Pii Detection, Categorization, And Severity Assessment, Eidan J. Rosado

CCE Faculty Articles

[Summary] There have been a number of advancements in the detection of personal identifiable information (PII) and scrubbing libraries to aid developers and researchers in their detection and anonymization efforts. With the recent shift in data handling procedures and global policy implementations regarding identifying information, it is becoming more important for data consumers to be aware of what data needs to be scrubbed, why it’s being scrubbed, and to have the means to perform said scrubbing. PII-Codex is a collection of extended theoretical, conceptual, and policy works in PII categorization and severity assessment (Milne et al., 2016; Schwartz & Solove, …

2023 June 20 - Medical Student Education Committee Annual Meeting Minutes, Medical Student Education Committee, East Tennessee State University

Medical Student Education Committee Minutes

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Chronic Venous Insufficiency With Emphasis On The Geriatric Population., Harvey N. Mayrovitz, Kawaiola C. Aoki, Jessica Colon

HPD Articles

The underpinning of Chronic Venous Insufficiency (CVI) is valvular dysfunction, which manifests on a spectrum depending on the severity of insufficiency and duration of the disease. The mainstay of treatment relies on compression therapy of a proper type and intensity. In older adults, special consideration must be taken during the patient encounter to account for age-related factors. This review discusses the clinical presentation, diagnosis, and mimicking of CVI, focusing mainly on older adults. The epidemiology, risk factors, disease burden, and grave complications -- such as thrombosis and ulceration, are reviewed. The physiological impacts of CVI are described, providing the background …

Using Ai-Generated Suggestions From Chatgpt To Optimize Clinical Decision Support, Siru Liu, Aileen P Wright, Barron L Patterson, Jonathan P Wanderer, Robert W Turer, Scott D Nelson, Allison B Mccoy, Dean F Sittig, Adam Wright

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

OBJECTIVE: To determine if ChatGPT can generate useful suggestions for improving clinical decision support (CDS) logic and to assess noninferiority compared to human-generated suggestions.

METHODS: We supplied summaries of CDS logic to ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool for question answering that uses a large language model, and asked it to generate suggestions. We asked human clinician reviewers to review the AI-generated suggestions as well as human-generated suggestions for improving the same CDS alerts, and rate the suggestions for their usefulness, acceptance, relevance, understanding, workflow, bias, inversion, and redundancy.

RESULTS: Five clinicians analyzed 36 AI-generated suggestions and 29 human-generated suggestions …

Und Leads Implementation Team Meeting Agenda — June 20, 2023, University Of North Dakota

LEADS Implementation Documents

Agenda for the June 20, 2023 meeting of the UND LEADS Implementation Team. The agenda includes subgroup reports, possible action items, review of LEARNING notes, and discussion of the EQUITY pillar.