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Spectrum, Volume 56, Issue 1, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Debate Grows Over Trump’s Interest in Greenland -- Michael Larobina Named Interim Provost --  WCBT Dean Dr. David Taylor Resigning -- KD Brings Sisterhood and Service to Girl Scouts -- Mahoney Dives into Action

Und Leads Implementation Team Meeting Agenda — February 4, 2026, University Of North Dakota

LEADS Implementation Documents

Agenda for the February 4, 2026 meeting of the UND LEADS Implementation Team. The agenda includes subgroup reports, planning for the March outreach event, and discussion of Affinity recommendation development.

Key Strategies To Entrepreneurial Sustainability In The Information And Communications Industry, Agabi Godwin Onugba

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Many businesses in the information and communications industry fail within the first 5 years, yet the existing empirical research has not sufficiently explained how surviving businesses achieve long-term sustainability. Startup business leaders are concerned about the high failure rate and the lack of evidence-based strategies that support sustained operations beyond 5 years. Grounded in Porter’s five forces theory, the purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry project was to identify and explore successful strategies that information and communications industry startup business leaders use for long-term business sustainability beyond 5 years. Purposeful sampling was employed to select six startup leaders in the …

Education To Nursing Staff On Evidence-Based Lifestyle Interventions For Hypertension, Meagan Deese

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project was a staff education project that addressed a practice gap in a primary care setting related to limited nursing knowledge of evidence-based lifestyle interventions for hypertension management. Hypertension is a prevalent chronic condition and a major contributor to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Although clinical guidelines recommend lifestyle modification as first-line management, nurses may receive limited formal training in nonpharmacologic interventions. The practice-focused question was, in a primary care setting, does a nursing education program on evidence-based lifestyle interventions for hypertension improve nursing knowledge as measured pre- to post education? The purpose of the …

Perceptions Of Community College Faculty Regarding Online Student Engagement Challenges And Recommendations, Jana Allen-Bishop

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The problem addressed through this study is that local community college faculty members struggle to develop student engagement in online courses. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore community college faculty perceptions about challenges with student engagement in online courses and recommendations for fostering that engagement. The conceptual frameworks for this study were Knowles’ theory of andragogy and self-directed learning, as well as Mezirow’s transformative learning theory. Data were collected through semistructured interviews with eight community college faculty members teaching online courses. Through open and axial coding the following themes emerged: faculty noted that their own technological …

2026-02-04 Kxsu Brings The Grammys To Campus, Naja Johnson

The Spectator Online

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2026-02-04 A Holy Coincidence? Seahawks Make Super Bowl For The Third Time Following New Pope, Maya Deguzman

The Spectator Online

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2026-02-04 Cherry Street Unioneers In Negotiation With Chartwells, Austin Woolley

The Spectator Online

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Documents From The February 04, 2026 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana (Asum), University Of Montana--Missoula. Associated Students

Senate Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2007-Present

Agenda and meeting minutes from the February 4, 2026 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM). The following resolutions were discussed during the meeting:

SB14-2526 Resolution Establishing the Online Student Ad Hoc Committee (Passed by Senate)

Repurposing Of The Macrolide Antibiotic Clarithromycin For The Prevention Of Lung Cancer, Shanshan Deng, Tabish Hussain, Thais F Bartelli, Manu M Sebastian, Melody Zarghooni, Walter V Velasco, Brandon Somerville, Linda Phan, Michelle I Savage, Yurong Song, John L Clifford, Humam Kadara, Florencia Mcallister, Powel H Brown, Seyed Javad Moghaddam, C Marcelo Aldaz

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Drug repurposing is the process of reusing existing pharmaceuticals for novel clinical purposes, which offers advantages such as streamlined clinical trial access and reduced drug development costs. Clarithromycin (CAM), a member of the macrolide antibiotics family, is a promising candidate for repurposing in cancer therapy due to its known preclinical and clinical immunomodulatory and anticancer properties. In the current study, we investigated whether CAM could be repurposed as a preventive treatment for KRAS-mutant lung cancer, a subtype of lung adenocarcinoma that is strongly associated with heavy smoking. CCSPCre; LSL-KrasG12D mice at an early stage of tumor development were treated with …

Understanding Affective Job Satisfaction Among K–12 General Education Teachers: The Roles Of Personality And Job Characteristics, Kailey Thornton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Understanding predictors of affective job satisfaction among teachers is essential for fostering positive school climates and retaining effective educators. While existing research has identified various predictors of teacher job satisfaction, many studies have not used a comprehensive model that includes both individual and job characteristics. Given the unique nature of the teaching profession, it is often examined separately from other occupations, with a tendency to treat the challenges of teaching as inherent and unchangeable aspects of the role. However, by applying a broader occupational lens, this study aims to view teaching through the same framework used to understand job satisfaction …

Spartan Daily, February 4, 2026, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2026

Volume 166, Issue 6

Comparing Community-Based Monitoring To Hospital-Based Care Of Patients With Quiescent Age-Related Macular Degeneration: A Qualitative Study Of Patient And Practitioner Perspectives On Acceptability And Access, Sofia Vougioukalou, Simon M Read, Judit Katalin Csontos, Aled Jones, Alijazy Jaber, Anitta Sharma, Konstantinos Balaskas

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Objectives This process evaluation explores patient and healthcare professional acceptability of community-based monitoring versus hospital-based care for patients with quiescent neovascular age-related macular degeneration (QnAMD). Design Qualitative process evaluation was conducted as part of a randomised controlled trial. Setting Six hospitals and six community-based practices. Participants 25 patients and 16 healthcare professionals (ophthalmologists and optometrists). This approach helped differentiate between common issues and those specific to community-based monitoring. Intervention The Quality-Assured Follow-Up of QnAMD by non-medical practitioners trial aimed to examine whether non-medical practitioners follow-up patients with QnAMD in the community in a safe and clinically and cost-effective way. The …

The Heart’S Hidden Influencer: Epicardial Adipose Tissue In The Pathogenesis Of Heart Failure, Aobo Li, Avilash Mondal, Jianli Zhao, John Zhang, Xin-Liang Ma

Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty Papers

Abstract – Heart failure (HF) is a complex, multifactorial clinical syndrome with diverse etiologies and phenotypic manifestations, affecting millions of people globally. HF is broadly classified into 3 subtypes: HF with reduced ejection fraction, HF with mildly reduced ejection fraction, and HF with preserved ejection fraction. Each subtype exhibits distinct pathophysiological mechanisms, clinical trajectories, and therapeutic responses, posing significant challenges in terms of diagnosis and management. Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT), a metabolically active visceral fat depot situated in close proximity to the myocardium, plays a dual role in physiological and pathological states, offering potential utility as a biomarker and therapeutic …

Time Trends In The Male To Female Ratio For Autism Incidence: Population Based, Prospectively Collected, Birth Cohort Study, Caroline Fyfe, Henric Winell, Joseph Dougherty, David H Gutmann, Alexander Kolevzon, Natasha Marrus, Kristina Tedroff, Tychele N Turner, Lauren A Weiss, Benjamin H K Yip, Weiyao Yin, Sven Sandin

2020-Current year OA Pubs

OBJECTIVES: To examine changes in the male to female ratio in diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) over a 35 year period, providing temporal trends in diagnosis (incidence rate), the male to female ratio, and the age-cohort specific cumulative male to female ratio (cMFR).

DESIGN: Population based, prospectively collected birth cohort study.

PARTICIPANTS: 2 756 779 liveborn children recorded in the Swedish medical birth register between 1985 and 2020.

SETTING: Sweden.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Age-period cohort analysis investigating associations between ASD and age at diagnosis, calendar period, birth cohort, and sex, quantified by incidence rate ratios and associated two sided …

Agentic Ai Framework For Semantic Transaction Data Compression And Retrieval, Palakh Shangle

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), in particular to agentic AI framework for semantic transaction data compression and retrieval. The disclosed system comprises a plurality of AI agents, including an ingest agent, a selector agent, an encoder agent, a retriever agent and a governance agent, collectively configured to process large volumes of transaction records generated by electronic payment networks. In operation, transaction records are ingested, normalized, and analyzed to dynamically determine an appropriate compression policy based on storage efficiency, semantic fidelity and retrieval latency. Compressed transaction data is stored in an object storage system along …

Achieving Dynamic Urpf With Route Scale Optimizations, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods are disclosed for achieving dynamic Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) with route scale optimizations in an IP routing device, in which ingress traffic is sampled and analyzed to detect conditions indicative of source address spoofing or related attacks, and upon detecting such a condition, a control plane automatically enables uRPF at a selected scope including globally, per virtual routing and forwarding instance (VRF), and/or per interface, and subsequently disables uRPF once the attack condition subsides for at least a configured inactivity interval. Because enabling uRPF can reduce the maximum number of routes installable in a hardware forwarding …

Efficient Machine Learning And Serving Using Disjoint Hamiltonian Cycles, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

The technology described in this paper relates to the use of disjoint Hamiltonian cycles to support asymmetric communication patterns effectively while maintaining desirable latency control properties of direct-connect topologies. The technique used in this paper dynamically re-maps fixed disjoint dimensions of a direct-connect topology into a flexible set of disjoint Hamiltonian cycles that can trade network dimensions and the bandwidth-per-dimension to support asymmetric communication patterns. The mapping of the asymmetric network onto Hamiltonian cycles enables dividing the workload across Hamiltonian cycles of equal length.

Pipelined Execution Of Attention And Feed-Forward Network Operations On Heterogeneous Cores For Llm Decode Acceleration, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

The technology described in this paper relates to maximization of resource utilization for transformer based large language models (LLMs), specifically during an autoregressive decode phase. For the decode phase, each layer of a transformer model is primarily composed of two distinct computational blocks, an attention operator block and a feed-forward network (FFN) operator block. The attention operator block is overwhelmingly memory-bandwidth bound. In contrast, the FFN operator block is largely compute-bound, and the computations are dominated by large dense matrix multiplications. A chip architecture may be provided that contains at least two types of specialized co-located cores, a first core …

Language At Play, Diane Ackerman

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Skin Deep, Megan Foss

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Soul In A Bottle, Madison Smartt Bell

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Soul In A Bottle, Madison Smartt Bell

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Connecting With People, Not Problems: A Wellness Approach To Primary Care, Nikita Jaiswal, Gloria Kim, Stephanie Omer, Francine Holguin, Anthony Fleg

HSC Education Days

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The Music Of The Brain, The Chemistry Of The Lute, Ronald Pies

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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East Of Everything, Megan Foss

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Gray Area: Thinking With A Damaged Brain, Floyd Skloot

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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About The Author: Carolyn Nesbitt

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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About The Author: Floyd Skloot

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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In Search Of Alice Walker, Or, Alice Doesn’T Live Here Anymore, Valerie Boyd

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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