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Developing A Multidisciplinary Approach To Complex Pediatric Areodigestive Care- Where We've Been, Where We're Going, And What We've Learned Along The Way, Jason R. Brown

Grand Rounds

1. Enhance competence and expand expertise in pediatric surgical conditions prevalent in our geographical area and nationally.
2. Develop strategies to enhance communication and collaboration among interdisciplinary team members addressing pediatric surgical conditions.
3. List barriers to multidisciplinary care.

Structural Basis For The Subtype-Selectivity Of KCa2.2 Channel Activators, Young-Woo Nam, Alena Ramanishka, Yang Xu, Rose Marie Haynes Yasuda, Joshua A. Nasburg, Dohyun Im, Meng Cui, K. George Chandy, Heike Wulff, Miao Zhang

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Small-conductance (K_Ca2.2) and intermediate-conductance (K_Ca3.1) Ca²⁺-activated K⁺ channels are gated by a Ca²⁺-calmodulin dependent mechanism. NS309 potentiates the activity of both K_Ca2.2 and K_Ca3.1, while rimtuzalcap selectively activates K_Ca2.2. Rimtuzalcap has been used in clinical trials for the treatment of spinocerebellar ataxia and essential tremor. We report cryo-electron microscopy structures of NS309-bound K_Ca2.2 and K_Ca3.1, in addition to structures of rimtuzalcap-bound K_Ca2.2 and mutant K_Ca3.1_R355K. The different conformations of calmodulin and the cytoplasmic HC helices in the …

Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda January 8, 2026, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Approval of Minutes - December 4, 2025
• R401 - Program Proposals
• Semester Course Approval Reviews
• Other Business
• UCC and EPC Handbook updates
• Adjourn: 3:00 pm

Regional Anesthesia Utilizing Liposomal Bupivacaine, With Or Without Dexamethasone, Provides Excellent Pain Control And Minimizes Opioid Consumption Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction, William L. Johns, Armen Voskeridjian, Benjamin Miltenberg, Rahul Muchintala, Christopher C. Dodson, Steven B. Cohen, John Salvo, Matthew Sherman, Michael G. Ciccotti, Sommer Hammoud

Rothman Institute Papers

BACKGROUND: Perioperative nerve blocks are commonly used for regional analgesia with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction (ACLR). Liposomal bupivacaine (LB) is a long-acting anesthetic agent providing up to 72 hours of nerve blockade. It is theorized that the addition of dexamethasone to LB (LB+dex) may prolong the analgesic duration.

PURPOSE: To characterize pain control and opioid consumption with adductor canal block (ACB), interspace between the popliteal artery and capsule of the posterior knee (iPACK), and suprasartorial infiltration (SSI) regional anesthetic techniques utilizing LB after ACLR and to compare LB versus LB+dex.

STUDY DESIGN: Randomized controlled trial; Level of evidence, 1. …

Hotty Toddy Tailgate: Oxford School Turns Hallways Into Mini Grove, Marvis Herring

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The vibrant, manicured grass, towering magnolia trees, Ole Miss tents with finger foods, a Walk of Champions archway and even restrooms labeled "Hotty Toddy Potty" helped recreate the iconic Grove inside Della Davidson Elementary School on Thursday (Jan. 8).

Usa V. Christopher Texidor

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Usa V. Ryan Mendoza

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Creating A Scorecard—The Case Of How Well Texas Four-Year, Public Universities Serve Texas Latinos?, Arturo Vega

Public Administration Scholarship and Projects

The goal of this inaugural “How-to Working Paper” is to provide a resource to measure performance, effectiveness or simply the underlying dimensions of a concept, perception or attitude. This paper focuses on how to create and use a scorecard or index. The principal audience of these “How-to Working Papers” are upper-level social science disciplines like political science or sociology and master-level graduate students in, again, political science or public administration. But really any university student or civically-minded individual conducting research will benefit from this paper.

Predictors Of Caregiver Burden Among The Caregivers Of Bedridden Patients In Muscat, Oman, Rawan Al Abdulsalam, Hajer Al Shaaibi, Manar Al Sanaa Al Zeedi, Rahma Al Hadhrami

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Objectives: Caring for bedridden patients is physically and emotionally demanding, often resulting in significant caregiver burden. This study aimed to assess caregiver burden and associated factors among caregivers of adult bedridden patients in Muscat, Oman. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted from January 2024 to February 2025 among caregivers of adult bedridden patients registered to get community services in Muscat Governorate and provided care for more than 1 month. Data were collected using the 12-item Zarit Burden Interview and the Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living. Results: A total of 200 caregivers participated; 66% were female, with …

Death Of Substantiality: Why The Legal System Should Rethink The Application And Weight Of This Fair-Use Factor In The Context Of Social Media, Lindsey Vickers

Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts

The fair use test for exemption for liability from copyright infringement was codified in the 1970s and has not been updated since—despite major technological changes in the interim. While three of the test’s four prongs are still useful when applied to short-form media that now dominates worldwide media consumption, the factor that considers the substantiality of the portion used relative to the total work is obsolete. The current dysfunctionality of this prong in social media settings is not the only reason it should be reassessed by courts and Congress. The prong and its analysis are a bit of a Frankenstein. …

Fluid Agency In Ai Systems: A Case For Functional Equivalence In Copyright, Patent, And Tort, Anirban Mukherjee, Hannah H. Chang

Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts

Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems lack human-like consciousness or culpability, yet they exhibit fluid agency: behavior that is (i) stochastic (probabilistic and path-dependent), (ii) dynamic (co-evolving with user interaction), and (iii) adaptive (able to reorient across contexts). Fluid agency generates valuable outputs but collapses attribution, irreducibly entangling human and machine inputs. This fundamental unmappability fractures doctrines that assume traceable provenance—authorship, inventorship, and liability—yielding ownership gaps and moral “crumple zones.”

This Article argues that only functional equivalence stabilizes doctrine. Where provenance is indeterminate, legal frameworks must treat human and AI contributions as equivalent for allocating rights and responsibility—not as a claim …

Temperature Dependent High Frequency Performance Of A 62% Algan Channel Hemt, Jiahao Chen, Abdullah Al Mamun Mazumder, Parthasarathy Seshadri, Dheekshinn Nandakumar, Ruixin Bai, Rafael Andrew Choudhury, M. Asif Khan, Chirag Gupta

Faculty Publications

This article reports on the temperature dependent performance of a HEMT with an Al_0.62Ga_0.38N channel layer and an Al_0.84Ga_0.16N barrier layer grown by metal–organic chemical vapor deposition. The device in this report was measured at room temperature and elevated temperatures of 100–150 °C. The sheet resistance increased from 3.5 kΩ/sq (25 °C) to 5.4 kΩ/sq (150 °C), while the contact resistance remained nominally similar. For a device with 160 nm gate length and 2 µm source-to-drain length, excellent electrical characteristics have been achieved when the device was operated at 150 °C with …

School Social Workers’ Perceptions Of The Effectiveness Of The Strategies Used To Reduce The Dropout Rates Of African American High School Male Students, Tawanda Mclaurin

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The problem investigated in this study was that approximately 34% of African American male students had dropped out of high school in an urban public school district in the Northern United States. Grounded in Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory, the purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore school social workers’ perceptions of the effectiveness of strategies used to reduce dropout rates among African American male high school students. Purposive sampling was used to recruit 10 school social workers from one urban public school district who worked with African American male students at risk of dropping out. Data was collected …

A Phenomenological Exploration Of Lgbtq+ High School Graduates’ Perspectives On Lgbtq+-Related Legislation, Thomas James Foley

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ+) students’ social, emotional, and academic experiences and outcomes are not on par with their non-LGBTQ+ peers. Understanding how LGBTQ+ young adults experienced high school in a state with LGBTQ+-affirmative education legislation provides insight for counselors and educators to identify policies and practices that support positive outcomes for LGBTQ+ students. This qualitative phenomenological study explored how LGBTQ+-identifying high school graduates made meaning of their experiences in school as they related to LGBTQ+-affirmative education legislation. Interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used for the research methodology and data analysis process. Results included four themes: (a) …

General Education Subcommittee Agenda, January 8, 2026, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Call to Order
• Approval of Minutes - December 4, 2025
• Course Approvals/Removals/Syllabi Approvals
• New Business
• Depth Courses and Engineering Discussion
• Additional Items
• Adjourn: 9:30 am

A Suite Of Thermal Switches For Surviving Extreme Thermal Environments In Space, Matthew I. Ralphs, Matt Jensen, Alexis Eames, Matt Sinfield

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

Thermal switches are a key enabling technology for spacecraft operating in extreme thermal environments. Whether surviving the lunar night, managing intermittent high-power loads from deep space communication systems, or dealing with other extreme thermal environments, high-performance thermal switches allow critical missions to operate beyond conventional thermal design limits. This paper presents the development, testing, and performance of a suite of passive thermal switches designed for both spacecraft- and subsystem-level thermal control. The suite includes: (1) traditional in-line switch placed between sensitive components and radiators; (2) compact designs suitable for integration into standard bolted joint interfaces to modulate the conductance between …

Biogeochemical Cycling Of Dissolved Zinc And Zinc Isotopes In The Arctic Ocean, Elise Langer, Dylan J. Halbeisen, Ruifeng Zhang, Seth G. John, Tim M. Conway

Making Waves REU

• Dissolved Zinc (dZn) is an essential micronutrient that supports primary productivity in the ocean (Morel & Price, 2003).
• Dissolved zinc isotope ratios (δ⁶⁶Zn) help us understand the sources, sinks, and internal cycling of dZn (Bermin et al. 2006; Conway and John, 2014, Horner et al. 2021).
• The background deep ocean has a largely homogenous δ⁶⁶Zn composition of +0.45‰ (Conway and John, 2014), thus deviations away from +0.45±0.05‰ suggest dZn input, loss, or alteration (Fig. 1).
• We hypothesize that margin sediments and freshwater input deliver isotopically light dZn to the coastal Arctic (Jensen et al. 2019).
• Near the North Pole, We …

Eeg Pressure Injuries, Paula Ebert

Nursing Grand Rounds

EEG Pressure Injuries. Paula Ebert, MS, RN, CNS, ACCNS-AG, CCRN, SCRN

Objectives:

• Understand the clinical impact of pressure injuries related to EEG
• Understand the implemented changes to reduce pressure injuries related to EEG
• Understand the multidisciplinary approach to addressing the problem

Simulation Results Of Spaceborne Ssa Using A Comprehensive Passive Radar Model, Chinmay Gaikwad, Filipe Senra, Thomas Alan Lovell, Hao Peng, Berker Pekoz, Tianyu Yang

Publications

In this paper, a high-fidelity simulation framework is developed to assess the feasibility of tracking space debris using a large low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation equipped with onboard passive radar sensors. By exploiting illumination from a distributed network of ground-based transmitters, the constellation provides consistent line-of-sight access to debris objects at higher altitudes, enabling angles-only detection and tracking. This approach yields a scalable, automated, and cost-effective architecture for next-generation space surveillance and contributes to more resilient space traffic management. A complete angles-only passive-radar orbit-determination pipeline is introduced and demonstrated. Initial orbital states are generated using a rate-aware constrained admissible-region multiple-hypothesis …

Deutsche Bank Nat’L Tr. Co. V. Collegium Fund Llc Ser. 16, 142 Nev. Adv. Op. 1 (January 8, 2026), Ashley Arita

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

If a homeowner makes payments to their homeowner’s association (HOA) sufficient to pay off their superpriority lien, those payments convert it to a subpriority lien.

Agentic Framework Integrating Rag For Policy Queries And Autonomous Trend Analysis, Tanmay Kayande, Deep Raithatha, Akash Dambhare, Mohith P, Pooja Agrawal

Defensive Publications Series

Tools that just pull up whole, complicated company policy documents often don't help people find the specific answers they need. This new technology is a system for understanding and analyzing policies that works in two ways.

A "Reactive" Mode acts like a Q&A tool. It uses advanced technology (retrieval-augmented generation) to break down policies into small, searchable pieces. This allows the system to give direct answers with citations and even run simulations to show what happens in different situations based on the rules.

A "Proactive" Mode is an automated agent that constantly checks support data to spot trends and see …

System For Determining Impact Orientation In A Drop Test Using An Acoustic Trigger, Eddy Liu, Max Chen, Kigo Chen, David Huang

Defensive Publications Series

Determining a device's impact orientation during randomized drop tests can present challenges, as methods relying on internal accelerometers can be less reliable in some scenarios involving rotation and intermediate collisions. A system can utilize an external acoustic trigger to initiate data capture. For example, an optical sensor, such as an infrared gate, may be positioned in a drop apparatus to detect a falling device under test (DUT) and prompt an acoustic emitter to produce a specific audio tone. A software application on the DUT can use the device's microphone to detect this tone, which can serve as a temporal marker …

Uplink Latency Reduction In Non-Terrestrial Networks Via Predictive Scheduling Request, Edison Chen

Defensive Publications Series

Standard reactive scheduling request (SR) procedures in high-latency Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs) cause uplink delays, as a user equipment (UE) must wait a full round-trip time (RTT) for an uplink grant after data becomes available. This is compounded for large data transfers, which may require two RTTs for SR and Buffer Status Report (BSR) cycles. This disclosure describes a proactive scheduling mechanism where the UE sends an SR in advance of data arriving in its buffer. Based on predicted traffic, informed by application-layer signaling or an on-device machine learning model, the SR is timed to ensure the uplink grant arrives just-in-time …

System And Method For Scalable Query Sampling For Large And Imbalanced Data, Mert Kosan, Chinmay Narendra Sonar, Can Liu, Shubham Agrawal, Chiranjeet Chetia

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides a method and a system for scalable query sampling for large and imbalanced data. The method comprises determining the feature families in the data where each family of the features consists of correlated features. The method further comprises determining importance scores for the features in the data to filter the features that contribute significantly to the analysis of the agent system. Further, the method comprises determining the deviation effect scores for all the features of the corresponding queries and aggregating the deviation effect scores for the queries to determine a selection value. The sample of queries …

Comparison Of Surgery And Medicine On The Impact Of Diverticulitis (Cosmid) Trial: A Protocol For A Pragmatic Randomised Study Of Diverticulitis Treatment In The Usa, Mariam N Hantouli, Robert H Schmicker, Janice E Tufte, Fadwa G Ali, Robert D Bennett, Jessica N Cohan, Bryan A Comstock, Thomas Curran, Giana H Davidson, Samuel Eisenstein, Katherine N Fischkoff, Fergal J Fleming, Irena Gribovskaja-Rupp, Mehraneh Dorna Jafari, Larry G Kessler, Mukta K Krane, Sarah O Lawrence, James T Mccormick, Stefanos G Millas, Arden M Morris, Kelsey M Pullar, Caroline E Reinke, Julia T Saraidaridis, Vlad V Simianu, Suzanne P Watkins, Nicole B White, Elizabeth C Wick, Nicole Wieghard, David R Flum, Thomas E Read

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Introduction: Each year, millions of people experience recurrent diverticulitis episodes. Elective sigmoid colon resection reduces the risk of recurrence, but The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons recommends individualising surgical decisions based on the impact of the condition on a patient's quality of life (QoL). However, no threshold for QoL impairment has been established to guide decision-making, and evidence comparing elective colectomy with medical management in terms of QoL limitation is limited. To address these gaps and to guide treatment decision-making, we designed the Comparison of Surgery and Medicine on the Impact of Diverticulitis (COSMID) trial.The COSMID trial is …

Generative Synthesis Of Historical Precedents For Automated Procedural Guidance, Pooja Agrawal, Tanmay Kayande, Akash Dambhare, Deep Raithatha, Mohith P

Defensive Publications Series

Knowledge workers in enterprise environments can face challenges when resolving complex inquiries, as they may need to manually parse and synthesize information from multiple historical precedents. Existing retrieval systems may identify relevant cases but can leave the cognitive burden of synthesis to the user. Systems are described that can automate the synthesis of insights. For example, a system may use a semantic similarity model to retrieve a set of procedurally analogous historical cases from a data repository. A generative synthesis module could then compile data from these retrieved cases into a structured prompt for a large language model. The model …

L'Identité Linguistique Et Culturelle De La Jeune Génération Des Vietnamiens Américains En Louisiane, Lan Phuong Nguyen

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Cette thèse porte sur la construction de l’identité linguistique et culturelle chez les jeunes Vietnamiens américains de deuxième génération vivant à Bâton Rouge, aux États-Unis. Elle interroge les modalités de transmission, de transformation et de réappropriation de la culture et de la langue vietnamienne dans un contexte diasporique marqué par des tensions entre héritage familial et pression d’intégration dans la société américaine.

À partir d’une approche qualitative et narrative, cette recherche s’appuie sur huit entretiens approfondis menés auprès de jeunes adultes âgés de 18 à 25 ans. L’objectif est de comprendre comment ces jeunes construisent leur identité à travers leurs …

Longitudinal Observation Of Children With Achondroplasia: Findings From A Global Natural History Study (Achieve), Ciara Mcdonnell, Hanne Buciek Hove, Melita Irving, Klane K White, Cesar G Fontecha, Janet M Legare, Wolfgang Högler, Daniel G Hoernschemeyer, Dirk Schnabel, Sheila Unger, Carlos Alberto Bacino, Paul Hofman, Yongguo Yu, Huamei Ma, Chunxiu Gong, Xiaoping Luo, T Andrew Burrow, Geneviève Baujat, Stefano Mora, Melissa Fiscaletti, Carol Zhao, Michael A Makara, Aimee D Shu, Ravi Savarirayan

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Introduction: The ACHieve study assessed growth velocity, body proportionality, and clinical events in children with achondroplasia not receiving growth-promoting therapy.

Methods: ACHieve was a global, longitudinal, prospective, observational study. Children ≤8 years old with achondroplasia were enrolled and evaluated every 6 months for anthropometric parameters and clinical events.

Results: ACHieve enrolled 259 children in 15 countries, including 83 from China. Median follow-up was 21 months; median age of diagnosis was approximately 52 weeks in China and 2 weeks elsewhere. Growth parameters were similar regardless of region. Mean annualized growth velocity was 9.3 cm/year for males and 10.4 cm/year for females …

Costs And Cost-Effectiveness Of A Culturally Adapted Diabetes Self-Management And Education Program For Marshallese Adults, Tzeyu L Michaud, Daniel Lamprecht-Carson, Su-Hsin Chang, Clare C Brown, Jennifer A Andersen, James P Selig, Philmar Mendoza Kabua, Pearl Mcelfish

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Culturally adapted diabetes self-management education (DSME) programs are effective in improving glycemic control and diabetes outcomes among minority populations, but data on program costs and cost-effectiveness are limited. This study aimed to assess the cost and cost-effectiveness of a culturally adapted DSME (adapted DSME) compared to a standard DSME model among Marshallese adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D).

METHODS: Retrospective cost and cost-effectiveness analyses (CEA) were conducted using data from the community-based trial, conducted between May 2015 and May 2018. We applied an activity-based costing approach to quantify the implementation resources. The CEA was performed using an incremental implementation …

Antecedent Enhancer Activity Predicts Future Susceptibility To Seizures In Mice, Benjamin D Boros, Mariam A Gachechiladze, Juanru Guo, Dylan A Galloway, Shayna M Mueller, Mark Shabsovich, Allen Yen, Xuhua Chen, Alexander J Cammack, Tao Shen, Robi D Mitra, Joseph D Dougherty, Timothy M Miller

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Wide variation of responses to identical stimuli presented to genetically inbred mice suggests the hypothesis that stochastic non-genetic variation, such as in chromatin state or enhancer activity during neurodevelopment, can mediate such phenotypic differences. However, this hypothesis is largely untested since capturing pre-existing molecular states requires non-destructive, longitudinal recording. Therefore, we tested the potential of Calling Cards (CC) to record transient neuronal enhancer activity during postnatal development in mice, and thereby associate such non-genetic variation with a subsequent phenotypic presentation - degree of seizure response to the pro-convulsant pentylenetetrazol. We show that recorded differences in enhancer activity at 243 loci …