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Optimization Of Rabbit Urine Liquid Organic Fertilizer And Reduced Npk Fertilizer Doses For Improving Growth And Physiology Of Shallot (Allium Ascalonicum L.), Etik Wukir Tini, Rifqi Raditya Kurniawan

Jurnal Kultivasi

Rabbit urine liquid organic fertilizer (LOF) can be used as an alternative fertilizer to reduce the use of inorganic fertilizers, especially for shallots, as a national food commodity. This study aims to determine the best concentration of rabbit urine LOF, the best dose of NPK fertilizer dose reduction, and a combination of rabbit urine LOF and NPK fertilizer dose reduction on the physiological characters of shallot plants. The observed variables consisted of net assimilation rate, crop growth rate, stomatal density, stomatal aperture, and chlorophyll content. The experimental results showed that a concentration of 200 mL L-1 of rabbit urine LOF …

Chemically Mediated Communication In Mound-Building Termites, Sree Subha Ramaswamy

Theses and Dissertations

Nest-building in social insects requires layered communication to coordinate complex, functional structures for housing, protection, storage, and homeostasis. This is especially striking in mound-building termites, which construct and repair large mounds collectively despite lacking image-forming eyes. This thesis investigates how Odontotermes obesus achieves such coordination through chemical communication embedded in soil.

Using controlled two-choice assays with manipulated soils, I separated airborne volatile signals from contact non-volatile signals by baking to remove volatiles, a mesh assay that presented volatile cues without contact, and solvent extraction with reapplication of contact cues. I quantified responses in major-only, minor-only, and mixed groups at two …

Chemists Help Solve Mystery Of Missing Space Sulfur, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – For decades, astrochemists have been looking for sulfur atoms in space and finding surprisingly little of the element that is a key ingredient to life. A new study could point to where it has been hiding.

Impacting Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk Screening In The Primary Care Setting, Rosalyn Primus

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Cardiovascular disease continues to be the leading cause of death worldwide. Despite the availability of evidence-based guidelines recommending routine cardiovascular risk screening, tools such as the atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) Risk Estimator are underutilized in primary care settings. This quality improvement project implemented an evidence-based educational intervention to enhance healthcare providers' knowledge, self-efficacy, and consistent utilization of the ASCVD Risk Estimator within a primary care setting. The project employed a quasi-experimental design involving four primary care providers. Data was collected through various methods, including a knowledge questionnaire, the Evidence-Based Nursing Practice Self-Efficacy (EBPSE) Scale, a retrospective chart review, and a …

Falling Short In The Digital Age: Evaluating The Performance Of Data Center Etfs, Davinder K. Malhotra, Ivar Kirkhorn, Frank Ragone

School of Business Faculty Papers

This study evaluates the performance of U.S. data center Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) relative to major equity and technology benchmarks, using monthly returns from January 2000 through December 2024, with particular emphasis on the COVID-19 period and the subsequent post-vaccine era. Data center ETFs have not provided better risk-adjusted returns even though they are often advertised as access points to the digital economy. Digital infrastructure demand increased through the pandemic but did not improve the performance of these funds which stayed weak across both traditional and conditional multi-factor asset pricing models. These ETFs struggle with asset selection and market timing proficiency, …

The Interplay Of Oxidative Stress, Mitochondrial Dysfunction, And Neuroinflammation In Autism Spectrum Disorder: Behavioral Implications And Therapeutic Strategies, Ansab Akhtar, S K. Rahaman

School of Medicine Faculty Publications

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) deals with several symptoms, including language and speech impairment and developmental delays. The main brain regions affected could be the prefrontal cortex (PFC) or the temporal lobe. The detrimental features could include oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and neuroinflammation. Most often, these phenomena are interrelated and can lead to one another, creating a vicious cycle. They also influence the regulation of certain genes involved in the pathogenesis of ASD or related behavior. In the brain regions prone to these detrimental features, a cascade of free radicals, inflammatory cytokines, and mitochondrial energy disruptions is initiated. These actions during …

Voice As A Biomarker: Exploratory Analysis For Benign And Malignant Vocal Fold Lesions, Phillip Jenkins, Rylan Harrison, Steven Bedrick, Lisa Karstens, Bridge2ai-Voice Consortium

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications and Presentations

Benign and malignant vocal fold lesions can alter voice quality and lead to significant morbidity or, in the case of malignancy, mortality. Early, noninvasive identification of these lesions using voice as a biomarker may improve diagnostic access and outcomes. In this study, we analyzed data from the initial release of the Bridge2AI-Voice dataset to evaluate which acoustic features best distinguish laryngeal cancer and benign vocal fold lesions from other vocal pathologies and healthy voice function. Seven diagnostic cohorts were grouped into two analyses: the first included participants with laryngeal cancer, benign lesions, or no voice disorder; the second included those …

Gamifying Positive Behavioral Interventions And Supports In A Small Rural School District, Allison Noel

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

This case study explored the implementation of a gamified Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) program in a small rural pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade public school in New England. The study was conducted in response to a significant decline in school climate and staff morale, paired with rising rates of student disciplinary incidents and teacher turnover. Facing unique contextual challenges such as high rates of poverty, adverse childhood experiences, and community-level trauma, the school adopted an innovative approach by embedding game-based strategies into an existing PBIS framework.

Using a qualitative action research methodology, the researcher, also the principal of the school, …

State Parties’ Self-Reported Adherence To Article 31’S Right Of The Child To Play: A Systematic Content Analysis, Richard Smith, Caroline Bond, Francesca Woods

International Journal of Playwork Practice

Article 31 of the introduction of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) legally protects children’s right to rest, leisure, play, recreation, and cultural and artistic activities. Concerns for the adequate realisation of Article 31 have been longstanding, with the right to play particularly requiring greater attention. This research aims to understand how states are self-reporting right to play observance within the wider context of Article 31 rights. A systematic content analysis was completed with relevant sections of 174 state party reports using Article 31 domains and General Comment 17 factors as an evaluative framework. The …

Quality Improvement Project Structured Faculty Mentorship Program: A Quality Improvement Project, Nikki R. Pearson

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

The increasing issue of untrained faculty stepping into teaching roles poses a challenge in nursing education. This shift often causes stress and a period of disorientation. One evidence-based solution to enhance role clarity involves mentorship, which is defined as a professional relationship whereby a more experienced faculty member aids in the growth of a novice. The purpose of this project was to help novice nursing faculty by offering them structured, consistent mentorship as they moved into academia. The goal was to increase job satisfaction by clarifying roles, building a sense of support, and ultimately helping to retain faculty. The intervention …

Compact Heterogeneous Architectures And Algorithmic Methods For Enhanced Real-Time Digital True Time Delay Beamforming And Radar Applications, Nathan Lynn Burnett

Theses and Dissertations

Modern radar and signal processing systems require efficient computational architectures to handle increasing data rates while still being able to maintain dynamic configurability and complex tasks. This thesis presents and explores hardware and algorithmic approaches addressing these demands across several different applications. First, a low-cost tracking platform and architecture for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is developed, which provides detection and tracking capabilities, compliant with new FAA remote ID regulations. Second, a GPU-FPGA based digital true time delay beamformer is implemented to achieve real-time wideband radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation. Specifically this beamformer explores weight calculation and calibration through particle swarm …

Tutorial: A Guide To Getting Started With The Clinical Fellowship Experience, Christi Masters, Mariel L. Schroeder

Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Faculty Publications

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Is Social Media Use A Reason For Socially Withdrawn Individuals' Mental Health Difficulties?, Angela Grundvig

Theses and Dissertations

Studies have found a link between subtypes of social withdrawal and internalizing problems throughout most of the lifespan. However, the work conducted in adolescence is much more limited including a lack of work examining factors that might mediate the association between forms of social withdrawal and internalizing problems. Social comparison may be one way in which social withdrawal predicts internalizing problems. There has been research showing that social media usage is associated with internalizing problems. The purpose of this study was to assess (a) the associations between three subtypes of social withdrawal (shyness, avoidance, and unsociability), respectively, and indices of …

Ndls Communicator: Week Of 08.11.25, Notre Dame Law School

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The Latest News

• Notre Dame Law School's Exoneration Justice Clinic: Where legal education meets justice reform

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Notre Dame in the News

• Notre Dame Law School was highlighted on Above the Law's list of Law Schools with the Best Professors and Law Schools that are the Best for Federal Clerkships.
• The Exoneration Justice Clinic's Petition for Post-Conviction Relief was highlighted in a FOX59 article.

Mental Distress And Resource Insecurity In The Kingdom Of Tonga After The 2022 Volcanic Eruption: Associations Of Water And Food Insecurity With Mental Distress, Hilary J. Bethanancourt, Indira Bose, Lupe Moala Tupou, Melissa Meinhart, Edward A. Frongillo Jr. Ph.D., Amelia Greaves, Sera L. Young

Faculty Publications

Background Water and food insecurity can harm mental health; all 3 may, in turn, be exacerbated by humanitarian crises. The linkages between food insecurity, water insecurity, and mental health are gaining attention but have not been investigated after a natural disaster.

Objective To investigate the associations between food insecurity, water insecurity, and mental distress, and how these relationships may differ between women and men, in the aftermath of the January 15, 2022, volcanic eruption in the Kingdom of Tonga.

Design Secondary analysis of nationally representative cross-sectional data from the Equality Insights Rapid survey collected 4 to 5 months after the …

Trauma-Born Generations And Intergenerational Conflict: A Study Of Tensions In The Contemporary South Korean, Daihyun Kim

Dissertations and Theses

This paper analyzes how traumatic events that have been repeated in modern Korean history have affected each generation's identity and emotional structure, and how intergenerational conflicts arise, are structured, and reproduced. This study divides the groups of people born in the period from "The Liberation" in 1945 to 2025 into four generations: the Industrialization Generation, the Democratization Generation, the Capitalist Generation, and the Isolation Generation. Each generation has remembered major historical events such as the Korean War, the Gwangju Democratization Movement, the IMF foreign exchange crisis, the Sewol ferry and the Itaewon disaster in a unique way, thereby forming an …

An Rna Modification Prevents Extended Codon-Anticodon Interactions From Facilitating +1 Frameshifting, Evelyn M. Kimbrough, Ha An Nguyen, Haixing Li, Jacob M. Mattingly, Nevette A. Bailey, Wei Ning, Howard Gamper, Ya-Ming Hou, Ruben L. Gonzalez, Christine M. Dunham

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers

RNA post-transcriptional modifications act by stabilizing the functional conformations of RNA. While their role in messenger RNA (mRNA) decoding is well established, it is less clear how transfer RNA (tRNA) modifications outside the anticodon contribute to tRNA stability and accurate protein synthesis. Absence of such modifications causes translation errors, including mRNA frameshifting. By integrating single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer and cryogenic electron microscopy, we demonstrate that the N1-methylguanosine (m1G) modification at position 37 of Escherichia coli tRNAProL is necessary and sufficient for modulating the conformational energy of this tRNA on the ribosome so as to suppress +1 frameshifting otherwise induced …

Mental Health Disparities In Hospital Admissions For Youth With And Without Autism, Ben Pfingston, Lindsey Sneed

Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

The purpose of this study was to compare mental health diagnoses in a sample of youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and youth without ASD (non-ASD) admitted to inpatient hospitals across the United States. We hypothesized that autistic youth would have a greater proportion of co-occurring psychiatric diagnoses compared to their typically developing peers. To do this, we conducted a cross-sectional analysis of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) 2019 Kids’ Inpatient Database (KID). We compared the proportions of co-occurring psychiatric diagnoses between autistic and typically developing youth. Compared to 21% of non-ASD admissions, 36% of the ASD admissions …

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UNH Today Archive

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Core Outcome Set And Measures Of Chest Health In Children And Young People With Cerebral Palsy In The Community Setting: The Chesti Study Protocol, Chesti-Study Steering Group, Rachel Knight Lozano, Christopher Morris, Harriet Shannon, Kayleigh Bell, Hugh Malyon, Julia Melluish, Jos Latour, Morag Andrews, Sarah Crombie, Noula Gibson, Samantha Grace, Sian Goddard, Nicola Harman, Sarah Mc Goldrick Kolawole, Laura Lowndes, Paul Mcnamara, Madeline Pilbury, Rachel Rapson, Nicola Scivier, Diane Sellers, Caroline Weighton, Mark Williams, Luana Winston

School of Health Professions

Introduction Poor chest health is the leading cause of early mortality in children with cerebral palsy (CP). It is also the most common reason to seek healthcare, accruing significant costs and reducing quality-of-life for children and families. Clinical trials examining chest health interventions in CP are characterised by inconsistent outcome measures, limiting the capacity for evidence synthesis to inform clinical application. The study aims to develop a core outcome set (COS) and related measurement instruments to assess, monitor and evaluate chest health in children with CP, both in research and routine clinical practice. The COS will reflect the views of …

Hippocampal Avoidance During Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation For Patients With Small Cell Lung Cancer: Randomized Phase Ii/Iii Trial Nrg-Cc003, Vinai Gondi, Stephanie L Pugh, Minesh P Mehta, Jeffrey S Wefel, Wolfgang A Tomé, Alexander Y Sun, John Grecula, Kristin J Redmond, Shannon Fogh, Laurie Gaspar, Andre Konski, Joseph Bovi, Clifford G Robinson, Benjamin Corn, Gregory M Videtic, Benjamin H Lok, Harold A Yoon, John H Heinzerling, Albert S Denittis, Ronald C Mcgarry, Kiran Devisetty, Vijayananda Kundapur, Abraham J Wu, Edward C Mccarron, Isabelle Thibault, Edmund L Simon, Andrew M Baschnagel, Samir Narayan, Jondavid Pollock, Rebecca Paulus, Lisa A Kachnic

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Purpose: Hippocampal avoidance (HA) during therapeutic whole-brain radiotherapy reduces the risk of neurocognitive function (NCF) toxicity in patients with brain metastasis. This trial hypothesized that HA during prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) in patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) leads to noninferior intracranial relapse (ICR) and reduction in NCF toxicity.

Methods: This randomized phase II/III trial enrolled patients with SCLC, no brain metastases, and response to chemotherapy. The primary end points were 12-month ICR (noninferiority design, randomized phase II) and 6-month Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised (HVLT-R) Delayed Recall (DR) failure (phase III). Secondary end points were failure in any NCF …

Versatile Waveform Generation And Clocking Techniques For Rfsoc-Based Digital Designs, Michael David Jones

Theses and Dissertations

Within an ever-evolving radio-frequency (RF) environment, designers are required to adapt systems to increasingly constricted parameters. The available tools continually grow to match this need, but so does the complexity in using them. The radio-frequency system-on-chip (RFSoC) is an innovation that combines a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) with an integrated RF chain. Designing with an RFSoC allows for high-precision data transmission, sampling, and processing, but it can be difficult and time-consuming to develop specialized circuits. The open-source CASPER project aims to provide a library of abstracted block-design components to simplify the design process. An arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) is created …

Deriving Profiles Of Psychosocial Supports And Challenges, And Predicting Longitudinal Trajectories Of Hba1c To Promote Flourishing In Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes (T1d), Kishan Desai

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Managing type 1 diabetes (T1D) is emotionally demanding, especially for adolescents navigating intersecting developmental, biological, and psychosocial transitions. Routine psychosocial screening may help address youths’ needs. One hundred eighty adolescents with T1D ages 12-18 (M=14.71, SD=1.69 years) were recruited from a pediatric diabetes clinic. Confirmatory Factor Analyses confirmed a six-factor structure, and Latent Variable Mixture Modeling identified three profiles of psychosocial supports and challenges: (1) Average Supports, Low Challenges (n = 105, 58%), (2) Low Supports, High Challenges (n = 37, 20%), and (3) Average Supports, High Family Conflict (n = 38, 22%). Illness duration and race-income interactions predicted profile …

Statistical Literacy As Health Literacy: The Role Of Emotions In Health Decision-Making, Kendra Murphy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Lifestyle-related health problems remain a leading cause of chronic illness in the United States, creating a need for more effective communication of health information. However, the mechanisms that influence how individuals understand and use health information are not yet fully understood. This exploratory study investigates the intersections of statistical health literacy, emotions, and health decision-making from an interdisciplinary perspective. Guided by prior literature suggesting potential relationships among these factors, the study hypothesized that statistical literacy and emotional responses would modify responses to the form of health information presentation, affect the believability and motivational impact of the information, and influence health …

All In God's Plan?: Examining Positive And Negative Religious Coping As Moderators Of Posttraumatic Stress And Alcohol Use Following Intimate Partner Violence Exposure, Mya Elizabeth Bowen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is defined as physical violence, sexual violence, stalking, or psychological aggression by a current or former intimate partner or spouse (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020). Recognized as a pervasive public health concern, approximately 41% of women report experiences of sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking, and over 61 million women report experiencing psychological aggression, all at the hands of an intimate partner (Leemis et al., 2022). The pervasive nature of IPV is particularly concerning as experiences of violence can result in significant negative physical and psychological health concerns, including the development of PTSD …

The Effectiveness Of Translanguaging Pedagogy In Academic Writing Skills Among Kurdish Efl Learners, Nabaz Noori Kareem

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Recent research has highlighted the significant role of pedagogical translanguaging in language classrooms, particularly in enhancing L2 or TL writing development (García, 2014; García & Kano, 2014; Parmegiani, 2022; Turnbull, 2019; Zhang, 2019). This study investigates the impact of translanguaging pedagogy on the development of academic writing among Kurdish EFL learners in comparison to traditional monolingual instruction during a seven-week intensive English language summer course prior entering academic courses. The research involved 40 Kurdish EFL learners and enrolled in two intact classes at a private university in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Participants were divided into two groups: one was …

Cmsi Translations #22: Implications Of The U.S. Navy's "Sea Base" Construction For Equipment Support In Cross-Sea Landing Operations, Tan Benhang

CMSI Translations

Cross-sea landing operations (跨海登陆作战) is one of the primary forms of warfare for which our military is preparing, both for the present and for a period into the future. How to provide timely, reliable, continuous, and efficient equipment support for cross-sea landing operations is a critical matter requiring urgent research. The U.S. military was the first to propose the operational concept of “seabasing” to enable sea-based logistics and equipment support for forward-deployed task forces, thereby providing critical sustainment for out-of-area military operations. This seabasing initiative has important implications and provides a valuable reference for enhancing our military's equipment support capabilities …

Accelerating Gnn Inference On Multi-Core Systems, Binglin Ji

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are becoming increasingly popular, with their applications expanding across diverse domains. As the scale of graph data continues to grow, including larger numbers of nodes, edges, and higher embedding dimensions, standardized libraries such as DGL and PyG have been developed to facilitate GNN computation. However, with the rapid increase in the number of processor cores and the evolution of multi-core architectures, these libraries often show poor scalability and fail to execute GNN inference efficiently on the latest multi-core systems, particularly those with upwards of a hundred cores. To address this limitation, we present FGI, a Fast …

Intouch Week Of August 11, 2025, New York Medical College

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