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Perioperative Dexmedetomidine Improve Outcomes After Cabg Surgery., Reham Salah, Ismail Rafik Barada, Mazen Isam Eldein Ali

Journal of Medicine in Scientific Research

Background Dexmedetomidine, is used in cardiac surgeries for its sedation, anxiolysis, and analgesic properties, with minimal respiratory depression. It may improve clinical outcomes in CABG surgery by reducing inflammatory responses, providing neuroprotection, and enhancing hemodynamic stability. Aim To assess the efficacy and safety of perioperative dexmedetomidine in improving clinical outcomes in CABG surgery. Methods This prospective, randomized controlled trial involved 160 patients undergoing elective on-pump CABG surgery. Participants were divided into two groups: 80 received dexmedetomidine, and 80 received a placebo. Key outcomes measured included the incidence of postoperative complications, duration of mechanical ventilation, and ICU stay. Results The dexmedetomidine …

Pediatric Cardiac Surgery After Pulmonary Arterial Interventions: Short-Term Outcomes, Rania Abushokka, Hanan Mohammed Hassan, Rasha Hosni, Amal Younan, Ahmed Algebaly

Journal of Medicine in Scientific Research

Background: Congenital cardiac interventions are progressing at a rapid pace. In the last few years, techniques such as stent placement for pulmonary artery stenosis, right ventricle outflow tract and ductal stenting showed great advances. Surgery over stents are increasing in complexity. Left pulmonary artery and right ventricle outflow tract sites account for more than half of stent handling. Percutaneous devices are not an ‘‘enemy’’ for the surgeon, but a tool for continuing the development of our surgical strategies. In this study, we describe the short-term outcome of patients who underwent surgical repair after pulmonary interventions for congenital heart diseases at …

Evaluating The Efficacy Of Conventional Crystalloid Cardioplegia Versus Modified Del Nido Cardioplegia In Patients With Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease For Cabg Surgery, Reham Salah, Ismail Rafik Barada, Mazen Isam Eldein Ali

Journal of Medicine in Scientific Research

Background: Cardioplegia is crucial in cardiac surgery for myocardial protection. Modified del Nido cardioplegia, initially used in paediatric patients, is now employed in adult cardiac surgeries for its prolonged protection with a single dose. Aim: To compare the efficacy of conventional crystalloid cardioplegia and modified del Nido cardioplegia in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) for multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD). Methods: A randomized controlled trial included 94 adult patients undergoing elective CABG. Patients were randomly assigned to receive either conventional crystalloid cardioplegia or modified Del Nido cardioplegia. Data collected included CPB and cross-clamp times, cardioplegia volume, postoperative …

An Examination Of Lysine Acetylation In The Context Of Bacterial Metabolism, Translation, And Regulation Of Gene Expression, Thomas Patrick Bank

Dissertations

Post-translational modifications are a critical tool bacteria employ to survive the challenges of microbial life. Acetylation continues to gain more recognition as a modification of unique importance because the sources of acetylation – acetyl-phosphate and acetyl-coenzyme-A – are critical metabolites associated with central carbon metabolism, acetate overflow metabolism and acetate assimilation. This suggests that acetylation, indelibly coupled to metabolic flux, integrates metabolic sensing with any cellular process or pathway where an acetylation alters the function of a protein. Intuitively, this makes sense. Of course, a bacterial cell would coordinate any cellular process closely with the amount of energy available to …

Fish In An Aquaponics System, Amy M. Shambach, Rebecca M. Ward, J. Stuart Carlton, Kwamena K. Quagrainie, Tomas O. Höök

Supplementary Content for Aquaponics: Farming Fish and Growing Greens for Grades 9–12

This PowerPoint slide provides readers with information on fish in an aquaponics system. This book was published by the Purdue University Press. Copyright 2026.

Permission: Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant

Effectiveness Of Myoinositol Versus Metformin As Adjuvant Treatment On Infertile Pcos Women Undergoing Ovulation Induction Cycles Prospective Cohort Study, Ahmed M. Salman, Fatma M. Sayed, Hesham Mohammed Hamad

Journal of Medicine in Scientific Research

Background In anovulatory infertility Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) plays a leading role, characterized by endocrine and metabolic disturbances. While metformin is usually used to decrease insulin resistance and restore ovulation, myoinositol has emerged as a promising alternative with fewer side effects. This study aimed to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of metformin and myoinositol as adjuvant treatments in infertile women with PCOS in ovulation induction cycles. Patient and methods This prospective cohort study included 192 women diagnosed with PCOS-related infertility, divided into two groups (n = 96 each) receiving either metformin or myoinositol for 3 months prior to ovulation induction. …

General And Special Relativity May Explain The Hubble Tension And Galactic Rotation, Charles F. Babbs

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Faculty Working Papers

Using two equations from general and special relativity, one can explore the hypothesis that gravitational time dilation and the relativistic Doppler effect cause the Hubble tension. Predicted results show good agreement between theory and observation, as long as mass is restricted to ordinary baryonic matter. This unexpected finding suggested a surprising continuation, namely that observed galactic rotation also be explained by special relativity. This idea survived initial tests using both Vera Rubin’s original data and more recent observations.

Rivertown Tci Lp V. Mark Stiffler

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Young Cho V. Prudential Insurance Co Of America

2026 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Gomez V. Gomez

All Decisions

This licensee holdover proceeding, initiated by the landlord against family member tenants-at-sufferance, was dismissed by the Civil Court for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The landlord had sought to evict the tenants based on a 30-day notice under RPL § 228. However, the court ruled that Housing Court, operating under RPAPL Article 7, lacks jurisdiction over common law tenancies at sufferance, as Article 7 does not explicitly provide for such proceedings. The court emphasized that statutes in derogation of common law must be strictly construed. The decision directs the landlord to pursue an ejectment action under RPAPL Article 6 in …

An Integrated Single-Cell And Spatial Transcriptomic Atlas Of Thyroid Cancer Progression Identifies Prognostic Fibroblast Subpopulations, Matthew A Loberg, George J Xu, Sheau-Chiann Chen, Hua-Chang Chen, Claudia C Wahoski, Kailey P Caroland, Megan L Tigue, Heather A Hartmann, Jean-Nicolas Gallant, Courtney J Phifer, Andres A Ocampo, Dayle K Wang, Reilly G Fankhauser, Kirti A Karunakaran, Chia-Chin Wu, Maxime Tarabichi, Sophia M Shaddy, James L Netterville, Sarah L Rohde, Carmen C Solórzano, Lindsay A Bischoff, Naira Baregamian, Barbara A Murphy, Jennifer H Choe, Jennifer R Wang, Eric C Huang, Quanhu Sheng, Luciane T Kagohara, Elizabeth M Jaffee, Ryan H Belcher, Ken S Lau, Fei Ye, Ethan Lee, Vivian L Weiss

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Although well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (WDTC) is characterized by a robust treatment response, aggressive subtypes, such as anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC), remain highly lethal. To understand thyroid cancer evolution in both children and adults, we analyzed single-cell transcriptomes of 423,733 cells from 81 samples and spatially resolved key tumor and microenvironment populations across 28 tumors with spatial transcriptomics, including rare and unique composite WDTC/ATC tumors and pediatric diffuse sclerosing thyroid carcinomas. Additionally, we identified gene signatures of stromal cell populations in 5 large thyroid cancer bulk RNA-sequencing cohorts. Through this multi-institutional effort, we defined a population of POSTN+ myofibroblast cancer-associated fibroblasts …

Jiving With Llms: Assessing First Year Students’ Computer Programming Self Efficacy After Reading Code With Llms, Michelle Jarvie-Eggart, Joseph Roy Teahen, Daniel T. Masker, Jose Padilla, Leo C. Ureel Ii, Laura E. Brown, Scott Pomerville, Jon Sticken

Michigan Tech Publications

This study investigated the impact of leveraging generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to assist 1st-year engineering and computer science (CS) students in reading code in a new (to them) language. Students were asked to comment code in FORTRAN. They were then asked to run the code through ChatGPT-4.0 for its comments and reflect on what they learned from the experience. Participants completed survey items from Ramalingam and Wiedenbeck’s Computer Programming Self-Efficacy Scale (CPSES) prior to and after the intervention. Additional open-ended reflective (qualitative) questions were added to the quantitative questions in the postintervention questionnaire. This study documents increases in self-efficacy for …

Capturing Sclera Anisotropy Using Direct Collagen Fiber Models: Linking Microstructure To Macroscopic Mechanical Properties, Fengting Ji, Xuehuan He, Frederick Sebastian, Mohammad R. Islam, Hannah Schilpp, Bingrui Wang, Yi Hua, Rouzbeh Amini, Ian A. Sigal

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

Collagen fibers are essential to the mechanical behavior of soft tissues, including sclera. Conventional models often represent these fibers statistically, potentially missing crucial aspects of their role in tissue behavior. In this study, we expand on a direct fiber modeling approach that we recently presented based on explicitly representing the sclera long, interwoven fiber bundles. Specifically, our goal was to capture specimen-specific 3D fiber architecture and anisotropic mechanics of four ovine sclera samples (superior from Eye-1, temporal and superior from Eye-2, and temporal from Eye-3), each tested under five conditions: equi-biaxial (1:1) and four non-equi-biaxial (1:0.75, 0.75:1, 1:0.5, and 0.5:1). …

Landworks Evaluation 1 April 2024 To 31 March 2025: Generating A Harm Reduction And Desistance Community, Patricia Gray, Julie Parsons

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

This year, LandWorks has experienced both highs and profound challenges. In July 2024, LandWorks won the Overall Award for Excellence at the Charity Awards — the most prestigious awards scheme in the charity sector. The judges highlighted LandWorks’ greatest achievement as “the way it built trust with its trainees and helped them rebuild their lives by understanding the experiences that led to their criminal behaviour in the first place.” Staff, trainees, and graduates were deeply proud of this recognition, which serves as a national endorsement of LandWorks’ accomplishments since its establishment in 2013. Alongside this success, the past twelve months …

Usc 462 West 141 Llc V. Richards

All Decisions

In this nonpayment proceeding, the tenant moved for summary judgment, asserting the landlord was precluded from collecting rent under Multiple Dwelling Law (MDL) § 302(1)(b) because the building was occupied contrary to its certificate of occupancy. The court granted the tenant's motion, taking judicial notice of HPD and OATH/ECB violations indicating unlawful combining of rooming units. The court confirmed that such violations prevent rent recovery and nonpayment proceedings for any unit, regardless of whether the unlawful occupancy directly relates to the tenant's apartment. The court also held that the MDL § 302 defense is not waivable and dismissed the landlord's …

Lung Epithelial And Alveolar Macrophage-Like Cell Interactions Significantly Modify Innate Responses To Bacterial Endotoxin With The Involvement Of Direct Cellular Contacts, Tnf-Α, Icam1 And Mcp-1, Connor Wood, Shagun Khera, Minjeong Woo, Vikram Sharma, Justyna Lopatecka, Frederic Coulon, Zaheer Nasir, Vincent Delorme, Simon K. Jackson, György Fejer

School of Biomedical Sciences

Introduction: Lung alveolar macrophages (AMs) and epithelial cells form the first line of defense against inhaled pathogens. Their interactions strongly influence innate immune responses in the lung, yet the mechanisms underlying this cross-talk remain incompletely understood. Methods: In this study, we established a co-culture system using a primary model of AMs (MPI alveolar macrophage-like cells) and MLE-12 alveolar epithelial cells to investigate innate responses and cellular interactions during bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced TLR4 activation. Results: Cytokine and chemokine profiling revealed that co-cultures exhibited significantly enhanced proinflammatory responses to both LPS and TLR2 ligands—including IL-6, TNF-a, and MCP-1 secretion—compared with mono-cultures. Strikingly, …

Measurement Of 18f(Alpha,P)21ne With The Array For Nuclear Astrophysics And Structure With Exotic Nuclei (Anasen), Keilah S. Davis

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Certain (α,p) reactions on proton-rich nuclei are among the most important nuclear reactions occurring during Type I X-ray bursts, as well as being impactful in stellar explosions during the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) phase and on accreting white dwarfs (WD). However, large uncertainties remain for reaction rates on some radioactive nuclei due to the lack of direct measurements. The Array for Nuclear Astrophysics and Structure with Exotic Nuclei (ANASEN) is a gas target and charged-particle detector designed for direct measurements of (α,p) reactions. ANASEN was redesigned with two hexagonal barrels of 100-µm-thick silicon strip surrounding the beam axis over a …

The Yeh Pilus Adhesin Is Equipped With An Α-Helical Flap Motif, Which Contributes To Pectin Adherence, Kevin O Tamadonfar, Roger D Klein, Edward D B Lopatto, Maxwell I Zimmerman, Philippe N Azimzadeh, Denise A Sanick, Justin R Porter, Jesus Bazan Villicana, Jerome S Pinkner, Bo Huey Chiang, Nathaniel C Gualberto, Karen W Dodson, Michael L Patnode, George M H Et Al., Gregory R Bowman, Scott J Hultgren

2020-Current year OA Pubs

The Yeh chaperone-usher pathway (CUP) pilus adhesin is encoded in one-half of all

Generative Algorithms For Wildfire Progression Reconstruction From Multi-Modal Satellite Active Fire Measurements And Terrain Height, Bryan Shaddy, Brianna Binder, Agnimitra Dasgupta, Haitong Qin, James Haley, Angel Farguell, Kyle Hilburn, Derek V. Mallia, Adam Kochanski, Jan Mandel, Assad A. Oberai

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Highlights: What are the main findings? Conditional generative algorithms trained on simulations of historic wildfires may be used to effectively reconstruct the early-time progression of wildfires given satellite active fire measurements and terrain height data. When applied to real wildfires, generated fire progression estimates compare favorably to ground-truth high resolution infrared perimeters measured via aircraft, with the ability to gather additional information about model uncertainty from generated samples. What are the implications of the main findings? Once obtained, fire progression estimates may be used to perform data assimilation, wherein the estimated fire state is used to initialize subsequent wildfire spread …

A Study Of The Impacts Of Infusing Data Analysis And Research In An Interdisciplinary Environmental Economics Course, Sean P. Macdonald

Numeracy

This paper explores the impacts of introducing quantitative literacy skills in an interdisciplinary Environmental Economics course typically taught as an issues and policy course without a quantitative component. The study examines the effects of infusing an engaging, student-selected data collection and analysis assignment on students' quantitative reasoning skills, as well as their interest in and attitudes about data analysis and quantitative information. Using data gathered from a set of pre- and post-assessment questions designed to measure changes in quantitative reasoning skills and attitudes, the findings point to significant attitudinal impacts, gains, but smaller, insignificant gains in quantitative reasoning skills.

A Comparison Of First- And Continuing-Generation Students Completing A Project-Based Introductory Statistics Course, Susan A. Dumais, Naomi J. Spence, Lisa Dierker

Numeracy

Traditional introductory statistics courses that focus on techniques are not engaging for many college students; this may be especially true for first-generation college students, who generally have more difficulty engaging in the college environment than continuing-generation students. We study first-generation college students’ experiences in a course-based undergraduate research experience called Passion-Driven Statistics. Passion-Driven Statistics is a multidisciplinary, project-based introductory statistics course where students develop their own research topics, analyze publicly available quantitative data, and focus on conceptual understanding of statistics rather than hand calculations. Using pre-course and post-course surveys from students taking Passion-Driven Statistics in colleges throughout the United States, …

Toward Fairer And More Equitable Numeracy Measurement: Improvements To The Quantitative Reasoning For College Science Assessment, Vonna L. Hemmler, Isaac Rosenthal, Kate Follette, Catherine Sarosi, Erin Galyen, Sanlyn Buxner, Jackson Carter, Samantha Maynard, Sarah Bunnell

Numeracy

Numeracy has become an increasingly important 21st-century skill that, due to the relationship between math and science, is often formally developed at the college level in general education science courses. These courses serve a diverse group of students, many of whom have historically experienced science teaching, curriculum, and assessment on the margins. The well-documented biases of assessments in particular against Individuals of Color (IoC) have inspired us to approach numeracy for social justice in our work from this angle, and in this paper, we detail our efforts to revise our validated numeracy assessment to ensure it more fairly and equitably …

A Prescription For Ineffective Notice In Mhealth, Tatyana Norman-Webler

Akron Law Review

No abstract provided.

Soft Law Governance Of Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare, Gary E. Marchant

Akron Law Review

No abstract provided.

Dying Well: Hospice Care As A Diminished Promise, Barry R. Furrow

Akron Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Archon, 1949 Edition, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated

Josie Green Washington Papers

A 1949 edition pamphlet called The Archon, an official organ of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority.

How Bork Made It To The Supreme Court: Judge Robert Bork’S Nomination Battle And Its Impact On American Judicial Politics, Will Brady

Legacy

No abstract provided.

The Archon, December 1948, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated

Josie Green Washington Papers

A pamphlet called The Archon, an official organ of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, from December 1948.

What’S My Name? Experiences Of Individuals With Traditional Hawaiian Names, Natalya N. Spotkaeff

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

There is no systematic process of orienting non-Hawaiian educators to Hawaiian culture, as evidenced by name mispronunciation. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the experiences of individuals with traditional Hawaiian first names in a classroom environment. Critical race theory (CRT), especially the concept of microaggressions, was used as the framework for the study. Two research questions guided the study: What are the adult lived experiences with traditional Hawaiian first names encountered in academic settings during childhood? How do adults with traditional Hawaiian first names describe their experiences of race in the classroom? Semistructured interviews were conducted with …

The Nutritional Environment And Food Access Of Female Athletes At Hbcus: A Qualitative Analysis, Nancy A. Uriegas, Zachary K. Winkelmann Ph.D., Lat, Atc, Chse, Dawn M. Emerson, Toni Torres-Mcgehee Ph.D., Lat, Atc, Facsm

Faculty Publications

Purpose:

Female student-athletes attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) may encounter distinct challenges related to food access, particularly when their campuses are situated in areas with limited food availability. This study assessed food security (FS) and explored the lived experiences of HBCU female student-athletes regarding their food environments and access to nutrition.

Methods:

This qualitative study used a semi-structured interview protocol derived from quantitative data. Participants were 10 HBCU female athletes (age = 19 ± 1 years) living in on-campus dormitories; recruited after completing a quantitative study examining energy needs. The three-part semi-structured interview protocol included questions about personal …