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Factors Influencing Turnover Intention Among Registered Nurses In Thailand: A Preliminary Study, Vachira Posai, Associate Professor Chanokporn Jitpanya, Rn, Ms, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Wisarut Srisinthorn, Md, Associate Professor Paramee Thongsuksaid, Md

Chulalongkorn Medical Journal

Background: The global nursing shortage impacts healthcare systems. Understanding factors influencing nurses' turnover intentions is essential for developing effective retention strategies.

Objective: To identify predictors of turnover intention among nurses, focusing on variables such as age, number of children, years of nursing experience, monthly personal income, burnout, emotional labor, job stress (assessed through effort, reward, and overcommitment), nurse-practice environment, work-family conflict, and work engagement.

Methods: A secondary data analysis was conducted using data from a multicenter, longitudinal study involving 1,005 nurses from two public hospitals in Thailand. Data collection instruments included a demographic questionnaire, the Burnout Assessment Tool, the Emotional …

The Moderating Effect Of Job Attitudes On Relationship Between Personality Traits And Employees Performance: An Applied Study On Ministry Of Education In Saudi Arabia, Waleed Rashed Alshery

UB Journal for Humanities

Current study aims to provide empirical evidence regarding the impact of personality traits (extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeable and openness to experience) on the employees' performance. Moreover, the paper is focused on investigating the moderating effect of job attitudes on the relationship between personality traits and employees' performance. The model of the study was developed based on relevant theoretical background. To examine the hypothesized model, the quantitative research design was employed. This study used the systematic sampling. 550 questionnaires were distributed among the employees working in the higher education system of KSA. 325 questionnaires were returned and were usable for analysis. …

“It’S All Fun And Games Until Someone Loses An Eye (-Test): On The Presence And Consequences Of An Argument Scheme That Re-Works Our Notions Of Evidence And Support”, Matthew P. Brigham

Studies in Debate and Oratory

This essay explores an argument scheme commonly employed in sport communication, the “Eye Test,” which claims that a good faith watching of two teams or athletes, for instance, provides its own evidence as to which is superior. A distinction is drawn between a weak version of the argument, the earned eye test, and the strong version, the universal eye test. Focusing on the latter, which does not rely on expertise but claims that any individual should be able to see the proof of the argument, the essay explores a range of everyday and public sphere arguments that operate …

How Not To Go Viral? A Covid-19 Handbook For Students

University press releases and calendars

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Generating A Personalized Artificial Intelligence Assistant For Domain-Specific Professional Work, Jan - Marten Ahrend

Defensive Publications Series

Professionals in specialized fields rely on their deep, domain-specific understanding that includes documented and undocumented knowledge such as project history, team dynamics, product goals, established communication styles, etc. Artificial intelligence (AI) assistants that support professionals may not capture the deep context specific to the domain, brand, and/or organization of the professional. This disclosure describes techniques for generating a personalized artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that is deeply contextualized to a specific professional’s unique work environment. Designed for domain-specific research and professional work, the AI assistant deploys a structured framework that enables the professional user to integrate their unique context and professional …

Real-Time Deepfake Detection During Video Conferences: Harnessing Bidirectional Audio-Video Features From Reflections And Echoes, Mahesh Godavarti, Ali Mouline, Kamil Wojcicki, Radhakrishna Achanta, Raul Casas

Defensive Publications Series

Liveliness detection is increasingly important in video conferencing due to the advent of deepfakes and their use in conducting online fraud. Currently, liveliness detection technologies lag behind deepfake creation technologies. This submission proposes the use of the bidirectional nature of video conferencing to counter deepfakes more reliably and more efficiently than the state-of-the-art.

Lost In Translation: Is Data Protection Labour Law Protection?, Michele Molè

Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal

This article critically examines how the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) defines and applies the legal categories of “data subject” and “data controller” within employment relationships. Under the GDPR, employers who collect and process personal data are classified as data controllers, while employees are designated as data subjects. However, this article argues that such a “translation” of data protection categories, rights, and obligations into the regulation of workplace dynamics requires closer examination. The focus is on evaluating whether the GDPR’s rights and obligations for data subjects and data controllers accurately capture the agency and interests of employee and employer …

Liability, Property, And Inalienability Rules In Employee Data Regulation, Matthew T. Bodie

Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal

Legal protections for workers’ data have usually taken the form of privacy protections designed to deter data processing that is excessive or invasive. Such protections generally fall into the category of liability rules, under which rights can be infringed as long as compensation is provided for the violation. As Guido Calabresi and A. Douglas Melamed have described in “Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral,” liability rules are contrasted with either property rules that prevent the involuntary transfer of rights or inalienability rules that prohibit rights transfers altogether. This article explores how property rules and inalienability …

Unpacking Alpha In Innovation-Driven Etfs: A Comparative Study Of Artificial Intelligence And Blockchain Funds, Davinder K. Malhotra

School of Business Faculty Papers

This paper evaluates the performance and portfolio role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain exchange-traded funds (ETFs) based on monthly returns from 2010 to 2025. The findings show that both AI and Blockchain ETFs generate positive alpha and high standalone returns but also display considerable drawdown risk. Their weak correlations with each other and with broad indices highlight diversification benefits, particularly when combined with U.S. benchmarks. Portfolio optimization reveals that Global Minimum Variance (GMV) and Tangency portfolios ascribe lower weights to these ETFs, while Risk Parity portfolios have a more balanced exposure, helping to diversify risks. Efficient frontier analysis highlights …

Escape Room: An Interactive Way To Teach Hypertension To Nurse Practitioner Students, Christine Jewell, Marsha Hellend, Patricia Balogh, Nyssa Amato, Donna Martin

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Background: Hypertension is a significant comorbidity in the United States. Nurse Practitioners (NP) should be familiar with the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension to prevent complications for their patients. An escape room provides a fun and interactive way for NP students to learn and build skills (Friedrich et al., 2020). Escape rooms promote engagement, teamwork, and communication, and allow nurses to make mistakes in a safe environment while also building on their leadership skills (Bashir Raja et al., 2022).

Purpose: The purpose of this activity was to increase Nurse Practitioner (NP) students’ knowledge of treating patients with hypertension …

Dna Extrusion Size Determines Pathway Choice During Cag Repeat Expansion, Mayuri Bhatia, Ashutosh S. Phadte, Anna Lakhina, Anthony R. Monte Carloi Iii, Sarah Barndt, Anna Pluciennik

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers

DNA triplet repeat expansion causes several primarly neurological disorders like Huntington's disease, myotonic dystrophy type 1, and fragile-X related disorders. There is general consensus that recognition of extrahelical extrusions or hairpin-loop structures (formed by strand slippage) by the DNA mismatch repair protein MutSβ leads to repeat expansion by a mutagenic process. By contrast, the FAN1 nuclease attenuates triplet repeat expansion, the molecular basis of which was explained by our recent finding that FAN1 nuclease cleaves and initiates removal of extrahelical extrusions. Here we show that extrusions containing two or more triplet repeats are subject to recognition and processing by either …

Economically Optimal Soil Sampling Density And Application Technology For Potassium Fertilizer For Soybean In The Mid-Southern Us, Bayarbat Badarch, Aurelie Poncet, Shelby Ridar, Nathan Slaton, Michael Popp

Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Faculty Publications and Presentations

To maximize beneficial potassium (K) fertilizer use in irrigated soybean (Glycine max. (L.) Merr.) fields with spatially varying soil-test K (STK), the value of added information from more precise STK maps must be greater than the associated information collection costs. In eleven fields, we modeled the impact of soil sampling densities (SD) ranging from 2.2 samples ha-1 in the largest field (41.2 ha) to 13.59 samples ha-1 in the smallest field (7.4 ha) on STK maps with 0.4 ha grid size. The accuracy of profit-maximizing fertilizer rate prescription maps varied by SD and subsequent yield estimates using either uniform …

Introduction To Machine Learning And Machine Learning Systems, Raffi T. Khatchadourian Ph.D.

Open Educational Resources

Lecture slides introducing machine learning and machine learning systems for an undergraduate software engineering course. Topics include what machine learning is and how it differs from traditional programming, foundation models, the major types of learning (supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement, and others), and applications across domains. Using a food-delivery time-prediction case study, the deck walks through a typical ML pipeline—data collection and cleaning, feature engineering, model training, and evaluation—and covers evaluation methods (precision and recall, confusion matrices, error measures) along with underfitting versus overfitting and the realities of learning and evaluation in production. Based on "Machine Learning in Production/AI Engineering" by Christian …

Comment - When Three For Tango Is Too Much: An Employee’S Constitutional Right To Privacy, An Employer, And A Representative Union, Edo Eshet

Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal

IN THIS SHORT COMMENT, I would like to inquire about the boundaries of the representative union’s mandate regarding protecting the employee’s right to privacy. I will briefly present Emanuele Dagnino and Matthew Bodie’s articles and then explore the ability of the representative union to deal with the employee’s constitutional right to privacy (Bodie, 2025; Dagnino, 2025).1 This comment will focus on the Israeli legal representation model, which may provoke intriguing questions concerning other jurisdictions. So, let us begin our dance.

Prior Incarceration And Dental Insurance Trajectories Throughout Older Adulthood, A Testa, L Mijares, D B Jackson, V Maroufy, R Samper-Ternent, A C Neumann, R Mungia, K T Ganson, J M Nagata, T Oates

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Objectives: This study examines the relationship between prior incarceration and dental insurance trajectories throughout older adulthood.

Methods: A nationally representative sample of adults aged 55 y and older who participated in the 2012-2020 Health and Retirement Survey was analyzed (n = 6,383). Group-based trajectory modeling was used to identify distinct patterns of dental insurance coverage across the 8 survey waves. Multinomial logistic regression was used to assess the association between prior incarceration and dental insurance trajectory group membership.

Results: Four dental insurance trajectories were identified: persistent dental insurance (30.0%), intermittent high insurance (16.4%), intermittent low insurance (20.4%), and no …

Clark Cnty. Sch. Dist. V. Dist. Ct. (Angalia B.), 141 Nev. Adv. Op. 58 (Nov. 26, 2025), Shahana Polselli

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

Clark Cnty. Sch. Dist. v. Dist. Ct. (Angalia B.) holds that routine emails on a school district’s server are not accessible education records under federal and state law, unless intentionally maintained as institutional student records.

An Updated Perspective On Learning, Andrew S. Gibbons Iii

Faculty Publications

The subject of human learning is revisited. The emergence of new research findings in cognitive neuroscience and related disciplines using new imaging tools and techniques has revealed the existence of not one but two complementary learning systems. A newly-discovered prospection process, interacting with both memory systems, has been revealed as the pivotal mechanism of learning that leads to new experience and new memory records. The universal impact of emotion on this process also receives a new emphasis. This, coupled with the ever-present social environment, show learning to be the result of conversational activity. The existence of this more complete and …

A Low-Cost Fault-Ride-Through Strategy For Electric Vehicle Inverters Using Four-Switch Topology, Ehab Bayoumi

Mechanical Engineering

This paper presents a fault-tolerant control strategy that dynamically reconfigures the proposed system, and the inverter leg with a fault is isolated through a MOSFET-based clamping branch. With the use of a modified Vector Control (VC) and Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) technique, the remaining two phases can continue operating. MATLAB/Simulink is used to create a thorough simulation model that examines various fault scenarios and evaluates how well the control process adjusts to each one. The obtained findings demonstrate that, in the event of a fault, the system can maintain accurate speed regulation, maintain a tolerable current balance, and deliver steady torque. …

Exploring Experiences Of Mental Health Challenges In Under-Represented Young People (Aged 16–24 Years) In England: A Narrative Inquiry Protocol, Rebecca Syed Sheriff, Jason Arday, Rohit Shankar, Roisin Mooney, Louise Chandler, Helen Adams, Lili Z Nagy, Roger Farrell, Daisy Fancourt, Scott Weich, Catherine Henderson, Shaima Hassan, Joe Langley, Kamaldeep Bhui

Peninsula Medical School

Introduction Three-quarters of mental health problems start before the age of 25. However, young people are the least likely to receive mental healthcare. Some young people (such as those from ethnic minorities) are even less likely to receive mental healthcare than others. Long-term impacts of mental health problems include poorer physical health, relationships, education and employment. We aim to elicit the views, experiences and needs of diverse young people (aged 16–24 years), to better understand (1) their experiences of under-representation, mental health and coping, (2) mechanisms that shape mental health trajectories and (3) how online arts and culture might be …

Reclaiming Relational Pedagogies: The Role Of Talking Circles In Decolonizing Higher Education Classrooms, Veneice Lacy

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This article explores the use of Talking Circles as a decolonizing pedagogical practice within higher education, grounded in Indigenous epistemologies and relational worldviews. Drawing on the works of Indigenous scholars such as Graveline, Wilson, Archibald, and Simpson, the article positions Talking Circles not merely as instructional strategies but as ceremonial, spirit-centered pedagogies that resist the Eurocentric hierarchical and individualistic norms of Western academia. Through autoethnographic reflection and student narratives from undergraduate and graduate education courses, the article demonstrates how Talking Circles foster relational accountability, ethical engagement, and transformative learning. By centering oral tradition, reciprocity, and communal learning, Talking Circles reconfigure …

Flash Effect Is Diminished By Daily Fractionation Of Electron Rt In Mouse Skin, Aleksandra Ilina, William S. Thomas, Xu Cao, Matthew S. Reed, Kendall Jarvis, Albert Van Der Kogel, Nathaniel Van Asselt, Wesley S. Culberson, Brian W. Pogue

Dartmouth Scholarship

Objective. While FLASH radiotherapy is known to reduce skin damage in vivo from ultra-high dose rate (UHDR) irradiation relative to conventional dose rates (CDR), it is not clear whether this sparing is preserved when delivered as fractionated. This study was designed to directly assess whether three daily fractions would maintain the sparing effects in murine leg models and preserve the murine skin sparing with single fraction treatments. Approach. C57Bl/6j female mice were irradiated with 9 MeV UHDR and CDR beams from a FLASH-capable Mobetron system, in a dose escalation study with doses ranging from single dose 22–30 Gy in a …

Multimodal Cardiac Imaging Of Immune-Mediated Complications Post Heart Transplantation: A Contemporary Review, Bruno Bezerra Lima, Tam T Doan, Atilla Feher, James C Wilkinson, Marvin W Kronenberg, Chloe Carr, Malek Nayfeh, Tania Ruiz, Luke L Laws, Melissa Lou Silva, John A Wells, Leandro Slipczuk, Emily T Lippincott, John J Carr, Kaushik Amancherla, Cameron Henry, David Parra, Kelly Schlendorf, Quinn S Wells, Sean G Hughes, Jonathan Soslow

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Heart transplantation significantly enhances survival and quality of life for patients with end-stage heart failure. Despite advances in surgical and postoperative care, immune-mediated complications, acute graft rejection and cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV), remain major barriers to long-term success. Acute rejection predominantly affects early posttransplant survival, whereas CAV becomes a leading cause of mortality in later years. The gold standards for diagnosis, endomyocardial biopsy for rejection and coronary angiography for CAV, are invasive and imperfect. Noninvasive multimodality imaging is increasingly used to complement or, in selected scenarios, defer invasive testing. Echocardiography with strain detects early myocardial dysfunction when ejection fraction is …

Helping Craft Beer Hunters Make Their Next Great Beer Discovery, Mark Mitchell, Sheila Mitchell

Atlantic Marketing Journal

The number of craft beer producers and consumers in the United States has increased dramatically over the last ten years. This manuscript provides an overview of the craft beer marketplace in the United States with a focus on the craft brewers and retailers as well as the consumers who favor craft beers. Craft beer enthusiasts are a “consumption community” or, a group of consumers who share a deep involvement with the craft beer category. This study presents a list of common business practices designed to appeal to this unique consumer group.

Effects Of Rehabilitative Device On Parkinsonian Gait, Brooke N. Ray, Ksenia I. Ustinova, Joseph E. Langenderfer

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 18(7): 1422-1440, 2025. https://doi.org/10.70252/TGOI6101 Parkinson’s disease (PD) is second in occurrence among neurodegenerative disorders after Alzheimer’s disease and significantly impacts gait and mobility. This research tested the effect of the NewGait rehabilitative device in PD impaired individuals. Twenty individuals with PD participated in this study. Walking gait for three conditions were analyzed: Normal, wearing NewGait and Post-NewGait. Standard spatial and temporal analysis measures as well as nonlinear measures from recurrence quantification were compared to determine any effects of the device on walking gait. NewGait was perceived to be both comfortable to wear as well as …

Middle Level English Learners’ Engagement With Digital Multimodal Resources And Each Other, Mark Stevens

Intersections: Critical Issues in Education

Students in schools who speak multiple languages need opportunities for multimodal learning. A study was conducted to observe how middle level English Learners used multimodal (text, audio, video, imagery) resources in a Language Arts - Social Studies class. The research question was: What patterns of engagement with content, and each other, were manifest by middle level ELs while using multimodal resources in a general education history class? Qualitative case study was used to observe student work and interaction, inspect work artifacts, and interview for opinions and motivations. To learn multimodally, students (a) used approaches (whole class, small group, partner) that …

Sustaining Momentum While Dissertating: The Journey Of Two Women Scholars, Tasha Egalite, Kristin L. Kew

Intersections: Critical Issues in Education

This paper is a narrative reflection on some reasons for earning a doctorate and writing a dissertation. We are two scholars interested in sustaining educational change and dedicated to better understanding and supporting the process and growth of students in doctoral programs. In our pláticas, we share and reflect on our own doctoral journeys, the critical issues we encountered, and the hoops we jumped through while completing our dissertations.

Automated Feature Engineering And Multi-Stage Selection For Time-Series Forecasting, Leonid Kuligin, Thomas Zettl

Defensive Publications Series

The time-series forecasting, for example in supply chain management, can be challenged by high-dimensional and noisy market data, which may lead to model overfitting and the inclusion of spurious correlations. A framework for automated feature engineering and multi-stage selection can help address these challenges. The process can programmatically generate a large set of potential features, such as time-lagged variables, from heterogeneous data sources. A multi-stage selection protocol can then be applied, which may first use correlation-based filtering to prune features, followed by an iterative, model-driven stage that uses backtesting to evaluate and promote features based on their predictive value. This …

Effective Strategies To Address Poor-Quality Suppliers In The Automotive Industry, Virginia May Hartleigh

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Poor-quality suppliers present a significant risk and cost liability across the manufacturing industry. Industrial automotive manufacturing leaders are concerned with this challenge because supplier quality directly affects production efficiency and accounts for over 70% of total production costs. Grounded in resource dependence theory, the purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry was to explore successful strategies supply chain leaders use to identify and address poor-quality suppliers to improve manufacturing processes and achieve cost savings. The participants were six purposefully sampled supply chain leaders in the U.S. industrial automotive sector who were experienced in successful supplier mitigation strategies. Data were collected using …

Very Low Frequency Electromagnetic (Vlf-Em) Method As A Tool For Fault Investigation: Examples From İzmir, Türkiye, Meri̇ç Azi̇z Berge

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The investigation of faults in active tectonic regions is of great importance in geosciences, and geophysical methods play a key role in their detection. In particular, determining subsurface characteristics related to faults and identifying palaeoseismological trench locations using geophysical methods are topics of significant research interest to researchers. The very low frequency electromagnetic (VLF-EM) method is one of the geophysical techniques employed to investigate such problems. This study presents the results of simulation and field investigations using the VLF-EM method for fault detection. The well-established Fraser and Karous–Hjelt filters, which are widely used and effective for fault detection, were applied …

Meshed Trees: A Framework For Resilient Network Algorithms And Protocols, Peter Willis

Theses

The continued growth of computer networks in both size and complexity presents challenges for the control protocols that are tasked with maintaining optimal data-forwarding paths. These protocols commonly rely on shortest-path algorithms to determine where network data should be propagated and how it should be analyzed for inclusion in forwarding tables. However, problems arise during reconvergence, the process in which devices rediscover optimal paths following a network failure. Because control protocols were built decades ago for the networks of that era, the existing shortest-path algorithms utilized were designed for problems before the advent of modern computer networks. This resulted in …