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Integrating Artificial Intelligence In Orthopedic Care: Advancements In Bone Care And Future Directions, Rahul Kumar, Kyle Sporn, Joshua Ong, Ethan Waisberg, Phani Paladugu, Swapna Vaja, Tamer Hage, Tejas C. Sekhar, Amar S. Vadhera, Alex Ngo, Nasif Zaman, Alireza Tavakkoli, Mouayad Masalkhi

SKMC Student Presentations and Publications

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of orthopedic bioengineering by increasing diagnostic accuracy and surgical precision and improving patient outcomes. This review highlights using AI for orthopedics in preoperative planning, intraoperative robotics, smart implants, and bone regeneration. AI-powered imaging, automated 3D anatomical modeling, and robotic-assisted surgery have dramatically changed orthopedic practices. AI has improved surgical planning by enhancing complex image interpretation and providing augmented reality guidance to create highly accurate surgical strategies. Intraoperatively, robotic-assisted surgeries enhance accuracy and reduce human error while minimizing invasiveness. AI-powered smart implant sensors allow for in vivo monitoring, early complication detection, and individualized rehabilitation. …

Critical Editing Studies: A Textual-Intertextual Approach To Editing, Rhetoric, And Cultures Of Sensitivity, Amanda Keren-Happuch Yaa Emefa Anka

Masters Theses

This study explores how editing influences public discourse and perception by analyzing two major editing controversies, one involving the written word and the other, image. The method of analysis I employ is close textual-intertextual analysis in which I rely on the original source, that is, the written word and image in question, and supplement the analysis with secondary sources, such as media articles, scholarly works, and public reactions. The first case study focuses on the issue of bowdlerization as regards Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl and the second artifact focuses on digital editing as it relates to …

Automated Client Dashboard For Facts Student Information System, Kashish Syed

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

This project addresses the challenges of student data migration for K-12 educational institutions to the FACTS Student Information System (SIS). Historically, data migration from legacy platforms has been a manual and error-prone process. To streamline this workflow, an interactive client dashboard and automated validation system were developed as part of this capstone. The resulting solution is a scalable, intuitive tool that enhances data accuracy, reduces manual labor, and improves the user experience for both school administrators and FACTS staff. This report blends the technical implementation with reflections on project management, team collaboration, and lessons learned, offering a comprehensive view of …

Proposed Civil Design Package For Lincoln Youth Sports Complex, Gracie Kerr, Hayden Wulf, Kiley Pham, Caitlin Keathley

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

The following report is a proposal of civil work and an engineering design package for the City of Lincoln to construct a Youth Sports Complex on the vacant lot at 2100 North 1^st Street, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska. The city has requested five U10 to U14 combination baseball and softball fields, one championship softball field, and one championship baseball field. Additionally, a playground area, concessions building, and designated parking areas have been requested. This design package includes introductory company and project information, a summary of the design request and constraints, three overall design alternatives, discipline-specific engineering designs and recommendations, …

The Effects Of Crossfit And Pharmacology On Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms And Self-Efficacy Levels, Priscilla Kay Fleming

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Nearly half of individuals diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) who are provided with an SSRI or SNRI medication do not experience a clinically meaningful reduction of symptoms or a full remission of symptoms. A gap in the literature existed for comparisons of treatment approaches and their outcomes for GAD symptoms and self-efficacy levels. Research questions for this study were: Is there a difference in GAD symptoms between the CrossFit participants and pharmacology participants at the point of three months treatment regimen?, and Is there a difference in self-efficacy levels between the CrossFit participants and pharmacology participants at the point …

Probing Binding And Allosteric Mechanisms Of The Kras Interactions With Monobodies And Affimer Proteins : Ensemble-Based Mutational Profiling And Thermodynamic Analysis Of Binding Energetics And Allostery Reveal Diversity Of Functional Hotspots And Cryptic Pockets Linked By Conserved Communication Network, Mohammed Alshahrani, Vedant Parikh, Brandon Foley, Guang Hu, Gennady M. Verkhivker

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

KRAS, a historically "undruggable" oncogenic driver, has eluded targeted therapies due to its lack of accessible binding pockets in its active state. This study investigates the conformational dynamics, binding mechanisms, and allosteric communication networks of KRAS in complexes with monobodies (12D1, 12D5) and affimer proteins (K6, K3, K69) to characterize the binding and allosteric mechanisms and hotspots of KRAS binding. Through molecular dynamics simulations, mutational scanning, binding free energy analysis and network-based analyses, we identified conserved allosteric hotspots that serve as critical nodes for long-range communication in KRAS. Key residues in β-strand 4 (F78, L80, F82), α-helix 3 (I93, H95, …

Use Of Margins Around Small Brain Metastasis Improves Specificity Of Evaluation Methods For Stereotactic Radiosurgery Treatment Plans, Purity Kemunto Bundi

LSU Master's Theses

Purpose: To reduce the high false positive rates (FPRs ≥ 46%) from the evaluation of Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) treatment plans for small brain metastases. Specifically, we modified two evaluation indices, Treated Volume Ratio (TVR) and Gradient Index (GI), which exhibited FPRs exceeding 84%. A false positive result incorrectly indicates that an acceptable plan, as determined by a medical physicist and a radiation oncologist, is inacceptable.

Methods: This study utilized training and validation datasets from Gamma Knife treatment plans from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) and Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center (MBPCC). Data included doses, …

Macroeconomics Textbook For Kingsborough Students, Dorina Tila

Open Educational Resources

Textbook customized for Kingsborough students. It was published in May 2025. You can access it through pressbook as well.

https://pressbooks.cuny.edu/macroeconomicsbronxkcc/

Quasi-Normal Modes Of Extended Uncertainty Principle Kerr Black Holes, Ava Hoeger, Jonas Mureika

Honors Thesis

The current understanding of gravity is shaped largely by Albert Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. This theory is highly successful at predicting phenomenon on macroscopic scales, but it faces unphysical singularities at quantum scales. This thesis will explore the possibility of combining General Relativity with quantum mechanics through the Extended Uncertainty Principle (EUP), which provides a new, fundamental length scale correction to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. This allows for quantum gravity effects at macroscopic scales, which will be examined through Kerr black holes with event horizons on the order of . These black holes are rotating and electrically neutral, and …

Intraspecific Sensory Diversity And The Decapod Claw: Patterns Of Sensillation Are Heterochelic And Sexually Dimorphic In Pagurus Bernhardus, Ari Drummond, Summer Nash, Tianna Holloway, Alexander Wilson, Lucy Turner, Mark Briffa, David T Bilton

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Information detection affects physiological performance and behaviour and is vital to survival and fitness. Despite the recognised importance of sensory adaptations in information acquisition and manipulation, many forms of sensory variation—from within individuals to between species—remain underexplored. To better understand the role of information in evolution, it is important to examine sensory variation as part of a cohesive framework of sensory diversity. Using the decapod claw, a structure well-recognised for its morphological variation, we investigated sensory diversity at the intraspecific level by assessing heterochely and sexual dimorphism in the chelar morphologies of Pagurus bernhardus hermit crabs. We employed a novel …

Academic Senate - Minutes, 5/13/2025, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Multicentre Analysis Of Seizure Outcome Predicted By Removal Of High-Frequency Oscillations, Vasileios Dimakopoulos, Jean Gotman, Petr Klimes, Nicolas Von Ellenrieder, Shi Bei Tan, Garnett Smith, Stephen V. Gliske, Margarita Maltseva, Minette Krisel Manalo, Martin Pail, Milan Brazdil, Dorien Van Blooijs, Maryse A. Van 'T Klooster, Sarah Johnson, Samantha Laboy, Debora Ledergerber, Lukas Imbach, Christos Papadelis, Michael R. Sperling, Maeike Zijlmans, Jan Cimbalnik, Julia Jacobs, William C. Stacey, Birgit Frauscher, Johannes Sarnthein

Department of Neurology Faculty Papers

In drug-resistant focal epilepsy, planning surgical resection can involve presurgical intracranial EEG (iEEG) recordings to detect seizures and other iEEG patterns to improve postsurgical seizure outcome. We hypothesized that resection of tissue generating interictal high-frequency oscillations (HFOs, 80-500 Hz) in the iEEG predicts surgical outcome. In eight international epilepsy centres, iEEG was recorded during the presurgical evaluation of patients. The patients were of all ages, had epilepsy of all types, and underwent surgical resection of a single focus aiming at seizure freedom. In a prospective analysis, we applied a fully automated definition of HFO that was independent of the dataset. …

Physiologically Based And Population Pharmacokinetic Modeling Of Midazolam In Children With Obesity Using Real-World Data, Sean Mccann, Victória E. Helfer, Stephen J. Balevic, William J. Muller, John N. Van Den Anker, Amira Al-Uzri, Marisa L. Meyer, Sarah G. Anderson, Sitora Turdalieva, Andrea N. Edginton, Daniel Gonzalez, Best Pharmaceuticals For Children Act Pediatric Trials Network Steering Committee

Department of Pediatrics Faculty Papers

Children represent a highly complex and variable population for treatment, including interindividual differences in drug dose-exposure. Midazolam has been used as a sedative for hospitalized children on- and off-label; however, factors affecting interindividual variability (IIV) in observed clearance for this population are not fully understood and can result in extreme under- or overexposure. Obesity has been described as a significant influence on midazolam in adolescents, which could potentially alter drug exposure. The goal of this study was to use two modeling strategies to evaluate dose-exposure of midazolam in children with and without obesity. Population pharmacokinetic modeling assessed whether measures of …

The Role Of Somatization In Predicting Health-Related Quality Of Life Among Racial And Ethnic Minorities: Examining The Mediating Effects Of Perceived Injustice And Symptom Catastrophizing, Kimi Han Hashimoto

Clinical Psychology Dissertations

There is a pressing need to address the significant health disparities of underrepresented groups such as racial and ethnic minorities (Mills et al., 2020). As of 2019, individuals identifying as a racial or ethnic minority make up 40% of the U.S population as of 2019, yet they fare significantly worse across many health-related measures (Hill et al., 2022). Given these disparities in healthcare and health outcomes, racial and ethnic minorities represent an important group to investigate somatization and health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Cognitive appraisals, such as perceived injustice and symptom catastrophizing, may mediate this relationship, influencing how somatization translates …

Efficient Eeg Epilepsy Classification And Feature Selections Based On Hellinger Distance, Muhammed Sadiq

Theses and Dissertations

Accurate and efficient detection of epileptic seizures from EEG signals remains a critical challenge due to high-dimensional data, class imbalance, and the limitations of standard classifiers. This thesis introduces two novel models to address these challenges. The first model presents a new classifier based on the Hellinger Distance, specifically designed to enhance discriminative capability and robustness against imbalanced datasets. By integrating the Hellinger Distance Classifier with Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for feature selection, this model significantly improves classification performance while reducing computational complexity. Experimental evaluations on the Bonn dataset demonstrate an accuracy of 96.25%, an F1-score of 97.74%, a recall …

Best Friend, False Friend: The “Favour” Rule In Comparative Labour Law, Luca Ratti

Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal

Employment relationships can be governed by multiple legal frameworks, including statutory labour codes, collective bargaining agreements (at both enterprise and sectoral levels), and individual employment contracts. How are conflicts between these sources of law resolved? In many jurisdictions, the “favour rule” addresses such conflicts by prioritising the source that offers the greatest benefit to the employee. This rule aims to prevent employers from leveraging their superior bargaining power in individual contracts to undercut more favourable terms established through collective bargaining. However, comparative analysis reveals that the scope of the favour rule is narrowing in some jurisdictions, where it is increasingly …

Author Correction: Risk-Stratified Treatment For Drug-Susceptible Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Vincent K Chang, Marjorie Z Imperial, Patrick P J Phillips, Gustavo E Velásquez, Payam Nahid, Andrew Vernon, Ekaterina V Kurbatova, Susan Swindells, Richard E Chaisson, Susan E Dorman, John L Johnson, Marc Weiner, Amina Jindani, Thomas Harrison, Erin E Sizemore, William Whitworth, Wendy Carr, Kia E Bryant, Deron Burton, Kelly E Dooley, Melissa Engle, Pheona Nsubuga, Andreas H Diacon, Nguyen Viet Nhung, Rodney Dawson, Radojka M Savic, Aids Clinical Trial Group, Tuberculosis Trials Consortium

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

No abstract provided.

Microlearning As An Effective Training Method For Healthcare Employees To Improve Competencies And Organizational Success, Laqurandra Weeks

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Challenges in keeping healthcare employees motivated raise concerns to organizational leaders because of healthcare’s changing and complex environments. Healthcare leaders are concerned because, without the proper training, an employee’s level of competence may negatively affect the quality of care they provide and patient safety. The specific research problem is the lack of lived experiences regarding the effectiveness of microlearning that have not readily had access to healthcare employees’ feedback and their preference for learning to apply skills and knowledge in the workplace. Grounded in microlearning theory, the purpose of this qualitative hermeneutic study was to explore the lived experiences of …

Avoiding Recidivism Of Recently Released Offenders In North Carolina, Josue Genaro Galvez

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

There is a problem with recidivism in the North Carolina prison system and the United States. This study fills the gap in the literature by focusing on what life experiences contribute to behaviors in recently released offenders not to reoffend in North Carolina. Edmund Husserl's (1913) Transcendental Phenomenology used several angles of perception and a thematic analysis of the participant’s lived experiences. This study employed a purposive sampling method by targeting 17 participants who may have represented characteristics of the intended population. Researchers do not know what kept these released offenders from avoiding prison. This phenomenological design focused on the …

Genetic, Transcriptomic, And Epigenomic Insights Into Sjögren's Disease: An Integrative Network Investigation And Immune Diseases Comparison, Nitesh Enduru, Astrid M Manuel, Zhongming Zhao

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Sjögren's disease (SjD) is a systemic autoimmune disorder primarily causing dry eyes and mouth. It frequently overlaps with other autoimmune diseases (AIDs), including rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, the genetic basis of SjD remains underexplored, limiting our understanding of its connections to other immune-mediated conditions. In this study, we aimed to identify gene networks associated with SjD through the integration of genetic, transcriptomic, and epigenomic data. We further compared the genetic factors of SjD with other immune-mediated diseases. We analyzed genome-wide association studies (GWAS) summary statistics, DNA methylation, and transcriptomic data using our in-house network-based methods, …

Perceptions Of Bullying In A Public Charter School, Ana I. Perea

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

ABSTRACT

Bullying is perceived in different ways according to the experience or training of individuals. In my practice, adults often misidentify disputes or incidents as bullying due to a lack of evidence or varying perceptions. This problem must be a theme of reflection for all stakeholders in traditional or charter schools. My study aimed to understand how teachers and parents perceive bullying in terms of social implications, cultural factors, and professional training. In my research, I provided insight into how the stakeholders in a public charter school perceive this phenomenon. The participants highlighted their perceptions and topics of communication, exclusion, …

2025 North Haverhill Fair 4-H Exhibit Hall Packet, Extension

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.

How Soil Fungal Communities Respond To Invasive Plant Species Treatments In Soil From Banksia Woodland, South-Western Australia, Aaron J. Brace, Katinka X. Ruthrof, Joseph B. Fontaine, Ben P. Miller, Anna J.M. Hopkins

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Context. Invasive plants are one of the most significant threats to woodlands globally. Methods of invasive plant control include manual removal and herbicide application. While the impacts of control methods on invasive and off-target native plant species are often explored, the impacts on below-ground organisms, such as fungi, are less well understood. Aims. We conducted a glasshouse trial to investigate the responses of soil fungal communities to herbicides and manual removal that are used to control common invasive plant species in Banksia woodland in south-western Australia. Methods. Broad spectrum (glyphosate and pelargonic acid) and grass-specific (fluazifop-p-butyl) herbicides were separately applied …

The Impact Of Large Language Models On Graduate Students: Development, Usage, And Ethical Considerations, Bahaaldeen Alzubi

Masters Theses (Archived)

The rapid integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into academic settings is transforming how graduate students conduct research, organize information, and refine their writing. This study explores the role of four AI tools—ChatGPT, Grammarly, Research Rabbit, and Zotero—in supporting scholarly practices while examining their implications for academic integrity, linguistic diversity, and research efficiency. Using an autoethnographic approach, this research documents personal interactions with these technologies, highlighting both their advantages and limitations. Findings suggest that while AI tools enhance productivity and accessibility, they also raise concerns about reliance, originality, and ethical usage. The study underscores the need for a balanced approach …

Core Grade 4: Rating Certainty Of Evidence—Risk Of Bias, Publication Bias, And Reasons For Rating Up Certainty, Gordon Guyatt, Ying Wang, Prashanti Eachempati, Alfonso Iorio, M. Hassan Murad, Monica Hultcrantz, Derek K. Chu, Ivan D. Florez, Lars G. Hemkens, Thomas Agoritsas, Liang Yao, Per Olav Vandvik, Victor M. Montori, Romina Brignardello-Petersen

Peninsula Dental School

This fourth article in a seven part series presents the Core GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach to addressing risk of bias, publication bias, and rating up certainty. In Core GRADE, randomised controlled trials begin as high certainty evidence and non-randomised studies of interventions (NRSI) as low certainty. To assess certainty of evidence for risk of bias, Core GRADE users first classify individual studies as low or high risk of bias. Decisions regarding rating down for risk of bias will depend on the weights of high and low risk of bias studies and similarities or differences between …

Identity And The Russian-Ukrainian War: Evidence From The American Community Survey, Matthew Holian, Oleh Wolowyna

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 led to significant changes in ethnic identity and language preferences among U.S. residents. We observe an 18.9% increase in U.S.-born individuals identifying as ethnic Ukrainian from 2021 to 2022 and a 6.8% decrease for U.S.-born ethnic Russians, which cannot be attributed to prior trends or sampling variation. The changes among Ukrainians were more pronounced among college graduates and those living in Democratic-leaning counties. We document an increase in the use of the Ukrainian language among Ukrainian immigrants, which cannot be explained by prior trends or immigration patterns. We test for labor market discrimination, …

Disruption Of Oocyte Sumoylation Impacts Critical Regulatory Processes During Folliculogenesis In Mice, Zian Liao, Tessa E Steenwinkel, Bruno Moscoso, Ernesto Salas, Bethany K Patton, Amanda Rodriguez, Anna Malovannaya, Stephanie A Pangas

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

The conjugation of small ubiquitin-like modifiers (SUMO) to target proteins, known as SUMOylation, plays a crucial role in regulating protein homeostasis, activity, interaction with other proteins, and subcellular localization. Loss of SUMOylation in nongrowing oocytes by conditional deletion of the E2 SUMO conjugating enzyme, Ube2i, at the primordial follicle stage leads to female sterility due to complex changes in oocyte development, including altered folliculogenesis, defective meiotic progression, and premature loss of the ovarian reserve. In this study, proteomics was used to compare control and Ube2i conditional knockout ovaries during the first wave of folliculogenesis to identify key differences that may …

Comparison Of Broad-Spectrum Anti-Pseudomonal Beta-Lactam Antibiotics Versus Targeted Therapy For Neutropenic Patients With Methicillin-Susceptible, Lauren C Russell, Jeff Klaus, Miguel A Chavez, Erik R Dubberke, Tamara Krekel

2020-Current year OA Pubs

The safety of the utilization of methicillin-susceptible

The Role Of Popular Culture In Decolonial Transformative Learning: A Racially Minoritized Adult Educator's Journey, Riyad Shahjahan

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

While a growing body of literature examines the role of popular culture in transformative learning, much of it centers on fostering transformative experiences among learners, rather than educators themselves. This paper addresses that gap by exploring how popular culture enhances transformative learning for racially minoritized adult educators. Drawing from my experiences as a graduate instructor at a predominantly white institution, I reflect on how engaging with popular cultural texts facilitated my own transformative learning within my teaching practice. Grounded in decolonial theory, which emphasizes the inclusion of Indigenous and marginalized knowledges while confronting contemporary colonial oppressions, my reflexive approach highlights …

Mass Transfer In Binary Stars, Pierson Lipschultz

COD Library Student Research and Award Symposium

I investigated the properties of mass transfer in binary star systems. I feature results from Vela X-1, V404 Cygni, and W Ursae Majoris as well as corroborating data from POSYDON. Furthermore, I found the local populations on an HR diagram of each system. Additionally, I found anomalous data properties in both MESA and V404 Cygni which warrant further investigation.

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