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Road Mitigation Structures Designed For Texas Ocelots: Influence Of Structural Characteristics And Environmental Factors On Non-Target Wildlife Usage, Anna Rivera Roy, Kevin W. Ryer, Md. Saydur Rahman, John H. Young Jr., Richard J. Kline

School of Earth, Environmental, & Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

Roads negatively impact wildlife through habitat fragmentation, loss of habitat connectivity, and wildlife-vehicle collisions, thus road mitigation structures, such as wildlife crossing structures (WCS), wildlife guards (WG), and fencing are commonly used to address this issue all over the world, including in the United States. In South Texas, such structures were built or modified along a State Highway in an effort to address road mortality for the endangered ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) and non-target wildlife species. The goal of this study was to examine temporal changes in wildlife interactions with WCS and WG during and after their construction and …

Combined Virtual Reality And Mechanical Balance Platform System With Induced Visual Roll, Shkenca Demiri

Theses

Balance impairments are a common and widespread concern in human health. Acquired through genetics, aging, illness, or prolonged exposure to different environments such as travel by sea or travel in outer space; balance impairments pose significant challenges to those affected. Traditionally, balance studies have been largely qualitative. However, technological advancements have allowed for new methodologies to be developed for analyzing postural sway in a quantitative manner. In this thesis, custom force plate technology, an advanced inertial motion unit (IMU) motion capture system, and a mechanical motion platform, in tandem with a gamification system, were integrated to collect and analyze quantitative …

Diving Deeper Into Supercuspidal Representations, Prerna Agarwal

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

In 2013, Reeder and Yu introduced certain low positive depth supercuspidal representations of $p$-adic groups called \textit{epipelagic} representations. These representations generalize the simple supercuspidal representations of Gross and Reeder, which have the lowest possible depth. Epipelagic representations also arise in recent work on the Langlands correspondence; for example, simple supercuspidals appear in the automorphic data corresponding to the Kloosterman $l$-adic sheaf. In this thesis, we take a first step towards the construction of ``\textit{mesopelagic} representation (of Iwahori type)'' which are the higher depth analogues of simple supercuspidal representations. We see that these constructions can be done in a similar way …

An Analysis Of The Development Of Cognitive Control In Young Children Within An Auditory And Visual Modality., Lauren A. Schiro

LSU Master's Theses

The Dual Mechanisms of Cognitive Control Framework (DMC) posits that cognitive control is directed through two different modes: proactive and reactive control. Proactive control involves the maintenance and manipulation of information in preparation of a response while reactive control would involve little to no preparation until after a response prompt. The AX-Continuous Performance Task (AX-CPT) is a cognitive control task that is often utilized in studies looking at proactive and reactive control as it measures context processing and goal maintenance. The aims of this study were to validate the auditory version of the AX-CPT and to then apply this task …

Association Between Diabetes Mellitus And Total Hip Arthroplasty Outcomes: An Observational Study Using The Us National Inpatient Sample, Sumanth Chandrupatla, Kranti Rumalla, Jasvinder A Singh

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the association of diabetes with postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing primary total hip arthroplasty (THA).

DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study using data from the US National Inpatient Sample (NIS).

SETTING: Study cohort was hospitalisations for primary THA in the USA, identified from the 2016-2020 NIS.

PARTICIPANTS: We identified 2 467 215 adults in the 2016-2020 NIS who underwent primary THA using International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision codes. Primary THA hospitlizations were analysed as the overall group and also stratified by the underlying primary diagnosis for THA.

OUTCOME MEASURES: Outcome measures of interest were the length of hospital …

Integration Of Gpr And Emi Techniques For Engineering Applications In New Nubariya District, Egypt, Ali Abdalsalam, Osman Badran, Elhamy A. Tarabees, Abdellatif Younis

Blue Economy

The Egyptian government has initiated an ambitious urban development initiative, encompassing the creation of new cities across different parts of the country. One significant project within this endeavor is the establishment of New Nubariya-2 city along the Wadi El Natrun - El Alamein Road, forming part of the broader framework of the New Nubariya district. Cavities in urban areas pose significant problems such as sinkholes and subsidence which can damage buildings, roads, and utility lines. To tackle these challenges, an integrated approach utilizing Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) and Electromagnetic Induction (EMI) surveys was employed to detect cavities effectively. This methodological …

24 Conference Program - Biochemical And Molecular Engineering Xxiii: Accelerating Biotech Solutions To Aid A Changing World, Michelle O’Malley, Brian Pfleger, Varnika Roy

Biochemical and Molecular Engineering XXIII: Accelerating Biotech Solutions to aid a Changing World

No abstract provided.

Quality Improvement Project: Incivility In Nursing Education: Utilizing An Educational Module And Professionalism Guide To Address Incivility In A Nursing Students, Jennifer Schadler

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Incivility is a well-documented issue in the nursing profession that begins in nursing education and follows graduates into nursing practice. Nursing academia has a responsibility to address incivility to prevent inappropriate behaviors from becoming embedded into the culture. The problem addressed in this quality improvement project is incivility among nursing students at a private college. The purpose of this project was to apply evidence-based incivility interventions to address uncivil behaviors of nursing students. The hypothesis was that the implementation of a civility mentor module and professionalism guide would impact perceived incivility among nursing students. The project was conducted using the …

Accuracy And Effectiveness Of An Orchestration Tool On Instructors' Interventions And Groups' Collaboration, Luettamae Lawrence, Emma Mercier, Taylor Tucker Parks, Nigel Bosch, Luc Paquette

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

This paper presents the development of a novel orchestration tool that predicts collaborative problem-solving (CPS) behaviors of undergraduate engineering groups and investigates the use of that tool by instructors. We explore the impact of receiving real-time, machine-learning, model-based prompts on 1) instructors' orchestration strategies, which are strategies instructors use to manage and facilitate collaborative activities, and 2) groups' participation, including how groups are engaged in CPS activities. The orchestration tool is a dashboard that notifies instructors of–and advises them on–monitoring and intervening with groups who may need collaborative support and guidance. We describe the accuracy of the models in predicting …

Comparison Of The Symptom Networks Of Long-Covid And Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: From Modularity To Connectionism, Michael Hyland, Yuri Antonacci, Alison Bacon

School of Psychology

The objective was to compare the symptom networks of long-COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in conjunction with other theoretically relevant diagnoses in order to provide insight into the etiology of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). This was a cross-sectional comparison of questionnaire items between six groups identified by clinical diagnosis. All participants completed a 65-item psychological and somatic symptom questionnaire (GSQ065). Diagnostically labelled groups were long-COVID (N = 107), CFS (N = 254), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS, N = 369), fibromyalgia (N = 1,127), severe asthma (N = 100) and healthy group (N = 207). The 22 symptoms that best …

Reducing Rates Of Blood Culture Contamination In The Emergency Room, Erika Goldberg

Student Scholarly Projects

Practice Problem: In one emergency room (ER) blood cultures (BC) drawn by nurses had a high contamination rate due to lack of collection standards, which lead to poor patient outcomes.

PICOT: The PICOT question that guided this project was; In adult emergency room patients where blood cultures are drawn (P), how does implementation of an evidence-based practice method (I), compared to the standard method of obtaining blood cultures (C), affect blood culture contamination rates (O), within ten weeks. (T)?

Evidence: Based on multiple sources within the literature; best evidence for lowering blood culture contamination rates (BCC) is done using EBP …

Low Cost Combined Camera And Imu Based Control For Autonomous Aerial Orientation Adjustment, Remi Mckenzie

Theses

The goal of this research was to create a robot control system that combines gyroscope and accelerometer data with vision tracking to improve aerial orientation control performance over what could be achieved with sensor data or image processing alone. There has been significant research into the function of mobile robots that can autonomously carry out a wide range of tasks across a wide range of environments. However, the full potential of these robots has yet to be realized, especially at the hobbyist level. Air based travel allows for motion capabilities far beyond that of a robot limited to ground travel …

Identifying Driving Factors Of Inundation Susceptibility In Thailand With The Frequency Ratio Method, Zachary Zoet, Jim Wilson

The Geographical Bulletin

Inundation models tend to cover geographically small areas at large-scales. Inconsistencies in research design arising from data classification methods and consensus about unit of analysis, and agreement on the choice of a consistent modeling method can lead to confusion in the selection of appropriate models for different inundation scenarios. To address these concerns, this study aims to expand on the Frequency Ratio Method, using 13 quantitative and qualitative variables, as a generalizable method that can be applied consistently across larger administrative areas such as the province. The ultimate product of this is a Flood Susceptibility Index (FSI), which can be …

Loss: The First Necromancer, Kyle Bickerman

Night Flight: Online Literary Journal

The God of Death, Loss has been making a plan to save the other gods and the remainder of his family from meeting the same fate as his late wife. This plan involves creating the concept of necromancy in order to tell the future and eventually create an army to destroy his enemies. He does not know that he is corrupting his soul as this goes on. When he returns, his brother punishes him for his crimes against the natural order.

I Choose, Daniela A. Ferry

Night Flight: Online Literary Journal

In "I Choose…", Violet Strawberington, a Manhattan barista and student, struggles with financial pressures stemming from her academic pursuits. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she learns of a substantial inheritance from her conservative great-great-aunt, contingent upon marrying a suitor from a predetermined list. Violet meets two suitors: Erik Chefmore, a charming investment banker, and Robert Mossborn, an emotionally distant philosophy professor. Torn between her feminist ideals and personal desires, Violet has to decide what matters more to her: equality or chivalry.

Development Of A Medication-Use Evaluation Template For Andexanet Alfa In The Reversal Of Anticoagulation With Factor Xa Inhibitors, Toni Fera, Allison Burnett, Jessica Grandoni, Mary R. Moore, Barbara B. Nussbaum, Charles V. Pollack Jr., Anne E. Rose, Sarah A. Spinler, Michael B. Streiff, Charles J. Turck, John Fanikos

Pharmacy Faculty Scholarship

Medication-use evaluations are meant to ensure that medication-use processes are consistent with prevailing standards of care, assure optimal use of therapy, and reduce the risk of medication-related problems. Reversal agents for direct oral anticoagulants are a worthy focus for medication-use evaluations for reasons of efficacy, safety, and cost. A multidisciplinary team of experts developed 2 medication-use evaluation templates illustrating the application of professional society guidelines to the appropriate use of andexanet alfa.

Effects Of Single And Multiple Exemplar Training On Acquisition And Generalization Of Functional Skills, Mariana Guimaraes

Doctoral Dissertations

Previous research has shown that Multiple Exemplar Training (MET) produces greater generalization than Single Exemplar Training (SET). The current study directly compares the effects of SET and MET using a parallel-treatments design. In the MET condition, we used a simplified approach to general case instruction called an instructional matrix. The instructional matrix borrowed elements from matrix training, such as organizing the relevant stimuli into a table to determine combinations for teaching and subsequent probing for generalization; and, it borrowed from general case instruction, the programming of common stimuli. The training and generalization settings were set up in the same way …

The Discipline Of Rudy Giuliani And The Real Fraud Of The 2020 Election, George M. Cohen

Catholic University Law Review

In Matter of Giuliani, the New York Appellate Division held that Rudy Giuliani’s knowingly false statements of fact during the period after the 2020 presidential election violated the Rules of Professional Conduct and warranted interim suspension of his license. This paper argues that the court reached the right result but did not use the best rule and the best rationale. Instead of focusing on Giuliani’s conduct as a series of false statements in support of a “narrative,” the better approach would have been to call it what it was: fraud. Although the fraud was not “transactional,” fraud, Giuliani’s false …

Designing Learning Trajectory To Support Preservice Mathematics Teachers' Skills In Creating And Implementing Realistic Mathematics Tasks, Veronika Fitri Rianasari, Angela Fatima H. Guzon

Mathematics Faculty Publications

In mathematics teaching and learning, mathematics tasks embedded in realistic contexts are crucial for developing mathematical concepts, procedures, and the application of mathematical knowledge. Despite this, mathematics teachers often encounter challenges in designing and implementing such realistic mathematics tasks. Therefore, this study aims to construct a learning trajectory to enhance preservice mathematics teachers' abilities to create and implement Realistic Mathematics Tasks (RMTs). Employing a design research methodology, the study comprises three phases: preliminary design, teaching experiment, and retrospective analysis. The data presented in this article are from the first cycle, encompassing all three phases. The research involved four fourth-year preservice …

Development And Implementation Of A Digital Quality Measure Of Emergency Cancer Diagnosis, Paarth Kapadia, Andrew J Zimolzak, Divvy K Upadhyay, Saritha Korukonda, Riyaa Murugaesh Rekha, Umair Mushtaq, Usman Mir, Daniel R Murphy, Alexis Offner, Gary A Abel, Georgios Lyratzopoulos, Luke T A Mounce, Hardeep Singh

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

PURPOSE: Missed and delayed cancer diagnoses are common, harmful, and often preventable. Automated measures of quality of cancer diagnosis are lacking but could identify gaps and guide interventions. We developed and implemented a digital quality measure (dQM) of cancer emergency presentation (EP) using electronic health record databases of two health systems and characterized the measure's association with missed opportunities for diagnosis (MODs) and mortality.

METHODS: On the basis of literature and expert input, we defined EP as a new cancer diagnosis within 30 days after emergency department or inpatient visit. We identified EPs for lung cancer and colorectal cancer (CRC) …

Predicting Choroidal Nevus Transformation To Melanoma Using Machine Learning, Prashant D. Tailor, Piotr K. Kopinski, Haley S. D'Souza, David A. Leske, Timothy W. Olsen, Carol L. Shields, Jerry A. Shields, Lauren A. Dalvin

Wills Eye Hospital Papers

PURPOSE: To develop and validate machine learning (ML) models to predict choroidal nevus transformation to melanoma based on multimodal imaging at initial presentation.

DESIGN: Retrospective multicenter study.

PARTICIPANTS: Patients diagnosed with choroidal nevus on the Ocular Oncology Service at Wills Eye Hospital (2007-2017) or Mayo Clinic Rochester (2015-2023).

METHODS: Multimodal imaging was obtained, including fundus photography, fundus autofluorescence, spectral domain OCT, and B-scan ultrasonography. Machine learning models were created (XGBoost, LGBM, Random Forest, Extra Tree) and optimized for area under receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC). The Wills Eye Hospital cohort was used for training and testing (80% training-20% testing) with …

Bill Burnside Oral History, Bill Burnside

Raymond College

No abstract provided.

Do Digital Payments Spur Gst Revenue: Indian Experience, Surender Kumar

Bulletin of Monetary Economics and Banking

This paper measures the effect of digital payments on enhancing goods and services tax (GST) revenue in India using monthly time-series information on tax collections and digital payments. By employing an autoregressive distributed lag cointegration framework, we find that the GST elasticity concerning digital transactions is about 0.54. The implication is that a one-standard-deviation increase in the value of digital transactions spurs GST revenue of about INR 62 billion, and a one-standard-deviation increase in index of industrial production (IIP) enhances GST revenue by about INR 8 to 12 billion. These results suggest that enhancing digital transactions is an effective way …

Indian Mutual Fund Industry: Is 2014 A Turning Point?, Shobhit Goel, Pawan Kumar

Bulletin of Monetary Economics and Banking

Indian Mutual Fund Industry has experienced a nearly 40-fold increase in assets under management since the start of the 21^st century, which has implications for the financial sector and the wider economy. Using structural break models, we identify 2003-08 as a nascent growth phase followed by a tepid growth phase in the post-global financial crisis period. Since 2014, the industry has experienced accelerated growth, outpacing global peers, driven by consistent individual investor inflows in equity and hybrid categories. Supportive regulatory policies introduced in 2012-13, we argue, have boosted the industry’s growth.

Exploring The Determinants Of Students’ Motivation In Pursuing A Degree In The Field Of Education In The Uae, Zubaida Shraim, Assile Alamili, Shaikha Al Shehhi, Zeina Hojeij

All Works

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) aims to improve its education sector by recruiting qualified and diverse student teachers. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the factors affecting student motivation to enroll in colleges of education. Using simple random sampling, a total of 199 consenting students were recruited to participate in this study (154 females and 45 males). The participants were informed about the right to withdraw from the study at any time. Data was analyzed using factor analysis to construct the composite variables for the factors that motivated students to join the College of Education. The results …

Evaluating Language And Communication Surrounding Responsible Gambling, Marla B. Royne Stafford, Anastasia Hronis, Alan Feldman, William T. Hartwell

UNLV Gaming Research & Review Journal

The topic of responsible gambling has been the focus of debate over recent years. Unfortunately the language surrounding responsible gambling has proven ineffective, due to varying definitions and debate over stigma related to responsibility. This paper discusses the importance of language in communicating about consumer protection and harm minimization to the public. Three key areas of discussion are highlighted: 1) decoupling responsible gambling and problem gambling to reduce the barrier of stigma; 2) redefining responsible gambling, and 3) the need for conversations amongst peers and parents, all with the view to proactively prevent gambling-related harms.

An Analysis Of United States V. Morta: Refining The Application Of The Other-Indicia Approach To Criminal-Alias Mail, Nicholas Manning

Pepperdine Law Review

Americans who use their legal names to send and receive mail through traditional postal services have long maintained a reasonable expectation of privacy in that mail under the Fourth Amendment. Courts have also recognized that even those who use aliases with traditional postal services have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their mail. But circuit courts have split over whether Americans who use aliases in mail purely for criminal purposes—such as sending or receiving drugs—should have that same expectation of privacy. More specifically, courts disagree over the correct approach to analyze a defendant’s criminal-alias mail for purposes of Fourth Amendment …

The Ongoing Battle To End The Gender Pay Gap In The World Of Professional Tennis, Basketball, And Soccer And How The Media Remains The Underlying Issue, Michaela M. Kluska

Florida Entertainment and Sports Law Review

If you were to Google the following question, “Which tennis player spent the most time ranked number one?” You would be presented with a list of articles highlighting Novak Djokovic’s tennis career and crowning him with the title of longest time spent at the number one position in professional tennis. As of the end of February 2023, Novak Djokovic has held the number one position for 377 consecutive weeks. Interestingly enough, if you were to also Google “How many weeks was Steffi Graf ranked number one?” You would find that during Steffi Graf’s professional tennis career, she also held the …

Dead Frogs, Dissected Jokes, & Thin Copyright: Analyzing Copyrightable Elements And Legal Protection Of Stand-Up Comedy, Mark Edward Blankenship Jr.

Florida Entertainment and Sports Law Review

This Article will be broken into two parts. Part I will dive into what comedy truly is. Part II will analyze both the copyrightability of stand-up jokes as to their subject matter and the complexity of copyright infringement in relation to stand-up comedy.

The Art Of War: Global Speech Diktats And The Regulatory Challenges To Address Foreign Political Censorship, Michael K. Park

Florida Entertainment and Sports Law Review

China’s global rise and influence is reflected in its long arm reach into many transnational sectors that shape public opinion, including media, publishing, academia and sports. However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has become more emboldened to use economic incentives (or punishment) to induce foreign industries to either self-censor or advance the CCP’s political messaging. This work examines proposed and existing U.S. federal regulatory mechanisms that could potentially address extraterritorial censorship and propaganda, with particular attention paid to their application to China. This work begins with a modest review of the CCP’s adoption of “sharp power” pursuant to advancing the …