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Submittal Of Mixed Waste Landfill Annual Long-Term Monitoring & Maintenance Report, April 2023-March 2024 For Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico, Epa Id Number Nm5890110518, June 2024, Sandia National Laboratories/Nm

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The Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) and Sandia National Laboratories /New Mexico (SNL/NM) personnel submitted the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) Annual Long-Term Monitoring and Maintenance Report for the April 2023 through March 2024 reporting period to the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) in accordance with the requirements of Section 4.8.1 of the MWL Long-Term Monitoring and Maintenance Plan (LTMMP). The LTMMP became effective on January 8, 2014.

The MWL is a 2.6-acre Solid Waste Management Unit (SWMU 76) located in the north-central portion of SNL/NM Technical Area III that has undergone corrective action. As of March 13, 2016, …

Jollygesture: Exploring Dual-Purpose Gestures In Vr Presentations, Gun Woo Warren Park, Anthony Tang, Fanny Chevalier

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Virtual reality (VR) offers new opportunities for presenters to use expressive body language to engage their audience. Yet, most VR presentation systems have adopted control mechanisms that mimic those found in face-to-face presentation systems. We explore the use of gestures that have dual-purpose: first, for the audience, a communicative purpose; second, for the presenter, a control purpose to alter content in slides. To support presenters, we provide guidance on what gestures are available and their effects. We realize our design approach in JollyGesture, a VR technology probe that recognizes dual-purpose gestures in a presentation scenario. We evaluate our approach through …

Using Self-Assessment Tools And Complementary Alternative Therapy For Chronic Migraines In Menopausal Women, Krystal Rachelle Bridwell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Abstract

Migraine headaches are ranked as one of the highest disabling conditions in the United States. Women who are in the perimenopausal transition phase have a higher prevalence of disabling migraines that can result in a decreased quality of life, loss of income, decreased productivity, and a higher risk for emotional difficulties. The gap in practice is the lack of education on complementary alternative medicine (CAM) and the use of a migraine diary to recognize individual symptoms as a substitute or cotherapy with pharmacologic treatments. The purpose of this scholarly project was to improve clinical practice and outcomes for perimenopausal …

A Robust Framework For Medical Diagnostics Based On Interval-Valued Q-Neutrosophic Soft Sets With Aggregation Operators, Enad Ghazi, Sinan O. Al-Salihi

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The best way to deal with complicated life scenarios that accompany the decision-making process is to update previous concepts constantly. Therefore, researchers must constantly discover powerful mathematical tools that suit the accompanying circumstances. In this regard, we combine both soft set, neutrosophic set, and interval setting under Q-two-dimensional universal information to introduce a new hybrid innovative model called interval valued-Q-neutrosophic soft sets. The core goal of this model is to keep the features of previous models like soft sets, neutrosophic sets, and Q-Fuzzy sets in dealing with the lack of uncertainty and neutrality associated with real-life issues. This new approach …

On Rough Statistical Convergence In Neutrosophic Normed Spaces, Reena Antal, Meenakshi Chawla, Vijay Kumar

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

In this paper, we have presented rough statistical convergence of sequence on neutrosophic normed spaces as an important convergence criterion. As neutrosophication can handle partially dependent compo nents, partially independent components and even independent components involved in real-world problems. By examining some properties related to rough convergence in these spaces we provide some useful functional tools in the situations of inconsistency and indeterminacy in the real world. Further, we have established some equivalent conditions on the set of statistical limit points as well as on the set of cluster points in these spaces for rough statistically convergent sequences.

Bridging The Divide: Does The Eu's Ai Act Offer Code For Regulating Emergent Technologies In America?, Renee Henson

Missouri Law Review

The European Union (“EU”) has taken the remarkable step of coming to agreement to implement the first-of-its-kind comprehensive legislation regarding artificial intelligence (“AI”), the AI Act. The AI Act adopts a risk-based approach to address diverse AI system applications and potential harms associated with AI technology. The AI Act categorizes AI systems based on risk levels, ranging from unacceptable to minimal, with corresponding regulatory requirements tailored to mitigate associated risks. Efforts are underway in the United States to establish AI regulatory frameworks, as demonstrated by the Bipartisan Framework for U.S. Act, proposed by Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Richard Blumenthal …

Legal Issues In Reconciling Data Protection, Ai, And Cybersecurity Under Eu Law, Iain Nash, Debrae Kennedy-Mayo, Peter Swire, Annie Antón

Missouri Law Review

This Paper focuses on certain legal responsibilities under European Union (“EU”) law for companies that provide cybersecurity services, by examining the intersection of data protection (privacy), cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence (“AI”). This Paper explores these issues in the context of a hypothetical cybersecurity company known as “ACME Cyber Sentinel” providing services to a hypothetical client named “TechGuard.” In four scenarios, this Paper explores ACME Cyber Sentinel: (1) providing cybersecurity service to TechGuard; (2) gathering and processing data from multiple clients to analyze potential cybersecurity threats; (3) training, evaluating, and deploying AI cybersecurity tools; and (4) using these AI cybersecurity tools …

Artificial Intelligence And Antibody Genus Claims, Thomas R. Langdon

Missouri Law Review

Antibodies are the guard dogs of the human immune system. They travel through the bloodstream, sniffing out foreign invaders (antigens), binding to them, and preventing them from harming the body. Instead of having a nose, four legs, and a tail, antibodies are Y-shaped proteins comprised of amino acids that viciously protect their hosts. Think of the tips of the “Y” as mouths that can bite certain antigens and lock them in place, rendering them harmless. Antibodies have the ability to identify a plethora of antigens to bind to and neutralize; “[s]ome researchers have estimated that the theoretical number of different …

Genetic Evidence For Functional Diversification Of Gram-Negative Intermembrane Phospholipid Transporters, Ashutosh K Rai, Katsuhiro Sawasato, Haley C Bennett, Anastasiia Kozlova, Genevieve C Sparagna, Mikhail Bogdanov, Angela M Mitchell

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria is a barrier to chemical and physical stress. Phospholipid transport between the inner and outer membranes has been an area of intense investigation and, in E. coli K-12, it has recently been shown to be mediated by YhdP, TamB, and YdbH, which are suggested to provide hydrophobic channels for phospholipid diffusion, with YhdP and TamB playing the major roles. However, YhdP and TamB have different phenotypes suggesting distinct functions. It remains unclear whether these functions are related to phospholipid metabolism. We investigated a synthetic cold sensitivity caused by deletion of fadR, a transcriptional regulator …

Examining The Impact Of Journalism On The Comprehensibility And Accessibility Of Scientific Literature, Izabella L. Slosberg

Journalism

This study investigates the comprehensibility and accessibility of scientific papers compared to scientific journalism articles. Fifty articles were tested in pairs of two (one scientific journal article and one corresponding scientific journalism article), and ChatGPT 4.0 was used to create a comprehensibility scale ranging from 0-100%, designed to assess the percentage of people in California over the age of 18 who could understand each article. Each article was evaluated three times using the curated scale, and the results were thoroughly evaluated. The differences in comprehensibility between scientific journalism articles and scientific journalism articles along with the impact of the scientific …

Germline Predisposition In Hematologic Malignancies: Testing, Management, And Implications, Lucy A Godley, Courtney D Dinardo, Kelly Bolton

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Although numerous barriers for clinical germline cancer predisposition testing exist, the increasing recognition of deleterious germline DNA variants contributing to myeloid malignancy risk is yielding steady improvements in referrals for testing and testing availability. Many germline predisposition alleles are common in populations, and the increasing number of recognized disorders makes inherited myeloid malignancy risk an entity worthy of consideration for all patients regardless of age at diagnosis. Germline testing is facilitated by obtaining DNA from cultured skin fibroblasts or hair bulbs, and cascade testing is easily performed via buccal swab, saliva, or blood. Increasingly as diagnostic criteria and clinical management …

Determination Of Quality Of Life-Related Health Utilities For Surgical Complications In Ovarian Cancer, Rudy S Suidan, Charlotte C Sun, Amy K Schneider, Karen H Lu, Sharon H Giordano, Larissa A Meyer

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Objective: To assess the health state utilities of ovarian cancer patients, clinicians, and non-cancer controls regarding surgical complications in ovarian cancer.

Methods: Utilities for 14 surgical complications were assessed from patients with recently diagnosed or recurrent ovarian cancer, clinicians, and non-cancer controls using the visual analog scale (VAS) and time trade-off (TTO) methods. Health state utilities were converted to a 0-to-1 scale, where 0 represents the least favorable outcome and 1 represents the most favorable outcome.

Results: Fifty patients, 50 clinicians, and 50 controls participated. Median VAS scores were lower than TTO scores across all groups (p < 0.01). Patients viewed 'bleeding requiring transfusion' most favorably (VAS utility 0.75), followed in order by less favorable utility scores for hernia, thromboembolism, pleural effusion, abscess, ileus/bowel obstruction, wound infection, bowel obstruction requiring surgery, anastomotic leak requiring drain, temporary ostomy, anastomotic leak requiring surgery, genito-urinary fistula, permanent ostomy, and genito-intestinal fistula (VAS utility 0.2). Overall, clinicians perceived complications more favorably than patients by VAS (overall utility score 0.49 vs 0.43, p < 0.01), but not by the TTO. There were no differences in overall utility scores between patients and controls. Patients who had not experienced certain surgical complications had less favorable scores than patients who did (utility score for ostomy = 0.2 for patients without ostomy vs. 0.7 for patients with ostomy, p = 0.02).

Conclusions: This study …

Deformable Motion Compensation In Interventional Cone-Beam Ct With A Context-Aware Learned Autofocus Metric, Heyuan Huang, Yixuan Liu, Jeffrey H Siewerdsen, Alexander Lu, Yicheng Hu, Wojciech Zbijewski, Mathias Unberath, Clifford R Weiss, Alejandro Sisniega

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Purpose: Interventional Cone-Beam CT (CBCT) offers 3D visualization of soft-tissue and vascular anatomy, enabling 3D guidance of abdominal interventions. However, its long acquisition time makes CBCT susceptible to patient motion. Image-based autofocus offers a suitable platform for compensation of deformable motion in CBCT, but it relies on handcrafted motion metrics based on first-order image properties and that lack awareness of the underlying anatomy. This work proposes a data-driven approach to motion quantification via a learned, context-aware, deformable metric, VIFDL , that quantifies the amount of motion degradation as well as the realism of the structural anatomical content in the image. …

A Comprehensive Investigation Of The Performance Of A Commercial Scintillator System For Applications In Electron Flash Radiotherapy, Kevin Liu, Shannon Holmes, Emil Schüler, Sam Beddar

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background: Dosimetry in ultra-high dose rate (UHDR) beamlines is significantly challenged by limitations in real-time monitoring and accurate measurement of beam output, beam parameters, and delivered doses using conventional radiation detectors, which exhibit dependencies in ultra-high dose-rate (UHDR) and high dose-per-pulse (DPP) beamline conditions.

Purpose: In this study, we characterized the response of the Exradin W2 plastic scintillator (Standard Imaging, Inc.), a water-equivalent detector that provides measurements with a time resolution of 100 Hz, to determine its feasibility for use in UHDR electron beamlines.

Methods: The W2 scintillator was exposed to an UHDR electron beam with different beam parameters by …

Mortality In Recipients Of Allogeneic Haematopoietic Cell Transplantation In The Era Of Cytomegalovirus Primary Prophylaxis: A Single-Centre Retrospective Experience, Anthony Febres-Aldana, Fareed Khawaja, Oscar Morado-Aramburo, Terri Lynn Shigle, Gabriela Rondon, Joseph Sassine, Amy Spallone, Krithika Srinivasan, Jeremy Ramdial, Amin Alousi, Richard Champlin, George Chen, May Daher, Katayoun Rezvani, Ella J Ariza-Heredia, Elizabeth J Shpall, Roy F Chemaly

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Objectives: Allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplant (allo-HCT) recipients who are cytomegalovirus (CMV)-seronegative have better post-transplant outcomes than CMV-seropositive recipients. Letermovir (LTV) is approved for CMV primary prophylaxis in adults who are CMV-seropositive after allo-HCT, and its use is associated with improved long-term post-transplant outcomes. We analysed whether LTV has affected the relationship between CMV serostatus and post-transplant outcomes.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective single-centre cohort study of allo-HCT recipients, stratified according to donor (D) and recipient (R). CMV serostatus and the use of LTV: D-/R-, R+/LTV-, and R+/LTV+. Outcomes measured were all-cause and non-relapse mortality, clinically significant CMV infection, graft-versus-host disease, …

Automated Spontaneous Echo Contrast Detection Using A Multisequence Attention Convolutional Neural Network, Ouwen Huang, Zewei Shi, Naveen Garg, Corey Jensen, Mark L Palmeri

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

OBJECTIVE: Spontaneous echo contrast (SEC) is a vascular ultrasound finding associated with increased thromboembolism risk. However, identification requires expert determination and clinician time to report. We developed a deep learning model that can automatically identify SEC. Our model can be applied retrospectively without deviating from routine clinical practice. The retrospective nature of our model means future works could scan archival data to opportunistically correlate SEC findings with documented clinical outcomes.

METHODS: We curated a data set of 801 archival acquisitions along the femoral vein from 201 patients. We used a multisequence convolutional neural network (CNN) with ResNetv2 backbone and visualized …

Context In Computer Vision: A Taxonomy, Multi-Stage Integration, And A General Framework, Xuan Wang

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Contextual information has been widely used in many computer vision tasks, such as object detection, video action detection, image classification, etc. Recognizing a single object or action out of context could be sometimes very challenging, and context information may help improve the understanding of a scene or an event greatly. However, existing approaches design specific contextual information mechanisms for different detection tasks.

In this research, we first present a comprehensive survey of context understanding in computer vision, with a taxonomy to describe context in different types and levels. Then we proposed MultiCLU, a new multi-stage context learning and utilization framework, …

Queer Impersonality: Compulsory Visibility And The Politics Of Form In Modernist Women's Life Writing, Margot Kotler

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Modernist impersonality is an aesthetic practice typically associated with Anglo-European formalism and the doctrine of artistic autonomy. Although central to the modernist canon, impersonality has not been taken up by queer and feminist studies because critics have considered its implied evacuation of emotion and personal identity to be apolitical, and even dangerous. At its worst, impersonality reproduces an unmarked, white, and masculine subjectivity, yet it also questions the parameters of selfhood, posing a radical challenge to liberal-humanist conceptions of identity. Queer Impersonality moves beyond this critical impasse by tracing impersonality’s queer and feminist histories among modernist women writers whose engagement …

Positron Emission Tomography In Oncology And Environmental Science, Samantha Delaney

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The last half century has played witness to the onset of molecular imaging for the clinical assessment of physiological targets. While several medical imaging modalities allow for the visualization of the functional and anatomical properties of humans and living systems, few offer accurate quantitation and the ability to detect biochemical processes with low-administered drug mass doses. This limits how physicians and scientists may diagnose and treat medical issues, such as cancer, disease, and foreign agents.

A promising alternative to extant invasive procedures and suboptimal imaging modalities to assess the nature of a biological environment is the use of positron emission …

Not Sanitized For Your Protection: Aids And The Politics Of Trash, Emma Banks

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Metaphors of waste are particularly potent when enlisted to describe and justify the segregation and subjugation of marginalized communities. For, as discard studies scholars have shown, waste is not merely about trash; it is about power (Liboiron and Lepawsky). Maintaining power necessitates hierarchical categorization, whereby the needs and desires of some people are prioritized over those of others, to frequently catastrophic effect.

At the turn of the 21st century, AIDS patients and allies needed no such explanation of what it meant to be relegated to the fringes and designated as waste. Thrown to the proverbial curb of society, PWAs (people …

Bad Becomings: Autobiographical Writing, Queer/Trans Theory, Melancholia, Jacob Elias Aplaca

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Bad Becomings surveys queer autobiographical works published over the last 30+ years to better understand the animosities and complicities of the queer and the so-called normative. While the limited scholarship on queer autobiographical writing has characterized this corpus of texts based on an edginess, a radicality, and a rejection of the liberal individual that both flies in the face of “traditional autobiography” and indulges queer theory’s persistent idealization of queer culture as radical and antinormative, this dissertation asks that we suspend our desire for so absolute a differentiation. Rather than assume that “queer” automatically makes “autobiography” radical and antinormative, I …

The Effects Of Social Media Attention On Retail Investors’ Non-Gaap Trading, Huy Nguyen Do

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The SEC has long been concerned about the impact of non-GAAP earnings on investors’ perceptions of firms, particularly retail investors. This concern is amplified by the surging number of retail investors in recent years, a trend likely fueled by greater access to brokerage firms, commission-free trading, and investment-related content on social media. In this paper, I investigate social media as an alternative information channel that facilitate the dissemination of non-GAAP earnings news for retail investors. Despite years of regulatory and media scrutiny, the association between non-GAAP earnings surprises and retail trades is positive and even stronger for firms with higher …

Identification Of Mandibular And Maxillary Molars Of Old World Monkeys (Primates, Cercopithecidae) Using 3d Geometric Morphometrics, Eric John Mazelis

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The present study is an attempt to take steps towards quantifying 3D molar shapes of the primate family Cercopithecidae to construct a framework for the automation of identifying the anatomical position and taxonomic affiliations of isolated molars. I introduce a new landmark protocol and present a proposed workflow model which can be applied in the future. For the purpose of this study, I collected and compiled the largest sample of 3D surface scans of varying wear grades of all six cercopithecid molar positions (i.e., M¹-M³ and M₁-M₃). The sample comprises 2641 specimens from …

Higher Diffeology Theory, Emilio Minichiello

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Finite dimensional smooth manifolds have been studied for hundreds of years, and a massive theory has been built around them. However, modern mathematicians and physicists are commonly dealing with objects outside the purview of classical differential geometry, such as orbifolds and loop spaces. Diffeology is a new framework for dealing with such generalized smooth spaces. This theory (whose development started in earnest in the 1980s) has started to catch on amongst the wider mathematical community, thanks to its simplicity and power, but it is not the only approach to dealing with generalized smooth spaces. Higher topos theory is another such …

What The Debate About Spanish Gender-Inclusive Forms Reveals Regarding Ideological Beliefs About Language And Authority, Jalitza Gutierrez

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The “masculine generic” is a feature of Spanish that dictates that the masculine ending, (-o), is generally used as the default when referring to a mixed-sex group or when the sex of a person or group is unknown. Critics have claimed that this linguistic feature is sexist and contributes to the invisibility of women and gender-nonconforming people within the language (Eisenberg, 1985). In order to combat these issues, critics have campaigned for the revision of Spanish to include gender-inclusive language, which has continued to be a source of debate, both from the bottom-up and from institutions such as the Real …

Bifurcations And Resultants For Rational Maps And Dynatomic Modular Curves In Positive Characteristic, Colette Lapointe

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

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Reimagining Haydn’S Seven Last Words For String Quartet: Recasting, Retelling, And Reorchestrating For A Modern Audience, Jeremy J. Kienbaum

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Joseph Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross stands as an anomaly not just in Haydn’s oeuvre but in the catalogues of all formidable composers over the past three hundred years. It is unique in its construction: seven slow sonata form movements sandwiched by an introduction and a surprising earthquake finale; and even more outstanding that Haydn published three distinct versions of the work over a ten-year period. Further, the transformation of the Seven Last Words from a sacred to secularly performed work in Haydn’s time warrants further discourse, especially considering its present-day performance practice and reception.

This …

Beyond The Rational: Exploring Transrational And Embodied Knowledge Through Ceremony And Nature, Dimitris A. Alexakos

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis explores transrational and embodied knowledge gained through my experience within ceremony and nature. This thesis uses transrational to mean “information and experience that does not readily fit into standard cause and effect logical structure” (Bernstein, 2005, p. xv). By reflecting on personal experiences and embodied sensations during ceremonies in nature, the thesis outlines a framework for exploring transrational and embodied knowledge within nature. I offer heuristics, a phenomenological tool to “explore, focus, and raise awareness” (Alexakos, 2015) to provide context for my experience in nature, ceremonies and ceremonies in nature.

The research investigates transrational and embodied knowledge through …

Language, Legitimacy, And The Law: The Social Roots Of Legal Obligation, Joshua Keton

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In a recent turn, both legal scholarship and judicial practice in the United States have converged on the idea that the content of the law is grounded on moral facts—especially facts about democracy. Leveraging insights from the philosophy of language, especially the underdetermination of meaning by syntax and semantics, I argue that textualism can only be reconstructed as a small part of a complete theory of legal interpretation. I then consider a more serious claim to the necessity of moral facts in metaphysically grounding the content of the law. As Mark Greenberg’s anti-positivist theory would have it, the content of …

Effect Of Magnetic Draping On Satellite Galaxies In Clusters, Vanessa Brown

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Galaxy evolution has been observed to be influenced by environment. Satellite galaxies orbiting within clusters can experience changes in morphology and composition through various mechanisms such as ram-pressure stripping (RPS), which removes a galaxy’s interstellar medium as it passes through the cluster via direct interaction with the hot intracluster medium gas. An open question is whether intracluster magnetic fields affect galaxy evolution, for example by forming a magnetic layer around infalling galaxies (called magnetic draping) and mitigating gas removal by RPS. Using the code GADGET-3, we compare global properties and mass distributions within identical cluster simulations run with and without …