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Confronting Barriers To Human-Robot Cooperation: Balancing Efficiency And Risk In Machine Behavior, Tim Whiting

Theses and Dissertations

In strategically rich settings in which machines and people do not fully share the same preferences, machines must learn to cooperate and compromise with people to establish mutually successful relationships. However, designing machines that effectively cooperate with people in these settings is difficult due to a variety of technical and psychological challenges. To better understand these challenges, we conducted a series of user studies in which we investigated human-human, robot-robot, and human-robot cooperation in a simple, yet strategically rich, resource-sharing scenario called the Block Dilemma, a game in which players must balance fairness, efficiency, and risk. While both human-human and …

Und Strategic Planning Kick-Off Event: Qualtrics Survey Responses, University Of North Dakota

LEADS Development Documents

Qualtrics survey response report from the UND strategic planning kick-off event. The report compiles participant responses to the Brags, Worries, Wonders, and Bets prompts used to gather early campus and community input for the UND LEADS development process.

Moving Und Forward Survey: Staff Paper Responses, University Of North Dakota

LEADS Development Documents

Staff paper response report from the Moving UND Forward strategic planning process. The report compiles staff responses to the Brags, Worries, Wonders, and Bets prompts used to gather input for UND’s strategic planning work.

Linking Authentic Leadership With Employee Initiative Behavior And Task Performance: The Mediating Role Of Emotional Sharing And Communication Satisfaction, Jeong Sik Kim, Jong Gyu Park, Hyun Jung Park

Publications and Research

Our study aims to explore the process through which authentic leadership leads to employees’ initiative behavior and task performance. In particular, we focused on the mediating roles of emotional sharing and communication satisfaction. Based on data collected from 242 employee-supervisor dyads, we found that authentic leadership was significantly related to emotional sharing, which was sequentially significantly related to communication satisfaction. Communication satisfaction was significantly associated with initiative behavior and task performance. In addition, emotional sharing and communication satisfaction played significant mediating roles not only in the relationship between authentic leadership and initiative behavior, but also in the relationship between authentic …

Academic Policies Committee Minutes Of The Academic Senate 2022-03.21.2022, University Of Dayton. Academic Senate. Academic Policies Committee

All Committee Minutes

Approved minutes of a meeting of the Academic Policies Committee of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton.

A Forward-Thinking Approach To Addressing The New Synthetic Opioid 2-Benzylbenzimidazole Nitazene Analogs By Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry (Lc-Qqq-Ms), Sara E Walton, Alex J Krotulski, Barry K Logan

College of Life Sciences Faculty Papers

Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) continue to represent a threat to public health and safety. The number of new drugs in the latest emergent synthetic opioid class-the 2-benzylbenzimidazole analogs-also called the nitazenes-has begun to dominate the current new synthetic opioid (NSO) subclass of NPS. We describe a liquid chromatography-tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry method for the quantification of nine analogs and/or metabolites of drugs in this series: isotonitazene, metonitazene, protonitazene, etonitazene, clonitazene, flunitazene, N-desethyl isotonitazene, 5-amino isotonitazene and 4'-hydroxy nitazene in human whole blood, urine, and tissue. Samples were prepared for analysis using a basic liquid-liquid extraction. Chromatographic separation was achieved using …

Moving Und Forward Survey: Qualtrics Responses, University Of North Dakota

LEADS Development Documents

Qualtrics survey response report from the Moving UND Forward strategic planning process. The report compiles participant responses to the Brags, Worries, Wonders, and Bets prompts used to gather campus and community input for UND’s strategic planning work.

Dark Fluxes From Accreting Black Holes Through Several Mechanisms, Rong-Gen Cai, Sichun Sun, Bing Zhang, Yun-Long Zhang

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Research

We discuss the possibility that accreting black hole systems can be sources for dark matter flux through several different mechanisms. We firstly discuss two types of systems‘: coronal thermal plasmas around supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and accretion disks of stellar-mass X-ray black hole binaries (BHBs). We explore how these black hole systems may produce keV light dark matter fluxes and find that the dark fluxes from those sources might be too weak to account for the current XENON1T excess. On the other hand, black holes can be good accelerators to accrete and boost heavy dark matter …

Handoff Communication Among Senior Nursing Students: A Phenomenological Study, Juanita Hanley-Gumbs

Dissertations

Despite discussions in health care regarding poor communication and its link to patient safety, it was revealed in the literature that many student nurses are inadequately prepared to conduct handoff communication. Student nurses have difficulty in this area due to limited or no experience with the handoff process, which jeopardizes patient safety. The purpose of this research study was to understand how senior nursing students make meaning of their lived experiences with handoff communication. The guiding research question for this study is: How do senior nursing students make meaning of their lived experiences with handoff communication during the change-of-shift report …

Variables That Influence Student Nurse Progression During Sophomore Year In A Traditional Bsn Program, Connie Mcfadden-Chase

Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation was to discover variables that influence student progression during the sophomore year in a traditional bachelor of science in nursing program. Research exists to identify factors that will predict the retention of students or will contribute to students' success. Tinto's model on student retention was the framework for this study with constructivist grounded theory as the methodology to unravel the data and discover new meanings. The results of the study align with Tinto's model and illustrates the importance of faculty and peer relationships in conjunction with guidance in navigating the particularities of nursing coursework and …

Pop Treasures

DePaul Magazine

Professor Kelly Kessler and Associate Professor Blair Davis, faculty members in DePaul’s College of Communication, mine pop culture to discover keys to our changing social landscape. Kessler discusses how and why television embraced musical theatre. Davis examines the close historical ties between comics and movies.

The Rider (2022-03-21), Verilu Infante

The Rider Archives

Vol.7 No.23

Mmu: 03/21/22–03/27/22, Student Bar Association

Monday Morning Update

This Week @ NDLS

General Announcements

Stoic Start to the Week

Lilla in London

Sport Report by Davis Lovvorn

1L of the Week: Samantha Downey

2Ls Taking Ls: Anthony Gullo

Ask a 3L: Vincent Gangemi

Mechanisms Of Mitochondrial Promoter Recognition In Humans And Other Mammalian Species, Angelica Zamudio-Ochoa, Yaroslav I Morozov, Azadeh Sarfallah, Michael Anikin, Dmitry Temiakov

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers

Recognition of mammalian mitochondrial promoters requires the concerted action of mitochondrial RNA polymerase (mtRNAP) and transcription initiation factors TFAM and TFB2M. In this work, we found that transcript slippage results in heterogeneity of the human mitochondrial transcripts in vivo and in vitro. This allowed us to correctly interpret the RNAseq data, identify the bona fide transcription start sites (TSS), and assign mitochondrial promoters for > 50% of mammalian species and some other vertebrates. The divergent structure of the mammalian promoters reveals previously unappreciated aspects of mtDNA evolution. The correct assignment of TSS also enabled us to establish the precise register of …

Exploring Patient And Staff Experiences With Video Consultations During Covid-19 In An English Outpatient Care Setting: Secondary Data Analysis Of Routinely Collected Feedback Data, Hannah Bradwell, Rebecca Baines, Katie J. Edwards, Sebastian Stevens, Kate Atkinson, Ellen Wilkinson, Arunangsu Chatterjee, Ray B. Jones

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Background Video consultations (VCs) were rapidly implemented in response to COVID-19 despite modest progress before. Objective We aim to explore staff and patient experiences with VCs implemented during COVID-19 and use feedback insights to support quality improvement and service development. Methods Secondary data analysis was conducted on 955 patient and 521 staff responses (from 4234 consultations; 955/4234, 22.6% and 521/4234, 12.3%, respectively) routinely collected following a VC between June and July 2020 in a rural, older adult, and outpatient care setting at a National Health Service Trust. Responses were summarized using descriptive statistics and inductive thematic analysis and presented to …

The Pro-Fibrotic Response Of Mesenchymal Leader Cells To Lens Wounding Involves Hyaluronic Acid, Its Receptor Rhamm, And Vimentin, A. Sue Menko, Alison Romisher, Janice L Walker

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

Hyaluronic Acid/Hyaluronan (HA) is a major component of the provisional matrix deposited by cells post-wounding with roles both in regulating cell migration to repair a wound and in promoting a fibrotic outcome to wounding. Both are mediated through its receptors CD44 and RHAMM. We now showed that HA is present in the provisional matrix assembled on the substrate surface in a lens post-cataract surgery explant wound model in which mesenchymal leader cells populate the wound edges to direct migration of the lens epithelium across the adjacent culture substrate onto which this matrix is assembled. Inhibiting HA expression with 4-MU blocked …

Chimes: March 21, 2022, Calvin University

Chimes

'I'm not going to be ashamed': Queer CSR employee quits to speak freely about split from Calvin by Harm Venhuizen

Three Calvin alumnae make list of 50 most influential women in West Michigan by Hadassa Ribeiro

Track athletes achieve record-setting indoor season by Grace Toma

A sneak peek into Calvin's spring film showcase by Jocelyn Nunez-Colon

State of the Student: The Center for Counseling & Wellness by Abigail Ham

English professors weigh in on the banned books debate by Savannah Shustack

No more 8 a.m. classes: Calvin to begin new schedule in fall 2022 by Jocelyn Nunez-Colon

IRB member resigns …

Writing Into Hope: Laughter, Sadness And Healing In John Gower's Confessio Amantis, Natalie Grinnell

Accessus

This article uses the theory of the narrative creation of the self to contend that the Confessio Amantis creates a space for narrative healing within the acknowledgement of mortality. Rather than being traditionally funny or ending in amorous or military victory, Gower’s poem uses the encyclopedia knowledge of the interpolated tales to establish a healing narrative in the face of failure and loss.

The Price We Pay For Envy: A Political And Social “Maladie”, Will Rogers

Accessus

"The Travelers and the Angel" is a curious exemplum: depicting envy as almost an emotion, it depicts the seemingly hopeless worsening of the world, as the envious care more for others' pain than their own happiness. While the exemplum's moral is undoubtedly true, even for 21st century readers, we might address how Gower's particular framing of envy doesn't account for envy's potential to drive positive change.

The Unfinished Hope Of Gower's Transgender Children, Gabrielle M.W. Bychowski

Accessus

This article examines two of Gower's tales from the Confessio Amantis that deal with trans youths: Iphis and Narcissus. Considering these two tales together, I ask the question: why does one story end with hopeful futurity for the trans masculine youth and the other end with death and the absence of futurity for the trans feminine youth. Connecting these medieval texts to premodern contexts and then with modern contexts, I map the trajectory of centuries long problems facing trans youths. In the end, I conclude that trans youth possess a healthier and more stable future when they receive trans affirming …

The Consolation Of Exempla: Gower’S Sources Of Hope And “Textual Healing” In The Confessio Amantis, Curtis Runstedler

Accessus

This article examines the role of exempla as the root cause of hope and healing in John Gower's Confessio Amantis. I argue that these exempla provide remedial action in the text. The exempla are sources of metaphorical healing in the text, functioning as what I have termed “textual healing,” that is the medicinal aspects of the text that helps remedy Amans (and the reader, to a certain extent) back to full health. This article also draws upon reading the Confessio Amantis as a consolatio poem, linking it to Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy in particular. I also discuss the role …

Healing, Accountability, And Community In Gower’S Confessio Amantis, Kara L. Mcshane

Accessus

This piece focuses on the Tale of Lucrece and the Tale of Mundus and Paulina in John Gower's Confessio Amantis. I examine how these two quite distinct narratives of sexual assault emphasize key themes in community response to trauma. In these two tales, Gower emphasizes the extent to which interpersonal violence is also social violence; further, community demands for accountability are essential to social healing in both cases. These two models demonstrate the extent to which contemporary society, too, struggles to hold authority accountable and address social wrongs.

Gower's "Herte-Thoght": Thinking, Feeling, Healing, Eve Salisbury

Accessus

While much has been said about the ethical principles of Gower's poetry, less has been said about his understanding of the body, its principal organs, and its relation to the medical discourse of the time. This short paper, presented initially as part of the "Hope and Healing Symposium" sponsored by The Gower Project, approaches the poet's work from a more medically inflected point of view, one that suggests a stronger kinship between the material body and its use as a metaphor for the body politic. Gower appears to be situated within a continuing debate launched by Aristotle and taken up …

Hope And Healing In Gower: A Special Issue, Georgiana Donavin

Accessus

"Hope and Healing in Gower: A Special Issue" is the editor's short introduction to Accessus 7.1.

Library Services During Covid-19 Pandemic: A Bibliometric Analysis And Knowledge Mapping, Md. Armanul Haque, Xiaojuan Zhang Dr, Md. Shafiul Alam Dr, Md. Nazmul Hasan, Farzana Islam Any

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The increased usage of libraries during the Covid-19 pandemic has been well known to science communicators, but scientific communication has not evaluated the distributions of its published findings. Thus, this study intends to identify and map library services in international publishing, particularly the Scopus database during the pandemic. Sixty-four publications in the Scopus database were assessed using the bibliometric approach and fifty-seven documents are considered. To find documents from January 2020-June 2021, the author utilized keywords such as library services AND covid-19. Microsoft excels and VOSviewer software was used to analyze the result and visualize the knowledge map. The results …

Moving Law Schools Forward By Design: Designing Law School Curricula To Transfer Learning From Classroom Theory To Clinical Practice And Beyond, April Land, Aliza Organick

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Of Hair Glucocorticoid Levels To Immunological And Virological Outcomes In A Large Cohort Of Combination Antiretroviral Therapy Treated People Living With Hiv, Quan Zhang, Xiaoming Li Ph.D., Shan Qiao Ph.D., Shuaifeng Liu, Yuejiao Zhou, Zhiyong Shen

Faculty Publications

Background

Existing literature mostly investigated the relationship of acute or short-term glucocorticoid exposure to HIV disease progression using cortisol levels in serum, saliva, or urine. Data are limited on the relationship of long-term glucocorticoid exposure to HIV disease progression. This study examined whether hair glucocorticoid levels, novel retrospective indicators of long-term glucocorticoid exposure, are associated with two common indicators of HIV disease progression (CD4 count and HIV viral load) among a large cohort of combination antiretroviral therapy treated Chinese people living with HIV (PLHIV).

Methods

A total of 1198 treated PLHIV provided hair samples for glucocorticoid (cortisol and cortisone) assay …

Editorial: Pathways And Processes Underpinning Axonal Biology And Pathobiology, Pabitra K. Sahoo, Dianna E. Willis, James N. Sleigh

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

"Imma Be Down 'Til I'M Dead In The Ground": The Importance Of Community Within The Juggalo Subculture, Olivia Larose

Research Horizons Day Posters

No abstract provided.

The Affect Of Revictimization On Survivors Of Intimate Partner Violence, Autumn C. Taylor

Research Horizons Day Posters

No abstract provided.