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Systematic Literature Mapping: Integrated System Of Logistic Distribution For Island, Eka Suswaini, Mochammad Agung Wibowo, Ferry Jie

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Purpose: The study aims to identify and compare various methods used to optimize supply chain distribution, with a focus on uncovering novel approaches. It particularly addresses the gap in logistics distribution models tailored for island environments, proposing the development of an integrated information system using genetic and memetic algorithms to handle uncertainties like weather and vessel availability. Design/methodology/approach: A Systematic Literature Mapping (SLM) approach was adopted. The K-Chart method was applied to categorize conceptual strategies and identify research gaps. A case study was also included to analyze logistical challenges in island settings, incorporating real data variables like transportation schedules and …

Just Be Yourself....But Only If You Are Like Us? A Social Identity Theory Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis Of Authentic Leadership, Andrei A. Lux, Kevin B. Lowe, Patricio Duran, Darren K. Bharanitharan

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

We apply social identity theory (SIT) within a culturally endorsed implicit leadership theory (CLT) frame to model how cultural values shape relationships between authentic leadership and follower outcomes. We use meta-analytic methods to test hypotheses with data from 292 studies drawn from over 40 countries, comprised of 100,641 individuals, and including 35 attitudinal, behavioural, and performance outcomes. Meta-analytic regression of cultural values coded at the country level reveals a significant pattern of moderation effects across 42.9% of the correlates we tested, suggesting that authentic leadership theory is culturally embedded. The effects of authentic leadership vary to the extent that it …

Noongar Culture, Arts Learning, And Wellbeing Literacy In Early Childhood: A Case Study Of The Song Room’S Deadly Arts Early Years Program In Western Australia Government Primary Schools, Jason Goopy, Narelle Lemon, Megan Mcpherson, Libby Jackson-Barrett, Jacqueline West

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This report presents findings from a case study examining how The Song Room's Deadly Arts Early Years program supports wellbeing literacy in early childhood education through engagement with Noongar culture, arts, and storytelling at Western Australia government primary schools. Conducted on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar at Huntingdale Primary School and Orelia Primary School, the research was co-designed with Indigenous and non-Indigenous teaching artists, school communities, and The Song Room.

The study adopted wellbeing literacy — the capability to understand and intentionally use language about and for wellbeing across contexts — as its theoretical framework. Creative arts-based methods, including draw and tell …

Association Of Source-Specific Nitrate Intake With Inflammation And Cardiometabolic Health: A Cross-Sectional Study, Carolyn J. English, Catherine P. Bondonno, Liezhou Zhong, Anna Lohning, Nicola P. Bondonno, Dianne P. Reidlinger

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This study aimed to explore whether health effects of dietary nitrate depend on its source, by investigating associations between plant and animal-sourced dietary nitrate groups with markers of inflammation and CVD risk factors. Among 100 non-smoking adults (mean age 49 ± 13 years, 31% male), dietary nitrate intake was assessed using food frequency questionnaire (n=100) and 3-day food diary (n=89), combined with nitrate food composition databases. Nitrate intake was classified into plant, naturally occurring animal and additive-permitted meat-sourced groups. Associations between source-dependent nitrate intakes and lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2), C-reactive protein (CRP), fasting plasma lipids, anthropometry, and blood pressure were …

Enhancing Physical Performance With Ischemic Preconditioning: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis Of Moderators And Performance Outcomes, Yilin Zhang, Kai Xu, Hao Kong, Mingyue Yin, Chenghao Liu, Yun Xie, Liam Kilduff, Gustavo R. Mota, Olivier Girard

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This study examined the effects of ischemic preconditioning (IPC) on physical performance, considering the influence of timing, warm-up (WU), participant characteristics, and IPC protocols structure. A total of 90 trials (1,439 participants) were retrieved from three databases and assessed using PICOS criteria. Multilevel meta-analyses with cluster-robust variance adjustments were conducted to calculate pooled effect sizes (Hedge’s g). Risk of bias and certainty of evidence were assessed using the RoB 2 tool and GRADE framework. IPC produced a trivial but significant improvement in physical performance (g = 0.13, P < 0.01), which persisted after excluding SHAM effects (g = 0.10; P < 0.01). Significant improvements were observed for maximum repetitions, time to failure, and power output, but not for jump ability, strength, or oxygen uptake. Comparable benefits were found for anaerobic (g = 0.15) and aerobic (g = 0.10) exercise, with greater effects in males and less-trained participants. Performance was further enhanced when IPC was followed by WU (g = 0.16), with the optimal IPC-to-WU interval being ~42 minutes. Without WU, the effective IPC window narrowed to 6–7 minutes. In practice, IPC can enhance physical performance, independently of sham effects, moderated by sex, training level, and WU. For competition or testing, the most effective strategy appears to be 3 or 4 × 5-min IPC protocol, followed by a 42-min interval, standardized warm-up, and endurance testing. For mechanistic studies, WU should be excluded, and testing conducted 6-7 minutes post-IPC. Future research should target women, middle-aged individuals, and elite athletes.

Academic Librarians And Information Literacy Practice In An Age Of Mis/Disinformation, Nicole Johnston, Yerbury, Maureen Henninger

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This paper presents findings from a study exploring Australian academic librarians' concerns about the impact of misinformation and disinformation on society, university students and access to reliable information. It also investigates strategies librarians consider effective for addressing mis/disinformation through information literacy programs. Sixty-two librarians responded to a survey comprising Likert scale and open-ended questions. Respondents expressed the greatest concern about the influence of mis/disinformation on news media and social media. There was strong agreement that mis/disinformation should be regulated on social media and that librarians play a key role in addressing it through information literacy. However, views on the importance …

Lived Experience Of Secondary Vicarious Trauma Among The Tegaru Australian Diaspora In The Postwar Context Of Tigray, Hailay Abrha Gesesew, Fauk, Kiflu Gebremicael Tesfamicael, Gebremeskel Mamu Werid, Lillian Mwanri, Amanuel Gebremedhin, Kidane Gebremariam, Semira Hailu, Kalayu Brhane Mruts, Michael Musker, Fisaha Haile Tesfay, Azeb Gebresilassie Tesema, Paul Ward

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Background: The war in Tigray has caused humanitarian and public health crises in North Ethiopia in addition to a high prevalence of mental health symptoms among the Tegaru (people from Tigray) diaspora in Australia. To date, there have been no studies that have explored mechanisms of vicarious mental health and resilience among Tegaru diasporas in Australia. Methods: We conducted 14 in-depth interviews with Tegaru people living in South Australia from September 2023 to June 2024. Data analysis involved an initial stage of open coding, followed by conceptual coding. We also applied “interanalyst validity” to validate the code of framework. Results: …

Rethinking Australian Teacher Education: A Reflective Tool For Culturally And Linguistically Sustaining Pedagogies, Sasha Janes, Paolino, Jane Merewether, Christine Cunningham

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Australia’s cultural and linguistic diversity highlights a pressing need for teacher education programs to prepare educators who can effectively support plurilingual learners. At the same time, existing programs often fall short in building the pedagogic and linguistic knowledge required to counter dominant English-only norms. This study draws on the framework of culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogies (CLSP) to explicitly centre plurilingual practices. CLSP is particularly relevant in the Australian context, where English-centric policies continue to marginalise First Nations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) knowledges and perspectives and plurilingual ways of knowing and being. We present findings from a national study …

Governing By Fragments: Soviet Ruins And The Architecture Of Unaccountability In Kazakhstan, Robert A. Kopack, Magdalena E. Stawkoski

Faculty Publications

This article examines two case studies in Kazakhstan with research into how Soviet institutional legacies underwrite extractive economies that render toxic costs invisible in post-Soviet setting. Through ethnographic work in Stepnogorsk (uranium processing) and the Semipalatinsk Test Site (nuclear weapons testing), we extend Gabrielle Hecht’s residual governance framework to demonstrate how inherited bureaucratic compartmentalization now serves market rather than state interests. We introduce the concept of functional nonreform to describe how distributed actors maintain Soviet-era boundaries that prevent accountability: Agencies monitor but don’t enforce, health authorities lack jurisdiction over contaminated sites, and environmental agencies measure radiation but cannot restrict land …

Reflections On Linear B, (Part 15): Sign 81 In Linear A And The Egyptian Four-Headed Ram God, Gerald Leonard Cohen

Arts, Languages and Philosophy Faculty Research & Creative Works

This article makes several tentative suggestions, including:

1. Linear A sign 81 (antecedent of Linear B81) may be an abbreviated image (two heads) of the four-headed Egyptian ram god Banebdjedet, with the horizontal line designating his horns shifted downward to the middle of the character.

2. A few other Linear A characters (e.g., sign 305) may represent slight alterations of sign A81.

3. Linear A82 includes two sets of three short horizontal lines. Those might signify brightness, and in the case of Banebdjedet the brightness would be his wisdom.

A Light Unto My Path? Discerning Prophetic Words For The Latino/A Church Today, M. Daniel Carroll R. Ph.D

Apuntes: Reflexiones teológicas desde el margen hispano

No abstract provided.

A Scoping Review To Conceptualize Social Privilege For Studying Patients' Health Outcomes And Health Disparities, Elizabeth A. Brown, Priyanka Patel, Esther May B. Sarino, Vladimir Markovic, Carles Muntaner

Health Behavior, Policy & Management Faculty Publications

Background

The continued reliance on single-category self-reported demographic data (e.g., race/ethnicity) reflects conceptual limitations that hinder the study and understanding of health outcomes research. There is a pressing need for more precise measures of social privilege that conceptualize privilege and oppression while enabling the examination of their effects on health outcomes in the United States (US) healthcare system.

Objective

The purpose of this scoping review was to review the literature, determine how researchers have measured aspects of privilege and oppression, and develop a conceptual framework to study patients' social privilege in the US healthcare system and public health research.

Methods …

Large Language Model-Assisted Research Question Development In Public Health: A Case Study In The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program For Women, Infants, And Children (Wic), Qi Zhang, Bidusha Neupane, Priyanka Patel, Futun N. Alkhalifah, Yi He, Leslie Hodges

Health Behavior, Policy & Management Faculty Publications

Objective:

To assess the feasibility of using large language models (LLMs) to develop research questions about changes to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) food packages.

Design:

We conducted a controlled experiment using ChatGPT-4 and its plugin, MixerBox Scholarly, to generate research questions based on a section of the USDA summary of the final public comments on the WIC revision. Five questions weekly for three weeks were generated using LLMs under two conditions: fed with or without relevant literature. The experiment generated 90 questions, which were evaluated using the FINER criteria (Feasibility, Innovation, Novelty, Ethics, …

An Educational Intervention On Mutual Goal Setting For Hospital Nurses: A Mixed-Methods Study, Teresa Jerofke-Owen, Kristi Opper, Joseph Beiler, Maharaj Singh

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

Background:

Including patients in mutual goal setting is one mechanism to personalize care delivery and improve patient outcomes.

Objective:

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a nurse educational intervention about mutual goal setting on nurse engagement and self-efficacy for goal setting and the nurse/patient experience of goal setting.

Methods:

During this explanatory, sequential mixed-methods study, nurse engagement in goal setting and goal quality was assessed through chart audits 1-month pre-intervention (n = 173) and 1 and 3-months (n = 144, n = 137) post-intervention. Nurse self-efficacy was measured with the Appraisal Inventory Tool. Patient experience …

Works Progress Administration (Wpa) Tombstone Inscriptions - Accession 488, Works Progress Administration, South Carolina Genealogical Society

Manuscript Collection

This collection consists of 67 microfiche containing an alphabetical index to tombstone inscriptions recorded during a partial survey of South Carolina cemeteries conducted by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the 1930s. The index was compiled by chapters of the South Carolina Genealogical Society from the original WPA cemetery survey records and provides access to inscriptions documented in approximately 350 cemeteries throughout the state.

Arranged alphabetically by surname, the index generally includes the full name of the deceased, birth and death dates (when available), and the location of the cemetery in which the inscription was recorded. The collection serves as …

Jubilee: Harvest Of The Arts Records - Accession 1463, Jubilee: Harvest Of The Arts Records

Manuscript Collection

The Jubilee: Harvest of the Arts Festival Records document the planning, promotion, and operation of the annual Jubilee: Harvest of the Arts festival held in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The festival celebrated visual and performing arts, crafts, and music and featured outdoor gallery exhibitions, theatrical performances at Winthrop University, arts and crafts vendors, and a quilt show. Over time, the event evolved into what later became the Rock Hill Blues & Jazz Festival, reflecting the city’s growing emphasis on musical heritage, particularly blues and jazz.

The collection includes planning and administrative records such as committee files, steering committee documentation, budgets, …

Tirza Faris Fewell Letters - Accession 1458, Tirza Jane Faris Fewell, Fewell Family

Manuscript Collection

This collection consists primarily of personal correspondence addressed to Tirza Jane Faris Fewell (1858–1928), including letters from family members, friends, and her future husband, Samuel Alexander Fewell (1850–1908). The correspondence provides insight into family relationships, courtship, and daily life in the late nineteenth century.

Letters from family members contain updates on the health of relatives, news of personal plans and future goals, and accounts of significant family events, including the death of Tirza’s grandmother. Correspondence from friends—some unidentified—includes social updates such as news of a marriage, travel arrangements involving Rock Hill, invitations to visit, and requests for assistance with household …

York County Democratic Party Records - Accession 1577, Democratic Party, York County

Manuscript Collection

The York County Democratic Party Records document the activities, organization, and electoral efforts of the York County Democratic Party. The party’s stated goal is “to elect Democratic candidates in York County, the State of South Carolina, and the United States.” Materials in the series date primarily from 1998 to 2012 and reflect both internal administration and public-facing political activity.

The collection includes meeting minutes of the Executive Board and general party meetings; agendas for county conventions; voter turnout reports by precinct; strategic planning reports; campaign mailers and promotional materials; and newspaper articles concerning elections, voting data, and election results. Together, …

Mary Elizabeth Frayser Papers - Accession 1739, Mary Elizabeth Frayser

Manuscript Collection

The Mary Elizabeth Frayser Papers document the professional career, civic engagement, and reform work of Mary E. Frayser, an educator, home economist, social worker, and prominent women’s club leader in South Carolina during the twentieth century. The collection reflects Frayser’s long-standing commitment to education, social welfare, women’s rights, and public policy, as well as her involvement in numerous state and regional organizations dedicated to social and economic reform.

Materials in the collection include newspaper clippings, correspondence, speeches, reports, articles, pamphlets, meeting-related documents, publications, and other printed materials. These records document Frayser’s work with the South Carolina Extension Service (1912–1940), Winthrop …

Martha Thomas Fitzgerald Papers - Accession 1742, Martha Thomas Fitzgerald

Manuscript Collection

The Martha Thomas Fitzgerald Papers document the personal, professional, and public life of Martha Thomas Fitzgerald (1894–1981), a Winthrop College graduate (Class of 1916), educator, civic leader, and politician. Notably, Mrs. Fitzgerald was the first woman elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in a general election, marking a significant milestone in the state’s political history. The collection reflects her long career in education, public service, and civic engagement in South Carolina.

The collection consists primarily of correspondence related to Fitzgerald’s legislative service, her work with the South Carolina Department of Education, and her involvement in a wide range …

Harold And Annis Lindsay Wilson Collection - Accession 1749, Harold Dameron Wilson, Annis Carson Lindsay Wilson

Manuscript Collection

The Harold and Annis Lindsay Wilson Collection documents the educational, religious, and community affiliations of Harold Dameron Wilson (1941–2025) and Winthrop graduate (Class of 1963) Annis Carson Lindsay Wilson, both natives of Chester and York counties in South Carolina respectively. The collection is composed primarily of school yearbooks, church directories, and reunion materials that reflect their personal histories and long-standing involvement in local institutions.

The yearbooks span from 1954 to 1995 and include volumes from Chester High School (The Cestrian), York High School (The White Rose), Harold C. Johnson Elementary School, and Hunter Street Elementary School. These materials document student …

Rev. William Cummins Davis Collection - Accession 1782, William Cummins Davis

Manuscript Collection

The Rev. William Cummins Davis Collection consists primarily of a bound 1823 volume titled Lectures on the New Testament: In Which the Four Evangelists Are Harmonized, and the Work Interspersed with Critical Notes and Observations on Several Passages. Published posthumously by Davis’s eldest son, the Rev. Robert M. Davis (1793–1824), this volume is one of eight issued in a projected series originally intended to comprise only two volumes. The work compiles sermons, theological lectures, and critical annotations reflecting Davis’s distinctive interpretations of the New Testament.

William Cummins Davis (1760–1831) was a prominent and controversial Presbyterian minister in the Carolinas …

Luckett Davis Lecture Notes Collection - Accession 1846, Luckett Vanderford Davis

Manuscript Collection

The Dr. Luckett Davis Lecture Notes Collection documents the teaching and academic work of Luckett Vanderford Davis, Professor of Biology at Winthrop University, where he served from 1964 until his retirement and later held the title of Emeritus Professor of Biology. The collection consists primarily of lecture notes, seminar materials, laboratory manuals, and instructional aids used by Dr. Davis in teaching a wide range of undergraduate biology courses.

The bulk of the collection contains handwritten and typed lecture notes prepared for courses in zoology, genetics, evolution, ecology, and marine biology. These materials document Dr. Davis’s approach to teaching biological sciences …

George White Family Papers - Accession 1900, White Family

Manuscript Collection

This collection consists of bound volumes, family Bibles, lecture and financial notebooks, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, magazines, publications, and memorabilia collected or owned by members of the White family and related families. The White family, descendants of George Pendleton and Ann Hutchinson White, was among the founding families of Rock Hill, South Carolina, and played a significant role in the development and history of the community. The family’s historical presence in Rock Hill is also reflected in the White Home, one of the early homes constructed in the city and now a local historic attraction, and White Street in downtown Rock …

David Bancroft Johnson Personal Papers - Accession 2, David Bancroft Johnson

Manuscript Collection

This collection consists of the personal correspondence and papers of Dr. David Bancroft Johnson, founder and first president of Winthrop.  The letters address various subjects and people, both personal and professional, concerning issues from the original funding of Winthrop in 1886 to the minutiae of ordering flour and cotton seed, as well as personal letters to family, friends, and acquaintances. This collection also includes news clippings, brochures, programs, and various documents belonging to Dr. Johnson.  The letters and documents are by organized by each item chronologically.

Breaking The Resistance: A Narrative Review Of The Evolution From Traditional Drugs To Precision Therapies In Epilepsy, Tirath Patel, Fathimathul Henna, Ashfaq Ahmed, Ayesha Ahmad, Noor Ul Huda, Syed Aaraiz Ul Hassan, Aiman Muhammad, Amna Javed, Maryem Filal, Nikhilesh Anand

School of Medicine Publications

Background: Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures, affecting approximately 50 million individuals globally. While conventional antiseizure medications (ASMs) control seizures in 70-80% of patients, about 30% experience drug resistance or intolerable side effects, necessitating alternative approaches.

Objective: To critically compare the efficacy, safety, and accessibility of conventional and emerging therapies for epilepsy, particularly in the context of treatment-resistant cases and global disparities in care.

Methods: This narrative review synthesized evidence from 120 peer-reviewed articles published between 2015 and 2025. Literature was retrieved from PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, and Scopus using predefined search terms related to epilepsy …

Pahina: Precision-Aware Hierarchical In-Network Aggregation For Edge Distributed Training, Yingpu Nian, Bo Yi, Qiang He, Xingwei Wang, Geyong Min, Keqin Li, Sajal K. Das

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

The rise of edge intelligence is driving distributed machine learning toward a new paradigm of edge-collaborative computing. To overcome the severe communication bottleneck in this paradigm, In-Network Aggregation is a critical enabling technology. However, its effectiveness is fundamentally undermined by the profound resource heterogeneity of edge networks. Specifically, edge devices, adapting to hardware constraints, operate at varying numerical precisions, leading to significant data inflation as gradients are aggregated. Compounding this, unevenly distributed network resources and traditional, precision-oblivious routing strategies often misallocate critical, high-precision gradients to low-quality paths. This mismatch creates severe network congestion, crippling the efficiency of distributed training. To …

Fairrfl: Fair And Robust Federated Learning In The Presence Of Selfish Clients, Andrea Augello, Ashish Gupta, Giuseppe Lo Re, Sajal K. Das

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Federated Learning (FL) is a paradigm that enables collaborative machine learning without disclosing the local data of the participants. However, in real-world FL deployment scenarios, some unscrupolous clients may alter the training process to skew the global model towards their local optimum, unfairly prioritizing their data distribution. Their influence can degrade overall model performance for normal clients and reduce fairness in the system. We call this novel category of misbehaving clients 'selfish'. This work proposes a Fair and Robust strategy for aggregation in the Federated Learning (FL) server to mitigate the effect of Selfish clients (FairRFL). FairRFL incorporates a novel …

Future Mining: Learning For Safety And Security, Md Sazedur Rahman, Mizanur Rahman Jewel, Sanjay Madria

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Mining industry is rapidly transforming into an AI-driven cyber-physical ecosystem where safety and operational reliability depend on robust perception, resilient communication, trustworthy distributed intelligence and continuous monitoring of miners and equipment. Real-world mining environments impose severe constraints like poor illumination, dust, occlusion, GPS-denied conditions, irregular underground topologies, and intermittent connectivity. These factors degrade perception quality, disrupt situational awareness, impair trajectory prediction and weaken the reliability of distributed learning systems. Emerging cyber-physical threats, including backdoor triggers, sensor spoofing, label-flip attacks and poisoned model updates, further jeopardize operational safety, particularly as mines increasingly adopt autonomous vehicles, humanoid assistance, and federated learning for …

Qura: Reinforcement Learning Based Routing For Quantum Networks, Tasdiqul Islam, Engin Arslan, Md Arifuzzaman

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Quantum routing deals with identifying a set of quantum repeaters to use to create entanglement between distant endpoints. Previous approaches proposed shortest-path and linear programming methods to find a solution to this problem. While the shortest path approach results in suboptimal performance, linear programming takes too long to find a solution as the network size and constraints increase. In this paper, we apply Deep Q-Reinforcement Learning (DQRL) to optimize routing in quantum networks both in terms of execution time and performance. The proposed Quantum Routing Algorithm (QuRA) first chooses which request to schedule among all requests. It then determines which …