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Brachial Plexus Lesions: Uncommon Causes And Clinical Sequelae, Lucy Greenhagen

Biology and Microbiology Graduate Students Plan B Research Projects

The brachial plexus is a complex network of nerves that transmit motor and sensory information between the spinal cord and upper extremities. Brachial plexus lesions may be caused by a broad range of congential and traumatic conditions. These lesions present a challenge to healthcare providers both for diagnosis and treatment. While variations in the brachial plexus have been widely reported, resources outlining the prevenance and involvement of anatomical variation along with their possible clinical presentation are more limited. The objective of this review is to describe uncommon causes of brachial plexus lesions and the clinical challenges they present for providers. …

Alternative Treatments And Potential Cures For Type 1 Diabetes, Dillon Peterson

Biology and Microbiology Graduate Students Plan B Research Projects

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease that affects multitudes of people without a cost-effective cure. T1D is caused by the immune system reaching a threshold where it then begins to attack the beta cells in the pancreas causing inflammation, which eventually leads to the death of beta cells. Once a large majority of the beta cells die off, the pancreas begins to inadequately supply insulin to the body, which is when the symptoms of T1D begin to emerge. To treat these symptoms, the person must utilize synthetic insulin. The utilization of synthetic insulin, along with the plethora of …

The President’S Authority To Impose Tariffs, Chad Squitieri

Scholarly Articles

The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”) empowers the President to “regulate . . . importation.” In Learning Resources v. Trump, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that such language did not empower the President to impose tariffs. The District Court reasoned that there was a distinction between the power to “regulate” and the power to “tax,” and that tariffs required a power to tax. This Essay explains why the District Court was wrong.

The Constitution’s original meaning and Supreme Court precedent indicate that tariffs can be an exercise of Congress’s power to regulate …

Undergraduate Bulletin, 2025-2026, Minnesota State University Moorhead

Undergraduate Bulletins (Catalogs)

No abstract provided.

Graduate Bulletin, 2025-2026, Minnesota State University Moorhead

Graduate Bulletins (Catalogs)

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Holy Cross Green Guide, Maggie Mccracken, Julia Barton, Nick Corsentino, Olivia Dubin, Shane Fitzpatrick, Sheila Hulseman, Abbie Lane, Keely Lavin, Max Matterazzo, Molly Mccracken, Erin O'Donovan, Courtney Yockel, Justin Mcalister

Department of Environmental Studies Student Scholarship

Holy Cross resides on Pakachoag Hill, part of the traditional lands of the Nipmuc people. We are grateful for their historic stewardship of this place we all share.

Fact Book, Academic Year 2024, Systems Intelligence And Data Analytics, University Of Nebraska At Omaha

Fact Book

The Fact Book presents important campus information in data tables and charts. Included are details regarding students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Generally, data are broken out by college, rank, level, gender, age and ethnicity for both spring and fall semesters, past to present. There are a few academic year tables that include information on tuition & fees, student credit hours by program, and degrees conferred. We wish to thank the many individuals and departments at the University for their contributions to the Fact Book.

Validating Self-Reported Critical Incidents Using A Cognitive Screening Test For Ga Pilots, Emily Larkin, Kathleen Van Benthem, Alexia Bierlaire, Rawan Othman, Chris M. Herdman

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2025

The lack of standardized cognitive testing for general aviation (GA) pilots maycontribute to alarming rates of fatal accidents in GA, putting GA pilots at seriousrisk. This research aims to develop the CANFLY to assess and predict risk inpilots. Given its online delivery and reliance on self-reports, validating the tool isessential. Forty-three licensed pilots ages 18-75 (M = 19.44, SD = 15.83) engagedwith pre-recorded flight segments, and answered cognitive health questions.Situational awareness related to reports of critical incidents, while marginallysignificant relationships between task management and most recent checkridewere found. Initial results show some support for the CANFLY’s ability to reflectrisk. Final …

Putting Risk Assessment In The Pilots’ Hands: Refining A Cognitive Health Assessment Tool For Aviators, Kathleen Van Benthem, Emily Larkin, Rawan Othman, Alexia Bierlaire, Chris M. Herdman

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2025

Cognitive factors like poor situational awareness or memory failures can causeserious incidents, especially in single-crew operations. This work introducesCANFLY, an on-demand, self-administered online cognitive assessment for pilots,using realistic flight scenarios and interactive tasks. CANFLY targets key cognitivedomains for safe flight: situation awareness, prospective memory, and taskmanagement. Accessible from any internet-connected computer with speakers,CANFLY currently takes 50 minutes, but reducing this by 50 percent couldenhance user experience and adoption. Preliminary machine learning results from47 licensed pilots show that responses to short “flight” scenarios testing levels 1and 2 situational awareness and prospective memory can classify risk with over 80percent accuracy. Challenges and …

Peripheral Airspeed Indication For Manual Approach, J. Caron, M. M. Van Paassen, Annemarie Landman, Olaf Stroosma, Max Mulder

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology - 2025

Maintaining properspeedcontroliscriticalinvisualapproachprocedures.Currently,pilotsneedtoto switchbetweentheoutsidevisualsceneandtheaircraftinstruments.Inthisprojectweinvestigatethepossibilitytousealowcostdisplayintheperipheralviewtoindicatedeviationfromthe aircraft’sapproachspeed.Anoff-theshelflightbarisinstalledinafullmotionflightsimulator(SIMONAResearchSimulator,TUDelft),andconfiguredtoshowspeeddeviation.Inanexperiment,approachpathandspeedperformanceareevaluatedduringapproachesinahighandlowturbulencecondition.Aconditionwithconventionalinstrumentationwillbecomparedtoconditions withthenewspeeddeviationindicatorwithtwodifferentscalingfactorsforthespeedindication. Aneyetracker(PupillabsCore)isusedtoquantifydifferencesinvisualswitchinginthe differentconditions.Weexpecttofindareductioninworkload,betterspeedandpathperformance, andreducedvisualswitching(finalresultsarepending).

The Impact Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Corporate Performance And Cash Dividend Distribution In China's Manufacturing Industry, Wang Danni, Lim Thien Sang, Lei Guangmei

The Indonesian Capital Market Review

As an unprecedented global public health emergency with rapid spread and challenging prevention and control measures, the COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted corporate performance worldwide. Notably, the manufacturing industry in China has been severely impacted. To comprehensively understand the influence of significant public health incidents on enterprises and mitigate the epidemic's repercussions, the unbalanced panel data of China's A-share listed manufacturing enterprises from 2018 to 2023 was analyzed by regression analysis. The findings demonstrate that the COVID-19 outbreak has diminished these enterprises' financial and market performance. Moreover, companies with higher cash dividends and more excellent stability exhibit superior future performance …

The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Factors And Low Birth Rates In Ohio, Ryan Gora, Hannah Amin

Scholarship in Medicine - All Papers

Background: The incidence of low birth weight (LBW) has not substantially fallen over time despite advances in medical interventions. LBW has been linked to several chronic diseases in adulthood including type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and cardiovascular disease (CVD), making it a particularly salient public health issue.
Objective: To examine socioeconomic factors and diseases associated with LBW in Ohio between 2016-2022.
Methods: Using data from County Health Rankings, we identified socioeconomic factors predictive of LBW in Ohio between 2016-2022. We also examined the relationship between LBW and incidence of T2DM as well as food insecurity (FI). In addition, we investigated how …

Food And Mood, Angelina Gentilin, Patrick Tawil

Scholarship in Medicine - All Papers

Depression and mental illnesses are on the rise in the United States alongside other chronic illnesses like obesity. Preliminary research indicates that diets of individuals and obesity can have profound roles in mental health status. Alongside the consummatory behavior of eating, drinking alcohol is associated with mental illnesses like depression and could potentially play a role in mental health and poor diet. The authors analyzed the public health county data in Ohio of adults between the years of 2016 and 2022 to investigate any differences in the population’s health rates. This study found that diet plays an influencing role in …

Texans In Transition: Exploring Socioeconomic Effects On Health From 2016 To 2023, Dylan Timperman, Nowshin Islam, Akshey Suresh

Scholarship in Medicine - All Papers

Background: Although it has been shown that low socioeconomic status (SES) negatively impacts many health outcomes, very little is known about this relationship in the second largest U.S. state, Texas. Over the past decade, Texas has experienced crises such as Hurricane Harvey, the COVID 19 pandemic, and other environmental disasters that have worsened disparities in health and financial stability. With the highest uninsured rate in the nation and a rapidly growing Hispanic population, understanding financial health disparities is important in influencing public policy and resource allocation.
Objective: By analyzing The University of Wisconsin’s Public Health Institute County Health Rankings & …

Examining Intersectional Factors In Infant Mortality: The Role Of Race, Geography, And Socioeconomic Status In Ohio, Catherine Tran, Rebekah Murray

Scholarship in Medicine - All Papers

Background: Aspects of a mother’s identity such as race, socioeconomic status, and geographical location can impact healthcare access and outcomes, especially infant mortality.
Objective: The aim of this study is to identify how different variables relating to a mother’s identity intersect with one another to impact infant mortality rate in Ohio.
Methods: Data for infant mortality rate, racial residential segregation index, patient race by percentage, and median household income was collected from County Health Rankings, and data was analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics.
Results: A linear regression found that the best fitting model including median household income and percent Black …

The Opioid Crisis: Analyzing Access To Resources, Mental Health And The Influence On Overdose Deaths In Urban And Rural Communities, Katharina Johnson, Maggie Obourn

Scholarship in Medicine - All Papers

Background: Opioid use contributes significantly to deaths throughout the United States. Opioid overdose deaths have increased in recent years and the opioid crisis has far reaching effects on many communities. There are several factors that contribute to opioid overuse and death, including access to resources and social factors.
Objective: In this study we aimed to assess how social factors affect overdoses by examining the differences between rural and urban communities over time.
Methods: We utilized data from County Health Rankings and conducted a retrospective review of data from 2016 and 2023 to compare several factors that we hypothesized affected opioid …

Access To Exercise Opportunities And Food Security: Mediators In The Prevalence Of Chronic Diseases In Ohio, Anidya Soni, Lisa Victor

Scholarship in Medicine - All Papers

Background: Obesity remains a leading public health issue in the United States, with 40.3% of adults classified as overweight, underscoring the need to understanding the environmental and social determinants of health1. The neighborhood food environment, including access to healthy food and recreational spaces in one's community, plays a critical role in shaping dietary behaviors and physical activity levels.

Objective: This study examines the relationship between neighborhood food environments including access to healthy food and exercise opportunities, socioeconomic factors, and health outcomes like obesity, and diabetes in Ohio from two-time points: 2016 to 2023 using data from the County Health Rankings …

Understanding Physiological Responses For Intelligent Posture Detection Using Wearable Technology, Chaitanya Vardhini Anumula, Tanvi Banerjee, Anuradha Oak

Celebration of Undergraduate & Graduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Materials

This study investigates the physiological impact of Iyengar yoga at the pose-level using EmbracePlus wearable smartwatch, for data recording and personalized yoga pose detection for tracking.

Peer Supporter Perspectives On The Roots Of Addiction:A Qualitative Study, Elise Hubert, Sydney Silverstein

Celebration of Undergraduate & Graduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Materials

The aim of this study is to qualitatively evaluate the origins of addiction through the perspective of individuals with lived experience.

Generative Ai (Gan & Vae) In Motion Sickness Research, Harigovind Harikumar, Tomojit Ghosh

Celebration of Undergraduate & Graduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Materials

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A Systematic Study Of Freezing Behavior In Earthworms In Response To Auditory And Vibratory Stimuli, Navjot Singh, A. Burton, Dragana Ivkovich Claflin

Celebration of Undergraduate & Graduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Materials

While earthworms have largely been studied for their role in eliminating toxic metals from soil, less is known about their behavior overall. Previous work from our lab found that a predator-like auditory stimulus (grunting) reliably induced fear-related freezing behavior (Worthen et al., 2024). The present studies further explore earthworm behaviors in response to audio-vibratory stimuli. In Experiment 1, we manipulated amplitude levels and speaker location to examine the parameters needed to reliably induce a freezing fear response to the grunting sound. It was hypothesized that when the speaker was touching the apparatus and producing an added mechanical vibration, there would …

A Program Evaluation Case Study, Madelyne G. Culbertson

Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.)

This case study presents a program evaluation of a physical activity intervention implemented in Bourbon County, Kentucky, guided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health.

A Case Study In Program Evaluation, Alexis Strottman

Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.)

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation plan for the Bourbon County Physical Activity Improvement Program, as prompted in the University of Kentucky's 2025 MPH-Health Management and Policy Capstone Case Study. The case study outlines a program developed in response to high obesity and inactivity rates in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Utilizing the CDC's 6-step program evaluation framework, the plan outlines engagement of a diverse group of stakeholders to assess the program's effectiveness in increasing physical activity among residents. The evaluation focuses on both process and outcome measures, examining the implementation of exercise facilities, community events, and an app designed to track …

A Case Study In Program Evaluation: Evaluation Of A Program Designed To Increase Activity Levels In Bourbon County Residents, Brooke M. Woodburn

Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.)

This paper provides recommendations to eliminate possible barriers in a program developed to reduce inactive levels across Bourbon County.

Increasing Hpv Vaccination Adherence In Floyd County, Ky: Give Teens Vaccines, Taylor M. Stumbo

Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.)

Cervical cancer remains a pressing public health issue, particularly in underserved and rural areas where access to preventive care is limited. This capstone addresses the urgent need to increase human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination adherence in Floyd County, Kentucky—part of the central Appalachian region that experiences disproportionately high cervical cancer incidence and mortality. Despite the proven effectiveness of HPV vaccines in preventing the virus strains most responsible for cervical cancer, uptake in this region remains below national targets due to socioeconomic barriers, limited healthcare access, and lack of awareness. Give Teens Vaccines is a two component intervention leveraging existing healthcare systems …

A Case Study In Program Evaluation Evaluation Of A Physical Inactivity Program In Bourbon County, Kentucky, Carine N. Malekera

Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.)

This paper evaluates a physical activity program by the Bourbon County Health Department aimed at increasing physical activity among local residents. Using the CDC’s Framework for Program Evaluation, the study includes both process and outcome evaluations to assess program implementation and impact on health outcomes. Key findings indicate success in urban areas but challenges in rural regions due to limited access to resources. Recommendations include improving access to exercise opportunities in rural areas and offering virtual classes. This evaluation emphasizes the importance of continuous assessment for effective public health interventions.

A Case Study In Program Evaluation, Kaitlyn E. Lee

Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.)

This capstone project evaluates a fictious online MRSA education program developed by the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department and Fayette County Public Schools after a suspected outbreak among student athletes. Using the CDC’s 6-Step Framework for Program Evaluation, the project focuses on how stakeholders were engaged, how the program was described and mapped, how the evaluation questions were developed, what evidence was collected, and how conclusions were formed. The goal of the evaluation is to understand whether the program’s structure, delivery, and implementation support clear infection-control education for the different school personnel who use it. This project emphasizes the overall evaluation …

Identifying Adverse Childhood Experiences And Mental Health Needs Among A Small Sample Of Pregnant Women Who Use Cannabis, Aubrey Jones, Lisa M. Blair, Julie A. Kurzer, Kathy Rademacher, Letitia Ducas, Cynthia Cockerham, Kristin Ashford

Social Work Faculty Publications

Introduction: As the legalization of cannabis becomes more widespread use has steadily increased. Approximately 5 percent of pregnant individuals self-report use during pregnancy.

Methods: This study uses a mixed methods approach to examine adverse childhood experiences, mental health needs, and cannabis use among a small sample (N =59) of women. Cumulative ACE scores of four or more were considerably high within this sample compared to the US average.

Results: Results of a binary logistic regression indicate an association between ACEs and Cannabis use (OR 1.27, 95% CI (1.002- 1.616) when controlling for maternal age and anxiety. Qualitative results identified two …

2024 Fact Sheet, Clemson University

Fact Sheets

No abstract provided.

Academic Libraries Addressing Health Literacy And Misinformation, Brynne Campbell Rice, Emily Petersen, Ian Roberts, Emily Vardell, Deborah Charbonneau

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

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