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The Impact Of Artificial Intelligence On Fashion And Retail Efficiency: A Strategic Analysis, Andrew Burnstine, Raouf Ghattas

Faculty and Staff Publications & Presentations

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Achieving Positive Outcomes Using Rapport-Based Police Interviewing In Sex Offense Investigations, Mark A. Dainty

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Rapport is a critical component of interpersonal communication marked by verbal and non-verbal behaviors including attention, positivity, and coordination. The presence of these indicators during police interviews is positively correlated with information yield. This grounded theory study examined the relationship between rapport and information yield as measured by the quantity of details interviewees disclosed to investigators, particularly sensitive or incriminating details. The theory guiding this study was Cesare Beccaria’s classical criminology Rational Choice Theory, which suggests offenders are rational beings who conduct a cost-benefit analysis before engaging in crime. Investigators applying this theory and employing rapport-based interviewing skills will elicit …

Lived Experiences Of High School Teachers' Professional Development Post-Covid-19 Pandemic In Rural Georgia: A Transcendental Phenomenology Study, Jesse Regalado

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this phenomenological study is to describe the lived experiences of high school teachers' professional development post-COVID-19 pandemic in rural Georgia, U.S.A. The theories guiding the research are Piaget's theory of disequilibration, addressing how one accommodates and assimilates to adapt to change, and Festinger's (1957) theory of cognitive dissonance, explaining how one adapts, assimilates, and accommodates to avoid disharmony. The study's central question is, what are high school teachers' perceptions on the practical or academic professional development they received post-COVID-19 pandemic in rural Georgia, United States, used to promote leadership, teaching mastery, or pedagogical practices? This study utilized …

The Sanders Effect: Disruptive Leadership And Its Implications At Jackson State University, Kevin A.D. Stiff

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this qualitative intrinsic case study was to explore how Deion Sanders’s leadership style influenced Jackson State University (JSU) and to examine the potential for disruptive leadership to drive change in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sports settings. Disruptive leadership is an emerging concept in leadership literature and has been underexplored, particularly in addressing the systemic challenges historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) face. These challenges include underfunding, limited resources, and reduced visibility. Sanders’s appointment at JSU provided a transformative example of disruptive leadership, resulting in significant institutional and cultural shifts. This study employed multiple data collection methods, …

A New Fossil Woody Flora Of The Late Oligocene-Early Miocene Of Northwest İstanbul With A New Species, Ünal Akkemi̇k, Burcu Üner

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The silicified wood samples identified in Kabakça (Çatalca) and its surroundings have been found in the west of İstanbul Province. They come from terrestrial clastic sediments of the Late Oligocene-Early Miocene İstanbul Formation. Six silicified wood samples were collected and sectioned in transverse, tangential, and radial planes. As a result, five angiosperm taxa were identified. Three out of six fossil wood samples belong to Lauraceae (Cryptocaryoxylon istanbulensis Akkemik and Üner sp. nov., Lau-rinoxylon ehrendorferi Berger, 1953), and the others to Fabaceae (Dichrostachyoxylon zirkelii (Felix) Müller-Stoll and Mädel 1967), Ulmaceae (Zelkovoxylon crystalliferum Akkemik 2021), and Fagaceae (Quercoxylon mixtum Petrescu 1978). This …

Identification Of Candidate Ultraviolet Counterparts To Globular Cluster X-Ray Binaries, William Schuster

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

X-ray binaries function as sources of potential energy that keep globular clusters from collapsing in on themselves, and therefore, understanding X-ray binaries is crucial to understanding globular clusters, and our galaxy as a whole. The dense cores of globular clusters can prevent both optical photometry and infrared photometry from adequately measuring the brightness of individual stars. However, the cores of globular clusters are much less crowded in the ultraviolet, which allows for the identification of individual stars within the core. By identifying ultraviolet counterparts to each X-ray source within a globular cluster, the type of X-ray emitter can be determined. …

Bayesian Network-Based Framework To Uncover Social Inequities In Flood Risk: Application To East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, Fuad Hasan

LSU Master's Theses

Regional flood risk assessment requires understanding the complex interplay of sociodemographic, socioeconomic, hydrogeologic, built environment, and climatic variables that impact flood vulnerability. Traditional studies often focus on large-scale units, overlooking localized variations and disproportionate exposure within populations. To address these gaps, a methodological framework of flood risk assessment using the Bayesian network was proposed and applied to East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, for the August 2016 flood event to identify relationships between flood risk variables at the housing unit level. Flood exposure representativeness (FER) was determined using the Bayesian network's inference capabilities to identify over- or under-represented groups. This study …

Facies And Depositional Architecture Of Upper Miocene Tidal Flat Sedimentation In Kefalonia And Corfu Islands, West Greece, Nicolina Bourli, Chrysanthos Botziolis, Penelope Papadopoulou, Panagiotis Zelilidis, Elena Zoumpouli, George Iliopoulos, Angelos G. Maravelis, Efthymios Trypsanas, Ioannis Oikonomopoulos, Aristotelis Pagoulatos, Avraam Zelilidis

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

This research involves the integrated sedimentological and paleontological analysis of the Neogene tidal deposits in the eastern parts of the Hellenic Fold and Thrust Belt, in South Kefalonia (Paliolinos-Avithos coast) and in NW Corfu (Arillas coast) islands. The study of tidal is supported by illustrative outcrop photographs, with a particular emphasis on two synthetic outcrops. Sedimentary logs were generated to document detailed bed-by-bed measurements, descriptions, and identification of sedimentary structures. Additionally, over 75 samples were chosen for age determination and paleoenvironmental analysis. Micropaleontological analysis encompassed 52 samples from South Kefalonia and 23 samples from NW Corfu and the results point …

Deaf Culture Matters: The Perceived Implementation Of Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices In Public Deaf Education, Stephanie Elpenord-Senatus

Graduate Theses & Dissertations

Over the last five decades, the number of Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students enrolled in public schools has significantly increased, while fewer attend traditional residential schools for the Deaf. Although public schools may provide academic advantages, concerns remain about their capacity to meet the cultural, linguistic, and social-emotional needs of DHH students. Access to Deaf culture is essential for students to develop a healthy Deaf identity, feel a sense of belonging, and participate meaningfully in their education.

While the Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) framework has been widely researched, there is limited work examining Deaf culture explicitly through the lens of …

Northeast Anatolian Obsidians: Preliminary Results, Tülay Bak, Ufuk Celal Yağcioğlu, Cüneyt Şen, Fatma Şi̇şman Tükel

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Obsidian, whose physical properties are suitable for making cutting tools, was one of the most basic commodities traded in prehistoric times. Obsidian, not found everywhere and with its unique chemical composition, is often used to create maps of prehistoric migration and trade routes. There are many important obsidian sources in Anatolia. These sources were utilised in the prehistoric period. One of the most important challenges facing archaeologists is identifying the source area of the raw materials used to create obsidian stone tools in prehistoric settlements. The geochemical properties of the obsidian from Northeastern Anatolia are less well known than those …

Racial And Ethnic Inequalities In Actual Vs Nearest Delivery Hospitals, Nansi S. Boghossian, Lucy T. Greenberg, Jeffrey S. Buzas, Joshua Radack, Molly Passarella, Jeannette Rogowski, George R. Saade, Ciaran S. Phibbs, Scott A. Lorch

Faculty Publications

IMPORTANCE Minoritized racial and ethnic groups, such as American Indian and Black individuals, often receive lower quality health care compared with White individuals. There is limited understanding of how these disparities extend to obstetric care, particularly when comparing the quality of care at the actual delivery hospital vs the nearest obstetric hospital based on the birthing individual’s residence. OBJECTIVE To examine inequality in care based on the actual delivery hospital and the closest delivery hospital to the birthing individual’s residential zip code centroid. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This population-based retrospective cohort study used data from 5 states (2008 to 2020 …

A Sensitivity Curve Approach To Tuning A Pulsar Timing Array In The Detection Era, Jeremy G. Baier, ‪Jeffrey S. Hazboun, Joseph D. Romano

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Publications

As pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) transition into the detection era of the stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB), it is important for PTA collaborations to review and possibly revise their observing campaigns. The detection of a 'single source' would be a boon for gravitational astrophysics, as such a source would emit gravitational waves for millions of years in the PTA frequency band. Here we present generic methods for studying the effects of various observational strategies, taking advantage of detector sensitivity curves, i.e. noise-averaged, frequency-domain detection statistics. The statistical basis for these methods is presented along with myriad examples of how to …

A Case Study Of Gray-Box Fuzzing With Byte- And Tree-Level Mutation Strategies In Xml-Based Applications For Exposing Security Vulnerabilities, Şerafetti̇n Şentürk, Vahi̇d Garousi, Nejat Yumuşak

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Fuzzing is an automated process for detecting crashes and vulnerabilities in software system and it is classified as grammar- or mutation-based in terms of input generation. While the grammar-based fuzzing generates inputs from a specification and takes highly-structured inputs, mutation-based fuzzing generates inputs by modifying input files and abstract syntax trees randomly. There are not many case studies comparing the crash detection capabilities in the scope of mutation-based fuzzing. To add to the body of empirical evidence in this area, this case study compares fuzzing with different mutation strategies to evaluate their effectiveness in three aspects: fault detection effectiveness, fault …

Multikernel Embedded Fusion Unet (Mkef-Unet): A Robust Deep Learning Approach For Accurate Segmentation Of Chagas Parasites, Preet Kumar, Carlos Brito-Loeza, Lavdie Rada

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper introduces a novel approach for segmenting Chagas parasites on stained blood smear samples from mice during the acute phase of infection with Trypanosoma cruzi utilizing a U-Net-based deep learning model named multikernel embedded fusion UNet (MKEF-UNet). Our proposed model incorporates DenseNet-121 for feature extraction, a classifier module for predicting parasite information, and a segmentation decoder with multiscale feature fusion to generate precise segmentation results. Notably, the integration of the embedded vector module, multikernel convolutions with dilations, and advanced data augmentation techniques significantly enhance the model’s robustness and generalization capabilities. In extensive experiments on the Chagas dataset, MKEF-UNet achieves …

Conditional Quantization For Uniform Distributions On Line Segments And Regular Polygons, Pigar Biteng, Mathieu Caguiat, Tsianna Dominguez, Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury

School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Faculty Publications

Quantization for a Borel probability measure refers to the idea of estimating a given probability by a discrete probability with support containing a finite number of elements. If, in the quantization some of the elements in the support are preselected, then the quantization is called a conditional quantization. In this paper, we investigate the conditional quantization for the uniform distributions defined on the unit line segments and m-sided regular polygons, where 𝑚≥3, inscribed in a unit circle.

A Phenomenological Study Of The Experiences Of Reading Teachers Instructing Students With Diverse Needs Using The Mcgraw Hill Direct Instruction Programs, Kyle Phillip Ford

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study is to understand the experiences of reading teachers instructing students with diverse needs using the McGraw Hill Direct Instruction programs in kindergarten through eighth grade classrooms during the first three years of the district-wide implementation in a large school district in Florida. Instructing students with diverse needs using the McGraw Hill Direct Instruction programs is generally defined as using either McGraw Hill’s Corrective Reading or Reading Mastery program to teach students with reading deficiencies. The theories that guided this study were Bandura’s social cognitive and self-efficacy theories. The central research question was “What …

Cultivating Advanced Education For Christian Faculty In Higher Education Institutions: A Phenomenological Study, Gary D. Hyrne

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand the experiences of cultivating advanced education for Christian faculty at higher education institutions in the United States. The central research question guiding this study asked: What are the experiences of Christian faculty cultivating advanced education in higher education institutions? The Christian faculty participants' research was guided by data on their lived experiences at private Christian institutions, state universities, or other secular institutions of higher education. Secular relates to the worldly or temporal, not overtly or specifically religious. Bandura’s social cognitive theory guided the study. The research design followed the recommendations of …

Reading Sound: Freedom And Constraint Within Music Media Designs, Aaron Lohmeyer

CLASP Lecture Series

Dr. Lohmeyer’s presentation explores how emerging media designs (such as the phonograph) gave way to new musical practices in the 20th-century and beyond. The literacies emerging from various new media designs changed our orientation to music as technology shifted how sound would be represented, recorded, and transmitted by and for people. Dr. Lohmeyer’s talk examines how “the act of reading sound presents both freedoms and constraints for the reader” and carry important implications for self-expression and democracy.

Increasing Electric Vehicle Charger Availability With A Mobile, Self-Contained Charging Station, Robert Serrano, Arifa Sultana, Declan Kavanaugh, Hongjie Wang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Student Research

As the transition to sustainable transportation has accelerated with the rise of electric vehicles (EVs), ensuring drivers have access to charging to maximize the electric miles driven is critical to lowering carbon emissions in the transportation sector. Limited charging station capacity and poor reliability, especially during peak travel times, long distance travels, holidays, and events, have hindered the adoption of EVs and threaten the progress toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Adaptive, flexible deployment strategies combined with innovative approaches integrating mobility and renewable energy are essential to address these systemic challenges and bridge the current infrastructure gap. To address these challenges, …

Michigan Academician, Volume 49, Issue 2

Michigan Academician

Michigan Academician Volume 49, Issue 2.

Student Expectations And Outcomes In Virtual Vs In-Person Interprofessional Simulations: A Qualitative Analysis, Padmavathy Ramaswamy, Abbey M Bachmann, Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer, Chasisty L Gilder, Samuel E Neher, Jennifer L Swails

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background: Health-related programs frequently integrate interprofessional education (IPE) into their training. The COVID-19 pandemic transitioned many IPE programs online, making it essential to assess student expectations and perceived learning outcomes across virtual simulations and in-person settings.

Methods: This qualitative study compared student expectations and self-reported outcomes across in-person and virtual case scenarios at a Texas health science center. Responses to open-ended questions from two data collection periods were analyzed using inductive coding and thematic analysis.

Results: Students from nursing, medicine, dentistry, public health, and informatics participated in each group. Three major themes emerged from this study: communication, teamwork, and …

Mpox In The Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: Addressing A New Challenge To Regional Health Security, Salah Al Awaidy, Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Faryal Maslamani, Muna Al, Jameela Al Salman, Sk Md Mamunur Rahman Malik

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Extractables And Leachables Assessment In Intensified And Continuous Bioprocessing, Armin Hauk, Nelly Montenay, Ina Pahl, Roberto Menzel

Single Use Technologies VII: Revolutionizing Manufacturing for Tomorrow’s Medicines

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Michigan Academician, Volume 49, Issue 3

Michigan Academician

Michigan Academician Volume 49, Issue 3

Effective Risk Management Strategies Minority Small Business Owners Use To Address Challenges Of Changing Business Environments, Sabit Yasin Mohammed

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

As a result of a lack of effective risk management strategies, some minority small business owners are unable to address business challenges during changing business environments. Small business leaders who cannot mitigate challenges in changing business environments risk financial loss and business failure. Grounded in general system theory and entrepreneurship theory, the purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry study was to explore effective risk management strategies of minority small business owners used to mitigate challenges of changing business environments. The participants were six minority small business owners from southwest region of the United States who successfully mitigated the challenges of …

Nonstationary Heterogeneous Panels With Multiple Structural Changes, Badi H. Baltagi, Qu Feng, Wei Wang

Center for Policy Research

Nonstationary panels have been widely used in empirical studies in macroeconomics and finance. This paper considers multiple structural changes in nonstationary heterogeneous panels with common factors. Kapetanios, Pesaran, Yamagata (2011) showed that unobserved nonstationary factors can be proxied by cross-sectional averages of observable data. This means that unobserved error factors can be treated as additional regressors, and different break points in slopes and error factor loadings can be considered as multiple breaks in linear regression models with panel data. We generalize the least squares approach by Bai and Perron (1998) to nonstationary panels and show that the break points in …

Vision-Related Quality Of Life Among Glaucoma Patients In Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study, Amani Abu-Shaheen, Mohsen Ayyash, Essam A. Alfayyad, Isamme, Doaa Dahan, Abdusalam Torjoman, Sadique Zameer, Humariya Heena

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Objectives: This study aimed to examine the impact of glaucoma severity and socioeconomic factors on perceived vision-related quality of life (VRQoL) among glaucoma patients in Saudi Arabia. Methods: This cross-sectional study included adult glaucoma patients attending the ophthalmology outpatient clinics at King Fahad Medical City and King Saud University Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from May 2022 to May 2023. The validated Arabic translation of the 39-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI VFQ-39) was used to measure VRQoL. Multivariate linear regression analyses were performed to examine the factors associated with VRQoL. Results: A total of …

Measuring Interoperability Within Nato: Adapted Off-The-Shelf Or Bespoke Solution?, John R. Deni, Matthew R. Macleod, Sarah E. Stewart, Katherine M. Banko, Adrian Jones

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

Despite decades of work on interoperability, NATO Allies cannot measure, assess, and build upon it fully and accurately. The lack of agreed formats or standards for collection, management, and the communication of findings have prevented the Allies from developing common interoperability measurement and assessment tools. Nonetheless, NATO could adopt extant standards, methodologies, processes, or tools to achieve its interoperability objectives. Testing this notion through use cases, the authors identify practical and conceptual hurdles to adopting an off-the-shelf solution. They conclude that the Alliance may need to create assessment standards, methodologies, processes, and tools from scratch, despite the difficulties of doing …

Measurement Time Of Weak Measurements On Large Entangled Systems, Truong-Son P. Văn, Andrew N. Jordan, David W. Snoke

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

It is well established that starting only with strong, projective quantum measurements, experiments can be designed to allow weak measurements, which lead to a random walk between the possible final measurement outcomes. However, one can ask the reverse question: starting with only weak measurements, can all the results of standard strong measurements be recovered? Prior work has shown that some results can be, such as the Born rule for the probability of measurement outcomes as a function of wave intensity. In this paper, we show that another crucial result can be reproduced by purely weak measurements, namely, the collapse of …

From Genes To Patterns: A Framework For Modeling The Emergence Of Embryonic Development From Transcriptional Regulation, Jimena Garcia-Guillen, Ezzat El-Sherif

School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences Faculty Publications

Understanding embryonic patterning, the process by which groups of cells are partitioned into distinct identities defined by gene expression, is a central challenge in developmental biology. This complex phenomenon is driven by precise spatial and temporal regulation of gene expression across many cells, resulting in the emergence of highly organized tissue structures. While similar emergent behavior is well understood in other fields, such as statistical mechanics, the regulation of gene expression in development remains less clear, particularly regarding how molecular-level gene interactions lead to the large-scale patterns observed in embryos. In this study, we present a modeling framework that bridges …