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Rtpltool: A Software Tool For Path Loss Modeling In 5g Outdoor Systems, Ci̇han Bariş Findik, Özlem Özgün

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The increase in the required bandwidth along with the global growth of existing wireless communication systems is one of the major reasons why research and industry communities are exploring 5G and millimeter-wave frequencies. The advantages of millimeter wave frequencies for 5G applications are a wide range of accessible and unlicensed spectrum, the use of small antennas in RF applications with increasing frequency, and low losses due to the interference effects compared to the currently used frequency bands. However, due to some computational challenges especially at millimeter waves (i.e. in FR2 frequency band), it is necessary to develop efficient software tools …

Bi-Allelic Letm1 Variants Perturb Mitochondrial Ion Homeostasis Leading To A Clinical Spectrum With Predominant Nervous System Involvement, Jdc Pereira Baptista

Peninsula Medical School

Leucine zipper-EF-hand containing transmembrane protein 1 (LETM1) encodes an inner mitochondrial membrane protein with an osmoregulatory function controlling mitochondrial volume and ion homeostasis. The putative association of LETM1 with a human disease was initially suggested in Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, a disorder that results from de novo monoallelic deletion of chromosome 4p16.3, a region encompassing LETM1. Utilizing exome sequencing and international gene-matching efforts, we have identified 18 affected individuals from 11 unrelated families harboring ultra-rare bi-allelic missense and loss-of-function LETM1 variants and clinical presentations highly suggestive of mitochondrial disease. These manifested as a spectrum of predominantly infantile-onset (14/18, 78%) and variably progressive …

Cataract, Abnormal Electroretinogram And Visual Evoked Potentials In A Child With Sma-Led2 - Extending The Phenotype, Agata Oliwa, Shuko Joseph, Eoghan Millar, Iain Horrocks, Dawn Penman, Julia Baptista, Thomas Cullup, Panayiotis Constantinou, Anne Marie Heuchan, Ruth Hamilton, Cheryl Longman

Peninsula Medical School

This case report describes a girl who presented antenatal arthrogryposis and postnatal hypotonia, generalized and respiratory weakness, joint deformities particularly affecting the lower limbs and poor swallow. By 5 months, cataracts, abnormal electroretinograms, visual evoked potentials and global developmental impairments were recognized. No causative variants were identified on targeted gene panels. After her unexpected death at 11 months, gene-agnostic trio whole exome sequencing revealed a likely pathogenic de novo BICD2 missense variant, NM_001003800.1, c.593T>C, p.(Leu198Pro), confirming the diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophy lower extremity predominant type 2 (SMA-LED2). We propose that cataracts and abnormal electroretinograms are novel features of …

Post-Digital Curation: The Contemporary Flaneur, Technology And The Artist Book, Jared O’Sullivan

Postgraduate

This project identifies and examines the emergent themes in the original photographic work of Australian photographer Jared O’Sullivan from 2009 – 2019 and reflects on the curation and production of a retrospective artist book that celebrates a decade of professional practice.

The exegesis explores how the creation of an artist book retrospective can illuminate underlying themes in past works and how curation as method facilitates the discovery and communication of these new insights into practice. Referencing the works of Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin and Susan Sontag, the literature review explores the effects of technology in relation to photographic theory and …

Lindenwood Digest, September 1, 2022, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been a digital employee newsletter since 2009.

Five Steps To Successfully Make Social Engagement Happen In Your Church, Sung Kun Kwon, Bordes Henry Saturne

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

An Ips-Derived In Vitro Model Of Human Atrial Conduction, Sherri M Biendarra-Tiegs, Sergey Yechikov, Bhupinder Shergill, Brittany Brumback, Kentaro Takahashi, Venktesh S Shirure, Ruth Estelle Gonzalez, Laura Houshmand, Denise Zhong, Kuo-Chan Weng, Jon Silva, Timothy W Smith, Stacey L Rentschler, Steven C George

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in the United States, affecting approximately 1 in 10 adults, and its prevalence is expected to rise as the population ages. Treatment options for AF are limited; moreover, the development of new treatments is hindered by limited (1) knowledge regarding human atrial electrophysiological endpoints (e.g., conduction velocity [CV]) and (2) accurate experimental models. Here, we measured the CV and refractory period, and subsequently calculated the conduction wavelength, in vivo (four subjects with AF and four controls), and ex vivo (atrial slices from human hearts). Then, we created an in vitro model of …

Is Your C-Suite Risk Literate?, Jason Bergner, Joshua J. Filzen

Accountancy Faculty Publications and Presentations

Managing risk effectively is essential for business success, and thus understanding risk is vital for business executives. Effective risk management increases firm value, whereas poor risk management will damage shareholder wealth. In this article, we examine the risk literacy of business executives and find significant variation among the leaders we sample. Our findings suggest that business executives would be well served to evaluate their own risk literacy, and remediate, if necessary; to work to increase risk literacy in the company’s employees; and to include risk literacy as an important and routine part of the firm’s overall culture. Because the importance …

Illustration, Lynne S. Foster

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

Digital Imaging And Illustration, Lynne S. Foster

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

Notre Dame Lawyers Connect: September 2022, Notre Dame Law School

Notre Dame Lawyers Connect

Notre Dame Hosts 2022 Religious Liberty Summit in Rome

New NDLA Board Members

Professors Matt Barrett and Judy Fox retire from ND Law

Alumni Spotlights

• The Law as Leverage, Judge Mary Yu '93 J.D.
• Ballfield to law field: Notre Dame baseball teammates now represent MLB Players Association, Matt Nussbaum '00, '04 J.D. and Jeff Perconte '00, '03 J.D.

Events

• Marcus and Marcus in NYC
• Notre Dame Lawyer Summer Events: Indianapolis and Los Angeles
• Homecoming September 16-17, 2022
• “Staying in the Game”
• 5th annual Law Homecoming Tailgate

Alumni Notes

• Ophelia S. Camina
• Gregory R. Ripple
• Jeremiah Lee

Beyond True And False: Fake News And The Digital Epistemic Divide, Gilad Abiri, Johannes Buchheim

Michigan Technology Law Review

The massive fact-checking, flagging, and content removal campaigns run by major digital platforms during the 2020 elections and the Covid-19 pandemic did some good. However, they failed to prevent substantial portions of the population from believing that the election was stolen or that vaccinations are dangerous.

In this Article, we argue that the reason for the ineffectiveness of truth-based solutions—such as fact-checking— is that they do not reach the heart of the problem. Both scholars and policymakers share the implicit or explicit belief that the rise of digital fake news is harmful mainly because it spreads false information, which lays …

Front Matter, Michigan Technology Law Review

Michigan Technology Law Review

Front Matter for Volume 29, Issue 1 of Michigan Technology Law Review

Strategic Disclosure And Debt Covenant Violation, Thomas Bourveau, Derrald Stice, Rencheng Wang

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

This study examines how managers change their forecasting behavior as a debt covenant violation approaches. Using a sample of firms that disclose a debt covenant violation (DCV) in their financial statements, we find that management forecasts are more optimistic in the period leading up to a DCV, and this result is not driven by managers’ unintentional forecast bias. Additionally, we find that managers who are more optimistic in their forecasts also take on more risk and increase dividend payouts before violations, consistent with managers strategically using earnings forecasts to justify their activities favorable to shareholders but likely to be curtailed …

Uncovering The Value Of Blockchain Applications In The World Of Finance, Qiang Cheng

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

This article discusses the benefits of using blockchain in the context of asset-backed security (ABS) issuance: reducing information asymmetry between issuers and investors, reducing yield spread of ABS, disciplining credit rating agencies, increasing the quality of underlying assets, and reducing issuers’ risk exposure. Such benefits should apply to other blockchain applications in the world of finance.

Developing And Validating A Scale Of Tourism Gentrification In Rural Areas, Chaohui Wang, Yumei Xu, Tingting Zhang

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

In recent years, tourism gentrification has made great progress in rural areas and has had significant impacts on these areas' development, specifically in the domains of the economy, living standards, community, culture, and environment. Tourists play a key role in developing tourism gentrification in rural areas, but research investigating tourism gentrification in rural areas from the tourist perspective is scarce. To fill this gap, we focus on tourism gentrification and develop a measurement scale from the tourist perspective through multiple qualitative and quantitative steps. Our findings confirm that tourism gentrification in rural areas from the tourist perspective comprises eight dimensions: …

The Future Of Destination Marketing Organizations In The Insight Era, Arthur Huang, Efren De La Mora Velasco, Adam Haney, Sergio Alvarez

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

There has been a growing interest in examining the implementation of insight-era technologies (e.g., AI, social media) and big data for sustainable tourism development. However, actionable guidelines to promote a holistic adaptation and the effective functioning of destination marketing/management organizations (DMOs) in the increasingly data-infused world are still needed. This perspective paper posits a research-based framework that DMOs can use to become more responsive and efficient in their marketing and planning efforts in the current AI-infused world. Four propositions are presented to support DMOs' transition to the insight-era: (a) DMOs' organizational adaptations and workforce development and training, (b) active engagement …

Reformed Worship (Rw) 145 - Advent / Christmas (September 2022), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

Editorial: These Are Our Stories by Joyce Borger....2

Digital Bodies by W. David O. Taylor....3

Q&A: Celebrating the Prince of Peace by John D. Witvliet....7

Songs for the Season: A Psalm for Advent by Wendell Kimbrough....9

What Is God Like? by Matt Ackerman and Bailey Sarvar Attema....12

Candle Lighting Litanies for Advent and Christmas by Sally Powell....19

Advent with the Ancient Church by Anthony Bolkema and Jim Oord....23

God is Faithful! Let's Celebrate! by Rebecca Hoeksema Snippe....27

Worship that Disturbs by Chris Schoon....32

Slaughter of the Innocents by Noah Livingston and …

An Information-Production Theory Of Liability Rules, Jacob Assaf, Roy Shapira

University of Chicago Law Review

The negligence-versus–strict liability debate is over in tort law, and negligence has clearly won. Yet the fact that our accident-compensation system is fault based continues to attract much opposition in popular sentiment and academic circles. Standard economic analysis views strict liability as preferable to negligence because it is easier to administer and leads to better risk reduction: strict liability induces injurers not only to optimally invest in precaution but also to optimally adjust their activity levels. Standard analysis thus views the prevalence of negligence as unjustifiable on efficiency grounds. This Article challenges the conventional wisdom and clarifies an efficiency rationale …

The Constitutional Right To Bench Trial, Guha Krishnamurthi

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Geography, Niches, And Transportation Influence Bovine Respiratory Microbiome And Health, Jianmin Chai, Xinting Liu, Hunter Usdrowski, Feilong Deng, Ying Li, Jiangchao Zhao

Animal Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Bovine respiratory disease (BRD), one of the most common and infectious diseases in the beef industry, is associated with the respiratory microbiome and stressors of transportation. The impacts of the bovine respiratory microbiota on health and disease across different geographic locations and sampling niches are poorly understood, resulting in difficult identification of BRD causes. In this study, we explored the effects of geography and niches on the bovine respiratory microbiome and its function by re-analyzing published metagenomic datasets and estimated the main opportunistic pathogens that changed after transportation. The results showed that diversity, composition, structure, and function of the bovine …

Faq On The U.S. Archivist And The Future Of The Equal Rights Amendment, Center For Gender And Sexuality Law

Center for Gender & Sexuality Law

On Wednesday, September 21, 2022, the Senate will hold hearings on the nomination of Colleen Shogan as the new Archivist of the United States. This FAQ offers a short primer on what the Archivist does, her official role in the finalization of proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution, including the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the impact of Archivist action on the validity of the ERA.

Vision, Fall 2022

Vision

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in USA

VisionFinding Aid

Regulation Weakness And Lack Of Public Awareness Has Impeded The Implementation Of Environmental Policies In Saudi Arabia, Nada Gurmalla Algamdy

Dissertations & Theses

This research aimed to substantially illustrate that the weakness of environmental regulations and lack of public participation in urban planning alongside poor public awareness in Saudi Arabia has inhibited the implementation of environmental policies across this region. To study these issues, this research compared the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (“KSA”) to the United States (“US”) building on numerous studies to illustrate how the identified weaknesses correlate with weak or ineffective environmental policies. It is well known that it would be better to use a European country “because it's known that the EU has tough environmental measures" as a model for …

32329 Assessing The Utility Of Fontana-Masson And Mart-1 Stains In Evaluating Skin Pigmentary Changes Induced By Ultraviolet Radiation And Visible Light, Marissa Ceresnie, Indermeet Kohli, Ben J. Friedman, Henry W. Lim, Iltefat H. Hamzavi

Dermatology Meeting Abstracts

One of the observed effects of ultraviolet radiation (UVR) and visible light (VL) on melanocompetent skin is increased pigmentation, also known as skin darkening or tanning. Many methods are used to measure skin pigment, including the Fontana-Masson stain (FMS) and MART-1 immunostain, which histologically highlight melanin and melanocyte density, respectively. While these approaches may be adequate in assessing baseline skin pigment among individuals of different races and phototypes, detecting the skin darkening induced by UVR and VL within the same individual is a challenge, especially in darker skin phototypes. We conducted a literature search and analyzed 16 articles comparing skin …

31064 The Detroit Keloid Scale: A Validated Tool For Rating Keloids, Alexis B. Lyons, David M. Ozog, Henry W. Lim, Kate V. Viola, Lamont R. Jones, Amy Tang

Dermatology Meeting Abstracts

Background: No keloid-specific outcome measures exist.

Objective: To develop and validate the Detroit Keloid Scale (DKS), a standardized method of keloid assessment to better compare treatments.

Methods: Forty-seven physicians were polled to develop the DKS. The scale was validated in 52 patients with keloids against the Vancouver Scar Scale (VSS), Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale (POSAS), and Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) by 3 physicians.

Results: The interrater reliability was “substantial” for observer component of the DKS and only “moderate” for the VSS and observer POSAS (ICC were 0.80, 0.60, and 0.47, respectively). Pearson’s correlation indicated a “moderate” association …

35360 Recalcitrant Pediatric Bullous Erythema Multiforme Responsive To Oral Tofacitinib, Sasank Konda, Nayha Shetty, Jesse Y. Liu

Dermatology Meeting Abstracts

Patient history and physical: A 25-year-old African American female was admitted for painful oral erosions and widespread blistering lesions on the trunk and extremities which had been waxing and waning since age 12 years old. Disease flares requiring hospitalization had been continuing to occur multiple times annually in spite of numerous systemic immunosuppressive agents including chronic corticosteroids (resulting in Cushingoid features and insulin-dependent diabetes) in combination with cyclosporine, dapsone, tacrolimus, anakinra, rituximab, adalimumab, apremilast, mycophenolate mofetil, and intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) at various times. Adjunctive therapies including acyclovir and leuprolide had also proven ineffective. Physical examination revealed well-defined, targetoid macules with …

35180 “Could I Be Allergic To My New Hidradenitis Suppurativa Medication?” Characterization Of A Cutaneous Delayed-Type Drug Hypersensitivity Reaction To Secukinumab, Nayha Shetty, Sasank Konda, Jesse Veenstra

Dermatology Meeting Abstracts

Patient history and physical: A 32-year-old Asian-American female presented with widespread, pruritic, red papules involving the ears, trunk, and extremities for approximately 6 weeks’ duration. The lesions first developed several days after her second secukinumab injection, which was originally initiated for recalcitrant stage III hidradenitis suppurativa. Physical examination revealed numerous erythematous, scaly papules on the bilateral ears, upper chest, inframammary folds, bilateral upper extremities, and abdomen (including umbilicus). Large, well-demarcated, moist-appearing plaques were observed to involve the bilateral axillary folds symmetrically. Her vital signs were stable, and she denied recent facial swelling or urticaria.

Pathology: A punch biopsy obtained from …

Musi 395.10: Applied Study Iii - Voice, Katie E. Martin

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Musi 395.04: Applied Study Iii - Trombone, Robert D. Tapper

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.