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Tissue Decay Tested In Modern Metasequoia Leaves: Implications For Early Diagenesis Of Leaves In Fossil Lagerstätten, Caitlyn R. Witkowski, Qin Leng, Christopher W. Reid, Liang Feng, Hong Yang

Science and Technology Department Faculty Journal Articles

Sedimentary deposits yielding extraordinarily-preserved fossils (known as Lagerstätten) may provide significant insights into the physiology and environments of ancient plants, particularly when the fossils represent their original characteristics with limited diagenetic modifications. To better understand molecular, isotopic, and morphological changes during the early stages of diagenesis, degradation experiments were conducted in two time series: 1) a laboratory decay series using fungi on leaves over the course of a month and 2) a natural decay series with leaves collected from different stages of leaf senescence and early diagenesis. Both experiments used modern leaves of the dawn redwood Metasequoia glyptostroboides …

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 63 Number 1, Summer 2022, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

16 - SHARED DREAMS Meet incoming University President Julie Sullivan, the first layperson and woman selected to lead SCU. Leslie Griffy

20 - BD KNOWS BEST Discovering who you really are, being grateful, and dinosaurs with BD Wong. Lauren Loftus.

22 - SWEPT AWAY Being homeless in Silicon Valley is particularly deadly. One professor explores why so many die in a land of such excess. Leslie Griffy .

28 - ON THE OUTSIDE A first-person account of being wrongly convicted, as told by Arturo Jimenez.

30 - BOOKED AND BUSY The secret behind the Hollywood success of so many Bronco …

More Than Recipes: Enriching A Campus Common Read With Historical Cookbooks, Kristen J. Nyitray, Christine Fena

Library Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Acute Kidney Injury In Perioperative Patients, Matthew Hall

Nursing Student Class Projects (Formerly MSN)

In the surgical setting, caring for a patient in the operative and postoperative phases require perioperative care providers to be attentive to risk factors that can lead to potential harm. Of all the possible complications of surgical cases, acute kidney injury is more common than others. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is kidney function that abruptly declines over a few hours or days, increases serum creatinine, causes a period of oliguria, and has three levels of severity (Zarbock et al., 2018, p.1236-1237). Risk factors predispose patients to AKI, including age, diabetes, cardiac failure, previous history of AKI, sepsis, and many more. …

Social Media An Effective Tool For Marketing, Ronee Chandler

IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects

Increasing revenue using social media marketing.

Rock Creek Research Project, Michael Easterling

IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects

Rock Creek is a tributary to the Snake River. It stretches across Twin Falls county as well as Cassia County and is around forty-four miles long. It is also home to many multiple different species of wildlife, mostly fish. With all of these fish comes the amazing sport of fishing which is what my friends, family, and self do consistently. Unfortunately, Rock Creek like other public bodies of water has become polluted over the years mainly with E. Coli. In this paper, one will be able to look over my perspective on the issue as well as an interview with …

Shopping Marketing Tactics That Drive Purchases, Dinesh K. Gauri

Marketing Faculty Publications and Presentations

Technology is reshaping the retail experience. In the fight for market share, how effective are traditional marketing tactics and technology offerings at attracting shoppers?

The Forces Changing U.S. Shopping Behavior, Dinesh K. Gauri

Marketing Faculty Publications and Presentations

The future of retail is all about catering to the consumer. To survive retail’s newest challenge, retailers must understand what’s shaping consumer demand.

Exploring The Factors Influencing Employee Awareness Of Social Engineering Threats: A Review, Mohammed Fahad Alghenaim, Nur Azaliah Abu Bakar, Fiza Abdul Rahim

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

Phishing is a dynamic threat, making it much more dangerous because a lack of awareness among employees makes it much more difficult for the business to detect and respond to Phishing situations. Social engineering is a process that essentially involves human interactions that can be exploited to the point where typical security methods become defective. The most dangerous risk of social engineering is that the criminals understand human nature and may exploit vulnerabilities without the victims realizing it. This study examines relevant research to determine the factors that may influence employee awareness of social engineering threats. Three demographic factors and …

Optimal Packing Of Two Disks On Torus, Zh. Kh. Zhunussova, Ye. K. Ashimov, K. A. Dosmagulova, L. Kh. Zhunussova

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

The article is devoted to recently established connection between the packing problem of disks on torus and the effective conductivity of composites with circular inclusions. The packing problem is usually investigated by geometrical arguments, the conductivity problem by means of elliptic functions. An algorithm is developed in order to determine the optimal location of two disks on torus formed by the hexagonal lattice and square lattice. The corresponding minimization function is constructed in terms of expressions consisting of elliptic functions with unknown arguments. The numerically found roots coincide with the previously established optimal points by a pure geometrical study.

Statistical Approach To Nonlinear Schro ̈ Dinger Equation. Quantum Case, Mukhayo Yunusovna Rasulova

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

A new method is proposed to obtain nonlinear Schr¨odinger equations by the chain of Bogoliubov–Born–Green–Kirkwood–Yvon (BBGKY) quantum kinetic equations. In that sense, we investigate the dynamics of a quantum system including an infinite number of identical particles which interact via a (special) pair potential in the form of Dirac delta-function

Chain Based Leader Selection Using Neural Network In Wireless Sensor Networks Protocols, Hamdy H El-Sayed, Shereen K. Refaay, Samia A. Ali, Moumen T. El-Melegy

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

The selection of a chain leader is an important issue in wireless sensor networks (WSN). In this paper, we introduce a new method to select chain leaders in chain-based routing protocol using Neural Network (NN). Our proposed method can be applied to any chain based routing protocol such as PEGASIS (Power-Efficient Gathering in Sensor Information Systems), CBERP (Cluster Based Energy Efficient Routing Protocol), CCM (Chain-Cluster Based Mixed Routing Protocol), CCBRP (Chain-Chain Based Routing Protocol), etc. To approve our claim that our idea can be applied to any chain-based routing protocol we have applied our method to two of the most …

No-One Receives Psychiatric Treatment In A Squad Car, Judy A. Clausen, Joanmarie Davoli

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Compositional And Functional Changes In Microbial Communities Of Composts Due To The Composting-Related Factors And The Presence Of Listeria Monocytogenes, Hongye Wang, Vijay Shankar, Xiuping Jiang

Open Access Publishing Fund

Listeria monocytogenes is a leading foodborne pathogen that can contaminate fresh produce in farm environment, resulting in deadly outbreaks. Composts contain a diversity of microorganisms, and some of them may be compost-adapted competitive exclusion microorganisms against L. monocytogenes. To understand interactions between compost microflora and the pathogen, both dairy- and poultry-wastes based composts (n = 12) were inoculated with L. monocytogenes, and then analyzed by next-generation sequencing approaches along with culturing methods. DNA extraction and enumeration of L. monocytogenes were performed at 0 and 72 h post-incubation at room temperature. The major bacterial phyla were identified as Firmicutes (23%), Proteobacteria …

Sdq: Stochastic Differentiable Quantization With Mixed Precision, Xijie Huang, Zhiqiang Shen, Shichao Li, Zechun Liu, Xianghong Hu, Jeffry Wicaksana, Eric Xing, Kwang Ting Cheng

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

In order to deploy deep models in a computationally efficient manner, model quantization approaches have been frequently used. In addition, as new hardware that supports mixed bitwidth arithmetic operations, recent research on mixed precision quantization (MPQ) begins to fully leverage the capacity of representation by searching optimized bitwidths for different layers and modules in a network. However, previous studies mainly search the MPQ strategy in a costly scheme using reinforcement learning, neural architecture search, etc., or simply utilize partial prior knowledge for bitwidth assignment, which might be biased on locality of information and is sub-optimal. In this work, we present …

Wpa News 118 (2022), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (Summer 2022), number 118

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Vol. 39, No. 3, Jerry Marzullo, Catherine Humphrey

The Illinois Public Employee Relations Report

Possible Wisdom and Wit Regarding the Arbitration of Discipline

By Jerry Marzullo, Esq., and Catherine Humphrey

Cipe Pineles, Nicole Powlina

Communication Design: Design Pioneers

No abstract provided.

Macalester Today Summer 2022, Macalester College

Macalester Today

No abstract provided.

Amjambo Africa! (July 2022), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In this Issue

Amjambo Arts ......................2/3

Adama Delphine Fawundu Arisa White • Genius Black

Education ..................................4

Youth Fellowship Moonglade ................................ 5

4th of July • Hanji Chang

APIDA books for kids

Editorial & Letters.................... 6

Tips & info ...........................8-15

Fully translated

Useful info: Stimulus checks,

Resources, Marijuana, scams World Market Basket .............16

Farm market in Wales All about the workforce... 18/19

Licensing • Networking Community Happenings..20/21

News from Africa .......22/23/36

Congo Basin • Rwanda Ethiopia • DRC

Health & Wellness ............24-30

Lead poisoning - Fully Translated

Ask the Doctor • COVID Monkeypox • Suicide prevention

Community org. columns ....32

Financial …

Gardening For The Future, Abby M. Edgar

IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects

This paper discusses the importance of the capstone project working with the Boise Urban Garden School and the impact they may have on the community. We explore what the project is and how it will lead to greater knowledge for the future.

School Safety For Security Teams, Richard G. Nottingham

IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects

This paper is an introduction to school safety intended on helping a new school security team member jump start their training. It includes some data and situations a security member may come across in the year. It is hoped that by reading this, the new member will be able to immediately begin their duties and have a strong foundation on the people, emergency situations and tasks that are assigned to the position.

Curriculum Re-Mapping For Fashion Merchandising Program, Zee-Sun Yun, Kelly Weathers, Chitra Singh

Assessment Grants

This project was the re-mapping of the Fashion Merchandising major (FMEJ) curriculum to improve the program curriculum and meet the standards of Textile and Apparel Programs Accreditation Commission (TAPAC) curricula and learning outcomes. The review feedback from diverse professional sources (i.e., the TAPAC committee, program faculty, industry professional, and expert) guided our decision to revise the FMEJ curriculum by proposing new courses, the proper sequencing of fashion merchandising courses, the degree to which the curriculum supports student learning, and the extent to which learning outcomes are appropriately addressed.

An Investigation Of Anti-Intellectualism Among Nurses, Jamie Davis-Tubbs

Dissertations

Anti-intellectualism is often offered as an explanation for irrational actions, especially in the grips of uncertainty. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have uncovered the consequences of anti-intellectualism within the healthcare system. Nurses, the most identifiability trusted healthcare professionals, have been used to illustrate a healthcare paradox regarding COVID-19. The healthcare paradox presents nurses as highly trained healthcare professionals who do not believe in their own science and reject scientific expertise. Furthermore, nursing anti-intellectualism has been used to spread misinformation during a major health crisis. Yet, we do not know the depth in which anti-intellectualism exists within the nursing profession. …

From The Shadows Of Incarceration To Higher Education: Associated Invisible Identity Development Of College Students With Incarcerated Parents, Andrea Blake

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of college students who have experienced parental incarceration and explore how they make meaning of their associated invisible identity in the campus environment at four-year institutions in the U.S. Traditionally socio-historical events and messages about system-impacted individuals, their families, and children have contributed to the invisibility of this population in educational settings. This study employed a narrative inquiry approach. Also, it applied Bronfenbrenner’s (1977, 1979, 1993) ecological model to explore the college experiences of ACIPs while not excluding wider societal and environmental factors that could shape their associated invisible identity …

The Casnr L.I.N.K.S. Newsletter: Learning Innovation Network For K-12 Schools, Edition 6, July 2022, Bailey Feit, Tammy Mittelstet

CASNR L.I.N.K.S. Newsletter

The purpose of this L.I.N.K.S. newsletter is to provide a monthly update of opportunities and resources for K-12 schools to connect with the University of Nebraska's CASNR Food, Energy, Water, and Societal Systems (FEWS²) programs and partners.

Included in this issue:

New editions and archived L.I.N.K.S. Newsletters coming soon

Eye on curriculum and resources

Teacher opportunities

Link to list of new partnerships

Ask an expert

Eye on CASNR research: Judy Wu-Smart

Send your students to campus

Success stories

What's In A Name: Understanding Copyright Management Information Notes, Marissa Truskowski

Florida State University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Investigating Counterproductive Work Behavior Motives —— An Attempt To Reveal Underlying Processes Of Counterproductive Behaviors At Work, Siqi Gu

Theses and Dissertations

Counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs) are actions that may harm employees or organizations. Understanding CWB motives may facilitate better conceptualization of different types of CWBs and reveal more about the underlying processes leading to CWBs. However, to date no systematic conceptual frameworks or empirical investigations have been developed to study CWB motives comprehensively. To address this research gap, we proposed a taxonomy of CWB motives based on both theoretical foundations and empirical results. In addition, we aimed to develop a CWB motives measure. The measure development research was carried out in two studies. We found evidence supporting our hypotheses of the …

Is Religion Dividing America Beyond Repair?, Alec Wheeler

IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects

In 2022, the state of America is highly debated. Are we united? Are we divided? What unites us despite our differences? There have been times of great tribulation in American history, just as there have been times of great unity. Many Americans remember the day after the 9/11 attacks as a day to set our differences aside and help one another. At the beginning of the COVID-19 nationwide lock down there was celebration of healthcare workers and campaigns to help your neighbors out with groceries. During times of tremendous worry and pain, Americans come together through their differences and work …

From Generalized Arithmetic Means To Bregman Divergences And Back, Henryk Gzyl

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

Here we examine some connections between the notions of generalized arithmetic means, geodesics, Lagrange-Hamilton dynamics and Bregman divergences. The key ingredient for the relationship is the case in which a Riemannian metric has a square root that is the Jacobian of a diffeomorphism. In such case the geodesics of the of the Riemannian metric turn out be the pullback of straight lines by the diffeomorphism. This is interesting when the Riemann metric is the Hessian of a convex function because in this case we obtain comparison results between the Bregman divergence determined by the convex function and the geodesic distance …