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The Urobiomes Of Adult Women With Various Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Status Differ: A Re-Analysis, Cara Joyce, Thomas Halverson, Caroline Gonzalez, Linda Brubaker, Alan J. Wolfe

Biostatistics Collaborative Core: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The discovery of the urinary microbiome (urobiome) has created opportunities for urinary health researchers who study a wide variety of human health conditions. This manuscript describes an analysis of catheterized urine samples obtained from 1,004 urobiome study participants with the goal of identifying the most abundant and/or prevalent (common) taxa in five clinically relevant cohorts: unaffected adult women (n=346, 34.6%), urgency urinary incontinence (UUI) (n=255, 25.5%), stress urinary incontinence (SUI) (n=50, 5.0%), urinary tract infection (UTI) (n=304, 30.4%), and interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome (IC/PBS) (n=49, 4.9%). Urine was collected via transurethral catheter and assessed for microbes with the Expanded Quantitative …

St. Norbert College Featured In Colleges Of Distinction Guide, St. Norbert College

Press Releases 2022

No abstract provided.

Effects Of An External Oscillation Device On Phonation Threshold Pressure (Ptp), Brittany Tiffany Jones

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of external laryngeal vibration on voice function. The current study was based on a recent pilot study using silicone vocal folds that demonstrated a decrease in phonation threshold pressure (PTP; cmH2O) when an external oscillation was applied to the vocal folds. Using a within-subjects experimental design, a custom external oscillatory device was fitted to the posterior portion of 12 excised pig larynges using a traditional benchtop phonation setup. For each larynx, phonation was elicited during 30 repeated trials, including 15 with and 15 without external oscillation. During the phonation …

Lindenwood Digest, June 8, 2022, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

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

The Role Of Civil Society Organizations In Youth Inclusion Reforms In Post-Uprising Tunisia, Amal Tobich

Theses and Dissertations

Tunisia has a large youth population; more than half of the population are youth aged between 15-30 years in 2011. Tunisia has long faced challenges adopting serious reforms for youth inclusion and participation. Young people, especially since the Arab Spring, are driving social and economic innovation, challenging policies, and representing governments. More connected than ever, young people exert a greater influence on their fellow citizens and their country and youth inclusion is a central aspect of the post-2015 global development agenda. This study seeks to determine the role of Civil society Organizations in youth inclusion by drawing on extensive literature …

A Repeating Fast Radio Burst Associated With A Persistent Radio Source, C.-H. Niu, K. Aggarwal, D. Li, X. Zhang, S. Chatterjee, C.-W. Tsai, W. Yu, C. J. Law, S. Burke-Spolaor, J. M. Cordes, Y.-K. Zhang, S. K. Ocker, J.-M. Yao, P. Wang, Y. Feng, Y. Niino, C. Bochenek, M. Cruces, L. Connor, J.-A. Jiang, S. Dai, R. Luo, G.-D. Li, C.-C. Miao, J.-R. Niu, R. Anna-Thomas, J. Sydnor, D. Stern, W.-Y. Wang, M Yuan, Y.-L. Yue, D.-J. Zhou, Z Yan, W.-W. Zhu, B. Zhang

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Research

The dispersive sweep of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been used to probe the ionized baryon content of the intergalactic medium1, which is assumed to dominate the total extragalactic dispersion. Although the host-galaxy contributions to the dispersion measure appear to be small for most FRBs2, in at least one case there is evidence for an extreme magneto-ionic local environment3,4 and a compact persistent radio source5. Here we report the detection and localization of the repeating FRB 20190520B, which is co-located with a compact, persistent radio source and associated with a dwarf host galaxy of high specific-star-formation rate at a redshift …

Signal Detection Of Adverse Events Associated With Trastuzumab In A Cohort Of Elderly Patients With Breast Cancer, Efstathia Polychronopoulou, Sharon H Giordano, Lin-Na Chou, Xiaoying Yu, Yong-Fang Kuo

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

AIM: Utilization of signal detection methods in longitudinal claims data can improve post-marketing drug surveillance, but to date there has been limited application. The aim of this study is to use 3 approaches, the proportional reporting ratio, Gamma Poisson Shrinker, and tree-based scan statistic in detecting adverse drug events (ADEs) attributed to trastuzumab using an administrative claims dataset.

METHODS: Using data from the Texas Cancer Registry and SEER linked to Medicare from 2010 to 2013, we conducted 1:2 propensity score matching. Breast cancer HER2+ patients treated with trastuzumab in addition to standard chemotherapy were matched to HER2- patients treated with …

Glosa Do Wyroku Sądu Ochrony Konkurencji I Konsumentów Sygn. Akt Xvii Amo 1/21 Z Dnia 7 Czerwca 2021 Roku, Dotyczącego Decyzji Prezesa Urzędu Ochrony Konkurencji I Konsumentów Nr Dkk-34/2021 Z 5 Lutego 2021 Roku, Tomasz Krzyżewski

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Glosa dotyczy wyroku Sądu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów wydanego w sprawie Orlen/Polska Press. Omówiono w niej również wydane w ww. sprawie decyzje Prezesa Urzędu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów, a także odwołanie od decyzji Rzecznika Praw Obywatelskich. Glosa obejmuje głównie zagadnienia dotyczące możliwości uwzględnienia przesłanek pozaekonomicznych w ramach oceny planowanej koncentracji.

Sprawozdanie Z Konferencji „Trendy W Ochronie Konkurencji W Polsce”, Warszawa, 14 Czerwca 2022 Roku, Monika Woźniak-Cichuta

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

No abstract provided.

Draft Final 2021 Unreclaimed Sites Sampling Ur-38 Site Evaluation Summary Report, Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

District Leaders' Perception Of Multi-Tiered System Of Supports Implementation: A Qualitative Study, Julia E. Facer

Theses and Dissertations

Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) is a model that can be implemented in school buildings with the support of school district leaders. However, the voices of district leaders involved in MTSS implementation are limited in the research. This study sought to investigate what district leaders perceived as impacting factors towards MTSS implementation and draw conclusions about impacting factors from their opinions. Ten district leaders in a mountain west state of the United States were interviewed via Zoom and had their transcripts analyzed for impacting factors using a form of thematic analysis. All participants were involved with MTSS at their district …

Improving On Atmospheric Turbulence Profiles Derived From Dual Beacon Hartmann Turbulence Sensor Measurements, Alexander S. Boeckenstedt, Jack E. Mccrae, Santasri Bose-Pillai, Benjamin Wilson

Faculty Publications

Atmospheric turbulence is an inevitable source of wavefront distortion in all fields of long range laser propagation and sensing. However, the distorting effects of turbulence can be corrected using wavefront sensors contained in adaptive optics systems. Such systems also provide deeper insight into surface layer turbulence, which is not well understood. A unique method of profile generation by a dual source Hartmann Turbulence Sensor (HTS) technique is introduced here. Measurements of optical turbulence along a horizontal path were taken to create C2n profiles. Two helium-neon laser beams were directed over an inhomogeneous horizontal path and captured by the HTS. The …

Isolation Of Clostridioides Difficile Pcr Ribotype 027 From Single-Use Hospital Gown Ties, Shannon Waterfield, Humaira Ahmed, Imogen Anne Jones, Robert Burky, Lovleen Tina Joshi

Peninsula Dental School

No abstract provided.

Metabolomic Analysis, Identification And Antimicrobial Assay Of Two Mangrove Endophytes, Stephen Thompson

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Natural products have played major roles in drug discovery and provided sources for many new drugs. Secondary metabolites, also called natural products, are organic compounds that are produced from fungi, bacteria, and other living organisms. Secondary metabolites produced by endophytic fungi include alkaloids, phenols, peptides, enzymes, polyketides, and terpenes. Endophytic fungi are rich sources of secondary metabolites and demonstrate bioactivity against many human pathogens including the ESKAPE pathogens. This thesis explores the diverse roles of endophytic fungi and their production of unique secondary metabolites for potential drug discovery and development. Secondary metabolites from two endophytic fungi (EG10-21E-2-HDAC & TAP14-34A-2-HDAC), collected …

Measuring End-To-End Media Latency In Videoconferencing Using Audio Watermarking, Ole Gauteplass, Ragnvald Barth

Defensive Publications Series

An important factor for ensuring high quality collaboration meetings is low end-to-end audio and video latency between the meeting participants. Traditional network tools measure network latency only, and not the additional latency that is introduced by media processing. Measuring the true media latency between participants in a collaboration meeting is thus important. Preferably, such measurements are made during every call using signals that are undetectable by a user. Techniques are presented herein that support the encoding of an inaudible watermark message into the audio streams of a video conference. By measuring the roundtrip time of such a message, the measurement …

Industrial Strategies: Rhetoric At The Intersection Of Arts And Entrepreneurship, Conner Tomlinson

Journal of Arts Entrepreneurship Education

By emphasizing the rhetorical processes integral to arts entrepreneurship, this study hopes to open up a rhetorical vocabulary that will simultaneously expand arts entrepreneurship discourse and bridge the gap between its constituent terms. Likewise, the abstract processes of rhetoric offer an insightful perspective on the specific processes of entrepreneurship in the arts. The first wave of Industrial Music in the late 1970s and early ‘80s is taken as a case study in order to articulate how a group of artist-entrepreneurs used information, attention and sound itself as rhetorical tactics to engage in an emancipatory form of arts entrepreneurship. In step …

Amplifying The Transdisciplinary Nature Of Artsentrepreneurship Education Through Online Learning, Lindsey G. Castellano, Drew X. Coles

Journal of Arts Entrepreneurship Education

Current moves toward online learning have promoted and continue to promote transdisciplinaryeducation as an indispensable path forward. Time and technological advances have given us theperspective to see that many of our disciplines are more interconnected than scholars and pedagogues of the past may have thought. This interconnectedness allows us to develop individually-held senses of belonging within our students and a more solidified representation of arts entrepreneurship education.Online education provides inexhaustible resources and delivery methods for educators to providemultiple entry points for students. This piece makes a case for the notion that instruction via the internetenables students and educators to connect …

Entrepreneurial Responses To The Covid Era: A Qualitative Study Of Five Professionalmusic Entrepreneurs, José Valentino Ruiz-Resto, Derris Lee, Chris Shelton

Journal of Arts Entrepreneurship Education

The impact of COVID-19 has affected not only private citizens, but also arts entrepreneurship professionalsand their respective business models. To explore both the problems experienced by professional musicentrepreneurs and their solutions for navigating company survivability, growth and impact, a multiple-case qualitative research study using intensity sampling and grounded theory was conducted to uncoverhow professional music entrepreneurs (N = 5) succeeded in not only surviving the pandemic’s effects on their personal businesses, but also in augmenting their companies’ finances, resources and impact withinthe constructs of a post-COVID multimodal creative economy. The results present various themes andsuggestions for implementation within music (and …

A Theory Of Why Arts Entrepreneurship Matters, Jason C. White

Journal of Arts Entrepreneurship Education

Although consensus on a definition of Arts Entrepreneurship (AE) is helpful, formal theories are needed to help AE researchers and educators explain what the general AE process is and why it matters. Asdiscussed in this article, such theories can help us understand the relationship between art innovation, artmarket creation and art value exchange in Artworlds. Such theories can also help AE educators in particular clarify distinctions and similarities between the systematic practice of AE and businessentrepreneurship, challenge past and present assumptions about AE and may encourage AE educators to pivot towards new pedagogical directions.

Do Dance Majors Need Entrepreneurial Skills?, Tara Z. Mullins

Journal of Arts Entrepreneurship Education

No abstract provided.

Creative Freedom: Arts Entrepreneurship As A Mindset, Stephen Rueff

Journal of Arts Entrepreneurship Education

Prospective art and design students have little doubt that entering the creative sector is their purpose and calling. However, one of the main concerns for students and their fami-lies when deciding whether to enroll in a specialized college is the ability to earn a living wage upon graduation. Colleges and universities, particularly art and design schools, respond to this concern by increasing access to arts entrepreneurship programs. Arts entrepreneurship offerings provide practical guidance students can apply in business development and more broadly while seeking financial self-sufficiency working in the creative sector. This essay offers insights into how faculty teaching arts …

The Many Facets Of Music Entrepreneurship Education, Jeffrey Nytch

Journal of Arts Entrepreneurship Education

No abstract provided.

Using Graph Theoretical Methods And Traceroute To Visually Represent Hidden Networks, Jordan M. Sahs

UNO Student Research and Creative Activity Fair

Within the scope of a Wide Area Network (WAN), a large geographical communication network in which a collection of networking devices communicate data to each other, an example being the spanning communication network, known as the Internet, around continents. Within WANs exists a collection of Routers that transfer network packets to other devices. An issue pertinent to WANs is their immeasurable size and density, as we are not sure of the amount, or the scope, of all the devices that exists within the network. By tracing the routes and transits of data that traverses within the WAN, we can identify …

Patient Portal Use And Patient Education Materials Access Among Mississippi Adult Residents, Anna K. Swann

Dissertations

Patient education plays a vital role in improving the health outcomes of patients with chronic diseases and helps prevent illness in otherwise healthy individuals. Patient portals allow patients to access their EHRs, communicate with their healthcare providers, and access patient education materials. Despite the potential for patient portals and education materials to improve health outcomes, many barriers prevent patients from utilizing them. Uneducated patients are more likely to participate in risky health behaviors, which leads to poor health outcomes. Poor health outcomes lead to higher medical costs. Mississippi has a high rate of chronic diseases. Suppose the barriers to patient …

Method And System For Region Proposal Based Object Recognition For Estimating Planogram Compliance, Avishek Kumar Shaw, Rajashree Ramakrishnan, Shilpa Yadukumar Rao, Pranoy Hari, Dipti Prasad Mukherjee, Bikash Santra

Patents

No abstract provided.

Forms Of Community Engagement In Neighborhood Food Retail: Healthy Community Stores Case Study Project, Ravneet Kuar, Megan R. Winkler, Sara John, Julia Deangelo, Rachael D. Dombrowski, Ashley Hickson, Samantha M. Sundermeir, Christina Kasprzak, Bree Bode, Alex B. Hill, Emma C. Lewis, Uriyoán Colón-Ramos, Jake Munch, Lillian L. Witting, Angela Odoms-Young, Joel Gittelsohn, Lucia A. Leone

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Research Publications

Community engagement is well established as a key to improving public health. Prior food environment research has largely studied community engagement as an intervention component, leaving much unknown about how food retailers may already engage in this work. The purpose of this study was to explore the community engagement activities employed by neighborhood food retailers located in lower-income communities with explicit health missions to understand the ways stores involve and work with their communities. A multiple case study methodology was utilized among seven retailers in urban U.S. settings, which collected multiple sources of data at each retailer, including in-depth interviews, …

Game Of Thrones: Liberty & Eminent Domain, Mitchell F. Crusto

University of Miami Law Review

This Article analyzes the relationship between private property and the government’s power to expropriate it. When it comes to protecting private property from governmental expropriation, our Constitution is conflicted. On the one hand, the right to private property is a foundational principle that defines the American spirit, our history, and our culture. Yet, on the other hand, the Founders adopted the government’s superior authority over private property, that is, eminent domain, for public purpose and with just compensation, via the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. This “private property conundrum” requires us to explore the limits of eminent domain relative …

Expert Testimony By Public University Faculty: Exposing Doctrinal Deficiencies Of Academic Freedom As A Legal Right And Proposing A Solution Within The Public-Employee Speech Doctrine, Clay Calvert

University of Miami Law Review

When the University of Florida (“UF”) prohibited three professors in 2021 from serving as expert witnesses in a lawsuit filed against the State of Florida, the decision sparked a national debate about academic freedom and free speech at public universities. The professors also sued UF in federal court in Austin v. University of Florida Board of Trustees alleging a violation of their First Amendment rights. This Article asserts that the constitutional doctrine of academic freedom is sadly deficient for resolving such lawsuits. The Article explains, instead, that the public-employee speech doctrine provides the appropriate framework for analyzing cases filed by …

Understanding Microstructure Heterogeneity In Li-Ion Battery Electrodes Through Localized Measurement Of Ionic Transport, Baichuan Liu

Theses and Dissertations

Electrode microstructure influences ionic transport and electronic transport and is a key factor that affects lithium-ion battery performance. Non-uniform microstructure or heterogeneity in battery electrodes has long been observed and leads to non-uniform transport properties. This work provides a better understanding of in-plane heterogeneity at millimeter length scale and through-plane heterogeneity at micrometer length scale, through a combination of experiment and modeling. The first part of this work develops the aperture probe technique, which is an experimental method and associated model to locally estimate ionic transport, represented by MacMullin number, in the electrode. By generating contour maps of MacMullin number, …

Soap Eaters & Coon Dogs… According To Kentucky Newspapers!, Reinette F. Jones, Kopana Terry

Library Presentations

Kentucky newspapers are a valuable research option with many articles about the history of the state, as well as national and international news. This presentation was brief overview of the Kentucky Newspaper Digital Program [KDNP] and its development over many years. KDNP provides patrons access to the hundreds of Kentucky newspaper titles. Many of these titles are available full-text online via the University of Kentucky Library catalog. The weekly history vignettes are based on Kentucky newspaper articles and cover a wide range of topics. They are online at the KDNP Facebook site.