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Duodenorenal Fistula Post-Lithotripsy: A Rare Complication, Anam Zara, Aarohi Parikh, Duyen Quach, Ismail Hader, Georg Elias

Gulf Coast Division GME Research Day 2025

No abstract provided.

Skin Cancer Education For Adolescents: Does Vanity Modify Its Effectiveness?, Erica Ogwumike, Dina Zamil, Harrison Zhu, Shangyi Fu, Emily Powell, Zeena Nawas, Ida Orengo

Gulf Coast Division GME Research Day 2025

No abstract provided.

Todd's Paralysis: Sharpnel-Induce Seizure, Kenny Tran, Alain Folefack

North Texas Research Forum 2025

When evaluating seizure in war veterans, distinguishing new-onset hemiparesis with aphasia from stroke can be challenging due to prior brain injury and anticonvulsant therapy. This case involves a patient with a shrapnel injury displaying stroke-symptoms after a seizure highlights the differences between stroke and seizure-related deficits in this population. Careful consideration of imaging, history and clinical presentation are essential for accurate diagnosis and management.

Gastrografin Enema To The Rescue Of The Glorious Cecal Bascule, Dominique Pean, Bushra Bangash, Guntash Khasria, Ismail Hader

Gulf Coast Division GME Research Day 2025

No abstract provided.

A Rare Case Of Brucellosis Relapse, Rabia Mahfooz, Grant Patterson, Annmary Behanan, Babivigasan Gunasegaran

Gulf Coast Division GME Research Day 2025

No abstract provided.

Recurrent Syncope In A Young Adult With Postural Orthostatictachycardia Syndrome (Pots): A Diagnostic And Therapeutic Challenge, Syed Raza, Shuchita Jhaveri, Neethu George, Julian Nguyen

Gulf Coast Division GME Research Day 2025

No abstract provided.

Fetal Presentation Confirmation On L&D With Ultrasound, Noelle Coen, Aaron Poole

Central & West Texas and San Antonio GME Research Day 2025

No abstract provided.

Incarcerated Gravid Uterus, Adelene Morrow, Aaron Poole

Central & West Texas and San Antonio GME Research Day 2025

No abstract provided.

Media Viability In Resource-Constrained Newsrooms: The Case Of The Observer Newspaper In Uganda, Nakitimbo Amelia Martha

Executive Masters in Media Leadership and Innovation

The Observer newspaper in Uganda has built a solid reputation as an impartial, independent, and analytical publication that adheres to the ethical principles of good journalism. Founded and run by a small team of journalists, the newspaper has weathered many storms, including financial crises, political intimidation, newsroom equipment seizure, and the early death of the vision carrier, Kevin Aliro. This study analyzes and records the approaches used by The Observer's editorial staff to keep the newspaper afloat during two turbulent decades of financial, political, and economic difficulties. In contrast to other newsrooms that are frequently defined by strict hierarchies between …

Evaluating The Viability Of Monetizing Media Content Archives: A Case Of Vision Group, Eva F. Nabagesera Kirunda

Executive Masters in Media Leadership and Innovation

This study examines the viability of a media content archive with a focus on Vision Group. Amid digital transformation, media organizations face mounting pressure to monetize archives of historical, cultural, and journalistic content. This is particularly relevant for legacy media like Vision Group, which confronts external and internal challenges that threaten sustainability. Externally, digital disruption has diminished traditional revenue streams like print advertising and subscriptions, as tech giants dominate digital ad spaces. Younger audiences prefer free, interactive content on social media and podcasts, while inflation and economic pressures shrink advertising budgets and consumer spending. Internally, reliance on outdated business models, …

Employee Engagement In Rebranding, Violet Andoyo Otindo

Executive Masters in Media Leadership and Innovation

Corporate rebranding involves redefining an organization’s mission, vision, and values beyond changes to logos or taglines. Its success depends on active employee engagement, as employees play a critical role as brand ambassadors. The rebranding of the National Syndemic Diseases Control Council (NSDCC), formerly the National AIDS Control Council (NACC), illustrates the complexities of a government organization undergoing a strategic shift. The NSDCC expanded its focus from HIV control to addressing multiple syndemic diseases and related health factors. This study investigates employee engagement during rebranding the National AIDS Control Council (NACC) to the National Syndemic Diseases Control Council (NSDCC). This transition …

Embracing Digital Disruption In Tanzania: Insights From Mwananchi Communications Ltd's Print-To-Digital Multimedia Journey, Absalom Norman Kibanda

Executive Masters in Media Leadership and Innovation

This capstone study investigates the profound impact of digital transformation on print media, employing Mwananchi Communications Ltd (MCL) in Tanzania as a case study, elucidating the intricate fusion of cultural transformation and strategic shifts in response to this disruption. With an in-depth exploration of theoretical frameworks like Networked Communication Theory and Media Convergence Theory, this study underscores the evolution of MCL's culture and the paradigm shift in the mindset of its staff and readers since the company's strategic embrace of multimedia strategies. MCL's transformative journey, characterized by the adoption of innovative multimedia platforms, including a website, paywall approaches, subscription models, …

Investigating The Role Of Data Analytics In News Production And Distribution: A Case Of Nation Media Group, Uganda, Clare Muhindo

Executive Masters in Media Leadership and Innovation

This study investigates the role of data analytics in news production and distribution in Uganda, using a case study of Nation Media Group, Uganda (NMG-U). The study is framed within the context of the gatekeeping theory, particularly the participatory gatekeeping model, which focuses on the creation of processes, or newsroom routines and norms, that are developed as a direct result of audience input interpreted through audience data. The research had three objectives: (1) to examine how data analytics are integrated into editorial workflows at NMG Uganda. (2) to explore how data analytics shape editorial priorities and (3) to identify strategies …

What Do They Love? A Study Of Digital Media Consumption By Young University Audiences In Uganda, Allan Chekwech

Executive Masters in Media Leadership and Innovation

The proliferation of computers, smartphones, the Internet, social media, and streaming platforms has led to a surge in digital media consumption. Young audiences, especially those aged between 18 and 34, are increasingly turning to digital platforms for entertainment, information, and social interaction, much to the disadvantage of traditional media platforms such as the newspaper, radio and television. As a result, many media players are concerned about what young people consume, especially if they follow any news. Consequently, the desire to understand their news consumption habits on these digital platforms is paramount. Using a quantitative approach, this study got responses from …

Army Rotc Annual Program Report, 2024-2025, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Army Rotc

Army ROTC Annual Program Report

No abstract provided.

[In] Transformation President's Impact Report, Bryant University

Bryant University Communications and Press

The 2025 President's Impact Report highlights Bryant University’s continued excellence in higher education, from its top-tier rankings and dynamic campus life to its hands-on learning experiences and strategic partnerships. Strong financial foundations and visionary leadership solidify its position as an innovative and forward-thinking institution. IN the Lead Bryant's international rankings and thought leadership in prestigious publications reinforce its position as a leader in higher education.

Annual Report, 2024-2025, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. College Of Education And Health Professions

College of Education and Health Professions Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Globalization In Context, Ayu Okvitawanli, Wolfgang Friedlmeier, Rachana Bhangaokar

IACCP Proceedings of the Biennial International Conferences

The Proceedings are divided into two parts: Volume I includes the links to the recorded keynotes and the book of abstracts of the XXVII Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2024. Volume II consists of the individual empirical papers.

From Bitcoin To Courtrooms: The Evolution Of Blockchain Technology And Its Applications, Isabelle Cruz

Wyoming Law Review

Blockchain’s tamper-proof, distributed, and decentralized design has gained popularity during a period of rising cybercrime and data vulnerability. People revere blockchain for its potential to revolutionize various industries and criticize it for its association with unethical and illicit activities. Despite challenges and misconceptions surrounding its prior uses, blockchain technology has continued progressing—offering promising solutions for enhancing data security, transparency, and accountability. This Comment examines the evolution of blockchain technology, its applications, and how it can improve efficiency and enhance public trust in the judicial system. After outlining blockchain technology’s modest beginnings, this Comment theorizes several applications for blockchain in the …

The Role Of Leadership In Creating Dei Plans In U.S. Higher Education, Beatriz Desantiago-Fjelstad, Leslie Darmofal, Kelly Meier, Henry Morris, Luis Posas

Educational Leadership Department Publications

This brief discusses the challenges and strategies in creating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) plans in U.S. higher education. It highlights the importance of leadership in this process, particularly the need for courageous leadership to overcome the barriers posed by resistance to DEI plans. This brief illustrates the complexities of creating DEI plans and offers strategies to foster inclusive environments. The discussion emphasizes the need for a long-term commitment and actionable DEI plans beyond performative steps, instilling confidence in the potential for significant institutional evolution.

Force Of Nature (2024) By Ann E. Burg, Maughn Rollins Gregory

Middle Grades Books

Rachel Carson launched the modern environmental movement with books that combined detailed observations of the natural world, scientific research, and philosophical reflection on humanity’s relationship with nature — all conveyed in poetic language. Ann E. Burg’s fictional biography-in-verse Force of Nature shows how these habits of observation, questioning, reflection, and expression began in Carson’s childhood, and invites readers to follow her lines of inquiry. Can we provide for human well-being without sacrificing the well-being of non-human life? Can we provide for the well-being of certain human populations without sacrificing the well-being of others? Can we indulge our wonder about, and …

René Dubos: An Annotated Bibliography, Carol L. Moberg

René Dubos: An Annotated Bibliography

René Dubos (1901–1982), a prominent 20th century scientist, humanist, and philosopher, was a prolific author. Affiliated for more than 50 years with The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research/The Rockefeller University, his studies ranged from antibiotics and the role of bacteria in human diseases to formulating broad ecological and environmental questions affecting human health and disease. His seminal writings explore a lifelong belief that a living organism—whether microbe, human being, society, or the Earth itself—could be understood only through its relationships with everything else.

This comprehensive bibliography of more than a thousand works by René Dubos includes brief annotations for each …

Deriving Structural Insights About Mesoscale Chromatin Folding Using Coarse-Grained Oligonucleosome Modeling, Ariana Brenner Clerkin

Student Theses and Dissertations

Here, I investigate chromatin organization on the scale of a few nucleosomes (~1kb). I developed an experimentally-validated coarse-grained polymer model and applied it 1) to show how chromatin fiber parameters, such as nucleosome spacing and breathing, impact chromatin organization on this scale–the mesoscale 2) to interpret mesoscale sequencing assay data and 3) to demonstrate that spatially-correlated cleavage, not protein protection, primarily drives the shape of the distribution of DNA fragment lengths resulting from ionizing-radiation damage. Pair-wise DNA-DNA contact data from DNA sequencing-based assays have the potential to provide locus-specific information about the relationships between chromatin structure and function. Radiation-induced correlated …

Recording Cellular Interactions In Germinal Centers And Beyond, Sandra Nakandakari-Higa

Student Theses and Dissertations

In multicellular organisms, each cell has a distinct identity characterized by unique transcriptional and chromatin accessibility profiles. However, to truly understand the organization and function of such systems, it is not enough to merely characterize individual components; we must also investigate how these components interact and communicate through direct cellular interactions. This is especially true in the immune system, where cell-cell interactions are fundamental. For instance, the priming of antigen-specific T cells relies on their selective engagement with antigen-presenting cells (APCs) displaying the T cell's cognate antigen, distinguishing them from a pool of non-specific counterparts. Similarly, the production of antibodies …

Modulation Of The Crispr-Cas9 Immune Response, Hyejin Kim

Student Theses and Dissertations

Bacteria face an onslaught of ever-changing viral (phage) invaders. Bacteria and phages are locked into an evolutionary arms race where both must continually adapt to survive. In response, bacteria have developed numerous immune systems to protect themselves, including CRISPR-Cas. CRISPR-Cas systems provide adaptive immunity through the acquisition of short DNA sequences from invading phages, known as spacers. Spacers are inserted into the CRISPR locus and serve as templates for the transcription of guides used by RNA-guided nucleases to recognize complementary sequences of the invaders and start the CRISPR immune response. CRISPR-Cas systems need to acquire enough spacers to mount an …

The Evolution Of Ribosome Assembly: Making Ribosomes In The Mitochondria, Chloe Burnside

Student Theses and Dissertations

Mitochondrial ribosomes (mitoribosomes) synthesize proteins encoded within the mitochondrial genome that are assembled into oxidative phosphorylation complexes. As such, the biogenesis of mitoribosomes is essential for ATP production and cellular metabolism. Despite significant progress in elucidating the structures of mature mitoribosomes, a comprehensive understanding of their assembly pathways remains elusive. This thesis presents the first structural characterization of assembly intermediates of the mitochondrial small subunit (mtSSU) in eukaryotes. To gain mechanistic insight into the process of SSU assembly in the mitochondria, I set out to enrich and characterize intermediates of SSU assembly in the mitochondria of S. cerevisiae. By employing …

Making Molecular Movies: Using Single-Molecule Techniques To Unveil Hidden Features Of Protein-Chromatin Interactions, Gabriella N. L. Chua

Student Theses and Dissertations

Beyond the genetic code embedded within a sequence of DNA, the physical features of the double helix as a semi-flexible polymer is a critical dimension that regulates the function of every DNA-binding protein that exists. These proteins can assemble, translocate, and change conformation while bound to DNA and can even alter its physical state, which are often crucial to their physiological roles in the cell. Eukaryotic genomic DNA is also packaged into units called nucleosomes, which offer another layer of physical regulation for proteins operating on chromatin. Previously, tracking these protein behaviors on DNA and chromatin had been technically challenging, …

The Spatiotemporal Dynamics Of Nomadic Behavior In The Clonal Raider Ant, Ooceraea Biroi, Dennis Octavio Melendez

Student Theses and Dissertations

Nest relocation is integral to the lives of many social insects. Army ants have taken this behavior to the extreme, with many species relocating an entire colony of over 100,000 ants plus brood almost daily. Despite its prevalence, the question of how army ant colonies emigrate has been debated for many decades, and still awaits a definitive answer because conducting well-controlled field experiments with their massive and aggressive colonies is challenging. In ants, the Dorylinae subfamily has given rise to most known army ants. Therefore, performing experiments in non-army ant dorylines that can be maintained in a laboratory setting presents …

Towards Models Mesoscale Chromatin Structure And Radiative Dna Damage Via Computational Simulation, Devany Walsh West

Student Theses and Dissertations

The spatial organization of chromatin fiber at the level of several nucleosomes–the mesoscale–is an area of active study. Recent results have shown that it differs between functional states, affects higher orders of chromosome organization, and is likely involved in transcriptional control. However, the heterogeneity of nucleosome positioning and histone variant composition in cells as well as the high density of chromatin in situ make the mesoscale difficult to study. Recent methodological advances have made it possible to derive nucleosome-resolution three-dimensional contact information directly from cells. We therefore sought to develop a structural inference tool for inferring mesoscale chromatin structures consistent …

Gpcr To Channel Communication In A Membrane Signaling Pathway, Yuxi Zhang

Student Theses and Dissertations

G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) regulate a variety of downstream effector proteins, making them essential for many physiological processes. For example, in the heart, the activation of beta-adrenergic receptors (βARs) and the stimulatory G protein (Gαs) leads to the opening of downstream hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide–gated (HCN) channels, resulting in an accelerated heart rate. In contrast, activation of M2 muscarinic receptors (M2Rs) and the inhibitory G protein (Gαi) opens G protein-gated inward rectifier K⁺ (GIRK) channels, slowing the heart rate. In addition to the Gαs and Gαi pathways, there is also the Gαq signaling pathway. In this pathway, activation of Gq-coupled GPCRs can …