Effect Of Crushed Brick Waste Addition On The Physical, Mechanical, And Thermal Properties Of Fired Zurbatiya Clay For Environmentally Friendly Brick Production, Mervit Mahdi Hanoos, Shihab Ahmed Zaidan, Hanaa Areer Al-Kasiy

Journal of Applied Sciences and Nanotechnology

This study investigates the addition of 10%, 20%, and 30% crushed brick waste (CBW) to Zurbatiya clay and firing the mixture at 1000°C for 8 hours to produce sustainable and energy-efficient bricks. The results showed that the overall density increased to 1.85 g/cm³ at 10% CBW, yet decreased to 1.4 g/cm³ at 30% due to the increase in porosity from 18% to over 30%. Consequently, thermal conductivity decreased from 0.5 to less than 0.3 W/m· K, enhancing thermal insulation. Also, Shear strength decreased from 15 MPa to 5 MPa but remained acceptable at the 10–20% ratios. Shrinkage improved …

Formulation Of Vegetable Oils Loaded Nanoemulsions For Photoprotection Against Uvb And Uva Radiation: In Vitro Study, Kawther Ali Hussein, Randa Mohammed Dhahi

Journal of Applied Sciences and Nanotechnology

The objective of this study is the development of bio-based nanoemulsions that were derived from natural sources, including olive, coconut, red raspberry, and tomato seed oils, to produce safe and effective UV- protective agents. The nanoemulsions were produced at the nanoscale with uniform droplets by employing ultrasonic emulsification utilizing deionized water and Tween 80. According to Dynamic light scattering (DLS), the oil nanoemulsification from red raspberry exhibited the smallest droplet size of (148.5 nm), low polydispersity index of (0.218) and high zeta potential of (–35.6 mV). The spherical shape of the droplets was confirmed via Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) as …

Studying The Compressive Strength And Thermal Conductivity Properties Of Metakaolin-Based Geopolymer Concrete By Using Natural Perlite, Aya Nahedh Mohsin, Hanaa A. Al-Kaisy, Jamal J. Dawood

Journal of Applied Sciences and Nanotechnology

The building industry must investigate sustainable alternatives due to the environmental impact of traditional construction methods and the growing depletion of natural resources. Using perlite (3–5 mm) to partially replace natural coarse aggregates in concrete production is one possible strategy. However, concerns remain regarding the performance of perlite in structural applications, particularly its effect on mechanical behavior and durability. This study examines the structural performance of concrete incorporating graphene and partially substituting perlite for coarse aggregates. Perlite was used at replacement levels of 5%, 10%, and 15%, and graphene was added at 0.1%, 0.3%, and 0.5% by cement mass. Cubic …

Empirical Evaluation Of A Cnn-Resnet-Rf Hybrid Model For Occupancy Rate Prediction In Passive Ultra-Low-Energy Buildings, Yiwen Liu, Yibing Xue, Chunlu Liu, Runyu Wang

Student Papers, Posters & Projects

Accurate occupancy information is critical for optimizing energy efficiency in buildings. Hybrid machine learning models have demonstrated great potential in previous studies; however, their application in passive ultra-low-energy buildings remains underexplored. This study conducts an empirical evaluation of real-time occupancy rate prediction using a CNN-ResNet-RF hybrid model based on multi-source environmental and behavioral data from a passive ultra-low-energy educational building. The model integrates Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for local feature extraction, Residual Networks (ResNet) to enhance deep feature representation, and Random Forests (RF) for ensemble-based generalization. Indoor CO₂ concentration exhibits the strongest linear correlation with occupancy rate (r = …

The Student Movement Volume 110 Issue 17: Springing Forward United, Ysa Dennis, Addison Randall, Corinna Bevier, Anna Pak, Megan Constantine, Caleb Chung, Zorislav Plantak, Isa Demoraes, Moraya Truman, Melanie Webb, Nathaniel Reid, Laura Pérez

The Student Movement V. 110 (2025-2026)

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

To Be An Independent Artist: Mac Rapach, Ysa Dennis

Music Festival: Symphony Orchestra Showcase, Addison Randall

I Watched Every 2025 Best Picture Nominee (So You Don't Have To), Corinna Bevier

HUMANS

Bible Study Group Spotlight: "Come Let Us Reason Together", Anna Pak

Create, Communicate, Connect : A Look into the VACD, Megan Constantine

NEWS

AUSA Election Results Announced: Meet Your 2026-27 Officers, Caleb Chung

James White Library Creates New Disability Technology Room, Zorislav Plantak

University Leadership Responds to Student Concerns at Town Hall, Isa DeMoraes

IDEAS

The Monthly Cycle of Being a Woman, Moraya Truman

Maybe It …

Daily Eastern News: March 11, 2026, Eastern Illinois University

Daily Eastern News: 2025-2026

No abstract provided.

The Host Galaxies Of Active Galactic Nuclei With Direct Black Hole Mass Measurements, Vardha N. Bennert, Nico Winkel, Tommaso Treu, Xuheng Ding, Vivian U, Raymond P. Remigio, Aaron J. Barth, Matthew A. Malkan, Lizvette Villafaña, Samantha Allen

Physics

Reverberation mapping (RM) determines the mass of black holes (BHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) by resolving the BH gravitational sphere of influence in the time domain. Recent RM campaigns have yielded direct BH masses through dynamical modeling for a sample of 32 objects, spanning a wide range of AGN luminosities and BH masses. In addition, accurate BH masses have been determined by spatially resolving the broad-line region with GRAVITY for a handful of AGNs. Here, we present a detailed analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images using surface-brightness profile fitting with state-of-the-art programs. We derive AGN luminosity and host-galaxy properties, …

From Courtrooms To Classrooms: Experiments In Survival, Justin Surdyka

Journal of Prison Education Research

The transformative powers of college-in-prison programs are known, but students get the grave of continued incarceration—even if we are fully rehabilitated. For the college-in-prison student who spends years in classes, degrees and parole denials are synonymous, especially for those of us who have committed violent off enses. We are educated but not redeemed in the eyes of the system. My classmates and I are the degrees behind the denials, the students behind the degrees, the prisoners behind the students, the human beings behind the prisoners who are the reason higher education in prison is praised for being transformative. Yet we …

An Ambient Acoustic Ice-Fracturing Dataset Taken In Shallow Freshwater, John Case, Andrew Barnard, Daniel Brown

Michigan Tech Publications

This paper describes an acoustic dataset collected on a frozen shallow freshwater lake between February and March of 2024. This collection took place over one full week on Portage Lake in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA. The first sub-dataset consists of ambient ice and environmental noises collected by an array of hydrophones, microphones and geophones placed below, above and on the ice respectively. The second sub-dataset consists of instrumented force hammer impacts at a series of locations on the the ice with the corresponding response at each acoustic sensor. All acoustic data were recorded at a sample rate f …

The Impact Of Foot Care Education Within The Unhoused Female Population: A Community-Based Nursing Intervention, Bertha Karina Coronel Barragan, Jessica Sandoval, Afia Margaret Darko, Alexandra Elizabeth Lucero, Gloria Yeyoung Kim, Anyanka T. Ziegler

Nursing Leadership in Community Engagement Projects

The Impact of Foot Care Education Within the Unhoused Female Population: A Community-based Nursing Intervention

The unhoused population is a vulnerable community that faces many obstacles in accessing healthcare (Benadda et al., 2025). Many of these individuals face stigmas related to their economic and housing conditions. It is important for nurses to be able to identify risk factors that may increase the prevalence of health-related problems, including using public health models to implement disease prevention. When discussing this population, one crucial preventative measure includes foot care, which aids in the deterrence of infections and promotes overall health (Coates et al., …

Trust Before Treatment: Educating Nurses On Trauma-Informed Care For Sex Trade Survivors, Matthew George Ditchik, Monserrat Castaneda, Daniela Tirado Osorio, Emily Haynes, Dani Salazar Tuparan, Joie Ikuzwe Mburu

Nursing Leadership in Community Engagement Projects

Trust Before Treatment: Educating Nurses on Trauma-Informed Care for Sex Trade Survivors

Survivors of the sex trade often seek healthcare during some of the most vulnerable times in their lives, yet many report experiences of judgment, dismissal, or re-traumatization within clinical settings. Trauma-informed care is an approach that recognizes the lasting impact trauma can have on a person’s physical and emotional well-being and calls healthcare professionals to adjust their practices to promote safety, trust, autonomy, and empowerment. Research shows that implementing trauma-informed care improves patient well-being, enhances staff collaboration, and reduces the risk of further harm (Huo et al., 2023). …

Michael Kaplon V. Morris Township Police Department

2026 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Minimum Wages And Workplace Injuries, Michael Davies, R. Jisung Park, Anna Stansbury

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

How do minimum wage changes affect workplace amenities? Using the universe of claims from California, the US’ largest workers’ compensation system, over 2000-2019, we exploit geographic variation in state- and city-level minimum wages and local occupation-level variation in exposure to minimum wage changes to estimate whether minimum wage increases affect the rate of workplace injuries. We find a large adverse effect of raising minimum wages on injuries. A 10% increase in the minimum wage increases the injury rate by 7.2% in an occupation-metro area labor market which is fully exposed to the minimum wage increase. Our results imply an elasticity …

Pediatric Thyroid Disorders: What Pediatricians Need To Know About Diagnosis, Referral, And Surgical Care, Michael Smith, John Dahl

Pediatrics in Practice: A CME Podcast

Pediatric thyroid disorders can present subtly but have significant implications if missed. In this episode, Jake Dahl, MD, PhD, MBA, discusses how pediatric thyroid disease differs from adult presentations, when pediatricians should consider specialty referral, and how endocrinology and surgery work together to guide care. The conversation offers practical insights to help pediatricians recognize red flags, navigate referrals, and support families through diagnosis and treatment.

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Efficient Energy-Stable Discontinuous Galerkin Schemefor The Non-Isothermal Cahn–Hilliard–Navier–Stokestwo-Phase Fluid Flow System, Guang-An Zou, Meiting Wang, Kejia Pan, Yin Yang, Xiaofeng Yang

Faculty Publications

In this article, we propose a novel numerical framework for the non-isothermal Cahn–Hilliard–Navier–Stokes two-phase flow system, which couples the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations, the Cahn–Hilliard phase-field equation, and the heat transport equation to capture temperature-dependent two-phase flow dynamics. The pro-posed scheme achieves three major advances: (i) unconditional energy stability through a combined scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) and zero-energy-contribution (ZEC) approach, (ii) linearity and full decoupling of all variables while using a second-order temporal discretization, and (iii) efficient implementation via discontinuous Galerkin (DG) spa-tial discretization together with a second-order projection method for the Navier–Stokes equations. We rigorously prove the unconditional energy stability …

Congruence Properties Modulo Prime Powers For A Class Of Partition Functions, Matthew Boylan, Swati .

Faculty Publications

Let p be prime, and let p_[1,p](n) denote the function whose generating function is

∏ _n≥1 (1 − qⁿ)⁻¹ (1 − q^pn)⁻¹.

This function and its generalizations p_[c^r,d^m](n) are the subject of study in several recent papers. Let ℓ ≥ 5, let j ≥ 1, and let p ∈ {2, 3, 5}. In this paper, we prove that the generating function for p_[1,p](n) in the progression β_{p,ℓ,j …}

How Do Minimum Wages Affect Workplace Injuries?, Michael Davies, R. Jisung Park, Anna Stansbury

Upjohn Institute Policy and Research Briefs

No abstract provided.

Underwriting The Wrongs: How Certain Underwriters At Lloyd's, London V. Alliance Drilling Consultants Exposes The Need To Solve Louisiana's Comparative Fault Circuit Split For Contract-Based Drilling Claims, Amber Clement

LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

No abstract provided.

Tunable 3d-Printed Biomaterials For Perfused In Vitro Models Of The Blood-Brain Barrier, Louis Salvatore Paone

Theses and Dissertations

In vitro models have tremendous utility for improving our understanding of complex physiological and pathophysiological processes in a more controlled environment than animal models, in addition to incorporating human cells to overcome species-specific disparities. This dissertation describes innovations in biomaterial-based fabrication processes that advance in vitro models of the blood-brain barrier, providing the opportunity to evaluate the effects of cell-matrix interactions on barrier integrity, additives to reduce viscous drag of blood flow, and molecular mechanisms underlying the cellular response to amyloid beta in the context of Alzheimer’s disease. The core technology underlying this advance is a biomaterial compatible with digital …

Note To Self V. Bpx: Closing The Post-Production Cost Gap In Louisiana's Forced Pooling Laws, Addison A. Jones

LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

No abstract provided.

Leading The Charge: How The Louisiana Legislature Should Prepare For A Possible Lithium Boom, Matthew Delaney

LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

No abstract provided.

It's Getting Hot In Here: The Heated Debate On The Censorhip Of Climate Change Education And Its Violation Of State Constitutions, Lilyan Jarreau

LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

No abstract provided.

Ahoy, Matey! I'Ve Harnessed The Wind: Turning Ocean Air Into Renewable Wind Energy, Amber Ferguson

LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

No abstract provided.

Construction Of Chinese Identities And Community: A Linguistic Ethnographic Study Of A Chinese Culture-Sharing Club At A Us University, Yuxuan Mu

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Chinese identity has been viewed as a debated and contested notion in sociolinguistics (Wong et al., 2021). Existing sociolinguistic research, which has centered on Chinese identity-related questions, such as “Who can be or cannot be Chinese?”, has been closely involved with the current political tensions between mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, as well as their associated linguistic tensions between simplified Chinese writing and traditional Chinese writing, and Cantonese and Mandarin. Building on these studies, this dissertation goes beyond the scope of Sinophone contexts traditionally examined in prior research (e.g., mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong) to examine how US …

Understanding Math-Anxious Teachers' Stories Of Comfort, Competence, And Confidence With Learning And Teaching Mathematics, Deborah Peart Crayton

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Math anxiety is a complex issue that affects students and teachers. It has been researched for decades, but the focus has often been on addressing math anxiety in students, while finding solutions to support elementary teachers experiencing math anxiety has been overlooked. This study fills a gap in existing research by shedding light on math anxiety in elementary education and highlighting ways to address it by leveraging existing structures that support professional development. This qualitative narrative inquiry explores the experiences of four elementary educators who identify as math-anxious and how they report that math anxiety impacts their confidence in teaching …

Dual-Modal Tumor Imaging Using Functionalized Iron-Oxide Nanoparticles For Mri And Fluorescence, Kevin Secades

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Accurate tumor imaging is essential for early cancer detection and treatment monitoring [1]. Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) is a commonly used radioisotope for medical imaging, but its reliance on gamma-ray emission poses challenges related to safety, accessibility, and regulatory constraints[2-5]. This research proposes the development of a dual-modal imaging approach by functionalizing iron-oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) with the fluorescent chromophore Cy5, enabling both MRI contrast enhancement and optical imaging for improved tumor specificity. IONPs provide strong T2-weighted MRI contrast [6], while conjugated near-infrared (NIR) chromophores allow for high-resolution fluorescence imaging [7], making this proposed system adaptable for both in vitro and in vivo …

Interview No. 1840, Norma Flores

Combined Interviews

This interview with El Pasoan Norma Flores reflects on her childhood growing up in Segundo Barrio and the strong family and community ties that shaped her life. Born in 1949 at Newark Methodist Maternity Hospital in South El Paso, she described growing up primarily with her grandmother on Grama St while her parents and siblings lived nearby on Frutas St. Norma shared vivid memories of her neighborhood life, including children playing outside together, helping with household chores and walking to school at Guardian Angel Catholic School. She recalled both joyful and difficult moments, such as spending summers outdoors with family …

Ocean Observing System Design: Transatlantic Acoustic Propagation For Acoustic Thermometry, Brian D. Dushaw, Dimitris Menemenlis, John A. Colosi

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Ocean acoustic thermometry is simulated in the North Atlantic using two global ocean state estimates to assess its potential contributions to the Global Ocean Observing System. Acoustic data were simulated for transatlantic acoustic propagation from Cabo Verde to Bermuda, a 4183-km archetypal path across the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Acoustic scattering by internal waves was simulated using a range-dependent, stochastic model added to the ocean state estimates. While the Ridge blocks acoustic propagation traveling deeper than about 3000 m, and internal-wave sound speed scintillations cause prohibitive scattering of later-arriving rays, it is apparent that O(10) acoustic ray arrivals on this path are …

Spartan Daily, March 11, 2026, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2026

Volume 166, Issue 21

Ulk4 And Cdkn2a Polymorphisms Influence The Risk Of Developing Monoclonal Gammopathy Of Undetermined Significance, José Manuuel Sánchez-Maldonado, Angelica Macauda, Antonio José Cabrera-Serrano, Hauke Thomsen, Murat Güler, Rob Ter Horst, Bethany Van Guelpen, Pavel Vodicka, Stefano Landi, Subhayan Chattopadhyay, Pelin Ünal, Lucía Ruiz-Durán, Delphine Casabonne, Hartmut Goldschmidt, Istemi Serin, María Carretero-Fernández, Elena Cabezudo, Fernando Reyes-Zurita, Alyssa I. Clay-Gilmour, Et. Al.

Faculty Publications

Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) is a necessary precursor condition to multiple myeloma (MM). Given the role of autophagy in modulating MM risk, we investigated whether genetic variation in autophagy-related genes influences susceptibility to MGUS. We analyzed the association of 34,042 common autophagy-related single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with MGUS across six independent cohorts, five from Europe and one from North America, comprising 2317 MGUS cases and 282,358 controls. We also assessed their impact on immune parameters, including absolute counts of 91 blood-derived immune cell subsets and 103 circulating immunological proteins. Meta-analysis revealed a genome-wide significant association between the ULK4 …