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Implementation Factors For Wearable Fall Injury Mitigation Technology: A Framework For Technology Adoption, Richard G. Stefanacci, Rebecca J. Tarbert, Nicole Hemenover

College of Population Health Faculty Papers

OBJECTIVES: To identify implementation factors influencing the adoption of wearable fall injury mitigation technology in long-term care (LTC) settings and develop a practical framework for technology implementation success.

DESIGN: Mixed-methods assessment of a multicenter evaluation examining organizational, staff, and resident factors affecting technology adoption.

SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Ten LTC facilities implementing the Tango Belt, a wearable airbag device for hip protection during falls. Analysis included 134 intervention participants (mean age 87.3 years, 76% female, 93% with fall history in past year) and comprehensive stakeholder feedback from staff, leadership, residents, and families.

METHODS: Quantitative measures included device adherence rates, training attendance, …

Generational Differences And Registered Nurses’ Intention To Leave An Organization, Mutabazi Sekimonyo

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

As baby boomers, Generation X, millennials, and Generation Z converge in healthcare settings, their distinct values and work styles influence organizational culture, communication, and collaboration, ultimately affecting patient care outcomes. This study was conducted to explore the impact of generational differences on registered nurses’ intentions to leave their organizations or the nursing profession. By examining how these generational differences shape nurses’ intentions to leave their organizations, the study can help to identify challenges and opportunities for healthcare leadership. Through an analysis of generational expectations and workforce dynamics, this research aimed to inform strategies for supporting retention, enhancing job satisfaction, and …

Prevalence Of Abuse-Specific Injuries In Infants With Prior Injury Evaluated For Abuse., Nara Cho, Kristin G. Crichton, Sara Helwig, Krista K. Wheeler, Rachel M. Stanley, Megan M. Letson, Kristine A. Campbell, Angela N. Bachim, Colleen J. Bressler, Carmen M. Coombs, Lori Frasier, Nicole Johnson, Sara Kilbride, Jan Leonard, Daniel M. Lindberg, Noelle Tran, Joanne N. Wood, Farah W. Brink

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Physical abuse is a common cause of morbidity in infants but is often missed in those with medically minor injuries, increasing the risk for escalating violence. Our objective was to compare the prevalence of abuse-specific injuries among infants with and without prior injuries.

METHODS: This is a retrospective, multicenter study of infants (aged < 12 months) undergoing child abuse pediatrics provider (CAP) consultation for suspected physical abuse between 2/2021 and 12/2022 at 10 participating US centers. Encounters were dichotomized into those with and without history of prior injury. The groups were compared for rates of diagnostic screening and prevalence of abuse-specific injuries. The association of prior injuries with identification of abuse-specific injury was assessed using logistic regression controlling for demographics and presence of prior injury.

RESULTS: We identified 2352 eligible encounters (median age: 4.2 months), of which 13% had a history of prior injury. In infants who underwent diagnostic testing, injury identification was significantly higher in those with prior injury (45% vs 22%,

CONCLUSION: Infants with prior injury undergoing …

Concerted Rattling-Induced Strong Anharmonicity And Phonon Coherence Lead To Ultralow Glasslike Thermal Conductivity In Tlagte, Shantanu Semwal, Yi Xia, Chris Wolverton, Koushik Pal

Mechanical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Ordered crystalline compounds exhibiting ultralow and glass-like thermal conductivity are both fundamentally and technologically important, where phonon quasi-particles dominate their heat transport. Understanding the microscopic mechanisms that govern such unusual transport behavior is necessary to unravel the complex interplay of crystal structure, phonons, and collective excitations of these quasi-particles. Here, we use state-of-the-art first-principles calculations based on quantum density functional theory to investigate the origin of experimentally measured unusually low and glassy thermal conductivity in semiconducting TlAgTe that possesses disconnected chains of Tl atoms within its three-dimensional crystalline framework made up of distorted AgTe4 tetrahedra. Utilizing a unifying framework of …

Learning, Becoming, And Practicing: My Msw Portfolio, Mario G. Colucci

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

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Hope In The Midst Of Trajedy, Rose S. Deroche

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

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Peace To The Fallen, Resilience To The Living, Michele M. Brockie

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

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Social Work In Practice, The Final Stretch, Madison M. Fernandez

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

This professional portfolio reflects what I have learned in the MSW program at the University of Montana.

Msw Portfolio, Angeline Fox Wahl

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

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Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter Regulates Itam-Dependent Platelet Activation, Jehiel Abigail Ajanel Gomez

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

Thromboembolic conditions are the leading cause of disability and death in the United States. Platelets play an important role in the pathophysiology of thrombus formation by aiding in the formation and stabilization of the clot. Central to platelet activation is cytoplasmic calcium, which increases after platelet activation through ITAM (Immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif) or GPCR (G-protein-coupled receptor) receptors. Platelet mitochondria rely on cytoplasmic calcium for mitochondrial calcium influx, which is critical for ATP formation and regulation of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species. In other cells, mitochondrial calcium entry is regulated by the multimeric protein complex, mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU). Deletion of …

Understanding Outer Membrane Vesicle Biogenesis In Bacteroides Thetaiotaomicron, Evan J. Pardue

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are small proteoliposomes generated by active protrusion of the outer membrane (OM) in Gram-negative bacteria during growth. Over 60 years of experimentation has ascribed numerous functions to OMVs produced by different bacteria. However, the mechanism(s) by which OMVs are produced is poorly understood. Due to this, the field remains controversial because many regard OMVs as byproducts of cell lysis and question their physiological relevance. Previous studies in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and related species confirmed that these microbes undergo programmed cell death that results in the stochastic release of vesicles and cellular contents. On the contrary, Bacteroides spp. …

Are We Leaving Donors Behind? An Evaluation Of Accessibility Of Higher Education Donor Webpages And Leadership Priorities, Lauren E. Baldwin

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

This study investigated the web accessibility and readability of U.S.-based nonprofit higher education institutions (HEIs) across the Foundation home, donation, and contact pages of selected websites. Utilizing a combination of manual verification and computer-automated analysis techniques, this study analyzes (n=101) institutional websites. Quantitative analysis reveals these webpages frequently contain WCAG 2.1 Level AA accessibility error types that are likely to affect the perceivability, operability, and understandability of the user’s experience, especially for individuals with disabilities or limited English proficiency. Further, these tests reveal significant differences by sector across multiple WCAG 2.1 Level AA accessibility error types, indicating that …

Study Of Isocyanate-Free Vegetable Oil-Based Polyurethane Coating With A Silicon-Based Compound For Coating Properties, Ajay Kumar

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

The development of sustainable and environmentally friendly polyurethane coatings has garnered significant attention in recent years. This research focuses on the development of isocyanate-free coatings derived from carbonated soybean oil (CSBO) using a solvent- and catalyst-free approach. The coatings were synthesized by reacting CSBO with ethylenediamine (EDA) and varying weight percentages of 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES), which were added to enhance the coating property, as it contains silicon in it, to evaluate their mechanical and thermal properties. Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) confirmed the successful formation of urethane linkages, with a significant reduction in C=O peak intensity after 10 days of curing, …

Free Probability Theory Over The Scaled Hyperbolic Numbers, Daniel Alpay, Ilwoo Choo

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

In this paper, we introduce a notion of free probability over the scaled hyperbolic numbers. Scaled hypercomplex numbers {D_t} _t∈R are constructed as sub-structures of scaled hypercomplex numbers {H_t} _t∈R under the scales (or, the moments) of the set R of real numbers.We show that if t < 0, then the classical free probability theory covers our free probability on {D_t} _{t< 0}; if t > 0, then our free probability on {D_t} _t>0 is represented by the free probability over the classical hyperbolic numbers D = D₁; and if t = 0, then the free probability on D₀ is actually over the …

Loneliness And Support For Political Violence Within The United States, Kellen Downey

Political Science Student Papers and Posters

Although loneliness is a growing public health issue in the United States, its political effects remain understudied. This paper seeks to understand the relationship between loneliness and the support of political violence by utilizing the Chapman Survey of American Fears (CSAF Wave 11). This survey, which is a component of the 2025 Chapman Survey of American Fears, includes the three-item UCLA Loneliness Scale, as well as two separate items specifically measuring political violence. Using a national survey (N=1,015), I address the following questions: (1) Are lonely individuals more likely to support violence on political grounds? (2) Does strongly identifying with …

Acute Limb Ischemia Secondary To Left Brachial Artery Occlusion In A 45-Year-Old Woman: A Case Report, Osman Zada, Tirath Patel, Suliman Syed, Muhammad Hanif, Ayesha Haq, Nikhilesh Anand

School of Medicine Publications

Rationale: Acute limb ischemia is a vascular emergency that occurs when blood flow to a limb suddenly decreases, putting the limb at risk if not treated promptly. Acute limb ischemia accounts for 11% of all vascular emergencies, among which arm ischemia is relatively rare. It is caused by occlusion of the brachial artery, most commonly by vascular thromboembolism. We report a female patient with left upper limb ischemia induced by occlusion of the brachial artery.

Patient concerns: We report a 45-year-old female who presents with an acute onset of severe pain, numbness, and pallor in her left arm. Pulse was …

Somatic Control Framework For Tokamak Plasmas, Samuel Church

Defensive Publications Series

This technical design document proposes the Somatic Control Framework, a novel hierarchical control architecture designed to stabilize tokamak plasmas through resonant multi-frequency modulation. Unlike conventional black-box controllers that are often device-specific, the Somatic Framework decomposes plasma dynamics into physically interpretability modes: the Global Heartbeat (M_B) targeting tearing modes, the Edge Theta (M_\theta) managing pedestal stability, and the Fast Gamma (M_\gamma) addressing turbulence.

This entry details the methodology for cross-device transfer, specifically enabling the portability of control policies from DIII-D to KSTAR. We define a scaling law based on dimensionless parameters (including …

Distributed 48 V Energy Nodes (D48en), Hieu Nguyen

Defensive Publications Series

This document introduces the Distributed 48 V Energy Node (D48EN) architecture, a modular approach to home and community-scale energy storage and power distribution. Unlike conventional DC microgrids that rely on a continuous shared bus, this architecture places independent 48 V battery nodes throughout a structure, each with its own point-of-load photovoltaic (PV) input and short-run DC distribution to nearby loads. Nodes are normally isolated electrically and do not form a high-power backbone. Instead, low-current redistribution links allow controlled, schedulable energy sharing between nodes. This configuration reduces wiring cost, improves safety, simplifies retrofits, and enables modular growth for both developed residential …

Single Pointer Operation To Rearrange External Display Positions, Shaun Tollerton, Nergi Rahardi

Defensive Publications Series

Many computing devices support multiple displays, with features that enable rearranging the positions of the displays to match their respective physical positions. Such rearrangement typically uses hold-and-drag operation performed via a mouse, touchpad, or equivalent. This mechanism can be problematic for certain users and/or unavailable when the available input devices do not support hold-and-drag. This disclosure describes techniques that enable a user to rearrange multiple displays without needing to perform hold-and-drag or other operations that are infeasible. Per the techniques, the user first provides a selection input in a user interface to select a particular display and subsequently provides additional …

User-Customized Application Settings Using Customized Application Environments, Alexander Haubold, Clément Julliard

Defensive Publications Series

Software applications on user devices can be launched only in their default state or in a single user-configured state. This requires users to change the application state for individual use cases each time they launch an application. For example, a camera application may have multiple modes such as default, portrait, panorama, video, etc. and the user needs to switch from the default mode to other modes before using the application. This disclosure describes application containerization techniques that enable users to launch an application in any of a set of custom initial states associated with separate custom-labeled icons. Users can thus …

Motion Gesture And Near-Field Communication Field Detection For Initiating Wearable Payments, Malcolm Kemeny, Sergio Alves, Michael Angermann, Andrew Chen, Annie Tran, Brian Julian

Defensive Publications Series

Some methods for making payments with a wearable computing device, such as a smart watch, can involve manual steps like waking the device and opening a payment application, which may introduce latency into the transaction process. The disclosed technology provides an approach for initiating payments by using sensor data to detect an indication of a user's intent to pay. For example, a system can analyze data from a sensor, such as an accelerometer, to detect a predefined motion gesture. The detection of this gesture, in combination with the contemporaneous presence of a near-field communication (NFC) field from a payment terminal, …

2023u_Approved_Sm07_Nc_Math-4373-Financial-Mathematics, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2023u_Approved_Sm08_Pm_Bs-Actuarial-Science-Curriculum-Update, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2023u_Approved_Sm05_Cm_Bio-4373-4371-Animal-Ecology-And-Lab-Rev1, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2023u_Approved_Sm06_Pm_Bs-Biological-Sciences-Emphasis-Pre-Professional-Studies-Rev1, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2023u_Approved_Sm04_Nc_Bio-3693-Vertebrate-Natural-History-Rev1, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2023u_Approved_Sm02_Pm_Minor-Chemistry-Curr-Update, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2023u_Approved_Sm03_Pm_Bs-Environmental-Science-Curr-Update, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2022u_Sm23_Approved_Nc_Math-2013-Math-For-Computational-Intelligence, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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2023u_Approved_Sm01_Reconfiguration_Bs-Biochemistry, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

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