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Machine Learning For Preeclampsia Prediction: Enhancing Screening In Primary Health Care, Dwirani Amelia, Asri Adisasmita, Kemal N. Siregar, Detty Siti Nurdiati

Kesmas

Preeclampsia is a leading cause of maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide, with early detection being critical for reducing adverse outcomes. This study aimed to develop a machine learning model for predicting the risk of preeclampsia using readily available maternal characteristics such as body mass index, mean arterial pressure, and clinical history of hypertension or diabetes mellitus. Secondary data from 2,250 pregnancies were analyzed, addressing challenges such as missing data and class imbalance through preprocessing. Various algorithms, including support vector machines, random forest, and logistic regression, were evaluated. Herein, a support vector machines model with threshold adjustment showed the best performance, …

Availability And Distribution Of Stoma Bags For Colorectal Cancer Patients: A Case Study At National Referral And Private Hospitals, Ratna Aryani, Toar Jm Lalisang, Debie Dahlia, Evi Martha, Achir Yani S Hamid, Sukma Wicaturatmashudi, Helen Helen

Kesmas

Stoma bags are essential for colorectal cancer (CRC) patients with stomas. However, access and affordability in Indonesia remain challenging as the National Health Insurance (NHI) does not fully cover these devices. This study aimed to describe the availability and distribution of stoma bags for patients with CRC in national referral and private hospitals, focusing on outpatient access. A qualitative case study was conducted through observations and in-depth interviews with four enterostomal therapy nurses and six patients across three national referral hospitals and one private hospital in the Jakarta Metropolitan Area, Indonesia. Notably, the availability of stoma bags was limited in …

Development Of Audiovisual Media For Reproductive Health Education For Parents Of Adolescents, Tanjung Anitasari Indah Kusumaningrum, Nurul Latifatul Inayati, Setia Asyanti, Ayu Khoirotul Umaroh, Wardhatul Livia, Ramadani Nur Laili, Trijaya Trijaya, Ririn Cahya Dewanti, Yuli Kusumawati, Izzatul Arifah

Kesmas

Parents are the primary source of information for adolescents, but many parents lack an understanding of health materials. For knowledge to be increased, health media, one of which is audiovisual media, are desirable. This study aimed to develop audiovisual media on adolescents’ reproductive health. Media development utilized the analyze, design, develop, implement, and evaluate (ADDIE) model. The respondents in this study were parents of adolescents aged 10–14 years, comprising 10 parents in the small group evaluation, 20 in the field evaluation, and 10 in the implementation stage. The effectiveness of the media was tested through pretests and posttests. Using a …

Liberated Education: Sustainable Paradigms And Pathways For Black And Latino Communities Beyond Formal Education, Stephanie C. Bennett

Theses and Dissertations from DePaul University

As the innovation and educational entrepreneurship sparked by the global pandemic continues to reshape the educational ecosystem, communities are left questioning how to manage and sustain new programs. This dissertation investigates the sustainability strategies employed by founders of liberated educational programs that operate outside the formal school system. These programs are specifically designed to provide educational alternatives for Black and Latino communities in the United States. Using a qualitative, multiple case study approach, this study draws data from interviews with four program founders, program handbooks, website analysis, analytic memos, and virtual tours. The application of Bronfenbrenner’s Process-Person-Context-Time (PPCT) model guided …

Emotional Intelligence In Higher Education: The Importance Of Recruiting Emotionally Intelligent Leaders, Baker H. Alfarajat

Theses and Dissertations from DePaul University

This study investigates the presence and importance of emotional intelligence (EI) competencies in higher education leadership by analyzing executive job descriptions in higher education institutions. Using qualitative discourse analysis guided by Goleman et al.'s Emotional Intelligence model, the research investigates whether and how EI is framed as a leadership requirement. The researcher analyzed 20 job descriptions for executive higher education leaders that were selected from The Chronicle of Higher Education’s online job website. The analysis focused on identifying both explicit and implicit language related to EI competencies. Findings reveal that EI competencies primarily appeared as embedded elements within broader leadership …

"The Talk": A General Interpretive Inquiry Into The Racial Socialization Of Black Males And Their Perception Towards Policing, Kevin Cato

Theses and Dissertations from DePaul University

No abstract provided.

Rethinking Attribution Standards For State Responsibility Concerning Mass Atrocities, Juan Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo

San Diego International Law Journal

Attribution of mass atrocities to states remains a central and contested issue in international law, particularly when such acts are carried out by non-state actors or through proxy forces. This Article analyzes how states may incur responsibility for mass atrocities by examining the legal standards developed in the Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (ARSIWA) and the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice (I.C.J.). Special attention is given to developments following the adoption of ARSIWA, including the evolving relationship between Russia and the Wagner Group, to assess how legal principles apply in modern conflict settings. …

Besieging International Law? The Gaza Conflict And The Future Of Siege Warfare, Avraham Russell Shalev

San Diego International Law Journal

The legal boundaries of siege warfare are under renewed scrutiny following Israel’s siege of Gaza after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks. This analysis explores the intersection of military necessity and humanitarian obligations, assessing whether Israel’s tactics conform to established international law or signal a shift toward stricter legal interpretations. Key legal frameworks—including the Geneva Conventions, Hague Regulations, and customary international law—are examined alongside debates on civilian protection, humanitarian aid access, and the prohibition of starvation as a method of warfare. A comparative evaluation of sieges in Gaza and Syria reveals inconsistencies in how international humanitarian law is applied, raising …

Labor Rights Under The Usmca: Progress, Shortcomings, And The Road Ahead, Ruby Carlon

San Diego International Law Journal

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) introduced the Rapid Response Labor Mechanism (RRLM) to strengthen labor rights enforcement in North American trade. While the mechanism marks a significant departure from NAFTA’s weaker labor provisions, its implementation has revealed systemic shortcomings. The RRLM relies on voluntary compliance, lacks binding remediation requirements, and has an underutilized panel review process, limiting its effectiveness. Economic asymmetry between the United States and Mexico further complicates enforcement, as Mexico bears a disproportionate burden despite having fewer resources to uphold labor standards. Additionally, corporate accountability remains elusive, with companies facing no direct obligations to integrate USMCA labor commitments …

Breaking The Vial: Leveraging North American Regulatory Models And Market Practices To Reform Insulin Pricing In The United States, Chloe Mietzel

San Diego International Law Journal

The high cost of insulin in the United States is driven by restrictive patent protections, trade secret barriers, regulatory inefficiencies, and anticompetitive practices that limit biosimilar competition. While Canada and Mexico have adopted policies that facilitate market entry and government price negotiations, the United States remains constrained by a regulatory framework that prioritizes exclusivity over affordability. Incremental reforms—such as limiting patent extensions, expediting biosimilar approval, increasing pricing transparency, and strengthening antitrust enforcement —could significantly lower costs and expand access. Previous legislative efforts, including the Inflation Reduction Act, have taken steps toward reform, but broader regulatory restructuring is necessary to ensure …

Ai Regulation Across Borders: Legal Challenges And Prospects For International Cooperation, Alex Whaples

San Diego International Law Journal

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has fueled international calls for a comprehensive regulatory framework to balance innovation with the protection of fundamental rights. This analysis examines the diverse AI governance strategies of four key jurisdictions—the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom, the United States, and China—highlighting their strengths, limitations, and ideological differences. It explores the complexities of crafting an international AI treaty, including challenges related to enforcement mechanisms, regulatory burdens on developers, and ideological divides between Western democracies and China. To navigate these challenges, fostering global cooperation and ensuring accountability without stifling innovation is essential. By leveraging existing …

Reconceptualising The Role Of Academic Language And Learning Advisers In The Artificial Intelligence Age, Andrew Kelly, Katrina Strampel, Andrea Lynch

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are profoundly transforming learning, teaching and assessment in higher education. These tools present a major challenge for academic language and learning (ALL) advisers, as they are increasingly capable of performing many of the individual learning support functions that ALL advisers have traditionally provided to students. This conceptual article reimagines the role of ALL advisers in an AI-dominated world. Through applying the theory of practice architectures, it argues refocusing on four areas of practice: professional learning for educators, AI literacy, peer learning communities, and self-regulated learning. By embracing these areas of practice, and through collaboration with …

Playing With Fire: California Homeowners Risk High Insurance Costs Or Losing Homes To Climate Change Disasters, Emily Serleth

San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law

California should continue to further the policy of protecting generational homeowners’ right to their property. To do this, insurance rates should be set in a way that avoids unfair premium increases that violate Proposition 103 and unfairly burden consumers. Utilizing CAT models will increase the cost of home insurance premiums due to overestimations of risk, enable bias on the part of insurance companies, and promote a lack of public scrutiny for insurance rates. This creates a confiscatory rate, which violates Proposition 103 and the California Constitution.

Generational homeowners should not be forced to adopt the FAIR plan just to maintain …

A Toxic Inheritance: Addressing The Legal Implications Of Inheriting Hazardous Waste Land, Ashley Pyle

San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law

Inheritance law, governing the transfer of assets and rights from generation to generation, is a cornerstone of legal systems worldwide, Inheritance law’s implications extend beyond wealth management and tax strategies. This Article addresses a neglected area of overlap: inheritance law and hazardous waste. Consider Sarah, a Southern California beneficiary whose narrative exemplifies that overlap, and her story of how inheritance law combines grief, liability, and opportunity….

Inheriting toxic land poses a legal challenge to a beneficiary’s ability to abandon property as a matter of law and policy. This raises the additional question of who should bear cleanup liability for an …

Group-Based Management Of People With Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome: A Service Evaluation, Stuart Lloyd, Jack Thomas

South West Clinical School Journal

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Emerald Lofts Llc. V. Echevarria

All Decisions

In a no-grounds holdover, the landlord sought to evict a tenant, claiming the unit was exempt from the Good Cause Eviction Law (GCEL) due to the tenant's Section 8 voucher. The court granted the landlord's motion to amend their pleadings to comply with RPAPL § 741(5-a) requirements. However, the court then granted the tenant's motion to dismiss, ruling that a portable Section 8 voucher does not automatically exempt a unit from GCEL under RPL § 214(5), as it doesn't regulate rent or eviction terms like other housing programs.

Level Of Integration (Loint): A Conceptual Framework For Bim-Gis Data Integration,, Peshawa Mohammed, Barry Mcauley, Dympna O Sullivan, Avril Behan

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

Building Information Modelling (BIM) – Geographic information System (GIS) data integration constitutes a crucial component in the development of urban digital twins. This integration can be achieved through a variety of techniques and methodologies; however, numerous challenges arise during the integration process that hinder seamless interoperability. Although several attempts have been made to address these challenges, prior studies tend to address these challenges in isolation, and the literature stills lacks from a standardized approach to perform the integration. This paper proposes a conceptual framework designed to support standardizing the integration practices by synthesizing these challenges into a progressive, structured model. …

The Dialectical Transformation Of Javanese Mantras In The Aesthetic Construction Of Modern Indonesian Poetry By Sapardi Djoko Damono, Mulyono Mulyono, U'Um Qomariyah, Asep Purwo Yudi Utomo, Dyah Prabaningrum, Qurrota Ayu Neina

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

Mantras are an ancient form of poetry believed to possess a powerful ability to cure diseases, protect oneself, ward off misfortune, and foster love. Beyond those practical interests, Javanese mantras also contain philosophical values regarding the relationship between humans and God, humans and humans, and humans and the universe. These mantras become especially intriguing when reimagined in the form of modern poetry, as seen in the work of Sapardi Djoko Damono. This study explores the forms of transformation that Javanese mantras undergo in the poems by focusing on the following questions: 1) What are the forms of transformation of Javanese …

Effectiveness Of Hypnosis For Pain Management In Colorectal Surgery: Project Proposal For A Systematic Review, Ana-Maria Toth

South West Clinical School Journal

#400WORDS: CHIEF NURSING OFFICER’S RESEARCH FELLOWS EVIDENCE IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTS

Provision Of Secondary Prevention Medication Information To Stroke Patients With Aphasia: An Audit Proposal, Janine Andrews

South West Clinical School Journal

#400WORDS: CHIEF NURSING OFFICER’S RESEARCH FELLOWS EVIDENCE IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTS

Nurses’ Knowledge And Practice In The Care Of Patients With Delirium In The Intensive Care Unit: A Service Evaluation Project Proposal, Patience Elosiuba

South West Clinical School Journal

#400WORDS: CHIEF NURSING OFFICER’S RESEARCH FELLOWS EVIDENCE IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTS

Mother Belinda Simmons Jones

African American Funeral Programs

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Hypertension Literacy For Healthcare Providers, Maninder Kaur Dhaliwal

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

When medical staff lack sufficient training in hypertension literacy, it significantly impacts patient outcomes, expenses, and quality of life. Uncontrolled hypertension increases health care costs by causing frequent emergency room visits and hospital stays. After a thorough needs assessment, it was identified at the project site that nurse practitioners were not knowledgeable about the most recent recommendations for managing hypertension and patient education techniques. This practice gap was also contributed to by a lack of structured training and time for learning. The practice-focused question for this project was: Among health care staff, how does implementing a staff education initiative on …

Enhancing Intimate Partner Violence Screening In Primary Care: A Staff Education And Quality Improvement Initiative, Izoduwa Asoro

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This project addresses the often-overlooked epidemic of intimate partner violence (IPV) in primary care settings through a novel staff education and quality improvement initiative focused on transforming screening practices. A significant challenge in detecting IPV is the inadequate training of healthcare providers and the absence of rigorous screening measures, which leads to unmet patient needs and exacerbated trauma. By enhancing the knowledge of primary care staff regarding IPV and training them to effectively use validated screening tools, the initiative aims to improve detection rates. Analytical strategies, including pre-and post-training questionnaires and role play, were employed to evaluate the effectiveness of …

Mental Health Counselors’ Lived Experiences With The Legal System In Matters Concerning Their Clients, Kendria L. Brown

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Mental health counselors frequently engage with the legal system in ways that significantly impact their clinical roles, ethical decision-making, and emotional well-being. Despite the high stakes of these encounters, little is known about how counselors experience and make meaning of such legal involvement. This study explored the central research question: What are the lived experiences of mental health counselors when they are involved with the legal system in matters concerning their clients? This transcendental phenomenological study, grounded in Husserl’s philosophy of exploring lived experience through the suspension of presuppositions, investigates the experiences of mental health counselors when they are involved …

Determinants Of Integration: Migration Difficulty, Mental Health, And Social Connections Among Eritrean Immigrants, Shewit Woldemichael

Master's Theses

This thesis explores how the experience of migration hardship affects integration outcomes of Eritrean migrants in the U.S. and the Netherlands. Using original survey data and the Immigration Policy Lab’s Integration Index (IPL-24), this paper investigated the intersection of economic, psychological, and social interactions that facilitate integration outcomes. This research finds that migration hardship doesn’t just make people’s lives more difficult; it breaks down the social ties and mental well-being that are essential for economic success measured by integration.

Critical Drivers In Public Sector Innovation: Governance And Service Insights From Yogyakarta And Kupang, I Putu Yoga Bumi Pradana

BISNIS & BIROKRASI: Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi dan Organisasi

This study investigates the critical factors influencing the initiation of Public Sector Innovation (PSI) in Indonesia, focusing on governance and service-type innovations within two local government settings: Yogyakarta and Kupang. The methodology employed was a qualitative approach with multiple case studies complemented by the critical incident technique for data analysis. The data were gathered from 23 informants who played significant roles in the early stages of the innovation process at the local government level. The findings reveal that in Yogyakarta, the successful initiation of innovations such as Sego Segawe and YES 119 was primarily driven by robust political leadership, extensive …

A New Genus And New Synonyms For Liburnia Reducta Van Duzee, 1907 (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Delphacoidea: Delphacidae), Charles R. Bartlett, Adam M. Wallner

Insecta Mundi

The delphacid species Liburnia reducta Van Duzee is transferred to the new genus Calkinodelphax Bartlett and Wallner (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Delphacoidea: Delphacidae) and is designated the type species of this genus under the name Calkinodelphax reductus (Van Duzee), new combination. Calkinodelphax reductus is broadly distributed from Florida, the Antilles, Central America, and northern South America. Calkinodelphax reductus is the subjective senior synonym of Pissonotus striolus Osborn, Delphacodes cornuta Beamer, and Euides fasciatella auct. (nec. Osborn). A new lectotype is designated for Liburnia reducta Van Duzee. The female holotype and male allotype of Liburniella fasciatella Osborn were reviewed and found to …

New Records Of Liparthrum Squamosum Blackman (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Hypoborini) In Pennsylvania, Dani J. Firth, Lawrence E. Barringer

Insecta Mundi

Liparthrum squamosum Blackman (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Hypoborini) is reported for the first time from Pennsylvania. A single specimen was found in 2015 and four subsequent specimens were collected in 2024 through several insect trap and lure combinations. These records increase the known range for this species in the eastern United States.

Volume Cxliv, Number 24, May 30, 2025, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.