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Hadronic Vacuum Polarization For The Muon G-2 From Lattice Qcd: Complete Short And Intermediate Windows, Alexei Bazavov, David Anthony Clarke, Christine Davies, Carleton Detar, Aida X. El-Khadra, María Elvira Gámiz Sánchez, Steven Gottlieb, Anthony Grebe, Leon Hostetler, William Jay, Hwancheol Jeong, Andreas Kronfeld, Shaun Lahert, Jack Laiho, Gerard Lepage, Michael Lynch, Andrew Lytle, Craig Mcneile, Ethan Neil, Curtis Peterson, James Simone, Jacob W Sitison, Ruth S. Van De Water, Alejandro Vaquero Avilés-Casco

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

We present complete results for the hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment aμ in the short- and intermediate-distance window regions, which account for roughly 10% and 35% of the total HVP contribution to aμ, respectively. In particular, we perform lattice-QCD calculations for the isospin-symmetric connected and disconnected contributions, as well as corrections due to strong-isospin breaking. For the short-distance window observables, we investigate the so-called log-enhancement effects as well as the significant oscillations associated with staggered quarks in this region. For the dominant, isospin-symmetric light-quark-connected contribution, we obtain aμll,SD(conn)=48.139(11)stat(91)syst[92]total×10-10 and aμll,W(conn)=206.90(14)stat(61)syst[63]total×10-10. We use Bayesian model …

Nyls Announces 94% Employment Rate For Class Of 2024; 90% Employed In Gold Standard Jobs, Ariel Dvorkin

NYLS Community News

No abstract provided.

Intouch Week Of May 12, 2025, New York Medical College

InTouch

• Commencement Speakers Set to Inspire Class of 2025
• Students Express Gratitude to Their First Patients During Convocation of Thanks
• Harnessing Digital Innovations in Ophthalmic Surgery
• TCDM Hosts Sixth Annual Convocation and Induction Ceremony
• TCDM’s Fourth Annual Research Day and Poster Competition Recognizes Student Researchers and Faculty Mentors
• Student Spotlight: Lynne MacFadyen Aspires to Help Others Find Their Voice
• Student Spotlight: Callie Hollander Finds Her Rhythm in Neuroscience Research

Contemporary Appropriation Of Confucian Aesthetics In China: Mao Zedong And Xi Jinping’S Political Discourses On Art And Morality, Eva Kit Wah Man

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Mao Zedong’s thoughts on art and society delivered at the Yan’an Talks in the 1940s had a significant impact on the Chinese Communist Party’s art policies for decades. In 2014, Xi Jinping delivered the “Speech at the Forum on Literature and Art” in Beijing, which echoed Mao’s Yan’an Talks but was arrogated and idealized to emphasize the development of a strong China. His speech focused on boosting artists to celebrate Party-sanctioned morality, cultural heritage, and nationalist sentiment, and he stated that the main purpose of art was to infuse reality with optimism for the future. The ways both leaders appropriated …

Beyond Boundaries: A Comprehensive Survey Of Transferable Attacks On Ai Systems, Guangjing Wang, Ce Zhou, Yuanda Wang, Bocheng Chen, Hanqing Guo, Qiben Yan

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems increasingly underpin critical applications, from autonomous vehicles to biometric authentication, their vulnerability to transferable attacks presents a growing concern. These attacks, designed to generalize across instances, domains, models, tasks, modalities, or even hardware platforms, pose severe risks to security, privacy, and system integrity. This survey delivers the first comprehensive review of transferable attacks across seven major categories, including evasion, backdoor, data poisoning, model stealing, model inversion, membership inference, and side-channel attacks. We introduce a unified six-dimensional taxonomy: cross-instance, cross-domain, cross-modality, cross-model, cross-task, and cross-hardware, which systematically captures the diverse transfer pathways of adversarial strategies. Through …

Examining The Relationship Between Teacher Characteristics And African American Vernacular English (Aave): A Quantitative Study, Mary Michelle Porter

Theses & Dissertations

African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is a distinct linguistic variety characterized by unique grammatical and phonological features. Despite its linguistic legitimacy, AAVE is often subject to negative perceptions that can adversely affect the educational experiences of students who speak it. The purpose of this study is to examine elementary school teachers’ attitudes toward AAVE and how these are influenced by demographic factors. Forty-eight teachers from Suffolk, New York, and Houston, Texas, participated in a survey that included demographic questions and the Language Attitude Scale (LAS), a validated instrument for assessing attitudes toward AAVE. Demographic variables included age, race, years of …

Small Things / Bigger Picture: Foucault, Vygotsky And Exclusionary Practices In Schools, Elizabeth Done, Vicky Bamsey

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

This conceptual paper seeks to identify resonances between the theorising of Vygotsky and Foucault that can explain how events which may not be perceived to be exclusionary by educators may contribute to school exclusion or the self-exclusion of students through home education. We explore the subjective conditions of actions that deviate from the normative standards enshrined in school behaviour policies, drawing on Vygotsky’s concept of perezhivanie which, following Chisholm, we situate in an ars pathetica derived from Foucault. The small things of our title refers to incidents, interactions or micro-practices that may be perceived as insignificant by educators but which, …

What Kind Of Hegemony? The European Union In Its Region, Patrick Holden

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

Despite many crises the European Union has sustained deep geoeconomic power throughout Europe. This consensual, flexible and structural form of power is best understood as hegemonic in nature. The mix of supranationalism with enduring intergovernmentalism has forged a unique form of ‘regional hegemony’ that can be understood in Neo-Gramscian terms but differs from critical understandings of ‘neoliberal hegemony’. The challenge of Brexit inspired the latent power structures of the EU to the surface. The memoirs of EU leaders over this period offer insights into the justification of, and operation, of EU hegemony. The EU-27 controlled the Brexit process throughout, imposing …

Be Ready For What's Next: A Reflection On My Internship With Kpmg, Megan L. Bundren

Honors Theses

During my audit internship with KPMG in Dallas, I had the opportunity to apply classroom knowledge from the Patterson School of Accountancy to real-world client engagements across a variety of industries. I participated in substantive testing, financial statement tie-outs, depreciation analysis, and internal control evaluations, which deepened my understanding of audit standards and procedures. My training at KPMG’s Lakehouse in Orlando and use of tools like KPMG Clara Workflow and Microsoft Excel’s DataSnipper enhanced my technical skills and audit efficiency. I also gained insight into global collaboration through KPMG’s Global Delivery Center in India. Through engagements such as Seaport Entertainment …

Transfer Learning For Temporal Logic Objectives, Lucas M. Santana Rovira

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Reinforcement learning algorithms can enable autonomous systems to learn the control skills needed to accomplish a task specified by a linear temporal logic formula. However, they cannot be transferred to a new task, even when the two are very similar. For each new task, the policy must be redesigned from scratch, which is a common limitation of existing reinforcement learning methods for temporal logic tasks. A proposed solution to this problem leverages the similarity between past and new tasks to reuse already learned control skills to accomplish the new task, with minimal or no retraining.

Rather than learning a single …

Development Of A Light-Based Platform To Assess Cervical Mucus Barrier Function And Physical Mucus Properties, Elizabeth J. Buzbee

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Preterm birth is the leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality worldwide, yet current clinical tools for predicting its risk lack specificity and reliability. Cervical mucus plays a crucial role in maintaining pregnancy by forming a barrier that protects the uterus against infection. This study investigates the use of laser speckle rheology as a noninvasive technique to assess cervical mucus biomechanics. Synthetic cervical mucus was fabricated at varying hydration levels and tested using a conventional rheometer that confirmed that the mechanical properties of the synthetic mucus samples were representative of physiological cervical mucus. These results were compared to the complex …

Interpreting Spatial And Temporal Variations In Global Air Quality Using A Chemical Transport Modeling Framework, Deepangsu Chatterjee

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Air quality is a major health concern. Exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO + NO2) is a leading mortality risk factor across the world. Numerous cohort studies conducted over the past two decades have identified strong associations between ambient air pollution and human mortality, highlighting the adverse health effects of PM2.5 and NO2 exposure. My thesis includes three studies that contribute to a better understanding of air quality. In many regions, including South Asia, elevated emissions from various sectors and sparse ground monitoring are significant challenges. The concurrent development and use of the high-performance …

Cyber-Physical Security Through The Lens Of Ai-Enabled Systems, Zhiyuan Yu

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Cyber-physical systems (CPS), powered by emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, have become integral to various critical domains such as the Internet of Things (IoTs), medical devices, and autonomous vehicles. A unique aspect of these systems lies in their interactions with the physical world, by perceiving environments through heterogeneous modalities (perception), processing digital data with human-in-the-loop intelligence algorithms (computing), and autonomously actuating controls that affect physical processes (actuation). While this intricate fusion of cyber and physical components has unlocked unprecedented capabilities, it has also introduced new security challenges. However, traditional security measures often fall short in addressing these multifaceted threats. This …

Narratives Or Not? Examining The Roles Of Message Format And Individuals' Stages Of Change In The Context Of Hpv Vaccination Promotion, Mengfei Guan, Shawn C. Chiang, Regan M. Murray, Wen-Juo Lo, Larry T. Hill, Ann C. Klassen, Jennifer A. Manganello, Amy E. Leader, Philip M. Massey

Department of Medical Oncology Faculty Papers

Narrative persuasion has been widely used in health communication campaigns and persuasive message design. However, several meta-analyses showed that the relative effectiveness of narratives in promoting behavior change was not consistently observed in the existing literature. With the goal of exploring boundary conditions of narrative effects, this study investigates the interaction effects of narrative persuasion and stages of change on promoting behavior change in the context of encouraging parents to vaccinate their children against human papillomavirus (HPV). Findings from an online experiment (N = 593) showed that non-narrative messages were more effective in bolstering behavioral intention than narrative messages among …

Finnish Fashion Lessons For The Creation Of A Sustainable Textiles Industry, Susanna Monseau, Kaisa Sorsa, Heidi Salokangas

Pace International Law Review

The detrimental effects of textiles and the fashion industry on the planet are well-known.
In its 2022 Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles (the EU Textile Strategy) the EU proposed aggressive actions to transform the textile industry to implement the commitments of Europe’s Green Deal and Circular Economy Action Plan. The Textile Strategy’s aim is simple but ambitious: to end fast fashion. Its proposals will regulate textile businesses along the whole supply chain, but the views of the smaller enterprises that make up the majority of the supply chain have been overlooked, even as larger players lobby for policy changes. …

Re: Physician And Advanced Practice Clinician Burnout In Rural And Urban Settings., Cody J Klinker

Ambulatory and Primary Care Articles

No abstract provided.

Interview With Jim Woglom, Jacey Terrill

What Happened Here

This is a transcript of an oral history with Jim Woglom, who is a professor of Art Education at Cal Poly Humboldt. At the time of the protest, he was co-chair of the School of Education and Senate Chair for the University, but was outgoing from those roles at the time of the interview. He was behind calling for a vote of no confidence for President Jackson. He advocated for open discussion between protestors and administrators, despite pushback on both sides. He witnessed the police presence on the first day of the protest. He discusses instances of interacting with protestors …

Machine Learning - Driven Solar Forecasting In Dust-Prone Regions For Sustainable Energy Systems, Kadhim Hayawi, Husna Maliakkal, Neethu Venugopal, Thanveer Musthafa Hussain, Gomathi Bhavani Rajagopalan

All Works

This research focuses on improving solar energy forecasting in dust-affected regions such as the UAE, where frequent dust storms reduce photovoltaic (PV) efficiency by scattering and absorbing sunlight. Many existing models overlook the impact of dust events, leading to inaccurate forecasts during such conditions. To address this, the study develops machine learning models—including LSTM, GRU, and hybrid LSTM-GRU architectures—that incorporate solar, weather, and dust-related features. The models were evaluated across multiple forecasti24 hoursons (1, 6, 12, and 24 hours), demonstrating that including dust-related variables significantly enhances prediction accuracy, particularly for short-term forecasts. Temporal and seasonal analyses revealed that dust events, …

Rootless - The Body Remembers What The Mind Has Forgotten, Helena Omana-Zapata

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

In repurposing academic spaces for healing, this project is meant to culminate in an artefact that aligns with decolonial educational practices, focusing on accessibility. In doing so, this project braids multimodality, re-represented history, and testimonio of various genres: personal narrative, Latinx story and resistance, critical examination of history and reproductions of information to depict my experience of detaching from cultural identity through assimilation and acculturation in the United States in education. In what I have called the process of leaving me rootless, I no longer had access to the places, people, identity, or language that established belonging. However, through …

Case Note - Tousi V Gadydukova: Are You Transferring Your Joint Tenancy?, Goodtime Okara

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

This case note reflects on the recent Court of Appeal’s decision in Tousi v Gadydukova [2024]ECWA Civ 203 which focused on transferring a joint tenancy under sections 53, 62(1), andschedule 7 of the Family Law Act (FLA) 1996. It interrogated if the parties to a “void” marriagewere included in the definition of “cohabitants” in paragraph 3 of the FLA 1996, or if paragraph2 would apply to them instead. Hence, this case note explores the facts in Tousi’s case, thecourt’s decision, and its implications on the transfer of tenancy under the FLA, housing, andproperty rights in England and Wales.

Neurodevelopmental And Environmental Mechanisms Of Invasion, Proliferation, And Tumor Cell Fate Specification In Glioblastoma, Bianca Lynn Myers

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

Glioblastomas (GBMs) are the most aggressive primary brain tumors, and despite over 50 years of research efforts, the median survival remains at 14 months post-diagnosis. The current standard of care consists of maximal surgical resection radiotherapy with concurrent chemotherapy using temozolomide. However, the highly proliferative and invasive nature of GBM cells renders total resection nearly impossible as tumor cells invade the surrounding healthy tissue. The molecular and environmental drivers of these tumorigenic phenotypes are largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate that the neurodevelopmental transcription factor ASCL1 enhances tumor cell proliferation and invasion while activating the expression of a neural stem cell …

Rootless - The Body Remembers What The Mind Has Forgotten, Helena Omana-Zapata

Latin American Studies ETDs

In repurposing academic spaces for healing, this project is meant to culminate in an artefact that aligns with decolonial educational practices, focusing on accessibility. In doing so, this project braids multimodality, re-represented history, and testimonio of various genres: personal narrative, Latinx story and resistance, critical examination of history and reproductions of information to depict my experience of detaching from cultural identity through assimilation and acculturation in the United States in education. In what I have called the process of leaving me rootless, I no longer had access to the places, people, identity, or language that established belonging. However, through …

Staff Education To Improve Gestational Diabetes Knowledge In Family Practice Staff, Lawretta Udogadi Aghomon

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The project was a staff education program on gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) that was carried out in an outpatient primary health facility to help improve staff knowledge of GDM. GDM is a pregnancy complication where women with no history of diabetes become hyperglycemic during their gestational period. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of mothers giving birth who received a diagnosis of diabetes during pregnancy has increased in the last 10 years. Limited healthcare staff knowledge is a constraint in preventing the increase of GDM incidence. The practice-focused question was: Among healthcare staff at a …

Examining The Transition Planning Process For Students With High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder, Sara Elizabeth Mathis

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Students with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD) typically experience less postsecondary success when compared to their neurotypical peers. The specific problem addressed in this study is that many students with ASD in the rural communities of Southwest Missouri are not experiencing post-graduation success. Guided by Schlossberg’s transition theory and Kohler’s taxonomy for transition programming 2.0, the purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore secondary special education teachers’ perceptions of the transition planning process for students with ASD related to successes, challenges, and needed support. Ten special education teachers, representing five different schools, who worked directly with the transition …

Pcvi, Llc, Et Al, Appellants V. Puoy K. Premsrirut, Et Al, Appellees : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

On appeal from the Fifth Judicial District Court, Washington County, Honorable Eric Gentry, Case No. 220500527

Alex B. Leeman, Alan S. Mourtisen, Attorneys for Appellants, Vivian L. Thoreen, Lydia L. Lockett, Christopher M. Iaquinto, Attorneys for Appellants

Michael F. Skolnick, Matthew S. Thomas, Attorneys for Appellees, Joseph P. Garin, Attorney for Appellees

Decoding Digital Discourse Through Multimodal Text And Image Machine Learning Models To Classify Sentiment And Detect Hate Speech In Race- And Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, And Asexual Community–Related Posts On Social Media: Quantitative Study, Thu T. Nguyen Scd, Xiaohe Yue Ms, Heran Mane Bs, Kyle Seelman Bs, Penchala Sai Priya Mullaputi Ms, Elizabeth Dennard Mph, Amrutha S. Alibilli, Junaid S. Merchant Phd, Shaniece Criss Scd, Yulin Hswen Scd, Quynh C. Nguyen Phd

Health Sciences Publications

Background:
A major challenge in sentiment analysis on social media is the increasing prevalence of image-based content, which integrates text and visuals to convey nuanced messages. Traditional text-based approaches have been widely used to assess public attitudes and beliefs; however, they often fail to fully capture the meaning of multimodal content where cultural, contextual, and visual elements play a significant role.

Objective:
This study aims to provide practical guidance for collecting, processing, and analyzing social media data using multimodal machine learning models. Specifically, it focuses on training and fine-tuning models to classify sentiment and detect hate speech.

Methods:
Social media …

Enabling New Synthetic Platforms For Aryne Synthesis With Aryl Thianthrenium Reagents, Riley Augustus Roberts

Dissertations and Theses

The enormous importance of aromatic rings in organic molecules cannot be understated. Aromatic rings are present in the majority of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and consumer products. The way in which these rings are arranged and substituted results in a molecule’s unique properties. Because of this, the current limitations of the chemical methods used to synthesize these molecules results in limited structural diversity and thus missed opportunities for the development of value-added products. To this end, this work demonstrates novel methods of aryne synthesis, aryl thianthrenium synthesis and a unique approach to structural scaffold hopping. The approaches presented herein allow for rapid …

Institutions, Indigenous Peoples, And The Structure Of Power In Columbia River Basin Salmon Governance, Christopher Michael Page

Dissertations and Theses

As broad patterns of behavior influenced by norms and rules, institutions structure many aspects of modern society through coordination and the distribution of power. Due to the importance of common-pool natural resources to many aspects of society, they usually involve competition and lie at the intersection of multiple institutions. This combination of institutions, power disparities, and a competitive interest is what scholars have referred to as a "field." Fields can be complex, and the coordination among interests is generally done through a form of governance involving a wide array of laws, regulations, and actors. When at least one of these …

Defining Three Principles For Credible Evidence Synthesis And Reviews In Health Professions Education, Peter Boedeker, Janice Hanson, Diana Dolmans, Satid Thammasitboon

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

As reviews become increasingly central to informing educational practice and guiding research in health professions education, the need for methodological clarity and quality has grown. This Commentary highlights three foundational principles - alignment, rigor, and transparency - that underpin high-quality reviews, regardless of type. We illustrate how these principles apply across commonly used review types, including systematic, scoping, realist, and narrative reviews. By aligning the research question with the appropriate review methodology, employing rigorous processes for evidence collection and synthesis, and maintaining transparency in methodological reporting, review teams can produce credible, transferable, and dependable findings. Embracing these principles not only …

Accuracy Of Race And Ethnicity Data In The Pediatric Electronic Health Record: A Concordance And System Adequacy Study, John D. Cowden, Rachel Drake, Jessi Johnson, Katiana Kelty, Mehwish Ahmed

Student Publications

Introduction: Conventional race and ethnicity categories and analysis are reductive and prone to inaccuracy. Because race and ethnicity data validity is essential to health equity efforts, we measured the accuracy of race and ethnicity data in a pediatric electronic health record (EHR) to identify areas for improvement in data collection and use. Methods: Patients and their caregivers reported patient race and ethnicity via in-person survey in four pediatric settings (inpatient, emergency room, urgent care, and primary care). Race and ethnicity data from the EHR were compared with survey data to calculate four measures of EHR data accuracy. The U.S. Census …