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Analyzing Nurse Perceptions Of Workplace Environments From A Statewide Initiative, Judith T. Caruso, Mildred Ortu Kowalski, Marilyn Mapp

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Hospitals demonstrated consistent and sustained improvement in work environments after implementation of Nursing Workplace Environment and Staffing Councils. With empirical outcomes and identification of best practices throughout the state, staff nurses and nurse leaders learned from each other about creative, positive initiatives to improve nurse well-being and work environments.

2023-July-19-Bestselling Author Imani Perry To Headline Etsu Conference, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

(July 19, 2023) – Critically acclaimed author Dr. Imani Perry will serve as the keynote speaker for East Tennessee State University’s fifth annual Equity and Inclusion Conference. The conference, open to the public, will take place Sept. 28-30 and will be held entirely in-person for the first time since the pandemic.

Perry is renowned for her work that explores the intersections of history, race, law and culture. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, in the aftermath of the horrific 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, Perry’s life and work have been deeply imbued with a commitment to justice and progressive change.

Perry’s academic …

Levels Of Persistent Organic Pollutants (Pops) In The Antarctic Atmosphere Over Time (1980 To 2021) And Estimation Of Their Atmospheric Half-Lives, Thais Luarte, Victoria A. Gómez-Aburto, Ignacio Poblete-Castro, Eduardo Castro-Nallar, Nicolas Hunneus, Marco Molina-Montenegro, Claudia Egas, Germán Azcune, Andrés Pérez-Parada, Rainier Lohmann, Pernilla Bohlin-Nizzetto, Jordi Dachs, Susan Bengtson-Nash, Gustavo Chiang, Karla Pozo, Cristóbal J. Galbán-Malagón

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are synthetic compounds that were intentionally produced in large quantities and have been distributed in the global environment, originating a threat due to their persistence, bioaccumulative potential, and toxicity. POPs reach the Antarctic continent through long-range atmospheric transport (LRAT). In these areas, low temperatures play a significant role in the environmental fate of POPs, retaining them for a long time due to cold trapping by diffusion and wet deposition, acting as a net sink for many POPs. However, in the current context of climate change, the remobilization of POPs that were trapped in water, ice, and …

The Forgotten Language Skill: Finding A Prominent Place For Listening In Meaningful Programming For Multilingual Learners With Learning Disabilities, Tracy Griffin Spies

Educational & Clinical Studies Faculty Research

Listening is the primary vehicle through which children learn, is fundamental to all other communication competencies, is a core component of multimodal instruction, and is key to learning language. At the same time, listening comprehension is the least understood language skill and is challenging for teachers in the provision of high quality instruction. For multilingual learners with learning disabilities it also presents certain challenges at the intersection of students’ disability and developing language proficiency. This article presents a conceptual analysis of listening comprehension across the perspectives of learning disability and second language acquisition in an effort to link disconnected understandings …

Geographic Market Definition In Commercial Health Insurer Matters: A Unified Approach For Merger Review, Monopolization Claims, And Monopsonization Claims, Deborah Haas-Wilson, Kristof Zetenyi, Brian Gorin

Economics: Faculty Publications

We provide a methodology for geographic market definition when the product(s) being purchased or sold has an intrinsic geographic component, such as (1) the sale of commercial health plans and (2) the purchase of health care providers’ services by commercial health plans. In these situations, we show that a straightforward application of the Horizontal Merger Guidelines issued by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (hereafter, Guidelines) that uses the customer or supplier location to define the geographic market is not sufficient and can result in markets that are unintuitively small. This is often addressed by applying …

A Spatially Anchored Transcriptomic Atlas Of The Human Kidney Papilla Identifies Significant Immune Injury In Patients With Stone Disease, Victor Hugo Canela, Joseph P Gaut, Sanjay Jain, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Kidney stone disease causes significant morbidity and increases health care utilization. In this work, we decipher the cellular and molecular niche of the human renal papilla in patients with calcium oxalate (CaOx) stone disease and healthy subjects. In addition to identifying cell types important in papillary physiology, we characterize collecting duct cell subtypes and an undifferentiated epithelial cell type that was more prevalent in stone patients. Despite the focal nature of mineral deposition in nephrolithiasis, we uncover a global injury signature characterized by immune activation, oxidative stress and extracellular matrix remodeling. We also identify the association of MMP7 and MMP9 …

Segmentation Of Human Functional Tissue Units In Support Of A Human Reference Atlas, Yashvardhan Jain, Leah L Godwin, Yingnan Ju, Naveksha Sood, Ellen M Quardokus, Andreas Bueckle, Teri Longacre, Aaron Horning, Yiing Lin, Edward D Esplin, John W Hickey, Michael P Snyder, Nathan Heath Patterson, Jeffrey M Spraggins, Katy Börner

2020-Current year OA Pubs

The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) aims to compile a Human Reference Atlas (HRA) for the healthy adult body at the cellular level. Functional tissue units (FTUs), relevant for HRA construction, are of pathobiological significance. Manual segmentation of FTUs does not scale; highly accurate and performant, open-source machine-learning algorithms are needed. We designed and hosted a Kaggle competition that focused on development of such algorithms and 1200 teams from 60 countries participated. We present the competition outcomes and an expanded analysis of the winning algorithms on additional kidney and colon tissue data, and conduct a pilot study to understand spatial …

Loss Of Function Mutation In Ank Causes Aberrant Mineralization And Acquisition Of Osteoblast-Like-Phenotype By The Cells Of The Intervertebral Disc, Takashi Ohnishi, Victoria Tran, Kimheak Sao, Pranay Ramteke, William Querido, Ruteja A Barve, Koen Van De Wetering, Makarand V Risbud

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Pathological mineralization of intervertebral disc is debilitating and painful and linked to disc degeneration in a subset of human patients. An adenosine triphosphate efflux transporter, progressive ankylosis (ANK) is a regulator of extracellular inorganic pyrophosphate levels and plays an important role in tissue mineralization. However, the function of ANK in intervertebral disc has not been fully explored. Herein we analyzed the spinal phenotype of Ank mutant mice (ank/ank) with attenuated ANK function. Micro-computed tomography and histological analysis showed that loss of ANK function results in the aberrant annulus fibrosus mineralization and peripheral disc fusions with cranial to caudal progression in …

Destins De Femmes: French Women Writers, 1750-1850, John C. Isbell

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications

Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850. John Isbell provides an essential collection that illuminates the impact women writers had on French literature and politics during a time marked by three revolutions, the influx of Romantic art, and rapid technological change. Each of the book’s thirty chapters introduces a prominent work by a different female author writing in French during the period, from Germaine de Staël to George Sand, from the admired salon libertine Marie du Deffand to Flora Tristan, tireless campaigner for socialism and women’s rights. Isbell draws …

Bullying Victimization And Perpetration: Some Answers And More Questions, Dexter R. Voisin, David B. Miller

Faculty Scholarship

The U.S. government has defined bullying victimization as “any unwanted aggressive behavior(s) by another youth or group of youths who are not siblings or current dating partners that involves an observed or perceived power imbalance and is repeated multiple times or is highly likely to be repeated”.1 Conceptualizations of bullying and the use of the term vary by audience and context. For instance, for some, bullying behaviors might include acts of aggression or violence, whereas for others bullying might center on name-calling, exclusionary social practices or even spreading rumors and vicious lies.2

Generative Relevance Feedback With Large Language Models, Iain Mackie, Shubham Chatterjee, Jeffrey Dalton

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Current query expansion models use pseudo-relevance feedback to improve first-pass retrieval effectiveness; however, this fails when the initial results are not relevant. Instead of building a language model from retrieved results, we propose Generative Relevance Feedback (GRF) that builds probabilistic feedback models from long-form text generated from Large Language Models. We study the effective methods for generating text by varying the zero-shot generation subtasks: queries, entities, facts, news articles, documents, and essays. We evaluate GRF on document retrieval benchmarks covering a diverse set of queries and document collections, and the results show that GRF methods significantly outperform previous PRF methods. …

Neuro-Symbolic Representations For Information Retrieval, Laura Dietz, Hannah Bast, Shubham Chatterjee, Jeff Dalton, Jian Yun Nie, Rodrigo Nogueira

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

This tutorial will provide an overview of recent advances on neuro-symbolic approaches for information retrieval. A decade ago, knowledge graphs and semantic annotations technology led to active research on how to best leverage symbolic knowledge. At the same time, neural methods have demonstrated to be versatile and highly effective. From a neural network perspective, the same representation approach can service document ranking or knowledge graph reasoning. End-to-end training allows to optimize complex methods for downstream tasks. We are at the point where both the symbolic and the neural research advances are coalescing into neuro-symbolic approaches. The underlying research questions are …

Promoting Oral Health Equity: Opportunities For The Nursing Profession, Gillian Barclay, Mary Kate Hannan

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Poor oral health is linked to negative health outcomes and is a leading public health concern. Globally, health inequities place disadvantaged and minority children at a higher risk for poor oral health outcomes. This presentation explores strategies how the nursing profession can play leadership roles to promote oral health equity.

Addressing Self-Efficacy In Cardiovascular Emergencies, Kjirsten Ervi

Group: Nebraska Methodist College

Problem: New graduate nurses in an urban midwestern emergency department self-identified that they lacked self-efficacy in cardiovascular emergencies. The objective of this study was to measure self-efficacy in the new graduate nurse and senior level-nursing students by providing cardiac specific education with a simulation based in the emergency department.

Intervention: An educational multi-modal course aimed specifically at cardiovascular emergencies and the self-efficacy of the new graduate nurse and senior level nursing students was implemented. This course consisted of a lecture, case studies, and a simulation. The project took place in two separate settings, one at the hospital and another at …

A Qualitative Study Of The Experiences Of Obesity, Body Image, And Mental Health Of British-Born Afro-Caribbean Male Students At A West Yorkshire University In England, Johnson Mbabazi, Dorothy Irene Nalweyiso, Fiona Macgregor, Jeff Breckon, Edward Kunonga, Barry Tolchard, Rosemary Dawson, Jennifer Teke, Josette Bettany Saltikov, George William Kagugube, Lawrence Achilles Nnyanzi

International Journal of Physical Activity and Health

Obesity, body image, and depression are all biopsychosocial phenomena that are frequently misunderstood across cultures. Body dissatisfaction is a psychological aspect of obesity that has been associated with disordered eating, low self-esteem, and depression. Nevertheless, body image dissatisfaction may affect non-obese individuals too. Those with a positive body image are more likely to participate in physical activity than those with a negative body image. Individuals who are satisfied with their body image are more likely to possess high self-esteem, confidence, and healthy eating habits. Obesity prevention among the black population is increasingly important. This study sought to examine the perceptions …

Narratives And Expert Information In Agenda-Setting: Experimental Evidence On State Legislator Engagement With Artificial Intelligence Policy, Daniel S. Schiff, Kaylyn J. Schiff

Department of Political Science Faculty Publications

Are narratives as influential in gaining the attention of policymakers as expert information, including for complex, technical policy domains such as artificial intelligence (AI) policy? This pre-registered study uses a field experiment to evaluate legislator responsiveness to policy entrepreneur outreach. In partnership with a leading AI think tank, we send more than 7300 U.S. state legislative offices emails about AI policy containing an influence strategy (providing a narrative, expert information, or the organization's background), along with a prominent issue frame about AI (emphasizing technological competition or ethical implications). To assess engagement, we measure link clicks to further resources and webinar …

Understanding Students’ Cognitive And Affective Attitude And Attitudinal Structures Toward Physical Activity: A Person-Centered Approach, Yubing Wang, Pan Li, Yaogang Han, Binn Zhang

International Journal of Physical Activity and Health

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the proportions of students who were holding positive, negative, and neutral cognitive/affective attitude and different cognitive-affective attitudinal structures toward moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) using a person-centered approach. Methods: A total of 3949 students participated in this study (1065 middle-school students, 784 high-school students, and 2100 college students). Results: A majority of students were holding positive cognitive (about 94%) and affective attitude (about 85%) toward MVPA. Most students (about 84%) held the Positive cognitive—Positive affective attitudinal structure toward MVPA. School level influenced the proportions of students who were holding different cognitive …

Thinking Outside The Dyad: Incorporating Cohort-Based Experiences Into Mentorship, Angela Yon, Grace Allbaugh, Susan Franzen

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

A benefit of the traditional one-to-one, hierarchical mentoring relationship is the individualized attention and guidance the mentor provides the mentee. This singular mentoring relationship can be effective but is not always sufficient in addressing institutional acculturation and meeting personal needs of the new employee. This paper discusses how an emergent mentoring program at Milner Library blended the dyadic mentoring relationship with cohort-based programming to create a space for participants to learn from colleagues across departments, share experiences, and consider psychosocial issues. These grassroots programming efforts have cultivated holistic engagement and renewed community.

Exploring The Principles Applied During The Production Of An Open Writing Textbook, Stacey Corbitt, Dawn Atkinson

Writing

Despite coverage of materials development principles in the applied linguistics literature, principled production of open textbooks has not received attention. To address this gap and demonstrate the interdisciplinary potential of materials development research, the authors drew upon concurrent verbalization and interview data they collected while composing their first coursebook, a freely available open textbook designed for first-year university writing courses that enroll English first-language and second-language learners, to discern how they applied principles. Qualitative content analysis of the data indicated the novice textbook writers focused on learning objectives to negotiate textbook relevancy and currency concerns, tried to create relatable content, …

The Parthenon, July 19, 2023, Evan Green, Conner Woodruff, Matt Schaffer, Chayce Matheny, Victoria Ware, Shauntelle Thompson, Rafael Alfonso, Scott Price

The Parthenon

No abstract provided.

Metastatic Infiltration Of Nervous Tissue And Periosteal Nerve Sprouting In Multiple Myeloma-Induced Bone Pain In Mice And Human, Marta Diaz-Delcastillo, Oana Palasca, Tim T Nemler, Didde M Thygesen, Norma A Chávez-Saldaña, Juan A Vázquez-Mora, Lizeth Y Ponce Gomez, Lars Juhl Jensen, Holly Evans, Rebecca E Andrews, Aritri Mandal, David Neves, Patrick Mehlen, James P Caruso, Patrick M Dougherty, Theodore J Price, Andrew Chantry, Michelle A Lawson, Thomas L Andersen, Juan M Jimenez-Andrade, Anne-Marie Heegaard

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a neoplasia of B plasma cells that often induces bone pain. However, the mechanisms underlying myeloma-induced bone pain (MIBP) are mostly unknown. Using a syngeneic MM mouse model, we show that periosteal nerve sprouting of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP+) and growth associated protein 43 (GAP43+) fibers occurs concurrent to the onset of nociception and its blockade provides transient pain relief. MM patient samples also showed increased periosteal innervation. Mechanistically, we investigated MM induced gene expression changes in the dorsal root ganglia (DRG) innervating the MM-bearing bone of male mice and found alterations in pathways associated with …

Early Non-Response As A Predictor Of Later Non-Response To Antipsychotics In Schizophrenia: A Randomized Trial, Yujun Long, Qiongqiong Wu, Ye Yang, Jingda Cai, Jingmei Xiao, Zhaoqian Liu, Yifeng Xu, Ying Chen, Manli Huang, Ruiguo Zhang, Xijia Xu, Jian Hu, Zhifen Liu, Fang Liu, Yingjun Zheng, Huaqing Meng, Zhimin Wang, Yanqing Tang, Xueqin Song, Yunchun Chen, Xueyi Wang, Tiebang Liu, Xiaoli Wu, Maosheng Fang, Chunling Wan, Jingping Zhao, Renrong Wu

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: It remains a challenge to predict the long-term response to antipsychotics in patients with schizophrenia who do not respond at an early stage. This study aimed to investigate the optimal predictive cut-off value for early non-response that would better predict later non-response to antipsychotics in patients with schizophrenia.

METHODS: This multicenter, 8-week, open-label, randomized trial was conducted at 19 psychiatric centers throughout China. All enrolled participants were assigned to olanzapine, risperidone, amisulpride, or aripiprazole monotherapy for 8 weeks. The positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) was evaluated at baseline, week 2, week 4, and week 8. The main outcome …

Metastatic Infiltration Of Nervous Tissue And Periosteal Nerve Sprouting In Multiple Myeloma-Induced Bone Pain In Mice And Human, Marta Diaz-Delcastillo, Oana Palasca, Tim T Nemler, Didde M Thygesen, Norma A Chávez-Saldaña, Juan A Vázquez-Mora, Lizeth Y Ponce Gomez, Lars Juhl Jensen, Holly Evans, Rebecca E Andrews, Aritri Mandal, David Neves, Patrick Mehlen, James P Caruso, Patrick M Dougherty, Theodore J Price, Andrew Chantry, Michelle A Lawson, Thomas L Andersen, Juan M Jimenez-Andrade, Anne-Marie Heegaard

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a neoplasia of B plasma cells that often induces bone pain. However, the mechanisms underlying myeloma-induced bone pain (MIBP) are mostly unknown. Using a syngeneic MM mouse model, we show that periosteal nerve sprouting of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP+) and growth associated protein 43 (GAP43+) fibers occurs concurrent to the onset of nociception and its blockade provides transient pain relief. MM patient samples also showed increased periosteal innervation. Mechanistically, we investigated MM induced gene expression changes in the dorsal root ganglia (DRG) innervating the MM-bearing bone of male mice and found alterations in pathways associated with …

Supplemental Files: Laser Scanner-Based Robotic Coordinate Measuring Machine, Vladimir Gurau

Datasets

This data represents the LabView and C++ software necessary to operate the coordinate measuring machine (CMM) described in the related publication, as well as raw data results representing the digitized model of a section of a turbine blade obtained using the CMM. This data is shared as supplemental material for the related publication: V. Gurau, A. Gerhardstein, K. Carruthers and H. Frazer: “Laser Scanner-Based Robotic Coordinate Measuring Machine”, in International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research (2023).

Rapid Implementation Of Veterans Health Administration Telehealth Creative Arts Therapies: Survey Evaluation Of Adoption And Adaptation, Kristin M. Story, Mindy Flanagan, Sheri L. Robb, Dawn M. Bravata, Matthew J. Bair, David Otto, Teresa M. Damush

Health Services and Informatics Research

Background

Creative arts therapies (CAT) are employed throughout the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and are predominantly delivered in-person. Though telehealth delivery of CAT was used at several VHA facilities to increase services to rural Veterans, due to guidance from the Center for Disease Control and VHA that temporarily suspended or reduced in-person services, there was a large increase of CAT therapists enterprise-wide who adopted telehealth delivery. The aims of this study were to evaluate adoption and adaptation of CAT telehealth delivery and identify related barriers and facilitators.

Methods

We deployed a survey guided by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research …

A Risk Assessment For The Remote Ocean: The Case Of The South East Atlantic, Holly J. Niner, Siân E. Rees, Giulia La Bianca, Kirsty A. Mcquaid, Kerry L. Howell

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Degradation of the natural world and associated ecosystem services is attributed to a historical failure to include its ‘value’ in decision-making. Uncertainty in the quantification of the relationship between natural capital ‘assets’ that give rise to critical societal benefits and people is one reason for the omission of these values from natural resource management. As this uncertainty increases in marine systems and further still with distance from the coast, the connection between society and natural capital assets is less likely to be included adequately in decision-making. Natural capital assets of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ), including those of the deep …

New Hampshire Democratic Primary Voters Unenthusiastic But Back Biden 7/19/2023, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Seven in ten likely 2024 New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary voters currently back President Joe Biden. Half of Biden supporters are not enthusiastic if Biden is the 2024 Democratic nominee, but most supporters plan to vote for Biden even if he does not appear on the ballot. There is little interest in challengers Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or Marianne Williamson, both of whom are unpopular among likely Democratic primary voters and few Biden supporters even consider either Kennedy or Williamson to be their second choice.

Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach Update, July 19, 2023, Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach

Office of Research, Economic Engagement and Outreach

No abstract provided.

Sars‑Cov‑2 Entry Into And Evolution Within A Skilled Nursing Facility, Nicole R. Sexton, Parker Parker Cline, Emily N. Gallichotte, Emily Fitzmeyer, Michael C. Young, Ashley J. Janich, Kristy L. Pabilonia, Nicole Ehrhart, Gregory D. Ebel

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the family Coronaviridae which includes multiple human pathogens that have an outsized impact on aging populations. As a novel human pathogen, SARS-CoV-2 is undergoing continuous adaptation to this new host species and there is evidence of this throughout the scientific and public literature. However, most investigations of SARS-CoV-2 evolution have focused on largescale collections of data across diverse populations and/or living environments. Here we investigate SARS-CoV-2 evolution in epidemiologically linked individuals within a single outbreak at a skilled nursing facility beginning with initial introduction of the pathogen. The data demonstrate that SARSCoV- 2 was introduced to the …

Computation Of The Basic Reproduction Numbers For Reaction-Diffusion Epidemic Models, Chayu Yang, Jin Wang

Department of Mathematics: Faculty Publications

We consider a class of k-dimensional reaction-diusion epidemic models (k = 1; 2; • • • ) that are developed from autonomous ODE systems. We present a computational approach for the calculation and analysis of their basic reproduction numbers. Particularly, we apply matrix theory to study the relationship between the basic reproduction numbers of the PDE models and those of their underlying ODE models. We show that the basic reproduction numbers are the same for these PDE models and their associated ODE models in several important scenarios. We additionally provide two numerical examples to verify our analytical results.