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Regulating Natural Gas Venting And Flaring As Waste: A Review Of The New Mexico Approach, Joseph A. Schremmer Mar 2022

Regulating Natural Gas Venting And Flaring As Waste: A Review Of The New Mexico Approach, Joseph A. Schremmer

Faculty Scholarship

Special issue: Law and Policy for Gas Flaring in a Low-Carbon Economy.

This essay interrogates the regulation of routine venting and flaring of natural gas as a source of prohibited “waste,” using New Mexico’s recently adopted Waste Rule as an example. It begins with a survey of both the environmental and economic benefits to be achieved by limiting or eliminating venting and flaring and the direct and indirect costs of doing so, including the forgone opportunity to produce crude oil. Then the essay explains the common law and statutory definitions of “waste” to demonstrate that the concept implicates a balancing …


The Roadmap To The Asean-Eu Fta In The Post-Pandemic Era, Pasha L. Hsieh Mar 2022

The Roadmap To The Asean-Eu Fta In The Post-Pandemic Era, Pasha L. Hsieh

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Relations between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union (EU) have enriched the multifaceted concept of interregionalism from legal and international relations perspectives. The article argues that the transformative ASEAN-EU frameworks have shaped the Third Interregionalism. Brussels' building-block approach envisions pathfinder agreements with individual ASEAN states as the basis for the ASEAN-EU FTA, which will help realize the EU's Indo-Paafic strategy and the ASEAN-EU Strategic Partnership. The designs of the EU's trade and investment agreements with Singapore and Vietnam are therefore critical. The article assesses core areas such as tariff liberalization and ASEAN cumulative rules of …


Random Justice, Girardeau A. Spann Mar 2022

Random Justice, Girardeau A. Spann

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

As recent Senate confirmation practices suggest, the Supreme Court is best understood as the head of a political branch of government, whose Justices are chosen in a process that makes their ideological views dispositive. Throughout the nation’s history, the Supreme Court has exercised its governing political ideology in ways that sacrifice the interests of nonwhites in order to advance the interests of Whites. In the present moment of heightened cultural sensitivity to structural discrimination and implicit bias, it would make sense to use affirmative action to help remedy the racially disparate distribution of societal resources that has been produced by …


Investigations On Cogging Torque Mitigation Techniques Of Transverse Flux Motorfor Direct Drive Low-Speed Spacecraft Applications, Ravichandran Mh, Venkatakirthiga Murali, Haridas Tr Mar 2022

Investigations On Cogging Torque Mitigation Techniques Of Transverse Flux Motorfor Direct Drive Low-Speed Spacecraft Applications, Ravichandran Mh, Venkatakirthiga Murali, Haridas Tr

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The transverse flux motor (TFM) is an ideal choice for direct drive high torque applications owing to its proven higher torque density compared to the radial flux and axial flux motors. TFM motors have several merits to be used for spacecraft applications, considering the everlasting demand of the industry for reduction in power and mass. This paper investigates the various cogging torque mitigation techniques for transverse flux motor to be effectively used as the drive motor for precise position control spacecraft requirement. The paper discusses the basic design variables of surface mounted TFM (SM-TFM) that are to be considered for …


Cryptographically Strong Random Number Generation Using Integrated Cmosphotodiodes For Low-Cost Microcontroller Based Applications, Baykal Sarioğlu Mar 2022

Cryptographically Strong Random Number Generation Using Integrated Cmosphotodiodes For Low-Cost Microcontroller Based Applications, Baykal Sarioğlu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this work, we propose a method to generate random numbers for low-cost, low-power, resource-limited low data-rate microcontrollers using integrated CMOS photodiodes. The proposed method utilizes an integrated CMOS photodiode in the photovoltaic mode as the entropy source. The method is based on serially capturing analog values derived from the integrated CMOS photodiode. The entropy of these values increased by a custom algorithm. The proposed random number generator is devised using an integrated CMOS photodiode manufactured in 180 nm standard CMOS technology. The wide applicably of the random number generator is demonstrated by realizing it on a lowcost Arduino UNO …


Long-Term Traffic Flow Estimation: A Hybrid Approach Using Location-Basedtraffic Characteristic, Tuğberk Ayar, Ferhat Atli̇nar, Mehmet Amaç Güvensan, Hafi̇za İrem Türkmen Mar 2022

Long-Term Traffic Flow Estimation: A Hybrid Approach Using Location-Basedtraffic Characteristic, Tuğberk Ayar, Ferhat Atli̇nar, Mehmet Amaç Güvensan, Hafi̇za İrem Türkmen

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Traffic speed estimation plays a key role in various situations, ranging from individual's trip planning to urban traffic management. Despite many studies on short-term prediction, there is only a limited number of studies focusing on long-term prediction and only a couple of them does go beyond 24 h. On the contrary, this study presents a novel hybrid architecture using location-based traffic characteristic for traffic speed estimation up to 7 days. In this architecture, the introduced mean filtering estimation (MFE) model and long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network are jointly utilized for minimizing the error for traffic flow estimation. Both MFE …


Privacy Preserving Scheme For Document Similarity Detection, Ayad Abdulsada, Salah Al-Darraji, Dhafer Honi Mar 2022

Privacy Preserving Scheme For Document Similarity Detection, Ayad Abdulsada, Salah Al-Darraji, Dhafer Honi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The problem of detecting similar documents plays an essential role for many real-world applications, such as copyright protection and plagiarism detection. To protect data privacy, the new version of such a problem becomes more challenging, where the matched documents are distributed among two or more parties and their privacy should be preserved. In this paper, we propose new privacy-preserving document similarity detection schemes by utilizing the locality-sensitive hashing technique, which can handle the misspelled mistakes. Furthermore, the keywords' occurrences of a given document are integrated into its underlying representation to support a better ranking for the returned results. We introduced …


On An Electrostatic Micropump With A Rigorous Mathematical Model, İbrahi̇m Efe, Fati̇h Di̇kmen, Yury Tuchkin Mar 2022

On An Electrostatic Micropump With A Rigorous Mathematical Model, İbrahi̇m Efe, Fati̇h Di̇kmen, Yury Tuchkin

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The novel electrostatic micropump model for applications such as in biomedical drug delivery is presented. The geometrical arrangement of the coupling rigid electrodes lets us exploit our mathematically rigorous boundary integral equation formulation and its solution. Thus, the charge densities involving the fringe effects on the plates are obtained by means of analytical regularization method (ARM) constructed for annular strips earlier. The efficiency of the constructed method is demonstrated with respect to the direct integral equation solvers implemented via the entire domain Galerkin method and point matching. The main physical characteristics of the suggested system and their deviation from that …


La Ricarda, Mestres Quadreny I L'Experimentalisme Musical Català Dels Anys Seixanta: De Com L’Arquitectura Va Esdevenir Música I La Música, Arquitectura, Antoni Pizà Mar 2022

La Ricarda, Mestres Quadreny I L'Experimentalisme Musical Català Dels Anys Seixanta: De Com L’Arquitectura Va Esdevenir Música I La Música, Arquitectura, Antoni Pizà

Publications and Research

Eren uns temps magnífics per a la creació: els concerts semblaven obres de teatre i les obres de teatre, concerts. Els músics feien d’actors i aquests havien de fer de músics. I la distinció entre el públic i els intèrprets també es diluïa, si és que no s’eliminava del tot. Els semiòlegs —o són semiòtics?— havien explicat que en tot acte comunicatiu hi havia un emissor, un missatge i un receptor; i precisament d’això es tractava, d’eliminar aquestes distincions. Ah, i en molts casos, tampoc no hi havia escenari, ni sala de concerts.


Ai-Based Innovation In B2b Marketing: An Interdisciplinary Framework Incorporating Academic And Practitioner Perspectives, Maria Petrescu, Anjala S. Krishen, Sheen Kachen, John T. Gironda Mar 2022

Ai-Based Innovation In B2b Marketing: An Interdisciplinary Framework Incorporating Academic And Practitioner Perspectives, Maria Petrescu, Anjala S. Krishen, Sheen Kachen, John T. Gironda

Publications

Artificial intelligence (AI) rests at the frontier of technology, service, and industry. AI research is helping to reconfigure innovative businesses in the consumer marketplace. This paper addresses existing literature on AI and presents an emergent B2B marketing framework for AI innovation as a cycle of the critical elements identified in cross-functional studies that represent both academic and practitioner strategic orientations. We contextualize the prevalence of AI-based innovation themes by utilizing bibliometric and semantic content analysis methods across two studies and drawing data from two distinct sources, academics, and industry practitioners. Our findings reveal four key analytical components: (1) IT tools …


A Case Report Of Minimally Invasive Percutaneous Ultrasound Guided Tuberculous Iliopsoas Abscess Drainage In An Immunocompromised Patient, Allyzain Ismail, Neelam Ismail, Athar Ali, Shabbir Adamjee, Ahmed Jusabani, Zainab Fidaali Mar 2022

A Case Report Of Minimally Invasive Percutaneous Ultrasound Guided Tuberculous Iliopsoas Abscess Drainage In An Immunocompromised Patient, Allyzain Ismail, Neelam Ismail, Athar Ali, Shabbir Adamjee, Ahmed Jusabani, Zainab Fidaali

General Surgery, East Africa

Introduction and importance: Iliopsoas abscess is a collection of pus that presents with nonspecific features with often delays in diagnosis however cause significant morbidity and mortality with Mycobacterium tuberculosis to be considered as causative agent in at risk individuals in tuberculous endemic regions. Management involves drainage and initiation of adequate antibiotics with radiological guided percutaneous approach considered the appropriate initial approach.

Case presentation: 50-year-old immunosuppressed presenting with left iliopsoas abscess who underwent ultrasound guided drainage and placement of pigtail catheter successfully without the need for open surgical drainage. Our experience of interventional radiology for diagnosis of causative agent and treatment …


Nohwere, Peter A. Alces, Robert M. Sapolsky Mar 2022

Nohwere, Peter A. Alces, Robert M. Sapolsky

William & Mary Law Review

Imagine the frustration of Samuel Butler’s protagonist, Higgs, with the strange society he encounters in Erewhon:

"Was there nothing which I could say to make them feel that the constitution of a person’s body was a thing over which he or she had had at any rate no initial control whatever, while the mind was a perfectly different thing, and capable of being created anew and directed according to the pleasure of its possessor? Could I never bring them to see that while habits of mind and character were entirely independent of initial mental force and early education, the body …


How Experts Have Dominated The Neuroscience Narrative In Criminal Cases For Twelve Decades: A Warning For The Future, Deborah W. Denno Mar 2022

How Experts Have Dominated The Neuroscience Narrative In Criminal Cases For Twelve Decades: A Warning For The Future, Deborah W. Denno

William & Mary Law Review

Phineas Gage, the man who survived impalement by a rod through his head in 1848, is considered “one of the great medical curiosities of all time.” While expert accounts of Gage's post-accident personality changes are often wildly damning and distorted, recent research shows that Gage mostly thrived, despite his trauma. Studying past cases such as Gage’s helps us imagine—and prepare for—a future of law and neuroscience in which scientific debates over the brain’s functions remain fiery, and experts divisively control how we characterize brain-injured defendants.

This Article examines how experts have long dominated the neuroscience narrative in U.S. criminal cases, …


A Safe Culture For Neuroscience, Bruce Waller Mar 2022

A Safe Culture For Neuroscience, Bruce Waller

William & Mary Law Review

When examining the future impact of neuroscience on the law, the first step requires narrowing the scope of the inquiry: advances in neuroscience are exciting, but the beneficial or harmful effects of those advances will depend on the specific culture in which they occur. In some cultures—such as in Norway or Sweden—integrating advances in neuroscience into the criminal justice system is likely to enhance understanding and improve the treatment of offenders and potential offenders. In the neoliberal culture of the United States, advances are more likely to exacerbate the profound wrongs of the criminal justice system rather than ameliorate them. …


Scaling Up Locally Adapted Clinical Practice Guidelines For Improving Childbirth Care In Tanzania: A Protocol For Programme Theory And Qualitative Methods Of The Partoma Scale-Up Study, Jane Brandt Sørensen, Natasha Housseine, Nanna Maaløe, Ib Christian Bygbjerg, Britt Pinkowski Tersbøl, Flemming Konradsen, Brenda Sequeira Dmello, Thomas Van Den Akker, Columba Mbekenga, Hussein Kidanto Mar 2022

Scaling Up Locally Adapted Clinical Practice Guidelines For Improving Childbirth Care In Tanzania: A Protocol For Programme Theory And Qualitative Methods Of The Partoma Scale-Up Study, Jane Brandt Sørensen, Natasha Housseine, Nanna Maaløe, Ib Christian Bygbjerg, Britt Pinkowski Tersbøl, Flemming Konradsen, Brenda Sequeira Dmello, Thomas Van Den Akker, Columba Mbekenga, Hussein Kidanto

Obstetrics and Gynaecology, East Africa

Effective, low-cost clinical interventions to improve facility-based care during childbirth are critical to reduce maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity in low-resource settings. While health interventions for low- and lower-middle-income countries are often developed and implemented top-down, needs and circumstances vary greatly across locations. Our pilot study in Zanzibar improved care through locally co-created intrapartum clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) and associated training (the PartoMa intervention). This intervention was context-tailored with health-care providers in Zanzibar and now scaled up within five maternity units in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This PartoMa Scale-up Study thereby provides an opportunity to explore the co-creation process …


Crizotinib In Patients With Tumors Harboring Alk Or Ros1 Rearrangements In The Nci-Match Trial., A S Mansfield, Z Wei, R Mehra, A T Shaw, C H Lieu, P M Forde, A E Drilon, Edith P. Mitchell, J J Wright, N Takebe, E Sharon, D Hovelson, S Tomlins, J Zeng, K Poorman, N Malik, R J Gray, S Li, L M Mcshane, L V Rubinstein, D Patton, P M Williams, S R Hamilton, B A Conley, C L Arteaga, L N Harris, P J O'Dwyer, A P Chen, K T Flaherty Mar 2022

Crizotinib In Patients With Tumors Harboring Alk Or Ros1 Rearrangements In The Nci-Match Trial., A S Mansfield, Z Wei, R Mehra, A T Shaw, C H Lieu, P M Forde, A E Drilon, Edith P. Mitchell, J J Wright, N Takebe, E Sharon, D Hovelson, S Tomlins, J Zeng, K Poorman, N Malik, R J Gray, S Li, L M Mcshane, L V Rubinstein, D Patton, P M Williams, S R Hamilton, B A Conley, C L Arteaga, L N Harris, P J O'Dwyer, A P Chen, K T Flaherty

Department of Medical Oncology Faculty Papers

The NCI-MATCH was designed to characterize the efficacy of targeted therapies in histology-agnostic driver mutation-positive malignancies. Sub-protocols F and G were developed to evaluate the role of crizotinib in rare tumors that harbored either ALK or ROS1 rearrangements. Patients with malignancies that progressed following at least one prior systemic therapy were accrued to the NCI-MATCH for molecular profiling, and those with actionable ALK or ROS1 rearrangements were offered participation in sub-protocols F or G, respectively. There were five patients who enrolled on Arm F (ALK) and four patients on Arm G (ROS1). Few grade 3 or 4 toxicities were noted, …


The Relationship Between Parenting Practices And Cyberbullying Perpetration: The Mediating Role Of Moral Beliefs, Jaeyong Choi, Seungmug (Zech) Lee, Layne Dittmann Mar 2022

The Relationship Between Parenting Practices And Cyberbullying Perpetration: The Mediating Role Of Moral Beliefs, Jaeyong Choi, Seungmug (Zech) Lee, Layne Dittmann

International Journal of Cybersecurity Intelligence & Cybercrime

Criminologists and psychologists have long recognized that parenting practices can affect childhood outcomes and the development of moral beliefs in children. Another body of literature provides evidence that morality is a key cause of antisocial behavior. Yet, a noticeable gap in this line of work has been testing the mediation effects of parenting practices on cyberbullying via moral beliefs. Using a sample of South Korean adolescents, we tested whether moral beliefs mediate the relationships between parenting practices and cyberbullying perpetration. Results show that parental supervision and excessive parenting can influence cyberbullying perpetration and that the impact of parenting practices is …


Social Construction Of Internet Fraud As Innovation Among Youths In Nigeria, Austin Ayodele Mr., Jonathan Kehinde Oyedeji, Huthman Olamide Badmos Mar 2022

Social Construction Of Internet Fraud As Innovation Among Youths In Nigeria, Austin Ayodele Mr., Jonathan Kehinde Oyedeji, Huthman Olamide Badmos

International Journal of Cybersecurity Intelligence & Cybercrime

The proliferation of internet technologies has shaped interactions in contemporary society. Despite the pivotal importance of the internet to the global economy, it has several negative consequences such as internet fraud. This study examined the perception that young adults in Nigeria hold about internet fraud as an innovative means to economic survival rather than as a criminal enterprise. Robert Merton’s Anomie/Strain Theory (AST) was adopted as the theoretical thrust of the study. Adopting a qualitative data collection method, 15 participants were selected using the non-probabilistic purposive and snowballing techniques while opinions were sampled through in-depth interviews in different locations within …


Cybersecurity Risk In U.S. Critical Infrastructure: An Analysis Of Publicly Available U.S. Government Alerts And Advisories, Zachary Lanz Mar 2022

Cybersecurity Risk In U.S. Critical Infrastructure: An Analysis Of Publicly Available U.S. Government Alerts And Advisories, Zachary Lanz

International Journal of Cybersecurity Intelligence & Cybercrime

As threat actor operations become increasingly sophisticated and emphasize the targeting of critical infrastructure and services, the need for cybersecurity information sharing will continue to grow. Escalating demand for cyber threat intelligence and information sharing across the cybersecurity community has resulted in the need to better understand the information produced by reputable sources such as U.S. CISA Alerts and ICS-CERT advisories. The text analysis program, Profiler Plus, is used to extract information from 1,574 U.S. government alerts and advisories to develop visualizations and generate enhanced insights into different cyber threat actor types, the tactics which can be used for cyber …


Rent Strikes And Tenant Power: Supporting Rent Strikes In Residential Landlord-Tenant Law, Samantha Gowing Mar 2022

Rent Strikes And Tenant Power: Supporting Rent Strikes In Residential Landlord-Tenant Law, Samantha Gowing

Michigan Law Review

For more than a century, low-income tenants across cities in the United States have protested and organized together against unjust housing conditions. Yet landlords continue to evade accountability, leaving mold, pests, lead paint, unclean water, and innumerable other issues unaddressed. On top of habitability concerns, the past several decades of gentrification have displaced hundreds of thousands of Black and brown residents from their communities. To address these issues, legal reforms have focused on either housing-market regulation or individual rights devoid of effective enforcement mechanisms. These reforms fall short. Tenant power, not just tenant-focused housing reform, should be a concern of …


Unfair Collection: Reclaiming Control Of Publicly Available Personal Information From Data Scrapers, Andrew M. Parks Mar 2022

Unfair Collection: Reclaiming Control Of Publicly Available Personal Information From Data Scrapers, Andrew M. Parks

Michigan Law Review

Rising enthusiasm for consumer data protection in the United States has resulted in several states advancing legislation to protect the privacy of their residents’ personal information. But even the newly enacted California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)—the most comprehensive data privacy law in the country— leaves a wide-open gap for internet data scrapers to extract, share, and monetize consumers’ personal information while circumventing regulation. Allowing scrapers to evade privacy regulations comes with potentially disastrous consequences for individuals and society at large.

This Note argues that even publicly available personal information should be protected from bulk collection and misappropriation by data scrapers. …


Younger Age Of Stroke In Low-Middle Income Countries Is Related To Healthcare Access And Quality, Mohammad H Rahbar, Martin Medrano, Franck Diaz-Garelli, Cosme Gonzalez Villaman, Sepideh Saroukhani, Sori Kim, Amirali Tahanan, Yahaira Franco, Gelanys Castro-Tejada, Sarah A Diaz, Manouchehr Hessabi, Sean I Savitz Mar 2022

Younger Age Of Stroke In Low-Middle Income Countries Is Related To Healthcare Access And Quality, Mohammad H Rahbar, Martin Medrano, Franck Diaz-Garelli, Cosme Gonzalez Villaman, Sepideh Saroukhani, Sori Kim, Amirali Tahanan, Yahaira Franco, Gelanys Castro-Tejada, Sarah A Diaz, Manouchehr Hessabi, Sean I Savitz

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Stroke is the second leading cause of mortality globally with higher burden and younger age in low-middle income countries (LMICs) than high-income countries (HICs). However, it is unclear to what extent differences in healthcare access and quality (HAQ) and prevalence of risk factors between LMICs and HICs contribute to younger age of stroke in LMICs. In this systematic review, we conducted meta-analysis of 67 articles and compared the mean age of stroke between LMICs and HICs, before and after adjusting for HAQ index. We also compared the prevalence of main stroke risk factors between HICs and LMICs. The unadjusted mean …


Elucidating The Clinical Spectrum And Molecular Basis Of Hyal2 Deficiency, James Fasham, Siying Lin, Promita Ghosh, Francesca Clementina Radio, Emily G Farrow, Isabelle Thiffault, Jennifer Kussman, Dihong Zhou, Rick Hemming, Kenneth Zahka, Barry A Chioza, Lettie E Rawlins, Olivia K Wenger, Adam C Gunning, Simone Pizzi, Roberta Onesimo, Giuseppe Zampino, Emily Barker, Natasha Osawa, Megan Christine Rodriguez, Teresa M Neuhann, Elaine H Zackai, Beth Keena, Jenina Capasso, Alex V Levin, Elizabeth Bhoj, Dong Li, Hakon Hakonarson, Ingrid M Wentzensen, Adam Jackson, Kate E Chandler, Zeynep H Coban-Akdemir, Jennifer E Posey, Siddharth Banka, James R Lupski, Sarah E Sheppard, Marco Tartaglia, Barbara Triggs-Raine, Andrew H Crosby, Emma L Baple Mar 2022

Elucidating The Clinical Spectrum And Molecular Basis Of Hyal2 Deficiency, James Fasham, Siying Lin, Promita Ghosh, Francesca Clementina Radio, Emily G Farrow, Isabelle Thiffault, Jennifer Kussman, Dihong Zhou, Rick Hemming, Kenneth Zahka, Barry A Chioza, Lettie E Rawlins, Olivia K Wenger, Adam C Gunning, Simone Pizzi, Roberta Onesimo, Giuseppe Zampino, Emily Barker, Natasha Osawa, Megan Christine Rodriguez, Teresa M Neuhann, Elaine H Zackai, Beth Keena, Jenina Capasso, Alex V Levin, Elizabeth Bhoj, Dong Li, Hakon Hakonarson, Ingrid M Wentzensen, Adam Jackson, Kate E Chandler, Zeynep H Coban-Akdemir, Jennifer E Posey, Siddharth Banka, James R Lupski, Sarah E Sheppard, Marco Tartaglia, Barbara Triggs-Raine, Andrew H Crosby, Emma L Baple

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

PURPOSE: We previously defined biallelic HYAL2 variants causing a novel disorder in 2 families, involving orofacial clefting, facial dysmorphism, congenital heart disease, and ocular abnormalities, with Hyal2 knockout mice displaying similar phenotypes. In this study, we better define the phenotype and pathologic disease mechanism.

METHODS: Clinical and genomic investigations were undertaken alongside molecular studies, including immunoblotting and immunofluorescence analyses of variant/wild-type human HYAL2 expressed in mouse fibroblasts, and in silico modeling of putative pathogenic variants.

RESULTS: Ten newly identified individuals with this condition were investigated, and they were associated with 9 novel pathogenic variants. Clinical studies defined genotype-phenotype correlations and …


Policy And Behavior: Comparisons Between Twitter Discussions About The Us Tobacco 21 Law And Other Age-Related Behaviors, Page D. Dobbs, Jason B. Colditz, Shelby Shields, Anna Meadows, Brian A. Primack Mar 2022

Policy And Behavior: Comparisons Between Twitter Discussions About The Us Tobacco 21 Law And Other Age-Related Behaviors, Page D. Dobbs, Jason B. Colditz, Shelby Shields, Anna Meadows, Brian A. Primack

Health, Human Performance and Recreation Faculty Publications and Presentations

To combat the e-cigarette epidemic among young audiences, a federal law was passed in the US that raised the minimum legal sales age of tobacco to 21 years (commonly known as Tobacco 21). Little is known about sentiment toward this law. Thus, the purpose of our study was to systematically explore trends about Tobacco 21 discussions and comparisons to other age-restriction behaviors on Twitter. Twitter data (n = 4628) were collected from September to December of 2019 that were related to Tobacco 21. A random subsample of identified tweets was used to develop a codebook. Two trained coders independently coded …


Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy Delays Responses To Lateral Balance Perturbations Regardless Of Predictability, T. F. Boerger, L. Mcginn, M. C. Wang, Brian D. Schmit, Allison S. Hyngstrom Mar 2022

Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy Delays Responses To Lateral Balance Perturbations Regardless Of Predictability, T. F. Boerger, L. Mcginn, M. C. Wang, Brian D. Schmit, Allison S. Hyngstrom

Physical Therapy Faculty Research and Publications

The aim of this study was to quantify balance impairments in standing in people with degenerative cervical myelopathy (PwDCM) in response to external perturbations. PwDCM have damage to their spinal cord due to degeneration of the cervical vertebral column, but little is known about balance. Balance was quantified by capturing kinetics, kinematic, and electromyographic data during standing in response to lateral waist pulls. Participants received pulls during predictable and unpredictable contexts in three stance widths at two magnitudes. In response to lateral waist pulls, PwDCM had larger center of mass excursion (P < 0.001) and delayed gluteus medius electromyography onset (P < 0.001) and peak (P < 0.001) timing. These main effects of history of myelopathy were consistent across predictability, stance width, and magnitude. A multilinear regression determined that gluteus medius peak timing + tibialis anterior peak timing most strongly predicted center of mass excursion (R2 = 0.50, P < 0.001). These data suggest that PwDCM have delays in generating voluntary and reactive motor commands, contributing to balance impairments. Future rehabilitation strategies should focus on generating rapid muscular contractions. Additionally, frontal plane postural control is regulated by the gluteus medius and the tibialis anterior, whereas other muscles (e.g. gluteus minimus, ankle invertors/evertors) not studied here may also contribute.


Prospective Telehealth Analysis Of Functional Performance, Frailty, Quality Of Life, And Mental Health After Covid-19 Hospitalization, Jacob J. Capin, Melissa P. Wilson, Kristine Hare, Swati Vempati, Carley E. Little, Donna Mcgregor, Jose Castillo-Mancilla, Jennifer E. Stevens-Lapsley, Sarah Jolley, Kristine M. Erlandson Mar 2022

Prospective Telehealth Analysis Of Functional Performance, Frailty, Quality Of Life, And Mental Health After Covid-19 Hospitalization, Jacob J. Capin, Melissa P. Wilson, Kristine Hare, Swati Vempati, Carley E. Little, Donna Mcgregor, Jose Castillo-Mancilla, Jennifer E. Stevens-Lapsley, Sarah Jolley, Kristine M. Erlandson

Physical Therapy Faculty Research and Publications

Background

COVID-19 is a global pandemic with poorly understood long-term consequences. Determining the trajectory of recovery following COVID-19 hospitalization is critical for prioritizing care, allocating resources, facilitating prognosis, and informing rehabilitation. The purpose of this study was to prospectively evaluate recovery following COVID-19 hospitalization.

Methods

Participants age 18 years or older who were hospitalized for ≥24 h due to COVID-19 completed phone/video call virtual assessments (including the 10-time chair rise test) and survey forms at three time points (2–6, 12, and 18 weeks) after hospital discharge. Univariate logistic and linear regression models assessed the associations of the outcomes with primary …


A Privacy-Preserving National Clinical Data Warehouse: Architecture And Analysis, Md Raihan Mia, Abu Sayed Md Latiful Hoque, Shahidul Islam Khan, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed Mar 2022

A Privacy-Preserving National Clinical Data Warehouse: Architecture And Analysis, Md Raihan Mia, Abu Sayed Md Latiful Hoque, Shahidul Islam Khan, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed

Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications

A centralized clinical data repository is essential for inspecting patients’ medical history, disease analysis, population-wide disease research, treatment decision support, and improving existing healthcare policies and services. Bangladesh, a rapidly developing country, poses several unusual challenges for developing such a centralized clinical data repository as the existing Electronic Health Records (EHR) are stored in unconnected, heterogeneous sources with no unique patient identifier and consistency. Data integration with secure record linkage, privacy preservation, quality control, and data standardization are the main challenges for developing a consistent and interoperable centralized clinical data repository. Based on the findings from our previous researches, we …


Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide Receptor Activation In The Hypothalamus Recruits Unique Signaling Pathways Involved In Energy Homeostasis, Brian Maunze, Katherine Wood Bruckner, Nikhil Nilesh Desai, Christopher Chen, Fanghong Chen, David A. Baker, Sujean Choi Mar 2022

Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide Receptor Activation In The Hypothalamus Recruits Unique Signaling Pathways Involved In Energy Homeostasis, Brian Maunze, Katherine Wood Bruckner, Nikhil Nilesh Desai, Christopher Chen, Fanghong Chen, David A. Baker, Sujean Choi

Biomedical Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide (PACAP) exerts pleiotropic effects on ventromedial nuclei (VMN) of the hypothalamus and its control of feeding and energy expenditure through the type I PAC1 receptor (PAC1R). However, the endogenous role of PAC1Rs in the VMN and the downstream signaling responsible for PACAP’s effects on energy balance are unknown. Numerous studies have revealed that PAC1Rs are coupled to both Gαs/adenylyl cyclase/protein kinase A (Gαs/AC/PKA) and Gαq/phospholipase C/protein kinase C (Gαq/PLC/PKC), while also undergoing trafficking following stimulation. To determine the endogenous role of PAC1Rs and downstream signaling that may explain PACAP’s pleiotropic effects, we used RNA interference …


A User-Generated Content Analysis On The Quality Of Restaurants Using The Tourqual Model, Tiago S. Mondo, Andre R. C. Perinotto, Valerio Souza-Neto Mar 2022

A User-Generated Content Analysis On The Quality Of Restaurants Using The Tourqual Model, Tiago S. Mondo, Andre R. C. Perinotto, Valerio Souza-Neto

Journal of Global Business Insights

The restaurant market is becoming more competitive, and businesses are challenged to differentiate themselves in this sector in terms of quality of services. This research aimed to identify the specific indicators for measuring the quality of restaurant service in Brazil. Based on a quantitative paradigm, we adopted a user-generated content analysis with a sample of 1,143,631 customer reviews from 35,611 restaurants in seven Brazilian cities available on the TripAdvisor platform. We collected and registered the data in text and analyzed the results with the support of T-LAB software. Moreover, we adopted TOURQUAL Protocol (Mondo, 2014) to identify the main requirements …


Many Flowers Make A Bouquet: A Recipe For Women Entrepreneurs In Smes, Karam Zaki, Hany Shared Mar 2022

Many Flowers Make A Bouquet: A Recipe For Women Entrepreneurs In Smes, Karam Zaki, Hany Shared

Journal of Global Business Insights

Women’s participation and activation of their role in societies are central goals among the UN’s global aims. This research accomplished the following objectives: first, expands the existing knowledge of women’s intentions and their startup desirability for small projects; second, explores the perceived outcomes; and third, develops an action plan based on the current constraints women face when leading small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) projects. Data were collected from an online questionnaire of 433 entrepreneurs based in Saudi Arabia (26.3% university staff, 23.1% project starters, 22.9% bank loan holders, 16.2% university students, and 11.5% leaders). The partial least squares path modeling …