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The Diamond, February 25, 2022, Dordt University

Dordt Diamond

• Front Page: The Show Won't Go On - Prairie Grass Film Challenge Concludes After 15 Years; Mosaic Club Pieces Together Diverse Communities; International Students Share Culture at Fair
• News: New Design Studio Creates Prioritized Space for Graphic Design Students; Defender Grille Serves Up Some Competition
• Sports: Men's and Women's Basketball Stumble at Northwestern; Change in Leadership for Women's Volleyball; Dordt Hockey Triumphs
• Art & Entertainment: The Importance of Being Earnest Promises Laughter; Tall Girl 2 Falls Short; Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Takes the Stage; Death on the NIle - Three Unexciting Deaths; Uncharted - One …

Trends And Age-Related Characteristics Of Substance Use In The Hospitalized Homeless Population, Sung-Youn Chun, Ji W. Yoo, Hyeki Park, Jinwook Hwang, Pearl C. Kim, Seong Park, Jay J. Shen

School of Medicine Faculty Research

We aimed to examine trends and characteristics of substance use (opioid, cocaine, marijuana, and heroin) among hospitalized homeless patients in comparison with other hospitalized patients in 3 states. This was a cross-sectional study, based on the 2007 to 2015 State Inpatient Data of Arizona, Florida, and Washington (n= 32,162,939). Use of opioid, cocaine, marijuana, heroin, respectively, was identified by the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision. Multi-level multivariable regressions were performed to estimate relative risk (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). Dependent variables were the use of substances (opioid, cocaine, marijuana, and heroin), respectively. The main independent variable was homeless …

East Asia’S Inclusive Growth Model : Part – I, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Newspaper and Magazine Articles

Almost thirty years ago the World Bank produced a seminal report, ‘The East Asia Miracle’, which captured the essence of the success stories of eight economies in East Asia (Japan; the four tigers – Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan; and three Asean countries – Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand). These high-performing economies grew three times as fast as Latin America and South Asia and five times faster than Sub Saharan Africa between 1965 and 1990. During the 1990s, the high growth momentum was sustained, and these economies grew at average 8 percent per annum. Their share in world trade expanded at …

A Novel Interactive Virtual Medical Student Clinical Rotation For Ophthalmology, James Frisbie, Hannah Cornman, Ramya Swamy, Janet Leath Alexander, Pavlina S. Kemp, Rebekah Friedrich, Colleen A. Hughes Driscoll, Moran R. Levin

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Abstract

Objective This article describes a novel clinical rotation that uses technology to create a remote ophthalmology learning experience with the goal of improving virtual exposure to medical and surgical ophthalmic training for medical students.

Methods Our unique curriculum incorporates mobile-mounted tablets which allow students to virtually participate in inpatient consults, clinic, and ophthalmic surgery. An adaptable mounting device attached to the slit lamp allows students to observe examinations in real time, enhancing recognition of ocular pathologies. Students participate in a robust curriculum that includes independent learning modules, video lectures, interactive modules, podcasts, and surgical video rounds. Students engage with …

Women Just Wanna Have Time: Wellness Innovation Research, Jessica Long, Julia Simon, Victoria Demartelly, Candice Norcott, Adrianne Dade

Journal of Wellness

Introduction: Studies show that the stress that resident physicians endure, particularly female residents, can have a negative impact on one’s overall well-being. Many interventional studies have explored the impact that mindfulness, meditation, and exercise have on stress, a negative influencer of well-being. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate how short, self-led mindfulness, meditation, and movement exercises impacted OB/GYN residents at a university-based program.

Methods: Participants voluntarily enrolled in a self-led program (fall 2019 – spring 2020) encompassing movement, mindfulness, and meditative activities, for which they received instructions by email detailing six 21-day cycles (requiring 15 minutes of daily …

The Transmission Game: Testing Behavioral Interventions In A Pandemic-Like Simulation, Jan K. Woike, Sebastian Hafenbrädl, Patricia Kanngiesser, Ralph Hertwig

School of Psychology

During pandemics, effective nonpharmaceutical interventions encourage people to adjust their behavior in fast-changing environments in which exponential dynamics aggravate the conflict between the individual benefits of risk-taking and its social costs. Policy-makers need to know which interventions are most likely to promote socially advantageous behaviors. We designed a tool for initial evaluations of the effectiveness of large-scale interventions, the transmission game framework, which integrates simulations of outbreak dynamics into large-group experiments with monetary stakes. In two studies (n = 700), we found substantial differences in the effectiveness of five behavioral interventions. A simple injunctive-norms message proved most effective, followed by …

Implications Of Facial Coverings On Communication, Katherine Giustino

Honors Theses

Nonverbal communication constitutes over half of communication in verbal communicators’ production. With so much lost to covering essential parts of expressing nonverbal communication, for example the mouth, this study aims to find how that impacts the general population’s ability to communicate effectively.

A study found that masks act as an acoustic filter for speech and can attenuate high frequencies (Marler & Ditton, 2020). At the most basic level, a facial covering creates a physical barrier to communication.

This study was designed in a survey format to gather data. A total of 95 participants completed the survey in its entirety. The …

Measurement Of The Inclusive And Differential Higgs Boson Production Cross Sections In The Decay Mode To A Pair Of Τ Leptons In Pp Collisions At S =13 Tev, (Cms Collaboration), A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, J. W. Andrejkovic, T. Bergauer, S. Chatterjee, M. Dragicevic, A. Escalante Del Valle, R. Frühwirth, M. Jeitler, N. Krammer, L. Lechner, D. Liko, I. Mikulec, P. Paulitsch, F. M. Pitters, J. Schieck, R. Schöfbeck, D. Schwarz, S. Templ, W. Waltenberger, C. E. Wulz, V. Chekhovsky, A. Litomin, V. Makarenko, M. R. Darwish, E. A. De Wolf, T. Janssen, T. Kello, A. Lelek, H. Rejeb Sfar

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

Measurements of the inclusive and differential fiducial cross sections of the Higgs boson are presented, using the τ lepton decay channel. The differential cross sections are measured as functions of the Higgs boson transverse momentum, jet multiplicity, and transverse momentum of the leading jet in the event, if any. The analysis is performed using proton-proton collision data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb-1. These are the first differential measurements of the Higgs boson cross section in the final state of two τ …

Newsletter, February 2022, Cedar Oaks Guild

Cedar Oaks Guild Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Ms. Margaret T. Jones

African American Funeral Programs

Mr_Margaret_T_Jones.pdf - Funeral program for Ms. Margaret T. Jones

Unh Macfarlane Research Greenhouse Open House Returns April 2, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Simpson Joins Unh As Chaplain, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Prepared For A Career In Patient Care, Callie Carr

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Patient Digital Health Technologies To Support Primary Care Across Clinical Contexts: Survey Of Primary Care Providers, Behavioral Health Consultants, And Nurses, Oleg Zaslavsky, Frances Chu, Brenna N. Renn

Psychology Faculty Research

Background: The acceptance of digital health technologies to support patient care for various clinical conditions among primary care providers and staff has not been explored. Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore the extent of potential differences between major groups of providers and staff in primary care, including behavioral health consultants (BHCs; eg, psychologists, social workers, and counselors), primary care providers (PCPs; eg, physicians and nurse practitioners), and nurses (registered nurses and licensed practical nurses) in the acceptance of various health technologies (ie, mobile apps, wearables, live video, phone, email, instant chats, text messages, social media, and patient …

Integrating Web Applications Into Popular Survey Platforms For Online Experiments, Benjamin Carter, Alessandro Del Ponte

Political Science Faculty Articles and Research

Research using custom-made web applications is burgeoning as scholars increasingly conduct their experiments online. We show how researchers can integrate their web applications into popular survey software such as Qualtrics in five simple steps and provide the full JavaScript code and screenshots. This procedure allows participants to seamlessly switch from Qualtrics to their web applications without leaving the survey platform. This integration has two benefits: (1) it eliminates the risk that participants inadvertently drop out of the survey while switching from the survey software to the web application and vice versa; and (2) it saves researchers the fees charged by …

An Investigation Into The Measurement Properties Of The King-Devick Eye Tracking System, Mark Hecimovich, D. King, M. Murphy, K. Koyama

Faculty Publications

Objectives: Eye tracking has been gaining increasing attention as a possible assessment and monitoring tool for concussion. The King-Devick test (K-DT) was expanded to include an infrared video-oculography-based eye tracker (K-D ET). Therefore, the aim was to provide evidence on the reliability of the K-D ET system under an exercise condition.

Methods: Participants (N = 61; 26 male, 35 female; age range 19-25) were allocated to an exercise or sedentary group. Both groups completed a baseline K-D ET measurement and then either two 10-min exercise or sedentary interventions with repeated K-D ET measurements between interventions.

Results: The test-retest reliability of …

Targeting Angiogenesis In Squamous Cell Carcinoma Of The Head And Neck: Opportunities In The Immunotherapy Era, Nabil Saba, Pooja Vijayvargiya, Jan Vermorken, Juan Rodrigo, Stefan Willems, Nina Zidar, Remco De Bree, Antti Mäkitie, Greg Wolf, Athanassios Argiris, Yong Teng, Alfio Ferlito

Department of Medical Oncology Faculty Papers

Despite the lack of approved anti-angiogenic therapies in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN), preclinical and more recent clinical evidence support the role of targeting the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in this disease. Targeting VEGF has gained even greater interest following the recent evidence supporting the role of immunotherapy in the management of advanced SCCHN. Preclinical evidence strongly suggests that VEGF plays a role in promoting the growth and progression of SCCHN, and clinical evidence exists as to the value of combining this strategy with immunotherapeutic agents. Close to 90% of SCCHNs express VEGF, which has …

Express: Is Implicit Level-2 Visual Perspective Taking Embodied? Spontaneous Perceptual Simulation Of Others’ Perspectives Is Not Impaired By Motor Restriction., Eleanor Ward, Giorgio Ganis, Katrina L. Mcdonough, Patric Bach

School of Psychology

Visual perspective taking may rely on the ability to mentally rotate one’s own body into that of another. Here we test whether participants’ ability to make active body movements plays a causal role in visual perspective taking. We utilized our recent task that measures whether participants spontaneously represent another’s visual perspective in a (quasi-)perceptual format that can drive own perceptual decision making. Participants reported whether alphanumeric characters, presented in different orientations, are shown in their normal or mirror-inverted form (e.g., “R” vs. “Я”). Between trials, we manipulated whether another person was sitting either left or right of the character and …

An Ngo Input For The Special Rapporteur For The Human Rights Of Migrants To The Office Of The United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights Report On Human Rights Violations At International Borders: Trends, Prevention, And Accountability, Katherine Kaufka Walts, Sarah J. Diaz, Abigail Mitchell

Center for the Human Rights of Children

The Center for the Human Rights of Children, in collaboration with Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights (“Young Center”) submits this input in response to the call for submissions made by the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants to inform the forthcoming report to the 50th session of the Human Rights Council regarding the United States’ current border management policies that aim to prevent migration atthe southern border. This input will focus on United States’ push back methods, namely the recently reimplemented Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) otherwise known as “Remain …

An Academic Ophthalmology Curriculum As A Model For Introducing Preprofessional Students To Careers In Ophthalmology, Tony Succar, Virginia A. Lee, Christopher Karmonik, Andrew G. Lee

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Abstract

Ophthalmology is one of the most rewarding and fulfilling medical careers in medicine due to the broad practice scope (including a combination of medicine and surgery); patient population (treatment of pediatric and adult patients); diverse patient and pathology mix (healthy eye exams, refractions, and pathology); high patient and provider satisfaction rates; and highly specialized technology and treatments. Unfortunately, academic exposure to ophthalmology as a career in medical school curricula has had a global decline for decades. While most of the evidence-based interventions found in the literature have resulted in enhanced educational outcomes, ophthalmology exposure should be initiated earlier which …

Minutes, Global Initiatives Committee Meeting, Friday, February 25, 2022, Rollins College Global Initiatives Committee

The Center for Global Initiatives

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne Deep Dive, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

Mathematics From Scratch: Learning With Coding, Kimberly Beck, Jessica F. Shumway, Jody Clarke-Midura

Publications

Implementing successful cross-curricular lessons is challenging but possible. Participants in this session will learn about a partnership between Utah State University, Cache County School District, and Stanford University that has designed and implemented successful integrated mathematics-computer science lessons. Attendees will hear from researchers and in-service teachers on their experience with designing and carrying out the curriculum and will have an opportunity to view and interact with the computer programs that students used.

Stigmatization Experiences Of Hiv Infected Women: A Focused Ethnography, Marsha J. Bennett

Dissertations

Few studies address the multiplicity of psychological, social, and cultural influences on women's behavior as a result of their HIV infection. The purpose of this study was to analyze: (a) women's experiences of living with HIV disease from the perspective of the women's stigmatized status, and (b) a subculture of HIV infected women with a set of relationships, behaviors, events, and rituals that imparted meaning into being a woman infected with HIV in this society. Adult women were referred from their primary care providers and nurses, and consented for participation. A focused ethnography using individual interviews, group interviews, and participant …

The Student Movement Volume 106 Issue 15: Au Theatre Wing Presents Pride And Prejudice, Irina Gagiu, Grace No, Lauren Kim, Megan Napod, Solana Campbell, Steven Injety, Abigail Lee, Chris Ngugi, Andrew Pak, Elizabeth Getahun, Angelina Nesmith, Alexander Navarro, Gloria Oh, Alannah Tjhatra, Terika Williams, Taylor Uphus

The Student Movement v. 106 (2021-2022)

HUMANS

"Matchmaking by SASA" - Details on the New Club Event!, Interviewed by: Irina Gagiu

Meeting AU's New Librarian, Katherine Van Arsdale Bell, Interviewed by: Grace No

My Future Plans: Hannah Castillo, Interviewed by: Lauren Kim

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Creative Spotlight: Students of the AU Theatre Wing, Interviewed by: Megan Napod

New Artist Releases: Evin Nazya-Musgrove, Eli Wilson, & Jonathan Lutterodt, Solana Compbell

The One Inch Barrier, Steven Injety

NEWS

Herbert Blomstedt Comes to Andrews University, Abigail Lee

"It's for the Effect:" A Student Response, Chris Ngugi

Worship Concert, "Healing Together", Andrew Pak

IDEAS

Are Attention Spans Decreasing?, Elizabeth Getahun …

Fred And Dinah Gretsch School Of Music Newsletter, Georgia Southern University

School of Music: News & Publications (2017-2023)

• Student News
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Perceptions Of Employability Skills Of Undergraduate Business Students In A Developing Country: An Exploratory Study, Wise Mainga, Reuben M. Daniel, Luis Alamil

Higher Learning Research Communications

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the relative importance of different employability skills for business graduates seeking initial employment.

Method: Semi-structured survey questionnaires were administered to human resources representatives from industry, business lecturers, and graduating business students to determine gaps in perceptions between the three stakeholder groups.

Results: There was some alignment and moderate discrepancies in perceptions of the relative importance of different employability skills between the three stakeholder groups. There were statistically significant differences in perceived importance of communication, teamwork, and interpersonal skills between graduating students and employers. There is evidence that employers were satisfied with …

Thermosensitive Polymers And Thermo-Responsive Liposomal Drug Delivery Systems, Waad H. Abuwatfa, Nahid S. Awad, William G. Pitt, Ghaleb A. Husseini

Faculty Publications

Temperature excursions within a biological milieu can be effectively used to induce drug release from thermosensitive drug-encapsulating nanoparticles. Oncological hyperthermia is of particular interest, as it is proven to synergistically act to arrest tumor growth when combined with optimally-designed smart drug delivery systems (DDSs). Thermoresponsive DDSs aid in making the drugs more bioavailable, enhance the therapeutic index and pharmacokinetic trends, and provide the spatial placement and temporal delivery of the drug into localized anatomical sites. This paper reviews the fundamentals of thermosensitive polymers, with a particular focus on thermoresponsive liposomal-based drug delivery systems.

Cosc-2 – Drilling The Basal Décollement And Underlying Margin Of Palaeocontinent Baltica In The Paleozoic Caledonide Orogen Of Scandinavia, Henning Lorenz, Jan Erik Rosberg, Christopher Juhlin, Iwona Klonowska, Rodolphe Lescoutre, George Westmeijer, Bjarne S.G. Almqvist, Mark Anderson, Stefan Bertilsson, Mark Dopson, Jens Kallmeyer, Jochem Kück, Oliver Lehnert, Luca Menegon, Christophe Pascal, Simon Rejkjær, Nick N.W. Roberts

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Abstract. The Collisional Orogeny in the Scandinavian Caledonides (COSC) scientific drilling project aims to characterise the structure and orogenic processes involved in a major collisional mountain belt by multidisciplinary geoscientific research. Located in western central Sweden, the project has drilled two fully cored deep boreholes into the bedrock of the deeply eroded Early Paleozoic Caledonide Orogen. COSC-1 (2014) drilled a subduction-related allochthon and the associated thrust zone. COSC-2 (2020, this paper) extends this section deeper through the underlying nappes (Lower Allochthon), the main Caledonian décollement, and the upper kilometre of basement rocks. COSC-2 targets include the characterisation of orogen-scale detachments, …

Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Mediated Changes In Jejunum And Peripheral Sars-Cov-2 Receptor Ace2 And Associated Proteins Or Genes In Rhesus Macaques, Nongthombam Boby, Xuewei Cao, Kelsey Williams, Shiva Kumar Goud Gadila, Monica N. Shroyer, Peter J. Didier, Sudesh K. Srivastav, Arpita Das, Kate Baker, Qiuying Sha, Bapi Pahar

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

Angiotensin converting enzyme-2 (ACE2) and associated proteins play a pivotal role in various physiological and pathological events, such as immune activation, inflammation, gut barrier maintenance, intestinal stem cell proliferation, and apoptosis. Although many of these clinical events are quite significant in SIV/HIV infection, expression profiling of these proteins has not been well reported. Considering the different pathological consequences in the gut after HIV infection, we hypothesized that the expression of ACE2 and associated proteins of the Renin-angiotensin system (RAS) could be compromised after SIV/HIV infection. We quantified the gene expression of ACE2 as well as AGTR1/2, ADAM17, and TMPRSS2, and …