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Navigating (M)Otherhood: Perception, Practice, & Policy Of Adolescent Pregnancy In The North Coast Of Perú, Mahir Rahman

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

“It’s a vicious circle”, the obstetricians of Huanchaco repeated time and time again after discussing a recently pregnant 13-year-old girl who had just moved to the North Coast of Perú. Adolescent pregnancy is an extremely stigmatized topic in global maternal and child health discourse. Pregnant adolescents are subject to educational policy, clinical protocol, and community practice. While global scholarship emphasizes adolescent pregnancy prevention, limited scholarship focuses on the conditions in which adolescent pregnancy is perceived, discussed, and managed. More importantly, these perspectives are even less documented amongst the North Coast of Perú.

This thesis serves as an ethnographic exploration of …

Agent-To-Agent (A2a) Agent Card Creation Through Model Context Protocol (Mcp) And Agent Skill Compilation, Robert Barton, Arjun Sambamoorthy, Yathi Udupi

Defensive Publications Series

Proposed herein are techniques for a system that automatically generates Agent-to-Agent (A2A) capability cards by scanning Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and semantically analyzing the tool inventories of the servers. The system transforms low-level tool specifications into high-level capability descriptions through a multi-stage pipeline that extracts schemas, infers dependencies, detects relationships, clusters related tools into skills, and abstracts skills into comprehensive capabilities. The output is a standardized A2A agent card that enables efficient agent discovery and collaboration in multi-agent systems.

Arbitrase Dagang Internasional Dari Negara-Negara Asia Afrika, Prof. Dr. Mr. Sudargo Gautama

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

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Strategies For Sustainable And Inclusive Outdoor Wayfinding In Healthcare Facilities: An Approach To Enhance User Experience At Kafr Alsheikh University Hospital, Egypt, Rania Abd Allateef Ghanam, Ahmed Salah El-Deep

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Outdoor wayfinding plays a critical role in shaping user experience in healthcare environments, where inadequate navigation can heighten stress and hinder timely access to care. Despite the presence of wayfinding systems in many hospitals, outdoor navigation remains underexamined and inconsistently addressed in design guidelines. This study fills this gap by investigating architectural strategies to enhance outdoor wayfinding and reduce user stress. The research focuses on Kafrelsheikh University Hospital in Egypt and applies a twophase methodology: (1) a comprehensive literature review to identify current principles, guidelines, and best practices in outdoor wayfinding, and (2) an on-site case study to assess existing …

The Impact Of Integrating Social Benefit Requirements For Urban Green Infrastructure And Place Identity Attributes To Enhance The Sense Of Place - Case Study Of Central Park, Madinaty, New Cairo City, Egypt, Ibrahim Magdi Mohammed, Rehab Abdelfatah Abdel Aziz Mahmoud

Mansoura Engineering Journal

This research develops an integrated model that links the social benefit requirements of Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI) with the non-physical attributes of Place Identity (PI) to enhance the Sense of Place (SOP) in contemporary urban environments. The need for this integration arises from limitations in current planning frameworks, which often prioritize ecological performance while overlooking cultural, perceptual, and behavioral dimensions that shape user attachment and belonging. The study adopts an inductive and synthesis-based approach to identify key UGI indicators across environmental, social, economic, and spatial dimensions, alongside PI attributes related to places’ legibility, uniqueness, publicness and territoriality, place’s identification. To …

Verification Of Offline Signature Based On A Hybrid Dense-Attention-Residual-Cnn Structure Optimized By Grey Wolf Algorithm, Zeyad T. Salim, Mahmoud M. Saafan, Eman M. El-Gendy

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Signature verification is a necessary vision task with prevalent use in securing realworld applications. Offline signature is a popular type that needs to efficacious approach to be checked due to the depending on the paper time and the written tool. The progress in intelligent algorithms participates in supporting simple way authentication-based signatures. In this research work, an offline signature verification (OSV) based on an optimized and costumed convolutional neural network(CNN) infrastructure is suggested. The CNN is costumed by integrating residual, dense, and attention mechanisms, then optimized by applying a grey wolf optimization(GWO) algorithm. The system is trained and tested with …

Masalah Penegakan Hukum Dan Kesadaran Hukum, Dr. Soerjono Soekanto, S.H., M.A.

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

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Rumah Flat Diatur Dengan Sistem Condominium, Hartono S.H.

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

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Pensyaratan (Reservation) Dalam Perjanjian Internasional, Sri Setianingsih Suwardi, S.H.

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

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A Scoping Review On Governing The Commercial Determinants Of Health: Mechanisms, Tools, And Collaborative Approaches, Alyssa S. Khan, Sierra Arnold, Imran Bari, Isabel G. Long, Nino Paichadze

Student Works

Purpose: The commercial determinants of health (CDoH) are the systems, practices, and pathways through which commercial actors drive health and equity. This review aimed to identify CDoH governance approaches, distinguishing between promoted and criticized approaches.

Design/Methodology/Approach: We conducted a systematic scoping review in PubMed and Google Scholar databases. Relevant grey literature was also identified through citation searching and reference list review. Our search strategy combined terms related to economic and commercial determinants of health, governance models, and health outcomes. English-language publications between January 2000 to December 2025 were included. Relevant data from included sources were extracted and then synthesized using …

Norris Burroughs, Mark Naison, Steven Payne

Oral Histories

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Solini Chan Shue, Mark Naison, Steven Payne

Oral Histories

For many years, organizations such as Jack and Jill were the least of Solini’s concerns as she worked multiple jobs, working hard to support her family. Until she was about 30, when she was introduced to the organization through a neighbor, and was instantly intrigued by the service for the Bronx community. This was yet another opportunity Solini took in order to participate in community service. For her, the most impactful forms of service she participated in were the Black College Tour and her work with formerly incarcerated women. Through the Black College Tour program, high school students toured historically …

Joseph Cordero, Mark Naison, Steven Payne

Oral Histories

No abstract provided.

Trends In Self-Reported Responses To Nutrition Facts Labels Before And After Nutrition Labeling Policy Implementation: A Comparison Of Adults In The United States And Mexico, Jim Thrasher Ph.D., Ma, Ms, Victor Vilalobos, Dai Fang, Alejandra Jáuregui, Alejandra Contreras-Manzano, Rachel Davis Ph.D., Lana Vanderlee, Christine M. White, Rachel B. Acton, James W. Hardin, Edward A. Frongillo Jr. Ph.D., Simón Barquera, David Hammond

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Engineers Week 2026, Raquel Estrada

Library Display Posters

Poster showing a curated selection of engineering‑focused resources that showcase student research, faculty scholarship, and U.S. government information. This poster features selected books, open‑access UTRGV theses and dissertations, peer‑reviewed articles, and educational resources that support engineering education, research, and innovation.

تأثير بودكاست "المناخ شو قصته؟" في وعي الجمهور الأردني بالتغيرات المناخية, Amnaa Abushammaleh

Middle East Journal of Communication Studies

The study aimed to identify the extent to which the Jordanian public follows climate change through the podcast "Climate, What's Its Story?" and the reasons for this follow-up, in addition to revealing the extent of their confidence in the information presented about climate change in the podcast "Climate, What's Its Story?" and the reasons for this confidence. It also aimed to identify the level of awareness of the Jordanian public about climate change after listening to the studied podcast, in addition to measuring the extent of the Jordanian public's interaction with the information presented in it, the forms of this …

Public Health Professor Named W.K. Kellogg Fellow, Marisa C. Atkinson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi professor Tess Johnson looks to enhance community, wellness and leadership skills as she starts a new fellowship in the W.K. Kellogg Leadership Network.

The Impact Of The Podcast "Climate, What's The Story?" On The Jordanian Public's Awareness Of Climate Change, Amnaa Abushammaleh

Middle East Journal of Communication Studies

The study aimed to identify the extent to which the Jordanian public follows climate change through the podcast "Climate, What's Its Story?" and the reasons for this follow-up, in addition to revealing the extent of their confidence in the information presented about climate change in the podcast "Climate, What's Its Story?" and the reasons for this confidence. It also aimed to identify the level of awareness of the Jordanian public about climate change after listening to the studied podcast, in addition to measuring the extent of the Jordanian public's interaction with the information presented in it, the forms of this …

Charity Simone, Mark Naison, Anthony Abd-Al Shafi Rosado

Oral Histories

Simone’s path to leadership was inspired by her late mentor, Charles Foster, who encouraged her to be an active voice in their community. After seeing issues with building maintenance and a lack of clear communication, Simone ran for office and was elected Treasurer of her Building Association in 2023. Through this role, she noticed that community work is complex and needs navigating different opinions, yet the experience ultimately reinforced her belief that community is a “verb.” To her, it is an intentional, ongoing action that requires showing up every day to hold the system accountable.

A significant aspect of Simone's …

Rudolph Coombs, Mark Naison, Steven Payne

Oral Histories

Coombs went on to attend Payne College in Georgia through a basketball scholarship. During his time at Payne, he became president of the undergraduate chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi, where he fundraised. His time at Payne would be unfortunately cut short when he was wrongfully arrested for assault and robbery. This happened when he was leaving a jewelry store in the Bronx during one of his breaks from school.

This would effectively change the trajectory of Coombs’ life. He was tried three times, found guilty two times, but on the third time, he was declared innocent after the victim told …

Explainable Multi-Modal Deep Learning For Transparent Cancer Diagnosis: Integrating Radiology, Clinical Features, And Decision Visualization, Sital Dash, Laxmi Bewoor, Yashwant Dongre, Amol Bhosle, Kailas Patil, Shrikant Jadhav, Banani Mohapatra, Bhavnish Walia

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Introduction: Although artificial intelligence–based cancer diagnostic models have demonstrated strong predictive performance, their lack of transparency and reliance on single-modality data continue to limit clinical trust and adoption. Effectively integrating multi-modal data with interpret-able decision-making remains a key challenge. Methods: We propose an explainable multi-modal deep learning framework that integrates radiological imaging and structured clinical features using attention-based fusion. Image-level explanations are generated using Grad-CAM++, while SHAP is employed to quantify clinical feature contributions, enabling unified and cross-modal aligned interpretation rather than independent uni-modal explanations. The framework was evaluated on publicly available datasets, including CBIS-DDSM mammography, Duke Breast Cancer MRI, …

Selenium-Thioredoxin Axis Contributes To Ferroptosis Resistance In Pancreatic Cancer Cells, Arslan Amer, Micah Olamide Idowu, Aqsa Ahsan, Alyssa A. Abbas, Tahiyat Alothaim, Xiaohu Tang

Michigan Tech Publications

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) shows substantial heterogeneity in cysteine dependence and ferroptosis sensitivity. We identify two PDAC subtypes distinguished by EMT status: mesenchymal-like cells are highly cysteine-dependent and rapidly undergo ferroptosis upon cystine deprivation or system xc⁻ inhibition, whereas epithelial-type cells are ferroptosis-resistant. Selenium supplementation protects cells from erastin-induced ferroptosis, and this protection persists even when intracellular glutathione (GSH) is depleted, supporting an additional GPX4-independent protective mechanism. Sepp1 knockdown does not alter sensitivity, indicating that selenium’s protective effect is independent of Sepp1. Instead, epithelial-type cells rely on both cytosolic and mitochondrial thioredoxin reductases (TrxR1 and TrxR2) to maintain ferroptosis …

Book Review: Communications Internships Handbook: What All Comms Students Need To Know, Karen Mccullough

Applied Business Faculty Publications

Review of: Daniel, R. R., & Haynes, K. A. (2025). Communications internships handbook: What all COMMS students need to know. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 120 pp.

College students who successfully complete internships and other forms of experiential learning while in college benefit from greater average starting salaries, receive a higher number of job offers, and express increased satisfaction with their careers than students who do not participate in internships or other experiential learning opportunities. Students also indicate that they feel their career has progressed faster than they expected, according to results from a 2025 study by the National Association of …

Occupational Intensity And Bone Mineral Density In Premenopausal Women, Ashlyn R. Dooley, Elizabeth Y. Vezzetti, Jaden M. Nelson, Ryan R. Porter, Shannon A. Matthews

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

Bone Mineral Density (BMD) is measured through DEXA scans and shows the concentration of minerals in a volume of bone area which is used as an indicator for fracture, osteopenia, and osteoporosis risk. Women who are in the peri and post-menopausal phase are at higher risk of bone related issues due to the hormonal profile changes. BMD can be remodeled by continual loading of stress from mechanics, posture, and movement patterns, usually and most effectively by physical activity (PA). While PA is generally prescribed to increase BMD, occupation often accounts for a substantial portion of an individual’s daily activity. The …

Mediating Factors Of Exercise Identity And Perceived Stress, Cydni M. Miller, Kameron Sanders, Jada Mendoza, Brooke Walsh, Jasmine Hamilton

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

As we continue to traverse influences of the post COVID-19 public health environment, there have been noted effects associated with mental and physical health. Stress and anxiety can lead to burnout and have negative physical effects on the body. Research indicated that increases in exercise participation may reduce burnout among college students (Chen et al., 2022). For college students, access to resources such as recreational centers may help to alleviate the negative effects of anxiety. Physical activity has also been shown to improve the relationship between self-image and esteem (Gan & Jiang, 2024). PURPOSE: This study sought to explore the …

How Physically Active Are U.S. Adults?: Comparing National Estimatesphysical Activity Levels Of U.S. Adults Across Multiple National Datasets, Jinwon Choung, Ayland Letsinger

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

National estimates of physical activity are used to evaluate population behavior and inform public health guidelines. However, estimates may vary depending on whether physical activity is assessed using self-reported surveys or accelerometer-based measures. PURPOSE: This cross-sectional study was to characterize population-level estimates of weekly moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and physical activity guideline adherence (≥ 150 min/week) among U.S. adults across multiple nationally representative U.S. population-based physical activity data sources. METHODS: A PubMed literature search revealed five databases: NHANES, NHIS, BRFSS, Add Health, and All of Us, using the most recent survey cycles from each database and accelerometer-based physical …

Comparison Between Actual And Predicted Sweat Rates In Burn Survivors Using A Predictive Model For Fluid Replacement, Timothy P. Schaefer, Elizabeth A. Gideon, Erin M. Harper, Zachary J. Mckenna, Rachel M. Cottle, Ollie Jay, Craig G. Crandall

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

Sweating is a primary physiological response necessary to regulate body temperature in hot environments. Recent literature identifies a correlation between multiple variables (i.e., height and weight, environmental temperature, humidity, intensity and duration of exercise, and venue of exercise) and the rate of sweat loss during physical activity in healthy participants. These findings were then used to create a model to predict fluid loss via sweat, and thus the fluid replacement necessary to rehydrate during and following exercise (sweatratecalculator.com). Importantly, this calculator was modeled with data from uninjured, healthy individuals and therefore may not be accurate for burn survivors. Grafted skin …

The Relationship Between Physical Activity And Quality Of Life, Body Mass Index, And Muscular Strength In Patients Following Sleeve Gastrectomy, Kim Ngan Phung, Brett W. Crossland, Michael Olson

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

Obesity is a major public health issue in the United States. Sleeve gastrectomy has become one of the most frequently performed bariatric procedures due to its effectiveness in achieving substantial and sustained weight loss in patients with severe obesity. Despite these benefits, postoperative outcomes, such as quality of life, body mass index maintenance, and muscular strength, are significantly influenced by lifestyle factors, especially physical activity. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between physical activity and quality of life, body mass index, and muscular strength in patients following sleeve gastrectomy. METHODS: This cross-sectional study …

Effects Of Aging On Time-Continuous Lower Extremity Multi-Muscle Coactivation Patterns During Gait, Reece K. Champion, Kiefer A. Hoang, Mohsen Alighanbari

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

Age related neuromuscular changes include motor unit atrophy and neuromuscular junction destabilization. These changes decrease muscle force output and modulation, and increase motor output variability, leading to joint instability. One compensatory mechanism used to combat joint instability and enhance postural control in older adults is increasing muscle coactivation during tasks like gait. However, the time-continuous nature of multi-muscle coactivation patterns have not been explored to identify during what percentage of the gait cycle alterations emerge. PURPOSE: To identify the effects of aging on continuous multi-muscle coactivation patterns in the knee and ankle joints during gait using statistical parametric mapping …

Analyzing The Effect Of Aging On Information Flow Among Knee Muscles During Gait Using Symbolic Transfer Entropy, Kiefer A. Hoang, Reece K. Champion, Mohsen Alighanbari

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

Coactivation is the concomitant contraction of synergistic and antagonistic muscle pairs. Studies using linear coactivation assessments have shown greater coactivation in older than younger adults during gait. Coactivation is a nonlinear phenomenon that may be better examined with nonlinear methods, such as symbolic transfer entropy (STE), which provides the magnitude of information flow and its directionality index (DI). Through analyzing system uncertainty, information flow may provide insight into the communication between coactivating muscles. PURPOSE: To assess the effects of aging on information flow between knee muscles during gait using STE. METHODS: The publicly available dataset used comprises 40 …