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Posttraumatic Growth Experienced By Us Nurses: A National Study, Linda H. Yoder, Jacqueline M. Gordon, Noah R. Zanville

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Post-traumatic growth (PTG) experienced by US nurses who provided care during the COVID-19 pandemic has not been examined. The findings from this multisite study of over 2,000 nurses provide information about the various factors of PTG that were experienced. Recommendations to promote PTG among nurses will be provided.

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October 20 Elections, Census & Redistricting Update, Jeffrey M. Wice

Elections, Census & Redistricting Updates

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Evaluating Correlates Of Healthy Eating And Dietary Quality Among Older Adults: A Mixed Methods Approach To Development And Application Of A New Survey Instrument, Sara K. Rosenkranz, Donya Shamati, Anna Biggins, Alissa Mick, Christopher Acosta, Richard R. Rosenkranz

Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences Faculty Research

Objectives: Community-dwelling older adults face unique challenges related to nutrition and health, but little is known about their barriers and facilitators for healthy eating behaviors. This study sought to develop and evaluate a new instrument to measure the capability, opportunity, and motivation for healthy eating behaviors (COM-HE) among community-dwelling older adults.

Design: A mixed methods approach was used to obtain qualitative and quantitative data. Participants were aged 65 years or older, community-dwelling, and English-speaking. Participants engaged in focus groups (n = 12) and pilot-testing (n = 81) to evaluate the COM-HE instrument. The Rapid Eating Assessment for Participants – Shortened …

Wilf Impact Center Conversations | Understanding Padilla: The Intersection Of Criminal Law And Immigration Law, Wilf Impact Center For Public Interest Law, Criminal Law Society, Immigration Law Student Association

WILF Impact Center for Public Interest Law | Event Posters

October 20, 2025

Height And Phytotelm Size Affect The Invertebrate Communities Of Epiphytic Bromeliads In The Amazon Rainforest, Xaali O'Reilly-Berkeley, Alex Pazmiño-Palomino, Andrea Hidalgo-Cárdenas, Sofía I. Trujillo-Regalado, Hannah Mossman, Jennifer K. Rowntree, Richard F. Preziosi

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Tank bromeliads are found in rainforests across the Neotropics and harbour diverse invertebrate communities between their leaf axes. Various factors influence the invertebrate species richness and differences in composition in bromeliad phytotelmata, most notably, habitat size. However, there has been little work on invertebrate communities in bromeliads in western Amazonia or at different heights in the canopy. We collected 63 epiphytic bromeliads (Aechmea hoppii (Harms) L.B.Sm, A. nidularioides L.B.Sm) on the eastern edge of the Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot in Ecuador and explored which biological and physical variables explained the differences in invertebrate composition among bromeliads. We extracted a total …

Submission: Inquiry Into The Thriving Kids Initiative, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Shaping educational policy

This submission to the Inquiry into the Thriving Kids initiative advocates for an evidence-based, inclusive approach to supporting children up to eight years with developmental delay, disability and autism within mainstream early childhood and school settings. It recommends embedding foundational supports within a Multi-tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework that integrates universal, targeted and intensive interventions according to children's needs rather than diagnosis. The submission highlights the importance of workforce capability, collaborative practice, effective leadership, high-quality assessment and screening tools, and embedded allied health support. Adequately resourcing MTSS implementation will strengthen inclusion, early intervention and educational outcomes for all children.

Week Of October 20, 2025, Student Life

College, School and Department Newsletters, Magazines, and Journals

Your weekly hub for events, resources and updates.

Fostering Efl Students’ Writing Strategy Using Metacognitive Instruction, Hanan N/A Al Sultan Dr.

Journal of Arabic Sciences and Humanities

This study aims to enhance the writing strategy skills of Saudi female EFL students by integrating metacognitive instruction into essay writing tasks. With a one-group quasi-experimental design, the research included 34 participants. A pretest and post-test were conducted, followed by a questionnaire to explore participants’ experiences with the intervention. The instructional approach emphasised students’ awareness and regulation of metacognitive processes during writing – specifically planning, monitoring, and evaluating. Data were collected and analysed using a sequential mixed-methods explanatory design, beginning with quantitative analysis and followed by qualitative insights to enrich interpretation. The findings revealed a statistically significant improvement in students’ …

Nurse Satisfaction Of Unit-Based Annual Competency Education, Beth Tremblay, Catherine A. Thompson

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Direct care nurses need accessible, effective, and convenience ways to stay up to date and demonstrated clinical competencies. Unit based education can provide an alternative to the traditional annual competency skill fair and increase nurse workplace satisfaction through brining customized mandatory education to the nurse.

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Crow's Nest, October 20, 2025, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The October 20, 2025 issue of Crow's Nest.

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Minutes October 20, 2025, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Call to Order
• Approval of Minutes - September 22, 2025
• University Business
• Faculty Senate Business
• Information
• EPC Report - October 2, 2025
• Report
• Athletics Council Annual Report
• Library Advisory Council Annual Report
• Academic Freedom and Tenure Annual Report
• Old Business
• New Business
• Adjourn: 3:55 pm

Medtronic And The Interminable Problem Of Transfer Pricing Litigation, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

Articles

On September 3 the Eighth Circuit issued its decision in Medtronic II, rejecting both the unspecified method that the Tax Court applied in its 2022 decision and the comparable uncontrolled transaction method preferred by the taxpayer, and remanding the case to the Tax Court for the second time. The decision means that a final determination of Medtronic’s tax liability for the 2005 and 2006 tax years will be delayed once again, and a Medtronic III decision might be appealed again, which could take several more years. The original Medtronic decision was rendered by the Tax Court in 2016 and reversed …

Genetic Influences For Distinct Impulsivity Domains Are Differentially Associated With Early Substance Use Initiation: Results From The Abcd Study, Ethan Kinstler, Aaron J Gorelik, Sarah E Paul, Adamya Aggarwal, Emma C Johnson, Melissa A Cyders, Arpana Agrawal, Ryan Bogdan, Alex P Miller

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Impulsivity is among the strongest correlates of substance involvement (i.e. a broad continuum of substance-related behaviors), and distinct domains (e.g. sensation seeking [SS] and urgency) are differentially correlated, phenotypically and genetically, with unique substance involvement stages. Examining whether polygenic influences for distinct impulsivity domains are differentially predictive of early substance use initiation - a major risk factor for later problematic use - may improve our understanding of the role of impulsivity in addiction etiology.

METHODS: Data collected from participants of genetically inferred European ancestry enrolled in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study

RESULTS: SS-PGS was significantly associated with any …

Ole Miss Program Builds Teacher Pipeline In Rural Schools, Marvis Herring

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – A partnership launched in 1997 between Marshall County Schools and the Mississippi Teacher Corps at the University of Mississippi has transformed into a pipeline for educators reshaping classrooms and leadership across the district.

An Interview With An Instagram Archivist: @404mph Interviews @Onlystarleft, 404mph (On Instagram)

Digital Laboratory: Publisher of Internet Journal

An Interview with an Instagram Archivist: @404MPH Interviews @ONLYSTARLEFT is a dialogue conducted entirely through iMessage, presented as both a publication and a designed artifact. Within this text exchange, the conversation navigates themes of digital preservation, authorship, and self-curation—examining how social media aesthetics transform personal experience into collective memory. @ONLYSTARLEFT reflects on the act of archiving not as static documentation but as a living, participatory practice shaped by the speed and impermanence of online culture. Formally, the project recognizes the iPhone as a cultural mediator—its interface shaping not only how we communicate, but how we perceive and construct value within …

When Creative Practice Becomes Research, James Kelly

Staff Scholarship - Australia & Dubai

This seminar examines approaches to practice and research within an academic context, with particular reference to the academic scholarship framework at SAE University College. It introduces distinctions between creative practice and research, demonstrating how disciplinary practice may be transformed into recognised scholarly output when it is contextualised within a theoretical framework, critically reflective, and disseminated for peer engagement.

Drawing on methodologies by Candy (2006), Skains (2018), and Barrett (2019), the presentation outlines methodological models for Practice-as-Research (PaR), Practice-Based Research (PBR), Practice-Led Research, Research-Led Practice, and hybrid approaches. It highlights the iterative and open-ended character of creative research processes, in which …

Multisource Information Fusion Method For Human Gait Perception, Guiliang Chen, Guowei Liu, Yongchao Li, Chao Cai, Zihao Li, Dong Yang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In response to the insufficient gait perception capability during lower limb exoskeleton assistance, a human lower limb gait phase optimization classification model was proposed. A wireless transmission gait information collection system was designed for collecting the required gait phase feature information. Human joint angles were accurately calculated by fusing acceleration and angular velocity information using extended Kalman filtering. Additionally, kernel principal component analysis was applied to reduce dimensionality in conjunction with plantar pressure data. The LSSVM algorithm was employed to classify gait data, and the PSO algorithm was utilized to find the optimal classification parameters. Experimental results demonstrate that …

How Fair Workweek Laws Affect Labor Markets: A New York City Case Study, Joseph Pickens, Aaron Sojourner

Upjohn Institute Policy and Research Briefs

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Reflecting On Teaching Together And Alone: Preservice Teachers’ Processes Of Knowledge Construction In Writing And Discussion, Ulrike Hartmann, Marcus Kindlinger, Kati Trempler, Anna-Lena Molitor, Helenrose Fives

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

Understanding how preservice teachers (PSTs) engage with knowledge of educational sciences through reflective practice is critical to improving teacher education. This study investigates how PSTs construct knowledge when analyzing a complex classroom situation and explores how a reflective task format—individual essay writing or collaborative group discussion—shapes the types and quality of knowledge construction processes involved. Drawing on frameworks of reflective practice and epistemic cognition, we developed a coding scheme to identify five knowledge construction processes and three levels of implementation quality. Using data from a university-based teacher education course, we applied this scheme to PSTs’ written essays and transcribed group …

Intouch Week Of October 20, 2025, New York Medical College

InTouch

• New Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program Established
• Building Bridges for Better Health
• Fire Safety Training Events for Students, Faculty, and Staff
• TCDM Prepares Dental Professionals to Meet New Mexico’s Evolving Needs
• In the Community-NYMC Advances Children’s Environmental Health Initiatives Across New York State
• Alumni Spotlight: Deena Casiero, M.D. '06, Advancing the Game of College Sports Medicine

Workplace Violence: Innovative Interprofessional Learning Bursts, Beth Egbert, Jedidiah Colon-Huertas, Jacqueline M. Gordon

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Viewers will be able to describe an innovative interprofessional strategy to implement the Joint Commission's Workplace Violence Prevention education and training standards amidst the current challenging work and learning environment. Education bursts delivered by an occupational health nurse and security officer team are described.

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Adjudicating Atrocity: Reading Hitesh Verma V State Of Uttarakhand As A "Landmark" Case In The Judicial Discourse On Caste Violence, Tejaswi Chhatwal

Socio-Legal Review

This article critically examines the Supreme Court’s judgment in Hitesh Verma v State of Uttarakhand (2020) and argues for reading it as a “landmark trial” in the judicial undoing of reform—namely, the statutory changes introduced by the 2016 Amendment to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989. Existing socio-legal scholarship on atrocity jurisprudence has shown that the judicial understanding of caste violence and doctrinally instituted evidentiary standards have historically operated to invisibilise caste from crime’s framework. As a result, most instances of caste-based discrimination and violence have not been named as offences of “atrocity” under the …

A Brief List Of 10 Important Guidelines For Prospective Sbg Authors, Josephine A. Ruggiero

Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics

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Optimization Dispatch Method For High-Proportion Renewable Energy Power Systems Based On Sc-Ppo, Zhongkai Xu, Chenyang Chu, Kai Xie, Ruizhuo Zhao, Wenjun Ke

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The high proportion of renewable energy integration brings significant challenges of randomness, multi-objective coupling, and security constraints to power systems. Traditional model-driven methods have limitations in modeling accuracy and adaptability. To address these issues, this paper proposed a safety-constrained PPO algorithm (SC-PPO). The method included three improvements. A temporal convolutional network was utilized to construct a dynamic state encoder that integrated historical operation, real-time monitoring, and prediction data to form a causal state representation. A hierarchical reward structure was designed, and an adaptive weighting mechanism based on constraint satisfaction degree was introduced to coordinate multi-objective optimization. Physical constraint projection …

The Echo: October 20, 2025, Taylor University

2025-2026 (Volume 113)

No abstract provided.

Methods, Barriers, And Challenges: Exploring Military Nurse Potentially Preventable Loss During A Pandemic, Melissa J. Miller, Janice G. Agazio, Christopher Stucky, Lidilia M.A. Garcia, Robin C. Stalbaum

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The retention of a robust nursing workforce requires a complete understanding of nurses’ perceptions regarding the factors influencing their decision. This presentation describes an on-going research project exploring nurses’ free-text comments on Army Nurse Corps Surveys including methodology, barriers, and challenges of an interprofessional research team during a pandemic.

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Shu World Review- October 20th 2025, Diplolab

SHU World Review

No abstract provided.

Characterization Of Chemoresistant Cell Populations Improves Risk Stratification And Therapy Prediction In Pediatric Aml, Mohammad Javad Najafpanah, Alexandra M Stevens, Michael J Krueger, Max Rochette, Sohani Sandhu, Lana Kim, Hua-Sheng Chiu, Jessica Epps, Sonal Somvanshi, Barry Zorman, Maria Rodriguez Martinez, Marianna Rapsomaniki, Susanne Unger, Burkhard Becher, Joanna S Yi, Tsz-Kwong Man, Michele S Redell, Pavel Sumazin

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Most pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (pAML) patients achieve complete remission after chemotherapy, yet relapse is common, with nearly 40% ultimately dying of the disease. Prognosis is currently assessed using cytogenetic biomarkers and measurable residual disease after the first chemotherapy cycle, with the highest risk patients referred for stem cell transplantation (SCT) at first remission. Because aggressive therapies such as SCT are highly toxic, yet cures after relapse are rare, accurate early risk prediction is essential for improving outcomes. To address this need, we analyzed paired diagnosis-relapse samples from 33 pAML patients at single-cell resolution and identified chemoresistant cell populations whose …

The Symbiotic Harm Of A Criminal Record, Ericka B. Adams, Elsa Y. Chen, Sarah E. Lageson

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Having a criminal record significantly alters a person’s life chances, decreasing their opportunities for employment, housing, student loans, voting, public benefits, and more. The collateral consequences of criminal convictions, or the civil restrictions that follow criminal convictions, are well documented. However, because individuals are connected to families and communities, it is impossible to isolate the effects of punishment to only the persons holding criminal records. Instead, the effects of criminal records might be best understood as a set of symbiotic harms, marked by relational and interdependent effects. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 59 expungement-eligible persons and 69 community representatives, this …

Biallelic Loss-Of-Function Variants In C19orf44 Lead To Retinal Degeneration, Hafiz Muhammad Jafar Hussain, Wang Meng, Yumei Li, Sabika Firasat, Mark E Pennesi, Michael B Gorin, Bin Guan, Rebecca Lynn Clark, Emma Fale-Olsen, Ranya Al Rawi, Aime Agather, Laryssa A Huryn, Paul Yang, Anna Matynia, Rui Chen

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Background: Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) are a group of disorders often resulting in progressive vision loss, ultimately leading to blindness. A significant portion of their genetic causes remain unresolved, partly due to undiscovered disease-associated genes or variants. This study aimed to identify novel genetic links to IRDs.

Methods: All patients underwent comprehensive ophthalmological evaluation, including retinal imaging (fundus autofluorescence and macular optical coherence tomography) and electroretinogram testing. Whole exome sequencing and whole genome sequencing were performed on patients with clinically unsolved IRD, and data were analysed using an in-house pipeline to identify causal variants. Subsequently, Sanger sequencing was performed to …