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The Impact Of Individual Definitions Of Healthcare Quality On The Healthcare Industry And Organizations In The Southeastern United States, Phillip Dale Mcgarrah Jr.

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this qualitative case study using a flexible design was to determine if there was a lack of a consensus stakeholder accepted definition of healthcare quality, what were the individual definitions of healthcare quality, and the potential impact on healthcare organizations in the southeastern United States. Exploration of the literature yielded numerous studies that identified specific healthcare quality attributes favored by specific industry members but that none of those definitions were shared between stakeholders. Those studies, however, did not consider the entirety of the stakeholders in their identification of healthcare quality defining attributes nor reasons for differences or …

The Impact Of Economic Stress On Marital Satisfaction, Luis Ventura

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Marital satisfaction is considered a common index for measuring the stability and quality of marriages. Various factors have been considered to affect the stability and quality of marriages. In the context of the contemporary world, in which socioeconomic dynamics influence day-to-day existence, economic or financial stress is considered a factor that influences relationships. However, the extent to which economic stress affects relationships is unclear. This study examines the effect that economic stress (through its varied types) has on marital satisfaction. It applies a correlational research design where data is collected using quantitative survey questionnaires on a sample of 80 participants …

Marine Terrace Staircases Of Western Iberia: Uplift Rate Patterns From Rocky Limestone Coasts Of Central Portugal (Cape Raso - Abano Beach And Cape Espichel), Martin Stokes

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Western Iberian Peninsula is undergoing compressive tectonic reactivation, resulting in spatial and temporal variations of surface uplift. Uplift quantification can be undertaken in coastal settings using staircases of shore platforms developed onto rocky headlands. This study analyses two marine terrace staircases in central Portugal: Cape Raso - Abano beach and Cape Espichel. Geomorphic and stratigraphic analyses identified marine terraces/shore platforms developed below a culminant shore platform, four at Cape Raso and eleven at Cape Espichel. The terrace chronology was obtained by using ESR and pIRIR dating. Using the interactions between the elevation, age and global mean sea-level elevations, the …

Current Challenges And Preliminary Morphological Reassessment Of The Genus Chaerilus Simon, 1877 In China (Scorpiones: Chaerilidae), Victoria Tang

Euscorpius

The genus Chaerilus Simon, 1877 in China is preliminarily revised on a morphological basis, derived from the available literature and newly examined specimens. The robustness of several commonly applied species-level diagnostic criteria are evaluated. Ten species are provisionally recognized for China, including one new morphospecies, Chaerilus herta sp. n., described from 9 females, 40 males, and 2 juvenile females collected in Mêdog County. The current study only reveals and resolves several most elementary issues in the taxonomy of Chinese Chaerilus. Further molecular investigations are warranted until topotypes of certain species become available.

Artificial Intelligence And Ethical Considerations For The New Legal Learner: An Annotated Bibliography, Sarah Starnes

Akron Law Review

This annotated bibliography focuses on providing relevant and helpful resources to those who may be new to using artificial intelligence and want to understand the legal and ethical implications. For attorneys to adhere to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct and ethically practice law in conjunction with artificial intelligence, it is vital to learn as much as possible. The articles, cases, advisory opinions, and court rules within this annotated bibliography provide insight into the current state of practicing law with AI.

Let's Chat About Chatgpt: A Practical Guide To Risks In Attorney Use Of Generative Ai, Hon. John G. Browning

Akron Law Review

The rapid rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT in the legal profession has sparked significant ethical and regulatory challenges after a federal judge sanctioned attorneys for citing non-existent cases generated by AI. This incident led to widespread judicial mandates requiring disclosure of AI use and prompted bar associations and ethics committees to address AI’s implications for legal practice. Despite AI’s potential to automate up to 44% of legal tasks, concerns about accuracy and ethical obligations persist. This article argues that the issue lies not with the technology itself but with lawyers neglecting duties of competence and supervision. As generative …

An Afropessimism Of Student Mobility: Is International Higher Education Extreme Investment In Whiteness?, Zoe A. Case

Journal of Graduate Education Research

This paper strives to consider whether, as Riyad Shahjahan and Kirsten Edwards suggest, international higher education systematically invests in Whiteness. In doing so, I explore first whether the international university system invests in Whiteness through its expansion of satellite campuses and systemic fetishisation of global university rankings. Turning towards the micro-level, I consider the individual international student as investor and, via an Afropessimist lens inspired by Frank B. Wilderson III and Sara Ahmed, I find that the question of Whiteness as investment situates Whiteness as a good in which everyone can invest. I show that although international higher education is …

Green Skill Needs Of Business Education Graduates For Self-Reliance In The Twenty-First Century Economy In South Eastern Nigerian State, Oliver Okechuwu Okanazu, Okanazu Promise Uchechukwu, Vero Omonor Ihunde

Journal of Graduate Education Research

Unemployment among business education graduates in Enugu State has led to adverse effects such as underdevelopment and increased crime rates leading to the need for solutions. Green skills are important requirement for employment in the twenty-first century. Hence, the study sought to ascertain the green skill needs of business education graduates for self-reliance in the twenty-first century in Enugu State. Two research questions guided the study, while two null hypotheses were tested at a 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a survey research design. It was carried out in government-owned tertiary institutions in Enugu state that offer business education. …

French Connection: Expanding Legal Protections For Fashion Design In The United States, Mairead Rose Tuttle

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

No abstract provided.

Human Trafficking In The Digital Era: Freedom Of Speech Versus Freedom From Exploitation, Hannah Katz

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

No abstract provided.

Is There A Duty To Use Lethal Autonomous Weapons? How Ai Will Change Warfare And The International Order, Bryan Hance

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

No abstract provided.

Debunking Sovereignty In Cyberspace, Benjamin W. Haight

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

No abstract provided.

The Evolving Nature Of Economic Integration, Panagiotis Delimatsis

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Analysis Of Esg Reporting In Nigeria And Other African Countries, Victoria Agbakwuru

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

No abstract provided.

Estimated Levels Of Glycated Albumin And C-Reactive Protein/Total Albumin Ratio Might Distinguish Prediabetics Among The Apparently Healthy People And Predict The Vulnerability For Development Of Steatohepatitis And Cardiac Risk., Rizk S. Sarhan, Raafat R Mohammed

BioMedicine

Background: Prediabetes precedes Type-2 diabetes development, is characterized by impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) as judged by the 75-gram oral glucose tolerance test (75-OGTT) and is associated with higher cardiac risk (CR), dyslipidemia, hepatosteatosis (HS) and cancer

Aims: The study aimed to determine the distinguishing ability of estimated levels of glycated albumin (GA) and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), and serum C-reactive protein (CRP) and serum total albumin (TA) levels for prediabetic out of apparently healthy subjects.

Methods: IGT was diagnosed if fasting blood glucose (FBG) was 100-125 mg/dl and if /dl subject is normal glucose tolerant (NGT). CR, HS and insulin resistance …

Unveiling Role Of Oncogenic Signalling Pathways In Complicating Breast Cancer, Acharya Balkrishna, Sagar Kumar, Rohan Malik, Kuldeep Singh Mehra, Hariom Chaturvedi, Okeshwar Okeshwar, Rashmi Mittal

BioMedicine

Heterogeneous nature of breast cancer has significantly affected the overall survival, disease free survival and progression free survival amongst the diseased individuals. Metastasis of cancerous cells to distant sites including bone, lungs, liver, lymph node and others have further exhilarated the adverse effects. However, ER, PR and HER-2 are responsible for normal physiological development of women but in altered conditions they may act as initiator or progressor and so far 5 subtypes of disease have been identified. Alteration of pro-survival, pro-proliferative and anti-apoptotic pathways including JAK/STAT, MAPK,

PI3K/AkT/mTOR, NF-κB, BCL2 and several others have induced oncogenic events including epithelial-mesenchymal transition, …

Three-Dimensional Mesh Editing Using Masked Large Reconstruction Models

Defensive Publications Series

We present a novel approach to mesh shape editing, building on recent progress in 3D reconstruction from multi-view images. We formulate shape editing as a conditional reconstruction problem, where the model must reconstruct the input shape with the exception of a specified 3D region, in which the geometry should be generated from the conditional signal. To this end, we train a conditional Large Reconstruction Model (LRM) for masked reconstruction, using multi-view consistent masks rendered from a randomly generated 3D occlusion, and using one clean viewpoint as the conditional signal. During inference, we manually define a 3D region to edit and …

High Aspect Ratio Reactive Mesogens For Ar/Vr Displays, Kellie Shaw

Defensive Publications Series

An optical element includes a waveguide body extending from an input end to an output end and configured to guide light by total internal reflection from the input end to the output end, an input coupling element located proximate to the input end for coupling light into the waveguide body, and an output coupling element located proximate to the output end for coupling light out of the waveguide body, where at least one of the waveguide body, the input coupling element, and the output coupling element includes a reactive mesogen.

Testimony Of The District Task Force On Jails & Justice Before The Committee On The Judiciary And Public Safety Of The Council Of The District Of Columbia Performance Oversight Hearing For The Department Of Corrections February 27, 2025, Katherine S. Broderick

D.C. Council Testimony

No abstract provided.

Eng 4760-600 Special Topics In Professional Writing, Donna Binns

Fall 2024

No abstract provided.

The Chanticleer, 2025-02-27, Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

The editorially independent student produced weekly newspaper of Coastal Carolina University.

Standing To Enforce The Future: Citizen Suits And Climate Change, Jordan Budd, Margaret Sova Mccabe

Law Faculty Scholarship

This Article takes as its starting point the premise that Congress, facing an existential climate catastrophe, might choose to impose direct and significant restrictions on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Were it to do so, federal policy would require powerful enforcement mechanisms to reach the myriad emission sources fueling the nation’s vast contribution to global warming.

Among the most potent and far-reaching enforcement tools available to Congress are citizen suits—actions brought by private litigants to enforce federal regulations and to hold agencies accountable for related inaction. Private enforcement in the context of climate change, however, faces a nearly insurmountable barrier—Article III …

Casar Public Lecture: From Coolidge To Trump: A Century Of Racial Politics In America, The Prince Alwaleed Center For American Studies And Research Casar

Performances, Events, and Presentations

Dr. Gallagher's talk examined how various immigration policies in the United States have been shaped by the general public's attitudes regarding the race and ethnicity of those immigrating to the U.S. His talk explores the past and present social pressures that have led to both expansive and restrictive immigration policies.

Speaker: CASAR Guest speaker: Dr.Charles Gallagher ,Professor of Sociology from La Salle University, Philadelphia, USA.

Lecture 1: Date: Wednesday, Feb. 26th, 2025 Time: 7-9 pm Venue: Room 602 - Hill House building - AUC Downtown Tahrir Campus

Lecture 2: Date: Thursday, Feb. 27th, 2025 Time: 1-2 pm Venue: GAPP Executive …

Advancement & Communications Committee Meeting - Open Session Book 02/27/2025, Uc Law Sf

2025 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Taxes And Certainty: Challenges In Judicial Review Of U.S. Tax Legislation, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Moshe Jaffe

Law & Economics Working Papers

The application of judicial review to tax legislation presents unique challenges and inconsistencies. Unlike other forms of legislation, tax laws in the United States are seldom invalidated by the Supreme Court, and when this does occur, it is done using various and inconsistent tests, suggesting a need for a more balanced and effective approach. This paper explores the U.S. court's approach to judicial review in tax cases, empirically analyzing the methods and tests used in key decisions. The findings will reveal a complex and inconsistent picture, highlighting the need for a more coherent approach. Additionally, the research will analyze several …

Presidential Transition Series, Wilf Impact Center For Public Interest Law

WILF Impact Center for Public Interest Law | Event Posters

February 27 - April 10, 2025

Emile Dominique, Iv V. Watchtower Bible And Tract Society Of New York Inc

2025 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Membership Minutes 02/27/2025, Membership Committee

Membership Committee

No abstract provided.

Public Memory Through Memorialization, Sophie A. O'Brien

SPARK Symposium Presentations

This research project aims to contextualize the story surrounding various Nashville monuments that memorialize civil rights leaders. This project will explore the history of monuments and road names in Nashville. The history will span from the Confederacy to the civil rights movement and examine how public memory has evolved and changed with the removal of some statues and the changing of road names. It aims to show who we choose to memorialize and why, and how the civil rights leaders we choose to remember reflects public sentiment of the civil rights era.

Two-Key Dependent Permutation (Tkdp) And Its Applications In Information Security, Arulmani K

Theses and Dissertations

Two-Key Dependent Permutation (TKDP) algorithm for generating permutation sequences of fixed sizes, TKDP based Symmetric Block Cipher (TKDPSBC) and TKDP Audio encryption are being proposed in this thesis. TKDP algorithm is capable of generating different sequences for different key pairs. This makes it suitable for constructing dynamic S-boxes and P-boxes that have more degree of randomness and non-linearity to resist cryptanalytic attacks. Rigorous statistical tests validate the efficacy of the generated permutation sequences, affirming their suitability for cryptographic applications in conjunction with Fiestel network-based block ciphers. TKDPSBC encrypts a plaintext block into a ciphertext block of the same size. TKDP …