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Evaluating Loneliness In An Older Adult Population, Kelli Rowland

Dissertations

Problem: Loneliness and social isolation are severe burdens on global public health and can impair overall health outcomes. Unfortunately, both loneliness and social isolation are prevalent in the older adult population. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to evaluate loneliness in older adults enrolled in a weekly socialization program and its impact on loneliness.

Methods: A descriptive cohort design was utilized to analyze surveys completed three months apart. A convenience sample was used with older adults already enrolled in a weekly socialization program. The Iowa Model of Evidence-Based Practice was applied to evaluate and promote quality …

The Eddington Ratio-Dependent ‘Changing Look’ Events In Ngc2992, Dirk Grupe

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

We present an analysis of historical multi-wavelength emission of the Changing Look (CL) Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) in NGC 2992, covering epochs ranging from 1978 to 2021, as well as new X-ray and optical spectra. The galaxy presents multiple Seyfert type transitions from type 2 to intermediate-type, losing and regaining its H𝛼 BEL recurrently. In X-rays, the source shows intrinsic variability with the absorption corrected luminosity varying by a factor of 40. We rule-out tidal disruption events or variable obscuration as causes of the type transitions, and show that the presence and the flux of the broad H𝛼 emission line …

Full Issue, Kristina Lee

Journal of Prison Education and Reentry (2014-2023)

Full Issue

Two University Of Dayton Alumni Awarded Fulbright Scholarships, Allison Brace

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

With recent nominees Olivia LeBlanc and Elizabeth Michalenko, the University of Dayton has now produced 37 Fulbright Scholars since 2002.

Vista: September 16, 2021, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

No abstract provided.

Information Literacy Skills Acquisition By Postgraduate Students Of National Open University Of Nigeria: Makurdi Study Center., Tor-Akwer Helen Famaren, Akpe Precious Doo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study investigated information literacy skills acquired by postgraduate students of National open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Makurdi study center. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. The sample size used for the survey was 842 postgraduate students from the eight faculties in NOUN, Makurdi study center. The instrument for data collection was the questionnaire .standard deviation and mean scores were used in analyzing the data collected and hypotheses was tested using the pearson correlation test analysis at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the findings shows that NOUN postgraduate students in Makurdi study Center can actually tell when …

On The Socialization Of Transfer Physics Majors Enrolled Within Upper-Division Physics Courses At Transfer Receiving Institutions: Qualitative Research, Patrick Lee Chestnut

Theses and Dissertations

A host of individual and institutional sociocultural factors mediate transfer physics students' socialization experiences at 4-year transfer receiving institutions. The purpose of this study is to understand how sociocultural factors mediate transfer physics students' socialization while participating in upper-division physics coursework at a 4-year public transfer-receiving university. This study, rooted in sociocultural constructivism, aimed to shape discussion of seven transfer physics students, six regular admit physics students, and a physics course instructor's experiences connected to physics studies that emerged from qualitative data. These data included student and faculty surveys, interviews, and classroom observations. Several key findings emerged. First, a multitude …

Blood Biomarkers For Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Selective Review Of Unresolved Issues, Daniel B. Hier, Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi, Matthew S. Thimgan, Gayla R. Olbricht, Sima Azizi, Blaine Allen, Bassam A. Hadi, Donald C. Wunsch

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

Background: The use of blood biomarkers after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) has been widely studied. We have identified eight unresolved issues related to the use of five commonly investigated blood biomarkers: neurofilament light chain, ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase-L1, tau, S100B, and glial acidic fibrillary protein. We conducted a focused literature review of unresolved issues in three areas: mode of entry into and exit from the blood, kinetics of blood biomarkers in the blood, and predictive capacity of the blood biomarkers after mTBI.

Findings: Although a disruption of the blood brain barrier has been demonstrated in mild and severe traumatic brain …

A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department

2021-2022 Season Production

Join us as we celebrate a return to live theater with a very special staged concert version of the show that was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March of 2020. While we are unable to fully realize the elaborate design of this hilarious knock-em-dead musical romp, the script will be performed in full with much of the original cast, and you will not leave without having a hearty laugh. Poor, low-born Monty Navarro is desperate to inherit the dukedom by surpassing no fewer than eight members of the well-to-do D’Ysquith family in line before him. Just wait until …

Daily Eastern News: September 16, 2021, Eastern Illinois University

September

No abstract provided.

Excited-State Lifetimes Of Dna-Templated Cyanine Dimer, Trimer, And Tetramer Aggregates: The Role Of Exciton Delocalization, Dye Separation, And Dna Heterogeneity, Jonathan S. Huff, Daniel B. Turner, Olga A. Mass, Lance K. Patten, Christopher K. Wilson, Simon K. Roy, Matthew S. Barclay, Bernard Yurke, William B. Knowlton, Paul H. Davis, Ryan D. Pensack

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

DNA-templated molecular (dye) aggregates are a novel class of materials that have garnered attention in a broad range of areas including light harvesting, sensing, and computing. Using DNA to template dye aggregation is attractive due to the relative ease with which DNA nanostructures can be assembled in solution, the diverse array of nanostructures that can be assembled, and the ability to precisely position dyes to within a few Angstroms of one another. These factors, combined with the programmability of DNA, raise the prospect of designer materials custom tailored for specific applications. Although considerable progress has been made in characterizing the …

The Weekly Challenger, September 16, 2021, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The September 16, 2021, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Unh Research Finds Witnessing Abuse Of Sibling Can Lead To Mental Health Issues, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Comparing Institutional Strategies For Engineering Ethics Education In Regional, National And European Contexts, Gunter Bombaerts, Luis Adriano, Shannon Chance, Václav Čuba, Mihály Héder, Sarah Junaid, Aleksandra Kazakova, Helena Kovacs, Thomas Lennerfors, Diana Martin, Amirouche Moktefi, Alfredo Soeiro, Andrei Simionescu-Panait, Mircea Toboșaru, Roland Tormey, Horațiu Vermeșan

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

This paper describes, at raw-data level, the results of a workshop at SEFI 2021 on “comparing institutional strategies for engineering ethics education in regional, national and European contexts”. It uses the curriculum typology of Goodlad. The results indicate the diversity of answers at the European scale for the ideal, formal, perceived and operational curriculum. Although there were some first contextual differences noticeable, the set of answers was too small to give an in-depth analysis, but it opens up a promising area for future research.

Bird Courtship Rituals Topic For Virtual Science Cafe, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

Neuroscience professor to discuss manakin study during Sept. 21 Zoom event

The Concise Guide To Pharmacology 2021/22: Enzymes, Stephen Ph Alexander, Doriano Fabbro, Eamonn Kelly, Alistair Mathie, John A. Peters, Emma L. Veale, Jane F. Armstrong, Elena Faccenda, Simon D. Harding, Adam J. Pawson, Christopher Southan, James A. Davies, Detlan Boison, Kathryn Elisa Burns, Carmen Dessauer, Jürg Gertsch, Nuala Ann Helsby, Angela A. Izzo, Doris Koesling, Rennolds Ostrom, Nigel J. Pyne, Susan Pyne, Michael Russwurm, Roland Seifert, Johannes-Peter Stasch, Mario Van Der Stelt, Albert Van Der Vliet, Val Watts, Szu Shen Wong

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2021/22 is the fifth in this series of biennial publications. The Concise Guide provides concise overviews, mostly in tabular format, of the key properties of nearly 1900 human drug targets with an emphasis on selective pharmacology (where available), plus links to the open access knowledgebase source of drug targets and their ligands (www.guidetopharmacology.org), which provides more detailed views of target and ligand properties. Although the Concise Guide constitutes over 500 pages, the material presented is substantially reduced compared to information and links presented on the website. It provides a permanent, citable, point-in-time record …

Design Of A Custom Digital Light Projection Printer For In-Situ Production Of Composites With Improved Thermomechanical Properties, Margaret Anne Gillan

Theses and Dissertations

This work seeks to improve upon the existing state-of-the-art for vat photopolymerization additive manufacturing; namely, producing in-situ composites that combine the precision and high-performance materials of the vat photopolymerization with the strength of fiber-reinforced polymer composites. A custom-designed digital light projection printer was designed and built for printing composites, which includes an automated fiber tape system to place woven E-glass fiber mats in-situ. To validate the performance improvement of composites versus the neat matrix, composites were fabricated on the custom printer with hand-placed fiber mats. A high-performance, dual-cure resin was used for these studies. The effect of layer height on …

Speech By Dr. Ishrat Hussain On Infosec Conference, Ishrat Hussain Dr.

Faculty Research - Talks, Speeches, & Discourse

Ladies and gentlemen, I feel so happy to be part of 13th annual InfoSec conference. Thank you, TOTAL Communications, and IoBM and HBL for giving me this opportunity to speak on such a critically important subject and I am glad to see such a variety of very learned experts present on this floor today. So proud to see Pakistani talent like Kaleed rising and contributing immensely in other parts of the world. Also nice to see HBL co hosting today's event and I am told that HBL has been leading this premier annual conference for the last four years.

Blood Biomarkers For Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Selective Review Of Unresolved Issues, Daniel B. Hier, Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi, Matthew S. Thimgan, Gayla R. Olbricht, Sima Azizi, Blaine Allen, Bassam A. Hadi, Donald C. Wunsch

Biological Sciences Faculty Research & Creative Works

Background: The use of blood biomarkers after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) has been widely studied. We have identified eight unresolved issues related to the use of five commonly investigated blood biomarkers: neurofilament light chain, ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase-L1, tau, S100B, and glial acidic fibrillary protein. We conducted a focused literature review of unresolved issues in three areas: mode of entry into and exit from the blood, kinetics of blood biomarkers in the blood, and predictive capacity of the blood biomarkers after mTBI.

Findings: Although a disruption of the blood brain barrier has been demonstrated in mild and severe traumatic brain …

The Cowl - V. 86 N. 2 - Sep 16, 2021

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol. 86 No. 2 - September 16, 2021. 20 pages.

Research Snapshot: Protecting Great Bay, Tim Briggs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

September 2021 Academic Affairs Minutes, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Academic Affairs Committee

Academic Affairs Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Structure Of Finite Commutative Idempotent Involutive Residuated Lattices, Peter Jipsen, Olim Tuyt, Diego Valota

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

We characterize commutative idempotent involutive residuated lattices as disjoint unions of Boolean algebras arranged over a distributive lattice. We use this description to introduce a new construction, called gluing, that allows us to build new members of this variety from other ones. In particular, all finite members can be constructed in this way from Boolean algebras. Finally, we apply our construction to prove that the fusion reduct of any finite member is a distributive semilattice, and to show that this variety is not locally finite.

Messages From The Provost, Georgia Southern University

Messages from the Provost

September 16, 2021: Public Impact Research

The Missouri Miner, September 16, 2021

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

No abstract provided.

September 16, 2021, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2020-

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

September 16, 2021, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Cognition-Enhanced Machine Learning For Better Predictions With Limited Data, Florian Sense, Ryan Wood, Michael G. Collins, Joshua Fiechter, Aihua W. Wood, Michael Krusmark, Tiffany Jastrzembski, Christopher W. Myers

Faculty Publications

The fields of machine learning (ML) and cognitive science have developed complementary approaches to computationally modeling human behavior. ML's primary concern is maximizing prediction accuracy; cognitive science's primary concern is explaining the underlying mechanisms. Cross-talk between these disciplines is limited, likely because the tasks and goals usually differ. The domain of e-learning and knowledge acquisition constitutes a fruitful intersection for the two fields’ methodologies to be integrated because accurately tracking learning and forgetting over time and predicting future performance based on learning histories are central to developing effective, personalized learning tools. Here, we show how a state-of-the-art ML model can …

Uav-Assisted Data Dissemination Based On Network Coding In Vehicular Networks, Shidong Huang, Chuanhe Huang, Yabo Yin, Dongfang Wu, M. Wasim Abbas Ashraf, Bin Fu

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Efficient and emergency data dissemination service in vehicular networks (VN) is very important in some situations, such as earthquakes, maritime rescue, and serious traffic accidents. Data loss frequently occurs in the data transition due to the unreliability of the wireless channel and there are no enough available UAVs providing data dissemination service for the large disaster areas. UAV with an adjustable active antenna can be used in light of the situation. However, data dissemination assisted by UAV with the adjustable active antenna needs corresponding effective data dissemination framework. A UAV-assisted data dissemination method based on network coding is proposed. First, …

Fine-Scale Spatial And Diel Dynamics Of Zooplanktivorous Fish On Temperate Rocky And Artificial Reefs, Mm Holland, A Becker, Ja Smith, Jd Everett, Im Suthers

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Plankton is an important component of the food web in coastal reef ecosystems. Ocean currents subsidise local production by supplying plankton to resident and reef-associated planktivorous fishes. Measuring the fine-scale distribution of these schooling fishes provides insight into their habitat use and how they balance risk and reward while foraging for plankton. Maintaining their proximity to benthic structure can provide refuge from predation but may also limit foraging opportunities. We used a portable multibeam echosounder to survey schooling fish at 5 natural and 3 artificial reefs, during day and night and under different current conditions. We isolated midwater acoustic targets …