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Proceedings Of Emirati Conference On Medical Education 2025, Mohammed Al Houqani, Fouzia Shersad, Asma Syeda, Hadeel Aboueisha, Aysha Al Dhaheri, Alanoud Muhsen Al Thaibani, Alhanouf Khthail, Abdul Muqsid, Amal Al Shaiba, Ayah I. Eshbair, Fatema Almheiri, Wafa Alawlaqi, Ibrahim Balla

ECME Abstract Book 2025

The Emirati Conference on Medical Education, organized by the National Institute for Health Specialties (NIHS)—the accreditation body for postgraduate medical education in the UAE— is one of the country’s most prestigious scientific events. Held on February 15–16, 2025, at the Fairmont Bab Al Bahr Hotel in Abu Dhabi, the conference aimed to enhance the medical education experience and facilitate the exchange of expertise among professionals in the field. This dynamic platform brought together experts to discuss the latest advancements in medical education, with a focus on improving training and assessment in healthcare.

University Faculty Research Competence: A Systematic Literature Review Of Core Components, Distinctions, And Measures, Muhammad Salahuddin, Robert H. Stupnisky

Education, Health & Behavior Studies Faculty Publications

Recent studies identified that faculty research productivity increased when they felt competent in conducting research. Faculty level of research competency varies due to academic training, context, country, discipline, and experiences; however, what is faculty research competency? The core competencies of faculty research are unclear; thus, the current study systematically reviewed the literature. Researchers used Boolean searches of four popular databases to identify 553 articles for first-level screening. These yielded 46 peer-reviewed journal articles for full-text analysis, six of which focused on faculty populations (40 on non-faculty). Six core components of faculty research proficiency were identified: finding and reviewing literature, planning …

Patient Perception Of Delays In The Dermatology Clinic, Emily Hunter, Safiyyah Bhatti, Lauren N. Mcgrath, Stephanie R. Jackson Cullison, Elizabeth Jones

Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology Faculty Papers

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Personality And Late-Life Categorical Spending Regret, Blain Pearson, Thomas Korankye, Sarah Asebedo

Finance and Economics

This study examines the association between the big five “OCEAN” personality traits and late-life categorical spending regret. The categorical spending regrets examined are housing, food, clothing, appliances/furnishings, cars, leisure, child-related expenses, and providing financial help. Openness was associated negatively with spending regret on food. Conscientiousness was associated positively with spending regret on appliances/furnishings and cars. Extraversion was associated negatively with spending regret on food, cars, and providing financial help. Agreeableness was associated positively with spending regret on food, clothing, leisure, and providing financial help. The results for Neuroticism indicated no statistically significant association between the OCEAN personality traits and the …

Introduction To Issue 20.2: Garbage/Déchets, Rachel Jekanowski, Abigail Fields, Britt Mackenzie-Dale, Hannah Tollefson, Amy Wang, Ariel Gordon

The Goose

Editors introduction to The Goose issue 20.2

Three Walks Along Wascana Creek, Ken Wilson

The Goose

"Three Walks Along Wascana Creek" recalls the author's walking along Wascana Creek in Regina, Saskatchewan, in June 2021.

"A Fate For Fire”: A Review Of Knife On Snow By Alice Major, Kate Rogers

The Goose

A review of Knife on Snow, by Alice Major.

Tenacious Resins And Residues: Oil Propaganda In Architectural Digest During The Energy Crises Of The 1970s, Banafsheh Mohammadi

The Goose

Architectural Digest was first published in 1920 by John C. Brasfield, a California-based publisher. In 1933, the magazine was purchased by Condé Nast and has since become a popular design magazine, particularly in North America, known for its visually vibrant and abundant advertisements. Car advertisements are among the most recurring ads featured in the magazine. Through an archival investigation of Architectural Digest magazines from 1973 to 1983, I investigate how, if at all, car advertisements in the magazine reflected the 1973 and 1979 oil crises.

The 1979 global energy crisis was a period of high energy prices and supply …

Two Poems: Detour And Galway Famine Ship Memorial, Kelly Norah Drukker

The Goose

Kelly Norah Drukker offers two poems: "Detour" and “Galway Famine Ship Memorial.”

Review Of Ecologies Of A Storied Planet In The Anthropocene By Serpil Oppermann, Mailyn Abreu Toribio

The Goose

A review of Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene, by Serpil Oppermann.

We Are All Strays Now (Now), Grace Moore

The Goose

Drawing on ideas of kinship and straying, this piece of creative non-fiction considers my relationship with a "neighbourhood cat," dying from a coronavirus, just prior to the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. It addresses how we make kin with strays, and the ways in which animals insert themselves into human lives.

Three Days In April, Erna Buffie

The Goose

Three Days in April was written in April 2022. It is a kind of personal meditation on the impact of climate change and the death of Dr. David Barber, environmental scientist and global expert on the Arctic.

Rising Tides And Shifting Sands: Inadequacies In American Climate Responses And An Urgent Call For A Federal Climate Adaptation Policy, Armand J. Avila

Texas A&M Journal of Property Law

Climate change is an increasingly prevalent issue in policy discussions across the United States. Its effects can be observed and measured across ecosystems, industries, and legal jurisdictions, and it is felt in the homes of the people who live and work at the forefront of its impacts. Yet, the federal government’s current policies incentivize states, localities, and private citizens to make poor climate decisions and to put themselves at risk, leading to population growth and property development in some of the most at-risk areas of the country. At the same time, the federal government operates on an outdated disaster response …

Requiem For A Gull: Two Poems, Joanna Streetly

The Goose

A seabird’s death is mourned through “Requiem for a Gull” by Joanna Streetly, while "Dip & Skim" exlores the omnipresent nature of waste.

Reflexiones Sobre Comunicación, Colaboración Y Convergencia, Primera Edición: Modelos Estratégicos Para Educación E Investigación Stem [Ebook], James Lipuma Ph.D., Cristo Leon Ph.D., Victor Hugo Guzmán Zarate Ph.D., John Wolf Ph.D.

STEM for Success Resources

Este libro explora más de cinco años de experiencia investigativa y práctica en torno a los sistemas de aprendizaje y educación, especialmente relacionados con Ciencia, Tecnología, Ingeniería y Matemáticas (STEM). Es una recopilación de ideas sobre cómo comunicarse con los actores clave para incrementar la colaboración e impulsar la convergencia. La presente colección de artículos se basa en investigaciones empíricas primarias que, en conjunto, abarcan varios años y numerosos proyectos financiados, y presenta marcos conceptuales para reflexionar sobre la transferencia de conocimiento en STEM y la formación del carácter estudiantil, así como sugerencias prácticas para la praxis cotidiana. A lo …

The Sedimentological Signature Of Impact Spherules And Its Relation To Ejecta Transport Mechanisms During The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact (Cretaceous/Paleogene Boundary), Hermann D. Bermúdez, Liliana Bolívar, José A. Arz, Ignacio Arenillas, Vicente Gilabert, Robert Depalma, George Phillips, Daniela Bermúdez, Maurizia De Palma, Clemencia Gómez, Ying Cui

Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The Chicxulub impact is the most likely cause of the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary (KPB) mass extinction and the only impact event in Earth's history with a globally traceable ejecta bed. Although the impact spherules are thought to represent molten or vaporized material, precise genesis and transport mechanisms remain underconstrained. Here, we show that the morphology, size, internal structure, and distribution of the spherules within the KPB deposits are related to origin and transport processes. The study of thousands of spherules from KPB deposits in Colombia, the USA, and Spain has revealed the presence of three fractions related to three different distribution …

Transformative Artists: Rebalancing The Fair Use Doctrine, Roberto C. Candelas

Texas A&M Journal of Property Law

Copyright law is intended to increase public access to creative works, and in service of this goal it grants exclusive rights to copyright holders to provide them with the economic incentive to create new works. However, the reality is that creative works are often not only influenced by their predecessors, but often are accretions of previous concepts, stylistic approaches, and ideas that add a creator’s imprimatur and thus create a new work that is tethered to its derivatives in ways that range from tenuous to seemingly duplicative. It is within this zone of ambiguous connection that the doctrine of fair …

Effects Of Die Type On Mechanical Performance And Failure Behaviors Of Self-Piercing Riveting Joints In Aa5052, Lun Zhao, Amr Monier, Ao Zhang, Liya Li, Ahmed Elkaseer, Zeshan Abbas, Kai Ye

Mechanical Engineering

This study investigates the effects of self-piercing riveting (SPR) die type on the joint quality and failure modes of AA5052 SPR joints. Three die types: flat, pip, and ball-shaped were designed and processed for the SPR process, and 30 riveted specimens were prepared. A 2D axisymmetric finite element (FE) simulation model was established using LS-Dyna to evaluate the impact of each die type. The accuracy of the FE model was validated by comparing simulated joint cross-sections with experimental results. Subsequently, the quality and forming mechanisms of the SPR joints fabricated using each die type were analyzed. Mechanical properties were assessed …

Genome-Wide Transcriptome Differences Associated With Perceived Discrimination In An Urban, Community-Dwelling Middle-Aged Cohort, Natasha L. Pacheco, Nicole Noren Hooten, Sharon Wu, Maame Mensah-Bonsu, Yongqing Zhang, Kumaraswamy Naidu Chitrala, Supriyo De, Nicolle A. Mode, Ngozi Ezike, Danielle L. Beatty Moody, Alan B. Zonderman, Michele K. Evans

Student Publications

Discrimination is a social adversity that is linked to several age-related outcomes. However, the molecular drivers of these observations are poorly understood. Social adverse factors are associated with proinflammatory and interferon gene expression, but little is known about whether additional genes are associated with discrimination among both African American and White adults. In this study, we examined how perceived discrimination in African American and White adults was associated with genome-wide transcriptome differences using RNA sequencing. Perceived discrimination was measured based on responses to self-reported lifetime discrimination and racial discrimination. Differential gene expression and pathway analysis were conducted in a cohort …

Data Augmentation And Machine Learning Algorithms For Multi-Class Imbalanced Morphometrics Data Of Stingless Bees, Daisy Salifu, Lorna Chepkemoi, Eric Ali Ibrahim, Kiatoko Nkoba, Henri E.Z. Tonnang

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

The study focusses on handling of multiclass imbalanced data on classification of stingless bee samples by employing data balancing techniques, namely Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) and Adaptive Synthetic (ADASYN) approach. These techniques are applied in combination with machine learning (ML) algorithms; specifically Random Forest (RF), and Support Vector Machine (SVM), to assess the models’ predictive performance to infer stingless bee samples identities. We studied ML classifier models: RF, RF + SMOTE, RF + ADASYN, SVM, SVM + SMOTE and SVM + ADASYN on the six-class imbalanced dataset of stingless bees morphometrics. Multi-class area under curve (AUC), F1-score, G-mean, balanced …

Increasing The Awareness Of Land Grant Extension Service To Ethnic Minority Students: Collaborative Programming Of Kansas State University College Of Agriculture And K-State Research And Extension Service, Raymond Thomas, Dr. Zelia Z. Wiley, Dr. Lonnie Hobbs Jr., Summer Santillana

Journal of Extension

An important pre-condition to diversifying the workforce of land-grant extension services is access to qualified ethnic minority individuals with an awareness and interest in pursuing extension careers. This paper highlights an example of collaboration between the K-State Research and Extension office and an educational research program at Kansas State University to expand the awareness and knowledge of the functions and career opportunities in extension to ethnic minority students. The result of this study indicates the collaboration increased the perceived knowledge of extension to the students, leading to an ethnic minority student attending graduate school with an emphasis on extension services.

Outcomes Of A 4-H Stem Learning Enrichment Program Using Video Storytelling, Dena Seidel, Marissa Staffen, Lamia Abdallah, Xenia Morin

Journal of Extension

This article shares research outcomes and recommendations for replication of a Food, Agriculture and Marine Ecosystems (FAME) pilot project that successfully supported high school aged youth involved in a new 4-H special interest program. The goal of the program was to recruit and engage underserved youth in STEM learning through the production of food systems video stories in partnership with university plant scientists and science communication researchers and storytellers. This pilot offers an experiential method for underserved youth to engage in STEM learning through science storytelling that features youths' own bio-cultural food system knowledge.

The New American Farmer – Extension Engagement With Urban Agriculture And Food Systems, Margaux S. C. Robinson, Kc V. Cunningham, Jeffery A. Young, Nicole D. Breazeale, Kenneth R. Jones, Julie N. Zimmerman

Journal of Extension

Extension’s evolving role in urban food production will require intensive reflexivity and ongoing collaboration. Extension educators around the country have already made progress in engaging with both the social and horticultural sides of urban agriculture. Designed appropriately, urban food systems hold the potential for healthy food access, community and environmental resilience, and economic prosperity (Rangarajan & Riordan 2019). Moving forward, we offer recommendations for Extension staff to apply within their institutions and beyond. Specifically, we urge Extension to prioritize the following: 1) mediate the rural/urban dichotomy, 2) tackle structural and institutional power dynamics, and 3) intensify strategies for community resilience.

Customer Journey Mapping: A New Tool In The Extension Educator’S Toolbelt, Christopher Sneed, Heejin Lim, Michelle Childs, Megan B. Leffew

Journal of Extension

Customer journey mapping can be used to gain a complete understanding of customers by charting touchpoints across pre-purchase, purchase and post-purchase stages. By lifting customer journey mapping out of traditional retail settings and applying it to farm retail enterprises, customer journey mapping can be a powerful tool in the Extension educator toolbelt – a tool that can be utilized when educating producers in group settings or individual consultations. This article offers an introduction to the customer journey mapping tool. A case study and tips for using journey mapping concludes the article.

Few-Shot Transfer Learning For Individualized Braking Intent Detection On Neuromorphic Hardware, Nathan A. Lutes, V. Sriram Siddhardth Nedendla, K. Krishnamurthy

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This work explores use of a few-shot transfer learning method to train and implement a convolutional spiking neural network (CSNN) on a Brain Chip Akida AKD1000 neuromorphic system-on-chip for developing individual-level, instead of traditionally used group-level, models using electroencephalographic data. The efficacy of the method is studied on an advanced driver assist system related task of predicting braking intention. Approach. Data are collected from participants operating an NVIDIA JetBot on a testbed simulating urban streets for three different scenarios. Participants receive a braking indicator in the form of: (1) an audio countdown in a nominal baseline, stress-free environment; (2) an …

Managing Cybersecurity In Local Governments: 2022, Donald F. Norris Phd, Laura K. Mateczun Jd

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

This paper, based on data from our second nationwide survey of cybersecurity among local or grassroots governments in the U.S., examines how these governments manage this important function. As we have shown elsewhere, cybersecurity among local governments is increasingly important because these governments are under constant or nearly constant cyberattack. Due to the frequency of cyberattacks, as well as the probability that at least some attacks will succeed and cause damage to local government information systems, these governments have great responsibility to protect their information assets. This, in turn, requires these governments to manage cybersecurity effectively, something our data show …

Intra- And Inter-Plant Variability Of Quinolizidine Alkaloids In Narrow-Leaf Lupin Seeds, Grown Under Different Day/Night Cycles, Tawfeek Khedr, Ling Ling Gao, Lars G. Kamphuis, Angéla Juhász, Michelle L. Colgrave

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Inconsistent fluctuation of quinolizidine alkaloid (QA) content in lupin seeds is often observed, sometimes surpassing safe thresholds (>200 mg/kg) yet lacks a clear explanation. This study aimed to investigate the intra-plant variability of QA content in three narrow-leaf lupin genotypes: Tanjil, Quillinock, and P22660 using LC-MS/MS. QA levels in seeds from the same pods showed <30 % variation, while those from different pods in the same plant sometimes surpassed inter-plant variations (up to 94 %). The average measured QA concentrations under speed breeding conditions in Quillinock, Tanjil, and P22660 were 36, 103, and 27,000 mg/kg, respectively. The impact of longer daylight hours (16h day/8h night), a practice used in speed breeding, on QA content in the cultivar Tanjil was also studied. Longer daylight hours yielded elevated QA levels in Tanjil seeds (103 mg/kg) compared to those grown in a greenhouse (10–13h daylight, 32 mg/kg).

Postharvest Melatonin Application Attenuates Browning, Delays Softening, And Maintains The Antioxidant Potential Of Jackfruit Bulbs, Jashanpreet Kaur, Zora Singh, Muhammad Sohail Mazhar, Hafiz Muhammad Shoaib Shah, Eben Afrifa-Yamoah, Andrew Woodward

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Although the impact of postharvest melatonin (MLT) application in extending the storage life of horticultural produce has been widely studied, its effect in jackfruit remains unknown. This investigation evaluates the influence of MLT dip application (0, 0.05, 0.1, and 0.2 mM) on browning, softening and oxidative stress in cold-stored jackfruit bulbs over a period of 20d. All MLT treatments reduced browning index and oxidative stress, while activities of browning-related enzymes were comparatively lower in the 0.1 mM MLT treatment. Treatment with 0.2 mM MLT maintained elevated levels of antioxidants as compared to control. Higher bulb firmness, total pectin and cellulose …

A Manifesto To Young Activist Scientists And Science Educators: Toward Pluriversal Sciences And Science Educations Within Bioregions And Communities, James C. Jupp

Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications

What follows is a manifesto to substantiate four theses. First, science and science education are not what they purport to be and require recategorization as technoscience and technoscience education. Second, technoscience and technoscience education are constituted in the pernicious whiteness of coloniality and need to be understood as mechanisms of domination. Third, pluriversal sciences and science educations toward bioregion and community are emerging and require leveraging. Fourth, the notion of contextual mitigating factors provides an essential analytic for pluriversal sciences and science educations. The manifesto is a clarion call for affinity …

Perceived Healthfulness Of The Environment Of Communities With Low Income: Focus Groups And Interviews With Extension Nutrition Educators, Elder Garcia Varela, Jamie Zeldman, Jade Mcnamara, Jesse S. Morrell, Lisa Franzen-Castle, Melissa D. Olfert, Tandalayo Kidd, Kendra Kattelmann, Geoffrey Greene, Karla P. Shelnutt, Sarah Colby

Journal of Extension

This study explored Extension nutrition educators’ (NEs) perceptions of community members’ challenges and opportunities for achieving a healthy lifestyle. NEs represented various communities with low income across nine states. NEs across locations identified similar barriers (i.e., lack of access and availability of healthy and affordable foods; access to transportation; and financial insecurity) and opportunities (i.e., trustworthy and free nutrition education resources and programs; and access to food banks, food pantries, and health care professionals) that prevented or facilitated a healthful lifestyle. Future research should explore key community stakeholder and community member perceptions to guide the development of community-driven interventions.