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Leveraging Passively-Collected Wearable Accelerometry Data Coupled With Machine Learning To Longitudinally Detect And Predict Major Depressive Disorder, George D. Price

Dartmouth College Ph.D Dissertations

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a debilitating and heterogenous mental health disorder that is characterized by symptoms including low mood, issues with sleep, psychomotor difficulties, and fatigue. MDD affects one in twenty adults worldwide and has shown increased prevalence in the United States over the past twenty years. As such, efforts to effectively screen, diagnose, and treat MDD are paramount. However, to address these concerns, an increased understanding of an individual’s daily behavior is required, which is not adequately captured by infrequent clinical visits. One such method for consistent, longitudinal observation, passively-collected accelerometry, serves as an observational method for unobtrusively …

Approved Programs 3-5-24, Angela Brock

Programs Committee (PC)

No abstract provided.

Weller, Thomas Halls To Pause Use For Fall 2024 - Den (Mar. 5, 2024), Alli Hausman

Thomas Hall

No abstract provided.

Weller, Thomas Halls To Pause Use For Fall 2024; Andrews Hall To Become Co-Ed To Facilitate The Change - Den (Mar. 5, 2024), Alli Hausman

Andrews Hall

No abstract provided.

Programs Agenda 3-5-24, Angela Brock

Programs Committee (PC)

No abstract provided.

One Year Later: Lessons Learned From The March 2023 Bank Failures, Brookings Hutchins Center On Fiscal & Monetary Policy

Documents

No abstract provided.

Linguistic And Cultural Barriers To Hispanic Immigrant Vaccination, Ruth Larson

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Though vaccines decrease incidence of their associated diseases, vaccination rates among Hispanics are lower than their White non-Hispanic counterparts for almost all vaccines. In this study, we identify linguistic and cultural barriers to vaccination of Hispanic Immigrants (HI). An electronic survey was administered among HI parents living in the United States. Using structural equation modeling, we found that a lower language barrier increases the trust in patient-physician relationship (+0.487) and increases HPV knowledge (+0.450). Mistrust because the health care was not in Spanish led to negative vaccine attitudes (-0.104), while trust due to a lower language barrier led to positive …

Ucc Minutes 3-5-24, Angela Brock

UCC Agendas/Minutes

No abstract provided.

Ndls Communicator: Week Of 03.04.24, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Communicator

The Latest News

• Notre Dame Law student and Eviction Clinic secure unexpected victory for South Bend family
• Professor Carter Snead presents at Pontifical Academy for Life assembly at the Vatican
• Patrick Corrigan's new paper, "ES" Versus "G" in Corporate Governance: You Can't Have It All" was quoted in the Forbes article, “Observing OpenAI’s Affair With Musk: A Legal Drama Unfolds.”
• Sherif Girgis's article, "Living Traditionalism," was mentioned by the New York Times as support for Justice Barrett's and Judge Newsome's interpretation of "history-and-tradition" tests.
• Derek Muller's first quotes about the Supreme Court ruling today are in The Conversation, "Supreme Court …

An Event-Level Evaluation Of Women’S Self-Medicated Drinking: The Role Of Sexual Assault Severity, Affect, And Drinking Motives, Cynthia A. Stappenbeck, Anna E. Jaffe, Jessica A. Blayney, Mitchell Kirwan, William H. George, Kelly Cue Davis

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Objective.—Women with sexual assault (SA) histories report heavier and more frequent drinking. Consistent with the motivational model of alcohol use, women with SA histories may consume alcohol to both down-regulate negative emotions and up-regulate positive ones. The present event-level study used a Bayesian multilevel moderated mediation approach to examine the extent to which women’s alcohol use and intoxication was influenced by coping and enhancement drinking motives to down-regulate or up-regulate affect, respectively.

Method.—Women ages 21–30 were recruited from the community to participate in a larger study that included a 32-day daily diary assessment of affect, drinking motives, and …

Financial Variables And Their Effects On The Development Of Bank Credit And Productive Sectors In Iraq Using A Path Analysis Model, Saif Ali Hassan, Salah Mahdi Abbas Al-Birmani

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

This study aims to measure and analyze the direct and indirect effects of the financial variables, namely (public spending, public revenues, internal debt, and external debt), on the non-oil productive sectors with and without bank credit as an intermediate variable, using quarterly data for the period (2004Q1–2021Q4), converted using Eviews 12. In order to measure the objective of the study, the path analysis method was used using IBM SPSS-AMOS. The study concluded that the direct and indirect effects of financial variables have a weak role in directing bank credit towards the productive sectors in Iraq, which amounted to (0.18), as …

Cpm For Project Scheduling: Case Study In Karbala Metal Silo, Hayman Fakhruddin Saleh, Wakas S. Khalaf, Hussein Mohammed Abualrejal

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The understanding of techniques called project scheduling methods, and the delay in the completion of the Karbala metal silo in the holy province of Karbala is the non-use of modern techniques in implementation, so the research sought to provide the use of project scheduling using one of the advanced scientific methods that have proven the extent of its ability to schedule any project and its projects are the trade-off between time and the cost of completing the project . The objective of this research is to find the time and cost of completing the silo project in normal and crash …

Probit And Improved Probit Transform-Based Kernel Estimator For Copula Density, Fatimah Hashim Falhi, Munaf Yousif Hmood

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Copula modeling is widely used in modern statistics. The boundary bias problem is one of the problems faced when estimating by nonparametric methods, as kernel estimators are the most common in nonparametric estimation. In this paper, the copula density function was estimated using the probit transformation nonparametric method to eliminate the boundary bias problem that suffers kernel estimators. Simulation was also employed for three nonparametric methods to estimate the copula density function and we proposed a new method that is better than the rest of the methods by five types of copulas with different sample sizes and different levels of …

Performance Classification For Lasso Weights With Penalized Logistic Regression For High-Dimensional Data, Afiaa Raheem Khudhair, Saja Mohammad Hussein

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

In high-dimensional data, classification performance is a crucial consideration. One method of interest is the penalized binary logistic regression. However, the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator) The Lasso method may face problems when the appropriate penalty for each coefficient is not determined. For this reason, different weights are used in weighted Lasso estimates to address this issue and improve classification performance. To overcome this limitation, we employ various Weighted Lasso Estimates, each with unique weight assignments, and compare their performance with our fifth proposed weight configuration. This application of Lasso weighting schemes aims to uncover the most effective approach …

The Impact Of Digital Leadership In Strategic Foresight / An Applied Research In Al-Rafidain Bank, Kadhim Jawad Jassim, Salah Aldeen Kareem Al-Kubaisi

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The business environment today is characterized by many changes, especially in the technological field. So, organizations require to keep pace with these changes by adopting new methods in providing products and services, including the adoption of digital leadership that is able to anticipate the future to seize opportunities in exploiting current resources while introducing new resources to achieve professional development in the all levels of the organization, which contributes to provide the best services and products to clients to gain their satisfaction and loyalty. The research problem is represented by asking a main question, which is (How can the administrative …

The Relationship Between Organizational Agility And Strategic Entrepreneurship: An Analytical Research In Some Companies At The Ministry Of Agriculture In Iraq, Ahmed Ameen Alborathy, Faouzi Masmoudi, Firas Mohammed Ismael

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The research aims to test the correlation between organizational agility (AO) as an independent variable and strategic entrepreneurship as a dependent variable in the firms belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture of Iraq. Interest in these variables has increased as they contribute to environmental adaptation to maintain corporate value and reduce competition. To analyze the correlation between the study's variables, a set of objectives was formulated to reveal the nature of the correlation between organizational agility and strategic entrepreneurship, if any, in selected companies. Hypotheses were formulated to be notably related to the relationship association and influence organizational agility and …

Reviewing Some Water Resources Management Strategies (Globally, Arabic, Local), Bahaa Essa Yass, Hussam Ali Mhaibes

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The issue of water has taken a large place in the writings of researchers and decision-makers at global, Arab, and local levels, especially in arid and semi-arid regions for many reasons. Water resources, especially those shared by more than one country, are also a source of conflict and tension between countries and will constitute the arena of future conflict under the name of (water war). There are many international studies concerned with the strategic management of water resources, and each study took a specific aspect according to the priority that researchers see in diagnosing the problem, which confirms the existence …

Hypertension In Pregnancy Among Immigrant And Swedish Women: A Cohort Study Of All Pregnant Women In Sweden, Per Wändell, Casey Crump, Xinjun Li, Nouha Saleh Stattin, Axel C Carlsson, Jan Sundquist, Kristina Sundquist

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Little is known about risks of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in both first- and second-generation immigrant women in Europe and other Western countries; such knowledge may help elucidate the influence of genetic versus social factors on such risks. We aimed to study both first- and second-generation immigrant women for the presence of all types of hypertension (preexisting hypertension, gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, and eclampsia) during pregnancy.

METHODS AND RESULTS: A cohort study was conducted using data derived from the Swedish National Birth Register, the National Patient Register, and the total Population Register. We used Cox regression analysis to compute hazard …

Executive Committee - Agenda 3/5/2024, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Strategies For Effective Labor-Management Relationships In The Foodservice Industry, Nichola A. Hall

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The relationship between unions and management is particularly critical for food service firms, which rely heavily on unionized employees to meet operational needs. Food service managers are concerned with ineffective strategies for engaging with unions because managing these ineffective relationships jeopardizes employee retention and the firm's performance. Grounded in authentic leadership theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple-case study was to explore strategies food service managers use to develop and maintain an effective union-management relationship for retaining unionized employees. The participants were six food service managers from three large food service firms who implemented success strategies to develop and maintain …

The Link March 5, 2024, Access To Justice Institute

The Link Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Muc20 Regulated By Extrachromosomal Circular Dna Attenuates Proteasome Inhibitor Resistance Of Multiple Myeloma By Modulating Cuproptosis, Xiaobin Wang, Yingqing Shi, Hua Shi, Xiaoyu Liu, Aijun Liao, Zhuogang Liu, Robert Z Orlowski, Rui Zhang, Huihan Wang

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Proteasome inhibitors (PIs) are one of the most important classes of drugs for the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM). However, almost all patients with MM develop PI resistance, resulting in therapeutic failure. Therefore, the mechanisms underlying PI resistance in MM require further investigation.

METHODS: We used several MM cell lines to establish PI-resistant MM cell lines. We performed RNA microarray and EccDNA-seq in MM cell lines and collected human primary MM samples to explore gene profiles. We evaluated the effect of MUC20 on cuproptosis of PI-resistant MM cells using Co-immunoprecipitation (Co-IP), Seahorse bioenergetic profiling and in vivo assay.

RESULTS: …

Sex Differences In Revascularization, Treatment Goals, And Outcomes Of Patients With Chronic Coronary Disease: Insights From The Ischemia Trial, Harmony R Reynolds, Derek D Cyr, C Noel Bairey Merz, Leslee J Shaw, Bernard R Chaitman, William E Boden, Karen P Alexander, Yves D Rosenberg, Sripal Bangalore, Gregg W Stone, Claes Held, John Spertus, Kaatje Goetschalckx, Olga Bockeria, Jonathan D Newman, Jeffrey S Berger, Ahmed Elghamaz, Renato D Lopes, James K Min, Daniel S Berman, Michael H Picard, Raymond Y Kwong, Robert A Harrington, Boban Thomas, Sean M O'Brien, David J Maron, Judith S Hochman, Ischemia Research Group

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Women with chronic coronary disease are generally older than men and have more comorbidities but less atherosclerosis. We explored sex differences in revascularization, guideline-directed medical therapy, and outcomes among patients with chronic coronary disease with ischemia on stress testing, with and without invasive management.

METHODS AND RESULTS: The ISCHEMIA (International Study of Comparative Health Effectiveness with Medical and Invasive Approaches) trial randomized patients with moderate or severe ischemia to invasive management with angiography, revascularization, and guideline-directed medical therapy, or initial conservative management with guideline-directed medical therapy alone. We evaluated the primary outcome (cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, or hospitalization for …

Sme Resilience In The Face Of Covid Disruption: A Conceptual Framework, Mahmoud Ahmad Mahmoud, Ahmed Mahmoud, Yousif Aftan Abdullah, Mahabub Musa Garba

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The effect of COVID-19 on firms’ operations has been the worst of any previous epidemic. The overall supply chains, corporate operations, and performance have all been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, making small and medium-sized organizations more susceptible. At the same time, a sizable body of research-based literature demonstrates the detrimental impact of disruptions on firms. There is a severe lack of literature on the effects of disruptions on performance among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and the elements that could increase their resistance to disruptions in sub-Saharan African economies. The research suggested that disruption absorption plays a moderating role …

Evaluating Of Improvement Level In Some Of Diyala Governorate Departments According To The Eighth Requirement Of Standard (Iso10006:2017), Khalid Younus Faris, Suha Jamal Mawlood

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The research seeks to evaluate the reality of the level of improvement in a number of the Diyala governorate departments and to identify the gap between the actual reality of these departments and one of the requirements of the standard (ISO10006: 2017) through a case study of these departments, which are two departments (Engineering Construction and Buildings) which use tight checklists that are prepared according to the eighth requirement in the specification for improvement. The data are analyzed based on the seven-point Likert scale and statistical equations. The main result of this research at the engineering construction department is that …

The Mediating Role Of Strategic Planning In Strengthening The Relationship Between Organizational Justice And Organizational Development: An Applied Study In The Baghdad/Al-Rusafa Health Department, Saif Hani Reda, Mazen Fawaz Masoud

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of organizational justice on organizational development using strategic planning as a mediating variable. Therefore, the main question for the problem of the current study is whether organizational justice is of great importance and can enhance organizational development strategically. As a case study, an applied descriptive and analytical study was conducted on the Rusafa Health Department in Baghdad. The study included 182 individuals in the administrative levels of the Baghdad Al-Rusafa Health Department. Questionnaires were used as a main tool for collecting and analyzing data using (SPSS (to achieve the objectives …

Endovascular Thrombectomy For Large Ischemic Stroke Across Ischemic Injury And Penumbra Profiles., Amrou Sarraj, Ameer E Hassan, Michael G Abraham, Santiago Ortega-Gutierrez, Scott E Kasner, Muhammad Shazam Hussain, Michael Chen, Leonid Churilov, Hannah Johns, Clark W Sitton, Vignan Yogendrakumar, Felix C Ng, Deep K Pujara, Spiros Blackburn, Sophia Sundararajan, Yin C Hu, Nabeel A Herial, Juan F Arenillas, Jenny P Tsai, Ronald F Budzik, William J Hicks, Osman Kozak, Bernard Yan, Dennis J Cordato, Nathan W Manning, Mark W Parsons, Andrew Cheung, Ricardo A Hanel, Amin N Aghaebrahim, Teddy Y Wu, Pere Cardona Portela, Chirag D Gandhi, Fawaz Al-Mufti, Natalia Pérez De La Ossa, Joanna D Schaafsma, Jordi Blasco, Navdeep Sangha, Steven Warach, Timothy J Kleinig, Faris Shaker, Faisal Al Shaibi, Gabor Toth, Mohammad A Abdulrazzak, Gagan Sharma, Abhishek Ray, Jeffrey Sunshine, Amanda Opaskar, Kelsey R Duncan, Wei Xiong, Edgar A Samaniego, Laith Maali, Colleen G Lechtenberg, Arturo Renú, Nirav Vora, Thanh Nguyen, Johanna T Fifi, Stavropoula I Tjoumakaris, Pascal Jabbour, Georgios Tsivgoulis, Vitor Mendes Pereira, Maarten G Lansberg, Michael Degeorgia, Cathy A Sila, Nicholas Bambakidis, Michael D Hill, Stephen M Davis, Lawrence Wechsler, James C Grotta, Marc Ribo, Greg W Albers, Bruce C Campbell

Neuroscience Articles

IMPORTANCE: Whether endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) efficacy for patients with acute ischemic stroke and large cores varies depending on the extent of ischemic injury is uncertain.

OBJECTIVE: To describe the relationship between imaging estimates of irreversibly injured brain (core) and at-risk regions (mismatch) and clinical outcomes and EVT treatment effect.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: An exploratory analysis of the SELECT2 trial, which randomized 352 adults (18-85 years) with acute ischemic stroke due to occlusion of the internal carotid or middle cerebral artery (M1 segment) and large ischemic core to EVT vs medical management (MM), across 31 global centers between October 2019 …

Potential Protein Signatures For Recurrence Prediction Of Ischemic Stroke, Chengyi Zhang, Yang Liu, Huimin Zhu, Xinying Huang, Cang Guo, Si Cheng, Meng Yuan, Yong Jiang, Xia Meng, S Claiborne Johnston, Yongjun Wang, Wei-Na Jin, Fu-Dong Shi

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background: Acute ischemic stroke is a major cause of mortality and disability worldwide, with approximately 7.4% to 7.7% recurrence within the first 3 months. This study aimed to identify potential biomarkers for predicting stroke recurrence.

Methods and results: We conducted a nested case-control study using a hospital-based cohort from the Third China National Stroke Registry selecting 214 age- and sex-matched patients with ischemic stroke with hypertension and no history of diabetes or heart disease. Using data-independent acquisition for discovery and multiple reaction monitoring for quantitative validation, we identified 26 differentially expressed proteins in large-artery atherosclerosis (Causative Classification of Ischemic Stroke …

Toward More Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy In Elementary Social Studies, Laura Delgado

Theses and Dissertations

In the United States, elementary social studies instruction has significantly declined in recent decades, yet it holds valuable potential in allowing for spaces where the cultures and identities of our students can be centered and celebrated. Our educational systems are too often grounded in hegemonic ways of doing that are based around a dominant narrative that centers white, Christian, heteronormative values. Social studies instruction and its connected pedagogy have great potential to change that narrative. Following Mintrop’s cycle of inquiry model, this qualitative study looked at the experiences of elementary teachers as they undertook the implementation of a new social …

Prospective Associations Of Accelerometer-Measured Machine-Learned Sedentary Behavior With Death Among Older Women: The Opach Study., Steve Nguyen, John Bellettiere, Blake Anuskiewicz, Chongzhi Di, Jordan A. Carlson, Loki Natarajan, Michael J. Lamonte, Andrea Z. Lacroix

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

BACKGROUND: Sedentary behavior is a recognized mortality risk factor. The novel and validated convolutional neural network hip accelerometer posture algorithm highly accurately classifies sitting and postural changes compared with accelerometer count cut points. We examined the prospective associations of convolutional neural network hip accelerometer posture-classified total sitting time and mean sitting bout duration with all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) death.

METHODS AND RESULTS: Women (n=5856; mean±SD age, 79±7 years; 33% Black women, 17% Hispanic or Latina women, 50% White women) in the Women's Health Initiative Objective Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health (OPACH) Study wore the ActiGraph GT3X+ for ~7 days …