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The Right To Immigrate: A Comparative Analysis Of Immigration System In The United States And Mexico, Roberto Rosas, Valeria Montalvo

Faculty Articles

This article highlights the immigration systems of Mexico and the United States. To address the different aspects of the migratory phenomenon, the article carefully observes the circumstances that determine the irregularity of migrants in Mexico and the United States, as well as the legal system that governs them depending on their migratory status. In addition to a comprehensive review of immigrant rights in Mexico and the United States, this article advocates for national legislation be brought in line with international human rights treaties, for there to be real protection of the economic, social and cultural rights of the most vulnerable …

The Marriage Nullity Process In The Reform Of Pope Francis With Special Reference To The Processus Brevior (Book), Roberto Rosas, Yeshica Umaña

Faculty Articles

Marriage in the Church is considered the greatest symbol of mystical life and has been instituted by God, representing the sacrament of the spousal union of Christ with the Church. Multiple canons include the Church's requirements and regulations for marriage since its institution as a sacrament. The last marital reform was introduced in the 18th century by Pope Benedict XIV and remained as legal norm until Pope Francis announced the publication of a new reform for the annulment of marriages within the Church on August 15, 2015.

Despite reactions against maintaining strictness in favor of marriage, Pope Francis emphasized that …

Defunding C.O.P.S.: Conditioning Federal Funding To State And Local Law Enforcement Agencies Upon The Implementation Of A Program That Screens Its Current And Future Officers For White Supremacist Affiliations, Jerron R. Wheeler

Faculty Articles

This Article calls upon Congress to protect its citizens where state and local legislators will not. Although Congress is limited in its ability to regulate local policing, the United States Constitution does provide authority for some congressional reform and oversight into matters of state and local law enforcement through Article 1, Section 8. Congress can (and has before) conditioned the receipt of federal funds over states' conformity to federal standards or programs. This Article proposes that the millions of dollars in federal grants sent to state and local police organizations be conditioned upon each organization's compliance with a program designed …

Force-Plate Derived Predictors Of Lateral Jump Performance In Ncaa Division-I Men's Basketball Players., Charles R Reiter, Carolyn Killelea, Mallory S Faherty, Ryan J Zerega, Caroline Westwood, Timothy C Sell

OhioHealth Research Institute Articles

A lateral jump assessment may provide unique benefits in sports such as basketball that require multidirectional performance optimization. This study aimed to examine selected force-plate derived metrics as predictors of lateral jump task distance in men's basketball players. Twenty-two NCAA Division-I men's basketball players (19.4 ± 1.3 years, 95.0 ± 12.5 kg, 196.5 ± 8.1 cm) each performed six single leg lateral jumps while standing on a force plate (1200 Hz, Kistler Instrument Corp). The lateral jump task involved the subject beginning by standing on the force plate and jumping sideways off one foot and then landing on the floor …

Dean's Research Newsletter, January 2023, Jerry L. Nadler

SOM Dean's Research Newsletter

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The Interpretive And Relational Work Of Financial Innovation: A Resemblance Of Assurance In Islamic Finance, Aaron Z. Pitluck

Faculty Publications – Sociology and Anthropology

What social forces shape the trajectory of novel, moralized forms of finance such as social finance, green finance, or Islamic banking and finance? More broadly, how do agents mobilize arguments and organize each other to create any form of financial innovation? This article addresses both questions by contributing an ethnography of a novel financial innovation pseudonymously named Sukuk Illumination, an internationally traded moral alternative to a corporate bond. This article’s findings both elaborate and subsume existing functionalist and critical explanations of financial innovation. The central argument is that we can better understand what causes financial innovation and the trajectory that …

The Utility Of The Axillary Shoulder Radiograph In The Management Of Clavicle Fractures, Stephen Bowen, Ryan Tantoe, Daniel Botros, Samer Al-Humadi, Nicholas Tsouris, Nicholas Divaris

Background: Prior literature is mixed on the necessity of an axillary shoulder radiograph in the setting of presumably isolated clavicle fractures, with some authors endorsing its need for any shoulder girdle trauma and others stating it is unnecessary. However, no studies to date have specifically evaluated this.

Hypothesis: We hypothesize that an axillary shoulder radiograph will offer no management changing information in the setting of clavicle fractures.

Methods: Ninety-five patients presented for follow-up for management of a clavicle fracture. Analysis was performed to determine if the axillary view was useful based on the discovery of a glenohumeral dislocation or a …

Small Finger Reverse Ulnar Digital Artery Hypothenar Perforator Flap For Small Finger Proximal Interphalangeal Joint Reconstruction, Nicholas Kunda, Alexander Dagum

Purpose: Local flaps are commonly used for digital reconstruction for soft tissue defects. There remains a paucity of options available for small finger volar proximal interphalangeal joint coverage. The purpose of this study was to analyze perforators along the hypothenar eminence arising from the artery of the ulnar side of the small finger as it comes off the superficial palmer arch for consistency and potential to be used for perforator-based flap reconstruction of the small finger proximal interphalangeal joint.

Methods: Four cadaveric upper extremities were injected with Microfil® silicone injection compound. Dissection was performed from the superficial palmer arch to …

Outcomes In Early Versus Delayed Management Of Pediatric Femoral Shaft Fractures, Daniel Botros, Sofia Hidalgo Perea, Rachel Loyst, James Barsi

Background: There is a paucity of literature regarding the timing of treatment for pediatric femur fractures.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze whether early versus delayed management of pediatric femoral shaft fractures would impact outcomes regarding time to union and return to baseline function.

Methods: Pediatric patients presenting with femoral shaft fractures from 01/01/2010-01/01/2021 were identified using the Database at a single level one Trauma Center and retrospectively reviewed. Demographic information, surgical details, associated injuries, length of follow-up, time to union, and return to baseline function was collected. Patients were then divided into two groups; the early …

Improvement In The Capacity For Activity Versus Improvement In Performance Of Activity In Daily Life During Outpatient Rehabilitation, Catherine E. Lang, Carey L. Holleran, Michael J. Strube, Terry D. Ellis, Caitlin A. Newman, Meghan Fahey, Tamara R. Deangelis, Timothy J. Nordahl, Darcy S. Reisman, Gammon M. Earhart, Keith R. Lohse, Marghuretta D. Bland

2020-Current year OA Pubs

UNLABELLED: We addressed questions about the potential discrepancy between improvements in activity capacity and improvements in activity performance in daily life. We asked whether this discrepancy is: 1. Common in routine, outpatient care, or an artifact of intervention studies? 2. Unique to upper limb (UL) rehabilitation, or is it seen in walking rehabilitation too? 3. Only seen in persons with stroke, or a broader neurorehabilitation problem?

METHODS:: A longitudinal, observational cohort of 156 participants with stroke or Parkinson disease (PD) receiving outpatient rehabilitation at 5 clinics was assessed around admission and monthly during their episode of care. Individual, longitudinal capacity …

Electronic Resources Updates - 2022 Q4, Melanie Mcgurr, Gregg Harris

Electronic Resources Quarterly Updates

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Relationship Between Baseline Plasma P-Tau181 And Longitudinal Changes In Cognition And Structural Brain Measures In A Cohort Of Cognitively Unimpaired Older Adults, Marcos V Pais, Chia-Ling Kuo, Beau M Ances, Julie Loebach Wetherell, Eric J Lenze, Breno S Diniz

2020-Current year OA Pubs

INTRODUCTION: Preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects a significant proportion of cognitively unimpaired (CU) older adults. Currently, blood-based biomarkers detect very early changes in the AD continuum with great accuracy.

METHODS: We measured baseline plasma phosphorylated tau (p-tau)181 using electrochemiluminescence (ECL)-based assay (MesoScale Discovery) in 533 CU older adults. Follow-up lasted up to 18 months. Cognitive performance assessment included memory and cognitive control. Structural brain measures included cortical thickness, which includes the AD magnetic resonance imaging (AD MRI) signature, and hippocampal volume.

RESULTS: In this cohort of CU older adults, baseline plasma p-tau181 levels were not associated with short-term changes in …

Training, Supervision, And Experience Of Coaches Offering Digital Guided Self-Help For Mental Health Concerns, Ellen E Fitzsimmons-Craft, Elsa Rojas, Naira Topooco, Gavin N Rackoff, Nur Hani Zainal, Daniel Eisenberg, Jillian Shah, Christina Desage, Denise E Wilfley, Craig Barr Taylor, Michelle G Newman

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Accessible, low-cost intervention options are necessary to address the rise in mental health problems among college students. Digital guided self-help, or coached, programs have been developed to provide such services, with many commercially available. As such, there are a large and growing number of individuals coaching these programs. However, an unmet need is to evaluate and assess best practices for training and supervising individuals in these positions. To this end, we describe how we recruited, trained, and supervised coaches as part of a large randomized controlled trial using a widely available digital commercial platform. Coaches were trained to provide digital …

Imputation Of Missing Values For Cochlear Implant Candidate Audiometric Data And Potential Applications, Cole Pavelchek, Andrew P. Michelson, Amit Walia, Amanda Ortmann, Jacques Herzog, Craig A. Buchman, Matthew A. Shew

2020-Current year OA Pubs

OBJECTIVE: Assess the real-world performance of popular imputation algorithms on cochlear implant (CI) candidate audiometric data.

METHODS: 7,451 audiograms from patients undergoing CI candidacy evaluation were pooled from 32 institutions with complete case analysis yielding 1,304 audiograms. Imputation model performance was assessed with nested cross-validation on randomly generated sparse datasets with various amounts of missing data, distributions of sparsity, and dataset sizes. A threshold for safe imputation was defined as root mean square error (RMSE) <10dB. Models included univariate imputation, interpolation, multiple imputation by chained equations (MICE), k-nearest neighbors, gradient boosted trees, and neural networks.

RESULTS: Greater quantities of missing data were associated with worse performance. Sparsity in audiometric data is not uniformly distributed, as inter-octave frequencies are less commonly …

Study Protocol: A Cross-Sectional Survey Of Clinicians To Identify Barriers To Clinical Practice Guideline Implementation In The Assessment And Treatment Of Persistent Tic Disorders, Jaclyn M. Martindale, Harini Sarva, Davide Martino, Donald L. Gilbert, Christos Ganos, Tamara Pringsheim, Kevin J. Black, Irene A. Malaty

2020-Current year OA Pubs

INTRODUCTION: Eight members of the International Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Society Tic and Tourette Syndrome Study Group formed a subcommittee to discuss further barriers to practice guideline implementation. Based on expert opinion and literature review, the consensus was that practice variations continue to be quite broad and that many barriers in different clinical settings might negatively influence the adoption of the American Academy of Neurology and the European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome published guidelines.

OBJECTIVES: 1) To identify how clinical practices diverge from the existing American Academy of Neurology and European Society for the Study of …

Eating Disorders In Weight-Related Therapy (Edit): Protocol For A Systematic Review With Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis Of Eating Disorder Risk In Behavioural Weight Management, Hiba Jebeile, Denise E. Wilfley, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

The Eating Disorders In weight-related Therapy (EDIT) Collaboration brings together data from randomised controlled trials of behavioural weight management interventions to identify individual participant risk factors and intervention strategies that contribute to eating disorder risk. We present a protocol for a systematic review and individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis which aims to identify participants at risk of developing eating disorders, or related symptoms, during or after weight management interventions conducted in adolescents or adults with overweight or obesity. We systematically searched four databases up to March 2022 and clinical trials registries to May 2022 to identify randomised controlled trials of …

Use Of Learner-Driven, Formative, Ad-Hoc, Prospective Assessment Of Competence In Physical Therapist Clinical Education In The United States: A Prospective Cohort Study, Carey Holleran, Jeffrey Konrad, Barbara Norton, Tamara Burlis, Steven Ambler

2020-Current year OA Pubs

PURPOSE: The purpose of this project was to implement a process for learner-driven, formative, prospective, ad-hoc, entrustment assessment in Doctor of Physical Therapy clinical education. Our goals were to develop an innovative entrustment assessment tool, and then explore whether the tool detected (1) differences between learners at different stages of development and (2) differences within learners across the course of a clinical education experience. We also investigated whether there was a relationship between the number of assessments and change in performance.

METHODS: A prospective, observational, cohort of clinical instructors (CIs) was recruited to perform learner-driven, formative, ad-hoc, prospective, entrustment assessments. …

The Function Of Histone Methylation And Acetylation Regulators In Gbm Pathophysiology, Colin Mccornack, Timothy Woodiwiss, Angela Hardi, Hiroko Yano, Albert H Kim

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and lethal primary brain malignancy and is characterized by a high degree of intra and intertumor cellular heterogeneity, a starkly immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment, and nearly universal recurrence. The application of various genomic approaches has allowed us to understand the core molecular signatures, transcriptional states, and DNA methylation patterns that define GBM. Histone posttranslational modifications (PTMs) have been shown to influence oncogenesis in a variety of malignancies, including other forms of glioma, yet comparatively less effort has been placed on understanding the transcriptional impact and regulation of histone PTMs in the context of GBM. In …

Down Syndrome And Alzheimer's Disease: A Scoping Review Of Functional Performance And Fall Risk, Selena E Washington, Emily Cler, Cameron Lowery, Susan L Stark

2020-Current year OA Pubs

INTRODUCTION: Alzheimer's disease (AD) occurs in aging adults with Down syndrome (DS) at a higher prevalence and an earlier age than in typical aging adults. As with the general aging adult population, there is an urgent need to understand the preclinical and early phases of AD progression in the adult population with DS. The aim of this scoping review was to synthesize the current state of the evidence and identify gaps in the literature regarding functional activity performance and falls and their significance to disease staging (i.e., mild, moderate, and severe defined staging criteria) in relation to Alzheimer's disease and …

Locus Specific Endogenous Retroviral Expression Associated With Alzheimer's Disease, Tyson Dawson, Uzma Rentia, Jessie Sanford, Carlos Cruchaga, John S K Kauwe, Keith A Crandall

2020-Current year OA Pubs

INTRODUCTION: Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are transcriptionally-active remnants of ancient retroviral infections that may play a role in Alzheimer's disease.

METHODS: We combined two, publicly available RNA-Seq datasets with a third, novel dataset for a total cohort of 103 patients with Alzheimer's disease and 45 healthy controls. We use telescope to perform HERV quantification for these samples and simultaneously perform gene expression analysis.

RESULTS: We identify differentially expressed genes and differentially expressed HERVs in Alzheimer's disease patients. Differentially expressed HERVs are scattered throughout the genome; many of them are members of the HERV-K superfamily. A number of HERVs are correlated …

Implementation Strategies For Occupational Therapists To Advance Goal Setting And Goal Management, Eunyoung Kang, Julie Chen, Erin R Foster

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: There is a need for an effective evidence-based system to support high-quality goal setting and goal management implementation. We developed a new system for community-based rehabilitation, MyGoals, along with implementation strategies to support occupational therapists (OTs) in its administration. This study evaluates the acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of the implementation strategies,

METHODS: This mixed-methods case series study evaluated the MyGoals implementation strategies developed using Implementation Mapping (IM), specifically IM Task 5 - Implementation Outcome Evaluation. Seven OTs and 13 adults with chronic conditions participated in this study. OTs participated in two

RESULTS: Seven OTs participated in this study (mean …

Conserved Gene Signatures Shared Among Mapt Mutations Reveal Defects In Calcium Signaling, Miguel A Minaya, Sidhartha Mahali, Abhirami K Iyer, Abdallah M Eteleeb, Rita Martinez, Guangming Huang, John Budde, Sally Temple, Alissa L Nana, William W Seeley, Salvatore Spina, Lea T Grinberg, Oscar Harari, Celeste M Karch

2020-Current year OA Pubs

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Hierarchy, Race & Gender In Legal Scholarly Networks, Nicholson W. Price, Keerthana Nunna, Jonathan Tietz

Articles

A potent myth of legal academic scholarship is that it is mostly meritocratic and mostly solitary. Reality is more complicated. In this Article, we plumb the networks of knowledge co-production in legal academia by analyzing the star footnotes that appear at the beginning of most law review articles. Acknowledgments paint a rich picture of both the currency of scholarly credit and the relationships among scholars. Building on others’ prior work characterizing the potent impact of hierarchy, race, and gender in legal academia more generally, we examine the patterns of scholarly networks and probe the effects of those factors. The landscape …

The Early Years Of Congress’S Anti-Removal Power, Aaron Nielson, Christopher J. Walker

Articles

Judges and scholars have long debated whether the Constitution provides the President with a power to remove executive officials. The Constitution, however, undoubtedly gives Congress tools to discourage the President’s use of such power. Perhaps most notably, the Appointments Clause makes it more difficult for the President to remove principal officers—even those whose views are out of the step with the President’s—because the President cannot know whether the Senate will consent to a preferred replacement. This is an example of what we dub Congress’s anti-removal power: Even if the President can remove, a motivated Congress can discourage the President’s use …

A Critical Evaluation Of Oral Baclofen In Pediatric Patients With Cerebral Palsy., Matthew J. Mclaughlin, Mark T. Fisher

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

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Extended Kalman Filter Based Resilient Formation Tracking Control Of Multiple Unmanned Vehicles Via Game-Theoretical Reinforcement Learning, Lei Xue, Bei Ma, Jian Liu, Chaoxu Mu, Donald C. Wunsch

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In This Paper, We Discuss the Resilient Formation Tracking Control Problem of Multiple Unmanned Vehicles (MUV). a Dynamic Leader-Follower Distributed Control Structure is Utilized to Optimize the Performance of the Formation Tracking. for the Follower of the MUV, the Leader is a Cooperative Unmanned Vehicle, and the Target of Formation Tracking is a Non-Cooperative Unmanned Vehicle with a Nonlinear Trajectory. Therefore, an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) Observer is Designed to Estimate the State of the Target. Then the Leader of the MUV is Adjusted Dynamically According to the State of the Target. in Order to Describe the Interactions between the …

Averaged Behavior Model Of Current-Mode Buck Converters For Transient Power Noise Analysis, Anfeng Huang, Jingdong Sun, Hongseok Kim, Zhenxue Xu, Shuai Jin, Songping Wu, Zhiping Yang, Kelvin Qiu, Jun Fan, Chulsoon Hwang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Accurate Evaluation and Simulation of Power Noise is Critical in the Development of Modern Electronic Devices. However, the Widely Used Target Impedance Fails to Predict the Low-Frequency Noise Generated in a Device Due to the Existence of the Dc–dc Converter, Whose Output Impedance Can Change under Different Loading Conditions. a Physical Circuit Model is Then Desired to Replicate the Behavior of a Voltage Regulator Module, and the Average Technique is an Efficient Method to Estimate the Noise of a Pulse Width-Modulated (PWM) Converter. with the Emergence of Converters with Adaptive On-Time (AOT) Controllers, More Complex Averaging Methods Are Required, But …

Community Participation, Experience, And Perceptions Of The Solar Over Louisville Solarize Program, 2022-2023. A Technical Report Prepared For Louisville Metro Government, Angela Storey, D. Johnson, J. Chatellier, Lauren Heberle, A. Smith

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Transiently Impaired Endothelial Function During Thyroid Hormone Withdrawal In Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Patients, Li-Ying Hou, Xiao Li, Guo-Qiang Zhang, Chuang Xi, Chen-Tian Shen, Hong-Jun Song, Wen-Kun Bai, Zhong-Ling Qiu, Quan-Yong Luo

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

PURPOSE: Endothelial dysfunction, which was associated with chronic hypothyroidism, was an early event in atherosclerosis. Whether short-term hypothyroidism following thyroxine withdrawal during radioiodine (RAI) therapy was associated with endothelial dysfunction in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) was unclear. Aim of the study was to assess whether short-term hypothyroidism could impair endothelial function and the accompanied metabolic changes in the whole process of RAI therapy.

METHODS: We recruited fifty-one patients who underwent total thyroidectomy surgery and would accept RAI therapy for DTC. We analyzed thyroid function, endothelial function and serum lipids levels of the patients at three time points: the …

Revisiting The Type Species Of The Genus Homidia (Collembola, Entomobryidae), Guo-Qiang Zhang, Yu-Xin Zhao, Feng Zhang

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Homidiacingula Börner, 1906, the type species of the genus Homidia Börner, 1906, is widespread from India to Southeast Asia, but its detailed morphological characteristics have not yet been described. We examined the morphology of specimens of H.cingula from Indonesia and southwestern China and confirmed their conspecific status by comparing their DNA barcoding sequences. We also compared the morphology of H.cingula with other two closely related species, confirming the valid species status of H.subcingula Denis, 1948. Our study provides new taxonomic and molecular data for the genus Homidia.