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“I Just Need Another Set Of Eyes”: Understanding Students’ Idea Of The Writing Center, Isabelle M. Lundin, Neal Lerner

The Writing Center Journal

In this article, we describe writing center clients’ “idea” of the writing center based on interviews with 26 writing center users and qualitative coding of interview transcripts. Participants’ constructs of the writing center provide a lens to better understand how they perceive writing as an activity, the “writing culture” of the institution, the role of the writing center in their writing processes, and, ultimately, if they see writing centers in the way we would expect them to. The tensions we derived from our data are (1) between who and what tutors are and offer: discipline-specific expertise (including the disciplines of …

“It Would Literally Take The World To End For Us To Do This”: Writing Center Consultants’ Affective Responses To Consulting Modalities, Anita Long, Destiny R. Brugman

The Writing Center Journal

This article discusses findings from semi-structured interviews with writing consultants about their affective experiences working across three different consulting modalities: in person, asynchronous, and synchronous. This study offers affect as a lens for understanding consultants’ responses to and strategies for consulting in multiple modalities and argues that by attending to affect, emotion, and disposition in consulting we can better support our consultants when they’re consulting in different modalities.

From Affordances To Action: Designing Familiar Health Data Interfaces For Older Adults, Peterson Jean, Enda Bates, Emma Murphy Dr

Conference papers

Health data is inherently complex, and tracking it appropriately, whether prescribed by a doctor or motivated by personal interest, offers significant benefits for improving health behaviours. With consumer availability, pervasive technologies such as wearable devices have opened new opportunities for the self-tracking of critical physiological health data. Yet, despite the progress made, older adults often encounter barriers that limit meaningful interactions, leading them to disengage from managing their own health. At the root of these barriers is the gap between designers' intentions and older adults' ability to perceive, interpret, and respond effectively to cues embedded in systems designed to collect …

Measures To Improve The Structure And Operating Principle Of Perovsite Light-Emitting Devices, Latofat Utkir Qizi Shuhratova, Rustam Rashidovich Kabulov, Farrux Anvar Ugli Akbarov, Anvar Akbarovich Alimov

Technical science and innovation

Since the discovery of the unique properties of perovskite materials, these materials have been used as active layers in various optoelectronic devices. In particular, perovskite-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have attracted the attention of many researchers as a highly efficient and versatile technology for lighting and display devices. Perovskite-based LEDs allow for tunable light emission and can be manufactured at low cost and with flexible fabrication technology. These advantages make them suitable for use in devices ranging from modern displays to wearable electronics. Despite their potential, solving problems such as material stability and industrial scale is one of the current challenges …

Study Of Physical And Mechanical Properties Of Composite Materials Obtained From Wood Industry Waste, Adkhamjon Rustamovich Makhkamov, Samandarbek Kahramonjon Ugli Sodikjonov, Yorqinjon Tulqin O'G'Li Ergashev, Elmurod Abdukodirovich Egamberdiev, Volodymyr V. Tkach

Technical science and innovation

This study looks at the serious problem of plastic waste causing pollution around the world. It focuses on how little polystyrene foam gets recycled. As a better option, the study checks out making and describing composite stuff made from wood waste, like poplar and paulownia sawdust. These natural fillings have cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, which let them stick well to plastic polymers like polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and polyvinyl chloride (PVC).

The composite materials were made using hot pressing. They were tested to see how dense, hard, strong, and impact-resistant they were, using GOST standards. The tests showed that adding …

Monitoring Slope Displacements At The Kalmakyr Open-Pit Mine Using Gnss And Gamit/Globk Processing, Aziz Nigmanovich Kazakov, Dilbarkhon Hamuradovna Fazilova, Nursulton Abdulmajit Ugli Khamitov

Technical science and innovation

The article presents a monitoring system based on the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) for assessing deformations in mining areas. The study was conducted at the Kalmakyr open-pit mine, where a network of seven GNSS stations was installed in the most geologically vulnerable zones. Four static measurement cycles were carried out between 2024 and 2025. High-frequency 3D data were processed using the GAMIT/GLOBK software. The analysis showed that displacements in active areas reached 68 mm horizontally and 31 mm vertically.

Methodology For Creating An Intelligent Mechatron Module Based On A Synergistic Approach, Nurbek Rustamovich Matyokubov, Temurbek Omonboyevich Rakhimov

Technical science and innovation

This article is devoted to the methodology of creating an intelligent mechatron module based on a synergistic approach. Creating a multi-coordinate intelligent mechatron module and expanding the functional capabilities of the controlled object based on them, allows to optimize the dynamic characteristics. Also, the methodology for creating an intelligent mechatronic module based on a synergistic approach allows for the integration of electrical, magnetic, and mechanical components into a single circuit, the integration of technical parameter modification, and the integration of processing functions into a single information-measuring module. In addition, the article proposes a Eurorhythm scheme for expressing how …

The Rhetorical Function Of Writing Center Employee Handbooks, Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison

The Writing Center Journal

In his award-winning book, Around the Texts of Writing Centers, R. Mark Hall (2017) asserts the importance of everyday writing center texts, claiming that these documents “both enact and forward writing center scholarship” (p. 3). It is Hall’s position that such “everyday” documents are essential to understanding the work of writing centers, but that their very ubiquity leads writing center scholars and administrators to ignore them or take their functions for granted. In this study, I take up Hall’s call for more scholarly attention to everyday writing center texts through a thematic rhetorical analysis of nine writing center employee …

Back Matter, Georganne Nordstrom, Isaac K. Wang, Sherry Wynn Perdue

The Writing Center Journal

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Multi-Level Salmon Governance And Adaptation To Institutional Change In Indigenous Fishing Communities In Kamchatka, Russia, Tatiana Degai, Maria Monakhova, Andrey Petrov, Victoria N. Sharakhmatova, Yulia Vasilieva

Faculty Publications

Discussions around salmon governance and management systems in the Pacific remain to be the source of debate and tension between recreational fishers, commercial fishing industry, Indigenous communities, government agencies, as well as the scientists (Chalifour et al., 2022; Day, 2023; Reid et al., 2022). While decades were spent on developing the “correct” salmon governance regimes, these systems still fail to respond to the needs of salmon-dependent communities and salmon populations (Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments, n.d.; Connors, 2023). In multiple contexts multi-level governance is enforced top-down and is imposed with the pretext of achieving “better” management of resources, yet increasing …

A Comprehensive Assessment And Benchmark Studyof Large Atomistic Foundation Models For Phonons, Md Zaibul Anam, Ogheneyoma Aghoghovbia, Mohammed Al-Fahdi, Lingyu Kong, Victor Fung, Ming Hu

Faculty Publications

The rapid development of universal machine learning potentials (uMLPs) has enabled efficient, accurate predictions of diverse material properties across broad chemical spaces. While their capability for modeling phonon properties is emerging, systematic benchmarking across chemically diverse systems remains limited. We evaluate six recent uMLPs—EquiformerV2, MatterSim, MACE, and CHGNet—on 2429 crystalline materials from the Open Quantum Materials Database. Models were used to compute atomic forces in displaced supercells, derive interatomic force constants (IFCs), and predict phonon properties including lattice thermal conductivity (LTC), compared with density functional theory and experimental data. The EquiformerV2 pretrained model trained on the OMat24 dataset exhibits strong …

Lindenwood Digest, October 15, 2025, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been a digital employee newsletter since 2009.

First Use Of The Ku-F600 Automated Analyzer For Descriptive Epidemiology Of Blastocystis Sp. In Erbil, Iraq., Hana Hakim Qadir, Hemdad Hawez Mawlood

Polytechnic Journal

Blastocystis is a common protozoan parasite of the gastrointestinal tract. This study aimed to determine the prevalence, risk factors, and potential pathogenicity of Blastocystis sp. in Erbil province, Iraq, using the KU-F600 Automated Feces Analyzer (AFA).Notably, this is the first study to use this device in Iraq. A total of 580 fecal specimens were collected from patients attendending Mehrabani Surgical Hospital. Samples were tested using the KU-F600 AFA, which incorporates AI-based examination of microscopically identified parasites. demographic and clinical data were collected through questionnaires. All the statistical calculations were performed by GraphPad Prism 10. The prevalence of Blastocystis sp. was …

Learning About Stability Of Risk Preferences, Levon Barseghyan, Francesca Molinari, Joshua C. Teitelbaum

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Classical theories posit that risk preferences are stable across decision contexts. Two branches of empirical literature assess this claim. Structural approaches examine within-person consistency of model-based estimates of risk aversion, while “model-free” approaches examine within-person correlations of risky choices. We elucidate the latent structure underlying the model-free approach. Using this structure, we develop a new approach to assessing preference stability that has stronger testable implications, and we partially identify features of stability and heterogeneity of risk preferences. Our study illustrates a general principle: partial identification through minimal assumptions grounded in economic theory robustly bridges fully structural and model-free methods.

Graphrag-Enabled Local Large Language Model For Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Development Of A Proof-Of-Concept, Edmund Evangelista, Fathima Ruba, Salman Bukhari, Amril Nazir, Ravishankar Sharma

All Works

Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a prevalent chronic condition that affects maternal and fetal health outcomes worldwide, increasingly in underserved populations. While generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in health care, their application in GDM management remains underexplored. Objective: This study aimed to investigate whether retrieval-augmented generation techniques, when combined with knowledge graphs (KGs), could improve the contextual relevance and accuracy of AI-driven clinical decision support. For this, we developed and validated a graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG)–enabled local LLM as a clinical support tool for GDM management, assessing its performance against open-source LLM …

Sociology Between The Gaps Volume 10 (2025)

Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics

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Vaccine Effectiveness Against Influenza A(H1n1), A(H3n2), And B-Associated Hospitalizations, United States, 1 September 2023 To 31 May 2024, Nathaniel M Lewis, Jennie H Kwon, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: The 2023-2024 influenza season included sustained elevated activity from December 2023 to February 2024 and continued activity through May 2024. Influenza A(H1N1), A(H3N2), and B viruses circulated during the season.

METHODS: During 1 September 2023 to 31 May 2024, a multistate sentinel surveillance network of 24 medical centers in 20 US states enrolled adults aged ≥18 years hospitalized with acute respiratory illness. Consistent with a test-negative design, cases tested positive for influenza viruses by molecular or antigen test, and controls tested negative for influenza viruses and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Vaccine effectiveness (VE) against influenza-associated hospitalization …

Consensus-Based Disease Definitions For Endocrine Immune-Related Adverse Events Of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors, Ling Zhu, Huda Al-Bahadili, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are an important class of cancer treatment. Endocrine immune-related adverse events (E-irAEs) account for a significant proportion of irAEs in ICI-treated patients. Diagnosing E-irAEs accurately and timely can be challenging in the absence of clear categorization and standardization across oncology, endocrinology and other specialties. While existing guidelines provide some broad directions to diagnosis and management, they lack clarity on irAE-specific symptom evaluation and work-up, as well as assessment of severity. These limitations can then impact triage, time-sensitive management and care escalation to specialists such as oncoendocrinologists. The objective of this study was to develop consensus-based statements …

The Organizational Complexity Of Civil Wars, Dr. Jessica Braithwaite

LAII Events

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 | 03:30 pm

Reading Room (third floor) | Ortega Hall

This talk will begin by discussing how myriad types of organizations in society shape the onset and dynamics of civil war. Drawing on insights from the Foundations of Rebel Group Emergence dataset, I highlight how varying structural and sociopolitical conditions facilitate the rise of rebel groups from different types of pre-existing organizations. We then turn attention to how these organizational roots continue to shape interactions between combatants, as well as civilians, during the course of the conflict. Although the scholarship on civil wars predominantly focuses on …

Twenty Minutes Of Corsi Block Tapping Task Training Does Not Improve Mental Rotation In Adults With Stroke, Sarah A. Kettlety, Giuliet L. Kibler, Andrew Hooyman, Christina K. Holl, Sydney Y. Schaefer, Kristan A. Leech

Physical Therapy Faculty Articles and Research

Background: Visuospatial function is commonly impaired post-stroke and is associated with motor learning and recovery. A single, twenty-minute Corsi Block Tapping Task (CBTT) training session improved visuospatial function in young neurotypical adults; however, it is unclear whether this training would improve visuospatial function in adults with stroke.

Objective: To understand if a single, twenty-minute CBTT training session improved visuospatial function in adults with stroke compared to a no-training control group of adults with stroke.

Methods: Participants post-stroke were assigned to one of two groups. The training group completed twenty minutes of computerized CBTT training. The control group completed a survey …

Plio-Quaternary Coastal Uplift Along The Western Iberian Margin: Insights From Dated Marine Terraces (Peniche, Portugal), M Gouveia, Pp Cunha, A Martins, Martin Stokes, A Gomes, Christophe Falguères, Pierre Voinchet, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Telom Pereira, Silvério Figueiredo, Qingfeng Shao, Olivier Tombret

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

This study presents a detailed geomorphological and geochronological analysis of a marine terrace staircase developed into the Peniche Peninsula (Portugal), a rocky headland of Jurassic carbonate bedrock located in the central sector of the Western Iberian passive margin. The marine terrace levels are described morphologically and sedimentologically, but also dated using ESR and U-Series methodologies. The marine terrace staircase comprises six emerged levels ranging from 4 m (above mean sea level, asl) (Tm6) to 24–28 m asl (Tm1), inset into a summit wave-cut platform at 29–45 m asl (Pm). The marine terrace sediments are composed of rounded boulders to cobbles …

The Use Of Social Prescribing And Community-Based Wellbeing Activities As A Potential Prevention And Early Intervention Pathway To Improve Adolescent Emotional And Social Development: A Systematic Mapping Review, Siobhan B. Mitchell, Lucy Cartwright, Alex Gude, Alison Bethel, Harriet Hunt, Jane R. Smith, Daniel Hayes, Marcello Bertotti, Paul Jarvis-Beesley, Vashti Berry, Kerryn Husk

Peninsula Medical School

BACKGROUND: Social prescribing (SP) initiatives which aim to connect individuals to community-based assets have received increased research and policy attention, however schemes have mostly centred on adults. There is little research examining how social prescribing might work for children and young people (CYP), and specifically, what pathways into social prescribing look like for this group.

METHODS: We conducted a systematic mapping review to understand what social prescribing pathways look like for CYP. Searches were carried out in February 2022. We reviewed published journal articles and grey literature on pathways for CYP accessing activities or services in the community. We synthesised …

Harnessing Lived Experience To Promote Accessible Employment Journeys, Emma Lovegrove, Denise Bertilone, Justin Brown, Elle Beaumont-Bilsby

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This paper describes an Inclusive Employability initiative at Edith Cowan University (ECU) developed in 2024. The paper foregrounds the observations and reflections of Inclusive Employability Officers as they designed, developed and implemented the initiatives within the context of an Australian University. Over the past two decades Australian Universities have encouraged wider participation in higher education, though the resulting social mobility and economic benefit of higher education has not been evenly distributed, especially amongst cohorts with different socio-economic backgrounds and access requirements. The goal of the Inclusive Employability initiative was, and is, to support students from different equity cohorts, including people …

Accessible Workplace, Inaccessible Workflows: Mandatory Documents, Challenges And Workarounds In Accessible Onboarding, Scott Hollier, Justin Brown, Ruchi Permvattana

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This paper describes the accessibility challenges faced by the Centre For Accessibility Australia (CFAA), a small not-for-profit organisation when onboarding new staff. The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) requires that employers fill in a PDF document with tax file information for new employees, a process that is currently not accessible to screen-reader users. The director of the CFAA is legally blind and uses a range of assistive technologies to interact with the Web, documents and messaging platforms. This paper describes accessibility issues identified in the current ATO form and the range of alternative approaches the CFAA has had to adopt as …

The Effect Of Genially Based Gamification Learning Models On Student Analysis Thinking Skills In Mathematics, Rosiana Liwayanti, Ida Fiteriani, Ajo Dian Yusandika

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

Berpikir analisis adalah kemampuan untuk menguraikan suatu permasalahan menjadi bagian-bagian yang lebih kecil, kemudian menghubungkannya kembali secara logis sehingga dapat diperoleh pemahaman yang lebih mendalam. Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh tingkat keterampilan analisis berpikir siswa yang kurang memuaskan, khususnya dalam matematika, serta rendahnya tingkat partisipasi aktif selama pembelajaran. Model pembelajaran gamifikasi dengan memanfaatkan platform Genially menjadi salah satu pilihan inovatif yang dapat diterapkan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji pengaruh penerapan model pembelajaran gamifikasi berbasis Genially terhadap kemampuan berpikir analitis siswa kelas V pada mata pelajaran matematika di MIN 1 Bandar Lampung. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah eksperimen dengan metode Quasi Experiment …

Percutaneous Thromboaspiration Of Left Main Coronary Artery Vegetation In A Patient With Aortic Valve Infective Endocarditis And Acute Coronary Syndrome, Matthew B Morton, Jeremy Russo, Malanka Lankaputhra, Christopher Merry, Dion Stub

Journal of the Saudi Heart Association

Acute myocardial infarction from a vegetation is a rare complication of infective endocarditis. Thrombolysis, percutaneous coronary intervention with balloon angioplasty, stenting, and thromboaspiration, and surgery have all been described in this challenging clinical scenario. A woman with staphylococcal bioprosthetic aortic valve infective endocarditis developed acute myocardial infarction due to a vegetation invading the left main coronary artery, which was successfully managed with percutaneous thromboaspiration.

Hannah Webster Foster And Benjamin Franklin: Addressing The Coquette Through The Male And Female Voice, Gianna Vaynberg

Locus: The Seton Hall Journal of Undergraduate Research

Throughout history, women have carried the weight of social expectations that have been thrust upon them by a patriarchal society, within which men are not held to nearly the same moral standard and scrutiny. This is reflected in both Benjamin Franklin’s and Hannah Webster Foster’s tales of a “coquette” damned by society for becoming pregnant outside of marriage. However, each of these narratives presents readers with a unique picture of a “coquette.” Both “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” and The Coquette provide criticisms about the archetype of the coquette. However, while The Coquette presents a cautionary tale dissuading young …

Melusine And Yde Et Olive: Subversive Narrative Power In The Medieval Female Body, Anna Prawer

Locus: The Seton Hall Journal of Undergraduate Research

This paper delves into the representation of the female body in Medieval Literature, focusing on the texts of 'Melusine' and 'Yde et Olive'. The paper explores how these two texts represent bodily difference and transformation as a source of subversive narrative power. Rather than functioning merely as symbols of weakness or instability compared to the stable and coherent male body, the female bodies in these texts disrupt social and gender norms, generating new possibilities for identity and narrative authority.

Morality Of Medieval Magic In Medicine, Jacob Mudd

Locus: The Seton Hall Journal of Undergraduate Research

In the late medieval and early Renaissance eras, attitudes towards science, religion, and magic were in upheaval. The Reformation was heavily critiquing Catholicism as being too closely related to magic, there were pushes for leaving long-held beliefs behind in favor of newer science, and society as a whole was in a massive period of change. One of the places all three topics intersect is medicine. Normal medicine during this period was often ineffective, furthering the need for people seek out magical cures, which were in turn often intertwined with religion. By looking at the question of whether it would have …