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Design That Builds Communitites: An Evaluation Method For Analyzing, Assessing, And Improving The Way We Plan And Design The Places Around Us, Devine Karas-Gonzalez

Theses

The places around us shape and impact on the way we interact and live within our communities. As such, it is important to place greater emphasis on designing spaces which are meant to better respond to the needs and functions of a place. With an architectural design process this will result in the use of design strategies which will inform much of the design. In this research, multiple design strategies (Smart Growth, Placemaking, Place Value, and Street Experiments) are evaluated and compared using four regionally similar cities to analyze and assess how the different strategies impact the design process by …

Impact Of Patient Diaries On Children, Families, And Healthcare Professionals In Paediatric Intensive Care Settings: A Scoping Review, Fiona Lynch, Jos M Latour, Ruth Endacott

School of Nursing and Midwifery

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this scoping review was to understand the current landscape, features, and volume of evidence that address the review question: what is the impact of Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) patient diaries on children, families, and healthcare professionals (HCPs)? To provide context: descriptions of diary models was also provided.

METHOD: The search strategy was structured using the Population, Concept, and Context model to focus the review question. The inclusion criteria were intentionally broad to include all studies published in English from January 2016 until November 2024. The databases CINAHL, Medline, and EMBASE were used to retrieve articles, …

Parabolic Flight As A Research Platform To Investigate Ophthalmic Changes In Microgravity, Alex Weaver, Ana Garcia, Amy Song, Fatma Shakarchi, Ethan Waisberg, Andrew G Lee

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Parabolic flight serves as an important terrestrial analog to study acute physiological changes in microgravity without the need for space travel. During a parabolic flight, alternating hypergravity and microgravity phases, lasting up to 40 seconds, enable research into ophthalmic changes. In this review, we discuss the application of parabolic flight as a platform to study microgravity-related changes that might impact ophthalmology including intraocular pressure, intracranial pressure, choroidal blood flow, and modified eye movement patterns. We further highlight how these insights could aid our understanding of vestibulo-ocular reflexes and conditions such as Spaceflight Associated Neuro-ocular Syndrome (SANS). While the brief duration …

Relapse Patterns Among Children And Adolescents With Kaposi Sarcoma In Malawi, William Kamiyango, Jimmy Villiera, Parth S Mehta, Erin Peckham-Gregory, Mark Zobeck, Michael E Scheurer, Carl E Allen, Rizine Mzikamanda, Nmazuo W Ozuah, Nader Kim El-Mallawany

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Kaposi Sarcoma (KS) is a common childhood cancer in Malawi, but few studies have exploredclinical characteristicsofrelapsed disease. We aimed to characterize clinical patterns of relapse to improve treatment and, ultimately, long-term survival in patients with pediatric KS.A retrospective cohort study was conducted among patients ages < 19 years of age at time of KS diagnosis in Lilongwe, Malawi between August 1, 2010 and March 15, 2020. Specifically, emphasis was placed on patients who had relapsed disease and excluded patients with refractory disease or those who died whilst receiving front-line treatment. Salvage therapy typically involved an intensified chemotherapy regimen compared to front-line therapy—namely nonliposomaldoxorubicin plus bleomycin/vincristine or paclitaxel monotherapy.One-hundred and ninety patients with pediatric KS were included in this analysis, 50 of whom experienced relapse (26%).Older median age was associated with occurrence of relapse (10 vs 6.7 years, p-value = 0.004). Median time from diagnosis to first relapse was 10.6 months (range 2.3–49 months). Three-year post-relapse overall survival (OS) for the entire cohort was 60% with a median follow-up time of 4.7 years after relapse.Survival was significantly higher for patients who relapsed with the woody edema clinical phenotype of pediatric KS versus those with visceral/disseminated disease—3-year OS 79% (95% CI 62–100) versus 29% (14–61).These data demonstrate potential for continued survival after KS relapse in the pediatric population and identify subsets of high-risk patients. The higher mortality observed in patients with visceral/disseminated KS highlights the need for improved therapeutic strategies.

Effective Algorithm To Differentiate Nbs Mcadd Cases From Carriers And Non-Carriers And An Assessment Of The Utility Of The Second Newborn Screen For Mcadd, Qin Sun, Yue Wang, Xi Luo, Yishay Ben-Moshe, Lindsay C Burrage, V Reid Sutton

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

False positives are an inherent part of newborn screening that can increase both costs to the healthcare system and parental anxiety. Previous studies primarily examined presumptive positive rates for medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MCADD) in places conducting one newborn screen (NBS), with predominantly white, non-Hispanic subjects. Texas performs two NBSs and there is a majority Hispanic population in our region. This study aims to analyze biochemical and DNA data to more easily distinguish affected individuals from carriers or healthy non-carriers and identify benefits and challenges of a second NBS for MCADD. Biochemical and targeted DNA data from NBS dried blood …

Inter-Cellular Forces Modulate Cell-Ecm Traction Forces, Zaria Booth

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Epithelial cells are among the most abundant cell types in the human body, making up sheets of epithelial tissues that cover the linings of organs and body cavities. Cellular adhesion and force transmission across epithelial tissues are crucial in maintaining tissue integrity and ensuring proper tissue regeneration. Defects in cellular force transmission have been found in various diseases, including cancer. Force transmission at cell-cell and cell-ECM junctions drive cell survival and development. It has been previously shown that changes in cell-ECM traction directly modulates forces at cell-cell contacts. In this study, we aim to determine the effects of perturbations in …

Labor, Leisure, And Law, Aneil Kovvali, Jonathan S. Masur

Articles

Americans work harder than their counterparts in many other advanced economies. While many predicted that technological progress would eventually make work obsolete, Americans continue to pull long hours. Although stories of worker burnout and “quiet quitting” suggest that this situation is not a good fit for everyone, any problems are largely invisible to the conceptual frameworks that dominate the analysis of law. These frameworks normally assume the goal of maximizing production and often treat the human preference for leisure as a problem to be solved. This Article analyzes the problem of overwork. In doing so, it surfaces legal and policy …

Sarcoplasmic Reticulum-Mitochondria Microdomains: Hugging And Kissing In The Heart, Bong Sook Jhun, Jin O-Uchi, Brian Rhee, Ameneh Ahrari, Nathan Demichaelis, Kye-Im Jeon, David M. Booth, Shey-Shing Sheu

Center for Translational Medicine Faculty Papers

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-mitochondrial (ER-Mito) interface, termed mitochondrial-ER contacts (MERCs), plays significant roles in the maintenance of bioenergetics and basal cell functions via the exchange of lipids, Ca 2 þ , and reactive oxygen species (ROS) in various cell types/tissues. Genetic deletion of mitofusin 2 (Mfn2), one of the key components of ER-Mito tethering, in cardiomy- ocytes (CMs) in vivo revealed the importance of the microdomains between mitochondria and sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), a dif- ferentiated form of ER in muscle cells, for maintaining normal mitochondrial Ca 2 þ (mtCa 2 þ ) handling and bioenergetics in the adult heart. However, key …

Identity Resolution In Feminists Raised Catholic: A Narrative Analysis Of Life Histories, Carlotta Reinhardt, Lauren E. Duncan

Psychology: Faculty Publications

Using narrative analysis of life histories, we explored the interplay between Catholic religious background, identity formation, and feminist activism. We used data from 13 oral histories of feminist and LGBTQ+ activists in the US and Italy who were raised Catholic. In the first stage of Downing and Roush’s model of feminist identity development, passive acceptance, religion can play a significant role. We found that whether religion is central to a person's worldview or not, and whether it is rigid or flexible, influence how individuals handle identity conflicts related to gender and sexuality during the revelation stage. Dissonances were caused by …

Border-Fiction(Ing)S In Ireland: Emergence And Potentials Of Border-Fiction(Ing)S In The Eile Project, Samuel Vardy, Paula Mccloskey

Publications

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Expansion Joints In Long Concrete Buildings, Salah Salem, Mohamed E. El Madawy, Basem S. Abdelwahed, Mohamed E. El-Zoughiby

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The use of expansion joints in lengthy concrete buildings aims to mitigate forces induced by temperature changes and is often derived through empirical methods. These methods lack the depth needed for universal application in any building. On the other hand, adopting a no-joint strategy necessitates a thorough thermal analysis of temperature changes, a subject that has not been extensively explored in existing literature. There are no methodologies available, and the current guidelines rely on approximate calculations; thus, there is a need for clear directives on these two matters. This paper produces a procedure for performing thermal analyses of long concrete …

Interlace: A Journal Of Mathematics And Fiber Arts, Carolyn Yackel, Sarah-Marie Belcastro

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Interlace: A journal of mathematics and fiber arts is a peer-reviewed, open-access completely free journal devoted to publishing high-quality original research at the intersection of mathematics and fiber arts. The journal is now accepting submissions.

Sudoku Grids, David Sheskin

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Ten images depicting numerical grids of the mathematical logic puzzle Sudoku are presented. The digit values in each puzzle are represented on either domino tiles, postage stamps, mah-jong tiles, or playing cards.

The Unending Constant, Christopher Banyas

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Totality Fractal, Heather L. Cook

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

This fractal was inspired by the Total Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2024. Here, the sun and the moon are represented when in totality.

Euclidean Vision (A Poem), Joseph Chaney

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

"Euclidean Vision" is a short poem that evaluates geometry from a humanistic perspective, focusing partly on its pleasures. Geometry gives us the pleasing assurance of certainty. It does this through the radical abstraction of space and form, which makes possible a completeness of mathematical vision based on axioms. It's this purity that guarantees a knowledge that "can go on forever." In the end, the poem points to the wonderful freedom that geometry and other mathematical disciplines give us in the midst of difficult and confusing lives. In its beauty and universality, geometry stands as an eternal aspect of the human …

Dream Series, Jim Wolper

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Dream Series converge to numbers we cannot analyze. They exist, like dreams, but resist attempts to put them into order.

Solving For..., Jan B. Shafer

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

This poem is about an appreciation of mathematics and its relationships to people and nature.

When I Was One-In-Twenty, Daniel Kowalczyk

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

A poem by A.E. Housman inspired the engineer John R. Pierce to feel awe in the technological progress of telecommunications. Tangentially, Housman also evoked a strong emotion in me when making use of statistical p-values.

Found Poem By Abraham De Moivre, Richard Delaware

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Mathiverse - A Potpourri Of Mathematical Stanzas, Vijay Fafat

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

A collection of very short verses, mathematical in nature.

Book Review: Zero's Whisper By Tom Petsinis, Sarah Glaz

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Tom Petsinis is an internationally acclaimed Australian novelist, playwright, and poet. He also holds a Ph.D. degree in mathematics and works as a mathematical adviser at Deakin University, Melbourne. Zero’s Whisper, Petsinis’ tenth poetry collection, offers a rich blend of the literary and the mathematical. The collection, comprising of over one hundred fourteen-line poems, is divided into nine sections, each of which considers a different aspect of a world steeped in mathematics and poetry. This review aims to provide a taste of the poetry and the themes included in the book. To discover all its hidden delights, one needs to …

Compare Problems: Complexity In Content And Language, Gladys Krause

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

When learning to teach mathematics in elementary school, pre-service teachers (PSTs) spend considerable time studying word problems. Here I present a resource I have created for my mathematics methods course in order to engage PSTs in learning about these problems and to support them in identifying these problem types.

Let’S Teach More Accurate And Inclusive History! The Case Of Islamic Contributions To Mathematics And Science, Nuh Aydin

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Schools commonly teach a history of mathematics and science that is Eurocentric. This selective version of the history of science, called Classical Narrative by some, is rooted in colonial times and mindset, and has reinforced certain negative opinions about other cultures. It ignores or downplays contributions to mathematics and sciences from non-western civilizations, and falsely attributes many scientific discoveries to European scholars. Medieval Islamic Civilization, which had strong connections to Renaissance Europe, serves as a clear example of how this narrative is distorted. Based on research on primary sources since the middle of the 20th century, we now know that …

From Shudu [Sudoku 數獨] To Dushu [Learning Of Mathematics 讀數]?, Man Keung Siu

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

The puzzle game Sudoku has been popular for over two decades, and even at one time became a craze for the public. This paper will briefly describe what the game is, a little bit of its history, and how to play it, but will leave the details to the many published books about the game. Some interesting and difficult mathematical problems relevant to the game will be highlighted, again leaving the detailed discussion to specific books published on this issue. The main point the paper tries to focus on is a discussion on the cognitive and the psychological aspects of …

The Fake Mathematical Mindsets Of Preservice Teachers, Carmen M. Latterell

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Many students have a fixed mindset, as do some teachers. Recently I accidentally discovered that most of the preservice elementary teachers in my class were faking their mindset and pretending that they had a growth mindset. This raises a variety of questions, such as, will this follow a fake it until you make it track?

Small Number And The Old Game, Veselin Jungic

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Through a conversation between Small Number and his Auntie, this article describes the Throwing Game, a Haida tradition recorded by John Swanton in 1905. Several mathematical concepts that may be associated to the game are mentioned.

Examples Of Mathematics Personified, Amenda N. Chow

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Synesthesia is a cognitive condition in which multiply senses are stimulated at once. There are different types of synesthesia. For example, in a documented study [9], a person with synesthesia when considering the number three associates it as a male and a jerk. This association is persistent, always the same and automatic. Presented here are a variety of examples about mathematics in personified form. These examples focus on using personification as a way to better understand and appreciate mathematics.

Math Anxiety And Shame Exemplified On The Reality Show Survivor, James Drimalla, Dru Horne

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

In an episode of season 45 of the reality show Survivor, three contestants competed in a challenge involving mathematics. In their reflections and responses to the challenge, the contestants discussed feelings of anxiety, fear, and shame. In this article, we describe (a) the challenge, (b) the three contestants’ attempts to complete the challenge and their responses to the challenge, (c) responses to the challenge in the media, and (d) relevant details of our personal experiences and related backgrounds. We then discuss themes of math anxiety, shame, and virtues, and encourage leaders in mathematical spaces to place a higher value on …

Introducing The Linear Poem, Cristian Ramirez Rodriguez

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

In this article I introduce the linear poem, a poetic form I developed in fall 2023 as a pedagogical tool for high-school students. The linear poem is a poem which represents an integer valued linear function, treating the line numbers as inputs and the linguistic units in a line as outputs. Two examples of linear poems are given as well as the steps taken to produce them. By interpreting poetic forms as integer-valued functions as is done in this article, interdisciplinary pedagogy can be achieved, allowing educators and students to express mathematical ideas such as slope-intercept form in a creative …