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Enter Stage Left: Immigration And The American Arts, K. Pun Winichakul, Ning Zhang

Economics: Faculty Publications

To what extent have immigrants contributed to the growth of the United States arts sector? In this paper, we explore the impact of immigration during the Age of Mass Migration on the development of the arts in the U.S. over the past century. In the short run, our results suggest that immigration helped produce greater numbers of native artists. Over a century later, the bene- fits to the arts persist. Counties with greater historical immigration house more arts businesses and nonprofit organizations that generate more revenue, employ a larger proportion of the community, and earn more federal arts grants. When …

Re: Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) 2024 Final Unreclaimed Sites Quality Assurance Project Plan (Qapp), Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Investigating The Fatigue Life Of Asymmetric And Novel Helical Gear Drives, Rajesh S

Theses and Dissertations

The present research work investigates the contact and bending fatigue life of asymmetric helical gear and novel helical gear based on the finite element analysis. In the first phase, the contact and bending fatigue life of the asymmetric helical gear drives is estimated based on the strain life approach.

Further, a parametric study is carried out to investigate the influence of important helical gear parameters such as module, pressure angle, helix angle, gear ratio, teeth number and face width on contact and bending fatigue life of asymmetric helical gear drives. It is noted that the asymmetric helical gear shows a …

Stopping The Cycle Of Abuse Before It Starts: An Evaluation Of Virginia’S Domestic Violence Primary Prevention Model In Schools, Amanda Palini

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

In 1994 the United States was faced with a domestic violence epidemic that led Congress to pass the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The Act was passed to respond to the needs of victims, particularly women, who are at the highest risk of victimization in crimes such as domestic violence and sexual assault. While domestic violence has been recognized as an important public health problem, most services provided are focused on after-the-fact interventions rather than prevention.

Many states, including Virginia, have since created domestic violence prevention programs, added preventative requirements to their state code, and tasked their respective Departments of …

Research In Motion, University Of Dayton. School Of Education And Health Sciences

School of Education and Health Sciences Blog Archive

The Motion Analysis Laboratory is an asset to students in the physical therapy doctoral program.

Superphenomena For Arbitrary Quantum Observables, Andrew N. Jordan, Yakir Aharonov, Daniele C. Struppa, Fabrizio Colombo, Irene Sabadini, Tomer Shushi, Jeff Tollaksen, John C. Howell, A. Nick Vamivakas

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

Superoscillations occur when a globally band-limited function locally oscillates faster than its highest Fourier component. We generalize this effect to arbitrary quantum-mechanical operators as a weak value, where the preselected state is a superposition of eigenstates of the operator with eigenvalues bounded to a range, and the postselection state is a local position. Superbehavior of this operator occurs whenever the operator's weak value exceeds its eigenvalue bound. We give illustrative examples of this effect for total angular momentum and energy. In the latter case, we demonstrate a sequence of harmonic oscillator potentials where a finite-energy state converges everywhere on the …

Agricultural Labor Trafficking In The U.S.: An Exchange Network Analysis, Gary J. Kowaluk

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

Labor trafficking occurs when individuals are forced to work by force, fraud, or coercion. In the United States, agricultural labor trafficking is both widespread and underreported. It is often carried out by farm labor subcontractors, who conduct the labor trafficking on behalf of U.S. companies. Labor trafficking in U.S. agriculture continues year after year, as trafficked immigrant workers fear being further punished if they attempt to redress their workplace grievances. The H-2A visa system is designed to protect workers from labor trafficking abuses, but the system is ineffective and in need of reform. To learn more about agricultural labor trafficking …

From Community Science To Community Justice: Protecting Data Usability In Community Air Quality Monitoring Networks, Marley Manjarrez

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

Community science holds significant promise for empowering communities to address air quality disparities and advocate for policy change. However, the usability and legal defensibility of community-collected data pose significant challenges. This article argues that with the help of low-cost tools such as air quality monitors, community members can take an active role in combating the disproportionate distribution of air pollutants hidden by our current regulatory scheme. By examining the regulatory frameworks under the Clean Air Act and opportunities for procedural justice at federal, state, and local levels, the article identifies pathways for incorporating community-collected data into air quality regulation and …

Identification And Characterization Of Intrinsically Disordered Protein Regions, Guy Wayne Dayhoff Ii

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation investigates protein intrinsic disorder and intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDPRs) through the development and application of advanced computational and experimental techniques. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to protein intrinsic disorder, outlining the historical context and fundamental concepts that highlight the importance of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and IDPRs in various biological processes. Chapter 2 focuses on the rapid prediction and analysis of protein intrinsic disorder. We introduce RIDAO (Rapid Intrinsic Disorder Analysis Online), a high-efficiency web-based tool that integrates multiple disorder predictors. RIDAO significantly outperforms existing predictors in computational efficiency, making it suitable for large-scale proteomic studies. We …

Fundamental Limits In Measuring The Anisotropic Rotational Diffusion Of Single Molecules, Weiyan Zhou, Tingting Wu, Matthew D. Lew

Electrical & Systems Engineering Publications and Presentations

Many biophysical techniques, such as single-molecule fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, Förster resonance energy transfer, and fluorescence anisotropy, measure the translation and rotation of biomolecules to quantify molecular processes at the nanoscale. These methods often simplify data analysis by assuming isotropic rotational diffusion, e.g., that molecules wobble within a circular cone. This simplification ignores the anisotropy present in many biological contexts that may cause molecules to exhibit different degrees of diffusion in different directions. Here, we loosen this assumption and establish a theoretical framework for describing and measuring anisotropic rotational diffusion using fluorescence imaging. We show that anisotropic wobble is directly quantified …

Recoil-Order And Radiative Corrections To The Acorn Experiment, F. E. Wietfeldt, W. A. Byron, B. Collett, M. S. Dewey, T. R. Gentile, F. Glück, M. T. Hassan, G. L. Jones, Alexander Komives, J. S. Nico, E. J. Stephenson

Physics & Astronomy Faculty publications

The aCORN experiment measures the electron-antineutrino correlation 𝑎 coefficient in free neutron decay. We update the previous aCORN results [G. Darius et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 042502 (2017) and M. T. Hassan et al., Phys. Rev. C 103, 045502 (2021)] to include radiative and recoil corrections to first order, and discuss a key issue in the comparison of results from different 𝑎-coefficient experimental methods when these effects are considered. The corrected combined result is ‾𝑎=−0.10779±0.00125⁢(stat)±0.00134⁢(sys), averaged over the full Fermi neutron beta spectrum. The corresponding corrected result for the ratio of weak coupling constants 𝜆=𝐺𝐴/𝐺𝑉 is …

Transformative Agreements: The Good, The Bad, And The Confusing, Camille Mccutcheon, Peggy Kain, Tracy M. Cole

Libraries Professional Work

SELA, Huntsville, AL , July 7-9, 2024​

Intratumoral Immune Triads Are Required For Immunotherapy-Mediated Elimination Of Solid Tumors, Paul Zumbo, Asim Dave, Doron Betel, Sung Wook Kang, Hee-Jin Jang, Matthew D Hellmann, Bryan M Burt, Hyun-Sung Lee, Andrea Schietinger

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Tumor-specific CD8+ T cells are frequently dysfunctional and unable to halt tumor growth. We investigated whether tumor-specific CD4+ T cells can be enlisted to overcome CD8+ T cell dysfunction within tumors. We find that the spatial positioning and interactions of CD8+ and CD4+ T cells, but not their numbers, dictate anti-tumor responses in the context of adoptive T cell therapy as well as immune checkpoint blockade (ICB): CD4+ T cells must engage with CD8+ T cells on the same dendritic cell during the effector phase, forming a three-cell-type cluster (triad) to license CD8+ T cell cytotoxicity and cancer cell elimination. …

Multi-Scale Signaling And Tumor Evolution In High-Grade Gliomas, Marina A Gritsenko, Tung-Shing M Lih, Jennifer E Kyle, Tomer M Yaron-Barir, Zev A Binder, Yize Li, Ilya Strunilin, Yi-Ting Wang, Chia-Feng Tsai, Weiping Ma, Lijun Chen, Natalie M Clark, Andrew Shinkle, Nataly Naser Al Deen, Wagma Caravan, Andrew Houston, Faria Anjum Simin, Matthew A Wyczalkowski, Liang-Bo Wang, Erik Storrs, Siqi Chen, Ritvik Illindala, Yuping D Li, Reyka G Jayasinghe, Dmitry Rykunov, Sandra L Cottingham, Rosalie K Chu, Karl K Weitz, Ronald J Moore, Tyler Sagendorf, Vladislav A Petyuk, Michael Nestor, Lisa M Bramer, Kelly G Stratton, Athena A Schepmoes, Sneha P Couvillion, Josie Eder, Young-Mo Kim, Yuqian Gao, Thomas L Fillmore, Rui Zhao, Matthew E Monroe, Austin N Southard-Smith, Yang E Li, Rita Jui-Hsien Lu, Jared L Johnson, Maciej Wiznerowicz, Galen Hostetter, Chelsea J Newton, Karen A Ketchum, Ratna R Thangudu, Jill S Barnholtz-Sloan, Pei Wang, David Fenyö, Eunkyung An, Mathangi Thiagarajan, Ana I Robles, D R Mani, Richard D Smith, Eduard Porta-Pardo, Lewis C Cantley, Antonio Iavarone, Feng Chen, Mehdi Mesri, Maclean P Nasrallah, Hui Zhang, Adam C Resnick, Milan G Chheda, Karin D Rodland, Tao Liu, Li Ding, Philadelphia Coalition For A Cure, Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Although genomic anomalies in glioblastoma (GBM) have been well studied for over a decade, its 5-year survival rate remains lower than 5%. We seek to expand the molecular landscape of high-grade glioma, composed of IDH-wildtype GBM and IDH-mutant grade 4 astrocytoma, by integrating proteomic, metabolomic, lipidomic, and post-translational modifications (PTMs) with genomic and transcriptomic measurements to uncover multi-scale regulatory interactions governing tumor development and evolution. Applying 14 proteogenomic and metabolomic platforms to 228 tumors (212 GBM and 16 grade 4 IDH-mutant astrocytoma), including 28 at recurrence, plus 18 normal brain samples and 14 brain metastases as comparators, reveals heterogeneous upstream …

Intouch Week Of July 8, 2024, New York Medical College

InTouch

• The 2024 Issue of Chironian is Available
• Founder's Dinner 2024
• NYMC Receives $900,000 HECap Award
• NYMC and TU Hosts “Ninety Minutes: The Medical Magazine of the Web”
• Student Spotlight: Medical Student and Aspiring Entrepreneur: Nadia Ambarsom Pursues Dual Dreams
• Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Williamson Transforms Health Care as Nurse and Public Health Advocate

Self-Explainable Graph Neural Network For Alzheimer Disease And Related Dementias Risk Prediction: Algorithm Development And Validation Study, Yifang Dang, Fang Li, Jingna Feng, Evan Yu, Cui Tao

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background: Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) rank as the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, underlining the importance of accurate ADRD risk prediction. While recent advancements in ADRD risk prediction have primarily relied on imaging analysis, not all patients undergo medical imaging before an ADRD diagnosis. Merging machine learning with claims data can reveal additional risk factors and uncover interconnections among diverse medical codes.

Objective: The study aims to use graph neural networks (GNNs) with claim data for ADRD risk prediction. Addressing the lack of human-interpretable reasons behind these predictions, we introduce an innovative, self-explainable method …

Pulsed Secondary Electron Yield Measurements Of Metallic And Dielectric Materials Of Interest For High Power Vacuum Electron Devices, Bilal Ahmed Malik

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

Secondary electron emission (SEE) from conductors is thought to play an important role in the initiation of Multipactor breakdown in vacuum electron devices. The SEE of dielectric materials plays a crucial role in numerous scientific and technological applications, including particle accelerators, spacecraft charging, and plasma diagnostics. Additionally, the SEE of an insulator may depend on its electrical stress history. In both cases, SEE strongly depends on any conditioning of the material surface. We present measurements on both conducting and insulating materials of interest in these applications. Measurements are being made in an existing test stand, recently modified to enable measurements …

Examining Teacher Attrition And The Contemporary Educator Shortage In The United States: A Quantitative Study Of Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory, Joycelyn Wesley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

In many educational systems across the world, teacher attrition has become a major problem. As the student population in America continues to grow, one problem plaguing policymakers and school districts is staffing schools with quality educators. This national shortage of educators has been plaguing the United States for almost a decade. It brings one to question why there is such a shortage of qualified educators available to effectively instruct and academically prepare America’s youth. The main goal of this quantitative study is to investigate the reasons for teacher attrition in a large urban school district in the southeastern region of …

Efficient Computation Using Near-Memory Processing And High-Level Synthesis, Chenfeng Zhao

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

With the diminishing of Moore’s law and the end of Dennard scaling, alongside the explosion of data, the need for efficient computation—both in terms of performance and energy consumption—has become paramount. This is particularly crucial for processing large-scale data across various workloads. While a universal computation method is highly desirable, the inherent unique characteristics of different applications and datasets preclude a one-size-fits-all solution. It is usually the case that an appropriate computation technology choice could benefit a particular set of workloads and vice versa. Addressing this challenge requires designers to possess profound knowledge and insights into both hardware and software. …

A Splash Of Color: A Dual Dive Into The Effects Of Evo On Decision-Making With Goal Models: Supplemental Material, Alicia M. Grubb, Yesugen Baatartogtokh, Irene Foster

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

Supplemental material for the paper: "A Splash of Color: A Dual Dive into the Effects of EVO on Decision-Making with Goal Models" doi.org/10.1007/s00766-024-00422-5

Establishing Silphids In The Invertebrate Dna Toolbox: A Proof Of Concept, Katherine E. Higdon, Kristin Brzeski, Melanie A. Ottino, Tara Bal

Michigan Tech Publications

Environmental DNA (eDNA) analyses are an increasingly popular tool for assessing biodiversity. eDNA sampling that uses invertebrates, or invertebrate DNA (iDNA), has become a more common method in mammal biodiversity studies where biodiversity is assessed via diet analysis of different coprophagous or hematophagous invertebrates. The carrion feeding family of beetles (Silphidae: Coleoptera, Latreille (1807)), have not yet been established as a viable iDNA source in primary scientific literature, yet could be useful indicators for tracking biodiversity in forested ecosystems. Silphids find carcasses of varying size for both food and reproduction, with some species having host preference for small mammals; therefore, …

Prelicensure Baccalaureate Nursing Faculty’S Experiences Of Providing Incivility Awareness Education To Students, Emily Vanessa Pappa

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This study investigated prelicensure baccalaureate nursing faculty’s lived experiences of providing incivility awareness education to students. The problem was that previous research regarding incivility awareness education to prelicensure baccalaureate nursing students focused on pilot studies to find effective strategies and students’ receptiveness to educational approaches, but it lacked the nurse educators’ experiences of delivering the education. The purpose was to explore the lived experiences of nurse educators providing incivility awareness education to prelicensure baccalaureate nursing students. with at least 1 year of teaching experience in prelicensure baccalaureate nursing programs and had taught the topic of incivility awareness. Using the qualitative …

Examining Psycho-Social Factors Of Foster Parents Who Engage In Contact Sexual Abuse, Heather Lee Manning

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Previous work has been done to identify psych-social factors of criminals, although no work currently exists to identify the specific type of sexual offender identified within this study- foster parents who sexually offend foster children. This qualitative study focused on pre-determined psycho-social factors of both male and female offenders. The study reviewed nine cases which met the inclusion criteria and where sufficient data was able to be collected. Results of the study revealed that most offenders were male, most were married or in an otherwise committed relationship with a consenting adult during the time of their offending behaviors. These finding …

Impact Of Parental Attachment On Family Communication Patterns About Sex And Intimacy, Trish Mook

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Risky sexual behaviors in adolescence continue to be a social problem that impacts individuals, families, and communities across the United States. Previous research showed that parents who actively talk with their adolescents about sex and intimacy topics reduce their likelihood of engaging in these behaviors. Still, less is known about what motivates a parent to engage in these discussions. This correlational quantitative research study aimed to apply Bowlby’s attachment theory and McLeod and Chaffee’s family communication patterns theory to identify if a relationship exists between parental attachment style and the family communication patterns that a parent employs when discussing sex …

Deep Sequence-Coupled Biopanning And Vaccine Development, Julianne Peabody

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

Virus-like particles (VLPs) are nanoparticles comprised of viral structural proteins. They physically resemble the virus from which they are derived but lack genomic material. They are non-infectious, non-replicating, and have a favorable safety profile. VLPs are highly immunogenic with a dense, repetitive structure that is strongly activating for B cells. VLPs can be utilized to develop vaccines and can be used either as direct immunogens or platforms for the display of heterologous antigens. The display of foreign peptides on VLPs can be used to elicit high-titer antibodies against the displayed peptide. A virus-like particle based on the RNA bacteriophage MS2 …

Phytoplankton Community Dynamics In The Northern California Current System, Kristin E. Forgrave

Dissertations and Theses

The Northern California Current system is a productive coastal ecosystem encompassing a variety of temporal and spatial features. The photosynthetic microbial community plays a crucial role in supporting the rich ecosystem and its economically important fisheries. My research integrates data across location and two years to investigate the community composition of two major phytoplankton groups in this system: picocyanobacteria and photosynthetic picoeukaryotes (PPE). The abundances and sizes of the phytoplankton were measured using flow cytometry. I found PPE present at similar concentrations in both summer and winter seasons. Abundances of both PPE and picocyanobacteria were comparable in the winter, but …

Leadership Strategies For Small Business’ Sustainability, Abhay Arora

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Small business leaders are concerned with the lack of effective leadership strategies for sustaining their businesses, which can jeopardize their long-term operational and financial success. Grounded in systems theory, the purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry was to explore leadership strategies small business leaders use to sustain their financial performance. The participants were comprised of four business leaders operating businesses in local malls in Manchester, Connecticut who implemented successful leadership strategies for sustainability. Data were collected using semistructured interviews. Five key themes emerged from the thematic analysis: (a) customer focus and service, (b) community engagement, (c) employee collaboration and engagement, …

Exploring Teacher Perceptions On The Effectiveness Of The Freshman Academy, Renee C. Goode-Boyd

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

A Southeastern school district created freshman academies to assist freshman students with strategies and support they need to combat ninth-grade failure successfully, but little change was observed. The purpose of the study was to explore teachers' perceptions of the freshman academy's transition program structure, benefits, challenges, and effectiveness. The conceptual framework for this study encompassed elements of constructivist theory, which explains how children adapt to their environments and learn how to process information successfully. The research questions examined teachers' perceptions regarding the benefits, challenges, and perceived effectiveness of the freshman academy intervention program. The data for this basic qualitative study …

Frequency & Severity Modeling Of Cyber Risk, Vilma Yayra Mensah Ofori

Theses and Dissertations

In an era where cyber risks are escalating at an unprecedented rate, understanding andmitigating data breach risks has become critical for organizations. This paper proposes a novel frequency-severity model to assess hacking data breach risks at the individual company level, focusing on the Finance, Healthcare, and Technology sectors. Our anal- ysis reveals significant heterogeneity in breach frequencies and severities across sectors and individual companies within those sectors. To model breach frequency, we employ a Zero-Inflated Poisson (ZI-Poisson) model with random effects, capturing unobserved heterogeneity and within-firm correlations over time. Breach severity is modeled using a log-normal regression, given the symmetrical …

Reducing Recidivism At Daep With Social Emotional Learning And Character Education In Restorative Circles, William Alex Robinson

Education Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines the impact of integrating social-emotional learning (SEL) and character education (CE) in restorative circles on recidivism rates in district alternative education programs (DAEP). It also explores how comprehensive training influences teachers' perceptions of teaching SEL and CE within restorative circles. With an increasing number of students returning to DAEPs, there is concern over the insufficient SEL/CE skills necessary for success in their regular school environments. A mixed-method approach was utilized, incorporating quantitative data on student attendance, discipline, and a Likert survey on teacher perceptions, alongside qualitative data from open-ended questions. Recidivism was measured by tracking the number …