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Air Force Institute Of Technology Research Report 2022, Air Force Institute Of Technology

AFIT Documents

This report summarizes the research activities of the Air Force Institute of Technology's Graduate School of Engineering and Management, as well as AFIT's research centers. It describes research interests and faculty expertise; list student theses/dissertations; identifies research sponsors and contributions; and outlines the procedure for contacting entities within the Institution.

Air Force Institute Of Technology Research Report 2021, Air Force Institute Of Technology

AFIT Documents

This report summarizes the research activities of the Air Force Institute of Technology's Graduate School of Engineering and Management, as well as AFIT's research centers. It describes research interests and faculty expertise; list student theses/dissertations; identifies research sponsors and contributions; and outlines the procedure for contacting entities within the Institution.

If Subsequent Results Are Too Easy To Obtain, The Proof Most Probably Has Errors: Explanation Of The Empirical Observation, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Many modern mathematical proofs are very complex, checking them is difficult; as a result, errors sneak into published proofs, even into proofs published in highly reputable journals. Sometimes, the errors are repairable, but sometimes, it turns out that the supposedly proven result is actually wrong. When the error is not noticed for some time, the published result is used to prove many other results -- and when the error is eventually found, all these new results are invalidated. This happened several times. Since it is not realistic to more thoroughly check all the proofs, and we want to minimize the …

Why Angles Between Galactic Center Filaments And Galactic Plane Follow A Bimodal Distribution: A Symmetry-Based Explanation, Julio C. Urenda, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Recent observations have shown that the angles between the Galaxy Center filaments and the Galactic plane follow a bimodal distribution: a large number of filaments are approximately orthogonal to the Galactic plane, a large number of filaments are approximately parallel to the Galactic plane, and much fewer filaments have other orientations. In this paper, we show this bimodal distribution can be explained by natural geometric symmetries.

Why Seismicity In Ireland Is Low: A Possible Geometric Explanation, Julio C. Urenda, Aaron Velasco, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

For each geographic location, its seismicity level is usually determined by how close this location is to the boundaries of tectonic plates. However, there is one notable exception: while Ireland and Britain are at approximately the same distance from such boundaries, the seismicity level in Ireland is much lower than in Britain. A recent paper provided a partial explanation for this phenomenon: namely, it turns out that the lithosphere under Ireland is unusually thick, and this can potentially lead to lower seismicity. However, the current explanation of the relation between the lithosphere thickness and seismicity level strongly depends on the …

Summer 2024, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

Augustana Magazine

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of An Educational Training On Telehelath Utilization Rates And Hospital Readmissions In A Home Health Setting., Gabrielle A. Coomer

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Background: Hospital readmissions are on the rise and continue to be a concern within healthcare due to their effects on the quality of care and healthcare costs. Telehealth strategies have been utilized across healthcare settings to improve hospital readmission rates.

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness of a telehealth training program in increasing telehealth utilization rates and reducing the acute care hospitalization rate within a single home health agency.

Intervention: A 30-minute PowerPoint presentation on the definition of telehealth, goals, and benefits of telehealth, patient eligibility, special considerations for clinicians, billing and coding guidelines, …

Activity - The Civil Rights Movement: Black Voter Registration Comics, Campaign Comics, And Civil Rights Memoirs Discussion, Sarah Hamblin

Civic Engagement & Voting Rights Teacher Scholars

No abstract provided.

Course Syllabus - So320: Sociology Of Gender– S, Uu, Rr, W, Bernadette Ludwig

Civic Engagement & Voting Rights Teacher Scholars

No abstract provided.

How Will Climate Change-Induced Increases In Wildfire Frequency Affect Soil Microbial Communities?, Bahar Saadaie Jahromi, David Karowe

Waldo Library Student Exhibits

As climate change progresses, wildfires will become more common, increasing their impact on soil microbial ecosystems. This research examines how increased fire frequency affects soil microbial communities and whether effects differ for communities associated with different tree species. Soil samples were collected from under five individuals of four tree species within each of four 1-ha plots that had experienced fire from 24 to 111 years ago. Samples were analyzed for microbial DNA using next generation sequencing techniques in order to explore the influence of fire return interval and tree species on microbial diversity and community structure. Correlations were also examined …

Uplifting The Critical Value Of The Lgbtq+ Climate Workforce, San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative, Brenda Castruita, Nicole Fassina

San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative

As the world faces unprecedented environmental challenges, the need for a robust and diverse environmental workforce has never been more critical. Historically, marginalized communities are at the forefront of these challenges and often bear the brunt of impacts from our changing climate. It is vital that the climate workforce reflects the diversity of our communities and is inclusive of individuals with lived experiences that can inform equitable and effective solutions. Among these marginalized communities, the LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, and others) community is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.¹ Research underscores how LGBTQ+ individuals …

The Impact And Potential Of Digital Health Technologies, Craig Kimble, Thomas Pile, Alberto Coustasse

Pharmacy Practice & Administration

Digital technologies and smart devices are now used in every aspect of our lives. Further innovation in the digital health realm is growing and has the potential to reduce inefficiencies in the health care system by sharing health data with providers, decreasing costs related to unnecessary health care visits and improving patients’ quality of life and clinical outcomes by better tailoring treatment to the individual’s health needs.

Learning From Oversampling: A Systematic Exploitation Of Oversampling To Address Data Scarcity Issues In Deep Learning- Based Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction, Ibsa Kumara Jalata, Reeshad Khan, Ukash Nakarmi

Computer Science and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Data acquisitions in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are inherently slow due to sequential acquisition protocol. Image reconstruction from under-sampled data is posed as an inverse problem in traditional model-based learning paradigms. Recent data-centric learning frameworks such as deep learning (DL) frameworks are data hungry, and demand a large, labeled training data sets. To address the lack of large training datasets, in MRI reconstructions, researchers approach the problem in two ways: (1) unsupervised method where the model is trained without the presence of fully sampled data. (2) using a method that efficiently use the limited dataset for training purpose. In this …

Love Of Creation: Exploring Diversity And Commonality Among Religious And Philosophical Traditions, Tim Lomas, Brendan W. Case, Matthew T. Lee, Jayanti Basu, Lindsie Bear, Richard G. Cowden, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Tayyab Rashid, Tyler J. Vanderweele

Faculty Publications

Love is widely recognized as one of the most important, desired, and consequential aspects of the human condition, and thus has rightly been the focus of much academic attention. However, this interest has tended to concentrate on specific forms of love—especially romantic and familial forms—to the exclusion of others. One such overlooked form is love of “creation”—of the world and the wider cosmos in which human beings find themselves. Throughout history and across cultures, this kind of love has been developed and articulated by religious and philosophical traditions in diverse ways. This article showcases a selection of ten such traditions, …

Lgbt Cultural Competence Education For Nurse Leaders In A Large Metropolitan Healthcare System: Quality Improvement, Trevor Mcguffin, Andrew Mitchell

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Background: In the United States, seven percent of adults identify as LGBT. The LGBT population is disproportionately affected by health disparities and barriers to care when compared to the cis-heterosexual population. Due to healthcare providers’ limited LGBT health education and experience, inconsistencies in LGBT culturally competent care perpetuate health disparities and barriers to care for the LGBT population.

Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to educate nurse leaders on LGBT cultural competency and facilitate nurse leaders’ behavior change.

Methods: This quality improvement project consisted of three LGBT cultural competence modules and two guided behavior change pathways. Outcomes …

Emily Davis Interviewed By Juliann Mackiewicz, Emily Davis, Juliann Mackiewicz, Stephanie Opperman

Collecting the Past

Juliann Mackiewicz interviews Emily Davis, Baldwin County Commissioner for District 1, on her perspective growing up in Milledgeville and what it is like being a leader for your community.

Listen to the podcast version here:

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National Parks Field Journal, Isadora Davis

Art and Design Student Scholarship and Projects

A handwritten, richly illustrated field journal by Binghamton University art major Isadora Davis, recording a trip through national parks in the American West via SUNY Broome's BIO 217: Ecology of National Parks. Davis uses colored pencil drawings and pressed botanical specimens to record landscapes, birds, mammals, and plant life in Grand Teton, Yellowstone, Wind Cave, and Badlands National Parks, as well as Custer State Park. Davis's sketches and diagrams visually explore how to decode past landscapes from current formations, while her written entries explain species diversity, animal behavior, and the mechanisms causing geological formations and geothermal events. Part memoir of …

Un Rce Rise Youth Corps: Mcleod Health Free Health Care For Horry County, Savannah Piziak

Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being

No abstract provided.

Evaluating 45 Years Of Collaborative Range Livestock Education, Melanie Heaton, Andrew Brischke, Ben Scow

Outcomes and Impact Quarterly

The Arizona/Utah Range Livestock Workshop & Tour builds cooperation and understanding between public land grazing permittees and federal agency personnel through science-based education. The workshop provides information on livestock production practices and addresses controversial grazing issues in a non-confrontational environment. Topics range from animal handling, vaccination, and health to solar development, partnering with public land agencies, and recreation effects.

Assessing The Effectiveness Of Smartphone Retail Shopping Apps Through The Lens Of Customer Value, Satisfaction, And Loyalty, Jean B. Ntahontuye

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Retail e-commerce revenue was $904.9 billion in 2022; of this amount, $431.4 billion was realized via smartphone retail shopping apps, which is a 95% increase from 2019, and retail e- commerce is projected to exceed $1.7 trillion by 2027 (Statista, 2023a). Given the increasing popularity of these apps among consumers, management and marketing literature continues to debate what makes consumers accept and adopt retail shopping apps as their preferred online shopping method. Failure to understand what motivates consumers to repeatedly buy household goods via smartphone retail shopping apps may cause retailers to mistarget their customers by allocating scarce resources to …

Valuing Trans Lives After Suicide: Rituals Of Commemoration In Digital Social Media Culture, Joe Edward Hatfield

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

In 2014, a trans teenager named Leelah Alcorn posted a suicide letter to her public Tumblr account. Almost a decade later, in 2023, Eden Knight, another young trans woman, posted a suicide letter to her public Twitter account. Both suicide letters went viral and inspired memorial hashtags on the platforms where they initially circulated. In this article, I identify similarities between the cases, conceptualizing both as rituals of commemoration aimed toward restoring value to trans lives lost too soon. My analysis shows how ordinary users leverage the connective affordances embedded within popular social media platforms to sustain structured, value-laden acts …

Energy And Environmental Analyses Of A Solar–Gas Turbine Combined Cycle With Inlet Air Cooling, Ahmad M. Abubaker, Adnan Darwish Ahmad, Binit B. Singh, Yaman M. Manaserh, Loiy Al-Ghussain

Institute of Research for Technology Development Faculty Publications

Sensitivity to ambient air temperatures, consuming a large amount of fuel, and wasting a significant amount of heat dumped into the ambient atmosphere are three major challenges facing gas turbine power plants. This study was conducted to simultaneously solve all three aforementioned GT problems using solar energy and introducing a new configuration that consists of solar preheating and inlet-air-cooling systems. In this study, air was preheated at a combustion chamber inlet using parabolic trough collectors. Then, inlet air to the compressor was cooled by these collectors by operating an absorption cooling cycle. At the design point conditions, this novel proposed …

Wildlife Conservation: The Importance Of Individual Personality Traits And Sentience, Karen A. Owens, Gosia Bryja, Marc Bekoff

Animal Sentience

Individual differences in personality types within the same species have been studied much less than differences between species and populations. Personality differences are related to risk-taking and exploration, which in turn correlate with individuals' daily responses, decisions, and fitness. Bold and shy personality types can have different advantages and disadvantages under different social or environmental pressures. Analyzing personality differences has helped clarify how elk habituate to a well-populated area and how management strategies can be adapted to them. For wolves newly repatriated to Colorado, individual personality factors are likely to prove important for adapting to their new homes as well …

Intersectional Marxism And The Dialectic: Interpreting Marx For Our Times, Lilia Monzó, Cristal B. Flores

Education Faculty Articles and Research

"Many on the radical left are increasingly seeking a humanist alternative to the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy that has produced immeasurable suffering and destruction. Amidst the fascism ignited within this era’s supra-conservatism, many of us turned to the Democratic Party to ensure Trump’s defeat only to be reminded that both major political parties in the United States have always moved to the tune of capitalist interests.¹ Thus, at this time, especially, we must remain hopeful in order to continue our struggle to develop a viable alternative to the current system.

This new PM Press edition of Karl Marx’s Critique …

Sibling Bullying Reported By Emerging Adults: Profiling The Prevalence, Roles, And Forms In A Cross-Country Investigation, Kristen Cvancara, Esta Kaal, Maili Pörhölä, M. Beatriz Torres

Communication Studies Department Publications

Prevalence estimates of sibling bullying indicate it occurs more frequently and with more negative consequences than peer bullying, yet many countries do not track or investigate the phenomenon. University students from Argentina, Estonia, and the United States were surveyed to investigate their retrospective experiences involving sibling bullying, how often it occurred, the roles held, and the forms communicated. In the aggregated data, roughly 50 % of the sampled emerging adults (N = 3477) reported experience with sibling bullying, with the dual role of bully-victim being the most frequently reported role held by males and females, with the second role being …

Addressing Caregiver Burden Among Oncology Caregivers: An Educational Intervention., Alexandria Salois

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

The incidence of cancer is on the rise, the number of cancer diagnoses are increasing at an alarming rate with advanced technologies and available evidence. Cancer care has also shifted from the inpatient setting to mostly outpatient. With this, a large portion of the responsibility has been transferred to the caregiver of that patient (Kent et al., 2019). Historically, caregivers have not been at the forefront of research, however, the concept of caregiver burden is beginning to emerge. A gap exists in addressing the needs of caregivers in both evidence-based data and with the local community cancer support group, Gilda’s …

Evaluation And Implementation Of Mindfulness Module To Reduce Burnout Among Emergency Department Nurses: A Quality Improvement Project, Katie Waltrip

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

BACKGROUND: Nurses working in the ED experience higher burnout rates than those working in other healthcare settings. Defined as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a low sense of personal accomplishment, burnout is associated with increased work absences and turnover and decreased patient satisfaction and quality care. Burnout must be examined and addressed for emergency nurses to continue providing quality care.

PURPOSE: This quality improvement project aimed to evaluate burnout among nurses working in the ED prior to and immediately following a 9-week mindfulness-based intervention.

METHODS: A Plan-Do-Study-Act model was utilized along with application of supporting evidence from the literature and an …

Promoting Healthy Habits Among Children In A Residential Facility., Tiffany Jones

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Background: Childhood obesity has been a significant public health concern in the United States. The prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents has increased over the past few decades. There are serious implications for immediate and long-term health. It poses serious health risks and economic challenges.

Setting: This quality improvement project will take place at a residential psychiatric treatment facility and therapeutic foster care program for children and adolescents with mental health or behavioral issues. This facility is in the suburbs of Louisville, Kentucky.

Purpose: The purpose of this project is to boost physical activity and improve knowledge about nutrition …

Improving Transitions In Care Through Early Discharge Planning: A Quality Improvement Initiative., Sarah Markgraf

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Background: A substantial body of evidence has shown transitions in care are one of the weakest links in healthcare networks, especially for older adults with complex comorbidities. Residents receiving short-term rehabilitation (i.e., rehab) transitioning to home from a skilled nursing facility (SNF) are the most vulnerable in the first 30 days post-discharge for adverse resident events, including avoidable rehospitalization. Avoidable rehospitalizations cost Medicare billions of dollars annually and lead to poor resident outcomes. Early discharge planning in SNFs for short-term stay rehabilitation has decreased rates of avoidable rehospitalizations, improved quality of life in geriatric residents, and improved care partners' perceived …

A Parenting-Skills Intervention To Mitigate Adverse Childhood Experiences For Children Of Parents In Substance Use Disorder Recovery., Makayla S. Haas

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Abstract

Background: Parents recovering from substance use disorder (SUD) are prone to neurobiological alterations that affect parental emotional regulation, increasing occurrence of harsh parenting, heightened stress, and relapse. Children with parents who suffer from SUD experience adverse childhood experiences (ACE), predisposing them to negative health and lifestyle risks. Implementing a parenting-skills intervention for parents in recovery can promote positive-parenting, reduce parenting stress, improve the parent-child relationship, and mitigate the effects of ACEs.

Setting: ChooseWell Communities (CWC), a sober-living community, in Louisville, KY served as the project site. Participants at CWC are sober parents with primarily young children under 5 years …