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Prophylactic Radiotherapy Of Minimally Symptomatic Spinal Disease (Promissed): Study Protocol For A Randomized Controlled Trial, Robert Rothrock, Ahmad Ozair, Maria Avendano, Michael Mcdermott, Susana Herrera, Haley Appel, Amy K. Starosciak, Daniel Leon, Muni Rubens, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Minesh Mehta, Rupesh Kotecha

All Publications

Background: Early palliative/pre-emptive intervention improves clinical outcomes and quality of life for patients with metastatic cancer. A previous signal-seeking randomized controlled trial (RCT) demonstrated that early upfront radiotherapy to asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic high-risk osseous metastases led to reduction in skeletal-related events (SREs), a benefit driven primarily by subgroup of high-risk spine metastasis. The current RCT aims to determine whether early palliative/pre-emptive radiotherapy in patients with high-risk, asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic spine metastases will lead to fewer SREs within 1 year.

Methods: This is a single-center, parallel-arm, in-progress RCT in adults (≥ 18 years) with ECOG performance status 0-2 and …

Editorial: Observations And Simulations Of Layering Phenomena In The Middle/Upper Atmosphere And Ionosphere, Bingkun Yu, Xuguang Cai, Daniel J. Emmons Ii, Chong Wang, Jainfei Wu

Faculty Publications

The middle/upper atmosphere and ionosphere are the transition between neutral and ionized components of the Earth’s atmosphere, including stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, ionospheric E region and ionospheric F region (Laštovička et al., 2006; Xu, et al., 2007; Smith, 2012). The atmospheric thermal structure and composition are significantly affected by dynamical processes through coupling. The layering phenomena such as mesospheric metal layers, sporadic E layers, and noctilucent clouds are important tracers to study mechanisms of the vertical coupling from the lower to the upper atmosphere (Dou et al., 2010; Plane, 2012; Xue et al., 2013).

Extended Event Calculus Using Neutrosophic Logic: Method, Implementation, Analysis, Recent Progress And Future Directions, Antonios Paraskevas

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

Brains do not reason as digital computers do. Computers reason in clear steps with statements that are either true or false, while humans reason with vague terms of common sense. Neutrosophy is a new branch of philosophy and machine intelligence that deals with neutralities, specifically the idea of indeterminacy that is evident and experienced in our everyday lives. Indeterminacy is interpreted as everything that falls between a concept, idea, statement, declaration, etc. and its opposite. The fundamental thesis of neutrosophy is to employ neutrosophic logic, an extension of fuzzy logic, to incorporate fuzzy truth into complex schemes of formal reasoning. …

Exploring The Nexus Of Cybercrime, Money Laundering, Ethics And Deterrence In The Age Of Smart Machines, Leila Halawi, Robert Bacon

Publications

As societies transitioned from the industrial era to the post-knowledge age, marked by the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), the volume and accessibility of information experienced unprecedented growth. This transformation led to the ‘AI Age,’ where smart machines became paramount. Simultaneously, it marked an era of innovation and automation, promising greater efficiency and presenting novel challenges. In this dynamic landscape, cybercrime found fertile ground to evolve and adapt. It expanded its scope from early computer intrusions to many activities, from data breaches and ransomware attacks to identity theft and financial fraud. Money laundering, too, evolved in tandem, capitalizing on …

Prophylactic Radiotherapy Of Minimally Symptomatic Spinal Disease (Promissed): Study Protocol For A Randomized Controlled Trial, Robert Rothrock, Maria Avendano, Susana Herrera, Haley Appel, Suyen Ramos, Amy Starosciak, Muni Rubens, Michael Mcdermott, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Minesh Mehta, Rupesh Kotecha

All Publications

Background: Early palliative/pre-emptive intervention improves clinical outcomes and quality of life for patients with metastatic cancer. A previous signal-seeking randomized controlled trial (RCT) demonstrated that early upfront radiotherapy to asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic high-risk osseous metastases led to reduction in skeletal-related events (SREs), a benefit driven primarily by subgroup of high-risk spine metastasis. The current RCT aims to determine whether early palliative/pre-emptive radiotherapy in patients with high-risk, asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic spine metastases will lead to fewer SREs within 1 year.

Methods: This is a single-center, parallel-arm, in-progress RCT in adults (≥ 18 years) with ECOG performance status 0-2 and …

The Association Between Dietary Flavonoid Intake And Cardiovascular Health Indicators In Women Aged 45 To 65, Melissa Wedel

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

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Relationship Of Child Maltreatment, Self-Esteem, Trait Emotional Intelligence, And Trust In Romantic Relationships, Philip Thorsen

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

No abstract provided.

Physician Nonverbal Immediacy And African American Patient Treatment Adherence Moderated By Gender, Ariana Salena Mcarthur

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

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Entrepreneurial Mental Well-Being: Strategies For Positive Business Outcomes, Shanna A. Jefferson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

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Understanding The Formal Help-Seeking Experiences Of Gay Men Who Have Experienced Intimate Partner Violence During The Covid-19 Global Pandemic, Kyla Tamika Williams

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

No abstract provided.

Perceptions Of Competence Development In The Field Of Gerontology And Dementia, Janice Braxton

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

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Strategies For Reducing Turnover Of Nursing Facility Administrators, Gabriel Ngunjiri

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

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Understanding The Lived Experiences Of Correctional Officers Working With Violent Adult Male Prisoners In Maximum-Security, Alexis Montgomery Nordman

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

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The Repeal Of Net Neutrality And Impact On Consumer Internet Access Rights, Ashlie Gibbs

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

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Elementary Teachers’ Preparedness To Teach Three-Dimensional Standards In The United Arab Emirates, Zoya Houjeiri

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

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Turtle Species And Ecology Drive Carapace Microbiome Diversity In Three Seasonally Interconnected Wetland Habitats, Matthew Parks, Jun Sheng Lee, Kassandra Camua, Ethan Hollender

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Different species of freshwater turtles exhibit primary behaviours ranging from aerial basking to benthic bottom-walking, cycle between wet and dry conditions at different time intervals, and undertake short-distance overland movements between aquatic habitats. These behaviours in turn may impact the accumulation of microbes on external shell surfaces of turtles and provide novel niches for differentiation of microbial communities. We assessed microbial diversity using 16S and 18S rRNA metabarcoding on carapace surfaces of six species of freshwater turtles residing in three adjacent and seasonally interconnected wetland habitats in southeast Oklahoma (United States). Communities were highly diverse, with nearly 4200 prokaryotic and …

The Challenges Of Implementing And Documenting Ottawa Ankle Rules In The Pediatric Emergency Department: A Retrospective Study, Emmalee M. Kugler, Michael Gillman, Olivia Toner

Cooper Rowan Medical Journal

INTRODUCTION
Acute ankle sprains account for nearly 2% of visits to the pediatric emergency department (PED). The Ottawa Ankle Rules (OAR) were developed as a safe and effective clinical decision-making tool for detecting the need for radiographs in adults with acute ankle pain. OAR state radiographs are required with at least one of the following:

1. Inability to bear weight immediately following the injury and for four steps in the ED 2. Bony tenderness at the posterior edge of the lateral or medial malleolus

OBJECTIVE
Few prospective cohort studies have attempted to assess OAR pediatric populations. This study investigates the …

Factors Influencing Implementation And Sustainability Of Interventions To Improve Oral Health And Related Health Behaviours In Adults Experiencing Severe And Multiple Disadvantage: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review, Deepti A. John, Emma A. Adams, Laura J. Mcgowan, Emma C. Joyes, Catherine Richmond, Fiona R. Beyer, David Landes, Richard G. Watt, Falko F. Sniehotta, Martha Paisi, Clare Bambra, Dawn Craig, Eileen Kaner, Sheena E. Ramsay

Peninsula Dental School

Objectives Among people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage (SMD), poor oral health is common and linked to smoking, substance use and high sugar intake. Studies have explored interventions addressing oral health and related behaviours; however, factors related to the implementation of these interventions remain unclear. This mixed-methods systematic review aimed to synthesise evidence on the implementation and sustainability of interventions to improve oral health and related health behaviours among adults experiencing SMD. Methods Bibliographic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, EBSCO, Scopus) and grey literature were searched from inception to February 2023. Studies meeting the inclusion criteria were screened and extracted …

Deep Learning Detection Of Aneurysm Clips For Magnetic Resonance Imaging Safety, M Courtman, D Kim, H Wit, H Wang, L Sun, E Ifeachor, S Mullin, M Thurston

Peninsula Medical School

Flagging the presence of metal devices before a head MRI scan is essential to allow appropriate safety checks. There is an unmet need for an automated system which can flag aneurysm clips prior to MRI appointments. We assess the accuracy with which a machine learning model can classify the presence or absence of an aneurysm clip on CT images. A total of 280 CT head scans were collected, 140 with aneurysm clips visible and 140 without. The data were used to retrain a pre-trained image classification neural network to classify CT localizer images. Models were developed using fivefold cross-validation and …

Transformer Decoder With Tokenized Image Snapshot For Interactive Augmented Reality, D Shin

Defensive Publications Series

While augmented reality (AR) devices enable users to provide queries via different modalities such as touch, gesture, voice, camera, etc., providing multimodal queries currently requires a user to perform multiple manual steps. This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with user permission, for automatic intelligent multimodal input capture by an AR device to understand user queries by automatically capturing input from additional modalities besides the one that the user uses to provide the query. The initial query (e.g., a spoken query) is decoded, e.g., with a transformer decoder, and if the query indicates an additional modality for input, the decoding is paused, …

Representing Historically Marginalized Communities In Archives: Moving Beyond Lcsh To Create More Inclusive Subject Headings, Melissa Ewing

The Information Warrior Journal

The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) are widely used around the world in libraries and archives to add access points for users searching their collections. This can be problematic because LCSH has many embedded issues including inconsistency and complexity, the myth of neutrality that surrounds it, systemic biases, and how slow it is to change. These problems lead to poor descriptions of people, especially those who belong to historically marginalized communities. Archives can move beyond LCSH to create local thesauri, crowdsourced vocabularies, and collaborative partnerships with historically marginalized communities to create more inclusive subject headings.

Arbiters Of Ugliness: A Review Of Strategies For Describing Offensive Archival Materials, Leah Minadeo

The Information Warrior Journal

As archivists increasingly concede that neutrality is impossible, we suggest that non-action is still action. It follows that to treat reasonably offensive records as any other record is to apply an interpretation that they are innocuous, unremarkable, and uncontroversial. Archivists may perceive the stakes of describing these materials as particularly high, but they lack a comprehensive set of descriptive strategies in consideration of interpretive ethics. As a result, existing practices are likely to be local or ad hoc. This research aims to identify and explore descriptive strategies archivists use which serve to construct (or concede) the meaning that certain historical …

Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Insider’S Perspective In Public And Academic Libraries, Ryan Lamberts

The Information Warrior Journal

The purpose of this paper is to bring to light the social issue of the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and how public and academic libraries are making strides to better serve this branch of the population. Definitions will be provided to better explain what challenges ASD patrons face. In turn, librarians across America, specifically in Illinois and Ohio in recent years, have come together to discuss in both literature and national forums what they are continually doing to better serve, educate, and support their patrons and train their librarians. ASD is a complex social issue faced by millions; one widely …

Full Issue - Nhij V1, Newhouse Impact Journal

Newhouse Impact Journal

No abstract provided.

Relational Pr: Relationship-Building And Trust At The Generative Ai Crossroads. Does The Practice Choose Greatness Or Irrelevance?, Alex Sévigny, Martin Waxman

Newhouse Impact Journal

No abstract provided.

Generating Deep Discussion Around Generative Ai, Regina Luttrell, Nicholas David Bowman

Newhouse Impact Journal

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Nest Site Fidelity And Adult Longevity In The Black Swift (Cypseloides Niger), Charles T. Collins, Kevin S. Foerster

North American Bird Bander

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Sex Determination By Wing And Tail Measurements In The Song Sparrow And Field Sparrow, Hannah Bonsey Suthers

North American Bird Bander

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Osprey Captures Tethered Rock Dove, Christopher W. Schultz

North American Bird Bander

No abstract provided.

Books, North American Bird Bander

North American Bird Bander

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