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Building An Integrated Digital Transformation System Framework: A Design Science Research, The Case Of Feduni, Munir Majdalawieh, Shafaq Khan

All Works

The purpose of this paper is to propose an integrated digital transformation system framework (IDTSF) to help support business leaders and teams in making their products, services, and operations more streamlined and competitive. The framework will help organizations to best meet user/customer needs with minimum waste and time and enables businesses to achieve efficiency compared with island and traditional sequential approaches. The proposed framework can also provide insights to help organizations to avoid common failures when deploying digital transformation initiatives. The paper follows the design science research (DSR) and the information systems design science research (ISDSR) methodologies to develop the …

Grotesque Masculinities In The Works Of Harry Crews, Barry Hannah, And Padgett Powell, Matt Brandon Blasi

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

“Grotesque Masculinities in the Works of Harry Crews, Barry Hannah, and Padgett Powell” explores how these authors use the grotesque to complicate, distort, and criticize hegemonic white Southern masculinity as represented in contemporary American literature. In “Grotesque Masculinities,” I argue that the presence of the grotesque mode in these author’s works offers a unique critical perspective by which to better understand how masculinity is constructed by and for white Southern men in literature, and how alternative configurations of identity are not only possible, but necessary to decenter whiteness and heteronormativity as dominant categories. Using what sociologists refer to as body-reflexive …

Event-Based Imaging Polarimeter, Michael R. Hawks, Michael L. Dexter

Faculty Publications

The design and initial experimental results from an event-based, rotating-polarizer, imaging polarimeter are presented. The speed of division-of-time imaging systems is traditionally constrained by the frame rate of the focal plane sensor and the need to sample several polarization angles during rotation. The asynchronous event reporting of event-based cameras (EBCs) frees these constraints but introduces challenges. The Stokes vectors used to describe polarization are based on irradiance, but EBCs are inherently change-detection systems that struggle to estimate irradiance. Two methods of estimating the polarization state without first recovering irradiance images are presented and compared. The DAVIS 346 sensor enables simultaneous …

One-Pot, One-Step Synthesis Of Drug-Loaded Magnetic Multimicelle Aggregates, Chang Soo Kim, Dmitry Nevozhay, Rebeca Romero Aburto, Ashok Pehere, Lan Pang, Ziqiu Wang, Kelsey Boitnott Mathieu, Marie Zhang, John D Hazle, Robert C Bast, Konstantin Sokolov

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Lipid-based formulations provide a nanotechnology platform that is widely used in a variety of biomedical applications because it has several advantageous properties including biocompatibility, reduced toxicity, relative ease of surface modifications, and the possibility for efficient loading of drugs, biologics, and nanoparticles. A combination of lipid-based formulations with magnetic nanoparticles such as iron oxide was shown to be highly advantageous in a growing number of applications including magnet-mediated drug delivery and image-guided therapy. Currently, lipid-based formulations are prepared by multistep protocols. Simplification of the current multistep procedures can lead to a number of important technological advantages including significantly decreased processing …

Impacts Of Artificial Light At Night (Alan) In Marine Ecosystems – A Review, Laura F.B. Marangoni, Thomas Davies, Tim Smyth, R Airam, Mark Hamann, Cristian Duarte, Kellie Pendoley, Jørgen Berge, Elena Maggi, Oren Levy

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

The globally widespread adoption of Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) began in the mid-20th century. Yet, it is only in the last decade that a renewed research focus has emerged into its impacts on ecological and biological processes in the marine environment that are guided by natural intensities, moon phase, natural light and dark cycles and daily light spectra alterations. The field has diversified rapidly from one restricted to impacts on a handful of vertebrates, to one in which impacts have been quantified across a broad array of marine and coastal habitats and species. Here, we review the current understanding …

Observation Of Ultracold Atomic Bubbles In Orbital Microgravity, R. A. Carollo, D. C. Aveline, B. Rhyno, S. Vishveshwara, C. Lannert, J. D. Murphree, E. R. Elliott, J. R. Williams, R. J. Thompson, Nathan Lundblad

All Faculty Scholarship

Substantial leaps in the understanding of quantum systems have been driven by exploring geometry, topology, dimensionality and interactions in ultracold atomic ensembles1–6. A system where atoms evolve while confined on an ellipsoidal surface represents a heretofore unexplored geometry and topology. Realizing an ultracold bubble—potentially Bose–Einstein condensed—relates to areas of interest including quantized-vortex flow constrained to a closed surface topology, collective modes and self-interference via bubble expansion7–17. Large ultracold bubbles, created by inflating smaller condensates, directly tie into Hubble-analogue expansion physics18–20. Here we report observations from the NASA Cold Atom Lab21 facility onboard the International Space Station of bubbles of ultracold …

Effect Of Provider Education On Urinary Incontinence Knowledge And Assessment, Kendra L. Roloff, Patricia Parker, Rhonda Schafer-Mclean, Robert West

Cooper Rowan Medical Journal

Nearly 50% of women in the United States will experience urinary incontinence at some point during their lives. Urinary incontinence impacts multiple aspects of a woman’s life, yet remains underdiagnosed by primary care providers. The Women’s Preventative Service Initiative released a recommendation in 2018 to screen all women annually for urinary incontinence. The recommendation was in response to the lack of women who seek care for urinary incontinence.

The purpose of this project was to implement education and reminders for primary care providers, in order to improve urinary incontinence knowledge and assessment of women 18 years of age or older. …

A Sailor’S Disease Presenting In Urban America With Red Spots On The Legs, John A. Buchan, Bruce H. Gray

Cooper Rowan Medical Journal

Sailors were often affected by nutritional deficiencies due to the absence of fresh foods on long voyages. One example is the development of scurvy from a lack of vitamin C ingestion. In modern society in which fresh food are available this disease is infrequently recognized. The following case describes a 62-year-old male who presented with “red spots” on his legs and a large area of ecchymosis on his thigh. After initial testing failed to elicit a cause, a dietary history revealed that the patient had a peculiar diet of only ice cream with a total avoidance of fruits and vegetables. …

Color Dependence Of The Topological Susceptibility In Yang-Mills Theories, E Bennett, Dk Hong, J-W Lee, C-Jd Lin, B Lucini, M Piai, D Vadacchino

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Mental Imagery To Reduce Alcohol- Related Harm In Patients With Alcohol Dependence And Alcohol-Related Liver Damage: The Mirage Pilot Trial Protocol, Ashwin D. Dhanda, Hannah Allende, Victoria Allgar, Jackie Andrade, Matthew Peter Bailey, Lynne Callaghan, Laura Cocking, Elizabeth Goodwin, Annie Hawton, Christopher Hayward, Ben Hudson, Alison Jeffery, Angela King, Victoria Lavers, Joe Lomax, C. Anne Mccune, Richard Parker, Christopher Rollinson, Jonny Wilks, S Creanor

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

How To Regulate Online Platforms: Why Common Carrier Doctrine Is Inappropriate To Regulate Social Networks And Alternate Approaches To Protect Rights, Edward W. Mclaughlin

Fordham Law Review Online

Concerns about the “concentrated control of so much speech in the hands of a few private parties” and their ability to suppress some user speech have led to calls to regulate online platforms like common carriers or public accommodations. Advocates of that regulation theorize that social media platforms host today’s public forum and are open to all comers and so should have a responsibility to be content neutral and allow all voices to be heard. Traditionally, the argument that private players, as opposed to only government actors, can violate individuals’ free speech rights was a progressive cause, but recently conservative …

Court Mandated Technology-Assisted Review In E-Discovery: Changes In Proportionality, Cost-Shifting, And Spoliation, Graham Streich

Fordham Law Review Online

Burgeoning advanced technology-assisted review (TAR) methods challenge justifications for requesting parties’ burdens and litigant cooperation in e-discovery. Increasingly accurate and accessible TAR introduces novel issues in e-discovery, including determining the proportionality of discovery requests and managing information in spoliation cases. This Essay recommends reconsidering the judiciary’s role in e-discovery in light of new technology and argues that courts, particularly lower courts, need expert technical guidance to adequately address the issues e-discovery presents.

Recording Virtual Justice: Cameras In The Digital Courtroom, Matthew Bultman

Fordham Law Review Online

With in-person hearings limited during the COVID-19 pandemic, many courts pivoted to proceedings held over the telephone or on virtual platforms like Zoom. It appears these proceedings are here to stay, with various benefits having been realized from remote access to the courts. Remote hearings have, however, given rise to constitutional questions. This Essay focuses on one emerging issue: courts’ ability to prohibit the press and the public from recording or disseminating these proceedings. While the constitutionality of recording and broadcasting restrictions inside the real-world courtroom is established, little consideration was given to the extension of these rules to the …

Exploring Glycolysis-Mediated Metabolic Stress And Mitigation Strategies In The Cns Through Glycation-Lowering Therapy, Cavan Patterson

Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biological Sciences Master's Theses

In the aging brain, cells undergo stress, inflammation, loss of replicative ability and in some cases cell death. Hyperglycemic conditions have been shown to exacerbate these effects. Recent literature has begun to regard Alzheimer’s Disease as a “Type 3 Diabetes Mellitus,” implicating loss of insulin sensitivity and increased oxidative stress as contributing factors. Hyperglycemic conditions can overwhelm the cellular capacity to detoxify harmful glycolytic byproducts such as methylglyoxal (MGO). Intact MGO reacts readily with nearby proteins or lipids to form Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs), of which the accumulation over time has been linked to many age-associated pathologies. Our lab …

Principal Response Curve Analysis Of Arthropod Community Abundance Data With Sparse Subsets, Changjian Jiang, C. R. Brown, P. Asiimwe, Chen Meng, Adam W. Schapaugh

Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture and Natural Resources

Principal response curve (PRC) analysis was applied to an assessment of the ecological impact of the genetically-modified (GM), insect-resistant, cotton MON 88702 on predatory Hemiptera communities in the field. The field community was represented by ten taxa collected ten times across the season at six sites, in which individual taxa were not observed in at least 25% of the time (unique site x collection combinations). These complete absences and those nearly so, called sparse subsets of the data in this investigation, were the result of geoclimatic and seasonal variations, which are both independent of the treatment effect for which the …

Separating The Wheat From The Chaff: Understanding Background Groundwater Conditions Surrounding Coal Ash Ponds, Tarek Saba, Gordon Getzinger

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

A Novel And Rapid Approach To Evaluate The Effectiveness Of Wastewater And Treatment Byproduct Solidification, Benjamin A. Kienzle, Priscyla Marquez, Tongren Zhu, Maria Juenger

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Use Of Machine Learning Algorithm To Classify Anomalies In Cover Of Ccr Disposal Site, Hanlei Gu, Wladimiro Villarroel, Benjamin Gallagher, Brian Palmer

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Addressing Public Fear With Facts—Tva Coal Ash Factsheets Poster Presentation, Melissa Hedgecoth, Lisa Jn Bradley, Neil Carriker, Rock Vitale

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Geochemical Modeling Of Acid Mine Drainage Mitigation Using Stabilized Flue Gas Desulfurization Material, Chin-Min Cheng, Walter N. Powell, Brianna O'Neil-Hankle, John J. Lenhart

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Incineration Ashes – A Possible Substitute To Coal Fly Ashes In Cementitious Environments, Vikram Kumar, Nishant Garg

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Landfill Reclamation: Over 20 Years Of Coal Combustion Product Recycling, Rich Ellman, Joe Malizia, Jim Erdman, Dan Baker

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Measured Leachate Generation To Predictive Modeling, Kirk Ellison, Benjamin Gallagher, Cedric Ruhl, See Hoon Lee

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Influence Of Ash Drainage Technique On Water Treatability, Ed Carter, Greg M. Landry, Paul C. Schmall

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow - Perspectives On Gw Remediation In A Dynamic Ccr Market, Brad Koons, Dennis Connair, Doug Gray

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Fly Ash Reclamation And Beneficiation Using A Triboelectric Belt Separator, Frank Hrach, Cesar Constantino, Kyle Flynn, Kamal Ghazi

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Evaluating The Synergy Between Upcycled Off-Spec Fly Ash (Ofa) & Bio-Based Rejuvenators In Recycled Asphalt Mastics, Ahmed Abdalla, Ahmed Faheem, Rebecca E. Crispin, Mohammed Alsalihi

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Investigation On Rare Earth Elements (Rees) Of Fly Ash From Western India’S Lignite Deposit, Debabrata Das, Shivam Sharma, Ramkrishna Mondal

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Ccr & Elg Rule Revisions Impacts On Plant Operations And Compliance, Will Mattingly, Bill Kennedy

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Long Time Experiences With Ash Recovery In France, Loic Danest, Fabrice Fayola

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.