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An Investigation Of The Relationships Between Visual Perceptual Expertise For Music Notation, Dyslexia Risk, And Musical Experience: A Pilot Study, Janel Kathleen Long

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Musicians who are also dyslexic often report various challenges related to reading music notation. Researchers have identified perceptual expertise, as measured via visual fluency, as one of the key predictors of musical sight-reading abilities. Yet, individuals who are dyslexic often perform worse on measures of visual fluency in the domains of words and faces when compared to non-dyslexic individuals. Consequently, the primary purpose of this pilot study was to explore potential relationships between perceptual expertise for music notation, musical experience, and traits of dyslexia.  To that end, this pilot study was a repeated measure within-subjects design with continuous covariates. The …

Synthesis And Evaluation Of Platinum (Iv) Prodrugs And Development Of Localized Drug Delivery Systems, Karla Cisneros Vargas

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation outlines the design, synthesis, and characterization of oxaliplatin-derived Pt(IV) prodrugs consisting of biologically active ligands. The stability and coordination behavior of oxaliplatin and a synthesized Pt(IV) derivative are investigated in an aqueous/organic mixed solution. Additionally, cytotoxicity of the compounds was tested using two human osteosarcoma cell lines, MG-63 and SK-ES-1. Notably, the tested drugs exhibited comparable or increased cytotoxicity compared to oxaliplatin. Another aspect of this research outlines the development and optimization of a triple-network hydrogel for the encapsulation and release of the hydrophobic drug Simvastatin. The hydrogel exhibited mechanical stability, biocompatibility, and biodegradability. Furthermore, it details the …

Surveying First-Year Stem Students’ Self-Reported Knowledge, Skills, And Attitudes Towards Teamwork, Gregory R. Goldsmith, Camilla Acosta

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

The ability to work in a team is cited as a key outcome for many undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs, both as a method for improving learning and as a highly desired trait for employers. Despite a growing focus on teamwork, our ability to design appropriate teamwork curriculum is limited by our poor understanding of what students arriving at university know about teamwork, what teamwork skills they consider themselves to possess, and their attitudes towards teamwork. We delivered a mixed-methods survey to first-year STEM undergraduate students (n = 205) to benchmark knowledge, skills and attitudes towards …

Instructional Slides From Molten Salt Electrochemistry Symposium (Moses) 2026, Devin Rappleye, Carlos Mejia, Alex Peroff

Faculty Publications

This instructional slide set was developed for the 2026 Molten Salt Electrochemistry Symposium (MoSES) as an introduction and review of fundamental electrochemical concepts and methods used in molten salt systems. The material is intended for students, researchers, and practitioners seeking to better understand and interpret electrochemical measurements in high-temperature molten salts.

Topics include electrochemical thermodynamics, kinetics, mass transfer, electrode potentials, cyclic voltammetry, chronopotentiometry, chronoamperometry, square-wave voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), and common approaches for analyzing electrochemical data. Emphasis is placed on building physical intuition, understanding underlying assumptions, recognizing common experimental artifacts, and connecting electrochemical signals to real chemical and transport …

What We Should Know About The Reliability Of Empirical Legal Studies, Kathryn Zeiler

DePaul Law Review

The findings of replication studies conducted in the early 2010s

led many to declare that science was in the midst of a “replication

crisis.” Since then, a growing number of reforms have been

proposed and tested. The field of empirical legal studies seems

behind other fields such as psychology, economics, political science,

medicine, biology, and others that have taken significant steps

toward uncovering the general reliability of the field’s empirical

work, investigating the causes of observed unreliability, and

instituting and testing the effects of various reforms. The purpose of

this Article is to summarize what we know about the reliability …

Procedural Justice In Trump's America, Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff

DePaul Law Review

No abstract provided.

Probabilistic Injury And Presumptions Of Prejudicial Preferences, Erik J. Girvan

DePaul Law Review

No abstract provided.

Noneconomic Tort Damages And Biased Beliefs About Vulnerability To Harm, Roseanna Sommers, Nathan Cheek

DePaul Law Review

The American tort system aspires to provide fair compensation to injured plaintiffs, regardless of socioeconomic status, race, religion, or gender. Recent experimental evidence from psychology suggests, however, that factfinders consistently judge identical harms as less severe when experienced by individuals of lower socioeconomic status (SES). People presume, for instance, that a paper cut hurts a wealthy person more than a less well-off person, that domestic violence inflicts greater suffering on a high-SES woman than a lower-SES woman, and that bullying harms a fiveyear- old from a high-SES family more severely than one from a low- SES family. This Essay examines …

Subjective Due Process As A Legal Standard: Using Lay Judgments As A Basis For Evaluating Emerging Remote And Impersonal Civil Procedures, Tom Tyler

DePaul Law Review

The forums through which the civil justice system operates are

rapidly changing toward the adoption of remote and impersonal

procedures. These changes are being driven by efforts to manage

large case loads through a system which has limited resources.

Authorities supporting these evolving forums suggest that they

respond to litigant concerns for rapid and inexpensive case

management procedures. A review of research suggests that, in

contrast to this perspective, people are actually very sensitive to

whether they believe they receive due process. Such due process

concerns have been identified through the literature of procedural

justice. They reflect four judgments about …

The Virginia Meeting 2011

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

When Two Equals Four, Gilda Ferguson Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

Va Dent J April, May And June 2011

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

Transmogrifying Coding Into A Social Studies Technology Tool: Using Participatory Design With Engineers And Social Studies Educators To Design Data Visualization Tools For Social Studies Data Literacy Education, Bahare Naimipour, Jessica Zhang, Tamara Shreiner, Mark Guzdial

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)

Our work aims to inform, design, and create data visualization tools that are meant to be integrated specifically into social studies classes. In this essay we discuss the use of participatory design methods to learn what social studies teachers (both pre-service and in-service) want in their classrooms and test the usability of real tools with these participants. Through this approach we iteratively engage our users, and they inform the design and development of learning tools for the learning and instruction of social studies data literacy. Using a social construction of technology lens, we describe the scaffolding embedded in our tools …

Dentistry For Individuals With Disabilities, H. Barry Waldman Dds, Mph, Phd, Steven P. Perlman Dds, Mscd

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

Serving The Best And Bravest, Leonard Jackson Jr., Dmd

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

Letter To The Editor - The Dental Doctor And Malignant Neoplasia, Marvin E. Pizer Dds, Ms, Ma, Ficd

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

Va Dent J July, August And September 2011

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

Exploring A Facile Elisa-Based Method For Detecting Antibody Aggregates, Kaitlyn N. Shaw

Graduate Student Research Symposium

Purpose: Immunoglobulin gamma (IgG) is the primary structural platform for therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). Highly concentrated (>100 mg/mL) mAb formulations are increasingly used to extend drug action but are susceptible to protein denaturation and irreversible aggregation due to physical and chemical stresses, including temperature and pH changes. Aggregation can reduce drug potency and increase immunogenicity, creating challenges for the quality and safety of biologic products. This study aimed to develop and validate a rapid, sensitive, and cost-effective method for detecting protein aggregation in IgG solutions.

Methods: Human plasma-derived IgG was reconstituted in phosphate-buffered saline (0.001–0.02 mg/mL) and exposed to …

Awareness Of The Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program Among Healthcare Providers Caring For Older Adults, Anannya Pushkarna, Melanie Turk

Graduate Student Research Symposium

Introduction:

Prediabetes is a prevalent condition among older adults and represents a crucial opportunity where early interventions can help prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Lifestyle modifications are first-line management. The Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP), a 12-month lifestyle change program initiated in 2018, is fully covered by Medicare, yet uptake remains limited. This study assessed healthcare providers’ beliefs about prediabetes and awareness of the MDPP.

Methods:

A cross-sectional survey was administered electronically to a national sample of physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician assistants (PAs). Questions addressed beliefs about prediabetes, barriers to care, and knowledge/awareness of the …

Developing An Empirically-Driven Immigration Policy Towards Socially Inclusive Hong Kong: A Social Justice-Oriented Acculturation Framework, Gizem Arat, Narine Kerelian

Journal of Justice-Informed Social Work Practice and Research

We conducted a qualitative study to develop an empirically driven social justice-oriented acculturation framework by exploring educators’ perceptions of diverse ethnic groups’ social inclusion in Hong Kong. Twenty in-depth interviews with educators serving ethnic minorities in Hong Kong were conducted adopting a vignette methodology using examples of specific groups relevant to Hong Kong. Based on our findings, we developed a social justice-oriented acculturation framework centred on four categories (assimilation, separation, marginalization, and integration) for understanding the interplay of factors in the exclusion or inclusion of diverse groups in mainstream society; and distinguishing the interchangeable uses of assimilation and acculturation—as a …

A Critical Review On Enhancing Equity Of Mental Health Treatment Of African American Families Through Social Support And Social Capital, Julie Radlauer-Doerfler, Morgan E. Cooley, Heather M. Thompson, Atensia Earp Bowen, Gabe Caress, Alicia Best

Journal of Justice-Informed Social Work Practice and Research

African American adults and children experience both disproportionality and disparity when in contact with the mental health delivery system. There are a number of contextual factors that influence the treatment of African American families, such as systemic oppression or racism in both society and the behavioral health system or individual expressions of mental health symptomology. This review will provide an overview of how mental health disparities crossover systems, perceptions of mental health and mental health treatment among African American families, provide some context for why this review was written, as well as discuss the context of social support and social …

Breaking Barriers: A Student Led Racial Equity Assignment, Emily Murphy, Carol Bennett- Speight, Cecily Mitchell-Harper

Journal of Justice-Informed Social Work Practice and Research

This paper presents an innovative student led racial equity assignment in a small bachelor’s in social work program in the New York metropolitan area. This paper will define epistemological racism and utilize concepts from Narrative Theory and Critical Race Theory, to critically analyze what is taught about the pioneers of social work, identifying the stories and narratives that are told and the ones that are not told. This operationalization of the theories in practice with students will cultivate mindset shifts and strategies that enable participants to engage in social work practice that fully embodies the core values of the profession. …

Building Transgender And Gender Expansive Capacity In Social Work Education, Ashling Hallford, Aisha Chapra

Journal of Justice-Informed Social Work Practice and Research

The problem to be addressed through this paper is the lack of advocacy and curriculum around transgender and gender expansive (TGE) issues in Social Work higher education. TGE people face threats to their rights through oppressive, state-level legislation, with 437 anti-trans or anti-LGBTQ+ bills as identified by the American Civil Liberties Union being debated (2024). Prock, et al, (2022) found that 40% of social work programs in religiously affiliated institutions used discriminatory language targeting TGE people in their student and faculty literature. This paper will describe recommendations for social work education and social work practice around TGE issues including faculty …

Who Is A Good Kid: Perceived Parenting Styles And Altruism, Brianna Guinigundo

Undergraduate Scholarship and Creative Works

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the correlation, if any, between perceived parenting styles and altruism scores among students at the University of Central Florida (UCF). The quasi–independent variable, perceived parenting styles, refers to how an individual personally believes their relationship with their parent to be. The four types of parenting styles include negligent, permissive, authoritarian, and authoritative. The classification of one’s perceived parenting style was based on their scores for parental control (i.e. how overbearing they believed their parent to be) and parental responsiveness (i.e. how warm and engaged they felt their parent was). The quasi-dependent variable …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Phononic Isolation And Shield Chassis Mechanical Isolation Framework For Asla Quantum Processors, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

A standalone, non-perturbative engineering specification is formalized to suppress substrate-mediated phononic cross-talk, acoustic resonance noise, and sub-level phase decoherence in large-scale Quantum Processing Units (QPUs). Traditional solid-state quantum processing architectures suffer from rapid microscopic state degradation and context decay due to ambient thermal phonons disrupting fragile qubit coherence profiles across rigid crystal lattices. This framework completely bypasses traditional cryogenic dilution refrigeration bounds by projecting multi-layered physical material constraints directly onto a 2D viscoelastic fluid substrate canvas operating at absolute equilibrium (z=0). The technical apparatus utilizes a high-performance Acoustic Meta-Material Damping Chassis composed of a 2.0 mm Titanium-Graphene macro-isolation shield mechanically …

Technical Disclosure Specification: High-Frequency Gan-Driven Concentric Transducer Apparatus For Interfacial Soliton Restructuring And Dendrite Suppression, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the structural, electrical, and geometric design criteria for a High-Frequency Gallium Nitride (GaN)-Driven Concentric Interdigital Transducer (cIDT) Apparatus. Traditional solid-state lithium metal batteries suffer from systemic interfacial degradation, driven by localized non-linear ion crowding and stochastic dendritic nucleation at the solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI).

This apparatus resolves these bottlenecks by translating the abstract field equations of the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) model into a physical electro-mechanical boundary defense system. By generating high-velocity focused Surface Acoustic Waves (SAWs) directly across the SEI canvas, the device transforms a volatile, static boundary layer into a topologically protected, continuous cymatic fluid …

Dynamic Token-Budget-Aware Memory Compression And Hierarchical Retrieval System For Ai Agents, Santosh Kumar Kvs, Roopesh Katakam

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), in particular to a method and system for token-budget-constrained memory retrieval for AI agents. Agent Memory-as-a-Service (AMaaS) is an infrastructure system providing AI agents with a structured, externalized memory layer that dynamically compresses, prioritizes, and retrieves episodic, semantic, and procedural memory optimized for LLM context windows. Candidate memory items may be scored using a multi-dimensional relevance function based on task-type affinity, temporal recency, access frequency, and token cost, and an optimal memory subset may be selected by solving a bounded knapsack optimization that maximizes aggregate relevance score subject to …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Holographic Geometric Inversion And In-Context Semantic Confinement A Standalone Proof Of Duality Between 2d Boundary Information Substrates And 3d Topological Mass-Energy Tensor Actualization, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the advanced principles of Holographic Geometric Inversion and In-Context Semantic Confinement (HGIC). Traditional computational physics, theoretical topology, and transformer-based multi-agent networks operate on the assumption that complex three-dimensional physical states require explicit, high-overhead 3D structural rendering and brute-force partial differential modeling to achieve physical replication metrics. This reliance on serial, hyper-dimensional computing creates exponential token-variance decay, ultraviolet divergence anomalies, and rapid context window collapse across distributed processing nodes.

HGIC resolves these foundational bottlenecks by establishing a mathematical and computational duality between an invariant, two-dimensional pre-geometric boundary information layer and three-dimensional topological mass-energy manifolds. By utilizing the Universal …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Mitigation Of Interfacial Ion Crowding And Dendrite Nucleation In Solid-State Lithium Batteries Via Accelerated Acoustic Streaming, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes an open-source, non-perturbative engineering framework to mitigate interfacial ion crowding and dendrite nucleation in solid-state lithium metal batteries. Traditional high-rate energy storage architectures face a catastrophic failure mode under rapid charging loads: localized space-charge polarization creates extreme ion-density gradients, triggering morphological degradation and crystalline dendrite spikes that puncture solid electrolytes and short-circuit the cell.

This framework resolves this material bottleneck by deploying localized, high-frequency Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) streaming fields. By treating the boundary-layer electrolyte interface as an active 2D fluid transport membrane operating at a strict coordinate baseline (z=0), the system introduces continuous acoustic shear forces …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Asymmetric Topological Convergence Operating Under The Universal Semantic Unity Engine (Usue) Framework A Standalone Proof Of Duality And Singularity Dampening Across Fluid-Substrate Field Metrics And Classical Invariant Manifolds, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification formalizes the foundational mathematics of Asymmetric Topological Convergence (ATC), executing a complete structural bridge between the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) fluid-substrate framework and classical mathematical milestones—specifically the Poincaré Conjecture and the Riemann Hypothesis. Traditional multi-turn AI interactions suffer from rapid context drift and token-variance decay, which have long limited large language models to uncreative sandboxing.

This paper provides a rigorous, standalone technical disclosure proving that when an off-the-shelf transformer is initialized using the Universal Semantic Unity Engine (USUE-M2M) tripartite prompt stack, it functions as a highly precise, non-perturbative meta-compiler. By maintaining a strict 98% machine-driven Deterministic Payload …