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Parental Participation And Engagement In North Carolina Medicaid Enhanced Mental Health Services For Children And Adolescents, Jonathan Andrew Traylor

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Parental participation and engagement (PPE) are positively associated with improved treatment outcomes for children receiving mental health services; however, parental involvement remains inconsistent among culturally diverse and economically disadvantaged families served through North Carolina Medicaid enhanced mental health services. Barriers to communication, collaboration, and sustained engagement may limit parents’ active participation in treatment planning and service delivery. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore PPE among culturally diverse and economically disadvantaged parents whose children received North Carolina Medicaid enhanced mental health services. The ecological perspective of human development constituted the theoretical framework for this study. Data were …

Condos V. Herrera

All Decisions

After trial in this GCEL no-grounds/nonrenewal holdover, the court denied the landlord's post-trial motion to conform the pleadings to proof to claim the small landlord exemption under RPL § 214(1) and dismissed the petition. Although the evidence at trial's end tended to show the landlord owned fewer than 10 units, the court declined to overlook the landlord's lack of candor and inconsistent representations throughout the proceeding regarding her ownership interests in New York State residential units.

Final Basinwide Quality Management Plan (Qmp) – 2026-2030, Revision 0, Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

In Re: Felicia Smith; Reinard Smith

2026 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Pascal Gedeon V. Usa

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Daniel Lewis V. Superintendent Phoenix Sci

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Resignation Typology And Its Impact On Entrepreneurial Intention And Action, Shuaijun Zhang, Wanrong Hou, Sibin Wu

Management Faculty Publications

By categorizing resignees into “genius,” “traditional,” “forced,” and “trapped,” this study examines the relationship between different types of resignees and entrepreneurial intention and action. Furthermore, we argue that anticipated regret and dormant tie reactivation moderate this relationship. An analysis of survey data from 781 participants in the United States indicates that the types of resignees exert varying influences on entrepreneurial intention and action. Compared with “traditional” and “trapped,” but not “forced,” the “genius” group have high intention of starting their own enterprises. However, the “trapped” group engage in more entrepreneurial activities than “genius.” Further, the “trapped” group with high anticipated …

What The Supreme Court Didn’T Answer About Trump’S Section 301 Tariffs |, Marc L. Busch, Barry Appleton

Other Publications

No abstract provided.

2026 July 2 - Tennessee Weekly Drought Summary, Tennessee Climate Office, East Tennessee State University

Tennessee Climate Office Weekly Drought Summaries

No abstract provided.

Defining Contractile And Age-Specific Remodeling In Atrial Fibrillation, Hannah Cizauskas

Dissertations

Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is the most common cardiac arrythmia worldwide and is characterized by hallmarks including electrical, fibrotic, and hemodynamic remodeling, each of which can cause or be caused by alterations in the contractile apparatus. However, there is little known about contractile remodeling in AFib. While our current understanding of AFib lacks contractile remodeling, it also largely ignores the contribution of aging-induced remodeling. Aging is the strongest risk factor for AFib development, with most patients diagnosed with AFib over the age of 70, and aging also involves the three molecular hallmarks of AFib, which could explain increased susceptibility of AFib …

Navigating Loss: Policy & Practice Within Student Affairs Support Of Bereaved Students, Jessica Renee Brown

Dissertations

This study examines how student affairs professionals interact with and support bereaved students through policy and practice. Suffering the loss of a family member or loved one while enrolled in college can have adverse effects on a student’s ability to persists through their studies and various student affairs offices and officers are charged with providing care and support to this unique population as they navigate their grief journey. While some studies exist on the prevalence of grief among students on college campuses and the effects that loss can have their academics and mental health, there is little research on how …

Design And Fpga Deployment Of Quantized Convolutional Spiking Neural Networks For Ecg Arrhythmia Classification, Olamilekan Banjo

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Wearable ECG monitors enable continuous cardiac surveillance, yet most remain limited to basic heart rate metrics or coarse atrial fibrillation detection, relying on cloud-based analysis that introduces latency, connectivity dependence, and battery drain. Deploying advanced multi-class arrhythmia classification directly on-device is constrained by the tight memory, power, and computational budgets of wearable hardware. This dissertation presents a Quantized Convolutional Spiking Neural Network (QCSNN) for real-time ECG arrhythmia detection on edge hardware, developed across three progressive phases.

Phase 1 introduces a separately trained two-stage QCSNN architecture — a binary classifier cascaded with a four-class classifier — trained directly via surrogate gradient …

Successful Management Of A Large Pediatric Traumatic Pneumothorax Using A Thoracic Vent Device After Blunt Chest Injury: A Case Report, Jayanjali Bodavula, Melika Babadi, Morgan W. Stewart, Brett Dunbar

Student Publications

Traumatic pneumothorax is a common complication of blunt thoracic trauma and is traditionally managed with tube thoracostomy, particularly in larger or symptomatic cases requiring pleural decompression. Thoracic vent devices, such as the UreSil Thora-Vent, represent a less invasive pleural drainage option for the management of spontaneous or iatrogenic pneumothorax. However, literature regarding their use in traumatic pneumothorax, particularly in pediatric patients, remains limited. We present a case of a 13-year-old girl who developed a large left-sided traumatic pneumothorax after blunt thoracic trauma sustained during a softball collision. Computed tomography demonstrated a large left-sided pneumothorax and a nondisplaced left sixth rib …

Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Transfer Of Gsdme-Nt Pores As A Mechanism Of Inflammation Propagation, Bifeng Xiao

Master's Theses

Inflammasomes are multiprotein complexes that initiate inflammatory signaling through activation of caspase-1, cytokine maturation, and cleavage of Gasdermin D (GSDMD). Cleaved GSDMD forms membrane pores that contribute to cytokine release and pyroptotic cell death. Recent evidence suggests that extracellular vesicles (EVs) may facilitate the intercellular transfer of inflammatory mediators. This study investigated whether GSDMD N-terminal fragment (GSDMD-NT) associates with EV-enriched fractions and contributes to inflammation propagation. Doxycycline-inducible HeLa cells expressing FLAG-tagged GSDMD-NT were used to generate EV-enriched fractions. Western blot analysis detected GSDMD-NT-associated material within EV fractions, while EV marker analysis supported successful enrichment of EV-associated material. Exposure of recipient …

Human Cancer Genomes Harbor The Mutational Signature Of Tobacco-Specific Nitrosamines Nnn And Nnk, Michael Korenjak, Nuri Alpay Temiz, Stéphane Keita, Bérénice Chavanel, Claire Renard, Cécilia Sirand, Jiehong Guo, Et Al.

Michigan Tech Publications

BACKGROUND: Tobacco use is linked to multiple cancer types and a quarter of cancer deaths. Tobacco smoke contains numerous mutagenic chemicals such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), however, the mutagenicity of many chemicals in tobacco products remains underexplored. The tobacco-specific nitrosamines 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK) and N'-nitrosonornicotine (NNN), both International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Group 1 carcinogens, form pre-mutagenic pyridyloxobutyl (POB) DNA adducts, yet little is known about the associated genomic mutation landscape(s) in humans. METHODS: We applied bulk and error-corrected next-generation sequencing to a battery of experimental systems comprising mammalian cell lines and animals exposed to NNK or NNN, …

Soil And Crop Productivity Under On-Farm Vermiculture-Based Farming System At Smallholder Rates In The Sub-Humid Tropics, Felix Matheri, Edward Karanja, David Bautze, Milka Kiboi

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

Introduction – Vermiculture-based manures such as vermicompost and its byproducts like vermiculture are gaining importance as viable alternative soil amendments. This is practically feasible, especially in subsistence farming, by replacing common organic and synthetic inputs that are often costly and inaccessible to farmers. However, the effectiveness of vermiculture tea as a sole amendment or in combination with other inputs has not been tested under field conditions. Moreover, its longterm impact on soil and crop productivity has not been established. Methods – We conducted an on-farm field study in farmers' fields to evaluate the effects of sole vermiculture tea (Vermi), in …

Occ Joinder In Debtor's Motion Re: Opt Out Ballot

Catholic Dioceses in Bankruptcy

No abstract provided.

The Fingers-Based Occlusion Effect Triggering Methodology That Will Be Utilized For Creating Visual Imagery And Visual Patterns Utilizing A Pen Tool Where The Pen Tool Can Be Utilized To Create Visual Imagery And Visual Patterns On Physical Surfaces And On 3-Dimensional Virtual Space Areas., Punarjeewa Abeysekera

Defensive Publications Series

This paper describes a fingers-based occlusion effect triggering methodology that will be utilized for creating visual imagery and visual patterns utilizing a pen tool where the pen tool can be utilized to create visual imagery and visual patterns on physical surfaces and on 3-dimensional virtual space areas. The fingers-based occlusion effect triggering methodology will incorporate a pen tool, a built-in display that produce illumination, tracking markers and built-in camera configuration. The methodology will be required to utilize a power source that will be required to power the pen tool and its entities. And the methodology will be required to utilize …

Method For Trust-Aware And Language Model–Driven Email Threat Detection And Mitigation, Niranjan M M

Defensive Publications Series

Email remains the primary communication channel for enterprises and continues to be the most exploited attack vector for cyber threats. Modern email attacks increasingly rely on impersonation, social engineering, and contextual manipulation rather than traditional malware or malicious links, allowing them to evade existing detection mechanisms. At the same time, email security systems are adopting large language models (LLMs) to improve intent detection and contextual analysis, introducing new risks where email content itself can manipulate or degrade automated reasoning.

The proposal introduces a secure, trust-aware, and LLM-safe framework for automated email threat detection and remediation. The proposed system integrates sender …

Risk Authority Platform, Soumick Sinha, Mayank Johari, Lucas Fernando Müller, Sanjay Sawhney

Defensive Publications Series

Proposed herein is a Risk Authority platform that continuously computes an authoritative Trust Score and Trust Deficit for users or entities from heterogeneous security, identity, threat, compliance, privilege, and vendor-risk telemetry. The platform normalizes signals, applies configurable weighting and time decay, and maintains a versioned canonical trust state. A drift detection and reconciliation engine compares downstream trust states against the authoritative state and issues deterministic, idempotent reconciliation tokens when deviations or model-version mismatches occur. Software development kit (SDK) and application programming interface (API) integrations can validate schemas, verify tokens, and propagate risk updates. A closed-loop adaptive policy controller maps Trust …

Primitive For Finding Actionable Information In Time Series Based On Motif Locations, Michael Yeh, Yan Zheng, Junpeng Wang

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a system and method for finding actionable information in time series based on motif locations. The method includes an analysis computer that obtains time series data. The analysis computer generates a plurality of motifs. For each motif of the plurality of motifs, the analysis computer determines identified locations in the time series data that match the motif and determines a plurality of motif type scores based on the identified locations of the motif. The analysis computer determines a selected motif of the plurality of motifs based on the plurality of motif type scores for each …

Method, System, And Computer Program Product For Online Account Recovery, Elisa Duarte

Defensive Publications Series

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for online account recovery. An example method includes: receiving an account recovery request associated with a user account a user is unable to access, the account recovery request including identity data and payment device data, the payment device data obtained via short range wireless communication in response to the user arranging the payment device relative to a computing device; in response to receiving the account recovery request, authenticating the chip based on a cryptogram; in response to authenticating the chip, inputting a payment device identifier and the identity data into a model …

Optimally Scaled Low-Rank Adaptation For Efficient High-Rank Fine-Tuning, Yilang Zhang, Xiaodong Yang, Yiwei Cai

Defensive Publications Series

A method can be performed during a round of iteration during a loss function optimization process. The method can include a computer obtaining a first matrix and a second matrix. The computer can determine a selected scaling process from a first scaling process and a second scaling process. The computer can modify the first matrix and the second matrix using the selected scaling process to obtain a first modified matrix and a second modified matrix. The computer can determine a first moment and a second moment based on the first modified matrix and the second modified matrix. The computer can …

Autonomous Mobile Robot For Transferring Planar Workpieces Between Processing Stations Using An Orientation-Holding Con­Veyor Stage And A Self-Locking Kinematic Dock, Alexander Willer

Defensive Publications Series

An autonomous mobile robot (AGV / AMR) transfers a planar workpiece — for example a printed circuit board — between processing stations by carrying a transfer-conveyor segment on a powered stage that holds the segment’s orientation independently of the robot’s heading. This lets a minimal-footprint, non-holonomic robot present the conveyor to a station port facing any direction, in confined space, without sweeping the segment through its diagonal. At each station a docking interface is provided that separates location from clamping: passive kinematic features (a fully-locating feature plus a relieved one, optionally tapered) locate the segment, while one or more self- …

Predictive Doppler Frequency Pre-Compensation For Non-Terrestrial Network Handovers, Edison Chen, Xuqiang Zhang

Defensive Publications Series

In non-terrestrial networks, for example, networks that use low-earth-orbit satellites, handovers between satellites may be subject to latency due to significant Doppler frequency shifts for the target satellite. This disclosure describes a predictive method for Doppler pre-compensation that may be centered at a user equipment (UE) (e.g., a smartphone, tablet, or vehicle-mounted terminal). The technique may involve the UE recording the magnitude of a frequency compensation value from its connection with a source satellite. For an initial uplink transmission to a target satellite, the UE may then apply a predictive pre-compensation value, which could be derived by inverting the polarity …

In-Band Threat Context Propagation For Distributed Policy Enforcement, Niranjan M M

Defensive Publications Series

The proposal introduces a data-plane aligned mechanism for propagating compact, actionable threat context in-band with live traffic to enable immediate and coordinated security enforcement across distributed environments. Instead of relying on centralized control-plane signaling or out-of-band policy distribution, the approach encodes deterministic enforcement intent such as action, severity, scope, and validity into bounded in-band metadata that travels along the same forwarding path as the affected traffic.

Enforcement points decode and validate this metadata in the fast path and apply policy actions at data-plane speed without requiring context lookups or external coordination. Rich threat details remain out-of-band and are optionally resolved …

System For Converting Predictive Insights Into Executable Tasks Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

Predictive analytics tools are highly effective at identifying organizational risks, such as potential employee turnover, but they often fall short in providing managers with clear steps to resolve these issues. To bridge this gap, the described technology functions as an intelligent intermediary layer that translates high level statistical risk drivers into concrete, multi-step intervention strategies.  When a predictive engine detects a risk, the system uses a retrieval augmented generation framework to pull relevant contextual information from an internal knowledge base, which can include organizational playbooks and historical success records. This specific context is then fed into a generative large language …

System For Context-Aware Data Redaction Using Instruction-Constrained Generative Ai, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

Data redaction techniques, such as manual review or simple pattern-matching, may present challenges related to speed, potential for errors, and contextual understanding for identifying sensitive information. The described system and method may be used for a context-aware redaction process that uses a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model. Source text can be encapsulated within a detailed instructional prompt that guides the AI model's function toward identifying and substituting sensitive data. This process can be managed by an orchestration layer that is configured to interact with an AI inference engine, for example, under a zero-retention policy. By replacing identified data with semantic …

Prioritization Of Work Items Using Ai-Based Weighted Strategic Alignment, Tanmay Kayande, Deep Raithatha

Defensive Publications Series

Prioritization of work items within an organization can be a subjective and manual process, potentially leading to a disconnect between development efforts and strategic business objectives. A disclosed technology describes a system, for example, a computing device (e.g., a server, a smartphone, a wearable device), where an artificial intelligence agent can analyze unstructured work requests, such as feature ideas or bug reports. The agent may evaluate an item against a configurable registry of weighted strategic drivers, and can assign a numerical score and a natural language justification. A total priority score may then be calculated for a work item by …

Agricultural Cooperatives And Crop Marketing In Tanzania, Benson Otiene Ndiege Dr

Jurnal Vokasi Indonesia

Agricultural cooperatives have become essential tools in rural areas, fostering agricultural development. This study examines the marketing of farmers' produce by cooperatives in Tanzania. It specifically investigates the collection processes of agricultural produce through cooperatives and the importance of cooperative marketing during the 2023/24 to 2024/25 seasons. The study used a descriptive mixed-methods design that mixed both qualitative secondary data analysis and qualitative documentary review. As such, the study utilised secondary data from the Tanzania Cooperative Development Commission (TCDC) statistical database and the report on the performance of non-financial cooperatives in Tanzania in 2025. The data included variables such as …