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Staff Education To Improve Gestational Diabetes Knowledge In Family Practice Staff, Lawretta Udogadi Aghomon

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The project was a staff education program on gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) that was carried out in an outpatient primary health facility to help improve staff knowledge of GDM. GDM is a pregnancy complication where women with no history of diabetes become hyperglycemic during their gestational period. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of mothers giving birth who received a diagnosis of diabetes during pregnancy has increased in the last 10 years. Limited healthcare staff knowledge is a constraint in preventing the increase of GDM incidence. The practice-focused question was: Among healthcare staff at a …

Professional Identity Development Of Black Women Counselor Education And Supervision Students In Predominantly White Institutions, Demetria Kathryn Burleson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Black women in counselor education and supervision (CES) programs at predominantly White institutions (PWIs) accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) face unique challenges that significantly influence their professional identity development (PID). Systemic barriers, such as microaggressions, racial stereotyping, and limited institutional support, remain pervasive and underexplored in literature. The purpose of this qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of PID among Black women enrolled in CES doctoral programs at CACREP-accredited PWIs. This qualitative study, guided by Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology and informed by intersectionality and social cognitive career theory, aimed …

Early Childhood Educators’ Experiences Facilitating Learning Of Noncognitive Skills, Amanda Taylor

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The problem that was addressed through this study is that early childhood educators need help supporting young children in learning noncognitive skills, such as socialization, perseverance, and self-efficacy. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore early childhood educators’ experiences facilitating the learning of noncognitive skills, specifically socialization, perseverance, and self-efficacy. The study was grounded in the conceptual frameworks Nagaoka et al.’s noncognitive framework and Stingher’s learning to learn in early childhood framework. Data were collected through semistructured interviews with eight local early childhood educators who teach 3- and 4-year-olds, who were contacted via email, word of mouth, …

The Experience Of Non-English Speaking Hispanic Patients During Kidney Transplant Evaluation, Ana Ivette Merced-Castro

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

There has been an increase in the incidence of Hispanics being diagnosed with end stage renal disease (ESRD), which has evolved from the rise in type 2 diabetes and hypertension. However, Hispanics and African American people are less likely to receive kidney transplants than non-Hispanic White individuals, and many Hispanics referred for transplants often do not complete the evaluation process due to its complexities. The purpose of this qualitative narrative descriptive study, guided by the socioeconomic model, was to explore the lived experiences of non-English-speaking Hispanic patients during the kidney transplant evaluation process. Six participants were recruited for the individual …

Computational Modeling And Structural Generation Of Piano Music In The Classical Style, Yijing Feng

Dartmouth College Ph.D Dissertations

Listening to fast-tempo piano sonatas of the Classical period (circa 1750-1820) has been shown to have therapeutic effects for neurological disorders such as epilepsy. The limited existing repertoire of music in this style motivates the creation of more long-form, coherent compositions with clearly defined structure. Despite the long history of computer-based music generation and recent progress in deep learning, particularly transformer-based models, generating structurally coherent long-form music remains a major challenge. This difficulty stems from the scarcity of reliable structural annotation datasets, the computational demands of modeling very long musical sequences, and the lack of effective structural encoding in both …

Small Things / Bigger Picture: Foucault, Vygotsky And Exclusionary Practices In Schools, Elizabeth Done, Vicky Bamsey

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

This conceptual paper seeks to identify resonances between the theorising of Vygotsky and Foucault that can explain how events which may not be perceived to be exclusionary by educators may contribute to school exclusion or the self-exclusion of students through home education. We explore the subjective conditions of actions that deviate from the normative standards enshrined in school behaviour policies, drawing on Vygotsky’s concept of perezhivanie which, following Chisholm, we situate in an ars pathetica derived from Foucault. The small things of our title refers to incidents, interactions or micro-practices that may be perceived as insignificant by educators but which, …

Enabling New Synthetic Platforms For Aryne Synthesis With Aryl Thianthrenium Reagents, Riley Augustus Roberts

Dissertations and Theses

The enormous importance of aromatic rings in organic molecules cannot be understated. Aromatic rings are present in the majority of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and consumer products. The way in which these rings are arranged and substituted results in a molecule’s unique properties. Because of this, the current limitations of the chemical methods used to synthesize these molecules results in limited structural diversity and thus missed opportunities for the development of value-added products. To this end, this work demonstrates novel methods of aryne synthesis, aryl thianthrenium synthesis and a unique approach to structural scaffold hopping. The approaches presented herein allow for rapid …

Institutions, Indigenous Peoples, And The Structure Of Power In Columbia River Basin Salmon Governance, Christopher Michael Page

Dissertations and Theses

As broad patterns of behavior influenced by norms and rules, institutions structure many aspects of modern society through coordination and the distribution of power. Due to the importance of common-pool natural resources to many aspects of society, they usually involve competition and lie at the intersection of multiple institutions. This combination of institutions, power disparities, and a competitive interest is what scholars have referred to as a "field." Fields can be complex, and the coordination among interests is generally done through a form of governance involving a wide array of laws, regulations, and actors. When at least one of these …

Machine Learning - Driven Solar Forecasting In Dust-Prone Regions For Sustainable Energy Systems, Kadhim Hayawi, Husna Maliakkal, Neethu Venugopal, Thanveer Musthafa Hussain, Gomathi Bhavani Rajagopalan

All Works

This research focuses on improving solar energy forecasting in dust-affected regions such as the UAE, where frequent dust storms reduce photovoltaic (PV) efficiency by scattering and absorbing sunlight. Many existing models overlook the impact of dust events, leading to inaccurate forecasts during such conditions. To address this, the study develops machine learning models—including LSTM, GRU, and hybrid LSTM-GRU architectures—that incorporate solar, weather, and dust-related features. The models were evaluated across multiple forecasti24 hoursons (1, 6, 12, and 24 hours), demonstrating that including dust-related variables significantly enhances prediction accuracy, particularly for short-term forecasts. Temporal and seasonal analyses revealed that dust events, …

Defining Three Principles For Credible Evidence Synthesis And Reviews In Health Professions Education, Michelle Daniel, Morris Gordon, Hussein Uraiby, Peter Boedeker, Janice Hanson, Diana Dolmans, Satid Thammasitboon

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

As reviews become increasingly central to informing educational practice and guiding research in health professions education, the need for methodological clarity and quality has grown. This Commentary highlights three foundational principles - alignment, rigor, and transparency - that underpin high-quality reviews, regardless of type. We illustrate how these principles apply across commonly used review types, including systematic, scoping, realist, and narrative reviews. By aligning the research question with the appropriate review methodology, employing rigorous processes for evidence collection and synthesis, and maintaining transparency in methodological reporting, review teams can produce credible, transferable, and dependable findings. Embracing these principles not only …

Distinguishing Chronic Sigmoid Volvulus From Ogilvie Syndrome: A Case Report, Amanda Paulus, Arpit Aggarwal, Sara Glendinning

Conference Presentation Abstracts

Purpose/Background: Benign etiologies of large bowel obstructions are categorized by mechanical or functional. Mechanical obstructions include volvulus, hernia, adhesions, and stricture. Sigmoid volvulus is the most common benign cause of large bowel obstruction. Functional disorders include colonic pseudo obstruction, paralytic ileus, and chronic constipation. Colonic pseudo obstruction (also known as Ogilvie’s Syndrome) is a functional disorder that causes a large bowel obstruction that can be acute or chronic in nature.

Methods/Interventions: A 62-year-old male with chronic constipation and multiple comorbidities presented with abdominal distention and dyspnea. He was previously treated for Ogilvie's pseudo obstruction through conservative measures. On exam, his …

Turn-On Fluorescent Glucose Transport Bioprobe Enables Wash-Free Real-Time Monitoring Of Glucose Uptake Activity In Live Cells And Small Organisms, Monica Soma Hensley, David Hutchings, Abdelrahman Ismail, Marina Tanasova

Michigan Tech Publications

The direct link between sugar uptake and metabolic diseases highlights the iminent need for molecular tools to detect and evaluate alterations in sugar uptake efficiency as approaches to identify disease-relevant metabolic alterations. However, the strict requirements of facilitative glucose transporters regarding substrate binding and translocation pose challenges for developing effective fluorescence molecular probes. Based on the state-of-the-art understanding of glucose recognition by facilitative transporters (GLUTs), we designed a glucopyranoside mimic - GluRho - that delivers the “turn-on” rhodamine B to live cells via glucose transport, including major transporters GLUTs 1-4. The high binding affinity achieved through the secondary interaction between …

Observational Properties Of Near-Maximal Spin Black Holes With The Eht, Tegan A. Thomas, Angelo Ricarte, Yajie Yuan

Senior Honors Papers / Undergraduate Theses

In 2021 and 2024, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration published the first polarized images of the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) M87* and Sgr A*, which allowed us to place important constraints on the accretion flow and underlying space-time. Of particular interest is the dimensionless spin parameter "a_•", which theoretically may attain a maximum value of a_• = 0.998 when spun up by a thin accretion disk. On the other hand, mechanisms including incoherent accretion, SMBH mergers, and spin extraction via jets, are hypothesized to spin down SMBHs from these near-extremal values. In this work, we perform …

Connections, Peter Froehlich

LSU Master's Theses

A definitive shift in American social interaction has been taking place far longer than most realize. It is easy to point the finger at the prevalence of technology and social media, this has been a trend that has been going on since the mid to late twentieth century. Stemming from changes in design, the breakdown of scheduled social outlets, and shifts in technology have led to what some writers and sociologists are calling “The Anti-Social Century.”

Working through a making practice to promote the building of connections through social interaction, three different types of spaces were targeted for the exploration …

“The Most Wretched Of Commodities”: Shelley's Monster And Kafka's Vermin As Proletarian Heretics, Aiman Adeel

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

No abstract provided.

Risk Of Coronary Obstruction In Redo-Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Between Bicuspid And Tricuspid Aortic Valves, Atsushi Okada, Syed Zaid, Miho Fukui, Evan Walser-Kuntz, Larissa I Stanberry, Marcus R Burns, John R Lesser, João L Cavalcante, Paul Sorajja, Vinayak N Bapat

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Background: Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is approved across all risk profiles, including patients with bicuspid aortic valves. These patients are generally younger, with a higher chance of reintervention.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the feasibility of redo transcatheter aortic valve (TAV) between bicuspid and tricuspid aortic valves.

Methods: A computed tomographic (CT) simulation of redo-TAV was conducted using 913 post-TAVR CT studies from patients who underwent TAVR with SAPIEN 3 or SAPIEN 3 Ultra (S3; n = 623) or Evolut R, Evolut PRO, or Evolut PRO+ (Evolut; n = 290) valves. Fifty-nine cases were for …

Hadronic Vacuum Polarization For The Muon G-2 From Lattice Qcd: Complete Short And Intermediate Windows, Alexei Bazavov, David Anthony Clarke, Christine Davies, Carleton Detar, Aida X. El-Khadra, María Elvira Gámiz Sánchez, Steven Gottlieb, Anthony Grebe, Leon Hostetler, William Jay, Hwancheol Jeong, Andreas Kronfeld, Shaun Lahert, Jack Laiho, Gerard Lepage, Michael Lynch, Andrew Lytle, Craig Mcneile, Ethan Neil, Curtis Peterson, James Simone, Jacob W Sitison, Ruth S. Van De Water, Alejandro Vaquero Avilés-Casco

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

We present complete results for the hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment aμ in the short- and intermediate-distance window regions, which account for roughly 10% and 35% of the total HVP contribution to aμ, respectively. In particular, we perform lattice-QCD calculations for the isospin-symmetric connected and disconnected contributions, as well as corrections due to strong-isospin breaking. For the short-distance window observables, we investigate the so-called log-enhancement effects as well as the significant oscillations associated with staggered quarks in this region. For the dominant, isospin-symmetric light-quark-connected contribution, we obtain aμll,SD(conn)=48.139(11)stat(91)syst[92]total×10-10 and aμll,W(conn)=206.90(14)stat(61)syst[63]total×10-10. We use Bayesian model …

Impact Of Prior Exposures On Biomarkers Of Blast During Military Tactical Training, Zhaoyu Wang, Shengnan Sun, Alis Aksar Kranfli, Jeffrey Nemes, Molly J. Sullan, Andrew J. Hoisington, Lisa A. Brenner, Miciej Skotak, Christina R. Lavalle, Yongchao Ge, Walter Carr, Fatemah Haghighi

Faculty Publications

Blast injuries and subclinical effects are of significant concern among those Service Members (SMs) participating in military operations and tactical trainings. Studies of SMs repeatedly exposed during training find concussion-like symptomology with transient decrements in neurocognitive performance, and alterations in blood biomarkers. How prior mild TBI (mTBI) history interacts with low-level blast (LLB) exposure, however, remains unexplored, which we investigate in the present study, to identify interindividual biomarker changes from LLB exposures influenced by prior history of mTBI.

Nyls Announces 94% Employment Rate For Class Of 2024; 90% Employed In Gold Standard Jobs, Ariel Dvorkin

NYLS Community News

No abstract provided.

Phase Ii Study Of Venetoclax Added To Bendamustine And Obinutuzumab In Patients With High-Risk Follicular Lymphoma As Front-Line Therapy: Pre0403, Craig A Portell, Opeyemi A Jegede, Nina Wagner-Johnston, Grzegorz S Nowakowski, Christopher Fletcher, Jonathon B Cohen, Andrew M Evens, Lori J Rosenstein, Jeffrey W Craig, Nishitha Reddy, Brad S Kahl

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Over-expression of BCL-2 defines follicular lymphoma (FL). Venetoclax (VEN), a selective BCL-2 inhibitor, has previously been evaluated with bendamustine-based chemoimmunotherapy. VEN was given continuously, resulting in promising efficacy but unacceptable toxicity. The Phase II PrE0403 study was designed to evaluate intermittent dosing of VEN (10 days per cycle) combined with obinutuzumab and bendamustine (VEN-OB) in untreated FL subjects with high-risk features defined as a FLIPI-1 score of ≥3 and/or high tumor burden by GELF criteria. A total of 56 subjects were planned to be accrued with a goal of having 51 subjects eligible to improve the historical 50% CR rate …

Cyber-Physical Security Through The Lens Of Ai-Enabled Systems, Zhiyuan Yu

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Cyber-physical systems (CPS), powered by emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, have become integral to various critical domains such as the Internet of Things (IoTs), medical devices, and autonomous vehicles. A unique aspect of these systems lies in their interactions with the physical world, by perceiving environments through heterogeneous modalities (perception), processing digital data with human-in-the-loop intelligence algorithms (computing), and autonomously actuating controls that affect physical processes (actuation). While this intricate fusion of cyber and physical components has unlocked unprecedented capabilities, it has also introduced new security challenges. However, traditional security measures often fall short in addressing these multifaceted threats. This …

Achievement Goals And Burnout In Pre-Health Profession Undergraduate Students, Jamie Jensen, Hunter Nelson, Grant Rousseau, Kenneth Harrington, Isaiah Aduse-Poku, Alexis Call, Tanner Brown

ScholarsArchive Data

These are survey results of BYU undergraduates who are enrolled in pre-health programs. We assessed their Achievement Goal Orientations and their feelings of Burnout.

Should Physicians Take The Rap? Normative Analysis Of Clinician Perspectives On Responsible Use Of 'Black Box' Ai Tools, Ben H Lang, Kristin Kostick-Quenet, Jared N Smith, Meghan Hurley, Rita Dexter, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby

Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff Publications

Background: Increasing interest in deploying artificial intelligence tools in clinical contexts has raised several ethical questions of both normative and empirical interest. One such question in the literature is whether "responsibility gaps" (r-gaps) are created when clinicians utilize or rely on such tools for providing care, and if so, what to do about them. These gaps are particularly likely to arise when using opaque, "black box" AI tools. Compared to normative and legal analysis of AI-generated responsibility gaps in health care, little is known, empirically, about health care providers views on this issue. The present study examines clinician perspectives on …

Augmented Reality Microscopy To Bridge Trust Between Ai And Pathologists, Sunil Badve, Xiuli Liu, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Diagnostic certainty is the cornerstone of modern medicine and critical for maximal treatment benefit. When evaluating biomarker expression by immunohistochemistry (IHC), however, pathologists are hindered by complex scoring methodologies, unique positivity cut-offs and subjective staining interpretation. Artificial intelligence (AI) can potentially eliminate diagnostic uncertainty, especially when AI "trustworthiness" is proven by expert pathologists in the context of real-world clinical practice. Building on an IHC foundation model, we employed pathologists-in-the-loop finetuning to produce a programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) CPS AI Model. We devised a multi-head augmented reality microscope (ARM) system overlayed with the PD-L1 CPS AI Model to assess …

Temperature-Driven Air Circulation In Caves With Blind Passages, Chris Hendy Dr, David J. Merritt, Shannon Corkill, Cross Cross

International Journal of Speleology

Two blind-passage show-caves in the Waitomo district of New Zealand, Ruakuri Cave and Aranui Cave, have been monitored for the impact of visitors on their environment, especially focusing on partial pressures of carbon dioxide because high levels cause speleothem degradation. In Ruakuri Cave, annual cycles of daily mean pCO₂ correspond with annual cycles of visitor numbers, both peaking in summer. The origin of the high pCO₂ had been assumed to be anthropogenic due to respiration from visitors. Prolonged intervals with no visitation during the Covid-19 pandemic saw the daily mean pCO₂ continuing to show the annual cycle, …

Design Of An Artificial Intelligence System For Analyzing And Predicting User Behavior In Digital Spaces To Counter Soft Social Threats, Mahsa Mahsa Shishegar Hamedani

Defensive Publications Series

This invention introduces an AI-based system designed to analyze and predict user behavior in digital environments. By leveraging machine learning algorithms and behavioral data, the system identifies early signs of soft social threats such as misinformation and manipulation. It enables proactive threat detection, offering real-time analysis and predictive capabilities to enhance digital security and social stability across various platforms.

Protecting Security And Privacy In Mobile Ai Ecosystems, Zongyong (Vincent) Chen

Defensive Publications Series

This publication describes systems and methods for protecting security and privacy in mobile artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystems. The use of protected virtual machines (pVMs) serves to isolate the AI components of the ecosystem, ensuring both privacy and security for end-user data. By running the AI on a separate operating system (OS), even a compromise of the main OS does not threaten the integrity of the data and output of the AI. In addition, the AI can be implemented on separate hardware than that of the main OS, such as separate processor(s), memory, etc., making user data inaccessible to malicious actors.

Method To Increase Heat Dissipation Through Mda Heat Sink Metrology, Wei Leng Tee, Min Won Bae, Khin Yuupar Htaing, Thanakorn Sangrit

Defensive Publications Series

A hard disc drive (HDD) consists of many components such as a magnetic recording disc 103, base deck 102, and cover 101. In some embodiments, a cover 101 with a form-in-place gasket (FIPG) 104 and a base deck 102 are arranged to provide a sealed HDD. A final welding process is applied on final cover 100 to seal the drive hermetically. A magnetic recording disc 103 is rotatably supported within the housing. A data transducer is then controllably moved by an advance part to glide across the surface of the magnetic recording disc. Together with incorporated electronics linked to the …

Providing Dynamic Hello Timers And Adjacency Stability In Control Plane Protocols Using Extended Berkeley Packet Filter Techniques, Sreejith Sreekumaran, Navin Bhat, Jyothirmai Anekallu, Palak Juneja, Madhan Sankaranarayanan

Defensive Publications Series

A novel extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) -powered solution is proposed herein for managing dynamic hello packet timers in order to achieve seamless network dependability. The eBPF techniques proposed herein may provide for reducing convergence loss and improving protocol stability by automatically modifying timings in real-time based on network conditions, thereby assuring network resilience and responsiveness.

Ice Castles, Jacqueline Keren

Valparaiso Fiction Review

No abstract provided.