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2025-04-23 Seattle U Approaches Earth Month In Search Of Beloved Community, Hadia Noor Ahmed

The Spectator Online

No abstract provided.

2025-04-23 Esports Pushing Game Developers Forward With Help From Nathan Moller, Abdullah El-Sherbeeny

The Spectator Online

No abstract provided.

2025-04-23 Seattle U Food Pantry Aims To Destigmatize Hunger, Tristan Scott

The Spectator Online

No abstract provided.

Development And Validation Of A Dynamic Real-Time Risk Prediction Model For Intensive Care Units Patients Based On Longitudinal Irregular Data: Multicenter Retrospective Study, Lan Lan, Xiaobo Zhou, Xiaoyan Yang, Shixin Huang

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background: Timely and accurate prediction of short-term mortality is critical in intensive care units (ICUs), where patients' conditions change rapidly. Traditional scoring systems, such as the Simplified Acute Physiology Score and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation, rely on static variables collected within the first 24 hours of admission and do not account for continuously evolving clinical states. These systems lack real-time adaptability, interpretability, and generalizability. With the increasing availability of high-frequency electronic medical record (EMR) data, machine learning (ML) approaches have emerged as powerful tools to model complex temporal patterns and support dynamic clinical decision-making. However, existing models are …

Louisiana, The Potential Safe-Haven For Creators Of Artificial Intelligence: Louisiana’S Response To Thaler V. Perlmutter, Graham Core

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Recovering The Lost Art Of Medicine: A Role For Ignatian Spirituality, Cecilia Motherway

College Honors Program

Throughout history, medicine or healing has been deeply associated with religion and spirituality, from the ancient Greek healing god Asclepius to the medieval monastic medical tradition and beyond. This lies in their common cause: addressing the vulnerability of our human existence. Humanity has long recognized that our suffering and death raise existential questions concerning our mortality that may require perspectives greater than biology and rationality can provide. However, at the turn of the 20th century, as medical technology rapidly advanced, raising the average global life expectancy by decades, the medical field removed all non-scientific, non-secular influences to position itself as …

Vacationing In The City: The Local Impacts Of Contemporary Tourism In Three European Cities, Julia Clarke

College Honors Program

This thesis critically analyzes the local impacts of urban tourism in contemporary Venice, Italy, Lisbon, Portugal, and Valencia, Spain. The analysis focuses on the cities’ varying stages of over-tourism crises and hones in on one aspect of tourism’s impacts on each city. Venice serves as a case study of an evident over-tourism crisis with specific consideration for Venice’s economic dependence on tourism. Lisbon acts as an example of an imminent tourism crisis with an emphasis on the social consequences of tourism. Finally, Valencia showcases proactive tourism management as a means to prevent tourism-induced crises altogether, with particular focus on the …

Inside The Mad Mind: Medical Ethics In 19th Century Fiction, Danielle Dentremont

College Honors Program

The professionalization of medicine in mid-to-late 19th century America and Britain corresponded with heightened critical scrutiny of the ethics of doctor-patient relationships in contemporary fiction. With ethics frameworks of the century focused primarily on good fellowship between practitioners, it was difficult to charge practitioners with bad ethics. Yet, the broader debates of vivisection and women’s rights brought to light power imbalances between men and women that novelists began to suggest were present in medicine as well. Wilkie Collins’ Heart and Science weighs in on the danger of the doctor-scientist encroaching on women’s rights with the suggestion that women will be …

Examining The Effects Of Symbiotic State And Environmental Pollution On Wound Healing In Coral, Jonathan De Montagnac

College Honors Program

Understanding coral reef health requires comprehension of the biological processes that support live coral cover. Corals are frequently exposed to physical abrasion from various sources, thereby necessitating vital resources be directed towards wound recovery. For corals and other organisms that harbor photosynthetic symbionts, the balance between autotrophic versus heterotrophic energy contributions influences their fitness. Experimentally disentangling the individual effects of environmental stress and symbiotic state on coral health is difficult in most tropical corals due to the obligate nature of their symbiosis. However, determining how nutritional dynamics, environmental stressors, and health interact is crucial to understanding coral resilience. To examine …

Sustainable Brand Trust In Mobile Banking: A Case Study Of Bsi Mobile User Reviews On Google Play, Novian Tiandini, Haqqi Hidayatullah

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

In contemporary times, communication is important in resolving problems or crises in various field. One of them in digital transactions. The digital transactions are a frequently performed activity, including the use of mobile banking (m-banking), which has become an essential application due to the high volume of transactions utilizing it. Bank Syariah Indonesia (BSI) mobile is one of Indonesia's mobile banking services that experienced disruptions for several days in May 2023. Even BSI issued an official statement regarding the issue through their social media. This has the potential to affect users' trust in their brand, while a brand's strength is …

Cultivating A New Agricultural Ethos: An Environmentalist Reading Of John Steinbeck And Barbara Kingsolver, Will Fletcher

English Honors Theses

This thesis examines the agricultural criticisms of John Steinbeck in conversation with those of Barbara Kingsolver. It argues that Kingsolver answers Steinbeck’s agricultural criticisms in her own works with a vision of an improved food system that benefits farmers, consumers, and the environment. The first chapter looks at the 1939 classic The Grapes of Wrath, arguing that Steinbeck levels four main criticisms against industrial agriculture, all of which point towards a social movement aimed at protesting against the exploitation of the natural world. The second chapter opens with a dialogue between Steinbeck (informed by The Grapes of Wrath and Travels …

Environmental Risk And Alpha-Gal Syndrome (Ags) In The Mid-Atlantic United States, Brandon D. Hollingsworth Ph.D., Margaret Wiener, Dana A. Giandimenico, Scott P. Commins, Ross M. Boyce

Faculty Publications

Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), commonly referred to as the tick bite red meat allergy, has been reported worldwide with the number of suspected cases in the United States increasing from 24 in 2009 to over 34,000 in 2019. Within the US, AGS is associated with the bite of two tick species, Amblyomma americanum and Ixodes scapularis, and has particularly high incidence rates in the mid-Atlantic region. Because AGS is associated with tick bites, the risk of developing AGS is affected by the environment individuals visit. Despite this, as well as the numerous studies associating the environment with Am. americanum, …

Data From: The Dynamic Responses Of The Mouse Gut Microbiome To Dietary Supplementation With Various Anthocyanin-Rich Foods In The Context Of A Western Diet, Abby D. Benninghoff

Browse all Datasets

Background/Objectives: Anthocyanin (ACN)-rich foods may support gut health by modulating the microbiome and reducing inflammation, potentially lowering the risk of colitis-associated colorectal cancer. However, the dynamic response of the gut microbiome to ACN-rich diets is not well characterized, including in the context of structural and compositional differences among ACN-containing foods. This study examined the temporal response of the mouse gut microbiome to dietary ACNs, focusing on the impact of structural variation. We hypothesized that microbiome shifts would occur rapidly but require sustained dietary ACN intake to persist. Methods: C57BL/6J mice were fed the total Western diet (TWD) supplemented with freeze-dried …

State Of Utah, Plaintiff And Appellee V. Enrique Rey Rodriguez, Defendant And Appellant : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

Appeal from convictions for aggravated burglary, a first degree felony; and theft, a third degree felony , in the Second Judicial District, Davis County, the Honorable David Connors presiding

SCOTT WIGGINS, Counsel for Appellant

LINDSEY WHEELER, DEREK E. BROWN, GAGE ARNOLD, JASON NELSON, Counsel for Appellee

Functional And Comparative Genomics Of The C.Sojina- Soybean Interaction, Alejandra Maria Vargas Oyuela

LSU Master's Theses

Frogeye leaf spot (FLS), caused by Cercospora sojina, is a significant foliar disease of soybean (Glycine max) and is responsible for substantial yield losses worldwide. While management strategies rely on host resistance and fungicide applications, the emergence of new virulent races and fungicide-resistant isolates necessitates a deeper understanding of C. sojina host interactions and genomic variability. Here, we employed comparative and functional genomic approaches to decipher the molecular mechanisms underlying the C. sojina-soybean interaction. A dual RNA sequencing approach was used to identify transcriptomic changes in G. max cultivars Blackhawk (susceptible) and Davis (resistant) across multiple …

Covid-19 And The Impact Of Physical Activity On Persistent Symptoms, Lauren E. Opielinski, Toni D. Uhrich, Michael H. Haischer, Rachel N. Beilfuss, Lindsey M. Mirkes Clark, Kamryn M. Kroner, Rachel E. Bollaert, Michael J. Danduran, Linda B. Piacentine, Marie K. Hoeger Bement, Paula E. Papanek, Sandra K. Hunter, Sarah J. Hamilton

Physical Therapy Faculty Research and Publications

Introduction: Physical activity is protective against chronic disease but whether activity is associated with persistent symptoms in non-hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) survivors is unknown. The purpose of the study was to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on physical activity levels and the influence of physical activity on acute COVID-19 and long COVID symptoms in non-hospitalized COVID-19 survivors.

Methods: In total, 64 non-hospitalized COVID-19 survivors (45 female participants, 40 ± 18 years) were assessed for activity levels, body composition, and symptoms of COVID-19 8.5 ± 4.7 months post-infection and categorized into two groups: (1) persistent symptoms and (2) …

Is There Evidence For Changes In Antibiotic Resistance Of Microorganisms Causing Postcataract Surgery Endophthalmitis: A Systematic Review, Leo A Kim, Stephen Jae Kim, Maureen G Maguire, Christina Y Weng, Steven Yeh

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Background/aims: To review the evidence for changes in antibiotic resistance patterns before and after cataract surgery since the advent of routine use of intracameral (IC) antibiotic prophylaxis and development of newer topical fluoroquinolones pre- and postcataract surgery.

Methods: Literature searches in the National Library of Medicine PubMed database were conducted between 2019 and 2021 and updated in 2024. There were no date restrictions, and the search was limited to high-quality studies published in English. The initial combined searches yielded 583 articles, and the search update in 2024 yielded 9 articles. Of these 592 articles, 26 presented original research that met …

Meta-Analysis And Survival Analysis In Healthcare: Methods, Applications And Impact, Yinghui Wei

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

We described our novel research in medical statistics and their impact in healthcare by drawing upon the following examples: a meta-analysis within the Cochrane review on the effect of cutting portion size on consumption of food; a Stata command to regenerate individual level time-to-event data from published survival curves; and the use of the difference in restricted mean survival time as an alternative to hazard ratios when analysing time-to-event outcomes.

Relationships Among E-Voting, E-Auction, E-Cheque, And E-Cash, Yun-Xing Kho, Swee-Huay Heng, Syh-Yuan Tan, Ji-Jian Chin

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

This paper illustrates how a transformation technique can be used to demonstrate therelationship among e-voting, e-auction, e-cheque, and e-cash, even though they serve distinct purposes.Initially, we examine the definitions of e-cheque and e-cash schemes, along with their respective securitymodels. Subsequently, we develop a systematic framework to transform e-cheque into e-cash, supportedby formal proof demonstrating the security of the conversion. As a corollary, we further exemplify thisintegration with a generic transformation framework to obtain e-cash from e-voting directly by combiningan existing transformation of e-voting into e-cheque and the transformation of e-cheque into e-cash whichwe established earlier. We apply our transformation framework …

Stress Superposition On Roll Forming, Julio Malpica, Conrad Dende, Sebastijan Jurendic

Defensive Publications Series

Described herein are systems and methods of shaping sheet metal (e.g., by hemming, bending, roll forming, etc.) with stress superposition. Stress superposition is the process of adding additional stresses onto a particular forming process to increase forming limits. As such, the systems and methods described herein include the addition of compressive stress during the shaping by applying a compressive force by counteracting a roll-forming (or other shaping) die.

Enhanced Molded C Plastic Snap Feature, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

The C snap feature integrates a molded fastener to attach plastic components to sheet metal, reducing cost, weight, and complexity. It requires minimal insertion effort and ensures secure attachment with components like multipurpose ribs, a spring C shape, and a snap nose engagement. This design simplifies manufacturing, reduces tooling costs, and improves connection reliability.

Characterization And Polymorphism Analysis Of Lotilaner (Credelio) For Flea And Tick Treatment In Dogs, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

CREDELIO (Lotilaner) is a beef-flavored chewable tablet for oral administration to dogs and puppies based on their weight. Each chewable tablet provides a minimum dose of 9 mg of lotilaner per pound of body weight (20 mg/kg).

A Review Of Complimentary Theoretical Lens: Managing Supply Chain Of Material Drugs In Sub-Saharan Africa, Pross Oluka Nagitta, Godwin Kwemarira, Joseph Bufwambu, Luke Sewante, Bridget Nambuiru

African Social Science Review

The study examines supply chain coordination of the distribution of Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies (ACTs)intended for the treatment of malaria in Africa. Uganda, like most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, lacks effective coordination structures to facilitate the delivery of ACTs. Thus, the researchers attempt to explain supply chain coordination using the activity domain, resource dependency, and coordination theories. This study builds upon previous studies that have used complexity theory and transaction cost economies perspectives to inform supply chain coordination. The article answers the following questions: What theories can be used to understand supply chain coordination in Sub-Saharan Africa? What opportunities does this …

Board Governance Quality And Risk Disclosure Compliance Among Financial Institutions In Developing Economies, Geofrey Nkuutu, Joseph M. Ntayi, John C. Munene, Will Kaberuka

African Social Science Review

No abstract provided.

Crisis Migration In The Contexts Of Civil Wars: A Study On The Defects Of New Humanitarianism, Niruka Sanjeewan

African Social Science Review

No abstract provided.

Fulani Herdsmen-Farmers Conflicts And Governance In Nigeria, Andrew Ewoh, George Kieh, Ponmile Olonilua

African Social Science Review

No abstract provided.

Conflicts, Migration Crisis, Governance, And Supply Chain Coordination, Andrew Ewoh

African Social Science Review

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents Fall2024 Volume13_No 1, Andrew I. E. Ewoh

African Social Science Review

No abstract provided.

2025 Program, Kate Votaw

Undergraduate Research Symposium

University of Missouri-St. Louis Undergraduate Research Symposium Program 2025

Temperature And Density-Dependent Effects On Mole Salamander (Ambystoma Talpoideum) Growth And Life History, Andrew Brown

Steeplechase: An ORCA Student Journal

Climate warming affects global biodiversity, causing species to alter their life history and trophic interactions. Predicting the effects of climate warming on ecosystem function is a difficult task as the biological traits that lead to these responses are poorly understood and climate warming’s effects on individual taxa can be highly variable. Amphibians serve as excellent bioindicators of ecosystem health, enabling them to act as early-warning sentinels of climate change. Polyphenic amphibians, including many salamander species, are particularly useful models for understanding the ecological effects of global change because morph production is environmentally-induced. Facultative paedomorphosis is a process by which individuals …