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Quality In Action: A Systematic Approach To Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection Prevention, Jennifer E. Jones, Maggie Simons, Sherri Hoard, Gabriel Laney, Adam Nicholson, Victoria Springvloed, Tracy James, Erica Tuffs

Posters

Central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are a major source of morbidity, mortality, and increased healthcare costs in hospitalized patients. Reducing CLABSI rates requires more than isolated interventions; it demands a coordinated, multi-disciplinary strategy that addresses clinical practice, workflow and organizational culture.

From Scenario To Safety: Simulation As A Catalyst For Infection Prevention, Brianne M. Bachman, Jennifer E. Jones, Jessica L. Mcclusky, Mallory Davis

Posters

Simulation-based education has emerged as a transformative tool in healthcare, bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and clinical practice.

In the realm of infection prevention, simulation offers a controlled, risk-free environment to reinforce essential protocols, build competency, and identify system level vulnerabilities before harm occurs.

Hp1bp3 Loss Links Chromatin Reorganization To Metabolic Vulnerability In Glioma, Brittney Lozzi, Taylor A Gatesman, Pushan Dasgupta, Debosmita Sardar, Yeunjung Ko, Chenyu Mao, Hsiao-Chi Chen, Rachel N Curry, Dongjoo Choi, Carrie A Mohila, Melissa L Bondy, Ganesh Rao, Marco Gallo, Sameer Agnihotri, Benjamin Deneen

Duncan NRI Faculty and Staff Publications

High-grade gliomas (HGGs) are aggressive brain tumors with poor prognosis, driven in part by metabolic and epigenetic adaptations. Methionine metabolism supports HGG growth by supplying S-adenosylmethionine for methylation reactions, yet how nutrient availability influences chromatin organization in HGG remains incompletely understood. Using an immunocompetent mouse model of HGG, we found that dietary methionine restriction reduced tumor proliferation, extended survival, and induced partial nuclear inversion. We identified Hp1bp3 as a key regulator of tumor growth that functions by interacting with nuclear tethering proteins to mediate chromatin reorganization. Loss of Hp1bp3 results in the upregulation of histone demethylases leading to selective depletion …

Paths To Stability And Wealth: Evidence From The Habitat For Humanity Wealth Building Project, Yung Chun, Somalis Chy, Laura Evans, Xueying Mei, Stephen Roll

Center for Social Development Research

Owning a home has long been the most common way for American families build wealth—but for low- and moderate-income families, the route is rarely open and rarely simple. And handing a family the keys does not guarantee that the house will become an asset. This report sets out to answer a hard question: Can homeownership deliver lasting wealth to the families who have been locked out of it the longest, and what does it take to make that happen? This study presents findings from the first national evaluation of the Habitat for Humanity Wealth Building Project. The report examines how …

Editor’S Introduction, Michael D. Pante

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

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New Studies In Lattice-Based Cryptography, Quantum Algorithms, And Privacy-Preserving Computation, Hansraj Jangir

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Classical public-key cryptographic schemes primarily rely on the presumed hardness of the integer factorization and discrete logarithm problems. However, Shor’s algorithm demonstrates that both problems can be solved efficiently on a sufficiently powerful quantum computer. This breakthrough motivated the search for quantum-resistant hard assumptions. The assumptions based on lattices are one of the primary candidates in post-quantum cryptography due to their strong theoretical foundations and well-established hardness against both classical and quantum attacks. In this thesis, we explore several directions of lattice based cryptology and quantum algorithms.

On the construction side, we propose two compact encryption schemes based on the …

Upcoming Holidays, Katie Prentice

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

No abstract provided.

946 Bushwick Avenue, Llc V. Pearson

All Decisions

In this superintendent holdover (the second proceeding after respondent's employment was terminated), respondent's motion to dismiss on the basis that he is a tenant at will or at sufferance is denied. The court finds no delay in seeking recovery of the premises sufficient to create a tenancy at will or sufferance. Respondent's phone conversation with an agent of petitioner stating he could remain in the premises does not amount to a delay by petitioner.

Nyls Faculty Attend 2026 Aals Clinical Education Conference, Christina Symons

NYLS Community News

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Topological Tools For The Analysis Of Complex Networks And Higher-Order Networks, Jason P. Laruez

Theses

This dissertation investigates the intersection of topological data analysis and network science, applying and extending persistent homology, Betti numbers, and simpliciality measures to study temporal, evolving, and coevolving networked systems. We introduce a multi-layer zigzag persistent homology framework for analyzing temporal hypergraphs across multiple timescales simultaneously, and validate it on the DARPA Operationally Transparent Cyber dataset, where it produces topological signatures that distinguish malicious from benign network activity by source IP. We then apply topological tools to classical generative network models and their hypergraph extensions, characterizing how Betti numbers, filling efficiencies, and simpliciality measures evolve as these models grow or …

Natasha Joyce Stephens

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Process Development Of C63000 Nickel Aluminum Bronze For Cold Spray, Trent Lamont

Dissertations and Theses

Nickel-aluminum bronze (NAB) is widely used for maritime components but is traditionally limited to casting due to its complex microstructure. Fine β′ phase formation in NAB is governed by the solid-state transformation of the high-temperature β phase during cooling. This ordered martensitic β′ forms via diffusionless transformation, contributing to brittleness. Conventional metal additive manufacturing (AM) techniques, such as Laser Powder Bed Fusion and Directed Energy Deposition, experience high in-process cooling rates that promote fine β′ formation, compromising mechanical performance. Powder production similarly suffers from β′ formation, often requiring additional processing. Cold Mechanically Derived (CMD) powders, produced from wrought feedstocks, retain …

Broadly Reactive Human Monoclonal Antibodies Targeting Influenza A Nucleoprotein Lack Protective Activity In Vivo, Walter N Harrington, David C Brice, Aaron J Schmitz, Jackson S Turner, Rafael Brent, Philip A Mudd, Ali H Ellebedy, Richard J Webby

2020-Current year OA Pubs

The antibody response to influenza virus infection targets numerous viral proteins, with those specific for the hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) surface glycoproteins being the most extensively studied. Antibodies to HA and NA function as independent immune correlates of protection and form the basis of most vaccine approaches. In contrast, the contribution of antibodies to other viral proteins such as the nucleoprotein (NP) remains unclear, and existing studies have reached conflicting conclusions. In this work, we examined three human monoclonal NP antibodies isolated from plasmablasts of two individuals naturally infected with influenza A virus (IAV) during the 2018-2019 influenza season. …

Experimental Study Of A Scaled Flexible Riser For Hydrogen Transport From A Floating Wind Turbine Platform To The Seabed, Jessica Guichard, Martyn Hann, Tom Tosdevin, Deborah Greaves

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Dolphyn Hydrogen aims to support the UK Government’s 2030 hydrogen targets by deploying a 10-15 MW Commercial Scale Demonstrator that produces hydrogen offshore using wind energy. To achieve this, hydrodynamic studies are required to optimise the flexible pipeline transporting hydrogen from a floating wind turbine to the seabed, as well as the buoyancy modules that create the riser’s lazy wave shape. A key parameter is ensuring the riser never bends below its minimum allowable radius. The hydrodynamic behaviour of a 6-inch NOV flexible pipe is tested at 1:62 scale in the University of Plymouth’s COAST Laboratory Ocean Basin. The riser …

Gci #320: Swarm Recovery & Pelletization System (Srps), Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

This invention discloses a mobile, field‑deployable, modular processing platform that intercepts migrating Mormon cricket bands and converts them into:

• Nitrogen‑rich fertilizer pellets

• Chitin soil amendments

• Biochar‑enhanced carbon‑rich pellets

The system is built in two layers:

Version A — Real‑World, Low‑Regulation System

Uses only proven agricultural machinery and heat‑pasteurization.

This version can be built immediately with no exotic components.

Version B — Advanced GCI Upgrade Modules

Adds Phoenix‑Cracker cavitation, VABR acoustic‑vortex refining, MASA acoustic herding, and Omni‑Vortex power systems.

These are optional bolt‑on modules.

This disclosure includes complete subsystem descriptions, mechanical logic, operational workflow, and engineering rationale.

Underwater Obstacle Detection Using Ground-Penetrating Radar And Ar, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

When off-road vehicles engage in water wading, the environment often contains high concentrations of suspended sediments (mud, silt, sand) that render the water entirely opaque. This completely obscures the underlying sub-surface topography and potential hazards, such as rocks or sinkholes. While current Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) are designed for standard road environments, optical cameras and LiDAR are face physical limitations when attempting to penetrate turbid or opaque water. Standard automotive radar (e.g., 77 GHz) operates at high frequencies that cannot penetrate dense, conductive liquid mediums. Furthermore, ultrasonic sensors only measure the vertical distance to the water's surface and lack forward-looking …

Subtitle Lookahead Audio Leveling, Nikita Agarwal

Defensive Publications Series

Extreme dynamic audio ranges in media content cause uncomfortable transitions between quiet dialogue and loud action sequences. Conventional reactive audio limiters introduce latency and unnatural pumping artifacts. Subtitle metadata is utilized as a lookahead control signal to preemptively adjust audio levels in media content. Text within the subtitle stream is parsed for semantic indicators of high-intensity audio events or low-intensity audio events. Based on these audio event indicators, audio volume is proactively attenuated or amplified, respectively, prior to transient audio spikes or dips. Baseline volume levels are smoothly restored following the event. Audio fidelity is preserved, and a consistent listening …

The Octagonal Shaped Composite Lens Formation Logic That Will Enable To Create Composite Converging Lens Formations And Composite Diverging Lens Formations Where The Lens Constructing Geometry Will Be Optimized For Observation Procedures., Punarjeewa Abeysekera

Defensive Publications Series

This paper describes an octagonal shaped composite lens formation logic that will enable to create composite converging lens formations and composite diverging lens formations where the lens constructing geometry will be optimized for observation procedures. The octagonal shaped composite lens formation logic will incorporate a collection of individual lens structures for the formation of the complete lens formation. Each individual lens structure will be positioned at a unique location within the lens formation. And each individual lens structure will be configured with the curvature that will enable it to deviate the light rays it will receive at its corresponding unique …

Hdfs Grpc Writer: A Unified High-Performance Data Ingestion Engine, Raouf Khan Mr, Mahendra Yadav Mr

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for HDFS gRPC writer for unified, high-performance data ingestion system designed to modernize the way both streaming and batch data are written into HDFS. The present disclosure suggests single, scalable gRPC-based ingestion interface capable of handling multiple data formats, while also efficiently managing batching, schema evolution, fault tolerance, and security. After receiving the data, the present disclosure suggests HDFS gRPC writer addresses the small files problem at its source by implementing intelligent size-based and time-based batching. Thereafter, the present disclosure ensures optimal HDFS file sizes without the need for downstream …

Notifications Management Via Attention Budgeting And Collision Detection, Ashwin Goyal

Defensive Publications Series

Notifications to mobile devices that persist beyond their contextually relevant windows cease to be informative prompts and can become annoyances. Current notification paradigms treat the notification tray as a static, append-only data repository, placing the burden of notification lifecycle management and cleanup on the user. This disclosure describes automated notifications management techniques that transform notifications from static payloads into dynamic, self-resolving objects. The techniques include temporal notifications-lifecycle management, app-ecosystem intelligence, state synchronization, spatial optimization, device context, etc. Leveraging automated notification updates and retractions, the techniques reduce or eliminate disadvantages of persistent notifications. The techniques change the notification management paradigm by …

Defensive Publication: A Proactive Compliance And Security Enforcement Gateway For Model Context Protocol (Mcp) Servers And Agentic Ai Systems With Two-Stage Bidirectional Inspection, Immutable Sensitivity-Aware Routing, And Tamper-Evident Audit, Tiago Rosado

Defensive Publications Series

This document discloses the architecture of a proactive compliance and security enforcement gateway that mediates all traffic between AI agents (or human clients) and the large language models (LLMs) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool servers they invoke. The gateway operates as a reverse proxy enforcing a fail-closed posture: every inbound prompt and every outbound response is inspected by a two-stage pipeline — a sub-5ms offline machine -learning classifier followed by a configurable LLM-based deep-inspection backend — before crossing the boundary. A three-layer sensitivity pipeline (regex, ML, LLM) classifies payloads and routes data graded CONFIDENTIAL or RESTRICTED to local-only models …

Meningioma Detection From Mri: A Comparative Study Of Deep Learning Models, A. H. Doha, Sandi Jennifer, Fatima Alabdaly

AUIQ Complementary Biological System

This study compares several deep learning models including DenseNet20, CNN, ResNet50, VGG19, EfficientNet-B3, MobileNetV2, NASNetMobile, Xception to automatically classify brain meningiomas from MRI scans. A public dataset was used to evaluate the proposed model. All models were trained, validated, and tested on this dataset. Because meningiomas are common and manual reads, the goal is to speed and standardize diagnosis. Our main contribution is pairing a high-accuracy classifier with deep learning models. Among all models, DenseNet201 performed best, reaching 0.991% accuracy and reliably separating tumorous from non-tumorous MRIs. Future work will expand the dataset and incorporate stronger segmentation to further boost …

Hand Mapping: Our Sexual Health Is (Not) In Our Hands, Laura L. Ellingson

Feminist Pedagogy

This Original Teaching Activity introduces hand mapping, an assignment based on the body mapping method, in the context of a communication and gender studies course. Hand mapping can be adapted to interpersonal, organizational, intercultural, and media courses that address identities, intersectionality, communication, culture, and power in different contexts and mediums. Students outline their hands on paper and artfully embellish them as a visual representation of important takeaways or lessons they learned in the course in response to the prompt, “Our sexual health is (not) in our hands.” Students write an “artist’s statement” explaining meanings of color, symbolism, and design.

Review: The Jesuits: A Thematic History By Claudio Ferlan, Ashley N. Gisiger Edd

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

No abstract provided.

Beyond The Prompt: Coding The Magis In The Age Of Ai, Vanessa Rotondo

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

As a scholar-practitioner in Jesuit higher education, I’ve witnessed how generative AI is not merely a tool students use—it’s a formative force that shapes how they reflect, imagine, and even pray. Drawing on the Catholic imagination, Ignatian pedagogy, and sociological frameworks like liquid modernity, I argue that Jesuit institutions must respond not just technologically and reactively, but actively anticipate methods of integrating AI both theologically and pedagogically. I introduce the concept of Imaginative Intelligence as a formative goal—an embodied, sacramental way of knowing that invites depth, wonder, and resistance to automation. This is not a call to reject AI, but …

Ignatian Pedagogy For Engaged, Reflective, And Inclusive Learning: New Insights On A Treasured Tradition, Jennifer Tilghman-Havens, Jennifer Loertscher, David Green, Kerry S. Von Esch

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

Ignatian pedagogy is the philosophy and methodology for teaching and learning that evolved from the wisdom accumulated from 500 years of Jesuit education. The Ignatian approach views education as a collaborative process that transforms students and teachers, preparing them for moral and ethical action in the world. While the core values of Jesuit education have remained constant, the changing demographics within our Jesuit communities and among the faculty and staff of our institutions offer an opportunity to celebrate its many intersections with peer-reviewed research on effective pedagogical approaches that center students and foster justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion. In this …

“Cool People Doing Good Work”: A Rights-Based, Relational Model For Research, Teaching, And Outreach Rooted In Urban Settings, Saúl López, Gabriel Velez, Melissa Gibson, Robert Smith

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

Urban Catholic institutions of higher education are being challenged to do more when it comes to working with communities that surround them at the same time as they face multiple external pressure and must clearly define the value of their mission. In this article, we present a model for community-engaged practices that emerge from the ground up to move these institutions more in line with Catholic Social Teaching. “Cool People Doing Good Work” is an adaptable model centered around relationship building and authentic engagement with local experts, stakeholders, and community members that then builds to institutional change. This model places …

Faculty And Staff Formation In Jesuit Higher Education: The Scholarship And Art Of Accompaniment, Belle Liang, Maria Gregoire, Elisa Liang

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

This study examines the formative impact of selected faculty and staff formation initiatives offered at Boston College, with particular attention to those shaped by Ignatian spirituality. Drawing on qualitative survey data from 134 participants, the analysis identifies interrelated conditions through which formation is experienced as a coherent process rather than a set of discrete programs. Across initiatives, renewal and vocational clarity were most often described through four conditions: People, Pause, Place, and Purpose, understood here as the alignment of values, commitments, and lived practice. Presence emerged as the relational medium through which People, Pause, Place, and Purpose became formative. Presence …

Integral Education, Institutional Solidarity: A Response To Arturo Sosa’S 2025 Iaju Address, Paul L. Lynch

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

During the 2025 meeting of the International Association of Jesuit Universities (IAJU) at the Pontifica Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, Jesuit Superior General Arturo Sosa offered the keynote address, “The Jesuit University: Witness to Hope, Creative and Dialogical Presence.” He urged the global university apostolate to respond to our common challenges: the climate crisis, political reactionism, institutional mistrust, and economic inequality. The Jesuit university, he insisted, must reimagine itself in order to respond to these threats. But the precise manner in which Jesuit universities should respond must still be articulated. This essay begins that project. It opens with an analysis …

Academic Integrity, Generative Software, And Catholic, Jesuit Higher Education In The Context Of Neoliberal Global Society, Jacob Riyeff

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

This is a reflection on different aspects of higher education and generative software (so-called 'ai') in light of Ignatian discernment, especially the key consideration of "context." Drawing on administrative and classroom work at a Jesuit university in the United States, Catholic Social Teaching principles, papal teaching on social justice and technology, and an honest consideration of generative software's social, corporate, and ecological contexts, this reflection soberly assesses the fraught nature of complicity with such neoliberal, exploitative, and extractive contexts for Jesuit institutions of higher education. While it is easier to go along with mainstream economic and cultural assumptions, I claim …