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2025 Georgia Southern University Softball Roster, Georgia Southern University

Women's Softball Records

No abstract provided.

2024-2025 Georgia Southern University Women's Rifle Roster, Georgia Southern University

Women's Rifle Records

No abstract provided.

A Diagnostic Challenge—Tinu Syndrome, Sophia Lee, Md, Claire Kassakian, Md

Books, Presentations, Posters, Etc.

Introduction: •TINU Syndrome: Tubulointerstitial Nephritis and Uveitis  rare multi-system syndrome  has renal manifestations typical of acute interstitial nephritis (AIN), in addition to bilateral anterior uveitis  not well-understood •Thought to be an immune-mediated process, although mechanisms for disease remain unclear  Likely secondary to a combination of genetic predisposition and certain environmental exposures •Genetic predisposition:  specific HLA phenotypes  possibly an auto-antigen to modified C-reactive protein (mCRP) •Potential triggers:  Infections: tuberculosis, EBV, varicella zoster, chlamydia, toxoplasma  Medications: antibiotics (β-lactams, meropenem, azithromycin, levofloxacin), NSAIDs, goreisan (Chinese herb)  Endocrine diseases: hypoparathyroidism, hyperparathyroidism, rheumatoid arthritis, IgG4-related autoimmune …

Case Study: A Severe Presentation Of Chronic Eosinophilic Pneumonia., Revati Kalluri, Mari Kai

Books, Presentations, Posters, Etc.

Case Presentation: Chief Complaint •55-year-old male with history of COPD, current 1 pack/day smoker, and 2-month history of hypoxic respiratory failure presents with increased shortness of breath. History of Present Illness •Initially hospitalized for a motor vehicle collision with course complicated by acute hypoxic respiratory failure due to eosinophilic pneumonia and treated with a 14-day prednisone taper. •Few days after discharge, he represented with acute hypoxic respiratory failure thought to be from a COPD exacerbation and treated with a short steroid taper. •Now, represents few days later with continued tachypnea, tachycardia, hypotension, and hypoxia.. Discussion: •Broad Differential including Pneumonia, Fat …

From Dormant To Dangerous: Hepatitis B Reactivation Under Immunosuppression, Adam Knott, Md, Amy Dechet

Books, Presentations, Posters, Etc.

Introduction: •HBV reactivation is a known phenomenon affecting those with prior HBV infection. In rare cases, this occurs spontaneously, but most often reactivation will occur while the host is immunocompromised. •Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) remains in the nucleus of hepatocytes and cannot be fully eradicated. •The following case highlights important considerations regarding HBV. Case Presentation: •A 78 y.o. male presented with emesis and progressive painless jaundice. •Prior history of treated HCV, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, HBV vaccination, and autoimmune Interstitial Lung Disease on Mycophenolate. •No recent risk factors, such as alcohol use, IV drug use, or sexual activity. •Previous tests for Hepatitis …

Acd Cares: A Framework For A Value-Driven, Ethical, And Student-Centered Dental Education, Casey Wright, Jennifer Talley, Brian D. Hodgson

Journal of the American College of Dentists

Dental education is renowned for its rigorous 4-year curriculum that consistently produces highly competent entry-level practitioners. However, the intensity of this training often leads to increased stress and mental health challenges among students as they strive to maintain pace in demanding programs. The prevalence of student issues related to stress and mental health is well-documented, with many students experiencing significant distress throughout their education.

The American College of Dentists (ACD) recently introduced a set of core values known as ACD CARES, an acronym for the ACD core values of accountability, competence, dignity, collaboration, advocacy, reflection, empathy, and stewardship. This paper …

Generative Adversarial Networks For Dimensionality Reduction In Evtol Aircraft Takeoff Trajectory Optimization, Samuel Sisk, Farzaam Khorasani-Gerdehkouhi, Abdulaziz Abutunis, K. Chandrashekhara, Xiaosong Du

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft play a key role in urban air mobility (UAM), which aims to alleviate traffic congestion in urban areas. Despite their value, eVTOL aircraft suffer from battery energy consumption, which affects their range and endurance in real world flight tasks. Especially, the takeoff process has been identified for excessive power demands. Multidisciplinary analysis and optimization manage to discover optimal takeoff trajectories with minimum energy consumption while balancing multidisciplinary trade-offs, such as short distance takeoff and passengers' comfort. However, conventional parametrization methods (such as B-spline curves) leverage an empirically high-dimensional design space to include real …

Ai-Powered Image-Based Assessment Of Pressure Injuries Using You Only Look Once (Yolo) Version 8 Models, Mehedi Hasan Tusar, Fateme Fayyazbakhsh, Niloofar Zendehdel, Eduard Mochalin, Igor Melnychuk, Lisa Gould, Ming C. Leu

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Objective: The primary objective of this study is to enhance the detection and staging of pressure injuries using machine learning capabilities for precise image analysis. This study explores the application of the You Only Look Once version 8 (YOLOv8) deep learning model for pressure injury staging. Approach: We prepared a high-quality, publicly available dataset to evaluate different variants of YOLOv8 (YOLOv8n, YOLOv8s, YOLOv8m, YOLOv8l, and YOLOv8x) and five optimizers (Adam, AdamW, NAdam, RAdam, and stochastic gradient descent) to determine the most effective configuration. We followed a simulation-based research approach, which is an extension of the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials …

Multifidelity Dust Erosion Analysis Of Mars Entry Vehicles, Adam Boland, Dominic Zanti, Serhat Hosder, Andrew Hinkle

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The objective of this paper is to present a multifidelity approach for estimating recession rate and kinetic energy impact rate on the surface of planetary entry vehicles operating in dusty atmospheric environments at hypersonic speeds. The multifidelity model used a co-Kriging approach that combined a low-fidelity correlation with a correction factor from high-fidelity CFD solutions. The developed multifidelity model enables efficient and accurate exploration of a design space to determine at what conditions encountering dust is most dangerous to TPS survivability. Two sample problems are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach: the Mars 2020 lander and a HIAD-type …

Hands-Free Uav Control: Real-Time Eye Movement Detection Using Eog And Lstm Networks, Niloofar Zendehdel, Khosro Ghorbani Zadeh, Haodong Chen, Yun Seong Song, Ming C. Leu

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Industry 4.0 has created a growing need for effective human-robot collaboration (HRC). As robots and humans work more closely together, efficient communication becomes essential for coordinating their actions seamlessly. While speech may seem like the obvious choice for communication, noisy factory environments can render it impractical. Additionally, workers often have their hands occupied with assembly tasks, making hand-controlled interfaces less practical for controlling robots. To address these challenges, this paper presents a novel, hands-free method for robot control using electrooculography (EOG) signals–specifically, eye movements and blinks–with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used as the demonstration platform. We developed a real-time system …

Medical-Dental Integration: Dispatches From “Both Sides Of The Aisle”, Lisa Simon Md, Dmd

Journal of the American College of Dentists

In 1840, when Chapin Harris and three other physicians founded the first dental school in the United States, they could not have known that their intention to elevate the practice of dentistry and improve dental care would have such a dramatic unintended consequence: to wholly sever the educational connection between medicine and dentistry. Since then, differences in policy, funding, and self-regulation of medicine and dentistry have only forced the fields further apart. As an example, in 1958, the Joint Council to Improve the Healthcare of the Aged was founded by both the American Medical Association and the American Dental Association …

An Interdisciplinary Unit For Today's Learners: Integrating Science, English, And Art To Teach Climate Change, Sydney M. Ruby-Pasternak

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

As today’s global challenges grow increasingly complex, interdisciplinary thinking is essential for students to make meaningful connections in their learning. Despite this need, high school students continue to have educational experiences in one-subject classrooms, often preventing them from engaging in integrated learning models. This professional project addresses the gap by developing a five-week interdisciplinary unit titled Brushstrokes of Change, which combines climate science with English language arts and visual arts to amplify student understanding of climate change concepts. This unit was designed for grades 9-12 and prioritizes 21^st-Century skills in critical thinking, communication, creativity, and collaboration through …

Water Justice, Emily Ann Senkosky

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

My portfolio will be centered around the theme of “Water justice,” which aims to unpack people’s manipulation of riverways and the environmental costs of this practice. Rivers, and their watersheds, have served as lifeblood for human and ecological populations the world over since the dawn of man. Derived from these watersheds is a multitude of ecosystem services and freshwater necessary for the sustainability of life. But freshwater makes up only 3% of the globe’s total water supply, making it a limited and dwindling resource. As the world’s population accelerates, climate change quickens, and societal needs for freshwater advance, the manipulation …

Adaptation And Resilience: How Beginning Farmers Navigate Land And Climate Crises In Western Montana, Kyla Ivana Fugate

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Montana is home to a growing number of beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers (BSDFRs), yet they face substantial barriers to accessing resources, from farmland to federal farm support programs. Rising land prices and climate-induced drought further exacerbate the challenges that farmers already face, posing a “twin crisis” that is especially severe for beginning farmers who have operated their farms for fewer than 10 years. This research draws on ethnographic data, including 24 in-depth interviews with BSDFRs and five informational interviews with farm service providers in Western Montana. I find that while federal USDA programs support farmers on paper, they often …

The Politics, Policy, And International Relations Section Companion Document To The Framework: Process And Outcomes, Mary K. Oberlies, Brett Cloyd, Erin Ackerman, Stephanie Crowe, Christopher Lemery, Kimberly Macvaugh, Chelsea Nesvig, Winn W. Wasson

Librarian Publications

The Politics, Policy, and International Relations (PPIRS) section of ACRL is a forum for librarians to exchange information and ideas relevant to disciplines such as political science, law, international relations, security studies, public policy, and related fields. From 2018-2021, an ad hoc committee of section members worked to develop an addition to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education focused on the Framework’s applications to PPIRS disciplines, now known as the Companion Document to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education: Politics, Policy, and International Relations (the PPIRS Companion Document).1 In this chapter, we provide an …

Silenced: Targeting Journalists And The Fight For Truth, The Lender Center For Social Justice, Trust For Trauma Journalism, Syracuse University

The Lender Center for Social Justice

A poster for the Silenced series, which features workshops, film screenings, and panels.

Scrutinizing Sex, Jessica A. Clarke

University of Chicago Law Review

Critics of the Supreme Court’s equal protection jurisprudence despair that the Court conceives of discrimination as the mere classification of individuals on for- bidden grounds, such as race and sex, rather than systemic patterns of subordination. On the Court’s anticlassification theory, affirmative action, which relies on overt racial or gender classifications, is generally forbidden. Anticlassification rules are insensitive to context: a classification is a classification, no matter how well intentioned it might be, no matter what effects it might have, and no matter if it treats members of various groups in ways that are substantively equal. Whether a classification might …

Shedding Light On Secret Settlements: An Empirical Study Of California’S Stand Act, David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom, Jonah B. Gelbach, Austin Peters, Garrett M. Wen

University of Chicago Law Review

Catalyzed by the #MeToo movement, states have adopted a spate of laws restricting secret settlements—controversial contracts that shield misconduct from public scrutiny. In 2018, California led the charge with the Stand Together Against Non-Disclosure (STAND) Act, which targets secrecy in the resolution of sex discrimination, harassment, and abuse cases. In the intervening years, more than a dozen states followed suit with restrictions of their own.

Reigniting a decades-old debate, transparency advocates hail these reforms as a major win for victims. They celebrate STAND and its legislative progeny as a way to promote accountability, facilitate accuracy in case adjudication, and publicize …

Reestablishing Religion, Richard C. Schragger, Micah Schwartzman, Nelson Tebbe

University of Chicago Law Review

In the last few years, the Supreme Court has upended its doctrine of religious freedom under the First Amendment. The Court has explicitly rejected separationism, which limited government support of religion, and it has adopted interpretations of disestablishment and free exercise that provide special solicitude for religion. Now, the government must treat religion equally with respect to providing public benefits. But it must also grant special exemptions from regulations that burden religion. This pattern of equal treatment for benefits and special exemptions from burdens yields a doctrinal structure that gives preference to religion. We refer to this regime as structural …

Bankruptcy’S Turn To Market Value, Mark J. Roe, Michael Simkovic

University of Chicago Law Review

Chapter 11 was widely viewed as a failure in the first decade of the Bankruptcy Code’s operation, the 1980s. Large firms were mired in bankruptcy for years; the process was seen as expensive, inaccurate, and subject to abuse. While basic bankruptcy still has its critics and few would say it works perfectly, the contrast with bankruptcy today is stark: bankruptcies that took years in the 1980s take months in the 2020s.

Multiple changes explain bankruptcy’s success—creditor learning, statutory reform, better judging and lawyering, new techniques, fuller integration of the improved mechanisms that the 1978 Code added—and we do not challenge …

Phase Change Cells And Verification Of Gallium As Thermal Calibration Reference In Space, Harri Latvakoski, T. Shane Topham, Gail Bingham, Mike Watson, Igor Podolski

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

• Phase change cell introduction

• Design and ground testing of on-orbit phase cells

• ISS phase cell flight experiment

Radiometric Sensor Level Calibration For Remote Sensing (Planning, Testing, And Operation), Joe Tansock

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

Contents

• What is Calibration and Why is it Important (example) 
• Remote Sensor Calibration Approaches
• Typical Space-based Sensor Lifecycle and Calibration Efforts at SDL
• EO Calibration Applications (example) 
• Example Calibrations at SDL
• Calibration Testing at SDL and example Calibration Equipment
• Calibration is Multi-Path
• Student Employment/Projects to Support SDL Calibration

Calibration For Small Satellite Payloads, Jason Knudsen, Christian Conkle, Alex Allgrunn, Deron Scott

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

SDL Presentation on Calibration for Small Satellite Payloads

Rbi Ground Calibration, Harri Latvakoski, Greg Cantwell, James Peterson, Joel Cardon

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

• RBI overview

• Ground calibration objectives

• Calibration configurations & chamber setup

• Calibration tests & equipment

Small Satellite Payload Calibration, Deron Scott, Cole Miller, Eli Salay, Shane Canfield, Scott Hansen, Matt Berghout, Jan Kunzler, Duane Miles

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

SmallSat missions have cost, time, and scale limitations. Calibration methods can be optimized to enable mission success at a low cost by providing customers the best “bang for their buck.”

Multi-Layered Security Approaches For A Modular Open Network Architecture-Based Satellite, Brandon Shirley, Quinn Young, Peter Wegner, Jacob Christensen, Jeffrey Janicik

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

Overview

• Introduction
• Open System Architecture (OSA) and Modular Open Network Architecture (MONA) background
• Security Challenges
• Security Principles
• Solutions

The Atmospheric Waves Experiment (Awe), Ludger Scherliess, Yucheng Zhao, Pierre-Dominique Pautet

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

Modern theory and modeling indicate vertically propagating Gravity Waves (GWs), waves generated primarily by severe weather disturbances, have profound effects on the variability and mean state of the Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere (ITM) system, and can significantly impact space-based communications, navigation, and tracking.

Teaching Social Studies Through The Lens Of Film, Matt Stevenson, Joshua L. Kenna

Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

This poster highlights a Library of Congress project where pre-service teachers use National Film Registry titles on WWI and WWII, analyzing films as layered primary sources reflecting both history and production contexts.

Improving The Scores Of The Mathematics Texas Success Initiative Assessment 2.0 (Tsia2), Lori Lamar Moreno

Education Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this improvement science study was to increase mathematics readiness for the Texas Success Initiative Assessment 2.0 (TSIA2) among high school seniors in a South Texas border community. The study addressed persistently low TSIA2 mathematics passing rates, particularly among Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students. Guided by the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) framework, two improvement cycles were conducted using an embedded mixed-methods design. In Cycle 1, the Texas College Bridge (TCB), a self-paced platform built on NROC’s EdReady and the only Texas Education Agency–approved program for TSIA preparation, was implemented as the baseline intervention. Quantitative analysis indicated an 11.5% pass rate …

Understanding How Hearing Works, Cecilia Zoutewelle

A. The Science of Sound

A 7-page introductory overview of the anatomical and neurological processes of hearing, with illustrations and bullet-point summaries.