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High-Quality Curricular Materials, Maia Elkana, Rosalyn Langrohling-Amanor

Institute for School Partnership: Research & Publications

High-quality curricular materials, such as textbooks, workbooks, and software used by teachers for instruction, matter for student achievement. The costs of curricular materials are not always connected to their quality, so it is worth the time and effort to select the options that will result in significant boosts to student learning.1,2This brief addresses features to look for in high-quality curricular materials and considerations for adoption and implementation of these materials to improve student achievement. This brief addresses features to look for in high-quality curricular materials and considerations for adoption and implementation of these materials to improve studentachievement.

Qcd Factorization With Multihadron Fragmentation Functions, T. C. Rogers, M. Radici, A. Courtoy, T. Rainaldi

Physics Faculty Publications

Important aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) factorization theorems are the properties of the objects involved that can be identified as universal. One example is that the definitions of parton densitiesand fragmentation functions for different types of hadrons differ only in the identity of the nonperturbative states that form the matrix elements, but are otherwise the same. This leads to independence of perturbativecalculations on nonperturbative details of external states. It also lends support to interpretations ofcorrelation functions as encapsulations of intrinsic nonperturbative properties. These characteristics have usually been presumed to still hold true in fragmentation functions even when the observed nonperturbative …

Static And Dynamic Properties Of Atomic Nuclei With High-Resolution Potentials, Alex Gnech, Alessandro Lovato, Noemi Rocco

Physics Faculty Publications

We compute ground-state and dynamical properties of 4He and 16O nuclei using as input high-resolution, phenomenological nucleon-nucleon and three-nucleon forces that are local in coordinate space. The nuclear Schrödinger equation for both nuclei is accurately solved employing the auxiliary-field diffusion Monte Carlo approach. For the 4He nucleus, detailed benchmarks are carried out with the hyperspherical harmonics method. In addition to presenting results for the binding energies and radii, we also analyze the momentum distributions of these nuclei and their Euclidean response function corresponding to the isoscalar density transition. The latter quantity is particularly relevant for lepton-nucleus scattering experiments, as it …

Thermal Analysis For The Fundamental Power Coupler Of The 197 Mhz Crab Cavity For Eic, A. Castilla, J. Guo, N. Huque, S. De Silva, Jean Delayen

Physics Faculty Publications

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is being designed by BNL in collaboration with Jefferson Lab. The Phase-I design includes the installation of two cryomodules of 197 MHz crabbing cavities installed at the Hadron Storage Ring (HSR) at the interaction region, IP6 that has a crossing angle of 25 mrad. Each cryomodule consists of two 197 MHz RFD type crabbing cavities. The first article cavity has been designed following the machine requirements and specifications including the fundamental power coupler (FPC), higher order mode couplers, and field probes. A detailed rf analysis has been completed to determine the worst operational case of the …

Design Of A Shipping Fixture For A Compact Cryomodule Hermetic Assembly, J. Lewis, G. Ciovati, N. Huque, J. Armstrong, K. Harding

Physics Faculty Publications

Two conduction-cooled 915 MHz superconducting radio frequency hermetic assemblies must be safely transported from the Jefferson Lab in Newport News, VA to General Atomics in San Diego, CA for performance testing in a custom horizontal test cryostat. One hermetic assembly consists of a 2-cell 915 MHz cavity, a coaxial fundamental power coupler, and the warm-to-cold transition beam tubes. The second hermetic assembly consists of a 2-cell 915 MHz cavity only. The assemblies will be transported on a flatbed air-ride trailer over the approximate 4000 km distance. Design requirements included adequate attenuation of 4g vertical axis, 5g beamline axis, and 1.5g …

Investigation Of New Superconducting Materials For The Next Generation High-Performance Rf Superconducting Cavities For Particle Accelerators, Alex Gurevich, Jean Delayen, Chang-Beom Eom, Gianluigi Ciovati

Physics Faculty Publications

In this DOE-funded project DE-SC0010081-020 Old Dominion University (ODU) in collaboration with University of Wisconsin (UW) and Jefferson Laboratory have investigated both experimentally and theoretically electromagnetic response and losses in multilayered superconducting structures made of new SRF materials which can push the field and Q performance limits of accelerating cavities.

Good Forestry In The Granite State: Forest Health, Cooperative Extension

UNH Cooperative Extension

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Good Forestry In The Granite State: Public Review Draft Third Edition - May 2025, Cooperative Extension

UNH Cooperative Extension

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Model Horse Show, Diane Dugray

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.

Multi-Species Animal Judging, Astara Zuorski

UNH Cooperative Extension

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2025-2026 Teen Leadership And Civic Engagement Guidebook, Kristen Lyons

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.

Delivering A Drench Using An Injector: Worksheet, Amy Papineau

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.

Long Pond 2025 Water Quality Highlight Report, Robert Craycraft, Amanda Mcquaid

UNH Cooperative Extension

A water Quality Highlight Report by UNH CE Lakes Lay Monitoring Program for Long Pond (Eaton, NH) for 2025

Marsh Pond 2025 Water Quality Highlight Report, Robert Craycraft, Amanda Mcquaid

UNH Cooperative Extension

A water Quality Highlight Report by UNH CE Lakes Lay Monitoring Program for Marsh Pond (New Durham, NH) for 2025

Swains Lake (Site B) 2025 Water Quality Highlight Report, Robert Craycraft, Amanda Mcquaid

UNH Cooperative Extension

A water Quality Highlight Report by UNH CE Lakes Lay Monitoring Program for Swains Lake, Site B (Barrington, NH) for 2025

Depot Pond 2025 Water Quality Highlight Report, Robert Craycraft, Amanda Mcquaid

UNH Cooperative Extension

A water Quality Highlight Report by UNH CE Lakes Lay Monitoring Program for Depot Pond (Milton, NH) for 2025

2026 4-H National Conference Application, Kristen Landau, Kristen Lyons

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.

Rapid Implementation Of Open-Access Pandemic Education For Global Frontline Healthcare Workers, Jacqueline Christianson, Erica Frank, Stacen Keating, Susan Boyer, Miriam Chickering

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

Background

The recent global pandemic posed extraordinary challenges for healthcare systems. Frontline healthcare workers required focused, immediate, practical, evidence-based instruction on optimal patient care modalities as knowledge evolved around disease management.

Objective

This course was designed to provide knowledge to protect healthcare workers; combat disease spread; and improve patient outcomes.

Methods

A team of global healthcare workers responded by rapidly creating a competency-based online course. To promote transcultural applicability, the course was developed by an international team of more than 45 educators from over 20 countries. Course delivery included a built-in language translation tool, routine updates, and several innovative course …

Evaluating Nurse Conscientious Objection: Application Of A Novel Framework, Maya Zumstein-Shaha, Lucia D. Wocial, Vicki D. Lachman, Norah Louise Johnson, Cynda Hylton Rushton, Pamela J. Grace

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

Certain moral beliefs and/or values about what is good or harmful can cause nurses and other healthcare professionals to object to participating in some clinical actions. Such objections are also called conscientious objections. Invocation of a conscientious objection (CO) can produce complexities in patient care and health care delivery and must be mindfully evaluated for its soundness. In this manuscript, a recently developed framework, The Ethical Evaluation of a Nurse’s Conscientious Objection (EENCO), is applied to expose hidden elements and nuances in a proposed or actual CO by nurses or other healthcare professionals, thereby illuminating strategies that can lessen associated …

Bridgeville Elementary: A Big History Of A Small School, Virginia Howard Mullan

Trade & Scholarly Monographs

Bridgeville Elementary: A Big History of a Small School is not a work of writing that is meant to be read from the beginning to the end. It is for those of us who only attended Bridgeville School for a short time but wanted to recapture those years. It is for teachers and students bitten by the nostalgia bug that want to revisit the school, (like Sean Byrd in 2024 or Mary Brandenburg (Jardin) in 1999) but don’t have the time or means to make a trip to the remote northwest.

Reducing Opioid Use Following Posterior Spinal Fusion Procedures: A Pilot Project, Kevin Matthew Cornett

Yale School of Nursing Digital Theses

Importance: Opioid misuse and mortality remain a prevalent problem in the United States and there is a high rate of chronic opioid-use after spinal fusions. Current guidelines recommend the optimization of non-opioid analgesics as a primary pain control strategy with opioids acting as a secondary agent. Objective: To pilot an analgesic decision tree (ADT) featuring non-opioid analgesics to reduce postoperative pain, opioid consumption, and the incidence of adverse events during the first 48 hours after patients undergo a posterior spinal fusion. Methods: A literature review of opioid-sparing analgesics was conducted and a protocol developed as an interdisciplinary collaboration. The ADT …

Readmission Reduction Of 1st Year Transplant Recipients, Kristin Freed

Yale School of Nursing Digital Theses

Abstract Readmission Reduction of 1st Year Transplant Recipients Clear communication with patients at their health-literacy level improves patient outcomes, fosters trust, and is associated with readmission reduction. Readmission of transplant recipients are correlated with morbidity, medical errors, higher healthcare economic costs, and indicative of decreased survival post- transplant. Literature suggests that up to 72% of transplant recipients may have low health literacy increasing risk of readmission. The Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality created the REALM-SF assessment as a tool for medical providers to evaluate a patient’s health literacy status in a timely manner. This Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) …

New Leader Mentoring: Guiding Nursing Leaders Of The Future, Renee Marie Hammond

Yale School of Nursing Digital Theses

Nursing leaders throughout our health care system are retiring or leaving at an alarming rate – over 60% of the nursing leader workforce is expected to leave in the next five years. Retention of new nurse leaders is crucial to retention of clinical nurses, morale, and patient outcomes. Development of a formal mentorship program between new nurse leaders and experienced nurse leaders is essential to reducing the intent to leave of leaders. The Aims of this project are to develop a mentorship program for new nurse leaders using an adaptation of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership Core Competencies, to …

Improving Equity In Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk, Jordan Levandoski

Yale School of Nursing Digital Theses

The current use of racial categorization in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD) risk, limits assessment of confounders beyond cholesterol. The Life’s Essential Eight (LE8) categories of healthy diet, sleep, physical activity, smoking, body mass index, hypertension, total cholesterol, and blood glucose could reduce two million ASCVD events per year. The documentation of Z codes 55 – 65 describe social drivers of health (SDH) like housing, economics, and social systems which complicate care. Development of the ASCVD risk assessment and management protocol (ASCVD-RAMP) assessed ASCVD risk without race modification in patients aged 45 – 75 and improved health equity by pairing SDH …

Increasing Professional Interpreter Use To Improve Patient Outcomes On The Inpatient Oncology Unit, Kimberly Medina

Yale School of Nursing Digital Theses

Language barriers in healthcare contribute to significant disparities including delays in diagnosis and treatment, patient confusion, and increased mortality (Kwan et al., 2023). Approximately 21.5% of the people in the United States speak a language other than English at home and 8.2% of that population subset report speaking English less than very well (U.S. Census Bureau, 2021). Furthermore, in 2023 8% of Medicare beneficiaries have limited English proficiency (LEP) speaking and 7% have LEP reading (Centers for Medicare &Medicaid, 2024). Ensuring meaningful language access to LEP patients is essential for improving clinical outcomes and maintaining compliance to federal anti-discrimination policies. …

Developing A Standardized Workplace Violence Prevention Program For Healthcare Leaders To Enhance Safety, Kaleena Soorma

Yale School of Nursing Digital Theses

Abstract

Developing a Standardized Workplace Violence Prevention Program for Healthcare Leaders to Enhance Safety

The increasing threat of Type 2 workplace violence (client on staff) in healthcare disproportionately impacts employees such as Nurses. Desensitization to this growing trend in healthcare has contributed to perceptions that WPV has become an unavoidable risk, especially for those delivering care in high-risk areas such as the emergency department (ED).

The critical need to reevaluate WPV prevention strategies in healthcare, while highlighting systemic failures such as underreporting, is integral to driving a culture of safety. This project aimed to provide a post-incident Type 2 WPV …

Evaluation Of Methotrexate Pharmacogenomic Variation To Predict Acute Neurotoxicity In Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Rachel D Harris, Olga A Taylor, M Monica Gramatges, Amy E Hughes, Mark Zobeck, Sandi Pruitt, M Brooke Bernhardt, Ashley Chavana, Van Huynh, Kathleen Ludwig, Laura Klesse, Kenneth Heym, Timothy Griffin, Rodrigo Erana, Juan Carlos Bernini, Ashley Choi, Yuu Ohno, Melissa A Richard, Alanna C Morrison, Han Chen, Bing Yu, Philip J Lupo, Karen Rabin, Michael E Scheurer, Austin L Brown

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

BACKGROUND: Methotrexate is an important component of curative therapy in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), but the role of genetic variation influencing methotrexate clearance and transport in toxicity susceptibility in children with ALL is not well established. Therefore, we evaluated the association between suspected methotrexate pharmacogenomic variants and methotrexate-related neurotoxicity.

METHODS: This study included children (aged 2-20 years) diagnosed with ALL (2005-2019) at six treatment centers in the southwest United States. Clinical information was abstracted from medical records. Suspected neurotoxic events occurring within 21 days of intravenous and/or intrathecal methotrexate delivered between the end of induction and start of maintenance …

Generated Image Quality Assurance And Generative Adversarial Network Augmentation For Machine Learning, Dirk Holscher

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

The advancement of machine learning is heavily dependent on the quality of data used for training models. This thesis explores the enhancement of data quality and augmentation techniques using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), pecifically focusing on the Pix2Pix architecture. The research addresses the critical challenges of improving image quality, optimizing hyperparameters, and detecting fake images generated by GANs, aiming to enhance the robustness and eliability of machine learning models. This work presents a collection of metrics for measuring data quality for both structured and unstructured data. Furthermore, it defines data quality for machine learning, divided into three quality levels. Advanced …

A Protocol Agnostic Electrically Transparent Distributed Switch Fabric For It/Ot Testbenches, Wesley Andrews

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

This thesis presents the design and development of custom hardware, based upon RF (Radio Frequency) MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical System) switch technology and a grounded, conductor backed, edge coupled, coplanar waveguide transmission line design to facilitate protocol-agnostic, electrically transparent switching of different hard-wire protocols, such as Ethernet, USB (Universal Serial Bus), CAN (Controller Area Network) bus, RF and more within an IT/OT (Informational/Operational Technology) environment. This is achieved through a distributed, decentralised switch fabric composed of individual switch fabric nodes, which achieves fully reconfigurable IT/OT environments at the electrical level. Traditional IT/OT environments consist of diverse systems involving computers, network switches, …

Anomaly Detection Based Post Gripping Perception For Industrial Logistics Robotics, Firas Zoghlami

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

The adoption of low volume high mix manufacturing lines in global production sites has lead to a great need for flexible automation solutions. Flexible intelligent robots as an example are increasingly deployed in new industrial environments, such as the intra-logistics, in order to increase the automation level of the mentioned manufacturing lines. The lack of structure and the high dynamic of such industrial environments lead to potential performance deterioration related to unexpected events that are not recognized by the robot. Detecting such changes in the robot environment is believed in this thesis to be possible with anomaly detection techniques which …