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Transforming Advising And Improving Outcomes: Assessing Impacts Of Advising Changes, Amy S. White, Tailisha Gonzalez, Elgloria Harrison

Publications and Research

Abstract

Background: Earning full-time credit loads and persisting are how college students successfully graduate.

Objective: We measured whether credits and persistence at an urban, commuter Hispanic/Minority-Sserving Iinstitution improved after implementing a social work-based advisement strategy.

Methods: Using a quasi-experimental methodology on a college’s enrollment database, we measured the impact of a new advisement model on earned and attempted credit loads to compare traditional student advisement within control groups (n = 171 and n = 899) relative to intervention (n = 130).

Findings: In 2024, the intervention group attempted an average of 14.7 credits and earned an average of 14.3 credits, …

Floyd Thompson

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Leveraging Health Information Exchange (Hie) Data To Demonstrate The Impact On Health Outcomes Of Community Based Organization Interventions: Case Studies Of Housing Placement And Medically Tailored Meal Program, Kevin Kramer, Harm Scherpbier, William Marella

College of Population Health Faculty Papers

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Reflections: The Journey Continues, Jerry L. Pitts

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Reflections: The Journey Continues is a deeply moving memoir of faith, loss, love, calling, and the quiet strength that carries a life forward when everything familiar has been shaken. In this powerful continuation of Reflections: My Personal Journey, Dr. Jerry L. Pitts invites readers into the chapters that followed his first book—the ones marked by profound suffering, unexpected grace, and a renewed sense of purpose.

This memoir traces the season when Jerry’s life was transformed by his late wife Janice’s four‑year battle with cervical cancer. With honesty and tenderness, he recounts the surgeries, treatments, setbacks, and moments of courage …

Birth-Size Reference Charts For Normal Nursery Newborns Between 35.0 And 41.6 Weeks., Fu-Sheng Chou, Hung-Wen Yeh, Crystal Hsueh, Irene E. Olsen, Veeral N. Tolia, Reese H. Clark

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

BACKGROUND: Current birth-size reference charts for nursery use may inaccurately categorize newborn size, impacting care. We aimed to develop new charts using data from uncomplicated newborns admitted to US nurseries.

METHODS: We analyzed de-identified data from newborns admitted to US normal newborn nurseries between 2021 and 2024. Statistical outliers were excluded, and gestational age was recorded in days. Birth weight, length, head circumference, and BMI models were developed by a randomly selected subset and validated by the remaining data. Proportions of newborns below the 10th percentile and above the 90th percentile were compared with the 2010 Olsen and 2013 Fenton …

Correlating High-Resolution Terrestrial Organic Carbon Isotope Records Across The Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary, Gregory D. Price, Rhodri M. Jerrett, Lauren K. O'Connor, Emily Dearing Crampton-Flood, Bart E. Van Dongen, Sabine K. Lengger, Marc Davies

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (∼66 million years ago) represents the most recent mass extinction event when an estimated 75% of all species became extinct, including all non-avian dinosaurs. Here we focus on the stable carbon isotope (δ¹³C) analysis of coal and coaly sediments across the terrestrial K/Pg boundary from 10 sites, between 42 and 64°N, USA and Canada. Our δ¹³C data set shows a statistically significant positive correlation with paleolatitude that we interpret as a consequence of our lower latitude sites being relatively warmer and more humid than our higher latitude sites. Temporally, our data indicates that …

Health Profile Of Brazilian Mothers, Carlos Eduardo Siqueira

Gastón Institute Publications

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Impact Of Social Media-Driven Feeding Practices On The Gut Microbiome Of Captive Asian Elephants (Elephas Maximus) In Surin, Thailand, Pongpreecha Malaluang, Nuttapon Bangkaew, Jaruwan Chaiyakhot, Patinya Patikae, Nattaya Watwiengkam, Phimphanit Choklikitumnuey, Thanaphat Phupanna, Sudachanok Phowiset, Prim Chuesaard, Tarid Purisotayo

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

This study investigated the effects of social media-driven live-streaming dietary supplementation on the gastrointestinal microbial community of captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) at the Elephant Kingdom, Surin Province, Thailand. A hierarchical two-tier observational design was used: Tier 1 compared a minimal-supplementation control group (Group H, n = 6) with a frequent heterogeneous-supplementation group (Group L, n = 18); Tier 2 compared, within Group L, low-frequency (Group A, ≤ 3 sessions per week, n = 7) and high-frequency (Group B, > 3 sessions per week, n = 11) live-streaming sub-groups. Faecal microbial profiles were obtained by 16S rRNA gene (V3–V4) …

1951 Map Of Rocky Mountain National Park And Red Top Valley Ditch, 610 Redwood Fisher, Box 45, Department Of Interior Geological Survey

Rocky Mountain National Park

Map of Rocky Mountain National Park and surrounding area, with Red Top Valley Ditch outlined. The map was surveyed 1912-1915, published in 1919, and reprinted in 1951. Terms: Rocky Mountain National Park; Maps; Department of the Interior; Geological Survey; Medicine Bow; Roosevelt National Forest; Cameron Pass; Mummy Range; Mummy Pass; Granby Reservoir; Granby Mesa; Michigan Creek; Mt Dickinson; Mt Dunraven; Crystal Lake; Fairchild Mountain; Lawn Lake; Cow Creek; Cache la Poudre River; Specimen Mountain; Howard Mountain; Never Summer Mountains; Bearpaws Peaks; Continental Divide; Bowen Mountain; Baker Gulch; Red Mountain; Mt Nimbus; Timber Creek; Shipler Mountain; Windy Gulch; Trail Ridge Road; …

1953 Documents Relating To Acquistion Of Redwood Fisher Lands In Rocky Mountain National Park And Shadow Mountain National Recreation Area, 610 Redwood Fisher, Box 45, David H. Canfield, George F. Ingalls, Clarence A. Davis, Conrad L. Wirth, Bruce Wright, G. W. Lineweaver, Thomas J. Allen, John S. Mclaughlin, A. Van V. Dunn, Fred D. Mclaren

Rocky Mountain National Park

Memoranda, letters, and correspondences about the acquisition of Redwood Fisher lands in Rocky Mountain National Park and Shadow Mountain National Recreation Area. Terms: Rocky Mountain National Park; Shadow Mountain National Recreation Area; Redwood Fisher; Bureau of Land Management; Tom Kimball; Bureau of Reclamation; Colorado Department of Game and Fish; Colorado River; Shadow Mountain Reservoir; Granby Reservoir; David H. Canfield; Boulder; Stillwater Creek; George F. Ingalls; C. V. Marmaduke; Clarence A. Davis; C. A. Richey; Bruce Wright; Conrad L. Wirth; Shadow Mountain Dam; Granby Pump Canal; G. W. Lineweaver; Thomas J. Allen; John S. McLaughlin; Grand Lake; Pole Creek Ditch; Selak …

Role-Preset Pluggable Dreaming Pipeline With Reflection-Over-Prior-Dreams Operators, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

Autonomous LLM personas accumulate a continuous stream of heterogeneous day events. A naive "summarize-the-day" digester compresses that stream once, weights every event identically across personas, applies one forgetting curve, and never reasons across the sequence of its own prior digests. This publication describes a role-preset pluggable dreaming pipeline: a per-persona memory-consolidation process decomposed into four named, swappable stages — scoring, clustering, synthesis, and reflection — where (a) the concrete algorithm for each stage is selected by a role preset, (b) each scoring algorithm carries its own role-specific recency half-life, and (c) a distinct reflection stage runs operators over the persona's …

Dual-Channel Domain Data-Isolation, Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

In a multi-domain application monolith, data is partitioned one database schema per business domain. Strong isolation is normally pushed into the database (GRANT/REVOKE, per-schema connection roles, row-level security). When all domains share one connection pool, an application-layer contract is needed that (a) denies accidental or malicious cross-schema access on the general read/write path, while (b) still permitting deliberate, controlled cross-domain reads. This publication discloses a dual-channel contract: a deny-direct channel that statically analyzes every facade-emitted SQL string and hard-denies foreign-schema references, and an allow-through-a-constrained-compiler channel that re-admits cross-domain reads only via a read-only, mutation-free pipe-query language whose compiler resolves relation …

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Caldwell Unified Dementia Research Engine (Cudre‑1.0) Unified Open‑Hardware Dementia Research Acceleration Platform No Patents. No Secrets. No Photos. Builder‑Ready. Research‑Only. Non‑Clinical., Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

 ABSTRACT

CUDRE‑1.0 is a unified, multimodal, open‑hardware research engine for dementia and neurodegeneration studies. It is explicitly designed to:

• Accelerate research, not provide treatment.

• Explore 40 Hz gamma entrainment, sleep‑linked glymphatic clearance, vascular pulsatility, and low‑intensity ultrasound neuromodulation.

• Provide a single, integrated platform for labs to test hypotheses about clearance, network synchrony, and non‑invasive neuromodulation.

Not a medical device. Not for clinical use.

All framing is research‑only, for mechanism exploration and trial design support.

Caldwell Neuro‑Glymphatic Integrated Loop (Cng‑Loop V1.0) Unified Clinic + Home Dementia‑Support Architecture Open‑Hardware • No Patents • No Secrets • Builder‑Ready • Cross‑Referenced To All Prior Caldwell Tdc Inventions, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

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CNG‑Loop v1.0 is a unified, non‑invasive dementia‑support system integrating sleep‑synchronized glymphatic modulation, bilateral ear‑canal neuromodulation, vascular ultrasound support, gamma‑frequency entrainment, and personalized MRI/EEG‑anchored targeting. It combines clinic‑grade modules and home‑safe modules into a single architecture designed for moderate‑stage dementia support.

This system is built entirely from previously posted Caldwell inventions, including:

• Ambient Cognitive‑Clearance System (ACCS v4.0) — “Zero‑Wearable, Non‑Contact, Sleep‑Synchronized Glymphatic Modulation Platform for Dementia Prevention and Cognitive Health”

• BECDS v2.0 — “Bilateral Ear‑Canal Closed‑Loop Dementia Support System”

• GCI‑128 Neuro‑Vortex Protocol v3.1 — FUS + nanos + 40 Hz

• GCI‑267 — Harmonized ultrasound + microfluidic vascular support

• NeuroRegenerator v2.1 …

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Technical Disclosure: Integrated Space Readiness Training Center (Isrtc), Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Current ground-based deep-space environmental analogs suffer from an institutional vulnerability designated as "Escape Room Bias." When human subjects operate under an implicit institutional guarantee of safety, their cognitive, behavioral, and adaptive responses default to gamified problem-solving rather than genuine expeditionary survival. This psychological insulation limits the validity of collected behavioral datasets to less than 20% of actual deep-space operational reality, leaving aerospace organizations blind to the most critical human failure mode in high-consequence environments: the psychological freeze response under unyielding peril.

The Integrated Space Readiness Training Complex (ISRTC) eliminates this predictive gap by establishing an enduring Dynamic Test Assembly operating …

Automated Multi-Stage Semantic Analysis And Synthesis Of Heterogeneous Unstructured Operational Repositories, Michael Vianana, Tanmay Kayande, Nigel Nageer, Nupur Murlidharan

Defensive Publications Series

Modern organizations often struggle to identify systemic structural issues because post-mortem reviews, lessons-learned records, and risk logs are isolated in unstructured narrative text files across disparate storage repositories. A system is described that utilizes a multi-stage language model processing pipeline to autonomously aggregate, structure, and cross-reference completely unstructured, multi-source operational narrative text documents to expose global systemic risks and organizational blind spots. The system continuously connects to raw text silos, extracts semantic entities, and standardizes unstructured content into a globally normalized taxonomy to map risk correlations. Keywords: unstructured data, semantic analysis, natural language processing, language models, risk management, data clustering, …

Eight-Lock Autonomous Dispatch Envelope (Self-Tripping Autonomy Breaker), Gustavo Matthew Assuncao

Defensive Publications Series

Dispatching an autonomous coding subagent against a ticket — letting a large-language-model agent edit a repository, commit, and open a pull request with no human reviewing each action — requires governance that degrades safely rather than failing in either of the two unsafe directions: refusing outright (which stalls delivery) or running unbounded (which burns spend and ships defects). This publication discloses a chained, fail-closed precondition envelope of eight ordered locks evaluated before any run is permitted to touch the repository, together with a post-run settlement step. Three of the locks carry the inventive weight of the composition: (i) a per-principal …

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Design, Fabrication, And Performance Evaluation Of A Recycling Machine For Converting Biodegradable Waste Into Compost, Mohamed T. Eraky, M.M Radwan, Abdelkhalik Eladl

Mansoura Engineering Journal

This study evaluates the technical feasibility of composting shredded printed paper blended with organic waste using a manually operated aerobic composting system. The investigation focused on process performance under controlled initial conditions, particularly an optimized carbon-to-nitrogen (C:N) ratio of 30:1. Three composting piles were constructed with systematic variations in moisture content, aeration frequency, and additive composition (poultry manure, yeast, crushed eggshells, and cardboard) to assess their influence on thermal behavior and decomposition efficiency. Process performance was monitored through continuous temperature profiling and periodic observation of physical parameters, including color development and material degradation rate. Among the experimental setups, Pile 3 …

Electrospun Nanofiber Dressings: Advances In Fabrication, Polymers, And Clinical Applications For Skin Healing, Ahmed Yaseen, Maher Abdulrazzaq Luqman Al-Hakeem, Yasir Qasim Almajidi, Yaseen Taha Aljuburi

Maaen Journal for Medical Sciences

The increasing global need for more effective wound care arises because conventional dressings have limited antibacterial efficacy and other shortcomings. The protection that is provided by the materials used for dressing and the drug delivery to the wounds is crucial in the management of wounds. Today, extracellular matrix ECM structure and function-mimicking electrospun nanofiber membranes are deemed one prospective next-generation alternative for dressings in wounds. This review examines electrospun nanofiber dressings with an overview of fabrication principles, polymer selection, and challenges for clinical translation in an attempt to establish the current status and prospects of these dressings in the management …

The Host's Immune Responses Against Viruses: How We Know Our Own Bodies And How Our Bodies Defend Themselves From Viruses, Eman A. Muhsin, Neyaf Majid Alageedi, Shahrazad Ahmed Khalaf

Maaen Journal for Medical Sciences

Background: Viral infections pose a significant threat to health worldwide, requiring a coordinated and effective immune response to limit and eventually eliminate viral infection. The purpose of this review is to examine the different ways by which the immune system responds, both by innate and adaptive pathways, against viral infections, along with the mechanisms by which viruses evade host immune responses.

Method: A systematic literature review was performed with an organized search through the following databases; PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science and ScienceDirect. The search was for studies published between 2015-2025. The final number of included articles was 45 as …

“To Complete Our Declaration”: The American Indian Chicago Conference, The Declaration Of Indian Purpose, And The Quest For Self-Determination, Joseph W. Ferguson

Department of History

The American Indian Chicago Conference (AICC) illuminates understudied elements within twentieth century Indigenous history. Post WWII policies of termination came to frame the conference, and archival evidence from the planning and establishment of regional conferences and founding documents allows for analysis of the deeper meaning the conference held. The planning phases, schedule, events, and outcomes of the conference indicate factors of a national Indigenous community and identity that have yet to be fully explored in the historiography of this period. The implications of termination policies on Indigenous peoples in North America act as a starting point for the conference’s development. …

Comparison Of Three Intraoral Scanners For Digital Impressions Of Biologically Oriented Preparation: An In-Vivo Study, Lara Habli, Pascale Habre-Hallage, Hani Tohme, Dany Noujaim, Maryse Nassif, Camille Haddad

International Arab Journal of Dentistry

Introduction: The accuracy of intraoral scanners (IOSs) in capturing a Biologically Oriented Preparation Technique (BOPT) remains uncertain. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of digital impressions obtained with three intraoral scanners for recording BOPT preparations.

Methods: A maxillary central incisor was prepared following BOPT. After temporization, a conventional polyvinyl siloxane impression was scanned with a desktop scanner to obtain a reference model. Forty-two scans (n D 14 per scanner) were recorded with three IOSs—Trios 3, Sirios, and Helios 680—by a single operator under standardized conditions. Accuracy was assessed using Geomagic Control X by calculating 3D surface …

Evaluation Of Optimal Force For Intrusion Of A Periodontally Compromised Maxillary Anterior Dentition Treated With Fixed Orthodontics – A Finite Element Analysis, Tanzim Ahmed, Amrita Puri, Aatira Nair, Anshul Singla, Mathew Koshy Vaidyan, Shruti Sharma, Chhavi Singh

International Arab Journal of Dentistry

Introduction: Adult orthodontic treatment is increasingly sought due to aesthetic and functional concerns, often involving periodontally compromised patients with altered biomechanics. Reduced bone support shifts the center of resistance and necessitates lower, carefully controlled forces, while finite element modeling has become a key tool to analyze tissue response under such conditions.

Objectives: The study aimed to determine the optimal intrusive force for periodontally compromised maxillary anterior teeth using Finite Element Analysis (FEA).

Methods: A 3D finite element model of the maxillary anterior dentition was created and divided into healthy and compromised halves, the latter with one-third alveolar bone loss. A …

Hypo-Responsiveness Of The Dental Pulp In Patients With Type 2 Diabetes And Hypertension: A Cross-Sectional Study, Kavitha M, Mallolu Anthony Sanjana Vijay, Niveditha B, Fathima A.I, Pavithra D, Vigneshwaran J

International Arab Journal of Dentistry

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus and hypertension, two of the most prevalent metabolic disorders worldwide, exert profound and progressive effects on multiple physiological systems. While their systemic complications are well documented, their subtle yet clinically significant impact on oral structures, particularly the dental pulp, remains underexplored.

Objectives: This study aims to assess the functional responsiveness of dental pulp nerves in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus and systemic hypertension, and to compare the findings with responses from healthy individuals, using an Electric pulp tester (EPT) as a diagnostic tool.

Methods: A total of 600 teeth from 75 adult patients (25 diabetic, 25 …

The Efficacy Of Mini-Screw Rapid Palatal Expansion (Marpe) In Late Adolescents And Young Adults: A Systematic Review, Afaf El Merouani Drissi, Hajar Ben Mohimd, Hicham Benyahia, Fatima Zaoui

International Arab Journal of Dentistry

Introduction: Mini-screw assisted rapid maxillary expansion (MARPE) emerged as a less invasive alternative treatment for transverse maxillary expansion, and designed to overcome the limitations of conventional rapid maxillary expansion for patients from post-pubertal growth spurt period onwards, often presenting with an interdigitated suture. The aim of this systematic review is to evaluate the efficacy of this treatment on skeletal, dento-alveolar and periodontal levels based on CBCT studies, by comparing it to the conventional rapid maxillary expansion (RPE).

Methods: a literature search of five databases (PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, ScienceDirect and the Cochrane library) was conducted from 2010 until July …

Employing Artificial Intelligence For Non-Invasive Diagnosis Of Craniofacial Deformities: A Systematic Review Of Non-Ionizing Radiation Methods, Nurul Mutmainnah, Harun Achmad, Lusy Damayanti

International Arab Journal of Dentistry

Introduction: Craniofacial deformities, like craniosynostosis and plagiocephaly, require early diagnosis, but traditional methods like CT scans use harmful ionizing radiation. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers a non-invasive, radiation-free alternative, using 2D and 3D imaging for accurate diagnosis, improving safety and accessibility, especially in remote areas.

Objective: This review evaluates the use of AI in diagnosing craniofacial deformities without ionizing radiation, focusing on its strengths, limitations, and challenges in clinical implementation.

Methods: The literature was searched across five databases—PubMed, Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, Wiley, and Cochrane—over the last decade, following PRISMA guidelines. Inclusion criteria were AI-based, non-invasive imaging techniques for craniofacial deformities. The …

Effect Of Naoh Concentration On The Structural, Morphological, And Tensile Properties Of Pineapple Stem Fibers, Ahmad Norca Kurnia Zen, Heru Suryanto, Aminnudin Aminnudin, Fajar Nusantara, Joseph Selvi Binoj

Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science and Technology (JMEST)

Natural fiber reinforced composites are increasingly being developed due to their environmentally friendly nature, low production costs, and safety for human health. However, the presence of lignin and hemicellulose reduces adhesion properties between fiber and composite matrix. Alkalization treatment is an effective way to remove lignin and hemicellulose attached to cellulose. This study aims to determine the optimum concentration of NaOH used during alkalization process of pineapple stem fiber. The methods included the retting process of fibers from pineapple stems. The obtained fibers were soaked in variations of 2%, 4%, 6%, and 8% NaOH for 4 hours,  then dried and …

Four Ways Our Daily Conversations Shape Our Children's View Of The World, Abby M. Foreman

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"Am I telling the everyday stories of life where God’s love and grace is abundant?"

Posting about modeling healthy communication styles to children from In All Things, an online hub that offers insight into maintaining and faithful and orthodox Reformed Christian worldview while fearlessly engaging in every aspect of contemporary life – until all is made new.

Four Ways Our Daily Conversations Shape Our Chldren's View of the World

Mapping The Evolving Landscape Of Office-Based Laboratories In Vascular Surgery, 2010 To 2023, Aman Sinha, Austin Beahm, Peter Schultz, Anil Hingorani, Chantel Moore, Reva Bhushan

Student Publications

Background: Office-based laboratories (OBLs) have expanded rapidly since the introduction of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reimbursement for outpatient vascular interventions in 2008, driven by advances in endovascular technology and cost effectiveness. Alongside ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), OBLs enable minimally invasive vascular procedures to be performed safely outside hospital settings with same-day discharge. Over the past decade, peripheral vascular interventions (PVIs) have increasingly shifted to outpatient environments, with OBLs demonstrating the most rapid growth. Despite this transition, national trends and geographic variation in OBL growth remain incompletely characterized. This study examined the longitudinal growth and geographic distribution of …

Influence Of Genetic Relationships On The Spatial Distribution Of Breeding Eastern Wild Turkeys (Meleagris Gallopavo Silvestris) In West-Central Louisiana, Rachel D. Price

LSU Master's Theses

Eastern wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) have a complex social system influenced by dominance hierarchies and exhibit seasonal variation in gregarious behaviors. Previous work has examined the influence of kin relationships on interactions between same sex conspecifics and flock associations, but information on how genetic relatedness influences interactions between individuals remains lacking. We constructed a dyad-based social network using high-resolution GPS data from 179 female and 68 male wild turkeys in west-central Louisiana during the 28-day period before a females’ 1^st nest initiation to quantify interaction probability based on genetic relatedness and age. Our findings suggest that …