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Measuring Integrated Accessibility For Sustainable Mobility: A Fuzzy Set Approach Case Study, Behnam Tahmasbi, Poria Hajian, Farzaneh Tahmasbi, Qian He

School of Earth & Environment Departmental Research

Sustainable transportation is vital to climate justice and social equity. Despite the efforts to achieve sustainability, there is still a lack of adequate measurement that integrates land use and transportation systems, which can be barriers to planning implementation. With methodological improvements in fuzzy theory application, this study develops an integrated index to measure the sustainability of multimodal accessibility. We do so by defining a fuzziness degree based on the different trip purposes and modes of transportation with a case study in Isfahan, Iran. Sustainable accessibility indicators were developed for walking, biking, and public transportation to represent the performance of each …

More Than A Place For Social Capital Creation: Public Library As A Place For Immigrants’ Social Integration, Nafiz Z. Shuva

Publications and Research

Studies have shown that public libraries, one of the most trusted social institutions, play an important role in helping immigrants adjust to their host country. Although there have been quite a few international studies reporting the role that public libraries play in newcomers lives in the host country, few studies, especially in the context of the U.S., comprehensively reported local public libraries’ role in newcomers’ social integration. Previous studies on immigrants’ usage of public libraries have mainly focused on highlighting public libraries as meeting places that facilitate social capital creation for newcomers or describing the usage of public libraries among …

Smokejumper Obituary: Harro, William Lewis “Bill” (Mccall 1968), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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The Role Of Information Science Within The Clinical Translational Science Ecosystem, Elizabeth Hinton, Bart Ragon, Anne K. Seymour, Elizabetth Whipple, Alisa Surkis, Amanda Haberstroh, Jennifer Muilenburg, Melissa L. Rethlefsen, Erinn Aspinall, Jill Deaver, Nadine Dexter, Renae Barger, Micquel Little, Nicole Contaxis, Emily Glenn, Barbara Kern, Keith Pickett, Erika Sevetson, Donghua Tao, Megan Von Isenburg, Debra Werner, Terrie Wheeler, Kristi Holmes

Publications

Academic health sciences libraries (“libraries”) offer services that span the entire research lifecycle, positioning them as natural partners in advancing clinical and translational science. Many libraries enjoy active and productive collaborations with Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program hubs and other translational initiatives like the IDeA Clinical & Translational Research Network. This article explores areas of potential partnership between libraries and Translational Science Hubs (TSH), highlighting areas where libraries can support the CTSA Program’s five functional areas outlined in the Notice of Funding Opportunity. It serves as a primer for TSH and libraries to explore potential collaborations, demonstrating how …

Effect Of Telehealth Interventions On Hypertension Management In A Veterans Affairs Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (Cboc), Cherilyn Schumacher

Student Scholarly Projects

Practice Problem: Per U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (2020), hypertension (HTN) is prevalent in active and retired military personnel with 13% of those in active duty and in “more than one in three Veterans…making it the most common chronic condition for Veterans” (p. 1). Per the Electronic Quality Measure (eQM) portal, a PACT clinic in a CBOC is scoring well below the national and facility benchmarks, showing a need for an intervention that will improve HTN management.

PICOT: For current veteran patients ages 18-85 assigned to a PACT (P), what is the effect of nurse-led telehealth blood pressure …

Powerful Women—A Man-Made Fear: Unmasking The Vilification Of Women In Literature Through The Lens Of Jean Grey, Maximillan Wilson

Master of Liberal Studies Projects

Comic books in their current form have been a staple of American pop culture for nearly a century. The combination of art and narrative provides a unique storytelling medium that has evolved with each new batch of artists and authors over the decades. The imagination's impossible and fantastical qualities are actualized in ways that non-visual literature cannot compete with, reaching audiences of all ages and reading comprehension. However, like with all fiction, the influence of reality cannot be denied. Despite the colorful costumes and progressive storylines, comic book stories suffer from a long-standing misogynistic motive that has long plagued literature. …

Enhancing Neonatal Resuscitation Optimizing Epinephrine Dosing And Improving Communication, Sonsare Holtzclaw

MSN Student Capstones

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Improving Surgical Turnover Times, Jessica Palmer

MSN Student Capstones

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Navigating Pediatric Fever: Diagnosis, Treatment And Parental Guidance, Marquita D. Mack

MSN Student Capstones

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Safety Issues Due To Inadequate Utilization Of Policies And Procedures To Identify And Confiscate Dangerous Contraband Found On Patients, Onyinye Uche

MSN Student Capstones

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Understanding And Enhancing Health Literacy In The Management Of Oncology Patients, Sarata Saidykhan

MSN Student Capstones

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Enhancing Pain Management Practices In An Orthopedic Medical-Surgical Unit, Christiana Owusu

MSN Student Capstones

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Increasing Operating Room Efficiency Through A Case Cart Facilitation And Staging Process, Susan Tomco

MSN Student Capstones

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Phishing Emails: An Evolving Cyberattack, Brooke Waltz

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

This paper describes the history of phishing attacks and how they turned into cyberattacks, focusing on companies. Over the course of 34 years, phishing has been evolving at an alarming rate, especially with AI now coming into play. As phishing attacks have become more prominent towards companies, there has been an increase in financial loss and data breaches, resulting in a loss of trust in companies. With this loss, companies are trying to find solutions to this problem. Some notable attacks were the RSA breach in 2011, the Texas Energy Company in 2014, and the ILOVEYOU virus in 2000. They …

Arrest The President, Hypothetically, Leo Lombardi

Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review (CICLR) Blog

By what authority does one dare direct that famous phrase, “j’accuse!” at the state’s supreme executor of law? Is there a mechanism, through which a citizen can hold a national government to account? Can the citizen's arrest serve as a symbolic insistence that international humanitarian law be enforced? International humanitarian law is coming to be defined by the dereliction of duty. Where a rules-based international order once stood as a lofty ideal, the reality of a nuclear-armed world now looms over the field’s failures.

This post was originally published on the Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review on November 14, …

Fall Reduction In The Emergency Department, Victoria Barbee

MSN Student Capstones

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Reducing Falls On A Cardiac Telemetry Unit, Tracey C. Fields

MSN Student Capstones

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Discharge Planning For Mental Health Patients, Katie Geer

MSN Student Capstones

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Identifying The Risk Of Violence In The Inpatient Setting, Megan Julian

Student Scholarly Projects

Practice Problem: Workplace violence directly contributes to the development of psychological conditions in nurses and reduces nurses’ level of job satisfaction as well as organizational commitment (ANA, 2018). Additionally, the occurrence of workplace violence events impacts patient and organizational outcomes.

PICOT: The PICOT question that guided this project was, in acute-care medical-surgical nurses (P), does the use of a structured risk of violence screening tool (I), compared to current practice (C), improve the nurses’ perceived ability to identify patients who are at risk for becoming violent (O) over eight weeks (T)? Evidence: Evidence that was reviewed supported the implementation of …

Alaska Earthquake Center Quarterly Technical Report July-September 2024, Alexandra Farrell, Beth Grassi, Stephen Holtkamp, Elisabeth Nadin, Carolyn Parcheta, Angelica Stabs, Michael West, Heather Mcfarlin

Alaska Earthquake Center Reports

This series of technical quarterly reports from the Alaska Earthquake Center (AEC) includes detailed summaries and updates on Alaska seismicity, the AEC seismic network and stations, fieldwork, our online presence, and lists publications and presentations by AEC staff. Multiple AEC staff members contribute to this report. It is issued within 1-2 months after the completion of each quarter Q1: January-March, Q2: April-June, Q3: July-September, and Q4: October-December. The first report was published for January-March, 2021.

Revolutionary Vs. Evolutionary Democratization, Maia Nicolosi

Opinion Matters: Student Analyses of World News

This op-ed explores the democratization of Portugal and Spain, highlighting how their distinct revolutionary and evolutionary processes ultimately achieved the same result: a free, fair democracy.

Safe Reinforcement Learning For Intersection Management In Riti Communities Under Rare Extreme Events, Yuanzhang Xiao

CSET Project Reports

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the transportation sector, with applications spanning autonomous vehicles, driver injury prevention, and traffic management. Efficient traffic management, particularly through adaptive intersection control, holds significant potential for reducing congestion. This study explores the application of reinforcement learning (RL) to adaptive traffic signal control in rural, isolated, tribal, and indigenous (RITI) communities, which face unique challenges such as rare extreme weather events. Standard RL approaches struggle in these contexts due to limited exposure to these rare events. In our study, we first evaluate several mainstream RL algorithms and identified two most promising approaches. …

Access, Equity, And Safety In Rural Road Development: Historical Evidence From The Dalton Highway, 1974-2024, Philip Wight, Nathan Belz

CSET Project Reports

This study investigates the historical example of the construction of the Dalton Highway—the most significant new road built in Alaska since 1971—to analyze how historical changes in access (both new infrastructures and access policies) and equity (who decides, who benefits, who is seen as a stakeholder) have impacted safety, broadly defined, in rural, isolated, tribal, and indigenous (RITI) communities throughout Northern Alaska.

Adaptive Mesh Refinement For Variational Inequalities, Stefano Fochesatto

Mathematics and Statistics

Variational inequalities play a pivotal role in a wide array of scientific and engineering applications. This project presents two techniques for adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) in the context of variational inequalities, with a specific focus on the classical obstacle problem. We propose two distinct AMR strategies: Variable Coefficient Elliptic Smoothing (VCES) and Unstructured Dilation Operator (UDO). VCES uses a nodal active set indicator function as the initial iterate to a time-dependent heat equation problem. Solving a single step of this problem has the effect of smoothing the indicator about the free boundary. We threshold this smoothed indicator function to identify …

Senior Recital: Spike Cheng, Piano, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

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Ole Miss Landscaping Honored By Pgms, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi campus has long been known for its beauty, and the team that works behind the scenes to keep it looking that way has been recognized.

Emerging Consensus On Net Energy Paves The Way For Improved Integrated Assessment Modeling, Louis Delannoy, Matthieu Auzanneau, Baptiste Andrieu, Olivier Vidal, Pierre -Yves Longaretti, Emmanuel Prados, David J. Murphy, Roger W. Bentley, Michael Carbajales- Dale, Marco Raugei, Mikael Ho¨O¨K, Victor Court, Carey W. King, Florian Fizaine, Pierre Jacques, Matthew Kuperus Heun, Andrew Jackson, Charles Guay- Boutet, Emmanuel Aramendia, Jianliang Wang, Hugo Le Boulzec, Charles A.S. Hal

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Extracting, processing, and delivering energy requires energy itself, which reduces the net energy available to society and yields considerable socioeconomic implications. Yet, most mitigation pathways and transition models overlook net energy feedbacks, specifically related to the decline in the quality of fossil fuel deposits, as well as energy requirements of the energy transition. Here, we summarize our position across 8 key points that converge to form a prevailing understanding regarding EROI (Energy Return on Investment), identify areas of investigation for the Net Energy Analysis community, discuss the consequences of net energy in the context of the energy transition, and underline …

Independent- Nov. 17, 2024, Leslie Lozada

The Independent (1988-present)

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Best Practice Advice For Asthma Exacerbation Prevention And Management In Primary Care: An International Expert Consensus, Neil Skolnik, Barbara P. Yawn, Jaime Correia De Sousa, María Mar Martínez Vázquez, Amanda Barnard, Wendy L. Wright, Austin Ulrich, Tonya Winders, Stephen Brunton

Department of Family & Community Medicine Faculty Papers

Primary care clinicians play a key role in asthma and asthma exacerbation management worldwide because most patients with asthma are treated in primary care settings. The high burden of asthma exacerbations persists and important practice gaps remain, despite continual advances in asthma care. Lack of primary care-specific guidance, uncontrolled asthma, incomplete assessment of exacerbation and asthma control history, and reliance on systemic corticosteroids or short-acting beta2-agonist-only therapy are challenges clinicians face today with asthma care. Evidence supports the use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) + fast-acting bronchodilator treatments when used as needed in response to symptoms to improve asthma control and …

Assessing The Impact Of Obesity On Postoperative Outcomes In Rcc Using Machine Learning, Atulya A. Khosla, Manas Pustake, Sufal Chhabra, Yanjia Zhang, Mukesh Roy, Muni Rubens, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Anshul Saxena, Ishmael A. Jaiyesimi

Conference Presentation Abstracts

Introduction Obesity is associated with an increased risk of developing renal cell carcinoma (RCC) but paradoxically correlates with improved outcomes in metastatic cases. Moreover, the data on the relationship between obesity and postoperative outcomes following nephrectomy are inconsistent. Accurate prediction of postoperative outcomes, including complications, 30-day readmissions, and mortality, is essential for improving patient outcomes in surgical procedures. In this study, we utilized ML models to predict such outcomes in RCC patients undergoing nephroureterectomy, radical nephrectomy, partial nephrectomy, and other excision procedures on the kidney using data from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP; 2016- 2021). Methods A gradient-boosted …