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The 2024 Report Of The Lancet Countdown On Health And Climate Change: Facing Record-Breaking Threats From Delayed Action, Marina Romanello, Maria Walawender, Shih-Che Hsu, Annalyse Moskeland, Yasna Palmeiro-Silva, Daniel Scamman, Zakari Ali, Nadia Ameli, Denitsa Angelova, Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, Sara Basart, Jessica Beagley, Paul J Beggs, Luciana Blanco-Villafuerte, Wenjia Cai, Max Callaghan, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Jonathan D Chambers, Victoria Chicmana-Zapata, Lingzhi Chu, Troy J Cross, Kim R Van Daalen, Carole Dalin, Niheer Dasandi, Shouro Dasgupta, Michael Davies, Robert Dubrow, Matthew J Eckelman, James D Ford, Chris Freyberg, Olga Gasparyan, Georgiana Gordon-Strachan, Michael Grubb, Samuel H Gunther, Ian Hamilton, Yun Hang, Risto Hänninen, Stella Hartinger, Kehan He, Julian Heidecke, Jeremy J Hess, Louis Jamart, Slava Jankin, Harshavardhan Jatkar, Ollie Jay, Ilan Kelman, Harry Kennard, Gregor Kiesewetter, Patrick Kinney, Dominic Kniveton, Rostislav Kouznetsov, Pete Lampard, Jason K W Lee, Bruno Lemke, Bo Li, Yang Liu, Zhao Liu, Alba Llabrés-Brustenga, Melissa Lott, Rachel Lowe, Jaime Martinez-Urtaza, Mark Maslin, Lucy Mcallister, Celia Mcmichael, Zhifu Mi, James Milner, Kelton Minor, Jan Minx, Nahid Mohajeri, Natalie C Momen, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Karyn Morrisey, Simon Munzert, Kris A Murray, Nick Obradovich, Megan B O'Hare, Camile Oliveira, Tadj Oreszczyn, Matthias Otto, Fereidoon Owfi, Olivia L Pearman, Frank Pega, Andrew J Perishing, Ana-Catarina Pinho-Gomes, Jamie Ponmattam, Mahnaz Rabbaniha, Jamie Rickman, Elizabeth Robinson, Joacim Rocklöv, David Rojas-Rueda, Renee N Salas, Jan C Semenza, Jodi D Sherman, Joy Shumake-Guillemot, Pratik Singh, Henrik Sjödin, Jessica Slater, Mikhail Sofiev, Cecilia Sorensen, Marco Springmann, Zélie Stalhandske, Jennifer D Stowell, Meisam Tabatabaei, Jonathon Taylor, Daniel Tong, Cathryn Tonne, Marina Treskova, Joaquin A Trinanes, Andreas Uppstu, Fabian Wagner, Laura Warnecke, Hannah Whitcombe, Peng Xian, Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo, Chi Zhang, Ran Zhang, Shihui Zhang, Ying Zhang, Qiao Zhu, Peng Gong, Hugh Montgomery, Anthony Costello

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Despite the initial hope inspired by the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world is now dangerously close to breaching its target of limiting global multiyear mean heating to 1·5°C. Annual mean surface temperature reached a record high of 1·45°C above the pre-industrial baseline in 2023, and new temperature highs were recorded throughout 2024. The resulting climatic extremes are increasingly claiming lives and livelihoods worldwide.

Validation Of A Prognostic Blood-Based Sphingolipid Panel For Men With Localized Prostate Cancer Followed On Active Surveillance, Justin R Gregg, Lisa Newcomb, Ranran Wu, Jennifer Dennison, John W Davis, Curtis Pettaway, Louis Pisters, John F Ward, Brian F Chapin, Lisly Chéry, Ahmet Urkmez, Andrew M Fang, Noel Higgason, Patricia Troncoso, Carrie R Daniel, Christopher Logothetis, Timothy C Thompson, Andrew W Hahn, Menghan Liu, Yingye Zheng, Dan W Lin, Samir Hanash, Ehsan Irajizad, Johannes Fahrmann

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background: We previously reported that increases in circulating sphingolipids are associated with elevated risk of biopsy Gleason grade group (GG) upgrading in men on Active Surveillance (AS) for prostate cancer. Here, we aimed to validate these findings and establish a blood-based sphingolipid biomarker panel for identifying men on AS who are at high-risk of biopsy GG upgrading.

Methods: Men diagnosed with low- or intermediate-risk prostate cancer in one of two AS cohorts (CANARY PASS and MDACC) were followed for GG upgrading after diagnostic and confirmatory biopsy. The PASS cohort consisted of 544 patients whereas the MDACC Cohort consisted of 697 …

Future-Oriented Science Learning And Its Effects On Students’ Emotions, Futures Literacy And Agency In The Anthropocene, Jessica Chan, Sibel Erduran

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

Science education bears the broader objective of nurturing students today to be scientifically-literate citizens of tomorrow who are able to foresee challenges, invent solutions and make responsible decisions for global issues. As a prelude to the new focus of agency in the Anthropocene, this paper presents an intervention on climate change with upper secondary students in a museum of natural history in England. Instructional strategies such as infusing scenarios and arts into scientific discussions were adopted to induce imagination, future-oriented thinking and emotional responses. Statistical results showed that the intervention significantly enhanced participants’ futures literacy, environmental agency and positive emotions. …

Picking The Low-Hanging Fruit: The Cost-Effectiveness Of Opportunistic Diabetes Screening During Tuberculosis Contact Investigations On The Texas-Mexico Border, Robert A. Mcgowan, Henry Shelton Brown, Juan C. Lopez-Alvarenga, Blanca I. Restrepo

School of Medicine Publications

Objective: There is a known association between type 2 diabetes (diabetes) and tuberculosis (TB), and TB clinics have become hubs for new diabetes diagnosis among active patients with TB. However, despite the potential to identify diabetes patients, resources limit diabetes screening opportunities to close TB contacts. We assessed the cost-effectiveness of adding opportunistic screening for diabetes during the routine TB contact investigations conducted at TB clinics.

Research design and methods: We used a Markov-based model to simulate the costs of diabetes screening, management and health outcomes, including the incidence of complications and death. All costs were considered from a health …

Holistic & Socially Just Admissions Procedures In An Artificially Intelligent (Ai) World, Lucinda Bratini, Ali Cunningham Abbott, Tracy N. Baker

Faculty and Staff Publications & Presentations

In our ever-evolving social context, the counseling profession continues to center social justice and decolonial praxis in training programs. Simultaneously, we remain attuned to shifts in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) which require us to adjust and grow. This roundtable discussion shares the development of a holistic admissions review (HAR) pilot process, which incorporates relational, diversity and social justice values alongside AI innovations and current CACREP considerations.

Exploring Online Destination Brand Advocacy, Violetta Wilk, Saalem Sadeque, Geoffrey N. Soutar

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

This paper explores online brand advocacy (OBA) in a tourism destination context. Through a Social Influence Theory lens, it explores the ways in which residents and overseas tourists discuss Australia as a destination brand on social media. By analyzing a big dataset of social media user-generated content (UGC), this study sought to identify the key dimensions evident in positively valenced social media UGC, to see whether these dimensions varied between residents and overseas tourists, and to see whether the dimensions reflected OBA. The analyses found online destination brand advocacy (ODBA) had five dimensions: Destination Acknowledgement (hashtags), Destination Insights, Destination Positivity …

Mrs. Nell Johnson Hendley

African American Funeral Programs

Mrs_Nell_Johnson_Hendley.pdf - Funeral program for Nell Hendley

Mr. Ronnie Irvin

African American Funeral Programs

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Sacituzumab-Govitecan-Induced Severe Acute Tubulointerstitial Nephritis Requiring Hemodialysis, Geneva Guarin, Audrey Netzel, Karen Marie Flores, Arun Cumpelik, Ron Bose

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Sacituzumab govitecan is an antibody-drug conjugate that is FDA approved for refractory metastatic triple-negative breast cancer. It targets the human trophoblastic cell-surface antigen 2 (Trop-2) with SN-38, a topoisomerase I inhibitor, attached to the antibody [1]. SN-38 breaks DNA strands and induces tumor apoptosis [2]. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is one of its adverse effects mainly prerenal due to gastrointestinal toxicity, but it has not been reported to cause acute tubulointerstitial nephritis (ATIN).

CASE PRESENTATION: This report describes a rare adverse effect of sacituzumab govitecan, the approach to diagnosing the etiology of the patient's AKI, and the mechanism by …

An Open Codebase For Enhancing Transparency In Deep Learning-Based Breast Cancer Diagnosis Utilizing Cbis-Ddsm Data, Ling Liao, Eva M Aagaard

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Accessible mammography datasets and innovative machine learning techniques are at the forefront of computer-aided breast cancer diagnosis. However, the opacity surrounding private datasets and the unclear methodology behind the selection of subset images from publicly available databases for model training and testing, coupled with the arbitrary incompleteness or inaccessibility of code, markedly intensifies the obstacles in replicating and validating the model's efficacy. These challenges, in turn, erect barriers for subsequent researchers striving to learn and advance this field. To address these limitations, we provide a pilot codebase covering the entire process from image preprocessing to model development and evaluation pipeline, …

Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords

Volume 45-2 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 45-2 Complete Issue

Human Impact On Ancient Environments. By Charles L. Redman, James D. Lowry, Jr

The Geographical Bulletin

Having just taught conservation of natural resources to a small group of students over the summer, and just gearing up to teach it again in the fall, current environmental problems were foremost in my mind as I picked up Human Impact on Ancient Environments. Although my research background includes the Mayan culture area of MesoAmerica (via an interdisciplinary mix of geographers, archaeologists, and others) and I discuss their maladaptive environmental strategies in class, I offer them only briefly as an example of population growth and its relationship to environmental damage. My focus is on the present. In Human Impact Redman …

The Coming Age Of Scarcity: Preventing Mass Death And Genocide In The Twenty First Century. By Michael N. Dobkowski And Isidor Wallimann (Eds.), James D. Lowry, Jr

The Geographical Bulletin

The Coming Age of Scarcity is a collection of essays examining the relationship between population growth and resource depletion and genocide (and the collapse of our civilization!). The authors immediately jump into a fatalistic doomsday scenario. The Foreword, by John K. Roth, has the essence of strong anticapitalism bias. For example, Roth states “the great transformation from agricultural to . . . industrial societies has always been on the back of peasants” (4), refers to Eastern Europe as “once a highly selfsufficient economic and political system” (13), and states “markets, if left to themselves, cannot factor in long-term scarcity” (14). …

News From The Chapters 2002–2003, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

News from the Chapters 2002–2003

Fieldwork Dilemmas: Anthropologists In Post Socialist States. By Hermine G. De Soto And Nora Dudwick (Eds.), James D. Lowry, Jr

The Geographical Bulletin

Fieldwork Dilemmas is a collection of essays from 10 anthropologists’ experiences in postsocialist eastern Europe. The primary focus is not to recount the results of their ethnographic research, but to detail the many problems and dangers they encountered in conducting the research in communities undergoing tremendous change in almost every facet of life. Research reports from Armenia, Macedonia, Serbia, eastern Germany, Kyrgystan, Siberia, Uzbekistan, and Bulgaria are included into three collections.

Blame Walt Rostow For Miss Som Rasmey’S Acid Bath, David J. Nemeth

The Geographical Bulletin

In general, the legal rights of women in Asia are ignored. The paper provides anecdotal evidence of “young, beautiful” women in several Asian countries who have been the targets of acid attacks by angry men and women over personal issues. Battery acid is the weapon of choice. The acid attacks intentionally transform these women from “beautiful” to “ugly.” Most of the victims are alone and poor, and youth and beauty may be their only assets. The courts of law, however, blame the victims’ beauty and wile for initiating the circumstances that result in their suffering. The attackers generally go free. …

Race And American College Testing (Act) Scores In Illinois, Wendy Shaw, Bin Zhou

The Geographical Bulletin

This paper explores links between race and ethnicity, and performance on the American College Testing (ACT) within Illinois. This paper utilizes information about the performance of Illinois’ 85, 480 year 2000 graduating seniors who took the ACT assessment. The ACT scores reported by county are broken down into various racial and ethnic groupings, and a Geographic Information System was used to map and explore the spatial dimensions of the data. The results of the analysis indicate that performance on the ACT varies by the type of county involved, and is linked to family income rather than to race per se. …