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Wearing Many Hats: Chinese Muslim General Bai Chongxi And The Chinese Muslim Association During The War Of Resistance, Kelly Hammond

History Faculty Publications and Presentations

Bai Chongxi’s illustrious military career needs no introduction for military historians. What is less recognized is his influence on the development and integration of Chinese Muslims into the KMT’s national agenda during the War of Resistance. Bai leveraged his military positions to advance the aims of Chinese Muslims through his participation in the first national association for Chinese Muslims. By putting Bai’s military successes and failures during the War of Resistance into conversation with his efforts to mobilize Muslims, we see how his efforts were central to state making and nation building beyond the battlefield. In the ongoing reassessment of …

Author Correction: Location And Function Of Tdp-43 In Platelets, Alterations In Neurodegenerative Diseases And Arising Considerations For Current Plasma Biobank Protocols, Ruth Luthi-Carter, Sara Cappelli, Morgan Le Roux-Bourdieu, Noemie Tentillier, James P. Quinn, Tiziana Petrozziello, Lathika Gopalakrishnan, Purva Sethi, Himanshi Choudhary, Giorgia Bartolini, Elias Gebara, Cristiana Stuani, Laure Font, Jiyan An, Vanessa Ortega, Jessica Sage, Edina Kosa, Bianca A. Trombetta, Roberto Simeone, Tamara Seredenina, Tariq Afroz, James D. Berry, Steven E. Arnold, Becky C. Carlyle, Oskar Adolfsson, Ghazaleh Sadri-Vakili, Emanuele Buratti, Robert Bowser, Abdulbaki Agbas

Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Trisc: Low-Cost Design Of Trigonometric Functions With Quasi Stochastic Computing, Mehran Shoushtari Moghadam, M. Hassan Najafi

Faculty Scholarship

Low-cost and hardware-efficient design of trigonometric functions is challenging. Stochastic computing (SC), an emerging computing model processing random bit-streams, offers promising solutions for this problem. The existing implementations, however, often overlook the importance of the data converters necessary to generate the needed bit-streams. While recent advancements in SC bit-stream generators focus on basic arithmetic operations such as multiplication and addition, energy-efficient SC design of non-linear functions demands attention to both the computation circuit and the bit-stream generator. This work introduces TriSC, a novel approach for SC-based design of trigonometric functions enjoying state-of-the-art (SOTA) quasi-random bit-streams. Unlike SOTA SC designs of …

Use Of The Dla-20 For Multidisciplinary Assessment And Treatment Of Asd, Elizabeth Kipana Walton Brummett

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This study involved exploring multidisciplinary professionals’ perceptions of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) treatment using a focus group. Using the ecological systems theory (EST), this study involved exploring the Daily Living Activities (DLA-20) assessment as an assessment and treatment planning tool for ASD. Clients are considered by those involved in ASD treatment to be high or low-functioning based on IQ variance or other areas of functioning. Research on using the DLA-20 for assessment and treatment planning could build knowledge for communicating ASD treatment needs based on specific areas of functioning. The two focus groups in this research project included mental health …

Nanobubble Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging: A Review, Pinunta Nittayacharn, Felipe M. Berg, Dorian Durig, Agata A. Exner

Faculty Scholarship

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound is currently used worldwide with clinical indications in cardiology and radiology, and it continues to evolve and develop through innovative technological advancements. Clinically utilized contrast agents for ultrasound consist of hydrophobic gas microbubbles stabilized with a biocompatible shell. These agents are used commonly in echocardiography, with emerging applications in cancer diagnosis and therapy. Microbubbles are a blood pool agent with diameters between 1 and 10 μm, which precludes their use in other extravascular applications. To expand the potential use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound beyond intravascular applications, sub-micron agents, often called nanobubbles or ultra-fine bubbles, have recently emerged as a …

Office Of The Comptroller Of The Treasury (Cot) 2024, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury.

Performance Audit Reports

No abstract provided.

Engaging Students And Alumni Through Executives In Residence, Bryan Austin, Michael Witt

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Over the course of 10 years, Residential Academic Initiatives at Purdue University has invited 57 prominent alumni to return to live on campus and engage in meaningful interactions with students as a part of its Executive in Residence program. In this session, the director of the program and a faculty member will share their experiences in launching and growing the program, identifying and recruiting alumni to participate, structuring their visits to maximize their impact on students, and collaborating with learning community faculty to integrate the alumni into teaching that results in purposeful and immersive learning opportunities for students. Specific examples …

Martinez V. State Of Nevada, 140 Nev. Adv. Op. 1 (Nov. 7, 2024), Caren Abourjeily

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

The Nevada Supreme Court upheld Jesus Alberto Martinez, Jr.’s conviction for attempted child abuse involving sexual exploitation and solicitation of a minor for prostitution. Martinez made many arguments against his conviction, contending that the operation was an outrageous government act, violated due process, and that the jury received incorrect instructions on entrapment. In this case, the court clarified the entrapment defense and applied a factor test to evaluate outrageous government conduct. The court ultimately found that the jury instruction error was harmless and that Martinez’s intent was prevalent and at the forefront of his conviction, despite the absence of an …

2024 November 7 - From My Notepads Newsletter, Office Of The President, East Tennessee State University, Brian Noland

From My Notepads: A Newsletter from President Brian Noland

No abstract provided.

Association Of Neighborhood-Level Disadvantage Beyond Individual Sociodemographic Factors In Patients With Or At Risk Of Knee Osteoarthritis, Jessica Peoples, Jared J Tanner, Emily J Bartley, Lisa H Domenico, Cesar E Gonzalez, Josue S Cardoso, Catalina Lopez-Quintero, Elizabeth A Reynolds Losin, Roland Staud, Burel R Goodin, Roger B Fillingim, Ellen L Terry

2020-Current year OA Pubs

OBJECTIVE: Lower socioeconomic status (SES) is a risk factor for poorer pain-related outcomes. Further, the neighborhood environments of disadvantaged communities can create a milieu of increased stress and deprivation that adversely affects pain-related and other health outcomes. Socioenvironmental variables such as the Area Deprivation Index, which ranks neighborhoods based on socioeconomic factors could be used to capture environmental aspects associated with poor pain outcomes. However, it is unclear whether the ADI could be used as a risk assessment tool in addition to individual-level SES.

METHODS: The current study investigated whether neighborhood-level disadvantage impacts knee pain-related outcomes above sociodemographic measures. Participants …

Large-Scale Application Of Clingen-Insight Apc-Specific Acmg/Amp Variant Classification Criteria Leads To Substantial Reduction In Vus, Xiaoyu Yin, Marcy Richardson, Andreas Laner, Xuemei Shi, Elisabet Ognedal, Valeria Vasta, Thomas V O Hansen, Marta Pineda, Deborah Ritter, Johan De Dunnen, Emadeldin Hassanin, Wencong Lyman Lin, Ester Borras, Karl Krahn, Margareta Nordling, Alexandra Martins, Khalid Mahmood, Emily Nadeau, Victoria Beshay, Carli Tops, Maurizio Genuardi, Tina Pesaran, Ian M Frayling, Gabriel Capellá, Andrew Latchford, Sean V Tavtigian, Carlo Maj, Sharon E Plon, Marc S Greenblatt, Finlay A Macrae, Isabel Spier, Stefan Aretz

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Pathogenic constitutional APC variants underlie familial adenomatous polyposis, the most common hereditary gastrointestinal polyposis syndrome. To improve variant classification and resolve the interpretative challenges of variants of uncertain significance (VUSs), APC-specific variant classification criteria were developed by the ClinGen-InSiGHT Hereditary Colorectal Cancer/Polyposis Variant Curation Expert Panel (VCEP) based on the criteria of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology (ACMG/AMP). A streamlined algorithm using the APC-specific criteria was developed and applied to assess all APC variants in ClinVar and the International Society for Gastrointestinal Hereditary Tumours (InSiGHT) international reference APC Leiden Open Variation …

Litigation And The 2024 Election: Critical Questions, Jacob Burns Center For Ethics In The Practice Of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law, Center For Rights And Justice, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

2024–2025 Flyers

No abstract provided.

Dhamaka, South Asian Law Student Association (Salsa)

2024–2025 Flyers

No abstract provided.

Alumni Career Panel, Cardozo Entertainment Law Society

2024–2025 Flyers

No abstract provided.

2024-11-07 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate meeting minutes from November 7, 2024.

2024-11-07 What It Means To Be A Senator, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

A brief reminder of what it means to be a faculty senator brought before the Faculty Senate by the Faculty Senate President on November 7, 2024.

2024-11-07 Faculty Senate Newsletter, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate newsletter from November 7, 2024.

University Of Northern Iowa Graduate Studies Fourth Annual Three Minute Thesis® Competition [Program, 2024], University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate Studies.

Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) at UNI Programs

Graduate students engage with audience members regarding their research.

New Fueter-Type Variables Associated To The Global Operator In The Quaternionic Case, Daniel Alpay, Kamal Diki, Mihaela Vajiac

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

The purpose of this paper is to develop a new theory of three non-commuting quaternionic variables and its related Schur analysis theory for a modified version of the quaternionic global operator.

The Cowl - V. 88 N. 6 - November 7, 2024

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol. 88 No. 6 - November 7, 2024. 16 pages.

A Strategic Topology On Information Structures, Dirk Bergemann, Stephen Morris, Rafael Veiel

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Two information structures are said to be close if, with high probability, there is approximate common knowledge that interim beliefs are close under the two information structures. We define an “almost common knowledge topology” reflecting this notion of closeness. We show that it is the coarsest topology generating continuity of equilibrium outcomes. An information structure is said to be simple if each player has a finite set of types and each type has a distinct first-order belief about payoff states. We show that simple information structures are dense in the almost common knowledge topology and thus it is without loss …

The Colby Echo (2024-11-07), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly during the academic year, 1898-present.

Use Of The Dla-20 For Multidisciplinary Assessment And Treatment Of Asd, Elizabeth Kipana Walton Brummett

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This study involved exploring multidisciplinary professionals’ perceptions of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) treatment using a focus group. Using the ecological systems theory (EST), this study involved exploring the Daily Living Activities (DLA-20) assessment as an assessment and treatment planning tool for ASD. Clients are considered by those involved in ASD treatment to be high or low-functioning based on IQ variance or other areas of functioning. Research on using the DLA-20 for assessment and treatment planning could build knowledge for communicating ASD treatment needs based on specific areas of functioning. The two focus groups in this research project included mental health …

Homozygous Variants In Wdr83os Lead To A Neurodevelopmental Disorder With Hypercholanemia, Scott Barish, Sheng-Jia Lin, Reza Maroofian, Alper Gezdirici, Hamoud Alhebby, Aurélien Trimouille, Marta Biderman Waberski, Tadahiro Mitani, Ilka Huber, Kristian Tveten, Øystein L Holla, Øyvind L Busk, Henry Houlden, Ehsan Ghayoor Karimiani, Mehran Beiraghi Toosi, Reza Shervin Badv, Paria Najarzadeh Torbati, Fatemeh Eghbal, Javad Akhondian, Ayat Al Safar, Abdulrahman Alswaid, Giovanni Zifarelli, Peter Bauer, Dana Marafi, Jawid M Fatih, Kevin Huang, Cassidy Petree, Daniel G Calame, Charlotte Von Der Lippe, Fowzan S Alkuraya, Sami Wali, James R Lupski, Gaurav K Varshney, Jennifer E Posey, Davut Pehlivan

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

WD repeat domain 83 opposite strand (WDR83OS) encodes the 106-aa (amino acid) protein Asterix, which heterodimerizes with CCDC47 to form the PAT (protein associated with ER translocon) complex. This complex functions as a chaperone for large proteins containing transmembrane domains to ensure proper folding. Until recently, little was known about the role of WDR83OS or CCDC47 in human disease traits. However, biallelic variants in CCDC47 were identified in four unrelated families with trichohepatoneurodevelopmental syndrome, characterized by a neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) with liver dysfunction. Three affected siblings in an additional family share a homozygous truncating WDR83OS variant and a phenotype of …

Brain Metastases In Sarcomas: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study, Ellen Zhang, Sheima Farag, Hilary Dietz, Daniel Wang, Angela Hirbe, Kristen Ganjoo, Brian Van Tine, Shane Zaid, Aisha Miah, Vicki Keedy, Elizabeth Davis, Nam Bui

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Purpose: Brain metastases (BM) in sarcomas occur rarely and are associated with poor prognosis. This study is a large retrospective cohort describing the demographic and clinical characteristics of these patients, treatment strategies, and survival outcomes.

Methods: In total, 81 patients with BM from sarcomas were identified across five sarcoma centers. Demographic data, clinical presentation, and treatment modalities were analyzed.

Results: The most common histologies were leiomyosarcoma (12.3%) and undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (12.3%). The median time from sarcoma diagnosis to brain metastases was 1.9 years. Upon presentation, 88.9% of patients with BM from sarcomas were symptomatic with the most common presenting …

Constraining Accreted Neutron Star Crust Shallow Heating With The Inferred Depth Of Carbon Ignition In X-Ray Superbursts, Zachary P. Meisel

Faculty Publications

Evidence has accumulated for an as-yet unaccounted for source of heat located at shallow depths within the accreted neutron star crust. However, the nature of this heat source is unknown. I demonstrate that the inferred depth of carbon ignition in X-ray superbursts can be used as an additional constraint for the magnitude and depth of shallow heating. The inferred shallow heating properties are relatively insensitive to the assumed crust composition and carbon fusion reaction rate. For low-accretion rates, the results are weakly dependent on the duration of the accretion outburst, so long as accretion has ensued for enough time to …

590-600 One Realty Corp. V. Uddin

All Decisions

The court granted the tenant's motion to dismiss the landlord's nonpayment proceeding because the rent demand was defective. The demand failed to fairly apprise the tenant of the periods for which rent was allegedly due and in what amounts, and potentially prejudiced the tenant's ability to respond, formulate defenses, and avoid litigation.

Deterministic Transport Of Coupled Energetic Light-Ions And Neutrons With Application To Inertial Confinement Fusion, Kyle Beling

Nuclear Engineering ETDs

Numerical simulations of an inertial confinement fusion (ICF) target during the implosion process require high fidelity models of the radiation transport process. This work is interested in the transport of high-energy light-ions and neutrons in a background ICF plasma. As these energetic particles slow down, they experience knock-on (recoil) and thermonuclear (TN) collisions with the light-ions in the background plasma. These recoil and TN collisions excite the background light-ions causing them to transport through the plasma further exciting background light-ions. Mathematically, this cascading effect is described as a system of linear Boltzmann transport equations coupled through recoil and TN collision …

Power, Labor, And Hierarchies: Deconstructing Work In Speculative Fiction, Joseph Kevin Sebastian

Library Faculty Research

In discussions of literary and speculative fiction, a persistent divide emerges regarding the modes and aims of each genre. Literary fiction generally aims to reflect the human condition in familiar, “realistic” terms, exploring characters, relationships, and narratives within existing social structures. In contrast, speculative fiction is characterized by what Darko Suvin identifies as the “the strange newness” of the novum: a radically new element or phenomenon that reshapes the fictional world. This paper argues that the novum in science fiction provides a unique framework for interrogating the relationships between labor, knowledge, and power, revealing how these constructs are contingent upon …

Strengthening Work Requirements? Forecasting Impacts Of Reforming Cash Assistance, Josep M. Nadal-Fernandez, Gabrielle Pepin, Kane Schrader

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

Work requirements are perhaps the most controversial aspect of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, America’s sole federal cash assistance program for low-income families with children. In 2025, for the first time in nearly 20 years, the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (FRA) will implement policy changes intended to strengthen states’ work requirements. However, researcher’ and policymakers’ understanding of how FRA will impact states’ compliance with federal requirements is hampered by a lack of research and publicly available data.

We tie information from reports submitted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that are collected to …