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Snapshots Issue 18: Opportunities For Career Guidance In Australian Schools, Sarah Buckley

Snapshots

This Snapshot investigates the career guidance and support available for 15-year-old students in their schools, who has the responsibility for providing this support and whether the type of support available varies according to students’ socioeconomic background and the location of their school. It also examines the types of activities students may have engaged in to help them explore their career options.

College Council Meeting Minutes (September 24, 2024), Dmacc

College Council

No abstract provided.

Disparities In Musculoskeletal Oncology, Abigail Koons, Elyse Smith, Jeffrey C. Stephens, Natilyn H. Mcknight, Jennifer Barr, *Izuchukwu K. Ibe

Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Publications

Purpose of Review

Disparities within the healthcare system serve as barriers to care that lead to poor outcomes for patients. These healthcare disparities are present in all facets of medicine and extend to musculoskeletal oncology care. There are various tenets to health disparities with some factors being modifiable and non-modifiable. The factors play a direct role in a patient’s access to care, time of presentation, poor social determinants of health, outcomes and survival.

Recent Findings

In musculoskeletal oncologic care, factors such as race, socioeconomic factors and insurance status are correlated to advanced disease upon presentation and poor survival for patients …

Does Internalized Weight Bias Affect Reported Physical Activity In Adolescents?, Caroline Simmons, Brennen Till, Chad Jensen, Monica Martinez

FHSS Mentored Research Conference

Background: Negative internalized weight bias is associated with poorer mental health, while physical activity (PA) has been shown to have protective mental health benefits. Previous research with teens has not explored whether weight bias predicts PA participation. We evaluated weight bias internalization as a predictor of total minutes of PA, hypothesizing that greater weight bias would predict less PA participation.

Methods: One hundred participants ranging (14-18 years) have completed the study. Participants completed the Weight Bias Internalization Scale (WBIS) and the Physical Activity Questionnaire for Adolescents (PAQ-A). Linear regression analysis was used to evaluate the relationship between scores …

Senate Bill 2024-10, Daylee Dey

Approved Senate Bills, Resolutions, and Documents

The purpose of this bill is to create a new program through which the UNK Student Government can provide funds for student organizations. The title of this bill will be the “Student Organization Investment Act”, and the name of the program established by this bill will be the “Student Organization Investment Fund”.

Ud Media Production Students Win ‘Student Emmy’ For Funk Documentary, Lauren Mccarty

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Produced by UD media production students, Funk: The Sound of Dayton was honored by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

2024 September 24, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, 2024 September 24

Simplified Breakdown Remaining Vacancies (9/24/24)

Student Senate Meeting Minutes September 24, 2024, Student Senate-Winona State University

Student Senate Meeting Minutes

This document is the official Winona State University Student Senate Minutes for September 24, 2024.

Settling Of Two Rigidly Connected Spheres, Z. Maches, Morgane Houssais

Physics

Laboratory experiments and particle-resolved simulations are employed to investigate the settling dynamics of a pair of rigidly connected spherical particles of unequal size. They yield a detailed picture of the transient evolution and the terminal values of the aggregate's orientation angle and its settling and drift velocities as functions of the aspect ratio and the Galileo number, which denotes the ratio of buoyancy and viscous forces acting on the aggregate. At low to moderate values of, the aggregate's orientation and velocity converge to their terminal values monotonically, whereas for higher -values the aggregate tends to undergo a more complex motion. …

Analyzing The Impact Of Academic And Financial Factors On The Employment Prosperity Of Engineering Graduates: A Case Study From Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Yuniar Indrihapsari, Muhammad Irfan Luthfi, Satya Adhiyaksa Ardy, Abdul Jaleel Kehinde Shittu

Elinvo (Electronics, Informatics, and Vocational Education)

The rapid technological advancements and evolving job markets present a pressing need to understand how academic experiences shape the career outcomes of engineering graduates. This understanding is crucial for educational institutions aiming to align their curricula with industry demands and for graduates seeking to maximize their career prospects. Notably, the role of financial support, academic performance, and early career experiences in influencing graduate prosperity remains underexplored. This study aims to analyze the correlation between finance support, GPA, study period, job waiting times, salary details, and the prosperity of graduates from the Faculty of Engineering at Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta. The prosperity …

Evaluation Of Yolov8 Algorithm For Vehicle License Plate Detection System In Uny Integrated Parking Lot, Muhammad Azril Haidar Al Matiin, Fatchul Arifin

Elinvo (Electronics, Informatics, and Vocational Education)

The YOLOv8 algorithm for the license plate detection system of vehicles entering the integrated parking lot of Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (UNY) needs to be evaluated because license plate detection is crucial in integrated parking management to improve the security and efficiency of parking lot usage. YOLOv8, as a deep learning-based object detection algorithm, was chosen to improve the accuracy and speed of detection. This research combines the YOLOv8 approach with a dataset specifically designed for the context of UNY parking lots. The testing process was conducted using the required hardware and software to ensure the algorithm's ability to adapt to …

Health Risk Factors Of Female African American Informal Caregivers For Alzheimer’S Disease Patients In Low-Income Communities, Rosaline Elaine Elliott

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

By 2050, 152 million people worldwide, primarily low-income populations, will have Alzheimer's disease (AD). African American (AA) women informal caregivers are primary caregivers in low-income neighborhoods, and they suffer from burnout and poor health, including physical and mental fatigue, despair, anxiety, hypertension, and stressors that can lead to heart attacks, strokes, or premature mortality. The Informal Caregiver Integrative Model (ICIM) theoretical framework was used to survey 120 participants using SurveyMonkey was administered to collect data for this cross-sectional quantitative study. The multiple hierarchical regression analyses revealed caregiving appraisal had no significant impact on burnout. A higher quality of the caregiver-care …

Video Spotlight - Google Scholar Search Features, Diamond R. Williams

Libraries' Documents

No abstract provided.

Projected Near-Future Flooding And Warming Increase Graminoid Biomass In A High-Latitude Coastal Wetland, Matteo Petit Bon, A. Joshua Leffler, Katharine C. Kelsey, Tyler J. Williams, Karen H. Beard

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

1. With rapid climate warming, some coastal high-latitude ecosystems are experiencing more frequent tidal floods. Yet little is known about tundra plant-community responses to flooding, and whether Arctic warming may modulate such responses.

2. In a 2-year, full-factorial field experiment in coastal tundra wetlands of the Yukon-Kuskokwim (Y-K) Delta (western Alaska), we simulated periodic tidal flood events at two severities under both ambient and warmed summer conditions and measured above-ground plant-community responses. Low-severity flooding represented overbank flooding 1 day per month, which is consistent with projections in the next 5 years. High-severity flooding represented a more impactful flooding regime (three consecutive days …

Gardner-Webb’S Univ 111 First-Year Program Builds Community Through Spirit Board Contest, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

An important aspect of Gardner-Webb’s University 111 program is to help first-year students build relationships and develop a sense of community. This year, Director of Success Initiatives and First-Year Experience Kara Alves introduced a friendly competition to foster unity. She challenged the 21 classes to create a Spirit Board that represents the essence of Gardner-Webb.

Exploring How Uncertain Labels From Non-Consensus Panels Affect Machine Learning, Amal Almansour

College of Computing and Digital Media Dissertations

A dataset becomes meaningful for analysis when it contains more representative features. Machine and deep learning models rely on annotated instances for training. The annotation process is usually done either by humans (experts or crowdsourcing) or by models. In many cases, the variability between humans (the inter-observer variability) in evaluation leads to uncertainty in the learning process. Due to the lack of reliable labels in large datasets, the inter-observer variability can be quantified with different methods to estimate the ground truth label (i.e., referenced standard label) for model learning.

In health care, with the rise of artificial intelligence in clinical …

Olfactory Deficit And Gastrointestinal Dysfunction Precede Motor Abnormalities In Alpha-Synuclein G51d Knock-In Mice, Youngdoo Kim, Joseph Mcinnes, Jiyoen Kim, Yan Hong Wei Liang, Surabi Veeraragavan, Alexandra Rae Garza, Benjamin David Webst Belfort, Benjamin Arenkiel, Rodney Samaco, Huda Yahya Zoghbi

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Many Parkinson’s disease (PD) models overexpress α-Synuclein using heterologous promoters, which is adequate to demonstrate that excessive α-Synuclein is toxic but not ideal for learning the precise ontogeny of the disease pathogenesis, specifically where the disease starts and how it progresses. To answer these questions, it is beneficial to generate a mouse model expressing a disease-causing mutation under the endogenous promoter. Here, we generated three Snca knock-in mice. Among them, homozygous Snca^G51D mice develop motor deficits by 9 mo of age. These mice exhibit olfactory and gastrointestinal abnormalities by 6 mo. They lose dopaminergic neurons and have reduced dopamine …

Library Newsletter Late September '24, Emerson College

Iwasaki Newsletters

This Library newsletter reached staff, students, and faculty of Emerson College on September 24th 2024

People Or Profit? The National Mediation Board Must Also Prioritize Workers, Leah Susman

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice (ERSJ) Blog

For over five years, United Airlines (“United”) flight attendants, represented by their union, the Association of Flight Attendants (“AFA-UA”), have faced stalled contract negotiations with United management.  The AFA-UA is calling for wage increases and improved schedule flexibility.  The starting pay rate for a United flight attendant maxes out at about $25,992 per year, and some employees have to rely on food stamps and alternative housing options because they cannot afford to pay rent.  Unwilling to work under these conditions any longer, the AFA-UA voted 99.99% in favor to authorize a strike on August 24, 2024.

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Usa V. Dimitre Hadjiev

2024 Decisions

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Usa V. Tyrone Mitchell

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Sylvia Gittelmacher V. Travelers Property Casualty Insurance Co

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September 24, 2024, Nichole Mulvey

Minutes

Vol. 53, No. 3

Guest speaker: VPEM Josh Norman

Expanding The Scope: Multimodal Dimensions In Aphasia Discourse Analysis—Preliminary Findings, Manaswita Dutta, Bijoyaa Mohapatra

Speech and Hearing Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background:

Aphasia, resulting from acquired brain injury, disrupts language processing and usage, significantly impacting individuals’ social communication and life participation. Given the limitations of traditional assessments in capturing the nuanced challenges faced by individuals with aphasia, this study seeks to explore the potential benefits of integrating multimodal communication elements into discourse analysis to better capture narrative proficiency in this population.ObjectiveThis study examined how incorporating multimodal communication elements (e.g., physical gestures, writing, drawing) into discourse analysis may affect the narrative outcomes of persons with aphasia compared to those observed using methods that exclude multimodal considerations.

Methods:

Participants included individuals with chronic …

Joint Senate Meeting Minutes 9-24-24, Unk Student Government

Joint Senate Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Cd8Α Structural Domains Enhance Gucy2c Car-T Cell Efficacy, Trevor R. Baybutt, Ariana A. Entezari, Adi Caspi, Ross E. Staudt, Robert D. Carlson, Scott A. Waldman, Adam E. Snook

Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Cancer Biology Faculty Papers

Despite success in treating some hematological malignancies, CAR-T cells have not yet produced similar outcomes in solid tumors due, in part, to the tumor microenvironment, poor persistence, and a paucity of suitable target antigens. Importantly, the impact of the CAR components on these challenges remains focused on the intracellular signaling and antigen-binding domains. In contrast, the flexible hinge and transmembrane domains have been commoditized and are the least studied components of the CAR. Here, we compared the hinge and transmembrane domains derived from either the CD8ɑ or CD28 molecule in identical GUCY2C-targeted third-generation designs for colorectal cancer. While these structural …

Gad178.2 2d Asset Design For Games: Part 2, Sae University College

Exemplars

This submission acts as an exemplar for receiving a high distinction for GAD178 Project 2 at SAE University College

Usa V. Richard Balter

2024 Decisions

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Michael Campbell V. Township Of North Brunswick

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Usa V. David Taylor

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania