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Clinics And Emergencies, Elizabeth Keyes, Sabrina Balgamwalla

All Faculty Scholarship

Clinical programs—and the clinicians who run them—are regularly called upon to respond to emergency situations. These engagements can be rewarding, personally and professionally. But, as we know from our own work as immigration clinicians, emergency lawyering also presents pressure points for clinicians. Our hope in writing this article is to surface and critique the dynamics that arise when clinicians are called upon to engage in emergency work. Specifically, we aim to expand on the literature of clinics and emergency responses by reflecting on the ways in which emergency responses have drawn significant energy and time from clinicians, including ourselves. As …

Ten Empowering Strategies For Nondirective Clinical Supervision, Michele E. Gilman

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Author Correction: Oligodendroglial Fatty Acid Metabolism As A Central Nervous System Energy Reserve, Ebrahim Asadollahi, Andrea Trevisiol, Aiman S Saab, Zoe J Looser, Payam Dibaj, Reyhane Ebrahimi, Kathrin Kusch, Torben Ruhwedel, Wiebke Möbius, Olaf Jahn, Jun Yup Lee, Anthony S Don, Michelle-Amirah Khalil, Karsten Hiller, Myriam Baes, Bruno Weber, E Dale Abel, Andrea Ballabio, Brian Popko, Celia M Kassmann, Hannelore Ehrenreich, Johannes Hirrlinger, Klaus-Armin Nave

Duncan NRI Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Economic Contribution Of 2022/2023 Averaged Nonresident Travel Spending In Montana Travel Regions And Counties, Kara Grau

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

Nonresidents spend over $5 billion in Montana each year. This report looks at the distribution of spending across Montana’s six travel regions, as well as 19 of the 56 counties with the highest spending based on an average of 2022 and 2023 spending data.

Itrr Presentation: Latest Updates For The Tourism Advisory Council (Tac), October 2024, Melissa Weddell

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

ITRR Presentation: Latest Updates for the Tourism Advisory Council (TAC)

In Search Of Cognitive Justice: One District’S Approach To Implementing Culturally Responsive Practices, Anne Marie Mancini

Theses and Dissertations

This action research study examined district leaders' approach to integrating culturally responsive practices into classrooms in a medium-sized urban Connecticut public school system. The framework for this study was supported by two theories: transformative learning and culturally responsive pedagogy. Following a case study model of design, the project focused on the work of the Supervisor of Professional Learning and the Department Supervisor for English Language Arts (ELA) as they provided training, support, and resources to the Grade 7 team. Two research questions guided this study: (1) What successes, if any, did district leaders experience in implementing culturally responsive teaching practices …

Beyond The Mirage: Confronting Historic Inequities In Maternal Care Deserts., Chynna Smith

Women’s Health Articles

No abstract provided.

Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy In Pregnant And Postpartum Women, Madison G. Kaup

Senior Theses

This project had three main goals: 1) Explore how pregnancy and childbirth affect the female pelvic floor anatomy and physiology, 2) Examine current practices through a literature review and interviews conducted with pelvic floor physical therapists currently practicing in various clinical settings across the United States, and 3) Develop suggestions to mitigate the challenges currently faced in the field by patients and therapists.

The female pelvic floor undergoes extensive changes throughout pregnancy as its structures are targeted by laxity-inducing hormones and mechanical stress from the growing fetus. During childbirth, the system is stretched beyond its physiological limit, causing damage to …

Female's Digital Self-Making On Tiktok: Identity Construction Through A Framework Of Postfeminist Media And Neoliberalism (2016-2024), Lindsey A. Pritchard

Senior Theses

This thesis explores the relationship between TikTok's algorithmic design, women's identity construction, and the feminist historical context that shapes these constructions. In Chapter 1, "TikTok, Algorithmic Design, and Self-Making," I analyze how TikTok's algorithm functions and how these factors influence the curation and presentation of identity. This chapter establishes the foundational understanding of TikTok as a platform where identity performance is deeply intertwined with algorithmic design.

Chapter 2, "TikTok Feminism and Identity Commodification" examines the commodification of women's identities on the platform. It investigates the historical context of feminism and its evolution into postfeminism, analyzing how these narratives have been …

Development Of Avalanche Photo Detector For Uv-C Using Gallium Oxide Material System, Md Ghulam Ghulam Zakir

Theses and Dissertations

This work describes the metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) optimization process for epitaxially grown gallium oxide (Ga2O3) layers, electrical field distribution, and the design for Avalanche Photo Detector (APD). MOCVD is a well-accepted process in the semiconductor industry, as it is well-known for its precise deposition of ultra-thin, high-quality semiconductor layers with extraordinary control over composition and thickness. The choice of Ga2O3 is due to r its distinctive properties of ultra-wide bandgap and low turn-on resistance. Thus, Ga₂O₃-based materials can withstand high voltage and current with the least energy loss, making them an attractive choice for …

Developing A Smart Bus Transportation System To Improve Passenger Comfortability, Campus Accessibility, And Traffic Control, Gabriel John L. De Leon, Josefa Angelie D. Revilla, Angelo C. Ani, Mark Anthony M. Baldoz

Journal Article

Developing a reliable transportation system is crucial for a university to achieve a world-class status. The current public transit system consisting of public utility jeepneys has challenges related to comfortability, accessibility, and traffic control leading to poor service time and quality. The study aimed to address these issues by proposing a transportation system that: (1) enhances passenger comfort through the use of smart buses, (2) increases accessibility by establishing new routes, and (3) improves traffic control through a scheduling scheme. Surveys were deployed to collect origin-destination data of the passengers and identify the common loading-unloading zones. Data were consolidated and …

Experimental Evaluation Of A Thermoelectric Generator Integrated With A Flat Plate Solar Collector And Ethylene Glycol-Water Mixture, Precious Arlene V. Melendrez, Marita Natividad De Lumen

Journal Article

This study investigates the performance of a power generation system that integrates solar flat plate collector systems (SFPC) with thermoelectric generators (TEGs) under standard operating and environmental conditions to enhance the utilization of renewable energy sources. The system utilizes a vacuum-type collector and a stagnant fluid enhancer mixture comprising 50% ethylene glycol (EG) and 50% water 2 within the copper tube absorber to absorb heat from solar radiation. At approximately 10:00 a.m., the system achieves a maximum power generated of 13 V and 1.5 amps at an external temperature of 34°C, showcasing its capability to capture solar energy effectively. Additionally, …

Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Based Discrimination Of Materials Using Artificial Neural Networks, Rob Christian M. Caduyac, John Paolo A. Ramoso, Jose Pocholo R. Arazas, Rock Christian V. Tomas

Journal Article

Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) is a technique used for determining the electrical properties of a material. EIS generates impedance spectra across a frequency range that is unique in a specific material. However, the discrimination of materials is challenging as EIS produces high-dimensional data. In this study, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) were used as a machine learning algorithm for classification. Nyquist Plots and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) were done prior classification for data visualization purposes. Results showed that the five materials have different Nyquist plot shapes, and 2D PCA is close to being successful in discriminating all materials. Only Paper and …

Customer Choice Of Ordering Touchpoints And Its Influence On Overall Customer Satisfaction, Armelyn E. Soriano, Diana Marie R. De Silva, Marc Immanuel G. Isip

Journal Article

This study explores the adoption of self-ordering kiosks (SOKs) in the Philippine fast food industry. It aims to identify the antecedents influencing customer choice of ordering touchpoints between traditional counters and SOKs and its influence on overall satisfaction. By employing PLS-SEM analysis, results revealed that the feeling of being time pressured, the mood to interact with fewer people, and the feeling of using the kiosk drive the customers to use SOK, which can be attributed to the speed and convenience of using SOK. Mediation analysis showed that using SOK has an indirect effect on the influence of affective state factors …

In Or Out?: Understanding The Japanese Immigration Policymaking Process And The Sub-National Response To The Challenge Of Global Migration, Jeorge G. Alarcon Jr.

Journal Article

There is no comprehensive Japanese immigration policy. The central government has refused to formally acknowledge a need for an immigration policy, viewing immigrants as a threat to public order and cultural homogeneity. Despite this, local governments still need to address the needs of their foreign residents and maintain the peace in the local communities. Some of these policies dovetail with each other; others have no counterpart on the other level of governance. What one can then observe with the national government in Tokyo and the local governments instead is a patchwork that involves some tangential, but for the main part, …

Ang Pagbuo At Paglusaw Ng Alyansang Frente Popular-Young Philippines, 1936-1941, Ruben Jeffrey A. Asuncion

Journal Article

Pangunahing tema sa historyograpiya at agham pampulitikang Pilipino ang dominasyon ng mga elite sa mga kontekstong kolonyal, neokolonyal at “malaya” nang Pilipinas. Madalas banggitin ang mga personalidad na nanguna at nakinabang sa naturang pamumuno at pamamanginoon. Isang lantad na halimbawa ang panahon ng Komonwelt. Panahon man ito ng paghahanda mula sa ganap na kolonya ng Estados Unidos tungong pagkamit ng ganap na kasarinlan mula dito, nakikinita na ng ilang tagamasid ang mga problema sa pagpapatupad ng “demokratikong” pulitikang elektoral, sa paraang unang nilayon ng mga kolonisador na Amerikano. Iilang politiko lamang, na mula sa isang dominanteng partido, ang nahalal, at …

The Development Of A Filipino Posttraumatic Growth Scale: Measuring The Positive Outcomes Of Trauma In The Filipino Experience, Jholyan Francis S. Fornillos, Ma. Agatha Camille D. Orlino, Kristine R. Alagad, Graciel A. Lintag

Journal Article

This study aimed to develop a scale to gauge the extent of the Filipino experience of personal growth following exposure to a crisis. The study involved two phases: item development and reliability analysis. In phase one, the researchers adopted the domains of posttraumatic growth found by Tedeschi and Calhoun (1996) and Taku and colleagues (2008) and generated 10-items for each domain. Item generation was guided by literature review, researchers’ reflections on their past traumatic experiences, experiences of people who suffered from or exposed to highly distressing life circumstances, and consultation with experts. In phase two, it was found that the …

Plotting Power In The Philippine-China Territorial Dispute Using The Peripheral Realism Lens, Diosdado B. Lopega

Journal Article

This paper investigates China’s relations with the Philippines, especially focusing on its use of power in enforcing its claim of territories in the West Philippine Sea or the South China Sea. As such, this paper wishes to answer the following questions: How is power manifested in China’s actions vis-à-vis the Philippines regarding the territories of which both states set claim to? Being one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, China wields power and influence in the international community. As such, how does it capitalize on that position in dealing with its weaker neighbors like the …

Pagbabalik-Tanaw Sa Maagang Malay Ni Jose Rizal Sa Kakanyahang Malay At Pagsipat Sa Kinahinatnang Pananangkapan At Retorikang Politikal Dito Noong Dantaon 20, Axle Christien J. Tugano

Journal Article

Batay sa isinusulong na mandato ng General Education (GE) Courses Program ng University of the Philippines (UP), kinakailangang maisingkaw sa pag-aaral at/o pagtuturo ng PI 10 (Philippine Institutions: The Life, Works, and Writings of Jose Rizal) ang panlipunang saysay (social utility) ni Jose Rizal tungo sa pagiging makatao at makabayan ng mga Pilipino. Kaakibat ng preskripsiyong ito ang integratibong paghuhugpong sa kaniyang kaisipan sa iba’t ibang disiplina at paksa. Layunin ng pag-aaral na ito ang integratibong pagsasalok sa katuturan ni Rizal sa iba pang kurso ng kasaysayan katulad ng HIST 1 (Philippine History) o KAS 1 (Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas) bilang …

The Dengue Vaccine Initiative: A Bibliometric Analysis Of Research Publications, Festus Mulakoli, Abednego Ongeso, Horatius Musembi

School of Nursing & Midwifery, East Africa

Dengue fever has become a significant public health problem in tropical and subtropical regions and affects millions of people annually. Approximately 390 million people worldwide are estimated to be infected with dengue every year, of which 96 million develop dengue fever. Recently, there has been a noticeable increase in dengue cases, primarily in areas with tropical and subtropical climates. Vaccines have been developed to prevent or reduce the severity of the disease. This study reviews the number of publications on dengue vaccines and related topics worldwide. We aimed to evaluate the research output and create a narrative on global vaccine …

Unveiling Similarities In The Code Of Life: A Detailed Exploration Of Dna Sequence Matching Algorithm, Mahmoud Y. Shams, Romany M. Farag, Dalia A. Aldawody, Huda E. Khalid, Ahmed K. Essa, Hazem M. El-Bakry, A. A. Salama

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

Identifying similar DNA sequences is crucial in various biological research endeavors. This paper delves into the intricate workings of a specific algorithm designed for this purpose. We provide a systematic explanation, exploring how the algorithm handles user input, reads stored DNA sequences, utilizes the Word2Vec model for vector representation, and calculates sequence similarity using diverse metrics like Cosine Similarity and Neutrosophic Distance. Additionally, the paper explores the incorporation of neutrosophic values to account for uncertainty in the comparisons. Finally, we discuss the extraction of results, including matched sequences, similarity scores, and accuracy measures. This in-depth exploration provides a clear understanding …

An Approach To Multi-Attribute Decision-Making Based On Single-Valued Neutrosophic Hesitant Fuzzy Aczel-Alsina Aggregation Operator, Raiha Imran, Kifayat Ullah, Zeeshan Ali, Maria Akram

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

A single-valued Neutrosophic hesitant fuzzy set (SVNHFS) is a combination of a single-valued neutrosophic set (SVNS) and hesitant fuzzy set (HFS) that has been developed to address insufficient, unreliable, and vague environments in which each element has several possible options determined by the truthiness, indeterminacy and falsity value. By considering this, in this paper, we have proposed the Aczel-Alsina aggregation operator (AAAO) for SVNHFS, which is more flexible t-norm and t-conorm than the other and due to the flexible nature of parameters to solve Multi-Attribute decision making (MADM) problems. Further, the score function, accuracy function, and certainty function of SVNHFS …

Survey Of Ohio Likely Voters 18+, October 2024 Tabs, Robert Alexander, Melissa K. Miller, David J. Jackson, Joshua Boston

Democracy and Public Policy Network Polls

No abstract provided.

Democracy And Public Policy Research Network Expert Analysis On October Poll, Robert Alexander, Melissa K. Miller, David J. Jackson

Democracy and Public Policy Network Polls

No abstract provided.

Immunohistochemical Expression Of Galectin-3 In Thyroid Neoplasms And Its Correlation With Cd56, Banan Mohammed, Wahda Al.Nuaimy

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

AbstractBackground: The incidence of thyroid cancer has been increasing significantly since the mid-1990s.Some studies have revealed that in thyroid gland, the galectin-3 plays a role in the pathogenesis of well-differentiated carcinoma. For that, it is may be one of the markers that may help to assist in distinguishing thyroid neoplasms. Objective : To detect the frequency of immunohistochemical expression and diagnostic value of Galectin-3 in different types of thyroid neoplasms.To correlate the expression of galectin-3 findings with immunoprofile data of CD56. To correlate the result of immunohistochemical expression of Galectin-3 with the age and gender of the sampled cases.Patients and …

Technical Pitfalls For Fenestrated-Branched Endovascular Aortic Repair Following Petticoat, Aidin Baghbani-Oskouei, Emanuel R Tenorio, Marina Dias-Neto, Andrea Vacirca, Aleem K Mirza, Naveed Saqib, Bernardo C Mendes, Laura Ocasio, Thanila A Macedo, Gustavo S Oderich

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Purpose: The Provisional Extension to Induce Complete Attachment Technique (PETTICOAT) uses a bare-metal stent to scaffold the true lumen in patients with acute or subacute aortic dissections. While it is designed to facilitate remodeling, some patients with chronic post-dissection thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms (TAAAs) require repair. This study describes the technical pitfalls of fenestrated-branched endovascular aortic repair (FB-EVAR) in patients who underwent prior PETTICOAT repair.

Technique: We report 3 patients with extent II TAAAs who had prior bare-metal dissection stents treated by FB-EVAR. Two patients required maneuvers to reroute the aortic guidewire, which was initially placed in-between stent struts. This was …

Cross-Silo Federated Learning With Record-Level Personalized Differential Privacy, Junxu Liu, Jian Lou, Li Xiong, Jinfei Liu, Xiaofeng Meng

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Federated learning (FL) enhanced by differential privacy has emerged as a popular approach to better safeguard the privacy of client-side data by protecting clients’ contributions during the training process. Existing solutions typically assume a uniform privacy budget for all records and provide one-size-fits-all solutions that may not be adequate to meet each record’s privacy requirement. In this paper, we explore the uncharted territory of cross-silo FL with record-level personalized differential privacy. We devise a novel framework named rPDP-FL, employing a two-stage hybrid sampling scheme with both uniform client-level sampling and non-uniform record-level sampling to accommodate varying privacy requirements.

A …

Enhanced Privacy Bound For Shuffle Model With Personalized Privacy, Yixuan Liu, Yuhan Liu, Li Xiong, Yujie Gu, Hong Chen

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The shuffle model of Differential Privacy (DP) is an enhanced privacy protocol which significantly amplifies the central DP guarantee by anonymizing and shuffling the local randomized data. Yet, deriving a tight privacy bound is challenging due to its complicated randomization protocol. While most existing works focused on uniform local privacy settings, this work focuses on a more practical personalized privacy setting. To bound the privacy after shuffling, we need to capture the probability of each user generating clones of the neighboring data points and quantify the indistinguishability between two distributions of the number of clones on neighboring datasets. Existing works …

Precurious: How Innocent Pre-Trained Language Models Turn Into Privacy Traps, Ruixuan Liu, Tianhao Wang, Yang Cao, Li Xiong

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm has demonstrated its effectiveness and has become the standard approach for tailoring language models to various tasks. Currently, community-based platforms offer easy access to various pre-trained models, as anyone can publish without strict validation processes. However, a released pre-trained model can be a privacy trap for fine-tuning datasets if it is carefully designed. In this work, we propose PreCurious framework to reveal the new attack surface where the attacker releases the pre-trained model and gets a black-box access to the final fine-tuned model. PreCurious aims to escalate the general privacy risk of both membership inference …

Cellular Prion Protein Acts As Mediator Of Amyloid Beta Uptake By Caveolin-1 Causing Cellular Dysfunctions In Vitro And In Vivo, Angela Da Silva Correia, Matthias Schmitz, Anna-Lisa Fischer, Susana Da Silva Correia, Franco L Simonetti, Gesine Saher, Roberto Goya-Maldonado, Amandeep Singh Arora, Andre Fischer, Tiago F Outeiro, Inga Zerr

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Introduction: Cellular prion protein (PrPC) was implicated in amyloid beta (Aβ)-induced toxicity in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the precise molecular mechanisms involved in this process are unclear.

Methods: Double transgenic mice were generated by crossing Prnp knockout (KO) with 5xFAD mice, and light-sheet microscopy was used for whole brain tissue analyses. PrPC-overexpressing cells were developed for in vitro studies, and microscopy was used to assess co-localization of proteins of interest. Surface-plasmon resonance (SPR) was used to investigate protein-binding characteristics.

Results: In vivo, PrPC levels correlated with reduced lifespan and cognitive and motor function, and its ablation disconnected behavior deficits from …