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Diego Beekman Mutual Housing Association H.D.F.C. V. Mcclain

All Decisions

In this nuisance holdover proceeding, the landlord sought to reargue a dismissal based on failure to provide required VAWA notices to the tenant. The court upheld the dismissal, concluding that the landlord's noncompliance with federal regulations rendered the proceeding defective. The court emphasized that the notices are mandatory regardless of the tenant's domestic violence status.

Reb Dovid Realty Llc V. Thorne

All Decisions

In this non-payment proceeding, the landlord sought $7,417.28 in arrears from the tenant. The tenant raised defenses related to the warranty of habitability and filed counterclaims, including harassment. The court ordered the landlord to correct outstanding HPD violations, with specific timelines for different classes of violations, while reserving other claims for trial. Access for repairs was to be coordinated between the parties, ensuring safety measures due to COVID-19 were observed. The case is set for trial on October 22, 2024.

Bo Hong Realty Inc. V. Butler

All Decisions

In this overcharge claim, the tenant's motion for discovery beyond the standard four-year look-back period was granted. The tenant alleged a fraudulent scheme to deregulate the apartment, pointing to discrepancies in rent registration and significant rent increases. The court ruled that the totality of circumstances supported the tenant's request for documents dating back to 2012 to explore potential fraud, noting the recent legal changes that do not require common-law fraud elements to invalidate the base date for overcharge claims.

Hypofractionated Versus Standard Fractionation Radiotherapy For Merkel Cell Carcinoma, Lauren Gonzalez, Muni Rubens, Sreenija Yarlagadda, Guilherme Rabinowits, Noah Kalman

All Publications

Purpose/objective(s): Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) radiation treatment has historically consisted of standard 1.8-2 Gy fractions treated daily over 4-6 weeks. Hypofractionated treatment regimens have demonstrated tumor control and toxicity equivalence to standard fractionation regimens for common cutaneous malignancies such as basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas. Herein we report the outcomes of hypofractionated versus standard fractionation radiotherapy for MCC at our institution.

Materials/methods: The study involved a retrospective review of MCC patients treated with radiotherapy. Treatment characteristics and patient outcomes, including acute toxicities, disease recurrence and survival data were collected. The cumulative incidence of local and distant failures was estimated, …

3030 Brighton Llc V. Farber

All Decisions

In this holdover proceeding, the landlord successfully established that the tenant breached a substantial obligation by failing to grant access for necessary repairs and engaged in nuisance behavior. The court dismissed the tenant's motions for dismissal and discovery, granting the landlord summary judgment for possession while permanently staying the eviction warrant, acknowledging the tenant's long-term residency and lack of further nuisance allegations after the cure notice.

1334 B Llc V. Pritchard

All Decisions

In this holdover proceeding, the court sanctioned the landlord's attorneys for misconduct after they failed to conduct a reasonable inquiry into the tenant's status. The court found that the tenant had lived in the Rent Stabilized apartment for over 20 years and had received Section 8 benefits. The attorneys' actions, including false representations and inappropriate conduct, warranted financial penalties and a referral to the Grievance Committee.

2024-10-11 Agenda Book, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

Agenda book for the Board of Regents meeting of October 11, 2024, which includes the Board meeting minutes for August 9, 2024.

Imposing The Digital Tax On The Profits Of Electronic Companies And Its Impact On Increasing Revenues: A Survey Study Of The Opinions Of A Sample Of Managers And Estimators Working In The General Tax Authority In Iraq, Bushra Hassan Mohamed El-Toby

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

The study aims to show the financial impact of the imposition of the digital tax on the profits of electronic companies in increasing the general revenues of the state and to identify the obstacles that tax authorities may face during its imposition. The study methodology relies on the inductive approach in observing the research problem represented by the weak contribution of traditional tax revenues in supporting general revenues, as well as the deductive approach to clarify the nature of the relationship between the independent and dependent study variables according to theoretical and applied frameworks. For this purpose, we designed a …

Uab Students: Get $10 Tickets To Shows At The Alys Stephens Center, Shannon Thomason

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Halle Library: Faculty Publications Room Policy

Academic Affairs – Policy Library

No abstract provided.

Riva Green [Pseudonym] Interview (2024-10-11)

Censorship in Virginia Libraries Oral Histories

In this interview, a library board member details efforts in a Virginia county and the dynamics that played out amongst the community, the library board and the county board of supervisors when a group linked to religious communities formed that sought to control local library collections.

Stemming The Flow: Strategies To Address The Production Arts Skills Shortage Within Australian Theatre And Performance Practice, Tessa Rixon, Anthony Brumpton

Behind the Scenes: Journal of Theatre Production Practice

The lockdown, cancellations, and uncertainties of COVID-19 triggered a large-scale exit of skilled professional technicians, managers, and designers from the Australian arts industry. A significant gap in the national workforce of production artists has since emerged, forcing arts organisations to work with smaller teams and employ younger people with little to no training or knowledge. These pressures are beginning to impact the industry’s ability to meet the post-COVID demand to stage live performances, yet little information has been collected to fully comprehend the issue or to suggest solutions.

Conducted throughout 2023, this research sought to understand the current situation of …

Physical, Cognitive, Emotional, And Social Health Outcomes Of Children In The First 6 Months After Childhood Critical Illness: A Prospective Single-Center Study, Pei-Fen Poh, Jan Hau Lee, Rehena Sultana, Joseph C. Manning, Matthew C. Carey, Jos M. Latour

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Objectives: To describe physical, cognitive, emotional, and social health outcomes of children and their trajectory in the first 6 months after PICU discharge.Design: Prospective, longitudinal observational cohort study.Setting: PICU in a tertiary pediatric hospital in Singapore from January 2021 to June 2022.Patients: One hundred thirty-five children (1 mo to 18 yr), admitted for greater than or equal to 48 hours with at least one organ dysfunction and received PICU therapy.Interventions: None.Measurements and Main Results: Serial self/parent proxy-reported assessments were obtained at: PICU admission, PICU discharge, and 1, 3, and 6 months after PICU discharge. The Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory …

Fsec Meeting Minutes October 11, 2024, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Impacts Of A Multimodal Safety Project On North Lombard Street In Portland, Oregon, Jason Anderson

PSU Transportation Seminars

North Lombard Street/US-30 Bypass is a critical corridor in North Portland, serving both commercial and residential interests. This corridor is also ranked 11th in terms of fatal and serious injury crashes in Portland. The Oregon Department of Transportation and the Portland Bureau of Transportation undertook a reconfiguration to improve multimodal safety and accessibility for all users. The reconfiguration happened between North Fiske Ave and North Boston Ave. Improvements included additional curb ramps that meet ADA standards, safer crosswalks with fewer lanes to cross, buffered bike lanes, new pavement and center turn lanes, traffic signals, and RRFBs and median refuge islands. …

Rps19 And Rpl5, The Most Commonly Mutated Genes In Diamond Blackfan Anemia, Impact Dna Double-Strand Break Repair, Christopher L Williams, Elena B Kabotyanski, Na Zhao, Nimrat Chatterjee, Kyle M Miller, Yu-Hsiu Wang, Alison A Bertuch

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Diamond Blackfan anemia (DBA) is caused by germline heterozygous loss-of-function pathogenic variants (PVs) in ribosomal protein (RP) genes, most commonly RPS19 and RPL5. In addition to red cell aplasia, individuals with DBA are at increased risk of various cancers. Importantly, the mechanism(s) underlying cancer predisposition are poorly understood. We found that DBA patient-derived lymphoblastoid cells had persistent γ-H2AX foci following ionizing radiation (IR) treatment, suggesting DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair defects. RPS19- and RPL5-knocked down (KD) CD34+ cells had delayed repair of IR-induced DSBs, further implicating these RPs in DSB repair. Assessing the impact of RPS19- and RPL5-KD on …

Durability Investigation Of Ultra-Thin Polyurethane Wearing Course For Asphalt Pavement, Wenguang Wang, Baodong Liu, Dongzhao Jin, Miao Yu, Junsen Zeng

Michigan Tech Publications

In this study, a wear-resistant ultra-thin wear layer was fabricated with polyurethane as an adhesive to investigate its durability for pavement applications. Its road performance was investigated based on indoor tests. First, the abrasion test was performed using a tire–pavement dynamic friction analyzer (TDFA), and the surface elevation information of the wear layer was obtained by laser profile scanning. The relationship between the anti-skid properties of the wear layer and the macro-texture was analyzed. Second, a Fourier infrared spectrometer and scanning electron microscope were employed to analyze the evolution of polyurethane aging properties in the pull-out test and accelerated ultraviolet …

Ksu Symphony Orchestra

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

Nathaniel F. Parker, Conductor

featuring

Emily Kitchens, Narrator

Raphael Jiménez, Guest Conductor

Developing Accurate And Automated High-Field And Benchtop Nmr-Based Metabolomic Techniques Using Neural Networks, Hayden Johnson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

NMR-based metabolomics is an increasingly important tool for understanding organisms and biological systems; however, data processing is an often-tedious process and access to high-field NMR spectrometers is limited. Conventional data processing for metabolite profiling relies on slow, user-dependent analysis, yet modern artificial intelligence techniques have scantly been explored in quantitative NMR applications despite their industry transforming effects in many major data processing applications. This work aims to develop neural network approaches to fully automate the identification and quantification of metabolites from NMR spectra while increasing speed and throughput compared to conventional analysis. Our initial investigation implements neural networks for the …

The Occurrence And Variations Of Total Aflatoxins And Aflatoxin B1 In Different Types Of Chicken Feeds Marketed In Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Mambaga S. Muja, Regina P. Mtei, Kessy F. Kilulya

Tanzania Journal of Science

This paper reports on the occurrence and variation of total aflatoxins (TAF) and aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) in different types of chicken feeds collected from various locations in Dar es Salaam. A total of 63 chicken feed samples based on cotton seed hulls, sunflower seed hulls, maize bran and mixed feeds were analysed using HPLC-FLD. It was revealed that all samples were contaminated with both TAF and AFB1, varying significantly with respect to their types. Specifically, 52.9% of the cotton seed hulls and 64.7% of maize bran samples exceeded the set tolerable limit of 5 ng g−1 for AFB1. All sunflower …

Monte Carlo Calculations Of Target Fragments From Helium And Carbon Ion Interactions With Water, Quazi Muhammad Rashed Nizam, Asif Ahmed, Iftekhar Ahmed, Lembit Sihver

Informatics and Engineering Systems Faculty Publications

When high energetic heavy ions interact with any target, short range, high linear energy transfer (LET) target fragments are produced. These target fragments (TFs) can give a significant dose to the healthy tissue during heavy ion cancer therapy, and when cosmic radiation interacts with astronauts. This paper presents Monte Carlo simulations, using the Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System (PHITS), to characterize target fragments from reactions of helium and carbon ions with water. The calculated ranges, LET, doses, and production cross sections are presented. It is shown that protons, deuterons, tritons, alpha particles, 3He, 6He, …

Ventricular Interdependent Phenotype Of Mixed Cpc-Pulmonary Hypertension And Hfpef With Normal Left Atrium: Impact On Cpet Metrics And Clinical Outcome, Giovanna Zampierollo-Jaramillo, Anas Abed, Ahmed El Shaer, Mariana Garcia-Arango, Yimin Chen, Babak Tehrani, Wanxin Tu, Abdul Wahab Arif, Shannon Heffernan, Amir Esmaeeli, Aditya Sahai, James Runo, Sofia C. Masri, Farhan Raza

Division of Cardiology Faculty Papers

Among 45 CpcPH/heart failure with preserved ejection fraction participants, 11 with normal left atrium (compared to 34 with abnormal left atrium, p < 0.05 for all) had low left ventricle (LV) transmural pressure (2.9 ± 2.4 vs. 6.2 ± 2.9 mmHg), and increased right ventricle (RV):LV ratio (2.41 ± 1.09 vs. 1.46 ± 0.66) and interventricular septal angle (149 ± 8 vs. 136 ± 10), indicating exaggerated ventricular interdependence from a dilated RV

Long Covid Among Undocumented Latino Immigrant Populations In The Emergency Department., Karen P. Reyes, Zubaid Rafique, Brian Chinnock, Vijaya Arun Kumar, Michael Gottlieb, Kristin L. Rising, Robert M. Rodriguez

Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty Papers

Although many investigators have examined post–COVID-19 condition (long COVID) and its effects in the general population, to our knowledge, no studies have investigated its effect on one of the largest underserved US populations: undocumented Latino immigrants.¹ This group comprises 7% of the US population and has high rates of uninsurance, limited access to primary care, and language barriers when seeking health care.^2-4 Anti-immigrant political rhetoric and immigrants’ fear of discovery of their undocumented status when accessing health care make evaluation of this population more challenging.⁵ We leveraged emergency departments (EDs) as the primary health care …

Significance Of Honeybee Pollination In Increasing Seed Yield Of Trifolium Alexandrinum (Fabales: Fabaceae) And Its Impact On Economic Sustainability Of Smallholder Farmers, Muhammad Shoaib Tufail, Gaye L. Krebs, Alison Southwell, John Piltz, Peter C. Wynn, David F. Cook

Grain and Other Field Crops Research Articles

A major limitation to producing high seed yields in berseem clover (Trifolium alexandrinum L.) is failure to set seed, predominantly due to lack of pollination. Despite the importance of berseem clover as a leading forage legume, the contribution of pollinators to seed set is scarce. In Pakistan, the honeybee population is declining mainly because of the extensive use of neonicotinoid pesticides and habitat fragmentation. This, combined with the region’s harsh environment and the use of inferior, locally bred genotypes, has resulted in low seed yields. Insufficient seed availability leads to limited forage supply, resulting in poor livestock nutrition, which …

A Complex Eprescribing Antimicrobial Stewardship-Based (Epams+) Intervention For Hospitals: Mixed-Methods Feasibility Trial Results, Rona Sharp, Holly Ennis, Andrew Heed, Robin Williams, Kathrin Cresswell, Omara Dogar, Sarah Pontefract, Jamie Coleman, Richard Lilford, Neil Watson, Ann Slee, Antony Chuter, Jillian Beggs, Sarah Slight, James Mason, David W Bates, Aziz Sheikh

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Background: Antibiotic resistant infections cause over 700,000 deaths worldwide annually. As antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) helps minimise the emergence of antibiotic resistance resulting from inappropriate use of antibiotics in healthcare, we developed ePAMS+ (ePrescribing-based Anti-Microbial Stewardship), an ePrescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system decision-support tool complemented by educational, behavioural and organisational elements.

Methods: We conducted a non-randomised before-and-after feasibility trial, implementing ePAMS+ in two English hospitals using the Cerner Millennium EPMA system. Wards of several specialties were included. Patient participants were blinded to whether ePAMS+ was in use; prescribers were not. A mixed-methods evaluation aimed to establish: acceptability and usability of …

Mates: A Deep Learning-Based Model For Locus-Specific Quantification Of Transposable Elements In Single Cell, Kailu Song, Erxi Wu, Xiaopeng Zhu, Tao P Wu, Jun Ding

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Transposable elements (TEs) are crucial for genetic diversity and gene regulation. Current single-cell quantification methods often align multi-mapping reads to either 'best-mapped' or 'random-mapped' locations and categorize them at the subfamily levels, overlooking the biological necessity for accurate, locus-specific TE quantification. Moreover, these existing methods are primarily designed for and focused on transcriptomics data, which restricts their adaptability to single-cell data of other modalities. To address these challenges, here we introduce MATES, a deep-learning approach that accurately allocates multi-mapping reads to specific loci of TEs, utilizing context from adjacent read alignments flanking the TE locus. When applied to diverse single-cell …

Factors Affecting The Quality Of Reporting Dispensing Errors Among Pharmacists, Kelley Latrece Lavallais

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Medication dispensing errors, which are the inconsistency between the dispensing of medication to the patient against the prescribed medication, continue to be a public health challenge. Many studies have been conducted to examine their causes, including burnout, illegible handwriting, workload, and interruptions. There have also been studies on the types of medication dispensing errors. This study focused on the reporting of errors. The purpose of this quantitative study involving secondary data analysis was to examine the factors affecting the quality of reporting dispensing errors among pharmacists and the seriousness of the adverse events. The social-ecological model served as the theoretical …

Improving Volunteers' Safety During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Dr. Laquetta Postell

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The onset of COVID-19 presented multiple challenges to both governmental and nongovernmental organizations. The selected study site is a nonprofit organization located in a major Southern US City. This organization shelters homeless men. The organization depended on volunteers' assistance in offering short-term and long-term solutions to provide clothing, cleaning, and shelter for homeless men. The organization was facing new challenges due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, the complexities of the social, political, and economic challenges for volunteers during the pandemic were well explored. The nonprofit organization’s challenges were examined and recommendations to help the organization …

South Sudanese Females Refugees' Access And Enrolment Into U. S. Post-Secondary Education., Kual Ayai

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

South Sudanese Females Refugees’ Access and Enrolment into U.S. Post-Secondary Education There are considerable challenges experienced by female South Sudanese refugees to access post-secondary education in the United States. Although these challenges are many, but little was known about their experiences to access and enrol into US post-secondary education. There has been a significant lack of research on how South Sudanese female refugees overcome these challenges to access and enrol in US secondary education. The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study was to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges experienced by South Sudanese female refugees to access and enrol …

Effective Financing Strategies For Small And Medium Enterprises In Sub-Saharan Africa, Samsideen Niyi Adegboyega

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Limited access to finance is a significant cause of failure of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), impeding their ability to reach their full potential and contributing to a high business failure rate, a significant concern of SME leaders. Grounded in resource-based theory, the purpose of this qualitative case study was to identify and explore effective financial strategies some sub-Saharan African SME leaders use to access capital to grow and sustain their business beyond 5 years. The participants were eight SME owners in Lagos, Nigeria, who effectively used financial strategies to grow and sustain their businesses over 5 years. Data were …