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Unravelling The Impact Of Blood Metabolites, And Lifestyle Factors On Periodontal Disease Using Mendelian Randomization, Rhea Charles

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Periodontal disease remains a global public health concern. Despite the availability of preventive and therapeutic strategies, the multifactorial nature of periodontitis complicates its understanding and management. Periodontal disease is associated with an increased risk of chronic conditions, including ischemic heart disease (IHD), gestational hypertension, respiratory diseases such as COPD and bronchitis, and various cancers, including kidney and pancreatic cancers. Moreover, individuals with diabetes, autoimmune diseases like lupus and Crohn’s disease, and osteoporosis are more likely to develop periodontitis. The ambiguity in the direction of causality between periodontal disease and its associated conditions poses challenges for effective treatment. Mendelian randomization offers …

Programs Agenda 10-8-24, Angela Brock

Programs Committee (PC)

No abstract provided.

Erin Cameron Faculty Recital, Arkansas State University Department Of Music

Performance Programs

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Vino & Vignettes, Cardozo Fame Center, Cardozo Art Law Society, Cardozo Wine Society

2024–2025 Flyers

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Ground Stop Analysis, Brendan Aug

Aviation Student Publications

This study intends to analyze a selection of flight data from 2021 and 2022 from UND Aerospace to determine how much time is spent in stopped on the ground, with the engines running, prior to takeoff, during training flights. This study also hopes to explore some of the factors that may cause extended ground stop times and determine if there are any areas that warrant further study in the future.

To Write Or Not To Write: A Story Of A Third Semester Senior, Brendan Aug

Aviation Student Publications

No abstract provided.

Delta Airlines Company Analysis, Brendan Aug

Aviation Student Publications

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Bricks Transfer And Completed Aa/As Degrees, Angela Brock

General Education Committee

No abstract provided.

Ucc Agenda 10-8-24, Angela Brock

UCC Agendas/Minutes

No abstract provided.

Approved Courses 10-8-24, Angela Brock

Individual Course Committee (ICC)

No abstract provided.

Programs Committee Agenda 10-8-24, Angela Brock

Programs Committee (PC)

No abstract provided.

Transgender Bathroom Rights In K-12 Public Education, Carrieann Olivero

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The purpose of this study is to interpret the sex-based classifications in Title IX and the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Between 2016 and 2022, how have circuit courts interpreted the Equal Protection Clause of the 14^th Amendment and the sex-based classifications of Title IX. The study will attempt to answer the following research questions: Does the Equal Protection Clause of the 14^th Amendment relate to transgender bathroom rights? The sex-based classifications of Title IX (of ESSA) as it is applied to transgender bathroom rights? Both the 14^th Amendment and Title IX as applied to …

Matter Of Aidekman V State Of N.Y. Div. Of Hous. & Community Renewal

All Decisions

The court reversed the lower court's decision, reinstating the tenant's petition and remanding the case to DHCR to award treble damages for a willful rent overcharge. It found the landlord failed to prove that the overcharge was not willful, rejecting claims of confusion over the apartment's stabilization status, and held that refunding the overcharge did not rebut the presumption of willfulness. Article 78 petition.

Aspect-Ratio-Dependent Heat Transport By Baroclinic Acoustic Streaming, Jacques Abdul Massih, Remil Mushthaq, Guillaume Michel, Gregory P. Chini

Faculty Publications

Standing acoustic waves have been known to generate Eulerian time-mean ‘streaming’ flows at least since the seminal investigation of Lord Rayleigh in the 1880s. Nevertheless, a recent body of numerical and experimental evidence has shown that inhomogeneities in the ambient density distribution lead to much faster flows than arise in classical Rayleigh streaming. The emergence of these unusually strong flows creates new opportunities to enhance heat transfer in systems in which convective cooling cannot otherwise be easily achieved. To assess this possibility, a theoretical study of acoustic streaming in an ideal gas confined in a rectangular channel with top and …

The Impact Of Gender Stereotypes On The Educational Well-Being Of Women, Katty Ann Taylor, Olivia Stepp, Mikaela Warford, Lynn Guerin

Justice Festival at Morehead State University

A PowerPoint presentation, titled "The Impact of Gender Stereotypes on the Educational Well-Being of Women," given by Katty Ann Taylor, Olivia Stepp, Mikaela Warford, and Lynn Guerin at the Justice Festival held on the campus of Morehead State University on October 8, 2024.

The Social Justice Of Archaeology, Saylor Fortner

Justice Festival at Morehead State University

A PowerPoint presentation, titled "The Social Justice of Archaeology," given by Saylor Fortner at the Justice Festival held on the campus of Morehead State University on October 8, 2024.

Emotional Well Being & Academic Rigor In The Undergraduate Classroom, Katie Goldey

Justice Festival at Morehead State University

A PowerPoint presentation, titled "Emotional Well Being & Academic Rigor in the Undergraduate Classroom," given by Katie Goldey at the Justice Festival held on the campus of Morehead State University on October 8, 2024.

Relation Of Linguistic Awareness Skills To Reading And Spelling For Autistic And Non-Autistic Elementary School–Age Children, Victoria Henbest

Victoria S. Henbest Publications

For non-autistic children, it is well established that linguistic awareness skills support their success with reading and spelling. Few investigations have examined whether these same linguistic awareness skills play a role in literacy development for autistic elementary school–age children. This study serves as a first step in quantifying the phonological, prosodic, orthographic, and morphological awareness skills of autistic children; how these skills compare to those of non-autistic children; and their relation to literacy performance.We measured and compared the phonological, prosodic, orthographic, and morphological awareness skills of 18 autistic (with average nonverbal IQs) and 18 non-autistic elementary school–age children, matched in …

The Prospector, October 8, 2024, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

No abstract provided.

Addressing Once More The (Im)Possibility Of Color Reconstruction In Underwater Images, Yuri Rzhanov, Kim Lowell

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

Color is an important cue in object recognition and classification problems. In underwater imagery, colors undergo strong distortion due to light propagation through an absorbing and scattering medium. Distortions depend on a number of complex phenomena, the most important being wavelength-dependent absorption and the sensitivity of sensors in trichromatic cameras. It has been shown previously that unique reconstruction in this case is not possible—at least for a simplified image formation model. In this paper, the authors use numerical simulations to demonstrate that this statement also holds for the underwater image formation model that is currently the most sophisticated.

Flagellar Motility Is Mutagenic, Souvik Bhattacharyya, Shelby Lopez, Abhyudai Singh, Rasika M Harshey

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Flagella are highly complex rotary molecular machines that enable bacteria to not only migrate to optimal environments but also to promote range expansion, competitiveness, virulence, and antibiotic survival. Flagellar motility is an energy-demanding process, where the sum of its production (biosynthesis) and operation (rotation) costs has been estimated to total ~10% of the entire energy budget of an

Advanced Air Mobility (Aam) Is Coming To A Town Near You...Are You Ready?, Sarah Nilsson

Publications

This briefing provides a high and low altitude view of what is coming in the way of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) innovation. It is meant for county, town, or city officials; tribal governments; local businesspersons; airport, heliport, Fixed Base Operator (FBO), flight schools’ owners/operators; and other individuals; who wish to capitalize on, and prepare for, a US industry expected to hit around USD 68 Billion by 2032. Is your community or organization prepared for this new economy? Are your customers, or constituents accepting of these new technologies? Are you ready to capitalize on this AAM market and all the growth …

Perceptions Of Rural America: Exploring College Students' Views And Career Priorities Post-Graduation, Tom Hall

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The problems facing rural America are wide ranging and multilayered. Perceptions can often be reality for those unfamiliar with rural life, which can pose a hurdle for businesses to overcome. With an in-depth literature review and research study, this dissertation aims to provide context and understanding to the problems and misconceptions of rural America. Without context, it is easy to interpret rural America as a dying, outdated part of the country, but the reality is far more complex. A research study was conducted that surveyed 400 actively enrolled college students from schools in 19 American states on three things: 1) …

Alliance A061202: Ixazomib, Pomalidomide, And Dexamethasone For Patients With Lenalidomide-Refractory Mm In First Relapse., Peter Voorhees, Vera Suman, Yvonne Efebera, Noopur Raje, Sascha Tuchman, Cesar Rodriguez, Jacob Laubach, Misty Bova-Solem, Destin Carlisle, Saad Usmani, Philip Mccarthy, Paul G Richardson

Oncology Articles

Optimal therapy for the growing number of patients with lenalidomide (LEN)-refractory multiple myeloma in their first relapse remains poorly defined. We therefore undertook a randomized phase 2 study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of combining the oral proteasome inhibitor ixazomib (IXA) with pomalidomide (POM) and dexamethasone (DEX) in this patient population. The overall response rate (ORR) for POM-DEX was 43.6%, and for IXA-POM-DEX, it was 63.2%. The depth of response, measured by the attainment of at least a very good partial response, favored triplet therapy over doublet therapy (28.9% vs 5.1%; P = .0063). A preplanned interim analysis after …

People With Dyslexia Or Dyscalculia Are Less Biased: Results Of A Preregistered Study From Over 450,000 People On The Implicit Association Test, Liam Cross, Gray Atherton, Roderick Nicolson

School of Psychology

The implicit association test (IAT) provides a sensitive measure of attitudes to social dimensions such as race, gender or disability using a response speed procedure. The automatisation deficit account of dyslexia attributes the reading (and broader) difficulties of dyslexic people to reduced speed and strength of stimulus–response habit formation and, therefore, predicts reduced implicit bias for individuals with dyslexia. This novel prediction was tested using the ‘Project Implicit’ IAT database on attitudes to disability. Data from over 460,000 respondents was analysed, including 22,747 with physical disability (PD), 14,700 with dyslexia, and 1721 with dyscalculia. The dyslexia group did indeed show …

Portfolio Optimization Tools In Excel, Tom Arnold, Joseph Farizo, Terry D. Nixon

Finance Faculty Publications

The calculus and matrix algebra associated with finding the optimal portfolio weights for a set of securities is tedious. However, Excel tools make the computations simple, with minimal programming needed to arrive at optimal portfolio weights for securities in a portfolio. We provide this Excel template and techniques for acquiring optimal weights, which is useful for personal and institutional investors alike.

Takeaways:

• The calculus and matrix algebra associated with optimizing portfolio weights is tedious, but not necessary for finding optimal portfolio weights
• Based on the results of the associated mathematics for optimizing portfolio weights, a very accessible Excel template can …

Ballesteros-Gonzalez '25 Receives Lincoln Laureate Award, Jeffery Woodard

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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Radiation Doses To Patients Undergoing Common X-Ray Examinations From Selected Hospitals In Dar Es Salaam And Zanzibar, Tanzania, Ali O. Masoud, Mwingereza J. Kumwenda, Salum K. Salum, Ahmad M. Jusabani

Tanzania Journal of Science

This study involved 300 patients, comprising 113 females and 187 males, from six X-ray units. The study focused on evaluating the patient dose for common X-ray examinations at selected hospitals in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar, Tanzania. The achieved results were compared with previous studies and Diagnostic Reference Levels (DRLs). Entrance surface air kerma (ESAK) was calculated for chest posteroanterior (PA), cervical spine anteroposterior/lateral (AP/Lat), abdomen anteroposterior (AP), and lumbar spine anteroposterior/lateral (AP/LAT) examinations. The study results revealed the following average ESAK values: chest posteroanterior (PA), 0.34 mGy; abdomen anteroposterior (AP), 1.92 mGy; lumbar spine anteroposterior (AP), 2.78 mGy; and …

Transition Aged Youth Substance Use At Electric Dance Music Events In The Tampa Bay Area: A Qualitative Study Of Awareness And Prevention, Danielle Vinciguerra

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The study investigates substance use among Transitional Aged Youth (TAY), particularly focusing on Electronic Dance Music (EDM) events in the Tampa Bay area. TAY, defined as individuals aged 18-29, experience significant psychological, biological, and developmental changes, which can lead to increased vulnerability to substance use. The study examines the prevalence and patterns of substance use, specifically ketamine and cocaine, among TAY at EDM events. Exploratory qualitative data collection method was utilized for the study. Applying Social Learning Theory as a framework, the research explores the beliefs, attitudes, experiences, and community influences that contribute to substance use within this demographic. Data …

Poor Representation Of Rural Counties Of The United States In Some Measures Of Consumer Broadband, Cari A. Bogulski, Mayssam Rabbani, Corey Hayes, Aysenur Betul Cengil, Catherine Shoults, Hari Eswaran

Industrial Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

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