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Diversifying Skin Tone Representation In Medical School Dermatology Curriculum, Devin Barzallo, Afua A. Ofori-Darko, Ashley M. Perez, Katherine Disano

Student Scholarship

The lack of diversity in medical education contributes to disparities in dermatologic health outcomes, particularly for patients of color. This study evaluates second-year medical students’ comfort in diagnosing conditions in skin of color (SOC) and explores strategies to improve their confidence. We hypothesize that a curriculum enriched with SOC representation will enhance diagnostic skills. Surveys from Fall 2020 and Fall 2022 showed increased student comfort in diagnosing SOC. Fall 2022 students, exposed to more diverse dermatologic photos, demonstrated greater confidence. These findings underscore the necessity of integrating SOC content into medical curricula to address healthcare disparities.

A Scoping Review To Map The Implications Of Reusing Single-Use Endotracheal Suctioning Catheter Practices In Mechanically Ventilated Patients, Mohamed H. Eid, Kevin Hambridge, Patricia Schofield, Jos M. Latour

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Introduction: Currently there is limited evidence of the frequency of using endotracheal suctioning catheters. Due to limited resources, many low- and middle-income countries still reuse single-use suction catheters multiple times during the length of a nursing shift. This scoping review was conducted to map the impact of reusing single-use endotracheal suctioning catheters practices on mechanically ventilated patients’ outcomes. Methods: The scoping review was conducted in accordance with the JBI methodology for scoping reviews. Four databases systematically searched using predefined keywords (CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE, GLOBAL HEALTH). Key electronic journals were hand searched, while reference lists of included documents and grey literature …

تقويم الأداء المالي للشركة بالإعتماد على التكاملِ بين نظامي التكلفة على أساس الأنشطة الموجهة بالوقت Tdabc ومحاسبة المسؤولية, تيسير جواد كاظم

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تظهر مشكلات الأنظمة التقليدية ومنها مشكلات تخصيص التكاليف غير المباشرة المستندة على الحجم وضعف الأنظمة المرتكزة على الإدارة المركزية والذي يفرض تطبيق أنظمة كلفوية وإدارية متكاملة معاً لتخصيص التكاليف غير المباشرة بشكل مناسب مما يجعل مع هذا التخصيص تقويم الأداء مالياً أفضل ويتمثل هدف البحث الرئيس في تطبيق نظامي TDABC & RA ولتحقيق هدف البحث قام الباحث بإستخدام منهج البحث الإستقرائي عن طريق إستقراء بيانات أحدى الشركات العاملة في القطاع الصناعي ومن أدوات البحث المستخدمة تنفيذ خطوات تطبيق النظامين وأنتهى البحث بمجموعة من الإستنتاجات أبرزها أن التأطير النظري والعملي للتكامل بين نظامي TDABC & RA له دور مهم في تقويم …

Lindenwood Digest, October 2, 2024, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been a digital employee newsletter since 2009.

Why Tariffs Are A Tax On American Consumers, Timothy Meyer

Cornhusker Economics

Summary

The takeaway from this article should be that tariffs are a political tool, not an economic one. They do raise prices and revenue, but not as much as advertised (by either side).

At its core, Economics is the study of how scarcity is solved. That is, how limited resources are best utilized. Time and time again, Adam Smith’s idea that the invisible hand of markets would guide us to welfare-maximizing solutions, largely through specialization and trade. It’s why most of us specialize in one career and trade our hard-earned money for goods and services instead of producing them at …

More Than Memory: Can Memory Spaces Really Prevent Mass Atrocities?, Kerry E. Whigham

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

As transitional justice has grown as a field and as an international mandate in post-atrocity contexts over the past several decades, the memorialization of past atrocities through the construction of physical spaces of memory has increasingly been recognized as an essential aspect of this complex process. Often, these spaces of memory are touted not only as honoring past victims, but also as important tools for preventing future violence. To date, there has yet to emerge a clear way to measure exactly how sites of memory contribute to atrocity prevention. Can a site of memory really help prevent further acts of …

Full Issue 18.1

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Geospatial Imagery In Myanmar For Mass Atrocity Prevention, Elisenda Calvet-Martínez

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

This paper aims to explore to what extent the usage of geospatial imagery can serve as a tool for atrocity prevention in a context of armed conflict and post-conflict. While most attention has been paid to the use of geospatial imagery to document mass atrocities for advocacy and accountability purposes, less attention has attracted the potential of this technology as a preventive tool. In the case of Myanmar, a special interest is on how to advance in the use of geospatial imagery to guarantee the safe return of the Rohingya refugees and how to prevent acts of genocide after the …

Failing To End Genocide: Structural Factors, Triggers, And Ineffective Responses, Tutku Ayhan

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

Why do ongoing genocides persist despite global condemnation? This paper examines the challenge of ending ongoing genocides and argues that the persistence of genocides can be largely attributed to the interaction of structural factors and triggers with inadequate responses at the national, regional, and international levels. The analysis focuses on the genocidal experiences of the Yezidi and Rohingya communities, which were triggered by the 2014 attacks in Sinjar, Iraq, and the 2017 actions in Rakhine State, Myanmar. By viewing genocide as a process rather than an isolated act of violence and recognizing cultural genocide as genocide, this study aims to …

Conceptualizing Great Power Perpetrators, Federica D'Alessandra

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

For over a decade, shifting geopolitics, a changed global security environment, and countless failures of diplomacy have raised important questions on how to collectively grapple with a widely-perceived “crisis of multilateralism,” and reignited debate on the fitness of the UN Security Council to deliver on its mandate under these circumstances. Among other issues, ongoing polarization when not outright “gridlock” among the Permanent Members (P5) has fueled the Council’s apparent inability to respond to threats to civilian life and to countless mass atrocities around the world. Even worse, as this article argues, some P5 today possess both the willingness and unprecedented …

Bridging The Atrocity Prevention Gap Between The International And The Local: Lessons Learned From Meso-Level Leadership In Ukraine And Syria, Kristina Hook, Jamie D. Wise

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

This paper explores meso-level approaches to atrocity prevention that incorporate a wider array of local expertise at all stages, from early warning to transitional justice. Specifically, we treat meso-level approaches as encompassing local leadership and advocacy across bottom-up processes, grassroots efforts, victim-led activism, and civil society mobilization. We draw from two contemporary cases of mass atrocities, Ukraine and Syria, which exemplify such efforts, using primary interview data with meso-level actors. First, we examine atrocity risk early warning in Ukraine, where prescient local expertise at the meso-level failed to influence international responses, asking what went wrong and what more could be …

Sondheim Tribute Revue (October 2-5, 2024), Lindenwood University

Student Theatre Programs

Event program for Sondheim Tribute Revue (October 2-5, 2024), Lindenwood University.

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A Case Of Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor: Highlighting Diagnostic Challenges And Underscoring The Need For Standardized Treatment Protocols, Sydney Carpenter, Taylor Calicchia, Marcus Yoakam, Brett Dunbar

Student Publications

Desmoplastic small round cell tumor is a rare and aggressive neoplasm, primarily affecting serosal surfaces within the abdomen and pelvic peritoneum in young males. Because of a low reported incidence, underdiagnosis and lack of current treatment guidelines pose a unique challenge for physicians and patients dealing with this disease. Therefore, it is imperative to present new information regarding this disease so that better detection and treatment guidelines can be created. This case report presents a 30-year-old male presenting with vague abdominal symptoms, ultimately diagnosed with desmoplastic small round cell tumor after image-guided biopsy. The ambiguity of initial symptoms highlights the …

"I Just Had To Do What I Had To Do": Characterizing Direct And Indirect Prostate Cancer Treatment Costs For Black Survivors And Their Caregivers, Hannah E Rice, Allison J L'Hotta, Amela Siječić, Bettina F Drake, Su-Hsin Chang, Eric H Kim, Robin Wright-Jones, Mellve Shahid, Camille Neal, Ashley J Housten

2020-Current year OA Pubs

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HIGHLIGHTS: Direct and indirect costs have a wide-ranging impact on the material, behavioral, and psychosocial aspects of financial well-being of Black prostate cancer survivors and their caregivers.These results emphasize the need for sharing cost information to support medical decision making.Future research should focus on the design of cost-sharing interventions that target the complexities of direct and indirect costs collectively, rather than separately.

Mental Model-Based Designs: The Study In Privacy Policy Landscape, Hanieh Atashpanjeh, Rizu Paudel, Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen

Computer Science Student Research

Users' mental models influence secure and privacy-preserving behavior in a computing environment. Prior studies on users' mental models of Internet, security tools, and digital privacy show that there is no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to security and privacy design. However, little study to date has explored the ways to translate users' mental models into interactive security and privacy designs. As we begin to address this gap, we focus on privacy policy in this paper. The typical text-based privacy policy suffers from poor readability and usability. A recent study proposed a Visual Interactive Privacy Policy (VIPP), showing promise to offer …

Early Prenatal Nitrate Exposure And Birth Outcomes: A Study Of Iowa’S Public Drinking Water (1970-1988), Jason Semprini

Public Health

Background Despite the biological mechanisms linking prenatal nitrate exposure to birth outcomes, epidemiological research has been inconclusive. The evidence-base has been limited by where and how nitrate exposure was measured, and the spurious correlation between geotemporal nitrate heterogeneity and unmeasurable factors contributing to gestational age and birth weight.

Objective We linked Iowa water quality data and birth records to estimate the independent association between early prenatal nitrate exposure and birth outcomes.

Methods Accessing Community Water Supply Quality Data, we calculated the median nitrate (mg/L) level for each county-date. With birth certificate microdata from the National Center for Health Statistics, we …

Development Of Brain Tumor Detection And Feature Extraction Through Deep Learning Approach, Sivapathi A

Theses and Dissertations

As the body's central control system, the human brain is susceptible to a wide variety of disorders, including tumors characterized by abnormal cell growth. It is imperative to detect these tumors as early as possible to plan effective treatment and improve patient outcomes. By using contemporary medical imaging methods, this research seeks to improve the accuracy and efficiency of brain tumor detection through the careful preprocessing and analysis of images, particularly Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) [1]. To provide context for the subsequent research efforts, the challenges inherent in brain tumor detection are discussed comprehensively, including segmentation accuracy, small lesion detection, …

The Parthenon, October 02, 2024, Evan Green, Sarah Davis, Baylee Parsons, Joseph Dicristofaro, Kaitlyn Fleming, Scott Price, Abigail Cutlip, Rafael Alfonso, Wade Sullivan

The Parthenon

No abstract provided.

October 2, 2024 Blazer Weekly, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

Blazer Weekly (student newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Technical Design Report For The Luxe Experiment, Luxe Collaboration, H. Abramowicz, M. Almanza Soto, M. Altarelli, R. Aßmann, A. Athanassiadis, G. Avoni, T. Behnke, M. Benettoni, Y. Benhammou, J. Bhatt, T. Blackburn, C. Blanch, S. Bonaldo, S. Boogert, O. Borysov, M. Borysova, V. Boudry, D. Breton, R. Brinkmann, M. Bruschi, F. Burkart, K. Büßer, N. Cavanagh, F. Dal Corso, W. Decking, M. Deniaud, O. Diner, U. Dosselli

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

This Technical Design Report presents a detailed description of all aspects of the LUXE (Laser Und XFEL Experiment), an experiment that will combine the high-quality and high-energy electron beam of the European XFEL with a high-intensity laser, to explore the uncharted terrain of strong-field quantum electrodynamics characterised by both high energy and high intensity, reaching the Schwinger field and beyond. The further implications for the search of physics beyond the Standard Model are also discussed.

Legaltech Talks | Transitioning From Practice To Legal Tech, Innovation Center For Law And Technology

Innovation Center for Law and Technology

October 2, 2024

Evaluation Of Bridge Deterioration Factors: From Design Parameters To Community Impact., Lawrencia Akuffo

Theses and Dissertations

The structural health and economic variables influencing the state of bridges in New Jersey are thoroughly examined in this thesis. The predictive modeling of bridge conditions using stepwise selection and linear logistic regression approaches is the primary focus of the opening chapter. With its precise predictions about bridge condition, either being fair/good, our model offers insightful information about resource allocation and maintenance by identifying bridge features which affect the deterioration of bridges the most. This gives effective infrastructure management, which not only relies on the identification of the important predictors and their effects on bridge conditions but also ranks them …

Policy Briefing | The Adams Administration’S “City Of Yes For Housing Opportunity” Zoning Reform Proposal, Center For New York City And State Law

Center for New York City Law

October 2, 2024

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

Study Aims To Increase Support For Disabled Students In Stem, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – When asked to imagine a scientist, many people think of white-haired men in lab coats. This misconception makes it difficult for graduate students in STEM – particularly those who are disabled – to see themselves as a real scientist, a University of Mississippi researcher says.

Predictive Residual Neural Networks For Optical Trapping Of Small Particles, Nasim Mohammadi Estrakhri, Ponthea Zahraii, Saman Kashanchi, Nooshin M. Estakhri

Engineering Faculty Articles and Research

Optical tweezers provide a non-contact method to trap, move, and manipulate micro- and nano-sized objects. Using properly designed dielectric and plasmonic nanostructure configurations, optical tweezers have been tailored to create stable and precise trapping for nanoscale objects. Recent advances in numerical optimization techniques allow further enhancement in nanoscale optical traps through inverse optimization of such configurations. One of the main challenges in such optimization approaches is the time-consuming nature of full-wave simulation of nanostructures and postprocessing steps to extract optical forces. To address this challenge, we introduce a surrogate solver based on residual neural networks that can accurately predict the …

Leading Difficult Discussions, Josh Eyler

Events

Particularly during a contentious presidential election semester, instructors often need to lead discussions on difficult topics. In some disciplines, these discussions are more common, as themes on race, culture, gender, and/or sexual orientation can sometimes create challenge or discomfort. However, when current events raise the temperature everywhere, even classes not specifically meant to address such topics may see challenging conversations unfold. In this workshop, we will share specific resources and suggestions on leading these potentially difficult discussions in inclusive, engaging ways that serve our instructional goals. Lunch will be provided for registered participants.

Abortion Disorientation, Greer Donley, Caroline Kelly

Duke Law Journal

The word “abortion” pervades public discourse in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. But do people know what it means? Not only do law and medicine define it differently, but state legislatures have codified wildly different definitions of abortion across jurisdictions. This Article exposes inherent ambiguities at the boundaries of the term, particularly as it intersects with other categories of reproductive health care often viewed as separate, like pregnancy loss and ectopic pregnancy. By juxtaposing statutory text with real people’s experiences of being denied care in states with abortion bans, this Article reveals how those ambiguities cause …

Restoring The Citizenship Of The Soldier, Chandler B. Cole

Duke Law Journal

Modern jurisprudence consistently treats the U.S. military as legally distinct, imposing different standards for service members’ constitutional rights, Federal Tort Claims Act lawsuits, and Title VII protections than it does for their civilian counterparts. The legal foundation for this treatment relies in large part on the constitutional military structure, which empowers Congress to prescribe rules and regulations for the “land and naval Forces” and exercise extensive power over “armies.” Usually, both entities—armies and the larger “land and naval Forces”—are considered synonymous with the modern-day all-volunteer force (“AVF”). This interpretation, though, neglects the foundational role the constitutional militia played in composing …

The Limits Of The Bank Service Company Act, Jacob Cunningham

Duke Law Journal

Modern banks rely on numerous third-party service providers. They host data using cloud services, rely on clearinghouses to settle financial transactions, and automate their operations using financial technology and artificial intelligence. Alongside convenience, cost savings, and sophistication, reliance on these service providers brings risks. Dysfunction in third-party services can lead to data breaches, core service outages, or—potentially—systemic risk. And the odds of these risks coming to fruition only increase as the market for service provision becomes more concentrated.

However, one clause of a little-studied antitrust statute from the 1960s provides regulators with the ability to supervise third-party services. This statute—the …