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Who's Publishing What: World Peace Is An Inside Job, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

University of Dayton graduate Michelle Warren wrote World Peace Is an Inside Job as a labor of love. She believes world peace is only possible if we cultivate inner peace within each of us.

Who's Publishing What: Never Burn Your Moving Boxes, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Jolyn Young's debut book, Never Burn Your Moving Boxes: A True Tale of Real-Life Cowboy Wife, launches in September.

Tacit Descriptions: Uncovering Ambiguity In Crowdsourced Descriptions Of Motions And Materials, Shreyosi Endow, Cesar Torres

Association of Computing Machinery Open Access Agreement Publications-Archive

Although a picture, GIF, or tutorial video is "worth a thousand words", every viewer has a unique perspective of which words they ‘see.’ Packed with rich meaning, these words, or descriptions, are often used to describe the ambiguity of working with materials, artifacts, and processes in creative practices. Our work reframes the traditional crowdsourced description tasks to leverage crowdworker diversity in generating a corpus of tacit descriptions. These descriptions are synthesized into a typology and describe how users communicate ambiguity and tacit knowledge embedded in unfamiliar material properties and familiar handed motions. We propose three design concepts that demonstrate how …

Neonatal Diet Type And Associations With Adverse Feeding Outcomes And Gut Microbiome Composition In Neonates With Critical Congenital Heart Defects, Jessica A. Davis

Sigma Foundation for Nursing Research Grant Reports

The purpose of the proposed longitudinal observational study was to: 1) investigate the relationship between variations in neonatal diet type and incidence of feeding intolerance, necrotizing enterocolitis, and malnutrition in a retrospective cohort; and 2) describe study feasibility and explore associations between neonatal diet and gut microbiome composition in a prospective cohort.

Effects Of Poloxamers As Excipients On The Physicomechanical Properties, Cellular Biocompatibility, And In Vitro Drug Release Of Electrospun Polycaprolactone (Pcl) Fibers, Addison Fagile, Rachel Emerine, Shih-Feng Chou

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Electrospun microfibers are emerging as one of the advanced wound dressing materials for acute and/or chronic wounds, especially with their ability to carry drugs and excipients at a high loading while being able to deliver them in a controlled manner. Various attempts were made to include excipients in electrospun microfibers as wound dressing materials, and one of them is poloxamer, an amphiphilic polymer that exhibits wound debridement characteristics. In this study, we formulated two types of poloxamers (i.e., P188 and P338) at 30% (w/w) loading into electrospun polycaprolactone (PCL) fibers to evaluate their physicomechanical properties, biocompatibility, and in vitro drug …

Rural Transgender Health Access, Pamela B. Deguzman, Frencesca Azar, Susan Gray, Genevieve Lyons, April Kimble, Karen S. Rheuban

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

The purpose of this study was to explore access to care for rural transgender and gender-diverse youth through the lens of a gender-affirming teen health clinic at that serves a rural catchment.

Crime In Tennessee 2022, Tennessee. Bureau Of Investigation.

Crime in Tennessee

No abstract provided.

Atomistic Simulations Of Twin Facets Associated With Three-Dimensional { []011 } Twins In Magnesium, Qiyu Zeng, Mingyu Gong, Houyu Ma, Yao Shen, Jian-Feng Nie, Jian Wang, Yue Liu

Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Faculty Publications

Twinning is a deformation mechanism that creates three-dimensional (3D) twin domains through the migration of twin facets. This occurs via the nucleation and glide of twinning disconnections (TDs), which can pile up to create twin facets. A comprehensive under- standing of twin facets associated with 3D twins, including their atomic structures and energies, is crucial for understanding deformation twinning. In this study, we propose a molecular statics/dynamics (MS/MD) approach to determine characteristic twin facets enclosing 3D non-equilibrium/equilibrium { [] 011 } twin domains, which has been much less studied than the counterpart { [] 012 } twin domains. The stability …

Triverus Infiltration And Cleaning Report 2023, Unh Stormwater Center

UNH Stormwater Center

No abstract provided.

Rotman, Diana, Sophia Maier Garcia

Bronx Jewish History Project

Diana Rotman was born in the Bronx to Jewish immigrant parents who migrated from what was Poland in the 1920s. The youngest of three children, Rotman grew up on Teller Avenue and remembers the demographics of the street being overwhelmingly Jewish until the Bronx’s demographics began shifting and more black and Hispanic families started moving in. This prompted Rotman’s family to move to Mosholu Parkway when she was twelve years old, where she lived until moving to Manhattan after graduating high school.

Rotman was raised in an Orthodox, Yiddish-speaking household, and her family attended shul, kept kosher, and changed dishes …

Impact Of Social Emotional Learning On Exclusionary Discipline, Joanna T. Carrillo Rowley

Education Theses and Dissertations

A middle school campus in a Southeast urban community used a Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycle, an inquiry method in improvement science, to address high exclusionary discipline rates by implementing Social Emotional Learning (SEL) strategies and Restorative Practices (RP) to transform school culture. A reform to a comprehensive discipline program was developed to minimize the amount of exclusionary discipline outcomes (in-school suspension [ISS], out-of- school suspension [OSS], and expulsion) among students while increasing student attendance rates, student achievement, and teacher retention. Three distinct cycles will be examined, each concentrating on a different problem of practice and intervention. These methods were introduced, practiced, …

Is It Real? An Exploratory Case Study Of Empathy In A Virtual Game, Leticia De Leon

Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications

The purpose of this exploratory case study was to determine what characteristics in a virtual game could motivate participants to feel empathy. Participants were invited to play an allegorical educational game that was staged with fictional fantasy characters in a simulated underwater endangered environment. The study design utilized was an exploratory case study to examine the participant responses to components of the game that had the potential for promoting empathy. The participants were educators attending a virtual conference in Second Life. Data collected included a questionnaire of avatar competency and experience, an Interpersonal Reactivity Inventory survey, and open-ended narratives. Results …

Using Active Student Responding And Competition Via Kahoot! To Improve Student Academic Engagement At College Level, Brittany Pearson

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Active student responding (ASR) is an effective intervention used in schools to improve student engagement and academic performance. Among the various ASR modalities, online applications have received much more attention than low-tech ASR modalities due to the widespread use of smartphones and the availability of mobile applications. One totable online application is Kahoot!, which offers a range of interactive features. Considering the limited existing research on using ASR at the college level, particularly, using Kahoot!, this study examined the use of Kahoot! to improve academic engagement in college students. The study was conducted with one undergraduate class in applied behavior …

Negative Impact Of Chronic Pandemic-Specific Financial Stress On Food Security Among College Students, Julia N. Soulakova,, Lisa J. Crockett, Mary Schmidt-Owens, Eric W. Schrimshaw

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Since the pandemic started, food insecurity has become a more serious issue for U.S. college students. The study goals were to evaluate whether pandemic-specific stress contributes to current food insecurity (as of February–March of 2022) and to determine which student characteristics are associated with food insecurity. We used the 2022 Spring American College Health Association— National College Health Assessment data (n = 620) collected at a public university. We estimated two multiple logistic regression models. The odds of having very low food security (OR = 8.65, 95% CI = 4.84:15.43) and low food security (OR = 2.87, 95% CI …

2023 Cornish Fair Exhibitor Handbook, Unh Extension

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.

Outness Among Transgender And Non-Binary Adults: Effects Of Identity And Agency On Mental Health, Beau M. Gibbs

Theses

The present study investigated binary transgender (BT) and non-binary (NB) individuals both as an entire transgender non-binary (TNB) group and as two separate groups to examine entire group mental health trends and discern differences in mental health problems between groups. Outness, agency, experiences of transgender identity based microaggressions, and internalized transphobia in particular were investigated in relation to mental health. This study was conducted via an online survey and included 34 BT participants and 58 NB participants (92 participants in total). The correlation matrices and ANCOVAs revealed that none of the study hypotheses were supported. However, it was found that …

Ms 088 Guide To John L. Decker, Md Papers (1931-1992), John L. Decker (1921-2000)

Manuscript Finding Aids

The papers of John L. Decker, MD primarily document his work at the National Institute of Health (NIH) as well as his involvment in professional organizations. His travel to and participation in conferences, lectures, and professional committees make up a significant portion of the papers. The papers mostly correspond to Decker's stint at the NIH, 1965-1990. However some date as far back as 1931 and as late as 1992. See more at MS 088.

Cmse Addresses Teacher Shortage With Middle Math Endorsement Pathway, Leslie Joblin

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – This summer, 15 Mississippi teachers will be ready to help address a critical teacher shortage in the state after completing the Middle Math Institutes at the Center for Mathematics and Science Education.

Cratonic Basins As Effective Sediment Barriers In Continent‑Scale Sediment Routing Systems Of Paleozoic North America, Andrea L. Stevens Goddard, Olivia G. Thurston, David H. Malone, Patrick L. Mclaughlin, Jack Stewart

Faculty Publications - Geography, Geology, and the Environment

Provenance studies demonstrate the important control of plate boundary mountain building on continental sediment routing systems. Less well understood is if subsidence and uplift in cratons also has the potential to affect the organization of sediment routing systems on continental scales. New detrital zircon provenance data from the Michigan Basin in the Midcontinent of North America preserve evidence of intrabasin provenance heterogeneity in Cambrian, Ordovician, and middle Devonian strata. These results suggest that cratonic basins serve as effective sediment barriers that prevent mixing within and across basins from 10 to 100 s of millions of years. Internal sediment mixing, sorting, …

Systematic Review Of Variables Related To Instruction In Augmentative And Alternative Communication Implementation: Group And Single-Case Design, Joe Reichle, James E. Pustejovsky, Kimberly J. Vannest, Margaret Foster, Lauren M. Pierson, Sanikan Wattanawongwan, Man Chen, Marcus C. Fuller, April N. Haas, Valeria Yllades

Psychological Science Faculty Publications

Purpose:

This article provides a systematic review and analysis of group and single-case studies addressing augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) intervention with school-aged persons having autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and/or intellectual/developmental disabilities resulting in complex communication needs (CCNs). Specifically, we examined participant characteristics in group-design studies reporting AAC intervention outcomes and how these compared to those reported in single-case experimental designs (SCEDs). In addition, we compared the status of intervention features reported in group and SCED studies with respect to instructional strategies utilized.

Participants:

Participants included school-aged individuals with CCNs who also experienced ASD or ASD with an intellectual delay …

Perioperative Redox Changes In Patients Undergoing Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Cancer Surgery, Jl Stevens, Ht Mckenna, H Filipe, L Lau, Bo Fernandez, Aj Murray, M Feelisch, Ds Martin

Peninsula Medical School

Abstract Background Tissue injury induces inflammation and the surgical stress response, which are thought to be central to the orchestration of recovery or deterioration after surgery. Enhanced formation of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species accompanies the inflammatory response and triggers separate but integrated reduction/oxidation (redox) pathways that lead to oxidative and/or nitrosative stress (ONS). Quantitative information on ONS in the perioperative period is scarce. This single-centre exploratory study investigated the effects of major surgery on ONS and systemic redox status and their potential associations with postoperative morbidity. Methods Blood was collected from 56 patients at baseline, end of surgery (EoS) …

Intouch Week Of July 10, 2023, New York Medical College

InTouch

• Neil W. Schluger, M.D., Named Dean of the School of Medicine
• Medical Students Mark Transition to Clinical Practice
• CSSC Hosts High School Students for Medical School for a Day
• NYMC Implements Sick Time Policy
• The SHSP Office of Admissions Guides Students to Their Futures in Public Health and Rehabilitation Science

Kenneth Curtis, Oral History Interview, 2023, Kat Hacanyan

Oral Histories

In this interview Ypsi native Kenneth Curtis shares their experiences with Ypsi Pride, the first of which they attended in 2017. Curtis's first Ypsi Pride inspired them to start a GSA [Gay-Straight Alliance] at their high school, and later opened the door for them to join the Ypsi Pride board in 2021. They explain the difficulties of throwing Pride during pandemic, the importance of community spaces, and the hopes that Ypsi Pride will continue to grow and improve.

Neural Network Models For Generating Synthetic Flight Data, Nathaniel Sisson

Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

Flight test data is a valuable resource used in many aerospace applications. However, procuring a sufficiently large database of flight test data poses several challenges. Nominal flight tests can be expensive and time-consuming and require much post-processing depending on the availability of sensors and the quality of the sensor output. Flight test performed outside of nominal flight conditions, or flight tests in which failures are introduced, add to the inherent risk and danger associated with flight tests. The most popular alternative to flight test, numerical simulations, may fail to fully capture all non-linear behavior. While flight tests will always be …

Elize Jakobsen, Oral History Interview, 2023, Kat Hacanyan

Oral Histories

In this interview longtime Ypsilanti resident Elize Jakobsen shares their experiences at Ypsi Pride, explaining that they were involved in the planning of the first Ypsi Pride and have been involved ever since. Jakobsen also details other events they have helped organize in Ypsi such as, the Festival of the Pollinator, and how they have felt comfortable at many other events around Ypsi as a queer person.

Transfer Theory And The Assignment Of Contractual Rights, Stéphane Sérafin

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

The possibility of assigning contractual rights to third parties has often been taken to suggest that they amount to a form of “property” or “asset.” This point has been seized upon by proponents of transfer-based accounts of contract law, which understand contract as a means of transferring existing rights instead of creating new rights and duties between its parties. In this article, I set out to critically examine the extent to which this assumed compatibility between transfer theories of contract and the assignment of contractual rights can truly be sustained. As I argue, only one version of transfer theory is …

Assisted Suicide In Canada: Moral, Legal, And Policy Considerations By Travis Dumsday, Anita Singh

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA’S (SCC) decision in Carter v Canada (“Carter”) was a landmark moment in Canadian jurisprudence. In Carter, the SCC declared two sections of the Criminal Code to be of no force and effect because the “prohibition on physician assisted dying…deprives a competent adult of such assistance where (1) the person affected clearly consents to the termination of life; and (2) the person has a grievous and irredeemable medical condition…that causes enduring suffering that is intolerable to the individual.” Not only did Carter overturn an earlier decision in Rodriguez v British Columbia (Attorney General) (“Rodriguez”), which had …

Revisiting The Defence Of Diminished Responsibility, Andrew Botterell

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

My goal in this article is to revisit the defence of diminished responsibility. There are three things that, taken together, suggest to me that a defence of diminished responsibility ought to be made available to certain individuals accused of certain criminal offences. The first is that Canadian criminal law already recognizes a number of defences that reflect ideas about diminished responsibility. The second is that despite the availability of these specific defences to criminal liability, no general defence of diminished responsibility is formally recognized in Canadian criminal law. And the third is that given the Supreme Court of Canada’s ongoing …

International Status In The Shadow Of Empire: Nauru And The Histories Of International Law By Cait Storr, Jordan Crocker

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

IN 2007, THE PARLIAMENT OF NAURU, a (formerly) phosphorus-rich island nation located in the southwest of the Pacific Ocean, was presented with a report completed by its appointed Constitutional Review Commission that sought to explain, in short, “‘[w]hat’…had gone ‘wrong’ with the Republic of Nauru.” The Commission, funded by the United Nations Development Programme, produced a scathing report, which concluded that Nauru was in dire need of constitutional reform and that the nation needed to better its institutions, laws, and training of leaders in the business of governance in order to address thefailures of the state. The government initiated a …

Social Rights And Transformative Private Law, Edward BéChard-Torres

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Although constitutional social rights continue to attract much scholarly attention, their role in shaping private law is often overlooked. This neglect has led some scholars to underestimate social rights’ transformative potential. This article considers social rights’ influence over contract and property law in India, Colombia, and South Africa—three leading jurisdictions of the Global South. It argues that social rights can promote redistributive outcomes and inspire important shifts in private law’s values and modes of reasoning. However, it cautions that the depth of this transformation will depend on how judges choose to cross the public– private divide. One tradition rejects any …