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From “Race To The Top”* To No Race At All: A First Amendment Challenge To Anti-Critical Race Theory Bills, Ryan Rosenkrantz

University of Memphis Law Review

No abstract provided.

Peter Morales Oral History Interview, Peter Morales, Lorenzo Spaccarelli

Raymond College

No abstract provided.

Covid-19 Coagulopathies: Highlights Of 2020–2021 Reported Data, Shreya Anil Kumar, Anushka Pradhan, Abdelrahman Elsebaie, Karina Fainchtein, Abdelrahman Noureldin, Yousra Tera, Sajida Kazi, Maha Othman

The University of Louisville Journal of Respiratory Infections

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has evolved dramatically over the past two years, and literature on COVID-19 coagulopathy has been overwhelming, which complicates the process of understanding the literature or assessing the quality of the data available. The objective of this narrative review was to highlight and analyze data reported on COVID-19-induced coagulopathy and its outcomes in patients with severe or critical disease over two years of the pandemic.

Methods: Studies published in high-impact journals reporting on hospitalized adult COVID-19 patients, their coagulation parameters, and their thrombotic complications were included. We searched MEDLINE, Embase, and Ovid between Dec 1, 2019 and …

Food For Thought: A Food Initiative For Selective Institutions, Johanna Hossink

Masters Projects

Food insecurity is a problem facing many college students across the United States. While many colleges and universities have begun to address food insecurity on their campuses by providing resources such as food pantries and meal swipe programs, selective institutions have largely been left out of the conversation. Food insecurity in college creates a plethora of barriers that often prevent students from experiencing college in the same capacity as their food secure counterparts. Unfortunately, low-income students facing food insecurity at selective institutions must face the additional barrier of a culture of wealth that often renders their food insecurity invisible while …

Dissecting The Interrelations Of Suicidality And Mental Health Across First Responder Subtypes Seeking Treatment: A Cross-Sectional Study, Alaina Beauchamp, Warren Ponder, Katelyn Jetelina

Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

First responders are routinely exposed to traumatic events that can affect their mental health to the extent of suicidal ideation and suicide completion. The purpose of our study is to inform the comparability of predictors of suicidality across first responder types to elucidate the most efficacious targets for intervention and clinical intercession. Clients (N = 224) sought counseling services between 2015 and 2020 at a not-for-profit organization. We conducted a matched study with cases defined as those with suicidality at baseline and those without suicidality at baseline (controls). First responder types were law enforcement officers (LEOs), firefighters, and emergency …

New Graduate Registered Nurse Well-Being Program To Improve Patient Outcomes, Heather Richardson, Carrie Flora

Group: Samford University Moffett & Sanders School of Nursing

The purpose of this evidence-based practice project is to develop, implement, and evaluate a well-being program for new graduate registered nurses supporting nurse retention and patient safety.

Stabilizing Polar Phases In Binary Metal Oxides By Hole Doping, Tengfei Cao, Guodong Ren, Ding-Fu Shao, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, Rohan Mishra

Department of Physics and Astronomy: Faculty Publications

The recent observation of ferroelectricity in the metastable phases of binary metal oxides, such as HfO₂, ZrO₂, Hf_0.5Zr_0.5O₂, and Ga₂O₃, has garnered a lot of attention. These metastable ferroelectric phases are typically stabilized using epitaxial strain, alloying, or defect engineering. Here, we propose that hole doping plays a key role in the stabilization of polar phases in binary metal oxides. Using first-principles density-functional-theory calculations, we show that holes in these oxides mainly occupy one of the two oxygen sublattices. This hole localization, which is more pronounced …

Ndls Communicator: Week Of 04.24.23, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Communicator

The Latest News

• John Garvey gives Rice-Hasson Distinguished Lecture
• Notre Dame Law School holds second annual Interfaith Dinner in observance of Ramadan, Passover, Easter, and Ridvan
• The DEI Podcast, Episode 5: The Mental Health Crisis in Prisons
• Harvard University Press releases Spanish translation of Professor Carter Snead’s book, ‘What It Means to be Human’
• Stephanie Barclay was interviewed in the Time article, "The Post Office Made a Christian Employee Work on Sundays. Now He's at the Supreme Court," about the case of Groff v. DeJoy.
• Avishalom Tor was one of the speakers at a workshop on Applying Behavioural Insights to …

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All Decisions

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All Decisions

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The Relationship Between Gender, Academic Performance, And Confidence Within Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics (Stem) Classes, Allison Cheek, Allison Kay Cheek

Honors Projects

This research investigated the relationship between student confidence, academic performance, and gender within sixth, seventh, and eighth grade STEM classes. [BAC1] After comparing student self-esteem survey scores to student math and science grades, two types of statistical tests were run (linear regression tests and a comparison of two means). The result of these tests suggests that there is not a statistical relationship between student confidence, academic performance, and gender within the sample population of 122 junior high students. It appears that the gender gap within STEM has closed, at least for this student sample population.

Creating Character, Alexa Tenney

Honors Projects

This project explores the relationship between merchandise development and narrative development, with a specific focus on the creative development between dolls and animation. Through exploration of these creative mediums, I began to question: How does the creative process combining animation and merchandise develop, and what is the impact on the final product? This concept is broken down even further to focus specifically on characters, and how creative characters are developed for dolls. This project provides an overview of the history of animation and merchandising beginning with Felix the Cat in the 1920s. Felix represents an instance of an animated character …

Comparing Levels Of Situational Empathy Based On Medium Of Exposure To Covid-19 Mortality Information: Does Political Affiliation Impact Levels Of Situational Empathy?, Keira N. Mills, Kaylee Ries, Beth Durkin, Abby Braden, Wesley Barnhart

Honors Projects

Psychophysical numbing, compassion fading, and the singularity effect are strongly affecting the world amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Empathy-motivated prosocial behavior is not consistent with the drastic number of lives lost due to COVID-19. The current study evaluated participants for situational empathy levels post-exposure to either COVID-19 death statistics or a personal reflection on loss due to COVID-19. Alongside empathy, political affiliation and COVID-19 personal loss were measured as potential moderators on the relationship between medium of exposure to mortality information and empathy levels in the sample.

Comparing Levels Of Situational Empathy Based On Medium Of Exposure To Covid-19 Mortality Information And Vaccination Status, Kaylee Ries

Honors Projects

Psychophysical numbing, compassion fading, and the singularity effect are strongly affecting the world amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Empathy motivated prosocial behavior is not consistent with the drastic number of lives lost due to COVID-19. The current study evaluated participants for situational empathy levels post exposure to either COVID-19 death statistics or a personal reflection on loss due to COVID-19. Alongside empathy, vaccination status was measured as a potential moderator on the relationship between medium of exposure to mortality information and empathy levels in the sample. 68 students were considered for this study. There was not a significant relationship between situational …

Online Self-Compassion Training Vs. Expressive Writing: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Lauren Benyo Linford

Theses and Dissertations

Self-compassion is associated with a variety of positive outcomes including well-being and positive body image. There is a need for accessible online self-compassion resources that can be disseminated to the general public. This study examined the efficacy of The Gift of Self-Compassion course (GSC): a 30-day internet-delivered self-compassion training within a non-clinical general population sample. Outcomes examined were self-compassion, well-being, and body dissatisfaction. Using a randomized controlled design, this study compared the GSC to an expressive writing (EW) curriculum. Participants were 215 adults from the general population. Seemingly unrelated regression models were used to estimate treatment differences between groups as …

Working-Through Traumatic Memory In Young Adult Fiction, Amanda Charles

Theses and Dissertations

Despite the growing presence of trauma and abuse narratives in young adult literature (YAL), adolescent traumatic memory has largely been left out of the conversation. To better understand how contemporary memory scholarship is manifested in YAL, the following essay will offer a close reading of Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes (1993) by Chris Crutcher and Speak (1999) by Laurie Halse Anderson in conjunction with adolescent memory research. The accuracy of traumatic memory representation in these novels confirms the value of YAL as a means for youth to interact with and learn about traumatic memory, its processes, and its effects.

Studies On Osh6 And Its Pro-Aging Mechanisms, Nazneen Begum

Theses and Dissertations

The target of rapamycin complex 1 (TORC1) is a master regulator of cell growth as well as a negative regulator of longevity. A recent study in yeast showed that the vacuolar TORC1 stimulates protein synthesis and cell growth while the endosomal TORC1 inhibits autophagy, a pro-longevity process. Since late endosome frequently exchanges membranes with vacuoles, the spatial dissection of TORC1 raises an interesting question as to how to inhibit the endosomal TORC1 and boosts the vacuolar TORC1 to extend the health span. In my thesis, I employed a longevity mutant that mildly up-regulates Osh6 (PERG6-OSH6) to address this question. I …

"Len", Sophia Maier Garcia

Bronx Jewish History Project

“Len” was born in the Bronx to Hungarian immigrants who immigrated to the United States in their early twenties. Len’s mother was a housekeeper in Brooklyn until she married Len’s father, a factory worker. After marriage, Len’s mother became a homemaker, and both of Len’s parents moved to the Bronx. Len’s mother had aspirations for him to become a rabbi, and as a result, he attended yeshiva before electing to leave parochial school for high school. Len’s family lived within two blocks of the yeshiva for the first fourteen years of his life, and Len describes his childhood as insular …

Dean Anthony Varona To Lead National Task Force On Hispanic Representation, Seattle University School Of Law

News Center Articles

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Allowing And Using Low Nutritional Value Foods For Celebrations, Rewards, And Motivators In K-12 School Classrooms: Teacher Candidates’ Beliefs At The University Of Mississippi, Chandler Cohn

Honors Theses

Objective: Identify University of Mississippi teacher candidates’ beliefs and observations about offering low nutritional value foods for student events from their K-12 school placements.

Methods: A twenty-two-item, cross-sectional survey was developed with Qualtrics based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. The survey was distributed to juniors and seniors at the University of Mississippi, with a response rate of 79%.

Results: A majority of teacher candidates (69%) observed that their clinical instructor currently uses low nutritional value foods in the classroom to reward academic achievements, while only 38% agree that this is the right decision.

Conclusions and Implications: A greater focus …

The Rider (2023-04-24), Verilu Infante

The Rider Archives

Vol.8 No.27

Machine Learning Models For The Identification Of Prognostic And Predictive Cancer Biomarkers: A Systematic Review, Qasem Al-Tashi, Maliazurina B Saad, Amgad Muneer, Rizwan Qureshi, Seyedali Mirjalili, Ajay Sheshadri, Xiuning Le, Natalie I Vokes, Jianjun Zhang, Jia Wu

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The identification of biomarkers plays a crucial role in personalized medicine, both in the clinical and research settings. However, the contrast between predictive and prognostic biomarkers can be challenging due to the overlap between the two. A prognostic biomarker predicts the future outcome of cancer, regardless of treatment, and a predictive biomarker predicts the effectiveness of a therapeutic intervention. Misclassifying a prognostic biomarker as predictive (or vice versa) can have serious financial and personal consequences for patients. To address this issue, various statistical and machine learning approaches have been developed. The aim of this study is to present an in-depth …

Emerging From The Pandemic As A Community Of Faith: Assessing How The Life And Faith Of Woodland West Church Of Christ Has Been Shaped By The Pandemic And By God Through This Experience, Randy Todd

DMin Project Theses

This April 2023 Doctor of Ministry project thesis at Lipscomb University is a qualitative study that aims to explore and assess how the COVID-19 pandemic experience has shaped the life and faith of Woodland West Church of Christ and its members. Specifically, the study aims to explore how members of this local congregation sensed the pandemic experience shaped their faith as described in James 1:2-4. How have members sensed God at work in all this as described in Romans 8:28? How has it shaped their fears and hopes for the future? And has the pandemic shaped us in such a …

Comparing The Experience Of Pre-Service Teachers In The First And Final Semesters In Online Learning Using A Focus Group Study, Suyatno Suyatno, Sibawaihi Sibawaihi, Wantini Wantini, Dzihan Khilmi Ayu Firdausi, Lilis Patimah

The Qualitative Report

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, online learning has become the innovation and an alternative virtual education adopted by universities, due to campus closures. The sudden adoption of the innovation without prior preparation and training causes the ineffective implementation of online learning in most institutions. Based on this description, insufficient information is available regarding the experiences of the student population, which are the most affected by online learning in higher education. Therefore, this study aims to explore the experiences of pre-service teachers regarding their numerous abilities to provide a good online learning program. Using a qualitative focus group study design, data …

Sga 54 Senate 2023-04-24 Agenda, Niu Student Government Association Senate

Student Government Association Archives

No abstract provided.

Candidate Variants In Dna Replication And Repair Genes In Early-Onset Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients Referred For Germline Testing, Elena V. Demidova, Ilya G. Serebriiskii, Ramilia Vlasenkova, Simon Kelow, Mark D. Andrake, Tiffiney R. Hartman, Tatiana Kent, James Virtucio, Gail L. Rosen, Richard T. Pomerantz, Roland L. Dunbrack, Erica A. Golemis, Michael J. Hall, David Y.T. Chen, Mary B. Daly, Sanjeevani Arora

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers

Background: Early-onset renal cell carcinoma (eoRCC) is typically associated with pathogenic germline variants (PGVs) in RCC familial syndrome genes. However, most eoRCC patients lack PGVs in familial RCC genes and their genetic risk remains undefined.

Methods: Here, we analyzed biospecimens from 22 eoRCC patients that were seen at our institution for genetic counseling and tested negative for PGVs in RCC familial syndrome genes.

Results: Analysis of whole-exome sequencing (WES) data found enrichment of candidate pathogenic germline variants in DNA repair and replication genes, including multiple DNA polymerases. Induction of DNA damage in peripheral blood monocytes (PBMCs) significantly elevated numbers of …

Glutathione-Responsive Tannic Acid-Assisted Fret Nanomedicine For Cancer Therapy, Partha Laskar, Anupam Dhasmana, Sudhir Kotnala, Meena Jaggi, Murali M. Yallapu, Subhash C. Chauhan

School of Medicine Publications

In cancer combination therapy, a multimodal delivery vector is used to improve the bioavailability of multiple anti-cancer hydrophobic drugs. Further, targeted delivery of therapeutics along with simultaneous monitoring of the drug release at the tumor site without normal organ toxicity is an emerging and effective strategy for cancer treatment. However, the lack of a smart nano-delivery system limits the application of this therapeutic strategy. To overcome this issue, a PEGylated dual drug, conjugated amphiphilic polymer (CPT-S-S-PEG-CUR), has been successfully synthesized by conjugating two hydrophobic fluorescent anti-cancer drugs, curcumin (CUR) and camptothecin (CPT), through an ester and a redox-sensitive disulfide (-S-S-) …

An Epimetabolomics Approach To Understanding Alzheimer's Disease, Stewart F. Graham

Conference Presentation Abstracts

No abstract provided.

When It Clicks, Mitch Goldstein

Theses

“When It Clicks” examines my relationship to the chaos, discomfort, and anxiety of traveling through life, and the moments of calm, understanding, and clarity that intersect and juxtapose with my journey — those moments when things seem to click together and allow me to see a path through the complexities and ambiguity of life.

Draft Final 2023 Residential Metals Abatement Program (Rmap) Walkerville Park (Walkerville Drive And Ryan Road) Soil Remedial Action Work Plan (Rawp), Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.