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Undated Wartime Letter From Chuck Yeager To Glennis Yeager, Chuck Yeager

0455: Brigadier General Chuck Yeager Collection, 1923-1987

Letter in which Chuck Yeager describes to Glennis Yeager recent training exercises and his poor morale, along with where he will be moved.

A New Monotypic Genus And Species From China, Langxie Feti Gen. Et Sp. N. (Scorpiones: Buthidae), Victoria Tang, Qingquan Jia, Leonhard Liu

Euscorpius

A new monotypic genus, Langxie gen. n., is described from Xizang (Tibet), China. The new genus shares an important morphological character with Afrolychas Kovařík, 2019: absence of external accessory denticles (EADs) along the sixth row of median denticles (MDs) on the pedipalp movable finger. Langxie gen. n. is different from Afrolychas in the following aspects: loss of EAD near the proximally enlarged MD within each row (i. e., loss of all EAD on the movable finger; this also distinguishes the new genus from other related genera in the “(Ananteris + Isometrus)” clade (Štundlová et …

Standardized Oral Care Regimen In Medical Surgical Hospitalized Patients, Abby Breite

Steeplechase: An ORCA Student Journal

-Purpose/goal statement: In medical surgical hospitalized patients, how does nursing staff education on the importance of a standardized oral care regimen in the prevention of non-ventilator hospital acquired pneumonia, compared to no oral care education, affect the documentation rates of oral care in a 23-day period?

-Relevance to conference themes and objectives: Oral care is considered a routine part of daily care for patients in acute care settings. However, education and implementation of standardized oral care regimens can be lacking (Lounsbury & Munro, 2020). Additionally, documentation of oral care is often overlooked and omitted in the acute care environment (Meehan …

Proactive Prevention And Mitigation Of Saltwater Damage For Portable Devices, Kavinaath Murugan, Yun Sun Lee, Michael E. Bentz Ii, Luke Manuel Brantingham, Aaditya Kandibanda

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes techniques to mitigate the effects of fluid submersion on electronic devices such as mobile phones. Per techniques of this disclosure, with user permission and express consent, user context data is utilized to determine a likelihood of a user device being proximate to a saltwater body. Mitigating actions such as disabling the charging port of the device are automatically performed. If fluid submersion is detected, the duration of submersion is determined and a duration of time before the device undergoes damage is determined. Additional information, such as information about repair shops, may be provided to the user based …

A Method And System For Secure Document Search, Nicholas Kersting, Joydeep Mitra, Aman Mohanty, Miaomiao Liu

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure discloses a method for secure document search. The objective of the present disclosure focuses on avoiding the need to decrypt the whole database while retrieving the necessary data. The method discloses a method for encrypting and searching documents using a combination of vectorization, hashing, and set intersection. The method includes defining a dictionary to map tokens to unique vectors, forming n-token combinations of the document, and hashing each combination using a nonlinear irreversible function such as a deep neural network. The output of the present disclosure is a set of D-dimensional vectors that represent the document.

Device Identification And Authentication With Radar And Uwb Ranging, Xiating Zou, Cheng-Jung (Cj) Lee

Defensive Publications Series

Devices such as tablets and smart displays can be automatically unlocked when a user carrying a compatible wearable device approaches. With user permission, the event of the user being in close proximity is detected, and the user is authenticated by communicating with the wearable device using ultra-wideband (UWB) radio. However, UWB ranging can suffer from front-back ambiguity such that the detection of the presence of a user that is behind the device can unlock the device, which can lead to security and/or privacy risk. This disclosure discloses a two-pronged approach to user identification, user authentication, and front-back disambiguation during automatic …

Precisely Co-Located Cameras With High Geometric And Thermo-Mechanical Stability, Guillermo F. Diaz Lankenau, Antonio Yamil Layón Halun, Andrew Huibers

Defensive Publications Series

Hyper-realistic telepresence is achieved by mounting an array of carefully calibrated cameras on a monitor. High-quality, three-dimensional (3D) telepresence is predicated on highly stable camera positions, e.g., cameras calibrated to a fraction of a millimeter, which, during operation, stay in position to within a fraction of a millimeter. The typical, bezel-mounted camera array in a monitor experiences thermally induced post-calibration positional drift large enough to make hyper-realistic telepresence infeasible. This disclosure describes cameras that are mounted in a manner that leverages the thermal stability and isolation of the cover glass of the monitor to achieve extremely stable camera positioning that …

Detecting And Reporting Stack Splits In A Stackable Switch, Zach Cherian, Julie Quan, Lalitha Devi Appasani, Manish Jhanji

Defensive Publications Series

Stack splits are a commonly encountered failure for stackable systems within enterprise networks, where there is a possibility of multiple active stacks forming from the breakdown of a single stackable system. Proposed herein are techniques involving a management station-driven approach that provides for the ability to identify/enumerate stack splits and alert network administrators that appropriate actions to resolve failures can be taken. Further, techniques proposed herein may facilitate performing preventative actions by a network independently or/and in concert with a network adminstrator, in order to avoid network outages, chaos, and further network failures.

Collaborative Media Processing For Video Conferencing, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure relates to the field of media processing in a video conferencing setting. A method is disclosed that enables an entity or device to process data after receiving the media stream. This enables better utilization of the available local resource and thus enhances the overall video conferencing experience.

Wearable Tilt-To-Action Improvement Using Camera, Sumukh Ashok Shevde

Defensive Publications Series

Computing devices (e.g., a smartphone, a smart watch, smartglasses, smart headphones, a laptop computer, a tablet computer, a vehicle head unit, etc.) may use a specific movement, such as a tilting of the computing device to trigger an action. For example, tilting a wearable device (e.g., a smart watch) may trigger a display of the wearable device to turn on (tilt-to-wake), brighten (tilt-to-bright), or perform a particular action (tilt-to-act). For example, the computing device may use one or more sensors (e.g., accelerometers, gyroscopes, barometers, or other motion or non-motion sensors) to determine whether a user of the computing device has …

A Realist Informed Study On Speaking Up In Healthcare – Supervisors’ Perceptions Of New Graduates Speaking Up, Philippa M. Friary, Suzanne C. Purdy, Lindy Mcallister, Mark Barrow, Rachelle Martin

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Introduction: For healthcare organizations to adapt and improve, staff need to speak up for patient safety and quality improvement. Speaking up has been explored in nursing and medicine with little known about speaking up in allied health. This study is part of a larger project investigating speaking up in allied health new graduates. This paper is taking a realist position to look at the perspectives of supervisors of allied health new graduates and further develop the Initial Program Theory (IPT) developed from the new graduate study. Method: Data was collected from two focus groups. Inductive thematic analysis was employed to …

The Lived Experience Of Hmong Women In Leadership Roles, Nou Vang

Dissertations

Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore and understand the lived experiences of Hmong women who have achieved leadership positions.

Methodology: This qualitative phenomenological study explored the lived experience of 12 Hmong women who have ascent to leadership roles through personal, face-to-face, in- depth, open-ended questions. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed for emergent themes. Related artifacts from the participants, along with the participant interviews, were collected to triangulate data. Research findings were a result of the correlating themes based on the qualitative data analysis and research question.

Findings: The findings of the study indicated that …

Predicting Walking Ability And Prosthetic Candidacy Following Lower Extremity Amputation; An Updated Systematic Review And Treatment Pathway, Scott Love, Carolyn Dias-Karch, Bianca Saragusti, Rebekah Langrek, Kayla Aponte, Rebecca Miro, Michael Jason Highsmith

Physical Therapy Collection

Background: There is not a clear compilation of existing literature that determines walking ability and prosthetic candidacy following lower extremity amputation (LEA). There is no multi-disciplinary instrument or patient centric decision-making protocol accepted that can predict walking ability and prosthetic candidacy nor support a treatment pathway. It is important to determine these factors to better assist clinicians in determining a patient’s MFCL K-level to assist with the delivery of proper prosthetic componentry. Medicare Functional Classification Level (MFCL) K-level is a 0 to 4-point scale of functional level for those with limb loss. The purpose of this systematic literature review …

The Chanticleer, 2023-04-13, Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

The editorially independent student produced weekly newspaper of Coastal Carolina University.

The Impact Of Doctor-Patient Communication, Health Literacy, And Mental Health Among Women With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus On Healthcare Usage, Marissa Stern

Honors Projects in Communication

Pregnancy is a critical period in a woman's life. Overall, little research has been done on pregnant women. Pregnant women are considered a special population with special needs. All pregnant women must receive proper care from their providers and be a part of the decision-making process. Additionally, health care providers must provide materials to patients in hopes to increase their health literacy. Increasing health care usage and health literacy is meant to increase patient-centered care. This study plans to use the All of Us data set. We are interested in the data from the survey component of the data set. …

Scholastic Minutes 04/13/2023, Scholastic Committee

Scholastic Committee

No abstract provided.

Pectoralis Nerve Block Compared To Thoracic Paravertebral Nerve Block In The Mastectomy Patient: Evidence-Based Practice Recommendations, Eric Boyer

Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Projects

Patients undergoing a mastectomy are at increased risk of becoming opioid dependent. Most patients undergoing a mastectomy are diagnosed with breast cancer, and the use of opioids is known to aid in cancer metastasizing due to the suppression of the body's natural killer cells. In addition, regional anesthesia, also known as a nerve block, has long provided a reduction in sensation by blocking the nerve pathway, thus numbing the feeling of pain in the operative area. The Pectoralis nerve block (PECS) and the Thoracic Paravertebral block (TPVB) are used in patients undergoing a mastectomy to help reduce the severity of …

The Effect Of Temperature On Resistance, Kyle Andrew Bergren

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.

Q&A With John Douglas (Bfa Graphic Design), John Douglas

Q & A Interviews with Art Students

No abstract provided.

Q&A With Kriscia Martinez (Bfa Graphic Design), Kriscia Martinez

Q & A Interviews with Art Students

No abstract provided.

A Proposal For The Joint Development Of Generative Ai For The Dispute Resolution Profession, John Lande

Faculty Blogs

This post by Gary Doernhoefer proposes the development of a data set for the dispute resolution profession as the basis for AI systems. The ideal model would be for a collaboration in the dispute resolution field to create the refined data set, establish guardrails, and set privacy parameters for the use of the data. This would involve a centralized advisory board to address concerns such as (1) privacy requirements for how the queries are received, stored, and used, (2) the expertise needed to curate additional training materials, (3) shared costs of development, and (4) gaining the cooperation of industry authors …

Finance Minutes 04/13/2023, Finance Committee

Finance Committee

No abstract provided.

Consultative Minutes 04/13/2023, Consultative Committee

Consultative Committee

No abstract provided.

Vol.50 N.38 April 13th 2023, Voice Media Ventures

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

Families And Friends Of Homicide Victims’ Experiences With The Healthcare System: A Trauma-Informed Perspective, Jeanna Mastrocinque, R.S. Martino, Wanda Foglia, P. Navratil, J. Metzger, E. A. Cerceo

College of Humanities and Social Sciences Departmental Research

Introduction: Families and friends of homicide victims (FFHV) interact with healthcare systems almost immediately after the traumatic event. Their interactions with healthcare providers can either facilitate healing, have a neutral effect, or compound an already painful experience. When trauma victims are admitted to the hospital, resources are necessarily diverted on their behalf with less consistent attention paid to their families and friends. The interactions surrounding the immediate circumstance as well as experiences in the weeks to months after can have significant long-term impact. This study explores the needs and experiences of FFHV when interacting with the healthcare system to inform …

2023.04.13 - Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Northeastern Illinois University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees - 2023

Meeting materials for the NEIU Board of Trustees

Nunataryuk Field Campaigns: Understanding The Origin And Fate Of Terrestrial Organic Matter In The Coastal Waters Of The Mackenzie Delta Region, Martine Lizotte, Bennet Juhls, Atsushi Matsuoka, Philippe Massicotte, Gaëlle Mével, David Anikina, Sofia Antonova, Guislain Bécu, Marine Béguin, Simon Bélanger, Thomas Bossé-Demers, Lisa Bröder, Flavienne Bruyant, Gwénaëlle Chaillou, Jérôme Comte, Raoul-Marie Couture, Emmanuel Devred, Gabrièle Deslongchamps, Thibaud Dezutter, Miles Dillon, David Doxaran, Aude Flamand, Frank Fell, Joannie Ferland, Marie-Hélène Forget, Michael Fritz, Thomas J. Gordon, Caroline Guilmette, Andrea Hilborn, Rachel Hussherr, Charlotte Irish, Fabien Joux, Lauren Kipp

School of Earth & Environment Departmental Research

Climate warming and related drivers of soil thermal change in the Arctic are expected to modify the distribution and dynamics of carbon contained in perennially frozen grounds. Thawing of permafrost in the Mackenzie River watershed of northwestern Canada, coupled with increases in river discharge and coastal erosion, triggers the release of terrestrial organic matter (OMt) from the largest Arctic drainage basin in North America into the Arctic Ocean. While this process is ongoing and its rate is accelerating, the fate of the newly mobilized organic matter as it transits from the watershed through the delta and into the marine system …

2023-04-13 Michiganoverview_Covidoutbreak, Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services

Michigan COVID-19 Outbreak Reports

The Outbreak Data page was obtained from Michigan's COVID-19 data page: https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/stats/outbreak-reporting.

This report is created by the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services from data self-reported by local health departments. Data is updated every week.

COVID-19 outbreaks are generally defined as two or more cases with a link by place and time indicating a shared exposure outside of a household. Local health departments report the number of new and ongoing outbreaks they are investigating by the setting of the outbreak. New outbreaks are those outbreaks that were first identified during the current reporting week. Ongoing outbreaks are …

Q&A With Savanna Martin (Bfa Graphic Design), Savanna Martin

Q & A Interviews with Art Students

No abstract provided.

Rose Cailiff Scholarship Now Accepting Applicants, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

Rising Juniors! Apply for the $500 Rose Cailiff Scholarship in Southern Studies In order to apply for these scholarships, students must: *be a Southern Studies major;*have a 3.0 overall GPA and a 3.5 in Southern Studies classes;*submit a 250-500 word essay in response to [a] prompt.