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Preface, David Sable, Trudy Sable

Journal of Contemplative Inquiry

No abstract provided.

The Rise And Risks Of Internet Of Things, Diamond E. Hicks

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

Internet of Things (IoT) has become a necessary part of our everyday lives. IoT is the network in which many different devices communicate, connect, and share data. Though how IoT got to where it is today, the issues it faced, and how it affects our lives today is not common knowledge. Despite the fact that IoT has advanced our technology to what it is today, people do not completely understand what it does.

Innovative Research Framework For Strengthening Health Care And Public Health Engagement In Neighborhood Change As A Social Determinant Of Health, Christopher Williams, Nathaniel Woodard, Charlene Chao-Li Kuo

Advances in Clinical Medical Research and Healthcare Delivery

Background

Neighborhood change is a social determinant of health (SDOH) that has been associated with adverse health and increased health care utilization. The number of cities and neighborhoods undergoing intense gentrification, defined as an influx of wealthy populations into a working-class neighborhood, is not highly numerous. Public health and health systems are increasingly engaged with SDOH in community-level interventions. Pathways to study and affect NC-related health impacts are limited. This unfunded study provides a research framework to address concerns about financial investment, identifying population health needs, and community stakeholder engagement.

Methods

The authors conducted a cross-sectional pilot study in a …

Review Of Orthoplastic Techniques For Lower Extremity Reconstruction: Part One, Benjamin Heddy, Brady Webb

Advances in Clinical Medical Research and Healthcare Delivery

Orthoplastic techniques are effective tools for limb salvage in the lower extremity. In order to apply proper techniques successfully, a surgeon must be aware of all the different types of flaps available. Proper pre-operative evaluation and patient selection are also important factors. The following review covers six papers that give surgeons a strong foundation in the anatomical basis and surgical technique of intrinsic muscle flaps and other fasciocutaneous or adipofascial flaps of the foot. These flaps, along with split thickness skin grafts, external fixation, and dermal regenerative templates, quickly close soft tissue deficits in the foot and ankle that often …

A New Wave Of The Overdose Epidemic Arises During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Tolga Suvar Md, Asokumar Buvanendran Md, Stephen Music Do, Wilson M. Compton Md, Mpe

Advances in Clinical Medical Research and Healthcare Delivery

Abstract

Objective:

The goal of this manuscript is to highlight the notoriety of the overdose epidemic which has been masked by the Coronavirus pandemic.

Methods:

A thorough literature review of PubMed and the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was performed for the most relevant and updated data regarding overdose deaths.

Conclusion:

The global health crisis known as the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic collided with the opioid epidemic in March of 2020, with devastating consequences for the United States. By overwhelming the healthcare system, the pandemic impacted patients who require continued mental health services, …

A Case Of Maintenance Prednisone In Anca Glomerulonephritis, Arjun Sekar, Pulkit Gandhi, Vijay Sheldon, Aswanth Reddy, Ruth Campbell

Advances in Clinical Medical Research and Healthcare Delivery

Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) associated vasculitis (AAV) is a rare condition that can cause rapid renal failure. Treatment involves steroids and other immunosuppressive agents. Agents for induction include rituximab, cyclophosphamide, pulse dose steroids and avacopan.

Maintenance regimens include tapered doses of steroids, azathioprine and rituximab

We present a case of severe AAV that maintained remission with a protracted course of low dose prednisone without maintenance rituximab or azathioprine.

A 70-year-old woman was admitted for acute kidney injury (AKI), with a serum creatinine (sCr) of 6.93 mg/dL (baseline sCr of 0.9 mg/dL, nil proteinuria.) Serologic work-up was positive for P-ANCA. She …

Telemedicine, Not The Panacea We Thought It Would Be. A Tale Of Caution, Ahmed Elkhapery, Syed Faiz Abbas, Basil George Verghese

Advances in Clinical Medical Research and Healthcare Delivery

In the last few decades, the growing use of telemedicine has allowed access to healthcare at reduced costs and increased monitoring of chronic conditions, especially in underserved and rural areas. It is a tool of great value in low-income countries where there is a paucity of specialists. In the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine was used to screen patients with COVID-19 like symptoms and send them to test sites directly. This helped minimize unnecessary healthcare staff and patient exposure to the infection and helped decompress ERs. Due to a lack of testing resources, many mildly symptomatic patients were presumed …

Racial Disparities In Access To Pain Management Services During Covid Pandemic At An Urban Safety-Net Hospital, Mohammad Ghorbanhoseini, Akhil Venkat Uppalapati, Allen Yang, Rafael Ortega, Eduard Vaynberg

Advances in Clinical Medical Research and Healthcare Delivery

Background: Race has been identified as one of the great divisions of mankind, associated with differences in healthcare access in the US. The COVID pandemic has shed light on a variety of disparities, including access to pain management services.

Method: All the adult patients who were referred to the pain clinic at Boston Medical Center (BMC) from December 2019- December 2020 were included in this study. A total of 2023 cases (1243 White Race and 790 People of Color) were recruited.

Result: Patients of WR received care at a younger age. COVID-19 increased the average age of WR by 2.5 …

Graves' Disease And Major Histocompatibility Complex Class Ii: A Meta-Analysis Of Hla-Dq And Hla-Drb1, Dylan Thibaut, Connor Sweeney, Shannon South, Mohamed Hussein

Advances in Clinical Medical Research and Healthcare Delivery

Background: Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II has shown potential in determining prognosis, understanding medication reactions, and predicting onset of Graves’ disease. The aim of this study is to further investigate the association between Graves’ disease and HLA class II, specifically HLA-DQ and HLA-DR, via meta-analysis to find HLAs that can be further examined for prognostic reasons.

Methods: Statistical analysis was performed to determine if variants of HLA-DQA1, HLA-DQB1, or HLA-DRB1 were associated with significantly altered odds of Graves’ disease. A minimum of three studies pertaining to a particular HLA was required for inclusion. Studies were excluded if …

In Honor Of Our Peer Reviewers, Richard Alweis, Elizabeth Mamo, Christina Goodermote

Advances in Clinical Medical Research and Healthcare Delivery

This editorial is our annual recognition of our peer reviewers.

Naked, Karen George

Valparaiso Fiction Review

No abstract provided.

Sovereign Immunity In Commercial Transaction Under International Law, Dewi Susanti Siagian

Indonesian Journal of International Law

Under international law, a state is immune from execution or judgement before any foreign jurisdiction. However, parallel with the urge to international transaction including between a state and a corporate, the international community demand a “protection” to the right of a corporate against a foreign government. Thus, international law is introducing a new doctrine of state immunity. Under the restrictive immunity, a state waives its right to immunity so long it become a party in a commercial transaction. On the other hand, the older doctrine which is absolute immunity, is giving the full protection to the state to any claim …

Untethered Features And Capabilities For Camping, Dhiraj Vijayrao Jadhav

Defensive Publications Series

A first computing device, such as a computerized watch (e.g., a “smartwatch”), may use certain navigation and communication features without connecting (e.g., tethering) to a second computing device, such as a mobile phone (e.g., a “smartphone”). For example, the first computing device may use one or more communication components (e.g., a global positioning system (GPS) receiver) to determine a location of the first computing device (e.g., in real-time or substantially real-time) relative to a downloaded map. Additionally, the first computing device may use the communication components to perform two-way communication (e.g., transmit and receive signals). In some examples, the first …

Technique To Facilitate Adaptive Wide Area Network Configuration Based On Circuit Provider, Jay Prakash Tiwari, Senthil Kumar, Gururajan Sundar Rao, Praveen Poojary

Defensive Publications Series

When a Wide Area Network (WAN) network is growing rapidly across multiple sites and remote locations, organizations often seek adoptive configurations for WAN routers. Presented herein is a technique that provides for the ability to automatically identify a private circuit provider's "Color" (and/or other identifier(s) for the WAN overlay of the circuit provider) and to generate adoptive configurations that can be pushed to WAN edge routers. The technique presented herein can enable organizations to avoid human error in identifying links, miss-calling or mis-labeling, and/or suboptimal path selections.

Techniques To Facilitate Observability-Aware And Self-Healing Traffic Engineering, Praveen Parthasarathy Iyengar, Maneesh Saxena, Pralhad Katti, Alhad Rajurwar

Defensive Publications Series

Many new applications/services/microservices are hosted in some form of a cloud network, such as a private, public, or hybrid cloud. This means the network connecting applications/services/microservices to clients is critical infrastructure that is needed to facilitate a good user-experience. However, some cloud network environments that utilize datacenter fabrics may have limited visibility with regard to observability and/or awareness of different network events (e.g., failures, service faults, potential performance optimizations, etc.). Provided herein are techniques through which Service-Level Agreement (SLA) decisions that may be made by third-party tools can be consumed in order to drive flow steering in a datacenter fabric …

Custom Unified Data Management (Udm) Application Programming Interface (Api) To Reduce Network Latency And Udm Load, Vinod Kamalaraj

Defensive Publications Series

In current Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) mobile core networks, when the Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) and/or the Session Management Function (SMF) interacts with the Unified Data Management (UDM)/Unified Data Repository (UDR), three steps are involved: performing a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) GET step to request subscription information for a user equipment (UE), performing subscription creation for subscription information changes, and performing registration creation to enable other network functions (NFs) to query the UDM to determine which AMF/SMF is currently serving the UE. Such steps, however, can introduce inefficiencies in the network. In order to address such potential …

Mechanism For Balancing Of Gpu Usage Between Ai Queue Depth And Graphical Fidelity, Chris Schneider, Nic Watson

Defensive Publications Series

Concurrent application demands that exceed available GPU resources can degrade performance and worsen the user experience. However, there are no easy mechanisms for lay users to tailor application performance and control GPU resource allocation. This disclosure describes techniques that enable users to specify preferences for prioritizing computational tasks performed via a GPU via conventional user interface mechanisms. Scheduling and switching workloads and batches of the requested computations on the GPU is performed according to user-specified preferences. Users can leverage the preference settings for managing performance tradeoffs between application functionality, balancing resource allocation when multitasking, troubleshooting potential GPU-related problems, etc. The …

Fast Identification Of Clique Patterns In A Data Network, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

Clique identification includes the identification of node subsets within a larger graph that exhibit correlation or connectivity and has several applications. For example, a determination that N users are in close geographical proximity (or part of the same physical crowd) can be used for local, spatially targeted surfacing of advertisements. This disclosure describes techniques for fast clique identification within graphs that leverage the fact that identifying a spanning tree in a fully connected graph suffices to confirm a network clique. Nodes are indexed in the order they upload to a server (raster-scanning order). Pairwise correlations between nodes are computed on …

Script-Enabled Boot Time Memory Tests, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes techniques to perform vendor specific memory tests in product ecosystems that include multiple memory and processor vendors. Custom scripts are utilized to define memory tests for each memory-processor pair. Test scripts are utilized to match a particular DRAM part number to a memory test optimized for that particular part. The script includes settings and tests that stress the part in order to uncover defects. Once the memory controller and DRAMs are configured, the script writes patterns to DRAMs and reads the patterns back, checking for errors. A parser is utilized to convert custom test scripts into embeddable …

Techniques To Provide A Recommendation Engine For Alert Configurations, Shubhankar Yash, Abhishek Dhar, Chakresh Tiwari, Shiva Sah, Sonali Hiranandani

Defensive Publications Series

False alerts are a large problem in the observability space. Noisy alerts can be caused by a variety of factors but can be primarily caused due to incorrect alert configurations. Presented herein are techniques through which personalized recommendations can be provided for a particular enterprise regarding observability alert configurations that are based alerts of similarly situated enterprises. The recommendations may be applied only on explicit approval from the particular enterprise. Techniques presented herein may also enable enterprises to set up customized alerts and detect problems in their environments without a lot of configurations.

Skip Button For Uninteresting Irrelevant Content Segments, Ramprasad Sedouram

Defensive Publications Series

Many audio and video playback applications include functionality to skip over parts of the content being played. However, such controls skip predetermined duration of content and can inadvertently lead users to skip over content portions of interest. This disclosure describes techniques that automatically determine locations and lengths of uninteresting or non-information segments in content based on user interests and context, obtained with permission. Users are provided with a suitable user interface (UI) mechanism to skip over to the next moment of interest within the content. If the user permits, data on the portions that were skipped can be aggregated and …

Copying Current Video Frame In Web Browser, Xiaohan Wang

Defensive Publications Series

When watching video content via a web browser, it is difficult for users to save or share a specific frame within the video since there is no mechanism for directly copying a specific frame within a video to the clipboard. Using workarounds for indirectly capturing the current video frame precisely is cumbersome and inconvenient. This disclosure describes techniques that enable users to copy the currently visible video frame in a browser or other video viewing application as an image to the clipboard via a single command provided via a suitable, commonly-known user interface (UI) mechanism. Any applications with access to …

Continuous Security Certificate Rotation On A Mutually Authenticated Network Connection, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

Mutual authentication mechanisms that rely on certificates often have an expiry date attached to the certificates, which limits the usefulness of a certificate if it is exposed. The shorter the expiry, the better the protection; however, too short an expiry can cause service outages due to authentication failures if the certificate is not rotated in time. This disclosure describes techniques to re-authenticate an existing session upon demand by either party (client or server) of a mutual authentication scheme. If the new authentication fails (or if either certificate expires), the session is automatically broken. When re-authentication succeeds, it is transparent to …

Transactional Leadership Among Principals Of Public Schools In Jordan, Hana Al-Awad

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

The study aims to find out the degree of application of the dimensions of mutual leadership among the principals of public schools in Jordan. To achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive survey method was adopted. The researcher developed a questionnaire consisting of (30) items, distributed on three dimensions, after verifying its validity and reliability, it was applied to a simple stratified random sample consisting of (372) female teachers in public schools in the Rusaifa district. One of the most important findings of the study shows that the degree of application of the dimensions of interactional leadership among the …

The Extent To Which The Principals Of Public Schools In Al-Rusaifa District Responded To The Instructions Of The Education Quality And Accountability Unit From The Point Of View Of Their Assistants, Rami Moraweh Mahmoud

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

The study aims at finding out the extent to which the principals of public schools in the Rusaifa District responded to the instructions of the Education Quality and Accountability Unit from the point of view of their assistants. To achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive survey method was adopted, and the researcher developed a questionnaire consisting of (28) items, distributed over four areas, and applied to a sample of (80) assistants and assistants in government schools in the Rusaifa District. Among the most prominent findings of the study, was that the response which public school principals in Rusaifa …

The Necessary Training Needs For Teaching Advanced Science For The Basic Stage In Jordanian Schools From The Point Of View Of Female Teachers, Sanaa Abdelhafez Taha

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

The study aims at identifying the training needs necessary to teach the developed science curriculum for the basic stage in Jordanian schools from the point of view of female teachers. To achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive analytical method was adopted. The study instrument included a questionnaire that measures the areas of training needs, consisting of (24) items. After verifying its validity and stability, and applying it to the study sample, which consisted of (115) female teachers in Rusaifa District / Jordan, who were randomly selected in the second semester of the year 2021/2022. Among the most prominent …

Educational Leadership Styles And Its Relationship To Job Engagement In Secondary Schools In East Jerusalem Schools From School Teachers Perspective, Tahani Shqairat, Nabil Jabreen Al-Jundi

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

Aims: The study aims at investigating the educational leadership style and its relationship to job engagement in East Jerusalem high schools from schoolteachers’ perspective. Methodology: The study utilizes the descriptive analytical approach. Both educational leadership style questionnaire and job involvement questionnaire were validated and applied on a random sample of (224) schoolteachers in East Jerusalem. Results: The results shows that the level of the educational leadership style was moderate. The leisure style came first, followed by the autocratic style, whereas the democratic style came last. Also, the level of job engagement was moderate. The dedication dimension came in first, followed …

Obstacles To Administrative Empowerment For Public School Principals In Al-Rusaifa District From The Viewpoint Of Their Assistants, Abeer Al-Awwad

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

The study aims to know the obstacles to the practice of administrative empowerment for the principals of public schools in the Rusaifa district from the point of view of their assistants. To achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive survey method was adopted. The study sample consisted of (93) male and female assistants. The questionnaire was used as a study tool after its validity and reliability were verified. The results of the study showed that the degree of obstacles to the practice of administrative empowerment for principals of public schools in Al- Rusaifa District from the point of view …

Efl Training Needs For Teachers Of The Secondary Stage Education As Perceived By Them In Public Schools In Arramtha District, Khaldoun Ali Al-Janaydeh, Ibrahim Mohammad Dheif

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

The study aims at identifying the training needs for English teachers for secondary stage as perceived by them in public schools in Arramtha District of Education. The population of the study consisted of (260) male and female teachers. The sample of the study consisted of (40) teachers who were chosen purposfully. For data collection, the tool used is a questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of (30) items for training needs, divided into six domains (speaking, reading, writing, instructional planning, assessment and listening) after reviewing theoretical literature and previous studies. To establish the validity of the instrument, it was presented to a …

The Reality Of Jordanian Public Schools Principals Practice Of Technological Leadership Standards And Their Relationship To Job Achievement Motivation From Their Point Of View, Fatima Hashem Mahmoud

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

The study aims to identify the reality of Jordanian public schools principals practice of technological leadership standards and their relationship to job achievement motivation from their point of view. To achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive correlative approach was adopted, and two questionnaires were developed. The first, measures the technological leadership standards, consisting of (27) items, and the second measures the elements of career achievement motivation, consisting of (20) items. They were intentionally distributed to a sample of (63) principals in the second semester of the year 2021/2022. The results of the study conclude that the reality of …