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Disparities In Mortality Among Acute Myeloid Leukemia-Related Hospitalizations, Sara Taveras Alam, Deepa Dongarwar, Elyse Lopez, Sarvari Yellapragada, Gustavo Rivero, Quillan Huang, Courtney Miler-Chism, Martha Mims, Hamisu M Salihu

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Racial and socioeconomic disparities have become apparent in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) outcomes. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of hospitalizations for adults with a diagnosis of AML from 2009 to 2018 in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS). We categorized patients' ages in groups of≥60 years and stratified them by reported race/ethnicity. Exposures of interest were patient sociodemographics, hospital characteristics, and Elixhauser-comorbidity Index. Outcome of interest was in-hospital death. Statistical analyses included survey logistic regression to generate adjusted odds ratios (aORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) to quantify the independent associations between patient characteristics and mortality. Of 622,417 AML-related hospitalizations, …

Fecal Elastase In Preterm Infants To Predict Growth Outcomes, Lindsay F Holzapfel, Amy B Hair, Geoffrey A Preidis, Tripti Halder, Heeju Yang, Jana P Unger, Steven Freedman, Camilia R Martin

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

OBJECTIVES: Preterm infants are born functionally pancreatic insufficient with decreased pancreatic production of lipase and proteases. Developmental pancreatic insufficiency (PI) may contribute to reduced nutrient absorption and growth failure. We sought to determine longitudinal fecal elastase (ELA1) levels in a cohort of preterm infants and whether levels are associated with growth outcomes.

METHODS: Prospective observational study of 30 infants 24-34 weeks gestational age and birth weight ≤1250 g fed the exclusive human milk diet, consisting of human milk with human milk-based fortifier. ELA1 was quantified by ELISA during the first 2 weeks of life [Early; 7.5 ± 1.8 days of …

Superior Verbal Learning And Memory In Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors Treated With Proton Versus Photon Radiotherapy, Lisa E Mash, Lisa S Kahalley, M Fatih Okcu, David R Grosshans, Arnold C Paulino, Heather Stancel, Luz De Leon, Elisabeth Wilde, Nilesh Desai, Zili D Chu, William E Whitehead, Murali Chintagumpala, Kimberly P Raghubar

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

OBJECTIVE: Radiotherapy for pediatric brain tumor has been associated with late cognitive effects. Compared to conventional photon radiotherapy (XRT), proton radiotherapy (PRT) delivers lower doses of radiation to healthy brain tissue. PRT has been associated with improved long-term cognitive outcomes compared to XRT. However, there is limited research comparing the effects of XRT and PRT on verbal memory.

METHOD: Survivors of pediatric brain tumor treated with either XRT (

RESULTS: Overall, patients receiving PRT demonstrated superior verbal learning and recall compared to those treated with XRT. Encoding and retrieval deficits were more common in the XRT group than the PRT …

Pediatric Eosinophilia: A Review And Multiyear Investigation Into Etiologies, Tara E Ness, Timothy A Erickson, Veronica Diaz, Amanda B Grimes, Ryan Rochat, Sara Anvari, Joud Hajjar, Jill Weatherhead

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Objectives: To identify the etiology of peripheral eosinophilia in a large pediatric population and to develop a diagnostic algorithm to help guide diagnosis and management of peripheral eosinophilia in the outpatient pediatric population.

Study design: We performed a retrospective chart review of children presenting to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston with peripheral eosinophilia between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2019. Eosinophilia was classified as mild (absolute eosinophil count [AEC] >500 and < 1500 cells/μL), moderate (AEC >1500 and < 4500 cells/μL), or severe (AEC >4500 cells/μL). Demographic information and diagnostic workup data were collected.

Results: A total of 771 patients aged < 18 years were evaluated. The most common cause of eosinophilia was allergy (n = 357; 46%), with atopy (n = 296) and drug reaction (n = 54) the most common subcauses. This was followed by unknown etiology (n = 274; 36%), infectious causes (n = 72; 9%), and eosinophilic disorders (n = 47; 6%). Many patients with an unknown cause (n = 202; 74%) had limited or no follow-up testing.

Conclusions: More information on the etiology of pediatric eosinophilia …

Da Principio: Ancorando L'Etica All'evento Della Creazione, Davide Sciarabba

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Rationale And Design Of The Proactive-Hf Trial For Managing Patients With Nyha Class Iii Heart Failure By Using The Combined Cordella Pulmonary Artery Sensor And The Cordella Heart Failure System, Sandra Chaparro

All Publications

Background: Optimizing guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) and monitoring congestion in patients with heart failure (HF) are key to disease management and preventing hospitalizations. A pulmonary artery pressure (PAP)-guided HF management system providing access to body weight, blood pressure, heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, PAP, and symptoms, may provide new insights into the effects of patient engagement and comprehensive care for remote GDMT titration and congestion management.

Methods: The PROACTIVE-HF study was originally approved in 2018 as a prospective, randomized, controlled, single-blind, multicenter trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Cordella PAP Sensor in patients with HF and with …

Masthead

UC Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Financial Inclusion Gone Wrong: Securities And Cryptoassets Trading For Children, Nizan Geslevich Packin

UC Law Journal

According to studies, money is a major source of anxiety for most Americans. In looking for ways to remedy the source of such anxiety, some believe that increasing children’s financial orientation could help lower their money-related anxiety levels as adults. Identifying this market as a business opportunity—and reassured by research that shows that by age six, children are already veteran consumers of mobile apps—financial technology (fintech), decentralized finance (DeFi), and even traditional financial entities have started offering services and products to children. These services and products include a broad array of financial-related products and services, from enabling children to earn …

Financial Data Governance, Douglas W. Arner, Giuliano G. Castellano, Eriks K. Selga

UC Law Journal

Finance is one of the most digitalized, globalized, and regulated sectors of the global economy. Traditionally technology intensive, the financial industry has been at the forefront of digital transformation, starting with the dematerialization of financial assets in the 1960s and culminating in the post–2008 global financial crisis era with the fintech movement. Now, finance is data: financial transactions are transfers of data; financial infrastructures, such as stock exchanges and payment systems, are data networks; financial institutions are data processors, gathering, analyzing, and trading the data generated by their customers. Financial regulation has adapted to this fast-paced evolution both by implementing …

Mistreatment And Exploitation Of Skilled Foreign Workers Through H- Visa Precarity, Isha Vazirani

UC Law Journal

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that beginning on May 26, 2015, certain H-4 dependents of H-1B nonimmigrants would be eligible to apply for an Employment Authorization Document (EAD). The H-4 EAD program was the target of several threats and changes under the Trump Administration, which made it increasingly difficult for H-4 EAD holders to maintain uninterrupted employment authorization. These difficulties prompted several lawsuits against the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), under DHS. USCIS favorably settled one such class-action lawsuit. Still, the H-4 EAD program remains only precariously in place because it was never officially codified and exists …

Deepfakes On Trial: A Call To Expand The Trial Judge’S Gatekeeping Role To Protect Legal Proceedings From Technological Fakery, Rebecca A. Delfino

UC Law Journal

Deepfakes—audiovisual recordings created using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to believably map one person’s movements and words onto another—are ubiquitous. They have permeated societal and civic spaces from entertainment, news, and social media to politics. And now deepfakes are invading the courts, threatening our justice system’s truth-seeking function. Ways deepfakes could infect a court proceeding run the gamut and include parties fabricating evidence to win a civil action, government actors wrongfully securing criminal convictions, and lawyers purposely exploiting a lay jury’s suspicions about evidence. As deepfake technology improves and it becomes harder to tell what is real, juries may start questioning …

An Attention Residual U-Net With Differential Preprocessing And Geometric Postprocessing: Learning How To Segment Vasculature Including Intracranial Aneurysms, Nan Mu, Zonghan Lyu, Mostafa Rezaeitaleshmahalleh, Jinshan Tang, Jingfeng Jiang

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

Objective

Intracranial aneurysms (IA) are lethal, with high morbidity and mortality rates. Reliable, rapid, and accurate segmentation of IAs and their adjacent vasculature from medical imaging data is important to improve the clinical management of patients with IAs. However, due to the blurred boundaries and complex structure of IAs and overlapping with brain tissue or other cerebral arteries, image segmentation of IAs remains challenging. This study aimed to develop an attention residual U-Net (ARU-Net) architecture with differential preprocessing and geometric postprocessing for automatic segmentation of IAs and their adjacent arteries in conjunction with 3D rotational angiography (3DRA) images.

Methods

The …

Forest Ecosystem Properties Emerge From Interactions Of Structure And Disturbance, J. Christina Mitchell, Daniel M. Kashian, Xiongwen Chen, Stella Cousins, David J. Flaspohler, Daniel S. Gruner, Jeremy S. Johnson, Thilina D. Surasinghe, Jenny Zambrano, Brian Buma

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

Forest structural diversity and its spatiotemporal variability are constrained by environmental and biological factors, including species pools, climate, land-use history, and legacies of disturbance regimes. These factors influence forest responses to disturbances and their interactions with structural diversity, potentially creating structurally mediated emergent properties at local to continental spatial scales and over evolutionary time. Here, we present a conceptual framework for exploring the emergent properties that arise from interactions between forest structural diversity and disturbances. We synthesize and present definitions for key terms, including emergent property, disturbance, and resilience, and highlight various types and examples of emergent properties, such as …

Gender Inequality Against Women Fishers In Indonesia, Ani Purwanti, Dyah Wijaningsih, Muh. Afif Mahfud, Aga Natalis

Indonesia Law Review

This study explores whether or not Law No. 7 of 2016 for the Protection and Empowerment of Fishermen, Fish Cultivators, and Salt Farmers discriminates against women. This law supports small fishermen since it requires the government to provide them with financial stability through harvest season output guarantees. On the other hand, we discovered that Law No. 7 of 2016, about the Protection and Empowerment of Fishermen, Fish Cultivators, and Salt Farmers, has discriminatory consequences damaging the welfare of female fishermen. Because of sociological and cultural bias, female fishermen are the most neglected segment in the fishing sector. This is in …

Kasus Wang Renshu: Sebuah Kegagalan Diplomasi Rrc Terhadap Indonesia, Tuty Enoch Muas

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

The Chinese-Indonesian relations in 1951 was in tension due the actions of Ambassador Wang Renshu. As China was not favored in the international arena for its communist stand, the Chinese citizens in Indonesia became important factor in the relations between China and Indonesia where they were divided into taking side with either the communists or the capitalists. Wang Renshu, a senior member in the China Communist Party, has recruited between six and seven hundred thousand Indonesians of Chinese ancestry to adopt Chinese citizenship, of which it became a threat to the Chinese-Indonesian diplomatic relations. The withdrawal of Ambassador Wang Renshu …

Administrative Appeal Decision - Young, Scott (2022-11-14)

Parole Administrative Appeal Decisions

No abstract provided.

Administrative Appeal Decision - Donis, Enrico (2022-07-18)

Parole Administrative Appeal Decisions

No abstract provided.

Decision In Art. 78 Proceeding - Donis, Enrico (2022-11-30)

Decisions in Art. 78 Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Slamdance Film Festival 2023 Introduction, William L. Blizek

Journal of Religion & Film

Introduction to the 2023 Slamdance Film Festival

Slide List, Sui-Kang Zhao 赵穗康

Zhou Documents

This is a brief description of the artist's fifteen slides. The slides' names, date of shooting, way of being perceived, type of installation involved, material, size are included. Some of the descriptions also include the background information of the work. (He Zhang 25')

Improved Process For The Preparation Of (±) 4-Amino-5-Hexenoic Acid, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center; Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan; M. Kishore; M. Ramakrishna; Jillepalli Suresh

Defensive Publications Series

Abstract:

The present invention relates to an improved process for the preparation of (±) 4-amino-5-hexenoic acid, represented by the following structural formula.

Formula-1

High Precision Programmable Delay In Networking Switches, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

Fairness in computer networks used in application domains such as financial markets, prediction markets, etc., can be achieved by ensuring that all participants receive the same multicast information at the same time. However, in practice, due to factors such as differing processing delays at network nodes, differing optical fiber lengths, etc., some participants may receive data sooner than others. This disclosure describes techniques to reduce timing variance and unfairness in multicast networks. Since multicasting works by replicating information to destination nodes, the replication engine at a node of a given network layer is programmed to delay retransmission of information received …

Irewards, Mrudul Uchil, Shakti Nilesh

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to providing a single platform (107) to communicate offers/promotions to users (101). The platform receives payment cards details and associated issuer information from a user (101). The platform further receives information related to at least one merchant (105) and favorite brand of the user (101). The information related to the merchant or brand may be a name or an identity number. The platform (107) uses machine learning and/or data analytics and dynamically fetches current offers/promotions associated with the cards that can be availed at the at least one merchant (105) and favorite brand of the user …

Method And System For True Random Number Generation Using Brownian Motion., Gokul Anand Manimaran

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a method and system for generation of true random numbers using Brownian motion without any external inputs. The method creates true random numbers utilizing the random movement of colloidal particles in the colloidal solution. Rotor mechanism used in mechanical watches and heat from the system are used to introduce kinetic energy into this colloidal solution. The present disclosure generates sequence of true random numbers using either picture or video of the colloidal particles in the colloidal medium holder. Using the picture, the method counts the number of colloidal particles in area of any shape. Using …

Basic Idea Of My Works, Sui-Kang Zhao 赵穗康

Zhou Documents

This is a brief explanation of the artist's creative art approach and the meaning behind. (He Zhang 25')

The Home & Tomb Of President Lincoln Presented By The Sangamo Ins. Co....Springfield, Ill., C. W. Hotchkiss, Ehrgott, Forbriger And Co., Lithographers, Sangamo Insurance Company

Posters

The commemorative lithograph/advertisement was published by the Sangamo Insurance Company shortly after the death of Abraham Lincoln. It advertises six illustrations of areas of interest in Illinois, including Lincoln's tomb, his Springfield home, and other sites of interest. After the death of Lincoln, the nation took interest in Lincoln's life, and many companies were quick to capitalize on this newfound curiosity. This broadside is an example of the commodification of such tourism.

Letting Go Of Pilot Stigma: A Commentary On Hubbard (2016), Timothy G. Rosser

International Journal of Aviation Sciences (IJAS)

No abstract provided.

Icao Commentary On Hubbard (2016): Stigma And Pilots With Mental Health Issues, Ansa Jordaan

International Journal of Aviation Sciences (IJAS)

No abstract provided.

Stigma And Pilots With Mental Health Issues, Todd P. Hubbard

International Journal of Aviation Sciences (IJAS)

What makes the stigma surrounding pilots with mental health issues an important issue? Until recently, stigma was of minor concern. There were plenty of pilots without issues. Pilots with weaknesses had their careers cut short, if they let it be known that they had a psychological condition. So the numbers of pilots reporting psychological conditions were few. It was simple. Refrain from telling on yourself and you are allowed to fly. Tell on yourself and you suffer the consequences of stigma and maybe a shortened career. Stigma is similar to bullying. It creates a hostile work environment for those affected. …

Training For Warfighter Decision Making: A Survey Of Simulation-Based Training Technologies, Nina Rothstein

International Journal of Aviation Sciences (IJAS)

Training warfighters requires the establishment, enhancement, and assessment of decision making (DM) skills at various levels. This review seeks to identify DM training technologies at the tactical and operational levels of war. Simulation based training (SBT) provides learning experiences for improved cognitive abilities and retention of complex skills. Here, seven SBTs will be evaluated for their situational awareness (SA) training abilities for decision making. Valuation of the included SBTs examine the modifiability (scenario customization), data availability (physiological and behavioral), assessment methods (feedback and after action reviews), validity (team training), and fidelity (2D or 3D environments) for tactical and operational warfighter …