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Cardozo Hosts “Making A Career Working For Lgbtq+ Rights: An Alumni Panel”, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo News 2023

Five Cardozo alumni shared their stories about fighting for the civil rights of members of the LGBTQ+ community, in a powerful 90-minute talk moderated by Dean Melanie Leslie ’92 and sponsored by OUTLaw on February 23. The event was held in the Jacob Burns Moot Court Room with 95 students and faculty in attendance.

Shock-Induced Endotheliopathy (Shine): A Mechanistic Justification For Viscoelastography-Guided Resuscitation Of Traumatic And Non-Traumatic Shock., Connor M. Bunch, Eric Chang, Ernest E. Moore, Hunter B. Moore, Hau C. Kwaan, Joseph B. Miller, Mahmoud D. Al-Fadhl, Anthony V. Thomas, Nuha Zackariya, Shivani S. Patel, Sufyan Zackariya, Saadeddine Haidar, Bhavesh Patel, Michael T. Mccurdy, Scott G. Thomas, Donald Zimmer, Daniel Fulkerson, Paul Y. Kim, Matthew R. Walsh, Daniel Hake, Archana Kedar, Michael Aboukhaled, Mark M. Walsh

Emergency Medicine Articles

Irrespective of the reason for hypoperfusion, hypocoagulable and/or hyperfibrinolytic hemostatic aberrancies afflict up to one-quarter of critically ill patients in shock. Intensivists and traumatologists have embraced the concept of SHock-INduced Endotheliopathy (SHINE) as a foundational derangement in progressive shock wherein sympatho-adrenal activation may cause systemic endothelial injury. The pro-thrombotic endothelium lends to micro-thrombosis, enacting a cycle of worsening perfusion and increasing catecholamines, endothelial injury, de-endothelialization, and multiple organ failure. The hypocoagulable/hyperfibrinolytic hemostatic phenotype is thought to be driven by endothelial release of anti-thrombogenic mediators to the bloodstream and perivascular sympathetic nerve release of tissue plasminogen activator directly into the microvasculature. …

Orthodenticle Homeobox 2 Is Transported To Lysosomes By Nuclear Budding Vesicles, Jun Woo Park, Eun Jung Lee, Eunyoung Moon, Hong-Lim Kim, In-Beom Kim, Didier Hodzic, Namsuk Kim, Hee-Seok Kweon, Jin Woo Kim

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Transcription factors (TFs) are transported from the cytoplasm to the nucleus and disappear from the nucleus after they regulate gene expression. Here, we discover an unconventional nuclear export of the TF, orthodenticle homeobox 2 (OTX2), in nuclear budding vesicles, which transport OTX2 to the lysosome. We further find that torsin1a (Tor1a) is responsible for scission of the inner nuclear vesicle, which captures OTX2 using the LINC complex. Consistent with this, in cells expressing an ATPase-inactive Tor1aΔE mutant and the LINC (linker of nucleoskeleton and cytoskeleton) breaker KASH2, OTX2 accumulated and formed aggregates in the nucleus. Consequently, in the mice expressing …

Uncovering Novel Regulators Of Memory Using C Elegans Genetic And Genomic Analysis

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

How organisms learn and encode memory is an outstanding question in neuroscience research. Specifically, how memories are acquired and consolidated at the level of molecular and gene pathways remains unclear. In addition, memory is disrupted in a wide variety of neurological disorders; therefore, discovering molecular regulators of memory may reveal therapeutic targets for these disorders. C. elegans are an excellent model to uncover molecular and genetic regulators of memory. Indeed, the nematode's invariant neuronal lineage, fully mapped genome, and conserved associative behaviors have allowed the development of a breadth of genetic and genomic tools to examine learning and memory. In …

Impact Of Penicillin Allergy Labels On Children Treated For Outpatient Respiratory Infections, Debra L Palazzi, Jeffrey S Gerber

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

BACKGROUND: Penicillin allergy is the most common antibiotic allergy, yet most children labeled as allergic tolerate penicillin. The impact of inaccurate penicillin allergy labels (PALs) on pediatric outpatients is unknown. The objective of this study was to compare outcomes between children with and without a PAL after treatment for outpatient respiratory tract infections (RTI).

METHODS: A retrospective, longitudinal birth cohort study was performed in children who received care in 90 pediatric primary care practices in Philadelphia and Houston metropolitan areas. Prescribing and clinical outcomes of children with a PAL at the time of an RTI were compared to non-allergic children, …

Developing Consensus On Clinical Outcomes For Children With Mild Pneumonia: A Delphi Study, Ryan Ciuffetelli, Jillian Benedetti, Dustin Ballard, Marianne Gausche-Hill, Matthew P Kronman, Lisa A Martin, Rakesh D Mistry, Mark I Neuman, Debra L Palazzi, Sameer J Patel, Wesley H Self, Samir S Shah, Sonal N Shah, Susan Sirota, Andrea T Cruz, Richard Ruddy, Jeffrey S Gerber, Nathan Kuppermann

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

BACKGROUND: The absence of consensus for outcomes in pediatric antibiotic trials is a major barrier to research harmonization and clinical translation. We sought to develop expert consensus on study outcomes for clinical trials of children with mild community-acquired pneumonia (CAP).

METHODS: Applying the Delphi method, a multispecialty expert panel ranked the importance of various components of clinical response and treatment failure outcomes in children with mild CAP for use in research. During Round 1, panelists suggested additional outcomes in open-ended responses that were added to subsequent rounds of consensus building. For Rounds 2 and 3, panelists were provided their own …

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University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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Evaluating Metabolic And Genomic Data For Predicting Grain Traits Under High Night Temperature Stress In Rice, Ye Bi, Rafael Massahiro Yassue, Puneet Paul, Balpreet Kaur Dhatt, Jaspreet Sandhu, Phuc Thi Do, Harkamal Walia, Toshihiro Obata, Gota Morota

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

The asymmetric increase in average nighttime temperatures relative to increase in average daytime temperatures due to climate change is decreasing grain yield and quality in rice. Therefore, a better genome-level understanding of the impact of higher night temperature stress on the weight of individual grains is essential for future development of more resilient rice. We investigated the utility of metabolites obtained from grains to classify high night temperature (HNT) conditions of genotypes, and metabolites and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to predict grain length, width, and perimeter phenotypes using a rice diversity panel. We found that the metabolic profiles of rice genotypes …

Calculations Of Adsorption-Dependent Refractive Indices Of Metal-Organic Frameworks For Gas Sensing Applications, Nahideh Salehifar, Peter Holtmann, Abhishek Prakash Hungund, Homayoon Soleimani Dinani, Rex E. Gerald, Jie Huang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) is One of the Most Challenging Tasks in Modelling Breath Analyzers Because of their Low Concentrations (Parts-Per-Billion (Ppb) to Parts-Per-Million (Ppm)) in Breath and the High Humidity Levels in Exhaled Breaths. the Refractive Index is One of the Crucial Optical Properties of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), Which is Changeable Via the Variation of Gas Species and Concentrations that Can Be Utilized as Gas Detectors. Herein, for the First Time, We Used Lorentz–Lorentz, Maxwell–Ga, and Bruggeman Effective Medium Approximation (EMA) Equations to Compute the Percentage Change in the Index of Refraction (∆n%) of ZIF-7, ZIF-8, ZIF-90, …

Student Life E-Newsletter February 27, 2023, Seattle University School Of Law Student Life

Student Life E-Newsletters

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Molecular Research In Pancreatic Cancer: Small Molecule Inhibitors, Their Mechanistic Pathways And Beyond, Shaila A. Shetu, Nneoma James, Gildardo Rivera-Sanchez, Debasish Bandyopadhyay

School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences (Formerly Dept. of Chemistry)

Pancreatic enzymes assist metabolic digestion, and hormones like insulin and glucagon play a critical role in maintaining our blood sugar levels. A malignant pancreas is incapable of doing its regular functions, which results in a health catastrophe. To date, there is no effective biomarker to detect early-stage pancreatic cancer, which makes pancreatic cancer the cancer with the highest mortality rate of all cancer types. Primarily, mutations of the KRAS, CDKN2A, TP53, and SMAD4 genes are responsible for pancreatic cancer, of which mutations of the KRAS gene are present in more than 80% of pancreatic cancer cases. Accordingly, there is a …

Postmenopausal Heart Health: What To Expect, Anna Jones

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Shot Talk: Development And Pilot Test Of A Theory Of Planned Behavior Campaign To Combat College Student Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy, Hannah Ball, Tayah Renea Wozniak, Cailin M. Kuchenbecker

Communication Faculty Articles and Research

Among college students, evidence of relatively lower levels of concern of COVID-19 infection, rapid rates of transmission, and lagging vaccination rates substantiates a need to combat college student COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. This two-phase study comprised formative research, development, and pilot testing of a campaign to combat COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among college students. In phase one, focus group discussions with college students (N = 48) uncovered their specific attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control toward the COVID-19 vaccine. Thematic analysis revealed concerns about vaccine safety, efficacy, cost, and politicization, as well as perceived barriers to accessing information and the …

On Refinements To Qmfd Based Chirp Parameter Estimation, Balu Santhanam, Thalanayar Santhanam

Electrical & Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Commuting matrix methods furnish a full basis of orthog- onal eigenvectors for the discrete Fourier transform or its centered version needed for computing the discrete fractional Fourier transform and multicomponent chirp signal analysis. However, these approaches suffer from ill-conditioning issues at higher matrix sizes, and require a computationally expensive eigenvalue decomposition.

In this paper, ill-conditioning issues associated with the QMFD approach developed previously by the authors are addressed via diagonal modification. Further symmetries of the eigenvectors are used to reduce the size of the underlying eigenvalue problem. These modifications are then incorporated into the real-arithmetic implementation of the QMFD approach …

20230227_Meet Our Student Monday, Amy Weig-Pickering

HSLIC Blog Post

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Home – No Home: Expatriation, Social Integration And Remote Viewing Of Place. An Expanded Photography Approach, Ioannis Galanopoulos-Papavasileiou

All Works

Home – No Home reflects through expanded photographic artworks and elucidate – through heuristic introspection, auto-ethnography, and critical text analysis – notions of expatriation and social integration, such as home, (Blunt & Dowling 2006; Blunt et al., 2007) home displacement and attachment, nostalgia (Vidler, 1992; Koerner, 2017) and homesickness (Fink et al., 2007). Attached to these concepts are deeper questions rooted in societal discourses about today’s global trends and discourses of expatriation, (Fechter, 2007; Leonard 2010; Walsh, 2010, 2012, 2014; Mathur, 2011; and Kunz, 2016) and the politics of border assertion and control. Is the ability to live …

Benin Bronzes: Restitution And Reparation, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law, Cardozo Fame Center, Cardozo Art Law Society, Cardozo Black Law Students Association

2022–2023 Flyers

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Heyman Center Presents: Regulating The Metaverse, Heyman Center On Corporate Governance, Andrea Guaccero

2022–2023 Flyers

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The Brandeis Center Presents: Religious Accommodation In The Workplace, The Louis Brandeis Center For Human Rights Under Law

2022–2023 Flyers

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4 Appointed To Endowed Positions, Linda Gunter

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Distributor Whistleblowing May Help Mitigate Rising Inflation: Here's How, Tehreem Khan

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A Habitat Stronghold On The Precipice: A Call‐To‐Action For Supporting Lemur Conservation In Northeast Madagascar, Timothy M. Eppley, Cortni Borgerson, Natalie Vasey, Multiple Additional Authors

Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations

The northeast of Madagascar is as diverse as it is threatened. The area bordering the Analanjirofo and SAVA regions contains six protected areas and at least 22 lemur species. Many applied research and conservation programs have been established in the region with the aim of ensuring both wildlife and people thrive in the long term. While most of the remaining humid evergreen forest of northeast Madagascar is formally protected, the local human population depends heavily on the land, and unsustainable natural resource use threatens this biodiversity hotspot. Drawing from our collective experiences managing conservation activities and research programs in northeast …

Care Of Bullet-Related Injuries: A Cross-Sectional Study Of Instructions And Prescriptions Provided On Discharge From The Emergency Department, Jane M. Hayes, L J. Punch, Kristen L. Mueller

2020-Current year OA Pubs

INTRODUCTION: There are more than 80,000 emergency department (ED) visits for non-fatal bullet-related injuries (BRI) per year in the United States. Approximately half of these patients are discharged home from the ED. Our objective in this study was to characterize the discharge instructions, prescriptions, and follow-up plans provided to patients discharged from the ED after BRI.

METHODS: This was a single-center, cross-sectional study of the first 100 consecutive patients who presented to an urban, academic, Level I trauma center ED with an acute BRI beginning on January 1, 2020. We queried the electronic health record for patient demographics, insurance status, …

Split And Join: An Efficient Approach For Simulating Stapled Intestinal Anastomosis In Virtual Reality, Di Qi, Suvranu De

Engineering Faculty Articles and Research

Colorectal cancer is a life-threatening disease. It is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Stapled anastomosis is a rapid treatment for colorectal cancer and other intestinal diseases and has become an integral part of routine surgical practice. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no existing work simulating intestinal anastomosis that often involves sophisticated soft tissue manipulations such as cutting and stitching. In this paper, for the first time, we propose a novel split and join approach to simulate a side-to-side stapled intestinal anastomosis in virtual reality. We mimic the intestine model using …

Ndls Communicator: Week Of 02.27.23, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Communicator

The Latest News

• Religious Liberty Initiative supports criminal complaint against Chinese government for Uyghur genocide
• The Supreme Court will hear arguments in President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan case tomorrow. An amicus brief filed by Sam Bray, along with William Baude of the University of Chicago, about the case was mentioned in several media outlets.
• Mary Ellen O'Connell was quoted by Our Sunday Visitor in "Putin’s Suspension Of Key US-Russia Nuclear Arms Treaty Increases Global Risk, Say Experts.”
• Nicole Garnett wrote, "Losing a Lifeline" for the City Journal about the closure of more than a dozen New York City …

Phytochemicals Profiling Of Blue-Green Alga Nostoc Sp. Hanl07: Antioxidant, Antibacterial Activity And Gc-Ms Analysis, Ritu Chauhan, Ashutosh Tripathi, Abhishek Chauhan, Anuj Ranjan, Hardeep Singh Tuli, Hadi Sajid Abdulabbas, Subhash C. Chauhan, Tanu Jindal

School of Medicine Publications

In recent years, studies on phytochemicals, antioxidants, and antibiotics using blue green algae from harsh environments has become increasingly prevalent. The search for novel bioactive molecules exhibiting diverse biological activity is one of the most important strategies for addressing the issue of rising concerns regarding bacterial antibiotic resistance. In present study, the phytochemicals, antioxidant potentiality and antibacterial assessment of organic solvent extracts of blue-green alga isolated from Naini lake water were characterized. From the mass culture of alga, extracts were prepared in MeOH, EtOH, acetone, AcOEt, hexane and DCM and antioxidant potential and antibacterial properties were studied against multiple antibiotic-resistant …

Dean Of Education And Human Services To Leave Lindenwood, Hadel Abdelkarim

Lindenlink (2012- )

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The Core Content Framework And The 'New Science' Of Educational Research, Jim Hordern, Clare Brooks

Plymouth Institute of Education

This paper unpacks the assumptions underpinning England’s new Core Content Framework (CCF) in respect of the educational research required for teacher expertise, with particular attention to the sources referenced in the final part of the CCF and claims that these constitute the ‘best available educational research’. Drawing on sociological studies of educational knowledge, and assessments of the quality of educational research in England, in addition to the philosophy of expertise as related to teaching, it is argued that the CCF is currently orientated towards a scientism that (i) marginalises longstanding traditions of educational thought, and (ii) technicises and instrumentalises teaching …

Sars-Cov-2 Screening Testing Programs For Safe In-Person Learning In K-12 Schools., Ibukunoluwa C. Kalu, Kanecia O. Zimmerman, Jennifer Goldman, Dana Keener Mast, Ashley M. Blakemore, Ganga Moorthy, Angelique E. Boutzoukas, Melissa M. Campbell, Diya Uthappa, Jesse Delarosa, Jessica M. Potts, Laura J. Edwards, Rangaraj Selvarangan, Daniel K. Benjamin, Tara K. Mann, Jennifer E. Schuster

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

BACKGROUND: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) screening testing is a recommended mitigation strategy for schools, although few descriptions of program implementation are available.

METHODS: Kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) students and staff practicing universal masking during the delta and omicron variant waves from five schools in Durham, North Carolina and eight schools in Kansas City, Missouri participated; Durham's program was structured as a public health initiative facilitated by school staff, and Kansas City's as a research study facilitated by a research team. Tests included school-based rapid antigen or polymerase chain reaction testing, at-home rapid antigen testing, and off-site …