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Interview With Mike Legaspi, Andrea Generalao

Immigrant Leaders

An interview with Mike Legaspi, an immigrant leader from Migrante. The interview covers life before immigrating, arrival and integration, and political participation.

Understanding The Dynamics Of The Structural States Of Cannabinoid Receptors And The Role Of Different Modulators, Anjela Manandhar, Mona H. Haron, Michael L. Klein, Khaled Elokely

Faculty and Student Publications

The cannabinoid receptors CB1R and CB2R are members of the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) family. These receptors have recently come to light as possible therapeutic targets for conditions affecting the central nervous system. However, because CB1R is known to have psychoactive side effects, its potential as a drug target is constrained. Therefore, targeting CB2R has become the primary focus of recent research. Using various molecular modeling studies, we analyzed the active, inactive, and intermediate states of both CBRs in this study. We conducted in-depth research on the binding properties of various groups of cannabinoid modulators, including agonists, antagonists, and inverse …

A Cybersecurity Assessment Of Health Data Ecosystems, Michelle N. Halsey

Cyber Operations and Resilience Program Graduate Projects

This paper is an exploratory study that investigates data collected and used by health plans and reviews the laws and regulations governing this data to identify the gaps in protections and provide recommendations for eliminating these gaps. Health insurance companies collect a wide array of data about the people they insure, data that is often only peripherally relevant to the service these companies provide. The data environment currently consists of seven categories of data: personal health information, summary health information, personally identifiable information, financial information, professional information, biometric information, and lifestyle data or social indicators of health. Much of this …

Teacher Perceptions Of Tier 2 Reading Interventions, Marlena Robinson

Dissertations (2016-Present)

Many students in schools in the United States today are considered at-risk in their reading ability. The disproportionate number of students making inadequate progress places the fate of students at stake. Response to Intervention (RTI) was created to support student growth in reading while reducing the number of students requiring testing for disabilities. This study aims to examine teacher perceptions of RTI reading interventions. Specifically, this study will be concerned with the effects of Tier 2 reading interventions by examining their perceptions of professional development, data and progress monitoring, resources, and support surrounding reading interventions. While an extensive body of …

Self-Efficacy Perceptions Of Middle School Reading Teachers In Majority Minority Inclusive Classrooms On Their Ability To Achieve Students Success., Debra Jean Lewis

Dissertations (2016-Present)

According to the U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics (NCES, 2022), the number of students who require special accommodations in the classroom continues to increase. Because studies have shown that positive outcomes for students are directly linked to the self-efficacy of educators (Lotter et al., 2018; Neugebauer et al., 2019), educators who serve these populations must possess high levels of positive self-efficacy to handle the challenges associated with inclusive settings and specialized skills needed to achieve student success. The purpose of this study, which was guided and supported by the Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1986), was to …

Conceiving Consistency: Giving Birth To A Uniform "Best Interests Of The Child" Standard, Victoria L. Pepe

Hofstra Law Review

The article address the lack of consistency surrounding the best interests of the child (BIOTC) standard as it has been used in child legal custody adversarial proceedings. It mentions lack of consistency surrounding the BIOTC standard as it has been used in child legal custody adversarial proceedings. It also mentions need to incorporate child welfare data from across the U.S., legal scholarship, and case law to determine which state factors or tests.

Experimental Identification Of Aminomethanol (Nh2ch2oh)—The Key Intermediate In The Strecker Synthesis, Santosh K. Singh, Cheng Zhu, Jesse La Jeunesse, Ryan C. Fortenberry, Ralf I. Kaiser

Faculty and Student Publications

The Strecker Synthesis of (a)chiral α-amino acids from simple organic compounds, such as ammonia (NH3), aldehydes (RCHO), and hydrogen cyanide (HCN) has been recognized as a viable route to amino acids on primordial earth. However, preparation and isolation of the simplest hemiaminal intermediate – the aminomethanol (NH2CH2OH)– formed in the Strecker Synthesis to even the simplest amino acid glycine (H2NCH2COOH) has been elusive. Here, we report the identification of aminomethanol prepared in low-temperature methylamine (CH3NH2) – oxygen (O2) ices upon exposure to energetic electrons. Isomer-selective photoionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (PI-ReTOF-MS) facilitated the gas phase detection of aminomethanol during the temperature …

Development Of The Spur Tool: A Profiling Instrument For Patient Treatment Behavior, Béatrice Tugaut, Selam Shah, Kevin Dolgin, Hanna Rebibo Seror, Benoit Arnould, Marie Eve Laporte, Aaron Lee, Lydiane Nabec, Reem Kayyali, Joshua Wells, John D. Piette, Guillaume Hubert

Faculty and Student Publications

Background: Long-term treatment adherence is a worldwide concern, with nonadherence resulting from a complex interplay of behaviors and health beliefs. Determining an individual’s risk of nonadherence and identifying the drivers of that risk are crucial for the development of successful interventions for improving adherence. Here, we describe the development of a new tool assessing a comprehensive set of characteristics predictive of patients’ treatment adherence based on the Social, Psychological, Usage and Rational (SPUR) adherence framework. Concepts from existing self-reporting tools of adherence-related behaviors were identified following a targeted MEDLINE literature review and a subset of these concepts were then selected …

Politicizing The Pandemic: Covid-19 And Its Impact On The Nigerian Economy, John Shola Olanrewaju, Agaptus Nwozor, Ajibola Abdulwasiu Abdulrahaman

Faculty and Student Open Access Publications

This study aims to examine the connection between international politics that characterized the outbreak of COVID-19, mainly between the United States of America and China and the devastating impact of the second wave outbreak on the Nigerian economy. At the initial stage of the pandemic on the Chinese mainland, the economy of China experienced a significant decline. The efficacy of China’s response to COVID-19 led to a fractional economic recovery during the pandemic. However, the internationalization of COVID-19 was greeted with a second wave in most advanced countries, such as the United States of America, Italy, and the United Kingdom, …

Shared Genomic Architectures Of Covid-19 And Antisocial Behavior, Charleen D. Adams, Jorim J. Tielbeek, Brian B. Boutwell

Faculty and Student Publications

Little is known about the genetics of norm violation and aggression in relation to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). To investigate this, we used summary statistics from genome-wide association studies and linkage disequilibrium score regression to calculate a matrix of genetic correlations (rgs) for antisocial behavior (ASB), COVID-19, and various health and behavioral traits. After false-discovery rate correction, ASB was genetically correlated with COVID-19 (rg = 0.51; P = 1.54E-02) and 19 other traits. ASB and COVID-19 were both positively genetically correlated with having a noisy workplace, doing heavy manual labor, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and genitourinary diseases. ASB and COVID-19 …

Comparing Shaping Ability Of Fanta, Onecurve, And Protaper Next Ni-Ti Rotary Files Systems., Soliman N. Mansour, Maram Obeid, Tariq Yehia

Mansoura Journal of Dentistry

Objective: To compare the shaping ability of Fanta, One Curve, and Pro Taper Next Ni-Ti rotary file systems. Materials and Methods: Sixty Mandibular molars with mesiobuccal canals with curvatures ranging between 20° and 40° were divided into three groups of 20 teeth each. a group for each system as follows: group 1 was prepared by Fanta file system, group 2 was prepared by Pro Taper Next file system, and group 3 was prepared by One Curve file system. The measuring of canal curvatures was determined by Schneider's method using standardized periapical radiographs and the Image J software. Pre and post-CBCT …

Comparative Study Of Protrusive Record Accuracy With And Without George Gauge For Dentulous Cases, Aisha Z. Mostafa, Noha H. El-Shaheed

Mansoura Journal of Dentistry

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of the George gauge in protrusive records. Materials and Methods: This clinical trial includes a total of 12 dentulous subjects aged 20 to 40 years with no signs of muscular disease or temporomandibular joint disorders were chosen. For each patient, two different protrusive records were created, one with and one without the George gauge, using polyvinyl siloxane materials. The accuracy of these two protrusive records was evaluated by measuring the amount of midline shift in both records with a digital calliper. Then these Protrusive records were used to programme the articulator and …

New Music Ensemble, Old Dominion University New Music Ensemble, Andrey Kasparov (Director), Oksana Lutsyshyn (Guest Artist)

Ensemble Performances

No abstract provided.

Soft Metal Versus Laser Melting Metal Framework Used For Mandibular All On Four Implant Supported Fixed Complete Denture, Noha H. Rashed, Noha H. El Shaheed, Wael M. Said Ahmed, Salah A. Hegazy

Mansoura Journal of Dentistry

Objective: To radiographically evaluate the peri-implant bone height changes eri-implantin mandibular all on-four implant supported fixed complete denture (ISFCD) regarding metal framework fabrication technique either with milling from soft metal block or additive manufacturing using laser melting. Materials and Methods: Ten completely edentulous patients were rehabilitated with mandibular all on-four ISFCD. Computer-guided surgical procedures were followed for placement of implants. Patients were allocated randomly into two groups according to the framework fabrication technique. Group I frameworks were milled from soft metal block and group II frameworks were fabricated with additive manufacturing using laser melting. Vertical bone height changes around supporting …

Zofia A. Drzewieniecki Curriculum Vitae, Joanna Drzewieniecki

Drzewieniecki Family Curriculum Vitae

No abstract provided.

Walter Marian Drzewieniecki Curriculum Vitae, Joanna Drzewieniecki

Drzewieniecki Family Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum vitae with publications and manuscript archive holdings.

A Mollicutes Metagenome-Assembled Genome From The Gut Of The Pteropod Limacina Rangii, Zachary T. Pimentel, Patricia S. Thibodeau, Bongkeun Song, Ying Zhang

Cell and Molecular Biology Faculty Publications

A nearly complete genome of an uncultured Mollicutes sp. was obtained from the metagenome of the gut of Limacina rangii (open-ocean snail), an important grazer and prey for higher trophic animals along the rapidly warming region of the western Antarctic Peninsula.

A Damped Newton Method Achieves Global O(1/K2) And Local Quadratic Convergence Rate, Slavomír Hanzely, Dmitry Kamzolov, Dmitry Pasechnyuk, Alexander Gasnikov, Peter Richtárik, Martin Takáč

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

In this paper, we present the first stepsize schedule for Newton method resulting in fast global and local convergence guarantees. In particular, a) we prove an O (1/k2) global rate, which matches the state-of-the-art global rate of cubically regularized Newton method of Polyak and Nesterov (2006) and of regularized Newton method of Mishchenko (2021) and Doikov and Nesterov (2021), b) we prove a local quadratic rate, which matches the best-known local rate of second-order methods, and c) our stepsize formula is simple, explicit, and does not require solving any subproblem. Our convergence proofs hold under affine-invariance assumptions closely related to …

Automs: Automatic Model Selection For Novelty Detection With Error Rate Control, Yifan Zhang, Haiyan Jiang, Haojie Ren, Changliang Zou, Dejing Dou

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

Given an unsupervised novelty detection task on a new dataset, how can we automatically select a “best” detection model while simultaneously controlling the error rate of the best model? For novelty detection analysis, numerous detectors have been proposed to detect outliers on a new unseen dataset based on a score function trained on available clean data. However, due to the absence of labeled anomalous data for model evaluation and comparison, there is a lack of systematic approaches that are able to select the “best” model/detector (i.e., the algorithm as well as its hyperparameters) and achieve certain error rate control simultaneously. …

Factored Adaptation For Non-Stationary Reinforcement Learning, Fan Feng, Biwei Huang, Kun Zhang, Sara Magliacane

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

Dealing with non-stationarity in environments (e.g., in the transition dynamics) and objectives (e.g., in the reward functions) is a challenging problem that is crucial in real-world applications of reinforcement learning (RL). While most current approaches model the changes as a single shared embedding vector, we leverage insights from the recent causality literature to model non-stationarity in terms of individual latent change factors, and causal graphs across different environments. In particular, we propose Factored Adaptation for Non-Stationary RL (FANS-RL), a factored adaption approach that learns jointly both the causal structure in terms of a factored MDP, and a factored representation of …

Issue 408: December 1-15, 2022, The Local Voice

The Local Voice

No abstract provided.

Staff Council Financial Statement December 2022, Staff Council

Staff Advisory Council Treasurer Reports

No abstract provided.

Interview With Alan Andersen, Utah State University Special Collections & Archives

Utah State University COVID-19 Oral History Collection

No abstract provided.

Bidirectional Recanalization Of A Complete Postradiation Stricture Of The Hypopharynx And Esophagus, Fateh Bazerbachi Md, Georgios Mavrogenis Md, Konstantinos Markoglou, Sandro Porceddu

Articles

A 65-year-old patient was referred for endoscopic management of a complete radiation-induced stricture, 5 cm in length, of the hypopharynx and esophagus (Fig. 1, Video 1). He had a history of curative chemoradiation therapy for T2N1 squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx. His nutrition was exclusively maintained through a percutaneous gastrostomy. Recanalization of the esophagus was considered after a multidisciplinary discussion.

The Financials Of Water: The Case Of Maynilad And Manila Water, Junette A. Perez, Janrick Razon

Center for Business Research and Development

What is water? It is defined in the English Oxford Living Dictionaries as a colorless, transparent, odorless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms. The paper uses financial ratio analysis to examine the financial performance of the two dominant water and wastewater companies in Metro Manila. It attempts to appreciate how water and wastewater companies perform financially as they confront the complexities of operating an essential utility, water, and wastewater.

Jud Ms 24 Frederic C. Weinberg Collection, Katelynn Paul

Search the Manuscript Collection (Finding Aids)

Biographical Note:

Frederic Weinberg was born in Metuchen, New Jersey. He graduated from Metuchen High School and pursued a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Connecticut in 1969. After receiving his initial degree in English, he enrolled in the University of New Hampshire’s program in Library Science. In 1972 he was accepted into a special program in Educational Media at Boston University where he received a master’s degree in Education. In 1977 Frederic and his family joined the Beth Israel Congregation. He later assisted the congregation as a researcher and archivist. Currently Frederic is a regional coordinator for …

The Dissertation Proposal Process To Dissertation Defense: A Guide For Students, Mary Garofalo

General Research

Once you have finished your coursework, which has prepared you for designing and implementing your study, you need to prepare for your dissertation proposal and subsequent defense of the said proposal. This may feel like a daunting task, as more doctoral programs prepare you with coursework, and then you are required to complete a study (from design to implementation, to writing it up). This is your first autonomous task as you transition from doctoral student to doctoral candidate.

New York State Birth Through Five (Nysb5) Preschool Development Grant Needs Assessment Update Report (2022), Center For Human Services Research, University At Albany

Education & Early Childhood Development Reports and Research Briefs

This 2022 Needs Assessment update expressly focuses on the provision of home-based and legally exempt child care and the historic investment to stabilize and expand access to child care. In addition, this update presents findings on the access and use of the internet by parents. While not meant to be a comprehensive overview of the entire Early Childhood Care and Education system (ECCE) system, it adds context and background to what we already understand about the strengths and needs of the child care system.

Interview With Jennifer Duncan, Utah State University Special Collections & Archives

Utah State University COVID-19 Oral History Collection

No abstract provided.

Interview With Bill Plate, Utah State University Special Collections & Archives

Utah State University COVID-19 Oral History Collection

No abstract provided.