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Increased Incidence Of Suspected Smoke Inhalation During The Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A National Database Study, Theodore E Habarth-Morales, Arturo J. Rios Diaz, Emily Isch, Shreyas Chandragiri, Lucy Qi, Rose Ni, Edward J. Caterson

Student Papers, Posters & Projects

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many Americans to adapt their daily routines. In 2020, there was a significant increase in house fires according to the National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA). The objective of this study was to characterize the changes in suspected smoke inhalations (SSIs) during the first year of the pandemic in the National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS). The NEMSIS database was queried for all EMS transports captured between 2017 and 2020. Differences in the incidences of SSIs and fire dispatches in 2020 were estimated using Poisson regression models. There was a 13.4% increase in the incidence …

Safety In Policy: An Assessment Of The Utilization And Perceived Efficacy Of Sex Offender Legislation, Morgan Graham

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Current sex offender legislation in the United States is the result of a number of laws passed during the 1980-1990s. This study evaluates the efficacy and perception of these laws in Nebraska, including registration, community notification, and housing restriction policies. Using data from the Nebraska Annual Social Indicators Survey (NASIS), 1,814 people from 2008 and 1,232 people from 2017 were examined to determine the efficacy and popularity of sex offender legislation and how the data has changed over time. Results showed that only a minority of Nebraskans have accessed the registry. Of those who checked, women and individuals with children …

2022 Nebraska Ballot Issues, J. David Aiken

Cornhusker Economics

Three issues will be on the 2022 statewide ballot, one proposed by the Nebraska Unicameral and two added to the ballot by initiative petition. The three issues are: 1) public payments to expand commercial airline service; 2) requiring photo IDs for voting; and 3) increasing the Nebraska minimum wage from $9/hour to $15/hour.

Documents From The October 19, 2022 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana (Asum), The University Of Montana--Missoula, Associated Students

Senate Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2007-Present

Agenda and minutes from the October 19, 2022 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM).

Front Matter And Table Of Contents

New England Journal of Public Policy

Front matter and table of contents for Volume 34, Issue 2 of the New England Journal of Public Policy.

Editor's Note, Padraig O'Malley

New England Journal of Public Policy

The articles in this issue of the New England Journal of Public Policy reflect aspects of the changing world order as it continues to adjust to the digital age.

Responding To Turbulent Times: Where Does Leadership Come In?, Mike Hardy Cmg Obe Frsa

New England Journal of Public Policy

Leadership is a major twenty-first-century concern because of the need to make sense of an increasingly complex context and to make choices between options for the positive changes that are deemed required. Reviewing the success of leadership responses to challenges of violent conflict and health pandemics as well as the extent to which we see futures through fragmented or solidarity lenses has created real interest in global perspectives in leadership and a new research agenda that is associated with this imperative. The article concludes by identifying work in progress, that is, by assessing the universality of characteristics that have been …

Bounded Confidence: How Ai Could Exacerbate Social Media’S Homophily Problem, Dylan Weber, Scott Atran, Rich Davis

New England Journal of Public Policy

The advent of the Internet was heralded as a revolutionary development in the democratization of information. It has emerged, however, that online discourse on social media tends to narrow the information landscape of its users. This dynamic is driven by the propensity of the network structure of social media to tend toward homophily; users strongly prefer to interact with content and other users that are similar to them. We review the considerable evidence for the ubiquity of homophily in social media, discuss some possible mechanisms for this phenomenon, and present some observed and hypothesized effects. We also discuss how the …

Enter The Age Of Csywar: Some Reflections On An Emergent Trend, Kumar Ramakrishna

New England Journal of Public Policy

This article uses the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict as a jumping-off point for a broader, preliminary reflection on the continuing evolution of war in the digital age. It is the contention here that we are witnessing an emergent phenomenon of what we might call csywar. Intervening states engaged in csywar—best understood as an indirect, hybrid strategy—seek to attain data, infrastructural, and epistemic dominance over the target state. This article discusses various defensive counter-csywar strategies that target states could pursue, such as fostering data, infrastructural, and epistemic resilience internally, and makes the case for developing deterrent counter-csywar capabilities against hostile intervening states.

Managing The Atmosphere: Intelligence And Assessment In The Early Years Of The Northern Ireland Peace Process—An Interview With Sir John Chilcot, Graham Spencer

New England Journal of Public Policy

Though the Northern Ireland peace process was shaped by the involvement of many actors and participants, it is also evident that certain figures were central to its development. One such figure was Sir John Chilcot, who, based in the Northern Ireland Office in the formative years of the peace process, provided a point of focus for communicating with and managing a range of individuals and groups with the overriding objective of ending conflict in Northern Ireland. This article is based on an extended interview with Chilcot about the challenges he faced in assessing intelligence across a range of sources and …

Detection Of Fibular Rotational Changes In Cone Beam Ct: Experimental Study In A Specimen Model, Nils Beisemann, Antonella M Tilk, Jula Gierse, Paul A Grützner, Jochen Franke, Jeffrey H Siewerdsen, Sven Y Vetter

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: In syndesmotic injuries, incorrect reduction leads to early arthrosis of the ankle joint. Being able to analyze the reduction result is therefore crucial for obtaining an anatomical reduction. Several studies that assess fibular rotation in the incisura have already been published. The aim of the study was to validate measurement methods that use cone beam computed tomography imaging to detect rotational malpositions of the fibula in a standardized specimen model.

METHODS: An artificial Maisonneuve injury was created on 16 pairs of fresh-frozen lower legs. Using a stable instrument, rotational malpositions of 5, 10, and 15° internal and external rotation …

Temporally Multi-Staged Batch Counterflow Reverse Osmosis For High Recovery Desalination, Abhimanyu Das, Carolina Bernal Botero, Ali Naderi Beni, David M. Warsinger

School of Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

Osmotically assisted reverse osmosis (OARO) or counterflow reverse osmosis (CFRO) are recent RO configurations that uses saline streams on both sides of the membrane in counterflow. This reduces the osmotic pressure difference that needs to be overcome for permeation and allows water recovery from high salinity feeds at regular RO pressure. Batch RO is a new, transient RO configuration that closely follows the osmotic pressure profile of the feed and is marked by high energy efficiency. In this work we extend a transient version of CFRO, Batch CFRO for high recovery (~74%) desalination of seawater using a temporally multi-staged version …

Facets Of Family Law Panel, Cardozo Family Law Society

2022–2023 Flyers

No abstract provided.

Lindenwood Digest, October 19, 2022, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been a digital employee newsletter since 2009.

Deep Learning For Religious And Continent-Based Toxic Content Detection And Classification, Ahmed Abbasi, Abdul Rehman Javed, Farkhund Iqbal, Natalia Kryvinska, Zunera Jalil

All Works

With time, numerous online communication platforms have emerged that allow people to express themselves, increasing the dissemination of toxic languages, such as racism, sexual harassment, and other negative behaviors that are not accepted in polite society. As a result, toxic language identification in online communication has emerged as a critical application of natural language processing. Numerous academic and industrial researchers have recently researched toxic language identification using machine learning algorithms. However, Nontoxic comments, including particular identification descriptors, such as Muslim, Jewish, White, and Black, were assigned unrealistically high toxicity ratings in several machine learning models. This research analyzes and compares …

Nearly Half Of Granite Staters Report Having Tested Positive For Covid-19 10/19/2022, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Nearly half of New Hampshire residents say they have tested positive for COVID-19 at least once, up significantly since February. Seven in ten adults in the state say they are fully vaccinated and have received at least one booster. Nearly all who have not been vaccinated say they will not do so. Most who have received at least one booster plan to receive another within the next year. Stress related to the pandemic has declined since February but remains higher among women than men.

Reproductive Rights After Dobbs, Bernadette Barton

Justice Festival at Morehead State University

A PowerPoint presentation, titled "Reproductive Rights after Dobbs," given by Bernadette Barton at the Justice Festival held on the campus of Morehead State University on October 19, 2022.

Issues Of Justice And Equity In Special Education: Labels, Language, And Problems With The Medical Model Of Disability, Casey Cosgriff, Suzannah Chapman

Justice Festival at Morehead State University

A PowerPoint presentation, titled "Issues of Justice and Equity in Special Education: Labels, Language, and Problems with the Medical Model of Disability," given by Casey Cosgriff and Suzannah Chapman at the Justice Festival held on the campus of Morehead State University on October 19, 2022.

Findings Of Fact And Conclusions Of Law

Catholic Dioceses in Bankruptcy

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8 E. 102nd St. Llc V. Ben-Shitrit

All Decisions

No abstract provided.

Droughts Are A New Reality For New England. Diverse Crop Rotations Can Help., Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Research Finds Angel Investor Behavior Can Be Influenced By Ego, Robbin Ray

UNH Today Archive

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For The Greater Good, Rebecca Irelan

UNH Today Archive

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The Impact Of Meal Dietary Inflammatory Index On Exercise-Induced Changes In Airway Inflammation In Adults With Asthma, Katrina P. Mcdiarmid, Lisa G. Wood, John W. Upham, Lesley K. Macdonald-Wicks, Nitin Shivappa Mbbs, Mph, Ph.D., James R. Hébert Scd, Hayley A. Scott

Faculty Publications

Research suggests exercise may reduce eosinophilic airway inflammation in adults with asthma. The Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII®) quantifies the inflammatory potential of the diet and has been associated with asthma outcomes. This study aimed to determine whether the DII of a meal consumed either before or after exercise influences exercise-induced changes in airway inflammation. A total of 56 adults with asthma were randomised to (1) 30–45 min moderate–vigorous exercise, or (2) a control group. Participants consumed self-selected meals, two hours pre- and two hours post-intervention. Energy-adjusted DII (E-DIITM) was determined for each meal, with meals then characterised as “anti-inflammatory” or …

Diabetes-Related Worries And Coping Among Youth And Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes, Lindsay Taraban, Rachel Wasserman, Viena T Cao, Sahar S Eshtehardi, Barbara J Anderson, Debbe Thompson, David G Marrero, Marisa E Hilliard

Children’s Nutrition Research Center Staff Publications

Objective: Although mood and anxiety symptoms are common in youth with type 1 diabetes (T1D), little research has described their worries across developmental stages or the strategies they use to cope with these worries. This secondary data analysis aimed to describe and characterize common T1D-related worries and coping strategies from middle childhood through young adulthood.

Methods: Twenty-three youth (9 children, 7 adolescents, and 7 young adults) completed semistructured qualitative interviews about health-related quality of life. We coded interview transcripts using thematic analysis to generate common themes of diabetes-related worries and coping strategies.

Results: Participants' worries fell into four major themes: …

The Evolution Of The Southern Nevada Healthcare Economy: Building The Unlv Academic Health Center, The Lincy Institute

Lincy Institute Events

With the successful launch of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV and the completion of its medical education building, Southern Nevada is positioned to expand its healthcare infrastructure - and its healthcare economy - to create a comprehensive, integrated healthcare system to serve our fast-growing community. As UNLV moves forward with the development of an integrated academic health center within the Las Vegas Medical District, understanding the economic and social benefits of such a transformational project is important to stakeholders throughout the region.

The Lincy Institute hosted representatives of Tripp Umbach - the nation's leading consultant on community …

Maternal Responsiveness And Toddler Body Mass Index Z-Score: Prospective Analysis Of Maternal And Child Mealtime Interactions, C. N. Hart, Suzanne Phelan, D. L. Coffman, E. Jelalian, Alison K. Ventura, E. A. Hodges, N. Hawley, J. O. Fisher, R. R. Wing

Kinesiology and Public Health

Responsive feeding, where parents are guided by children's hunger and satiation cues and provide appropriate structure and support for eating, is believed to promote healthier weight status. However, few studies have assessed prospective associations between observed parental feeding and toddler growth. We characterized toddler growth from 18 to 36 months and, in a subset of families, examined whether observed maternal responsiveness to toddler satiation cues and encouraging prompts to eat at 18 and 24 months were associated with toddler body mass index z-score (BMIz) from 18 to 36 months. Participants included 163 toddlers and their mothers with overweight/obesity who had …

Impacts On Web Presence, Heather L. Cribbs, Danielle T. Daugherty

Library Scholarship

A case study on adventures in branding, site redesign, and user engagement as a response to the pandemic and the changing needs of users, sharing experiences in gathering input and support from students and other employees in order to meet the needs of their users and improve accessibility.

The 'Merge' Did Not Fix Ethereum, Hilary J. Allen

Popular Media

The Ethereum blockchain that facilitates much of the crypto world last month finally accomplished the long-promised and oft-delayed “Merge”, a technical switch in the way it works.

Single-Parent Nursing Students In Associate Degree Nursing Programs: The Social Supports That Buffered Their College-Related Stress And Fostered Their Academic Success, Dawn R. Bunting

Dissertations

The purpose of this exploratory case study was to describe single-parent associate degree nursing students' reports of the social supports that buffered their college-related stress and fostered their academic success. The study was designed to elicit participants' descriptions of the stressors experienced as a result of being a single-parent community college nursing student and the types and sources of support that were helpful in buffering their college-related stress and fostering their academic success.

The conceptual framework used in this case study was House's (1981) model of social support. According to House, social support is defined as "a flow of emotional …