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Dipl 1711 Ac International Relations, Michael Curtin

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course analyzes the dynamics of the relations between and across the different countries of the world. Examines the role that countries, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, businesses, and individual people play in addressing pressing global problems such as peace, war, security, arms control, trade, development, human rights, and the environment.

Dipl 1711 Aa/Ab Introduction To International Relations, Robert Shaver Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course is an introduction to the study of international relations (IR). It is designed to introduce students to how scholars and practitioners understand international relations by putting the major theories and issue areas within the discipline in historical perspective. It uses classic, primary source readings in conjunction with the textbook to present key concepts as they were originally expressed and developed.

Dipl 6031 International Environmental Policy, Philip Moremen Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course will address the nature, content, and structure of international environmental law. The course will first familiarize students with international environmental problems and basic principles of international law and environmental regulation. The course will then take up various specific topics, such as global warming, stratospheric ozone depletion, trade and environment, and biodiversity and biosafety. Throughout, the course will apply interdisciplinary tools to help understand the international environmental regulatory system. The course will explore the roles of different actors in that system, as well as the difficulties of negotiating and implementing agreements that form the rules of the system.

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Dipl 6005 Public International Law, Philip Moremen Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course explores the nature and content of the law governing relations between states and relations between states, individuals, and other non-state actors. The first part of the course examines the building blocks of international law; the second part applies this framework to particular topics, such as the use of force, human rights and the war on terrorism. No prior knowledge of law is necessary. By the end of the course, students will possess an understanding of the operation of the international legal system and the role of international law in relations between states. Students will also gain an introduction …

Dipl 4277 Aa Global Health, Bioterrorism, And International Security, Yanzhong Huang Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

Global health issues have affected world history more extensively than most of us can imagine. As shown in the COVID-19 pandemic, international travel threatens transborder epidemics by transporting and spreading diseases globally at jet speed. The growing risk of exposure to infectious disease, coupled with the threat of intentional release of pathogens, creates a situation in which health and security are interacting with greater frequency and intensity. This development parallels efforts to redefine the concept of security to encompass new global challenges. This interdisciplinary course focuses on global health security by addressing the following questions: How did epidemics function as …

Dipl 3104 Ab Public International Law, Zinaida Miller Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

International law distributes power, resources, and rights to individuals, states, corporations, and other entities. International courts adjudicate key ethical questions such as the expression of religion in public, the rights of groups, or the duty to prosecute or to grant amnesty for atrocities. States use international law as a justification both for military intervention and for the refusal to intervene. Refugees fleeing war zones encounter international law when they cross borders, enter camps, plead for citizenship, search for food and water, or claim basic rights. Whether considering the international order from the perspective of the most or the least powerful …

Dipl 3104 Aa Public International Law, Zinaida Miller Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

International law distributes power, resources, and rights to individuals, states, corporations, and other entities. International courts adjudicate key ethical questions such as the expression of religion in public, the rights of groups, or the duty to prosecute or to grant amnesty for atrocities. States use international law as a justification both for military intervention and for the refusal to intervene. Refugees fleeing war zones encounter international law when they cross borders, enter camps, plead for citizenship, search for food and water, or claim basic rights. Whether considering the international order from the perspective of the most or the least powerful …

Dipl 7111ja / Dipl 7112ja Graduate Internship, Catherine Ruby Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course provides students with educational experiences that integrate academic knowledge with practical application and skill development in a professional setting. Students may elect to complete an internship either domestically or abroad during the Fall, Spring or Summer semesters. Students will not be awarded credit for past internships completed.

Students are encouraged to meet with the Director for Internships and Career Development as early as possible in their academic careers, at least one semester before they plan to complete an internship. Meetings focus on the student’s academic and career goals; guidance and tools are then provided to identify internship opportunities …

Dipl 4555 Aa/Ab Economic Aspects Of International Affairs, Nabeela N. Alam Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

How does the Russia-Ukraine war impact countries who are trade dependent on them? Who benefited from the US-China trade war? Will Brexit bring prosperity to the UK? What role does trade and investment play in ending the Covid-19 pandemic? These issues in international economics directly impact international relations through perceived impact on jobs, wages, the environment and subsequent negotiations on labour, health, and environmental standards for trade. Producing effective policy requires understanding the underlying processes driving social and economic decisions, such as the decision for a person to migrate or for a firm to offshore, and the impact of such …

Dipl 4555 Aa/ Ab Economic Aspects Of International Affairs, Nabeela N. Alam Ph.D.

Diplomacy Syllabi

How does the Russia-Ukraine war impact countries who are trade dependent on them? Who benefited from the US-China trade war? Will Brexit bring prosperity to the UK? What role does trade and investment play in ending the Covid-19 pandemic? These issues in international economics directly impact international relations through (perceived) impact on jobs, wages, the environment and subsequent negotiations on labour, health, and environmental standards for trade. Producing effective policy requires understanding the underlying processes driving social and economic decisions, such as the decision for a person to migrate, or for a firm to offshore, and the impact of such …

The Dynamics Of Entrepreneurial Networking Logics: Evidence From United Kingdom High-Tech Start-Ups, Joanne Jin Zhang, Charles Baden-Fuller, Jing Zhang

Management Faculty Publications

Purpose – This study aims to explore how entrepreneurial firms’ networking logics may change under different types of perceived uncertainty. The arrival of new knowledge from the entrepreneurial firm’s network may alter the perceived technology and market uncertainty that in turn determines how the firm adopts or combines the two opposing logics of causation and effectuation. Focusing on the roles of external advisors recruited by the firms, the study probes the details of the cyclical process and the mechanism through which networking logics are altered.

Design/methodology/approach – In this study the authors conducted a 3-year longitudinal multiple case study of …

Prayers And Mindfulness In Relation To Mental Health Among First-Generation Immigrant And Refugee Muslim Women In The Usa: An Exploratory Study, Karisse A. Callender, Lee Za Ong, Enaya Othman

College of Education Faculty Research and Publications

The goal of our study was to explore how first-generation immigrant/refugee Muslim women experience prayer and mindfulness in relation to their mental health. Participants were nine women from an urban city in the Midwestern USA. The women completed a structured demographic survey and a virtual semi-structured interview in a focus group. Using qualitative thematic analysis, we obtained four overarching themes from the data: (a) Prayer helps to build community, (b) Prayer promotes wellbeing, (c) Prayer increases faith, and (d) Prayer encourages intentional awareness. The findings demonstrate that prayer involves awareness and has a strong influence on the mental health of …

Sexual Health Education And Life Satisfaction For People With Congenital Neurological Disabilities, Alie Kriofske Mainella, Susan Miller Smedema

College of Education Faculty Research and Publications

People with disabilities are sexual beings, yet there is little research on sexuality in this population. The present study explored the impact of sex education for people with congenital neurological disabilities, largely, spina bifida and cerebral palsy, on sexual self-concept and life satisfaction. This study included 104 adults with spina bifida, cerebral palsy, and other congenital neurological disabilities. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to examine the relationships between demographic variables, sexual health education variables, and outcome variables (sexual self-concept and life satisfaction). Serial mediation analysis was conducted to examine the mediating relationship of sexual self-concept variables (sexual anxiety and sexual …

Contested Agile Combat Employment: A Site-Selection Methodology, Zachary T. Moer, Christopher M. Chini, Peter P. Feng, Steven J. Schuldt

Faculty Publications

Numerous factors complicate ACE site-selection decisions including peer-to-peer threats, complex geopolitics, and resource requirements. The proposed site-selection framework identifies existing airports best suited for strategic utilization to support combatant commands as they optimize agile combat employment infrastructure.

Oxygen Vacancies In Lib3O5 Crystals And Their Role In Nonlinear Absorption, Brian C. Holloway, Christopher A. Lenyk, Timothy D. Gustafson, Nancy C. Giles

Faculty Publications

LiB₃O₅ (LBO) crystals are used to generate the second, third, and fourth harmonics of near-infrared solid-state lasers. At high power levels, the material’s performance is adversely affected by nonlinear absorption. We show that as-grown crystals contain oxygen and lithium vacancies. Transient absorption bands are formed when these intrinsic defects serve as traps for “free” electrons and holes created by x rays or by three- and four-photon absorption processes. Trapped electrons introduce a band near 300 nm and trapped holes produce bands in the 500-600 nm region. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) is used to identify and characterize the …

Increasing Rural Teacher Preparedness Through A Teacher Residency, Robin Valente, Jaclyn Tejwani, Valentin Pedroza, Selena Cartznes

The Rural Educator

This promising practice describes an innovative approach to teacher education that a partnership among three rural districts and a university implemented through a rural teacher residency program . The Kern Rural Teacher Residency (KRTR) program in Kern County, California, was a five-year, federally funded grant program at California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB). KRTR was a district-serving teacher education program that paired a rigorous full-year classroom apprenticeship with graduate-level educational content. In a multi-year study that utilized surveys, focus groups, document review, and extant data analysis, findings indicated that, through participation in the residency, completers felt prepared to teach in rural …

Multi-Modulated Frequency Domain High Density Diffuse Optical Tomography, Guy A. Perkins, Adam T. Eggebrecht, Hamid Dehghani

2020-Current year OA Pubs

No abstract provided.

Disordered Law: Obama To Trump Executive Branch Orders Mandating Non-Enforcement Of International Treaties, Steven Ferrey

Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works

The Trump Administration asserted an obscure legal doctrine to refuse to follow the direct order of a federal court enjoining its unilateral executive actions not to enforce

• One of the oldest international environmental treaties
• affecting the most capital-intensive industry in the U.S.
• providing the essential resource undergirding the modern world economy,
• as well as the primary renewable energy technology utilized in the U.S.
• at a time with lasting warming of our climate exceeding what the United Nations identifies now as “tipping points that are irreversible within the time span of our current civilization.”

This article …

Dislocating The Separation Of Powers State ‘Thumb’ On The Biden Sustainability Initiatives & Law, Steven Ferrey

Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works

President Biden enacted his unprecedented large Infrastructure law to make what President Biden calls a “once-in-a-generation investment” to modernize U.S. infrastructure by rapidly deploying sustainable renewable power generation technology. As the primary U.S. federal law to address climate change before the world exceeds a ‘tipping point’ of uncontrolled warming, this Infrastructure law must not be impaired or frustrated by any other government actions. However, inferior levels of local government now are interceding, placing their legal ‘thumbs’ on and legally blocking implementation of Biden Administration sustainable Infrastructure. This article analyzes the legal conflicts posed by hundreds of state and local governments …

Health Literacy And Its Association With Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination Among Adults: Findings From The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Vinodh Bhoopathi, Bhagavatula Pradeep, Maharaj Singh

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

Health literacy is associated with the utilization of preventive health services. We examined the association between health literacy (HL) levels and receipt of at least one dose of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination. We analyzed the data from the 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) among adults aged 18 to 32. The primary outcome variable was the ‘yes/no’ response to the question that assessed whether the participant received at least the first dose of HPV vaccination. The primary independent variable was a summative HL score (range 3 through 12) we created for each respondent by adding the scores …

The Association Of Preoperative Frailty And Neighborhood-Level Disadvantage With Outcome In Patients With Newly Diagnosed High Grade Glioma, Pranav Mirpuri, Maharaj Singh, Richard Rovin

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

Objective

Individual patient and socioeconomic factors are underexplored prognostic factors for glioblastoma (GBM). Frailty, a measure of physiological vulnerability, and area deprivation, a measure of socioeconomic status, are easily obtained during the preoperative evaluation. These metrics are predictors of outcome and access to treatments for other cancers. Therefore, we sought to determine the association of frailty and neighborhood disadvantage with outcomes of patients with newly diagnosed GBM.

Methods

This was a retrospective review of newly diagnosed patients with GBM undergoing surgery from 2015 through 2020. The 5-factor modified frailty index and national area deprivation index were determined for each patient. …

Defining Foundational Competence For Prelicensure And Graduate Nursing Students: A Concept Analysis And Conceptual Model, Katie L. Mcdermott, Kristina Dreifuerst

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

Aim

To define the concept of foundational competence as it pertains to prelicensure and graduate nursing students during their educational program, thereby informing pedagogical and assessment practices.

Background

Competence has many definitions and uses, however a lack of consensus of a clear and useful definition in nursing persists. Without shared language, competence remains open for interpretation across and among groups and impedes the ability to teach and assess it in a competency-based education framework.

Method

Using the Walker & Avant method of concept analysis, literature was reviewed and synthesized to define and explain the concept of foundational competence in nursing …

Semiautomated Analysis Of An Optical Atp Indicator In Neurons, Taher Dehkharghanian, Arsalan Hashemiaghdam, Ghazaleh Ashrafi

2020-Current year OA Pubs

No abstract provided.

Early Preclinical Experience Of A Mixed Reality Ultrasound System With Active Guidance For Needle-Based Interventions: The Guide Study, David Bloom, Jamie N Colombo, Nathan Miller, Michael K Southworth, Christopher Andrews, Alexander Henry, William B Orr, Jonathan R Silva, Jennifer N Avari Silva

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Use of ultrasound (US) to facilitate vascular access has increased compared to landmark-based procedures despite ergonomic challenges and need for extrapolation of 2-dimensional images to understand needle position. The MantUS™ system (Sentiar, Inc.,) uses a mixed reality (MxR) interface to display US images and integrate real-time needle tracking.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this prospective preclinical study was to evaluate the feasibility and usability of MantUS in a simulated environment.

METHODS: Participants were recruited from pediatric cardiology and critical care. Access was obtained in 2 vascular access training models: a femoral access model and a head and neck model for …

High Polygenic Risk Scores Are Associated With Early Age Of Onset Of Alcohol Use Disorder In Adolescents And Young Adults At Risk, John I Nurnberger Jr, Kathleen Bucholz, Laura Bierut, Vivia Mccutcheon, Andrey P Anokhin, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies have been conducted in alcohol use disorder (AUD), and they permit the use of polygenic risk scores (PRSs), in combination with clinical variables, to predict the onset of AUD in vulnerable populations.

METHODS: A total of 2794 adolescent/young adult subjects from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism were followed, with clinical assessments every 2 years. Subjects were genotyped using a genome-wide chip. Separate PRS analyses were performed for subjects of European ancestry and African ancestry. Age of onset of DSM-5 AUD was evaluated using the Cox proportional hazard model. Predictive power was assessed using …

Variability In Energy Expenditure Is Much Greater In Males Than Females, Lewis G Halsey, Susan B Racette, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

In mammals, trait variation is often reported to be greater among males than females. However, to date, mainly only morphological traits have been studied. Energy expenditure represents the metabolic costs of multiple physical, physiological, and behavioral traits. Energy expenditure could exhibit particularly high greater male variation through a cumulative effect if those traits mostly exhibit greater male variation, or a lack of greater male variation if many of them do not. Sex differences in energy expenditure variation have been little explored. We analyzed a large database on energy expenditure in adult humans (1494 males and 3108 females) to investigate whether …

Newborn Mid-Upper Arm Circumference Identifies Low-Birth Weight And Vulnerable Infants: A Secondary Analysis, D Taylor Hendrixson, Patrick N Lasowski, Aminata Shamit Koroma, Mark J Manary

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Low birth weight (LBW) infants are at increased risk of morbidity and mortality. Identification of LBW may not occur in settings where access to reliable scales is limited. Mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) may be an accessible, low-cost measure to identify LBW and vulnerable infants.

OBJECTIVES: We explored the validity of newborn MUAC in identifying LBW and vulnerable newborns in rural Sierra Leone.

METHODS: This study was a secondary analysis of infant data from a randomized controlled clinical trial of supplementary food and anti-infective therapies compared with standard care for undernourished pregnant women. Data for singleton liveborn infants with birth …

Antimicrobial Stewardship For Sepsis In The Intensive Care Unit: Survey Of Critical Care And Infectious Diseases Physicians, M Cristina Vazquez Guillamet, Jason P Burnham, Maria Pérez, Marin H Kollef, Constantine A Manthous, Donna B Jeffe

2020-Current year OA Pubs

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the attitudes of infectious diseases (ID) and critical care physicians toward antimicrobial stewardship in the intensive care unit (ICU).

DESIGN: Anonymous, cross-sectional, web-based surveys.

SETTING: Surveys were completed in March-November 2017, and data were analyzed from December 2017 to December 2019.

PARTICIPANTS: ID and critical care fellows and attending physicians.

METHODS: We included 10 demographic and 17 newly developed, 5-point, Likert-scaled items measuring attitudes toward ICU antimicrobial stewardship and transdisciplinary collaboration. Exploratory principal components analysis (PCA) was used for data reduction. Multivariable linear regression models explored demographic and attitudinal variables.

RESULTS: Of 372 respondents, 315 physicians had …

Phase Ib Study Of Eprenetapopt (Apr-246) In Combination With Pembrolizumab In Patients With Advanced Or Metastatic Solid Tumors, H Park, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: We conducted a phase I, multicenter, open-label, dose-finding, and expansion study to determine the safety and preliminary efficacy of eprenetapopt (APR-246) combined with pembrolizumab in patients with advanced/metastatic solid tumors (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04383938).

PATIENTS AND METHODS: For dose-finding, requirements were non-central nervous system primary solid tumor, intolerant to/progressed after ≥1 line of treatment, and eligible for pembrolizumab; for expansion: (i) gastric/gastroesophageal junction tumor, intolerant to/progressed after first-line treatment, and no prior anti-programmed cell death receptor-1 (PD-1)/programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) therapy; (ii) bladder/urothelial tumor, intolerant to/progressed after first-line cisplatin-based chemotherapy, and no prior anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy; (iii) non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with …

Congenital Aneurysm Of The Muscular Interventricular Septum Associated With Bifascicular Block, Hoang H. Nguyen, Patrick Y. Jay

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Isolated congenital aneurysm of the muscular interventricular septum is rare. We present a patient with congenital aneurysm of the basal muscular ventricular septum, who also develops conduction abnormalities with first-degree heart block, right bundle branch block, and left posterior fascicular block. The case details the natural history of the aneurysm over a 10-year period follow-up during which the patient remained asymptomatic with evidence of regression of the aneurysm. Given the aneurysm's location close to the proximal right bundle and left posterior fascicle, we believe that the cause for the aneurysm also injured both fascicles resulting in bifascicular block. The diagnosis …