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What Happened To Americans’ Trust In Social Institutions Over Time, Especially During The Latter Half Of The Trump Administration And The Beginning Of The Covid Pandemic?, Jessica Ahlquist, Josh Rosenbaum, Roger Clark

Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics

No abstract provided.

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Accelerated Bachelor’s to Master’s Program in Human Development and Family Science now Available Through College of Behavioral and Social Sciences

Dementia Person Aligned Care Team – Dementia Support Study Feasibility Trial, Crispin Musicha, Tomasina Oh, Obi Ukoumunne, Kimberley Goldsmith, Richard Byng, Siobhan Creanor

Faculty of Health Datasets

Statistical Analysis Plan

Integrating Doctrine And Diversity Speaker Series: Making Changes, Making Mistakes (Part 2), Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

No abstract provided.

Impairment Of Igg Fc Functions Promotes Tumor Progression And Suppresses Nk Cell Antitumor Actions, Xuejun Fan, Zihao Yuan, Yueshui Zhao, Wei Xiong, Hao-Ching Hsiao, Rahmawati Pare, Jianmin Ding, Ahmad Almosa, Kai Sun, Songlin Zhang, Robert E Jordan, Cheok Song Lee, Zhiqiang An, Ningyan Zhang

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Natural killer (NK) cells mediate antibody dependent cytotoxic killing of cancer cells via cross-linking FcγR on NK cells with IgG-Fc. Studies have shown that the single-hinge cleaved IgGs (scIgGs) have dysfunctional Fc and failed engagement with FcγRs on immune cells. However, little is known about how scIgGs impact on antitumor immunity in the tumor microenvironment. In this study, we revealed a significant association of tumor scIgGs with tumor progression and poor outcomes of breast cancer patients (n = 547). Using multiple mouse tumor models, we demonstrated that tumor scIgGs reduced NK cell cytotoxic activities and resulted in aggressive tumor progression. …

Leveraging The "Large" In Large Lecture Statistics Classes, Kady Schneiter, Kimberleigh Felix Hadfield, Jenny Lee Clements

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

Being a teacher or a student in a class with a large enrollment can be intimidating. Often, teachers view comforts that are common to small classes as unattainable in a larger class, including knowing students’ names, using active learning, employing group work, and creating group discussion. Students in large classes may find that the class size leads to isolation. At Utah State University, we offer introductory statistics classes for various audiences using a large lecture format. The authors have collectively led these large lectures dozens of times and found that, despite its shortcomings, the large lecture format can be an …

2022-09-14 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

Staff Congress Records

A message sent on September 14, 2022 by the President of Morehead State University to the campus community regarding important dates, events and conferences for the Fall Semester.

The Great Resignation Or The Great Joy In Higher Education: Emerging Lessons From The Pandemic, Kathleen Elliott Vinson

Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works

The Great Resignation, the Great Attrition, the Great Disengagement, and the Big Quit are a few of the names for the phenomenon occurring throughout different industries, including higher education.1 Higher education is not immune from this great exodus and is at a turning point as retention of faculty, administrators, and staff is more important than ever.2 What’s joy got to do with it?3 Can it drive those who work in higher education to stay, leave, or return?4 Money is not enough by itself to retain workers.5 Over the last two years, higher education, like other industries, is facing a fundamental …

Round Robin: A New Qualitative Methodology For Identifying Drivers Of Violence Against Children, Deborah Fry, Tendai C. Nhenga-Chakarisa, Noriko Izumi, Bekkah Bernheim

The Qualitative Report

Violence affecting children (VAC) is a significant global health and human rights issue. This article highlights a new qualitative methodology, the Round Robin, for understanding the drivers of violence against children. Traditionally, qualitative research exploring VAC has focused on identifying the risk and protective factors which affect the likelihood a child will experience or witness violence. In recent years, scholars have recognised the need to situate children in their socio-cultural context and consider what causes risk and protective factors; that is, what drives violence at the structural and institutional levels of society. The Round Robin methodology sits within the participatory …

The Intersection Of Persuasive System Design And Personalization In Mobile Health: Statistical Evaluation, Aleise Mcgowan, Scott Sittig, David Bourrie, Ryan Benton, Sriram Iyengar

Faculty Publications

Background: Persuasive technology is an umbrella term that encompasses software (eg, mobile apps) or hardware (eg, smartwatches) designed to influence users to perform preferable behavior once or on a long-term basis. Considering the ubiquitous nature of mobile devices across all socioeconomic groups, user behavior modification thrives under the personalized care that persuasive technology can offer. However, there is no guidance for developing personalized persuasive technologies based on the psychological characteristics of users.

Objective: This study examined the role that psychological characteristics play in interpreted mobile health (mHealth) screen perceived persuasiveness. In addition, this study aims to explore how …

Comments For The Draft Final Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit, 2021 Unreclaimed Sites Sampling Ur-35 Site Evaluation Summary Report (June 15, 2022), Nikia Greene

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Final Insufficiently Reclaimed Sites - Field Sampling Plan (Fsp) Bres No. 158 - Waste Rock Dump, Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Plasma Sars-Cov-2 Nucleocapsid Antigen Levels Are Associated With Progression To Severe Disease In Hospitalized Covid-19, Katherine D Wick, Pratik Sinha, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Studies quantifying SARS-CoV-2 have focused on upper respiratory tract or plasma viral RNA with inconsistent association with clinical outcomes. The association between plasma viral antigen levels and clinical outcomes has not been previously studied. Our aim was to investigate the relationship between plasma SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid antigen (N-antigen) concentration and both markers of host response and clinical outcomes.

METHODS: SARS-CoV-2 N-antigen concentrations were measured in the first study plasma sample (D0), collected within 72 h of hospital admission, from 256 subjects admitted between March 2020 and August 2021 in a prospective observational cohort of hospitalized patients with COVID-19. The rank …

Translational Design For Limited Resource Settings As Demonstrated By Vent-Lock, A 3d-Printed Ventilator Multiplexer, Helen Xun, Broc Burke, Michael Montana, Michael Talcott, Margaret Frisella, Bradley S Kushner, Justin M Sacks, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Mechanical ventilators are essential to patients who become critically ill with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and shortages have been reported due to the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

METHODS: We utilized 3D printing (3DP) technology to rapidly prototype and test critical components for a novel ventilator multiplexer system, Vent-Lock, to split one ventilator or anesthesia gas machine between two patients. FloRest, a novel 3DP flow restrictor, provides clinicians control of tidal volumes and positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP), using the 3DP manometer adaptor to monitor pressures. We tested the ventilator splitter circuit in simulation centers …

Assessing The Usability And Acceptability Of Faceit@Home: An Online Cbt Intervention For People With Visible Differences, Alyson Norman, Joanne Veale, Heidi Williamson

School of Psychology

To increase access to support, an online psychosocial support tool for adults with visible differences was adapted for use without referral or supervision. This intervention combines a cognitive behavioural and social skills model of support. This study aimed to assess the usability and acceptability of Face IT@home as a self-help intervention. Eighty-one participants were recruited (32 with visible differences). Stage 1 included 14 participants (11 female, all with visible differences) who viewed two sessions of Face IT@home and undertook a semi-structured telephone interview. Stage 2 consisted of 14 think-aloud sessions (13 female, none with visible differences) with participants, supervised by …

Pre Covid-19 Pandemic Use Of Telemedicine For Adherence Promotion In Patients With Psychotic Disorders: A Literature Review, Alyssa M. Edwards, Jordan C. Petitt, Sanjana Kumar, Jennifer B. Levin, Martha Sajatovic

Faculty Scholarship

Introduction: Given the increasing use of telepsychiatry and to serve as a reference point informing future research, our team evaluated the literature on the use of telepsychiatry for medication adherence promotion prior to the COVID-19 pandemic among patients with psychotic disorders. Methods: A search of PubMed, Cochrane, Web of Science, CINAHL, and PsycINFO was conducted using PRISMA guidelines to identify telepsychiatry interventions to enhance medication adherence in patients with primary psychotic disorders. Both quantitative and qualitative data were extracted from the identified articles including study characteristics, interventions, and outcomes. Results: In total, 230 articles were obtained through electronic literature search, …

A Blind Benchmark Of Analysis Tools To Infer Kinetic Rate Constants From Single-Molecule Fret Trajectories, Dorothy A. Erie, Lydia Kisley, Dushani Dunukara

Faculty Scholarship

Single-molecule FRET (smFRET) is a versatile technique to study the dynamics and function of biomolecules since it makes nanoscale movements detectable as fluorescence signals. The powerful ability to infer quantitative kinetic information from smFRET data is, however, complicated by experimental limitations. Diverse analysis tools have been developed to overcome these hurdles but a systematic comparison is lacking. Here, we report the results of a blind benchmark study assessing eleven analysis tools used to infer kinetic rate constants from smFRET trajectories. We test them against simulated and experimental data containing the most prominent difficulties encountered in analyzing smFRET experiments: different noise …

Problematic White-Tailed Deer Information In Rochlin Et Al. (2022) Regarding Past And Future Tick (Amblyomma Americanum, Acari: Ixodidae) Distributions, G. Kent Webb

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Figure 3 in this Journal of Medical Entomology article is central to the authors' warning about an exploding white-tailed deer population but conflicts in important aspects with the relevant deer research. Among other problems, it shows a 60% increase in the white-tailed deer density from 1500 to 2020 when the research consensus is that the population is about the same. It shows an exploding population from 2000 to 2020 without supporting data when the population peaked around the year 2000 according to evidence-based research.

Documents From The September 14, 2022 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana (Asum), University Of Montana-- Missoula, Associated Students

Senate Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2007-Present

Agenda and minutes from the September 14, 2022 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM).

Identification Of Risk Genes For Alzheimer’S Disease By Gene Embedding, Yashwanth Lagisetty, Thomas Bourquard, Ismael Al-Ramahi, Carl Grant Mangleburg, Samantha Mota, Shirin Soleimani, Joshua M Shulman, Juan Botas, Kwanghyuk Lee, Olivier Lichtarge

Duncan NRI Faculty and Staff Publications

Most disease-gene association methods do not account for gene-gene interactions, even though these play a crucial role in complex, polygenic diseases like Alzheimer’s disease (AD). To discover new genes whose interactions may contribute to pathology, we introduce GeneEMBED. This approach compares the functional perturbations induced in gene interaction network neighborhoods by coding variants from disease versus healthy subjects. In two independent AD cohorts of 5,169 exomes and 969 genomes, GeneEMBED identified novel candidates. These genes were differentially expressed in post mortem AD brains and modulated neurological phenotypes in mice. Four that were differentially overexpressed and modified neurodegeneration in vivo are …

Development And Characterization Of Type I Interferon Receptor Knockout Sheep: A Model For Viral Immunology And Reproductive Signaling, Christopher J. Davies, Zhiqiang Fan, Kira P. Morgado, Ying Liu, Misha Regouski, Qinggang Meng, Aaron J. Thomas, Sang-Im Yun, Byung-Hak Song, Jordan C. Frank, Iuri V. Perisse, Arnaud Van Wettere, Young-Min Lee, Irina A. Polejaeva

Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Science Faculty Publications

Type I interferons (IFNs) initiate immune responses to viral infections. Their effects are mediated by the type I IFN receptor, IFNAR, comprised of two subunits: IFNAR1 and IFNAR2. One or both chains of the sheep IFNAR were disrupted in fetal fibroblast lines using CRISPR/Cas9 and 12 lambs were produced by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). Quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction for IFN-stimulated gene expression showed that IFNAR deficient sheep fail to respond to IFN-alpha. Furthermore, fibroblast cells from an IFNAR2^−/− fetus supported significantly higher levels of Zika virus (ZIKV) replication than wild-type fetal fibroblast cells. Although many lambs have …

Vicarious Calibration Of Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 And 3, Dejian Fu, Robert Rosenberg, Carol Bruegge, Thomas Pongetti, Richard Lee, James Mcduffie, Linley Kroll, Mark Helmlinger, Gary Spiers, David Crisp, Annmarie Eldering

The Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing Annual Meeting (CALCON)

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 and 3 (OCO-2 and OCO-3) instruments, launched in 2014 and 2019 respectively, employ multiple methodologies to refine the absolute radiometric scale. One technique, vicarious calibration, uses in-situ measurements taken at Railroad Valley, USA (RRV), along with near simultaneous measurements (within 0.5 hours) from the satellite instruments. The JPL field team has conducted measurement campaigns near every summer solstice since 2009 along with colleagues from the Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) project, JAXA/NIES. Since 2012, additional ground datasets have been collected in the spring and fall to support additional targets acquired throughout the year. The RRV …

The Ground To Space Calibration Experiment (G-Scale): Si-Traceable Intercalibration Of Multiscale Earth Observation Platforms Using Mirror-Based Targets, Brandon J. Russell, Raymond Soffer, Emmett J. Ientilluci, Michele A. Kuester, David Conran, Juan Pablo Arroyo-Mora, Tina Ochoa, Chris Durell, Jeff Holt

The Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing Annual Meeting (CALCON)

In order to deliver high quality, traceable, multi-sensor optical Earth Observation measurements and fused data products, there is a need for common reference sources and dedicated intercalibration and bias assessment activities. The goal of the Ground to Space CALibration Experiment (G-SCALE) was to demonstrate the use of convex mirrors as a radiometric and spatial calibration and validation (cal/val) technology for Earth Observation (EO) assets operating at multiple altitudes and spatial scales. Specifically, to generate a point source with NIST-traceable absolute radiance signal for simultaneous vicarious calibration of multi- and hyperspectral sensors in the VNIR/SWIR range, aboard Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), …

Monitoring Sentinel-2 Msi Inter-Calibration Using Deep Convective Clouds, S. Clerc, N. Lamquin, F. Romand, A. Deru

The Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing Annual Meeting (CALCON)

The Deep Convective Cloud (DCC) method is an efficient method to estimate the relative radiometric uncertainty of Earth Observation sensors. The method has been used to monitor the inter-satellite relative uncertainty of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 constellation.

The data selection process relies on thresholds on the NIR (B08) and cirrus (B10) bands on data acquired in the intertropical region. More than 1000 products for each satellite are processed each month. Histograms of the reflectance values are extracted for all spectral bands and each detector module. Once enough products are collected, a skewed- Gaussian is fit to the accumulated histogram. The second …

Integrating On-Board And Vicarious Calibration With The Improved Radiometric Calibration Of Land Imaging Systems (Iris), Stephen J. Schiller, Jeffery J. Puschell

The Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing Annual Meeting (CALCON)

As part of Raytheon’s effort to provide innovative calibration capabilities that advance the performance of future earth imaging systems, an on-board Jones source calibrator integrated with vicarious SPecular ARray Calibration (SPARC) is introduced. The Improved Radiometric calibration of land Imaging Systems (IRIS) is a compact full-spectrum calibration system that reduces the size, weight, and power of conventional on-board radiometric sources into a single flat panel format providing high spatial illumination uniformity. Combining both carbon nanotube and LED technology within a Jones source design, IRIS offers a common assembly calibration reference covering the spectral range from 0.4 to 12 μm. On-board …

Earthdaily Analytics - Delivering Scientific Imagery Of Our Planet For A Sustainable Future, Keith Beckett, Paul Cottle, Chris Rampersad, Rob Irwin

The Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing Annual Meeting (CALCON)

The EarthDaily Analytics team is actively building a constellation of highly innovative satellites, capable of covering the earth’s landmass every day with a novel set of spectral channels selected to serve a wide range of applications. This new data will flow through our EarthPipeline, a completely automated Ground Segment-as-a-Service offering, capable of processing, calibrating and validating not only the data from EarthDaily Analytics’ constellation but data from multiple partners’s constellations as well.

We know that nearly every application targeted by EarthDaily Analytics, agriculture, forestry, water and many more, will all benefit greatly from the science-grade imagery and analytics that the …

Adaptive Calibration Of Cubesat Radiometer Constellations, John Bradburn, Mustafa Aksoy

The Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing Annual Meeting (CALCON)

“Adaptive Calibration of CubeSat Radiometer Constellations” (ACCURACy) is a novel, constellation-level calibration framework developed to address the challenges in calibrating constellations of CubeSat radiometers. CubeSats are smaller than conventional monolithic systems, and so while cheaper and easier to develop and deploy, a lack of sufficient radiation shielding and thermal mass results in gain fluctuations due to the increased sensitivity to ambient conditions. Weight, cost, and power requirements also mean that CubeSats need to rely on vicarious calibration measurements, rather than external blackbody references, which cannot be collected frequently. ACCURACy is a multi-module framework which uses onboard telemetry data to cluster …

Venμs Mission Evolutions And Radiometric Performances During Vm5 In-Orbit Test Phase, A. Dick, G. Dedieu, O. Hagolle, J-L. Raynaud, S. Pelou, M. Farges, C. Peschoud

The Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing Annual Meeting (CALCON)

VENμS (Vegetation and Environment New micro (μ) Satellite) is a micro satellite launched in 2017 by the Israeli Space Agency (ISA) and the French Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES). VENμS is a research satellite that embarks two very different devices, an electric Hall Effect thruster, and a multispectral optical camera. This article focuses on the multispectral camera.

Since March 2022, VENμS has begun the final phase of its mission called VM5. At the beginning of this project, it had been planned to divide the mission in 3 phases specially to use the small thrusters, which are dedicated to a technological …

The Effects Of Ladder Training On Sprint And Change Of Direction Performance, Trevor Short, Tina Manos, Justus Ortega, Andrew Peterson, Young Sub Kwon

Topics in Exercise Science and Kinesiology

Topics in Exercise Science and Kinesiology Volume 3: Issue 1, Article 7, 2022. Ladder training is a form of multidirectional lower limb plyometric training utilized by coaches and athletes in a variety of sports. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of ladder training (LT) on sprint (20-m) and change of direction (COD) (L-drill) kinematics. Fourteen NCAA D-2 Basketball players were matched on baseline performance rankings and randomly assigned to a LT (n = 7) or conventional training (CT) (n = 7) group. The LT group performed all the CT exercises with the addition of …

Brdf Measurements Using A Large-Area Uniform Illumination Scatterometer (Luis) In Support Of Nasa Remote Sensing Programs, Jinan Zeng, James J. Butler, Xiaoxiong Xiong

The Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing Annual Meeting (CALCON)

There are two newly developed scatterometers at the Diffuser Calibration Lab (DCL) NASA GSFC. One of them is a laser/lamp-based table-top scatterometer (TTS) covering the spectral range from 300 nm to 2300 nm with a relative small beam size of 5 to 10 mm in diameter. The spatial non-uniformity of BRDF is requested when a large diffuse sample is measured on TTS. In order to test the BRDF along with spatial non-uniformity, a Large-area Uniform Illumination Scatterometer (LUIS) was built to meet the requirements for different large samples, especially volume diffuse samples. The LUIS system at NASA GSFC is capable …