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Improved Measurement Of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters By The Nova Experiment, M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga, N. Anfimov, A. Antoshkin, E. Arrieta-Diaz, L. Asquith, A. Aurisano, A. Back, C. Backhouse, M. Baird, N. Balashov, P. Baldi, B. A. Bambah, S. Bashar, K. Bays, R. Bernstein, V. Bhatnagar, D. Bhattarai

Faculty and Student Publications

We present new νμ→νe, νμ→νμ, ν¯μ→ν¯e, and ν¯μ→ν¯μ oscillation measurements by the NOvA experiment, with a 50% increase in neutrino-mode beam exposure over the previously reported results. The additional data, combined with previously published neutrino and antineutrino data, are all analyzed using improved techniques and simulations. A joint fit to the νe, νμ, ν¯e, and ν¯μ candidate samples within the 3-flavor neutrino oscillation framework continues to yield a best-fit point in the normal mass ordering and the upper octant of the θ23 mixing angle, with Δm322=(2.41±0.07)×10-3 eV2 and sin2θ23=0.57-0.04+0.03. The data disfavor combinations of oscillation parameters that give rise to …

A Brief History Of Archaeology At Ole Miss (Mississippi Archaeological Association Newsletter, 58.2, August 2022), Jay K. Johnson, Jessica Fleming Crawford

Faculty and Student Publications

A summary of the archaeologists holding faculty positions in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mississippi from 1949 (Fall) through 2022 (Spring) based on the University's annual catalogue. Also includes a selected bibliography of faculty publications, a list of M.A. theses in Anthropology from 1963-2022, and archival photographs.

Characterization Of Municipal Water Sources For The Mexico-Lerma-Cutzamala Basin Region, Ian F. Hirons

Sustainability and Social Justice

The Mexico and Toluca Valleys in central Mexico are part of one of the most heavily populated megalopolises in the western hemisphere where consistent access to safe, affordable, and quality water sources figures to be a decisive challenge in the era of climate change. This professional project report compiles a range of statistics and information about the vital liquid for 29 municipalities located in and around the Mexico City and Toluca areas. This contribution is derived from a broader team research endeavor that seeks to gauge the impacts and adaptive processes to climate change within those regions. By doing so, …

How Order And Disorder Affect People's Behavior: An Explanation, Sofia Holguin, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Experimental data shows that people placed in orderly rooms donate more to charity and make healthier food choices that people placed in disorderly rooms. On the other hand, people placed in disorderly rooms show more creativity. In this paper, we provide a possible explanation for these empirical phenomena.

Why Decision Paralysis, Sean Aguilar, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

If a person has a small number of good alternatives, this person can usually make a good decision, i.e., select one of the given alternatives. However, when we have a large number of good alternatives, people take much longer to make a decision -- sometimes so long that, as a result, no decision is made. How can we explain this seemingly no-optimal behavior? In this paper, we show that this "decision paralysis" can be naturally explained by using the usual decision making ideas.

Why Five Stages Of Solar Activity, Why Five Stages Of Grief, Why Seven Plus Minus Two: A General Geometric Explanation, Miroslav Svitek, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

A recent paper showed that the solar activity cycle has five clear stages, and that taking theses stages into account helps to make accurate predictions of future solar activity. Similar 5-stage models have been effective in many other application area, e.g., in psychology, where a 5-stage model provides an effective description of grief. In this paper, we provide a general geometric explanations of why 5-stage models are often effective. This result also explains other empirical facts, e.g., the seven plus minus two law in psychology and the fact that only five space-time dimensions have found direct physical meaning.

Dynamics Of A Charge Carrier Driven By Oscillating Fields In Materials With Impurities, Dileon Saint-Jean

Doctoral Dissertations

In conductive materials and semiconductors, a charge carrier under the effects of an electric field will suffer collisions due to thermal fluctuations and impurities in the lattice, altering their trajectory. The electronic properties of these materials depend on the nature and frequency of these collisions; thus, they must be accounted for in any model dealing with electrical conduction. Tracking all collisions individually, while it may be possible within certain limits, forces the model to a large degree of approximation. This work introduces a Monte Carlo-based methodology to electrical transport in Ohmic materials that consists of two parts, the utilization of …

Oi, Hiv Cases, Cynthia Lee

Pacific Open Texts

This is a medical case Open Educational Resource (OER) created for the PHAR 632 Case Base Practice IV course in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at University of the Pacific's Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy.

Student Instructions

1. Please provide complete SOAP for the main problems with specific instructions as follows.
   • Cryptococcal meningitis: provide full treatment plans for cryptococcal meningitis, including acute treatment to resolve infection with any necessary supportive care and follow-up secondary prophylaxis to prevent recurrence
   • HIV: provide assessment of current HIV management and provide comprehensive plan to optimize management and reduce future complications/adverse events risk
2. Please provide …

Ugib & Pud, Anticoagulation, Menopause Cases, Cynthia Lee

Pacific Open Texts

This is a medical case Open Educational Resource (OER) created for the PHAR 632 Case Base Practice IV course in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at University of the Pacific's Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy.

Student Instructions

1. Please provide complete SOAP for the main problems with specific instructions as follows:
   • a. GI bleeding/PUD: complete treatment plan for GI bleeding post-EGD and antibiotic recommendations for H. pylori infection
   • b. Anticoagulation/Mitral regurgitation s/p mMVR: complete plan for restarting warfarin for the mMVR indication with heparin bridging in the inpatient setting (include duration of bridging)
   • c. Menopause: address menopausal symptoms and provide …

Tremblings, August 2022, Western Aspen Alliance

Tremblings

Aspen seedlings for boreal mine reclamation

Bradley Pinno

Trembling aspen is a major component of the forests in Alberta. Aspen is an early successional species which occurs in both pure and mixed stands. It also provides the timber for pulp mills and oriented strand board mills with a harvest rate of nearly 12M m³ (5.08 BBF) of aspen timber annually in Alberta. Aspen normally regenerates vigorously after disturbance from root suckers in the range of 10,000–100,000 stems per hectare. However, after industrial disturbances such as mining or the creation of well sites where the soil has been removed, root …

Ethical Considerations Of Telehealth: Access, Inequity, Trust, And Overuse, Monica O'Reilly-Jacob, Andrea Vicini, Ashley P. Duggan

Journal of Health Ethics

In the U.S. healthcare system, telehealth is increasingly present and demands ethical assessment. On the one hand, telehealth increases access to healthcare services for some at-risk populations (e.g., people suffering from mental illness and addictions) and in specific contexts (e.g., rural). On the other hand, telehealth widens the digital divide and can lead to overuse of services. Furthermore, because it is still unclear how telehealth influences trust between patients and primary care clinicians, connecting relationship science and human communication research can inform critical reasoning. Finally, healthcare policy is advancing toward the wide adoption of telehealth. Hence, it is urgent to …

Financial Incentives And Healthcare: A Critique Of Michael Sandel, Mark Peacock

Journal of Health Ethics

The use of financial incentives in healthcare calls for ethical examination. Michael Sandel's influential work represents such examination and is subject to critical analysis in this paper. Sandel focuses on monetary payments to persuade patients to lose weight, give up smoking etc. but also on the much-discussed case of giving drug addicts money in return for their consent to be sterilized. He offers two separate objections to financial incentives, one based on coercion, the other on corruption. I argue that Sandel's corruption objection to commodification is insufficient to ground the objection he has to financial incentives in healthcare. Whatever strength …

A Doctor's Sabbatical On A Pirate Ship, V. Ramana Dhara

Journal of Health Ethics

This is a fantasy poem about a doctor and his adventures with piracy on the high seas.

Dual Mechanisms Implemented By Lin-28 For Positive Regulation Of Hbl-1 Are Necessary For Proper Development Of Distinct Tissues In Caenorhabditis Elegans, Madeleine Minutillo

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Theses and Dissertations

In Caenorhabditis elegans, the heterochronic pathway is comprised of a hierarchy of genes that control the proper timing of developmental events. hbl-1 (Hunchback Like-1) encodes an Ikaros family zinc-finger transcription factor that promotes the L2 stage cell fate events of the hypodermis. The downregulation ofhbl-1 is a crucial step for the transition from the L2 to the L3 stage. There are two known processes through which negative regulation of hbl-1 occurs: suppression of hbl-1 expression by 3 let-7 miRNAs through the hbl-1 3’UTR and inhibition of HBL-1 activity by LIN-46. The mechanisms by which hbl-1 is positively regulated have not …

Osteomyelitis, Dka, And Esrd Complication Cases, Cynthia Lee

Pacific Open Texts

This is a medical case Open Educational Resource (OER) created for the PHAR 632 Case Base Practice IV course in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at University of the Pacific's Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy.

Student Instructions

1. Please provide complete SOAP for the main problems with specific instructions as follows.
   • Osteomyelitis: complete plan on antibiotic therapy based on most updated lab results and comprehensive inpatient care pertinent to the problem
   • DKA/T2DM: complete plan for transitioning IV to SC basal bolus insulin and outpatient diabetes management (other comorbidities plans to be addressed under secondary problems)
   • ESRD & CKD complications (anemia …

Reducing Delirium In Medical Intensive Care Unit., Hope Kathryn Eppley

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Background: Delirium in MICUs (medical intensive care units) is an acquired and detrimental condition patients often seen in MICU. This condition has a high prevalence and can result in increased risk of death, comorbidities and length of hospital stay. Prevention is critical to avoid an increased risk of mortality.

Aim: The purpose of quality improvement (QI) project was to implement a delirium bundle in a medical intensive care unit (MICU) to reduce delirium by 20% over an 8-week period.

Method: This QI project utilized the IHI rapid cycle quality improvement model, using two cycles of the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) model …

Implementation And Evaluation Of A Mental Health Referral Pathway For School Nurses., Jessica Rivera

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Nearly one in six American children between the ages of six and 17 have a treatable mental disorder (American Academy of Family Physicians [AAFP], 2020). Still, less than half do not receive help from a mental health professional (Whitney & Peterson, 2019). School nurses have an opportunity to bridge the gap by improving youth access to mental health care. Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to implement and evaluate a mental health referral pathway for school nurses. The specific aims were to improve school nurses' preparedness to recognize and address mental health concerns and to increase the …

Implementing A Diabetes Risk Screening Protocol In The Primary Care Setting., Anna Marks

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Abstract

Background: Over one-third of the United States population, approximately 86 million individuals, are estimated to have prediabetes (CDC, 2021a). If left untreated, prediabetes will progress to type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in approximately 25% of subjects within 3–5 years, and as many as 70% of individuals with prediabetes will develop T2DM within their lifetime (Hostalek, 2019).

Purpose:The purpose of this quality improvement project was to implement and evaluate the American Diabetes Association MyChart Diabetes Risk Assessment tool in a primary care clinic to optimize the early identification of prediabetes and T2DM in non-pregnant adults ages 18 to 70 …

Trauma-Informed Schools: A Quality Improvement Project For A Rural Public-School System., Channing Kay

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Abstract

Background: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events that occur from birth to adulthood and have shown to be significant in increasing the risk for both physical and psychological anomalies (Felitti et al., 1998). ACEs are not siloed to poor communities but were observed in 67% of adults throughout 25 US states (Felitti et al., 1998). Despite the significance found in the literature, few preventative measures are being implemented to protect against these experiences.

Setting: The project seeks to address mental health disparities associated with rural-underserved populations. The school system participating in the project is a rural community school …

Neonatal Developmental Care Makes Sense: Implementation Of An Evidence-Based Guideline For Developmentally Appropriate Multi-Modal Positive Sensory Exposures., Nicole Moseley Jaeger

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Background: There is increasing awareness of the contribution of the neonatal intensive care (NICU) environment and the importance of developmental care (DC) interventions to long-term outcomes in high-risk infants. Care at the project site reflected that given at many hospitals, where positive sensory experiences and negative sensory mitigation are done but inconsistently. There was not a guideline in place for DC interventions.

Setting: The project site housed a newly renovated single-family room (SFR) NICU with 12 licensed Level II beds and ability to flex to 19 beds. Neonates at gestational ages ≥28 weeks, requiring critical care for a …

The Learning Log, August 2022, Lindenwood University

Learning Log

The Learning Log is the electronic newsletter of the Lindenwood University Learning Academy.

Reproduction Of Soybean Cyst Nematode Populations On Field Pennycress, Henbit, And Purple Deadnettle Weed Hosts, Pawan Basnet, Sharon A. Clay, Emmanuel Byamukama

Agronomy, Horticulture and Plant Science Faculty Publications

Several weeds serve as alternative soybean cyst nematode (SCN) hosts. Still, the relative reproductive capacity of SCN HG types (Heterodera glycines type) on weed hosts relative to soybean is not well understood. This study examined the reproduction of three South Dakota endemic SCN populations—PSCN-1 (HG 0), PSCN-2 (HG 2.5.7), and PSCN-3 (HG 7)—on purple deadnettle, field pennycress, and henbit. The Relative Female Index (RFI) was calculated to compare SCN reproduction relative to the susceptible soybean check. Weed hosts, HG types, and their interactions influenced SCN reproduction. Henbit (RFI = 51.8) and purple deadnettle (RFI = 47.6) roots had a similar …

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Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

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Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol Increases Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (Vegf) Secretion Through A Cyclooxygenase-Dependent Mechanism In Rat Granulosa Cells, Daniel Hardy, Alison Holloway, James Petrik

Data and Test Instruments

While the effects of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive component of cannabis, have been studied extensively in the central nervous system, there is limited knowledge about its effects on the female reproductive system. The aim of this study was to assess the effect ofTHCon the expression and secretion of theangiogenic factorvascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the ovary, and to determine if these effects were mediated byprostaglandins. Spontaneously immortalized rat granulosa cells (SIGCs) were exposed to THC for 24h. Gene expression, proliferation and TNFα-induced apoptosis were evaluated in the cells and concentrations of VEGF and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), a known regulator …

Front Matter, North Meridian Review Staff

The North Meridian Review

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Daughter Of Orion, Ellen M. Taylor

The North Meridian Review

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Woman Singing, Nancy Cook

The North Meridian Review

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Film Review: “Black Political Ideology And Identity”, Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, Andrea Y. Simpson

The North Meridian Review

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Editor's Introduction, Wesley R. Bishop

The North Meridian Review

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Preface To Special Issue, Harry Targ

The North Meridian Review

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