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Smartphone Apps For Diabetes Medication Adherence: Systematic Review, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Vinaytosh Mishra, Muhammad U Siddiqui, Jeban Chandir Moses, Sasan Adibi, Lemai Nguyen, Nilmini Wickramasinghe

Division of Internal Medicine Faculty Papers & Presentations

Background: Diabetes is one of the leading noncommunicable chronic diseases globally. In people with diabetes, blood glucose levels need to be monitored regularly and managed adequately through healthy lifestyles and medications. However, various factors contribute to poor medication adherence. Smartphone apps can improve medication adherence in people with diabetes, but it is not clear which app features are most beneficial.

Objective: This study aims to systematically review and evaluate high-quality apps for diabetes medication adherence, which are freely available to the public in Android and Apple app stores and present the technical features of the apps.

Methods: We systematically searched …

Final 2022 Residential Metals Abatement Program (Rmap) Park Soil Sampling Field Sampling Plan (Fsp) Submittal #3 [Covering Koprivica Park, Mcgruff Park, Skate Park, Belmont Park, Rock Park, And Hanna Park], Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Approval Letter For The Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Draft Final Residential Metals Abatement Program (Rmap) Park Soil Sampling Field Sampling Plan (Fsp) Submittal #5 [Covering Longfellow Ball Fields, Peace Park, Rocker Park, Racetrack Park, C Street, Jfk Park, And Rickey Park] (Dated June 14, 2022)., Nikia Greene

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Approval Letter For The Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Draft Final Residential Metals Abatement Program (Rmap) Park Soil Sampling Field Sampling Plan (Fsp) Submittal #1 [Covering Walkerville Ball Park, Antimony Ball Field, Walkerville Park (Walkerville Drive & Ryan Road), Walkerville Park (5th & Transit), And Walkerville Park (Alley Of North Main & Alley Of West Daly)] (Dated June 14, 2022), Nikia Greene

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Understanding The Perspectives Of Users, Advertisers And Ad Blocker Companies On Ad Block Usage, Alaa Ahmed Ali Mahmoud

Theses and Dissertations

With the world leaping into the digital era, more and more industries shifted online, targeting users dependent on the online platforms for almost the majority of their days. As a result, advertisements have shifted online and targeted their audience through personalized messages and content. While personalized ads came in with their benefits, they have also emerged with highly controversial issues such as intrusiveness, ad clutter, and more, resulting in more people avoiding or even blocking the ads. This study examines the usage of ad blockers concerning personalized advertisements. The area of research is looked at from 3 different perspectives: users, …

Students’ Uptake Of Written Feedback In An Egyptian University Language Program, Isabel Rodriguez

Theses and Dissertations

Feedback is by no means a straightforward path; rather, the feedback on the writing process involves several factors on the part of both educators and students at a university level. It is important to note that feedback can be given in different ways to each student, while uptake may vary across educational institutions. This study explored students’ perceptions on engagement strategies, uptake, and emotional responses to the feedback phenomenon. Past studies on feedback and uptake prompted the investigation of this area.

The study includes tentative answers to the wealth of questions that have contributed to the field of feedback. This …

Effective And Responsive Implementation Of German Asylum And Resettlement Procedures For Syrian Refugees From 2015 To 2018, Nourhan Morsy Abdelmeguid

Theses and Dissertations

The refugee and migrant crises are one of Europe’s most contentious and divisive issues. In particular, Germany is one of the countries most involved in the Syrian refugee crisis. The number of Syrians seeking refuge in Germany is substantial, and it hosts over one million refugees. Germany is also a key participant and stakeholder in the European Union asylum policies. Thus, this thesis examines the responsiveness and effectiveness of asylum proceedings under the crisis-induced from 2015 to 2018. Germany temporarily suspended the Dublin regulation by processing asylum applications despite stopping by other EU countries as a humanitarian response to accommodate …

The Flow Of (Re)Memory In African American And Nubian Egyptian Literature: Morrison, Oddoul, And Mukhtar, Bushra Hashem

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to define the term rememory, which Toni Morrison coins in her novel Beloved, and explore its interplay with water imagery in the novel and in two Nubian short stories, namely Haggag Oddoul’s “The River People” and Yahya Mukhtar’s “The Nile Bride.” The three narratives have core common features: they centralize water bodies as key sites of events, they depend heavily on the retelling of history and mythology, and they are told predominantly from the perspective of women. How do the writers weave rememory, history, and mythology to produce these narratives? Are they attempting to …

Entrepreneurial Orientation Impact On Micro And Small Enterprises In Egypt, Fayrouz Negm

Theses and Dissertations

The aim of the proposed study is to test and analyze the impact of Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) on micro and small enterprises’ growth in Egypt, measured by three growth indicators: sales revenue, profit margin, and employment. The growth rates are measured over four periods (past three years, past year, next year, and next three years) to examine the historical and potential impact of EO on growth rates.

EO is defined as the process which organizations use to renew themselves and their markets by innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking (Miller, 1983). While EO is considered one of the crucial factors in determining …

Womanist Poetics: Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, And Audre Lorde, Aya Telmissany

Theses and Dissertations

Today, the sentimentality associated with poetry is often condescendingly dubbed in a patriarchal society as “feminine poetry.” The first women poets who dared to attempt the pen were often met with attacks on their femaleness and harsh critiques of their writing which was likened to sorcery and witchcraft. Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and Audre Lorde are three American women poets who countered these attacks and turned them inside out in favor of their own womanist poetics. They wrote about experiencing the world as women and most importantly about experiencing poetry as women. What happens to poetry when a woman appropriates …

The Evolution Of Honeycomb, Grace Cope

Master of Science in Integrative Biology Theses

The regular cells of honeycomb nests have fascinated scholars and mathematicians for millennia. In 36BC, the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro first proposed the “honeycomb conjecture,” in which he postulated that bees build their comb using hexagons because it is the shape that requires the least amount of material to divide space into equal portions. Since this time, honeycomb has been used by engineers in applications that range from skyscraper supports to impact absorbers inside the feet of the lunar lander during the first moon missions, but mysteries remain about the biological origins of honeycomb and the mechanical properties of …

Disturbance Ecology Of The Sonadora River Rock Pool Insect Assemblage At Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico, Patrick Gilkey

Master's Theses

Freshwater rock pools can serve as habitat for aquatic insects. Flash-flooding can have profound effects on insect communities in streams and rivers, but these effects have not been studied on freshwater rock pools. The goal of this thesis was to describe ecological patterns of the Sonadora River rock pool insect community at the Luquillo Experiment Forrest, Puerto Rico, specifically in response to intense flash-flooding, and then perform experiments to elucidate possible processes to explain those patterns. The rock pools contained primarily three taxa of Dipteran (true-fly) larvae, in order of decreasing abundance, 1) a newly discovered species of ceratopogonid (biting …

Park Tower S. Co. Llc V. Simons

All Decisions

ERAP case. Vacates ERAP stay in licensee holdover and denies sanctions against tenant. Court holds that "provisional approval" is a "determination of eligibility", which automatically dissolves the stay. Landlord can advance holdover proceeding, and tenant may have affirmative defense to money judgment if ERAP funds are not accepted 12 months after provision approval.

Ecenter Honors, Beth Potier

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Dedicated To Health Disparities Research, Nicholas Gosling

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Covidistress Diverse Dataset On Psychological And Behavioural Outcomes One Year Into The Covid-19 Pandemic, Angélique M. Blackburn, Sara Vestergren, Austin Wang, The Covidistress Ii Consortium

Political Science Faculty Research

During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the COVIDiSTRESS Consortium launched an open-access global survey to understand and improve individuals’ experiences related to the crisis. A year later, we extended this line of research by launching a new survey to address the dynamic landscape of the pandemic. This survey was released with the goal of addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion by working with over 150 researchers across the globe who collected data in 48 languages and dialects across 137 countries. The resulting cleaned dataset described here includes 15,740 of over 20,000 responses. The dataset allows cross-cultural study of psychological wellbeing …

Characteristics And Evolution Of Brown Carbon In Western United States Wildfires, Linghan Zeng, Jack E. Dibb, Eric Scheuer, Joseph M. Katich, Joshua P. Schwarz, Ilann Bourgeois, Jeff Peischl, Tom Ryerson, Carsten Warneke, Anne E. Perring, Glenn S. Diskin, Joshua P. Digangi, John B. Nowak, Richard H. Moore, Elizabeth B. Wiggins, Demetrios Pagonis, Hongyu Guo, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Jose L. Jimenez, Lu Xu, Rodney J. Weber

Faculty Publications

Brown carbon (BrC) associated with aerosol particles in western United States wildfires was measured between July and August 2019 aboard the NASA DC-8 research aircraft during the Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) study. Two BrC measurement methods are investigated, highly spectrally resolved light absorption in solvent (water and methanol) extracts of particles collected on filters and in situ bulk aerosol particle light absorption measured at three wavelengths (405, 532 and 664 nm) with a photoacoustic spectrometer (PAS). A light-absorption closure analysis for wavelengths between 300 and 700 nm was performed. The combined light absorption of particle …

A Multi-Ethnic Polygenic Risk Score Is Associated With Hypertension Prevalence And Progression Throughout Adulthood, Nuzulul Kurniansyah, Matthew O Goodman, Tanika N Kelly, Tali Elfassy, Kerri L Wiggins, Joshua C Bis, Xiuqing Guo, Walter Palmas, Kent D Taylor, Henry J Lin, Jeffrey Haessler, Yan Gao, Daichi Shimbo, Jennifer A Smith, Bing Yu, Elena V Feofanova, Roelof A J Smit, Zhe Wang, Shih-Jen Hwang, Simin Liu, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Joann E Manson, Donald M Lloyd-Jones, Stephen S Rich, Ruth J F Loos, Susan Redline, Adolfo Correa, Charles Kooperberg, Myriam Fornage, Robert C Kaplan, Bruce M Psaty, Jerome I Rotter, Donna K Arnett, Alanna C Morrison, Nora Franceschini, Daniel Levy, Tamar Sofer, Nhlbi Trans-Omics In Precision Medicine (Topmed) Consortium

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

In a multi-stage analysis of 52,436 individuals aged 17-90 across diverse cohorts and biobanks, we train, test, and evaluate a polygenic risk score (PRS) for hypertension risk and progression. The PRS is trained using genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for systolic, diastolic blood pressure, and hypertension, respectively. For each trait, PRS is selected by optimizing the coefficient of variation (CV) across estimated effect sizes from multiple potential PRS using the same GWAS, after which the 3 trait-specific PRSs are combined via an unweighted sum called "PRSsum", forming the HTN-PRS. The HTN-PRS is associated with both prevalent and incident hypertension at 4-6 …

Session 3: Nurse Leaders Virtual Summit May 2022, Shakira L. Henderson, Katherine Guz, Stacie Massett, Angela E. Silvestri-Elmore, Barbara Baudler, Leanne Prenovost, Tracy Perron, Kumhee Ro

Virtual Leadership Summit

The purpose of the Nurse Leader Virtual Summit is to provide an avenue for nurse leaders from various Sigma Academies and Nightingale Challenge to disseminate their leadership journey.

This session features Shakira L. Henderson, PhD, DNP, MS, MPH, RNC-NIC, IBCLC. Dr. Henderson wears several professional hats, including a hospital-based nurse researcher, health educator, and certified neonatal nurse. She is Vice President at University of North Carolina. Dr. Henderson serves as an elected member and neonatal expert on the national board for the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses and has recently been elected to be the 2022-2023 President. …

Legal Characterization Of The Challenges Faced By The Construction Industry During Covid-19 And Devaluation Of The Egyptian Pound, Riham Abuzaid

Theses and Dissertations

With all the challenges this past decade has inflicted on the economy on a global scale, Egypt had its share with two major events, starting with the Egyptian pound devaluation against the U.S dollar in 2016 and currently the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. These major events instigated the interference of the legal/contractual sectors in the construction market to find solutions that range from agreeable to stringent to protect the assets of their beneficiaries.

Both events are impactful and require extensive analysis to determine and classify each situation. This thesis addresses the implementation of standard internationally acknowledged legislative acts used …

A Telehealth-Delivered Tai Chi Intervention (Taichi4joint) For Managing Aromatase Inhibitor-Induced Arthralgia In Patients With Breast Cancer During Covid-19: Longitudinal Pilot Study, Sameh Gomaa, Carly West, Ana Maria Lopez, Tingting Zhan, Max Schnoll, Maysa Abu-Khalaf, Andrew B. Newberg, Kuang-Yi Wen

Department of Medical Oncology Faculty Papers

Background: Estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer is the most common type of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Aromatase inhibitors (AIs) are the endocrine therapy of choice recommended for these patients. Up to 50% of those treated with an AI develop arthralgia, often resulting in poor adherence and decreased quality of life.

Objective: The study is a single-arm longitudinal pilot study aiming to evaluate the safety, feasibility, acceptability, and potential efficacy of TaiChi4Joint, a remotely delivered 12-week tai chi intervention designed to relieve AI-induced joint pain.

Methods: Women diagnosed with stage 0-III breast cancer who received an AI for at least 2 …

Scotus: Maine Tuition Reimbursement Program Must Include Religious Schools, Arthur S. Leonard

Other Publications

No abstract provided.

Acclaimed Legal Scholars And Professors Return To Seattle University School Of Law, Seattle University School Of Law

News Center Articles

No abstract provided.

Approval Letter For The Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) 2022 Draft Final Residential Metals Abatement Program (Rmap), Quality Assurance Project Plan (Qapp), Non-Residential Parcels (Dated June 13, 2022), Nikia Greene

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

The Endurance Rocket Mission, Glyn Collinson, Alex Glocer, Rob Pfaff, Aroh Barjatya, Scott Bissett, Kolbjørn Blix, Et. Al.

Publications

NASA’s Endurance sounding rocket (yard No. 47.001) will launch from Ny Ålesund, Svalbard in May 2022 on a solid fueled Oriole III-A launch vehicle. Its ~19 minute flight will carry it to an altitude of ~ 780 km above Earth’s sunlit polar cap. Its objective is to make the first measurement of the weak “ambipolar” electric field generated by Earth’s ionosphere. This field is thought to play a critical role in the upwelling and escape of ionospheric ions, and thus potentially in the evolution of Earth’s atmosphere. The results will enable us to determine the importance to ion escape of …

Final 2022 Residential Metals Abatement Program (Rmap) Park Soil Sampling Field Sampling Plan (Fsp) Submittal #4 [Covering Tot Lot, Clark Park, Huron Tennis Courts, Father Sheehan Park, Community Garden, And Lexington Gardens], Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Final 2022 Residential Metals Abatement Program (Rmap) Park Soil Sampling Field Sampling Plan (Fsp) Submittal #2 [Covering Scown Field, Cherokee Park, Copper/Emmet, West Side Subdivision Park, Chester Steele Park, And Cinders Field], Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Final 2022 Residential Metals Abatement Program (Rmap) Park Soil Sampling Field Sampling Plan (Fsp) Submittal #5 [Covering Longfellow Ball Fields, Peace Park, Rocker Park, Racetrack Park, C Street, Jfk Park, And Rickey Park], Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Final 2022 Residential Metals Abatement Program (Rmap) Quality Assurance Project Plan (Qapp) (Non-Residential Parcels), Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Approval Letter For The Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Draft Final Residential Metals Abatement Program (Rmap) Park Soil Sampling Field Sampling Plan (Fsp) Submittal #2 [Covering Scown Field, Cherokee Park, Copper/Emmet, West Side Subdivision Park, Chester Steele Park, And Cinders Field] (Dated June 14, 2022), Nikia Greene

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.