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Cross Check Of Data Quality Chapters Of S-1xx Product Specifications, Wu Lingzhi, Christos Kastrisios

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

Geospatial data may vary in quality in accuracy, precision, completeness, and consistency in space, time, and theme. Geospatial data quality allows producers to evaluate and report how well a dataset meets the criteria set forth in the product specification and users to assess fitness for use for a particular application. Working with data quality includes understanding the data quality concepts, defining data quality conformance levels in data product specifications based on product requirements, specifying quality aspects in application schemas, evaluating, and reporting. The IHO Data Quality Working Group (DQWG) provides guidance on data quality aspects to hydrographic offices to ensure …

Phosphorylation And Stabilization Of Pd-L1 By Ck2 Suppresses Dendritic Cell Function, Xixi Zhao, Yongkun Wei, Yu-Yi Chu, Yintao Li, Jung-Mao Hsu, Zhou Jiang, Chunxiao Liu, Jennifer L Hsu, Wei-Chao Chang, Riyao Yang, Li-Chuan Chan, Jingkun Qu, Shuqun Zhang, Haoqiang Ying, Dihua Yu, Mien-Chie Hung

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

UNLABELLED: Targeting immune checkpoints such as programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) and programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) has transformed cancer treatment, with durable clinical responses across a wide range of tumor types. However, a high percentage of patients fail to respond to anti-PD-1/PD-L1 treatment. A greater understanding of PD-L1 regulation is critical to improving the clinical response rate of PD-1/PD-L1 blockade. Here, we demonstrate that PD-L1 is phosphorylated and stabilized by casein kinase 2 (CK2) in cancer and dendritic cells (DC). Phosphorylation of PD-L1 at Thr285 and Thr290 by CK2 disrupted PD-L1 binding with speckle-type POZ protein, an adaptor …

Homogenous Diversity, Melissa Mortazavi

Other Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Male Student Experiences In Community-Based Federal Work-Study (Cbfws): Exploring The Relationship Of Cbfws To Academic Performance, Career Readiness, And Social Support, Dustin Krein

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Federal Work-Study (FWS) is a form of student employment in postsecondary education funded by a student’s financial aid. At the University of South Florida (Tampa campus), in the Community-Based Federal Work-Study (CBFWS) program managed by the Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships (OCEP), there has been a decreasing rate of participation among its male students compared to female students. This study examined the experiences and perspectives of male students in CBFWS at USF. The study was guided by one central research question with three sub-questions: From the perspective of the male student participants, what is their CBFWS experience in relation …

Reelin Supplementation For The Rescue Of Fragile X Syndrome., Nicole K. Morrill

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Reelin is a large, extracellular matrix glycoprotein involved in neuronal migration during embryonic brain development and synaptic plasticity in the adult brain. Reelin consists of eight EGF-like repeats and undergoes natural cleavage at two sites, between repeats 2 and 3 and repeats 5 and 6, resulting in five naturally occurring fragments. The role of Reelin in the developing central nervous system has been extensively characterized, and loss of Reelin or disruption in the signaling cascade may contribute to the cognitive impairments seen in numerous neurodevelopmental or aging diseases such as schizophrenia, autism, depression, epilepsy, and Alzheimer’s disease. Reelin’s signaling potentiates …

Testing The Effects Of Social Exclusion On Emotional Arousal: An Examination Of The Effects Of Psychological Pain And Rumination, Amanda L. Peterson

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The examination of social exclusion and its impact on future emotional responding may prove to be a fruitful area of research in the prevention of suicide. Additionally, there may be other factors (such as the experience of psychological pain and rumination) that may influence how one responds to social exclusion. However, little research has explored individual differences in reactions to social exclusion. As such, the present study explored how social exclusion influences emotional responding to other environmental stimuli, as well as examining how a history of psychological pain and rumination affected how one responds to social exclusion. 503 undergraduate students …

Relationships Among Strong Black Womanhood Belief, Coping Behaviors, Social Support, And Psychological Distress For Black Mothers After Stillbirth, Carrie J. Henry

Sigma Foundation for Nursing Research Grant Reports

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships among strong Black woman belief, coping behaviors, social support, and psychological distress (symptoms of depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress) for Black mothers who had a stillbirth.

Quantifying Concordant Genetic Effects Of De Novo Mutations On Multiple Disorders, Hanmin Guo, Lin Hou, Yu Shi, Sheng Chih Jin, Xue Zeng, Boyang Li, Richard P Lifton, Martina Brueckner, Hongyu Zhao, Qiongshi Lu

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Exome sequencing on tens of thousands of parent-proband trios has identified numerous deleterious de novo mutations (DNMs) and implicated risk genes for many disorders. Recent studies have suggested shared genes and pathways are enriched for DNMs across multiple disorders. However, existing analytic strategies only focus on genes that reach statistical significance for multiple disorders and require large trio samples in each study. As a result, these methods are not able to characterize the full landscape of genetic sharing due to polygenicity and incomplete penetrance. In this work, we introduce EncoreDNM, a novel statistical framework to quantify shared genetic effects between …

Vicki Folse On Nursing, The Pandemic And Criminal Liability Cases, Eric Stock

Interviews for WGLT

IWU School of Nursing and Health Sciences Director Vicki Folse on criminal liability, and the impact it could have on the nursing profession. She spoke about this in a Sound Health interview with Eric Stock, WGLT.

Utilization Of Bayesian Optimization And Kwn Modeling For Increased Efficiency Of Al‐Sc Precipitation Strengthening, Kyle Deane, Yang Yang, Joseph Licavoli, Vu Nguyen, Santu Rana, Sunil Gupta, Svetha Venkatesh, Paul G. Sanders

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

The Kampmann and Wagner numerical model was adapted in MATLAB to predict the precipitation and growth of Al3Sc precipitates as a function of starting concentration and heat‐treatment steps. This model was then expanded to predict the strengthening in alloys using calculated average precipitate number density, radius, etc. The calibration of this model was achieved with Bayesian optimization, and the model was verified against experimentally gathered hardness data. An analysis of the outputs from this code allowed the development of optimal heat treatments, which were validated experimentally and proven to result in higher final strengths than were previously observed. Bayesian optimization …

Living Clinical Guidelines For Stroke: Updates, Challenges And Opportunities, Coralie English, Kelvin Hill, Dominique A. Cadilhac, Maree L. Hackett, Natasha A. Lannin, Sandy Middleton, Annemarei Ranta, Nigel P. Stocks, Julie Davey, Steven G. Faux, Erin Godecke, Bruce C. V. Campbell

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Continued growth in the number of published clinical studies has necessitated changes to the way evidence-based resources such as clinical guidelines are developed and updated. The Australian and New Zealand Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management (https://informme.org.au/guidelines/clinical-guidelines-for-stroke-management) are based on continual evidence surveillance and timely updates to recommendations as new research is published. In this article, we outline the main updates to recommendations since the guidelines moved into a living mode in 2018, and discuss key challenges and benefits of living guidelines.

Approval Letter For Revised 2021 Bres (Butte Reclamation Evaluation System) Inspection And Technical Recommendations Report (Dated May 27, 2022), Nikia Greene

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Knowledge-Driven Drug-Use Namedentity Recognition With Distant Supervision, Goonmeet Bajaj, Ugur Kursuncu, Manas Gaur, Usha Lokala, Ayaz Hyder, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Amit Sheth

Publications

As Named Entity Recognition (NER) has been essential in identifying critical elements of unstructured content, generic NER tools remain limited in recognizing entities specific to a domain, such as drug use and public health. For such high-impact areas, accurately capturing relevant entities at a more granular level is critical, as this information influences real-world processes. On the other hand, training NER models for a specific domain without handcrafted features requires an extensive amount of labeled data, which is expensive in human effort and time. In this study, we employ distant supervision utilizing a domain-specific ontology to reduce the need for …

Bfs News Online, Georgia Southern University

Art: News & Publications (2008-2023)

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Inhibition Of Type 1 Immunity With Tofacitinib Is Associated With Marked Improvement In Longstanding Sarcoidosis, William Damsky, Alice Wang, Daniel J. Kim, Bryan D. Young, Katelyn Singh, Michael J. Murphy, Joseph Daccache, Abigale Clark, Ruveyda Ayasun, Changwan Ryu, Meaghan K. Mcgeary, Ian D. Odell, Ramesh Fazzone-Chettiar, Darko Pucar, Robert Homer, Mridu Gulati, Edward J. Miller, Marcus Bosenberg, Richard A. Flavell, Brett King

Student Publications

Sarcoidosis is an idiopathic inflammatory disorder that is commonly treated with glucocorticoids. An imprecise understanding of the immunologic changes underlying sarcoidosis has limited therapeutic progress. Here in this open-label trial (NCT03910543), 10 patients with cutaneous sarcoidosis are treated with tofacitinib, a Janus kinase inhibitor. The primary outcome is the change in the cutaneous sarcoidosis activity and morphology instrument (CSAMI) activity score after 6 months of treatment. Secondary outcomes included change in internal organ involvement, molecular parameters, and safety. All patients experience improvement in their skin with 6 patients showing a complete response. Improvement in internal organ involvement is …

Predictors Of Loneliness During The Covid-19 Pandemic In People With Dementia And Their Carers In England: Findings From The Determind-C19 Study, R Perach, S Read, B Hicks, Pr Harris, Et Al

Peninsula Medical School

OBJECTIVES: To identify factors that predict the risk of loneliness for people with dementia and carers during a pandemic. METHODS: People with dementia and their carers completed assessments before (July 2019-March 2020; 206 dyads) and after (July-October 2020) the first Covid-19 'lockdown' in England. At follow-up, the analytic sample comprised 67 people with dementia and 108 carers. We built a longitudinal path model with loneliness as an observed outcome. Carer type and social contacts at both measurements were considered. Other social resources (quality of relationship, formal day activities), wellbeing (anxiety, psychological wellbeing) and cognitive impairment were measured with initial level …

Silent Footsteps: Renga Poetry As A Collaborative, Creative Research Method Reflecting On The Immobilities Of Gender-Based Violence In The Covid-19 Pandemic, Mel Parks, Amanda Holt, Sian Lewis, Jessica Moriarty, Lesley Murray

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

In the Covid-19 global crisis, gender-based violence (GBV) has been reshaped and reconfigured, with increases in some places and decreases in others. During our exploration of the changes in GBV through trans/feminist collaborative reflexive storying, we noticed the fragmentary nature of our storied recollections, which both represented and heightened the emotions in the work. With an intention of distilling the words even further, we challenged ourselves, as transdisciplinary researchers, to create a collaborative renga poem, which we titled, “Silent Footsteps.” An ancient Japanese form, the renga is a series of short, linked verses. This article demonstrates that renga offers an …

Changes In Insulin Sensitivity And Lipid Profile Markers Following Initial And Secondary Bouts Of Multiple Eccentric Exercises, Trevor C. Chen, Min Jyue Huang, Leonardo C. R. Lima, Tai Ying Chou, Hung Hao Wang, Jui Hung Tu, Shi Che Lin, Kazunori Nosaka

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

An acute bout of eccentric exercise affects insulin sensitivity and lipid profile, but how the magnitude of muscle damage affects them is not clear. We compared changes in blood insulin sensitivity and lipid markers after the first (EC1) and second (EC2) eccentric exercise bouts. Fifteen sedentary young men performed arm, leg and trunk muscle eccentric exercises, and repeated them 2 weeks later. Fasting blood samples were taken before, 2 h and 1–5 days after each exercise bout to analyze plasma creatine kinase (CK) activity, serum glucose (GLU), insulin, homeostasis model assessment (HOMA), triacylglycerols (TG), total (TC) and low- (LDLC) and …

Prefrontal Cortex Supports Speech Perception In Listeners With Cochlear Implants, Arefeh Sherafati, Noel Dwyer, Aahana Bajracharya, Mahlega Samira Hassanpour, Adam T Eggebrecht, Jill B Firszt, Joseph P Culver, Jonathan E Peelle

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Cochlear implants are neuroprosthetic devices that can restore hearing in people with severe to profound hearing loss by electrically stimulating the auditory nerve. Because of physical limitations on the precision of this stimulation, the acoustic information delivered by a cochlear implant does not convey the same level of acoustic detail as that conveyed by normal hearing. As a result, speech understanding in listeners with cochlear implants is typically poorer and more effortful than in listeners with normal hearing. The brain networks supporting speech understanding in listeners with cochlear implants are not well understood, partly due to difficulties obtaining functional neuroimaging …

Weight Loss For Overweight And Obese Patients With Prostate Cancer: A Study Protocol Of A Randomised Trial Comparing Clinic-Based Versus Telehealth Delivered Exercise And Nutrition Intervention (The Telex Trial), Daniel A. Galvão, Dennis R. Taaffe, Dickon Hayne, Pedro Lopez, Philippa Lyons-Wall, Colin I. Tang, Suzanne K. Chambers, Amanda Devine, Nigel Spry, Emily Jeffery, Christine Kudiarasu, David Joseph, Robert U. Newton

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Introduction Obese men with prostate cancer have an increased risk of biochemical recurrence, metastatic disease and mortality. For those undergoing androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), substantial increases in fat mass are observed in the first year of treatment. Recently, we showed that a targeted supervised clinic-based exercise and nutrition intervention can result in a substantial reduction in fat mass with muscle mass preserved in ADT-treated patients. However, the intervention needs to be accessible to all patients and not just those who can access a supervised clinic-based programme. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of telehealth delivered compared …

Influence Of School Libraries On Promotion Of Reading Culture For Self- Development And Knowledge Enhancement Among Students In Selected Secondary Schools In Makurdi Metropolis, Benue State, Nigeria, Tofi Simon Ternenge, Yankyar Ashulaga Thomas, Jembe Raphael Terhemen

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT

The study investigated influence of school libraries on promotion of reading culture for self- development and knowledge enhancement among students in selected secondary schools in Makurdi Metropolis, Benue State, Nigeria. Five (5) objectives with corresponding research questions guided the study. The study adopted survey research design. The population of the study consist of 4145 students and teacher librarians in selected secondary schools. A representative sample of 365 respondents were selected at random for the study using Taro Yamen formula. The instrument for data collection for this study was a structured questionnaire titled “Influence of School Libraries on Promotion of …

Beyond The Baroreflex: A New Measure Of Autonomic Regulation Based On The Time-Frequency Assessment Of Variability, Phase Coherence And Couplings, Philip T. Clemson, Jeffrey B. Hoag, William H. Cooke, Dwain L. Eckberg, Aneta Stefanovska

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

For decades the role of autonomic regulation and the baroreflex in the generation of the respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) - modulation of heart rate by the frequency of breathing - has been under dispute. We hypothesized that by using autonomic blockers we can reveal which oscillations and their interactions are suppressed, elucidating their involvement in RSA as well as in cardiovascular regulation more generally. R-R intervals, end tidal CO2, finger arterial pressure, and muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) were measured simultaneously in 7 subjects during saline, atropine and propranolol infusion. The measurements were repeated during spontaneous and fixed-frequency breathing, and …

3d Multilevel Alignment Diagnostic Procedure For Higher Dot Placement Accuracy At Real Parts, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

3D printers are powerful tools for companies involved in prototyping since they can iterate designs much faster than other technologies. The main difference between HP MultiJet Fusion 3D and their competitors is the usage of agents to, accurately, generate and form the desired part’s exact shape. This accuracy is even more important when a customer starts optimizing and challenging the system by start printing low-volume parts (small, detailed parts, hollowed parts with thin walls, lattice, etc.) to improve its TCO by reducing printer material. In this type of application, the accuracy of the dot placement from the fluids at the …

Martias Rashad Deloach

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Sarah Funton

African American Funeral Programs

The obituary does not contain a funeral program.

Assessment Of Awareness Of Farmers On Agricultural Information Services In Mara Region, Tanzania, Evance Mulashani Bonephace, Xuewen Gui, Peter John Makawia

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study assessed awareness of farmers on agricultural information services in Mara region in Tanzania. Quantitative approach was adopted and data collection used single structured questionnaire. Awareness scales measured three factors; awareness knowledge; agricultural information needs and lastly use of ICTs in accessing agricultural information services. The results indicated that majority (93.2%; 280) of respondents had little knowledge of awareness, (91.3%; 272) of the response, needed improved seed varieties and the average, (60%; 180) of respondents have low use of ICT in accessing agricultural information services. It was concluded that agricultural stakeholder needs more improvement and strategies on agricultural information …

الإبراء وضوابطه في الفقه الإسلامي والتطبيقات القانونية للطلاق مقابل الإبراء من خلال مكاتب التوفيق والإصلاح الأسري في المحاكم الشرعية الأردنية Conditions Related To Fiqh Discharge And Its Islamic Jurisprudential And Legal Applications -Family Conciliation And Reform In The Jordanian Sharia Courts As A Case Study-, Abeer Alsaleem, Mohammad Ali Al-Omari

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

ملخص

يعد الطلاق مقابل الإبراء أحد طرق الطلاق التي تستطيع الزوجة من خلاها الخلاص من زوجها مقابل افتداء نفسها منه، وإبرائها له من كافة حقوقها مقابل طلاقها، ومن هذا القبيل قامت المحاكم الشرعية الأردنية بإنشاء مكاتب للإصلاح والتوفيق الأسري تختص بمحاولة حل المشاكل بين الزوجين، ومن بين هذه الأمور طلب التفريق بين الزوجين مقابل تنازل الزوجة عن حقوقها، بينت هذه الدراسة بعض ضوابط الطلاق مقابل الإبراء، وكذلك ذكرت بعض التطبيقات الخاصة بموضوع الإبراء مقابل الطلاق في المحاكم الشرعية الأردنية، وحيث وقفت الدراسة على بعض التطبيقات لقضايا واقعية من خلال مكاتب الإصلاح والتوفيق الأسري في المحاكم الشرعية الأردنية.

ولتحقيق أهداف الدراسة …

أثر العناصر المعمارية الهندوسية على العمارة الإسلامية في الهند (المساجد حالة دراسية) The Influence Of Hindu Architectural Elements On Islamic Architecture In India (Mosques As A Case Study), Saqr Mustafa Al-Saqour, Muhannad Suleiman Trad, Sarah Mujahid Younes, Afnan Mohammed Al-Fifi

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

ملخص

يهدف البحث الى استنباط أثر العمارة الهندوسية القديمة على عمارة المسلمين في الهند، ولغاية حصر الدراسة تمت دراسة أثر عمارة المعابد الهندوسية على عمارة مساجد المسلمين في شبه القارة؛ وذلك باعتبار أن كلا الديانتين تركت إرثا كبيرا من العمارة الدينية في الهند. وقد انتهج البحث قراءة لعمارة المعابد الهندوسية وخصائصها، ثم استعرض السمات المعمارية للمعابد الهندوسية وانعكاساتها على عمارة مساجد المسلمين في شبه القارة الهندية، ثم بين نماذج من العناصر التي استعملها المعماريون في العهد الإسلامي والتي تعتبر إرثا موروثا من عمارة المعابد.

وتأتي أهمية البحث من ضرورة فهم العلاقة الوثيقة بين المنجزات الحضارية للحضارات المتعاقبة، واستفادة الحضارات اللاحقة …

قواعد رفع الضرر وأثرها زمن وباء كورونا (دراسة تأصيلية، مقاصدية، فقهية) Harm Elevation Rules And Its Impact During The Corona Epidemic (An Original, Intentional, Jurisprudential Study), Rasha Al-Zou'bi, Mohamed Alrshdan

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

ملخص

خلص هذا البحث إلى أن لقواعد الشريعة الفقهية الكلية المتضمنة لرفع الضرر أثرا عظيما في استخلاص الأحكام الفقهية زمن المستجدات والنوازل المعاصرة، ومنها فيروس كورونا، حيث كان لها مدخلا عظيما في تسهيل كثير من الأحكام الفقهية على الناس ورفع الضرر عنهم، وهي من أعظم القواعد الفقهية في الشريعة، ولم تخرج مع ذلك عن نطاق الحق وموافقة الشرع؛ إذ الشرع أصلا جاء لجلب مصالح العباد، ودفع المفاسد عنهم، وظهر ذلك جليا، في رفع الضرر عنهم في أمور عباداتهم ومعاملاتهم، فمن ذلك رفع الضرر عنهم في الحكم بمشروعية تعقيم المساجد بالكحول وكذلك الأبدان والملابس للمصلين، إضافة لمنع المريض مرضا معديا من …

فاعلية تدريس مساق الثقافة الإسلامية في تنمية قيم التسامح لدى طلبة كلية إربد الجامعية The Effectiveness Of Teaching Islamic Culture Courses In Developing Tolerance Values Among Irbid University College Students, Hazem Al Momani, Nayef Fadous Alhamad, Waleed Hayajneh, Tariq Al-Amari

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

ملخص

هدفت الدِّراسة إلى التحقق من فاعلية تدريس مساق الثقافة الإسلامية في تنمية قيم التسامح لدى طلبة كلية إربد الجامعية. ولتحقيق ذلك أعدَّ الباحثون مقياسًا لقياس قيم التسامح اشتمل على (48) فقرة وزعت في خمسة مجالات: المجال الفكري والثقافي وله تسع فقرات، والمجال الديني وله عشر فقرات، والمجال السياسي وله تسع فقرات، والمجال الاجتماعي وله (11) فقرة، والمجال العلمي وله تسع فقرات. تكوّن أفراد الدِّراسة من (226) طالبًا وطالبةً من طلبة كلية إربد الجامعية في الفصل الدراسيّ الأول 2019/2020م اختيروا بالطريقة المتيسّرة، اعتبر (119) طالبًا وطالبةً ممن سجلوا مساق الثقافة الإسلامية أفرادًا للمجموعة التجريبية، و(107) طالبًا وطالبةً ممن لم يسجلوا …