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Summative Evaluation Report By The Independent Evaluator For The New Hampshire Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (Dsrip) Program, Mary Lindsey Smith Phd, Deborah Thayer Mba, Katie Rosingano Ba, Rachel M. Gallo Mph, Catherine Mcguire Bs, Evelyn Ali Mph, Katharine Knight Mph, Chinonye Anumaka Od, Mph, Tyler Egelund Ba, Mark Richards Bs, Karen Pearson Mlis, Ma

Substance Use Research & Evaluation

Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) programs are part of the broader Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Section 1115 Waiver programs and provide states with significant funding to support system transformation efforts. CMS approved New Hampshire’s five-year Building Capacity for Transformation Section 1115(a) Medicaid Demonstration Waiver in 2015. The overall goal of the DSRIP Demonstration is to improve the care for New Hampshire’s Medicaid Beneficiaries with behavioral health disorders by addressing workforce and infrastructure shortages, improving care transitions, and integrating physical and behavioral health. This report is the final summative evaluation report on New Hampshire's DSRIP program. For …

Making Friends Wherever We Go: International Librarian Networking, Michelle Colquitt, Diana Pukite

Presentations

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What I Learned...At Ala, Rodger Eugene Bishop, Michelle Colquitt, Amanda Mcleod, Renna Redd, Edward J. Rock, Alydia Sims

Presentations

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Into The Unknown: Working Together To Forge A New Department In A Library Reorganization, Michelle Colquitt, Renna Redd, Chris Vidas

Presentations

Although libraries regularly change in response to personnel turnover, budget constraints, and user needs, a full-blown library reorganization can be a process full of uncertainty and anxiety. This poster will discuss an ongoing reorganization at an R1 university that merges the E-resources Team, the Continuing Resources and Government Documents Team, the Collection Management Team, and Resource Sharing Team into one department of 17 employees. The poster will demonstrate how the three supervisors of these teams are working with their respective groups to mindfully engage with the change process at hand with the goal of mitigating some of the stress involved …

A City Planning Card Game, Francisco Alfarozierten

City and Regional Planning

This senior project aimed to create a card game based on the concept and professional practice of city & regional planning. It consists of 103 unique cards, being separated in the following manner:

• 1 City Center card
• 6 Unique Zoning cards
• 74 unique Development cards
• 22 unique Action cards

Role Of Alendronate Gel Versus Chlorohexidine Gel As Adjunct To Mechanical Therapy In Treatment Of Chronic Periodontitis (Clinical And Microbiological Study), Ahmed M. El-Hadidy, Bassant H. Mowafy, Medhat El-Daker, Una M. El-Shinnawi

Mansoura Journal of Dentistry

Objective: Background: This study evaluated the clinical and microbiological efficacy of Alendronate (ALN) gel versus Chlorohexidine (CHX) gel as an adjunct to mechanical therapy in the treatment of chronic periodontitis and compared this effect with Scaling and Root Planning (SRP) only. Materials and Methods: Forty patients with chronic periodontitis were randomly allocated into two groups. Each group of twenty patients was split into a study group and a control group, group 1 was treated on one side with ALN gel after (SRP) and the other side was treated with (SRP) only. group 2 was treated on one side with CHX …

Microtensile Bond Strength Of Resin Modified Glass Ionomer Restoration In Carious Primary Molars Pretreated With Silver Diamine Fluoride, Weaam I. El-Tantawy, Noha A. El-Wassefy, Abeer M. Abdellatif

Mansoura Journal of Dentistry

Objective: To evaluate microtensile bond strength of resin modified glass ionomer restoration in carious primary molars pretreated with silver diamine fluoride. Materials and Methods: forty carious primary molars were collected and divided into two equal groups (n=20) as the following: (Group I) the microtensile bond strength testing group and (Group II) the control group. Each main group subdivided into two subgroups (n=10): (Group I a) the microtensile testing comprised group of no caries excavation and (Group I b) group with caries excavation. (Group II a) the control comprised group of no caries excavation and(Group II b) group of caries excavation.The …

Is The Phq-9 A Unidimensional Measure Of Depression? A 58,272-Participant Study, Renzo Bianchi, Jay Verkuilen, Sharon Toker, Irvin Sam Schonfeld, Markus Gerber, Elmar Brähler, Kurt Kroenke

Publications and Research

The PHQ-9 has become a measure of reference in depression research and clinical practice. However, the issue of the PHQ-9’s unidimensionality has not been fully elucidated, and the usability of the PHQ-9’s total score requires clarification. In this study, we examined the dimensionality, scalability, and monotonicity properties of the PHQ-9 as well as the scale’s total-score reliability. We did so based on exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) bifactor analysis and Mokken scale analysis (MSA). We relied on a total of 58,272 participants (63% female; Mage = 43, SDage = 13) from 29 samples involving seven different countries (e.g., Germany, the …

Cancer Stem Cells, Not Bulk Tumor Cells, Determine Mechanisms Of Resistance To Smo Inhibitors., Joshy George, Yaohui Chen, Nourhan Abdelfattah, Keiko Yamamoto, Thomas D Gallup, Scott I Adamson, Brad Rybinski, Anuj Srivastava, Parveen Kumar, Min Gyu Lee, David S Baskin, Wen Jiang, Jong Min Choi, William Flavahan, Jeffrey Chuang, Betty Ys Kim, Jiaqiong Xu, Sung Yun Jung, Kyuson Yun

Faculty Research 2023

The emergence of treatment resistance significantly reduces the clinical utility of many effective targeted therapies. Although both genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of drug resistance have been reported, whether these mechanisms are stochastically selected in individual tumors or governed by a predictable underlying principle is unknown. Here, we report that the dependence of cancer stem cells (CSCs), not bulk tumor cells, on the targeted pathway determines the molecular mechanism of resistance in individual tumors. Using both spontaneous and transplantable mouse models of sonic hedgehog (SHH) medulloblastoma (MB) treated with an SHH/Smoothened inhibitor, sonidegib/LDE225, we show that genetic-based resistance occurs only in …

Identifying Genetic Determinants Of Inflammatory Pain In Mice Using A Large-Scale Gene-Targeted Screen., Janine M Wotton, Emma Peterson, Ann M Flenniken, Rasneer S Bains, Surabi Veeraragavan, Lynette R Bower, Jason A. Bubier, Marc Parisien, Alexandr Bezginov, Hamed Haselimashhadi, Jeremy Mason, Michayla A Moore, Michelle E Stewart, Dave A Clary, Daniel J Delbarre, Laura C. Anderson, Abigail D'Souza, Leslie Goodwin, Mark E Harrison, Ziyue Huang, Matthew Mckay, Dawei Qu, Luis Santos, Subhiksha Srinivasan, Rachel Urban, Igor Vukobradovic, Christopher S Ward, Amelia M Willett, Robert E Braun, Steve D M Brown, Mary E Dickinson, Jason D Heaney, Vivek Kumar, K C Kent Lloyd, Ann-Marie Mallon, Colin Mckerlie, Stephen A Murray, Lauryl M J Nutter, Helen Parkinson, John R Seavitt, Sara Wells, Rodney C Samaco, Elissa J Chesler, Damian Smedley, Luda Diatchenko, Kyle M Baumbauer, Erin E Young, Robert P Bonin, Silvia Mandillo, Jacqueline K White

Faculty Research 2022

ABSTRACT: Identifying the genetic determinants of pain is a scientific imperative given the magnitude of the global health burden that pain causes. Here, we report a genetic screen for nociception, performed under the auspices of the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium. A biased set of 110 single-gene knockout mouse strains was screened for 1 or more nociception and hypersensitivity assays, including chemical nociception (formalin) and mechanical and thermal nociception (von Frey filaments and Hargreaves tests, respectively), with or without an inflammatory agent (complete Freund's adjuvant). We identified 13 single-gene knockout strains with altered nocifensive behavior in 1 or more assays. All …

Reflections Of A Supreme Court Commissioner, William Baude

Minnesota Law Review Vols. 106:2 onward (2021-present)

The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States was given a fundamentally frustrating task: bipartisan expert analysis of an institution whose greatest challengers are political. I served on that commission and offer my own views on Supreme Court reform: Court packing is lawful but unjustified. Term limits, without a constitutional amendment, are not lawful and maybe also unjustified. Generally democratizing the Court through jurisdiction stripping is unlikely to be effective, and doing so through various other means is unlikely to be lawful. And the Supreme Court’s shadow docket, though not free from trouble, does not admit of …

One Nation Subsidizing God: How The Implementation Of The Paycheck Protection Program Revealed The Deteriorating Wall Between Church And State, Elliot Ergeson

Minnesota Law Review Vols. 106:2 onward (2021-present)

The wall separating Church and State is at risk of collapse. The Religion Clauses of the United States Constitution act in tandem to en- sure that the freedom of religion is protected. Over the past three decades, however, the Supreme Court has steadily chipped away at the Establishment Clause while expanding the Free Exercise Clause. On the Establishment Clause side, the government used to be prohibited from providing monetary aid to religious organizations. Now, after the Court’s recent decision in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the government may not exclude religious entities from public benefits even if those benefits …

Nonpartisan Supreme Court Reform And The Biden Commission, Daniel Epps

Minnesota Law Review Vols. 106:2 onward (2021-present)

Prior to his election to the Presidency, Joe Biden promised to create a bipartisan commission that would consider and evaluate reforms to the Supreme Court of the United States. Shortly after his inauguration, he did just that, announcing a thirty-six-member Commission on the Supreme Court. Made up of distinguished scholars and lawyers, the Commission was charged with drafting a report that would describe and analyze historical and current debates about reforming the Court. The eventual report seemed to make few observers happy. It reached few firm conclusions on the legality of any reform proposals and even fewer conclusions on any …

“Black First, Children Second”: Why Juvenile Life Without Parole Violates The Equal Protection Clause, Avery Katz

Minnesota Law Review Vols. 106:2 onward (2021-present)

The United States is the only country in the world that allows imposition of juvenile life without parole (LWOP) sentences. This sentencing scheme was born out of the 1990’s “tough on crime” era, when society held the belief that juvenile offenders were “super-predators” and should face adult time for adult crimes. Throughout the years, the Supreme Court has faced numerous cases regarding juvenile LWOP, leading to its 2021 Jones v. Mississippi decision, holding that juveniles may be sentenced to LWOP so long as “youthful qualities,” such as immaturity, recklessness, susceptibility to negative influence, are first considered in sentencing. Today, the …

Academic Year: 2021-2022, The Mendik Library

Mendik Library: By the Numbers

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Hall Of Fame Award: Camille Broussard, Mendik Library

Awards and Recognition

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Tennessee Bed Space And Operating Capacities Report, June 2022, Tennessee. Department Of Correction.

Bed Space & Capacity Reports

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Cruel Dilemmas In Contemporary Fertility Care: Problematizing America's Failure To Assure Access To Fertility Preservation For Trans Youth, Anna Reed

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

Transgender youth are increasingly able to access gender-affirming healthcare. Because gender-affirming care such as hormone therapy is clinically shown to reduce gender dysphoria and ease physical and social transition, every major U.S. medical association recognizes that gender-affirming healthcare is medically necessary for the treatment of dysphoria. However, an important dimension of gender-affirming care remains under-insured and overpriced: fertility preservation (FP). Several studies indicate that hormone therapies and certain gender-affirming surgeries can have negative, long-term impacts on future fertility. Although these impacts can be mitigated through approved FP methods such as sperm cryopreservation and oocyte cryopreservation, such methods are rarely affordable …

2022 Spring/Summer Class Schedule, University Of Michigan Law School

Class Schedules

Class schedule for the 2022 Spring/Summer semester at the University of Michigan Law School

Covid-19 Best Practices & Innovations Brief: Supporting The Social And Emotional Needs Of Mississippi’S Students, Kellie Fondren, Peggy Hopper

CoE Publications

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Front Matter, Michigan Journal Of Gender & Law

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

Front Matter for Volume 29, Issue 1 of Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

Pregnant Transgender People: What To Expect From The Court Of Justice Of The European Union's Jurisprudence On Pregnancy Discrimination, Hannah Van Dijcke

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

Pregnant transgender people’s experiences vary: they may identify as male or non-binary and may seek gender-affirming medical care to different degrees. This variety in gender identities and bodies puts additional pressure on CJEU’s pregnancy discrimination case law—a case law that is, as this Article argues, already flawed. Building on a critique of the CJEU’s decision in Dekker, this Article discusses three alternative approaches to addressing pregnancy discrimination in EU law. The first two approaches are different ways of construing pregnancy discrimination as sex discrimination. First, the Article discusses a gender-stereotyping approach to direct sex discrimination, and, second, an indirect sex …

Southern Educator, Georgia Southern University

Southern Educator

Last Chance to Register for College's ESOL Summer Symposium

Center for STEM Education Challenges Girl Scout Camp Goers to Solve a Mystery and Think Like Engineers

Fixed Income Fund Report, June 2022, Bryant University, Archway Investment Fund

Archway Investment Fund

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Data Of Atrial Arrhythmias In Hospitalized Covid-19 And Influenza Patients, Qasim Jehangir, Yi Lee, Katie Latack, Laila M. Poisson, Dee Dee Wang, Shiyi Song, Dinesh R. Apala, Kiritkumar Patel, Abdul R. Halabi, Geetha Krishnamoorthy, Anupam A. Sule

Cardiology Articles

Atrial arrhythmias (AA) are common in hospitalized COVID-19 patients with limited data on their association with COVID-19 infection, clinical and imaging outcomes. In the related research article using retrospective research data from one quaternary care and five community hospitals, patients aged 18 years and above with positive SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction test were included. 6927 patients met the inclusion criteria. The data in this article provides demographics, home medications, in-hospital events and COVID-19 treatments, multivariable generalized linear regression regression models using a log link with a Poisson distribution (multi-parameter regression [MPR]) to determine predictors of new-onset AA and mortality in …

Building A Supply Chain For Emergency: A Case Study Of Kingfa's Mask Supply Chain, Nanjing Li

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

In case of emergency such as pandemic or earthquake, there are usually surge demands for some necessary products, which are usually far more than available production capacities thus it is necessary to quickly build more production capacities. However, building production capacities is not just building production lines but to constructing whole supply chains, from raw materials and equipment sourcing, manufacturing flow lines to demand management.

To quickly construct a supply chain for fulfilling such emergency demands is very challenging both theoretically and practically. This thesis aims to develop a model of supply chain construction for emergency demand and identify the …

Spatial Panel Data Models: Unbalanced Panel, Threshold Effect And Network Structure, Xiaoyu Meng

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

This thesis studies the estimation and inference problems for spatial panel data models when the panels are unbalanced, when the panels contain threshold effects, or when the panels contain time-varying network structures. These three scenarios divide the thesis naturally into three chapters.

The first chapter considers estimation and inferences for fixed effects spatial panel data models based on unbalanced panels that result from randomly missing spatial units. The unbalanced nature of the panel data renders the standard method of estimation inapplicable. In this chapter, we proposed an M-estimation method where the estimating functions are obtained by adjusting the concentrated quasi …

Human Papillomavirus Seroprevalence And Seroconversion Following Baseline Detection Of Nine Human Papillomavirus Types In Young Women, Darron R. Brown, Xavier Castellsagué, Daron Ferris, Suzanne M. Garland, Warner Huh, Marc Steben, Cosette M. Wheeler, Alfred Saah, Alain Luxembourg, Se Li, Christine Velicer

Pathology Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: Estimates of the humoral immune response to incident human papillomavirus (HPV) infections are limited.

METHODS: In this post hoc analysis of 3875 women aged 16-23 years from a 4-valent HPV vaccine trial (NCT00092482), HPV seroprevalence on day 1 was measured with a 9-valent HPV (HPV 6/11/16/18/31/33/45/52/58) competitive Luminex immunoassay and compared with cervical/external genital HPV detection by polymerase chain reaction. In the control group, among women who were HPV DNA‒negative on day 1, seroconversion following initial HPV detection was estimated using Kaplan-Meier methods.

RESULTS: Type-specific HPV seropositivity among women with no day 1 cervical/external genital HPV detection was 0.6%-3.6%. …

Longitudinal Manganese-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Of Neural Projections And Activity, Taylor W. Uselman, Christopher S. Medina, Harry B. Gray, Russell E. Jacobs, Elaine L. Bearer

Pathology Research and Scholarship

Manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MEMRI) holds exceptional promise for preclinical studies of brain-wide physiology in awake-behaving animals. The objectives of this review are to update the current information regarding MEMRI and to inform new investigators as to its potential. Mn(II) is a powerful contrast agent for two main reasons: (1) high signal intensity at low doses; and (2) biological interactions, such as projection tracing and neural activity mapping via entry into electrically active neurons in the living brain. High-spin Mn(II) reduces the relaxation time of water protons: at Mn(II) concentrations typically encountered in MEMRI, robust hyperintensity is obtained without adverse …

Alumna Ashley Gerald Surprised With Milken Educator Award, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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