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The Emotional Impact Of Urinary Tract Infections In Women: A Qualitative Analysis, Guido Schmiemann

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

BACKGROUND: While many studies address the clinical management of participants with uncomplicated urinary tract infection (uUTI), the emotional impact of uUTIs has been investigated less often. The aim of this qualitative study was to understand the emotional experience of women with uUTIs.

METHODS: This was a qualitative, exploratory, in-depth interview-based study conducted among women in the United States (US) and Germany. Women aged ≥ 18 years with at least one uUTI treated with antibiotics in the past year were recruited through a patient community panel and physician referrals. Participants were recruited using purposive sampling to include an equal split of …

Observation Of Ultracold Atomic Bubbles In Orbital Microgravity, R. A. Carollo, D. C. Aveline, B. Rhyno, S. Vishveshwara, C. Lannert, J. D. Murphree, E. R. Elliott, J. R. Williams, R. J. Thompson, Nathan Lundblad

All Faculty Scholarship

Substantial leaps in the understanding of quantum systems have been driven by exploring geometry, topology, dimensionality and interactions in ultracold atomic ensembles1–6. A system where atoms evolve while confined on an ellipsoidal surface represents a heretofore unexplored geometry and topology. Realizing an ultracold bubble—potentially Bose–Einstein condensed—relates to areas of interest including quantized-vortex flow constrained to a closed surface topology, collective modes and self-interference via bubble expansion7–17. Large ultracold bubbles, created by inflating smaller condensates, directly tie into Hubble-analogue expansion physics18–20. Here we report observations from the NASA Cold Atom Lab21 facility onboard the International Space Station of bubbles of ultracold …

Differentially Methylated Cpgs In Response To Growth Hormone Administration In Children With Idiopathic Short Stature., Xiaojian Shao, Catherine Le Stunff, Warren A. Cheung, Tony Kwan, Mark Lathrop, Tomi Pastinen, Pierre Bougnères

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

BACKGROUND: Recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) has shown a great growth-promoting potential in children with idiopathic short stature (ISS). However, the response to rhGH differs across individuals, largely due to genetic and epigenetic heterogeneity. Since epigenetic marks on the methylome can be dynamically influenced by GH, we performed a comprehensive pharmacoepigenomics analysis of DNA methylation changes associated with long-term rhGH administration in children with ISS.

RESULTS: We measured DNA methylation profiles before and after GH treatment (with a duration of ~ 18 months in average) on 47 healthy children using customized methylC-seq capture sequencing. Their changes were compared and associated …

Policy-Defined Data Access Model For Data Access Limits And Restrictions Enforcement, Eugenio Marchiori, Wei Huang, Nikita Dubrovsky, Sergey Volnov

Defensive Publications Series

This publication describes systems and techniques for providing a policy-defined data access model for enforcing data access limits in place of a permission-protected data access model. An operating system of a computing device may implement the policy-defined data access model to enforce data access limits for applications and processes that decouple permissions from policies. That is, even when an application is permitted by the operating system to access certain data, the operating system may apply and enforce policies that restrict the application’s access to the data in certain ways based on factors such as an application’s purpose for accessing certain …

Packaging And Propagation Of Molecular Documentation Responses, Vishal Palliyathu, Anu Kothari, Manju Joseph, Swetha K.S

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are presented herein that support the tokenizing of semantically enriched information sets (such as the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)) to associate ontological relationships between the various entities and intents in a product information library and rendering them as API responses. The method uses an Inverted Disclosure Plot and a weighted algorithm to determine the order of kinship based on the varied relationships that occur between the extracted entities and various intents. Subsequently, a domain ontology may be generated as a Resource Description Framework (RDF) and, the RDF may be translated into a series of application programming interface (API) …

Old Dilemmas, New Guises: Developing An Anti-Subordination Reading Of Students For Fair Admissions V. Harvard, Eric Szkarlat

Fordham Law Review Online

In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court will again hear arguments on the constitutionality of race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions. This outcome was far from foretold: the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had suggested the Court might never take up affirmative action in admissions again. Yet after dragging its feet on granting certiorari, the Court agreed to hear Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard. This time, however, the case has a substantially different and quite controversial posture. That posture centers on alleged discrimination against Asian and Pacific American (APA) students applying to college. Some APA students are divided …

The Anomalous Issue Class, Veniamin Privalov

Fordham Law Review Online

The modern class action is a litigation superstar. The device’s potential for opening the courthouse doors to “small people,” holding big business accountable, and enacting sweeping reform is second to none. In recent years, however, the star has waned. Judicial hostility has made it harder for plaintiffs to certify a class while making it easier for defendants to avoid class actionsentirely. Certifying a mass tort class has become nearly impossible. Plaintiff lawyers’ creative attempts to work around these roadblocks have been shut down one after another by the Supreme Court. It is in this scorched mass litigation landscape that commentators …

Elevated Substitution Rates Among Wolbachia-Infected Mosquito Species Results In Apparent Phylogenetic Discordance., James E. Russell, Michael Saum, Rebekah Williams

Georgia Journal of Science

As one of the most widely distributed bacterial cytoplasmic symbionts on earth, Wolbachia pipientis Hertig serves as a model organism for the understanding of host-symbiont interactions. Many mosquito species are infected with Wolbachia strains that induce a form of reproductive manipulation called cytoplasmic incompatibility, in which infected females gain a reproductive advantage over uninfected females in mixed infection populations. The selective advantage of cytoplasmic incompatibility often results in a population sweep of Wolbachia and co-transmitted mitochondrial genomes. Mitochondrial evolution and phylogenetic inferences drawn from mitochondrial gene sequences are thus potentially compromised by reproductive manipulating symbionts, like Wolbachia. Our initial …

How To Regulate Online Platforms: Why Common Carrier Doctrine Is Inappropriate To Regulate Social Networks And Alternate Approaches To Protect Rights, Edward W. Mclaughlin

Fordham Law Review Online

Concerns about the “concentrated control of so much speech in the hands of a few private parties” and their ability to suppress some user speech have led to calls to regulate online platforms like common carriers or public accommodations. Advocates of that regulation theorize that social media platforms host today’s public forum and are open to all comers and so should have a responsibility to be content neutral and allow all voices to be heard. Traditionally, the argument that private players, as opposed to only government actors, can violate individuals’ free speech rights was a progressive cause, but recently conservative …

Court Mandated Technology-Assisted Review In E-Discovery: Changes In Proportionality, Cost-Shifting, And Spoliation, Graham Streich

Fordham Law Review Online

Burgeoning advanced technology-assisted review (TAR) methods challenge justifications for requesting parties’ burdens and litigant cooperation in e-discovery. Increasingly accurate and accessible TAR introduces novel issues in e-discovery, including determining the proportionality of discovery requests and managing information in spoliation cases. This Essay recommends reconsidering the judiciary’s role in e-discovery in light of new technology and argues that courts, particularly lower courts, need expert technical guidance to adequately address the issues e-discovery presents.

Polarizing Impact: Indigenous Consultation Under International Labor Organization Convention 169 And The Emerging Polar Shipping Industry, Danika Elizabeth Watson

Fordham Law Review Online

This Article analyzes U.S. ratification of International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 169, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (“Convention 169” or “C. 169”), by evaluating the impact in terms of its ability to solidify its protections of the land and lifeways of Arctic Indigenous people and strengthen the United States’s position as an international leader in Arctic life, development, and policy. Part I presents the issues. Part II introduces the growth of a polar shipping industry in the context of a rapidly melting Arctic. Part III provides a brief gloss on the complex and shifting international legal framework governing Arctic sovereignty …

Recording Virtual Justice: Cameras In The Digital Courtroom, Matthew Bultman

Fordham Law Review Online

With in-person hearings limited during the COVID-19 pandemic, many courts pivoted to proceedings held over the telephone or on virtual platforms like Zoom. It appears these proceedings are here to stay, with various benefits having been realized from remote access to the courts. Remote hearings have, however, given rise to constitutional questions. This Essay focuses on one emerging issue: courts’ ability to prohibit the press and the public from recording or disseminating these proceedings. While the constitutionality of recording and broadcasting restrictions inside the real-world courtroom is established, little consideration was given to the extension of these rules to the …

Tenancies Uncommon: Limits On Representing Cotenants Pro Se, Robert L. Bentlyewski

Fordham Law Review Online

An adversary proceeding that was part of the Bernie Madoff bankruptcy litigation involved a fraud victim making a motion to represent pro se the interests of all tenants in common who co-owned an account with Madoff. This Essay analyzes and expands upon the bankruptcy court’s holding, which addressed this novel issue by finding that a tenant in common cannot represent his cotenants pro se for two reasons. First, a tenancy in common is not a legal entity that can speak with one voice. Second, one tenant in common cannot represent one or more other cotenants’ interests in litigation without joining …

Exploring Glycolysis-Mediated Metabolic Stress And Mitigation Strategies In The Cns Through Glycation-Lowering Therapy, Cavan Patterson

Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biological Sciences Master's Theses

In the aging brain, cells undergo stress, inflammation, loss of replicative ability and in some cases cell death. Hyperglycemic conditions have been shown to exacerbate these effects. Recent literature has begun to regard Alzheimer’s Disease as a “Type 3 Diabetes Mellitus,” implicating loss of insulin sensitivity and increased oxidative stress as contributing factors. Hyperglycemic conditions can overwhelm the cellular capacity to detoxify harmful glycolytic byproducts such as methylglyoxal (MGO). Intact MGO reacts readily with nearby proteins or lipids to form Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs), of which the accumulation over time has been linked to many age-associated pathologies. Our lab …

Principal Response Curve Analysis Of Arthropod Community Abundance Data With Sparse Subsets, Changjian Jiang, C. R. Brown, P. Asiimwe, Chen Meng, Adam W. Schapaugh

Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture and Natural Resources

Principal response curve (PRC) analysis was applied to an assessment of the ecological impact of the genetically-modified (GM), insect-resistant, cotton MON 88702 on predatory Hemiptera communities in the field. The field community was represented by ten taxa collected ten times across the season at six sites, in which individual taxa were not observed in at least 25% of the time (unique site x collection combinations). These complete absences and those nearly so, called sparse subsets of the data in this investigation, were the result of geoclimatic and seasonal variations, which are both independent of the treatment effect for which the …

Separating The Wheat From The Chaff: Understanding Background Groundwater Conditions Surrounding Coal Ash Ponds, Tarek Saba, Gordon Getzinger

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

A Novel And Rapid Approach To Evaluate The Effectiveness Of Wastewater And Treatment Byproduct Solidification, Benjamin A. Kienzle, Priscyla Marquez, Tongren Zhu, Maria Juenger

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Use Of Machine Learning Algorithm To Classify Anomalies In Cover Of Ccr Disposal Site, Hanlei Gu, Wladimiro Villarroel, Benjamin Gallagher, Brian Palmer

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Addressing Public Fear With Facts—Tva Coal Ash Factsheets Poster Presentation, Melissa Hedgecoth, Lisa Jn Bradley, Neil Carriker, Rock Vitale

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Geochemical Modeling Of Acid Mine Drainage Mitigation Using Stabilized Flue Gas Desulfurization Material, Chin-Min Cheng, Walter N. Powell, Brianna O'Neil-Hankle, John J. Lenhart

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Incineration Ashes – A Possible Substitute To Coal Fly Ashes In Cementitious Environments, Vikram Kumar, Nishant Garg

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Landfill Reclamation: Over 20 Years Of Coal Combustion Product Recycling, Rich Ellman, Joe Malizia, Jim Erdman, Dan Baker

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Measured Leachate Generation To Predictive Modeling, Kirk Ellison, Benjamin Gallagher, Cedric Ruhl, See Hoon Lee

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Influence Of Ash Drainage Technique On Water Treatability, Ed Carter, Greg M. Landry, Paul C. Schmall

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow - Perspectives On Gw Remediation In A Dynamic Ccr Market, Brad Koons, Dennis Connair, Doug Gray

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Fly Ash Reclamation And Beneficiation Using A Triboelectric Belt Separator, Frank Hrach, Cesar Constantino, Kyle Flynn, Kamal Ghazi

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Evaluating The Synergy Between Upcycled Off-Spec Fly Ash (Ofa) & Bio-Based Rejuvenators In Recycled Asphalt Mastics, Ahmed Abdalla, Ahmed Faheem, Rebecca E. Crispin, Mohammed Alsalihi

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

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Investigation On Rare Earth Elements (Rees) Of Fly Ash From Western India’S Lignite Deposit, Debabrata Das, Shivam Sharma, Ramkrishna Mondal

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Ccr & Elg Rule Revisions Impacts On Plant Operations And Compliance, Will Mattingly, Bill Kennedy

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Long Time Experiences With Ash Recovery In France, Loic Danest, Fabrice Fayola

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.