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Post-Implementation Review Of The Himalaya Home Care Project For Home Isolated Covid-19 Patients In Nepal, Rakchya Amatya, Kritika Mishra, Kshitij Karki, Isha Puri, Archita Gautam, Sweta Thapa, Urmila Katwal, Siddhesh Veer, John Zervos, Linda M. Kaljee, Tyler Prentiss, Kate Zenlea, Gina Maki, Pawan Jung Rayamajhi, Narendra K. Khanal, Pomawati Thapa, Madan Kumar Upadhyaya, Deepak Bajracharya

Global Health Initiative Articles

Background: The emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in a pandemic that has significantly impacted healthcare systems at a global level. Health care facilities in Nepal, as in other low- and middle-income countries, have limited resources for the treatment and management of COVID-19 patients. Only critical cases are admitted to the hospital resulting in most patients in home isolation.

Methods: Himalaya Home Care (HHC) was initiated to monitor and provide counseling to home isolated COVID-19 patients for disease prevention, control, and treatment. Counselors included one physician and four nurses. Lists of patients were obtained from district and municipal …

Maximizing Social Equity As A Pillar Of Public Administration: An Examination Of Cannabis Dispensary Licensing In Pennsylvania, A. Lee Hannah, Daniel J. Mallinson, Lauren Azevedo

Political Science Faculty Publications

Public administration upholds four pillars of an administrative practice: economy, efficiency, effectiveness, and social equity. The question arises, however, how do administrators balance effectiveness and social equity when implementing policy? Can the values contributing to administrative decisions be measured? This study leverages the expansion of medical cannabis programs in the states to interrogate these questions. The awarding of dispensary licenses in Pennsylvania affords the ability to determine the effect of social equity scoring on license award decisions, relative to criteria that represent the other pillars. The results show that safety and business acumen were the most important determining factors in …

Highly Efficient Loading Program For En Route (Helper) App, Melissa A. Wilson, Kaya N. Brown, Brittany L. Fouts

Nursing Faculty Publications

Various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms, apparatus and/or computer implemented method configured for automatically managing En Route Care (ERC) transport patient and medical equipment loading

How I’M Spending My Summer (Getting Acclimated To The Physical Workplace), Olivia Smith Schlinck

Library Staff Online Writings

It’s mid-May which, in the law school world, means finals, grading, graduation and the impending summer. As the spring semester winds to a close, I’ve been finding myself staring at a mostly blank – beautifully, thankfully blank – summer calendar and wondering: how will I fill my time?

Experimental Investigation Of Nonthermal Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques For Improving Oil Recovery On Alaska North Slope, Yaoze Cheng

Engineering

Exploitation of viscous and heavy oils on Alaska North Slope (ANS) requires nonthermal enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques. Currently, three nonthermal EOR methods, including solvent injection, low salinity water (LSW) flooding, and low salinity polymer (LSP) injection, have been proved to be useful on ANS. ANS viscous and heavy oils can be developed effectively by combining those three nonthermal EOR techniques. In this dissertation, lab experiments have been conducted to investigate the potential of the proposed hybrid nonthermal EOR techniques, including HSW (high salinity water)-LSW-softened LSW flooding, HSW-LSW-LSP flooding, CO₂-enriched LHS (light hydrocarbon solvent)-alternating-LSW flooding, LHS-alternating-LSW flooding, CO₂-enriched LHS (light …

Umn Morris Faculty And Staff Honored, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Infusion Rate Titration On Taxane-Related Hypersensitivity, Terri Jabaley

Sigma Foundation for Nursing Research Grant Reports

The purpose of this project is to determine if an initial three-step, gradual infusion rate titration provided with first and second lifetime exposure taxane infusions reduces the occurrence and severity of immediate hypersensitivity reactions.

Coastal Wetland Carbon And Mineral Responses To Storm And Climate Change Through Time, At Cape Espenberg Alaska, Lindsey Michelle Smith

Geosciences

The Arctic is experiencing warming and ecological shifts due to climate change and the compounded effects of polar amplification. There is a deficit of information surrounding the carbon cycle response in Arctic Alaskan coastal marsh environments to these forces. The Cape Espenberg barrier beach system has been mostly preserved through time as a shoreline-parallel, linear geometry prograding geomorphic feature. This study determines the Arctic carbon and mineral accumulation trends in marsh environments at Cape Espenberg for both paleo (pre 1850 AD) and modern (post 1850 AD) timeframes. This project makes connections between the responses of carbon and mineral materials to …

Covid-19 Newsletter (Vol. 119), Center For Disaster Medicine, New York Medical College

COVID-19 Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Lipid Accumulation In Three Species Of Neocalanus Copepod In The Northern Gulf Of Alaska, Delaney M. Coleman

Oceanography

The Northern Gulf of Alaska experiences pronounced seasonality and inter-annual variability characterized by a significant bloom of phytoplankton in the spring. Neocalanus copepods in the NGA have evolved to match their lifecycle to the seasonality of the Gulf of Alaska and feed upon the spring phytoplankton bloom. All three of these Neocalanus species utilize diapause as an over-wintering strategy; acquiring large stores of lipid to sustain them through winter hibernation and subsequent reproduction. Zooplankton were sampled with 150 and 505 µm mesh nets from 0 to 1200 m along the Seward Line and within Prince William Sound in the Northern …

Acoustic Detection And Characterization Of Sea Ice And Surface Waves In The Northeast Chukchi Sea, Savannah J. Sandy

Oceanography

Monitoring the status of Arctic marine ecosystems is aided by oceanographic moorings that autonomously collect data year-round. Near Hanna Shoal in the northeast Chukchi Sea, the Chukchi Ecosystem Observatory moorings include an ASL Environmental Sciences Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP) datalogger, a multi-frequency upward-looking sonar that is programmed to collect data from across the upper 30 m of the water column every 10-20 seconds. Using six years of nearly continuous data, here we describe a statistical analysis of the datalogger's 455 kHz acoustic backscatter return signal. When used in conjunction with a selforganizing map machine learning algorithm, these data allow …

A Place-Based Canoe Unit For Middle School Students, Laura Davies

Education

Behavior problems are steadily increasing at the middle school as a result ofthe COVID-19 pandemic and the trauma it caused in the students’ lives. Not only do educators want to reduce the behavior problems, but we also want students to feel safe and know that their individual needs will be met. Educators are striving to find creative ways to increase academic success, inspire students, teach important life skills and address social-emotional needs. One way I would like to address this is by creating a four week interdisciplinary place-based education unit focused on the significance and importance of canoes in Southeast …

Gardner-Webb Nursing Alumni, Adjuncts Learned Skills In Classes To Help Ukrainian Refugees, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Drs. Adam and Marielle Combs, of Goldsboro, N.C., recently returned from a trip to help Ukrainian refugees in Romania and Moldova through the anti-human trafficking organization, Exitus. However, for these 2021 alumni of Gardner-Webb University—and adjuncts in the Hunt School of Nursing—the story actually began four years ago.

Will Reducing Drug Prices Slow Innovation?, Gregory Vaughan, Fred Ledley

Natural & Applied Sciences Faculty Publications

The pharmaceutical industry has long argued that high drug prices reflect the high cost of innovation and that reducing drug prices would necessarily slow the pipeline of new drugs. These arguments have been bolstered by studies of large pharmaceutical companies showing statistical associations between the projected market size or revenue for pharmaceutical products and research & development (R&D) activity. Our analysis recognizes the increasingly important role of small biopharmaceuticals in drug development , companies that typically have little revenue and negative earnings, but are now responsible for more than 40% of new drug approvals. We examine the relationship between changes …

Neural Stimulator, Jose A. Parodi Amaya, Edward F. Austin, Jin-Woo Choi

Pennington Biomedical Research Center Patents

Methods and apparatus are disclosed relating to the stimulating of tissue including nerve tissue based on combinations of capacitors and resistors. Application and removal of voltage to an electrical circuit is taught as part of a method of creating voltage waveforms for nerve and other tissue with such waveforms creating neural signals. The electrical apparatus taught may, include a first electrical node grounded through a first resistor; a second electrical node grounded through a second resistor; a first capacitor connected to both the first electrical node and the second electrical node; a second capacitor separating the second electrical node from …

High Performance And Recyclable Thermoset Ink For 3d Or 4d Printing, Ang Li, Guoqiang Li

College of Engineering Patents

A UV-curable and recyclable thermoset shape memory polymer is provided. The polymer includes a vitrimer-based monomer and a photoinitiator. The vitrimer-based monomer includes a first unit rendering a high chain stiffness upon polymerization of the monomer, and a second photopolymerizable unit for photopolymerization of the monomer under a UV irradiation. The polymer has high strength, high stiffness, high recovery stress, high energy storage, reasonable recycling efficiency, and is printable using SLA with high resolution.

Becky Landes, Becky Landes, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Becky Landes is a current Food Service Director for Manchester Community Schools in Indiana. For over 20 years, Becky has been in Child Nutrition. She holds a Level 4 Certificate from the School Nutrition Association and is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Management. Becky is involved in Farm to School in Indiana. She has collaborated with the Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Grown for Schools, and various other stakeholders in procuring and serving local foods in schools. Becky likes to be involved in the many facets of Child Nutrition. She participates in and is a member of …

Cerium Dioxide, A Jekyll And Hyde Nanomaterial, Can Increase Basal And Decrease Elevated Inflammation And Oxidative Stress, Robert Yokel, Marsha L. Ensor, Hemendra J. Vekaria, Patrick G. Sullivan, David J. Feola, Arnold Stromberg, Michael T. Tseng, Douglas A. Harrison

Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications

It was hypothesized that the catalyst nanoceria can increase oxidative

stress/inflammation from the basal state and reduce it from the elevated state .

Nanoceria are cleared by macrophages. To test the hypothesis, M0 (non-polarized),

M1- (classically activated, pro-inflammatory), and M2-like (alternatively activated,

regulatory phenotype) RAW 264.7 macrophages were nanoceria exposed. Responses

were quantified by arginase activity, IL-1ß level, cell oxygen consumption rate (OCR),

the glycolysis stress test (GST), morphology determined by light microscopy,

macrophage phenotype marker expression and morphology using a novel three

dimensional immunohistochemical method, and RT-qPCR. Nanoceria blocked

arginase and IL-1ß effects, increased M0 cell OCR and GST …

Implementation Of A Primary Care Toolkit To Improve Dementia Diagnosis And Management In A Rural Setting, Meredith George-Wieland

Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Projects

BACKGROUND: There are six million people with dementia living in the United States and this number is expected to rise exponentially due to the aging population. In the United States, it is estimated that only two thirds of dementia cases are recorded during primary care visits and an estimated, one third of cases have been either missed or disregarded.

LOCAL PROBLEM: In a remote primary care clinic on Kodiak Island, off the southeastern coast of Alaska, there is a lack of dementia and related cognitive diagnoses in the primary care setting due to patients’ and families lack access to the …

May 17, 2022 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Sacscoc In Libraries, Julene L. Jones, Kathleen Bell

Library Presentations

In this webinar, two Assessment Librarians describe SACSCOC Library standards 11.1-11.3 as well as the narratives and evidentiary documents they compiled for their institutions' 2022 and 2023 reaffirmation processes. Slides also available at http://www.aserl.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/SACSCOC-in-Libraries.pdf

Long Runs Of Homozygosity Are Correlated With Marriage Preferences Across Global Population Samples, Samali Anova Sahoo, Arslan A. Zaidi, Santosh Anagol, Iain Mathieson

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

Children of consanguineous unions carry long runs of homozygosity (ROH) in their genomes, due to their parents’ recent shared ancestry. This increases the burden of recessive disease in populations with high levels of consanguinity and has been heavily studied in some groups. However, there has been little investigation of the broader effect of consanguinity on patterns of genetic variation on a global scale. Here, we collect published genetic data and information about marriage practice from 395 worldwide populations and show that reported preference for cousin marriage has a detectable association with the distribution of long ROH in this sample, increasing …

Fmrp Regulates Gabaa Receptor Channel Activity To Control Signal Integration In Hippocampal Granule Cells, Pan-Yue Deng, Ajeet Kumar, Valeria Cavalli, Vitaly A Klyachko

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited form of intellectual disability, is caused by loss of fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP). GABAergic system dysfunction is one of the hallmarks of FXS, yet the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we report that FMRP interacts with GABA

Collaborative Research: Expedite Csi Processing With Lightweight Ai In Massive Mimo Communication Systems, Rose Hu

Funded Research Records

No abstract provided.

A Competence-Based Online Learning Video And In-Situ Simulation To Improve Perioperative Anesthesia Nurse Practitioner Self-Efficacy In Responding To Anesthesia Emergencies, Sara Durgerian

Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Projects

Background: Nurse Practitioners (NPs) are broadly educated to the population-based role in which they practice. Further education in subspecialties is essential as more NPs are working autonomously in highly specialized care areas.

Problem: In the Department of Anesthesia at a large urban hospital, perioperative anesthesia NPs lack formal training in the subspecialty of anesthesia, which contributed to a lack of self-efficacy when responding to anesthesia emergencies.

Methods: An asynchronous multimodal brief instructional video accompanied by an in-situ simulation of an anesthesia emergency was developed to increase knowledge and confidence in perioperative anesthesia nurse practitioner response to anesthesia emergencies.

Results: A …

Alaska Earthquake Center Quarterly Technical Report January-March 2022, Natalia Ruppert

Alaska Earthquake Center Reports

This series of technical quarterly reports from the Alaska Earthquake Center (AEC) includes detailed summaries and updates on Alaska seismicity, the AEC seismic network and stations, field work, our social media presence, and lists publications and presentations by AEC staff. Multiple AEC staff members contribute to this report. It is issued in the following month after the completion of each quarter Q1: January-March, Q2: April-June, Q3: July-September, and Q4: October-December. First report was published for January-March, 2021.

Comment Letter For: Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Draft Final Quarterly Operations And Maintenance Report Butte Treatment Lagoons System – Fourth Quarter 2021 (Dated March 30, 2022), Nikia Greene

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Media Advisory: University Of New Hampshire 2022 Commencement, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Zauthly: A Zero Trust Oauth2 Authorization Tool, Matthew Robert Perry

Computer Science

Controlling authentication and authorization is a pivotal part of managing modern web resources. Over the past decade, Oauth and OpenID Connect have shown that they are capable and secure protocols used for secure communication between the Identity Providers (IdP) and requesting parties that consume them. Zero Trust (ZT) architectures are based on authenticating individual requests instead of machines or networks. ZT has shown a pathway that enables a more secure flow oftrusted communication. This is done by defining the control systems and their counterpart the data systems. Zauthly applies ZT principles to Oauth2 flows to create a middleware service that …

Google Workspace Add-On For Google Drive Notifications, Tailon Russell

Computer Science

This project was designed to help collaborative teams receive timely notifications on changes that occur on shared resources. The end product of this project is a Google Workspace add-on that allows email messages to be sent when a Google Drive file is changed. Other services provide this feature are known as integration tools. Some such services are Zapier, Automate.io, Integromat. The issues with such tools are that they cost money the more they are used, having a large amount of files or folders in a cloud service like Google Drive will take more resources from the integration tool to track …