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A Qualitative Descriptive Study Of The Experiences Of Nurse Educators In Developing And Implementing Concurrent Enrollment Adn-Bsn Programs, Janice E. Hawkins

Dissertations

Nursing leaders have called for more bachelor-of-science-in-nursing-(BSN)-prepared nurses to meet workforce demands. There is limited capacity in BSN programs to meet the projected demand. Currently, associate degree in nursing (ADN) programs produce the majority of registered nurses. To increase the number of BSN graduates, nurse educators recommend innovative educational models for seamless progression from the ADN to the BSN. Concurrent enrollment ADN-BSN programs offer one potential model to produce more BSN graduates. The purpose of this study was to describe the process of developing and implementing concurrent enrollment ADN-BSN programs. The research question was as follows: What is the experience …

Re: Approval Letter For The Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Draft 2022 Residential Metals Abatement Program (Rmap) Field Sampling Plan (Fsp) – Indoor Dust – Group 2 – West Elementary (Dated April 25, 2022), Nikia Greene

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

A Data-Based Framework For Monitoring And Controlling Particulate Systems, Vidhyadhar Manee

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

One of the limitations of conventional monitoring tools in crystallization is the inability to deal with high solids concentration. Image-based monitoring, in which RGB images of the solution are captured and analyzed by an object detection software, has been a promising alternative. The software used in these tools primarily depends on hand-coded heuristics to distinguish between the signal and the noise. With the recent success of supervised deep learning, a newer paradigm has emerged in which the heuristics can be learnt from labeled images. This approach is founded on the idea that it is easier to develop labels for data …

Improvement In Post-Autologous Stem Cell Transplant Survival Of Multiple Myeloma Patients: A Long-Term Institutional Experience., Jordan Nunnelee, Francesca Cottini, Qiuhong Zhao, Muhammad Salman Faisal, Patrick Elder, Ashley Rosko, Naresh Bumma, Abdullah Khan, Srinivas Devarakonda, Don M Benson, Yvonne Efebera, Nidhi Sharma

Oncology Articles

Multiple myeloma (MM) represents 1.8% of all new cancer cases in the U.S. While not curable, advances in treatment, including autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) and maintenance therapy, have dramatically improved progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS). We performed a retrospective survival analysis on newly diagnosed MM (NDMM) patients receiving ASCT from 1992−2016 at the Ohio State University. A total of 1001 consecutive NDMM patients were eligible. Patients were split into five groups based on historic changes in novel agents for the treatment of MM. Across the years (1992−2016), there was a statistically significant improvement in both PFS (p …

Improving The Management Of Tardive Dyskinesia On An Inpatient Mental Health Unit, Jennifer Krebsbach

DNP and Student Works

The purpose of this quality improvement project was to implement a practice change on the adult mental health unit at a rural hospital in the Upper Midwest to improve the accuracy and increase the rate of completion of the abnormal involuntary movement scale (AIMS). Results showed that post-intervention confidence levels improved among the RNs. The overall rate of completion of the AIMS increased by 50% for AIMS screening upon admission and 67% for total AIMS screening requirements among applicable patients. It can be concluded that revising the behavioral health AIMS flowsheet and expectations for documentation improved the rate of AIMS …

Mortality In Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension In The Modern Era: Early Insights From The Pulmonary Hypertension Association Registry, Kevin Y Chang, Sue Duval, David B Badesch, Todd M Bull, Murali M Chakinala, Teresa De Marco, Robert P Frantz, Anna Hemnes, Stephen C Mathai, Erika Berman Rosenzweig, John J Ryan, Thenappan Thenappan, Phar Investigators

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Background Current mortality data for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in the United States are based on registries that enrolled patients prior to 2010. We sought to determine mortality in PAH in the modern era using the PHAR (Pulmonary Hypertension Association Registry). Methods and Results We identified all adult patients with PAH enrolled in the PHAR between September 2015 and September 2020 (N=935). We used Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and Cox proportional hazards models to assess mortality at 1, 2, and 3 years. Patients were stratified based on disease severity by 3 validated risk scores. In treatment-naïve patients, we compared survival based …

Shining A Light On Mental Health, Mark Christians, Jon W. Moeller, Leah Mouw, Melanie Wynja

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"Each profession faces unique situations when it comes to serving those needing support with mental health, and it is important as Christians that we come together with a holistic approach."

Posting about care for individuals with mental health crises in the various professions from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

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Vikela Ekhaya: A Novel, Community-Based, Tuberculosis Contact Management Program In A High Burden Setting, Banele Ndlovu, Debrah Vambe, Joyce Sibanda, Gloria S Dube, Robert H Stevens, Bhekumusa Lukhele, Anna M Mandalakas

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: The prevention of tuberculosis (TB) in child contacts of TB cases and people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a public health priority, but global access to TB preventive therapy (TPT) remains low. In 2019, we implemented Vikela Ekhaya, a novel community-based TB contact management program in Eswatini designed to reduce barriers to accessing TPT.

METHODS: Vikela Ekhaya offered differentiated TB and HIV testing for household contacts of TB cases by using mobile contact management teams to screen contacts, assess their TPT eligibility, and initiate and monitor TPT adherence in participants' homes.

RESULTS: In total, 945 contacts from …

Mixed Method- How Do Medical-Surgical Nurses Provide Compassionate Care To Patients In The Face Of Adversity?, Diane D. Kret

Theses & Dissertations

Compassion is a quality that is the very essence of nursing. Nurses, as professionals, seek to alleviate suffering. It is through providing compassionate, connected care that nurses can relieve their patients’ suffering. In the midst of adversity such as taking care of ill and dying patients, especially in the Covid-19 pandemic, nurses have been challenged with providing compassionate care despite the increased toll that this may have on them. There is evidence that exposure to these events can cause compassion fatigue and burnout. When these signs of compassion fatigue or compassion burnout are not addressed, nurses have decreased job satisfaction …

Covid-19 And (Mis)Understanding Public Attitudes To Social Security: Re-Setting Debate, Sudipa Sarkar, Michael Orton

Articles

The Covid-19 pandemic has seen emerging debate about a possible shift in ‘anti-welfare commonsense’ i.e. the orthodoxy previously described in this journal as solidifying negative public attitudes towards ‘welfare’. While a shift in attitudes might be ascribed to the circumstances of the crisis it would still be remarkable for such a strongly established orthodoxy to have changed quite so rapidly. It is appropriate, therefore, to reflect on whether the ‘anti-welfare’ orthodoxy was in fact as unequivocal as claimed? To address this question, challenges to the established orthodoxy that were emerging pre-pandemic are examined along with the most recently available survey …

Characterization Of Hydrogen Embrittlement Sensitivity In High Hardness Steels, David Ahlen Salley

Theses and Dissertations

High hardness steels can be affected by delayed brittle cracking often attributed to hydrogen embrittlement. Improved resistance to hydrogen embrittlement would be beneficial to many industries including military, automotive, and high-rise construction. While other prevention methods include coating, trapping, and barriers, design efforts in this study were focused on improving intrinsic properties to be more resistant to hydrogen embrittlement. Four alloys targeting 477 – 534 HB were designed and produced in-house and compared against a commercial grade 500 HB alloy. Charpy V-notch (CVN) impact toughness and tensile specimens were made according to ASTM E23 and ASTM E8 to characterize mechanical …

Approval Letter For The Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Draft 2022 Residential Metals Abatement Program (Rmap) Field Sampling Plan (Fsp) – Indoor Dust – Group 3 – Butte High School/Annex (Dated April 25, 2022), Nikia Greene

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Umn Morris Will Celebrate 59th Commencement, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

More than 290 University of Minnesota Morris students will receive their degrees at the 59th Commencement on Saturday, May 14. The ceremony will take place at 1 p.m. on the campus mall. All are invited to attend or to watch the event streamed online.

The Value Of Rare Genetic Variation In The Prediction Of Common Obesity In European Ancestry Populations, Zhe Wang, Shing Wan Choi, Nathalie Chami, Eric Boerwinkle, Myriam Fornage, Susan Redline, Joshua C. Bis, Jennifer A. Brody, Bruce M. Psaty, John Blangero

School of Medicine Publications

Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) aggregate the effects of genetic variants across the genome and are used to predict risk of complex diseases, such as obesity. Current PRSs only include common variants (minor allele frequency (MAF) ≥1%), whereas the contribution of rare variants in PRSs to predict disease remains unknown. Here, we examine whether augmenting the standard common variant PRS (PRScommon) with a rare variant PRS (PRSrare) improves prediction of obesity. We used genome-wide genotyped and imputed data on 451,145 European-ancestry participants of the UK Biobank, as well as whole exome sequencing (WES) data on 184,385 participants. We performed single variant …

Protecting Systems From Exploits Using Language-Theoretic Security, Prashant Anantharaman

Dartmouth College Ph.D Dissertations

Any computer program processing input from the user or network must validate the input. Input-handling vulnerabilities occur in programs when the software component responsible for filtering malicious input---the parser---does not perform validation adequately. Consequently, parsers are among the most targeted components since they defend the rest of the program from malicious input. This thesis adopts the Language-Theoretic Security (LangSec) principle to understand what tools and research are needed to prevent exploits that target parsers. LangSec proposes specifying the syntactic structure of the input format as a formal grammar. We then build a recognizer for this formal grammar to validate any …

Academic Senate - Minutes, 5/3/2022, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

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Smokejumper Obituary: Eaton, John F. (Mccall 1968), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Smokejumper Obituary: Donner, Fred H. (Missoula 1959), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

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Systems Biology Approach To Functionally Assess The Clostridioides Difficile Pangenome Reveals Genetic Diversity With Discriminatory Power, Firas S Midani, Jared T Broddrick, Tor C Savidge, Robert A Britton, Bernhard O Palsson, Jennifer K Spinler, Jonathan M Monk

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Combatting Clostridioides difficile infections, a dominant cause of hospital-associated infections with incidence and resulting deaths increasing worldwide, is complicated by the frequent emergence of new virulent strains. Here, we employ whole-genome sequencing, high-throughput phenotypic screenings, and genome-scale models of metabolism to evaluate the genetic diversity of 451 strains of C. difficile. Constructing the C. difficile pangenome based on this set revealed 9,924 distinct gene clusters, of which 2,899 (29%) are defined as core, 2,968 (30%) are defined as unique, and the remaining 4,057 (41%) are defined as accessory. We develop a strain typing method, sequence typing by accessory genome (STAG), …

Offensive Cyber Operations And Future Littoral Operating Concepts, Jd Work

Military Cyber Affairs

Introduction of new ground-launch cruise missile options to hold adversary naval targets at risk in order to support conventional deterrence objectives through sea control and sea denial missions is the centerpiece of proposed reorganization of Marine Littoral forces, as part of new “Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations,” and “Littoral Operations in Contested Environments” concepts. Effective distributed sea control fires against pacing threat maritime formations requires defeat of integrated air defense systems. Offensive cyber operations capabilities may be considered as a means of altering the calculus of attrition in missile fires exchanges, but due to various sensitivities it has been difficult to …

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Why Plasmodium Vivax And Plasmodium Falciparum Are So Different? A Tale Of Two Clades And Their Species Diversities, Ananias A. Escalante, Axl S. Cepeda, M. Andreína Pacheco

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

The global malaria burden sometimes obscures that the genus Plasmodium comprises diverse clades with lineages that independently gave origin to the extant human parasites. Indeed, the differences between the human malaria parasites were highlighted in the classical taxonomy by dividing them into two subgenera, the subgenus Plasmodium, which included all the human parasites but Plasmodium falciparum that was placed in its separate subgenus, Laverania. Here, the evolution of Plasmodium in primates will be discussed in terms of their species diversity and some of their distinct phenotypes, putative molecular adaptations, and host–parasite biocenosis. Thus, in addition to a current …

2022-05-03 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress meeting minutes from May 3, 2022.

High Spinal In C-Section, Tian Yu, Artush Grigoryan

Advocate GME

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The Impact Of Contact Sports: A Marker Of Grit Among General Surgery Residents, Darci C. Foote, John N. Donkersloot, Bridger Rodoni, Samantha Baker, Niki Matusko, Quintin Solano

Conference Presentation Abstracts

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Resident Labor Unions: A Mechanism For Agency Or Conflict, Darci C. Foote, Daniela Amórtegui, Carlos Diaz, Brian Brajcich, Karl Y. Bilimoria, Yue-Yung Hu, Julie K. Johnson

Conference Presentation Abstracts

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Property, Bas Van Der Vossen

Philosophy Faculty Books and Book Chapters

"This chapter discusses the nature and value of property rights. It will explain (1) what property rights are, (2) the relationship between private property and economic development, and (3) some objections to structuring societies around such rights. This discussion throughout focuses on the decentralizing nature of private property rights, asking what implications it has from a philosophical, but also social and political, point of view."

Extending Tensor Virtual Machine To Support Deep-Learning Accelerators With Convolution Cores, Yanzhao Wang, Fei Xie

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Deep-learning accelerators are increasingly popular. There are two prevalent accelerator architectures: one based on general matrix multiplication units and the other on convolution cores. However, Tensor Virtual Machine (TVM), a widely used deep-learning compiler stack, does not support the latter. This paper proposes a general framework for extending TVM to support deep-learning accelerators with convolution cores. We have applied it to two well-known accelerators: Nvidia's NVDLA and Bitmain's BM1880 successfully. Deep-learning workloads can now be readily deployed to these accelerators through TVM and executed efficiently. This framework can extend TVM to other accelerators with minimum effort.

Uab's Sales Certificate Program Named One Of Best In U.S., Julie Senter

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