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Elegy With Forceps, Amanda Gaines

Yalobusha Review

No abstract provided.

Can We Make Our Robot Play Soccer? Influence Of Collaborating With Preservice Teachers And Fifth Graders On Undergraduate Engineering Students' Learning During A Robotic Design Process (Work In Progress), Krishnanand Kaipa, Jennifer Kidd, Julia Noginova, Francisco Cima, Stacie Ringleb, Orlando Ayala, Pilar Pazos, Kristie Gutierrez, Min Jung Lee

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications

This work-in-progress paper describes engineering students’ experiences in an NSF-funded project that partnered undergraduate engineering students with pre-service teachers to plan and deliver robotics lessons to fifth graders at a local school. This project aims to address an apparent gap between what is taught in academia and industry’s expectations of engineers to integrate perspectives from outside their field to solve modern societal problems requiring a multidisciplinary approach. Working in small teams over Zoom, participating engineering, education, and fifth grade students designed, built, and coded bio-inspired COVID companion robots. The goal for the engineering students was to build new interprofessional skills, …

Centrality And Transverse-Momentum Dependence Of Higher-Order Flow Harmonics Of Identified Hadrons In Au+Au Collisions At √𝑠𝑁⁢𝑁=200 Gev, Star Collaboration

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We present high-precision measurements of elliptic, triangular, and quadrangular flow 𝑣2, 𝑣3, and 𝑣4, respectively, at midrapidity for identified hadrons 𝜋, 𝑝, 𝐾, 𝜑, 𝐾𝑠, Λ as a function of centrality and transverse momentum in Au+Au collisions at the center-of-mass energy √𝑠𝑁⁢𝑁=200 GeV. We observe similar 𝑣𝑛 trends between light and strange mesons which indicates that the heavier strange quarks flow as strongly as the lighter up and down quarks. The number-of-constituent-quark scaling for 𝑣2, 𝑣3, and 𝑣4 is found to hold within statistical uncertainty for 0–10%, 10–40%, and 40–80% collision centrality intervals. The results are compared to several viscous …

Azimuthal Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries Of Inclusive Jets And Identified Hadrons Within Jets From Polarized 𝑝⁢𝑝 Collisions At √𝑠 =200  Gev, Star Collaboration

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

The STAR Collaboration reports measurements of the transverse single-spin asymmetries, 𝐴𝑁, for inclusive jets and identified “hadrons within jets” production at midrapidity from transversely polarized 𝑝⁢𝑝 collisions at √𝑠 =200  GeV, based on data recorded in 2012 and 2015. The inclusive jet asymmetry measurements include 𝐴𝑁 for inclusive jets and 𝐴𝑁 for jets containing a charged pion carrying a momentum fraction 𝑧 >0.3 of the jet momentum. The identified hadron within jet asymmetry measurements include the Collins effect for charged pions, kaons, and protons, and the Collins-like effect for charged pions. The measured asymmetries are determined for several distinct kinematic …

Evidence For Nonlinear Gluon Effects In Qcd And Their Mass Number Dependence At Star, Star Collaboration

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

The STAR Collaboration reports measurements of back-to-back azimuthal correlations of di-𝜋0s produced at forward pseudorapidities (2.6 < 𝜂 < 4.0) in 𝑝 +𝑝, 𝑝+Al, and 𝑝+Au collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 200 GeV. We observe a clear suppression of the correlated yields of back-to-back 𝜋0 pairs in 𝑝+Al and 𝑝+Au collisions compared to the 𝑝 +𝑝 data. The observed suppression of back-to-back pairs as a function of transverse momentum suggests nonlinear gluon dynamics arising at high parton densities. The larger suppression found in 𝑝+Au relative to 𝑝+Al collisions exhibits a dependence of the saturation scale 𝑄2/𝑠 on the mass number 𝐴. A linear scaling of the suppression with 𝐴1/3 is observed with a slope of −0.09 ±0.01.

Foreword, Michelle E. Mazzola

Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity

No abstract provided.

Reparations And The International Law Origin Story, John Linarelli

Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity

No abstract provided.

Dispensing Reparations For Marijuana Convictions, Michelle Mazzola

Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity

No abstract provided.

Creditable Civic Engagement? Aligning Work On Civic Activity With Faculty Incentives, Kenneth W. Moffett, Laurie L. Rice

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

Political scientists frequently study and engage in civic engagement work and the institutions that employ them state that they value these endeavors. Yet, there is a disconnect between valuing and doing this work relative to aligning it with faculty incentives. We discuss our experiences with civic engagement work and how we made it fit into how we are evaluated. We use our experience to motivate recommendations to fellow faculty, institutions, and administrators with respect to how they can do and encourage this work going forward.

A Micro-Typology Of Contact Effects In Four Tibeto-Burman Languages, Kristine Hildebrandt, Oliver Bond, Dubi Nanda Dhakal

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

When minority languages with similar typological profiles are in long-term contact with a genealogically unrelated socioeconomically dominant language, the perfect context is provided for investigating which observed contact effects are demonstrably allied to sociolinguistic dynamics rather than purely structural ones. This paper investigates the factors determining the different extent of contact effects in four Tibeto-Burman languages (Gurung, Gyalsumdo, Nar-Phu, and Manange) spoken in a geo-politically defined and multilingual region of Nepal. Using corpus data and sociolinguistic interviews collected in the field, we demonstrate that a range of social, economic and geo-spatial factors contribute to asymmetries where contact effects are observed …

The Effect Of Dysfunctional Organizational Culture On Burnout In Academic Libraries, Lora Del Rio, Juliet Kerico Gray, Lis Pankl

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

This chapter explores the high incidence of dysfunctional organizational cultures among academic libraries and how these cultures accelerate burnout among librarians, particularly newer librarians. Our data show that there are a variety of factors that lead to dysfunctional organizational cultures in libraries, including generational conflict, salary inequities, lack of representation of women and people of color in leadership positions, and poor leadership. In combating dysfunction and burnout, we recognize the idea that individuals are responsible for managing their burnout through various means of self-care or saying “no.” However, in this book chapter, we assert that it is both the organization’s …

Review Of Copula For Bivariate Distributions Of Zero-Inflated Count Time Series Data, Dimuthu Fernando, Mohammed Alqawba, Manar Samad, Norou Diawara

Mathematics & Statistics Faculty Publications

The class of bivariate integer-valued time series models, described via copula theory, is gaining popularity in the literature because of applications in health sciences, engineering, financial management and more. Each time series follows a Markov chain with the serial dependence captured using copula-based distribution functions from the Poisson and the zero-inflated Poisson margins. The copula theory is again used to capture the dependence between the two series.

However, the efficiency and adaptability of the copula are being challenged because of the discrete nature of data and also in the case of zero-inflation of count time series. Likelihood-based inference is used …

Recent Analytic Development Of The Dynamic Q-Tensor Theory For Nematic Liquid Crystals, Xiang Xu

Mathematics & Statistics Faculty Publications

Liquid crystals are a typical type of soft matter that are intermediate between conventional crystalline solids and isotropic fluids. The nematic phase is the simplest liquid crystal phase, and has been studied the most in the mathematical community. There are various continuum models to describe liquid crystals of nematic type, and Q-tensor theory is one among them. The aim of this paper is to give a brief review of recent PDE results regarding the Q-tensor theory in dynamic configurations.

New Exhibit Featuring Dr. Bertner On Display At The Tmc Library, Matt Richardson

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

The McGovern Historical Center is proud to announce the opening of a new exhibit at the TMC Library. This exhibit celebrates the life and work of one of the Texas Medical Center’s founders and strongest champions, Dr. Ernst Bertner.

Know Your Medical Societies And Associations, Beatriz Varman

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

The TMC Library provides access to over 100 society publications, many of which pertain to specialized areas of medicine, including Hematology (Blood, from the American Society of Hematologists), Radiology (Radiology/ Radiographics, from the Radiological Society of North America), Nursing (American Journal of Nursing) and Tropical Medicine (The American Journal of Tropical Medicine/

There are many professional medical associations that students can join. Students benefit from learning about the professional associations in their fields, as well as reading their scholarly publications.

Friends-Based Protective Strategies And Unwanted Sexual Experiences: A Daily Diary Examination Of First Year College Women, Jessica A. Blayney, Tiffany Jenzer, Anna E. Jaffe, Quinn Carroll, Jennifer P. Read

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Risk for unwanted sexual experiences can emerge in social contexts—the same contexts that early college women navigate with their friends. Though friends naturally engage in prevention strategies, less is known about how capable guardianship influences risk. Using multilevel structural equation modeling, the present study examined guardianship at the person and situation levels. First-year college women (N = 132) completed eight weekends of daily surveys. We examined whether guardianship (e.g., more friends present, greater proportion of female friends, no intoxicated friends) would reduce unwanted sexual experience risk and if this relation was mediated by friends-based strategy use. An alternative model …

Blanket Statements, Issue 156, Seminar 2022

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 156, Seminar 2022

Blanket Statements, Issue 157, Winter 2022–2023

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 157, Winter 2022–2023

Psychological And Physical Intimate Partner Aggression Are Associated With Broad And Specific Internalizing Symptoms During Pregnancy, Gabriela R. Perez, Sara M. Stasik-O’Brien, Lauren M. Laifer, Rebecca L. Brock

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) has serious consequences, particularly during high-risk periods such as pregnancy, which poses a significant risk to maternal mental health. However, it is unclear whether IPV presents a broad risk for psychopathology or is specific to distinct diagnoses or symptom dimensions (e.g., panic, social anxiety). Further, the relative impact of physical versus psychological aggression remains unclear. Methods: One hundred and fifty-nine pregnant couples completed surveys assessing psychological and physical intimate partner aggression unfolding in the couple relationship, as well as a range of internalizing symptoms. Results: Psychological and physical aggression were each associated with broad negative …

Peer Coach Support In Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For College Students With Social Anxiety Disorder: Efficacy And Acceptability, Chandra L. Bautista, Allura L. Ralston, Rebecca L. Brock, Debra A. Hope

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Social anxiety disorder is common among emerging adults and is associated with serious functional impairment. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is an effective intervention for social anxiety. An online version may increase access but low completion rates limit utility. This study investigated a self-guided, internet based CBT (ICBT) with peer coach support. Participants were 35 undergraduate students randomized for immediate treatment (IT) or wait-list control (WL) in a randomized controlled trial design. IT participants completed a six-week ICBT program on their own and met briefly with a minimally trained undergraduate student as a “coach” between each lesson. IT participants had a greater …

Using Complex Behavior To Understand Brain Mechanisms In Health And Disease, Cassandra D. Gipson, Paul L. Soto, Erin S. Calipari, Donna M. Platt, John D. Salamone, Rick A. Bevins

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

At this point in the history of the science of behavior, a focus on neuroscience-based outcomes has become dominant in neuropsychiatric fields at the preclinical and clinical levels of analysis. The notion that behavior is caused by brain function, and that changing brain function can alter behavior, has fueled this push to understand these neurobiological mechanisms. Within this conceptual framework and the funding to incentivize its adoption, the neuroscience field grew rapidly with the goal to understand the relation between the brain and behavior. As such, a reductionist perspective emerged whereby neural manipulations of increasing sophistication became required for assessing …

Attachment Anxiety And Avoidance Predict Postnatal Partner Support Through Impaired Affective Communication, Frances C. Calkins, Rebecca L. Brock

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to investigate perceived difficulties in affective communication as a key mechanism linking attachment anxiety and avoidance during pregnancy to the quality of postpartum support received by partners.

Background: During the postpartum period, partner support has the potential to promote family well-being by mitigating stress related to changes experienced during this transition. Attachment security is one of the most robust predictors of intimate relationship processes and impacts partner communication and support dynamics.

Method: Heterosexual couples (N = 159) completed surveys and semi-structured interviews to obtain measures of attachment security, perceived difficulties in …

Political Identity Biases Americans’ Judgments Of Outgroup Emotion, Ruby Basyouni, Nicholas R. Harp, Ingrid J. Haas, Maital Neta

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Social group identity plays a central role in political polarization and inter-party conflict. Here, we use ambiguously valenced faces to measure bias in the processing of political ingroup and outgroup faces, while also accounting for interparty differences in judgments of emotion at baseline. Participants identifying as Democrats and Republicans judged happy, angry, and surprised faces as positive or negative. Whereas happy and angry faces convey positive and negative valence respectively, surprised faces are ambiguous in that they readily convey positive and negative valence. Thus, surprise is a useful tool for characterizing valence bias (i.e., the tendency to judge ambiguous stimuli …

Clinical Factors Implicated In Antibiotic Resistance In Helicobacter Pylori Patients, Brian White, Maria Winte, Joshua Desipio, Sangita Phadtare

Division of Internal Medicine Faculty Papers & Presentations

Helicobacter pylori is a common gastric pathogen associated with multiple clinical syndromes, including cancer. Eradication rates of H. pylori remain suboptimal despite the progress made in the past few decades in improving treatment strategies. The low eradication rates are mainly driven by antibiotic resistance of H. pylori. Non-invasive molecular testing to identify patients with antibiotic-resistant H. py-lori represents a promising therapeutic avenue, however this technology currently remains limited by availability, costs, and lack of robust validation. Moreover, there is insufficient evidence to demonstrate that resistance-testing-based treatment approaches are superior to appropriately designed empiric strat-egies. Consensus guidelines recommend use of proven …

Variability And Dynamics Of Along‐Shore Exchange On The West Antarctic Peninsula (Wap) Continental Shelf, Xin Wang, Carlos Moffat, Michael S. Dinniman, John M. Klinck, David A. Sutherland, Borja Aguiar-Gonzáles

CCPO Publications

The continental shelf of the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) is characterized by strong along-shore hydrographic gradients resulting from the distinct influences of the warm Bellingshausen Sea to the south and the cold Weddell Sea water flooding Bransfield Strait to the north. These gradients modulate the spatial structure of glacier retreat and are correlated with other physical and biochemical variability along the shelf, but their structure and dynamics remain poorly understood. Here, the magnitude, spatial structure, seasonal-to-interannual variability, and driving mechanisms of along-shore exchange are investigated using the output of a high-resolution numerical model and with hydrographic data collected in Palmer …

Failure Of Mobile Money Services: Standards For Systemic Risk, Jonathan Greenacre, Benjamin Geva

Articles & Book Chapters

Against an overview analyzing the mobile money system, this article provides a preliminary criterion for determining potential systemic risk of collapse of a mobile money firm (MM firm). The article has two main components: first, defining systemic risk, it clarifies that systemic risk is likely to arise through a delay in returning customers’ funds from an MM firm in insolvency proceedings. Second, the article points out that determining whether this delay will have systemic consequences ought to consider diverse elements, particularly, the range of components of the economy which could be impacted by the failure of an MM firm, the …

On The Modest Impact Of West Africa’S International Human Rights Court On The Executive Branch Of Government In Nigeria, Obiora C. Okafor, Udoka Ndidiamaka Owie, Okechukwu Emmanuel Effoduh, Rahina Bukar Zarma

Articles & Book Chapters

Some scholars have criticized international courts in Africa as ineffective given their limited success in compelling or cajoling state behavior. Others have since argued that there are additional ways in which these courts have mattered to state and society in Africa. This Article applies the “correspondence theory” on the domestic impact of international human rights institutions. This Article analyzes evidence of the broader ways, compliance included, in which West Africa’s international human rights court, the Economic Community of West African States’ Community Court of Justice (the “ECOWAS Court”), has had a significant, if sub-optimal, impact on executive branch decision-making and …

Canada–Au Human Rights Engagements: A Twail Perspective, Sylvia Bawa, Obiora C. Okafor

Articles & Book Chapters

Despite the problematique of Global North/South relationships, human rights require transnational collaboration to successfully protect vulnerable people in the world. In particular, human rights engagements between Africa and the West are cemented in legacies of colonialism and mediated by development discourses that portray the continent as a paragon of poverty, corruption and backwardness. Within this context, we explore how an African Union (AU) human rights instrument could impact or transform Africa’s transnational human rights engagements. Specifically, we use Canada–Africa human rights engagements as a starting point and basis for analysing the nature, orientation and impacts of such engagements (especially over …

Resetting The Foundations: Renewing Freedom Of Expression Under Section S.2(B) Of The Charter, Jamie Cameron

Articles & Book Chapters

The 40^th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on April 17, 2022 is a time for reckoning, and an opportunity to ready s.2’s fundamental freedoms for the future. In particular, this article offers a moment of pause to invest in s.2(b)’s guarantee of expressive freedom and its renewal. The discussion begins by addressing s.2(b)’s “fault lines”, which are embedded in the jurisprudence at both stages of the analysis – breach as well as justification. What then follows is a proposal for renewal that begins, under s.2(b), with a theory or principle of freedom and a revised …

2022 Law Enforcement-Related Deaths In Tennessee, Tennessee. Bureau Of Investigation

Law Enforcement - Related Deaths

This publication has been produced by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's CJIS Support Center, and provides information on qualifying incidents as submitted by the state's law enforcement agencies to the TBI through the CrimeInsight Portal.