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́ ́¿Por Qué Alguien Se Iría?": Desarrollo, Sobreendeudamiento Y Migración En Guatemala., Lauren Heidbrink, Giovanni Batz, Celeste Sánchez

Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis

En las dos décadas pasadas, los encargados de desarrollar políticas han expresado un optimismo considerable sobre la capacidad del desarrollo internacional para frenar la migración transnacional; sin embargo, hay una escasez de investigación que analice cómo y bajo qué condiciones las intervenciones del desarrollo pueden impactar las decisiones de migrar. Siguiendo un enfoque de estudio de caso en la comunidad Maya-K’iche’ de Almolonga, este artículo examina las prácticas y significados divergentes de “desarrollo” y su impacto en las aspiraciones y los resultados migratorios de las familias indígenas en Guatemala. Las autoridades gubernamentales y los expertos en desarrollo internacional exaltan a …

Living With A Giant, Flowering Parasite: Metabolic Differences Between Tetrastigma Loheri Gagnep. (Vitaceae) Shoots Uninfected And Infected With Rafflesia (Rafflesiaceae) And Potential Applications For Propagation, Jeanmaire Molina, Dejan Nikolic, Jashvanth Raaj Jeevarathanam, Rinat Abzalimov, Eun‑Jung Park, Ronniel Pedales, Elmer‑Rico E. Mojica, Danilo Tandang, William Mclaughlin, Kyle Wallick, James Adams, Ari Novy, Susan K. Pell, Richard B. Van Breemen, John M. Pezzuto

Advanced Science Research Center

Main conclusion: Metabolites in Rafflesia-infected and non-infected Tetrastigma were compared which may have applications in Rafflesia propagation. Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids, here reported for the first time in Vitaceae, were abundant in non-infected shoots and may be a form of defense. In Rafflesia-infected shoots, oxylipins, which mediate immune response, were elevated.

Endemic to the forests of Southeast Asia, Rafflesia (Rafflesiaceae) is a genus of holoparasitic plants producing the largest flowers in the world, yet completely dependent on its host, the tropical grape vine, Tetrastigma. Rafflesia species are threatened with extinction, making them an iconic symbol of plant conservation. Thus …

Mmu: 11/29/21–12/05/21, Student Bar Association

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This Week @ NDLS

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Using Artificial Intelligence To Decipher Epigenetic Code Of Drug Resistance In The Deadliest Human Malaria Parasite, Samira Jahangiri

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Malaria remains one of the immense global public health challenges, with an estimated ~200 million cases worldwide in 2019 despite the remarkable gains in reducing this deadly disease over the past decade. The recent emergence and spread of artemisinin resistance (ART-R) in Plasmodium falciparum will increasingly impede global efforts to control and eliminate malaria. Previous studies have observed broad transcriptional changes and identified several noncoding genetic variants strongly associated with ART-R. The broad transcriptional variations suggest that the malaria parasite uses sophisticated epigenetic regulation to survive under drug pressure. Therefore, evaluating the regulatory effects of noncoding-variants in malaria parasites is …

Effects Of Exogenous Ketone Therapy On Performance, Cardiorespiration, And Seizure Genesis During Exposure To Hbo2 In The Sprague Dawley Rat, Nicole M. Stavitzski

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) is used for clinical HBO2 therapy and in undersea and aerospace medicine. HBO2 is a humanmade extreme environment and protracted exposures can cause several adverse physiological effects on the body. For example, HBO2 increases the partial pressure of oxygen (PO2) in the body leading to redox stress. Redox stress is, in part, a cause of oxygen toxicity that manifests as seizures in its most severe form (central nervous system oxygen toxicity, CNS-OT). This dissertation focuses on strategies to be employed specifically for the warfighter breathing HBO2. Currently, the only way to prevent CNS-OT is to lower the …

Gentrification, Amie Thurber, Amy Krings

Social Work: School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Other Works

Gentrification can be understood as the process through which geographical areas become increasingly exclusive, which disproportionately harms people living in poverty and people of color, as well as the elderly, families, and youth. As such, this article argues that macro social work practitioners should view gentrification as a key concern. Thus, to help guide macro interventions, the article begins by first defining gentrification and describing ways to measure it, while emphasizing its difference from revitalization. Second, the article explores causes of gentrification, including its relationship to systemic racism. Third, the article explores the consequences of gentrification on individuals’ and communities’ …

Interview With Maria Elena Rodriguez, Maria Elena Rodriguez

Auntie Sewing Squad Interviews

Born in San Francisco, California, Maria Elena Rodriguez is a Latin Mexican Filipino television writer. Exposed to sewing at a young age by her grandmother, Rodriguez was able to use this skill during the AIDS pandemic where she participated in sewing sections of the AIDS quilt. Her skill for sewing eventually helped her again later during the Coronavirus pandemic where she became a member of the Auntie Sewing Squad and sewed masks for underprivileged communities.

Interview With Tobee Chung Vanderwall, Tobee Chung Vanderwall

Auntie Sewing Squad Interviews

Tobee Chung Vanderwall identifies as Chinese, Japanese, and Scottish. Born in Hawaii, she grew up and attended schools in San Francisco, California. She studied biochemistry at a research lab, taught at a middle school, and is now a mother of three children. She became politicized through the Black Lives Matter Movement at the start of the Trump presidency. As someone who learned to sew from her mother, she joined the Auntie Sewing Squad because she saw a need and had the sewing skills to meet the need. During her time in the Squad, Chung Vanderwall played a role in initiating …

Case Report: Molecular Diagnosis Of Cystoisospora Belli In A Severely Immunocompromised Patient With Hiv And Kaposi Sarcoma, Roumen Borilov Iordanov, Lauren M Leining, Meng Wu, Galant Chan, Andrew R Dinardo, Rojelio Mejia

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Diarrhea in an immunocompromised patient has a broad infectious differential. Diagnosis is difficult despite advances in diagnostic modalities. We report a case of a 45-year-old Nigerian woman who immigrated to the United States 2 years ago. She presented to the hospital with gastrointestinal bleeding, newly diagnosed HIV, and disseminated Kaposi sarcoma. During hospitalization, the patient had an onset of watery diarrhea and high eosinophilia. Subsequent stool analysis using multi-parallel real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction for 13 parasites was positive for Cystoisospora belli. The patient was treated with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, but had relapsed disease when her antibiotics were stopped prematurely. After restarting …

A Systematic Review Of Health State Utility Values In The Plastic Surgery Literature, Adrienne Christopher, Martin P Morris, Viren Patel, Kevin Klifto, John P Fischer

Department of Surgery Faculty Papers

Cost-utility analyses assess health gains acquired by interventions by incorporating weighted health state utility values (HSUVs). HSUVs are important in plastic and reconstructive surgery (PRS) because they include qualitative metrics when comparing operative techniques or interventions. We systematically reviewed the literature to identify the extent and quality of existing original utilities research within PRS.

Methods: A systematic review of articles with original PRS utility data was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis guidelines. Subspecialty, survey sample size, and respondent characteristics were extracted. For each HSUV, the utility measure [direct (standard gamble, time …

Exclusive Breastfeeding And Professionals From The Family Health Strategy, Marialda Moreira Christoffel, Ana Leticia Monteiro Gomes, Cássia Leoneuza Augusto Julio, Julia Florentino De Barros, Elisa Da Conceição Rodrigues, Fernanda Garcia Bezerra Góes, Ana Maria Linares

Nursing Faculty Publications

OBJECTIVES: to analyze the perception of health professionals about exclusive breastfeeding in Family Health Strategy units in the city of Macaé.

METHODS: qualitative study carried out in four units of the Family Health Strategy in the city of Macaé, Rio de Janeiro. Thirty health professionals were interviewed from March to May 2019. Textual contents were processed in the IRaMuTeQ^® software by the Descending Hierarchical Classification.

RESULTS: professionals use different strategies for actions to promote, protect and support breastfeeding in prenatal consultations, but social and cultural determinants are important issues that interfere in this process, the involvement of the family …

Refining Japan’S Integrative Position On The Territorial Sovereignty Of The Senkaku Islands, Atsuko Kanehara

International Law Studies

China and Japan face a tense situation in the East China Sea over conflicting sovereignty claims to the Senkaku Islands. In order to cope with the situation appropriately and precisely, Japan needs to thoroughly analyze it from the dual perspectives of the law of the sea and the law of territorial acquisition. Japan denies any existence of a dispute with China over the territorial sovereignty of the islands. The legal effects of the existence of a “dispute” need to be understood and considered by Japan when it constructs its position from the perspectives of the law of the sea and …

Estimating Pelagic Fish Biomass In A Tropical Seascape Using Echosounding And Baited Stereo-Videography, Tom B. Letessier, Roland Proud, Jessica J. Meeuwig, Martin J. Cox, Phil J. Hosegood, Andrew S. Brierley

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Outcomes Of Patients With Double/Triple Expressor Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (Dlbcl) Treated With R-Da-Epoch/R-Chop: A Single-Center Experience, Kanta Devi, Mohammad Usman Shaikh, Natasha Bahadur Ali, Salman Adil, Maria Khan, Salman Muhammad Soomar

Section of Haematology/Oncology

In Pakistan 76.4% of all NHLs to be diagnosed as DLBCLs. The survival of R-CHOP is better compared to the DA-REPOCH treatment regimen. A prospective follow-up study was conducted with 113 patients to study the outcomes of treatment. Multivariable cox-proportional hazard model was used to estimate the hazard ratios in patients receiving these treatment regimens considering p-value ≤0.05 significant. The survival rate among double/triple expressor lymphoma patients received R-DA-EPOCH was 82.8%, and 83.3% received R-CHOP. For double/triple expressor lymphoma patients received R-DA-EPOCH. The findings of our study demonstrated that the survival rate in both R-CHOP and R-DA-EPOCH is mostly …

Josell Moore Sr.

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

The Exploration Of Various Literary Genres Through Short Story Writing, Abigail Cowan

Honors Theses

This project contains four short stories and one collection of poetry. The first, “Touch-Me-Nots,” explores self-harm and healing using the touch-me-not plant as an analogy for avoiding self-harm and leaves readers with the hopeful sentiment of a person willing to heal by “leaving it alone.” Next, “The Bear and the Ant,” inspired by Aesop’s Fables, anthropomorphizes a bear and an ant and leaves readers with a ‘moral’ in true Aesop Fable fashion. Inspired by the ants who ransacked my six-month-old Halloween candy stash, I detail a Bear which attempts to “save” its honey for a day that never comes. The …

Improving Extension Curriculum Design Using Learner-Centered Templates, Mary L. Halbleib

Journal of Extension

Extension professionals’ use of learner-centered instructional practices can maximize engagement and more effectively address expressed needs within their diverse communities. The Outcome-Based Extension Education Design and Facilitating Teaching and Learning templates enable educators to effectively implement curricula that identify context-specific learner needs, activities that increase learner engagement, and assessment tasks that gather evidence of essential knowledge construction and skills development. Using these two practical tools, Extension professionals can streamline the creation of compelling and efficacious programs that focus on the intended learning outcomes.

Print Bed Level Measuring In Fff Devices, Jaime Van Kessel

Defensive Publications Series

This publication relates to a bed leveling measurement which is much faster and at a higher resolution as compared to known methods. The nozzle of the printer is put into contact with the surface of the bed and is then moved between several anchor points. By continuously reading the change in e.g. an accelerometer, we can measure the deformation of the bed, since if the bed is higher, it is pushed down, leading to a spike in the accelerometer.

Improving Speech Recognition Quality Using Grammar Training Phrases, Amit Singhal, Yao Lin

Defensive Publications Series

When a new voice feature is to be launched on a device with a voice interface, e.g., a digital assistant application, the natural language understanding (NLU) model is built using training data for the new feature. Speech biasing models are typically added to improve recognition accuracy for queries that are specific to the feature or contain non-common words. Such biasing models are often built using traffic logs, collected with user permission, after the initial release of the feature. However, this approach may not provide high speech recognition quality during product testing and initial launch. This disclosure describes techniques to improve …

System And Method For Authentication Using Mobile Device, Christian Aabye, Mark Rigby

Defensive Publications Series

The methods and system disclosed in present disclosure is to perform authentication of a user device before provisioning card details in a digital wallet. In present disclosure, user taps user device on mobile device, upon tapping interaction data is sent to user device. The user device further generates cryptogram using interaction data and credentials of user device. The cryptogram generated is sent to server computer, which verifies whether card details can be provisioned by sending token request to token service computer which further sends authentication request to authentication server system. The authentication server system authenticates received cryptogram and generates validation …

Proprietary Design Particle Aspirator, Axel Unger

Defensive Publications Series

No abstract provided.

Air Purification Cassette (Uv-C Light) For Vehicle Cabins For Integration Into Existing Air Conditioning Concepts, Axel Unger

Defensive Publications Series

No abstract provided.

Implicit Invocation Of Device-Specific Custom Actions Using A Virtual Assistant, Amit Singhal, Yao Lin

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes techniques to augment the built-in grammar of a general-purpose voice-activated virtual assistant with custom commands and actions that are specific to a particular make and model of a device such as an in-vehicle system. The techniques enable the virtual assistant to service implicit commands that make no reference to vehicular make by providing custom, make-specific responses. A single, consistent grammar enables the general-purpose virtual assistant to handle device-specific commands without the user having to provide a query that includes a device-specific invocation phrase.

Techniques To Expand Grammar Pattern Matching, Amit Singhal, Michael Ng

Defensive Publications Series

Language understanding is an important aspect of supporting spoken queries on a device. Intensive ML models are unsuitable on resource-constrained devices and in such cases, pattern matching grammar can be utilized. However, pattern matching can have low recall and may be limited in understanding user queries. This disclosure describes the use of normalization, optional/stopwords, synonym clusters, and argument expansion to generate more expansive grammar with limited training data and without the use of machine learning. The use of such a grammar can improve recall while maintaining high precision. The techniques are suitable for any context where grammar patterns are used …

Method And System For Determining Sustainability Information In Authorisation Message, Hyeonmin Na, Sajjad Rizvi, Balakrishna Chittari

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to method and system for calculating sustainability information in authorisation message based on transaction data. The present invention uses payment rails, sourcing for delivering sustainability information. The method also comprises sourcing and providing payment network entities and consumers the information on carbon intensity of a purchase. The present disclosure provides a solution for calculating the sustainability score of the registered Permanent Account Number (PAN) using transaction history, where transaction history is used to establish direct connectivity between merchants and issuers for the purpose of processing card transactions.

Autonomous Collection Detection And Remediation Decisions Based On Local Models And Locally Sourced Data, Dave Zacks, Jane (Zizhen) Gao, Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Carlos M. Pignataro, Dmitry Goloubew

Defensive Publications Series

In context of distributed monitoring and anomaly detection, when a networking device performs anomaly detection based on local data, such as when a remote controller is not reachable during network convergence or other network issues. Anomaly relevance improves if telemetry data used for anomaly detection comes not only from a local device, but also from the device's immediate surroundings (e.g., physical neighbors, protocol peers, redundancy units, etc.). Presented herein are techniques through which a device can reach its own and nearby telemetry sources in a manner that may follow an effective network topology and configuration. Thus, techniques herein may enable …

Arriving Container Cargo Prioritization Method, Jerome Henry, Lynn Landers, Carolina Salazar Lagunes, Mahesh Mahesh, Bart Brinckman

Defensive Publications Series

Maritime freight is undergoing a fast transformation with regard to the technology that can be carried by containers, such as sensors, transponders, etc., which can allow for better identification of containers and their condition. However, the correlation between goods carried in containers, their environmental needs, and their state upon arrival still involves manual processes. Techniques herein propose a method for maritime containers to express an unloading/opening urgency based on the reported status of individual merchandise units carried inside containers.

Maritime Freight Is Undergoing A Fast Transformation With Regard To The Technology That Can Be Carried By Containers, Such As Sensors, Transponders, Etc., Which Can Allow For Better Identification Of Containers And Their Condition. However, The Correlation Between Goods Carried In Containers, Their Environmental Needs, And Their State Upon Arrival Still Involves Manual Processes. Techniques Herein Propose A Method For Maritime Containers To Express An Unloading/Opening Urgency Based On The Reported Status Of Individual Merchandise Units Carried Inside Containers., Jerome Henry, Lynn Landers, Carolina Salazar Lagunes, Mahesh Daisy, Bart Brinckman

Defensive Publications Series

Maritime freight is undergoing a fast transformation with regard to the technology that can be carried by containers, such as sensors, transponders, etc., which can allow for better identification of containers and their condition. However, the correlation between goods carried in containers, their environmental needs, and their state upon arrival still involves manual processes. Techniques herein propose a method for maritime containers to express an unloading/opening urgency based on the reported status of individual merchandise units carried inside containers.

Temp Smart Boot, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

We never got complaints from end users, complaining that

the system boot‐up didn’t run successfully; for example, the

power LED had become white colour, but no display; the

phenomena looked pretty like the case that power sequence

execution doesn’t go through successfully. Following some

experiments and debugging aftermath in the lab, we in the

end finding the extreme low ambient temp was the culprit

behind this issue; the extreme low ambient temp was already

below the system low operation temp specs.

A Hw+Sw Mechanism To Deliver Permanent Cpu Overclocking, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

Core-i Gen11th CPU provides a feature to adjust the core power value to drive the core speed and permanent overclocking (OC). A higher core speed means higher CPU performance. Therefore, the 65w CPU could operate a higher base frequency if receives more power. However, more core power means higher Tj and

• CPU might reach throttling

• Worse reliability in CPU/CPU cooler

Could we solve the problem, the answer is in the disclosure.