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A Symbolic Transformative Sequential Perinatal Learning Experience

Kathleen Ward, Christine Hober, null null et al. · 2022 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day

Leaders in nursing education embrace innovative, real‐world learning environments that transform today's generation of nursing students into critical thinkers. Scheduling exclusive child‐bearing practicums are challenging due to staffing,…

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Effectiveness and Usability of the Dobot Magician Robotic Arm

Brandt Hagen, Lawson Ricke, null null et al. · 2023 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day

The Dobot Magician is an all-in-one robot designed by the company Dobot for the purpose of teaching robotics. The magician is supposed to be able to grab things with both a pneumatic gripper and suction cup, draw, 3D print, and laser…

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The Relationship Between Debt to GDP and the Wealth Gap

Braxten Eilert, Zachary Parde, null null et al. · 2023 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day

The debt to GDP ratio has been used as a key indicator for economists, governments and investors as a general measure of a country's ability to repay debt. The primary focus of our analysis was to see if there was correlation between the…

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Change in the magnitude of meiotic drive due to increased temperature

Eugene Chon, Nicholas Stewart, null null et al. · 2020 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day

While major changes to chromosomal form is generally deleterious, karyotypes are not static. Major chromosomal rearrangements contribute to genetic isolation and divergence within and between species. As mechanisms that drive these…

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Attitudes toward Stuttering of University Instructors: A Nation-wide Survey

Willow Ludwig, Lauren Stallbaumer, null null et al. · 2023 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day

Introduction: Stuttering is a communication disorder that may present difficulties such as producing fluent speech, having a fear of speaking, and experiencing limited inclusion, which. greatly impacts the quality of life and education of…

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Does an MLB Team's Wins Depend on Their Batting Average?

Clayton Beutler, Mason Robbins, null null et al. · 2023 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day

Baseball is said to be the oldest sport in America and considered to be America’s past time. Since the beginning, significant amounts of statistics and data have been recorded to examine a team’s wins, batting average, on-base percentage,…

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Interpreting COVID-19 Deaths Through GDP per Capita

Hope Schuman, Mason Ibarra, null null et al. · 2023 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day

COVID-19, also known as coronavirus disease of 2019, is a virus that was first discovered in December of 2019. Symptoms of COVID-19 feel much like the flu, a cold, and pneumonia. In this report we analyzed how a country's gross domestic…

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Weight Management in Rural Western Kansas Primary Care

Alicia Utley, Christine Hober, null null et al. · 2020 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day

Obesity is becoming a widely known health disparity, affecting over 300 million people worldwide. Obesity is associated with multiple comorbidities, many of which are categorized as leading causes of death in the United States. Citizens in…

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Evaluating the Effect of Mental Illness Stigma on Voting Behaviors

Steven Bolin, Brooke Mann, null null et al. · 2019 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day

Mental health stigma is defined as stereotypes and prejudice resulting from misconceptions about mental illness (Corrigan Watson, 2002 Boor 1978 found simulated college voters cast fewer votes for a candidate when it was known the…

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Effect of Inulin-Type Fructans on Body Composition, Carbohydrate Metabolism and Energy Expenditure in Patients with Psoriasis: Results of INGUTSKIN Randomized Controlled Trial.

Bieglecka, Kęszycka, Czerwińska et al. · 2026 · Nutrients

Patients with psoriasis, a non-contagious, chronic, systemic inflammatory skin disease, often suffer from carbohydrate metabolism disorders, which can exacerbate systemic inflammation. This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled…

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Administration of DDAVP did not improve the pharmacokinetics of FVIII concentrate in a clinically significant manner

Janneke I. Loomans, Eva Stokhuijzen, Marjolein Peters et al. · 2018 · Journal of Clinical and Translational Research

Background: The half-life and mean residence time (MRT) of infused recombinant factor VIII (FVIII) concentrate are associated with pre-infusion levels of von Willebrand factor (VWF) in severely affected hemophilia A patients. It is…

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Did socioeconomic inequalities in overweight and obesity in South African women of childbearing age improve between 1998 and 2016? A decomposition analysis

Mweete D. Nglazi, John E. Ataguba · 2024 · PLOS Global Public Health

Overweight and obesity in adult women contribute to deaths and disability from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and obesity-related health problems in their offspring. Globally, overweight and obesity prevalence among women of childbearing…

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A modified rehabilitation paradigm bilaterally increased rat extensor digitorum communis muscle size but did not improve forelimb function after stroke

Sally Caine, Mariam Alaverdashvili, Frederick Colbourne et al. · 2024 · PLOS ONE

Malnutrition after stroke may lessen the beneficial effects of rehabilitation on motor recovery through influences on both brain and skeletal muscle. Enriched rehabilitation (ER), a combination of environmental enrichment and forelimb…

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Abstract B076: Did the Affordable Care Act improve insurance coverage and stage at diagnosis among nonelderly underserved breast cancer patients?

Abigail Silva, Arielle Guzman, Charlotte Picard et al. · 2020 · Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention

Abstract Background: Through its various provisions, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has the potential to increase access to cancer care, particularly among the most vulnerable, and reduce disparities in cancer care…

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Did Subsidised Dental Care Improve Access? An Evaluation of the Chronic Disease Dental Scheme Among Australian Women With Chronic Conditions

Siobhan Dickinson, Maryam Naghsh‐Nejad, Kees Van Gool et al. · 2026 · Australian Economic Review

ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue This study examines the impact of the Chronic Disease Dental Scheme (CDDS), introduced in 2007 to provide subsidised dental care for people with chronic conditions. Specifically, it asks whether the CDDS…

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A20 “Snakes…why did it have to be snakes?” - A Multidisciplinary In-situ Simulation to Test and Improve Our Response to a Rare but Significant Event: Occupational Dendroaspis Polylepis Envenomation

Hugh Adler, Kwong Tsang, Michael Abouyannis et al. · 2024 · Journal of Healthcare Simulation

Introduction: The Centre for Snakebite Research & Interventions at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) houses >150 venomous snakes. This includes the black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) which can cause life-threatening…

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Novel milk ingredient blend in nursery pig diets did not improve growth performance and survival compared to control diets without or with spray-dried plasma

Yanbin Shen, Sung Woo Kim, Hans H. Stein et al. · 2025 · Frontiers in Animal Science

Three experiments evaluated the effects of a novel milk ingredient blend (FXP) in phase 1 and 2 nursery pig diets on growth performance, diarrhea score, and survival. In Experiment 1, pigs were fed a 3-phase nursery regimen, with phases 1,…

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Disabled Workers Outperform Non-Disabled Peers in Indonesia

Hadi Praseno, Kumara Adji Kusuma, Rifdah Abadiyah et al. · 2024 · Academia Open

This study examines the productivity differences between disabled and non-disabled workers at PT. United Pharmatic Indonesia. Using a quantitative approach, data were collected from 120 employees in the production department through…

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Downstream Imaging Studies Do Not Significantly Improve Outcome in Most Patients with Chest Pain Who Did Not Reach Their Target Heart Rate on a Stress ECHO Study

Nativ Henkin, Ifat Karilker, Sergio L. Kobal et al. · 2023 · Journal of Clinical Medicine

Echocardiographic stress tests are often used to evaluate patients who complain of chest pain. However, some patients fail to reach the target heart rate required for the test to be conclusive (usually defined as 85% of the predicted…

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Evaluating Asynchronous Semantics in Trace-Discovered Resilience Models: A Case Study on the OpenTelemetry Demo

Anatoly A. Krasnovsky · 2025 · arXiv

While distributed tracing and chaos engineering are becoming standard for microservices, resilience models remain largely manual and bespoke. We revisit a trace-discovered connectivity model that derives a service dependency graph from traces and uses Monte Carlo simulation to estimate endpoint availability under fail-stop service failures. Compared to earlier work, we (i) derive the graph directly from raw OpenTelemetry traces, (ii) attach endpoint-specific success predicates, and (iii) add a simple asynchronous semantics that treats Kafka edges as non-blocking for immediate HTTP success. We

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