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No One is Looking For You
(2022)The poems in this manuscript explore the emotional landscape of an emotionally repressed speaker to explore opposing themes of isolation and connection; self-denial and self discovery; and rage and hope. It is perpetually ... -
The nature and functional significance of intra-individual neurocognitive ability across serious mental illness diagnoses
(2022)Intra-individual performance variability (IIV) is defined as lawful, transient, within-person changes in cognitive performance. IIV has been found to predict functional and other crucial real-world outcomes among clinical ... -
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Witnessed Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
(2022)ABSTRACT Differences in bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) contribute to survival disparities for witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Whether bystander CPR rates differ by race/ethnicity ... -
Outpatient Management of Heart Failure During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency After Adoption of a Telehealth Model
(2022)The COVID-19 pandemic led to a dramatic change in the process of delivering outpatient care for patients with heart failure, including more reliance on telehealth to maintain care delivery. Excess mortality has been reported ... -
The Gospel of Judas: Polemic, Pop Culture, Fictious History
(2022)The following essay is about the polemical nature of The Gospel of Judas. So much was initially said about the impact the publication of The Gospel of Judas would have upon our understanding of the history of Christianity, ... -
Exploration of the Application of Machine Learning to the Improvement of Interatomic Potentials
(2022)Current methods for atomistic simulations of material systems suffer from limitations which restrict the ability of the simulations to correctly characterize certain material behavior and physical phenomena. Small scale ... -
Show Me My Rights: Queer Activism in Kansas City and St. Louis, 1977-1993
(2022)Radical queer (a term not in use at the time, but now more frequently employed) activists seized national headlines in the second half of the twentieth century with their fiery tactics, from so-called “die-ins” in the ... -
Factors Related to Mental Health Stigma Among Church-Affiliated African Americans
(2022)African Americans make up 13% of the U.S. population, yet represent nearly 20% of persons diagnosed with a mental illness. Studies suggest African Americans experience higher levels of mental health related stigma (MHS) ... -
Follow Me! Anna Held, Lillian Russell and Alice Nielsen As New Women Of the Stage At The Turn Of the Twentieth Century
(2022)At the turn of the twentieth century, singing actresses Anna Held (1872-1918), Lillian Russell (1861-1922), and Alice Nielsen (1873-1943) were conquering the stages of musical comedy and opera. Using their pre-existing ... -
Persona Con Grata for Saxophone Duo
(2022)Persona Con Grata for Saxophone Duo is a three-movement musico-theatrical exploration of the musician’s psyche. In focusing on the saxophone as an extension of the persona, corporality, and voice, and using extended ... -
Confluences
(2022)This collection of poems, essays, and fictional stories is meant to mirror a confluence of rivers, made navigable by threads—or currents—that weave through and redirect my life. Some of my life’s water (so far) has been ... -
Outcomes of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Mediated Colitis: Multicenter Cohort Study
(2022)Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI)-mediated colitis (IMC) is a common and serious toxicity. Multiple reports have described the clinical presentation and course of IMC based on limited data. This was a collaborative effort ... -
Determinants of Perceived Social Support in Individuals with Serious mental Illness: A Secondary Analysis
(2022)Social support appears to provide protective effects for those with serious mental illness (SMI), but these effects may be attenuated by factors that hinder positive perceptions of support. Improved understanding of social ... -
Ultrasound Evaluation Versus Direct Measurement of Uterine Cavity Length: A Prospective Study
(2022)Levonorgestrel intrauterine devices (IUDs) have been successfully used in the adolescent population for menstrual suppression, dysmenorrhea, & contraception.1 Historically, there has been concern regarding the adequacy of ... -
Jesus Paid It All: Combining Rock and Hymns in Contemporary Worship Music
(2022)Much of Contemporary Worship Music (CWM) synthesizes elements of rock music and hymns. This thesis provides an analysis of four CWM songs, “Come Thou Fount,” “How Deep the Father’s Love for Us,” “Your Glory/Nothing but the ... -
The Fairy Songs: A Theater Piece for Voice, Electronics, Lighting, and Theatrical Components
(2022)The Fairy Songs is a theatrical composition written for voice, fixed media, live electronics, and auxiliary percussion presented as a frame for collaboration with some form of visual or performative media. The text is ... -
Ab Initio Density Functional Theory Charge Distributions of Vinyltrimethylphosphonium, Vinylphosphorinium, and Vinyldiphosphonium Tetrafluoroborate Salts with Mechanistic Studies of Phospha-Michael Additions to Activated Acetylenes
(2022)While vinylammonium and vinylpyridinium tetrafluoroborate salts have previously been well investigated by the Buszek research group in their applications to Diels-Alder and other reactions, very little is known about their ... -
Alterations in cardiac contractility and heart rate mediated by bone loading
(2022)The skeleton is a dynamic organ in complex interplay with the other systems of the body and is highly responsive to input from the external environment. Increasingly, evidence is mounting that the skeleton is the source ... -
Sorting Real Numbers into a Linked List on the PRAM Model
(2021)We study the sorting of real numbers into a linked list on the PRAM (Parallel Random Access Machine) model. The research work consists of two parts. First part talks about the various techniques involved in sorting the ... -
Comparative Analysis of Marine Diatom Species Richness and Diversity Across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Different Latitudes
(2022)This study examines the impacts of rapid warming experienced during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) at approximately 56 Ma on marine diatom communities and how these effects differ based on latitude. Understanding ...