e-Publications@Marquette

A series of reactive molecular dynamics simulations is used to study the internal structure of incipient soot particles obtained from acetylene pyrolysis. The simulations were performed using the ReaxFF potential at four different temperatures. The resulting soot particles are cataloged and analyzed to obtain statistics of their mass, volume, density, C/H ratio, number of cyclic structures, and o…

Introduction/Aims Conventional F wave analysis involves a relatively uniform physiological environment induced by supramaximal stimulations. The F wave characteristics in a dynamic physiological condition, however, are rarely investigated. This study aimed to improve understanding of F wave properties in the more dynamic process by introducing a novel method to analyze F waves based on the compou…

Skeletal muscles support posture and locomotion, thermoregulation, cardiorespiratory function, metabolic health and other important aspects of life. Muscles generate chemical energy by synthesizing ATP through the creatine kinase reaction, glycolysis, and oxidative phosphorylation (oxphos), the latter of which produces the majority of ATP in the cell. Oxidative phosphorylation occurs in the mitoc…

The title compound, C 19 H 30 O 2 Si, has triclinic ( P ) symmetry at 100 K. The O atom of the epoxide group has a pseudoaxial orientation and the dihedral angle between the cyclo­hexyl and benzene rings is 85.80 (8)°. The C—O—Si—C t ( t = tert -but­yl) torsion angle is −177.40 (14)°. In the crystal, pairwise C—H⋯O links connect the mol­ecules into inversion dimers featuring R 2 2 (8) loops.

Purpose The hierarchical structure of skin dictates its protective function against mechanical loading, which has been extensively studied through numerous experiments. Viscoelasticity and anisotropy have been defined for skin in tensile loading, but most puncture studies utilized skin simulants, which lacked natural tension and varying skin thicknesses. The purpose of this study was to define th…

Background: Children with CHD are at increased risk for feeding difficulties, yet the prevalence and predictors of paediatric feeding disorder in this population remain underexplored. Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of paediatric feeding disorder and identify consistent predictors of feeding difficulties in children with CHD 18-< 25 months of age. Methods: A retrospective review was conduct…

Document Type Article Publication Date 11-2024 Publisher Taylor & Francis (Routledge) Source Publication Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media Source ISSN 0883-8151 Recommended Citation Gran, Emma, "Book Review of Happiness in Journalism by V. Belair-Gagnon, A.E. Holton and M. Deuze" (2024). College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications. 720. https://…

This paper examines the concept of relative position in the history of economics understood as ‘being in a position’ in a structure of positions. This is first discussed in macro-distributional terms in connection with Ricardo and Marx and in micro-behavioral terms in connection with Du Bois and Veblen. The paper then discusses two recent approaches in economics that employ the concept of relativ…

Cultural Encounters of the Civil War Era is an innovative digital project that is supported by H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, one of the longest-running and most widely used digital platforms in the humanities and social sciences. All chapters included in this anthology make original arguments that take a close look at diverse cultural interactions that in turn illuminate the ways …

Not only are the bodies and the souls of these AI workers being harmed, so is the Earth from which the materials needed to power AI are being extracted.

Over the course of one’s career, mentors can and often do change; likewise, the nature of a high-quality mentoring relationship evolves and changes over time. Mentors are vitally important for career development whether you lead an organization, business unit, classroom, clinic, department, unit, or team. There are two broad types of mentoring approaches: informal and formal. Formal mentoring pro…

This study examines how local Sunday morning news programs in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, and Ohio covered the 2024 US presidential election during the final 100 days before Election Day. Using qualitative content analysis of 15 newscasts, the study identifies two dominant frames: horse-race coverage and localized issue framing. Horse-race coverage emphasized polling data and pu…

Background: Measuring quantitative menstrual cycle hormones at home may help women better understand their postpartum and perimenopause fertility transitions, but these quantitative fertility monitors require validation. Materials and Methods: This study included 16 North American women, aged 28–51, during either the postpartum (n = 8, cycles = 18) or perimenopause (n = 8, cycles = 35) fertility …

Pulmonary System Document Type Contribution to Book Publication Date 2018 Publisher Springer Source Publication AACN Core Curriculum for Pediatric High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care Nursing Source ISSN 978-0826133021 Recommended Citation Flasch, Elizabeth A.; Brueck, Nicole; Lynn, Justin; and Henningfeld, Jennifer, "Pulmonary System" (2018). College of Nursing Faculty Research and Pu…

The clostridial neurotoxins (CNT), botulinum neurotoxins (BT) and tetanus neurotoxin (TT), are the most toxic protein toxins for humans. BT isolates are comprised of seven immunologically distinct serotypes , BT/A-G, while TT isolates are >97% genetically identical. In addition, bioinformatic studies have identified several BT analogs within bacterial genomes, which share sequence and/or structur…

Nurse Anesthesiologists: Extraordinary Nursing for Persons Needing Anesthesia Care Document Type Contribution to Book Publication Date 2025 Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing Source Publication Extraordinary Nursing Practice: Multiple Roles, Caring Practices Source ISSN 9781036451844 Recommended Citation Giberson, Christopher and Wolf, Zane Robinson, "Nurse Anesthesiologists: Extraordina…

Cannabis use in the United States has increased over the past several decades. This rise in prevalence parallels expanded legalization, increased societal acceptance, and the proliferation of commercially available cannabis products. These evolving patterns of use present unique and increasingly complex challenges for anesthesia providers. Cannabis has been shown to exert clinically significant e…

Healthcare providers recognize the importance of the family system to patient health and wellbeing, as evidenced by the development and implementation of family-centered care models in healthcare delivery settings. Yet, only in the past few decades has there been an explicit shift within healthcare settings to welcome and include families during hospitalization of their sick child. Family-centere…

Information extraction from financial document images is crucial in computer vision and NLP, as financial data often exists in image or PDF format, enabling organizations to analyze and make informed business decisions using OCR advancements. The table contents of financial document images are one of the prominent structures to confine important portions of data of the document and many Deep lear…

With the growing adoption of privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms, such as Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), training or fine-tuning models on private datasets has become increasingly prevalent. This shift has led to the need for models offering varying privacy guarantees and utility levels to satisfy diverse user requirements. Managing numerous versions of la…