23671 research outputs found
Sort by
Nursing: Class of 1975
No full textPersonal and not-profit use only. Contact [email protected] if you have any questions.On photo: left to right - top row: B. Allen, K. Allison, S. Anderson, J. Arnold, J. Bacon, D. Bare, R. Becker, T. Bortsfield, J. Bradley, D. Brown, J. Brown, J. Buehler, T. BurgettSecond row (left to right): L. Burklund, R. Deeds, S. Deweese, D. Dunn, B. Eshom, L. Franker, S. Franz, P. Fisher, G. Foster, J. funston, J. Gassen, J. Glick, D. GordonThird row (left to right): J. Grass, C. Hall, N. Hidago, A. Hipp, M. Hoffman, V. Holcomb, D. Hoover, K. Houghton, A. Huckstadt, L. Huffman, S. Jabara, M. Joy, V. JuhnkeForth row (left to right): C. Leighton, K. Mark, A. Martin, K. Martin, N. Martin, V. Meng, L. Mitchell, K. Nelson, M. Ohlemeier, D. Owens, B. Paul, C. Peters, C. PorterFifth row (left to right): L. Pruitt, J. Rea, M. Reiff, M. Rhor, M. Roth, G. Sawatzky, K. Schmidt, B. Sheets, B. Smith, K. Snider, B. Snyder, J. Stalker, K. TalbotBottom row (left to right): C. Thierolf, C. Thompson , R. Titus, A. Trainor, Y. Ulrich, R. Unruh, V. Van Fleet, J. Verla, D. Vesper, D. Walters, L. Walters, S. Weiss, J. Wiles.Digitized by University Libraries' Technical Services Institutional Repository & Digitization group
Faculty Senate meeting, January 27, 2025
No full textAgenda: (Approval of Minutes): January 13, 2025 -- (President's Report) / Mathew Muether -- (New Business): ABA Masters Program Introduction / Dr. Angela Beller, Excused Absences for Students Policy / Mathew Muether, Unified Tuition Assistance Program Discussion / Mathew Muether -- (As May Arise): Consider extending sabbatical for tenure track and tenured faculty to NTT / Roy Myose, Lot going on in the news, consider hosting town hall for Q&A, university plans, etc. / Jay Price, senator discussio
Advanced Education Program in General Dentistry graduates 2020-2021
No full textSchool composite: students included in composite: Jason Tsai, Jielin Wang, Katie Keck, Luxi Swisher, Michael Somma.Digitized by University Libraries' Technical Services Institutional Repository & Digitization group.Personal and non-profit use only. Contact [email protected] if you have any questions
The power of prevention: The key to lifelong oral health
No full textPresented to the 24th Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Forum (URCAF) held in Woolsey Hall, Wichita State University, April 25, 2025.The goal of this project is to reduce health disparities, increase health literacy, and improve access to care, particularly in low-income and homeless young adults at Wichita Children's Home. By focusing on young adults, the project aimed to educate them about the importance of preventative oral health care and connect them with available resources, ensuring they have the tools and knowledge to achieve better oral health outcomes. The Wichita Children's Home, with its focus on providing care and support to vulnerable young adults, was an ideal partner for this project. Many young adults in low-income households face multiple challenges that contribute to poor oral health, including limited access to preventative care, and difficulty affording dental treatments. This project is targeting the young adult homeless population ages 18-25. We had the six participants take a pre-lecture and post-lecture quiz. This assessed their knowledge on oral hygiene habits, nutritional choices, and tobacco/nicotine side effects. Before we presented, 66.7% of the participants said people should brush twice a day. After the presentation, that number increased to 83.3%. This presentation educated not only the employees but also the residents on how to customize oral health habits to each individual and their specific needs. At the beginning the young residents did not want to pay attention nor listen to our presentation. Towards the end of the presentation however, they seemed to be more engaged and we hope they left feeling more optimistic about wanting to embark on good oral hygiene. For future projects it would be crucial to provide information, such as a brochure, to ensure the residents are able to look back at the material to reference for further understanding
Developing a wearable fetal heart monitor: An evaluation of fetal electrocardiogram extraction algorithms
No full textThird place winner of poster presentations for Natural Sciences & Engineering at the 24th Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Forum (URCAF) held in the Woolsey Hall, Wichita State University, April 25, 2025.Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are the leading cause of infant mortality. Early detection of CHDs enables healthcare providers to intervene timely, reducing fetal and infant death rates. The current gold standards for fetal observation include Doppler sound and invasive fetal electrocardiogram (I-fECG). However, these techniques are either too imprecise for effective CHD detection or pose significant risks to the mother and fetus. The non-invasive fetal electrocardiogram (NI-fECG) offers a safer alternative for detecting the fetal QRS (fQRS). This technique utilizes a configuration of electrodes on the maternal abdomen to capture fetal signals. However, it also captures maternal signals and noise, making the fQRS difficult to analyze. Therefore, developing an accurate extraction algorithm is essential to enable reliable, non-invasive, and ambulatory fetal heart monitoring. In this study, we analyzed simulated and practical abdominal ECG (aECG) data. For the simulated data, an open-source database (FECGSYN) was utilized to synthesize 1 minute-long, 160 samples of aECG recordings containing fetal signals, maternal signals, and noise. For the practical data, aECG signals were collected from 20 participants for comparison. Each sample was analyzed with three main extraction algorithms (BSS, TS, and AFM) along with various electrode configurations. Average F1 values were used for statistical analysis. Our findings indicate that BSS provides the most consistent results, but low F1 values. In contrast, AFM produced higher F1 values but more variable outcomes. TS compromised with higher F1 values than BSS and more consistent results than AFM. These trends were consistent across both simulated and practical data sets
Generalizing robust control barrier functions from a controller design perspective
No full textThis article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).While control barrier functions provide a powerful tool to endow controllers with formal safety guarantees, robust control barrier functions (RCBF) can be used to extend these guarantees for systems with model inaccuracies. This paper presents a generalized RCBF framework that unifies and extends existing notions of RCBFs for a broad class of model uncertainties. Main results are conditions for robust safety through generalized RCBFs. We apply these generalized principles for more specific design examples: a worst-case type design, an estimation-based design, and a tunable version of the latter. These examples are demonstrated to perform increasingly closer to an oracle design with ideal model information. Theoretical contributions are demonstrated on a practical example of a pendulum with unknown periodic excitation. Using numerical simulations, a comparison among design examples are carried out based on a performance metric depicting the increased likeness to the oracle design. © 2022 IEEE
Numerical investigation of charge transfer incorporating temperature in supercapacitors: Insights into self-discharge mechanisms
No full textPresented at the 10th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC), Partially Online Virtual and at George Washington University, DC, March 9-12, 2025.Self-discharge significantly impacts the performance of supercapacitors, particularly in double-layer capacitors, by causing energy loss over time. This paper presents a numerical investigation into the self-discharge mechanisms in supercapacitors, incorporating both experimental observations and theoretical models. We examine three key factors influencing self-discharge: ion diffusion, side reactions, and ohmic leakage, based on electric double layer theory. Through simulations and experimental validation, we highlight the effects of initial voltage, charge duration, and current on self-discharge behavior. The study reveals that ion diffusion dominates at lower initial potentials and short holding times, while ohmic leakage becomes more significant at higher initial potentials and longer charge durations. Additionally, the paper investigates the impact of temperature on charge redistribution and self-discharge, emphasizing the role of current during the relaxation period. We find that the rapid energy loss observed at the beginning of the discharge process is due to an unbalanced ion distribution, which can be mitigated by applying a small charging current. The results suggest that understanding these mechanisms, specifically the interactions between charge redistribution, side reactions, and ion movement is crucial for optimizing supercapacitor design and reducing self-discharge rates
Department of Dental Hygiene Class of 2005
No full textFirst row (left to right): Kelly Anderson, RDH, MHS, Assistant Professor; Barbara Gonzalez, RDH, MHS, Assistant Professor; Dr. Scott W. Wiggins, DDS, Supervising; Dr. Eric Kramer, DDS, Supervising Dentist; Denise Maseman, RDH, MS, Assistant Professor/Chairperson; Diane E. Huntley, RDH, PhD, Associate Professor; Pamela Bumpurs, RDH, MHS, Clinical EducatorSecond row (left to right): Alissa Frieden, Class 1st Representative 03-04; Brandi Kissick, SADHA Vice President; Donna Mustain, SADHA President 04-05; Alicia Thomas, Class 1st Representative 04-05Third row (left to right): Katrina Amrine, Johanna Biggs, Cindy Ballou, Class 2nd Representative 03-04; Jodi Unterseher, Class 2nd Representative 04-05; Amber Black, Megan Crain-BaylessFourth row (left to right): Rhonda Dietrich, Candace Golden, April Jackson, Evelyn Jackson, Mylissa Lara, Amy Liedl, Kelly Long, Dawn Love, Ahslea McNair, Sharlynn MermisFifth row (left to right): Mai Nguyen, Amy Pavlick, Anna Pulliam, Jamie ReaDigitized by University Libraries' Technical Services Institutional Repository & Digitization group.Personal and non-profit use only
Earthly life is not pointless for universalists
No full textThis is an open access article under the CC BY license.Some philosophers and theologians argue that if God will save everyone, then earthly life is pointless. No matter how good earthly life is, heaven would be far better. So we would have been better off if God had started us off in heaven. I present and defend two objections to this argument. First, time on earth does not result in a deduction from time in heaven. Pick whatever amount of time you might wish to spend in heaven. You will spend that much time in heaven whether you are on earth first or not. Second, given origin essentialism, we could not start off in heaven rather than earth. Our very existence depends on our earthly origins. © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press