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Exhibit K: Querying Procedures Used by the National Counterterrorism Center in Connection with Acquisitions of Foreign Intelligence Information Pursuant to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, as Amended, [REDACTED], No. [REDACTED] (FISA Ct. Mar. 13, 2023).
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eLearning and Mobility: An Electronic Education to Evaluate Surgical Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse Knowledge and Adherence to an Institution-Specific Mobility Protocol
No full textD.N.P.Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are systemic evidence-based recommendations devised to assist healthcare workers in standardizing and improving patient care quality. Despite CPG’s ability to bridge evidence to practice, adherence occurs only 36% of the time. A barrier to CPG uptake is a lack of formal education and training. Evidence indicates that consistent education, specifically electronic, can improve care practices and patient outcomes. Therefore, this quality improvement (QI) project aimed to evaluate the effect of an eLearning education on SICU RN knowledge and adherence to an institution-specific mobility protocol. This project was conducted on a 24-bed SICU within a large urban tertiary care center. A pre-post design was used to assess both knowledge and adherence outcomes. Baseline adherence and knowledge assessments occurred over six and two weeks, respectively. After gathering baseline data, an eLearning educational module on the PUMP Plus© mobility guidelines was distributed to SICU RNs and completed over two weeks using the site's continuing education server. Following the eLearning intervention, adherence and knowledge were re-evaluated over identical six- and two-week periods. Adherence data were collected via SICU RN charting in the medical record. Knowledge data was collected using Qualtrics-administered assessments.
To assess adherence rates, a total of npre=950 and npost=882 patient encounters were evaluated between the pre and post-period. Using a Z-test of proportions, a statistically significant increase in encounters that met adherence was seen, from 47.6% pre to 59.2% post,
#525 Is the United States a Have-Not Nation?
No full textParticipants include: Mr. Leo J. Schaben, Chief, Foreign Competition Branch, Dept. of Agriculture, Prof. of Staple Commodities of World Trade, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University Mr. Reginald Hainsworth, Economic Geographer, Dept. of Agriculture Mr. Charles B. Davenport, Economist, Barter and Stock Pilling Div., Dept. of Agriculture Mr. P.K. Norris, Director, Import Division, Foreign Agricultural Service, Department of Agricultur
Hot Planet, Cold Feet: The Effect of Climate Change on Reproductive Intentions
No full textM.P.P.As the world continues to grapple with the effects of climate change, it is pertinent to consider whether our climate reality affects individual decisions about contraception. In this thesis, I explore the causal relationship between of climate change and reproductive intentions in Poland and discover that concerns about the health consequences of climate change are deterring people aged 18-45 from wanting to have kids. As individual reproductive intentions can impact population growth, labor supply, general satisfaction, and well-being, these results have extensive implications for policies regarding public health, contraception coverage, availability of family planning resources, net-zero carbon goals, demand-side policies for green energy, and government appropriations for green-energy solutions and infrastructure development. Most urgently, the results signal a timely need for a contraception mandate in health insurance policies
The Effects of Food Policy Councils on Food Security and Waste
No full textM.P.P.Food policy councils comprise various stakeholders – including civil servants, activists, community members, and private sector investors – who work together to ensure the health of local and regional food systems. Food policy councils typically focus on the economic, social, and environmental components of our food systems. Food waste is particularly detrimental to the environment and significantly contributes to climate change, because it releases a powerful greenhouse gas called methane when it reaches landfills. This thesis endeavors to understand how food policy councils that operate on county levels may mitigate food waste for the communities in which they operate. To operationalize my models using available, secondary data, I use a food security index as a proxy measurement for food waste as my primary, dependent variable. I use an indicator variable representing the existence of food policy councils as my primary, independent variable. I hypothesized that the existence of food policy councils would increase the food security index for a given county. My OLS models confirmed my hypothesis, finding that the existence of food policy councils is associated with a small increase in food security. However, after conducting propensity score matching, the results were at odds with the other two OLS models. This thesis is an important contribution to the scholarship, as it is the first ever quantitative analysis of food policy councils
Semiannual Report to Congress, April 1, 2021 – Sept. 31, 2022 (Feb. 7, 2023)
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Poetics and Politics of Flight: Santiago de Cárdenas, the Literary Writing of Science and the Emergence of Decolonial Thought
No full textPh.D.“Poetics and Politics of Flight” studies the legacy of the early Afro-Peruvian ornithologist and decolonial thinker Santiago de Cárdenas who authored the manuscript A New System to Navigate Through the Air, Taken from the Observation of Birds (ca. 1762-1784). Pioneering empirical research, Cárdenas created an avian taxonomy and terminology and recorded the morphology, behavior, diet and habitat of the Andean condor. Inspired by his discoveries in flight biomechanics, he designed a flying machine and proposed it to the Viceroy to transport mail from America to Europe. When his project was rejected, he composed his treatise as a scientific-literary dialogue between an Andean condor and he, the Disciple. In it, he crafts a decolonial discourse denouncing the Spanish monopoly of knowledge production. “Poetics and Politics of Flight” contextualizes Cárdenas’ work within the enlightened tradition of scientific writing using the literary dialogue. Likewise, Cárdenas’ flying device is placed among the efforts to reach the skies with technology developed during the Enlightenment. From an animal studies perspective, this dissertation shows how Cárdenas steps out of the anthropocentric framework by decentering the human animal and making the condor the source of and vehicle to communicate knowledge. Cárdenas’ story has come to the twentieth first century through Ricardo Palma’s short story “Santiago the Flier” (1878) and Julio Ramón Ribeyro’s play The Life and Passion of Santiago the Birdman (1959). This research studies the transformation of Cárdenas’ character from eccentric fool, to dreamer, to tragic hero, to Christological figure revealing the subtle ways in which literature fuels the Master Narrative, recycles the single story and sustains racial hierarchies, bridging the past to a present still haunted by its colonial history
TLISI 2023: Beyond Chat GPT: The Broader Implications of AI in Higher Ed
No full textCNDLS staff will provide a brief history of AI, an overview of AI applications, and discuss how they might be relevant to our education context. We will look at AI capability with video, graphics, and mobile apps. This will be an interactive workshop with some presentation and a discussion of case studies
