The History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys of Piemont: Political Performance, and the Use of History in the Cromwellian Protectorate

The History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys of Piemont: Political Performance, and the Use of History in the Cromwellian Protectorate In 1655, the Duke of Savoy ordered the violent removal of Protestants from his territory in Northern Italy in the basin of the Italian Alps. The horrific massacre that resulted provided vivid evidence of the arbitrary cruelty of Catholic European powers in the development of mid-seventeenth-century polemic literature. Specifically, it provided the Cromwellian Protectorate a useful tragedy in conceptualizing and actuating long-standing threads of religious history that provided the backbone justification of military action against their enemies. This presentation focuses on the book commissioned by the Protectorate and compiled by Sir Samuel Morland titled The History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys of Piemont and the complex composition of this book in terms of its religious and political uses. This talk will include descriptions of extant copies of the book in addition to its contents and some history of its use, dissemination, and idiosyncratic elements of specific copies. Content warning: This presentation will contain images from Morland’s work which graphically depict atrocious imagery of extreme violence against men, women, and children

In The Concise Evolutionary Essays, Robert B. Graber, ed.

https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/GraberCarneir

Democratizing Academic Librarianship: Ten Years of Community-Building Through a Graduate Fellowship

Developed in partnership between a University Library and a College of Information, the presenters have created and led a three-semester teacher training fellowship that prepares MLIS students for careers in academic librarianship. In celebration of the Fellowship program*s 10th anniversary, we offer reflections from a decade of research and practice, including findings from an ongoing qualitative study featuring interviews with Fellowship alumni. While this presentation focuses on our institution’s Fellowship program, the implications of our findings are relevant to anyone interested in supporting early-to-mid-career librarians as they navigate the challenges, opportunities, and future of the profession. Objective 1: Participants will be able to identify and apply effective strategies for developing and maintaining professional development programs based on a decade of insights from a student-centered fellowship program. Objective 2: Participants will learn to evaluate which components of a professional development program are most impactful for participants, drawing on qualitative findings from interviews with fellowship alumni. Objective 3: Participants will gain actionable recommendations for supporting early-to-mid career librarians in navigating career transitions, building scholarly portfolios, and fostering community-building, informed by findings from interviews with fellowship alumni

Four Tensions: An LIS Forward Response

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ULPoVrz8OwAXQAlKrUDWizqzoORDmGNC/vie

How “Race” Is Used in U.S. Peer-Reviewed Studies of Cardiovascular Health and Cardiorespiratory Fitness: A Scoping Review

In this scoping review, we examine whether and how race is used to explain differences in cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and/or cardiovascular health (CVH) among racial/ethnic populations living in the United States in peer-reviewed research. Searching eight databases from their inception, and informed by the Population, Concept, and Context framework, our search yielded 232 studies (N = 232) published in English. Seventy-eight percent of included studies (n = 181) did not define race; 45% (n = 105) positioned White participants as the standard for CVH and CRF metrics, and only 7% (n = 17) of the studies used sociocultural explanations to discuss possible mechanisms of racial differences in CRF and CVH outcomes. Findings are interpreted as an indication of how “white logic” informs research pertaining to CRF and CVH. A series of recommendations are provided to help kinesiological scholars avoid reductionist characterizations of “race” through their research, thus better aligning with the National Academy of Kinesiology’s social justice mission.https://doi.org/10.1123/kr.2024-004

Supplementary material for Applying Wearable Sensors and Machine Learning to the Diagnostic Challenge of Distinguishing Parkinson's Disease from Other Forms of Parkinsonism

Parkinson's Disease (PD) and other forms of parkinsonism share motor symptoms, including tremor, bradykinesia, and rigidity. This overlap in the clinical presentation creates a diagnostic challenge, underscoring the need for objective differentiation. However, applying machine learning (ML) to clinical datasets faces challenges such as imbalanced class distributions, small sample sizes for non-PD parkinsonism, and heterogeneity within the non-PD group. This study analyzed wearable sensor data from 260 PD participants and 18 individuals with etiologically diverse forms of non-PD parkinsonism during clinical mobility tasks, using a single sensor placed on the lower-back. We evaluated the performance of ML models in distinguishing these two groups and identified the most informative mobility tasks for classification. Additionally, we examined clinical characteristics of misclassified participants and presented case studies of common challenges in clinical practice, including diagnostic uncertainty at the initial visit and changes in diagnosis over time. We also suggested potential steps to address dataset challenges which limited the models' performance. We demonstrate that ML-based analysis is a promising approach for distinguishing idiopathic PD from non-PD parkinsonism, though its accuracy remains below that of expert clinicians. Using the Timed Up and Go test as a single mobility task outperformed the use of all tasks combined, achieving a balanced accuracy of 78.2%. We also identified differences in some clinical scores between participants correctly and falsely classified by our models. These findings demonstrate the feasibility of using ML and wearable sensors for differentiating PD from other parkinsonian disorders, addressing key challenges in diagnosis, and streamlining diagnostic workflows.Funding was provided by a University of Maryland MPower Seed Grant Award (R.v.C. and M.P.C), the Rosalyn Newman Foundation (L.M.S), and the University of Maryland Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (P30-AG028747; R.v.C)

Identity Documents and Trans People in Maryland: Experiences with Name and Gender Markers

The Maryland Trans Survey is a community-based research project conducted by Trans Maryland and the Queer/Trans Collective for Research on Equity and Wellness examining experiences of trans people in the State of Maryland in areas such as health and healthcare, employment and economic wellbeing, and legal and policy experiences. To date, it is the largest survey of trans people in the State, with 750 trans people representing all 23 counties in Maryland and Baltimore City. Data were collected from June to December 2023 through in-person and online community outreach. The project was approved by Towson University’s Institutional Review Board (Protocol #1897) and used Transgender Research Informed Consent (TRICON) Disclosures to provide trans community members with additional transparency on the project, recognizing long histories of harmful practices in trans research from scientific institutions. This brief contains information from the survey related to name and gender on identity documents to help advocates, policymakers, and community-serving entities better understand and support the current needs of trans people in Maryland.University System of Maryland - Wilson H. Elkins Professorship (2021-2023); Washington University in St. Louis - Audre Lorde Distinguished Professorship (2023-present)https://transmaryland.org

Dataset for Constraining Wetland and Landfill Methane Emission Signatures Through Atmospheric Methane Clumped Isotopologue Measurements" [Paper #2024JG008249-T]

Described in methods section of primary paperFrom Primary Paper: Microbial methane emissions are associated with a wide range of isotopic signatures, providing information about the sources and sinks of methane. Methods of directly sampling methane from environments such as wetlands may fail to capture the temporal and spatial variations in emissions at a specific site and time. The Keeling plot method is commonly used to infer the overarching isotopic signatures of methane sources. In this study, we have expanded the application of the Keeling plot from conventional stable isotope ratios to include novel clumped isotopologue compositions of methane. This advancement aims to provide more robust constraints on regional methane emission signatures. We analyzed methane isotopologue compositions from air samples collected above wetlands and landfills across Maryland, USA, and determined the endmember compositions for background air, wetland, and landfill sources. Our findings indicate that the isotopologue compositions of methane from regional wetland emissions exhibit seasonal variations — δ13C and δD values become less positive as winter approaches, reflecting changes in methane oxidation and production rates. The continuous monitoring of air methane isotopologue signatures will deepen our understanding of the seasonal patterns in methane emissions and contribute to refining the global methane budget, as valuable insights can be extracted from these measurements.JS was supported by NOAA grant NA19NES4320002 (Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies -CISESS) at UMD. Funding to support MH was provided by U.S. National Science Foundation grant (EAR-PF: 2052834)

Animated Sequences Showing the Ejecta Produced in the DART Impact of Asteroid (65803) Didymos

The data consist of 11 animated sequences, each with a leading panel that provides a summary of what is portrayed in that sequence. Additional information is given in the accompanying text for each file. Identical sequences are provided in both MOV and MP4 formats. Displaying with Quicktime or a similar app allows the user to play the movie at different speeds, and also to step through the sequence a frame at a time, which is helpful for following the details as the ejecta evolves. Time tags (seconds since the time of impact) are incorporated to help identify the images in the sequence. Zip files containing all 11 animated sequences are included for both MOV and MP4 versions.This data collection contains animated sequences showing different aspects of the ejecta that were observed after the Double Asteroid Impact Test (DART) spacecraft crashed into Dimorphos, the moon of asteroid (65803) Didymos on September 26, 2022. The images comprising the sequences were obtained with the LICIACube Unit Key Explorer (LUKE) instrument on board the LICIACube spacecraft that flew by the Didymos system about 3 minutes after the impact event. Although the sequences are comprised of the same observations they are presented in different ways to emphasize various aspects of the ejecta field. These animations are intended as a supplement to the individual LUKE images, to provide insight and to help in the interpretation of the data in support of studies that address spatial and temporal changes in the DART ejecta field. Note that in some of the sequences, black sections may encroach in from the sides. These are gaps in the data where the asteroids moved to the edge of the camera's detector.This study was supported in part by the DART mission, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) contract No. 80MSFC20D0004 to JHU/APL