Modifed Playfair for Text File Encryption and Meticulous Decryption with Arbitrary Fillers by Septenary Quadrate Pattern

Cryptography secures data and serves to ensure the confidentiality of records. Playfair is a cryptographic symmetrical algorithm that encrypts statistics based on key costs. This secret is shared with an authorized person to retrieve data. In the conventional pattern, there is an area complexity and deficiency in letters, numbers, and special characters. This hassle has been overcome in previous studies by editing pattern dimensions. The fillers used throughout the enciphering were not eliminated during the retrieval process, which resulted in the indiscrimination of the retrieved statistics. The proposed method uses a separate quadrate pattern that strengthens the Playfair cipher and guarantees that the fillers are eliminated to ensure the authentic retrieval of records. The fillers indiscriminate and strengthen the set of rules in opposition to brute force and avalanche impact. The proposed algorithm was evaluated with a minimal change in the key, and was found to have an avalanche effect between 65% and 93.7%. The encrypted document is further encoded using the Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm (LZMA) to provide compressed second-level secured text with a compression ratio of 0.75 for a file size of 100 KB. The pattern was designed to subsidize the integrated characters found on the keyboard

Digital Commons Annual Summary 2023

The DigitalCommons@Molloy Annual summary typically includes: readership totals, usage metrics such as downloads and metadata hits, and top performing items and profiles. Other areas that can be included are any new series or features, refresh or updates to the site design, and any future project plans

Leganto Reserves+ flier

A flier promoting the Ex Libris product Leganto to facultyhttps://digitalcommons.molloy.edu/jet_disp/1025/thumbnail.jp

Learning Services Student Advisory Group

A flier advertising a meeting of the Learning Services Student Advisory committeehttps://digitalcommons.molloy.edu/jet_disp/1024/thumbnail.jp

Heart Safe Community Update: Presentation

Heart Safe Community Project update presentation at the School of Nursing & Health Sciences department meeting on 1/19/23 at Molloy University

Using online teaching resources to increase nursing students\u27 knowledge and assessment skills of skin cancer

Nurses are in an excellent position to teach the public about skin cancer prevention and perform cancer screenings. This study was designed to test an educational intervention intended to teach nursing students about skin cancer so they can reach competence and be certified by faculty to educate their patients. Similarly, students are educated and certified in other areas, namely asthma and naloxone administration. By conducting this quasi-experimental study, the researchers sought to evaluate the effectiveness of adding online skin cancer education to traditional educational methods. Using a quasi-experimental design, we assigned nursing students (n = 146) to either an intervention group, which received an online educational treatment, or to a control group, which did not receive any such treatment. Both groups then completed a post-test measure assessing their knowledge about skin cancer (‘knowledge’), sun protective behaviours (‘behavior’), and perceptions about the role of the nurse in skin cancer prevention (‘role’). Participants in the intervention group had significantly higher scores on the ‘behavior’ and ‘role’ measures, suggesting that the intervention had successfully impacted these dimensions

Diverse secondary metabolites are expressed in particle-associated and free-living microorganisms of the permanently anoxic Cariaco Basin

Secondary metabolites play essential roles in ecological interactions and nutrient acquisition, and are of interest for their potential uses in medicine and biotechnology. Genome mining for biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) can be used for the discovery of new compounds. Here, we use metagenomics and metatranscriptomics to analyze BGCs in free-living and particle-associated microbial communities through the stratified water column of the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela. We recovered 565 bacterial and archaeal metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) and identified 1154 diverse BGCs. We show that differences in water redox potential and microbial lifestyle (particle-associated vs. free-living) are associated with variations in the predicted composition and production of secondary metabolites. Our results indicate that microbes, including understudied clades such as Planctomycetota, potentially produce a wide range of secondary metabolites in these anoxic/euxinic waters

Early Childhood Educators\u27 Understanding and Perspectives of Music Therapy

Few research studies have explored early childhood educators’ understanding and perspectives of music therapy. In this study, 28 early childhood educators were surveyed, answering open- and closed-ended questions relating to what they understand about and how they perceive the profession of music therapy. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze quantitative data and thematic analysis to analyze qualitative data. Quantitative data highlighted the little education provided to early childhood educators about music therapy and suggests that very few early childhood educators have worked with music therapists. The three participants who had worked with a music therapist reported that music therapy has been beneficial for their students. Thematic findings revealed that early childhood educators would like to see more collaboration between music therapists and early childhood educators as well as resources to learn more about music therapy. Additional research should be done to explore early childhood educators’ understanding and perspectives of music therapy with a larger sample as well as learn in which parts of the country music therapy in early childhood education is most common and what resources would be most helpful in providing education about music therapy

Does Management Education Need a Facelift? The Intersection of Managing, Leading, and Coaching. Part IV

This paper is the fourth in a series of five papers that collectively explore management education and its value to workplace preparation. It is part of a multi-phase research study that was introduced in 2021 and is laser-focused on the growing profession of executive coaching. As business educators who are committed to preparing future leaders for the complexity of the workplace, we must ensure that the curriculum remains cutting-edge and satisfies the professional goals of our students and the needs of the leaders that will become their employers. The premise of integrating coaching as a component of management education, supports this commitment to workplace preparation. The design of this IRB approved study seeks insight from the primary stakeholders of business education; this includes senior leaders/employers, management faculty, and post-MBA graduates. This Part IV paper briefly summarizes the knowledge and insights presented in Parts 1, II, and III. Part I provided the theoretical framework for the larger study, Part II reported on the insights of senior leaders as the future employers of our graduates. Part III reported on the viewpoints of management faculty as related to their role as the gatekeepers of business education. Part IV reports the results of in-depth interviews with twelve (12) post-MBA graduates, now fully embedded in their professional lives. The research results reported in Part IV align with the expectations of the senior leaders, which is that coaching knowledge and skills need to be fully integrated into graduate business education

Journey to a Heart Safe Community

Riding the Wave of Wellness Conference a UNC-Wilmington from the Building Healthy Academic Communities organizatio