Tejanos and the Texas Revolution: Their reaction to the Centralist threat

The purpose of this study is to ascertain Tejanos’ reasons for rebelling against the Mexican government. Texas was first colonized by the Spanish in the sixteenth century. After the Mexican independence in 1821, Texas became a Mexican territory. Tejanos (Texas Mexicans) lived under Spanish rule and Mexican rule. México enacted a colonization program allowing Anglo immigrants to settle in Texas. Tejanos and Anglo colonists developed a mutual working relationship. This thesis will compare the Spanish and Mexican administrations and how they failed to support and protect Tejanos. This failure is one of the causes for their rebellion. Another cause is the Centralist regime in México which in 1835 stripped power from the Mexican states, favoring the Mexican military officials and local elites. President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s brutal military campaign against rebelling states is the last reason why Tejanos decided to rebel against México, siding with Anglo colonists in the creation of independence

The Impact of Disruptive Physician Behavior on Support Staff and Patients: A Quantitative Secondary Analysis

In this quantitative secondary analysis, the purpose was to examine the nature of disruptive physician behavior (DPB) from the support staff and patient perspectives. Healthcare staffing shortages existed prior to the global pandemic and have increased, creating importance for employee retention and recruitment. I wanted to understand the impact of physician behavior on staff turnover rates in a private oncology practice, its effect on patient satisfaction rates, and to compare these rates of physicians that display DPB with physicians that do not display this behavior in a private hematology oncology community outpatient setting in the Southwest United States. To answer these questions, the researchers analyzed staff satisfaction scores (n = 5,529), staff turnover rates, patient satisfaction scores, and their relationships to physicians’ behaviors (n = 476) in 81 clinical locations (n = 18,000) using five clinical and nonclinical instruments: an employee opinion survey, a patient satisfaction survey, an employee turnover rate report, a physician disruption report, and the site characteristic report. A statistical analysis was performed, and results confirmed that DPB had a statistically significant impact on staff satisfaction when rating physician communication and behavior. The mean average for communication was 85.13 for clinics with no DBP and 65.17 at severe DPB clinics, representing a 19.96 margin in rating. The results showed that staff felt similarly about the behavior of the physician when compared to the organizational values. Results were statistically significant for staff turnover of locations with no DPB that had an average staff turnover of more than 2.3% (SD = 1.4%). The average turnover percentage in the moderate category of clinical locations was 5.1% (SD = 2.0%). Results for the impact of DPB on patient satisfaction scores were not statistically significant. This study supports the need for continued research on DPB and its impact on the clinical environment

The Presence of Above Standard Levels of Commonly Tested Contaminants in Communiites on Long Island, New York: The Impact of Income on Untreated Water Quality

Water quality is a pressing issue in many communities. Long Island (LI), New York, rests on a system of aquifers created by prehistoric glacial activity. These aquifer systems are the only source of drinking water for LI. Water quality issues are pervasive in the region due to nitrate pollution, caused by antiquated septic systems in much of the Island, as well as the prevalence of environmental clean-up sites. Using the Watertraq database, we searched for levels of select compounds that were present in wells above acceptable levels on LI. We then collected demographic data from the U.S. Census, including income, ethnicities, poverty levels, number of children, senior citizens and renters for towns in parts of two counties on LI to determine whether there was a relationship between the presence of above standard levels of compounds and income. Using an Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression we found a statistically significant negative impact (at the p \u3c 0.01 level) of income on the presence of contaminants in untreated water. In other words, the lower the income of the region, the greater the chance that above standard levels of volatile organic compounds were present

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Implemented Synthetic Indole and Indazole Cannabinoid Detection, Identification, and Quantification

The present invention provides a method for detecting synthetic indole and indazole cannabinoids in a sample known or suspected to contain a synthetic indole or indazole cannabinoid. A deuterated solvent is added to the solid sample, creating a suspension. The suspension is mixed to release the cannabinoid from the solid sample. The suspension is subject to a NMR spectroscopy process to produce a sample NMR spectrum

Controlling superfluid flows using dissipative impurities

We propose and analyze a protocol to create and control the superfluid flow in a one dimensional, weakly interacting Bose gas by noisy point contacts coupled to the density of the bosons. Considering first a single contact in a static or moving condensate, we identify three different dynamical phases: I. a linear response regime, where the noise induces a coherent flow in proportion to the strength of the noise accompanied by a counterflow of the normal component of the gas, II. a Zeno regime with suppressed currents and negative differential current to noise characteristics, and III. for a non-vanishing relative velocity, a regime of continuous soliton emission. The velocity of the condensate at the dissipative impurity determines the threshold for Zeno suppression of the current through the point contact, and the onset of the non-stationary regime of soliton "shooting" from the defect. Generalizing to two point contacts in a condensate at rest we show that noise tuning can be employed to control, stabilize or eventually shunt the superfluid transport of particles along the segment which connects them, with perspectives for an atomtronic analogue of a superfluid-current source for studying quantum transport phenomena.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figure

Comparison of NCD and CNN based mitotic classification of neural stem cells in phase contrast microscopy

Automated mitosis detection is a major difficulty in segmentation and tracking algorithms. This thesis explores the implementation of an automated mitotic detection algorithm for phase-contrast data into a segmentation and tracking platform called LEVER2. We implement two separate classification algorithms - one based on an estimate of the pairwise normalized compression distance (NCD) and one deep learning implementation using convolutional neural networks (CNN) - in combination with local statistics in order to limit the search region for mitotic events. The CNN provided a significantly higher detection rate while the NCD provided a significantly lower false positive rate. The NCD classifier generated an overall detection rate of 0.736 and an overall false positive rate of 0.0083, while the CNN approach generated an overall detection rate of 0.880 and a false positive rate of 0.0567. However, it was also determined that using a bi-modal classifier incorporating the peak normalized cross-correlation of the image with the t - 1 frame the CNN implementation could outperform the NCD classifier - achieving a false alarm rate of 0.0079 with a detection rate of 0.809 by thresholding out cell images that were above a threshold peak cross-correlation.M.S., Electrical Engineering -- Drexel University, 201

Type and Timing of Rehabilitation Following Acute and Subacute Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review

Objectives: The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review of the literature to address the following clinical questions: In adult patients with acute and subacute complete or incomplete traumatic SCI, (1) does the time interval between injury and commencing rehabilitation affect outcome?; (2) what is the comparative effectiveness of different rehabilitation strategies, including different intensities and durations of treatment?; (3) are there patient or injury characteristics that affect the efficacy of rehabilitation?; and (4) what is the cost-effectiveness of various rehabilitation strategies? Methods: A systematic search was conducted for literature published through March 31, 2015 that evaluated rehabilitation strategies in adults with acute or subacute traumatic SCI at any level. Studies were critically appraised individually and the overall strength of evidence was evaluated using methods proposed by the GRADE (Grades of Recommendation Assessment, Development and Evaluation) working group. Results: The search strategy yielded 384 articles, 19 of which met our inclusion criteria. Based on our results, there was no difference between body weight–supported treadmill training and conventional rehabilitation with respect to improvements in Functional Independence Measure (FIM) Locomotor score, Lower Extremity Motor Scores, the distance walked in 6 minutes or gait velocity over 15.2 m. Functional electrical therapy resulted in slightly better FIM Motor, FIM Self-Care, and Spinal Cord Independence Measure Self-Care subscores compared with conventional occupational therapy. Comparisons using the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Hand Function Test demonstrated no differences between groups in 7 of 9 domains. There were no clinically important differences in Maximal Lean Test, Maximal Sidewards Reach Test, T-shirt Test, or the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure between unsupported sitting training and standard in-patient rehabilitation. Conclusion: The current evidence base for rehabilitation following acute and subacute spinal cord injury is limited. Methodological challenges have contributed to this and further research is still needed. © 2017, © The Author(s) 2017