Power Up: True Stories of Women Who Changed the World Display

If you’ve ever used a computer (Grace Hopper), played a game of Monopoly (Elizabeth Magie), or enjoyed a hand-churned scoop of ice cream (Nancy Johnson), you know that women hold a crucial place in conversations on invention and ingenuity. Amidst a multitude of contemporary intersectional movements for women’s equality and recognition, the Cooper Library January Display aims to pay homage to the many contributions by women to U.S. and world history. Throughout January, grab a book or movie and dive deep into the rich history of the women who worked as catalysts and game-changers for some of the world’s greatest advancements

Scalable Robust Kidney Exchange

In barter exchanges, participants directly trade their endowed goods in a constrained economic setting without money. Transactions in barter exchanges are often facilitated via a central clearinghouse that must match participants even in the face of uncertainty---over participants, existence and quality of potential trades, and so on. Leveraging robust combinatorial optimization techniques, we address uncertainty in kidney exchange, a real-world barter market where patients swap (in)compatible paired donors. We provide two scalable robust methods to handle two distinct types of uncertainty in kidney exchange---over the quality and the existence of a potential match. The latter case directly addresses a weakness in all stochastic-optimization-based methods to the kidney exchange clearing problem, which all necessarily require explicit estimates of the probability of a transaction existing---a still-unsolved problem in this nascent market. We also propose a novel, scalable kidney exchange formulation that eliminates the need for an exponential-time constraint generation process in competing formulations, maintains provable optimality, and serves as a subsolver for our robust approach. For each type of uncertainty we demonstrate the benefits of robustness on real data from a large, fielded kidney exchange in the United States. We conclude by drawing parallels between robustness and notions of fairness in the kidney exchange setting.Comment: Presented at AAAI1

Active and Passive Rorschach Movement Responses: Toward a Historically and Experientially Grounded Revision of Scoring Criteria

This study explored the Rorschach Comprehensive System\u27s active and passive (a and p) movement scores and presents revised scoring criteria that reflect both historical commentary and qualitative research. A review of a and p movements included a thorough and reflective reading of historical and contemporary literature on the three movement percepts (i.e., human, animal, and inanimate) and traced the development of the Rorschach active and passive movement superscripts. Active and passive movement responses were then explored through a qualitative research study. Participants took part in a complete Rorschach administration, then wrote vivid descriptions of their movement responses, and finally, engaged in dialogal research as co-researchers. They addressed their experiences of the active and passive aspects of their movement responses in order to identify the themes that seemed to best delineate these two aspects of movement perception. This dissertation then integrated the findings from the literature review with themes derived from the collaborative exploration with co-researchers. Proposed scoring criteria for a and p movement responses, reflecting both experiential and historical understandings, were then developed. Finally, a second study that investigated inter-scorer reliability was conducted to determine if the proposed scoring criteria improve scoring reliability. Volunteer lay and experienced scorers scored responses in various forms (verbs, full responses, and detailed descriptions following inquiry) as active or passive after they were provided with instructions for scoring. The results of the reliability study and the feedback from participants offer substantive statistical evidence that the experientially and historically grounded proposed active and passive criteria are an improvement upon existing criteria and provide a clear and utilizable scoring structure for clinicians. These results are discussed in terms of how the new criteria are clearer than those for the current Rorschach Comprehensive System and present more conceptually valid interpretive statements for clinical use. This study holds promise for alternative qualitative research approaches to the Rorschach that are suitable for further developing and revising the instrument. Future directions for developing active and passive movement interpretation and their reliability measurement are also addressed

A Comparison of Four Journal Reading Apps

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this poster is to compare four journal reading apps currently available for tablets and smartphones. The four apps are BrowZine, Docphin, DocNews, and Read by QxMD. These apps allow users to read journal articles on their mobile device and have features to help keep users current on publications in a particular journal or specialty area. METHODS: The four apps were compared on the following points: ease of use, cost, number and scope of journals available for reading in the app, platforms and devices supported, and sharing features. Any bonus features unique to a particular app were also evaluated. Information was gathered using each apps website and help documentation, as well as by directly contacting each company for supplemental information. In addition, journal articles and blog posts about the apps were reviewed. RESULTS: All four apps are free to download and offer the same basic features. Each app can be connected to a library\u27s journal subscriptions so that users can access full text articles, either through the proxy server (Docphin, DocNews, Read) or through an institutional subscription to the app (BrowZine, Docphin for Libraries). BrowZine differs from the other three apps in that it has a broader focus and can include non-health sciences journals. Docphin, DocNews, and Read are focused on health care practitioners, especially physicians, and primarily provide access to titles within the health sciences. All four apps allow users to select journals or specialties they want to follow and will alert the user when new articles are published. Each app also offers the user options to share articles, either by email, social media, or by creating a shared collection with the app. Additional features available in some but not all of the apps include PDF annotation, CME credits, and the ability to export articles to citation managers or programs like Evernote and DropBox. CONCLUSIONS: Each of the four apps is easy to setup and use and can serve as an excellent tool for students and health care practitioners with mobile devices. Furthermore, the apps offer users an additional route to access journals, which can increase the use of a library\u27s journal subscriptions.\u27https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hslic-posters-presentations/1033/thumbnail.jp

Implementing a Demand-Driven Acquisitions Pilot

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this poster is to describe the implementation of a Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) plan at an academic health sciences library. The poster will also describe how the librarys new Integrated Library System (ILS) supports DDA plans by providing an automated workflow to manage pools of available and purchased titles. METHODS: DDA plans allow libraries to vastly increase the number of titles available in their collection and typically result in overall cost-savings because titles are not purchased unless they are accessed by users. The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center piloted a DDA plan in 2015-16 as a way to provide e-books on narrow topics that typically would not be of interest to a wide number of users. Librarians reviewed various DDA programs with different providers and chose one that works seamlessly with the library\u27s ILS, OCLC\u27s WorldShare Management Services. The success of the pilot will be determined by looking at the number of titles loaned and/or purchased, total expenditures, and cost per use. Additionally, the vendor allows the library to create survey questions users must answer before accessing a title, and data from these questions will also be examined. RESULTS: Titles in the DDA plan received much more use than we anticipated. Within 3 months, there were nearly 200 short-term loans and 8 titles were auto-purchased. The majority of the use of titles in the plan came from students and residents, followed by faculty and staff. CONCLUSION: Overall, the DDA pilot was very successful and we plan to continue to use this acquisitions model in the future.\u27https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hslic-posters-presentations/1034/thumbnail.jp

Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Flexible Structures: Low Temperature Deposition of Silver Conductive Tracks on Flexible Substrates

The ability to atmospherically deposit conductive patterns on flexible polymeric substrates has recently gained considerable interest as an alternative to vacuum processes. This is because it can potentially lead to highly efficient and reliable transparent electrode components that can be used in lightweight and flexible optoelectronic devices such as sensors, solar panels, touch screens, displays and solid state lighting. Common approaches to fabricate transparent conductors include the physical deposition of transparent conductive oxide (TCO) films on polymer substrates. This is leading to mechanically brittle components which are fabricated using costly vacuum coating equipment. It is therefore important to research an alternate route for depositing mechanically reliable conductive structures on unheated flexible substrates.;Metallo-organic decomposition (MOD) inks formulate a metal-organic precipitate beginning with the reduction of metal salt precursor which is then combined with an organic solvent. The ink can then be deposited using various processes such as syringe writing, spray masking, screen printing and ink-jet printing. Low-temperature curing can be achieved without compromising the functionality of the polymer substrate leading to a ductile conductive pattern.;In this work, a MOD ink was formulated by the reduction of silver nitrate (AgNO3) to yield silver octanoate (AgC8H15O 2) precipitate which is then combined with xylene (C8H 10) solvent. Deposition on polymer base substrates was performed using masking techniques and involving a small gauge needle tip luer-lock syringe or a spray gun. Relatively uniform Ag track surface geometries were obtained. Contact angle measurements (\u3c17°) showed good adhesion of the Ag ink on the PEN substrate. Curing of the Ag patterns was performed via radiation-conduction-convection heating at temperatures as low as 150°C yielding electrical resistivities as low as 4.13x10-6O·m, with higher temperatures offering electrical resistivities as low as 3.01x10 -7O·m. Monotonic tensile testing of the cured samples was performed at a cross-head speed of 1 mm/min resulting in a marginal change in resistance up to 10% strain. Cyclic mandrel testing was conducted in order to assess the fatigue characteristics of the flexible components. Nanoindentation testing was performed to analyze mechanical properties of the cured ink in relation to curing temperature. Finally, nanoscratch testing showed good adhesion of the cured ink to the PEN substrate. Surface porosity was related to all mechanical and electromechanical testing.;Hybrid organic/inorganic flexible structures allow for the atmospheric deposition of ductile conductive components unlike current applications requiring vacuum deposition of films that need further patterning