Rural Educators\u27 Toolkit for College Readiness

This toolkit contains materials related to postsecondary accreditation and federal student aid. It is designed to help students, their families, and educators be able to learn more about preparing for college.https://commons.und.edu/oers/1028/thumbnail.jp

Higher Education Policy Punctuations: An Assessment of Media Attention and Congressional Oversight

Congressional oversight of higher education is vital part of the policy process. However, a compressive study regarding the relationship between higher education oversight and attention has not been conducted. By utilizing McCubbins and Swartz’s Police Patrol and Fire Alarm Oversight Dichotomy, this experiment was able to discover that a relationship exists between fire alarm oversight and the amount of public attention in the higher education policy process. Congressional hearings in higher education were broken into three sections over a 58-year period. Each section was divided by major policy punctuations such as the Higher Education Act of 1965 and the 1980 elevation of the Department of Education to cabinet level. By utilizing a dataset compiled by the Policy Agendas Project, New York Times articles along with Congressional Quarterly Almanac Articles were used to measure the public’s awareness and attention of higher education policy. By using a Poisson regression, a statistically significant relationship was discovered in all three time periods of the New York Times articles when compared to the frequency of fire alarm oversight days per year. This analysis showed that there is a relationship between the frequency of fire alarm days that occur each year and the amount of New York Times articles that occur, representative of the public’s attention of higher education. However, Congressional Quarterly articles were not found to have a significant relationship with fire alarm oversight days

Herbert Lefor of Dickinson: Germany, World War II

North Dakota Prisoner of War Report by Herbert Lefor (1922-2005) of Dickinson. Lefor was a POW of Germany during the Second World War. 17 page

Effect of empagliflozin on NAFLD

The long-term outcomes of patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) treated with sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors remain indeterminate. Empagliflozin improves hyperglycemia by increasing glucose excretion in the urine, and it reduces fat volume and insulin resistance. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of long-term empagliflozin therapy on hepatic inflammation, function and fibrosis in patients with NAFLD. This is a two-center retrospective observational study including patients with NAFLD complicated by type 2 diabetes mellitus. We retrospectively reviewed the medical records. Changes in parameters were investigated over one-year empagliflozin treatment. Twenty-four patients treated with empagliflozin were evaluated. Weight, body mass index, aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase, fasting plasma glucose, hemoglobin A1c, serum insulin and homeostasis model assessment insulin resistance significantly decreased during treatment (p < 0.05). Albumin-bilirubin (ALBI) score, a marker of hepatic function, was significantly improved (p < 0.01). The FIB-4 index and Mac-2 Binding Protein Glucosylation Isomer, markers of hepatic fibrosis, significantly improved (p < 0.01). One-year empagliflozin treatment of patients with NAFLD complicated by type 2 diabetes mellitus significantly improves markers of hepatic inflammation, function and fibrosis

Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma with Sarcomatous Changes

A 61-year-old Japanese male was seen at an outside hospital with abdominal pain and distention. An intraabdominal mass was found on abdominal computed tomography (CT), and he was referred for further evaluation. He was afebrile, with mild tenderness in the upper abdomen and massive distention. Routine blood work showed severe inflammation and anemia. Repeat CT showed a large solitary heterogeneous mass, 25 cm in diameter, in the left upper quadrant with evidence of intratumoral bleeding and irregular enhancement peripherally. There was no clear distinction between the mass and the peripheral organs. Surgery was performed with persistent anemia and exacerbation of abdominal pain. Lateral segmentectomy, total gastrectomy, cholecystectomy and partial resection of the diaphragm and parietal peritoneum were performed. The final diagnosis was cholangiocarcinoma with sarcomatous changes. On the 16th postoperative day a CT scan revealed recurrent tumor. The patient died on the 34th postoperative day from rapid tumor progression

強い重力レンズモデルの比較研究

Tohoku University二間瀬敏史課