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• You’re Not a Guest, You Belong Here: Transforming First-Year Seminars to Center Social Justice and

  Abstract There is extensive research that speaks to first-year seminars as an effective high impact practice. However, this inquiry utilized qualitative research to understand the steps needed to make...

• Nanoscale Vacuum Electronic Devices - D-Scholarship@Pitt

  Abstract High-speed electronic devices rely on short carrier transport times, which are usually achieved by decreasing the channel length and/or increasing the carrier velocity. Ideally, the carriers ...

• Defund the Police: Moving Towards an Anti-Carceral Social Work - D-Scholarship@Pitt

  Abstract This paper addresses social work’s place in the movement to “defund the police.” We argue that social work’s collaboration with police and use of policing constitutes carceral social work. In...

• Practical and Ethical Problems with 'Vulnerability' - D-Scholarship@Pitt

  Abstract This project analyzes the concept of vulnerability and the way that it is applied as a label in the context of human subject research. Vulnerability as a concept represents concern for an ind...

• A CLINICAL PREDICTION RULE FOR CLASSIFYING POSTPARTUM SUBJECTS WITH LOW BACK AND PELVIC GIRDLE PAIN

  Abstract Objective: develop a Clinical Prediction Rule (CPR) for identifying postpartum women with Low Back (LBP) or Pelvic Girdle Pain (PGP) who demonstrate short-term improvement with Sacroiliac Joi...

• Deep Learning for Medical Imaging From Diagnosis Prediction to its Explanation - D-Scholarship@Pitt

  Abstract Deep neural networks (DNN) have achieved unprecedented performance in computer-vision tasks almost ubiquitously in business, technology, and science. While substantial efforts are made to eng...