Hillsborough Community College

The association between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and depression has been the focus of a number of prevalent studies in recent years—particularly among high-risk youth. Depression remains a significant mental health issue among justice-involved youth. There is a well-established correlation between depressed mood and conduct problems (e.g., conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder) during childhood and adolescence, which tends to become more prevalent during adolescence. Studies of justice-involved youth reveal high prevalence rates of depression and other mood disorders. Drawing on the relevant literature, we conducted multigroup structural equation model (SEM) analyses to assess the relationships between experiencing ACEs, sexual assault victimization, and depression among male (n = 226) and female (n = 98) youth entering a post-arrest intake facility in the Florida, U.S.A. juvenile justice system in 2024–2025. The youths averaged 15 years in age, and most were attending middle school or high school. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) were completed to estimate a latent variable labeled depression. Sexual assault victimization and ACEs were hypothesized to be related to each other and were specified as predictors of depression. This trauma/stress experiences and depression model was estimated in two multigroup analyses, across birth gender groups (male or female) and race groups (non-Black or Black) for the youth in this study. The results indicated that there are several notable conclusions from the SEM analyses. First, depression was a scalar invariant in the two multigroup analyses, permitting clearer comparisons of the specified predictors of this construct across groups. Second, for the race-based SEM, experience of sexual assault and the total ACE score were significantly related only in the model for Black youth. The fit of the model was “poorest” among non-Black youth, although even in this case, sexual assault experiences were a significant predictor of depression. Finally, for the gender-based model, sexual assault and ACEs were significant predictors of depression among both male and female youth. Model fit results underscore the important role of abuse trauma and ACEs in understanding these youths’ depression symptoms, and they help contribute to the literature on this topic.

Using a RAD sequencing approach to investigate the taxonomic classification of Tridacninae giant clams (genera: Hippopus and Tridacna) and address the phylogenetic discordance within the current literature. Population Size and Structure: Focusing in American Sāmoa, we conducted a comprehensive array of surveys on SCUBA, to assess current population stocks and identifying local hotspots for restoration purposes. Population Genetics: Using T. maxima samples, we are analyzing population genetics to identify source-sink populations and measure interisland connectivity.

The American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline program objectives are to improve the quality of care and outcomes for patients with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction. Every minute of delay in treatment adversely affects 1-year mortality. Transfer of patients safely and timely to hospitals with primary percutaneous coronary intervention capability is needed to improve outcomes. But treatment times continue to show delays, especially during interhospital transfers. A simple 3-step process of an interhospital "Call 9-1-1" protocol may expedite this process. This STAT TRANSFER process uses a systems approach that considers diverse ways in which patients access care, how EMS responds and determines destinations, how referring hospital transfers are performed, urban and rural differences, and how receiving hospitals prepare for an incoming patient with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction. This initiative suggests a strategy to reduce variability in interhospital transfer times using a STAT TRANSFER and a Call 9-1-1 process in a system of care that involves all stakeholders.

Introduction: In February 2021, the US FDA expanded the indication for sacubitril/valsartan (S/V) to include patients with heart failure (HF) with mildly reduced (HFmrEF) or preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), with benefits most evident among patients with EF below normal. However, the adoption of S/V among patients with EF >40% in US clinical practice is unknown. Methods: We identified hospitalizations for HF in the AHA Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure registry between January 2016 and December 2021 among patients with EF >40% to 60%, and not receiving dialysis. We evaluated prescription of S/V at discharge, and compared patient characteristics among those prescribed and not prescribed S/V. We also assessed temporal trends in S/V discharge prescription before and after FDA label expansion. We considered prescriptions of S/V on or after March 1, 2021, to have occurred after FDA label expansion. Results: Among 151,763 hospitalizations for patients with EF >40-60%, 3,001 (2.0%) included a prescription for S/V at discharge. Patients prescribed S/V were more likely to be younger, male, Black race, and privately insured compared with those not prescribed S/V (Figure, Panel A). Those prescribed S/V had lower EF (median 48% [Q1 45%, Q3 55%] versus 55% [50%, 58%]), lower blood pressure, lower rates of kidney disease, and higher rates of ischemic HF and diabetes. Following FDA label expansion, discharge prescription of S/V in the study population more than doubled compared with earlier years (4.3% vs 1.6%; p<0.001), but absolute rates remained low. ( Figure, Panel B ). Conclusion: Although the rate of S/V prescription among HF patients with EF >40-60% has significantly increased following FDA label expansion, use of S/V among these patients remains low. Compared with patients not prescribed S/V, patients with EF>40-60% receiving S/V at discharge have a distinct demographic and clinical profile, including tendency for HFmrEF more than HFpEF.

In response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, some Americans have claimed that U.S. governments have superseded their jurisdiction and violated individuals’ human rights in the use of government mandates. Many citizens and politicians have also claimed that governments are utilizing the pandemic as a smoke screen to take individual rights away from citizens to gain further power. In light of such claims, I provide a Thomistic response to argue that state and local political authorities’ use of public health mandates were other‐regarding in seeking to protect the common good in an unprecedented health crisis. Further, I argue that the characterization of individual rights atomized from community has led to an improper understanding of political authorities, individual rights, and our duties to our communities. Rejecting the reductive, skeptical, individualistic, and atomistic views that many Americans have engendered, I provide a Thomistic political orientation that more adequately helps us think about political authorities’ and citizens’ responsibilities within our political communities.

Abstract DEVELOPING INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR U.S. M ANUFACTURINGTECHNICIAN STUDENTSThe Florida Advanced Technological Education Center-FLATE, The Regional Center for NextGeneration Manufacturing (RCNGM), both National Science Foundation Regional Centers ofExcellence for Advanced Technological Education (NSF-ATE) took the challenge from theNational Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) andAdvanced Technological Education (ATE) to develop international programs of student forstudents enrolled in technical 2 year associate of science degree programs. FLATE partnered withTknika in the Basque County of Spain and RCNGM partnered with two Cooperative StateUniversities in Germany, Mosbach in Mosbach and Baden-Wurttemberg in Mannheim. to developtheir programs. Both NSF ATE Centers missions are focused on supporting manufacturingeducation at for technicians (2 year associate level) and developing robust career pathwayscontinuously integrated with regional manufacturers’ needs.The objective of these international education projects is to lay the ground work of strong andfeasible education and training program for U.S technician students at institutions in WesternEurope to provide our future workforce with global perspectives of the industry they will beentering, allow them to experience a foreign education system, and spend significant time workingside by side with students from another country. The centers designed the basic framework of theirprojects the same way and, therefore will be able to use the same evaluation tools when the projectis completed. Phase one of both projects is to take a cohort of Community College faculty to therespective destinations, providing significant professional development and the opportunity for thefaculty to work together with the European institutions to define a program that will both align withthe courses of study at their home institution as well as keep its hosts educational culture. Phase twowill have small cohorts of students going overseas to experience technical education in a differentcountry and culture.Currently, the centers are half way through the project, FLATE and RCNGM will provide aninterim report of this project. This presentation and paper will focus on the faculty experiences inSpain and Germany, lessons learned, and the differences of the education systems they will besending students to in the summer of 2012. The curriculum development process for the studentcohort will be outlined as well the student recruitment strategies for the challenging non-traditionalstudents that make up a large percentage of the student base at all 2 year institutions.

Abstract Recruiting girls to STEM careers There is no need to reiterate what has become public knowledge in the past several years – we need to recruit more women and girls into STEM career pathways. STEM careers generally provide higher wages and, therefore higher quality of life. There is a need for more STEM professionals across the country and across business sectors –and increasing the number of females can help fill that gap. The Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence (FLATE) has a special initiative for recruiting young girls into STEM courses and careers. A pilot program in its home county began in June 2013 with an intensive all day workshop at Hillsborough Community College’s Brandon Campus for local and regional educators. Attendees were invited to submit implementation plans for a program in their school, using the strategies learned at the workshop with an implementation plan template. This poster and paper will cover the details of the workshop content and its activities and the projects schools and teachers have begun to boost their female enrollments in various STEM programs. FLATE is particularly focused on supporting the manufacturing workforce, and schools working in related disciplines will be highlighted.