University of South Dakota

Facilitating Quality Feedback Practices for Teacher Educators: An Action Research Study

The student teaching practicum is widely considered the most important experience for pre-service teachers, providing a key opportunity for high-quality feedback to support instructional growth. Cooperating teachers and university supervisors (faculty responsible for observing an...

Content Analysis in Counseling Research: A Meta‐Study of Methodological Components and Agreement Procedures

ABSTRACT This study examined content analysis (CA) reporting practices in counseling research, with emphasis on methodological reporting and coder agreement. We analyzed 373 CA articles published from 1953 to 2024 across 28 counseling journals using a deductive coding framework b...

Machine Learning on Heterogeneous, Edge, and Quantum Hardware for Particle Physics

The next generation of particle physics experiments will face an era of challenges in data acquisition, due to unprecedented data rates and volumes along with extreme environments and operational constraints. Harnessing these data for scientific discovery demands real-time infere...

Data-Driven Prediction of Speech-in-Noise Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Machine Learning Models

PURPOSE: Difficulty understanding speech in noise (SIN) is a major determinant of communication ability and quality of life, affecting individuals with hearing loss as well as some with normal hearing. Data-driven prediction methods offer a promising approach for modeling complex...

Barriers to Support Services for Care Partners of Persons Living with Dementia: A Scoping Review

Date presented: April 23, 2026 Primary Author and Speaker: Ranelle Nissen, ranelle.nissen@usd.edu

Enhancing Health and Well-being among Rural Older Adults Through Group-Based Occupational Therapy

Date presented: April 24, 2026 Primary Author and Speaker: Allison Naber, allison.naber@usd.edu

Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Urinary Tract Infection in Children From 8 Days to 5 Years of Age

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common bacterial infections in infants and young children, with a prevalence of 7% in infants with fever. This clinical practice guideline (CPG) provides an update of the literature and clinical recommendations of the 2011 American...

Mixed Neuroendocrine Carcinoma and Adenocarcinoma in a Patient With Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis

ABSTRACT Neoplasia of the ileoanal pouch is uncommon, occurring in fewer than 1% of patients. Neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC) is a rare neoplastic complication and can be difficult to diagnose due to symptoms overlapping with inflammatory pouch disorders. We describe a 36-year-old...

Bad Criminal, Worse Mom: Public Perceptions of Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Crime

Using a vignette-style survey of American adults, this paper examines how parental status influences perceptions of women offenders’ character and deserved sentencing. Findings show emotional responses to mothers engaged in violent crime differ based on respondent gender and pare...

Comparative Efficacy of Embolic Agents for Single-Session Meningeal Artery Embolization and Surgical Evacuation: Evaluating Liquids, Particles, and Adjunct Coils

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Single-session middle meningeal artery embolization (MMAE) combined with surgical evacuation is an emerging strategy for management of patients with chronic subdural hematoma (cSDH). However, comparative outcome data based on embolic material selection...

International consensus guidance for general population screening for islet autoantibodies to diagnose early-stage type 1 diabetes: a nominal group technique process

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that targets and destroys insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreatic islets. The incidence of type 1 diabetes is rising globally. At the clinical diagnosis of type 1 diabetes, between 20% and 67% of children and adolescents present wit...

Prenatal exposure to wildfire fine particulate matter and fetal growth outcomes in the United States: Findings from the ECHO Cohort

Background: Increasing exposure to wildfire fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) may pose unique risks to fetal development. We assessed associations between prenatal wildfire PM 2.5 exposure and fetal growth outcomes, including birth weight at term, birth weight for gestational age...

Assessing Emergency Clinicians' Needs From Trauma Clinical Guidance: A Mixed-Methods Study.

BACKGROUND: In the United States, emergency clinicians are often the first to care for injured patients in the hospital setting. Current trauma clinical guidance does not consistently meet the needs of emergency clinicians caring for this population. OBJECTIVES: To better underst...

Cheminformatic identification of small molecules targeting acute myeloid leukemia

Abstract Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive hematological malignancy with poor prognosis and high relapse rates when treated with cytotoxic chemotherapeutics. Previously, we identified a family of small molecules that modulate mitochondrial function, referred to as PS1...

Prompt Engineering of Large Language Models for Medication Dose Calculation

This study aims to design and validate a large language model (LLM) framework for systematic extraction of medication dosing across multiple therapeutic classes using electronic health record (EHR) data. Manual dose annotations were completed for 4295 medications across nine ther...

Congenital heart disease in pregnancy and severe maternal morbidity: A distributed data network study

Abstract Introduction Pregnant people with congenital heart disease (CHD) are a growing patient population in obstetrics, yet evidence on the risk for severe maternal morbidity (SMM) has largely been limited to studies that lack specificity for CHD. We conducted this study to dem...