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2024-09-01 Caudill Connection, Morehead State University. Caudill College Of Arts, Humanities And Social Sciences.

Caudill Connection

Caudill Connection newsletter for September of 2024.

2024 August, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications & Marketing.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for August of 2024.

2024 July, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications & Marketing.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for July of 2024.

A Professional Series: Servant Leadr, Jeremy P. Todd

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A capstone submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the Ernst and Sara Lane Volgenau College of Education at Morehead State University by Jeremy Todd on May 2, 2024.

2024-05-01 Caudill Connection, Morehead State University. Caudill College Of Arts, Humanities And Social Sciences.

Caudill Connection

Caudill Connection newsletter for May of 2024.

Implementing Play Therapy For School-Age Children With Sensory Modulation Disorder, Karis Applegate, Michaela Wilson

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

Most people have heard the phrase "A healthy child is a happy child" but what about the phrase "A healthy brain is a well-integrated brain"? Sensory processing or integration is how our brain reads sensory input from outside stimuli in our environ1nent. Our cerebellar white matter, located in the brain, determines the efficiency of sensory integration. It has been found that brain composition presenting lower microstructural integrity of the superior and middle cerebellar peduncles have a sensory processing disorder (Narayan, 2021). Sensory Over-Responsivity (SOR) 1s a specific type of sensory disorder. Since Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and SOR typically coexist, …

Economics Of Artificial Insemination In Cattle, Marisa Brown, Shelby French, Vijay Subramaniam

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

Artificial insemination (Al) is the collection of semen from a male animal and breeding a female animal with the collected semen. AI has a long renowned history, dating back all the way to 1780, and continues to evolve every day. Artificial insemination allows farmers to inseminate their cattle efficiently, farmers can integrate DNA variation and desired genetics in livestock, and acts as a safe way to impregnate cattle by not having the risk of a live bull being used. It can be observed within multiple studies that when looking at smaller herds it can actually be more cost efficient to …

Impact Of Year And Animal Origin On Key Factors Of Ewe Longevity, Audrey Burton, Jacob Lebrun, Flint Harrelson, Patricia Harrelson

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

The MSU sheep flock is an Innovation Flock in the Sheep GEMS project through the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The Sheep GEMS project is a national, multi-breed project that is focused on evaluating different sheep breeds and their longevity in different climates. As a participant, we collect/send raw data that is compiled. Our preliminary data from the 2022 (Year 1 ), 2023 (Year 2), and 2024 (Year 3) lambing seasons have been included. We collected measurements from Katahdin ewes (n = 46; 1-5 years old). We measured fecal egg counts (FEC), FAMACHA scores, body condition scores (BCS), teat and udder scores. …

Comparison Of Nicotine Quantification In E-Liquids Using Volume-Based Sample Preparation Versus Mass-Based Sample Preparation, Serenity Baughman, Alyssa Roark, Emmalou Schmittzehe-Skarbek

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

Questions are surrounding the accuracy of the reported levels of nicotine contained in e-liquids. Many of the studies show significant inconsistencies in the amount of nicotine reported on e-liquid products and the amount detected in the e-liquids. The current methods rely on preparing e-liquids for analysis by performing dilutions based on volume, but due to the viscosity of the liquids this preparation technique is prone to method errors. This project aims to compare the nicotine content in samples prepared by volume to those prepared by mass. This was done by first measuring the densities of several e-liquids. Those densities were …

Does Nursing Bias Affect Patients: A Quality Improvement Project, Sunny Barker, Abbey Hannah, Marty Helms, Zoe Koop, Mara Wallace, Carissa Wilson, Suzi White

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

Nursing bias topics to be touched on will be bias from nurses towards patients with the following:

• substance abuse history

• mental disorders

• different races/ethnicities

• sexual orientations

It is important to address the problem of nursing bias towards certain people primarily because it is affecting patient care/patient outcomes.

Examining How Distance From A Hospital Can Impact Maternal Health, Madison Beam, Lisa Shannon

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

The goal of the study was to recognize how distance may be a factor in the already large gap between the maternal health disparity of rural and urban women.

Lvermectin Toxicity In Border Collies, Rachel Bell, Smita Joshi

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

lvermectin is used in dogs and cats as a preventive medicine against heartworms. It is also used as a treatment for other parasites. lvermectin can be administered through tablets, topical liquid or injectable liquid. Some dog breeds such as border collies or sheepdogs have a sensitivity to the medication. The only safe heartworm preventive collies can take is Interceptor. But why? This is because lvermectin and other heartworm preventives have the drug Loperamide in them. They put it in there to reduce gastrointestinal secretions. However, some collies and other dog breeds have a MDR1 mutation specifically the gene ABCB1-1delta mutation …

Decreasing Distractions For Medication Safety: A Quality Improvement Project, Arielle Debloois, Michelle Mcclave

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

Medication errors are the most common medical error that exists according to The Joint Commission (2023). Distractions during medication passes are one of the common ways that medication errors occur. From experience with a medication error on a telemetry unit, I sought to find ways to prevent these errors from occurring through the avoidance of distractions.

A Protocol To Reduce Falls Associated With Setting Bed Alarms: A Quality Improvement Project, Kristina Vaughn, Alyndra Meade, Ella White, Autumn Cole, Jaylyn Whaley, Suzi White

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

Inappropriate and noncompliance with setting bed alarms can lead to an increased risk of falls in a large urban teaching hospital. In return, this can lead to injury and an increased cost for patients if they must have a longer stay in the hospital due to potential injuries. The main problem is healthcare employees may not be compliant in ensuring bed alarms are set and in the appropriate zone which can stem from forgetfulness or that doing so is a nuisance. Another factor that plays a role in noncompliance is alarm fatigue. The constant beeping of bed alarms can be …

Withaferin A And Alzheimer's Disease: A Review, Donovan Justice, Smita Joshi

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the buildup of amyloid-beta (AB) protein in the brain, which disrupts brain function and leads to cognitive decline. Current research focuses on finding ways to reduce AB plaques.

Withaferin A, a compound found in Ashwagandha, a medicinal herb, shows promise as a potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease. Studies suggest Withaferin A may target AB, potentially by mechanisms beyond its interaction with acetylcholinesterase. Acetylcholinesterase is an enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter important for memory and learning, but it's not the sole focus of current AB-targeting therapies.

Interrelationships Of Maternal Characteristics In Hair Sheep, Rebekah Mills, Madeline Walsh, Audrey Burton, Jacob Lebrun, Flint Harrelson, Patricia Harrelson

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

Since the spring of 2022, the MSU sheep flock has been an Innovation Flock for the Sheep GEMS project, managed by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The GEMS project is a multibreed, national project evaluating longevity of ewes within flocks. Our part as a participant in the project involves collecting and sending raw data which is compiled into 1 very large data set. The research discussed here uses our preliminary data from the 2022, 2023, and 2024 lambing seasons collected from our Katahdin ewes (n =46; 1-5 years of age). Collected data included fecal egg count (FEC), body condition scoring (BCS), …

Meteorology Misconceptions Held By Students In An Earth Science Course For K-5 Teachers, Ivy Litton, Wilson Gonzalez-Espada, Jen O'Keefe, Md. Golam Kibria

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

Students hold misconceptions when they confidently believe certain information, but that information differs from the commonly accepted scientific consensus. 1 Misconceptions accumulate over time due to a combination of incorrect perceptions of everyday experiences, over-simplifications and over-generalizations found in textbooks and the media, and incorrect or incomplete diagrams and analogies.2-7 Clausen described misconceptions held by teachers, and how they affected student learning. 8 After observing several teachers teaching about weather and climate change, he concluded that personal beliefs and values impacted what parts of science they emphasized in the classroom, resulting in students learning the content differently and inconsistently. This …

Identifying The Weather Misconceptions Of Usaf Academy Cadets: Implications For Curricular Reform, Mathew Mynk, Wilson Gonzalez-Espada

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

This study identified to what extent weather misconceptions persisted after 41 USAF A cadets completed Meteor 320 (Introduction to Meteorology and Aviation Weather), as measured by their performance on a recently created Survey of Meteorology Concepts (SMC), completed as a pre- and post-test. By examining participant data using psychometric statistics, survey data will also be used to validate the SMC. The research questions are:

• What weather misconceptions are prevalent among the participants?

• To what extent completing Meteor 320 increases weather content knowledge and decrease misconceptions?

• What questions in the SMC are, statistically, the best suited to measure …

Potential Of Topical Applications In Managing Navicular Disease: A Review And Exploration, Elena Verdecchia, Smita Joshi

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

Equine navicular disease is the chronic degradation of the navicular bone and surrounding tissues in the hoof (Tucker , 2022). Bone naturally degrades and regenerates itself at the same rate but horses with navicular disease have their navicular bone degrade at a faster rate than the body can regenerate it (Purica, 2020).

Symptoms As the navicular bone begins to disappear all aspects of the hoof are negatively impacted causing pain to radiate from the bone. The pain caused by navicular disease is the most common cause of forelimb lameness in horses.

Who is Affected? Although all horses can develop navicular …

Geoscience Archivism - Saving Morehead State's Collections One Rock At A Time, Miles Terry, Zachary Strait, Shelby Turner, Hayden Elmore, Caitlyn Gregory, Oliver Laiben, Jen O’Keefe

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

Geoscience Collections at Morehead State University have not properly been organized or sorted since the Lappin Hall renovations in the mid-1990's. The collections were initiated by John C. Philley in 1960, James Chaplin 1961 and the collections card catalog developed by Jules DuBar when he arrived in 1967. Maintenance of the catalog appears to have ceased in 1981 when DuBar left the university. Specimens collected between 1981 and 1992 often have card-stock labels, but do not appear in the collection catalog. In recent decades, many of our cataloged samples have been lost and/ or damaged because of improper storage. Most …

Comparison Of Efficacy Of Antibody-Drug Conjugates In Cancer Treatment, Rebecca Bailey, Smita Joshi

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

Objective: To analyze the existing literature and evaluate the potential of antibody-drug conjugates (AD Cs) for superior efficacy in cancer treatment compared to chemotherapy.

Insulin Administration In Hospitalized Diabetics: A Quality Improvement Project, Annalee Combes, Dylan Fraley, Emily Cobb, Emily Byrd, Tess Reuhermund, Amanda Isele, Kailey Ansell, Mary White

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

Insulin, naturally produced in the human body, is used in the treatment of diabetic patients. It is often given incorrectly resulting in a medication error. Around one-third of medication errors resulting in death within 48 hours involve insulin therapy. Insulin is expensive and many patients cannot afford the insulin they need which results in underdosing. Improper administration of insulin was observed during a clinical rotation at a large, urban teaching hospital. There is a need for evidence-based research to identify methods of improved insulin use. A thorough literature review was done on the topic of insulin administration. Common themes that …

Challenging Gender Stereotypes: Addressing Misconceptions In Women's Sports, Angel Daugherty, Steve Chen

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

Background:

*The is the critical moment for the rise of the gender awareness and a new height of female sports

The Me-Too Movement and the overturn of Roe v. Wade concern -

More female Olympians than the male Olympians for both Tokyo Games 2021 and Paris Games 2024

The transformation of women's basketball games: Caitlin Clark movement

Title IX just pasted it 50th year birthday *What else is there to consider and change? --Do we have a clear picture or reality of gender equality?

Coming Together To Hurt Our Rivals: Schadenfreude's Impact On Brand Communities, Maggie Fegenbush, Lucas Lunt

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

This research addresses this question by using data from X, formerly Twitter, to examine schadenfreude as a potential mechanism driving online liking behavior. Specifically, we look at likes on X posts including final score graphics posted by four specific NFL teams across the 2023 NFL season.

Examining The Relationship Between Gender And Anxiety Levels, Lacey Estep, Monica Himes

2024 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

Anxiety is a prevalent problem in our society, and it negatively affects many adults in the United States every year. The National Health Survey, which was conducted in 2019, found that 15.6% of adults experienced anxiety symptoms within the past two weeks of when the survey was given (Terlizzi & Villarroel, 2019). That means that approximately 1 in 6 adults aged 18 and over in the United States are experiencing psychological impairment. This large population of adult Americans experiencing anxiety raises the curiosity about the factors that play a role in anxiety, including whether or not gender has an effect …

Social Experience Of The Nonbinary Community, Heather M. Fox

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts by Heather M. Fox on April 3, 2024.

The Magazine, Spring 2024, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications & Marketing.

Morehead State Alumni Association Publications

The Magazine of Morehead State University from spring of 2024.

2024 Spring Newsletter, Morehead State University. Nursing Department.

Nursing Department Publications Archive

2024 Spring Newsletter of the Department of Nursing at Morehead State University.

The Effectiveness Of The Student Support Service Trio Program Retention And Graduation Rates At Two-Year Community Colleges In Kentucky, Sheree N. Bryant

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

An applied project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Education Specialist at Morehead State University by Sheree N. Bryant in 2024.

2024 April, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications & Marketing.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for April of 2024.