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Disaster Resilience As Communication Practice: Remembering And Forgetting Lessons From Past Disasters Through Practices That Prepare For The Next One, Rebecca M. Rice, Jody L. S. Jahn

Communication Studies Faculty Publications

Communities learn important lessons about their vulnerabilities from disasters. A crucial aspect of resilience is how communities apply past lessons to prepare for future events. We use a practice lens to examine how communities remember and forget lessons through everyday communication surrounding their preparedness activities. We analyze two cases of disaster preparedness in one community. The first site, a local Office of Emergency Management, adapted national policies to the community while also keeping local disaster lessons in mind (i.e. remembering lessons). The second site represented an intractable conflict between the U.S. Forest Service and a community group that inhibited the …

Uncovering The Women In Ocean’S Eight: Understanding The Trends Of The Women’S Movement With The Portrayals Of Women In Film, Elyssa Michelle Day

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This study seeks for a better understanding of the correlations between major milestones in the women’s movement and how that is reflected onto the silver screen. With the rise of sexual assault allegations against prominent figures in Hollywood, and the growth of the #MeToo movement, we in turn are beginning to see an influx of films being released, and older films being rebooted, with an all-female led cast. One of those all-female film reboots is Ocean’s Eight, a film coming from a male-dominated trilogy and genre. Because of this correlation, the question of whether the narratives within Ocean’s Eight reinforce …

Empirical Justification For Supportive Other Involvement In Collegiate Athletes’ Mental Health Intervention, Elena Gavrilova

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Student-athletes have been identified to evidence similar or higher rates of mental health difficulties and lower levels of mental health engagement as compared with non-athlete peers. Along these lines, sport-specific mental health intervention has been justified by researchers, yet only one randomized clinical trial has been conducted in collegiate student-athletes who have been formally assessed for mental health disorders (i.e., a family behavior therapy as compared with traditional campus counseling as usual; Donohue et al., 2018a). Results of this outcome study demonstrated greater improvements for participants who received the family-based intervention up to 8-months post-randomization. In this clinical trial, the …

Consequences Of Math Anxiety And Stereotype Threat: An Intersectional Perspective, Jennifer E. John Buck

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Individuals with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills are highly valued for their contribution to the U.S. workforce and society. However, women and some people of color enter STEM fields at lesser rates than do White men. Math anxiety and stereotype threat have been found to cause math performance decrements for women and some people of color. Presently, it is not clear how math anxiety and stereotype threat might work together to dually influence math performance and subsequent STEM participation. The current study focuses on a diverse sample of 295 undergraduate students who were randomly assigned to one of …

Lifting The Veil: Do Health Care Price Transparency Laws Actually Lower Costs?, Nora Michelle Irene Langendorf

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The purpose of this research is to determine whether or not health care transparency laws, in the form of price transparency, lower the rate of increase paid out in health care expenditures in those states that have enacted these laws compared to those states that have not. By controlling for factors such as poverty, age, chronic illnesses, and income that may play a part in lowering or raising health care costs, the primary explanatory variable – health care price transparency laws – can determine if there is a strong relationship with the dependent variable (the rate of increase on health …

Visual Attention And Emotion Regulation In Schizophrenia, Bern Lee

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Emotion regulation and emotion processing deficits cut across the varying symptom presentations of schizophrenia. Emotion processing deficits are inadequately treated by pharmacologic interventions and are related to real-world functional impact and disability. This study investigated behavioral and psychophysiological responses to a series of emotion regulation tasks while concurrently collecting eye tracking data as an index of visual attention. A brief neurocognitive assessment was also completed in order to examine potential cognitive determinants of emotion. Participants completed tasks designed to assess cognitive change and directed attention strategies for down-regulation of unpleasant and pleasant emotion. For each of our two unpleasant emotion …

Sizing A New Bike Sharing System For The University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nesley Orochena

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The strategic planning objectives for a novel Bike Sharing Systems (BSS) are to locate the BSS stations, size the stations, and determine the bicycle fleet size, among others. Current guidelines to design BSS programs are tailored to city centers with large coverage areas and high bicycle to population ratios, and thus not directly transferable to a university setting. An ordered probit model was created using data from a university online stated preference survey to determine the key factors that affect the uptake rates for the UNLV BSS program and to estimate the potential demand. The demand analysis was incorporated into …

A Community Of Care: Patterns Of Pathology And Trauma With A Focus On The Bioarchaeology Of Care At Carrier Mills, Il (10,000 – 1000 Bp), Alecia Schrenk

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Illness and injury are universal human experiences which are endowed with cultural meaning. Bioarchaeology has only recently begun to engage with the socioeconomic impacts of illness, injury, impairment, and healthcare provisioning in the past. This study examines how the Middle Archaic (6000 – 300 BC) and Early Woodland (1000 – 200 BC) hunter-gatherer community of Carrier Mills, Illinois was affected by and managed the socioeconomic burdens of poor health. The data presented in this study used bioarchaeological analyses to reveal patterns of poor health and healthcare provisioning within the Carrier Mills community. Bioarchaeology is ideally situated for such investigations since …

Forgetting Distractors: Inhibition Or Decay?, Laura Werner

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Research on forgetting irrelevant information in working memory (WM) has supported two

conflicting theories, inhibition (Oberauer & Lewndowsky, 2016) and decay (Dagry et al., 2017;

Dagry & Barrouillet, 2017). However, these conflicting results may be due to the fact that different methods were used to assess each model. In Experiment 1, we combined those methods to create a modified distractor span task that allows for a direct comparison of the models. Participants processed words that were to be remembered (targets) and others that were to be forgotten (distractors); the amount of free time after each distractor varied, with total trial …

Dean Petersen Elementary School, Alexa Ching

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

To educate their students by using a trauma-informed approach that allows students to be vulnerable to learning new information and provide a safe space

Service Learning Project, Sheila Mae Agonoy-Pascua

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

UNLV CSUN Preschool has been accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) since 1994. The preschool’s mission is to “Provide a model inclusive early childhood program that serves children of students, faculty, staff, and the surrounding campus community. As the field of early childhood care and education evolves to meet the growing needs of today’s young children and their families, our preschool will continue to play a leadership role in teaching, training, and research at UNLV.” (unlv.edu/preschool/about).

Project 150, Natalie Datastanyan

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Project 150 began when its two co founders learned about the increased number of homeless youth attending just Rancho High School. Patrick Spargur and Don Purdue worked together to form Project 150 to decrease and eventually end homelessness in the youth of Las Vegas. The purpose of Project 150 is to end high school homelessness through the support of a community.

Service Learning At Dean Petersen Elementary School, Fayth Dean

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Their purpose is to not only educate their students, but to also teach them in a way that allows them to let their guard down. These students come from environments that are filled with violence, abuse, yelling, etc. For these students to be taught, the teachers use a “traumainformed” approach where they are calm and patient with their students, which allow them to be teachable

Project Focus And Wcta, David Islas

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Project FOCUS is a program designed to encourage students on the autism spectrum with educational programs suited for their wants and needs in life. WCTA is a Magnet school that has been existent for 10 years.

Three Square: The Fight Against Hunger, Courtney Lee

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Three Square is a food bank for Southern Nevada, whose aim is to “provide wholesome food to hungry people, while passionately pursuing a hunger-free community.”

Project Focus, Marc Angelo Non

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Forming Occupational and Community Understanding for Success Created in 2015 Has grown ever since Provides access to resources for students with intellectual disabilities

Project Focus, Edrielle Ramirez

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

History and Purpose Started with 1 student in 2015 1 to 25 students in 4 years Purpose: "give an opportunity for this population to have the opportunity to go to college" Community Service Paradigm Project Defines a problem, implements, achieve goal

The Nevada Blind Children’S Foundation, Mara Ono

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

It was created to provide the essential blocks including expanded core curriculum, extracurricular activities, social opportunities, and transitional skills to children who are visually impaired Three main goals: ○ Increase graduation rates and postsecondary education enrollment and/or vocation ○ Increase employment rates for blind adults ○ Increase the quality of life (independence, socialization, life skills) for blind or visually impaired children Community Service Paradigm The community service paradigm this service site best fits is social change The Nevada Blind Children’s Foundation wants every child with a visual impairment to reach their full potential

Signature Productions: Quality Family Entertainment, Tyler Lambert

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Signature Productions is a nonprofit community theater company. It was created in 1989, by both Dr. Karl M. Larsen, a local Optometrist, and Victor J. Austin, an attorney. They believed that Las Vegas Valley needed quality family entertainment. The Board of Signature Productions is made up of 16 talented and dedicated people from Las Vegas consisting of an Optometrist, several Attorneys, a General Contractor, multiple small business owners, a photographer, music and dance instructors, office professionals and homemakers. We are housed in the Summerlin Library and Preforming Arts Center, where we rent space for each production.

E W Griffith Elementary School, Leilah Torres

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Their vision is to keep their students, “...honest, safe, respectful, engaged, and own their learning and choices,” (“Griffith ES”).

What Does A Good Life Look Like To You?, Mackenzie Zelensky

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

History and Purpose of Heaven Can Wait Animal Society Heaven Can Wait Animal Society is an organization that helps rescue dogs and cats from homelessness, starvation, and death. The founding principle of this organization is to save these animals lives, specifically be means of not euthanizing the animals that they rescue. The founders of Heaven Can Wait created this organization to “stop the senseless killing of dogs and cats,” according to hcws.org. This objective is achieved every day by HCWS. Based on the organization’s website, the people I’ve interreacted with, and my personal experience, it is blatantly clear that animals …

Marquis Centennial Hills Post Acute Rehab, Christian Bondoc

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

Three Square Food Bank, Jordan Hazeur

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

Three Square, Jovan Lubura

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

Three Square Southern Nevada Food Bank, Jherico Rivera

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

Project 150, Hunter Speier

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

Asian Community Development Council, Juan Torres

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

Project 150, Dorian Laganière

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Offer support and services to homeless, displaced, and disadvantaged high school students. so they can be successful during their high school journey and ultimately graduate.

Project F.O.C.U.S, Tatiana Tonga

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

Las Vegas Rescue Mission, Jacqueline Froid

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.