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Psychiatric Residents’ Perceptions Of Cultural Competency Training For Mental Health Care Delivery, Carol A. Matthews

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Considering and respecting patients’ cultural needs is integral in providing culturally competent mental health care. In 2013, an urban community hospital conducted the Community Health Needs Assessment with patients, community stakeholders, and health care providers. The assessment revealed the need to address a more diverse patient population with culturally different health needs through training culturally diverse health care providers. Thus, the focus of this qualitative case study was on how the academic training of psychiatric residents in cultural competency affected the delivery of culturally responsive mental health patient care. The conceptual framework of Jeffery’s cultural competence and confidence model grounded …

Water And Power In Architecture: Charleston Sc, Charles Dowd

Masters in Architecture Program: Theses

Charleston has not always been the peninsula it is today. In fact over time it has increased in size. It took a tremendous leap forward between 1670 and 1802. The city has been gaining ground through the use of landfill techniques.

This project explores the relationship of ground and power. Through examining Charleston’s role in the slave trade it is revealed that expansion of the city is influenced by the political and economic values of the time and vice versa.

Under the Supervision of Professor John Craig Babe

The Association Between Provider Cultural Competence And Type 2 Diabetes Health Behaviors, Bernadette Joyce Mejia-Tran

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Provider cultural competence is poorly understood in relation to the outcome of Type 2 diabetes patient health behaviors. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between provider cultural competence and diabetes patient health behaviors. The chronic care model provided the conceptual framework for this study. The research questions were designed to determine whether 5 measures of provider cultural competence play a role in diabetes patient health behavior change. The research design of the study was a quantitative cross-sectional survey using the 2017 National Health Interview Survey. The 2,342 participants included in the study represent a national sample …

Shaping Urban Spaces To Fit Into Religious Boundaries Through Landscape, Niharika Alahari

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

In India, rivers are considered a sacred entity for Hindus and temples on the banks of rivers are a common sight in Indian architectural character. Devotees come to worship and perform small ceremonies on ghats, banks of the river, to the gods and ancestors. This is considered a part of an important ritual prior to entering the temple associated with the river. One such river in South India where this practice occurs, is the Krishna river in Vijayawada, an important pilgrimage center for devotees and the location for this study. Although this practice is a daily occurrence and one hundred …

Integrating The Natural Healing Process For Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment In Veterans Through A Healing Garden., Taiwo A. Ajibade

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

In 2002, several ex-service personnel brought a court case against the Ministry of Defense for the inability to identify PTSD issues at an early stage and to provide support and effective treatment (Langston et al. 2007). Also in recent times, reports have suggested that US marine and army infantry units returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan have a higher level of expected proportions of mental disorders and that about 10% of personnel are returning home are with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (Smith et al., 2008). This discovery made it pertinent to look for natural ways to assist veterans …

Acts Of Meaning, Resource Diagrams, And Essential Learning Behaviors: The Design Evolution Of Lost & Found, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber

Articles

Lost & Found is a tabletop-to-mobile game series designed for teaching medieval religious legal systems. The long-term goals of the project are to change the discourse around religious laws, such as foregrounding the prosocial aspects of religious law such as collaboration, cooperation, and communal sustainability. This design case focuses on the evolution of the design of the mechanics and core systems in the first two tabletop games in the series, informed by over three and a half years’ worth of design notes, playable prototypes, outside design consultations, internal design reviews, playtests, and interviews.

Housing Conditions And Improvement Guidelines For The Elderly Living In Urban Areas: Case Studies Of Four Bangkok's Districts, Trirat Jarutach, Nutcha Lertpradit

NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)

The demographic structure of the Thai population has shifted to an ageing society with an increasing number of elderly people living in urban areas. This research, therefore, is aimed to study and analyze the housing conditions of the elderly as well as relevant behaviors and issues, and provide recommendations for improvement. This research employs interviews and onsite-surveys for data collection. Findings showed that the current conditions are inappropriate; bedroom furniture should be less high; handrails should be installed in bathrooms; stair risers should be shortened, and a common area e.g. a gazebo, should be provided for the elderly to spend …

ปัจจัยที่มีผลต่อการดูแลบำรุงรักษาภูมิทัศน์สถานพักตากอากาศระดับ 5 ดาว จังหวัดภูเก็ต, ปฏิปัน โพธิยะราช

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ภูเก็ตเป็นศูนย์กลางการท่องเที่ยวทางทะเลที่มีชื่อเสียงระดับโลก มีศักยภาพในการช่วยส่งเสริมอุตสาหกรรมการท่องเที่ยวไทย ธุรกิจโรงแรมและสถานพักตากอากาศระดับ 5 ดาว จึงยังคงเกิดขึ้นอย่างต่อเนื่อง ทั้งจากเครือโรงแรมไทยและต่างชาติ โดยมีภูมิทัศน์ที่สวยงามเป็นส่วนสำคัญในการเพิ่มมูลค่า และสร้างเอกลักษณ์ให้แบรนด์โรงแรม ทั้งงานวัสดุพืชพันธุ์และงานพื้นผิวดาดแข็งและสิ่งปลูกสร้าง หากแต่การจะคงสภาพความสวยงามโดยเฉพาะวัสดุพืชพันธุ์ให้ดีอยู่เสมอ จำเป็นต้องมีการดูแลบำรุงรักษาอย่างดี และสม่ำเสมอต่อเนื่อง โดยมีปัจจัยหลายด้านที่เกี่ยวข้อง วิทยานิพนธ์ปัจจัยที่มีผลต่อการดูแลรักษาภูมิทัศน์สถานพักตากอากาศระดับ 5 ดาว จังหวัดภูเก็ต พื้นที่ศึกษาที่ผ่านเกณฑ์ในการคัดเลือก 3 แห่ง ได้แก่ อนันตรา ไม้ขาว ภูเก็ต วิลล่า บันยัน ทรี รีสอร์ท ภูเก็ต และโรสวู้ด ภูเก็ต มีจุดประสงค์เพื่อรวบรวมข้อมูล ค้นหาอุปสรรคและปัจจัย โดยนำผลจากการทบทวนวรรณกรรม การลงสำรวจพื้นที่ศึกษา การสัมภาษณ์ผู้ออกแบบภูมิทัศน์ ผู้จัดการงานภูมิทัศน์ และผู้ปฏิบัติงานดูแลบำรุงรักษาภูมิทัศน์ มาวิเคราะห์ วิจารณ์ และสรุปผล เพื่อเป็นแนวทางการศึกษาและนำไปประยุกต์ใช้ให้เกิดประโยชน์ต่อไป ผลจากการวิจัย พบว่า ปัจจัยทางธรรมชาติ โดยมีสภาพภูมิอากาศที่มีความชื้นตลอดปี มีฝนตกชุก ไอเค็มจากทะเล ลมมรสุม สภาพดินร่วนปนทราย ความเค็ม และขาดแคลนแหล่งน้ำจืด ประกอบกับปัจจัยด้านนโยบายและมาตรฐานเครือโรงแรม เป็นตัวกำหนดนโยบาย มาตรฐาน และความต้องการต่าง ๆ ตั้งแต่เริ่มพัฒนาโครงการ โดยทั้งสองเป็นปัจจัยตั้งต้นที่ทำให้เกิดข้อจำกัด อุปสรรค ซึ่งส่งผลกระทบต่อปัจจัยด้านอื่น ๆ ได้แก่ ปัจจัยด้านการวางผังบริเวณและการออกแบบ ปัจจัยด้านการเลือกใช้วัสดุพืชพันธุ์ และปัจจัยด้านการจัดการงานดูแลบำรุงรักษาภูมิทัศน์ และมีผลต่อการดูแลบำรุงรักษาภูมิทัศน์สถานพักตากอากาศระดับ 5 ดาว จังหวัดภูเก็ต ตามมา

Rethinking Livability In Megacities: Applications Of Jane Jacobs’ Theories On Tokyo And Los Angeles, Kirara Tsutsui

Pomona Senior Theses

This senior thesis in Environmental Analysis compares critical infrastructure pieces in Tokyo and Los Angeles, on three discrete levels, with a particular focus on the pedestrian experience. As global population grows, with more people projected to live in urban cities more than ever, it is critical that we re-evaluate how we think about and “do” city-planning. Following Jane Jacobs’ theoretical framework, this thesis dissects what urban greenspaces, city neighborhoods, and sidewalks look like in LA and Tokyo. It analyzes, for each proxy, how two of the world’s most “developed” and largest cities have developed into the current landscape. Historical, cultural, …

Re-Imagining Nature In Dense, High Rise Urban Environment: The Present And Future Of Green Building Infrastructure In Singapore, Claire Yi

Pomona Senior Theses

From the futuristic Jewel at Changi Airport, the healing gardens at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital in Yishun to School of the Arts at Orchard Road, greenery has sprouted in buildings vertically and horizontally in Singapore, painting a growing green canopy for the dense, high rise city. This paper combines both analyses from first-hand site visits and case studies from external scholar studies to examine the performance of existing Green Building Infrastructures (BGIs) within Singapore’s unique urban context. The study reveals that the success of BGIs is highly dependent on the programming (i.e. thermal comfort design, accessibility, amenity facilities etc.), as …

The Living Community Challenge: An Uncase Study In Biophilic Master Planning, Jordan Grimaldi

Pomona Senior Theses

In a world that is quickly urbanizing with a climate that is rapidly changing, the International Living Future Institute’s (ILFI) Living Community Challenge (LCC) offers a whimsical yet highly relevant model for sustainable development—creating cities that are as connected and beautiful as forests. As no certified Living Community exists yet, this thesis serves as an “uncase study” of North Rainier, a neighborhood in Seattle that has registered for the Challenge. In an effort to assess the LCC’s perceived effectiveness as a model for sustainable development, this thesis first summarizes nearly 400 centuries of U.S. developmental history to give greater context …

Built Environment Ecosystems Framework Towards Sustainable Urban Housing Infrastructure, Anna Dyson, Naomi Keena, Alan Organschi, Lisa Gray, Nick Novelli, Kipp Bradford, Mohamed Aly-Etman, Matt Gindlesparger, Hind Wildman, Jonathan Duwyn, Martina Otto, Sophie Loran, Catherine Beltrandi, Mark Radka

College of Architecture and the Built Environment Faculty Papers

As the rates of urbanization increase to unprecedented levels, the urgent need for sustainable housing and infrastructure has become a widespread global challenge with social, economic and ecological implications. The housing sector directly impacts the majority of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs). However, striving to achieve these goals in a compartmentalized or siloed manner has impeded the implementation of transformational solutions that increase the security and wellbeing of urban populations. Here, we introduce the Built Environment Ecosystems (BEE) framework, alongside a case study from the Ecological Living Module (ELM) UNEP Program, through an integrated systems approach with …

Reserved For The Whole Earth: Forms Of Evidence, Ought Anxiety, And The Futures Of Geographic Inquiry, Eric M. Robsky Huntley

Theses and Dissertations--Geography

This dissertation examines geographic forms of evidence in the practices of landscape architects and geographers. I analyze evidence not only as an epistemic phenomenon, but as an aesthetic one, as well. Convincing an audience that the world is (or should be) one way and not another requires that knowledges be stacked, extended, and stitched together in a manner admissable to an audience. In the first two chapters, I use the case of the landscape architect Ian McHarg to examine how his approach to integrating scientific knowledge---a aesthetic response to what I theorize as 'ought anxiety'---grew alongside the environmental bureaucracy in …

Arising: Hurricane (Superstorm) Sandy’S Impact On Design/Planning Professionals, Maxinne R. Leighton

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Standing by my bedroom window, looking out at the ocean, a huge wave comes and swallows up my building. Everything around me is gone, including me. I wake up. I am 13 years old and living in the Coney Island Houses on Surf Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. With ongoing anthropogenic changes to the natural environment such as sea level rise and intensifying storms, coastal communities, especially ones segregated by class and culture, are particularly vulnerable in this context that challenges a way of life, and in some instances, threatens that life's survival. This dissertation focuses specifically on what one massive …

The Role Of Geospatial Information And Effective Partnerships In The Implementation Of The International Agenda For Sustainable Development, Etta Delores Jackson

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

The former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (2014), repeated the core promise in the 1986 UN Declaration on the Right to Development, in which the General Assembly called for an approach guaranteeing meaningful participation of everyone in development and the fair distribution of the benefits of that development. To this end, partnerships are central and can lead to the dignity of the citizens involved as they participate in the development of their own communities. This dissertation research conducted in Manyatta A and B in the Port City of Kisumu, Kenya sought to do just that. The purpose of this study …

Foster Rhodes Jackson And The Visual Conquest Of The West, Eve Kaufman

Scripps Senior Theses

Colonizers settled the Los Angeles and the Southern California region in part by using Modernism’s visual rhetoric and propagandic implications during the time of suburban sprawl. Suburban sprawl refers to the mass single family home development which took place from the 1920^[1]s until now but peaked from the 1970s to the 1990s. Los Angeles sprawl grew particularly in the 1950^[2]s as soldiers returned from WWII. It was a way for middle class white families to accrue generational wealth and follow through on the American Dream^[3].

The primary result however disenfranchised already marginalized groups. This …

Peak Pressures On Low Rise Buildings: Cfd With Les Versus Full Scale And Wind Tunnel Measurements, Aly Mousaad Aly, Hamzeh Gol-Zaroudi

Faculty Publications

This paper focuses on the processes of wind flow in the atmospheric boundary layer, to produce realistic full-scale pressures for the design of low-rise buildings. CFD with LES turbulence closure is implemented on a scale 1:1 prototype building. A proximity study was executed computationally in CFD with LES that suggests new recommendations on the computational domain size, in front of a building model, apart from common RANS-based guidelines (e.g. COST and AIJ). Our findings suggest a location of the test building, different from existing guidelines, and the inflow boundary proximity influences pressure correlation and reproduction of peak loads. The CFD …

Materiality And Sensibility:Phenomenological Studies Of Brick As Architectural Material, Tony Sofian, Iwan Sudradjat, Baskoro Tedjo

NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)

An incessant challenge for the architects nowadays is how to design architectural projects that support the creation of meaningful experiences, benefitting from the interconnection between building materiality and human sensibility. The purpose of this study is to provide a phenomenological understanding of brick as an architectural material and how people perceive its architectural space and interpret its architectural meaning. Method of phenomenological analysis from Moustakas (1994) is adopted to guide the whole research procedures; using in-depth and multiple interviews with the users of three different buildings who shared experiences in inhibiting and interacting with the environment created with brick as …

A Generic Scenario On Urban Sustainability Of A Historical City Center, Simon Chih-Feng Shu, Ching-Kai Lin

NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)

In discussion on modern urban development issues, many researches have focused on those newly expanded areas, yet few researches have scrutinized what contributes to the vibrant life of the historical Central Business District (CBD) in inner cities. This research has examined a declined old city centre in central Taiwan by deploying Space Syntax analysis to verify possible contributions of parts-whole street network disconnection to the death of CBD in inner cities. The research findings suggest that linearity and critical street segments being properly integrated with the whole arterial street network could be crucial for future city planning.

Experimental Study On Thermal Comfort Towards Increasing Temperature Set-Points In Air-Conditioned Office Spaces In A Tropical Region: A Case Study In Thailand, Tanadej Sikram, Masayuki Ichinose, Rumiko Sasaki

NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)

Many countries propose indoor temperature set-points of air-conditioned offices to be comfortably sustainable and to reduce energy consumption. Even though there are recommendations for the optimum temperature-set-points, it is questionable how those values could be applied to the actual situation in a tropical region. This study aims to survey thermal performance and estimate thermal comfort in different set-points. In 2019, two air-conditioned office buildings were tested by increasing set-points from the actual value between 23 °C and 25 °C. Data loggers measuring thermal variables were installed in the offices and the questionnaire was distributed to evaluate human response. Considering the …