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Swk 225: Module 2. Biopsychosocial-Spiritual And Lifespan Development Theories And Perspectives [Powerpoint], Erin Stevenson

SWK 225: Human Behavior in the Social Environment OER Collection

Powerpoint slideshow for Module 2 "Integrating Multiple Human Behavior Theories and Perspectives."

Designed around the open access textbook Human Behavior and the Social Environment I, by Dr. Susan Tyler.

Swk 225: Module 3. Theories And Perspectives On The Sociocultural Dimensions Of Human Behavior [Powerpoint], Erin Stevenson

SWK 225: Human Behavior in the Social Environment OER Collection

Powerpoint slideshow for Module 3 "Theories and Perspectives on the Sociocultural Dimensions of Human Behavior."

Designed around the open access textbook Human Behavior and the Social Environment I, by Dr. Susan Tyler.

Swk 225: Module 1. Integrating Multiple Human Behavior Theories And Perspectives [Powerpoint], Erin Stevenson

SWK 225: Human Behavior in the Social Environment OER Collection

Powerpoint slideshow for Module 1 "Integrating Multiple Human Behavior Theories and Perspectives."

Designed around the open access textbook Human Behavior and the Social Environment I, by Dr. Susan Tyler.

Swk 225: Module 8. Generalist Social Work Perspective On Theories Of Human Behavior Connecting The Dots [Powerpoint], Erin Stevenson

SWK 225: Human Behavior in the Social Environment OER Collection

Powerpoint slideshow for Module 8 " Generalist Social Work Perspective on Theories of Human Behavior Connecting the Dots."

Designed around the open access textbook Human Behavior and the Social Environment I, by Dr. Susan Tyler.

#Staywoke: How Interviewing Faculty Can Make Your Program More Inclusive, Brianna Henson

Pedagogicon Pre-Recorded Presentations

Research shows that inclusion is critical to learning. As an effort to create a more inclusive learning environment, the University of Kentucky’s College of Pharmacy encouraged faculty to be directly involved in the process through the use of faculty interviews and a curriculum mapping exercise to identify how to better support diversity and inclusion.

Erie County Low Income Program For Sustainable Energy (Eclipse): Dashboard Design, Alan M. Delmerico, Scott Martin, John Petrocelli

School of Natural and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Sober Truth On Preventing (Stop) Underage Drinking Act Grant, Jonathan Lindner, Lisa Peterangelo

School of Natural and Social Sciences

The goal of this project is to reduce underage drinking by youth on the West Side of Buffalo, NY. Two evidence-based approaches to reduce underage alcohol use and consequences are being implemented. The objectives are to enhance the existing BPS alcohol policy to be developed in within the Buffalo Public Schools and the 553 students attending BPS 204 and 305.This policy will be an amendment and expansion of the current Buffalo Public Schools Wellness Parent Policy to include Mandated Parent Awareness Education (alcohol, Rx drugs, and mental health). The second is alcohol sales compliance checks that are being done in …

Board Of Trustees Orientation Program Slides, Kean University

Evidence Inventory

Orientation program powerpoint presentation to all new Trustees

Worker Self-Care As A Service Delivery Best Practice, Catherine M. Mazzotta Dr., Wendy S. Mornelli

School of Natural and Social Sciences

This brief presentation is based on a literature review that highlights the need for self-care for those in helping professions, such as social services, as well as strategies that can be used in an integrated self-care model.

Computational Modeling For Decision-Making Under Climate Change Uncertainty: Reservoir Simulation Game, Julianne Quinn

All ECSTATIC Materials

Almost every decision you make is under uncertainty. Will I need a rain jacket in the afternoon? Will they say yes if I ask them out? Is 1 hour enough time to finish this assignment? Oftentimes, we can use computational modeling to simulate different scenarios of what might happen in the future to inform what decisions are best on average, or what decisions minimize the worst case outcome. For example, you could decide what player to draft for your Fantasy Football team by simulating player performance. In this activity, we will simulate how much water to release from a dam …

Configural Face Processing: How Face Coverings Impact Social Judgements In The Covid-19 Era, Linsey D. Culkins

Student Academic Conference

The behavioral immune system has been implicated in both adaptive and maladaptive social judgements and behaviors affecting a social environment (Murray & Schaller 2016). As norms change in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, how will covering the nose and mouth—with face coverings as a preventative measure to limit COVID-19 community spread—impact social environments? The study seeks to investigate whether face coverings influence affect, social comfort, and judgments of trust. Undergraduate college students were shown images of target faces with and without face coverings covering the eyes, the nose and mouth, or both. Results suggest that observing a surgical mask which …

Extending Single Entity Electrochemistry Towards The Detection Of Single Bacteria In Micro Volumes, Ashley Tubbs, Junaid Ahmed, Julio C. Alvarez

Graduate Research Posters

Single entity electrochemistry (SEE) is an emerging electroanalytical technique with the ability to push the limit of detection of electrochemical sensors to the single particle level. It measures the change in current over time, making SEE rapid, simple, and cost-effective. The type of current response observed in the scan can provide information about the physiochemical processes underlying the signal. While SEE was originally developed to detect single molecules and nanoparticles, it has been widely applied to micron-sized particles, including emulsion droplets, bacteria, viruses, and mammalian cells. Some recent advances in this technique have focused on the detection of microscopic quantities …

Photocatalytic Inactivation Efficacy Of Sars-Cov-2 In Hvac Systems, Andrew J. Freeman, Sudharshan Anandan, Ernest R. Blatchley Iii, W. Travis Horton, David M. Warsinger

Discovery Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research Internship

The coronavirus pandemic has emphasized a need for robust and reliable air purification systems in buildings; with that comes a need for a standardized testing methodology for air purification technologies in HVAC air circulation systems. One such method of air purification is photocatalytic oxidation (PCO), a mechanism in which a catalyst irradiated by light produces reactive molecules that degrade a wide range of pollutants, including the aerosols that carry COVID. This technology has primarily been used in aqueous applications, but there have recently been developments in air purification that have made it a promising contender to existing technologies. One of …

A Rocking Catastrophe: An Unusual Case Of Late Onset Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis Leading To Prosthetic Valve Dehiscence, Tuan Pham, Md, Shanana Baig-Lewis, Md, Mph

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

2021-2022 PGY3

Changes In Immigration Policy Regarding Muslim Immigrants Across The Obama And Trump Administrations, Samreen Khan

Research Days Posters 2021

Immigration to the United States has always been complicated, with legislation and the appreciation of immigrants often falling along racial, ethnic, and religious lines. This dominant theme has persisted and even emboldened in recent years, particularly for Muslim immigrants after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. This presentation argues that there exist significant changes and continuities in immigration policy regarding Muslim-majority countries, across the Obama and Trump presidencies, and that the cultural rhetoric surrounding Muslims during each directly impacted policy. Based on an analysis of laws, including executive orders, Congressional hearings, and past legislation, juxtaposed with rhetoric regarding Muslim …

An Analysis Of The Sleep Quality Of Undergraduate Students, Brianna N. Carter, Joanne Chopak-Foss

Phi Kappa Phi Research Symposium (Archived)

Background and Aims: The purpose of this study was to measure the sleep quality of a sample of undergraduate students and compare it to the recommendations for young adults from the National Sleep Foundation. Methods: A sample of undergraduate students from a mid-sized public university in the Southeast were recruited for this study (N=86). The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was employed to assess sleep quality of the students. Results: Frequency analysis found that most students did not get the minimum amount of sleep as recommended by the National Sleep Foundation. A nonparametric correlation (listwise) analysis found …

Phage Antibiotic Antagonism Of Escherichia Coli B And T4 Phage, Mikaela Griechen, Miranda Griechen, Tyler Mueller

Student Academic Conference

Antibiotic resistance has resulted in researchers finding new methods for treating diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria. Antibiotic resistance forms due to the presence of plasmids and mutations in the bacterial genome. Phage Antibiotic synergy has been reported when exposing bacteria to phages in previous studies. Bacterial immune mechanisms, specifically those that aid against bacteriophages, have been exploited by researchers as a potential treatment for infection and diseases. These mechanism includes Superinfection (Sie), Abortive infection, surface modification, etc. Escherichia coli B is a bacteria that contains an outer membrane with receptors, porins, lipopolysaccharides, and other surface molecules that aid in defense …

The Emotional Impact Of “Humanizing Cadavers” In Undergraduate Nursing Students, Patricia Wisenden, Ryan Schrock, Fathi Abdullahi

Student Academic Conference

The learning of gross anatomy through the use of human cadaver dissection provides an intellectual, emotional and once in a lifetime learning experience. With human cadaver use being such an imperative way to learn human anatomy, many students are beginning to increasingly get this opportunity which equates into a multitude of different emotional responses amongst students of various different gender’s, religions and socio-demographics. However, to add this, the impediment to being able to fully maximize this unaccompanied experience/opportunity is the emotional influx amongst the student. With life experience, youth and allegiance towards their perspective (medical) endeavor possibly being in the …

Adapting Educator Preparation Practices To Prepare Candidates For New Teaching Modalities, Shannon E. Budin, Andrew I. Hashey, Angela L. Patti, Lisa A. Rafferty

School of Education

Given the global pandemic, educators at all levels have had to transition their teaching practices to remote environments. Teacher education faculty have had to consider not only how to shift their own teaching, but also how to prepare teacher candidates for their future teaching roles which may include instruction in a range of modalities (face-to-face, remote-synchronous, remote-asynchronous, hybrid). In this research overview, we propose that high-leverage practices (HLPs) can serve as a solid foundation for teacher preparation regardless of modality and offer five tips for how teacher educators can prepare candidates to use HLPs across modalities.

Heterogeneous Catalysis For Organic Fine Chemical Synthesis, Sourav Biswas

School of Natural and Social Sciences

Heterogeneous catalysis has been established as a fundamental pillar supporting the advances in ‘green chemistry’, from the perspective of cost and waste minimization. However, propensity for precious metals, promoters/ additives and harsh reaction conditions hinder the widespread use of heterogeneous catalysts over traditional pathways for chemical synthesis. This talk will introduce some of our current research in the field of heterogeneous catalysis encompass many of the topics of ‘Green and Sustainable Chemistry’. The absence of precious metals and additives, use of air as the sole oxidant, and easy isolation of products, along with proper catalyst reusability, make our catalytic protocol …

Attribute-Aligned Domain-Invariant Feature Learning For Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Person Re-Identification, Guanqiu Qi

School of the Professions

Domain invariance and discrimination of learned features as two crucial factors affect the performance of unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) person re-identification (Re-ID). Person attributes (such as “backpack”, “boots”, “handbag”, etc) remaining unchanged across multiple domains have been used as mid-level visual-semantic information in UDA person Re-ID. As two main challenges, both misalignment of attribute-related regions across multiple images and domain shift between source and target domains affect the learning of domain-invariant features (DIF).

To address the above two challenges, this article proposes to take advantage of the stability of person attributes and the complementarity of person attributes and the corresponding …

World Wide Wake: A Look Into Digital Wake Work In Response To The Murder Of Breonna Taylor, Kalyn T. Coghill

Graduate Research Posters

In Christina Sharpe's, In the Wake, she refers to "wake work" as conscious work. Wake work makes a conscious and intentional effort to celebrate one's life as they are passing and after they have transitioned on. Wake work includes grief, sadness, reminiscing, happiness, laughter, and many more emotions. We think of wake work happening in the physical, but I want to look at how weight work exists in the digital. This paper will discuss how wake work is done in digital spaces such as social media platforms. I will also be looking at how social movements such as black …

Kean’S Next Strategic Plan, Kean University

Evidence Inventory

No abstract provided.

Effects Of An Exercise Regimen On Amputation Rates In Adults With Uncontrolled Diabetes, Mike Coleman

Capstone Showcase

Introduction: Diabetes is a disease that affects a multitude of people across the world, and with a large variety of complications that results from uncontrolled glucose levels. Some of these complications can cause secondary and tertiary comorbidities, including amputations. Some patients with diabetes will have only one amputation in their lifetime, but will have to undergo additional amputations on the same limb. This is done to try and contain the spread of the peripheral neuropathy and peripheral vascular disease that can result from uncontrolled diabetes.

Methods: A literature search was completed through Google Scholar and PubMed in 2019. Seven articles …

Writing A Fantasy Novel, Sarah Webb

Honors Projects

The goal of this Honors Project was to write and outline a manuscript for a fantasy novel. Worked into that goal was to create a unique magic system, a world, and a pantheon, which was accomplished through research of other fantasy worlds and other mythologies both fictional and historical. The story revolves around the central questions of identity (including the fluidity of gender and sexuality), concerns of future aspirations, and how education applies to those topics through facilitating conversation; these themes are not commonly discussed in mainstream fantasy. The current manuscript, which houses over 42,000 words, also includes a visual …

Stimulant Vs. Exercise Use For Symptomatic Relief In Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, Melissa Ranzer

Capstone Showcase

Abstract:

Introduction: Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a form of orthostatic intolerance prominent in young females, and can be difficult to diagnose and treat. POTS is defined as a clinical syndrome of orthostatic intolerance that has a heart rate (HR) increase of 30 beats per minute (BPM) or more, with a standing HR of >120 bpm in the context of a 10 minute standing orthostatic intolerance test, with the absence of orthostatic hypotension (a decrease in systolic blood pressure (BP) of ~20 or more mmHg with or without a decrease in diastolic BP of ~10 or more …

Comparing Mortality Of Robotic-Assisted Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting With Conventional Surgery In Coronary Artery Disease Patients, Ryan Ule

Capstone Showcase

Introduction: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common heart disease in the United States, oftentimes leading to complications such as myocardial infarction and death. Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is the preferred surgical treatment to extend the lives of stable CAD patients. Although conventional CABG (C-CABG) remains the surgical treatment of choice, less invasive techniques exist, such as robotic-assisted CABG (R-CABG). While it has been found that R-CABG has multiple benefits, little is known about the mortality comparisons between the two techniques. This paper hopes to explore: In the surgical treatment of coronary artery disease in adult patients (P), …

Efficacy And Safety Of The Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulator Compared To Continuous Positive Airway Pressure For The Treatment Of Obstructive Sleep Apnea In Patients Aged 45-75, Kathryn Beals

Capstone Showcase

Introduction: Obstructive sleep apnea is a prevalent sleep disorder affecting millions of Americans each year, defined by intermittent episodes of apnea during sleep. Treatment adherence to the CPAP machine, which is currently the standard of care, remains at a staggeringly low percentage due to various reasons. As a result, this paper aims to ascertain if the novel hypoglossal nerve stimulator (I) is a more suitable option for the treatment of OSA (O) than CPAP (C), in patients with moderate to severe OSA, aged 45-75 (P).

Methods: A literature search was conducted on PubMed and ClinicalKey, eliciting 7 scholarly articles in …

Opioid Use Disorder: The Timeline For Medication Assisted Therapy, Alexander Cristofori

Capstone Showcase

Opioid Use Disorder is patterns of opioid use leading to withdrawal, giving up important life events in order to use opioids, and excessive time spent using opioids, to name a few diagnostic criteria. The clinical progression of the disorder involves periods of acute exacerbation and remission that are cyclic in nature. Treatment is most effective when it includes both pharmacological and psychosocial modalities, referred to as medication assisted therapy (MAT). Three drugs used commonly in MAT-based treatment for OUD from oldest to newest include Methadone, Buprenorphine-naloxone, and Naltrexone. Treatment program models that prioritize total abstinence from the addictive substance attached …

Primary Aortic Valve Replacement In Adults From Age 45 To 65 And How Their Survivability, Post Replacement, May Be Affected By Opting For A Bioprosthetic Or Mechanical Valve., Chandler Hutchinson

Capstone Showcase

Abstract:

Introduction: Aortic valve replacement in middle-aged adults is a procedure done when the aortic valve becomes so incompetent, that replacement is the only viable option for the patient. A bioprosthetic or a mechanical valve is then chosen and replaces the patients’ native aortic valve. For these adults, this procedure is life-extending and the only option for prolonged survival. This paper will address whether a bioprosthetic or mechanical valve would be the better option for prolonging a middle-aged patients’ life.

Methods: A literature search was completed in November of 2019 using PubMed and Google Scholar. Seven articles were chosen based …