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Designing Tailored Patient Education On Atrial Fibrillation, Tammy Toscos, R Ahmed, Romisa Rohani Ghahari, Elizabeth Martin, Shauna Wagner, Michelle Drouin, Michael J. Mirro

Presentations and Events

Background & Hypothesis: Research has revealed a high prevalence of depression, anxiety, and burnout among medical students accompanied by widespread lack of treatment. We hypothesize that by leveraging our study findings examining the use of telemental health(TMH) among youth (ages 14-24) alongside results from existing research focused on the mental health needs of medical students (median age at start 22-24 years old), we will gain valuable insight into the potential for TMH to address the needs of this high-risk population.

Methods: Using the Delphi method, a sample of 25 experts were surveyed anonymously, thus avoiding group pressure for conformity while …

E-Book Is Not A Four-Letter Word, Jamie G. Hazlitt, Jason Mitchell

Librarian Publications & Presentations

As the landscape of e-book publishers, platforms, and acquisition models continues to shift and expand, librarians and staff working in collection development and acquisitions do their best to stay on top of ever-changing decision-points and workflows.

At the William H. Hannon Library at Loyola Marymount University, twenty librarian-liaisons are also expected to stay informed of new or changing options when it comes time to select a format for monographs in their subject areas. But selection is a secondary responsibility for most of our liaisons, and information about changes in our e-book collection development shared via email or even through semi-regular …

Determining The Efficacy Of Fifa 11+ In Reducing Acl Injury In Female Soccer Players, John Hallmark

Celebration of Learning

Objective-This study aims to identify the relationship between the Fifa 11+ program and the angle of valgus deformity at the knee. Background-200,000 ACL tears are reported each year. Previous studies have linked valgus motion of the knee to an increased rate of ACL injury and females exhibit a 4-6x increased risk for ACL injury. Fifa 11+ has shown promise in studies done on professional soccer teams yet remains untested in a younger population. Methods-This prospective cohort study of 300 consented female soccer players will use Noraxon as a tool for the measurement of valgus angle at the …

Archiving Data In Scholars Junction, Julie Shedd

Workshops

Archiving your data in Scholars Junction (MSU's institutional repository) can benefit you, MSU, and the public in general! These slides will present reasons and ways to archive your data with us. Be sure to turn on presenter notes for additional information. Prepared for inclusion in Dr. Ron Cossman's November 1, 2018 seminar "Data Documentation, Findings Replication and Data Archiving: Implications for Researchers," part of the Fall 2018 Office of Research and Economic Development Seminar Series.

The Challenge Of Employee Retention In A Time Of Full Employment, Brad Pope

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

From time to time all organizations, large and small, struggle with employee turnover. However, it has been a consistent challenge for many organizations (especially in the healthcare arena) for more than a year due, in part, to the lowest employment rates the US has experienced for any sustained period of time. This presentation will focus on the difficulties of identifying, calculating, and addressing turnover, as well as examine other environmental factors that can impact turnover and question whether it is even beneficial for organizations to calculate and track employee turnover.

Dysfunctional Retention: The Case Of Abused Worker Syndrome, Alexandra Zelin, Lisa Burke-Smalley

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

Extending work from the realm of counseling psychology into the work environment, we examine the workplace complement of “battered person/spouse syndrome” in which workers stay with the organization despite experiencing abuse. We define this abused worker syndrome (AWS) as an association of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-type symptoms and other symptoms (e.g., anxiety, depression, low self-esteem), resulting from aversive incidents of psychological (i.e., non-physical) abuse at work. Our presentation will examine the contextual, relational, and individual antecedents of AWS, the psychological processes underlying targets staying, along with the associated workplace outcomes experienced by the targeted worker. We contribute a conceptual model …

Mackinder And The Arctic's Emerging Geopolitics: Recommendations For The U.S. And Its Nato Allies, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

This presentation shows how Halford Mackinder (1861-1947) described Canada and the Arctic region in his geopolitical writings. It goes on to stress how the Arctic is becoming increasingly important in international geopolitical policymaking due to its significant oil and natural gas resources, how warming temperatures are increasing international access to its waters, and the how countries as diverse as Canada, China, Russia, and the U.S. see the Arctic region in their strategic policymaking. It concludes by stressing that the Arctic can no longer be viewed as a region immune from international conflict and presents recommendations for the U.S. and its …

Analysis Of The Popliteal Lymph Node As A Biomarker To Monitor Arthritic Flare In Male Versus Female Tumor Necrosis Factor-Transgenic Mice With Inflammatory Arthritis, Zoe I. Henkes

Fall Interdisciplinary Research Symposium

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation in peripheral synovial joint tissue and is suggested to be more severe in women. The popliteal lymph node (PLN) has been found to be a biomarker of arthritic flare in the human TNF-α transgenic (TNF-Tg) mouse model of inflammatory arthritis. The goal of this study was to verify that anti-TNF therapy is equally effective in reducing the severity of arthritis in male and female TNF-Tg mice using PLN volume as a marker of arthritic flare.

Male and female TNF-Tg mice were subdivided into two groups and treated with either …

Commensal Bacteria May Promote Survival In Septic Mice, Kassidy Grumbles, James Davison Dr., Paul Wischmeyer Dr.

Fall Interdisciplinary Research Symposium

The microbiome is made up of a vast array of bacteria and microorganisms that help to maintain our bodily functions. In critical care, the microbiome is now being looked at as a potential solution due to the dramatic shift in it seen in critical care patients. If we can identify beneficial bacteria to reduce the effects of sepsis experienced in critical care, it is possible that we can reduce the rate of sepsis. Identifying beneficial bacteria is not the only goal; we would like to understand how beneficial bacteria inhibits the growth of harmful bacteria typically found in sepsis. We …

Development Of Improved Thiol-Based Fluorescent Probes For The Detection Of Hno In Biological Systems, Mara Paterson, Nicholas Pino

Fall Interdisciplinary Research Symposium

Nitroxyl (HNO) has gained attention recently for its role as a therapeutic agent for cardiovascular disorders and as a potential anticancer agent. NitroxylFluor is a recently developed thiol-based molecular probe that reacts with HNO to release a fluorescein derivative. The goals of this project were to develop a diethyl version of NitroxylFluor that reacts with HNO more rapidly, minimizing unwanted side reactions, as well as a generalizable trigger that could be used with a wide variety of fluorescent dye platforms. We were able to confirm that a coumarin-based probe is too labile to be used in vivo without additional synthetic …

Effects Of Zeolite Morphology On Adsorption Of Brooker’S Merocyanine Dye, Nicholas Robert Robert, Maia Wygle, Jennifer Holt

Fall Interdisciplinary Research Symposium

Zeolites are integral to a wide variety of adsorption processes; a fundamental understanding of the zeolite is necessary to optimize their applications. The adsorptive properties of zeolite Linde Type L (LTL) were investigated using Brooker’s merocyanine (BM) dye as a guest molecule. LTL crystals were synthesized according to well-established recipes to control their shape and size. X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy were used to confirm the identity and morphology, respectively, of the synthesized crystals. To study dye adsorption, the LTL crystals were immersed in BM solution under acidic and basic conditions for various time intervals. Adsorption of dye was …

Modification Of Aminoacyl Trna Synthetase In Order To Incorporate An Unnatural Amino Acid, Grace Burkhart, Claire Mammoser, Laura Rowe Dr.

Fall Interdisciplinary Research Symposium

Proteins allow daily processes in the cell to occur. A protein consists of amino acids. There are twenty natural amino acids coded for in the DNA of organisms. The natural amino acids can be modified to form unnatural amino acids (UAAs). UAAs have useful characteristics when inserted into a protein of a cell, like the ability of fluorescence and the ability to undergo unique reactions. For an UAA to be incorporated into a protein, it must be bound to a transport RNA molecule by an enzyme called aminoacyl tRNA synthetase (aaRS). An existing aaRS was modified in E. Coli bacterial …

More Than Free: Equity In Open Educational Resources, Nicole Williams, Kathryn Anastasi

Open Educational Resources

Faculty creation and adoption of OER and ZTC materials can provide students with benefits that extend beyond no-cost or low-cost considerations. These materials can be the foundation of more culturally relevant classroom materialsthanstudents are used to seeing. They can increase the accessibility of instructional materials to students with disabilities. They can be employed to support student-centered learning ideas which upend traditionalnotionshow information flows between teachers and students. Using OER and ZTC materials has the potential to address many of the concerns about inequality that faculty and students alike have about the current educational model. Although OER and ZTC initiatives present …

Visualizing Scholarly Communication, Nina Collins, Matthew Hannah

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

University libraries across the country are investing in Digital Humanities and digital scholarship initiatives, providing support for research and teaching using digital tools and methods. Because digital scholarship offers scholars new ways to visualize and analyze their research, which communicates such research in new ways, it has clear lines of connection with scholarly communications. Combining these two unique areas of library activity offers opportunities for new library research by leveraging methods from DH to tackle problems in scholarly communications. Researchers at Purdue are collaborating on just such a project by applying digital tools to the analysis of predatory publishing. In …

Open Access, Social Justice, And The Moral Imperative: Why Oa Publishing Matters To Wgs, Sarah P. Appedu

All Musselman Library Staff Works

Students in the discipline of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies are uniquely positioned to critically engage with systems of power and apply academic theory to real world practice as a field that has a clear and implicit social justice angle to its scholarship. The Open Access movement can benefit from the critical theories used in WGS as a means of ensuring maximum inclusivity of the movement. Further, WGS students must acknowledge their privileged position within an academic institution and publish in ways that undermine the systems of power that lock up knowledge behind a toll in order to align their …

Open Access Browser Plug-Ins, Eleta Exline

Open Access Events

Browser Plug-ins like the Open Access Button and Unpaywall search thousands of sources with millions of articles to link you to free, legal, full text articles instantly

Get In The Game: Tips And Strategies For Navigating Open Access Publishing, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This presentation was given during Open Access Week 2018.

Open Access journals are becoming increasingly popular venues for publishing scholarly research. Yet, there are many challenges and misconceptions often associated with this publishing model. Scholarly Communication Librarian, Sarah Norris, discusses publishing in Open Access journals. This session examines publishing basics and explore challenging topics like journal quality, predatory publishing, and funding.

Open Access At Clemson University, Christopher Vinson, Yang Wu

Presentations

An overview of Open Access practices and resources at Clemson University during Open Access Week 2018.

From Tests To Rubrics Strategies For Assessing Information Literacy At Three Institutions, Kathy E. Clarke, Cynthia Cane, Carolyn Caffrey Gardner, Carolyn Radcliff

Libraries

Authors compared methods for measuring students information literacy learning outcomes. A variety of measures are discussed, home-grown instruments, commercially available testing, and rubrics.

Infusing Undergraduate Scholarship Into Teacher Education, Tunde Szecsi, Hasan Aydin

Florida Statewide Symposium: Best Practices in Undergraduate Research

Students majoring in education are underrepresented in undergraduate scholarship. To enable teacher candidates to develop and demonstrate their skills in scholarly activities and products, we implemented a well-orchestrated infusion of problem-solving, critical thinking, oral and written communication, collaboration into courses.

In this presentation, we will describe this systematic course-based infusion of scholarly endeavors with examples from courses. In addition, during the past three years, annually we assessed teacher candidates’ scholarly products for critical thinking, informational literacy and writing. Here we will share what we learned from the data, and how we used it to strengthen undergraduate scholarship for future teachers.

Reaching Out: Collaborating To Expand Community-Engaged Research, Alicia Batailles, Kimberly Reid, Latika L. Young, David Montez

Florida Statewide Symposium: Best Practices in Undergraduate Research

FSU’s Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement is charged with engaging undergraduates in research and other academic High Impact Practices. This expanded focus allows the integration of research experience within HIPs, especially global engagement, service learning, and innovation/entrepreneurship. While the CRE continues to bolster its community-engaged research efforts, this presentation details our current relationships with campus partners (Center for Leadership and Social Change), the Tallahassee and Florida non-profit and start-up community (UROP), and the global community (Gap Year Fellows/IDEA Grants). The audience will develop ideas for collaborating with partners engaged within communities to support research opportunities for undergraduates.

Promoting College Of Fine Arts Works Through The Institutional Repository, Anne Shelley

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

In summer 2017, I assumed responsibility for my library's institutional repository (IR). Content from the College of Fine Arts (Schools of Music, Art, and Theatre and Dance) had, to that point, been less present in the IR than content from other colleges. With goals of increasing visibility for CFA activities and scholarship and providing a stable digital home for its content, I worked with stakeholders in the library and in CFA to develop new IR collections of programs, newsletters, and student and faculty work. This presentation provides attendees with ideas about identifying performing arts content for an IR, stakeholder talking …

Finding Their Way, Christina Miskey, Amanada Nida, Janelle Youngblood

Library Faculty Presentations

Last year, three MLIS students from the University of Washington partnered with Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada and helped to identify an information need for new refugees. Although local city information for refugees is freely available online, this delivery method is not beneficial to individuals with limited English language proficiency or low digital literacy. To bridge this gap, we created a resource guide for refugees located in Southern Nevada, which can be adapted by libraries and resettlement organizations across the country.

Having Pride In Your Work: How To Serve Lgbt Older Adults Better, James Moorhead Jr.

Center for Social Gerontology Community Conference (2017-2022)

Common misconceptions about older adults include that all older adults are heterosexual. This is merely a myth. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) older adults live in all states and territories of the United States and all parts of Georgia, from the rolling mountains in the north to the humid swamps of the south. Understanding the needs of this unique population is critical for gerontologists as the Baby Boomer generation ages, who tend to be more “out” and self-identify with pride. More importantly, LGBT older adults have been accessing needed services, often returning to the proverbial closet (Maddox, 2010). This …

Recreation, Leisure, And Late Adulthood: Examining The Benefits Of Participation During Retirement, Thomas Sweeney, Jennifer Zorotovich

Center for Social Gerontology Community Conference (2017-2022)

Current demographic trends reveal that Americans are living, on average, 30 years longer and contemporary older adults are entering late adulthood with more education, health, and financial resources than ever before. As a result, both men and women spend increasingly more years in retirement. Retirement serves as a major developmental transition and although heavily glamorized by the media, creates a substantial disruption in many people’s lives. Transition out of the workforce is accompanied by a change of social roles, a reduction in social convoys, and altered identity structures. Recreation and leisure have been shown to provide older adults an avenue …

Implementation Of Virtual Dementia Tour And Positive Approach To Care For Those With Alzheimer's And Dementia-Related Illnesses, Becky D. Livingston, Vanissa Campbell

Center for Social Gerontology Community Conference (2017-2022)

The Lodge at Bethany has participated in two unique but intricately interwoven campaigns to expand the educational opportunities of the Community and the Residents’ Families that we serve: The Virtual Dementia Tour (VDT®) is the original and ground-breaking, evidence-based and scientifically proven method of building a greater understanding of dementia through the use of patented sensory tools and instruction based on research conducted by P.K. Beville, a specialist in geriatrics. The use of the VDT to spread awareness of the impact of dementia is a testament to the mission to improve the lives of those with this disease as well …

Effects Of Evolution On Laboratory Sublines Of Myxococcus Xanthus Dk1622, Mackenzie Ryan, Francesca Scribano, Kimberly Murphy

Celebration of Learning

Microbes have served as effective models for studying evolution because of their ability to be easily replicated, stored, and manipulated. Myxococcus xanthus is a soil bacterium that has served as a model organism in many laboratories. The unique social and motile behaviors exhibited by this bacterium make it ideal for phenotypic assays. A wild-type strain of M. xanthus, DK1622, has been distributed to laboratories across the United States and therefore we now have DK1622 sublines. The genomes of a number of these sublines have been sequenced and their social and motile phenotypes have been analyzed. When nine of these sublines …

Families Of Deceased Cardiac Icu Patients Bereavement Experiences And Needs, Alyssa Erikson, Jennifer Mcadam

Nursing Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Archiving The Stories Of The 2018 West Virginia Teachers' Strike, Ian Harmon

Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference

In February of 2018, teachers and school personnel across West Virginia went on strike, shutting down schools in all 55 of the state’s counties. As the school year ended, teachers began to reflect on their experiences, and many expressed the desire to have their stories recorded. To answer this need, an interdisciplinary group at West Virginia University began developing a digital exhibit that provides the strike’s participants with a platform where they can share their stories by contributing photos, videos, oral recordings, social media exchanges, and written accounts of the events. This exhibit provides both researchers and the public with …

Using Digital Scholarship And Citizen Science To Reduce Lead Poisoning Risk In Indiana, Matthew L. Sisk 6317313

Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference

Lead exposure remains a prevalent public health issue in many communities. In some cases, the exposure risk comes from contaminated water, but in others it is from the legacy of lead-based paint or contaminated soils. Here, we report on recent work using digital scholarship techniques along side a citizen science model to increase awareness and reduce environmental hazards in the affected city of South Bend, Indiana. Over the past two years, we have worked closely with local community organizations, civic entities and concerned individuals to develop a home test kit that puts the tools to determine risk in the hands …