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Comparison Of Photosynthesis Among Three Chaparral Species In The Family Anacardiaceae, Catelyn T. Price, Sarah A. Holmes, Brandon T. Harris, Stephen D. Davis, Karagan L. Smith, Talia A. Cao

Featured Research

Recent argumentative data showed a lack of niche differentiation amongst three Banksia species in Australia conducted by Lamont and Bergl, and the Anacardiaceae family in the native chaparral of the Santa Monica Mountains are supposed to be significantly similar¹. Because of this we wanted to test if there would be a significant difference between the stomatal conductance, photosynthesis, and water potential in samples of the Rhus ovata, Rhus integrifolia, and Malosma laurina (Rhus laurina) species. We tested this idea by collecting the stomatal conductance and photosynthetic rates of each plant species in the same general location with …

Post-Drought Recovery In The Chaparral Shrub Ceanothus Spinosus, Katie C. Lindley, Kylie N. Smith, Nina R. Duchild, Stephen D. Davis, Karagan L. Smith, Talia A. Cao

Featured Research

This study investigated the abilities of Ceanothus spinosus, or greenbark ceanothus, to recover after a historic drought. This plant is one of the hardiest in the Santa Monica Mountains, providing soil stabilization and nutrients to other organisms in the ecosystem. In a previous investigation done during the drought, it was found that C. spinosus subjects growing in their natural habitat experienced significant dieback, with predawn water potentials falling as low as -7 MPa and native embolisms at an average of 47.17% (Ross et al., 2016). Other parameters tested were stomatal conductance, photosynthetic rate, and chlorophyll fluorescence. Compared to the …

The Rate Of Fungal Pathogen Growth (Botryosphaeria Dothidea) 
In Stems Of The Chaparral Shrub Rhus Integrifolia, Jayla D. Simmons, Edward J. Ayala, Kamara J. Satcher, Stephen D. Davis, Karagan L. Smith, Talia A. Cao

Featured Research

The fungus Botryosphaeria dothidea will grow between one to five millimeters after a week on the chaparral species Rhus integrifolia. To test this, we inoculated six individual shrub located behind the greenhouse on Campus Walk Road . On each shrub we selected two branches, receiving adequate and equal sunlight and inoculated one branch with the fungus B. dothidea and the other with a plain gel in order to compare the growth with a control group. The data we collected at the end of the one week period was similar to our initial hypothesis. The shortest growth was on the …

Using Student Ambassadors To Create And Maintain A Positive Climate, Tiphanie D. Dean, Joy S. Warren, Fred Richard, Meghan D'Orazio

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Clements Middle School, located in Newton County, Covington, GA, implemented PBIS for the first time in August 2012. After the school’s first year of implementation, Clements reached Operational status, which is the highest level of achievement in regards to PBIS. Implementation of PBIS during the 2012-2013 school year, transformed the climate at Clements Middle into a positive one that also played a major role in increasing student achievement and academic success. In the spring of 2013, student state testing data showed a significant increase in all content areas. During the second year of implementation, 2013-2014, Clements Middle School maintained Operational …

Pbis In The Classroom, Tony Feldmann, Mark Fynewever

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Learn how to use PBIS in the classroom. Designed to support schools and teachers as they implement developing classroom expectations, procedures, and routines. Participants will participate in beginning to develop a classroom matrix and learn the why and how to teach procedures to maximize the opportunity for success.

Teacher Motivating Style And Pbis Interventions For Challenging Students, Richard Scott Lee

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Students with emotional and behavior disorders (EBD) experience a variety of difficulties in school and generally have poor post-school outcomes. This presentation will focus on original research conducted with teachers in several Georgia Network for Education and Therapeutic Services (GNETS) schools. The researcher studied the differences between the motivation styles that teachers employ with students and compare the types of interventions the same teachers used in their work with students. Using a published survey instrument, participating teachers provided information on their approach to motivating students as either autonomously oriented or controlling oriented and provided the tier 2 and tier 3 …

Engaging All Pbis Partners Through A Quality Roll Out, Jessica E. Dunn, Lyndsey Whisner

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

This presentation will outline a structure to assist schools in building capacity for staff members as the school begins to implement PBIS. The presenters will provide examples of how their local schools prepared the faculty to implement PBIS. The presenters will also provide specific examples of how their local schools involved home and community atmospheres in the implementation of PBIS. They will discuss the direct, positive impact seen as a result of PBIS incorporation across all atmospheres. Audiences, including schools, parents, and communities, will be able to take away ideas to successfully implement PBIS expectations, matrices, and a reward system. …

Viewing Classroom Climate Through Rose Colored Glasses Of Cultural Competence, Jason Byars, Lisa Pearce Ms.

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Conscious Classroom Management are comprehensive, practical and easy effective teaching tools that integrate PBIS practices in the classroom. Effective classroom and behavior management is directly related to student achievement and classroom climate. This presentation addresses: prevention, expectations, monitoring, encouragement and correction with a toolbox of strategies and interventions. Intertwined in conscious classroom strategies are culturally responsive practices. Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices are specific educational practices, instructional strategies, team processes, and curricula content which have been established by research to increase the achievement gap. Cultural mismatch between home and school and educators’ lack of knowledge about culturally responsive educational practices are …

How Pbis Can Contribute To Improvement In Attendance, Behavior, And Classroom Success, Kim A. Hall Dr., Heather (Niki) Hudgins

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

PBIS State Conference Proposal 2017

Fair Street Elementary International Academy

How PBIS Can Contribute to Improvement in Attendance, Behavior, and Classroom Success

Come see how PBIS can help your school reduce discipline referrals, increase attendance, increase academic gains, and improve school climate and student safety. With support from the GaDOE, Pioneer RESA, and local administrators and leaders, Fair Street has completed their second full year of PBIS implementation and is seeing significant improvement! We will discuss some of the challenging moments, as well as some of our successes, and discuss our plan for enhancement and improvement in the upcoming year. …

Tracking Teacher-Managed Behaviors With Google Forms, Sallie Robinson

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

There are many outlets for tracking office-level behaviors. Tracking classroom data can be helpful in preventing teacher-managed behaviors from escalating to the office level. A simple Google Form can organize classroom level data, providing a way for teachers and PBIS teams to more effectively track trends in behaviors that are more significant than a redirection, but less serious than office-managed.

By looking at trends and data in minor or teacher-managed disruptions, PBIS teams can strategize effective interventions for systemic issues to help the day run more smoothly and decrease the number of office-managed behavior incidents. With records of classroom behaviors …

How To Be "Sneaky Smart" With Elementary Classroom Management, Jeffery R. Craver

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Being “sneaky smart” is all about changing adult behavior, being flexible, being willing to problem solve, and being more skilled at ways to alter the environment & the positive supports that we can put into place. Evidenced-based strategies will be reviewed that educators can begin to implement immediately with students that fall in to all tiers. These strategies can be adapted for use in the home setting for parents as well. The "sneaky smart” approach is appropriate for any setting to increase compliance of both large groups of students & individual ones. These methods for being proactive in the classroom …

Demystifying Asperger's And Absolutism, Richard Kaplan, Simon Huebner

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Parents of high-functioning autistics will be able to guide their children to better resolve conflicts, socialize, and improve executive functioning.

High-functioning autism-also known as Asperger's-has been characterized by a lack of personal success and poor social skills. This is in reality the manifestation of absolute thinking. Absolute conclusions, judgments, and rules that have been heard, taught, and experienced from early childhood become unequivocal truths with compounding consequences over time unless directly engaged. The poor social skills and/or objectives, narrow interests, repetitive behaviors, speech and/or selective communication, as well as unique rules and habits associated with HFA are symptoms of absolute …

Pbis-Our Journey (On A Quest For The Best), Charlotte S. Flores Mrs., Candace F. Mcghee

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

This is the story of our journey from being a school where students’ behaviors were controlling us to being a school where learning is our focus. Now students are being taught school wide expected behaviors, rewarded for demonstrating these behaviors, so that teachers can focus on teaching the standards. Ethel W. Kight is a Title 1 school serving a diverse student body in LaGrange, GA where we aim to include our parents and other stakeholders on this journey. Come learn how the EKES staff changed their mindset and continue to strive to assist our Kight Knights on their Quest for …

Chaos To Calm: Three Behavior Management Strategies For "Complex" Students, Elaine Taylor-Klaus, Diane Dempster

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Supporting and teaching children with complex challenges can be a daunting task. Teachers want to inspire their students to reach their full academic potential. But when children struggle with learning – when they fail to hit typical milestones commensurate with their peers – their challenges can raise serious obstacles for teachers in the classroom, and damage children’s self-esteem.

While behavioral management systems have been proven to be effective for classroom behavior modification, challenges with implementation prevent teachers from consistently feeling successful in using them. Teachers may know what to do in theory, but they struggle with how to make it …

Testing For The Presence Of Botryosphaeria Dothidea In Ceanothus Spinosus, Brandon R. Grinovich, Chelsea N. Puncochar, Katarina L. Carter, Stephen D. Davis, Rodney L. Honeycutt, Talia A. Cao, Karagan L. Smith

Featured Research

Botryosphaeria dothidea is an opportunistic fungus found in some of the cavitated branches of the vegetation in the Santa Monica Mountains. In this study, we focused on finding the presence of Botryosphaeria dothidea in Ceanothus spinosus located on Pepperdine University’s campus. We wanted to test this hypothesis because we observed a large amount of dieback in the Ceanothus spinosus population and wanted to identify a possible contributor. Because of the large number of cavitated branches the Ceanothus spinosus contained, we hypothesized they contained fungus. To test this, we took twenty samples of twenty different Ceanothus spinosus, isolated the fungus …

Shape Modeling And Boulder Mapping Of Asteroid 1992 Uy4, Nicholas Duong

Posters-at-the-Capitol

The structure and history of near-Earth asteroids are important to
study because they collide with Earth, sometimes with significant consequences for
climate and the survival of many species, including our own. If NASA is ever to deflect an asteroid on a collision course, it is crucial to know as much as possible about its size, composition, structure and boulder distribution. The boulder
distribution in turn helps to map the asteroid's gravitational field.

1992 UY4 is a near-Earth asteroid discovered in 1992. In August 2005, UY4 made a
``close" (for space) pass of Earth, about 15x farther than the Moon. It …

Robb Garden Building: Revit Up, Gimelle Jacala, Colin Strong, Jason Wu

Building Information Modeling Final Projects

Final project from the EMGT 193/293 Building Information Modeling (BIM) course in the School of Engineering and Computer Science as part of the Bachelor of Science in Engineering Management degree. A student group designed and modeled a one-story building to house the Pacific Garden Program on campus.

Robb Garden Community Resource Center, Jackie Koyama, Daryll Mendoza, Kourtnie Sicam

Building Information Modeling Final Projects

Final project from the EMGT 193/293 Building Information Modeling (BIM) course in the School of Engineering and Computer Science as part of the Bachelor of Science in Engineering Management degree. A student group designed and modeled a one-story building to house the Pacific Garden Program on campus.

Operation Bim: Robb Garden Building Project, Michael White, Daniel Seif, Suman Bhardwaj

Building Information Modeling Final Projects

Final project from the EMGT 193/293 Building Information Modeling (BIM) course in the School of Engineering and Computer Science as part of the Bachelor of Science in Engineering Management degree. A student group designed and modeled a one-story building to house the Pacific Garden Program on campus.

Frontline Experiences From Changing Fisheries Bycatch Paradigms, David Kerstetter

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures

No abstract provided.

Tunable Copper Complexes For Sustainable Photocatalysis, David Kline

Posters-at-the-Capitol

Photoredox catalysis has direct applications in sustainable chemistry and thus an immense impact on our environment. With the ability to harness energy directly from the sun to catalyze useful chemical reactions, photocatalysts can help to eliminate the need for harsh reaction conditions and reduce generation of hazardous chemical waste. Photocatalysts based on Earth-abundant metals such as copper have recently emerged as sustainable alternatives to rare-earth metals including iridium and ruthenium, which are no longer required for many photocatalyzed chemical transformations.

A Comparison Of Water Potential, Photosynthetic Rate, Electron Transport Rate, And Stomatal Conductance Between Native Malosma Laurina And Exotic Schinus Molle, Karagan L. Smith, Agatha C. Heng, Viridiana Hernandez-Lopez, Stephen D. Davis

Biology

Schinus molle is a relatively new invasive chaparral shrub in the Santa Monica Mountains and has only recently been observed to displace native shrubs like Malosma laurina. To investigate the probable cause of S. molle’s competitive displacement of M. laurina, we compared their water status, photosynthetic rates, electron transport rates, and stomatal conductance to water vapor diffusion during the fall months of 2016. We hypothesized that S. molle would physiologically outperform M. laurina indicated by higher photosynthetic rates, electron transport rates, stomatal conductance rates, and less negative water potential. We found that there was no significant difference between dry …

Implementation Of A Quality Practice Model In The Emergency Department, W Wysocki

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Implementation of a Quality Practice Model in the Emergency Department An Integrative Literature Review

Wojtek Wysocki

Faculty Sponsor: Larry Maturin, RN, MSN

Background: Various factors can affect delivery of care along with the efficiency of the effectiveness of the practice environment. In the last several decades’ significant changes occurred in the healthcare delivery systems that have created a setting that does not support delivery of quality care provided by nursing.

Objectives: The purpose of this research review is to explore the need for and implementation strategies of a quality practice setting attribute model in the ED that increases nursing satisfaction …

The Comparison Of Post Abortion Emotional Effects In African Americans And Other Races, Melissa Pinney

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

The Comparison of Post Abortion Emotional Effects in African Americans and Other Races: An Integrative Literature Review

Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth Hartman, PhD, RN

Abstract

Background: African American women tend to encounter pregnancy and infant loss twice as high as any other racial group; however, present research does not supply adequate information with regard to abortion concerning minority women. Consequently, African American females may be experiencing post abortion emotional effects and not be receiving proper mental health care.

Objective: To determine if African American women experience a higher rate of post abortion emotional effects compared to other races and …

Factors That Influence Smoking During Pregnancy: An Integrative Literature Review, Victoria Baylis

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

For both the mother and the infant, the risks of smoking during pregnancy are numerous and have been studied for many decades. Despite this, some women still continue to smoke during pregnancy. The purpose of this integrative literature review is to identify contributing factors that influence women to smoke during pregnancy and to identify the factors that are modifiable by healthcare providers. This literature review acts as an additional resource that health providers may utilize in order to better understand why their patients continue to smoke and to inform their patients regarding smoking cessation during pregnancy. A computer-based search was …

Challenges Associated With Advanced Maternal Age, Krupa Patel

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Abstract

Background: Advanced maternal age is a growing social phenomenon. The proportion of first births to women ages 35 years and over in the United States have increased. Women are prolonging childbearing to accommodate their careers. One’s socioeconomic status, culture, and a movement towards a women making herself and career a priority has contributed to the increasing number of advanced maternal age births.

Objective: The aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of the challenges associated with advanced maternal age pregnancies. This study looked into the challenges the mother faced at an older age, their reason behind …

Outcomes For Resistant Hypertension In Patient On Treatment For Obstructive Sleep Apnea: An Integrated Literature Review, Kelechukwu Otuonye

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

No abstract provided.

The Salutogenic Effects Of Prayer And Meditation On Health Perception, Behavior, And Outcomes., Maryclaret Ndubuisi-Obi

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

The Salutogenic Effects of Prayer and Meditation on Health Perception, Behaviors and Outcomes: An Integrative Literature Review

Maryclaret Ndubuisi-Obi

Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth Moxley, PhD, RN

Abstract

Background: Though spirituality in medicine has been around for centuries, it is not emphasized enough in modern medicine. The limited research availability within this domain has left healthcare professionals skeptical of the benefits to which prayer and meditation have within different patient populations and in the daily life of the ill-stricken.

Objective: The purpose of this integrated literature review is to determine if prayer and meditation pose a salutogenic effect that is beneficial to …

Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress: An Integrative Literature Review, Cassia Onken

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress (PMTS) is a common occurrence and not well understood by the medical community. Therefore, identifying key concepts is necessary to provide early intervention for children and parents. The purpose of this literature review is to evaluate current research to determine common themes of PMTS. Questions included “What is known about the defining characteristics of PMTS?” and “What variable interactions predispose a child to PMTS development?” Articles were found using CINAHL, PsychInfo, PubMed, ProQuest, and Academic Search Complete using key words like acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress, medical traumatic stress, pediatric, child, parent, and guardian. Studies had …

Stem Cell Therapy As An Effective Treatment Method For Traumatic Burn Injuries, Axita Patel

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Effectiveness of Stem Cell Treatment for

Burn Patients: An Integrative Literature Review

Axita Patel

Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth Moxley

Abstract

Background: Current literature suggests that packing burn wounds with antimicrobial solutions and skin barrier creams are no longer considered to be effective in the patient’s recovery process. Stem cell therapy has been introduced as an alternative treatment strategy that aims to yield reliable and improved patient outcomes.

Objectives: To explore what research has been conducted regarding stem cell therapy as a treatment option for burn patients and to explore the benefits of using the suggested newly proposed method as opposed to …