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Provider Perspectives On Benefits And Challenges Of Mhealth Autism Screeners​ In Underserved Families, Yesenia Morales

OHSU-PSU School of Public Health Annual Conference

Background: Mobile-health (mHealth; using mobile devices) screening tools for autism are becoming more prevalent, and have potential benefits such as video content, eye tracking, and adaptive design. However, it is unclear whether such tools will ameliorate disparities in access to autism diagnosis and treatment for children from under-privileged backgrounds, instead of improving treatment only for those already advantaged in autism care.

Objective: To understand factors affecting equity in use of mHealth autism screening tools from the perspective of primary care providers (PCPs) and Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education providers (EIPs).

Design/Methods: We conducted qualitative interviews about mHealth autism screening tools, …

Parecoxib Reduced Postsurgical Pain And Facilitated Movement More Than Patient Controlled Analgesia, Szu-Ching Chiu, Hanoch Livneh, Jin-Cheng Chen, Chia-Ming Chang, Honda Hsu, Tsay-I Chiang, Tzung-Yi Tsai

Counselor Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background: Postoperative pain management is an imperative issue for patients undergoing lumbar spinal fusion surgery. Delayed pain relief is associated with poor clinical outcomes. This study compared the effects of intravenously administered patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) with intravenous parecoxib, both commonly used methods for analgesic pain control after surgery.

Methods: A non-randomized study was used to recruit 68 patients who were scheduled to receive lumbar spinal fusion surgery at a hospital in Taiwan from April through December of 2020. The group treated with parecoxib received an initial perioperative dose of parecoxib 40 mg during a 30-min period and then postoperative intravenous …

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet April 2022, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The April 4, 2022 Monthly packet includes the April agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held March 7, 2022.

Portland Street Response: Year One Evaluation, Greg Townley, Emily Leickly

Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative Publications and Presentations

Portland Street Response (PSR) is a new branch of the first response system in Portland, OR that assists people experiencing mental health and behavioral health crises. Operating within Portland Fire & Rescue (PF&R), PSR launched on February 16, 2021 in the Lents neighborhood and expanded to cover the entirety of the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) East Precinct on November 4, 2021. The founding team consisted of a firefighter paramedic, a licensed mental health crisis responder, and two community health workers, with a second team added in November consisting of a firefighter EMT, amental health crisis responder, and two peer support …

Data From: A Protracted Developmental Trajectory For English-Learning Children’S Detection Of Consonant Mispronunciations In Newly Learned Words, Carolyn Quam, Daniel Swingley

Speech and Hearing Sciences Faculty Datasets

Children are adept at learning their language’s speech-sound categories, but just how these categories function in their developing lexicon has not been mapped out in detail. Here, we addressed whether, in a language-guided looking procedure, two-year-olds would respond to a mispronunciation of the voicing of the initial consonant of a newly learned word. First, to provide a baseline of mature native-speaker performance, adults were taught a new word under training conditions of low prosodic variability. In a second experiment, 24- and 30-month-olds were taught a new word under training conditions of high or low prosodic variability. Children and adults showed …

Measuring Volatile Emissions From Moss Gametophytes: A Review Of Methodologies And New Applications, Danlyn L. Brennan, Leslie M. Kollar, Scott Kiel, Timea Deakova, Aurélie Laguerre, Stuart F. Mcdaniel, Sarah Eppley, Elliott T. Gall, Todd Rosenstiel

Center for Life in Extreme Environments Publications

Mosses inhabit nearly all terrestrial ecosystems and engage in important interactions with nitrogen-fixing microbes, sperm-dispersing arthropods, and other plants. It is hypothesized that these interactions could be mediated by biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs). Moss BVOCs may play fundamental roles in influencing local ecologies, such as biosphere–atmosphere–hydrosphere communications, physiological and evolutionary dynamics, plant–microbe interactions, and gametophyte stress physiology. Further progress in quantifying the composition, magnitude, and variability of moss BVOC emissions, and their response to environmental drivers and metabolic requirements, is limited by methodological and analytical challenges. We review several sampling techniques with various analytical approaches and describe best practices …

Cost Analysis For Renewable Energy At Residential Houses In Ca, Karthik Manjunath, Sara Ferdousi, Ahmed Mahdi, Navdeep Singh, Yousra Abusharekh

Engineering and Technology Management Student Projects

Solar energy has been demonstrated to be the most productive and compelling among sustainable power hotspots for home and business use. California has made a concerted effort to boost the integration of renewables into the grid. In 2020, a "solar mandate" went into effect, and in 2022, the California Energy Commission released the draft language for the 2022 building standards. The use of photovoltaic (PV) systems supports the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – particularly SDG 13 in direct impact – through preserving the environment, reducing the levels of greenhouse gasses (GHGs), and accordingly reducing global warming. Therefore, the …

Perceptions And Experiences Of Indian And Indian-American Multilingual And Multicultural Adults Who Stutter, Bhavani Ganesh

University Honors Theses

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the intersectional identities of Indian and Indian American people who stutter and explore how their multicultural and/or multilingual identities contribute to their self-perceptions and experiences of disability.

Method: Five Indian or Indian American adults (all male) who stuttered participated in a semi-structured interview via Zoom. Interview transcripts were analyzed using a phenomenological qualitative research methods process. The qualitative research process included in-vivo coding, identification of categories, and emergence of themes.

Results: Participants reported both unique and shared experiences related to their stuttering and their multicultural and multilingual backgrounds. Four major themes …

East Portland Resilient Island Vision Plan, Blair Vallie, Mary Chase, Mirna Ali, Journie Gering, Rica Perez, Allan Wilson

Master of Urban and Regional Planning Workshop Projects

To execute the East Portland Resilient Island Project, RIP City Planning has partnered with Portland’s Disaster Resilience and Recovery Action Group (DRRAG), an organization composed of representatives from Portland Bureaus of Development Services, Emergency Management, Environmental Services, Water, Planning and Sustainability, Transportation, and Parks & Recreation, as well as Portland State University’s Institute for Sustainable Solutions. DRRAG and RIP City Planning see this project as a prime opportunity to better understand and enhance the East Portland Community Center's role in fostering social connectivity and community-level disaster planning. Through abundant engagement efforts with local community groups and EPCC patrons, we aim …

A Comparative Economic Analysis For Cloud Computing, Colleen Nhim, Duane Murray, Nisha Hemantha Raju, Marwah Al-Zabidi, Cuong Nguyen

Engineering and Technology Management Student Projects

Analyzing the economic viability of using cloud computing services within an organization is an important aspect for business today. Significant cost savings can be obtained through selecting the best net benefit alternative between the defender and multiple challengers of business technology systems being considered. A simple definition of cloud computing is the use of software systems and storage accessed through the Internet. Traditionally, these services are managed and provided from in-house, on-site systems. There are several cloud computing service providers to choose from. This study provides an economic comparison between on-site, Amazon Web Services, and the Google Cloud Platform. This …

Raps Sheet, April 2022, Retirement Association Of Portland State

RAPS Sheet: Monthly Newsletter

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Portland State Magazine, Portland State University. Office Of University Communications

Portland State Magazine

PSU’s alumni magazine, published 2-3 times a year. In this issue: Portland State mobilizes for the next era of climate action; with perseverance and a little help, it’s never too late to graduate; three scientists answer the question: How do you stay hopeful and motivated to make a difference with climate change?; Portland State researchers are investigating how to help the most vulnerable parents; opera retakes the stage with the “Merry Wives of Windsor”; a record-breaking steeplechase runner finds his way; remembering Charles Moose, Portland's first Black police chief, and more.

Monarchism With A Human Face: Balkan Queens And The Social Politics Of Nursing In The Late Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries, Evguenia Davidova

International & Global Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

How were monarchy, gender, and nationalism entwined? Through contextualized comparisons of selected case studies (two generations of royal women in four countries: Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Serbia/Yugoslavia), this article explores, in gendered terms, the instrumentalization of nursing as an evolving relationship between state building, warfare, welfare, and voluntary organizations. It argues that certain queens’ interventions in nursing successfully contributed to the “naturalization” of the ruling foreign dynasties in the Balkans and to the militarization of charity. Through such “soft power” they mobilized nursing in different ways to carve out an autonomous space and visibility in wartime as queen-nurses and in …

Legalizing Mobile Dwellings : A Guide For Expanding A Unique Affordable Housing Option In Your City, Grace Coffey, Scott Goodman, Matthew Hall, Sam Huck, Andrew Oliver

Master of Urban and Regional Planning Workshop Projects

In much of the United States, housing options are limited while costs rise. The purpose of this report is to analyze the utility and functionality of mobile dwellings as an interim housing option to provide shelter and basic living needs on private residential lots. The policy context presented below for permitting mobile dwellings as part of the solution for growing issues of housing affordability focuses on Oregon and the Portland Metro region, but could be applicable in a variety of urban contexts.

While missing middle housing and ADUs have received much attention in recent years as a solution for addressing …

Envisioning An Equitable Central City, Tanja Olson, Caroline Crisp, Heidi Hinshaw, Sarah Pearlman, Laurel Priest, Jacob Storm

Master of Urban and Regional Planning Workshop Projects

This Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) Workshop project working with our clients, City of Portland’s Bureau of Transportation and Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, advances the pursuit of equity within Portland’s Central City. Six MURP students acted as the consultant, under the name VF Planning, and with the guidance of Portland State University professors.

Portland’s Central City (CC) stretches from the West Hills to SE 12th Avenue and includes ten subdistricts: Lower Albina, Lloyd, and Central Eastside to the east and Pearl, Old Town/Chinatown, Goose Hollow, West End, Downtown, South Downtown/University, and South Waterfront to the west of …

Vancouver Climate Adaptation Strategy, Jodi Mescher, Jenna Cangialosi, Jai Daniels, Trevor Luu, Ellen Mickle, Jamie Shalvey

Master of Urban and Regional Planning Workshop Projects

This report is intended to be used internally by the City to guide climate adaptation policies in conjunction with the Climate Action Plan (see right). Key elements of this report include an analysis of the City’s climate change risks and populations most vulnerable to climate change, a review of best practices from other cities, insights from community engagement, and recommended strategies for supporting climate adaptation.

"[I] Don't Wanna Just Be Like A Cog In The Machine": Narratives Of Autism And Skilled Employment., Dora M. Raymaker, Mirah Sharer, Joelle Maslak, Laurie E. Powers, Katherine E. Mcdonald, Steven K. Kapp, Ian Moura, Anna Furra Wallington, Christina Nicolaidis

Regional Research Institute for Human Services

Autistic people are less likely to be employed than the general population. Autistic people with skilled training (e.g. training for jobs in acting, plumbing, science, or social work) might be even less likely to get a good job in their field. Little is known about the experiences of autistic people in skilled employment or what employment success means to them. We interviewed 45 autistic people with skilled training in a wide range of fields, 11 job supervisors, and 8 topic experts. We asked them about their experiences, what they felt helped them to be successful at work, and what employment …

Healing Layers Of Trauma: Culturally Responsive Counseling With Asian American Clients, Yun Shi, Atsuko Seto, Sharon Stanley

Counselor Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

Learning Objectives
Objective 1: To understand the wide range of traumatic experiences that affect the Asian American population and implications for counseling practice.
Objective 2: To articulate the foundation for establishing a therapeutic relationship with clients of Asian descent.
Objective 3: To be able to apply 3 5 trauma informed and culturally responsive counseling strategies for facilitating the growth and healing of Asian American clients.

Building And Expanding Avestor’S Social Media Presence: A Capstone Review, Hope Foley

University Honors Theses

The Business capstone project involves a small team working directly with a local business to provide assistance in achieving a specific goal the company may have for their future. Through research, informational visuals, and presentations to the client, the team presents a final recommendation as to the best option to achieve the company's goal and the most effective way to implement it.

Privacy-Preserving Information Security For The Energy Grid Of Things, Mohammed Alsaid, Nirupama Bulusu, Abdullah Barghouti, N. Sonali Fernando, John M. Acken, Tylor E. Slay, Robert B. Bass

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Smart grid infrastructure relies on information exchange between multiple actors in order to ensure system reliability. These actors include but are not limited to smart loads, grid control, and energy management technologies. As information exchange between these actors is susceptible to cyber-attacks, security and privacy issues are indispensable to ensure a reliable and stable grid. This position paper proposes a privacy-preserving, trust-augmented secure scheme for a smart grid implementation.

Culture Of Care And Prosocial Leadership: Autoethnography Of An Elementary School Principal Navigating Covid-19, Ashley Marie Davis

Dissertations and Theses

Since 2016, I have been serving as principal at Davis Elementary School, a Title 1 school in Portland, Oregon. This autoethnography is a reflective account of my role as a principal during Covid-19 school closures and reopening. School systems and school leaders had to become more adaptive to change and had to find ways to creatively deal with Covid-19 challenges. Utilizing the conceptual frameworks of (a) culture of care informed by the constructs of ethic of care, cultural wealth in critical race theory, and culturally responsive leadership; and (b) prosocial leadership, this autoethnography used self-reflection and thematic analysis to elucidate …

Tradeoffs And Synergies Across Global Climate Change Adaptations In The Food‐Energy‐Water Nexus, Sarah Torhan, Caitlin A. Grady, Idowu Ajibade, Eranga K. Galappaththi, Rebecca R. Hernandez, Justice I. Musah‐Surugu, A. M. Nunbogu, A. C. Segnon, Multiple Additional Authors

Geography Faculty Publications and Presentations

Food-energy-water (FEW) systems are increasingly vulnerable to natural hazards and climate change risks, yet humans depend on these systems for their daily needs, wellbeing, and survival. We investigated how adaptations related to FEW vulnerabilities are occurring and what the global community can learn about the interactions across these adaptations. We conducted a global analysis of a data set derived from scientific literature to present the first large scale assessment (n = 1,204) of evidence-based FEW-related climate adaptations. We found that the most frequently reported adaptations to FEW vulnerabilities by continent occurred in Africa (n = 495) and Asia (n = …

Unhoused And Unhireable? Examining Employment Biases In Service Contexts Related To Perceived Warmth And Competence Of People Experiencing Houselessness, Larry R. Martinez, Nicholas A. Smith, Megan J. Snoeyink, Breffni M. Noone, Alex Shockley

Psychology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Lack of safe and stable housing is a pernicious and growing social concern, and stereotypes about individuals experiencing houselessness are generally quite negative. Little scholarly work has examined housing insecurity and its associated stereotypes in employment contexts. The purpose of the current research was to examine, in the context of the hospitality industry, whether housing status influences hiring managers' perceptions of hireability (Study 1) and customers' evaluations of an organization and its employees (Study 2) using the stereotype content model. Across two experimental studies, we assessed participant attitudes toward individuals experiencing houselessness. In Study 1, we instructed 148 hotel managers …

The Effects Of Financial Liberalization On Productivity: Evidence From India’S Manufacturing Sector, Zhenhui Xu, Sudeshna Pal

Economics Faculty Publications and Presentations

Using a panel of India’s registered manufacturing firms and both economy-wide and firm- level financial data, we investigate the effects of India’s financial liberalization on the productivity of its manufacturing sector in the 1990s and 2000s. Our dynamic panel analysis shows that the series of financial liberalization policies/measures, at both the macro and micro levels, significantly enhanced the productivity of the manufacturing sector. Total factor productivity increased for all firms, including those owned by the state government, with greater gains for the firms in the private and foreign sectors. Our results suggest that policies favoring financial liberalization should. be pursued …

Eating Real Mexican: Identity, Authenticity, Americanization, Health, And Food Culture In The United States After 1900, Alexandra H. Ibarra

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis examines the connection between Mexican food and identity in the early to mid-twentieth century (1900-1950). Anglo-Americans created evolving racial/ethnic stereotypes during a period of intense Mexican immigration and nativism that used descriptions of food, hygiene habits, and health to reinforce boundaries of whiteness and citizenship.

By examining Americanization teaching manuals, food articles, as well as personal and corporate cookbooks, I seek to understand how Americanizers and other food writers used food to point to emphasize, unhygienic habits, excess use of spice and grease, as well as the "questionable" nature of immigrate food culture to separate them from Anglo-Americans. …

Wait, You Don’T Have An Open Access Policy?: Passing An Oa Policy In 2021, Miriam Rigby, Franny Gaede, Catherine Flynn-Purvis, David Condon

Online Northwest

Twenty years after passing a resolution supporting open access, the University of Oregon Faculty Senate passed their first comprehensive Open Scholarship Policy. Library personnel and faculty champions collaborated in this enormous effort over two years. This demanded the recognition of new models of scholarship and the development of new workflows leveraging the institutional repository and other tools. Given faculty hesitancy and uncertainty over mandates and enforcement, significant coalition-building was difficult in the time of COVID-19, but necessary to achieve consensus. We will share our strategies for success and suggestions for how they may be replicated.

Ebooks & Accessibility, Thomas A. Dodson

Online Northwest

EPUB 3.0, the current standard for eBooks, and has a number of features that make it more accessible to readers with disabilities than previous formats. In this talk I'll demonstrate how to crack open an EPUB3 and look at the code inside. I'll show some simple techniques for making eBooks more accessible using HTML: ARIA attributes to make generic tags more specific and provide landmarks to help assistive technologies to navigate the book, more semantic tags to make sure screen readers read text aloud properly, long and extended descriptions to communicate the meaning of complex images, and a method to …

Open Access To Expertise With Humanities Washington's Speakers Bureau, Asia Lara, Stone Addington

Online Northwest

In the context of open librarianship, access to information is critical, but raw information benefits from contextualization, exploration, and, ultimately, the guidance of an expert. Expertise, however, is typically sequestered in university and college campuses, with little outreach to outside communities.

Asia Lara and Stone Addington present on how Humanities Washington’s Speakers Bureau, an open educational resource for libraries to democratize access to expertise, grow and diversify audiences, and deepen connections with their communities. This program provides free public humanities presentations statewide from engaging scholars, artists, culture bearers, at little to no charge for hosting organizations.

Defending Your Rights: Author Agreements And Open Access, Holly Gabriel, Thomas A. Dodson

Online Northwest

Disseminating scholarly activities can be a complex field to nativage for both librarians and faculty. This session will advise attendees regarding how to maintain authors’ rights when publishing scholarly work. We will explore several journal copyright transfer agreements to highlight authors’ rights to share their work openly, such as in their campus institutional repositories. The presenters will showcase the SHERPA/RoMEO database as well as SPARC’s online author addenda tools to locate publisher’s policies. Attendees will also learn the benefits of sharing scholarly work openly together with tips for negotiating with publishers.

Embedded Librarian Shines A Light On "Grey Literature" For Informing Organizational Change, Tiffany Coulson

Online Northwest

As the use of “grey literature” becomes more accepted as a legitimate means of informing the implementation of timely research, librarians may become information resources much needed by grant writers, researchers, policy makers and innovative non-profits. Accessibility and timing are at issue for many change makers in a time where innovation and action are needed ahead of the constraints of academic research. This session will introduce ways in which organizational assessments may be quickly translated into real-time research which informs action. Real-world experiences in libraries and non-profits, accessible methodologies and resources for finding and citing non-traditional research will be presented.