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Uncertainty Across The Pond: An Evaluation Of Equity Market Returns And Currency Fluctuations In Reaction To Key Brexit Events, Sean Michael Andreasson

Honors Theses and Capstones

The citizens of the United Kingdom shocked the world on June 23^rd, 2016 when they voted in favor of leaving the European Union. The 3-year aftermath of the Referendum has created a large amount of uncertainty regarding the future of the United Kingdom economy and its post-Brexit relationship with the European Union. The purpose of this research is to explore how the financial markets react to Brexit news headlines, compare the returns of European and non-European exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and currencies, identify common themes, and ultimately shed light on how investors weigh-in on the interconnectedness of the UK, …

Storytelling Study, Samantha Irene Pepe

Honors Theses and Capstones

Expressive prosody (i.e., a manner of communication that is characterized by lively rhythm and tempo) and inexpressive prosody (i.e., monotone speech) present different environments for listening to a story during a read-aloud session. This study aims to assess whether there are visual attention differences for preschoolers in these varied prosodic environments and how this affects comprehension.

How College Students Discuss Their Relationships, John R. Domenico

Honors Theses and Capstones

It is a statistically significant fact that individuals who identify as homosexual are more likely to experience intimate partner violence (IPV.) Despite this, statistically, it is less likely for those who identify as homosexual to report IPV to healthcare clinicians or to law enforcement. “How College Students Discuss their Relationships” examines the implications of intimate partner violence in college students who identify as homosexual and the repercussions IPV may have on discussions with healthcare clinicians. By performing semi-structured interviews with individuals who identify as homosexual on the UNH campus, mental health outcomes of emotional intimate partner violence in …

No Lack Of Beds: Sanitationism, Gender, And Hospital Spaces In The Victorian Novel, Elizabeth Sheckler

Doctoral Dissertations

ABSTRACT

NO LACK OF BEDS:

SANITATIONISM, GENDER, AND HOSPITAL SPACES IN THE VICTORIAN NOVEL

by Elizabeth Sheckler

University of New Hampshire

May 2019

The Victorians wrote extensively about the changes in medical practice between 1800

and 1910, both in public discourse and through their fiction. As a result, Victorian scholarship

often includes medicine. While approaches are varied, they are typically either concerned with

diseases, character models (like doctors), or medical interventions alongside other public

institutions (public health).

Scholars in interdisciplinary fields as well as in Victorian literature have written on medicine in the nineteenth century, including both historiographies on topics …

Estimation Of Measurement Uncertainty Of Seafloor Acoustic Backscatter, Mashkoor Malik

Doctoral Dissertations

In the last three decades, Multibeam echo sounders (MBES) have become the tool of choice to study the seafloor. MBES collects two distinct types of data: bathymetry that provides topographic details of the seafloor and backscatter that has the potential to characterize the seafloor. While the uncertainty associated with MBE bathymetry has been well studied, the uncertainty in MBES backscatter measurement has received relatively little attention, hindering the improvements in quantitative analysis of backscatter data. Both acquisition and processing stages can introduce uncertainty in the final seafloor backscatter products. Application of well-established uncertainty quantification principles to seafloor backscatter data is …

The Purpose And Value Of Agricultural Experiment Stations Today: A Perception Study Of The Directors Of State Agricultural Experiment Stations, Lori Wright

Doctoral Dissertations

This study investigates the dynamic relationship of the purpose and value of state agricultural experiment stations today as perceived by a sample of the directors of state agricultural experiment station in the United States funded by the Hatch Act of 1887. State agricultural experiment stations are a fundamental component of the land-grant university system; they are the original model and the first centers for applied research at most flagship state land-grant research universities in the United States (Kerr, 1987; Knoblauch, 1962). The purpose of state agricultural experiment stations has evolved since their inception as new agricultural issues have arisen, new …

Engaging Persons With Mental Illness And/Or Substance Use Disorder In Care Coordination Services: An Improvement Project At A Federally Qualified Community Health Center, Elizabeth A. Hale

DNP Scholarly Projects

Background: Mental health and substance use disorders seldom occur in isolation. They frequently accompany each other, as well as a substantial number of chronic general medical illnesses. Consequently, mental health conditions, substance-use disorders, and general health conditions are frequently co-occurring, and coordination of all of these types of health care is essential to improved health outcomes (Institute of Medicine, 2006). The U.S. system of healthcare is failing to identify, engage, and effectively treat people who are suffering from behavioral health conditions (Blanco, Coye, Knickman, Krishnan, Krystal, Pincus, Rauch, Simon, Vitiello, 2016). Because of poor coordination and lack of engagement, …

Segmentation And Intonation In Childhood Apraxia Of Speech, Rachel Platt

Master's Theses and Capstones

Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder that affects the programming of spatial and temporal parameters for speech patterns, characterized by sound distortions, segmented units, and deficits with lexical stress. CAS has notable increases in the length of time between speech segments and within syllables than do children with phonological impairments or who are developing typically. This segmentation may impact prosody at the lexical level. Prosody also includes declination of the fundamental frequency (F0) and reset at the intonational level, impacting the intelligibility of speech production.

This study assessed segmentation and intonational effects on prosody across an …

Peer Support For Addiction In The Inpatient Setting, Rebecca Sweeney

DNP Scholarly Projects

Background: In 2006 the Institute of Medicine reported that combined mental illness and substance use disorder was the second leading cause of disability and death in women and the highest cause in men. More recent data obtained from the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (Ahrnsbratz et al 2016) indicates in 2016 only one in ten of the people who need treatment, receive it. At Cambridge Health Alliance’s Everett Hospital, the site of this pilot project, opioid overdose and acute alcohol intoxication comprise one in every ten visits in the Emergency Department. In January of 2018, CHA partnered …

Bill To Restrict Indoor Tanning For Minors In The State Of Maine, Jamie M. Lowery

DNP Scholarly Projects

Background: Melanoma is the deadliest and the most common type of cancer in individuals age 15 to 29. Evidence has shown that ultraviolet radiation overexposure at younger ages significantly increases the risk of developing non-melanoma and melanoma skin cancer in later years. Despite these concerns, approximately 1.6 million minors under the age of 18 participate in the use of indoor tanning devices annually. The high prevalence of skin cancer in the United States continues to be a public health issue that warrants continued preventative and regulatory action. In spite of the health risks associated with indoor tanning, the state of …

Constructed Languages And Their Role In Drama, Emelie Vandenberg

Honors Theses and Capstones

This paper covers the history and use of constructed language and dialect on stage and screen as well as the issues that arise concerning social awareness and intellectual property.

“Taken To Vt. State Hospital”: Localizing The History Of Mental Health Institutions, A Study Of The Vermont State Asylum For The Insane, 1891-1912, Alecia Bassett

Master's Theses and Capstones

ABSTRACT

“TAKEN TO VT. STATE HOSPITAL”:

LOCALIZING THE HISTORY OF MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTIONS,

A STUDY OF THE VERMONT STATE ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE, 1891-1912

By

Alecia Bassett

University of New Hampshire, December 2019

Often, the term “insane asylum,” invokes a macabre image of a crowded, outdated institution that does not so much care for its patients as secludes them from society. This popularized notion about care for the mentally ill in the many decades before contemporary medicine, is, as often times is the case, based in both fact and fiction. Institutional demands, such as overcrowding, forced many asylum administrators to …

Challenges International Students And Their Perceive Values At University Of New Hampshire, Win Phyu Phyu Aung

Honors Theses and Capstones

No abstract provided.

2020 Census Faces Challenges In Rural America, William P. O'Hare

Carsey Publications

In this brief, author Bill O’Hare discusses how the 2020 Census will have ramifications for every person in the United States, urban and rural residents alike. Outlining the special challenges that will make some rural areas and populations difficult to enumerate accurately, he identifies rural areas where special outreach and operations will be needed to get a complete and accurate count. He reports that though the rural population is generally easier to count than the urban population, several places and populations in rural areas will be difficult to enumerate accurately in the 2020 Census. They include: blacks in the rural …

Test Of Personal Intelligencemini-12 (Topi Mini-12): Brief Manual And Test (9th Edition), John D. Mayer, Abigail T. Panter, David R. Caruso

UNH Personality Lab

Personal intelligence can be defined as the capacity to reason about personality and to use personality and personal information to enhance one’s thoughts, plans, and life experience (Mayer, 2008, p. 209). It is a “hot” intelligence in the sense of operating on information that is personally relevant and of importance to the individual.

The gold standard for measuring intelligences is through the use of ability scales. The Test of Personal Intelligence (TOPI), a 134-item ability measure, has been developed over three versions (1.0, 1.1., and 1.2) to test the existence of personal intelligence and to provide for its measurement (Mayer, …

Teaching Equity, Jennifer Saunders

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Initial Summary Of Far Survey, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

No abstract provided.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 108 [109], No. 14 (Dec. 6, 2018), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 108, but it is the 109th volume in the series.

Writing With A Purpose, Kristen Melamed

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Memorial Service For Burt Feintuch, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 108 [109], No. 13 (Nov. 29, 2018), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 108, but it is the 109th volume in the series.

Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls: The Intrepid, Pioneering, Whitewater Paddler's Right To Stop On Private Land, Jennifer Jolly-Ryan

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

The river roars from the thunder of waterfalls and swift currents. Its water runs wild between large boulders and steep banks. Kayaks and canoes are designed to navigate whitewater rapids that many people believe are unnavigable. Conflicts often arise between private property owners and the recreating public on some of the best whitewater in America. Private property owners along rivers, creeks, and streams have shot at paddlers for entering their private property. Property owners have obstructed navigation, stringing artificial strainers made of barbed wire across creeks and streams.

The sport of running wild water rapids and waterfalls in a kayak …

Dissertation Year Fellows Get To Work, Kristin Melamed

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Dissertation Year Fellows Get To Work, Kristin Melamed

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

The Interaction Between The Minimum Wage And The Federal Eitc, Andrew Schaefer, Jess Carson, Marybeth Mattingly, Andrew Wink

Carsey Publications

In this fact sheet, authors Andrew Schaefer, Jessica Carson, Marybeth Mattingly, and Andrew Wink examine the interaction between the minimum wage and the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to determine whether a minimum wage increase would produce gains in the sum of earnings plus EITC dollars for low-income workers. They report that for workers earning the minimum wage, an increase would result in higher income; none would experience a lower net income due to changes in the federal EITC credit (though this may be offset by loss of other safety net program benefits). For some family types, increased income …

Passings: Burt Feintuch, Susan Dumais

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Nh Governor Race Too Close To Call; Democrats Lead Republicans In Races For Us Congress And State Legislature 11/4/18, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

The race for NH Governor between Governor Chris Sununu and Democratic challenger Molly Kelly is too close to call, as Kelly's support has increased over the past few months. However, most likely voters believe that Sununu will win this contest. Chris Pappas leads his Republican opponent, Eddie Edwards, in NH's 1st Congressional District, while Congresswoman Ann Kuster comfortably leads Republican Steve Negron in the 2nd District. The Democratic Party holds slight advantages over Republicans in generic balloting for the New Hampshire House, Senate, and Executive Council. Interest in the election is higher than in 2014 or 2010.

Fall 2018, International Education Week 2018 Will Be Unforgettable! Mark Your Calendar: Nov. 3-11, Unh Global Education Center

UNH International Educator Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Fall 2018, Unh Fulbrighters Making An Impact Working With Immigrants In Austria And The U.S. And Migrating Whales In The Pacific, Unh Global Education Center

UNH International Educator Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Nh Consumer Confidence Remains High 10/24/18, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Optimism about business conditions in New Hampshire over the next 12 months is at an all-time high. However, deep partisan differences persist in perceptions of the short and long-term economic outlook for the country as well as perception of personal finances.