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The Power Of Sign: Enhancing Oral Communication With Young Children With Typical Hearing, Tisha M. Jantzen

Research Papers

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Use Of Simulation To Reinforce Evidence-Based Collection Processes, Deborah Christeleit

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Proper collection of blood cultures is needed to identify pathogens causing serious infections and direct appropriate antibiotic therapy. Blood culture contamination can lead to longer hospital stays, incorrect antibiotic treatment, additional testing, and overall increased costs for the patient and hospital. Blood culture collection technique is the most important factor affecting contamination rates.

The purpose of this project was to determine the effect of simulation reinforcement of blood culture collection processes on the rate of contamination of blood cultures drawn by nurses in a community medical center emergency department.

This one-group before-and-after cohort study utilized a convenience sample of 50 …

Environmental Quality And Migration, Xu Xu

Research Papers

The main object of this paper is to present a cross-country analysis of the relationship between environmental quality and migration. To achieve this goal we examine how pollution interacts with income to influence different types of migration. The statistical results show that for very poor countries, pollution is negatively related to migration. Skilled workers, especially females, are more likely to emigrate due to the pollution in source countries. However, higher income acts as compensation and makes people more tolerant of pollution.

Accounting For The Troubled Starlet: Medicalization And Femininity In The Age Of News Punditry, Mallary B. Allen

Research Papers

This article examines contributions of television news media to the dominant cultural dialogue regarding young women’s deviance as demonstrated by pundit commentary concerning the criminal behavior of young female celebrities.  Using a case study of actress Lindsay Lohan, I examine the accounts that pundits offer for the deviance of these young women and whether medical and psychological explanations enter discourse in a significant way.  Additionally, I examine the extent to which feminine mental health issues contribute to the creation of a cultural stock character evocative of tragic, female literary archetypes.  I find that mental and psychological health dialogue is pervasive …

Feeding Therapy And Techniques For Children With Cleft Lip/Palate, Justine M. Ashby

Research Papers

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Behavior Analysis And Addictive Behavior: A Chance For Change, Mary Avery

Research Papers

Abstract

Drug dependence is a far-reaching problem that goes beyond the individual to society at large. While a myriad of substances have addictive properties, the scope of this review is limited to crack cocaine – how the brain, specifically the mesolimbic dopamine system, is compromised by administration of crack cocaine, physiological changes and the relevance of dopamine levels to susceptibility to addiction.

Studies based on the use of behavior analysis tools including functional analysis, positive and negative reinforcement, delayed discounting, contingency management, stages of readiness, motivation for change, and determining alternate behaviors as replacements for addictive behavior are included. Participants …

Multiple Sclerosis And Dysphagia, Erin M. Cheak

Research Papers

No abstract provided.

The Nicu: Environmental Effects Of The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit On Infants And Caregivers, Kristin N. Hunt

Research Papers

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A Comprehensive Analysis Of The Drug-Crime Relationship, Michael A. Powell

Research Papers

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Acuril Xli: Proceedings From The Annual Conference: The Role Of Libraries And Archives In Disaster Preparedness, Response, And Research, Alicia K. Long, Vicki Gregory, Kathleen De La Peña Mccook

School of Information Faculty Publications

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State Of Metropolitan Housing Report: 2011: Environmental Concerns, Lauren Heberle

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

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Plato’S Theory Of Democratic Decline, Brenner M. Fissell

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

While democracy is derided for a variety of reasons in Plato’s thought, his most damning critique of that regime type does not involve an observation about democracy qua democracy, but of the transition that it so easily engenders: the decline to tyranny. Regimes are composed of individuals and groups, though, and Plato is anxious to ascribe culpability for the degradation. Two actors are the primary focus of his analysis — the political leaders and the demos. At times he emphasizes the puissance of the demos, but in other passages he suggests it is the leaders who are most authoritative. This …

Globalization And Structure, Julian G. Ku, John Yoo

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Sovereignty in the United States is uniquely intertwined with its founding document. An important part of the Constitution is the definition and protection of individual rights, which is a sign of the government's authority and responsibility for the nation's people. A more important aspect of sovereignty, however, rests in the Constitution's creation of the national government, the definition of its powers, and the limits thereon. The Constitution channels the national government's sovereignty through two structures: the separation of powers, which organizes authority within the national government; and federalism, which distributes power between the national government and the states. One need …

Process Preemption In Federal Siting Regimes, Ashira Ostrow

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Land use regulation has historically been a function of local governments. Congress left land use to the states; the states, in turn, empowered municipalities to enact zoning laws to guide planning and development decisions. Today, however, formal distinctions between state and federal spheres of power have been supplanted by an interjurisdictional understanding of federalism, in which local authority to regulate land overlaps with federal and state authority. Accordingly, Congress has experimented with a variety of policies aimed at compelling local governments to site nationally relevant facilities. Federal siting regimes have ranged from federal delegation of regulatory authority to the states, …

Transnational Surrogacy And International Human Rights Law, Barbara Stark

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Transnational surrogacy is becoming increasingly commercial, drawing on a wide range of domestic laws, including some notably lax domestic laws, and dramatically disparate economic circumstances, to create new families. Part I of this Article introduces the subject and explains why the domestic family laws of the participating states are inadequate to address it. Part II explains how international human rights law, especially three major human rights treaties: the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (“ICESCR” or the “Economic Covenant”), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (“CEDAW” or the “Women’s Convention”) and the …

Effectuating Disclosure Under The Williams Act, Ronald J. Colombo

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The importance of adequate, timely disclosure of critical information to investors and the capital markets has never been more greatly appreciated. In furtherance of such disclosure, within the specific context of rapid stock accumulations that implicate potential changes in corporate control, Congress passed the Williams Act in 1968. Unfortunately, thanks largely to an early Supreme Court decision interpreting the Act, the remedies available to private litigants foster noncompliance and gamesmanship. Fortunately, this decision is open to reinterpretation – and arguably ripe for relegation as bad law. Such a turn of events would give rise to a remedial regime that furthers, …

Weighing Status: Obesity, Class, And Health Reform, Janet L. Dolgin, Katherine R. Dieterich

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The article explores the intersection between the nation’s presumptive “epidemic” of obesity and efforts to reform the health care system. It notes parallels between attitudes toward obesity and attitudes toward poverty and suggests that a set of social and legal responses about those deemed overweight or obese echoes a wider set of beliefs and values that lies beneath the national debate about health care reform. It suggests that these beliefs and values limited the reach of health reform in 2010 and continue to do so.

More specifically, the article examines America’s recent public focus on what has been labeled an …

Capturing Individual Harms, Katrina Fischer Kuh

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The aggregated lifestyles and behaviors of individuals impose significant environmental harms yet remain largely unregulated. A growing literature recognizes the environmental significance of individual behaviors, critiques the failure of environmental law and policy to capture harms traceable to individual behaviors, and suggests and evaluates strategies for capturing individual harms going forward. This Article contributes to the existing literature by approaching the problem of environmentally significant individual harms through the lens of environmental federalism. Using climate change and individual greenhouse gas (‘CHG’) emissions as an exemplar, the Article illustrates how local information, local governments, and local implementation can enhance policies designed …

A Framework For The Extraction And Modeling Of Fact-Finding Reasoning From Legal Decisions: Lessons From The Vaccine/Injury Project Corpus, Vern R. Walker, Nathaniel Carie, Courtney C. Dewitt, Eric Lesh

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

This article describes the Vaccine/Injury Project Corpus, a collection of legal decisions awarding or denying compensation for health injuries allegedly due to vaccinations, together with models of the logical structure of the reasoning of the factfinders in those cases. This unique corpus provides useful data for formal and informal logic theory, for natural-language research in linguistics, and for artificial intelligence research. More importantly, the article discusses lessons learned from developing protocols for manually extracting the logical structure and generating the logic models. It identifies sub-tasks in the extraction process, discusses challenges to automation, and provides insights into possible solutions for …

Social And Legal Debate About The Affordable Care Act, Janet L. Dolgin, Katherine R. Dieterich

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Never the closest of bedfellows, law and technology mix uneasily within the realm of alternative reproductive practices. More than twenty years ago, the drama of Baby M provoked a fierce debate about the legal and biological contours of parenthood. In pondering the issue, the New Jersey Supreme Court attempted to erect a barrier between a natural mother’s right and what it saw as a dangerous and exploitive new mechanism for producing and marketing human life. Since that time, the practice of surrogacy and the use of alternative reproductive technologies have taken firm hold in our culture, creating families where, previously, …

Coping With Chronic Illness: Do Strategies Differ By Illness Type?, Kerry T. Eldred

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

While coping varies with individuals and is a product of complex, interrelated factors, the primary interest of this study was determining how coping behaviors manifest according to these chronic illness types: those of known pathology (e.g., asthma, osteoarthritis, lupus) and those that lack a clear, structural pathology (i.e., functional somatic syndromes and medically unexplained symptoms). Data for this study were gathered from a series of four comprehensive online surveys, which included measures of coping (Brief COPE), pain and health outcomes (SF-36), negative affect (I-PANAS-SF) and depression (PHQ- 8). The analyzed sample was comprised of 148 participants (119 Female, 28 Male …

Physical Activity And Self-Esteem In Females During Late Adolescence, Katrina Dembeck

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In the United States, obesity is on the rise while physical activity is declining. Educational funding cuts result in less time and resources for physical education in schools and youth are increasingly more sedentary with technological advances. Advance practice nurses have a role in promoting physical activity and health in this population.

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between physical activity and self-esteem in females during late adolescence and the effect of perceived benefits and barriers to physical activity on this relationship. E-mail invitations to participate in an online survey were sent to female undergraduate students …

The Women’S Convention, Reproductive Rights And The Reproduction Of Gender, Barbara Stark

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

President Barack Obama has asked Senator John Kerry, Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to move forward on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women ("CEDAW" or the "Women's Convention"), which President Jimmy Carter signed in 1978. This Article focuses on the consequences of ratification for reproductive rights. Under CEDAW, I argue, the United States would be required to fully assure these rights, including subsidized family planning services and abortion.

Part I of this Article describes CEDAW's broad prohibition against what I call 'the reproduction of gender,' including the "sexual division of labor based …

Why Misdemeanors Matter: Defining Effective Advocacy In The Lower Criminal Courts, Jenny Roberts

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Most individuals accused in our nation’s criminal courts are not charged with murder, rape, drug sales, or even less serious felonies. The vast majority of charges are in the lower courts, for misdemeanors such as marijuana possession, driving with a license suspension for failure to pay tickets, assault, disorderly conduct, or public intoxication. Misdemeanor adjudications have exploded in recent years, with one recent study estimating that the volume of misdemeanor cases nationwide has risen from five to more than ten million between 1972 and 2006. At the same time, violent crime and the number of felony cases across the country …

Financial Literacy Or Financial Castigation?, John A. E. Pottow

Articles

This year, the Canadians- through their government-convened Task Force on Financial Literacy - have proudly produced, "Canadians and their Money: Building a Brighter Financial Future." Armed with 30 recommendations, its most dramatic innovation is to recommend the creation of a Financial Literacy Leader. I have been asked to provide an American perspective on this report specifically and the broader agenda of "financial literacy" more generally as a consumer welfare intervention. Let me start by acknowledging the critiques of the Canadian Task Force. For example, my Canadian colleague, Saul Schwartz, has already drafted a compelling analysis of the political economy behind …

Democracy At The Corner Of First And Fourteenth: Judicial Campaign Spending And Equality, James Sample

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The Supreme Court recently decided in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. that substantial independent expenditures in support of a judicial candidate present threats to judicial impartiality similar to those posed by direct contributions. This Article posits that the Caperton holding, guaranteeing due process of law in state courts, presents a compelling state interest justifying the regulation of spending in judicial elections.

The Supreme Court's landmark decision in Buckley v. Valeo is understood to hold that only an "anti-corruption" rationale can justify campaign finance regulations. Buckley drew a rigid distinction between political campaign "expenditures" and "contributions, " holding that the …

Integrating International And U.S. Students: A Strategic Plan For Cultural Appreciation, Mary Gill

Iowa Journal of Communication

American colleges and universities historically have had increasing interest in international students for a variety of reasons. Unfortunately, for many if not most of these institutions, too little attention has been focused on developing integration plans whereby international and U.S. students are truly integrated in a co-learning environment academically and socially. A culture-specific integration model for minimizing challenges and maximizing global learning for international as well as U.S. students is offered.

Knowledge Transfer Project Annual Report 2011/2012, Asia-Pacific Institute Of Ageing Studies, Lingnan University, Office Of Service-Learning, Lingnan University

APIAS Research Report 研究報告

The Knowledge Transfer (KT) Project as operated by the Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies (APIAS) and the Office of Service-Learning (OSL) of Lingnan University has successfully reached its third year of implementation. Over the past three years Knowledge Transfer has established a unique position in Lingnan’s teaching and research, as well as building of institutional capacity. As a liberal arts university, Lingnan takes pride in its humanistic approach to knowledge transfer on campus as well as off campus in building community capacity.

Since 2009, we have made significant advances in the implementation of Knowledge Transfer with guidance and comments from …

Health Impact Assessment Of Pesticide Use In Northern Thai Farmers, Ratana Sapbamrer, Arrak Damrongsat, Prajak Kongtan

Applied Environmental Research

The present study aims to assess health impacts on pesticide use in 136 farmers from Baan Mai Ras Bam Rung Village, San Kong Subdistrict, Dok Kham Tai District, Phayao. Questionnaire and laboratory examination were used as tools. Pesticide use in questionnaire consisted of objectives, type and reasons of pesticide use, prevention practices from exposure, etc. Health impacts questionnaire included physical, mental, social, and spiritual health. The results showed that most farmers planted rice crop and the major pesticide use was insecticides (79.4 %), followed by herbicides, fungicides, and acaricides, respectively (78.7, 40.4 and 33.1 %). The reasons for the use …

A Recombinant Myeloid-Binding Adenovirus For Targeted Pulmonary Gene Therapy, Michael O. Alberti

All ETDs from UAB

Inflammation and airway destruction are hallmarks of many debilitating lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cystic fibrosis (CF), acute lung injury (ALI), and cancer. Gene-based therapeutic interventions that modulate this pathologic inflammatory response are likely to reduce the progressive destruction to lung airways. In this regard, a number of strategies have been evaluated for targeting the pul-monary vasculature; particularly those based on serotype 5 Adenovirus (Ad5). The ad-vantages of Ad over other vector systems include: in vivo stability, low oncogenic poten-tial, and large packaging capacity. Yet, specific and efficient gene delivery to the lung has been hampered …