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Handicap International Impact Report 2011, Hi

Global CWD Repository

In 2011, Handicap International responded to complex crises in Libya, Pakistan, Haiti, and other countries with speed, efficiency, and life-saving results. In developing countries our teams ensured that people who are otherwise excluded had access to the services, education, and employment opportunities. In 60 countries, 4,000 staff members put their expertise into action, helping Handicap International reach more than 1 million beneficiaries.

It was a source of great pride to receive the 2011 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize in March. This coveted prize celebrates the achievements our staff and volunteers realize in the face of conflict, disaster, poverty, and famine …

Fruitful Research: A Biblical Perspective On The Affective Dimension Of Research, Ken Badley, Jane Scott

Faculty Publications - College of Education

No abstract provided.

Perceptions Of Teachers’ Preparedness And Efficacy Beliefs For Teaching English Language Learners, Yune Kim Tran

Faculty Publications - College of Education

No abstract provided.

Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide Promotes Cellular Changes In Trigeminal Neurons And Glia Implicated In Peripheral And Central Sensitization, Ryan J. Cady, Joseph R. Glenn, Kael M. Smith, Paul L. Durham

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

Background: Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), a neuropeptide released from trigeminal nerves, is implicated in the underlying pathology of temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD). Elevated levels of CGRP in the joint capsule correlate with inflammation and pain. CGRP mediates neurogenic inflammation in peripheral tissues by increasing blood flow, recruiting immune cells, and activating sensory neurons. The goal of this study was to investigate the capability of CGRP to promote peripheral and central sensitization in a model of TMD. Results: Temporal changes in protein expression in trigeminal ganglia and spinal trigeminal nucleus were determined by immunohistochemistry following injection of CGRP in the temporomandibular …

Caught Between Stories: A Narrative Approach To Worldview For Christian Professionals - Chapter 8 In "Bridging The Gap: Connecting Christian Faith And Professional Practice", Ted Newell, Ken Badley

Faculty Publications - College of Education

No abstract provided.

Plans To Live On A Reservation Following College Among American Indian Students: An Examination Of Transculturation Theory, Terry Huffman

Faculty Publications - College of Education

This paper focuses on American Indian college students and uses transculturation theory to examine factors related to self-reported plans to live on a reservation following completion of college. Transculturation theory assumes a strong cultural identity is fundamental to academic success. The author uses the basic premise of this perspective to consider an extension to its assumptions. Findings indicate that an implied assumption of the transculturation perspective is that American Indians closely aligned with traditional culture tend to seek careers in which they serve Native communities and more likely plan to live on a reservation after college.

Lynnsight: Winter 2011, Lynn University

(2004-2021) LynnSight(s)

Winter 2011 LynnSight:

• $1.5 million Gudelsky gift
• Endowments secure the future
• Endowments create scholarships
• Endowments protect facilities, support programs
• Leave it to Lynn

Hey Buddha! Don’T Think! Just Act!: Reply To Finnigan, Jay L. Garfield

Philosophy: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Surgical Treatment Of Discogenic Sciatica, Mahdi Sharif-Alhoseini, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar

Neurosciences

The evaluation of physical, psychological, social, and occupational factors are recommended in patients with discogenic sciatica. Surgical discectomy may be considered in selected patients with sciatica due to lumbar disc herniations that fail to resolve with conservative management for at least 6-8 weeks, or in patients with cauda equina syndrome. An appropriate pre-operative work up including neuroimaging is necessary. Surgery has been shown to be highly effective; shortening the time to recovery by around 50% compared to nonsurgical treatment. Whether one specific surgical procedure is better than other remains uncertain. Methodological limitations of studies evaluating the efficacy of percutaneous methods …

Sudden Aphonia Following Cesarean Section Under General Anesthesia, Mariam Mathew, Sarya M. Bella, Asma Al-Ojaili, Poovathoor C. Jacob

Neurosciences

No abstract provided.

Fluoxetine As A Treatment For Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Jia-Jun Xu, Meiyuk J. Chan, Yan-Chun Yang

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness of fluoxetine in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults. METHODS: A meta-analysis was conducted between April 2008 and December 2010 at West China Hospital, Chengdu, China. Any randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in which fluoxetine were used for PTSD were considered through computerized databases up to September 2010 such as MEDLINE, EBSCO, EMBASE, and ELSEVIER. The RCTs were strictly assessed by investigators for inclusion in the study, collated trial data, and trial quality. The results of 7 RCTs included were combined in this meta-analysis to determine the effectiveness of fluoxetine on PTSD. RESULTS: …

The Effect Of Hemiplegia/Hemiparesis, Diabetes Mellitus, And Hypertension On Hospital Length Of Stay After Stroke, Muwafak H. Al-Eithan, Muhammad Amin, Asirvatham A. Robert

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To determine and analyze the variables of age, hemiplegia/hemiparesis, diabetes mellitus (DM), and hypertension (HTN) on the hospital length of stay (LoS) in the stroke rehabilitation unit. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study of all patients who completed the stroke rehabilitation program at Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between January 2007 and October 2010. Admission records of 687 patients were identified with the mean age of 61.7+/-14.7 (mean +/- SD) years, and were included in this study. The patients were divided into 5 groups based on their age (30-80 years). Patients aged /=81 …

Quality Of Life In Epilepsy At Jordan University Hospital, Yacoub G. Bahou, Mohammad S. Jaber, Aiman S. Kasasbeh

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To study the quality of life (QOL) and psychiatric symptoms in epilepsy patients at the Jordan University Hospital (JUH), and to compare these findings with those from Middle Eastern and Western literature. METHODS: Fifty epilepsy patients, aged 18 years, or older, attending the Neurology Clinic at Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan over a 6-month-period from March to September 2009, were requested to complete a questionnaire on QOL in epilepsy, as well as a neuropsychiatric inventory, both translated into Arabic. RESULTS: The patients’ mean age was 37.6 years, with 26 males, and 24 females. Only 2 patients were divorced and …

Saudi Normative Data For The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Stroop Test, Test Of Non-Verbal Intelligence-3, Picture Completion And Vocabulary (Subtest Of The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised), Ali M. Al-Ghatani, Marc C. Obonsawin, Basmah A. Binshaig, Khalaf R. Al-Moutaery

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: There are 2 aims for this study: first, to collect normative data for the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), Stroop test, Test of Non-verbal Intelligence (TONI-3), Picture Completion (PC) and Vocabulary (VOC) sub-test of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised for use in a Saudi Arabian culture, and second, to use the normative data provided to generate the regression equations. METHODS: To collect the normative data and generate the regression equations, 198 healthy individuals were selected to provide a representative distribution for age, gender, years of education, and socioeconomic class. The WCST, Stroop test, TONI-3, PC, and VOC were administrated …

Pure Topographical Disorientation In A Patient With Right Occipito-Temporal Lesion, Marcella Caglio, Lorys Castelli, Paolo Cerrato, Luca Latini-Corazzini

Neurosciences

We describe a patient who presented with a pure topographical disorientation after a stroke involving the right mesial occipito-temporal cortex. He could not point to external unseen landmarks or draw a map of his city, while he could recognize landmarks, and judge the distance, and describe the route between pairs of landmarks of the same city. He underwent standardized cognitive tests, and 6 tasks were used to assess a topographical orientation route-survey. This study provides evidence that topographical disorientation can be subdivided into very specific components. The results suggest that one of these components might refer to the processing of …

Prevalence Of Silent Stroke In Kurdistan, Iraq, Mahmood D. Al-Mendalawi, Ehsan K. Al-Shimmery

Neurosciences

No abstract provided.

Determining Factors Of Anxiety In Patients At The Preoperative Stage, Rachid Aalouane, Ismail Rammouz, Driss Tahiri-Alaoui, Karima Elrhazi, Said Boujraf

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To estimate patient preoperative anxiety, and determine associated factors. METHODS: Fifty surgical patients were investigated prospectively at the University Hospital, Rabat, Morocco between January and June 2008. Ethical Committee approval was obtained prior to conducting this study. A short version of the Hamilton scale was used. Descriptive statistics, student’s t-test, and ANOVA were performed to probe the sociodemographic impact factors on Hamilton scores. We investigated scores superior to 14 indicating a pathologic anxiety situation. A logistic regression was carried out by including all variables; the significant threshold was 0.15 in single variable analysis, and we retained a significant threshold …

Update And Review On The Basics Of Pain Management, Ahmed A. Al-Sayed, Abdulaziz M. Al-Numay

Neurosciences

This article reviews the major findings of research related to pharmacological pain therapies used in treating acute and chronic pain, it compares advantages and disadvantages of certain drugs used mainly in pain management (for example, opioids and non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), and others that have a secondary use in pain management (for example, skeletal muscle relaxants, antidepressants, and anticonvulsants) and their intended indications. Our goal is to present accurate up-to-date applicable data on these pharmacological choices.

Relationship Between The Interval Before High-Dose Methylprednisolone Administration And Chronic Pain In Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury, Yung-Tsan Wu, Tsung-Ying Li, Heng-Yi Chu, Liang-Cheng Chen, Shang-Lin Chiang, Shin-Tsu Chang

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between the interval before the administration of high-dose methylprednisolone (MP) and pain in traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) patients. METHODS: We retrospectively studied the medical records of admitted patients with traumatic SCI at the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tri-Service General Hospital, School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan from January2005 to January 2010. We examined the relationship between the interval before the administration of highdoseMP, and the severity of pain and the presence of neuropathic pain (NeP). Patients treated with highdoseMP <8 hours after their injuries were defined as the classical-MP group (n=22), and patients who received high-dose MP >/-8 hours after their injuries were defined as the delayed-MP …

Epidemiology Of Attempted Suicide In Hatay, Turkey, Ebru Turhan, Tacettin Inandi, Mustafa Aslan, Cem Zeren

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To determine suicide rates, sociodemographic risk factors, and reasons for suicide attempts. METHODS: This hospital based, retrospective study consisted of 1613 suicide attempts brought to the emergency services of 8 state hospitals in Hatay, Turkey from January 2007 to December 2009. We obtained the data by retrospective analysis of patient record forms including information on age, gender, education level, marital status, occupation, reason for suicide, method of suicide, presence of previous psychiatric disease in the patient or family, previous suicidal behavior in the patient or family. We obtained current population data of the province from the Turkish State Institute …

The Effect Of Birth Order Perceptions On The Evaluation Of Personality, Emily E. Case

All NMU Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of The Neurotensin-1 Receptor Agonist Pd149163 On Visual Signal Detection Task Performance In Rats, Todd M. Hillhouse

All NMU Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Getting To Stay: Clarifying Legal Treatment Of Improper Adoptions, Elena Schwieger

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

Longwood University Catalog 2011-2012, Longwood University

Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Learning Organization Principles: The Impact On A Midwest State Government As Perceived By Its Employees, Rosalee Billingslea Rush

Dissertations

This study sought to determine the extent to which learning organization constructs influence performance in state government. The overarching purpose was to examine the relationship between Peter Senge’s five learning disciplines and organizational performance.

The study utilized an ex post facto survey design. The sample population was composed of supervisors and professional and administrative staff within the 19 agencies of a Midwestern state government. Participants were administered an instrument that asked them to rate their perception of the organization and its performance along seven dimensions of learning. Of the randomly selected 381 participants, 110 (or 28.9%) returned the survey instrument. …

Child Fatalities In Tennessee 2009, Tennessee. Department Of Health.

Child Fatalities in Tennessee Report

No abstract provided.

Evaluating Multiple Factors That Can Be Used As Skill Predictors In Software Proficiency, Stephen Larson

Theses and Dissertations

In this ubiquitous computing society, most students are required to be proficient in computer skills to compete in today’s global job market. These computer skills usually include skills in business productivity applications. Assessing those skills is normally accomplished by hands-on skills exams, which can become onerous and costly. This study explored whether a combination of a computer self-efficacy (CSE) survey, cognitive questions, and skill-based questions could indeed be a valid alternative to a hands-on skills exam. The findings of this study indicate some types of questions may be better predictors of performance on the hands-on skills exam, and some combinations …

Immediate Feedback: A Means Of Reducing Distracting Filler Words During Public Speeches, Michael Hazel, Colleen Mcmahon, Nancy Schmidt

Basic Communication Course Annual

Research demonstrates that immediate feedback is effective for speech instruction (King, Young & Behnke, 2000; Smith & King, 2004). However, feedback interventions can be a double-edged sword depending on the type of feedback and performance task (see Kluger & DeNisi, 1996). Thus, given the mixed effects reported in feedback intervention research, the present studies examined an immediate feedback intervention aimed at reducing distracting filler words during public speeches in a classroom setting as well as how the intervention impacted state/trait anxiety and self-perceived communication competence.

Results from study one indicate that immediate feedback effectively reduces filler word use during speeches …

A Grade-Norming Exercise To Increase Consistency And Perceived Consistency In Grading Among Public Speaking Instructors, Bessie Lee Lawton, Mary Braz

Basic Communication Course Annual

This study reports the results of a grade-norming training exercise in a mid-Atlantic university. The study’s goals were to improve consistency in grading among Public Speaking instructors, and to see whether self-report normative perception behavior and self-efficacy also improved. Four training sessions on speech evaluation were conducted with a group of instructors over the course of one semester. A control group was asked to evaluate speeches independently at the same time period, but its members did not have any training. Results show that the training led to greater consistency in grading over time in the training group compared to the …

Improving The Basic Communication Course: Assessing The Core Components, Kristen Leblanc, Lori Vela, Marian L. Houser

Basic Communication Course Annual

This study seeks to examine the effective means of assessing whether goals and objectives set within a basic communication course are met. The study outlines specific techniques used to evaluate learning outcomes to ensure that the course retains its relevance and general education status. A pretest-posttest design is utilized to determine whether students’ scores on cognitive, behavioral, and affective assessment instruments improve from the beginning to the end of the semester. Results indicate students’ scores improved on each of the primary learning indicators for the course including: an assessment of communication knowledge, conflict management skills, and intercultural communication apprehension. Discussion …