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Effects Of Low Oxygen On Cytokine And Nitric Oxide Release Of Activated N9 Microglia, Henry Owegi

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Every 16 seconds in the United States, a person suffers a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The major problems in TBI patients are increased intracranial pressure (ICP), and diffuse global ischemia, which leads to cerebral hypoxia. Cerebral ischemia occurs in 65% of patients due to microvascular spasms and brain swelling. Subsequently, cerebral ischemia is exacerbated by the inflammatory processes initiated by microglia. Although therapeutic ICP control has resulted in mortality reduction, cerebral ischemia is still the major contributor to poor neurological outcome. To address this problem, an oxygen-guided therapy was introduced and has resulted in a reduction of both mortality and …

Emotional Intelligence In Certified Athletic Trainers, Elizabeth Houser

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CONTEXT: Athletic trainers' duties include facilitating rehabilitation, preventing injuries, emergency preparation and situation management. Emotional intelligence (EI) is critical in management, specifically positive patient outcomes. High stress situations necessitates practitioners evaluate the emotions of others to seek the most efficacious outcome. To date, the impact of athletic trainer EI on effectively and safely performing responsibilities has not assessed. OBJECTIVE: To describe the EI of certified athletic trainers as determined by the Self-Report EI Test (SREIT) (Cronbach's α=0.90). DESIGN: Descriptive research study. SETTING: Internet Survey. PARTICIPANTS: We recruited 1000 certified athletic trainers working in a variety of settings across the United …

Factors Predicting Internalizing And Externalizing Psychopathology In A Sample Of Inner City Minority Women, Antonio Gonzalez

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Women of minority backgrounds, particularly those of lower socioeconomic status, are vulnerable to a whole host of social and health related problems such as increased rates of depression, incarceration, sexual assault, and premature death. With such vulnerabilities, these women are at increased risk for developing internalizing disorders (i.e., depression and anxiety) and externalizing disorders (i.e., substance abuse, antisocial personality disorder), compared to women of higher socioeconomic status. The purpose of the present research was to examine factors that are predictive of the development of internalizing and externalizing psychopathology in minority women in an effort to construct a comprehensive model of …

Parental Attributions Of Child Behavior As Predictors Of Help-Seeking Behavior In A Community Sample, Jennifer L. Hutchens

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Child and parenting focused interventions are commonly recommended by clinicians; however it is often the case that children and parents do not follow through on treatment. Research examining help seeking behavior related to child concerns has focused on child, parent and family demographics. Other research has considered the influence of parent cognitions, including parenting self-efficacy and parental attributions of child behavior, in predicting attendance for parenting interventions (e.g., Peters, Calam & Harrington, 2005). There is currently limited research that considers parental help seeking in a community sample (Girio-Herrera, Owens, & Langberg, 2013). The purpose of the present study is to …

Special Education Teacher Retention: The Relationship Between Mentoring, Job Satisfaction And The Retention Of Special Education Teachers, Angela Horrison-Collier

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

The causes of the teacher shortage are complex; however, the retention of special education teachers is a significant contributor to this shortage. Some research has indicated that up to 9.3 % of special education teachers leave the field at the end of their first year of teaching and 7.4 % move to general education yearly. Therefore, school districts face a continuous cycle of recruitment, hiring, and induction. Because of the pivotal value of retention, school districts and site level education leaders must take proactive steps to reduce the retention rate. The research on teacher retention indicates factors such as salary, …

Judgments Of Learning As Postdictors Of Accuracy, Michael C. Graham

Theses

This study is the first to assess the use of Judgments of Learning (JOLs) in an eyewitness identification paradigm. The type of identification task (showups versus lineups) as well as presence of target stimuli was manipulated. Correct and incorrect identifications were measured to determine the accuracy of participants' identifications. JOLs and confidence ratings were collected to determine if meta-cognitive judgments can be used as valid indicators of accuracy. The findings support research in the meta-cognitive and psychology and law literatures as JOL and confidence ratings significantly correlated with accuracy. It was found that confidence ratings were significantly better at predicting …

Subjective Well-Being, William Tov, Ed Diener

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

The cross-cultural importance of happiness and contentment can be inferred from their emergence in philosophical discussions across many cultural traditions. We begin by focusing on similarities, noting what has been found to correlate with the components of SWB across most cultures. Subjective well being (SWB) involves the various ways that people evaluate and experience their lives. In many ways, the term is synonymous with the everyday notion of happiness – positive feelings are an important aspect of well being. Cross-cultural similarities are important because they highlight our common humanity and hint at which factors may be fundamental to wellbeing. Next, …

Deactivation By Unpriming: Does Decrease Of Influence Mean Lowering Of Activation Level?, Lay See Ong, Jennifer Yuk-Yue Tong, Jolene H. Tan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Question: Unpriming means a decrease in the influence of primed knowledge, but does it also mean a lowered activation level? Method: Measuring the effect of unpriming with Lexical Decision Task instead of random answering. Findings: The answer is NO. Reaction times were faster after individuals first acted upon the primed concept (unpriming).

The Biology And Taxonomy Of Head And Body Lice— Implications For Louse-Borne Disease Prevention, Denise L. Bonilla, Lance A. Durden, Marina E. Eremeeva, Gregory A. Dasch

Environmental Health Sciences: Faculty Publications

Sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura) are obligate blood-feeding ectoparasites of placental mammals including humans. Worldwide, more than 550 species have been described and many are specific to a particular host species of mammal [1]. Three taxa uniquely parasitize humans: the head louse, body louse, and crab (pubic) louse. The body louse, in particular, has epidemiological importance because it is a vector of the causative agents of three important human diseases: epidemic typhus, trench fever, and louse-borne relapsing fever. Since the advent of antibiotics and more effective body louse control measures in the 1940s, these diseases have markedly diminished in incidence. However, …

2013 Fall Commencement, Georgia Southern University

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Eagle Executive Magazine, Georgia Southern University

College of Business: News & Publications

• COBA’s Fifth Dean and First PhD
• COBA’s Whitaker Named VP
• A Message from Dean Wells
• Loughry Recognized for Teamwork Models
• Handlen — Fifth Freeman Lecturer
• Logistics Team Presents in Jacksonville
• Bland Visits Campus
• 23rd Annual Accounting Day Celebrated
• The Carter Chair
• Spotlight on Graduate Studies
• Alumni in the Spotlight
• 2013 Awards of Excellence
• Thank you to Our Many Supporters
• 7th Annual Fraud and Forensic Accounting Conference in Atlanta
• Alumniville
• McCartney Retires
• City Campus Growth Continues
• 7th Annual Community Bank Symposium
• In Memory of Cory Wilson, a KA Gentleman

North American Indigenous Adolescent Substance Use, Melissa Walls, Kelley J. Sittner Hartshorn, Les B. Whitbeck

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Objectives—To investigate growth in problem drinking and monthly marijuana use among North American Indigenous adolescents from the upper Midwest and Canada.

Methods—Panel data from a community-based participatory research project includes responses from 619 adolescents residing on or near 7 different reservations/reserves. All respondents were members of the same Indigenous cultural group.

Results—Rates of problem drinking and monthly marijuana use increased steadily across the adolescent years, with fastest growth occurring in early adolescence (before age 15). In general, female participants reported higher rates of substance use prior to age 15; however, male reports of use surpassed those of females in later …

The Importance Of Social Cues For Discretionary Health Services Utilization: The Case Of Infertility, Arthur L. Greil, Karina M. Shreffler, Katherine M. Johnson, Julia Mcquillan, Kathleen S. Slauson-Blevins

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Infertility is a discretionary health condition; although it carries with it important life course implications, treatment is rarely necessary for health reasons. Sociological theories of medical help-seeking emphasize demographic factors, perceived need, and enabling conditions in health services utilization, but we find that social cues are also strongly associated with health services utilization for infertility. Adjusted for conventional predictors of medical help-seeking, several social cue indicators have significant associations with utilization, including having friends and family with children, perceiving infertility stigma, and having a partner and/or family member who encourages treatment. Perceived need accounts for the largest portion of the …

From College Student To Change Agent: A Triadic Model Of Self-Efficacy, Attribution, And Appraisal, Joshua M. Garrin

Journal of Sustainable Social Impact

Beyond their newfound emancipation and opportunities for self-discovery, college students in the young adult stage of development are expected to achieve balance between their autonomous new world and the impending pressures of postgraduation life. The college student must not only reconcile issues related to identity formation, goal pursuits, and career exploration, but is expected to begin the process of identifying and developing the skills required to address salient social themes. How students establish competency beliefs, negotiate controllability over future outcomes, and appraise challenges have deep implications in their capacity to discover their social change “voice.” The following discussion proposes a …

An Innovative Approach To Action Research In Family Violence Prevention, Linnaya M. Graf, Nancy K. Rea, William M. Barkley

Journal of Sustainable Social Impact

Violence prevention remains a priority in the current public health agenda because of continuing high rates and debilitating effects of violence that exist across the globe (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children, Youth and Families [USDHHS-ACF], 2009; World Health Organization [WHO], 2013). This article presents the use of an innovative qualitative study developed from community action research methods in the area of family violence. By applying the combined framework of force field analysis (Lewin, 1958) and the public health model (Centers for Disease Control, 2002; Knox & Aspy, 2011), the current study identified factors that positively …

Do Non-Response Follow-Ups Improve Or Reduce Data Quality?: A Review Of The Existing Literature, Kristen Olson

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

The paper systematically reviews existing literature on the relationship between the level of effort to recruit a sampled person and the measurement quality of survey data. Hypotheses proposed for this relationship are reviewed. Empirical findings for the relationship between level of effort as measured by paradata (the number of follow-up attempts, refusal conversion and time in the field) and question-specific item non-response rates, aggregate measures of item non-response rates, response accuracy and various measurement errors on attitudinal questions are examined through a qualitative review.

Paradata For Nonresponse Adjustment, Kristen Olson

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Survey researchers and practitioners use nonresponse adjustment weights to mitigate the effects of survey nonresponse on sample estimates. One challenge in creating these weights is finding useful auxiliary data that predict both the probability of participating in the survey and the survey variables of interest. This article reviews the use of paradata for nonresponse adjustment. Five different types of paradata are considered: neighborhood observations, observations of the sampled housing unit, observations of persons in the sampled housing unit, call records, and observations about the interviewer-householder interaction. Empirical evidence about the predictive value of these paradata for predicting both participation and …

Collecting Paradata For Measurement Error Evaluations, Kristen Olson, Bryan Parkhurst

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Survey researchers and methodologists seek to have new and innovative ways of evaluating the quality of data collected from sample surveys. Paradata, or data collected for free from computerized survey instruments, have increasingly been used in survey methodological work for this purpose (Couper, 1998). One error source that has been studied using paradata is measurement error, or the deviation of a response from a “true” value (Groves, 1989; Biemer and Lyberg, 2003). Although used in psychological literature since the 1980s (see Fazio, 1990, for an early review) and adapted to telephone interviews by Bassili in the early 1990s (Bassili and …

Topological And Historical Considerations For Infectious Disease Transmission Among Injecting Drug Users In Bushwick, Brooklyn (Usa), Kirk Dombrowski, Richard Curtis, Samuel Friedman, Bilal Khan

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Recent interest by physicists in social networks and disease transmission factors has prompted debate over the topology of degree distributions in sexual networks. Social network researchers have been critical of “scale-free” Barabasi-Albert approaches, and largely rejected the preferential attachment, “rich-get-richer” assumptions that underlie that model. Instead, research on sexual networks has pointed to the importance of homophily and local sexual norms in dictating degree distributions, and thus disease transmission thresholds. Injecting Drug User (IDU) network topologies may differ from the emerging models of sexual networks, however. Degree distribution analysis of a Brooklyn, NY, IDU network indicates a different topology than …

The Transgenerational Consequences Of Discrimination On African-American Health Outcomes, Bridget J. Goosby, Chelsea Heidbrink

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Disparities in African American health remain pervasive and persist transgenerationally. There is a growing consensus that both structural and interpersonal racial discrimination are key mechanisms affecting African American health. The Biopsychosocial Model of Racism as a Stressor posits that the persistent stress of experiencing discrimination take a physical toll on the health of African Americans and is ultimately manifested in the onset of illness. However, the degree to which the health consequences of racism and discrimination can be passed down from one generation to the next is an important avenue of exploration. In this review, we discuss and link literature …

The Limits Of Violence: People And Property In Edward Abbey's "Monkeywrenching" Novels, David Thomas Sumner

Faculty Publications

This paper explores Edward Abbey’s fiction asking what kind of ethical imperative his monkeywrenching novels offer. While advocating the destruction of property in defense of wilderness, The Monkey Wrench Gang draws a clear ethical distinction between the destruction of property in defense of wilderness and the harming of people. Yet the sequel, Hayduke Lives!, blurs this ethical line when a security guard is killed during the novel’s final eco-sabotage scene. After exploring several possible textual explanations for this apparent change and then interviewing several of Abbey’s close friends regarding this issue, the author concludes that the shift does not …

Critical Literacy, Common Core, And “Close Reading”, Aimee Ellis

Education: School of Education Faculty Publications and Other Works

In the time of implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) across the country, teachers are confronting new content and instructional shifts in their classrooms. One of these shifts is providing time for students to do "close reading" of complex texts in order to reach the expectations of CCSS. "Close reading" can be defined in multiple ways, and different approaches can be taken in the classroom to help students learn to read closely. In this paper, I suggest a critical literacy approach to texts that not only supports CCSS expectations for close, analytical reading, but extends even deeper to …

Implementing Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support In High School Settings: Analysis Of Eight High Schools, K. Brigid Flannery, Jennifer L. Frank, Mimi Mcgrath Cato, Bonnie Doren, Pamela Fenning

Education: School of Education Faculty Publications and Other Works

Schoolwide positive behavior support (SWPBS) is a systems-level intervention designed to prevent the occurrence of problem behavior and increase social competence. A growing body of research documents that SWPBS reduces problem behavior and improves academics (e.g., McIntosh, Chard, Boland, & Horner, 2006), yet documentation of the feasibility of implementing SWPBS in high school settings is lacking. The current study examines implementation of universal SWPBS components in eight high schools serving over 15,525 students across a three-year period. Our findings were that improvements in implementation were evident between baseline and the end of year one, yet the implementation of SWPBS practices …

Teacher Role Breadth And Its Relationship To Student-Reported Teacher Support, Kate L. Phillippo, Susan Stone

Education: School of Education Faculty Publications and Other Works

This study capitalizes on a unique, nested data set comprised of students ("n" = 531) and teachers ("n" = 45) in three high schools that explicitly incorporated student support roles into teachers' job descriptions. Drawing from research on student-teacher relationships, teacher effects on student outcomes, and role theory, this study explored correlates of teachers' role definition. In particular, it considered role breadth, or the degree to which teachers defined their roles to include the provision of various forms of social and emotional support to students. We hypothesized that teachers' role breadth would relate to student perceptions of teacher support and …

The Death Toll Of Justinian’S Plague And Its Effects On The Byzantine Empire, Joshua North

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

Joshua North is a senior at Armstrong Atlantic State University, pursuing a major in history and minors in both Philosophy and Psychology.

Container Shipping Risk Management: A Case Study Of Taiwan Container Shipping Industry, Chia-Hsun Chang

Plymouth Business School Theses

Whilst container shipping has become increasingly important over the past few decades due to its obvious advantages, container shipping companies have faced various risks from different sources in their operations. Systematic academic studies on this topic are few; and in light of this, this study aims to systematically explore and analyse the risks in container shipping operations and to examine the applicable risk mitigation strategies in a logistics perspective, including information flow, physical flow, and payment flow. This thesis uses Taiwan container shipping industry as a case study, and borrows four steps of risk management as the main method, which …

Psychometric Analysis Of The Appreciative Advising Inventory, Nancy J. Crone

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The Appreciative Advising Inventory is an instrument created for use in academic advising. The inventory helps the advisor get to know and understand the student, which in turn allows the advisor to better assist the student. This research provides a psychometric analysis of the Appreciative Advising Inventory to measure its validity and reliability and recommends alterations to the inventory based on the results of these analyses.

Self-Expansion And Breakups: Effects On Possessions, Caroline Sandrick

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The current study strives to understand the influence of breakups on the expanded self and its representation through possessions. The self-expansion theory (Aron & Aron, 1986) states that involving oneself in a romantic relationship alters one's sense of self by taking on the partner's characteristics and qualities and integrating them into the self. The study examined the reported self-expansion in the relationship and the couple representativeness of a possession to see if this affected the outcome of the possessions (kept vs. discarded). Participants were asked to report their three favorite possessions and five possessions they would keep (or kept) and …

The Effect Of Sex And Gender Role Orientation On Attitudes Towards Individuals With Dependent Personality Disorder, Amanda K. Slowik

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Research suggests that Dependent Personality Disorder (DPD) is associated with a feminine gender role and the female sex. However, little is known about how men who demonstrate DPD are perceived. Research also suggests that attitudes might be affected by the sex and gender role of the participant, with men and individuals who identify with traditional gender roles making harsher judgments of individuals who exhibit behaviors that are not consistent with traditional gender roles. As the categorical diagnosis of personality disorders has been widely criticized and may soon be replaced, the DSM-5 draft describes the symptoms of DPD using three dimensions …

The Effects Of Processing Fluency On Restorative Environments, Andrea Ahles

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Attention Restoration Theory (ART) maintains that directed attention, a type of attention that requires effort, is a resource that is susceptible to fatigue after prolonged use. This directed attention fatigue, commonly known as mental fatigue, is a factor linked to performance and safety decline in the workplace. Many studies have found that contact with nature promotes restoration from directed attention fatigue; however, there is little research on how nature has this effect. The aim of the present study was to explore whether natural environments have restorative potential given their higher degree of processing fluency. College students ( N =78) were …