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Outlook Magazine, Spring 2014

Outlook Magazine

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Creating An Educational App Rubric For Teachers Of Students Who Are Deaf And Hard Of Hearing, Shaunna Marie Bentrop

Independent Studies and Capstones

The focus of this study was to analyze literature and existing educational rubrics and adapt an evaluating rubric to meet the needs of teachers of students who are deaf and hard of hearing.

Use Of Ice Water Stimulation In Suspected Bilateral Vestibulopathy, Mariah Jule Skinner

Independent Studies and Capstones

The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of patients with unilateral vestibular dysfunction on ice water testing as well as the presence of correlations with rotary chair test results and their diagnosis. All patients reviewed for this study had what appeared to be a bilateral vestibular loss before ice water testing was performed.

Parental Decision-Making During The Cochlear Implant Selection Process, Melissa Stewart

Independent Studies and Capstones

The focus of this study was to examine the decision-making process parents experience when choosing a cochlear implant for their child and create a parent-friendly, comprehensive comparison chart of current cochlear implant technology for parents to use in the future.

An Examination Of Current Social Emotional Curricula Used In General Education Classrooms For Children Who Are Deaf Or Hard Of Hearing Aged 3-5, Meghan I. Sauer

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper reviews the current literature on the importance of explicitly teaching social emotional competency to young children who are deaf or hard of hearing. A survey was distributed to assess the current use of social emotional curricula in general education settings with children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Comparison Of Speech Recognition In Noise Using A Frequency Modulated (Fm) System And Wireless Hearing Aid Accessory Microphone Signal (Ams), Michelle Jeanette Mclain

Independent Studies and Capstones

A randomized investigation and comparison of the speech recognition in noise of hearing aid users using two different assistive listening devices

Using Therapy Dogs To Improve Reading Fluency Of Children Who Are Deaf Or Hard Of Hearing: Is It Effective?, Jacklyn Marie Litzinger

Independent Studies and Capstones

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the effectiveness of using therapy dog reading programs with children who are deaf or hard of hearing using cochlear implants and hearing aids. It includes a literature review of reading fluency and therapy dog programs.

The Relationship Between Vulnerability To Temporary Versus Permanent Threshold Shifts In Balb, Cba/J And B6 Inbred Mice, Lauren Lewis

Independent Studies and Capstones

This study examines the dose-response relationship between TTS and PTS. Results indicate that susceptibility to TTS does not predict susceptibility to PTS and that long standing principles such as the equal energy hypothesis and early vulnerability period do not apply at low levels of noise.

An Analysis Of The Problem Solving Skills Of Children Who Are Deaf Or Hard Of Hearing, Angelina T.G. Laurent

Independent Studies and Capstones

Literature Review: Problem-solving skills are important to reasoning through everyday situations, and underlie social competence and academic achievement. Cognitive skills such as theory of mind and executive function contribute to problem-solving ability. Children who are deaf or hard of hearing often present with delays in these areas. Data Analysis: Data for 10 students who are deaf or hard of hearing who were administered the Test of Problem Solving – Elementary, Third Edition is analyzed. Results: Problem-solving abilities of students who are deaf or hard of hearing tend to fall on the lower end of the average range, where the average …

Cognitive Consequences Of Degraded Speech: The Effect Of Background Noise, Noise-Vocoded Speech And Low-Pass Filtering On Short Story Recall, Laura Anne Horowitz

Independent Studies and Capstones

Recall accuracy for speech-degraded short stories was assessed in young adults with normal hearing sensitivity. Stories were presented in the clear, or in noise vocoded, low-pass filtered, or background noise conditions of varying difficulty. Propositional scoring was used to determine the accuracy of participants’ recall. No significant effect on short story recall accuracy was observed for the degraded listening conditions. These results suggest that young adult listeners may be less susceptible to the extra cognitive challenge associated with degraded speech than might be predicted by the effortfulness hypothesis.

The Early Language Environment And Effect Of Parental Counseling On Adult Language Exposure Of Children With Unilateral And Mild Bilateral Hearing Loss, Anita Marie Calwas

Independent Studies and Capstones

This pilot study investigated the early language environment of children with unilateral and mild to moderate bilateral hearing loss. A one-time educational session with a parent is assessed for its ability to increase parental speech to children with unilateral and mild to moderate bilateral hearing loss.

Spectral Resolution And Speech Understanding In Children And Young Adults With Bimodal Devices, Holly Johanna Bridges

Independent Studies and Capstones

Tests of spectral modulation detection and speech understanding were administered to children and young adults with hearing loss who use bimodal devices (one cochlear implant and one hearing aid at the non-implanted ear). Spectral modulation detection performance increases with participant’s age, and better speech recognition scores are associated with better audibility (SII or PTA).

Progress In Research On Tourette Syndrome, Kevin J. Black, Joseph Jankovic, Tamara Hershey, Kevin St. P Mcnaught, Jonathan W. Mink, John Walkup

Psychiatry Faculty Publications

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Functional Anatomy Of Subthalamic Nucleus Stimulation In Parkinson Disease, Sarah A. Eisenstein, Jonathan M. Koller, Kathleen D. Black, Meghan C. Campbell, Heather M. Lugar, Mwiza Ushe, Samer D. Tabbal, Morvarid Karimi, Tamara Hershey, Joel S. Perlmutter, Kevin J. Black

Psychiatry Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

F1000research: Tics Welcomes You To 21st Century Biomedical Publishing, Kevin J. Black

Psychiatry Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Teachers' Perceptions Of The Effectiveness Of The Art Education Preparation Program In Kuwait, Ghadeer Alhaddad

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This study was designed to investigate how pre-service, beginners, and advanced art teachers in Kuwait viewed their teacher preparation program by describing and evaluating its effectiveness. To examine the issues of art teacher training and current teaching, this study used quantitative and qualitative research approaches. The study included a qualitative document analysis and a quantitative survey questionnaire of pre-service art education teachers who have completed their classroom observation at the end of the fourth year at the College of Basic Education (CBE), beginning art education teachers who are teaching in the first of their second year at the Ministry of …

Online Geometric Human Interaction Segmentation And Recognition, Harika Bharthavarapu

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The goal of this work is the temporal localization and recognition of binary people interactions in video. Human-human interaction detection is one of the core problems in video analysis. It has many applications such as in video surveillance, video search and retrieval, human-computer interaction, and behavior analysis for safety and security. Despite the sizeable literature in the area of activity and action modeling and recognition, the vast majority of the approaches make the assumption that the beginning and the end of the video portion containing the action or the activity of interest is known. In other words, while a significant …

L'Intention Mal Comprise : Les Meres Indignes De La Comtesse De Segur, Kristina Kiisk

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Sophie de Segur is a very well-known 19th century French children's author. Her books were and are still widely read and appreciated by children. However, she has been often criticized by literary scholars of the 20th and 21st century due to the fact that there is a lot of violence present in her novels. In addition, it has been suggested that her only goal was to educate and moralize her young readers. This opinion, however, reduces the multifaceted work of the comtesse to a purely didactic literature and we fail to recognize that her writing suggests a much deeper significance …

Financial Statement Analysis, Steelman Library

Syllabus Repository

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Self-Medication With Antibiotics Among Non-Medical University Students Of Karachi: A Cross-Sectional Study, Syed Jawad Shah, Hamna Ahmad, Rija Binte Rehan, Sidra Najeeb, Mirrah Mumtaz, Muhammad Hashim Jilani, Muhammad Sharoz Rabbani, Muhammad Zakariya Alam, Saba Farooq, M Masood Kadir

Community Health Sciences

Background: The prevalence of self -medication with antibiotics is quite high in developing countries as opposed to developed countries. Antibiotics are often taken erroneously for certain ailments, without having the appropriate knowledge of their use. This carries potential risks for the individual as well as the community, in form of several side effects such as antibiotic resistance. Therefore the prevalence of self-medicated antibiotics in developing countries needs to be studied.Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out at six different non-medical universities of Karachi. 431 students were included in the study. Data was collected using self-administered questionnaires and analyzed using …

Practice–Research Partnerships And Mentoring To Foster Evidence-Based Decision Making, Ross C. Brownson

Public Health Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Pneumococcal Serotypes And Serogroups Causing Invasive Disease In Pakistan, 2005-2013, Sadia Shakoor, Furqan Kabir, Asif R. Khowaja, Shahida M. Qureshi, Fyezah Jehan, Farah Qamar, Cynthia G. Whitney, Anita K M Zaidi

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

While pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have been implemented in most countries worldwide, use in Asia has lagged in part because of a lack of data on the amount of disease that is vaccine preventable in the region. We describe pneumococcal serotypes elicited from 111 episodes of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) from 2005 to 2013 among children and adults in Pakistan. Seventy-three percent (n = 81) of 111 IPD episodes were cases of meningitis (n = 76 in children 0-15 years and n = 5 among adults). Serotypes were determined by target amplification of DNA extracted from pneumococcal isolates (n = 52) …

The Conceptual Framework And Assessment Methodology For The Systematic Reviews Of Community-Based Interventions For The Prevention And Control Of Infectious Diseases Of Poverty, Zohra S. Lassi, Rehana A. Salam, Jai K. Das, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

This paper describes the conceptual framework and the methodology used to guide the systematic reviews of community-based interventions (CBIs) for the prevention and control of infectious diseases of poverty (IDoP). We adapted the conceptual framework from the 3ie work on the 'Community-Based Intervention Packages for Preventing Maternal Morbidity and Mortality and Improving Neonatal Outcomes' to aid in the analyzing of the existing CBIs for IDoP. The conceptual framework revolves around objectives, inputs, processes, outputs, outcomes, and impacts showing the theoretical linkages between the delivery of the interventions targeting these diseases through various community delivery platforms and the consequent health impacts. …

Overview Of Australian Indigenous Health Status, 2013, Neil Thomson, Jane Burns, Anomie, Michelle Catto, Stephanie Colbert, Belinda D'Costa, Michelle Ellwell, Caitlin Gray, Joanne Hoareau, Andrea Macrae, Christine Potter, Kathy Ride, Avinna Trzesinski

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

The main purpose of the Overview is to provide a comprehensive summary of the most recent indicators of the health and current health status of Australia’s Indigenous people. It has been prepared by the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet as a part of our contributions to ‘closing the gap’ in health between Indigenous people and other Australians by making relevant, high quality knowledge and information easily accessible to policy makers, health service providers, program managers, clinicians, researchers, students and the general community.

The initial sections of this Overview provide information about the context of Indigenous health, Indigenous population, and various measures of …

Students’ Perspectives On The Use Of Peer Feedback In An English As A Second Language Writing Class, Kavitha Sukumaran, Rozita Dass

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Peer assessment and peer feedback are considered alternatives to teacher-based feedback and their effects on writing have been substantially researched. This study aims to examine the perspectives of a group of university students, who are mainly second language learners, on peer feedback in an English writing class. Many of the studies conducted on the perspectives of students regarding peer feedback provided conflicting findings. While some found that peer feedback was viewed with doubt and encouraged little revision, others found it helped learners to recognise their strengths and flaws in writing. This study aims to better understand students’ perspectives regarding peer …

Black Gold And The Dark Underside Of Its Development On Human Service Delivery, Kenneth Flanagan, Thomasine Heitkamp, Randall C. Nedegaard, Dheeshana S. Jayasundara

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

This paper examines perceptions of human service workers regarding their employment experiences and adaptations in oil-impacted rural communities in the Upper Missouri Valley of North Dakota. This study is part of larger pilot project designed to better inform health and human service professionals and elected officials about the nature of human service delivery systems in boomtowns. Qualitative methodologies were employed to analyze information gathered by interviews conducted with 40 human service workers. Both individual interviews and focus groups were conducted. Study findings indicate that the impact of oil on the human service network is complicated. Human service workers in the …

Time Course Of Central And Peripheral Alterations After Isometric Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation-Induced Muscle Damage, Alexandre Fouré, Kazunori Nosaka, Jennifer Wegrzyk, Guillueme Duhamel, Arnaud Le Troter, Helene Boudinet, Jean-Pierre Mattei, Christophe Vilmen, Marc Jubeau, David Bendahan, Julien Gondin

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Isometric contractions induced by neuromuscular electrostimulation (NMES) have been shown to result in a prolonged force decrease but the time course of the potential central and peripheral factors have never been investigated. This study examined the specific time course of central and peripheral factors after isometric NMES-induced muscle damage. Twenty five young healthy men were subjected to an NMES exercise consisting of 40 contractions for both legs. Changes in maximal voluntary contraction force of the knee extensors (MVC), peak evoked force during double stimulations at 10 Hz (Db10) and 100 Hz (Db100), its ratio (10:100), voluntary activation, muscle soreness and …

The Effect Of Double-Blind Carbohydrate Ingestion During 60 Km Of Self-Paced Exercise In Warm Ambient Conditions, Camila Nassif, Aline R. Gomes, Gustavo H.C. Peixoto, Mauro H. Chagas, Danusa D. Soares, Emerson Silami-Garcia, Eric J. Drinkwater, Jack Cannon, Frank E. Marino

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

This study evaluated double blind ingestions of placebo (PLA) versus 6% carbohydrate (CHO) either as capsules (c) or beverage (b) during 60 km self-paced cycling in the heat (32C and 50% relative humidity).

“Keeping It Together, Keeping Their Heads Above Water”: Western Australian Child Health Nurses’ Understanding Of Resilience In Postpartum Mothers, Rachael O. Collins, Julie Ann Pooley, Myra F. Taylor

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Assessing the well-being of postpartum mothers is an important aspect of postnatal nursing care. For this reason, Child Health Nurses (CHNs) are charged with the responsibility of identifying postpartum mothers who do/not manifest resilient behavioral qualities. However, little is known about CHNs’ conceptualization of resilience or how they assess resilience in postpartum mothers. This exemplar study addressed this knowledge shortfall by conducting semi-structured interviews with eight practicing CHNs. The study’s findings reveal that although CHNs’ conceptual understanding of resilience is congruent with current theoretical thinking, some variance does exist in the ways in which CHNs assess postpartum resilience, particularly, in …

Traditional Chinese Medicine And New Concepts Of Predictive, Preventive And Personalized Medicine In Diagnosis And Treatment Of Suboptimal Health, Wei Wang, Alyce C. Russell, Yuxiang Yan

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

The premise of disease-related phenotypes is the definition of the counterpart normality in medical sciences. Contrary to clinical practices that can be carefully planned according to clinical needs, heterogeneity and uncontrollability is the essence of humans in carrying out health studies. Full characterization of consistent phenotypes that define the general population is the basis to individual difference normalization in personalized medicine. Self-claimed normal status may not represent health because asymptomatic subjects may carry chronic diseases at their early stage, such as cancer, diabetes mellitus and atherosclerosis. Currently, treatments for non-communicable chronic diseases (NCD) are implemented after disease onset, which is …