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Integrative Therapy Use For Management Of Side Effects And Toxicities Experienced By Pediatric Oncology Patients, Shana Jacobs

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

Integrative Therapies (IT), otherwise known as Complementary and Alternative Medicine, are widely used among pediatric oncology patients, despite a paucity of available evidence. This review summarizes surveys that describe the prevalence of IT use by pediatric oncology patients, both during therapy and in survivorship, as well as the modalities being used. Additionally, the evidence that exists for specific treatments that appear to be efficacious in controlling specific symptoms is described. Finally, there are recommendations for practitioners on how to best counsel patients about IT use.

Ghost Talk In 1936 : "Living Ghosts" And "Real Ghosts" In Republican-Era Literary Discourse And The Two Analects Fortnightly Ghost-Story Special Issues = 說鬼1936 : 民國文學話語中的「活鬼」與「真鬼」及《論語半月刊》的兩個鬼故事專號, Jessica Imbach

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

No abstract provided.

University Magazine Winter 2014, University News Service, Office Of Alumni Relations

University Publications

This is the official magazine for RIT Alumni. Issued thrice a year in spring, fall and winter. Printing began in 1999.

Granularity Helps Explain Seemingly Irrational Features Of Human Decision Making, Joe Lorkowski, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Starting from well-known studies by Kahmenan and Tarsky, researchers have found many examples when our decision making -- and our decision making -- seem to be irrational. In this chapter, we show that this seemingly irrational decision making can be explained if we take into account that human abilities to process information are limited; as a result, instead of the exact values of different quantities, we operate with granules that contain these values. On several examples, we show that optimization under such granularity restriction indeed leads to observed human decision making. Thus, granularity helps explain seemingly irrational human decision making.

The Role Of Tuskegee Institute In The Establishment Of A Higher Education Pipeline For Black Students: The Case Of Snow Hill Institute, Barbara J. Aaron Brooks

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to understand the role of collegiate Black women in the establishment and development of rural industrial education in the post-Civil War and segregated south. Black women’s voices and experiences have generally been excluded from the narrative of Black education and thus excluded from the larger conversation on Black education progression. This study, therefore, focused on Black women in this process. This study was important because it presented an examination of Black women’s experiences in rural industrial education, while attempting to chronicle the rich history of Snow Hill Institute. The institute served as a continuum …

The House Of Windsor: Accentuating The Heteronormativity In The Tax Incentives For Procreation, Anthony C. Infanti

Washington Law Review

Following the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor, many seem to believe that the fight for marriage equality at the federal level is over and that any remaining work in this area is at the state level. Belying this conventional wisdom, this Article plumbs the gap between the promise of Windsor and the reality that heteronormativity has been one of the core building blocks of the federal tax system. Eradicating embedded heteronormativity will take far more than a single court decision (or even revenue ruling); it will take years of work uncovering the subtle ways in which …

Book Review - Wild Connection: What Animal Courtship And Mating Tell Us About Human Relationships, J. Matthew Hoch

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

No abstract provided.

Food Choices And Practices During Pregnancy Of Immigrant Women With High-Risk Pregnancies In Canada: A Pilot Study, Gina M A. Higginbottom, Helen Vallianatos, Joan Forgeron, Donna Gibbons, Fabiana Mamede, Rubina Barolia

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Background: Immigrant women may be regarded as a vulnerable population with respect to access and navigation of maternity care services. They may encounter difficulties when accessing culturally safe and appropriate maternity care, which may be further exacerbated by language difficulties and discriminatory practices or attitudes. The project aimed to understand ethnocultural food and health practices and how these intersect in a particular social context of cultural adaptation and adjustment in order to improve the care-giving capacities of health practitioners working in multicultural perinatal clinics.
Methods: This four-phase study employed a case study design allowing for multiple means of data collection …

Trial Court Budgets, The Enforcer's Dilemma, And The Rule Of Law, Scott Baker, Anup Malani

Articles

No abstract provided.

The Book Of Life - Guided Exercises In Building Your Big, Bold, Beautiful Life, Murray Altman-Kaough

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

The purpose of this project was to develop a series of guided visualizations through a workbook titled, Book of Life. This workbook was designed to impart CPS skills through hands’ on art projects. Its focus is to cultivate creativity in underserved populations defined by both gender and age. Designed in a story book format for adult learners ages forty years and up, the activities are intended to support radical goal setting in the second half of life. In reimagining their futures from the broadest possible perspective, participants will be encouraged both to cultivate daily creativity and to consider the …

Timizing Springboard: Teaching Creativity To Adults Creatively Using The Torrance Incubation Model, Kristen L. Peterson

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

This project describes the ways in which the Torrance Incubation Model (TIM) was used to enhance the Springboard into Creative Problem Solving (CPS) course. Springboard is the introductory course that has been taught at the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) for over sixty years. The finished project includes development of a turnkey Springboard program that includes instructional design, course materials, and a communication campaign that overlays the Torrance Incubation Model (TIM) on how the Springboard program was taught and delivered at the CPSI 2014 Conference.

A Movement Tool Kit For The Divergent And Convergent Cps Guidelines: Instruction Cards And Activity Floor Mats, Adela Vangelisti

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

A Movement Tool Kit for the Divergent and Convergent CPS Guidelines:

Instruction Cards and Activity Floor Mats

Movement is as natural to humans as breathing is, and, yet, passivity starts early in schools. We are taught to sit still and in silence for long periods of time. By the time we reach adulthood and enter the workforce, we have almost forgotten our sense of embodiment. This lack of movement is counter-productive, not only to learning but to the development of creativity as well. For this project, I designed a tool to recapture the joy and playfulness of movement. Furthermore, the …

Relationships Between Wellness-Related Behaviors And Academic Performance, Helene M. Alfano

Dissertations

This study investigated possible relationships between specific wellness-related behaviors and academic achievement by using self-reported data from the 2009 Michigan Youth Risk Behavior Survey (MYRBS). Participants were students from 50 public high schools in Michigan in grades 9 through 12 (N = 3,411). Survey responses were analyzed with an ordinal logistic regression procedure using SPSS software. Beyond the control model, the block of variables on (a) diet explained 9.3% of the variance in the outcome measure, an additional amount of variance that was statistically significant and practically important. Each of the remaining blocks, including (b) physical activity, (c) self-perception of …

Voys Lessons: Whirling Words In Chaucer’S “House Of Rumour", Nicola Blake

Publications and Research

“Voys Lessons: Whirling Words in Chaucer’s ‘House of Rumour’” examines the lability of sound and its use in the dissemination, transposition, and authorship of stories within The House of Fame, a text exemplifying the mobility and flexibility of misused or unhinged words, as expressed through sound as opposed to text. By engaging the use and interpretation of sound in contrast to words, this new reading concentrates on the idea of narrative as material artifact with limited stasis. Geffrey’s pseudo-authorship, through his voyeuristic stance, engages the textuality of sounds and shows the related subtlety, elasticity, and democratic sociohistorical aspect of …

Portrayals Of Mental Illness And Physical Disability In 21st Century Children's Animation., Amy Sue Marie Miller

College of Arts & Sciences Senior Theses

The objective of this study was to evaluate the presence of mental and physical disability in children's animation, and to understand image of mental or physical disability the animation portrayed. Three animated movies and one 61 episode animated series were coded for verbal references to mental illness and physical disability. Visual images and thematic elements portraying disability were also examined. All of the animations contained verbal as well as visual references to disability. Verbal references appeared with an average of 13.2 references per hour of animation. The connotations of these references often went against negative stereotypes of disability. These findings …

Secondary Student Outcomes And Perspectives On A Multiple Pathways Approach To Education : Engagement, Achievement, And Transitions., Lisa-Anne Ferris

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Career and Technical Education, earlier known as Vocational Education, has been formally part of public education since 1917. Federal policies have been used to support linking academic and vocationally-based curricula to give secondary and postsecondary students practical work experience within schools to prepare them for the workforce (Gordon, 2008). The current policy, The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, or Perkins IV, is the most recent policy to integrate academic and vocationally-based curricula’s using a career pathway model under Programs of Study (POS) (USDE, 2013). POS are career pathways that students choose in the beginning of their high …

Hospital Discharge Decision Modeling For Mental Health Inpatients, Peiwen Duan

Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses

This research addresses the issue of unnecessary treatment and late discharge for mental health inpatients. In this thesis, a dynamic decision model is proposed to determine the optimal timing to discharge a patient from hospital that considers both the impacts of over-treatment and not enough treatment on patients recovery. We measure the reward of making the discharge decisions in terms of hospitalization cost and readmission cost. The objective is to minimize the total expected cost for patients and provides hospital care providers with theoretical methods to assist them to make a better decision about discharge planning and management.

An Attempt To Establish Approval As A Learned Reinforcer, Kelly T. Kohler

Dissertations

Approval does not function as a powerful reinforcer for many children with autism, making it difficult to reinforce appropriate behavior in a functional and consistent manner. The current study first assessed the effects of establishing approval (“Nice,” accompanied by a smile and nod) and nonsense words as discriminative stimuli, with the intent that they might also become learned reinforcers. We conducted several experiments to assess the effectiveness of approval as a reinforcer, including tests on learning new responses (receptive, expressive, freeoperant, and simple simultaneous discriminations) and tests on the performance of previously mastered responses (receptive and expressive responses). Despite the …

Defeating The Islamic State: Commentary On A Core Strategy, Huba Wass De Czege

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

What Medical Education Can Do To Ensure Robust Language Development In Deaf Children, T. Humphries, P. Kushalnagar, G. Mathur, Donna Jo Napoli, C. Padden, R. Pollard, C. Rathmann, S. Smith

Linguistics Faculty Works

The typical medical education curriculum does not address language development for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children. However, this issue is medical because of the frequency with which DHH children as a population face health complications due to linguistic deprivation. The critical period for language development is early; if a child does not acquire an intact language before age five, the child is unlikely to ever have native-like use of any language. Such linguistic deprivation carries risks of cognitive delay and psycho-social health difficulties. Spoken language is inaccessible for many DHH children despite assistive-technology developments. But sign languages, because they are …

Finding Place: The Art Of Wangechi Mutu, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons And Ingridmwangiroberthutter, Eva Susanne Hericks-Bares

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation examines the issue of " place" in the lives and works of three contemporary women artists of the African Diaspora: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, IngridMwangiRobertHutter, and Wangechi Mutu. Place as a location is a core challenge of globalism: though fundamental to our existence, it has ceased to be permanent or definite. However, place is more than location--it is cultural, gendered, historical, interactive, personal and social, among other things--and can only be fully understood in considering several of these different facets. Each of the artists in this dissertation has had to navigate through instances of bias (such as racism and …

The Impact Of Children With And Without Developmental Disabilities On Relationship Satisfaction And The Parenting Alliance, Caitlin E. Walsh

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Studies have shown that parents of children with ASD report greater negative impact of the child on family adaptation including financial stability, sibling relationships, and parents' social lives than parents of children with other chronic problems (e.g. | Down syndrome, ADHD, ODD). Parents of children with ASD also report increased marital discord and parent stress. Currently there are no studies examining differences in parent perceptions of child impact and how this factor may influence parental relationships, particularly parents' spousal relationships and agreement on co-parenting. In this study, 157 mothers of children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Down syndrome (DS), …

Disability And The Young Adult Reader: How Has The Portrayal Of Disability Changed In The Last Fifty Years?, Sharon Munroe Hinkson

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Literature offers an opportunity to share in the lived experiences of others, experiences that as readers we may otherwise never personally encounter. Disability in our society is a reality, yet one that has not been fully embraced--not unlike issues with race, gender, age, or sexual orientation. Individuals begin to encounter many of these matters early in life, but as impressionable adolescents, a time when they begin to understand and navigate the world, often times they meet these experiences in books. Since books are an especially important part of how thoughts and attitudes are shaped, this paper seeks to analyze a …

Representations Of Disability In Of Mice And Men And One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Avoiding Handicapism In The Classroom, Lyndsay L. Mccabe

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In this thesis, I examine two novels that feature characters with disabilities and that are often taught in secondary English classes. These texts will be analyzed through a disability studies perspective - a form of analysis that is not often taught in schools. The disability studies perspective involves looking at disability in a critical light and examining the social, cultural, and political ramifications of assumptions that are made about those considered to be " disabled" by the able-bodied majority. Using this lens, I will explore the assumptions about disability that seem to be represented in these works through their use …

Is There Room For The Modern Narrator? A Study Of Narrative Intrusion In Henry James' The Golden Bowl, Rachael Pompeii

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

At the turn of the twentieth century, narrative presentation saw one of the most intense transitionary movements in literary history. The instructive, omniscient authorial narrator of Victorian literature slowly faced demise as an increasing turn towards subjective, stream-of-consciousness narration dominated the literary age of twentieth century modern realism. The critical and fictional work of Henry James, literary genius who wrote across the century line, persists in the presentation of a distinctive narrating body at the same time that it encourages and anticipates the incipient effacement of such a figure. In his final completed novel, The Golden Bowl, James' narrative choices …

Shakespeare's Evil: From Vice To Villain, Jennifer Katherine Staehle

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This thesis serves as an investigation of the Elizabethan villain and the ways this character contributes to the ongoing dialogue concerning morality. Through the examination of the evolution of evil, villainy, and morality via Shakespeare's villains Richard and Iago, one can conclude that Shakespeare's contribution to the discussion of evil, which still goes on today, is that evil is a part of human nature. Not only are his villains humorous and entertaining, but Richard and Iago are relatable, pitiful, and raise questions about the evil inherent in human nature. These characters challenge the way Renaissance audiences habitually thought about right …

The Placiality Of Thought, Brian A. Irwin

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

All experience is embodied and, concomitantly, all experience is emplaced. It follows that abstract thought, as a mode of experience, is always emplaced. In what sense is this the case? Following the insights of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, this dissertation seeks to answer this question. A first key insight comes from Phenomenology of Perception: namely, the suggestion that every thought is a bodily experience, and that abstract thought expresses bodily capacities that, through imagination, enter into realms of the virtual. A second key insight comes from Merleau-Ponty's later philosophy, especially The Visible and the Invisible: this is his account of language as …

Contextual Influences On Political Cognition, April Johnson

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation argues that electoral supply, as measured by the effective number of parties across U.S. Congressional districts, shapes the way in which individuals conceptualize and think about politics at a fundamental, cognitive level. Via socialization processes and repeated exposure over time, individuals nested within dissimilar supply environments learn to interact with political stimuli in ways which systematically differ. In contexts with traditionally less electoral supply, or a fewer number of viable parties, individuals become accustom to characterizing partisan dynamics in dichotomous, black and white terms. Alternatively, in contexts with more electoral supply individuals learn to view partisan dynamics as …

Conflict And Cooperation As Social Responses To Ecological Change, Nicholas A. Seltzer

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation examines ways the environment conditions individual incentives to participate in collective action. I hypothesize that as resources become scarce, individuals are more willing to participate in individually-costly collective action, including intragroup cooperation and intergroup hostility. The first and second of three studies establish a unit-of-selection based, game-theoretic foundation for intergroup conflict. The final study explores macro-level implications for the relationship between climate change and violence in Africa. For human beings and other highly social creatures, cooperation is the key adaptation with which we respond to environmental challenges. Faced with resource scarcity, group living becomes increasingly vital for individual …

Attachment's Role In Social Support And Mentoring: An Investigation Among Collegiate Women, Alberto Herrera-Alcazar

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Recent years have seen a concerted effort to increase the number of women pursuing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Although one approach to retention of undergraduates in STEM fields has been formal mentoring programs, other channels, such as naturally occurring mentor relationships, have served to retain students in science and other disciplines as well. The current project investigated the interplay between attachment representations of close relationships, social support and mentor relationships. The first aim was to examine the relationship between attachment and general facets of social support. The second aim was to assess benefits of mentor relationships on …