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A Literature Review And Application Of Quiet Eye, Anton Stalzer

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this paper was review the current literature on the concept of Quiet Eye. Quiet Eye is an emerging concept in targeting tasks, and it can improve performance for both experts and non-experts when used properly. It may also help shield performers from the effects of anxiety. The second part of this paper summarized the application of Quiet Eye with a junior high basketball team and how the athletes used Quiet Eye from a coach's perspective. The team was taught how to use Quiet Eye during free throw shooting. The athletes that utilized Quiet Eye had a higher …

Health And Gratitude: Grateful Patient Fundraising Practices And Considerations, Scott R. Ford

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of the study is to conduct a comprehensive literature review related to the emerging and rapidly changing landscape of grateful patient related healthcare philanthropy. Of specific review is research relating to the nuances and relationship interactions of patient/caregiver, caregiver/healthcare organization, and patient/organization in the work of soliciting financial support from health care recipients and their families.

Some health care outcomes are truly miraculous. Grateful patients abound. However, sometimes healthcare providers are reluctant to pursue expressions of gratitude, or may not even be aware of when a patient is overtly offering to support their work. Also, offering compelling opportunities …

Ay 2015/2016 Fs Meeting Minutes, 2015-09-24, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Archives

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Ay 2015/2016 Fs Meeting Minutes, 2015-11-18, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Archives

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Ay 2015/2016 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2015-11-03, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Archives

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A Strategy To Improve Nutrition And Increase Physical Activity In Primary School Children., Lisa Delaney

Theses

Introduction: Paediatric obesity has become a global epidemic with many countries developing strategies to help tackle its prevalence. School based physical activity (PA) and nutrition interventions have proven to play a promising role in tackling childhood obesity.

Background: Project Spraoi is an Irish primary school based intervention. The intervention was delivered to an intervention school to help enhance PA and nutritional behaviour amongst pupils. The intervention school was assigned an 'Energizer'; a trained PA and nutrition change agent who worked with the school to achieve the objectives. For evaluation purposes a control school was recruited.

Methodology: Pupils from the intervention …

Human Metapneumovirus Is Capable Of Entering Cells By Fusion With Endosomal Membranes, Reagan G. Cox, Bernardon A. Mainou, Monika Johnson, Andrew K. Hastings, Jennifer E. Schuster, Terence S. Dermody, John V. Williams

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

© 2015 Cox et al. Human metapneumovirus (HMPV), a member of the Paramyxoviridae family, is a leading cause of lower respiratory illness. Although receptor binding is thought to initiate fusion at the plasma membrane for paramyxoviruses, the entry mechanism for HMPV is largely uncharacterized. Here we sought to determine whether HMPV initiates fusion at the plasma membrane or following internalization. To study the HMPV entry process in human bronchial epithelial (BEAS-2B) cells, we used fluorescence microscopy, an R18-dequenching fusion assay, and developed a quantitative, fluorescence microscopy assay to follow virus binding, internalization, membrane fusion, and visualize the cellular site of …

Boundary Object Or Bridging Concept? A Citation Network Analysis Of Resilience, Jacopo A. Baggio, Katriana Brown, Denis Hellebrandt

Environment and Society Faculty Publications

Many recent studies observe the increasing importance, influence, and analysis of resilience as a concept to understand the capacity of a system or individual to respond to change. The term has achieved prominence in diverse scientific fields, as well as public discourse and policy arenas. As a result, resilience has been referred to as a boundary object or a bridging concept that is able to facilitate communication and understanding across disciplines, coordinate groups of actors or stakeholders, and build consensus around particular policy issues. We present a network analysis of bibliometric data to understand the extent to which resilience can …

Gmos, Nate Bohm-Levine

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Against The Grain, Dayna Gallagher, Jenn Feigin

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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The Brain Before The Bench, Lena Lane

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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References & Acknowledgements

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Genetic Discovery Improves Therapy Effectiveness, Carly Oddleifson

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Sex Inequity And Medicine Side Effects, Sarah Page

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Mosquitos Suck, Matana Maron

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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The Fungus Among Us, Cara Forster

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Undue Coercion Or Societal Neccessity?, Emilia Verrone

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Simulator Models, Mercedes Campos-Lopez

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Issue 7

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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No, I Don’T Care About Molecular Spin: A Call To Action For Better Communication, Paulus Van Horn

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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2015 Nobel Laureates, Nora Newcomb

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Are We Entering A Post-Antibiotic Era? Tracking The Rise Of The Superbug, Tara Santora

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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#Swiperight: The Compatability Formula, Gailyn Gabriel

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Catalog Denison University 2015-2016

Denison University Catalogs

Denison University Course 2015-2016

From Youth Sports To Collegiate Athletics To Professional Leagues: Is There Really 'Informed Consent' By Athletes Regarding Sports-Related Concussions?, Tracey Carter

Law Faculty Scholarship

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major public health issue in the United States. A sports-related concussion is a form of TBI that can occur from participation in both contact and non-contact sports and recreational activities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1.6 to 3.8 million sports- and recreation-related concussions occur in the United States every year. This article emphasizes the serious impact of TBI on youth, collegiate, and professional athletes, explores whether athletes are really “informed” regarding sports-related concussions, and provides recommendations to better protect athletes and to decrease the number of sports-related concussions.

Keep Out Fda: Food Manufacturers' Ability To Effectively Self-Regulate Front-Of-Package Food Labeling, Ellen A. Black

Law Faculty Scholarship

The headlines on any given day claim that the American "obesity epidemic" continues to worsen.' According to these headlines, Americans, both adults and children, are increasingly becoming more obese, are more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes, and will likely prematurely die due to this preventable disease. Numerous private industries, as well as the government, seek to rescue Americans from this crisis. As the obesity epidemic debate intensifies, the call for more government regulation correspondingly grows. There are critics, however, who question the legitimacy of this epidemic and the need for more regulation. For example, some well-known scholars opine that …

The Effect Of Simulation With Debriefing For Meaningful Learning In Courses Of Nursing Theory And Practicum On Student Knowledge And Perception Of Instruction, Kathleen L. Shea

Doctoral Dissertations

Nursing students are expected to apply knowledge from lectures and laboratories to the clinical setting. One major challenge of nursing educators is facilitating the transfer of knowledge to the clinical-practice setting. Simulation-based education provides students with an experiential-learning activity within the context of a simulated clinical environment. Following the simulation activity, the instructor facilitates a debriefing session and guides student discussion and reflection related to the experience. Debriefing promotes understanding of nursing concepts (Benner, Sutphen, Leonard, & Day, 2010).

The purpose of this research is to compare two debriefing methods: traditional method and Debriefing for Meaningful Learning DML (Dreifuerst, 2012). …

Predicting Social Networking Site (Sns) Use: Personality, Attitudes, Motivation And Internet Self-Efficacy, Jin-Liang Wang, Linda A. Jackson, Hai-Zhen Wang, James Gaskin

Faculty Publications

Few studies have considered the personal characteristics that may predict the use of Social Networking Sites (SNSs). We examined the prediction of SNS use from distinct personality traits (i.e., sociability and shyness), attitudes toward SNS use, motivations for SNS use and Internet self-efficacy. Participants were 352 Chinese college students who used the QQ zone. Results indicated that sociability, shyness, attitudes, motivations and self-efficacy predicted SNS use, prediction depending on the function of SNS use. Specifically, sociability, attitudes, social interaction motivation, entertainment motivation and self-efficacy were significant predictors of SNS’s social function. In contrast, shyness, attitudes, relaxing entertainment motivation and self-efficacy …

A Case Study Of E-Leadership Constructs: An Assessment Of Leadership In A Healthcare Organization, Kevin James Lovelace

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this research is to identify the components of e-leadership theory and how it can be used to teach healthcare leaders to develop virtual teams in a healthcare organization. This study will define a way in which leaders can use e-leadership components to increase the efficacy of virtual teams. In particular, this study will examine the perceptions executive leaders have of e-leadership constructs.

This study used a mixed method concurrent triangulation design to examine perceptions of e-leadership theory which may be used to improve the efficacy of virtual teams. The e-leadership theory as a construct was first measured …

Comparing Monitoring Data Collected By Volunteers And Professionals Shows That Citizen Scientists Can Detect Long-Term Change On Coral Reefs, Graham E. Forrester, Patricia Baily, Dennis Conetta, Linda Forrester, Elizabeth Kintzing, Lianna Jarecki

Natural Resources Science Faculty Publications

Citizen science is increasing and can complement the work of professional scientists, but the value of citizen data is often untested. We therefore compared the long-term changes to coral reefs that were detected by a professional and volunteer monitoring program, operated by University of Rhode Island (URI) staff and Reef Check volunteers, respectively. Both groups monitored reefs in the British Virgin Islands from 1997 to 2012 but mostly monitored different sites (URI 8 sites and Reef Check 4 sites). When URI staff visited the Reef Check sites to perform a side-by-side to comparison, Reef Check fish density estimates were consistently …