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Does Simulation Improve Nursing Student Knowledge, Skills, And Attitudes In Identifying Delirium Superimposed On Dementia?, Sheryl A. Kelly

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation is comprised of three manuscripts, to be submitted for publication, exploring the use of simulation in geriatric nursing education. The first manuscript is a literature review. Although, a number of articles exist on the use of simulation in nursing education, there is a paucity of research using simulation emphasizing the care of patients with dementia and delirium as a pedagogical strategy or those using a stringent research design.

The second manuscript provides an overview of two conceptual frameworks (National League for Nursing (NLN)/Jeffries Simulation Framework and situated cognition learning framework) and recommends merging them to guide researchers as …

An Analysis Of Principals' And Teachers' Perceptions Of The Academic Impact Of 15 Social Perceptions Faced By Black Males, Janice Marie Epperson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

When presented with 15 social perceptions, teachers differed in the extent to which they ranked such perceptions as having the most and least impact on Black male students' learning as well in the extent to which they judged these perceptions to be subject to correction. Across all repsondents, the perceptions deemed most negative concerned Black males' reputed propensity for violence and disruption, while those deemed least negative concerned Black male' alleged tendency to be more church-and -religion-oriented than their peers, as well as their reutation for being more athletically gifted than their peers. In terms of these perceptions being correctable, …

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A Time To Live, A Time To Die, Linda Shields-Stiefel

Akron Law Review

The purpose of this Comment is to review S.B. 1 and to compare it to other states living will statutes and to the proposed Uniform Rights of Terminally Ill Act.

Part I briefly overviews the American history of living wills. Part II reviews living will/right to die statutes in effect and major court decisions. Part III discusses Ohio's position on the right to die, both statutory and judicial. Part IV reviews S.B. 1 and suggests several changes. The conclusion recommends that a uniform living will statute be enacted to guarantee equal treatment for patients in all jurisdictions.

Someone To Watch Over Me: Medical Decision-Making For Hopelessly Ill Incompetent Adult Patients, Debra L. Dippel

Akron Law Review

This comment focuses on the predicament of the hopelessly ill incompetent adult patient. The comment first discusses the legal framework for medical decision-making in general. Next, it examines the legal and medical distinctions between competent and incompetent patients, and the implications of those distinctions. The comment then explores the options in caring for hopelessly ill incompetent adult patients, and the persons who may or should be responsible for exercising those options. The comment also considers the bases upon which the options may be exercised. Finally, the comment contains an examination of the current state of opinion and the law on …

Smoking Duration, Respiratory Symptoms, And Copd In Adults Aged ≥45 Years With A Smoking History, Yong Liu, Roy A. Pleasants, Janet B. Croft, Anne G. Wheaton, Khosrow Heidari, Ann M. Malarcher, Jill A. Ohar, Monica Kraft, David M. Mannino, Charlie Strange

Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship of smoking duration with respiratory symptoms and history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the South Carolina Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey in 2012.

METHODS: Data from 4,135 adults aged ≥45 years with a smoking history were analyzed using multivariable logistic regression that accounted for sex, age, race/ethnicity, education, and current smoking status, as well as the complex sampling design.

RESULTS:The distribution of smoking duration ranged from 19.2% (1-9 years) to 36.2% (≥30 years). Among 1,454 respondents who had smoked for ≥30 years, 58.3% were current …

Biodegradable Medical Device Having An Adjustable Degradation Rate And Methods Of Making The Same, Yuebin Guo, Michael Sealy, Meisam Salahshoor Pirsoltan

Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Faculty Publications

Disclosed herein are biodegradable medical devices comprising biodegradable material (e.g., magnesium-calcium alloys) having an adjustable rate of degradation that can be used in various applications, including, but not limited to, drug delivery applications, cardiovascular applications, and orthopedic applications to make biodegradable and biocompatible devices. Also disclosed herein are methods of making biodegradable medical devices comprising biodegradable materials by using, for instance, hybrid dry cutting/hydrostatic burnishing.

Summary Report Of Key Findings For Tasmanian Catholic Education Schools: Tasmanian Catholic Education Office - How Are Primary Education Health And Physical Education (Hpe) Teachers Best Prepared?, Tj Lynch

Plymouth Institute of Education

Health and Physical Education (HPE) as an Australian curriculum learning area is associated with holistic lifelong health and wellbeing. Research suggests that the optimum time for children to learn and refine their motor skills and to be introduced to positive HPE experiences is during preschool and early primary school years. This report presents the key findings of an investigation into primary school principals’ perceptions of a university pre-service teacher education course where the graduate teacher is qualified as both a generalist primary classroom teacher and a HPE specialist.

Presentation Of Findings For Tasmanian Catholic Education Schools - A Synthesis For The Tasmanian Catholic Education Office - How Are Primary Education Health And Physical Education (Hpe) Teachers Best Prepared?, Tj Lynch

Plymouth Institute of Education

Health and Physical Education (HPE) as an Australian curriculum learning area is associated with holistic lifelong health and wellbeing. Research suggests that the optimum time for children to learn and refine their motor skills and to be introduced to positive HPE experiences is during preschool and early primary school years. This report presents the key findings of an investigation into primary school principals’ perceptions of a university pre-service teacher education course where the graduate teacher is qualified as both a generalist primary classroom teacher and a HPE specialist.

Presentation Of Findings For Tasmanian Devonport Region Catholic Education Schools, For The Tasmanian Catholic Education Office - How Are Primary Education Health And Physical Education (Hpe) Teachers Best Prepared?, Tj Lynch

Plymouth Institute of Education

Health and Physical Education (HPE) as an Australian curriculum learning area is associated with holistic lifelong health and wellbeing. Research suggests that the optimum time for children to learn and refine their motor skills and to be introduced to positive HPE experiences is during preschool and early primary school years. This report presents the key findings of an investigation into primary school principals’ perceptions of a university pre-service teacher education course where the graduate teacher is qualified as both a generalist primary classroom teacher and a HPE specialist.

Influence Of Native And Processed Cereal Grain Fibers On Gut Health, Junyi Yang

Department of Food Science and Technology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Cereal fibers that can be metabolized by gut microbiota have been shown to promote the growth of beneficial bacteria in the gut. Increased consumption of cereal fibers may improve host / gut microbiota interactions in obesity and other metabolic diseases by normalizing gut dysbiosis. The present dissertation describes four research projects to assess the impact of cereal dietary fibers on gut microbiota and host metabolism. In the first study, we determined the treatment temperatures for production of soluble, non-digestible, feruloylated oligo- and polysaccharides (FOPS) from maize bran and wheat bran, and determined the fermentation properties of partially purified FOPS from …

Phylogenomic Data Help Resolve The Phylogeny Of Weevils (Superfamily Curculioinoidea), Alexander Lance Aitken

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Superfamily Curculionoidea Latreille, 1802 (weevils) is an extraordinarily species rich clade. With 61,851 described species in 5,584 genera, weevils account for 16% of all described beetle species (389,000 species). The purpose of this thesis was to reconstruct the higher-level phylogeny of Curculionoidea using a newly developed approach for generating phylogenomic data, known as "anchored phylogenomics" (AE). This study marks the first time that AE has been used in beetles. A total of 70 weevil species from all families and most subfamilies were sampled including two outgroups. All families were recovered as monophyletic, except Nemonychidae, which was rendered paraphyletic by Anthribidae. …

Crafty Sailors, Unruly Seas: Margaret Cohen’S Oceanic History Of The Novel, Colin D. Dewey

Criticism

The Novel and the Sea by Margaret Cohen. Translation/Transnation, edited by Emily Apter. Princeton, NJ: University of Princeton Press, 2010. Pp. xiii + 306, 30 illustrations. $39.50 cloth.

A Textbook Case: The Connection Between Textbooks, Standardized Testing, And Student Achievement, Megan P. Miller

Theses & Honors Papers

The textbooks physical presence, though, is marginal compared to their theoretical presence, as textbooks can drive almost every decision a teacher makes when preparing for a day, a week, a month, the year. For example, in my 11^th-grade English classes at Grafton High School in York County, Virginia, there are two levels of understanding. One is that I am teaching American literature, its development, importance, people, and purpose; the other is that everything I teach will, in some way, better prepare my students for their SOL test at the end of the year. The textbook has been laid …

Caffeine Consumption Contributes To Skin Intrinsic Fluorescence In Type 1 Diabetes., Karen M Eny, Trevor J Orchard, Rachel Grace Miller, John Maynard, Denis M Grant, Tina Costacou, Patricia A. Cleary, Barbara H Braffett, Andrew D Paterson, Dcct/Edic Research Group

GW Biostatistics Center

Background: A variant (rs1495741) in the gene for the N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) protein is associated with skin intrinsic fluorescence (SIF), a noninvasive measure of advanced glycation end products and other fluorophores in the skin. Because NAT2 is involved in caffeine metabolism, we aimed to determine whether caffeine consumption is associated with SIF and whether rs1495741 is associated with SIF independently of caffeine.

Materials and Methods: SIF was measured in 1,181 participants with type 1 diabetes from the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications study. Two measures of SIF were used: SIF1, using a 375-nm excitation light-emitting diode (LED), and …

Interpretation Of Complexometric Titration Data: An Intercomparison Of Methods For Estimating Models Of Trace Metal Complexation By Natural Organic Ligands, Ivanka Pižeta, Sylvia Sander, Robert Hudson, Dario Omanović, Oliver Baars, Katherine Barbeau, Kristen N. Buck, Randelle Bundy, Gonzalo Carrasco, Peter Croot, Cédric Garnier, Louise Gerringa, Martha Gledhill, Katsumi Hirose, Yoshiko Kondo, Luis Laglera, Jochen Nuester, Micha Rijkenberg, Shigenobu Takeda, Benjamin Twining, Mona C. Wells Mona C. Wells

Marine Science Faculty Publications

With the common goal of more accurately and consistently quantifying ambient concentrations of free metal ions and natural organic ligands in aquatic ecosystems, researchers from 15 laboratories that routinely analyze trace metal speciation participated in an intercomparison of statistical methods used to model their most common type of experimental dataset, the complexometric titration. All were asked to apply statistical techniques that they were familiar with to model synthetic titration data that are typical of those obtained by applying state-of-the-art electrochemical methods – anodic stripping voltammetry (ASV) and competitive ligand equilibration-adsorptive cathodic stripping voltammetry (CLE-ACSV) – to the analysis of natural …

Booklet, Altrusa International Convention Information, Kansas City, Missouri, July 17-20, 2015, Altrusa International

Altrusa International of Tampa Bay, Inc. - Records

The information packet for the Altrusa International Convention in Kansas City, Missouri on July 17-20, 2015.

Beneficial Effects Of Temperate Forage Legumes That Contain Condensed Tannins, Jennifer W. Macadam, Juan J. Villalba

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

The two temperate forage legumes containing condensed tannins (CT) that promote ruminant production are birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus L.; BFT) and sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia Scop.; SF). Both are well-adapted to the cool-temperate climate and alkaline soils of the Mountain West USA. Condensed tannins comprise a diverse family of bioactive chemicals with multiple beneficial functions for ruminants, including suppression of internal parasites and enteric methane. Birdsfoot trefoil contains 10 to 40 g·CT·kg−1 dry matter (DM), while SF contains 30 to 80 g·CT·kg−1 DM. Our studies have focused on these two plant species and have demonstrated consistently elevated rates of gain for …

Delineation Of Aeromonas Hydrophila Pathotypes By Dectection Of Putative Virulence Factors Using Polymerase Chain Reaction And Nematode Challenge Assay, John Metz

Master of Science in Integrative Biology Theses

Aeromonas hydrophila is a Gram-negative, bacterial pathogen of humans and other vertebrates. To delineate pathotypes, the genomes of twenty-eight Aeromonas isolates were screened by PCR to determine the presence of virulence factors including: aerolysin (aerA), cytotoxic enterotoxin (act), hemolysin (ahh1), elastase (ahyB), enolase (eno), S-layer protein (ahsA), serine protease (ser), Type IV Aeromonas pilus (tapA), lipase (lip), and Type Three Secretion System (T3SS) components (aopB, ascV). Genes for ahh1, lip, ser, and ahyB …

Evidence For Changes In Subsurface Circulation In The Late Eocene Equatorial Pacific From Radiolarian-Bound Nitrogen Isotope Values, Rebecca S. Robinson, Theodore C. Moore, Andrea M. Erhardt, Howie D. Scher

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

Microfossil-bound organic matter represents an important archive of surface ocean environmental information. Sedimentary nitrogen (N) isotope reconstructions of surface nitrate consumption and nitrogen source changes are made using fossil diatom (autotrophs) and planktic foraminiferal (heterotrophs)-bound organic matter with success. However, because diatoms and planktic foraminifera are poorly preserved and sedimentary organic matter content is near zero during the late Eocene, our ability to examine nutrient dynamics across this important climate transition is limited. Here we present new data exploring the use of N isotope records from radiolarian tests. A comparison of surface ocean nitrate and core top bulk and radiolarian …

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Congressional Papers In Mississippi Repositories, Michael B. Ballard, John Sobotka, Bobs Tusa, Sandra Boyd

The Primary Source

Historians and other researchers have begun to recognize over the last half century or so that the papers of United States senators and representatives are a treasure of information on many aspects of American life and on America's position on the world stage. These collections contain valuable data on cross-sections of the human experience, shedding light at once on political, social, familial, economic, governmental (all levels), scientific, military, racial and ethnic, environmental, and recreational developments and/or individuals involved in those various areas. Archivists face an enormous challenge in preserving and processing these collections, and making guides available that reflect the …

Redrafting Ohio's Advance Directive Laws, Susan R. Martyn, James E. Reagan, Brendan Minogue, Debra L. Dippel, Maria R. Schimer, Robert Taraszewski

Akron Law Review

The Bioethics Network of Ohio (BENO) held its second annual conference on June 12, 1992 at Ohio Dominican College, Columbus, Ohio. Attendees recommended that a Task Force' review Ohio's Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care (DPAHC) and Modified Uniform Rights for the Terminally Ill (MURTIA) laws and suggest changes that would retain the basic structure of these provisions but also simplify and clarify their meaning. The Task Force completed a draft in six months and circulated it to approximately 450 individual and institutional BENO members. About one hundred members responded and this article incorporates most of their comments.

Gerber Products Co. Order On Defendant's Motion To Dismiss, Alice D. Bonner

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Consumption Of Sutherlandia Frutescens By Hiv-Seropositive South African Adults: An Adaptive Double-Blind Randomized Placebo Controlled Trial., Douglas Wilson, Kathy Goggin, Karen Williams, Mary M. Gerkovich, Nceba Gqaleni, James Syce, Patricia Bartman, Quinton Johnson, William R. Folk

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

BACKGROUND: Sutherlandia frutescens (L.) R. Br. is widely used as an over the counter complementary medicine and in traditional medications by HIV seropositive adults living in South Africa; however the plant's safety has not been objectively studied. An adaptive two-stage randomized double-blind placebo controlled study was used to evaluate the safety of consuming dried S. frutescens by HIV seropositive adults with CD4 T-lymphocyte count of >350 cells/μL.

METHODS: In Stage 1 56 participants were randomized to S. frutescens 400, 800 or 1,200 mg twice daily or matching placebo for 24 weeks. In Stage 2 77 additional participants were randomized to …

Improving Outcomes By Implementing A Pressure Ulcer Prevention Program (Pupp): Going Beyond The Basics, Amparo Cano, Debbie Anglade, Hope Stamp, Fortunata Joaquin, Jennifer A. Lopez, Lori Lupe, Steven P. Schmidt, Daniel L. Young

Physical Therapy Faculty Research

A multidisciplinary process improvement program was initiated at the University of Miami Hospital (UMH) in 2009 to identify the prevalence of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPU) at the institution and to implement interventions to reduce the incidence of HAPU. This deliberate and thoughtful committee-driven process evaluated care, monitored results, and designed evidence-based strategic initiatives to manage and reduce the rate of HAPU. As a result all inpatient beds were replaced with support surfaces, updated care delivery protocols were created, and monitored, turning schedules were addressed, and a wound, ostomy, and continence (WOC) nurse and support staff were hired. These initial interventions …

City Of Chicago V. Environmental Defense Fund, Inc." Making The Case For Broader Application Of Chevron, U.S.A. V. Natural Resource Defense Council, Frank Lasalle

Akron Law Review

The purpose of this Note is to examine the Supreme Court's reasoning in City of Chicago v. Environmental Defense Fund, and to explore the implications of the Court's decision. First, Section II of this Note delineates the relevant statutory and regulatory background concerning the regulation of municipal solid waste. Next, Section III presents the statement of the case. Finally, Section IV analyzes the Supreme Court's decision. Section IV(A) criticizes the Court's limited focus in interpreting the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA). Section IV(B) contends that the Court's interpretation of RCRA is incorrect because it violates one of …

The Epidemic Of Antibiotic Resistance: A Legal Remedy To Eradicate The "Bugs" In The Treatment Of Infectious Diseases, Mike Misocky

Akron Law Review

Even though some hospitals have initiated programs aimed at curbing inappropriate antibiotic use, present day circumstances warrant a comprehensive approach to the pending epidemic. In an era where managed care organizations are prevalent and the crux of health care takes place in the community, the opportunity exists for a legal remedy to halt the progression of a possible "superbug" tyranny. This article sets forth the Antibiotic Resistance Epidemic in Part 11. Parts III and IV discuss the causative agents while emphasizing the need for a regulatory attack to the problem. The remainder of this article concentrates on a proposal to …

Agenda And Reports, Juvenile Welfare Board, July 16, 2015, Juvenile Welfare Board Of Pinellas County

Juvenile Welfare Board Agendas, Minutes, and Historical Audits

Agenda for the July 16, 2015, meeting of the Juvenile Welfare Board. Also included are previous meetings' minutes and documents to review before the meeting.

Arrowpoint Capital Corp V. Arrowpoint Asset Management

2015 Decisions

USDC for the District of Delaware