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Imagining A Better Future: Identifying Cognitive Mechanisms To Improve Prospective Memory, Craig P. Mcfarland

University Grant Program Reports

The aims of this UGP funded project were to 1) to develop a clearer understanding of the mechanisms that support implementation intentions and visual imagery (e.g., heightened awareness to intention-relevant stimuli, strengthened stimulus-intention associations), and 2) to apply that increased understanding of mechanisms to the development of more effective PM (prospective memory) strategies.

Lachman English Help With Hidden Poetry Workshop For Veterans, Nov. 12, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Flight Physician - November, 2015, Civil Aviation Medical Association

Browse all Civil Aviation Medical Association Newsletters

A twenty-one page newsletter of the Civil Aviation Medical Association. The newsletter provided news about civil aviation medicine and information related to the organization.

Recreational Drum Circles For University Students, Robert J. Damm

CoE Publications

No abstract provided.

Reporter - November 2015, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.

Reflections On Academia And Freedom: The Case Of Connecticut College, Spring 2015, Richard Landes, Spencer J. Pack

Invited Lectures, College Conferences, and Symposia

No abstract provided.

Psychology Colloquium | Intersection Between Substance Use And Intimate Partner Violence, Nov. 20, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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The Importance Of Ritual In Helping Heal Veterans Who Suffer With Ptsd/Moral Injury: A Chaplain’S Role In The Body Of The Church, Matthew Prince

Doctor of Ministry Major Applied Project

As an active duty Navy chaplain, endorsed by the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, I wondered where did these purification rites from these societies have their roots. Had some of their ideas come from the purification rituals in the Pentateuch? Did the early or medieval church have any purification rites? Had the early church fathers written concerning this issue?

Economically Relevant Traits And Selection Indices, Matt L. Spangler

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Sire selection should focus on that which is economical. This requires a true accounting of the traits that generate revenue or incur a cost within a specific beef cattle enterprise. Once the drivers of profit have been identified, sire selection should focus on the suite of traits that impact profitability. The use of bio-economic selection indices can dramatically reduce the complexity of multiple trait selection and aid in sire selection towards increased profitability. It is critical to use selection indices that match the intended production system. Using a terminal index in an enterprise that retains replacement heifers would not be …

What's The Value Of Low-Stress Stockmanship From A Feed Yard's Perspective?, Anne Burkholder

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Why Acclimate?

• Teach cattle to recognize that the home pen is where they want to be.
• Teach cattle to walk in straight lines -­‐-­‐ exit the home pen – travel with confidence down the alleyway and into the corral – walk past a handler with some element of trust.
• Cattle gravitate toward the feed bunk and water tank more quickly; thereby going on feed more smoothly.
• Enables safer, more effective handler –animal interactions which increases safety at the feed yard.
• Comfortable Cattle = More efficient feed conversion and higher quality beef.
• Acclimated cattle are easier to handle and make the …

Addressing Campus Sexual Assault Awareness Through Service Learning, Eileen J. Coussens

VA Engage Journal

ABSTRACT

This essay focuses on a Service Learning project which a group of students from my Advanced Composition class at Old Dominion University participated in regarding sexual assault awareness on college campuses. Throughout our class, we learned what Service Learning projects consist of and used what we learned to form our own proposals for projects that would reach from the classroom to the surrounding area to address community issues. We have written about our experiences with this Service Learning project in a reflective essay which acts as our final exam. In doing this, we also have attained our course goals …

Returning To Eden: Toward A Faith-Based Framing Of The Environmental Movement, Chika Okafor

Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )

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Bridgewater Review, Vol. 34, No. 2, November 2015

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

More Than Talent Alone, Jakari Griffith, Colby King

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Communities That Sustain: Legacy Exploration And Preservation Groups. A Presidential Fellow’S Journey, Victoria L. Bacon

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

A Study Of School-Wide Positive Behavior Support And Behavior Intervention Support Teams And Their Impact On Student Behavior In Six Missouri Middle Schools, Cody Guy Hirschi

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to analyze School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) and Behavior Intervention Support Teams (BIST) and their impact on managing student behavior in sample schools in Missouri by using methodological triangulation. Office disciplinary referrals (ODRs) and Safe School Act Violations during the 2012- 2014 school years in the SW-PBS, BIST, and No Model (control group) sample schools were analyzed to determine if there was a significant difference in the numbers of ODRs and Safe School Violations. Teachers from the sample schools were given the opportunity to participate in a survey to gather their perspectives about the …

Failing Ninth-Grade Students In A Missouri School District, And The Comparison To Inadequate Learning Resources, Eric Wayne Ramsey

Dissertations

This study involved a mixed design to generate the perceptions of students and teachers about failing ninth-grade students and the impact of learning resources. The participants in this study were a purposive selection of ninth-grade students and ninth-grade teachers in one Missouri school district. The conceptual framework of this study was based on the premise that ninth-grade students who failed multiple classes also lacked learning resources. The learning resources were categorized into cultural and physical resources. To determine if learning resources had an impact on the ninth-grade students’ academic performance, the perceptions of the failing ninth-grade students were analyzed through …

Academic Practices To Gain And Maintain Student-Teacher Connectedness And Classroom Behavioral Management, Related To Educator Demographics, Leslie Threadgill

Dissertations

Connectedness and classroom management has been defined as the ability to relate to students and keep order and maintain successful relationships with individuals. This qualitative study utilized surveys, questionnaires, interviews, and observations to examine the best practices implemented by educators to develop and maintain connections with students based upon the age, gender, ethnicity, and experience of a studied educator. The research investigated how classroom management positively and/or negatively affected the educator, students, and classroom environment, with respect to connectedness, as evidenced by behaviors such as off-task, aggressive, and non-academically productive behaviors. The research also examined how a teacher’s intonation and …

The Occupational Benefits Of Children Farming, Ellie Edrissi

OCCUPATION: A Medium of Inquiry about Health through Occupation

This paper analyses the positive outcomes of youth responsibilities, routines, autonomy, youth programs and scholarships, cultural identity, educational and life experiences through the occupation of farming during seasonal and/or after school hours. The multidimensional context of children willingly working in the agricultural industry allows positive psychological, economical, and cultural experiences while building a stronger family unity. The occupation of farming allows youth participation with the environment, social skills, inter-generational transfer of skills, and increased confidence for future aspirations as they mature to adulthood.

November 2015 Issue, Occupation: A Medium Of Inquiry For Students, Faculty & Other Practitioners Advocating For Health Through Occupational Studies

OCCUPATION: A Medium of Inquiry about Health through Occupation

No abstract provided.

How Patients Think: Assessing Clinician Competence In University Settings, Jennifer Allen

Spectrum

The past academic year of 2014–2015 I completed an independent research study to observe how patients assess clinician competence within a university setting. The goal of the research was twofold: first, to look at patient-clinician interactions from the patient’s perspective, and second to see if a patient’s past experiences with clinicians have any effect on their current assessment of clinician competence. The study focused on college students at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), Durham campus. In the following paragraphs, I provide a summary of the research project, methodology, and outcomes.

Hiv Knowledge Among Muslim University Women, Subha Singh

Spectrum

While studies have shown that HIV infections are increasing in Muslim countries, especially among the young population (Abu-Moghli et al. 2010), the prevalence of HIV infection among young Muslims in the United States is poorly understood. The United States has a Muslim population of 6.67 million and it is increasing every year. However, the CDC and other public health organizations do not include religious identification as a social category for which to gather statistics on risk behaviors and infection rates. Instead, health organizations disaggregate data on infection rates according to categories such as race, ethnicity, sex, social economic status, and …

Association Of Depression And Life Satisfaction With Low Resilience Among Married Women Of Karachi, Pakistan, Shireen Shehzad, Nida Zahid, Iqbal Azam Syed, Nargis Asad, Rozina Karmaliani Professor, Omrana Pasha

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Background:

The concept of resilience is very crucial in promoting positive psychological well-being. However, this construct was never looked among married women of Karachi, Pakistan. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the prevalence and the associated risk factors of resilience in Pakistan.

Methods:

It was a cross-sectional survey, using the Wagnild Resilience Scale (RS) to assess resilience, Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) for measuring depression and Trait Wellbeing Inventory for determining Life Satisfaction. Systematic sampling was employed to enroll 636 participants of aged 20 to 40 years living in two urban squatter settlements of Karachi, Pakistan. Prevalence ratio was computed …

Transcendence In The Animal: Guantanamo's Regime Of Indefinite Detention And The Open In The Cage, Joseph Pugliese

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Elmar Holenstein: Portrait Of A Swiss Philosopher

Swiss American Historical Society Review

From 1964 to 1972 El mar Holenstein, born 7 January 193 7 in Gossau, Canton St. Gallen, studied philosophy, psychology, and linguistics at the universities of Louvain/Leuven, Heidelberg, and Zurich. His Ph.D. dissertation dealt with the phenomenology of the pre- and non-conceptual human experience as explored by Edward Husserl (1859-1938), the German founder of the phenomenological movement in philosophy. Holenstein gained professorial status (habilitation) by a book on the phenomenological structuralism of Roman Jakobson.

The Concept Of Missing Incidents In Persons With Dementia, Meredeth Rowe, Amy M. Houston, Victor A. Molinari, Tatjana Bulat, Mary E. Bowen, Heather Spring, Sandra Mutolo, Barbara Mckenzie

Nursing Faculty Publications

Behavioral symptoms of dementia often present the greatest challenge for informal caregivers. One behavior, that is a constant concern for caregivers, is the person with dementia leaving a designated area such that their whereabouts become unknown to the caregiver or a missing incident. Based on an extensive literature review and published findings of their own research, members of the International Consortium on Wandering and Missing Incidents constructed a preliminary missing incidents model. Examining the evidence base, specific factors within each category of the model were further described, reviewed and modified until consensus was reached regarding the final model. The model …

Teachers’ Provision Of Written Formative Feedback To Enhance Learning In A Secondary School: The Case Of An English Classroom In Uganda., Bagonza Justine

Master of Education

In the Ugandan education system, usually formative assessment and written formative feedback are synonymous with tests and examinations. As a result teachers tend to emphasize high grades and scores instead of the learners‟ learning. This study aimed at exploring the teachers‟ provision of written feedback on the learners‟ work in a senior one English language classroom in a secondary school in Eastern Uganda. Particularly the study considered the teachers‟ views about written feedback, how the written feedback the teachers provide on the learners‟ work enhances learning and the challenges that are faced by both the teachers and the learners during …

Promoting Public Health In The Context Of The “Obesity Epidemic”: False Starts And Promising New Directions, T. Mann, A. J. Tomiyama, Andrew Ward

Psychology Faculty Works

In the battle to combat obesity rates in the United States, several misconceptions have dominated policy initiatives. We address those misconceptions, including the notion that restrictive diets lead to long-term weight loss, that stigmatizing obesity is an effective strategy for promoting weight reduction, and that weight and physical health should be considered synonymous with one another. In offering correctives to each of these points, we draw on psychological science to suggest new policies that could be enacted at both the local and national levels. Instead of policies that rely solely on individual willpower, which is susceptible to failure, we recommend …

Book Review: Minds Online: Teaching Effectively With Technology, Yvonne Mulhern

LOEX Quarterly

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Pre-School Teachers’ Perceptions Of Children’S Prior Knowledge And Its Practice In Teaching And Learning: A Comparative Case Study Of 2 Pre-Schools In Dar Es Salaam, Natasha Kassam

Master of Education

Research has pointed out the importance of connections between new learning and children’s existing experiences, whereby through these connections children are better able to relate to concepts and enhance deeper, meaningful and lasting learning outcomes. It has also been shown that teachers’ are key facilitators in the school domain with regard to both practices and events that ultimately has an impact on students learning. In line with these propositions this study investigated pre-school teacher’s perceptions of children’s prior knowledge and its practice in Teaching and learning which compared a public and private pre- school in urban Dar es Salaam. It …