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Exploration Of Malnutrition Coding Practices At Nebraska Medicine, Frances C. Becker

Theses & Dissertations

Background: Malnutrition is present in 25-50% of hospitalized patients. Patients identified as malnourished are assigned a code based on the type and severity of malnutrition in order to gain the necessary reimbursement to care for the patients. There is a current gap in the research regarding the characteristics that define the difference between malnourished patients classified with a major complications and comorbidities (MCC) code versus a complications and comorbidities (CC) code.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine which malnutrition codes are being used at Nebraska Medicine. Additionally, this study obtained clinical factors that are associated with malnutrition …

Bending And Binding: What Builds And Bounds The Ashtanga Yoga Community, Rosealie P. Lynch

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

This thesis is an examination of how Ashtanga practitioners engage one another over issues of authority and community boundaries as they define and defend their commitment to a shared tradition. My analysis is grounded in ethnographic research from interviews with 10 Ashtanga yoga practitioners and in multi-sited participant observation conducted in Mysore, India at the Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute (KPJAYI) and in various Ashtanga yoga practice settings in northwestern Virginia, U.S.A. In each chapter, I draw on practitioners’ practice narratives to analyze the relationship of an individual practitioner to her community and the importance of membership in …

Global Gains, Local Costs? Evaluating The Nexus Of Industrial Agriculture, Conservation Science, And Rural Livelihoods In The African Tropics, Rachel E. Palkovitz

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

Industrial agriculture and protected areas for biodiversity conservation are two major drivers of land use policy in the African tropics, with consequences for both biodiversity and rural human populations. In Tanzania, conservation and development have led to the marginalization of pastoralists, including and especially rural Maasai. I examine how local perceptions of land use and livelihoods are influenced by recent and historical expansion of protected areas and large-scale industrial crop plantations in Longido, northern Tanzania. Using the framework of political ecology, I situate the emergence of industrial agriculture, especially that of palm oil, and protected areas in the African tropics …

Using Residential Location To Assess The Environmental Value-Action Gap Of Students At James Madison University, Emma Rose Martin

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

This study focuses on the environmental Value-Action Gap of students at James Madison University (JMU) in Harrisonburg, Virginia. This gap occurs when a person has pro-environmental beliefs but does not have congruent actions. Often, there are other factors apart from a person’s values that influence his/her willingness to participate in eco-friendly behavior (Howell 2013). For this study, the factor of influence being addressed is location. When students live on-campus at JMU they are surrounded by ‘green’ initiatives. Understanding the diffusion of environmental behavior from on-campus living to off-campus living is important because the majority of a JMU student’s residency is …

Perceptions Of Safety In Urban Spaces: The Fan District, Richmond, Va, Lindy C. Westenhoff

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

This project identifies and spatially analyzes environmental factors that influence the perception of safety in populations of women within Richmond’s LGBT community. The project was conceived due to increasing calls for awareness about street harassment. Its purpose is to examine what physical factors, at the street level, increase or decrease feelings of safety or discomfort for women within this community.

In the first part of the project, survey data was collected from volunteer participants, members of either Diversity Richmond, downtown Richmond’s local LGBT resource center, or Madison Equality, the LGBT student organization at James Madison University. Using blank paper maps …

School Of Law Commencement: May 7, 2016, University Of North Dakota

UND Commencement Programs

School of Law Commencement program from May 7, 2016.

An Inventory Of Terrestrial Vertebrates In Aldesa Valley And Estimating Factors That Affect Avian Species Richness And Occurrence, Abdulaziz Subhi Alatawi

Theses and Dissertations

Conducting species inventories is important to provide baseline information essential for management and conservation. Furthermore, understanding the effects of anthropogenic and environmental factors on species richness and occurrence are crucial to conserve species. Aldesa Valley lies in the Tabuk Region of Saudi Arabia, and because of the presence of permanent water and vegetation, is thought to contain high biodiversity. I estimated avian species richness and occurrence in Aldesa Valley during May 10–August 10 in 2014 and 2015 to detect bird species richness and occurrence. I used generalized linear models and occupancy models for six commonly detected bird species. I recorded …

U.S. Population Change: The Roles Of Amenities And Transportation, Xuan Zhou

Theses and Dissertations

Studying the spatial distribution and redistribution of population has long been a major concern of demography, because population changes can reflect deep and massive social changes. For decades, the major population change was the moving of people from rural to urban regions. However, with the advancement of transportation and information technology, many new regions have become more attractive to people, such as small and new metropolitan, nonmetropolitan, suburban, and rural areas. Traditional migration and population redistribution studies emphasize economic and social factors. Relatively little attention is paid to how natural amenities and transportation affect changes of population size and net …

A Comparison Of Mixed Integer Programming And A Heuristic Approach For Harvest Blocking In Australia, Ronald Gordon Taylor

Theses and Dissertations

The goal of harvest scheduling is to produce a practical operations schedule that can be implemented in the field by operational foresters and maximizes all values. The resulting harvest units need to represent a close approximation to what will be done operationally and while emulating natural disturbance regimes and topographic boundaries. using flow direction surfaces. Two methods of meeting spatially acceptable harvest units through a heuristic algorithm and a mixed integer programming method. A factor analysis was conducted on both to determine the statistical significance between 3 forest characterizations and mean financial and shape index indicators. Mixed integer programming had …

Administrator Perceptions Of The Community College Mission In The State Of Mississippi And How It May Be Influenced By The Addition Of Community College Baccalaureate Programs, Scharvin S. Grizzell

Theses and Dissertations

For many years, community colleges that chose to offer community college baccalaureate (CCB) programs were looked upon in a negative light (Rice, 2015). However, as the need for specialized baccalaureates within specific fields and job markets have continued to grow (McKee, 2005), CCB programs are becoming more widely accepted throughout the United States. In spite of this paradigm shift, Mississippi is one of the remaining states that have not embraced the idea of CCB programs, in spite of its statistical deficiency in regards to baccalaureate degree holding citizens (Williams, 2010). The focus of this study was to explore the perceptions …

The Effect Of Hose Type And Cleanout Procedure On Crop Injury Due To Herbicide Residues, Gary Thomas Cundiff

Theses and Dissertations

Field and greenhouse experiments were conducted to determine the effect of auxin injury on soybean and cotton due to spray hose material, formulation and cleanout procedures on auxin equipment cleanout. Visual estimations of injury (VEOI) in wheat, height reduction, and yield reduction due to rimsulfuron and glyphosate titration was higher when compared to rimsulfuron only treatments with respect to 1/2X through the 1/256X treatments. Sequestration of 2,4-D within agricultural hose types did differ due to hose type and is confirmed by analytical testing, but field observation of wheat did not show differences among treatments due to VEOI, height reduction or …

Emergency Shelter Resource Allocation And Location Analysis, Brett T. Decker

Master's Theses

This study formulates a mixed-integer facility location model to optimize emergency shelter location and resource allocation based on a set of existing candidate shelters. This model minimizes network access time between an affected census block and a potential emergency shelter, the operating costs of a shelter as a function of shelter capacity, and the cost of not accommodating all evacuees with emergency shelter capacity at the planning stage. This study consists of two parts, one conducting a sensitivity analysis for model parameters and executing the model for a worst case scenario and the second part expanding the model to include …

Memories And Temporalities Of Revolution: Shalini Puri's The Grenada Revolution In The Caribbean Present And David Scott's Omens Of Adversity, Laurie R. Lambert

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

Review of Shalini Puri, The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory and David Scott, Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice.

Recovering The Afro-Metropolis Before Windrush, Christian John Høgsbjerg

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

Review of Marc Matera, Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century, a wide-ranging historical overview of the small but significant African and Afro-Caribbean presence in London from the 1920s to the 1940s.

Locating Black Radical Thought, Leslie E. James

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

Review of Minkah Makalani, In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939.

The Empathy Project: Using A Project-Based Learning Assignment To Increase First-Year College Students’ Comfort With Interdisciplinarity, Micol Hutchison

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning

Empathy and interdisciplinarity are both concepts that are current and relevant—across professions, in research, and in academia. This paper describes a large, interdisciplinary, project-based assignment, the Empathy Project, which allows students to delve into and increase comfort and skill with interdisciplinary thinking and collaborative learning, while improving the core college skills of written and oral communication, ethical and quantitative reasoning, and critical thinking. As I revised the assignment based on student feedback and results, I found that group conferences and time in class to work collaboratively were beneficial. Additionally, building increased scaffolding into the assignment, including greater student and group …

Cultural Preservation Of Ethnomedicine In Peru, Lorena Álvarez, Kiana J. Ringuette, Sandra García-Hernández, Thomas Love, Marisa Alvarez, Javier Blanco, Shant Tamazian, Douglas Sharon

Linfield University Student Symposium: A Celebration of Scholarship and Creative Achievement

In conjunction with the Minority Health & Health Disparities International Research Training program at San Diego State University, three Linfield students contributed to the ongoing Peru Ethnomedical Project in Trujillo, Peru by:

1. Conducting surveys in two neighborhoods on the edge of the city;
2. Creating a medicinal plant garden in the Chan Chan archaeological site museum.

Surveys conducted in Moche, Trujillo were part of a larger study supervised by anthropologists Douglas Sharon and Thomas Love. The research aims to evaluate the usage of medicinal plants in rural and urban Peruvian communities. Linfield’s contribution focused on the creation of the medicinal garden …

Earthquake Impact Mitigation Plan, Arpana Maharjan

Master of Technology Management Plan II Graduate Projects

Earthquakes are considered as one of the most dangerous, destructive, and unpredictable natural disasters. Throughout the centuries, millions of people and thousands of structures have perished in earthquakes all over the world. Nepal is the 11th most earthquake prone country and has a history of devastating earthquakes as it falls within high seismic region. The geological structure and presence of active tectonic plates are the main reason behind occurrence of earthquakes. However, the impact of earthquakes in the capital city Kathmandu has continued to grow due; population growth, high rate of unplanned urbanization, use of inappropriate design in the construction …

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Health, May 6, 2016, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

President's Fellow Medallion - Ernest P. Boger II; Honorary Degree of Engineering - Trustee John Ramil; Honorary Doctor of Education - Jamie Merisotis; Outstanding Graduate - Vanisaben Patel; King O'Neal Scholars - Sophie Allen, Patrick Bagge, Joanne Ballard, Zein Barakat, Phuong Can, Jordan Carbono, Emily Hansel, Klya Hoffer, Kyle Hollis, Morgan Macey, Ahmed Mohamed, Catherine Nguyen, Priyanshi Patel, Anne Pucciarelli, Cynthia Schwartz, Vyshakh Shibu, Daniel Sirmons, Mckinzie Step, Heather Stewart, Kristina Vorndran, and Kelly Wise

Wave And Tidal Energy In New York: Sustainable Hydroelectricity For The Grid, Lucas Basil Romanowsky

Student Theses 2015-Present

As humanity continues to exceed the ecological carrying capacity of the earth in its use of nonrenewable energy sources, it is imperative to find and shift to alternative renewable energy sources that can sustain human civilization. The ocean based phenomenon of tides, current, and waves are a way in which that source of energy can be obtained and broadened for human consumption. Oceanic energy can serve not only as a means to provide cleaner energy, but also improve the economy and the land based environment. The natural sciences and social sciences are examined within the quantitative data present. The natural …

Sme Internationalization In Emerging Markets: Symbiotic Vs. Commensal Pathways, Andrey Mikhailitchenko, Sanjay Varshney

Journal of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in Emerging Markets

Purpose - The purpose of this research is to develop, test, and validate the symbiotic networking concept of SMEs internationalization pathways. Design/Methodology/Approach - Survey data were collected from managers/owners of SMEs operating in the textile industry in China and Russia. The applied data analysis technique employed is structural equation modeling. The survey was pretested to address reliability, validity, and cross-cultural stability issues. Findings - The symbiotic networking relationships in SMEs were shown to be positively related to their degree of internationalization. The relationship between networking and internationalization is significantly stronger in the conditions of high rather than low environmental turbulence. …

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Baccalaureates, May 6, 2016, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Honorary Doctor of Pharmacy - James Martinez; King O'Neal Scholar - Kyla Hoffer

Illinois State University, One Hundred And Fifty-Seventh Annual Commencement, May 6, 2016, Illinois State University

Commencement Programs

Illinois State University
One Hundred and Fifty-Seventh Annual Commencement
May 6 and 7, 2016

The Lewis And Clark Journey: Burning Bridges And Building Empires, Sean T. Ferguson (Class Of 2016)

History Undergraduate Publications

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the expedition of Lewis and Clark from 1804 to 1806 as they crossed the territory of Louisiana. Their journey has become one of the most important symbols of American history and its memory has been far reaching. More specifically, this paper aims to examine more closely the interactions that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark had with the Native Americans. Thomas Jefferson had an extensive list of requests and instructions for the two explorers. While this paper will not analyze all of Jefferson’s requests, there are two that will be featured in this …

Role Of Multiple High-Capacity Irrigation Wells On A Surficial Sand And Gravel Aquifer, Logan C. Seipel, Eric W. Peterson, David H. Malone, Jason F. Thomason

Faculty Publications - Geography, Geology, and the Environment

Within McHenry County, IL, the fastest growing county in Illinois, groundwater is used for 100% of the water needs. Concerns over water resources have prompted the investigation of the surficial sand and gravel aquifers of the county. While the eastern portion of the county is urbanizing, the western portion remains devoted to agriculture. High-capacity irrigation wells screened within the surficial sand and gravel aquifer are used for crop production. To assess the impacts of the irrigation wells on the aquifer, a groundwater flow model was developed to examine five different scenarios reflecting drought conditions and increased pumping. Results show that …

Lessons From Rebuild By Design, Tara Eisenberg

May 6, 2016: Planning for Resilience in Hampton Roads

No abstract provided.

Orthophosphate-P In The Nutrient Impacted River Taw And Its Catchment (Sw England) Between 1990 And 2013., Alan D. Tappin, Sean Comber, Paul J. Worsfold

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Excess dissolved phosphorus (as orthophosphate-P) contributes to reduced river water quality within Europe and elsewhere. This study reports results from analysis of a 23 year (1990-2013) water quality dataset for orthophosphate-P in the rural Taw catchment (SW England). Orthophosphate-P and river flow relationships and temporal variations in orthophosphate-P concentrations indicate the significant contribution of sewage (across the catchment) and industrial effluent (upper R. Taw) to orthophosphate-P concentrations (up to 96%), particularly during the low flow summer months when maximum algal growth occurs. In contrast, concentrations of orthophosphate-P from diffuse sources within the catchment were more important (>80%) at highest …

Washington And Lee Legal Scholarship, Inaugural Edition, The Law Library At Washington And Lee University School Of Law

Washington and Lee Legal Scholarship (WaLLS) Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Graduating Senior Named 2016 American Humanity In Action Fellow, Macalester College

College Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Stonewall On The Potomac: Gay Political Activism In Washington, Dc, 1961-1973, Peter Bonds

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

The first organized demonstration on behalf of gay rights in the United States occurred in front of the White House on April 16, 1965. Six years later, Dr. Franklin E. Kameny became the first openly gay American to run for a seat in the United States Congress when he launched his campaign to become Washington’s delegate to the House of Representatives in February 1971. The following year, Washington’s school board voted to include sexual orientation alongside gender and race as a protected category in its non-discrimination employment policy. This victory for gay Washingtonians was expanded on in 1973, when Washington’s …