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Adoption Of Perioperative Lidocaine Infusion For The Reduction Of Postoperative Pain, Brandon Scott Figueiredo Dec 2016

Adoption Of Perioperative Lidocaine Infusion For The Reduction Of Postoperative Pain, Brandon Scott Figueiredo

Doctoral Projects

Laparoscopic capability provides numerous benefits to patients requiring abdominal surgical procedures. However, the use of these techniques has presented the anesthesia provider with a unique set of challenges in terms of perioperative management and postoperative pain reduction. No standardized method has existed to reduce postoperative pain and improve recovery following these procedures. There were three primary goals of this project. The first goal was to conduct a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials to determine the benefit of the use of intravenous lidocaine infusions to reduce postoperative pain in laparoscopic abdominal surgery. Twelve articles were included in the meta-analysis that pertained …

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Social Capital Made Visible: A Case Study Of Professional Learning Communities In Early Care And Education, Wendy Bickford Allen Dec 2016

Social Capital Made Visible: A Case Study Of Professional Learning Communities In Early Care And Education, Wendy Bickford Allen

Dissertations

Early care and education (ECE) services are necessary for a society because of a variety of ethical, economic, and developmental reasons. A well-developed field of practice is needed to ensure young children have access to high quality care and education settings. To promote a thriving profession, many are calling for the field of early care and education to increase the human capital, or the knowledge and skills gained through higher education and professional development, of those that work directly with young children and families. However, there exists a somewhat narrow theoretical basis for current professional development practices, particularly forms of …

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An Evaluation Of Making Action Plans: The Effects On Parent Involvement In Individualized Education Program Meetings, Lauren P. Hangge Dec 2016

An Evaluation Of Making Action Plans: The Effects On Parent Involvement In Individualized Education Program Meetings, Lauren P. Hangge

Dissertations

Over the course of extensive research, researchers have acknowledged the positive effects of parent involvement on student’s education, including positive academic and social emotional outcomes. Despite this, particularly for parents of students in special education, parents continue to be passive participants in their students Individualized Education Program meetings, and hold negative perceptions of IEP meetings, which negatively effects parent involvement. This study investigated the effects of a Making Action Plans (MAPS) meeting on parent involvement in an IEP meeting, using a non-experimental design, and qualitative analysis and multiple linear regressions to analyze research questions. Although some positive effects were noted, …

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Field Crops Newsletter - December 2016, Ernest Ernie Flint Jr. Dec 2016

Field Crops Newsletter - December 2016, Ernest Ernie Flint Jr.

Ernie Flint - Mississippi State Extension Reports

Flint's field crops newsletter about the results of a variety of demonstrations and testing trials, on cotton, corn, soybeans, peanuts, and soil management, that he has done this year. This document contains many graphs.

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2016 December - Veteran's Voice Newsletter, Office Of Military And Veteran's Services, East Tennessee State University Dec 2016

2016 December - Veteran's Voice Newsletter, Office Of Military And Veteran's Services, East Tennessee State University

Veteran's Voice Newsletter [2016-2017]

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Field Crops Newsletter - December 2016, Ernest "Ernie" Flint Jr. Dec 2016

Field Crops Newsletter - December 2016, Ernest "Ernie" Flint Jr.

Ernie Flint - Mississippi State Extension Reports

Flint's field crops newsletter about the results of a variety of demonstrations and testing trials, on cotton, corn, soybeans, peanuts, and soil management, that he has done this year. This document contains many graphs.

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The Effectiveness Of Animal Assisted Activity And Animal Assisted Therapy In Reducing Symptoms Of Depression, Alexis J. Hauser Dec 2016

The Effectiveness Of Animal Assisted Activity And Animal Assisted Therapy In Reducing Symptoms Of Depression, Alexis J. Hauser

Counselor Education Capstones

This paper reviews the use of Animal Assisted Activity (AAA) and Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) to effectively treat individuals experiencing symptoms of depression. This paper discusses the symptoms of depression, the process and techniques of AAA and AAT, and the effectiveness of AAA and AAT in reducing depressive symptoms. It also describes the differences between AAA and AAT and how these techniques can be used individually or in combination with more traditional forms of treatment for depression. An extensive review of literature is provided in this paper with the final section discussing limitations of research and suggestions for future research …

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Clemson Commencement Program, December 2016, Clemson University Dec 2016

Clemson Commencement Program, December 2016, Clemson University

Clemson Commencement Programs

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Using Erp Reflective Language And Relationship Based Practice Principles To Address Post-Election Anxiety In Young Children, Lesley Koplow Dec 2016

Using Erp Reflective Language And Relationship Based Practice Principles To Address Post-Election Anxiety In Young Children, Lesley Koplow

All Faculty and Staff Papers and Presentations

Helps teachers think about how they can ease anxiety in young children worried about what they have seen and heard during and after the presidential election.

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Marketing Channel Attitudes Of Chinese Business-To-Business Companies: An Empirical Buyer Behavior Study For U.S. Companies Marketing To Chinese B2b Customers, Jonathan Cooley Dec 2016

Marketing Channel Attitudes Of Chinese Business-To-Business Companies: An Empirical Buyer Behavior Study For U.S. Companies Marketing To Chinese B2b Customers, Jonathan Cooley

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Attracted by the large, growing domestic economy in China, many U.S. companies have decided to enter China providing products and services in the business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) markets. Combined with traditional marketing channels, Internet marketing is rapidly evolving and becoming a critical strategic element in the marketing department’s tool chest. While much is written about B2C markets and consumer preferences, little of the literature addresses the B2B Chinese customers’ attitudes toward the disparate array of traditional and Internet marketing approaches. Even less addresses Chinese B2B purchasing agents’ receptivity to Western companies soliciting them as new customers. This research compares …

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Part Of This World: A Personal Exploration Of Media And Queer Identity, Emilee Harrison Dec 2016

Part Of This World: A Personal Exploration Of Media And Queer Identity, Emilee Harrison

Dissertations, Masters Theses, Capstones, and Culminating Projects

This paper is a mix of research and personal narrative exploring the impact of television, film, and online media on identity formation. I look specifically at my own identity as a queer person and how it has been shaped by what I have seen and experienced as a young queer and as an educator. Topics discussed include homophobia in the classroom and workplace, the impact of social media on youth development and identity formation, and our changing culture as queer visibility increases. This piece is primarily a personal reflection that runs from early childhood to adulthood. It addresses social interactions …

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Psychology Colloquium | Daily Positive Experiences And Health Biobehavioral Pathways And Resilience To Stress, Dec. 2, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences Dec 2016

Psychology Colloquium | Daily Positive Experiences And Health Biobehavioral Pathways And Resilience To Stress, Dec. 2, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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A Different Approach To Project Management: The Use Of Soft Skills, Hannah Adams Dec 2016

A Different Approach To Project Management: The Use Of Soft Skills, Hannah Adams

Dissertations and Theses

The term soft skills is traditionally used to describe interpersonal and subjective skills such as leadership, communication, and emotional intelligence. This paper addresses a further explanation of soft skills, their relation to project management, project management education, and the highlighted differences between a transactional leader and a transformational leader. Project management has often been defined as the making of schedules/tasks; but more importantly providing the inspiration, motivation, and facilitator of great minds to produce innovative ideas. Because of the sheer necessity for human interaction within the project management profession, soft skills are of crucial concern. Although mastering soft skills is …

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Spring Awakening (2016), Steven Sater Dec 2016

Spring Awakening (2016), Steven Sater

Season 2016-2017

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Eugenics In Buenos Aires: Discourses, Practices, And Historiography, Diego Armus Dec 2016

Eugenics In Buenos Aires: Discourses, Practices, And Historiography, Diego Armus

History Faculty Works

Since the early 1990s, a series of studies underscored the overwhelming presence of positive eugenics in modern Argentina. These works emphasized the marginal role which discourse on eugenics took on violent methods for selection. In recent years, this point of view has shifted, emphasizing the conceptual viscosity of eugenics as well as the presence of negative eugenic discourses. This paper discusses these historiographic trends, and also dwells on the narratives that those perspectives articulated in relation to the question of sterilization and regulation of marriage of those who had tuberculosis in Buenos Aires during the first half of the twentieth …

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167th Commencement, Fall Dec 2016

167th Commencement, Fall

Commencement Programs

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The Case Against Free Speech, Brian Leiter Dec 2016

The Case Against Free Speech, Brian Leiter

Articles

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Mavroomie: An End-To-End Architecture For Finding Compatible Roommates Based On User Preferences, Vijendra Bhogadi Dec 2016

Mavroomie: An End-To-End Architecture For Finding Compatible Roommates Based On User Preferences, Vijendra Bhogadi

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Team Formation is widely studied in literature as a method for forming teams or groups under certain constraints. However, very few works address the aspect of collaboration while forming groups under certain constraints. Motivated by the collaborative team formation, we try to extend the problem of team formation to a general problem in the real world scenario of finding compatible roommates to share a place. There are numerous applications like “roommates.com" ,”roomiematch.com" , “Roomi” which try to find roommates based on geographical and cost factors and ignore the important human factors which can play a substantial role in finding a …

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Remote Patient Monitoring Using Health Bands With Activity Level Prescription, Pranay Shirolkar Dec 2016

Remote Patient Monitoring Using Health Bands With Activity Level Prescription, Pranay Shirolkar

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

With the advent of new commercially available consumer grade fitness and health devices, it is now possible and very common for users to obtain, store, share and learn about some of their important physiological metrics such as steps taken, heart rate, quality of sleep and skin temperature. For devices with this wearable technology, it is common to find these sensors embedded in a smart watch, or dedicated wearable wrist bands such that among other functionalities of a wearable device, it is capable of smartly assisting users about their activity levels by leveraging the fact that these devices can be, and …

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Learning Perception To Action Mapping For Functional Imitation, Bhupender Singh Dec 2016

Learning Perception To Action Mapping For Functional Imitation, Bhupender Singh

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Imitation leaning is the learning of advanced behavior whereby an agent acquires a skill by observing another's behavior while performing the same skill. The main objective of imitation learning is to make robots usable for a variety of tasks without programming them but by simply demonstrating new tasks. The power of this approach arises since end users of such robots will frequently not know how to program the robot, might not understand the dynamics and behavioral capabilities of the system, and might not know how to program these robots to get different/new tasks done. Some challenges in achieving imitation capabilities …

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Improving Memorization And Long Term Recall Of System Assigned Passwords, Jayesh Doolani Dec 2016

Improving Memorization And Long Term Recall Of System Assigned Passwords, Jayesh Doolani

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Systems assigned password have guaranteed robustness against guessing attacks, but they are hard to memorize. To make system assigned passwords more usable, it is of prime importance that systems that assign random password also assist users with memorization and recall. In this work, we have designed a novel technique that employs rote memorization inform of an engaging game, which is played during the account registration process. Based on prior work on chunking, we break a password into three equal chunks, and then the game helps plant those chunks in memory. We present the findings of 17 participant user-study, where we …

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Towards Artificial Proprioception In The Mandibular Full Arch Fixed Implant Prosthesis, Md Abu Hasan Dec 2016

Towards Artificial Proprioception In The Mandibular Full Arch Fixed Implant Prosthesis, Md Abu Hasan

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Full arch fixed implant prosthesis has been one of the most effective treatment modalities for fully edentulous patients over the last few decades. However, due to lack of proprioception occlusal overload is experienced by the prosthesis and its components causing major biomechanical complications such as screw/abutment fracture, framework fracture, and bone loss. The currently available approaches for the overload management rely on external appliances such as an occlusal splint or bite guard and result in occlusal discomfort and high patient dissatisfaction. In this research, an approach to induce artificial proprioception in the full arch fixed implant prosthesis is proposed. However, …

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Remote Patient Monitoring Using Health Bands With Activity Level Prescription, Pranay Shirolkar Dec 2016

Remote Patient Monitoring Using Health Bands With Activity Level Prescription, Pranay Shirolkar

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses - Archive

With the advent of new commercially available consumer grade fitness and health devices, it is now possible and very common for users to obtain, store, share and learn about some of their important physiological metrics such as steps taken, heart rate, quality of sleep and skin temperature. For devices with this wearable technology, it is common to find these sensors embedded in a smart watch, or dedicated wearable wrist bands such that among other functionalities of a wearable device, it is capable of smartly assisting users about their activity levels by leveraging the fact that these devices can be, and …

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An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Supervision And Job Satisfaction Factors Among Residence Directors And Resident Assistants, Stephen A. Berg Dec 2016

An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Supervision And Job Satisfaction Factors Among Residence Directors And Resident Assistants, Stephen A. Berg

Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations - Archive

Supervising Resident Assistants (RAs) on college campuses is one of the most critical roles of housing staff members. The RA position is difficult based on the number of responsibilities the job requires; it is filled with multiple stressors, such as role ambiguity and role conflict. Supervision is a critical skill for student affairs professionals to possess yet there remains little research on the supervision of RAs. In this study, the relationship between perceived levels of synergistic supervision, training, and job satisfaction factors was examined among residence directors (RDs) and RAs. The researcher sought to fill this gap the in the …

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Examining The Social Effects Of Community-Based Mentoring On At-Risk Adolescent Girls, Nina L. Price Dec 2016

Examining The Social Effects Of Community-Based Mentoring On At-Risk Adolescent Girls, Nina L. Price

Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations - Archive

The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study is to examine which strategies of mentoring, if any, have a positive impact on adolescent girls who engage in potentially at-risk social behaviors, which may negatively affect their self-esteem academic performance. The female students who participated in this study attend a large high school in Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, are between the ages of 15 and 18, and are mentored by volunteers of The TurnAround Agenda Outreach Center. The study is informed by two theroretical frameworks which seeks to guide a study of human interactions: social learning theory (Bandura,1997) and attachment theory (Bowlby, 1980). …

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Gender Behavior Types, Teacher-Student Interactions, And Mathematics Performance: An Empirical Analysis Of Texas High School Students, Sheila Gayle Fleming Dec 2016

Gender Behavior Types, Teacher-Student Interactions, And Mathematics Performance: An Empirical Analysis Of Texas High School Students, Sheila Gayle Fleming

Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations - Archive

The purpose of this study was to explore the gender behavior types for both female and male high school students. Using the gender behavior types as a lens, the study examined the existence of any differences in teacher-student interactions and mathematics performance by gender behavior type, and investigated factors that predict students’ mathematics performance A survey was used to collect data concerning student self-concepts, student perceptions of teacher-student interactions, background characteristics, and course enrollment. The sample was drawn from high school students at a North Texas High School enrolled in Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2 during Spring 2015. The …

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Origins And Maintenance Of Diversity In A Vertebrate Parthenogen, Alex Scott Hall Dec 2016

Origins And Maintenance Of Diversity In A Vertebrate Parthenogen, Alex Scott Hall

Biology Dissertations - Archive

Clonal lineages are expected to experience a decline in fitness over time due to their inability to decouple deleterious and beneficial alleles. Individually, however, asexual populations pass twice as much of their DNA per generation as sexual lineages. This balancing act between Muller's Ratchet and the lack of the two-fold cost of sex in asexuals brings significant scientific intrigue to instances of asexual populations. Among vertebrates, squamates (and mainly lizards) are uniquely capable of true parthenogenesis whereby females reproduce without males. These lineages are always hybrid, as is the case with parthenogenetic Aspidoscelis lizards (Teiidae). In particular, the checkered whiptail …

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Navigating Women's Cultural Representation Through Video Games In The Obama Era, Mark Stephen Reeder Dec 2016

Navigating Women's Cultural Representation Through Video Games In The Obama Era, Mark Stephen Reeder

English Theses - Archive

While the representations of women in video games have remained disappointingly negative since the 1980s, America’s political shift from the presidencies of George W. Bush to Barack Obama in 2007 had important cultural implications, particularly impacting the representation of women in popular culture. This thesis will examine the cultural depictions of women from 2002-2011, providing a particular focus on the unique cultural factors prevalent during this time period—including the expansion of pornography, a conservative cultural backlash to Obama, and the rapid deterioration of ‘political correctness’—that impacted how images of women in video games were received. Analyzing the cultural atmosphere of …

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The World In The Screen: How The Mobile Device Symbolizes Technogenesis, Joel Mathew Morrow Dec 2016

The World In The Screen: How The Mobile Device Symbolizes Technogenesis, Joel Mathew Morrow

English Theses - Archive

The smart phone, or mobile device, holds a preeminent role in a technologically advanced society. These devices allow for connection, productivity, and distraction, and in doing so create new anxieties and underscore old ones. By tracing the provenance of this artifact, we see how our relationship with mobile devices amplifies our relationship with technology as a whole. This thesis examines the development of the mobile device from the viewpoints of social constructivism and technogenesis to illustrate how our increasing intimacy with these devices is part of a long-standing pattern of co-evolution between humans and the technologies they create.

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Student Voice: Perceptions Of Teacher Expectations Among First And Second Generation Vietnamese And Mexican Students, Sara Gandarilla Dec 2016

Student Voice: Perceptions Of Teacher Expectations Among First And Second Generation Vietnamese And Mexican Students, Sara Gandarilla

Doctor of Education (EdD)

This qualitative research study explored the perceptions first and second generation Vietnamese and Mexican high school students hold on teacher expectations based on their racial identity. Specifically, this study explores the critical concepts of stereotype threat, halo effect, and self-fulfilling prophecy. The primary purpose of this investigation was to enhance the understanding of how the perception students have impacts success or lack of success for two different student groups. This study utilizes interviews with student focus groups to examine student perceptions of teacher expectations among Vietnamese and Mexican students and its impact on student academic performance, the general nature of …

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