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Improving Oral Care Practices And Aspiration Risk Assessment To Mitigate Risk Of Hospital Acquired Pneumnia, Jeniffer Baker

Master's Projects and Capstones

Abstract

The aim of Improving Oral Care Practices and Aspiration Risk Assessment to Mitigate Risk of Hospital Acquired Pneumonia is to decrease rates of hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP) on a 16 bed Transitional Care Unit (TCU) with a mixed skill staff. The theme of the project is risk reduction with improved patient outcomes and cost reduction as reasons for implementation. Fourteen cases of HAP were reported in the last 5 quarters which accounts for 48% of all in-patient acquired infections. Through policy development, standardization of oral care technique, and improved risk factor assessment, the project goal is to decrease rates …

Prevention Of Childhood Obesity And Diabetes, Karen Carig

Master's Projects and Capstones

One of the public health concerns that have been on the rise is childhood obesity and diabetes. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey indicate that approximately one-third of children in the United States are overweight or obese with 17% meeting criteria for obesity (Pulgaron and Delamater, 2014). This crisis exists nationally and internationally which can effect children in the following ways: physically, socially, psychologically and mentally. Although, genetics also play a role in these diseases, environmental factors, lifestyle preferences and cultural environmental play have a major influence. My internship with the Food Education Project covers a better understanding to …

Penggunaan Air Olahan Limbah Kantin Hasil Perendaman Batang Pisang Dan Ampas Teh Untuk Pertumbuhan Tanaman Mangkokan Dan Puring, Serta Peningkatan Mutu Air Olahan Dengan Elektrokimia Termediasi, Christi L. Natanael, Yati B. Yuliyati

Chimica et Natura Acta

Pertumbuhan tanaman mangkokan dan puring dalam media air olahan limbah salah satu kantin di lingkungan kampus Jatinangor menunjukkan hasil yang lebih baik bila dibandingkan dalam media air limbah kantin yang tanpa diolah terlebih dulu. Hal ini dapat dilihat dari tumbuhnya akar dan pucuk daun baru.Pengolahan pendahuluan dilakukan dengan memasukkan irisan batang pisang dalam air limbah kantin selama 2 jam. Perlakuan ini berhasil menurunkan jumlah total koloni bakteri yaitu sebesar 57,13%. Selanjutnya dilakukan bioadsorpsi menggunakan ampas teh (10 g/L), proses ini menyebabkan perubahan nilai pH air limbah menuju pH normal. Pada 2 jam bioadsorpsi nilai pH air olahan 5,42; konduktivitas 713 …

Metode Erasi (Gabungan Process Electro-Assisted Phytoremediation Dan Aerasi) Dengan Tanaman Akar Wangi (Vetiveira Zizanioides L) Untuk Remediasi Air Limbah Logam Fe Dan Cu, Iis Setianingrum, Ega Dwi Sintadani, Vivin Viani, Durrotul Uuliyah, M. Faiq Faridani, Rudy Syah Putra

Chimica et Natura Acta

Kegiatan industri, pertanian, dan pertambangan semakin meningkat sehingga pencemaran logam berat pada air menjadi persoalan penting secara global yang membutuhkan perhatian khusus. Salah satu sumber pencemar diperairan adalah logam berat karena memiliki sifat yang stabil dan sulit untuk didegradasi, sehingga perlu dilakukan tindakan remediasi. Salah satu metode remediasi yang dapat digunakan adalah gabungan proses EAPR (electro-assisted phytoremediation) dan aerasi dengan tanaman akar wangi (Vetiveira zizanioides L) sebagai akumulator polutan yang selanjutnya disebut dengan metode ERASI. Metode ini merupakan proses fitoremediasi, dengan bantuan listrik arus searah yang dialirkan melalui elektroda untuk membantu mobilitas polutan bermuatan dari sumber limbah yang dalam mendekat …

Penyimpanan Haloalkana Dehalogenase: Pengaruh Konsentrasi Terhadap Stabilitas Dan Aktivitas Enzim, Khomaini Hasan

Chimica et Natura Acta

Karena kebutuhan penyimpanan protein rekombinan dalam waktu yang sangat lama, berbagai macam kondisi penyimpanan telah disarankan dalam berbagai publikasi guna mempertahankan integritas struktur dan/atau aktivitas enzim asalnya. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mempelajari pengaruh konsentrasi protein terhadap kestabilan penyimpanan dari haloalkana dehalogenase murni. Haloalkana dehalogenase rekombinan dimurnikan dengan dua langkah pemurnian, yaitu kromatografi penukar ion  dan afinitas. Dua kondisi konsentrasi enzim diobservasi selama 4 minggu. Aktivitas enzim diuji tiap minggu yang merefleksikan kestabilan dari enzim. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa konsentrasi enzim 0.5 mg/mL, dibandingkan dengan konsentrasi 2 mg/mL, lebih mudah mengalami inaktifasi dan kehilangan aktivitas. Peningkatan aktivitas dan stabilitas enzim …

Dynamic Response Analysis Of Micro-Grid With Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, Chia-Yu Hsu, Ming-Wang Chen, Pei-Hwa Huang

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the dynamic responses of micro-grid with Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) system. The power sources of the studied micro-grid system include an OTEC generator and a wind generator. Three different types of OTEC generation systems, i.e., open-cycle, closed-cycle, and hybrid-cycle, are considered, under the conditions with the same temperature of sea water and output of generator. When the system operates in an islanding or gridconnected mode, the responses subject to load variation are quite different. As the system operates in the grid-connected mode, the voltage and frequency are less affected by …

Conquering Visual Challenges While Hunting Across The Air-Water Interface; A Study Of Foraging Day Herons, Holly Brown

Doctoral Dissertations

Among several visual challenges of hunting across the air-water interface are glare, which obscures prey below the water surface; and refraction, which causes submerged prey to appear where they are not. These challenges are exacerbated by the fact that prey have visual (and other) adaptations for detecting predators. To forage successfully on underwater prey, predators must compensate. Herons are good model animals for studying how predators compensate for visual challenges at the air-water interface; they are visually-hunting, fish-eating birds. Herons also regularly tilt their long necks (“head-tilt”) while hunting, which I hypothesized could aid in compensating for glare, refraction, and …

One-Step Synthesis And Characterization Of Biodegradable ‘Click-Able’ Polyester Polymer For Biomedical Applications, Wadha Alqahtani

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

An Abstract of the Thesis by

Wadha Alqahtani

In this study, we have synthesized linear polyester polymers from bio-based small molecules including sorbitol, glutaric acid and others. A propargylic acid derivative was used to make the resulting polymer “click”able. Melt polymerization technique was used for this polymerization reaction using a novel lipase enzyme catalyst, NOVO 435. This reaction was conducted between 90- 95 ^oC for 72 hours. The polymer samples were collected in each 24 h for detailed characterizations and polymerization reaction monitoring. The resulting polymer was purified and characterized using various spectroscopic methods such as NMR, GPC, FTIR, …

Synthesis And Characterization Of Enzyme Catalyzed Biodegradable “Click-Ene” Polymers For Targeted Cancer Therapy, Elaf Alattas

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

In this study, we report various biodegradable polymers with tunable physical properties and their possible drug delivery applications. These polymers were designed in such a way that bio-based starting materials (for example, sorbitol, hexanediol, glutaric acid) were used in order to obtain double-bond functionalized biopolymers in one-pot, and the polymerization reaction was catalyzed using an enzyme catalyst, Novozyme 435. In addition, a novel “Click-ene” chemistry was used to functionalize the resulting polymers in order to target specific cancer cells. The resulting polymers were purified using solvent precipitation method and characterized using spectroscopic techniques such as NMR, FT-IR, GPC, DSC and …

Is There A Right To Life For The Colorado River?, Reed D. Benson

Faculty Scholarship

A recent lawsuit, declaring the Colorado River has legal rights of its own, received national attention in the New York Times and High Country News. While the lawsuit had no chance of success, it highlighted important issues.

The Sioux's Suits: Global Law And The Dakota Access Pipeline, Stephen Young

American Indian Law Journal

The Sioux Tribe’s lawsuits and protests against the Dakota Access Pipelines (DAPL) received an incredible amount of international attention in ways that many Indigenous peoples’ protests have not. This article argues that attention exists because the Sioux Tribe has been at the epicenter of the Indigenous peoples’ rights movement in international law. Accordingly, they have invoked or claimed international human rights—particularly free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC)— to complicate, and perhaps destabilize, the DAPL’s development. However, the importance of their activism is not merely in claiming human rights.

Based upon a global map of law that involves multiple and overlapping …

Solution Before Pollution: Mining And International Transboundary Rivers In Southeast Alaska, Britany Kee’ Ya Aa. Lindley

American Indian Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Latino Male College Students' Identities, Psychological Stress, And Coping Mechanisms, Ana E. Ramirez

Dissertations

Latino male college students’ identities impact their personal experiences, academic achievement, and well-being. This qualitative study uses a narrative inquiry approach to research Latino male college students’ racial and ethnic, gender, and academic identities and to investigate how these identities impact their psychological stress and the coping mechanisms they implement to manage their stress. Latino males undergo an identity development in which they engage in negotiating their gender identities in order to prioritize higher education academic requirements. When Latino males are determined to achieve a college degree, they are able to adjust their familism gender role expectations and shift their …

Saving Diy Spaces, Katherine Lavacca

Capstones

Saving DIY Spaces explores the importance of DIY spaces– places for artists to express themselves and connect to their communities– as well as the threat they face from the city’s MARCH task force. Integral performance spaces like Shea Stadium, Market Hotel, Palisades and many more have been shuttered by the city’s MARCH taskforce, a collection of city agencies (department of buildings, NYPD, FDNY, liquor authorities, etc.) within the last decade. According to a study conducted by the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, 20% of small venues have closed within the last 15 years putting pressure on spaces that are …

Relationships Between Complex Pediatric Health Conditions And The Built, Physical And Social Environments, Brittany Corley

Theses & Dissertations

The relationship between human health and the environment is complex and overall poorly understood. The environment has a lasting impact on health, and the processes appear to start at conception. Thus, this dissertation examines the potential relationship between pediatric health and the environment.

The first relationship examined was between the built environment and comorbid Attention Deficient Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Many publications have reported the relationship between socioeconomic disadvantage, Attention Deficient Hyperactivity Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder. However, the link between the built environment and Attention Deficient Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder symptom severity is poorly understood. …

Weaponized Citizenship: A Critical Race Theory Analysis Of U.S. Citizenship Legislation In The Pacific Unincorporated Territories, Ross Dardani

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines U.S. citizenship legislation in the U.S. Pacific unincorporated territories through Critical Race Theory’s interest-convergence thesis. I employ Derrick Bell’s theory of interest-convergence to argue that it is only when economic, cultural, political, and social interests converge to benefit the United States that U.S. lawmakers have enacted legislation to extend citizenship to the Pacific unincorporated territories (Guam, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). I also rely on Mary Dudziak’s use of interest-convergence, which she used to explain the implementation of key social reforms of the Civil Rights Movement, such as desegregation, as a model …

Alga Merah (Gracilaria Coronopifolia) Sebagai Sumber Fitohormon Sitokinin Yang Potensial, Saadah Diana Rachman, Zakiyah Mukhtari, R. Ukun M.S. Soedjanaatmadja

Chimica et Natura Acta

Alga  merah (Gracilaria coronopifolia) merupakan tanaman tingkat rendah berupa thallus yang tidak memiliki daun, akar dan batang sejati serta sebagian besar tumbuh pada batu di terumbu karang. Alga merah selain mengandung beberapa senyawa organik seperti polisakarida, vitamin, dan berbagai senyawa bioaktif, juga merupakan tanaman yang mengandung fitohormon sitokinin yang cukup potensial dan bermanfaat untuk pembuatan pupuk hormon/biostimulan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengisolasi dan mengidentifikasi sitokinin dari alga merah G. coronopifolia, serta mengetahui pengaruhnya terhadap pertumbuhan tanaman padi (Oryza sativa). Isolasi dan identifikasi sitokinin dimulai dengan proses maserasi menggunakan metanol 80%, ekstraksi dengan etil asetat, kromatografi adsorpsi, kromatografi lapis tipis preparatif, …

Pemodelan Kalkulasi Modulus Bulk Keramik Silikon Karbida 3c Dengan Perangkat Lunak Cp2k, Muhammad Syaifun Nizar, Rifki Septawendar

Chimica et Natura Acta

Perkembangan penelitian material khususnya untuk keramik maju saat ini mulai menuju ke arah komputasi material dalam perancangan material baru atau untuk simulasi pemodelan material. Dalam penelitian ini digunakan perangkat lunak CP2K untuk kalkulasi energi suatu material dengan menggunakan prinsip pertama atau ab initio. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menghitung nilai bulk modulus kristal silikon karbida dengan menggunakan perangkat lunak CP2K. Energi material yang dihitung adalah kristal keramik SiC 3C, yang selanjutnya dihitung dengan menggunakan persamaan Birch-Murnaghan untuk mengetahui nilai bulk modulus dari data energi hasil kalkulasi. Hasil perhitungan didapat nilai bulk modulus 218,6 GPa, yang paling mendekati nilai hasil percobaan laboratorium …

Recreating Resistance: Rape Culture Resistance Through Human Rights Education, Hailey D. Vincent

Master's Projects and Capstones

Sexual violence and rape culture are substantial issues in our society and on our college campuses. The goal of this project is to provide research that investigates rape culture on college campuses as a human rights violation and ways to address it in an intersectional manner through human rights education. The research for this project, conducted through a literature review, provides the ability to look at rape culture through a human rights education lens. In response to the research conducted, Recreate Resistance was created as a pedagogical tool for educators in First Year Experience (FYE) programs on college campuses. Recreate …

Teaching Reduced Forms: A Curriculum Guide For Junior High English Language Teachers Using Digital Technology Based Activities And Classroom Games, Dion Sanchez

Master's Projects and Capstones

Japanese English language students often struggle with listening comprehension when communicating with native English speakers due to the use of reduced forms. Native speakers use contractions, reductions, elisions, and linking in casual speech which sounds unfamiliar to students who have not been exposed to reduced forms in their classrooms. In order to facilitate improved listening skills and help students with speaking fluency, reduced forms ought to be taught in English classrooms.

While the use of reduced forms by native English speakers has been recognized as a problem for English students, incorporating reduced forms instruction into an English curriculum involves overcoming …

The Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of Community-Based Mobile Meal Programs For Low-Income Families, Nicholas Vesom

Master's Projects and Capstones

Food disparity is a continuously prevalent issue in the United States despite the presence of programs, such as the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), to fill gaps in reaching those who are financially inhibited and do not have a sustainable source of nutritionally balanced food. A primary part of the issue that arises is that these types of programs have restrictions on age or only operate during the school year. To assess this issue, the Mountain View Whisman School District (MVWSD), in conjunction with the Stanford University Pediatrics Advocacy Program (SUPAP), initiated …

Remediation Strategies For Mercury Contaminated Lakes And Reservoirs Within The State Of California, Emily Chortek

Master's Projects and Capstones

Mercury is an environmental and public health concern due to its neurodegenerative effects and ubiquitous concentration within the environment. To mitigate these risks and reduce concentrations within the environment, remediation methods are necessary. The purpose of this paper is to investigate and evaluate the efficacy of a number of remediation options for mercury contaminated lakes and reservoirs in the State of California. This paper also identifies a number of challenges associated with the implementation of each method and provides recommendations for environmental managers to use when remediating mercury contaminated lakes. Hypolimnetic oxygenation (HOS) was found to be the least problematic …

Enhancing Oral Communications For Korean English-As-A-Foreign Language (Efl) Students In Business Settings, Jae Min Lee

Master's Projects and Capstones

This project is intended to help adult EFL students in Korea familiarize themselves with the sounds of words and expressions that are used in everyday conversation, especially in business settings or workplaces.

This project, with help of technology, focuses on customizing learnings and feedbacks for each student to meet their unique needs and maximizes the effectiveness and efficiency of learning process and outcomes. Also, the project emphasizes the importance of intonations and point of stress in spoken English that most Korean students have difficulty in distinguishing and recognizing in real-life conversations. It also introduces diverse accents of English since many …

Riding Ladies: Female Motorcycle Riders Try To Bring Down The Patriarchy, Kellie Ell

Capstones

The Brooklyn Invitational Custom Motorcycle Show is the last place one would expect to find the fall of the patriarchy. The number of female motorcycle riders has nearly doubled in the last two decades. Women riders are challenging the notion that motorcycle riding is a sport for men — and a man’s world. Feminism was supposed to be empowering. In my story, I am exploring who is benefiting from all of this female empowerment.

https://kellieell.wordpress.com/2017/12/20/riding-ladies/

Political Exiles Reckon With Rising China And A Lost Cause, Han Chen

Capstones

This capstone explores the overseas Chinese democracy movement in the United States. English-language coverage about the movement has been limited, and little systemic coverage exists. However, the exile movement is fundamental to understanding how China’s most prominent political opposition is faring as China became the second largest world economy. It will also detail human drama and infighting in this exile community. I interviewed more than a dozen U.S.-based political exiles, journalists and experts, in both Chinese and English.

Link to my capstone project: https://hanchen.atavist.com/chinese-exiles

Mask On: How Fashion Erased The Politics Of Streetwear In 2017, Frances Sola-Santiago

Capstones

This year, fashion embraced streetwear in the highest echelons of luxury. From a Louis Vuitton and Supreme collaboration to Gucci’s support of Harlem designer Dapper Dan’s store reopening, streetwear was catapulted into the fashion zeitgeist— hoodies, do-rags, sneakers, and chains included. But fashion’s history of temporary blackness questions the industry’s ability to deal with the politics of criminalization, discrimination, appropriation, and inequality that come with this trend.

In an era when white supremacy lives within the mainstream conversation and African Americans and Latinos are disproportionately targeted by police and criminal justice, it’s clear that what we wear and the culture …

When Grade Schools Stage Musicals, It’S Broadway Or Bust ..., Erin Degregorio

Capstones

St. Ephrem School, located in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, just introduced its drama program in Fall 2016. After much success with last year’s first-ever production of Disney’s “Aladdin JR.," the St. Ephrem students put on “Elf the Musical JR.” in time for the winter holiday season in December 2017. But it’s not your mediocre school drama club, putting on simple pageants. It’s more like Broadway Lite – and it’s part of a cross-country wave of professionalization hitting grade-school plays.

Project can be found at http://erindegregorio.com/grade-school-productions.html

Too Little Too Late For City Spending On Workers Cooperatives, Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech

Capstones

New York City spent $606.7 million in 2016 on Career Pathways, a national workforce development strategy designed to increase education, training, and learning opportunities for the current and emerging workforce. A small portion of that money has gone to worker cooperatives, a business entity that is worker-owned and worker-controlled. Female immigrant entrepreneurs have taken to the model. But the model's strength might prove to be its weakness.

http://alejandraoconnell.com/2017/12/27/too-little-too-l…ers-cooperatives/ ‎

Hair Is The Root Of A Revolution: How Black Women Are Embracing Their Identity With Hair, Shanel Dawson

Capstones

For years, black women have been demeaned for their features; their noses, complexions and hair. Straight hair and wavy hair have been considered “good hair.” And for centuries these ideas have been perpetuated by images in the media, cultural messages and even policies in schools and professional settings.

Today black women, nationwide, are rejecting straightening chemicals and embracing their natural hair as a point of pride. I spoke with several black women who are attempting to distance themselves from these negative narratives by honoring their roots.

For black women in America, hair has been the easiest way to connect on …

Poisoned By My Government: How The Military Let Families Drink Contaminated Water For Decades And Didn’T Learn From It, Alana Pipe, Lori Freshwater

Capstones

This story is about a quest to find classmates from Camp Lejeune and put together a record of a school, where in the early 1980s the children drank and breathed heavily contaminated water and air. Not only were the children involved in what is widely accepted as the worst water contamination case in U.S history, they were there during the years when the levels of chemical contaminants peaked. The United States Marine Corps knew this at the time and did nothing to protect the children in its custody. While looking into the past contamination on Camp Lejeune, it was discovered …