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"Nay" To Forced Pooling: The Stagnation Of West Virginia's Natural Gas Industry, Zachary H. Warder

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Keep Your Powder Dry And Your Standards High: Protect The Second Amendment's Core With Strict Scrutiny Review, Rebecca L. Trump

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Ct2 Newsletter, Center For Teaching & Learning At Ct2, Georgia Southern University

Faculty Center: News & Publications

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Taking A Byte Out Of Orientation: Use Of Technology For Onboarding, Kathie Poplar, Robin Lopez

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Hospital orientation had a "Death by Power Point" foundation running over four consecutive days. Orientations run 13 times annually with populations averaging 18-20 participants. This model was costly, utilized a lot of resources and left new hires feeling overwhelmed. Information gleaned from the 2015 ANPD conference confirmed the need to move towards student- centered education to meet the needs of our tech-savvy employees. Modernization of orientation was accomplished by decreasing didactic sections utilizing an assortment of technology and hands on applications including methods to confirm knowledge. Various technology platforms were used for the creation of videos followed by "teach back" …

Transforming Perioperative Orientation One Employee At A Time, Thomas Mellott

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Regional orientation for Perioperative Services was revised to reduce in-classroom orientation time prior to on-unit orientation in order to increase employee and manager satisfaction while decreasing orientation cost. The new program was also designed to increase efficiency for NPD practitioners needing to create a scalable orientation program in advance of hiring for a large expansion. A standardized curriculum was developed to meet the needs of the eight job roles across seven distinct units that participate in regional orientation. Interdepartmental trainings were arranged to expedite orientees' schedules while ensuring that hospital and regulatory requirements were being met. NPD practitioners partnered with …

Aspire To New Heights In Patient Safety: Elevate The Quality Of Transports, Patricia Smith, Frances Bennett

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

The Telemetry Transporter Orientation program was created to prepare inpatient Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) with the competencies for ECG interpretation, airway management, and recognition of the signs/symptoms of hypertension and stroke. Alarm safety was added to the course aligning with the National Patient Safety Goals highlighted by The Joint Commission (TJC). Additionally, course content includes procedures for patient hand-offs between healthcare providers for the achievement of seamless care coordination.
The theory of andragogy suggests that adults are motivated to learn as they experience specific needs, learning is life-centered, and self-directed (Knowles, Holton, & Swanson, 2014). A blended teaching methodology is …

Saving Competencies, One Tree At A Time, Dana Nichols, Quintina Smallwood

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Per The Joint Commissions (TJC) standards, nursing competency validation is based upon completion of the competency based orientation (CBO) checklist. The Nursing Education team faced barriers in managing the paper CBO checklists that was assigned to newly hired staff as they complete their orientation. The educators, preceptors, employees and managers encountered challenges with completion of the paper CBO checklists. The team wanted to utilize a more advanced technology to streamline the process and maintain orientation checklists. The key stakeholders wanted an opportunity to customize checklist based on the various areas of care. Additional reasons for converting to an electronic method …

Grooming - It Is Not Activities Of Daily Living!, Leslie Harder

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Background: Grooming is a term that describes how a predator gains trust with children and their caregivers in order to gain access to sexually abuse a child. In collaboration with the protection program, NPD practitioner embarked on a two year journey to identify methods to train all staff and providers so that they could protect patients from this highly under-reported behavior. The goals were to strengthen and increase protection from potential patient molestation by equipping staff with education and tools to recognize the signs of grooming and take appropriate measures to prevent these devastating incidents.

Methods: Benchmarking with five nationally …

From Lecture To Learner-Centered: Redesign Of Hospital Nursing Orientation, Stephanie Walton, Debra Sitter

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

A redesign of hospital nursing orientation led to the merging of a standardized program and a learner-centered curriculum. A recent Magnet Journey inspired nurse educators to collaborate and merge resources. The redesign was intended to maximize and pool system resources. Another challenge for the nurse educators was to re-examine the curriculum and integrate active learning strategies to align with current educational practices. Review of evidence influenced the incorporation of technology into the program and a visionary strategy to engage the millennial workforce.

Nurse educators met for several months brainstorming, researching, and restructuring the orientation program. The challenge was to make …

Interprofessional Continuing Education Panel: Lessons From The Real World, Kim V. Cheramie, Sally Morgan, Katherine Czyzewski, Lisa Walker-Vischer, Heather Gunn, Ashley Wechsler, Gina Reid Tinio, Cathleen Hedges

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

This session features a panel that focuses on team-based professional development—building the right education with the right team and working together! Components of the discussion center on the following experiences of the panelists: identifying the learning need for the team of learners;identifying the members of the educational development team; identifying the roles of those members based on strengths, specialty knowledge, and skills; and finally, how we all work together to develop education, communication, and professional appreciation.

Atrición Del Español Como Lengua Materna: Diversidad Y Sofisticación Léxicas, Martha Alexander Walch

Theses and Dissertations

Es natural que la lengua materna de un bilingüe cambie. Sin embargo, si un individuo vive en un contexto donde se habla su segunda lengua como lengua mayoritaria, si usa constantemente su segunda lengua y si el uso de su lengua materna ha disminuido, es muy probable que se vea afectado por la atrición de las habilidades lingüísticas. Esta investigación se concentra en el estudio de la atrición léxica del español como lengua materna. Los participantes son mexicanos adultos con educación universitaria entre los 25 y los 35 años de edad, los participantes del grupo experimental (n=10) inmigraron a los …

News Of The Department Of Animal Science, Department Of Animal Science

Animal Science Newsletters

No abstract provided.

The Gifts Of Membership, Andrew Kosmowski

Marian Library Faculty Publications

Appeal for support for CLA: gift sponsorships.

Marian Library Celebrates 75 Years, Andrew Kosmowski

Marian Library Faculty Publications

News article announcing the Marian Library's 75th anniversary celebration and prompting readers to see a special website featuring anniversary events.

Cerebrospinal Fluid Kynurenine And Kynurenic Acid Concentrations Are Associated With Coma Duration And Long-Term Neurocognitive Impairment In Ugandan Children With Cerebral Malaria, Dag Holmberg, Elisabeth Franzén-Röhl, Richard Idro, Robert Opoka, Paul Bangirana, Carl Sellgren, Anna Färnert, Lilly Schwieler, Göran Engberg, Chandy John

Paediatrics and Child Health, East Africa

Background: One-fourth of children with cerebral malaria (CM) retain cognitive sequelae up to 2 years after acute disease. The kynurenine pathway of the brain, forming neuroactive metabolites, e.g. the NMDA-receptor antagonist kynurenic acid (KYNA), has been implicated in long-term cognitive dysfunction in other CNS infections. In the present study, the association between the kynurenine pathway and neurologic/cognitive complications in children with CM was investigated.

Methods: Cerebrospinal fuid (CSF) concentrations of KYNA and its precursor kynurenine in 69 Ugandan children admitted for CM to Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, between 2008 and 2013 were assessed. CSF kynurenine and KYNA were compared to …

Fluconazole-Loaded Solid Lipid Nanoparticles Topical Gel For Treatment Of Pityriasis Versicolor: Formulation And Clinical Study, Dalia Attia, Shaimaa El-Housiny, Maii Atef Shams Eldeen, Yasmina Ahmed El-Attar, Hoda Salem, Ehab Bendas, Mohamed El-Nabarawi

Pharmacy

Solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs) are very potential formulations for topical delivery of antifungal drugs. Hence, the purpose of this research was to formulate the well-known antifungal agent Fluconazole (FLZ)-loaded SLNs topical gel to improve its efficiency for treatment of Pityriasis Versicolor (PV). FLZSLNs were prepared by modified high shear homogenization and ultrasonication method using different concentration of solid lipid (Compritol 888 ATO, Precirol ATO5) and surfactant (Cremophor RH40, Poloxamer 407). The physicochemical properties and the in vitro release study for all FLZ-SLNs were investigated. Furthermore, the optimized FLZ-SLN formula was incorporated into gel using Carpobol 934. A randomized controlled clinical …

Buspirone Maintenance Does Not Alter The Reinforcing, Subjective, And Cardiovascular Effects Of Intranasal Methamphetamine, Anna R. Reynolds, Justin Charles Strickland, William W. Stoops, Joshua A. Lile, Craig R. Rush

Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications

Background—Medications development efforts for methamphetamine-use disorder have targeted central monoamines because these systems are directly involved in the effects of methamphetamine. Buspirone is a dopamine autoreceptor and D3 receptor antagonist and partial agonist at serotonin 1A receptors, making it a logical candidate medication for methamphetamine-use disorder. Buspirone effects on abuse-related behaviors of methamphetamine have been mixed in clinical and preclinical studies. Experimental research using maintenance dosing, which models therapeutic use, is limited. This study evaluated the influence of buspirone maintenance on the reinforcing effects of methamphetamine using a self-administration procedure, which has predictive validity for clinical efficacy. The impact …

Hi 5 Weed Housing, Paul J. Ponciano

Architectural Engineering

No abstract provided.

Mixed Methods Not Mixed Messages: Improving Libguides With Student Usability Data, Nora Almeida, Junior Tidal

Publications and Research

Objective – This article describes a mixed methods usability study of research guides created using the LibGuides 2.0 platform conducted in 2016 at an urban, public university library. The goal of the study was to translate user design and learning modality preferences into executable design principles, and ultimately to improve the design and usage of LibGuides at the New York City College of Technology Library.

Methods – User-centred design demands that stakeholders participate in each stage of an application’s development and that assumptions about user design preferences are validated through testing. Methods used for this usability study include: a task …

A Great And Good Place, David Forte

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

No abstract provided.

Perpetua, Volume 2, Issue 1, Fall 2017

Perpetua: The Journal of Undergraduate Research at UAH

No abstract provided.

Facing The Sun, Frank Prendergast, Muiris O'Sullivan, Ken Williams, Gabriel Cooney

Articles

December 2017 marked 50 years since archaeologist Michael J. O’Kelly first observed the solar illumination of the burial chamber in the Neolithic passage tomb at Newgrange during the period of the winter solstice. O’Kelly subsequently recorded direct sunlight entering Newgrange through the ‘especially contrived slit which lies under the roof-box at the outer end of the passage roof’ on 21 December 1969. The discovery of this historic phenomenon, dating back over 5,000 years, captured the public interest and imagination at that time and ever since. In this major article published in the Winter 2017 edition of Archaeology Ireland (date of …

Editor's Introduction (Philippine Studies, Vol. 65 No. 4), Michael D. Pante

History Department Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Gns Weed Housing, Galen Amick, Sarah Pascual

Architectural Engineering

GNS requested assistance from Cal Poly’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design to design a new housing complex for the site. In response, Cal Poly formulated an interdisciplinary course comprised of architecture, construction management, and architectural engineering students. The class is based around the concept of Interdisciplinary Product Delivery (IPD), which allows for a cohesive melding of disciplines that fosters a holistic and efficient design process. Our team consisted of two architectural engineering students, two architecture students, and one construction management student. Before the design began, our team put together a list of goals and objectives for the project, which …

Structural Calculations For A Library In The Dominican Republic With Mission Twentyfive35, Erika Dileva

Architectural Engineering

The Amoveo Group in collaboration with Mission TwentyFive35 focuses on the northern region of the Dominican Republic, “El Cibao”, to share the Gospel and plant churches by implementing a sustainable solution that addresses the community’s four needs. Mission TwentyFive35 identifies the lack of clean water, food sustainability shortcomings, limited access to primary healthcare and education, and the absence of technical and vocational job training as the primary contributors to these extremely impoverished communities.

This project provides structural calculations for a library within Mission TwentyFive35’s vocational campus near Santiago, Dominican Republic. In partnership with a nonprofit humanitarian organization called Journeyman International, …

Fiscal Year 2017 Fhwa-536 Report For The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Steven Douglas Kreis, Candice Y. Wallace, Bryan Gibson, Sarah M. Mccormack

Kentucky Transportation Center Research Report

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) requires state transportation agencies to submit a biennial report on local highway finances. The purpose of these reports is to provide FHWA with the data it needs to capture the financing of highway activities at the local level. Based on this information, it can identify trends in revenue, expenditures, investments, and program development, and in turn make decisions about future investments. The report, FHWA-536, asks agencies to report on four areas of local highway finance: 1) disposition of highway-user revenues; 2) revenues used for roads and streets identified by source and funding type; 3) road …

Applicability Of Zipper Merge Versus Early Merge In Kentucky Work Zones, Erin Lammers-Staats, Jerry G. Pigman, Brian K. Howell, Adam J. Kirk

Kentucky Transportation Center Research Report

In an effort to improve work zone safety and streamline traffic flows, a number of state transportation agencies (STAs) have experimented with the zipper merge. The zipper merge differs from a conventional, or early, merge in that vehicles do not merge into the lane that remains open immediately after being notified of a lane closure. Rather, vehicles continue to occupy all lanes until they reach the taper, at which point — and directed by signage — vehicles take turns merging into the open lane, creating a zipper pattern. At the request of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC), Kentucky Transportation Center …

Review Of Arne Olav Øyhus, Ed. Recovering From A Disaster: A Study Of The Relief And Reconstruction Process In Sri Lanka After The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Michele Ruth Gamburd

Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Book review of Recovering From A Disaster: A Study of the Relief and Reconstruction Process in Sri Lanka after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, edited by Arne Olav Øyhus. Published by Kristiansand, Norway: Portal Books; Portland, OR: International Specialized Book Services [exclusive distributor], 2016.

Anti-Icing Properties Of Femtosecond Laser Surface Processed Material, Ryan James Bell

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

In this thesis, the use of femtosecond laser surface processing (FLSP) to enhance the anti-icing properties of a commonly used aircraft alloy, Al 7075-O Clad is described. By changing the surface morphology through FLSP and the surface chemistry through siloxane vapor deposition, the wettability of Al 7075-O Clad was altered.

Condensation and the subsequent freezing of condensates on FLSP Al 7075-O Clad was studied. Both structure height and surface wettability were shown to play a role in the delay of freezing. Freezing occurred on the FLSP superhydrophilic surface faster than on the unprocessed Al 7075-O Clad surface, however, freezing was …

Condensation And Subsequent Freezing Delays As A Result Of Using A Femtosecond Laser Functionalized Surface, Chongji Huang

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Femtosecond laser surface processing (FLSP) enhances the anti-icing properties of a commonly used aircraft alloy, Al 7075-O Clad. The wettability of Al 7075-O Clad was altered by changing the surface morphology through FLSP and the surface chemistry through siloxane vapor deposition. Tall mound and short mound FLSP functionalized surfaces were created through two sets of laser parameters. Atmospheric condensation and subsequent freezing of condensates on FLSP Al 7075-O Clad was studied. Results indicate that both structure height and surface wettability play a role in the delay of freezing. Freezing occurred on the FLSP superhydrophilic surface faster than on a unprocessed …