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From Sex Objects To Sisters-In-Arms: Reducing Military Sexual Assault Through Integrated Basic Training And Housing, Gabrielle Lucero

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Using Federal Nondiscrimination Laws To Avoid Erisa: Securing Protection From Transgender Discrimination In Employee Health Benefit Plans, Bridget Schaaff

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

Recent attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and the potential rollback of the interpretation of the protections the Act affords transgender people put transgender people at risk of being denied services and coverage for gender-affirming care. This Article provides advocates with alternative legal arguments to help employees bring claims when their employer provides a health benefit plan that discriminates on the basis of gender identity. These arguments can avoid the Employee Retirement Income Security Act’s broad preemption scheme and lack of nondiscrimination provisions. This Article proposes that, based on a narrow exception to preemption regarding the Employee Retirement Income …

Meditation On The Soles Of The Feet Practice Provides Some Control Of Aggression For Individuals With Alzheimer’S Disease, Nirbhay N. Singh, Giulio E. Lancioni, Oleg N. Medvedev, Rachel E. Myers

Faculty Articles

Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative condition that affects cognition, mental and physical health, and functionality of older people. As the disease progresses from the mild to moderate stage, there is a concomitant increase in several behavioral variables, chiefly agitation, anger, and aggression. Currently, there are no evidence-based treatments for these behaviors in this population. Three individuals with moderate Alzheimer’s disease were taught an informal mindfulness practice, meditation on the Soles of the Feet (SoF), as a self-management strategy within a multiple-baseline design across participants. All three were able to learn and use the SoF practice to manage their verbal …

Gender Differences In Patient-Reported Outcomes Among Adults With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, Joseph Salami

All Publications

Background

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease ( ASCVD ) accounts for approximately one third of deaths in women. Although there is an established relationship between positive patient experiences, health-related quality of life, and improved health outcomes, little is known about gender differences in patient-reported outcomes among ASCVD patients. We therefore compared gender differences in patient-centered outcomes among individuals with ASCVD.

Methods and Results

Data from the 2006 to 2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, a nationally representative US sample, were used for this study. Adults ≥18 years with a diagnosis of ASCVD , ascertained by International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision ( ICD-9) …

Problems Caused By The Students’ Use Of Cell Phones In University Libraries In Anambra State, Nigeria., Ndidi Grace Nwankwo Cln, Regina Eyiuche Obiadazie, Julius Okeke Ofordile Cln

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT

This study sought information from respondents on the problems caused by the students use of cell phones in university libraries in Anambra State of Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey research design, that traced the history of cell phones in Nigeria. The population of 3000 registered student’s library users was studied. Sample size of 100 respondents was used. Accidental sampling technique was used to collect data. A self-constructed questionnaire, validated by two experts from the university library was used for data collection from the sampled students. The reliability of the instrument was tasted in Imo State University Library using …

Evaluating Construction Defect Mobile Application Using Think Aloud, Zan Azma Nasruddin, Azleen Markom, Maslina Abdul Aziz, Pa’Ezah Hamzah

Malaysian Journal of Computing (MJoC)

Construction Defect mobile application (app) is used by Ministry of Defense's Construction Defect Inspection Team to help the team in recording construction defect. However, the mobile app has never been evaluated formally to identify any usability problems. The objectives of this study are to identify usability problems of Construction Defect mobile app using think aloud and to recommend design improvement of Construction Defect mobile app based on the identified usability problems. The think aloud study involved 15 participants. During the evaluation, every participant carried out the given tasks and gave his impressions as he went along the tasks. Three usability …

Slower Alpha Rhythm Associates With Poorer Seizure Control In Epilepsy, E Abela, Ad Pawley, C Tangwiriyasakul, Sn Yaakub, Et Al

School of Psychology

Objective Slowing and frontal spread of the alpha rhythm have been reported in multiple epilepsy syndromes. We investigated whether these phenomena are associated with seizure control. Methods We prospectively acquired resting-state electroencephalogram (EEG) in 63 patients with focal and idiopathic generalized epilepsy (FE and IGE) and 39 age- and gender-matched healthy subjects (HS). Patients were divided into good and poor (≥4 seizures/12 months) seizure control groups based on self-reports and clinical records. We computed spectral power from 20-sec EEG segments during eyes-closed wakefulness, free of interictal abnormalities, and quantified power in high- and low-alpha bands. Analysis of covariance and post …

Toodles And Teeny: A Story About Friendship, Samantha Bullock

Children's Book and Media Review

Toodles the turkey is one lonely bird. She has friends—lots of them—but no best friend to make her feel secure. Teeny is a tiny little turkey that has no friends at all. When the two meet by chance one day, they instantly hit it off and quickly become best friends. There’s just one problem. Toodles’s barnyard pals feel left out and sad that Toodles has been spending so much time with Teeny, and eventually they decide to move on. Toodles tries to convince them she still wants to be friends, but to no avail. Teeny ends up providing the support …

Factors Influencing Involvement In Disability Sport Coaching, Evan Siebert

Sport Management Undergraduate

No abstract provided.

Narrating The Collapse: The Use And Limits Of A Phenomenology Of Depression, James Bodington

Philosophy ETDs

This project is an attempt to apply certain of the insights of phenomenological philosophy to the analysis of the lived experience of depression. I argue that the centering of experience in phenomenology can, and should, motivate its use in the context of the philosophical analysis of mental health, and may contribute to therapeutic aims as well. While this has been remarked upon in recent and current literature, this project motivates, engages with, augments, and challenges existing philosophical approaches to mental health and depression. I begin by surveying the existing literature, and bringing the critiques of classical phenomenology suggested by Guenther’s …

Fighting For Their Lives: Why The Marginalized Irish From The 1840s-1910 Dominated American Prizefighting, Owen Marshall

Honors Program Theses and Projects

One of the most recognizable figures in the world during his lifetime, heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, previously Cassius Clay and Cassius X, put his self-esteem on display with the simple declaration “I am the greatest.” This was a phrase he told himself long before he truly was the greatest, but he proved it to the world in 1964 when he defeated defending champion Sonny Liston. Upon knocking out his dangerous, violent, and cheating opponent, Ali whipped himself into a frenzy, as onlookers saw him fall over the ropes, scream at the ringside reporters who had previously doubted him, and …

The Role Of Interest Groups In Shaping U.S. Governmental Responses To Military Sexual Trauma, Patricia Ann Harnois-Church

Nursing ETDs

Military sexual trauma (MST) is a significant problem in U.S. military service branches, service academies, and National Guard units, with both immediate and longer term traumatic effects on survivors who are disproportionately female. MST includes sexual harassment or assault during military service and the ensuing consequences for physical health and psychosocial well-being of service members and veterans. The Department of Defense is committed to reducing the incidence of sexual assault and harassment among service members, encouraging victims to report, and mitigating the impact of MST. However, the estimated prevalence of sexual assault among active duty service members remains unacceptably high, …

Test Of Personal Intelligencemini-12 (Topi Mini-12): Brief Manual And Test (9th Edition), John D. Mayer, Abigail T. Panter, David R. Caruso

UNH Personality Lab

Personal intelligence can be defined as the capacity to reason about personality and to use personality and personal information to enhance one’s thoughts, plans, and life experience (Mayer, 2008, p. 209). It is a “hot” intelligence in the sense of operating on information that is personally relevant and of importance to the individual.

The gold standard for measuring intelligences is through the use of ability scales. The Test of Personal Intelligence (TOPI), a 134-item ability measure, has been developed over three versions (1.0, 1.1., and 1.2) to test the existence of personal intelligence and to provide for its measurement (Mayer, …

Mattering Versus Marginality: African American Student Perspective At Rowan University, Dante Dandridge

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to gauge the perceptions of African American students in the areas of social interaction, classroom climate, faculty interactions and administrative support and determining if these students felt marginalized or if they matter in those areas. The study also intended to find correlations between mattering and academic success as well as active campus participation with a feeling of mattering. The survey used was adapted from Lovely Durham, who condensed the survey Perceptions on Community, and handed out to a portion of the African American students at Rowan University.

I See What You Meant To Say: Anticipating Speech Errors During Online Sentence Processing, Matthew W. Lowder, Fernanda Ferreira

Psychology Faculty Publications

Everyday speech is rife with errors and disfluencies, yet processing what we hear usually feels effortless. How does the language comprehension system accomplish such an impressive feat? The current experiment tests the hypothesis that listeners draw on relevant contextual and linguistic cues to anticipate speech errors and mentally correct them even before receiving an explicit correction from the speaker. In the current visual-world eye-tracking experiment, we monitored participants’ eye movements to objects in a display while they listened to utterances containing reparandum-repair speech errors (e.g., …his cat, uh I mean his dog…). The contextual plausibility of the misspoken …

Representing Outside The Box: Identity-Based Constituencies And Surrogate Representation In U.S. State Legislatures, Julia Hellwege

Political Science ETDs

This project asks: whom do representatives seek to represent and how do they do it? Specifically, I seek to understand how marginalized state legislators define the concept of “constituency” and the implications for their legislative behavior. I argue that marginalization affects legislators through two avenues: socially through their identity, and institutionally through the proportion their identity group holds in the state legislature. I argue that when legislators are marginalized their awareness of identity and identity-based issue needs are prioritized and they will come to define group members as a salient identity constituency. Furthermore, they will seek to represent this salient …

S.O.S. Eisberg Versus S.O.S. Iceberg - Two Nations' Visualizations Of Arctic Landscapes, Kerstin Anne Aloia

English

This project is a comparison of the perspectives on Arctic nature that are featured in the 1933 films S.O.S. Eisberg and S.O.S. Iceberg. I am arguing that the director of each version was influenced by his cultural background in visualizing the relationship between Arctic nature and the white explorers that encounter it in their films. Both Arnold Fanck, who created S.O.S. Eisberg, and Tay Garnett, who created S.O.S. Iceberg, worked with the same documentary footage that was filmed at Greenland's Arctic shores, but turned it into two different films. S.O.S. Eisberg turns the Arctic into a space whose hostile forces …

Positive Behavior Supports And Interventions: Is It The Best Approach For Juneau Elementary Schools?, Bobbie Anderson

Counseling

The US public educational system strives to assist students to develop the academic and social skills they will need to be competitive in the world market. A considerable obstacle to this goal is behavioral problems in schools, which disrupt important learning time for both the student who is demonstrating the behavior and for his or her peers. Additionally, current literature asserts that behavioral problems interfere in social and academic relationships, create stress for school faculty, and are linked to school failure and increased high-school dropout rates, which have a negative economic impact on both the student and community. Given the …

Treatment Challenges Of Delusional Disorders, Amanda Mikhaeil

Nursing Capstones

No abstract provided.

A Humble Guest: A Phenomenological Exploration Of Success And Competence In Rural Alaskan Mental Health Care, Daniel John Herman

Psychology

Objective: Rural communities in Alaska face a long list of mental health disparities that are exacerbated by the other challenging factors inherent within the rural context. Rural Alaskan mental health care providers are faced with the tremendous task of providing clinically and culturally competent care to underserved and marginalized populations, with limited personal and professional resources, all while balancing the needs of the community, their own personal boundaries, and the pressure of remaining accountable to the larger system of professional ethics and guidelines. The aim of this study was to explore, identify, and understand from the perspective of rural Alaskan …

The Effects Of Mindfulness-Based Interventions For Care Courses On Nurses' Awareness And Mood In Taiwan, Meei-Horng Yang, Hung-Ru Lin, Yue-Cune Chang, Wei-Ling Huang

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to understand the effects of mindfulness-based interventions on nurses' awareness and mood. A pre- and post-test design was used in this study. The results of GEE method showed that that there were no significantly differences between these two groups in both CMAAS and BSRS-5.

Explore Factors Of Suicidal Ideation Among Elderly Inpatients In Taiwan, Wen Kuei Sr. Liao, Su-Jung Jr. Liao, Jiin-Ru Rong, Bo-Jian Jr. Wu, Tse Tsung Liu

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

There is a paucity of research exploring risk factors for suicide in hospitalized elderly patients. Therefore, a study designed to explore the prevalence and characteristic of suicidal ideation (SI), such as QOL (quality of life), a wish to die (WTD), and other factors in aged Taiwan's inpatients.

The Prevalence And Incidence Of Sleep Disorders In Nurses, Min-Huey Chung, Calvin Lam

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Current study conducted a retrospective cohort study with the objective clinically diagnosed data to reveal the prevalence and incidence of Sleep Disorders for the whole nurse population of Taiwan, regarding the impact of the associated demographic and work-related factors.

Factors Associated With Glycemic Control In Insulin-Treated Patients With Type 2 Diabetes, Ruey-Hsia Wang

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Adherence rate of frequency of insulin injection, empowerment perceptions, and diabetes distress were important explanatory factors of HbA1c levels in insulin-treated patients. Nurses providing care to patients with type 2 diabetes and received insulin injection may be interested in this article.

The Relationship Of Caregiver's Stress And Satisfaction Of The Care Needs Among Icu Family Caregiver, Pei-Shan Hung, Nai-Wen Chang

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The results of 107 primary caregivers collected from May, 27. to June, 27, 2014 showed that the biggest stress perceived by caregiver was the patients' disease characteristics. If the clinical staff provided the information of the disease and treatment timely, the caregivers were satisfied with the domain of care needs.

Attitudes And Perceptions Of Emergency Department Nurses Toward Attempted Suicide: A Systematic Review, Mikayla Mishel Cooksey, Anna Marie Kastelic, Kim Schafer Astroth, Wendy M. Woith

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Emergency department nurses' attitudes may play a significant role in the outcomes of patients who have attempted suicide. A systematic literature review was conducted to identify these attitudes and potential influencing factors. Findings report varied nursing attitudes, suggesting a gap in the literature, indicating the need for further research.

Correlations Among Perceived Faculty Support, Academic Motivation, Academic Self-Concept, And Gpa Of Bsn Students, Donna M. Keeler

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Understanding what makes BSN students academic successful needs to be redefined. This presentation will redefine the elements of academic success for BSN students and look at the relationships between academic success, academic motivation, academic self-concept, and grade point average.

How May Motivational Interviewing Prevent Suicide In Patients Having Both Substance Misuse And Mental Disorders?, Diane Phimister, Yen Yang

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The aim of this poster is to explore the efficacy of motivational interviewing in preventing suicide rates among patients who suffer from substance misuse and mental health disorders.

Finding Shelter For The Homeless And Their Animal Companions, Pamela Willson, Susan K. Lee

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Companion animals play a significant role in effecting change or providing stability to the homeless as there are psychological, physiological, and social benefits associated with having animal companions. The purpose of this study was to explore facilitating space for animal companions with homeless shelter administrators.

Do Community Clinic Patients Have Needed Internet Access And Experience To Use The Patient Portal?, Ruth A. Bush, Halsey Barlow, Alexa Perez, Bianca Vazquez, Jonathan Mack, Cynthia D. Connelly

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This study quantified whether patients attending a community clinic in southern California had the technology and internet experience to access the patient portal. There was no association between income and portal use. Computer portal access was associated with likely future use. Computers may permit better internet access and record viewing.