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Utilizing A Decision Aid In Acute Inpatients To Increase Patient Satisfaction In Communication With The Provider, Elizabeth Fiedler

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Practice Innovation Projects

Introduction. If communication between patients and providers is improved, patients have better outcomes because of adhering to medications and treatments. Evidence Summary. Poor communication can lead to unnecessary readmissions and decreased quality of care. Decision aid tools assist patients in compiling thoughts and questions for providers, lead to a higher understanding of the plan of care, and can help patients to clarify confusing components of the treatment plan. Tools that improve communication between patients and providers lead to an increase in patient satisfaction. The HCAHPS survey is a measurement of patient satisfaction. Gaps in Literature. There were no articles found …

The Effects Of Early Laxative, Diet, And Exercise Education On Postpartum Constipation Prevention, Amber Thompson

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Practice Innovation Projects

Introduction: Postpartum constipation is a common problem women face after delivery. Vaginal tears, pain medications, hormonal changes, decreased activity, dietary changes, and hemorrhoids can all increase the risk of developing constipation in the postpartum period. Evidence Summary: Constipation can cause pain, discomfort, decreased quality of life, and life-long consequences if left untreated. Nurses have a responsibility to the patient to provide quality care by taking a proactive approach to bowel management. Regular assessment of patient bowel habits and the provision of education on non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic prevention measures are recommended. Gaps: There is a lack of literature specific to constipation …

Implementing The Eat, Sleep, Console Approach For Nas Management: Review Of Literature, Amber D. Tilberg

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Practice Innovation Projects

Introduction: Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) is a growing problem and poses significant burden on the healthcare system.
Evidence summary: Three emerging themes were recognized and further guided the development and execution of the proposed DNP project: 1) A need to improve NAS assessment practices that will decrease frustration, discrepancies, and inconsistent NAS scoring. Despite specific training, inaccuracy and inconsistency still exists among nurses using traditional scoring methods, leading to a longer hospital stay. 2) Family-centered care is vital for infants with NAS. Parent education, nurse to parent coaching, and rooming-in experiences build parental competence and confidence, nurture a trusting nurse-parent …

Learning Human Anatomy Using Ara Mobile Application, Samia Loucif, Murad Al-Rajab, Reem Salem, Abdullah Hesham, Doaa Mahely, Mhd Alaa Ajlouni

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© 2019 University of Bahrain. All rights reserved. Smartphones with mobile applications have become part of everyday life, as they transformed the ways people manage their tasks. Many fields and sectors are using mobile applications to facilitate their services. Education is an important field that can utilize the various features of mobile applications to assist students and educators. Students are learning several subjects and concepts in schools, including biology. With traditional teaching methods, students may face difficulties in grasping knowledge about human anatomy. This can affect the teaching effectiveness, students' learning process, their engagement in class, and their academic performance. …

Bootstrapping The Empirical Distribution Of A Stationary Process With Change-Point, Farid El Ktaibi, B. Gail Ivanoff

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© 2019, Institute of Mathematical Statistics. All rights reserved. When detecting a change-point in the marginal distribution of a stationary time series, bootstrap techniques are required to determine critical values for the tests when the pre-change distribution is unknown. In this paper, we propose a sequential moving block bootstrap and demonstrate its validity under a converging alternative. Furthermore, we demonstrate that power is still achieved by the bootstrap under a non-converging alternative. We follow the approach taken by Peligrad in [14], and avoid assumptions of mixing, association or near epoch dependence. These results are applied to a linear process and …

Cognitive Computing Meets The Internet Of Things, Zakaria Maamar, Thar Baker, Noura Faci, Emir Ugljanin, Yacine Atif, Mohammed Al-Khafajiy, Mohamed Sellami

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This paper discusses the blend of cognitive computing with the Internet-of-Things that should result into developing cognitive things. Today's things are confined into a data-supplier role, which d ...

Combining Machine Learning And Metaheuristics Algorithms For Classification Method Proaftn, Feras Al-Obeidat, Nabil Belacel, Bruce Spencer

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© Crown 2019. The supervised learning classification algorithms are one of the most well known successful techniques for ambient assisted living environments. However the usual supervised learning classification approaches face issues that limit their application especially in dealing with the knowledge interpretation and with very large unbalanced labeled data set. To address these issues fuzzy classification method PROAFTN was proposed. PROAFTN is part of learning algorithms and enables to determine the fuzzy resemblance measures by generalizing the concordance and discordance indexes used in outranking methods. The main goal of this chapter is to show how the combined meta-heuristics with inductive …

Intensive Pre-Processing Of Kdd Cup 99 For Network Intrusion Classification Using Machine Learning Techniques, Ibrahim M. Obeidat, Nabhan Hamadneh, Mouhammd Alkasassbeh, Mohammad Almseidin, Mazen Ibrahim Alzubi

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© 2019, International Association of Online Engineering. Network security engineers work to keep services available all the time by handling intruder attacks. Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is one of the obtainable mechanism that used to sense and classify any abnormal actions. Therefore, the IDS must be always up to date with the latest intruder attacks signatures to preserve confidentiality, integrity and availability of the services. The speed of the IDS is very important issue as well learning the new attacks. This research work illustrates how the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (or Knowledge Discovery in Databases) KDD dataset is very …

Effective Evaluation Of The Non-Technical Skills In The Computing Discipline, Maurice Danaher, Kevin Schoepp, Ashley Ater Kranov

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© 2019, Journal of Information Technology Eucation Research. Aim/Purpose Assessing non-technical skills is very difficult and current approaches typically assess the skills separately. There is a need for better quality assessment of these skills at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Background A method has been developed for the computing discipline that assesses all six non-technical skills prescribed by ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology), the accreditation board for engineering and technology. It has been shown to be a valid and reliable method for undergraduate students Methodology The method is based upon performance-based assessment where a team of students discuss and …

Everything-As-A-Thing For Abstracting The Internet-Of-Things, Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, Mohamed Sellami, Emir Ugljanin, Ejub Kajan

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Copyright © 2018 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved This paper discusses Everything-as-a-Thing (*aaT) as a novel way for abstracting the Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. Compared to other forms of abstraction like Everything-as-a-Service (*aaS) and Everything-as-a-Resource (*aaR), *aaT puts emphasis on living things, on top of non-living things, that populate these applications. On the one hand, living things take over roles that are defined in terms of rights and duties. On the other hand, non-living things offer capabilities that are defined in terms of functional and non-functional properties. Interactions that occur between living and non-living things …

Family Volunteers As Alternative Future Resources: School Leaders' Beliefs And Practices, Hazar Hekmat Malluhi, Nayel Musa Alomran

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© 2019, Kassel University Press GmbH. Schools and community engagement are seen as effective factors for making schools a thoughtful place. This case- study employed mixed methodology to explore the phenomena of parent involvement and to know the exact characteristics of the leadership style in the school. This case study examined and described school leaders' perspectives, attitudes and practices towards parents' involvement in an Abu Dhabi primary school using a variety of data sources including, interviews, open-ended teachers' questionnaires, school selfassessment surveys and mothers' council self-assessment surveys. The findings revealed that the school leaders effectively employ multiple collaborative, shared and …

Forecasting Temperature In A Smart Home With Segmented Linear Regression, Bruce Spencer, Omar Alfandi, Feras Al-Obeidat

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© 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Peer-review under responsibility of the Conference Program Chairs. The efficiency of heating, ventilation and cooling operations in a home are improved when they are controlled by a system that takes into account an accurate forecast of temperature in the house. Temperature forecasts are informed by data from sensors that report on activities and conditions in and around the home. Using publicly available data, we apply linear models based on LASSO regression and our recently developled MIDFEL LASSO regression. These models …

In The News, Jason Matthews, Joe N. Caudell

Human–Wildlife Interactions

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The Growing Business Of Human-Wildlife Conflict Management, Terry Messmer

Human–Wildlife Interactions

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Aggregation Of Residential Water Heaters For Peak Shifting And Frequency Response Services, Thomas Leighton Clarke, Tylor Slay, Robert B. Bass, Conrad Eustis

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

The increased penetration of renewable energy resources poses challenges for grid stability. The stochastic generation of solar and wind power cannot be controlled to follow load. And, the transition away from synchronous generators is reducing the capacity to arrest and recover from frequency disturbances. Smart electric water heaters provide utilities with an appliance that can be remotely controlled and serve as a form of energy storage. They have very fast response times and make up a large amount of residential energy consumption, making them useful for load peak shifting as well as other ancillary grid services. As smart appliances become …

Melatonin Protects Mcao-Induced Neuronal Loss Via Nr2a Mediated Prosurvival Pathways, Fawad Ali Shah, Gongping Liu, Lina T. Al Kury, Alam Zeb, Muzaffar Abbas, Tao Li, Xifei Yang, Fang Liu, Yuhua Jiang, Shupeng Li

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© 2019 Shah, Liu, Al Kury, Zeb, Abbas, Li, Yang, Liu, Jiang and Li. Stroke is the significant cause of human mortality and sufferings depending upon race and demographic location. Melatonin is a potent antioxidant that exerts protective effects in differential experimental stroke models. Several mechanisms have been previously suggested for the neuroprotective effects of melatonin in ischemic brain injury. The aim of this study is to investigate whether melatonin treatment affects the glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid (AMPA) receptor signaling in cerebral cortex and striatum 24 h after permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO). Melatonin (5 mg/kg) …

Neuroprotective Effects Of Melatonin And Celecoxib Against Ethanol-Induced Neurodegeneration: A Computational And Pharmacological Approach, Lina T. Al Kury, Alam Zeb, Zain Ul Abidin, Nadeem Irshad, Imran Malik, Arooj Mohsin Alvi, Atif Ali Khan Khalil, Sareer Ahmad, Muhammad Faheem, Arif Ullah Khan, Fawad Ali Shah, Shupeng Li

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© 2019 Al Kury et al. This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. Purpose: Melatonin and celecoxib are antioxidants and anti-inflammatory agents that exert protective effects in different experimental models. In this study, the neuroprotective effects of melatonin and celecoxib were demonstrated against ethanol-induced neuronal injury by in silico, morphological, and biochemical approaches. Methods: For the in silico study, 3-D structures were constructed and docking analysis performed. For in vivo studies, rats were treated with ethanol, melatonin, and celecoxib. Brain samples were collected for biochemical and morphological analysis. Results: Homology modeling was performed to build 3-D …

Testimony, Objectivism, And Poetic Form In Charles Reznikoff’S Holocaust, Rachel E. Trnka

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This essay examines the gradual development of Charles Reznikoff’s testimony form Holocaust poetry, which ultimately rejected the traditional lyric forms of his earlier works in favor of a stark, Objectivist poetry that culminated in Holocaust (1975)—a poem based on the transcripts from the Nuremberg and Eichmann trials. The WWI poems from Reznikoff’s first volume Rhythms (1918) underscore the importance of music to his early elegies in contrast to the blunt, impersonal testimonies in Holocaust. In Rhythms, Reznikoff employs traditional conventions ironically to convey war’s unpoetic reality while the poetic speakers in Going To and Fro and Walking Up …

All Balls And No Strikes: The Roberts Court’S Anti-Worker Activism, J. Maria Glover

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

For decades, legislatures and courts have created and preserved rights and remedies for vulnerable groups—consumers, employees, victims of mass torts, investors, and the like. Both branches have extolled the virtues of these substantive rights and the private enforcement mechanisms required to effectuate them. However, despite statements like that of Justice Roberts and others that the judiciary is not a lawmaking body—indeed, that the judicial institution should take care to exercise restraint—the Roberts Court has engaged in sweeping reform that tends to extinguish these substantive rights.

In 2012, I traced how the Roberts Court paid scant attention to the integral role …

The Corporate Purpose Of Social License, Hillary A. Sale

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This Article deploys the sociological theory of social license, or the acceptance of a business or organization by the relevant communities and stakeholders, in the context of the board of directors and corporate governance. Corporations are generally treated as “private” actors and thus are regulated by “private” corporate law. This construct allows for considerable latitude. Corporate actors are not, however, solely “private.” They are the beneficiaries of economic and political power, and the decisions they make have impacts that extend well beyond the boundaries of the entities they represent.

Using Wells Fargo and Uber as case studies, this Article explores …

Progressive And Populist Strands In American Constitutionalism, Louis Michael Seidman

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Many modern liberals believe that the federal government is captured by a “billionaire party” determined to wield public power for private gain. But many of them also believe in giving the federal government greatly enhanced powers, like administering “Medicare for all.”

There is a history to this contradiction. Modern liberalism is an amalgam of older populist and progressive impulses with deep roots in the country’s past. The populist impulse locates the source of economic oppression in government corruption. The solution to this problem is direct, popular democracy. Progressives tend to locate the source of economic oppression in the malfunction of …

Business And Human Rights As A Galaxy Of Norms, Elise Groulx Diggs, Milton C. Regan, Beatrice Parance

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In the last several years, there has been an increasing tendency to view the impacts of transnational business operations through the lens of human rights law. A major obstacle to holding companies accountable for the harms that they impose, however, has been the separate legal identity of corporate subsidiaries and of contractors in a company's supply chain. France's recently enacted duty of vigilance statute seeks to overcome this obstacle by imposing a duty on companies to identify potential serious human rights violations by their subsidiaries and by companies with which they have an “established commercial relationship.” Failure to engage in …

The Public Trust Doctrine, Outer Space, And The Global Commons: Time To Call Home Et, Hope M. Babcock

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Space exploration is heating up. Governments and private interests are on a fast track to develop technologies to send people and equipment to celestial bodies, like the moon and asteroids, to extract their untapped resources. Near-space is rapidly filling up with public and private satellites, causing electromagnetic interference problems and dangerous space debris from collisions and earlier launches. The absence of a global management system for the private commercial development of outer space resources will allow these near space problems to be exported further into the galaxy. Moreover, without a governing authority or rules controlling entry or limiting despoliation, outer …

Boilerplate And Party Intent, Gregory Klass

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

It is commonly recognized that parties often do not read or understand contract boilerplate they agree to, and that such parties might not intend all the terms in it. Less often noticed are decisions that favor boilerplate over evidence of the parties’ contrary intent for the very reason that it is boilerplate. This article discusses that phenomenon. It identifies decisions in which courts favor boilerplate terms over other evidence the parties’ intent because it is boilerplate, discusses the rules that explain those outcomes, and examines the reasons behind the rules.

A contractual writing, whether individually negotiated and drafted or boilerplate, …

Reimagining Trade Agreements For Workers: Lessons From The Usmca, Alvaro Santos

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

A backlash against the post-Cold War order of liberal globalization has taken hold in the rich North Atlantic countries. Concerns about wages, working conditions, and economic opportunity are central to the critique of international trade agreements of the last three decades. While labor rights have progressively been included in trade agreements, they have done little to reshape workers’ well-being and workplace conditions. The new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) may signal a pivot to a new model requiring reforms of domestic labor law and other issues important to workers. However, there is much more to be done to rebalance the power …

The Genie Is Out Of The De-Extinction Bottle: A Problem In Risk Regulation And Regulatory Gaps, Hope M. Babcock

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Once the province of horror films and fantasy, the idea of recreating extinct life forms is poised to move from science fiction to laboratories and from there to the world at large. While “de-extinction is not something that will take place tomorrow . . . scientists are making major advancements, and eventual success appears inevitable.” Spurred on by the burgeoning field of genetic engineering, it was only a matter of time before scientists turned their attention to recreating extinct life forms, either for the thrill of it or in atonement for the human role in the extinction process.

But science …

#Metoo As Catalyst: A Glimpse Into 21st Century Activism, Jamillah Bowman Williams, Lisa O. Singh, Naomi Mezey

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The Twitter hashtag #MeToo has provided an accessible medium for users to share their personal experiences and make public the prevalence of sexual harassment, assault, and violence against women. This online phenomenon, which has largely involved posting on Twitter and “retweeting” to share other’s posts has revealed crucial information about the scope and nature of sexual harassment and misconduct. More specifically, social media has served as a central forum for this unprecedented global conversation, where previously silenced voices have been amplified, supporters around the world have been united, and resistance has gained steam.

This Essay discusses the #MeToo movement within …

The Difference Narrows: A Reply To Kurt Lash, Randy E. Barnett, Evan Bernick

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

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The New Frontier For Labor In Trade Agreements, Alvaro Santos

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In the spring of 2015, I took my students of international trade law to visit the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva. It was a two-day trip, organized around lectures and discussions with staff from different divisions of the organization, the Advisory Centre of WTO Law and the permanent missions of two countries. None of my students had been there before, and even though I had taught international trade law for several years, it was also my first time visiting the headquarters of the organization. We were excited and curious. The building looked big and majestic. The back side opened …

Reflections On A More “Catholic” Catholic Legal Education, William M. Treanor

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I am grateful to Professors Breen and Strang for their thoughtful book about Catholic legal education in the United States. It is an important topic, and their work promises to be a significant contribution to the conversation about the mission of Catholic law schools. My reflections here will focus on Chapter Five.

All of us participating in this symposium are engaged in the collective enterprise of thinking through and implementing what it means to be a Catholic law school. As a historian, personally I am well aware of the value of studying where we have been as part of the …