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Diversity: Lack Of African American Presence In Nursing Leadership, Dawn Carroll

DNP Qualifying Manuscripts

Aim. The purpose of this manuscript is to synthesize the literature on the paucity of African Americans in nursing leadership, the importance of inclusion, and the barriers to advancement.

Background. The nursing workforce does not reflect the population served. Minorities remain underrepresented in nursing and nursing leadership despite efforts to close the diversity gap.

Evaluation. The literature reviewed examined the lack of diversity in nursing and nursing leadership, perceived barriers to career advancement, and current efforts to diversify nursing leadership. Nine peer-reviewed, critically appraised studies are included.

Key Issues. Ensuring the nursing workforce represents the patient population served can …

Peer Influence In Initiation To Heroin Use, Barbara J. Costello, Bradley J. Anderson, Michael Stein

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

Much research on heroin initiation shows that most people use heroin initially with friends or family. However, there is little research examining why those who use heroin would initiate others to its use, and conversely, whether and why one might try to prevent initial heroin use in others. Following recent work on peer influence on crime and delinquency, we test the hypothesis that those with higher levels of self-control are less likely to initiate others to heroin use and are more likely to try to prevent others from using for the first time. The sample included 370 persons entering an …

Diet, Exercise, Lifestyle, And Mental Distress Among Young And Mature Men And Women: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study, Lina Begdache, Saloumeh Sadeghzadeh, Gia Derose, Cassandra Abrams

Health & Wellness Studies Faculty Scholarship

Customization of mental health therapies needs to consider the differences in degree of brain maturity between young (18–29 years) and mature (30 years or older) adults as well as brain morphology among men and women. The aim of this study was to identify the significant dietary

and lifestyle contributors to mental distress in these sub-populations. Independent repeated cross- sectional sampling was performed for over a 5-year period (2014–2019) to collect data from different

populations at different time-points and seasons. A backward stepwise regression analysis was used on 2628 records. Mental distress in young women was associated with high consumption of …

This Is Us: Individual And Family Development Hdf 130, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

The Cost Of Procrastination Is The Life You Could Have Lived, Ashley Turner

UCF Forum

I have always believed that timing is key. My faith even taught me that there is a season for everything and a time for every purpose. Even though those words hold true and are near to my heart, I also believe that waiting too long and waiting for the right moment can cause a missed opportunity.

Women Elementary Principals And Work-Life Balance, Joyce Lee Yang

Journal of Critical Issues in Educational Practice

Work-life balance (WLB) is a challenge for principals to navigate as the ever-increasing responsibilities require more time. Because time is limited, achieving balance between principals’ workloads and home responsibilities can cause significant stress. Often, women principals face additional challenges because of childcare and household responsibilities. To support principals in their practice and encourage them to enter and persist in the role, better policies and practices should be implemented. By providing more site level staff, fostering a culture where WLB is valued, releasing principals from non-essential obligations, and training principals to prioritize tasks, districts can help mitigate the overload principals experience.

Oer Anonymous Survey Distributed In Kcc In Fall 2020, Dorina Tila

Publications and Research

This data is collected through an anonymous survey distributed to KCC students enrolled during Fall 2020. The results of this survey are published openly (in a file shared on CUNY Academic Works), analyzed in research publications, and/or presented at academic conferences, but individual survey respondents will in no way be identified in the data file on CUNY Academic Works, or in any publications or presentations resulting from the study.

Ties That Bind Us: Family Folklore In The Andreadakis Family, Katherine Jensen, Jennifer Jensen

Final Projects

Family folklore centered on Greek ancestry. This paper analyzes the role of family folklore in shaping family and cultural identity in a Greek immigrant family.

African Land Mammal Ages, John Van Couvering, Eric Delson

Publications and Research

We define 17 African land mammal ages, or AFLMAs, covering the Cenozoic record of the Afro-arabian continent, the planet’s second largest land mass. While fossiliferous deposits are absent on the eroded plateau of the continent’s interior, almost 800 fossil genera from over 350 locations have now been identified in coastal deposits, karst caves, and in the Neogene rift valleys. Given a well-developed geochronologic framework, together with continuing revision to the fossil record—both stimulated by the story of human evolution in Africa—and also to compensate for the variation in fossil ecosystems across such great distances, the AFLMAs are biochronological units defined …

Legalization Of Marijuana And Its Effect On Alcohol Related Accident Fatalities, Azamat Sadikov

Theses and Dissertations

This Masters’ Thesis examines the effect of legalization of recreational marijuana on alcohol related car accident fatalities in the state of Colorado. I used the Synthetic Control Method to analyze this effect. Results of my findings indicate that after legalization of marijuana there was no significant increase in the number of drunk driving accident fatalities.

Approximation By The K^Lambda Means Of Fourier Series And Conjugate Series Of Functions In H_{Alpha,P}, Ben Landon, Holly Carley, R. N. Mohapatra

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Implementation And Effectiveness Of Extended Monetary Policy Tools: Lessons From The Literature, Grahame Johnson, Sharon Kozicki, Romanos Priftis, Lena Suchanek, Jonathan Witmer, Jing Yang

Documents

No abstract provided.

Aven Skeptical About Prospects Of Otkritie Sale: We Have Another Long-Term State Bank, Interfax

Documents

MOSCOW. Dec 23 (Interfax) - The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) will not be able to sell Otkritie Bank (MOEX: OPEN) in the foreseeable future, and it will become another large quasi-state player in the market, where the state share is already too large, board chairman and co-owner of Alfa-Bank Petr Aven told RBC in an interview.

Another Inappropriate F Word: Fiduciary Doctrine And The Crown-Indigenous Relationship In Canada, Bryan Birtles

American Indian Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Gunshot-Related Pediatric Left Ventricular Apical Aneurysm, Achala Donuru, David Saul, Maansi Parekh, Maruti Kumaran, Vinay Kandula, Rami Kharouf

Department of Radiology Faculty Papers

Penetrating injuries of the thorax and abdomen, such as gunshot and stabbing, are rare in children. We present the case of a pediatric patient with a history of remote gunshot injury presenting with a late aneurysm in the left ventricle.

Career And Technical Education Experiences Relationship To Technology Attitudes, Self-Regulation And Grit, Kendall Hartley, Xue Xing

Teaching and Learning Faculty Research

Career and Technical Education (CTE) secondary school experiences have a positive impact on career development and academic achievement. This study explores other positive impacts such as technology attitudes, persistence, and cognitive traits that are associated with career and academic success. This study investigated the relationships between high school CTE experiences of 103 pre-service education students and technology attitudes, grit, and self-regulated learning. The results demonstrate a statistically significant positive correlation between the number of CTE courses taken in high school and technology dependence. Similarly, there is a positive correlation between CTE courses and self-regulatory skills. Grit was positively correlated with …

Leveraging The Inductive Bias Of Large Language Models For Abstract Textual Reasoning, Christopher Michael Rytting

Theses and Dissertations

Large natural language models (such as GPT-2 or T5) demonstrate impressive abilities across a range of general NLP tasks. Here, we show that the knowledge embedded in such models provides a useful inductive bias, not just on traditional NLP tasks, but also in the nontraditional task of training a symbolic reasoning engine. We observe that these engines learn quickly and generalize in a natural way that reflects human intuition. For example, training such a system to model block-stacking might naturally generalize to stacking other types of objects because of structure in the real world that has been partially captured by …

Research Productivity Of Library Philosophy And Practice During The Period Of Covid 19, Anwar Muhammad, Tang Zhiwei Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present research purpose is to investigate the publishing trends of LPP during the COVID-19 from 2020 to 2021. The quantitative research design and survey method have been used to retrieve data from the website of LPP with full-text article. The collected data has been analyzed using quantification tools. The parameters were set for this study is the frequency of publication growth, author’s collaborations, degree of author collaboration, papers length, and most productive regions. The data revealed 860 research papers were collected during the COVID-19 era. Where 844 papers were published in 2020 and 16 were published in 2021 as …

Letter From The Editors: Volume 10, Issue 2, Gary J. Burkholder

Higher Learning Research Communications

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A Bibliographic Survey On Detection Of Covid-19 Patients Using Various Sensors In The Field Of Iot, Rutuja Patil, Akshay Sharma, Divya Bhatia, Mugdha Kulkarni, Yashika Patl

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Due to a pandemic situation arising from the past few decades and the covid -19 patients are increasing at the rapid rate. Looking in the near future an IOT model is build which can be useful for people in coming years and allows rapid testing and efficient testing methodologies using various sensors such as Temperature, Respiration, RFID etc which takes various parameters. The study focuses around 412 scientific documents such as Journals, articles, book chapters and Patents in various papers. These documents are extracted from the scopus databases after querying with the keywords related to covid patients and IOT. The …

(Not) Talking About Fertility: The Role Of Digital Technologies And Health Services In Helping Plan Pregnancy. A Qualitative Study, Rebecca S. French, Jill Shawe, Nerissa Tilouche, Sarah Earle, Pippa Grenfell

School of Nursing and Midwifery

AimTo explore how women and their partners navigate (pre)conception healthcare and the role of Natural Cycles fertility awareness technology in this process.MethodsIn-depth interviews with 24 cisgender women aged 24–43 years who had used Natural Cycles’ ‘Plan a Pregnancy’ mode, and six partners of Natural Cycles users, all cisgender men aged 30–39 years. Participants were recruited via direct messaging in the Natural Cycles app, social media and, for partners, snowball sampling. Purposive sampling was conducted to ensure diversity among participants. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. An iterative, inductive approach was adopted for thematic data analysis.ResultsNatural Cycles helped most users better …

Disabled Youth As A Special Social Group, Abdulla Maxmudovich Magrupov Professor, Zarina Furkatovna Uzakova Phd

Central Asian Journal of Education

The article discusses the boundaries of youth, and their interpretation by international organizations and scientists. Various definitions and terms of disability are studied in detail, the characteristic features of youth with disabilities as a separate social group are highlighted.

The Reality For Minorities Exploring Nurse Executive Leadership Roles: An Integrated Review, Trarina Harris

DNP Qualifying Manuscripts

While nurses in direct patient care are serving a growing minority population, nurse executives are not racially representative of the patient population. This integrated review sought to understand the benefits of formal mentorship. Results included 2 themes: increasing diversity and self-efficacy through formal mentorship. The themes are explored in the literature. Implications for organizations and leaders will be discussed.

Role Of Sirtuins In Modulating Neurodegeneration Of The Enteric Nervous System And Central Nervous System., Pavithra Chandramowlishwaran, Anitha Vijay, Daniel Abraham, Ge Li, Simon Musyoka Mwangi, Shanthi Srinivasan

Student Papers, Posters & Projects

Neurodegeneration of the central and enteric nervous systems is a common feature of aging and aging-related diseases, and is accelerated in individuals with metabolic dysfunction including obesity and diabetes. The molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration in both the CNS and ENS are overlapping. Sirtuins are an important family of histone deacetylases that are important for genome stability, cellular response to stress, and nutrient and hormone sensing. They are activated by calorie restriction (CR) and by the coenzyme, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). Sirtuins, specifically the nuclear SIRT1 and mitochondrial SIRT3, have been shown to have predominantly neuroprotective roles in the CNS while …

Parenting Typologies And Adolescents' Academic And Behavioral Outcomes In Ghana, Odetta Odartey Addo

Dissertations - ALL

AbstractGrounded in Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection and Social Learning theories, and guided by Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions framework, this study sought to test the applicability of parenting typologies within the Ghanaian context. In addition to ascertaining maternal and paternal culturally-specific parenting typologies, the associations among parenting typologies, and sociodemographic correlates, adolescents’ academic and behavioral outcomes were determined. Variations in the prevalence of parenting styles, academic and behavioral outcomes across different Ghana’s cultural regions were also examined. A sample of 800 adolescents, including 489 (61.1%) females and 311 (38.9%) males drawn from high schools located in two southern sector regions (Greater Accra and Eastern) …

Forest - Related Culture And Contribution To Sustainable Development In The Northern Mountain Region In Vietnam, Thi Tan Huong Ngo, Thi Phuong Mai Nguyen, Thi Huong Duong, Thi Hue Ly

Forest and Society

The culture of communities living near/in forests indelibly interacts with forest ecosystems, both shaping and adapting to the natural environment. Forest-related cultural dimensions also provide benefits for local economies and social welfare. This study analyses the relationship between local culture and forests of the Tay and the Dao minorities and their contribution to sustainable development in Vo Nhai, a mountainous district in northern Vietnam. The study uses methods of a literature review, participant observation and qualitative interviews with local people. The strong embedded culture with forests that developed over many generations of Tay and Dao people was expressed through their …

Evidence-Based Practices To Promote Inclusion In Today’S Catholic School, Sean Smith, G Cheatham, Maggie Mosher

Journal of Catholic Education

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present inclusionary practices for Catholic education classrooms that emphasize the integration of evidence-based practices (EBPs). Practices that have been developed to address the needs of all students, particularly learners who are at-risk as well as their peers with an identified disability. Over the past two decades, educational reforms and corresponding effective practices have evolved to correspond with the growing expectations that all student should be given the opportunity to participate in the general education experience. Applying the evidence-based practices presented in this article can provide Catholic educators with the needed support and …

Biomolecular Processing Platform And Uses Thereof, Steven A. Soper, Francis Barany, George Grills, Robin Mccarley, Collin J. Mckinney, Dorel Moldovan, Michael C. Murphy, Dimitris Nikitopoulos, Sunggook Park, Elizabeth J. Podlaha-Murphy

College of Science Patents

The present invention relates to a device comprising a biomolecular processor. Each biomolecular processor has one or more bioreactor chambers defined by a solid substrate; a support structure within each bioreactor; a cleaving enzyme immobilized to the support structure and operatively positioned within the bioreactor chamber to cleave monomer or multimer units of a biopolymer molecule operatively engaged by the cleaving enzyme; and one or more time-of-flight channels formed in the solid substrate and fluidically coupled to said one or more bioreactor chambers. Each of the time-of-flight channels have two or more sensors including at least (i) a first sensor …

In Search Of A Stimulating Visual Dance Art Medium: Overlapping Realities In Live And Screen Dance, Yael Levitin Saban

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis paper captures research into historical examples of artistic performance pioneers who integrated multiple layers of imagery into complex dialogue and describes how this research inspired and influenced the creation of an original 17-minute video work, “Overlay.”. My interest throughout my MFA Thesis Project has been to understand the effect of fusing or layering multiple movement-based art forms, the application and integration of modern technology to established traditional stage performance, and the creation of engaging new art form.

The Role Of Exposure To Communication Channels, Institutional Trust And Moral Norm In Predicting Pm2.5 Risk-Reduction Intention In China: A Study Of The Theory Of Planned Behavior., Tong Lin

Theses - ALL

Understanding and encouraging people to perform PM2.5 risk-reduction behaviors is essential to reduce the health risks caused by PM2.5 and to promote a healthy lifestyle. This study aims to predict the effects of psychological factors (attitude, perceived behavioral control, subjective norm and moral norm) on individual’s PM2.5 risk-reduction intention. It also looks into how contextual factors (exposure to communication channels and institutional trust) can influence behavioral intention and make contributions to the predicting powers of the theory of planned behavior. To achieve this goal, I analyze the secondary survey data that randomly selected residents living in three regions known for …