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Investigating The Effect Of Urea Pretreatment On Bloodstain Detection, Kevin Mckenna

Honors Theses

Throughout the years, many chemical enhancement methods for bloodstain detection have been developed. One of these chemicals is luminol. Blood detection using luminol and its derivatives, like Bluestar™, have been commonly used at many crime scenes. The pre-treatment of 8M urea on bloodstains was proposed in order to increase the intensity of chemiluminescence of the reaction, and to eliminate false positive reactions that can occur. This study takes a look at bloodstains that are placed on two types of surfaces, at varying dilutions, and analyzed after different amounts of time. These bloodstains were analyzed to see how strong of a …

Daily Digest - Thursday, December 10, 2020 Covid-19 Updates, University Of Mississippi

COVID-19 Website Archives

Campus Update Daily Digest for Thursday, December 10, 2020

A1 Pioneer Moving And Wcf Mutual Insurance Company Appellants/Respondents V. Utah Labor Commission And Viliami Pulu Appellees : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

Joshua M. Woodbury WCF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY ATTORNEY FOR APPELLANTS

Tracy L. Olson Chad P. Curtis SMART, SCHOFIELD, SHORTER, P.C. ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE Christopher Hill, General Counsel ATTORNEY FOR APPELLEE UT AH LABOR COMMISSION

Deaths From Clrd Increasing In Rural U.S., While Rural-Urban Gap In Mortality Is Widening, Adam Pope

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

For These Employees Seeking Degrees, 2020 Brings Stress - And Success, Matt Windsor

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Trends And Determinants Of Newborn Mortality In Kyrgyzstan: A Countdown Country Case Study, Mahdis Kamali, James E. Wright, Nadia Akseer, Hana Tasic, Kaitlin Conway, Saman Brar, Cholpon Imanalieva, Gerrit Maritz, Arjumand Rizvi, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta

Woman and Child Health

Background: Kyrgyzstan has made considerable progress in reducing child mortality compared with other countries in the region, despite a comparatively low economic standing. However, maternal mortality is still high. Given the availability of an established birth registration system, we aimed to comprehensively assess the trends and determinants of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health in Kyrgyzstan.
Methods: For this Countdown to 2030 country case study, we used publicly available data repositories and the national birth registry of Kyrgyzstan to examine trends and inequalities of reproductive, maternal, and newborn health and mortality between 1990 and 2018, at a national and subnational …

Emergency Department Workplace Violence Against Nurses, Adam Johnson

MSN Capstone Projects

Emergency room nurses are often thought of as the adrenaline junkies of the nursing world. Emergency nurses interact with a wide array of patients and visitors and are often the first clinician a patient may see upon arriving at an emergency department. With this wide array of patients and visitors, also comes a volatile environment with the increased risks of violence against nurses. This violence could include verbal, physical, and emotional violence from patients, visitors, and even fellow staff members. As violence increases, nursing longevity decreases and thus further increases the expense of nursing on a facility. Therefore, this has …

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes December 10, 2020, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

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Improving Nurse Engagement Through Unit Practice Councils, Pavna Sloan

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects

Abstract

Problem: According to the Advisory Board (2014), nurses are the least engaged group of healthcare employees. Healthcare organizations with a high percentage of disengaged nurses have increased nurse turnover rates and decreased patient satisfaction and safety scores (Kutney-Lee et al., 2016). Shared governance, in the form of unit practice councils (UPCs), is an underutilized model healthcare organizations can implement to increase nurse engagement.

Context: The UPC is an example of shared governance to engage and empower nurses to affect changes that impact their practice. This a multi-site health system with 21 medical centers in Northern California. This system would …

December 10, 2020, Caa

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Item-Based Collaborative Filtering And Association Rules For A Baseline Recommender In E-Commerce, Jessica Lourenco, Aparna S. Varde

Department of Computer Science Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

In the ever-growing data-driven world today, data increases in many forms, e.g. e-commerce sites uploading new products, streaming services adding TV shows and movies, and music platforms uploading new songs. It would be highly infeasible for end users to quickly browse all this data. Hence recommender systems can benefit end users (individuals as well as companies) in efficiently finding suitable products. Rather than making end users search through a vast array of items, recommender systems can suggest suitable items to users based on popularity of the items and the respective users' buying behavior. Accordingly, in this paper we explore two …

Transfer Learning For Decision Support In Covid-19 Detection From A Few Images In Big Data, Divydharshini Karthikeyan, Aparna S. Varde, Weitian Wang

Department of Computer Science Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The novel coronavirus (Covid-19) has spread rapidly amongst countries all around the globe. Compared to the rise in cases, there are few Covid-19 testing kits available. Due to the lack of testing kits for the public, it is useful to implement an automated AI-based E-health decision support system as a potential alternative method for Covid-19 detection. As per medical examinations, the symptoms of Covid-19 could be somewhat analogous to those of pneumonia, though certainly not identical. Considering the enormous number of cases of Covid-19 and pneumonia, and the complexity of the related images stored, the data pertaining to this problem …

Single-Arm Prospective Interventional Study Assessing Feasibility Of Using Gallium-68 Ventilation And Perfusion Pet/Ct To Avoid Functional Lung In Patients With Stage Iii Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Nicholas Bucknell, Amir Iravani, Et Al

Open Access Publications

BACKGROUND: In the curative-intent treatment of locally advanced lung cancer, significant morbidity and mortality can result from thoracic radiation therapy. Symptomatic radiation pneumonitis occurs in one in three patients and can lead to radiation-induced fibrosis. Local failure occurs in one in three patients due to the lungs being a dose-limiting organ, conventionally restricting tumour doses to around 60 Gy. Functional lung imaging using positron emission tomography (PET)/CT provides a geographic map of regional lung function and preclinical studies suggest this enables personalised lung radiotherapy. This map of lung function can be integrated into Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) radiotherapy planning …

Cellular Proliferation Of Equine Bone Marrow- And Adipose Tissue-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Decline With Increasing Donor Age, Jasmin Bagge, James N. Macleod, Lise C. Berg

Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center Faculty Publications

Background: Bone marrow (BM)- and adipose tissue (AT)-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are used increasingly for autologous cell therapy in equine practice to treat musculoskeletal and other injuries. Current recommendations often call for 10–100 million MSCs per treatment, necessitating the expansion of primary cells in culture prior to therapeutic use. Of concern, human and rodent studies have shown a decline of both MSC recovery from sampled tissue and in vitro proliferative capacity with increasing donor age. This may be problematic for applications of autologous cell-based therapies in the important equine demographic of older patients.

Objectives: To investigate the effect of …

Evaluating A Technology-Mediated Hpv Vaccination Awareness Intervention: A Controlled, Quasi-Experimental, Mixed Methods Study, Heather M. Brandt, Beth Sundstrom, Courtney M. Monroe, Gabrielle Turner-Mcgrievy, Chelsea Larsen, Melissa Stansbury, Karen Magradey, Andrea Gibson, Delia Smith West

Faculty Publications

College-aged women and men are an important catch-up population for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination interventions. Limited research has explored technology-mediated HPV vaccination awareness interventions aimed at college students. The purpose was to evaluate a novel, technology-mediated, social media-based intervention to promote HPV vaccination among college students. A controlled, quasi-experimental, mixed methods study examined the feasibility of a technology-based intervention among two undergraduate classes ( = 58) at a public university in the southeastern United States of America. Classes were randomized to receive one of two cancer prevention programs (i.e., HPV vaccination (intervention) or healthy weight (control)). Both programs contained eight …

The Poststroke Peripheral Immune Response Is Differentially Regulated By Leukemia Inhibitory Factor In Aged Male And Female Rodents, Stephanie M. Davis, Lisa A. Collier, Sarah J. Messmer, Keith R. Pennypacker

Neurology Faculty Publications

Background. The goal of this study was to determine whether leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) promotes anti-inflammatory activity after stroke in a sex-dependent manner. Methods. Aged (18-month-old) Sprague-Dawley rats of both sexes underwent sham surgery or permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO). Animals received three doses of intravenous LIF (125 μg/kg) or PBS at 6, 24, and 48 h before euthanization at 72 h. Spleen weights were measured immediately following euthanization. Western blot was used to measure protein levels of CCL8, CD11b, CXCL9, CXCL10, IL-12 p40, IL-3, and the LIF receptor (LIFR) in spleen tissue. ELISA was used …

The Weekly Challenger, December 10, 2020, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The December 10, 2020, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Pre-Employment Transition Services For Students With Intellectual Disabilities Who Applied For Vocational Rehabilitation Services, Alberto Migliore, John Butterworth

All Institute for Community Inclusion Publications

This data note addresses participation in Pre-ETS for students with intellectual disabilities (ID) who applied for VR services. Of the 45,110 people with ID who exited the VR program in 2018, a total of 8,809 (18%) were students who applied for Pre-ETS. Of these, 1,712 (21%) received Pre-ETS and of those who received Pre-ETS, 744 (43%) gained employment.

Smoking Cessation And Shared Decision-Making Practices About Lung Cancer Screening Among Primary Care Providers, Maria A. Lopez-Olivo, Jennifer A. Minnix, James G. Fox, Shawn P. Nishi, Lisa M. Lowenstein, Kristin G. Maki, Viola B. Leal, Ya-Chen Tina Shih, Paul M. Cinciripini, Robert J. Volk

School of Medical and Biological Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Objective: We describe primary care providers' current practice patterns related to smoking cessation counseling and lung cancer screening (LCS). Methods: Family, internal medicine, and pulmonary medicine providers from two medical centers were asked to complete an electronic survey to report their practice patterns. Results: Of 52 participating providers, most reported initiating three major components of a smoking cessation intervention often or very often: advise to quit (50, 96%), assess willingness to quit (47, 90%), and assist with counseling or pharmacotherapy (49, 94%). However, other components were less commonly initiated such as arranging follow-ups (only 11 providers indicated recommending them often …

Daily Eastern News: December 10, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

December

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Expanding The Concept Of Comprehensive Area Ratio Parameter To The South-Central States Towards Simplifying The Structural Evaluation Of Flexible Pavements At The Network Level, Nitish R. Bastola

Civil Engineering Theses

The surface deflection bowl data collected through Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) has been widely utilized by various Department of Transportation (DOTs) in the South-Central States and other places. The primary purpose of using deflection-based NDTs in network-level assessment is to identify a weak pavement section that requires further analysis at the project level. The falling weight deflectometer (FWD) test is one of the common NDT based tests utilized by highway agencies in assessing the performance of the flexible pavement. However, a robust method to evaluate pavement sections utilizing FWD data from all the sensors are seldom developed. There is always a …

Consistently Biased: Documented Consistency In Self-Reported Holiday Healthfulness Behaviors And Associated Social Desirability Bias, Courtney Bir, Nicole Olynk Widmar

Department of Agricultural Economics Faculty Publications

Holiday healthfulness conversations are dominated by overindulgence of consumption and then, largely in reference to resolutions to do better, physical activity, and exercise aspirations. Consistency was found in self-reported agreement with a series of holiday healthfulness statements, across time, holidays (Thanksgiving versus Christmas), and samples of respondents. The largest proportion of respondents displaying social desirability bias (SDB) were found in response to two statements, namely “I will consume more alcohol during the holiday season than at other times of the year” at (63–66%) and “I make it a New Year’s Resolution to lose weight” (60–63%). Cheap talk was tested as …

Revisiting The Role Of Physicians In Assisted Living And Residential Care Settings, Sarah Dys, Lindsey Smith, Ozcan Tunalilar, Paula C. Carder

Institute on Aging Publications

As the United States population ages, a higher share of adults is likely to use long-term services and supports. This change increases physicians’ need for information about assisted living and residential care (AL/RC) settings, which provide supportive care and housing to older adults. Unlike skilled nursing facilities, states regulate AL/RC settings through varying licensure requirements enforced by state agencies, resulting in differences in the availability of medical and nursing services. Where some settings provide limited skilled nursing care, in others, residents rely on resident care coordinators, or their own physicians to oversee chronic conditions, medications, and treatments. The following narrative …

Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session December 10, 2020, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

1. Acceptance of the Agenda – Bolger
2. Approval of the Minutes (November 5, 2020 Meeting) – Bolger
3. Remarks by the Chair – Bolger
4. Remarks by the President – Montgomery
5. Comments by the Faculty Senate President – Kritzman
6. Comments by the Western Student Association President – West
7. Comments by the Graduate Student Association President – Morris
8. Presentation – Student Athlete Achievement – Beauregard, Harrison, and Caliendo
9. Annual Presidential Assessment – Rinvelt
10. Outgoing Trustee Appreciation for Behen and Bolger – Schuemann
11. Public Comments Regarding Action Items – Schuemann
12. Action Items – Bolger
    1. Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct Policy – Crawford
13. Trustee Emeritus Recognition for …

Cross-Cultural Adaptation Of Mandarin-Speaking Undergraduate Students In The United States, Enhao Wang

Master's Projects and Capstones

ABSTRACT

Studying in the United States is many Chinese students' dream, but those who manage to achieve it encounter two main problems. The first one is the language barrier and the second one cultural shock. Chine is the highest provider of international students with 30% from statistics of 2017/2018 class. The primary language spoken by Chinese is the Mandarin language. All the other languages come in as a second language to most Chinese, including English. When they travel out of their country to further education as students, they are hampered by language barriers as they navigate through their struggle.

China …

Sepsis Alert Benchmark Project, Leigh A. Normand

MSN Capstone Projects

Sepsis is steadily rising as one of the leading health concerns in our country due to the high risk of mortality and morbidity. Based on the data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the state of Texas, in 2018, had over 4,000 mortalities due to sepsis. Texas was ranked fifth in the nation for the highest sepsis mortality rate (Stats of the States - Septicemia Mortality, 2020). Anyone can develop an infection which can lead to sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock. Those at highest risk are infants, immunocompromised, advanced age, and those with chronic conditions …

Managing Hypertension With Lifestyle Modifications, Ladonna D. Willis

MSN Capstone Projects

Cardiovascular disease has taken the lives of millions of Americans, specifically, African Americans who do not have access to health care, which leads to morbidity and increased mortality. This benchmark project proposes to provide cardiovascular educational packets to patients who are admitted to the hospital and have been diagnosed with hypertension.

Meaningful Recognition And The Effect On A Medical-Surgical Unit's Staff Satisfaction And Retention, Lindsey Greene

MSN Capstone Projects

The current state of the American healthcare system is riddled with challenges. Nurse administrators are faced with the formidable tasks of decreasing operating costs; improving the patient experience; delivering high-quality and safe patient care; and decreasing the mounting rates of nurse turnover. Nurse leaders must understand the complexities of their work environment, including the key drivers for nurse satisfaction and retention. In 2005, the American Association of Critical Nurses developed six standards for creating a healthy work environment. (American Association of Critical Care Nurses, 2016). An adult, medical-surgical unit at a South Texas hospital was faced with rising rates of …

Less Worthy Lives? We Must Prioritize People With Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities In Covid-19 Vaccine Allocation, Scott D. Landes, Margaret A. Turk, Katherine E. Mcdonald, Maya Sabatello

Population Health Research Brief Series

Individuals with developmental and intellectual disability should prioritized during COVID-19 vaccination allocation.

How Poor Mother-Daughter Relationships Can Lead To Depression In Female Adolescents, Joseph Bradley

Student Works

This literature review made connections to depression in adolescent girls based on poor relationships with their mothers. Findings are based on recent scientific peer-reviewed publications. No new studies were conducted for this paper. Aggression, negativity, and lack of involvement from mothers are seen to impact daughters' brain development and function such that depression is more likely to occur in the daughter.