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Second Look Commission 2020 Annual Report, Tennessee. Commission On Children And Youth.

Second Look Commission Annual Report

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Missing In Action: Locating The Body In Interdisciplinary Studies, Ann Lenore Moradian

Master's Theses

This research project relied on the use of interdisciplinary literature, surveys and interviews to explore the prevalence of the human body and its movement across a variety of disciplines other than movement-based practices, and also to explore perspectives of movement experts regarding the knowledge, skills, and capacities they believed might be related to their practice-based work. In other words, what do movement practitioners and movement experts know, and who cares? The materials gathered were analyzed with the aim of understanding the range of possibilities for future work, and identifying areas of potential discourse, engagement, or collaboration across disciplines. The outcomes …

Synthesis And Evaluation Of N-(9'-Acridinyl)-O-Phenylhydroxylamines, Jana Forster

Master's Theses

Anilinoacridines are a class of compounds that are known to intercalate DNA. This class of compounds can be used as a target therapy to combat cell growth and replication. The anilinoacridines, DNA, and topoisomerase II will form a ternary complex that results in numerous strand scissions leading to apoptosis. Previous research has shown that the anilinoacridines can have a short half-life and produce harmful side products as a result of hydrolysis. The half-life could increase if this structure was slightly altered by making a molecule that does not readily hydrolyze. N-(9’-Acridinyl)-O-phenylhydroxylamines can be synthesized in three steps starting with commercially …

Fostering Resilience: Integrating Positive Character Strengths With Dance Making Skills To Help Young Children Cope With Adversity, Laura Vormwald

Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to investigate how involvement in a choreography unit focused on positive character strengths could increase confidence in strengths that foster resilience. Research shows that building resilience is the key to helping children overcome adversity and trauma. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used to answer the three research questions in this study. Q1 Does involvement in dance making build students’ character strengths? Q2 Which character strengths are best developed through dance making? Q3 Which inspirations for dance making relate most thoroughly to the selected character strengths? The research instruments used were a pre and …

The Drug Overdose Epidemic Seen Through Different Lenses, Barbara Blake Gonzalez, Richard Cebula, James V. Koch

Economics Faculty Publications

The age-adjusted death rate from drug overdoses in the United States per 100,000 individuals rose from 6.8 in 2010 to 17.1 in 2018. The most common explanation offered is the deaths of despair hypothesis. We identify additional factors that have contributed to the rise in drug overdose deaths in cities and counties. Methods: We utilize a period fixed effects model with a multi-variate panel data set for 94 independent cities and counties in Virginia for the period 2008 through 2017. Results: The drug overdose mortality rate is: (a) an increasing function (prob.

Editorial Board

Health Professions Education

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Pain Knowledge, Attitudes And Beliefs Of Allied Health Learners Across Three Curricular Models, Kylie Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Devonshire, Brett Vaughan

Health Professions Education

Purpose: The global burden of pain is considerable; therefore, all health professionals require comprehensive pain education. Pain education is essential and should be embedded in health professional curricula. This paper reports on pain knowledge, attitudes and beliefs changes of osteopathy learners undertaking pain education via three curricula models. Methods: Osteopathy learners undertook pain education via three different curricula models and at different time points in the course: Standard (Year 4 & 5), Integrated (Year 2 & 3) or Block (Year 1). Learners completed questionnaires at the start (T1) and end (T2) of the 2018 academic year. Evaluation included demographic information, …

Med-E-Sim: Inspiring Healthcare Career Through Simulated Learning In Australian Senior Secondary School Students, Alberto Au, Louise Palmer, Catherine Carbery

Health Professions Education

Purpose: Previous studies have demonstrated that a motivational programme can have positive effects in inspiring secondary school students in pursuing a career in health. However, majority of studies were conducted in the United States and were delivered in the multiple sessions and attendances format. MED-E-SIM is a one-day educational pilot programme designed for Australian secondary school students interested in pursuing a career in healthcare. Method: MED-E-SIM's aim is to increase participants' interest and certainty in pursuing the healthcare professions through participation in mannequin-based simulated clinical exercises, procedural workshops using part-task simulation trainers, and active engagement in an ‘ask the expert’ …

Student Discipline. The Construction And Use Of Warnings Concerning Past Behaviour, Timothy J. David, Ellen I. Schafheutle, Penny Mcconnell, Hannah Quirk

Health Professions Education

Purpose: Warnings are one of the basic methods for giving advice to students, yet there is a dearth of guidance and considerable variation and inconsistency in their content and application. Much of the associated terminology is confusing. To provide clarity, this paper examines the essential ingredients of warnings and their optimal construction and use in higher education, with a focus on students intending a career in one of the health and social care professions. Background: Currently warnings are often poorly designed and unclear. One example is giving a student a ‘yellow card warning’ without explaining what errors or omissions have …

Do We Know Who The Person With The Borderline Score Is, In Standard-Setting And Decision-Making, Andrew S. Lane, Christopher Roberts, Priya Khanna

Health Professions Education

Purpose: When assessing clinical competence, health professional educators use assessments of knowledge attainment, skills acquisition, and professional development, which impact on decision-making for student's training progression. Given the impact of progression-failure, it is critical that the expected standard of performance is derived accurately, fairly, and transparently, and that the rating of student performance is performed within the highest standards achievable. There is ongoing disagreement as to the most appropriate methods to address both standard setting and decision-making. The borderline candidate has been debated extensively in the academic and educational setting, with ongoing disagreement surrounding the concept. Methods: In this paper, …

Calibration And Academic Performance In Students Of Health Sciences, Tricia R. Prokop

Health Professions Education

Purpose: Accurate metacognitive control is an essential component of effective clinical reasoning, as the inability to accurately pass judgment over knowledge has been associated with greater diagnostic error than lack of knowledge or poor memory. As such, it is necessary for educators of students in health sciences to assess metacognition in addition to academic performance. Calibration is a quantitative measurement used to operationalize metacognitive control, as it indicates the relationship between perceived and actual performance. Method: This study explored the relationship between local-level calibration and academic performance in 34 students of health sciences in an authentic, classroom setting. The class …

Dynamic Changes Of Trim62 Distribution In Rev Infected Chickens, Jie Yang, Ling Li, Xiaoman Wang, Ziqiang Cheng, Guihua Wang

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

The tripartite motif containing 62 (TRIM62) is a host antiviral factor. It was demonstrated in our previous study that chicken TRIM62 significantly inhibited the replication of reticuloendotheliosisvirus (REV). However, the effect of viral infection on the distribution of TRIM62 is still unknown. In the present study, we tested and evaluated the tissue distribution of TRIM62 and the REV infection correlativity. We found that the distribution and mRNA expression of TRIM62 were first increased and then decreased upon REV infection. The decrease of TRIM62 was mostly in the spleen. The results suggest REV inhibited the antiviral activity of TRIM62 by decreasing …

Surveillance For Influenza Virus In Nonhuman Primates (Nhps) In Thailand, 2009-2018, Wanvisa Surarith, Natthaphat Ketchim, Somjit Chaiwattanarungruengpaisan, Supakarn Kaewchot, Paisin Lekcharoen, Chalisa Mongkolphan, Metawee Thongdee, Weena Paungpin

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

The present study conducted a longitudinal serological survey and active surveillance for influenza virus in free-ranging nonhuman primates (NHPs) in Thailand. One hundred and nine serum samples from NHPs were collected between 2009 and 2017, in 4 provinces of Thailand; while 282 oropharyngeal swabs were collected between April to August, 2018, in 8 provinces of Thailand. Our results demonstrated that no antibody to influenza virus was found in NHPseraby using blocking enzyme-linked immunosorbent (ELISA) assay and hemagglutination inhibition (HI) assay. Moreover, no influenza genome could be detected in all new NHP swab samples by using real-time RT-PCR assay. However, monitoring …

Comparison Between Conventional And Applied Vertebral Heart Score (Vhs) Methods To Evaluate Heart Size In Healthy Thai Domestic Shorthair Cats, Jetsada Rungpupradit, Somchin Sutthigran

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

Thoracic radiography is the most common first modality for heart size evaluation and confirming cardiogenic pulmonary edema in cats with suspected heart diseases. The Vertebral Heart Score (VHS) was established as an objective methodfor diagnosing cardiomegaly via thoracic radiography. However, the conventional VHS method is inappropriate for cats with abnormal thoracic vertebrae.Therefore, the applied VHSmethod, which uses the lateral view axis sum divided with the length of each thoracic vertebra (T4, T5 and T6) was created to minimize the limitation of VHS in these cases. This study compared the conventional and the applied VHS methods in healthy Thai domestic shorthair …

Rabbit As A Reservoir Of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter Baumanniiexpressing The Ade Multidrug Efflux Pumps, Sirawit Pagdepanichkit, Rungtip Chuanchuen

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

Acinetobacter baumanniihas emerged as a nosocomial pathogen and considered as a major cause of hospital acquired infections. While A. baumanniiin humans have been extensively studied in various situations, the study of A. baumanniiin companion animals is still limited. The aim of this study was to examine the presence and antimicrobial resistance profile of A. baumanniiisolates from companion rabbits. A total of 17 nasal swab from rabbit carcasses were obtained. A. baumanniiwas detected in 23.53% (4/17) of the samples and all the isolates exhibited resistance to chloramphenicol, erythromycin, spectinomycin and trimethoprim. Fifty percent of the isolates (2/4) were multidrug resistance (MDR) …

Development And Validation Of A Diagnostic System For The Detection Of Specific Antibodies And Antigens Against Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus, Bo Dong, Chuanjiang Yang, Haiyan Zhang, Kesong Jiang, Xiaoyan Yang

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) is highly pathogenic and infects suckling piglets, thereby imposing a major burden on the swine industry all over the world. The aim of this study is to develop two ELISA systemsfor the detection of antigens and antibodies againstPEDV in pigs.The PEDV N recombinant protein was expressed and was used as the coating antigen to establish an indirect ELISA for detecting PEDV-specific antibodies in pig serum. Moreover, MAb was induced with the recombinant N protein and used for sandwich ELISA to specifically test for PEDV. The specificities of the two ELISAs were validatedby comparing the results …

Teaching Responsively During Covid-19: Learning How To Model, Modeling How To Learn, Lindsay M. Keazer

Education Faculty Publications

A teacher educator describes learning to teach responsively through the Covid-19 pandemic; shifting focus from secretly struggling to manage the upset of work/life balance, to living out the challenges in community with her students. By sharing struggles transparently rather than concealing, she found opportunities to connect with students about the complex challenges they were facing. This process was one of learning how to model empathetic education, and simultaneously modeling to future teachers how to learn to enact responsive pedagogies through unexpected challenges in teaching.

Clinical Outcomes Of Superior Capsular Reconstruction For Massive, Irreparable Rotator Cuff Tears: A Systematic Review Comparing Acellular Dermal Allograft And Autograft Fascia Lata, Tyler J. Smith, Anirudh K. Gowd, John Kunkel, Lisa Kaplin, John B. Hubbard, Kevin E. Coates, Benjamin R. Graves, Brian R. Waterman

Orthopedic Surgery Resident Research

Purpose: To investigate clinical outcomes after superior capsular reconstruction (SCR) for the treatment of massive and/or irreparable rotator cuff tears treated with either allograft or autograft. Methods: Using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, in April 2020 a systematic review was performed using PubMed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane databases. Clinical studies were assessed for patient-reported outcomes and range of motion, comparing dermal allografts to fascia lata autografts, with a minimum follow-up of 12 months. Results: A total of 16 clinical studies involving 598 patients (606 shoulders) were included for data analysis, with a weighted …

Botox Injection To Treat Strabismus After Infant Botulism Type B Infection, Sarah G Bonaffini, Victoria Cocozza, Jing Jin

Ophthalmology Resident Research

Purpose: The significance of botulinum toxin to ophthalmologists is twofold. Botulism, a medical emergency, frequently presents with ocular findings including blurred vision, diplopia, ptosis, and photophobia as a result of the neurotoxin produced by Clostridium botulinum. However, botulinum toxins also have therapeutic uses for medical conditions including strabismus. The safety and efficacy of Botulinum toxin A in patients with a history of botulism has not been reported.

Observations: We report a 9-week-old infant, diagnosed with type B toxin positive infant botulism treated with human botulism immune globulin, who developed a large angle exotropia. The infant was treated with intramuscular injections …

Efficacy And Harms Of Remdesivir For The Treatment Of Covid-19: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Alejandro Piscoya, Luis F. Ng-Sueng, Angela Parra Del Riego, Renato Cerna-Viacava, Vinay Pasupuleti, Yuani M. Roman, Priyaleela Thota, C. Michael White, Adrian V. Hernandez

Internal Medicine Articles

BACKGROUND: Efficacy and safety of treatments for hospitalized COVID-19 are uncertain. We systematically reviewed efficacy and safety of remdesivir for the treatment of COVID-19.

METHODS: Studies evaluating remdesivir in adults with hospitalized COVID-19 were searched in several engines until August 21, 2020. Primary outcomes included all-cause mortality, clinical improvement or recovery, need for invasive ventilation, and serious adverse events (SAEs). Inverse variance random effects meta-analyses were performed.

RESULTS: We included four randomized controlled trials (RCTs) (n = 2296) [two vs. placebo (n = 1299) and two comparing 5-day vs. 10-day regimens (n = 997)], and two case series (n = …

Supervisor Resource Documents, Covid-19, Dmacc

Faculty & Staff

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Faculty Resource Documents, Covid-19, Dmacc

Faculty & Staff

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Trends Of Ulnar Collateral Ligament Reconstruction In The United States From 2003 To 2014: Analysis Of 3,133 Patients, Olumuyiwa A. Idowu, Haroutioun H. Boyajian, Kevin Lindsay-Rivera, Cody S. Lee, Michael J. Lee, Lewis L. Shi, Aravind Athiviraham

Surgery Articles

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the trends concerning ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) reconstruction (UCLR) for athletic injuries within the United States over the years 2003 to 2014.

Methods: A retrospective review of the Truven Health Marketscan® Commercial Database was conducted for patients undergoing UCLR. Data was reviewed for patients treated between 2003 and 2014, and the cohort of patients undergoing UCLR was queried using Common Procedural Terminology code 24346. Patients ages 11 to 40 years were included and divided into 6 different age groups, with the rate of UCLR calculated for each group.

RESULTS: The overall …

Shedding Of Marburg Virus In Naturally Infected Egyptian Rousette Bats, South Africa, 2017, Janusz T. Pawęska, Nadia Storm, Wanda Markotter, Nicholas Di Paola, Michael R. Wiley, Gustavo Palacios, Petrus Jansen Van Vuren

University of Nebraska's National Strategic Research Institute: Publications

We detected Marburg virus RNA in rectal swab samples from Egyptian rousette bats in South Africa in 2017. This finding signifies that fecal contamination of natural bat habitats is a potential source of infection for humans. Identified genetic sequences are closely related to Ravn virus, implying wider distribution of Marburg virus in Africa.

The genus Marburgvirus, family Filoviridae, comprises 1 species, Marburg marburgvirus, which comprises 2 marburgviruses, Marburg virus (MARV) and Ravn virus (RAVV) (1). Marburgviruses cause sporadic but often fatal MARV disease in humans and nonhuman primates (2). The Egyptian rousette bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus) …

Preparing For A Driverless Future, Daniel P. Piatkowski, Santosh Pitla, Joe Luck, Josephine K. Hazelton

Nebraska Department of Transportation: Research Reports

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are widely considered to be the future of surface transportation in the United States, but little is understood about how people will interact with these vehicles, what they will use them for, and how they will impact our roads. However, farmers have been interacting with some degree of AV technology, primarily auto-guidance, in Nebraska for at least the last 10 years. The research in Section 1 first utilizes in-depth qualitative interviews to understand farmers’ experiences with using highly automated technology in order to inform adoption and diffusion patterns of AVs. The findings in Section 1 lead to …

Tending To An Overgrown Garden: Weeding And Rebuilding A Libguides V2 System, Rebecca Hyams

Publications and Research

In 2019, the Borough of Manhattan Community College’s library undertook a massive cleanup and reconfiguration of the content and guides contained in their LibGuides v2 system, which had been allowed to grow out of control over several years as no one was in charge of its maintenance. This article follows the process from identifying issues, getting departmental buy-in, and doing all of the necessary cleanup work for links and guides. The aim of the project was to make their guides easier for students to use and understand and for librarians to maintain. At the same time, work was done to …

Positive Information Facilitates Response Inhibition In Older Adults Only When Emotion Is Task-Relevant, Samantha E Williams, Eric J Lenze, Jill D Waring

Open Access Publications

Emotional information is integral to everyday life and impacts a variety of cognitive abilities including response inhibition, a critical skill for maintaining appropriate and flexible behaviour. However, reported effects of emotion on response inhibition are inconsistent in younger adults, and very limited in older adults. Effects of aging are especially relevant because emotion regulation improves with aging despite declining inhibitory control over neutral information. Across three studies, we assessed the impact of emotional facial expressions on response inhibition in younger and older adults while manipulating attention to task stimuli. Emotional faces (versus neutral faces) altered response inhibition only when task …

Development Of A Young Parents' Guide For Income, Education, Employment, And Health Resources In Southcentral Alaska, Hannah Warren

Student Projects for Graduate Degrees

The issue of pregnancy at a younger age is a global problem that affects the socioeconomic status of people living in our community. The goal of this project was to compile a working, comprehensive, accurate and easy to read resource guide. The primary users of the guide are to be youth who may be planning to be pregnant, pregnant, engaging in risky sexual behaviors which may or may not lead to pregnancy, and/or parenting. Other intended users of the guide are to be workers in the social services and public health field. The resource guide created was assessed by the …

Deep Learning Models For Bridge Deck Evaluation Using Impact Echo, Sattar Dorafshan, Hoda Azari

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

Impact echo (IE) is a common nondestructive evaluation (NDE) method to detect subsurface defects in concrete bridge decks. The conventional approach for analyzing the IE data requires user expertise to define analysis parameters that could hinder broad field implementation. In this paper, the feasibility of using deep learning models for autonomous subsurface defect detection in bridge decks using IE has been investigated. A set of eight laboratory-made reinforced concrete bridge specimens with artificial defects were constructed at the Federal Highway Administration Advanced Sensing Technology NDE laboratory. A total number of 2016 of IE data was collected from these specimens. A …

Muscadine Or Amla Extracts Standardized To Ellagic Acid Content Ameliorate Glucolipotoxicity Associated Β-Cell Dysfunction Via Inhibition Of Il-1Β And Improved Insulin Secretion, Srikanth Earpina, Karen Mcdonough, Millicent Yeboah-Awudzi, Kristina J. Cook, Sita Aggarwal, Jack N. Losso

Faculty Publications

Glucolipotocixity induces IL-1 β secretion which impairs pancreatic β-cell insulin secretion. Ellagic acid and urolithin A have strong anti-inflammatory effect on cells. Muscadine and amla are very good sources of ellagic acid. The present study examined the effect of ellagic acid, ellagic acid-rich muscadine or amla extract, or urolothin A on inflammation in β cells under glucolipotoxic conditions. Rat NIT-1 β cells were incubated in glucolipotoxic conditions (33.3 mM glucose, 250 μM palmitic acid or 33.3 mM glucose + 250 μM palmitic acid with or without ellagic acid, ellagic acid-rich muscadine or amla extracts standardized to its ellagic acid content, …