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Closing Up Shop, Rachel Green

Capstones

The pandemic has wreaked havoc across the world. One of the hardest hit types of business was restaurants. New York City is a hub for restaurants and bars. Many restaurateurs and bar owners have been struggling to survive throughout the year. This capstone will look at specific examples of struggling business owners and see what happened when COVID-19 hit the city. https://capstone-rachel-green.webflow.io/

Through The Screen: Disability, Aging And Technology, Shoshannah E. Buxbaum

Capstones

The Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered what it means to stay connected. These are stories of how technology has shaped the lives of people with disabilities and seniors in Utah. This half-hour audio documentary, accompanying images and text delve into everything from getting hooked up to the internet for the first time, to the hurdles and expanded opportunities of remote work.

https://shoshannah-buxbaum.medium.com/through-the-screen-bb14b1c992ca

The Insanity Spectrum, Nicholas Gallagher

Capstones

Schizophrenia, which includes a combination of persistent and overwhelming hallucinations and delusions, emerges in men between the ages of 18 and 25. After I experienced a string of strange auditory hallucinations as a 19-year-old, I begged to fast-forward past the threshold of early adulthood to learn my fate: whether I was among the one-time voice-hearers, the people with a long-term mental illness or the conspiracy-peddling catastrophizers. I came to understand that those distinctions are blurrier than we’d like to admit. We are all connected through a shared pathology, falling in some liminal space between sanity and madness.

http://theinsanityspectrum.tilda.ws/

Will Unions Get Out The Vote For Mayor In 2021?, Caroline Leddy

Capstones

Labor unions have played an important role in New York City politics for decades--with the 2021 mayoral election approaching, will they be able to motivate their membership to vote for the candidate they endorse, or will their members vote for whomever they want without taking into account who their union recommends? Link here: https://caroline-leddy.medium.com/will-unions-get-out-the-vote-for-mayor-in-2021-a85388813d2d

‘No Possible Peace’: Rising Construction Worker Deaths In New York And Tennessee, Ana Lucia Murillo, Mary Conlon

Capstones

Construction worker fatalities and injuries are a growing problem across the U.S. And for a myriad of factors, death rates are higher in the Southern and Western U.S. than in other regions. Over 1,000 construction workers died from injuries received on the job in 2019, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, many of whom are Latino workers. Now, advocates and workers are demanding reform after years of diminished regulation and little oversight that have cost numerous lives. Link to capstone project: https://medium.com/@analucia.murilloa/no-possible-peace-rising-construction-worker-deaths-in-new-york-and-tennessee-796f757dd199

The Ethical Accountability Of Organizational Leadership To Communities Of Stakeholders In Healthcare, Lisa Martinelli

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

ABSTRACT

THE ETHICAL ACCOUNTABILITY OF ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP TO COMMUNITIES OF STAKEHOLDERS IN HEALTHCARE

By

Lisa A. Martinelli, JD, MA

October 2020

Dissertation supervised by Professor Gerard Magill

While much is written on organizational ethics in healthcare, this dissertation uniquely links organizational ethics and stakeholder theory to the ethical accountability of leadership to their distinct, vulnerable stakeholder communities. It does so by examining the healthcare organization’s moral agency in relation to stakeholder theory and applies those considerations to three major stakeholder categories: confidentiality and privacy of healthcare information, research and attention to specific pediatric populations, and ethics of care concerning the …

Visualization Of Large Networks Using Recursive Community Detection, Xinyuan Fan

Master's Projects

Networks show relationships between people or things. For instance, a person has a social network of friends, and websites are connected through a network of hyperlinks. Networks are most commonly represented as graphs, so graph drawing becomes significant for network visualization. An effective graph drawing can quickly reveal connections and patterns within a network that would be difficult to discern without visual aid. But graph drawing becomes a challenge for large networks. Am- biguous edge crossings are inevitable in large networks with numerous nodes and edges, and large graphs often become a complicated tangle of lines. These issues greatly reduce …

2020-12-18 Minutes Of The Executive Committee Of The Academic Senate, University Of Dayton. Academic Senate. Executive Committee

ECAS Minutes

Approved minutes of a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton.

Message Journal, Issue 4: Design Politics What Are The Politics Of Your Design And What Is The Design Of Your Politics?, Peter Jones, Camilla Afanador-Llach, Anne Berry, Sarah Rutherford, John Calvelli, Kristen Coogan, James Dyer, Cathy Gale, Anne M. Giangiulio, Elizabeth Herrmann, Chae Ho Lee, Gwen Lettis, Pamela Napier, Adam De Eyto, Muireann Mcmahon, Omari Souza, Dave Wood

Message Graphic Communication Design Research

No abstract provided.

The Effectiveness And Usability Of Online, Group-Based Interventions For People With Severe Obesity: Protocol For A Systematic Review (Preprint), M Milne-Ives, D Swancutt, L Burns, J Pinkney, M Tarrant, R Calitri, A Chatterjee, E Meinert

School of Nursing and Midwifery

No abstract provided.

Testing The Modality Effect In An Online Training Of Virtual Workers: An Experiment Inspired By Social Distancing, Janice Lambert Chretien

Human Resource Development Theses and Dissertations

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic, and within 10 days, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that all 50 U.S. states had confirmed cases of the virus.

Facing a national mandate of social distancing, most U.S. workers needed training on how to use tools and technologies required to do their jobs virtually. As a result, HRD professionals needed to quickly transition their practice onto virtual platforms with the most effective strategies for delivering learning content. Research findings have evidenced the presence of the modality effect, which states that learning …

Networks Of Sociability In Allan Ramsay's The Fair Assembly, Rhona Brown

Studies in Scottish Literature

Discusses the background, publication history, and significance of Allan Ramsay's poem The Fair Assembly (1723), about an elite dance gathering in Edinburgh, the social connections of its aristocratic patrons ("Directresses"), and its political and cultural implications, especially in connection with the continuing role of Jacobite and other anti-Whig and anti-Presbyterian sentiment in the nation's capital.

Mapping Changes To The Songs In The Gentle Shepherd, 1725-1788, Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland

Studies in Scottish Literature

Examines the varying ways in which the songs in Allan Ramsay's ballad-opera The Gentle Shepherd were published between the 170s and the 1780s, noting variation in how particular songs were titled, in which songs were included and how they were placed within the dramatic text, in which tunes were used for which song-texts, and in how words were related to music in editions providing both. The discussion is supported by extensive tables and lists of 18th century Ramsay editions, and illustrated with transcriptions of the music in two editions. Concludes that the addition of the music in later editions served …

Aerial Mucosalivary Droplet Dispersal Distributions With Implications For Disease Mitigation, Brian Chang, Ram Sudhir Sharma, Trinh Huynh, Arshad Kudrolli

Physics

We investigate mucosalivary dispersal and deposition on horizontal surfaces corresponding to human exhalations with physical experiments under still-air conditions. Synthetic fluorescence tagged sprays with size and speed distributions comparable to human sneezes are observed with high-speed imaging. We show that while some larger droplets follow parabolic trajectories, smaller droplets stay aloft for several seconds and settle slowly with speeds consistent with a buoyant cloud dynamics model. The net deposition distribution is observed to become correspondingly broader as the source height H is increased, ranging from sitting at a table to standing upright. We find that the deposited mucosaliva decays exponentially …

Integrating Mental Practice Into A Covid-19 Appropriate Virtual Reality Cataract Surgery Course For Ophthalmology Residents, John C. Lin, Alfred A. Paul, Ingrid U. Scott, Paul B. Greenberg

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Abstract

To present a revised, publicly available virtual reality cataract surgery course for ophthalmology residents that integrates a novel mental practice program into the curriculum, fulfills the six core competencies of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and adheres to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention educational recommendations for the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

Medical Student Ophthalmic Knowledge Proficiency After Completing A Clinical Elective Or An Online Course, Jacob J. Abou-Hanna, Jonah E. Yousif, Ariane D. Kaplan, David C. Musch, Jonathan D. Trobe

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Abstract

Background As more information is being packed into medical school curricula, mainstream medical topics legitimately receive more attention than specialty topics such as ophthalmology. However, general practitioners, as gatekeepers of specialty care, must attain competency in ophthalmology. We have investigated whether an online ophthalmology course alone would be noninferior to the same online course plus an in-person clinical elective in providing ophthalmic knowledge.

Methods Students at the University of Michigan Medical School voluntarily enrolled in one of two groups: an Online Only group requiring satisfactory completion of an online course entitled “The Eyes Have It” (TEHI) or a Clinical …

Beyond Low-Earth Orbit: Characterizing Immune And Microrna Differentials Following Simulated Deep Spaceflight Conditions In Mice, Amber M. Paul, Margareth Cheng-Campbell, Elizabeth A. Blaber, Sulekha Anand, Sharmila Bhattacharya, Sara R. Zwart, Brian E. Crucian, Scott M. Smith, Robert Meller, Peter Grabham, Afshin Beheshti

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Fluorinated Phthalonitriles And Phthalocyanines: Synthesis And Spectroscopic Properties, Marius Pelmus

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Since their discovery at the beginning of the 20^th century, phthalocyanines (Pc) have come a long way; today they are replacing the porphyrins (natural products) in most of their applications. The functionalization of the organic macrocycle, the use of different metals, and the change of the axial ligands resulted in Pc applications in a wide range of fields, ranging from photochemistry, paints, catalysis, to fuel cells and cosmetic products.

In Dr. Gorun’s group was developed a series of electron-deficient Pcs that benefit from a Teflon-like chemical shield, meant also to break the π-π interactions, namely the F₆₄PcM …

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

The Connections Of Music, Culture, And Language: A Qualitative Case Study Of The Musical Experience Of A Newcomer Program, Jessica Strawderman

Masters Theses, 2020-current

In this qualitative case study, I investigated the philosophy and process of an elementary newcomer program and explored the perceived benefits for newcomer students of the musical experience, aiding in transition from full-time English as a second language (ESL) services in self-contained class to a general education setting. The studied school division serves a high population of students who are English Language Learners (ELLs), representing a multitude of languages and cultures. The division places students of immigrant families who have no social or educational experience speaking English in the newcomer program. In order to gain a deep understanding of the …

A Program Evaluation Of Violence Prevention Task Force To Address Type Ii Workplace Violence Utilizing Precede/Proceed Model, Stephanie Autry

Doctors of Nursing Practice (DNP) Final Projects, 2020-current

Aim: The primary aim of this project was to complete a program evaluation of the institution’s Violence Prevention Task Force. Evaluation allowed for assessment of outcomes including 1). decrease in assaultive incidents; 2). decrease in assaults leading to injury; 3). increase in team member reporting of assaultive incidents; and 4). demonstrate the program’s adherence to published guidelines on workplace violence prevention.

Background: Violence against healthcare workers has been an increasing problem in our nation’s healthcare system. Type II workplace violence is defined as patient, family member, or visitor as the perpetrator directing violent/aggressive behavior towards healthcare worker and is described …

Facemasks For Source Control: Testing Influenza Transfer To Bedside Tables, Adriane M. Biggio

Doctors of Nursing Practice (DNP) Final Projects, 2020-current

Abstract

The idea of using facemasks for source control is not new. The concept has been published since 1918 during the Spanish Flu. However, there is limited research testing human subjects on the effectiveness of facemasks in preventing influenza transfer or transmission. The objective of this study was to answer the question, “In influenza-positive Veterans, what is the effect of facemask wearing in comparison to not wearing a facemask on influenza transfer to bedside tables measured for two hours per condition over a ten-week time frame during the 2019/2020 influenza season?” A quasi-experimental evidence-based project pilot study design was used. …

Postpartum Depression: Educating The Provider And Staff About The Importance Of Screening, Referrals, Follow-Up And Adherence To The Maternal Mental Health Safety Bundle Toolkit, Natalie Regis

Doctors of Nursing Practice (DNP) Final Projects, 2020-current

Background: Postpartum depression (PPD) affects approximately 10%-20% of women after childbirth. PPD is a disabling condition that can have serious health implications on mothers and their infants. Experts estimated that only 50% of women with PPD are diagnosed. Lack of education about screening practices can cause the disorder to go undiagnosed and untreated.

Purpose: The purposes of this quality improvement (QI) project were 1). To increase the provider and staff knowledge about the importance of screening with the implementation of a standardized screening tool 2). To increase PPD screening rates to 100% 3). To increase appropriate referrals to mental …

Pulling Heart Strings: Quality Improvement Algorithm For Temporary Epicardial Pacing Wire Removal Post Cardiac Surgery, Jessica Norman

Doctors of Nursing Practice (DNP) Final Projects, 2020-current

The placement of temporary epicardial pacing wires (TEPW) is considered standard practice post cardiac surgery and is dependent on the patient’s cardiac function intra-operatively and their electrophysiologic profile after weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass (Reade, 2007; Elmistekawy et al, 2016). Complications associated with TEPW removal include myocardial damage, infection, perforation, tamponade, disruption of anastomoses, ventricular arrythmias, and death (Bojar, 2009; Carroll et al, 1998;Timothy & Rodeman, 2004). Currently there is no standard practice on the removal of TEPW and there is wide variation in removal practices involving patients who are routinely on medications such as dual antiplatelet therapies and systemic anticoagulation. …

Fish Out Of Water, Francesca Krempa

Capstones

On screen, romantic comedies provide a certain kind of predictability and escape. In real life, the cliches can be unnerving and less promising. But life isn’t always stranger than fiction – when an urbanite writer falls in love with a salt-of-the-earth voracious angler at a fishing tournament, she finds the hopeful cliches are unavoidable. https://francescakrempa.com/capstone/

He’S ‘Like A Math Magician’: One Man’S Path Towards Clemency, Steven Vago

Capstones

This is a profile on Bobby Ehrenberg, an incarcerated person who recently applied for clemency after turning his life around. https://medium.com/@steven.vago/hes-like-a-math-magician-one-man-s-path-towards-clemency-9bcea1cfdfdc

Engaging Underserved Voters In West Virginia During The Pandemic Election, Jacob Wasserman

Capstones

This report is the final product of my Social Journalism practicum for the Class of 2020 at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. My community focus for the degree program was underserved voters in West Virginia during the pandemic election. Within this report, I discuss the community that I intended to serve with engagement journalism, the activities and approach that I took to pursue that engagement, and how I evaluated the project with both quantitative and qualitative metrics. I also discuss ideas that I learned during the process of this project, and offer reflections on the philosophy of engagement …

Profits For Spotify, Pennies For Artists, Joshua R. Rosenberg

Capstones

Major recording labels have always been king-making investment houses. They market the music and manage the careers of artists such as New York singer-songwriter Blake Morgan, who has to fight tooth and nail to escape being mistreated financially. But digital distribution services have now come along and upped the parasitic ante. By dominating global market share and distributing millions of songs for the labels, companies like Spotify are piggybacking on the music industry’s already exploitative system and magnifying it exponentially. The more content you control, the larger the overall profit–even if the overwhelming majority of content creators are essentially starving. …

Everlasting Love, Adelaida Espinoza

Capstones

This documentary follows Adelaida Espinoza’s journey to healing after experiencing a miscarriage. While on her journey, she meets other women with similar experiences. These similarities spark up conversations of mistreatment for women within the healthcare system.

Link to Capstone: https://vimeo.com/user130240636/review/495852940/f75617b925

Aprendizaje Remota: Cómo Dos Madres De Hijos Con Necesidades Especiales Están Lidiando Durante La Pandemia, Lisa Salinas, Arlyn Sorto

Capstones

Escuelas en todo el país cerraron sus puertas este año debido a la pandemia de coronavirus. Estudiantes, padres y maestros están viviendo una nueva realidad de clases a través de una pantalla. Para los estudiantes más vulnerables, incluyendo estudiantes con necesidades especiales, la aprendizaje remota ha sido especialmente difícil. Dos madres en la ciudad de Nueva York nos cuenta cómo están lidiando con sus hijos de necesidades especiales en medio de la pandemia, los obstáculos que están enfrentando, y cómo el departamento de educación ha fallado ha sus familias.