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Aku Research 2021, Office Of Research And Graduate Studies

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How Might The Pandemic Change Medical Education?, Pete M. Ellis

Journal of Medical Education

Despite high expectations of change in medical education post-pandemic, a historical review suggests that, at best, pandemics are associated with acceleration of existing trends in medical education rather than creating new changes per se. However, the advent of medical education units, information technology and considerable research in the last fifty or so years may provide more potential for change now than in the past. Seven key issues in medical education are identified (clinical experience; communication skills; pedagogical approaches; learning environment; course objectives; national/local assessment; assessment for learning vs assessment of learning) and the impact of the pandemic on each of …

Exploring The Effectiveness Of Interprofessional Demonstration Meeting In A Teaching Hospital In Taiwan, Yu-Chih Lin, Jo-Chu Yen, Yu-Shan Cheng, Chia-Lun Lee

Journal of Medical Education

Purpose: The demonstration meetings are the most common interprofessional education (IPE) method. However, the effectiveness of the demonstration meetings is still unknown. This study tries to explore the effectiveness of the interprofessional demonstration meeting. Methods: This was a descriptive correlational study. We attempted to develop the ＂scale for the effectiveness of interprofessional demonstration meetings＂ based on the four core competencies of IPEC. The average CVI value scored by experts was 0.93. Two factors were extracted by exploratory factor analysis (EFA), including Interprofessional observation (IPO) subscale and Interprofessional application (IPA) subscale, and their total explanation variation was 68.61%. Cronbach's α coefficient …

The Comparison Of Health Literacy Between Standardized Patients And Laypersons, Mei-Mei Li, Ming-Chin Yang, Yen-Yuan Chen, Yu-Chi Tung

Journal of Medical Education

In order to facilitate objective structured clinical examinations (OSCE), some hospitals recruit laypersons to receive medical education and training to become standardized patients. It is worthwhile to examine whether laypersons can improve their health literacy by taking part in medical education and training, and consequently reduce utilization of medical resources. Purpose: There were two objectives: (1) to investigate the current status of health literacy of standardized patients and laypersons; and (2) to compare the difference of health literacy of standardized patients and laypersons. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study where the study population was standardized patients (SPs) and the laypersons …

Development Of Training The Trainers' (Ttt) Workshop And Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Before And After Setting Up A Teaching Ward, Chiu-Ping Kuo, Chia-Yuan Liu, Yih-Jer Wu, Hung-I Yeh, Ching-Chung Lin

Journal of Medical Education

Setting up a new medical teaching ward represent the supportive policy of a hospital for teaching and learning. A teaching ward equipped with trained teaching faculty and designed teaching programs might provide better learning environment and enhance educational quality. A workshop composing some essential subjects to train the teaching faculty may improve setting up of a teaching ward. Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of training the trainers' workshop in improving teaching ability, development of teaching programs and student engagement before and after setting up a medical teaching ward. Methods: Internal medicine and Obstetrics-Gynecology teaching …

A Framework For Improving Software Reusability Within Quality Constraints., Shawkat Guirguis

Mansoura Engineering Journal

In this paper seven of the most important issues in software systems development have been investigated. These issues address two aspects, namely: software development productivity and the final overall quality. For the productivity aspect, an approach has been devised relying on using scripts. Built as a result of an analyst-user collaboration, these scripts, upon interpretation, transform given user requirements into code. This prototyping approach, in addition to being rapid, involves the user in order to ensure his overall satisfaction with the final product. For the quality aspect, a two-layered repository of thoroughly tested and verified reusable software components has been …

Augmentation Of Solar Still Performance Using Flash Evaporation., A. El-Zahaby, A. Kabeel, A. Bakry, S. El-Agouz, O. Hawam

Mansoura Engineering Journal

A new design of a stepped solar desalination system with flashing chamber is experimentally investigated. The main objective of the investigation was to study the performance of step—wise water basin coupled with a spray water system by augmenting desalination productivity through using two air heaters. The effect of using the spray system for seawater is investigated experimentally at different velocities of the water sprays holder and Flow rates on the performance of the solar still in a previous article by the authors [ll. in the present article the effect of the inlet raw water temperature (at motor speed of 250 …

Laboratory Evaluation Of Green Concrete Mixes Containing High Percentages Of Steel Slag Coarse Aggregate., Gamal Elgendy, Ali Elagamy, Mohamed Sherif, Sherif El-Badawy

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Sustainability in the built environment is of increasing importance, particularly in the concrete structures. Slag from iron and steel industries can be used in some cases to replace natural aggregates in construction. Steel slag aggregate is an engineered product with great potential as replacement to naturally occurring aggregates in construction projects due to its distinctive physical and chemical properties. It is a 100% recyclable material. In this research, a comprehensive laboratory evaluation of the use of steel slag as a Portland Cement Concrete (PCC) aggregate was conducted. The performance of steel slag aggregates as a construction material in comparison to …

Susceptibility Of Shallow Groundwater Aquifers To Water Logging, Case Study Al Marashda Area, West Nile Valley, Qena, Egypt., Abd El-Fattah Elsheikh, Moustafa Barseem, Wajih Sherbeni

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Attempts were carried out to delineate the areas where the aquifer is vulnerable to water logging, head drop and pollution in the new and old reclamation areas as well. All of the hydrological, geophysical and soil factors were incorporated in the DRASTIC model. Parameters included are; depth to water, net recharge, aquifer media, water salinity, thicknesses and resistivity of successive geoelectrical layers soil media, topography and impact of the vadose zone. Saturated soil hydraulic conductivity varies from 4.43 X10-4 to 243 X10-4 m/sec. Groundwater is supplied from the gravel sand saturated sediments belonging to the Quaternary aquifer. The aquifer thickness …

An Examination Of The Relationship Between Institutional Financial Aid Programs And Four-Year Graduation Rates, Dawn Herrod

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Institutions are increasingly searching for strategies for using institutional financial aid awards to improve graduation in four years. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between institutional award programs with graduation in four years. Furthermore, there was investigation into any interaction that existed between ethnicity, Expected Family Contribution (EFC), and the type of award on graduation in four years. Covariates were tested from a theoretical framework that included elements from sociological and economic theories, academic components, and the concept of liquidity constraints. Data was queried from the student information system at the selected site for students who …

Bringing Instagram Posts Into Being: A Study Of Fyc Students' Self-Sponsored Posting Practices And Transfer Opportunities, Jessica Kester

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Social media platforms have offered students—and all of us—more opportunities for self-sponsored writing. In response to calls from researchers to explore students' 21st-century writing practices and their relevance to college writing instruction, this dissertation articulated and applied a feminist teacher research methodology and a mixed-methods research design to explore first-year composition (FYC) students' self-sponsored writing practices, attitudes, and transfer opportunities on a popular, albeit under-examined, social media application: Instagram. This study found that students have developed elaborate, rhetorical, multimodal composing processes that include planning, drafting, evaluating, selecting, and styling images as well as planning, drafting/revising, and styling captions. Additionally, though …

Inheritance, Kenneth Noguera

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Inheritance follows the journey of a boy finding himself through the discovery of family secrets and his own sexuality. This hybrid work, part poem, part essay, explores a boy transitioning to adulthood while unearthing secrets about himself and where he comes from. He finds solace in the retelling of stories passed down from within his family and encounters creatures which shift, morph, and lie. In this surreal world, people commune with spirits, the dead find a voice, and a boy breaks and remakes himself. The work divides into three parts, beginning with memoiresque poems from the speaker leading to an …

Design Of Miniaturized Antipodal Vivaldi Antennas And A Microwave Head Imaging System For The Detection Of Blood Clots In The Brain, Farhana Parveen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Traditional brain imaging modalities, for example, MRI, CT scan, X-ray, etc. can provide precise and high-resolution images of the brain for diagnosing lesions, tumors or clots inside the brain. However, these modalities require bulky and expensive test setups accessible only at specialized diagnostic centers, and hence may not be suitable or affordable to many patients. Furthermore, the inherent health risks limit the usability of these modalities for frequent monitoring. Microwave imaging is deemed a promising alternative due to its being cost-effective, portable, non-ionizing, non-intrusive. Therefore, this work aims to design an effective microwave head imaging system for the detection of …

Using Peptide Design To Engineer Polyelectrolyte Complex Biomaterials, Sara Tabandeh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

The self-assembly of oppositely charged polymers provides a versatile platform to design materials for diverse applications in biology and medicine. Electrostatically-driven phase separation of oppositely charged polymers in aqueous solution gives rise to the formation of a polymer-rich phase called a polyelectrolyte complex (PEC). PECs can be in the form of liquid droplets (complex coacervates) or amorphous solid precipitates. Unlike synthetic polymers, peptides are good candidates for developing tailor-made formulations and structure-property relationships due to their biocompatibility, precise control over sequences, and ability to program hydrogen bonding interactions. However, little is known about the effect of combining additional molecular interactions …

Leveraging Multimodal Learning Analytics To Understand How Humans Learn With Emerging Technologies, Elizabeth Cloude

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Major education and training challenges are plaguing the United States in preparing the next generation of the future workforce to meet the demands of the 21st Century. Several calls have been released to improve education programs to ensure learners are acquiring 21st century knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs). As we embark on the digital and automation ages of the 21st century, it is essential that we move away from traditional education programs that define and measure KSAs as static constructs (e.g., standardized assessments) with little consideration of the actual real-time deployment of these processes, missing critical information on the degree …

Study Of Mos2/High-K Interface And Implementation Of Mos2 Based Memristor For Neuromorphic Computing Applications, Durjoy Dev

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

The scientific world is witnessing an unprecedented triumph of artificial neural network (ANN)- a computing system inspired by the biological neural network. With the enthralling quest for Internet of Everything (IoE), it is expected to have an unparalleled dominance of ANN in our day-to-day life. In recent times, memristor has come as an emerging candidate to realize ANN through emulating biological synapse and neuron behavior. Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), one well-known two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), has drawn interest for high speed, flexible, low power electronic devices since it has a tunable bandgap, reasonable carrier mobility, high Young's modulus, and …

Novel Issues In Canadian Labour Arbitration Related To Covid-19, Richard Bales

Arbitration Law Review (2009 - Present)

No abstract provided.

The Human Psyche’S Effect On Arbitral Witness Accuracy, Caroline Skaff

Arbitration Law Review (2009 - Present)

No abstract provided.

A New (Deepwater) Horizon For Arbitrator Bias, Michael Konen

Arbitration Law Review (2009 - Present)

No abstract provided.

Contributory Fault And Investor Misconduct In Investment Arbitration, Matthew Nichol

Arbitration Law Review (2009 - Present)

No abstract provided.

Reproducibility Of Hospital Rankings Based On Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital Compare Measures As A Function Of Measure Reliability, Laurent G. Glance, David R. Nerenz, Karen E. Joynt Maddox, Bruce L. Hall, Andrew W. Dick

Center for Health Policy and Health Services Research Articles

Importance: Unreliable performance measures can mask poor-quality care and distort financial incentives in value-based purchasing.

Objective: To examine the association between test-retest reliability and the reproducibility of hospital rankings.

Design, Setting, and Participants: In a cross-sectional design, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital Compare data were analyzed for the 2017 (based on 2014-2017 data) and 2018 (based on 2015-2018 data) reporting periods. The study was conducted from December 13, 2020, to September 30, 2021. This analysis was based on 28 measures, including mortality (acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, pneumonia, and coronary artery bypass grafting), readmissions (acute myocardial infarction, …

Finra’S Dispute Resolution Pandemic Response, Kristen M. Blankley

Arbitration Law Review (2009 - Present)

No abstract provided.

What Title Ix Dispute Systems Designers Can Learn From Arbitration, Sarah Rudolph Cole

Arbitration Law Review (2009 - Present)

No abstract provided.

Storm And Wastewater Infrastructure: Negotiating Disputes In The Face Of Covid And Extreme Weather Events, Shannon Leininger

Arbitration Law Review (2009 - Present)

No abstract provided.

Article: Misplaced Fear, How Private International Arbitration Will Not Crumble In The Face Of Compelling Discovery Under § 1782(A), Keenan Rambo

Arbitration Law Review (2009 - Present)

No abstract provided.

Collaborcrack: A Collaborative Password Cracking Solution For Windows Penetration Testing, Andrew Griess

Theses/Capstones/Creative Projects

Cybersecurity professionals attempt to crack password hashes during penetration tests to determine if they are strong enough. A password hash is a way to encode a password securely. This paper describes a proof-of-concept program called CollaborCrack, a team-based password cracking solution. CollaborCrack addresses the issues of computational complexity, remote cracking security, duplication of work, and the cost associated with password cracking. To address computational complexity, CollaborCrack enables remote password cracking. Remote cracking requires additional safeguards, which CollaborCrack mitigates by storing sensitive information locally. To reduce the duplication of work, CollaborCrack provides a shared interface designed around collaboration and teamwork. CollaborCrack …

Effects Of Abstinence-Based Sexual Education Compared To Evidence-Based Sexual Education In K-12 Schools, Lily Probst

The Eleanor Mann School of Nursing Undergraduate Honors Theses

Background: Historically, sexual education in the United States has been abstinence-based (ABSE), meaning that sexual education is centered around encouraging adolescents to abstain from sexual activity outside of wedlock. On the other hand, evidence-based sexual education (EBSE) includes abstinence in its curriculum but does not emphasize it, instead highlighting contraception and prevention strategies. Additionally, EBSE teaches adolescents about healthy relationships, attitudes towards sexuality, gender roles, and provides resources for sexual and reproductive health services. Supplying adolescents in K-12 schools with access to evidence-based sexual education may not only decrease teen pregnancy rates and incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) but …

Bullying Experiences Among Families And Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Developmental Delay, Or Varying Ethnicities, Emma Humphrey

The Eleanor Mann School of Nursing Undergraduate Honors Theses

Bullying perpetration in schools is a significant problem within the United States that has shown to increase mental health issues and adverse outcomes in children. The purpose of this extended literature review is to evaluate the significance of bullying in children with developmental delay (autism spectrum disorder) and majority and minority ethnic groups. The review of literature analyzes implications of bullying within these vulnerable populations and the family factors associated with peer victimization. An analysis from twenty peer-reviewed chosen articles reflects heightened levels of bullying, mental health problems, and negative experiences of all researched populations. The increased amount of victimization …

Latin American Identities And The American Demonym, Maia S. Schofield

Undergraduate Distinction Papers

Current literature addresses the question of Latin American identity largely in terms of assimilation, language proficiency, generation of immigrant, and political participation, while the American demonym remains an understudied topic. ‘America’ has been popularized in its usage to refer only to the United States and ‘American’ to its nationals. Although Latin Americans are natives of the Americas, they are rarely considered ‘American’. This study examines factors that influence the identity of Latin Americans living in the United States and focuses primarily on the connection between identity and the understanding of ‘America’. To examine this relationship, a questionnaire, offered in Spanish …

King Mackerel (Scomberomorus Cavalla), Aubrey L. Anthony, Erin Keeley, David Kerstetter

All Scans: Kerstetter Fisheries and Avian Ecology 3D Scan Series

Neurocranium from [length] cm total length (TL) King Mackerel (Scomberomorus Cavalla), collected from Bravo Market on 11/16/2021 by Aubrey Anthony