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Approved Programs 4/19/22, Angela Brock

Programs Committee (PC)

No abstract provided.

Ucc Minutes 4/19/22, Angela Brock

UCC Agendas/Minutes

No abstract provided.

Composting During Winter Versus Summer: A Microbial Analysis, Madison Ochs

Honors Theses

Pre-consumer food waste, hay, and woodchips were composted using two different methods of static composting: forced aeration (FA) and natural aeration (NA). The composting process was performed during the winter and summer for 106 and 124 days, respectively. The composting process for both winter and summer processes did not reach the temperature above the 40°C threshold of the thermophilic stage in composting. The microbial communities present during different timepoints (start, peak, and final) along the composting process were analyzed with DNA sequencing techniques and visualized using QIIME 2, an open-source bioinformatics platform. The microbial communities of the winter and summer …

Editorial For Gels 6th Anniversary Special Issue, Esmaiel Jabbari, Gulden Camci-Unal

Faculty Publications

Note: In lieu of an abstract, this is an excerpt from the first page.

This Special Issue celebrates many outstanding quality papers published in Gels over the past six years since its first issue was published in 2015 [...]

Advanced Nursing Education: Critical Factors That Influence Diploma And Associate Degree Nurses To Advance, Rose L. Mcghie-Anderson

Dissertations

Advanced nursing education needs to be pursued along the continuum of the nursing career path. This education process is indispensable to the role of the nurse as educator, manager, nurse leader, and researcher who will effect policy changes and assume leadership roles as revolutionary thinkers in addition to implementing paradigmatic shifts.

This grounded theory study sought to unearth the critical factors that motivate nurses to advance academically. The study aimed to gain an understanding of the social processes associated with the decision of diploma and associate degree nurses to advance their nursing education.

Hyperactivation Is Sufficient To Release Porcine Sperm From Immobilized Oviduct Glycans, Momal Sharif, Vincent Hickl, Gabriel Juarez, Xingjian Di, Karl Kerns, Peter Sutovsky, Nicolai Bovin, David J Miller

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Fertilizing sperm are retained by adhesion to specific glycans on the epithelium of the oviduct forming a reservoir before sperm are released from the reservoir so fertilization can ensue. Capacitated sperm lose affinity for the oviduct epithelium but the components of capacitation that are important for sperm release are uncertain. One important correlate of capacitation is the development of hyperactivated motility. Hyperactivation is characterized by asymmetrical flagellar beating with high beat amplitude. We tested whether the development of full-type asymmetrical motility was sufficient to release sperm from immobilized oviduct glycans. Sperm hyperactivation was induced by four different compounds, a cell-permeable …

Healthy Foods Around The World, Jaimee Pease

Children's Book and Media Review

Kid cuisine in America, according to most restaurant menus, offers little more than chicken nuggets, plain cheeseburgers, and buttered pasta. Healthy Foods Around the World helps redefine child palates by offering a multicultural glimpse at how children enjoy staying healthy all over the world. Beth Bence Reinke, a registered dietitian, leads readers on a tour of healthy foods that crosses every continent and includes a stop in an island nation. A world map, picture glossary, and further reading suggestions conclude the tour to further help readers contextualize their place in the multicultural culinary world.

Full Issue, Various Reviewers

Children's Book and Media Review

No abstract provided.

Use Of Ar To Bring Medical Simulation To Life, Zhenhua Yu, Richard L. Doolittle, Caroline J. Easton

Frameless

Use of simulation facilities and equipment in medical training has become the fabric of curricula across nearly all professions, most notably medical school, nursing, and related medical sciences programs. The gold standard for simulators is SimMan3G, Laerdal Inc., which offers a static electronic mannequin that affords the opportunity to create disease states, signs/symptoms, and real physiological/vital sign data complemented by voice interactions between faculty (within the control room) and student. All sessions are videotaped and, through a 15-30 minute debriefing, students exchange thoughts and impressions with faculty and engage in a deep reflective learning experience. The other option for medical …

أثر إستراتيجيتي دورة التعلم المعدلة ونصوص تغيير المفاهيم في فهم طلاب الصف التاسع الأساسي لمفاهيم البناء الضوئي والتنفس في النباتات. The Effect Of The Modified Learning Cycle Strategies And The Concept Changing Texts On The Understanding Of The Basic Ninth Graders Of The Concepts Of Photosynthesis And Respiration In Plants., سالم عبد العزيز الخوالدة

Association of Arab Universities Journal for Education and Psychology

هدفت هذه الدراسة إلى استقصاء أثر إستراتيجيتي دورة التعلم المعدلة 5E، ونصوص تغيير المفاهيم، والطريقة التقليدية في فهم طلاب الصف التاسع الأساسي لمفاهيم البناء الضوئي والتنفس في النباتات.

وتم تطوير اختيار مفاهيم البناء الضوئي والتنفس في النباتات المستخدم في هذه الدراسة، اعتماداً على البيانات التي تم الحصول عليها من خلال المقابلات، التي أجريت مع عدد من معلمي الأحياء في مرحلة التعليم الأساسي، ومراجعة الأدب التربوي ذي الصلة، حيث تم تطبيقه كاختبار قبلي وبعدي على عينة مكونة من (102) من طلاب الصف التاسع الأساسي موزعين في ثلاث شعب في إحدى المدارس الأساسية للذكور في منطقة مدنية. وقد وزعت هذه الشعب عشوائياً …

Exploring Occupational Therapy's Role In An Adaptive Sport/Leisure Community-Based Program And The Experience Of Participating In Sports With Cognitive And Physical Disability, Henry Grady Iii

MOT Student Capstones

Occupational therapy is defined by the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework Domain & Process, 4th edition, as the therapeutic use of everyday life occupations with persons, groups, or populations for the purpose of enhancing or enabling participation (AOTA, 2020). This simply proclaims, occupational therapist uses everyday activities to create or restore a person's identity as identified by occupation. Engaging people with disability in active meaningful occupations (adaptive sports), through limiting barriers, occupational therapist have a role in adaptive sports programs. Meaningful physical activity is essential for sustaining a healthy lifestyle for people with disabilities and the way to address this is …

Creating A Safe Environment: The Role Of Occupational Therapy In Utilizing Sensory-Based Approaches In A Community Engagement Center, Leah Forsythe

MOT Student Capstones

ReVive Center for Housing and Healing provides occupational therapy services in an engagement center model to clients experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity in Chicago, IL, which creates opportunities as well as reveals challenges when supporting clients. One such challenge is promoting clients' well-being and occupational performance when clients experience chronic stress and trauma in their daily lives. This paper examines the effectiveness of providing training centered on trauma-informed design and sensory-based approaches to staff and students at the ReVive. The author presented an in-service training to ReVive's staff and students in March 2022, presenting information on trauma-informed design and approaches …

Benefits Of Farm-Based Occupational Therapy Interventions In Improving Fine Motor And Gross Motor Skill Development In Children At Risk For Early School Failure, Kasie S. Trivett

MOT Student Capstones

This capstone project aimed to research and educate the directors at Bright Start, an early intervention program, on the benefits of farm-based occupational therapy in developing fine motor and gross motor skills in children at risk for early school failure. Recent studies have raised concerns regarding the inadequate motor skills observed in school-aged children entering kindergarten. This study examined the benefits of farm-based occupational therapy in addressing fine motor and gross motor delays in early school-aged children. This project employed an extensive literature review, a needs assessment to survey the opinion of kindergarten teachers on their students' level of fine …

Occupational Therapy's Role In Community Integration For Sex Trafficking Victims, Georgia Brooke Thigpen

MOT Student Capstones

Human trafficking is currently one of the largest global issues, affecting an estimated 35.8 million people using various forms sexual corruption and exploitation for financial gain, resulting in modem-day form of slavery (Gorman, & Hatkevich, 2016). Women who have sustained traumatic sexual abuse continue to fall victim to their traffickers even long after they have been rescued and rehabilitated. Sex trafficking victims are more likely to have lower levels of education, difficulty finding and maintaining a job, and trouble accessing their communities. Although a plethora of research exists on both past and present statistics of sex trafficking victims, there is …

Educating Social Workers: Decreasing The Gap Of Children In Foster Care Who Need Occupational Therapy And Who Are Receiving Occupational Therapy Services, Sydney Boyles

MOT Student Capstones

Children in the foster care system have multiple increased risks including social-emotional delays, mental health concerns, academic delays, and more. Although these are all areas that the field of Occupational Therapy (OT) can address, there is a gap in the number of children in the foster care system who could benefit from OT services and who are receiving OT services. This paper explores the potential role OT services could have for children in the foster care system. To explore this potential, I used a needs assessment, pre-survey, and post-survey focused on pediatric OT with a group of social workers in …

The Daily Gamecock, Remember When, April 2022, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

April

No abstract provided.

Applying Systems Thinking To Identify Enablers And Challenges To Scale-Up Interventions For Hypertension And Diabetes In Low-Income And Middle-Income Countries: Protocol For A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study, Anusha Ramani-Chander, Mark D Huffman, Et Al

Open Access Publications

INTRODUCTION: There is an urgent need to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly in low-and middle-income countries, where the greatest burden lies. Yet, there is little research concerning the specific issues involved in scaling up NCD interventions targeting low-resource settings. We propose to examine this gap in up to 27 collaborative projects, which were funded by the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) 2019 Scale Up Call, reflecting a total funding investment of approximately US$50 million. These projects represent diverse countries, contexts and adopt varied approaches and study designs to scale-up complex, evidence-based interventions to improve hypertension and …

Integration Of Geriatric Content In Entry-Level Physical Therapy Education In The Philippines: A Pilot Study, Charlemaine Deane A. Perez

Philippine Journal of Physical Therapy

Introduction: Physical therapy (PT) practice is expected to dynamically respond to the growing needs of older adults. Currently, there is paucity in meeting the demands of the aging Filipino population that may be linked to the status of undergraduate PT education. To date, there are no known systematically analyzed data that explores the breadth of geriatric content in the local BSPT programs. This study aimed to describe the integration of geriatric-related content in the pre-clinical and clinical entry-level PT curricula.

Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional research design using survey instrumentation was conducted among heads and PT educators in higher educational …

Skin Pigmentation And Arterial Stiffness In Young Health Black And White Adults, Zoe R. Lincoln

Honors College Theses

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is currently the leading cause of death worldwide, killing over half a million people in the US every year. This issue is only becoming more prominent, as both the world and US population are experiencing increased rates of CVD risk factors such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and obesity. Black Americans specifically are experiencing increased rates of these risk factors, possibly due to lifestyle, socioeconomic, and genetic variables, ultimately leading to a higher prevalence of CVD in this population. One possible mechanism for this health disparity is racial differences in skin pigmentation, which can influence cardioprotective Vitamin …

Physical Therapy Differential Diagnosis For A Patient With Viral Central Nervous System Infection In Acute Care: A Case Study, Michael S. Castillo

Philippine Journal of Physical Therapy

Introduction: This case report presents a patient with respiratory distress who went into coma and was admitted in the intensive care unit (ICU). The paper will discuss the initial impressions in the ICU and the differential diagnosis considered to arrive at an accurate diagnosis. It will demonstrate how information from physical therapy contributed to discern the proper diagnosis, and the evolving treatment plan and interventions as the patient progressed and discharged out of the ICU into the hospital floors.

Methods: This is a case of a 32-year-old male who self-admitted to the emergency department (ED) of his local hospital …

The Handy Ir Manager: A Toolkit For Recruitment, Intake, And Promotion, Melody Herr, Jessica Kelly, Cedar C. Middleton

University Libraries Teaching and Learning

You seek fresh strategies for recruiting new collections for your institutional repository (IR). You strive to improve intake workflows and expedite metadata creation for hosted collections. You wonder how to attract users to repository content. If you see yourself in any – or all – of these scenarios, come to this session for inspiration and practical tools.

The Scholarly Communications team will present successful strategies that we’ve developed at the University of Arkansas for recruitment, intake, and promotion, using examples from our work with research centers and student journals.

Relationship Between Single Motherhood Status And Stunting Among Children Under 5 In Kgatleng, Botswana, Mulume Sf Mwamba, Shirley Gerrior, Reginald Taylor

Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

Undernutrition affects sub-Saharan African countries with increased stunting among children under 5 years old. The short- and long-term effects of this stunting include the potential for slow growth in early life, impaired health, and educational and economic disadvantages in adolescent and adult years. In this quantitative cross-sectional study, we analyzed the relationship between single-mother families and the occurrence of stunting among children under 5 years old in the Kgatleng District of Botswana. We collected primary data from 196 mothers and their children who visited selected clinics in Kgatleng. The results of the binary logistic regression analysis were significant: χ2 (1, …

Vitamin D Level Testing In An Urban Midwest Clinic: To Test Or Not To Test?, Daniel Mundt, Marianne Klumph, Kayla Heslin, Wajih Askar

Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews

Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is significantly higher among urban populations in the U.S. Midwest, with African Americans being disproportionately affected. There is ongoing debate surrounding who and how often individuals should be screened for VDD. This study aimed to understand the prevalence of VDD, associated risk factors, and discrepancies in testing at an urban-based internal medicine residency clinic. Data were retrospectively collected on all adult patients seen by the clinic during 2018 and descriptive statistical analysis performed. Among 3976 total patients (mean age: 53 years), 18% (n = 698) had vitamin D levels analyzed, with deficiency found in 71% of …

Emotional Responses And Mother-Infant Interactions Of Mothers With Early-Preterm, Late-Preterm, And Full-Term Infants In Malawi, Kaboni Whitney Gondwe

Dissertations

Malawi has the highest preterm birth rate in the world and preterm birth contribute to more than one-third of the neonatal deaths annually. Malawi is also faced with limited resources, both human and material. The lack of incubators led to the adoption of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) as routine care for preterm infants. Families also provide support, physical and emotional during this entire period. Evidence from developed countries has shown that preterm birth contributes to maternal emotional distress (depressive, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress symptoms and maternal worry about child's health) and fewer maternal and infant interactive behaviors. The majority of …

Transitional Care Interventions As Implemented By Faith Community Nurses, Deborah J. Ziebarth

Dissertations

Hospitals are seeking innovative and efficient methods of decreasing avoidable readmissions. Despite the volume of nursing literature exploring the use of advanced practices nurses in providing transitional care, only one study mentions the use of a faith community nurse. The faith community nurse operates in the community and has the skills to provide transitional care. The purpose of this study was to describe transitional care as implemented by faith community nurses using a standardized nursing language: the Nursing Intervention Classification (NIC). A mixed method descriptive design was selected to facilitate a thorough exploration of the interventions implemented by faith community …

Physical Activity Estimated By Osteogenic Potential And Energy Expenditure Has Differing Associations With Bone Mass In Young Adults: The Raine Study, Carrie Anne Ng, David Scott, Marc Sim, Kun Zhu, Aris Siafarikas, Nicolas H. Hart, Jocelyn Tan, Paola Chivers

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Summary: Ground impacts during physical activity may be important for peak bone mass. We found differences in how energy expenditure and impact scores estimated from a physical activity questionnaire related to bone health in young adults. Using both estimate types can improve our understanding of the skeletal benefits of physical activity. Purpose: It is unclear whether mechanical loading during physical activity, estimated from physical activity questionnaires which assess metabolic equivalents of task (METs), is associated with skeletal health. This longitudinal study investigated how physical activity loading scores, assessed at ages 17 and 20 years, (a) compares with physical activity measured …

Effect Of Garlic ( Allium Sativum ) Extract On Growth, Enzymological And Biochemical Responses And Immune‐Related Gene Expressions In Giant Freshwater Prawn ( Macrobrachium Rosenbergii ), Abdolreza Jahanbakhshi, Sajjad Pourmozaffar, Ibrahim Adeshina, Ali Haghi Vayghan, Miriam Reverter

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Emergency Department Antimicrobial Use In A Low-Resource Setting: Results From A Retrospective Observational Study At A Referral Hospital In Liberia, Sojung Yi, Anu Ramachandran, Lane Epps, Alex Mayah, Taylor W Burkholder, Michael Senyu Jaung, Ahson Haider, Paul Whesseh, John Shakpeh, Kayla Enriquez, Corey Bills

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

OBJECTIVE: Data on antimicrobial use in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) remain limited. In Liberia, the absence of local data impedes surveillance and may lead to suboptimal treatment, injudicious use and resistance against antimicrobials. This study aims to examine antimicrobial prescribing patterns for patients in the emergency department (ED) of a large Liberian public hospital. Secondarily, this prescribing was compared with WHO prescribing indicators.

DESIGN: Retrospective observational study.

SETTING: An adult ED of a large public hospital in Monrovia, Liberia.

PARTICIPANTS: A total of 1082 adult patients (>18 years of age) were recorded in the ED, from 1 January …

Let Food Be Thy Medicine: The Role Of Whole Food Consumption And Mental Wellness In Children, Bianca A. Allen

MOT Student Capstones

Mental Health is one of the most neglected areas of health in the U.S healthcare system, yet there continues to be an alarming rate of individuals diagnosed with mental health disorders. This group of affected individuals includes the presence of children with 3 out of 4 children predicted to experience behavior problems and mood fluctuations before the age of 17. To 3 combat mental illness, psychotropic medications are prescribed at a startling rate with children as young as 2 being placed on mental health prescriptions. Although psychotropic medications have positive outcomes on mental illness, long terms use of this class …

Summit 2021/2022: University Of Alaska Southeast's Collection Of Exceptional Works, Shaelene Grace Moler, Sabrina Croft, Olive Brend, Autumn Daigle, Francesca Johnson, Elise Tomlinson, Braden File, Rhayne Loggins, Jurny Hinz, Jessy Goodman, Randy J. Brannan Jr., Krystal Gray, Carolyn Fenno, Keefer Brown, Elizebeth Tallmadge, Skaydu.Û Jules

Summit

A Note from the Writing Specialist: For me, Summit represents pride. I’m so proud of the Writing Center tutors, who took such ownership of this project and created a remarkable collection of student work. I’m proud of the undergraduate students who submitted the work they’d put so much effort and time into. Proud that they have a place designed especially for them to showcase their writing when not many academic publications honor undergraduate work. I know how proud these students’ professors must be to see a piece of writing go from an outline to an award-winning essay. And, I am …