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Effects Of Longitudinal Training Walls On Two-Dimensional Flow Structure, Sediment Transport, And Bed Aggredation Using Numerical Methods And Sediment Core Analyses In Grand River, Michigan, Sumaiya Tul Siddique

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Longitudinal training walls (LTWs) are structures oriented parallelly with the main flow and separate the channel into two sub-channels. One channel acts as the main navigational channel and the other is considered a secondary side channel. The long-term effects of the LTWs on morphodynamics and deposition remain poorly understood. This study investigated the long-term effects of the LTWs on flow, sediment transport and long-term deposition of the Grand River using numerical approaches and sediment core analysis. The effects of LTWs on 2D flow dynamics and sediment transport were investigated by using numerical approaches. The long-term deposition under the influence of …

Transcript: The Intersection Of Race And Poverty In Criminal Justice, Stephen B. Bright

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

Transcript of the lecture given by Bright at the University of Tennessee College of Law Summers-Wyatt Lecture given on September 27, 2010.

Using Systems Thinking Leadership And Qsen Competencies To Design A Nursing Career Development Framework, Noreen T. Bernard, Cynthia A. Oster

Leadership Connection

The purpose of this presentation is to share the journey one Accountable Care Organization (ACO) took to meet the changing needs of the community by addressing current and future workforce shortages through building a sustainable nursing career development framework supported by Quality Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies.

Evidence-Based Practice, Drug Policy, And The Promotion Of Harm Reduction In Nursing And Society, Jonathan D. Irwin

Leadership Connection

Session presented on Monday, September 19, 2016:

Along with significant morbidity and mortality, the drug epidemic and drug war have brought widespread incarceration, hospitalization, and numerous other individual, family, and social harms. Drug overdose kills more Americans than gun violence, car crashes, or suicide, and injection drug use puts users and the public at risk for HIV, viral hepatitis, and other infections (CDC, 2014). In the researchers' mid-size population home state, over 15,230 were hospitalized at a cost of $16-29 thousand each (Jenkins & Toevs, 2014). With the drug epidemic worsening, the United States and other countries are in the …

Developing Leadership Competencies In Dnp Practice Residencies, Christina Nordick

Leadership Connection

Session presented on Monday, September 19, 2016: A void exists in exceptional leadership within health care. Dye and Garmin (2015) underscore the need to develop leaders in an unpredictable complex health care environment filled with changes in reimbursement and increasingly limited in resources. DNP prepared nursing leaders may be an integral part in filling this gap given their expertise in translational science and clinical expertise. Yet many DNP prepared nurses have not envisioned themselves as leaders in the health care arena. AACN (2015) mandates that practice experiences for DNP students incorporate all eight of the DNP Essentials. Moreover, inclusion of …

Best Practice For Assessing Cardiovascular Disease Risk In Asymptomatic Women 35-54 Years, Isabelle Skurka

Leadership Connection

The purpose of this evidence-based practice project was to determine the effect of cardiovascular disease screening on asymptomatic women between the ages of 35 and 54 years after implementing and evaluating cardiovascular disease risk stratification and healthy lifestyle modifications

Technology-Based Tools To Deliver Quality Programs, Julie A. Jones

Leadership Connection

Session presented on Thursday, September 20, 2012: Learn new tools that will save you time and help deliver quality programs to members. If you are having trouble reaching a wide geographic area or finding the time to create a program, then this is the session for you!

Mentorship Impact On Novice Advanced Practice Provider Satisfaction And Turnover, Michelle Gillard

Group: Northern Arizona University School of Nursing, DNP Doctoral Papers

In response to a healthcare provider shortage, the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) workforce is rapidly expanding with more practitioners entering clinical practice than ever before. Unfortunately, once APRNs enter the workforce, decreased job satisfaction, role strain, and increased job demands may contribute to high turnover rates. To increase institutional support for novice Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) during the transition period, a large academic quaternary pediatric hospital in the southwestern United States developed a mentorship subcommittee for APPs with fewer than two years of advanced practice experience. This quality improvement project evaluated the impact of formal mentorship on job satisfaction …

Implementing A Community Education Campaign To Improve Prenatal Care Among Navajo Women, Adrien J. Gupton

Group: Northern Arizona University School of Nursing, DNP Doctoral Papers

Early and consistent prenatal care (PNC) is essential to preventing adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes. Despite the recommendations made by the World Health Organization and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, childbearing women with health disparities living in rural settings are at an increased risk of experiencing inadequate PNC compared to their urban counterparts. The literature search suggests that limited access to PNC, childcare during the PNC visit, health care provider's perceptions of patients, and provider mistrust are barriers to early and consistent PNC. Growing research is placing a call to health care providers to implement interventions that are …

Magnesium Sulfate In Relation To Preeclamptic Postpartum Mothers, Megan Lihs, Nancy Murray, Valerie Lynn Anderson

Group: Nebraska Methodist College

Magnesium sulfate is often used from the onset of labor and during the postpartum period to stabilize maternal blood pressure. Because little is known about magnesium sulfate, there is a concern that allowing mothers to pump or breastfeed while receiving this medication may place additional stress on the mother’s body. The purpose of this project was to determine whether preeclamptic postpartum mothers receiving magnesium sulfate who initiated breast-pumping within 1-4 hours post-delivery experienced elevated blood pressures, as evidenced by a rise above 140/90 mm Hg. A retrospective chart review of mothers who delivered in 2017, received magnesium sulfate, required immediate …

“Just Right” Definitions Of Local Labor Markets: Introducing Slms, Timothy J. Bartik

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Green Cities And Transportation, Ariadna Reyes-Sanchez, Soheil Sharifi-Asl, Ladan Mozaffarian

Mavs Open Press Open Educational Resources - Archive

Green Cities and Transportation examines the significance of sustainable transportation projects for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions while supporting transportation equity for vulnerable commuters. The book examines insightful case studies from around the world that can serve as a reference for sustainable transportation initiatives in the U.S. It is organized into three sections: 1) Sustainability, Transportation Equity, and Planning, 2) Case Studies and Lessons from the North and South, and 3) Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Cities, and Mobility.

Transportation Land Use Modeling And Policy, Qisheng Pan, Soheil Sharifi-Asl

Mavs Open Press Open Educational Resources - Archive

Transportation Land Use Modeling and Policy provides a comprehensive introduction to land use and transportation models, offering a detailed exploration of integrated modeling approaches through case studies and real-world examples. It begins with an overview of current transportation planning issues and moves into several chapters dedicated to integrated land-use and transportation models, including Land Suitability, Lowry-type models, and more recent approaches such as MEPLAN and PECAS. The book also examines traditional travel demand modeling (TDM), giving readers a solid foundation in the subject.

Editorial: Advances In Ecological Environment Changes In Coastal And Estuarine Waters In Response To Hydrodynamic Variability, Jiayi Pan, Yeqiang Shu, Zhe-Wen Zheng, Adam T. Devlin, Majid Nazeer, Andrew M. Fischer

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Over the past few decades, coastal and estuarine ecological environments have undergone significant and rapid transformations, driven by a range of factors, with the variability in hydrodynamic conditions being one of the most prominent (Elliott et al., 2019; Statham, 2012; Da et al., 2024). These dynamic forces influence water movement, sediment transport, and nutrient cycling, all of which are critical components affecting the health and stability of these ecosystems (van Vliet et al., 2023; Li et al., 2023). Consequently, understanding and interpreting hydrodynamic processes in coastal and estuarine waters are fundamental to unraveling the mechanisms behind ecological changes. This task …

Employment Research, Vol. 31, No. 4, October 2024

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Identity Of A Gymnast: How Health, Wellbeing, And Injury Become Embodied In The Identity Of Collegiate Gymnasts, Skyler M. Yakes

LSU Master's Theses

Gymnastics scholarship has traditionally focused on the physicality of the sport and what the body can and cannot do. This research expands upon gymnastics scholarship by exploring the individual experiences and histories of college gymnasts in the United States through a series of interviews. The goals of this research are to better understand the gymnastics experience and to explore health and wellbeing in gymnastics as it pertains to the formation of a gymnast’s identity. A combined approach using medical anthropology and anthropology of sport serves as a guiding framework for analyzing interview data. Definitions of health and wellbeing change between …

“Just Right” Definitions Of Local Labor Markets: Introducing Slms, Timothy J. Bartik

Upjohn Institute Policy and Research Briefs

No abstract provided.

Pisa 2022. Assessing Creative Thinking For A Better Future, Lisa De Bortoli, Catherine Underwood

OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Australia

Creative thinking was assessed as an innovative domain for the first time in PISA 2022. This report presents the creative thinking results for Australia as a whole, for the Australian states and territories and for the other groups in PISA 2022. It is one of two thematic reports providing additional high-level analysis of Australia's 2022 PISA performance. Differences in results are only reported if tests of statistical significance showed that these were likely to be real differences; that is, differences were unlikely to be caused by chance.

Preparation Of K–12 Preservice Music Teacher Educators Using Assessment Strategies, Frederica Doctor

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Recent studies suggest that preservice music teacher educators (MTEs) had more experience in assessment preparation at the graduate level than during their undergraduate experience. Although music standards and assessments emphasize providing information about student learning, research investigating what assessment strategies music faculty are using and teaching to prepare preservice MTEs is limited. The purpose of this basic qualitative research study was to address the gap in research regarding assessment strategies used and taught by music faculty across the United States to prepare K–12 preservice MTEs for classroom instruction. The study is grounded in the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation …

Enhancing Writing By Increasing Metacognitive Skills Through Socratic Seminars In A High Poverty Middle School Social Studies Classroom: An Intrinsic Case Study, Kirsten Hickingbottom

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this intrinsic case study was to better understand the role metacognitive skills play within classroom settings to increase students’ writing through Socratic Seminars. A predominant question guided this study: Can improving student metacognition through the repetitive use of questioning techniques in Socratic Seminars lead to improved writing skills? This question, along with four additional research questions guided the research. There is a need for more activities that promote metacognition due to its correlation with academic achievement, critical thinking skills, problem-solving abilities, and perceived self-efficacy (Keus, 2020). The significance of this study was to examine a method of …

Embracing Cultural Diversity In Health Care: Developing Cultural Competence, Registered Nurses' Association Of Ontario

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

This guideline addresses:
- Knowledge, competencies and behaviours that exist in culturally competent workplaces
- Indicators and features of culturally competent practice settings
- Organizational values, relationships, structures and processes that support development of culturally competent practices
- Learning and development required to develop, support, and sustain culturally competent practices
- Behaviours and practices that reflect cultural awareness and serve as facilitators to embracing diversity in the workplace

A Qualitative Exploration Of Spiritual Practices Of Simplicity Among Emerging Adults, Falon Opsahl Barton

Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry

This article explores how emerging adults (18 to 29‐year‐olds) integrate pro‐environmental behaviors and spiritual practices of simplicity. First, this article synthesizes the research on emerging adulthood, including what it is, how they experience and express their spirituality, and their emotional and practical behaviors in response to the climate crisis. Then, this article explores how a small sample of Western Protestant emerging adults practice pro‐environmental simplicity in their daily lives. As a result of integrating spiritual practices that focus on simplicity and pro‐environmental behaviors into their spiritual expressions, emerging adults experience profound spiritual formation and a meaningful way of participating in …

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, October 28, 2024, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

Co-Producing Learning Space In A Prison-University Partnership, Ross E. Little

Journal of Prison Education Research

This article explores a classroom co-produced by learners serving prison sentences, undergraduate criminology students and a pair of lecturer-facilitators. This space, in a high security prison for men serving life sentences (‘HMP Lifer’), provides a good example of ethical praxis and moral sight working in combination to mitigate against moral and ethical blindness. It is a mechanism by which pedagogical concerns, and some human-centred ones, can be realised in an unconventional context.

There are two areas to the discussion. Firstly, the effects of incorporating students from outside the prison into the classroom space, such as enhanced proximity, the reduction of …

Editor's Comments, Lawrence R. Handley

The Geographical Bulletin

Editor's Comments

Cover And Forewords, Lawrence R. Handley

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords

Getting Started With Geographic Information Systems By Keith C. Clark, Shivaij Prasad

The Geographical Bulletin

Since its first edition, this book has been an excellent contribution to the field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This fourth edition is considerably improved over the previous edition in terms of both extraordinary breadth of subject matter covered and the straightforward manner in which the information is presented. In four sections and 340 pages total, Getting Started With GIS covers the core of most GIS applications needed to address fundamental spatial questions such as where, what, and why. This very readable text is logically ordered with each chapter nicely balanced between GIS concepts and its practical applications. Throughout the …

Volume 46-2 Complete Issue, Lawrence Handley

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 46-2 Complete Issue

Urban Street Systems In Nineteenth-Century Ohio Towns: An Analysis Of Diffusion, John M. Wegner

The Geographical Bulletin

This study considers the possible “migration” of urban street patterns associated with discrete east coast culture regions to America’s trans-Appalachian interior during the 19th century. Also examined was the possibility that these street patterns became less “culturallybound,“ or more admixed, over time. Ohio, one of the first (and most culturally diverse) trans-Appalachian states, was the focus of the study. To ascertain answers to the above questions, data pertaining to town platting throughout the state (as well as for four distinct survey regions associated with discrete east coast migration) was culled from county atlases and histories. Variables were selected so as …

Human Rights Abuses On The U.S.-Mexico Border, Emily J. Salava

The Geographical Bulletin

INTRODUCTION This study examines the current human rights abuses found at the United States and Mexico border. For the purposes of this paper, human rights are defined as found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948, but other agreements may be cited for reference. What one person considers an abuse, another person may coin as a reality of life. The focus of this study is on the existence of human rights abuses, but does not specifically examine the historical causes. There are many agencies working in the region and abroad to protect the …