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Guido Speaks, Jill E. Martin

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Vitruvian Shareholder, Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The proportions of Leonardo's Vitruvian Man allow the human figure to fit a circle and a square, which in Renaissance iconography represent respectively the secular and divine dimensions. Good canons allow for a proportionate and simultaneous coexistence of the two natures of humankind. Human shareholders have two natures, too: one as investors and one as human beings. Similar to the Vitruvian Man, a shareholder with good proportions fits a metaphorical circle and a metaphorical square: the former represents the human dimension, and the latter represents the investor. I dub retail investors who proportionately balance their interests as human beings who …

Legislating Flexibility In The Post-Pandemic Workplace, Madeleine Gyory

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Working parents and caregivers in the United States struggle to balance the dual demands of work and care. Many working caregivers need flexible work arrangements (FWAs)-changes to their hours, schedule, or location-to allow them to balance work and care. But access to flexibility remains out of reach for many workers and is least accessible to the most marginalized. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored this problem, as huge numbers of women dropped out of the workforce to care for family. While no federal or state law requires employers to grant FWAs to caregivers, several states and localities have passed "right to request" …

Sustainability In Education And Healthcare Field: An Integrative Review Of Factors, Barriers, And The Path Forward For Informed Practices, Joseph U. Almazan, April Manabat, Zulyar Kavashev, Meruyert Smagulova, Paolo C. Colet, Ejercito Mangawa Balay-Odao, Ainetta Nurmagambetova, Srinivasa Rao Bolla, Alma Syzdykova, Zhaniya Dauletkaliyeva, Jonas P. Cruz

Health Professions Education

Purpose: This integrative review consolidated and synthesized diverse research articles aimed at investigating various environmental factors in sustainability education, including in the healthcare field. Likewise, it provided a holistic understanding of challenges, facilitators, and their significance.

Method: Eight databases with different search terms were searched in this integrative review following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). A total of 19 papers were quality evaluated using a standardized review tool.

Results: Three major themes emerged from the integrative review such as: “Factors affecting Sustainability Education” which include specific factors such as responsible environmental behavior, …

Replacing Alumni Surveys With Web Searches, Farrokh Alemi, Peggy Maddox

Health Professions Education

Purpose: To examine which components of an alumni survey can be replaced with information posted on the Internet by alumni.

Methods: Surveys were conducted for four programs, including 41 alumni of Master of Health Administration, 50 alumni of Master of Science in Health Informatics, 75 alumni of Master of Science in Social Work and 90 alumni of Bachelor of Art History. Demographic, career advancement, industry, location of work, and estimated salary were available through searching the web. Program reviews was not widely available and emailing alumni allowed to supplement web-available data with comments on the program.

Results: …

User Acceptance Towards Virtual Reality For Basic Life Supports Teaching In A Multi Professional Education Context, Diantha Soemantri, Uti Nilam Sari, Aldy Heriwardito, Luthfi Saiful Arif

Health Professions Education

Purpose. To examine students’ acceptance of basic life support (BLS) virtual reality (VR). The study’s aim is based on the first level of Kirkpatrick’s evaluation model. Method. A cross-sectional study examined at Health Sciences Cluster (HSC) students’ acceptance of BLS VR used in a multi-professional course conducted in the HSC Universitas Indonesia, in 2023. A total of 759 first-year HSC students from five professions/schools (medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and public health) were recruited in this study. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with maximum likelihood and varimax rotation was used to assess the questionnaire’ construct validity. An open ended question was …

Exploring Physiotherapy Students' Experiential Learning With Physical Modalities And Their Relationship To Knowledge, Attitudes, And Practices: A Mixed Methods Investigation, Muhammed Rashid, Anoop Joy, Kavitha Raja, Jerin Mathew

Health Professions Education

Purpose: An experiential learning approach (ExL) is imperative in physiotherapy education as it facilitates the conscious recognition and transformation of experiences in clinical practice. Thus, ExL can help reduce fear avoidance and apprehension behaviour by allowing students to gain hands-on experience and confidence in delivering optimal patient care. The primary objective of this study was to explore physiotherapy students' thresholds and tolerance to noxious thermal and pressure stimuli and how these factors correlate with their self-reported Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) outcomes.

Methods: A mixed-method approach was employed, incorporating descriptive, qualitative, and exploratory research design methods to investigate the student’s …

Librarians Discuss Textbook Affordability As An Equity Issue, Robert L. Butterfield, Christa Perez Bailey, Kendra Lake, Adriana Poo, Mitchell Scott, Allia Service, Rachel E. Scott

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

Librarians working in academic settings have taken different stances on providing access to materials assigned in courses. Although libraries have long offered course reserves, adding course-assigned materials to permanent library collections has been discouraged for a variety of reasons. A number of events and considerations—including COVID-19 campus shutdowns, growing online degree programs, increased support for student success, availability of open educational resources (OER), and new e-books licensing models that support multiple users—have made library provisioning of assigned materials, commonly referred to as textbooks, more mainstream. Despite differences in their scope, approach, and workflows, many library-led textbook affordability programs share the …

Novel Regulators Of Small G Proteins In The Pancreatic Beta Cell, Noah Gleason

Wayne State University Dissertations

Regulation of small GTPases within the pancreatic beta cell is a highly complex and coordinated sequence of protein interactions and post translational modifications. Various families participate in the physiological secretion of insulin in roles ranging from cytoskeletal reorganization to secretory vesicle priming and docking. However the regulatory partners of GTPase function, while studied broadly, lack vital information relating to smgGDS, a protein chaperone of small GTPases to and from the prenylation machinery, and RhoGDI function. Herein these studies are aimed to further our understanding of GTPase regulation and alterations that occur during metabolic stress (glucotoxicity) and related beta cell dysfunction.Data …

Age Of Autism Diagnosis In Latin American And Caribbean Countries, Cecilia Montiel-Nava, María Cecilia Montenegro, Ana C. Ramirez, Daniel Valdez, Analía Rosoli, Ricardo Garcia, Gabriela Garrido, Sebastián Cukier, Alexia Rattazzi, Cristiane Silvestre Paula

Psychological Science Faculty Publications

An earlier diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder might lead to an earlier intervention, yet knowledge and awareness of autism spectrum disorder in Latin America and Caribbean Countries are limited. A later autism spectrum disorder diagnosis has been associated with negative consequences, as it might imply later access to services. This study aims to identify factors associated with the age of autism spectrum disorder diagnosis as reported by 2520 caregivers of autistic children from six Latin America and Caribbean Countries. Results indicate that on average, caregivers were concerned about their child’s development by 22 months of age; however, the diagnosis was …

Digital Physicians: Unleashing Artificial Intelligence In Transforming Healthcare And Exploring The Future Of Modern Approaches, Ban Salman Shukur, Mohd Khanapi Abd Ghani, Burhanuddin Bin Mohd Aboobaider

Mesopotamian Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Growing global awareness that attention to health care is the basis for maintaining citizens' quality of life. Health institutions seek to increase interest in electronic care services and enhance patient results by integrating artificial intelligence techniques. Artificial intelligence tools are indispensable to diagnosis, treatment, and patient care. Integrating artificial intelligence techniques into the development of the electronic healthcare environment works to enhance public health and disease prevention and provide free services to all citizens. Designing electronic platforms raises health awareness in society, provides health programs and initiatives, and reaches homes, gardens, schools, and universities through applications based on artificial intelligence. …

Ivermectin, Colleen Aldous, Eleftherios Gkioulekas, Philip Oldfield

School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Enhanced Resolution Method For Electromagnetic Vortex Imaging Based On Electromagnetic Information Theory, Da Liu, Hongyin Shi, Ting Yang, Zhijun Qiao

School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Faculty Publications

The electromagnetic vortex imaging possesses independent orbital angular momentum with orthogonal degrees of freedom (DoF), which implies the existence of enhanced information capacity. However, high-mode orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams have stringent generation conditions and inefficient information carrying capacity, which results in limited resolution. This paper proposes a method to combine the electromagnetic information theory (EIT) with the traditional electromagnetic vortex imaging technique, which allows one may obtain more target azimuth information. The DoF, as the main component of information, has been increased to achieve higher azimuth resolution. First, the propagation and imaging model for the electromagnetic vortex with statistical …

Hypermodern Affect, Political Orientation, And Conspiracy Theory Ideation In The Age Of Postmodernity, Rachel L. Anderson

Scripps Senior Theses

Recent scholarly undertakings have aimed to demystify an increasingly salient issue that threatens to disrupt cultural, political, and social domains: conspiracy theory ideation. Underpinning injurious right-wing political coalitions, anti-vaccination campaigns, out-group derogation, and, in drastic circumstances, instances of genocide, conspiracy theory informs myriad anthropogenic movements that jeopardize pillars of democracy and scientific reasoning. Intending to reveal the psychological predictors of conspiracy ideation, the present study will examine the utility of individual perceptions of societal marginalization, feelings of loneliness, belongingness, and authoritarianism in predicting the endorsement of conspiracy theory ideology among rural populations via a cross-sectional online survey and subsequent hierarchical …

Political Social Media Use, Self-Efficacy, And Physical Participation, Paloma Ayala-Abellar

Scripps Senior Theses

Social media has become an integral part of daily life, particularly among Generation Z, transforming the way individuals engage with political movements and activism. This study explores how political social media usage influences feelings of self-efficacy and physical political participation among Generation Z in Los Angeles County. Leveraging survey data from 126 participants, the research examines the role of social media platforms—Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Twitter/X—in fostering self-efficacy and mobilizing individuals to engage physically with social movements. Findings reveal that frequent engagement with political content on social media, such as liking, sharing, and following, enhances feelings of self-efficacy, empowering users …

Pharyngitis- Antibiotic Duration, Children's Mercy Kansas City

Clinical Critically Appraised Topics

No abstract provided.

Segment Anything: A Review, Firas Hazzaa, Innocent Udoidiong, Akram Qashou, Sufian Yousef

Mesopotamian Journal of Computer Science

Segment Anything (SA) is a state-of-the art method for universal object segmentation, which does not need task-specific training. Herein, we emphasize that SA can overcome the limitations of traditional segmentation frameworks based on requiring extensive manually annotated datasets and predefined architectures, as extensively documented in this review. SB supercharges performance and reduces cost by combining Mutual Information learning with an Efficient Transformer architecture, benefiting from a substantially larger pool of in-the-wild data. In this paper we review SA and its specific key innovations generality, resource boundedness, and scalability to large datasets. We also face obstacles such as data biases, computational …

Narco Service Provisions In Tierra Caliente: La Familia Michoacana, Los Caballeros Templarios, And Los Zetas, Itzel Mendoza

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

This article analyzes the mutual relationship of dependency between civil society and narco cartels in Tierra Caliente, focusing on civilian experiences in Michoacan, Guerrero and el Estado de México. This paper will examine the functions of La Familia Michoacana, Los Caballeros Templarios and Los Zetas through community service provisions and cartels’ governance. Additionally, socioeconomic factors of Tierra Caliente will be examined to determine which types of communities lend themselves to cartels to provide community provisions as I argue that socioeconomic factors drive cartels’ operations and behaviors.

Augmenting K-Means Clustering With Qualitative Data To Discover The Engagement Patterns Of Older Adults With Multimorbidity When Using Digital Health Technologies: Proof-Of-Concept Trial, Yiyang Sheng, Raymond Bond, Rajesh Jaiswal, John Dinsmore, Julie Doyle

Articles

Background: Multiple chronic conditions (multimorbidity) are becoming more prevalent among aging populations. Digital health technologies have the potential to assist in the self-management of multimorbidity, improving the awareness and monitoring of health and well-being, supporting a better understanding of the disease, and encouraging behavior change. Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze how 60 older adults (mean age 74, SD 6.4; range 65-92 years) with multimorbidity engaged with digital symptom and well-being monitoring when using a digital health platform over a period of approximately 12 months. Methods: Principal component analysis and clustering analysis were used to group participants …

Hcai Block Model: A Competence Model For Human Centred Artificial Intelligence At K-12, Brian Conway, Keith Nolan, Keith Quille

Conference Papers

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming a common topic within thecomputing K-12 curricula worldwide. While much of the focusof research is on the use of Generative AI in and for education,AI as a core subject area is still gaining popularity, with much ofthis research focusing on content and tools that effectively support the teaching of AI. However, as we grow as a field, there isa need currently unmet to provide foundations (in the form of ablock model as there exists for programming) to allow researchersto build strong pedagogies and methodologies from, and even abase to design activities and content. Compounding this, …

Geographies Of Festival And Event Spaces And Places, Bernadette Quinn

Books

No abstract provided.

1st Eut+ International Conference On Languages, Tamara Onnis, Stefanie Morgret

Conference Proceedings

Language has to power to bind us or divide us. Language enables us to cooperate with each other or impede each other. Through language, we are able to be the human beings we are today, hold our value systems dear and accomplish all that we have done over millennia. This volume provides an impression of the first international EUt+ language conference on ‘Inter/Multiculturalism in a Post Colonial Era: Languages and European Values’ hosted by University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt. Thirteen contributions invite you to experiences, ideas and research findings related to language and its interaction with intercultural communication, European values …

Bridging The Gap: Determinants Of Consumers' Willingness To Pay For Environmentally Friendly Packages Of Leafy Greens, Carissa Dieli, Anushree Priyadarshini, Robert Ludgate, Lorraine Foley

Articles

Government and corporate policies have mandated a reduction in plastic packaging to combat issues of waste and climate change. This move towards sustainable packaging alternatives in the fresh food sector will increase costs for consumers. Much of the present research finds consumers are willing to pay more for sustainability, but their willingness to pay (WTP) does not align with real-world purchases, representing an attitude–behaviour gap. To combat this gap, it is posited that consumers' current purchasing- and sustainability-related behaviours will meaningfully correlate with their WTP and bridge the attitude–behaviour gap. This research used an online survey (n = 476) to …

Speculative Practicescapes Of Learning Design And Dreaming, Eamon Costello, Jason K. Mcdonald, F. Macgilchrist, P. Jandrić, H. Carbonel, S. Crighton, A. Buch, M. A. Peters

Faculty Publications

This article addresses a serious issue that besets learning design: its over-reliance on frameworks that promise particular outcomes for individual learners that accord with pre-defined metrics. This is partly a function of the nature of learning design and devel- opment itself which is commonly seen as outcome-oriented activity that should ben- efit individual learners in specific ways. An alternative approach is adopted here which calls attention to other happenings at the heart of education, including positive emo- tions we experience that are made known through less measurable and more fleeting points of reference. Hence, we draw on sources such as …

5.Meeting The Attachment Needs Of Nursing Home Residents With Dementia, Lucia Carragher, Gemma Jones, Ann Marron, Laura Ballantine

Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies

No abstract provided.

Reaching A 'Breaking Point' - Women’S Experiences Of Caring In Ireland During Covid-19, Cliona Loughnane, Mary Hayes

Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies

The inequitable division of care between women and men has been central to the perpetuation of gender inequalities in Ireland and internationally. COVID-19 brought new visibility to the caring needs of society and underlined the need for personal and political structures and supports which account for care. During Ireland’s first lockdown, many women were caring for their families and homes, working in paid employment, providing home-schooling and supporting loved ones outside the home. In May 2020, the Women’s Experiences of Caring during COVID-19 online survey sought to capture the experiences of women providing informal, unpaid care during the pandemic. 85% …

Risk Factors As Indicators For Online Child Sexual Abuse: A Systematic Review, Lesley Lally, Isobel Webb, Ethel Quayle

Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies

Abstract

Introduction: Online child sexual abuse has been described as a serious public health issue worldwide in today’s society. The long-term consequences of such abuse have been well-reported, and the risks in which youth are made more vulnerable to this abuse must be better understood.

Objective: To synthesise and evaluate the literature regarding risk factors of online sexual exploitation by focusing on the following question: What are the risk factors that make children vulnerable to online child sexual abuse and solicitation?

Method: A systematic review was completed using search strings within several databases, a hand search was conducted, and …

The Cost Of Caring – Understanding Psychological Distress In Support Staff Who Work With Adults With An Intellectual Disability In Ireland., Deirdre Mullins Ms, Dr. Christopher Mccusker

Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies

Background: Evidence suggests that levels of psychological distress are elevated in staff who support people with challenging behaviour (CB) and intellectual disability (ID) in residential care. However, in Ireland, there has been little research examining the extent of this and determinants thereof. Specific Aims: This study explored psychological functioning and workplace related quality of life, and factors associated with such, in support staff in Ireland. Method: 109 participants were recruited through a social media platform. Levels of stress, depression, anxiety and work-related quality of life were assessed using standardised measures. A bespoke questionnaire assessed key work-related factors such as …

Happy To Zoom: A New Frontier In Online Delivery Of Day-Care For Older People During Covid-19, Suzanne C. Smith Msc, Holly O'Brien, Darragh Mccashin Phd

Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies

From early in the COVID-19 pandemic, community day-care centres sought to find ways to deliver services remotely using digital tools, but older people are often presumed resistant to using digital technologies. This study sought to examine the delivery of community day-care services at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify the willingness of older service users to participate in day-care activities remotely while in-person services were unavailable. Community day-care services are essential to ensuring social participation and overall wellbeing for many older people who remain living at home. On March 16^th, 2020, like many other services, …

Learning From Secondary Blended Teaching Practitioners: Selecting Activities And Connecting In-Person And Online Learning, Michelle Jensen, Charles R. Graham, Cecil R. Short

Faculty Publications

Implementation of blended teaching (BT) practices is increasing rapidly in K-12 classrooms. This trend creates an urgent need for professional development to support BT. An understanding of how experienced teachers implement BT can inform teacher educators and professional development leaders as they develop training to support this practice. We interviewed 24 secondary educators implementing BT strategies to determine what activities they include in the online space and how they connect them to in-person learning. Qualitative thematic analysis of the interviews revealed that experienced blended teachers used a variety of online activities, providing opportunities for learners to interact with content, other …