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Building Lasting Connections In A Temporary Setting: First-Year Residential Students' Experiences At A Primarily Nonresidential Institution, Pamela Ghigliotti Mihalik

Theses & Dissertations

Living on campus during college offers students a unique opportunity to adjust to their new environment. As they navigate this transitional phase, first-year students encounter both new opportunities and challenges that help them forge connections within their community. The type of institution, including the number of students residing on campus, can significantly influence their overall college experience and expectations. This phenomenological study examined the experiences of seven first-year students residing at a primarily nonresidential institution. Through semi-structured interviews and photo journals, the research aimed to understand how these residential students connected with their campus and what factors influenced their experiences. …

Concerto Competition

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

Concerto Competition: Final Round

Championing Food Studies Within The Field Of Irish Studies: A Serendipitous Autoethnographic Journey, Mairtin Macconiomaire

Doctoral

Food permeates every aspect of life and society, from birth to death—from the new-born’s first suckle to the food traditions associated with Irish wakes and funerals. Essential for survival, it has historically proven academically elusive, hidden in plain sight. Entangled with the domestic and the feminine, it was traditionally regarded as too mundane and too quotidian for consideration. Depending on how you define it, Irish Studies has somewhere between 50 and 100 years of history as an academic discipline. Food Studies is a more recent academic phenomenon, which has been steadily growing internationally since last decade of the twentieth century. …

Redefining The Art Songs Of Maude Valérie White, Sarah C. Rees

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Maude Valérie White (1866-1937) was an English composer during the Victorian Era. Her main output was in the genre of art song, of which she wrote more than two hundred during her life. Her music was very popular at the height of her career around 1880-1890, but fell out of favor with the general public in line with the general reaction against Victorian art and ideals. This written document focuses on the life of Maude Valérie White contextualized within the ideals of Victorian womanhood. It will explore the development of her musical style through eight song analyses: The Devout Lover, …

Fabrication And Evaluation Of Multicomponent Biomimetic Scaffolds For Bone Tissue Engineering, Mozan Osman Hassan

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

Bones have an inherent ability to remodel, but critical-size defects can hinder regeneration, leading to delayed healing or non-union fractures. Traditional bone grafts have limitations, such as donor site morbidity and immune rejection, driving the need for synthetic bone substitutes. Bone tissue engineering (BTE) addresses this by developing biomimetic scaffolds that replicate bone properties. This research aimed to fabricate composite scaffolds from strontium (Sr) and zinc (Zn) doped nano-hydroxyapatite (nHAp), collagen, and poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) polymer. Different doping percentages of Sr/Zn (1%, 2.5%, 4%) were used to fabricate the scaffolds using supercritical CO2 (ScCO2) and electrospinning techniques. Scaffolds were then analyzed …

Raas Festival: A Catalyst For Tourism Development In Assam, India, Madhuchhanda Das Gupta Dr., Chandana Bhattacharjee Dr., Rosemary Debbarma

Journal of Tourism Insights

Traditionally religious practices have been central to any celebration and have greatly influenced the shaping of the cultural identity of any society. With time, these celebrations have transitioned into mega festivals with larger participation from within and outside the community. Through the display of songs, dances, and other art forms, these festivals are upholding and preserving the ethnic identity and culture of the community. They are not only sources of relaxation and entertainment, but also provide visitors with unique cultural experience. By attracting tourists, festivals exert strong influence on the local economy, thereby, driving growth and development. The paper attempts …

A Randomized Controlled Trial Of 2% Chlorhexidine Gluconate Skin Preparation Cloths For The Prevention Of Surgical Site Infections In Adults Undergoing Spine Surgeries: Residual Reduction In Skin Bacterial Load For 4 Days, Elizabeth Card, Yaping Shi, Wuraola Adesinasi, Matt Shotwell, Nancy Wells, Elizabeth Hall, Joseph Cheng, Edward Sherwood

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

Background

Surgical site infections (SSI) result in increased morbidity and mortality, prolonged recovery, longer hospital length of stay for medication or possible additional surgeries, and escalated health care costs. The purpose of this randomized controlled trial was to compare SSI rates and overall skin flora burden between those using chlorhexidine (CHG) cloths versus soap and water preoperatively in the adult spine surgery population.

Methods

Subjects were randomized preoperatively to use 2% CHG cloths versus soap and water the night before and morning of surgery prior to the operation. A skin culture was obtained at enrollment prior to any cleansing, again …

Public-Private Partnerships In Tourism Development: An Analysis Of The Kuwait Experience, Obaid Al Otaibi

The Geographical Bulletin

Tourism and recreation has become one of the important and influential sectors in most of the modern economies. This sector has been accepted as one of the alternative sources of national income, employment, and foreign exchange. The state of Kuwait has many potentialities in tourism and recreation, and exploitation of this leads to more diversification of the economy besides augmenting its contribution to the GDP. Because Kuwait is an import oriented economy, it requires hard currencies (foreign exchange) to meet the import cost as well as to maintain stability in the international market. To compensate for the revenue fall stemmed …

The Chanticleer, 2024-10-31, Halloween Issue, Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

The editorially independent student produced weekly newspaper of Coastal Carolina University.

Solar Systems And Hind Legging: A Practitioner’S Perspective On Creative Research Practice, Nat Dianne Texler, Lola Montgomery

Staff Scholarship - Australia & Dubai

A presentation on Creative Practice Research from the perspective of the practitioner - demonstrating the different ways in which we both operate in order to show how broad research actually is under the framework.

We both work under the same framework but with entirely different ethoses - which we believe will help our colleagues understand that there's more to research than the write up.

2024-2025 Academic Catalog, The University Of Alabama In Huntsville

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Introduction, Abdullah Alkafri

Regards

Speaking of Pierre Bourdieu, John Lechte says, “Given the complexity that characterizes Bourdieu’s work, there is always a risk of misunderstanding him. It is therefore necessary to read his complete works with care – the same care that he himself took with his writings”. We begin with this quote to emphasize that the foundations of knowledge production, when approached from a sociological perspective, require studying complex conditions and determinants. These are a prerequisite for learning, recognition and research. Without them, learning can be misunderstood or misinterpreted, especially as knowledge production always takes place in a complex and complicated world that …

The Grizzly, October 31, 2024, Kate Horan, Renee Washart, Sophia Kumar, Caitlin Cunnane, Emily Veasey, Adam Denn

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Beetlejuice Breakout: Grizzly Edition • Spooky Scary STDs • UC Theater Presents an Agatha Christie Double Bill! • The Monsters are Due on Main Street • Creating "Bullshit" • Opinions: The Yap With Emily Veasey • Nerf Club: A Merry Melee • Spooky Stars of the Week! • Maples Hall-Oween

Nov. 13-17, Theatre Uab Presents 'Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812', Shannon Thomason

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Guest Recital: Gregory Williams, Viola, October 31, 2024 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Curriculum Minutes 10/31/2024, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

October 31, 2024, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2020-

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Writing To Learn: Creative Ld Perspectives For Learning Developers And Students, Sandra Abegglen, Carina Buckley, Tom Burns, Sandra Sinfield, Alicja Syska

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

Academic writing is a contested area, even more so in times of large language models and artificial intelligence (AI). This writing is tricky to navigate and master especially for newcomers – staff and students. Learning Developers almost uniquely play with writing as a practice of emergence and discovery. Academic writing is a process: we write to become academic. Students write to join their epistemic communities, and Learning Developers write to give birth to an emergent field.Drawing on recent work by Syska and Buckley (2022) and Abegglen, Burns and Sinfield (2022; 2023), we argue that academic writing is an initiation into …

Some More For Samoa: The Case For Citizenship Uniformity, Benjamin S. Morrell

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

The Necessary Opportunism Of The Common Law First Amendment, Chris Stangl

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

The First Amendment historically has been interpreted to provide greater and greater protection to more and more forms of expression. The notion of an originalist First Amendment has never commanded a majority of the Supreme Court and is unlikely to do so. Instead the development of the First Amendment has followed a common law trajectory. As the reach of its protections expands, so to do its attractiveness for arguments that may be more accurately located elsewhere in the Constitution's text. Such opportunism is a predictable, even necessary consequence of the First Amendment's common law development, and the Supreme Court tacitly …

Commonwealth Times 2024-10-30

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

The College Voice, Vol. 62, No. 3 [October 30, 2024], Connecticut College

2024-2025

No abstract provided.

The Lumberjack, October 30, 2024

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

The Current - Volume 35 Issue 5, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

October 30, 2024, Faculty, Illinois Wesleyan University

2024-2025

No abstract provided.

Spectrum, Volume 53, Issue 7, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: SHU Hosts Discussion on “Catastrophe Ethics” - Inside SHU’s AI Policy - Women’s Soccer Breaks Records - Launch of Inclusive Excellence Advisory Council - SHU Goes Green with More Electric Vehicle Charging Stations - Choir Performs at Carnegie Hall

Operating Room On-Time Starts, Jennifer C. Collins

Leadership Connection

Session presented on Monday, September 19, 2016:

Time is one of the most valuable commodities in the perioperative area. It is something that is almost impossible to place a dollar value to, yet so many people attempt to do this on a regular basis. The study being proposed is an on-going study regarding efficiency in the perioperative area and, more specifically, the Operating Room Suite. The environment being studied at present is a Level II trauma center, with academic/university affiliation.The presentation's main focusis on efficiency. The poster presentation would define lateness in regard to first-case starts. It would focus on …

Nursing Students' Views Of Using Virtual Reality In Healthcare: A Qualitative Study, Mohamad M. Saab, Margaret Landers, David Murphy, Billy O'Mahony, Eoghan Cooke, Michelle O'Driscoll, Josephine Hegarty

Individual Open Access Articles

Aims and Objectives: This study explored nursing students' views of using virtual reality in healthcare.

Background: The popularity and use of virtual reality in healthcare delivery and education is on the rise. Yet, the views of future nurses regarding this technology remain underexplored.

Design: This is a qualitative descriptive study guided by a naturalistic inquiry and reported using the Standards for Reporting Qualitative Research checklist.

Methods: Nursing students (n = 26) were recruited using convenience and snowball sampling. They were first exposed to a virtual reality intervention aimed to enhance men's awareness of testicular diseases. This was attempted to familiarise …

Spartan Daily, October 29, 2024, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2024

Volume 163, Issue 28

Mixed Chamber Ensembles

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

Mixed Chamber Ensembles