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Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Washington County, Tennessee For The Year Ended June 30, 2024, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury.

Tennessee County Audit Reports

No abstract provided.

Annual Financial Report Williamson County, Tennessee For The Year Ended June 30, 2024, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury.

Tennessee County Audit Reports

No abstract provided.

Law Professor Recognized For Work With Student-Athletes, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame has recognized University of Mississippi law professor Ronald Rychlak among 16 faculty athletics representatives nationwide.

Reducing The Incidence Of Nosocomial Aspiration Pneumonia In Adult Oncology Patients, Alexandra Violeta Theodosopoulos

Master's Projects and Capstones

Objective: Cytotoxic chemotherapy places oncology patients at risk of complications such as mucosal barrier injuries (MBI) and aspiration pneumonia. Current literature supports the use of high-quality oral hygiene protocols to reduce the frequency and severity of these complications.

Aim: By end of fiscal year 2025, we will achieve a 0.2% reduction in incidences of aspiration pneumonia, from 1.5% to 1.3% of total patient discharges, among adult cancer patients in the oncology units. Methods: A survey was used to gather baseline oral hygiene compliance data on six acute care oncology units. Based on the results of the survey and discussions with …

The Diamond, December 13, 2024, Dordt Unversity

Dordt Diamond

• Front Page: Defenders Dominate the Ice in Weekend Tournament; New NCDC Voting System Causes Controversy; "More Than a Headline:" Inside Kinsey Elementary's School Performance Profile
• News: Student-Made Short Film, Remember What's Important to Make Its Debut Tonight; Swing Dance Club and the High School Musical Moon; Trump Restocks His Cabinet: A Rundown of the President-Elect's Picks; Pastor Carlos and Raquel Perez Answer the Call to the U.S.
• Feature: From Rubble to Hope: Missionary to Lebanon Shares Testimony and Experience and Dordt; Overview of the Film You're Not Alone; Underclassmen Women Decorate their Doors in "Deck the …

Assessing Ocean Attitudes, Decision-Making, And Learning Of Oceanography Camp Especially For Girls Participants, Serenity Poston-Hymel

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

The ocean provides many important economic, nutritional, and cultural resources and ecosystem services to human populations. However, many anthropogenic activities are threatening ocean ecosystems and these vital resources (Inniss et al., 2016). Ocean literacy is the knowledge, attitude, and behaviors that pertain to the ocean, its systems, and its relationships with humans (Brennan et al., 2019; Schoedinger et al., 2005). A key goal of ocean literacy is encouraging informed decisions and behaviors pertaining to the ocean, leading to responsible management and use of ocean resources (Santoro et al., 2018). Ocean attitudes and environmental moral reasoning are vital in influencing positive …

Exploring Strategies To Reduce Physician Turnover And Costs During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Ne'kecha Pellam Brabham

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Hospitals face the risk of adverse business outcomes due to physician turnover, which can lead to increased costs and poorer patient care. C-suite executives, in collaboration with human resources managers (HRMs), are struggling to develop strategies to reduce turnover and burnout, while also enhancing key factors like job satisfaction and employee engagement grounded in the job demands-resources theory. The purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry was to explore the strategies employed by HRMs in the healthcare industry to effectively reduce physician turnover and associated costs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The participants were 13 HRMs in the health care industry in …

Exploring Strategies To Reduce Physician Turnover And Costs During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Ne'kecha Pellam Brabham

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Hospitals face the risk of adverse business outcomes due to physician turnover, which can lead to increased costs and poorer patient care. C-suite executives, in collaboration with human resources managers (HRMs), are struggling to develop strategies to reduce turnover and burnout, while also enhancing key factors like job satisfaction and employee engagement. Grounded in the job demands-resources theory. The purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry was to explore the strategies employed by HRMs in the healthcare industry to effectively reduce physician turnover and associated costs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The participants were 13 HRMs in the health care industry in …

Design And Synthesis Of Bimetallic Catalyst And Multifunctional Peptide Catalysis For Organic Synthesis And Synthesis Of Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (Protacs) For Sphk1 And Sphk2, Mariur Rodriguez Moreno

Theses and Dissertations

In the first part of this dissertation (chapters 1-4) we discuss the development of bimetallic and monometallic palladium complexes scaffolded on 2-phosphinoimidazole ligands and their application to cross-coupling reactions. Specifically, we discovered a bimetallic Pd(II) dimer that performs a tandem arylation/annulation reaction to produce naphthalene products from aryl iodides and ketones (Chapter 2). We then show that bimetallic Pd(II) and Pd (I) complexes have different activity in different transformations and that the starting oxidation state of our catalysts is important for reactivity (Chapter 3). For example, we demonstrate that our Pd(I) dimer is much more active in Buchwald- Hartwig amination …

Data Privacy Protection For Zero-Permission Sensors In Iot Systems, Xinyi Liu

Theses

The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized various domains through real-time decision-making and automation, with sensors serving as foundational components. Zero-permission sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes, are widely used in most IoT systems, enabling unrestricted data access without permission. Despite being traditionally perceived as low-sensitivity, recent studies have shown that these sensors can be exploited to infer sensitive personal information, raising serious privacy concerns. Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is a rigorous technique for numerical data privacy protection even when the data collector, such as an IoT service provider, is untrusted. LDP ensures privacy by adding noise to sensor readings …

Shell In The Sand, Mukund Kuntimad

Theses

sHELL in the Sand is a 2D animated student thesis film produced at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The film stars Travis, a newborn baby sea turtle who is trying to avoid certain death on his journey to the ocean. Among the threats he faces are sand traps, human litter, and natural natural predators. The main persistent threat that Travis has to deal with is a hungry pirate crab named Captain Fannyklaws, whose one goal is to make a meal out of Travis. The film serves as a metaphor for the struggles of everyday life that everyone goes through, showing …

2024-12-13 Minutes Of The Executive Committee Of The Academic Senate, University Of Dayton. Academic Senate. Executive Committee

ECAS Minutes

Approved minutes of a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton.

Re: Comment Letter For Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Residential Metals Abatement Program (Rmap) Plan (Dated October 29, 2024), Molly Roby

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Key Epigenetic And Signaling Factors In The Formation And Maintenance Of The Blood-Brain Barrier, Jayanarayanan Sadanandan, Sithara Thomas, Iny Elizabeth Mathew, Zhen Huang, Spiros L Blackburn, Nitin Tandon, Hrishikesh Lokhande, Pierre D Mccrea, Emery H Bresnick, Pramod K Dash, Devin W Mcbride, Arif Harmanci, Lalit K Ahirwar, Dania Jose, Ari C Dienel, Hussein A Zeineddine, Sungha Hong, Peeyush Kumar T

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) controls the movement of molecules into and out of the central nervous system (CNS). Since a functional BBB forms by mouse embryonic day E15.5, we reasoned that gene cohorts expressed in CNS endothelial cells (EC) at E13.5 contribute to BBB formation. In contrast, adult gene signatures reflect BBB maintenance mechanisms. Supporting this hypothesis, transcriptomic analysis revealed distinct cohorts of EC genes involved in BBB formation and maintenance. Here, we demonstrate that epigenetic regulator's histone deacetylase 2 (HDAC2) and polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) control EC gene expression for BBB development and prevent Wnt/β-catenin (Wnt) target genes …

Training Staff Members And Caregivers On Utilizing Allen Cognitive Levels To Aid Individuals Living With Alzheimer's And Dementia To Maintain Activities Of Daily Living, Kristy Boyd

Student Capstone Papers

This capstone is about training caregivers and staff members on utilizing the Allen Cognitive Levels to help individuals living with Alzheimer's and Dementia to maintain their ADLs.

Chronic Disease Management In A Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic: An Interpretive Description Study, Natalie Floriancic, Anna Garnett, Lorie Donelle Phd, Rn, Fcan

Publications

Introduction

Objective

Drogas, Basura Y Crimen: Los Vecinos De East Harlem Se Unen Para Mejorar El Barrio, Jacqueline Zamora

Capstones

En octubre de 2023 una nueva operación denominada “operación 4 esquinas” inició con el fin de mejorar la calidad de vida en East Harlem, pero el vecindario no ha cambiado mucho, dejando a residentes que formen una comunidad que se ayude mutuamente para marcar la diferencia en el barrio.

Enlace: https://medium.com/@jzamora2211/drogas-basura-y-crimen-los-vecinos-de-east-harlem-se-unen-para-mejorar-el-barrio-39455477522b

Somethin' I'M Tryin' To Work On, Ian P. Summers

Capstones

A filmmaker tells the story of the night he nearly committed suicide. Traveling from his home in Brooklyn, Ian tells three of his closest friends, Drake, Alec and Matt, about how they unknowingly helped him through the most difficult time in his life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87iUM31s-Eg

Flight To Fraud, Emily Davis, Ricardo Partida

Capstones

Taxi hustlers are an enduring, intractable issue for New York City's airports. Through analysis of city data, court documents, and on-site observations, this investigation reveals how unauthorized drivers exploit travelers, charging excessive fares while posing safety risks. Despite public awareness campaigns and enforcement efforts by the Port Authority and others agencies, the problem continues to evolve. NYCity News Service reporters Emily Davis and Ricardo Partida investigate how these hustlers operate in plain sight of airport authorities.

Link: https://daviscapstone2025.carrd.co/

Catering To The Majority: Fashion’S Trial-And-Error Process To Make Style Accessible For All Sizes, Tiffany A. Del Valle

Capstones

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, two out of every three U.S. women are considered plus-size, or a size 14 and above. As the plus-size fashion market continues to grow and is expected to be worth $500 billion by 2033, finding extended sizes continues to be a barrier. While the fight for size-inclusive fashion has shown some progress in recent years, some brands have decided to scale back their plus-size offerings, while others have continued to limit their size ranges due to a multitude of reasons including production costs with a delayed return on investment, marketing and limited commitment to serving the …

Using Supervised Learning To Predict The Band Rank Of Braids, Juliana Moraes

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Supervised learning has emerged as a powerful tool for solving complex classification problems across various domains, including mathematical structures. In the realm of braid theory, an intriguing challenge involves determining the number of bands in a mathematical braid, which is crucial for understanding braid complexity and its applications. This thesis introduces an approach leveraging supervised learning to tackle this problem. Using different representations of a braid (namely braid words and Lawrence-Krammer representations), we train a supervised learning model to predict the number of bands in a given braid. The approach involves constructing a labeled dataset of braids with known band …

Normative Truth Under Metamodernism, Sam Taylor

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis elaborates on a metamodern framework for grounding normative truth. Metamodernism is an evolving approach in the humanities and social sciences that seeks to reconcile stable truth with the genealogical skepticism of postmodernism. I follow Jason Ānada Josephson Storm in arguing that virtue ethics presents fertile ground for metamodernism with respect to normative truth.

I extend Storm’s preliminary approach to this subject by comparing it with the work of two other scholars: Pierre Manent — an Aristotelian virtue ethicist who has become very popular among Christian political theorists — and Amy Allen — a postmodern-inspired, decolonial theorist. Manent has …

December 13, 2024 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Journey To Baby-Friendly: Standardizing Patient Breastfeeding Education In The Postpartum Microsystem, Emily Korwin

Master's Projects and Capstones

Problem Low breastfeeding rates remain a global challenge and a cause of adverse infant health outcomes despite the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding. In response, UNICEF and the WHO developed the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) to promote, protect, and support breastfeeding for infant growth and development. Context Hospital A is a mid-size hospital in Northern California. It has 24 labor, 13 antepartum, and 33 postpartum beds and serves a diverse population of patients. Intervention After a literature review, microsystem assessment, stakeholder survey, and root cause analysis, a standardized infant feeding nurse patient education checklist was developed and aligned with Baby-Friendly teaching …

Msw Portfolio, Andrea E. Anderson

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

The portfolio narrative includes a brief introduction to my academic journey including field related work. The ten social work competencies are used as a guide while I reflect on the required appendices, theoretical frameworks and orientation to practice throughout the narrative.

Portfolio Project Social Work 599, Christopher S. Plummer

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

Abstract This portfolio reflects the culmination of my journey to earn a Master of Social Work (MSW) and demonstrates my mastery of the 10 core competencies outlined by the University of Montana School of Social Work. Through the lens of the five elements of advanced integrated practice, this work illustrates the transformation I underwent as I developed the skills, knowledge, and values essential to ethical and effective social work practice. Each section of this portfolio provides evidence of my growth in applying critical self-reflection, integrating historical and cultural contexts, bridging direct practice with community intervention, engaging in evidence-based practices, and …

Where I’M Meant To Be: Reflections From My Msw Experience, Brittany Nicole Mathena

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

No abstract provided.

Applications Of Phosphorus Geochemistry To Utah Lake, Jacob Barry Taggart

Theses and Dissertations

This compilation of studies provides an examination of phosphorus dynamics in the suspended solids, water column, and lakebed sediments of Utah Lake, a large, shallow, and phosphorus-rich water body. The first study introduces a novel phosphorus microfractionation (P-MF) method designed for small samples of suspended solids and sediments. This method reveals that suspended solids in Utah Lake can have a significantly higher phosphorus content across most fractions compared to lakebed sediments, highlighting the importance of considering suspended solids in nutrient management strategies. The second study analyzes historical phosphorus mass and concentrations, demonstrating that water column phosphorus levels have remained stable …

Entropy-Regularized Optimal Transport In Information Design, Jorge Justiniano, Andreas Kleiner, Benny Moldovanu, Martin Rumpf, Philipp Strack

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

In this paper, we explore a scenario where a sender provides an information policy and a receiver, upon observing a realization of this policy, decides whether to take a particular action, such as making a purchase. The sender’s objective is to maximize her utility derived from the receiver’s action, and she achieves this by careful selection of the information policy. Building on the work of Kleiner et al., our focus lies specifically on information policies that are associated with power diagram partitions of the underlying domain. To address this problem, we employ entropy-regularized optimal transport, which enables us to develop …

Faculty And Staff Pay Satisfaction And The Impact On Organizational Commitment And Retention, Jennifer Hennings

Dissertations

This mixed-method study explored the relationships between pay satisfaction, organizational commitment, retention, and seniority among faculty and staff at a private, four-year institution in the Midwest. The research investigated how satisfaction with a compensation program influences organizational commitment and turnover intentions. The researcher used a quantitative method to study the impact of pay satisfaction on organizational commitment and turnover intention. Additionally, a quantitative method explored relationships between seniority and turnover intention. Findings revealed positive relationships between pay satisfaction and organizational commitment, along with pay satisfaction and turnover intention. Findings also revealed positive relationships between seniority, measured as years of service, …