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Occupational Participation Among Children With Neurodivergent And Related Conditions: A Mixed Methods Study, Shirish Lala, Darian Amacker, Anne Martens, Alexa Rodefeld, Danielle Toth, Elyssa Wider

Occupational Therapy Annual Research Colloquium

Background: This study explored occupational engagement of children with neurodivergent and related conditions in home, school, and community settings. Children aged 6 to 16 years and their caregivers were recruited to investigate how occupational engagement differs across contexts.

Methods: A mixed-methods approach assessed quantitative data from 51 participants using a modified version of the Child and Adolescent Scale of Participation. Qualitative data were collected from 6 semi-structured interviews. The Model of Human Occupation and its components of volition, habituation, and performance capacity, including environmental factors, informed the research process and methodology. Engagement among children with neurodivergent diagnoses is shaped by …

Index: Cumulative Subject Index January-June, 1970; Cumulative Author Index January-June, 1970, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Provisions Of The Tax Reform Act Of 1969 Directed To Insurance Companies, John A. Bernauer

Tax Adviser

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The Tax Adviser, Volume 1, Number 6, June 1970, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Tax Adviser

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Index: Cumulative Subject Index January-May, 1970; Cumulative Author Index January-May, 1970, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Tax Adviser

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Estate Planning: ’Rithmetic Of A Net Gift, Byrle M. Abbin

Tax Adviser

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Irs Practice Should Not Be A Contest Between Adversaries, Gordon S. Moore

Tax Adviser

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The Tax Adviser, Volume 1, Number 5, May 1970, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Tax Adviser

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Index: Cumulative Subject Index January-April, 1970; Cumulative Author Index January-April, 1970, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Tax Adviser

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Working With The Irs, Gordon T. Stine

Tax Adviser

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Washington Report: Employee Benefits: Equality For Self-Employed And Corporate Employees, Gilbert Simonetti Jr.

Tax Adviser

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Executive Function Among Older Adults With Bipolar Disorder: A Gage-Bd Analysis, Federica Klaus, Martha Sajatovic, Peijun Chen, Nicole Fiorelli, Ashley N. Sutherland

Faculty Scholarship

Objectives Executive function deficits in bipolar disorder (BD) are major contributors to disability in older age BD (OABD). We investigated the difference between OABD and age-equated healthy comparators (HC); and, in the OABD group, the associations of executive function with age, symptom severity, global cognition, and daily functioning. Design Cross-sectional analysis of executive function in OABD versus HC. Setting Analysis of large archival dataset harmonized from 12 international OABD studies. Participants Older adults (≥50 years) with OABD ( n = 614) and HC ( n = 192). Measurements Executive function was assessed via Trail Making Test B (TMT-B) completion time; …

Buffer Vs. Swabs: Efficacy Of Carrier Nucleic Acids In Robotic Extractions, Shawn Cecil

Honors Projects

This study compared the efficiency of two carrier nucleic acid methods, specifically using salmon sperm DNA (spDNA), in robotic solid-phase extractions of cotton swab samples. Robotic extractions reduce processing time and workload but result in substantially lower DNA recovery than manual organic extraction. This research tested 10 µg of spDNA being added to the lysis buffer or pre-treating the swabs with it before DNA was added. Both methods showed a significant increase in recovery compared to extractions with no carrier. In the buffer extractions, recovery ranged from 69.4% to 117.5% and the swabs being pre-treated ranged from 84.2% to 125.8% …

The Importance Of A Pressure Injury Prevention Program In Acute Hospital Settings, Sarah Orial

Student Scholarly Projects

Practice Problem: The identified practice problem for this project was the lack of a standardized pressure injury prevention program in a 350-bed acute care hospital. The lack of a standard program could be leading to increased hospital-acquired pressure injuries. PICOT: In adult inpatients in a medical/surgical unit (P), does the implementation of a standard unit-based pressure injury prevention program (I) compared to the current practice (C) increase the percentage of nursing skin risk assessment documentation (O) over a 10-week period (T)?

Evidence: The literature supports the development of standard pressure injury prevention programs and continuing education to …

Engr 204 – Electrical Circuits Project Assignment: Exploring A Key Concept From The Textbook, Liubov Kreminska

Open Educational Resources

This assignment requires students to select a major concept from the ENGR 204 Electrical Circuits textbook and explore it through historical research, conceptual explanation, problem-solving, and real-world application. The project is structured to promote understanding through multiple means of representation, engagement, and expression, following Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles. Students will describe the history and importance of the chosen concept, explain its main ideas using written or visual aids, solve representative and advanced problems related to the topic, and demonstrate how the concept appears in real-world engineering contexts. The submission must include clearly labeled sections, supporting visuals or simulations, …

Engr 204: 8-Week Op-Amp Major Project Series, Liubov Kreminska

Open Educational Resources

This submission outlines a collection of electronic design projects that can be completed within an 8-week timeframe, progressing from beginner-friendly circuits to advanced real-world applications involving op-amp design. Each project includes a week-by-week plan, required equipment, and key technical challenges. Through these projects, students gradually develop competence in signal processing, circuit stability, noise reduction, calibration, filter design, audio electronics, and bio-signal amplification. The structured timeline ensures systematic learning while allowing hands-on experimentation, troubleshooting, and refinement. The projects serve both as academic exercises and as practical foundations for more advanced electronic system design.

Arabic Around Us: Exploring Everyday Life Group Project, Bret Windhauser

Open Educational Resources

Students will work in small groups to create a comprehensive and engaging project that explores a particular aspect of everyday life in an Arabic-speaking country. This could include food, traditions, daily routines, or an introduction to the language itself. By the end of the assignment, students will demonstrate their understanding of Arabic vocabulary, grammar, and culture through a creative project.

Optimizing Xo Throughput At Imerys, Derek Beasley, Brennan Chandler, Baris Erarslan, Cynthia Grogin

Senior Design Project For Engineers

This project is conducted in collaboration with Imerys to optimize the performance of the VSI (Vertical Shaft Impactor) system at their Plant 4 facility, focusing on improving the production of XO, a fine material used in products such as textured coatings, acid neutralization, and water filtration systems. The VSI operates continuously, producing several materials at the Marble Hill, Georgia location, including #1 Chip, #2 Chip, OZ, XO, Z, and 30–50. The main focus of this project is to increase the throughput of XO, as it requires both throughput improvement and product quality consistency to meet growing market demand. Imerys’ quality …

Iphone-Based Image Refocusing, Katie Jeong, Daniel Niu

Electrical and Systems Engineering Capstone Design Projects

In this project, we show that we can change the focus of a picture after we take it by using real optical physics instead of fake software blur. Modern phones try to create “portrait mode” effects, but those results are often not physically correct. Our approach uses multiple photos taken from slightly different positions to figure out the directions that light rays came from in the scene.

To collect the photos, we move an iPhone sideways on a slider in small, precise steps. Since we know exactly how far the phone moved for each picture, we can track how objects …

Ethical Review Of Discipline-Based Education Research: Ensuring Fair Treatment For All, E. Elias Johnson

Undergraduate Honors Theses

As universities grapple with funding cuts and heightened social and political pressure, the emerging field of Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER) aims to improve student learning outcomes through experimental instruction. While using instruction as an experiment, with hypotheses and experimental tests, DBER research may affect student learning and experience in unintended ways for students involved in these classes. To address this concern, I impose ethical frameworks, namely contractualism, to better understand how the values of each stakeholder, students enrolled in experimental courses and researchers using these courses to test hypotheses, interact. I also identify potential misalignments. Following a contractual ethical framework, …

Hkc02 - Stabilizing Credit When Nonperforming Loans Surge: The Role Of Asset Management Companies, Reiner Martin, Edward O'Brien, M. Udara Peiris, Dimitrios P. Tsomocos

Oberlin College Kasper Economics and Business Working Paper Series

When default losses elevate borrowing costs, expanding credit cannot stabilize the economy because default rates feed back to lending rates through bank balance sheets. Asset management companies (AMCs) break this loop by purchasing nonperforming loans at their long-run recovery values, thereby fixing the effective default rate that banks face. Government purchases of performing loans expand credit but leave this feedback intact. In a model calibrated to the eurozone, the AMC reduces quarterly default rates by 0.8 percentage points, lowers lending rates by 1.6 percentage points, and raises welfare by 0.2%. Government purchases crowd out bank deposits, contracting credit; default rates …

A Review Of Recent And Developing Studies Regarding Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (Pci): A Narrative Review, Bisher Alsabbagh, Azeez Shala, Joshua Rupert, Abdallah Elsayed

School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences (Formerly Dept. of Biology)

This comprehensive literature review synthesizes the most recent evidence and evolving clinical guidelines concerning percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) from 2015 to 2025. The study integrates findings from 42 peer-reviewed trials, meta-analyses, registries, and international guideline statements issued by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA), European Society of Cardiology (ESC), and related societies. Results reveal a decade-long evolution in PCI practice marked by a shift from anatomy-driven to physiology and imaging-guided decision-making, supported by tools such as fractional flow reserve (FFR), instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR), intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), and optical coherence tomography (OCT). Modern guidelines emphasize individualized, team-based revascularization …

Ai Literacy For Nurse Leaders: Advancing Innovation And Transforming Care, Carolyn S. Harmon

Biennial Convention (CONV)

With the rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, it is imperative for nurse leaders to develop AI literacy to effectively lead and manage their teams. This presentation explores the significance of AI literacy for nurse leaders, focusing on the benefits of understanding AI technologies and their applications in nursing practice. By equipping nurse leaders with the knowledge and aptitudes to navigate AI systems, healthcare organizations can advance clinical decision-making, streamline administrative workflows, and achieve transformative improvements in care delivery.

The purpose of this presentation is to highlight the critical role of AI literacy in nursing leadership and to …

The Safety Kuznets Curve: Context In Occupational Safety, Andy Knickerbocker

ASEM Capstones

2025 ASEM 620 Capstone Project

Closeness, Conflict, And Achievement: The Role Of Parent–Child Relationships In Homeschooled And Public-Schooled Children, Celeste Gonçalves Tomaz

Honors Capstones

The parent–child relationship has been found to be a predictor of children’s academic and socio-emotional outcomes, with parent-child closeness linked to motivation and persistence (Mo & Singh, 2008; Silinskas & Kikas, 2022) and parent-child conflict associated with emotional and behavioral difficulties (Dotterer et al., 2008; Pinquart, 2017). The homeschooling context may increase these associations since children spend more time with their parents, who have caregiving and instructional roles (Padilla, 2021; Thomas, 2016). Even with growing research on academic and socio-emotional outcomes, few studies have examined whether the strength of the parent–child relationship is influenced negatively or positively by schooling type. …

Ract: Ranking-Aware Chain-Of-Thought Optimization For Llms, Haowei Liu, Xuyang Wu, Guohao Sun, Hsin-Tai Wu, Zhiqiang Tao, Yi Fang

Computer Science and Engineering

In information retrieval, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in text reranking tasks by leveraging their sophisticated natural language understanding and advanced reasoning capabilities. However, conventional supervised fine-tuning approaches for specializing LLMs in ranking tasks often lead to significant degradation of the models' general-purpose abilities. To address this fundamental challenge, this paper presents a novel methodology that strategically combines Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting techniques with an innovative two-stage training pipeline consisting of Supervised Fine-Tuning followed by Ranking Preference Optimization (SFT-RPO). The Chain-of-Thought prompting component encourages models to explicitly articulate their reasoning process during ranking decisions, creating a transparent pathway …

Changing Opinions: The Supreme Court After Dobbs, Lora E. Judge

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

The Reception Of Neurodiversity Represented Within Netflix’S Wednesday, Anna Stevens

Graduate Theses & Dissertations

This paper explores how neurodiversity is represented through popular media - particularly Netflix's show Wednesday - and aims to discuss the effects this representation could have in regards to how it's received by the public, as well as those who are neurodiverse.

Proteome-Wide Association Study Of Prostate Cancer Risk Across Populations, Hua Zhong, Jingjing Zhu, Shuai Liu, Chong Wu, Liang Wang, Seamus P. Whelton, Catherine H. Marshall, Michael J. Blaha, Peter Durda, Xiuqing Guo, Craig W. Johnson, Henry J. Lin, Kent D. Taylor, Russell P. Tracy, Ronit I. Yarden, Ani W. Manichaikul, Stephen S. Rich, Jerome I. Rotter, Rajat Deo, Ruth F. Dubin, Peter Ganz, Lang Wu

School of Graduate Studies Faculty Publications

There is insufficient understanding of the molecular basis of prostate cancer (PCa) across different populations. We perform a large-scale proteome-wide association study (PWAS) to identify proteins with genetically regulated expression in plasma to be associated with PCa risk across populations. We develop genetic prediction models for expression of 1578, 1993, 1218, and 1390 proteins for African (n = 450), European (n = 758), Asian (n = 289), and Hispanic/Latino (n = 474) males, respectively, and evaluate associations of genetically regulated protein expression with PCa risk in 19,391 PCa cases and 61,608 controls of African population, 122,188 cases and 604,640 controls …

Using Mean Airway Pressure (Map) As An Indicator To Help Predict Successful Extubationof Preterm And Term Infants In A Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, William F. Bucher, Rrt-Nps, Eliza C. Desantis, Md

Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine Posters

Background
Extubation of preterm and term infants in a neonatal intensive care setting has always proven to be a challenge often resulting in failure. One of the challenges to a successful extubation in this vulnerable patient population is maintaining proper lung inflation at the time of extubation. We often rely on the use of the mean airway pressure (MAP) as an indicator to help predict patient readiness to extubate these patients.

Methods
23 patients ranging from 24 weeks to 41 weeks corrected gestational age were extubated from either conventional mechanical ventilation (CMV) or high frequency ventilation (HFV) using their mean …