Digital Commons Network^™

"Florence Wesleyan University: 1855-1872", William Lindsey Mcdonald

Research Articles

A paper presented by William Lindsey McDonald, Conference Historian, at the North Alabama Conference for the United Methodist Church about Florence Wesleyan University, one of the earliest predecessors of the University of North Alabama. Prior to discussing Florence Wesleyan University, the paper also discusses the history of the earliest iteration of the university LaGrange College.

"Florence's First Mayor", William Lindsey Mcdonald

Research Articles

The article briefly discusses the significance of Alexander Hamilton Wood, the first mayor of Florence, Alabama.

"The Canal Building Genius", William Lindsey Mcdonald

Research Articles

George Washington Goethals, the engineer who constructed the Panama Canal, was also employed to construct the Muscle Shoals Canal in North Alabama. During the construction of the canal, Goethals lived on Wood Avenue near the University of North Alabama. Multiple historical markers commemorating Goethals' time in North Alabama exist, including the one designating his home, the Florence Walk of Honor, and his mention on the Muscle Shoals Canal Marker.

"The Course Of The Tennessee River", William Lindsey Mcdonald

Research Articles

The article describes the usual course of the Tennessee River and various geological theories for the direction of its course. In addition, it explores the specific geomorphology of the Muscle Shoals and its impact on North Alabama.

"Eliza Coffee Whose Name Is Memorialized By A Hospital", William Lindsey Mcdonald

Research Articles

The article serves as a brief biographical sketch of Eliza Coffee, whom the Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital in Florence, Alabama memorializes.

"Dr. E. B. Norton", William Lindsey Mcdonald

Research Articles

The article offers a brief biography of Dr. E.B. Norton president of Florence State Teachers College, a precursor to the University of North Alabama.

"Florence: An Early Cotton Mill Town", William Lindsey Mcdonald

Research Articles

In the antebellum period and early years of the Civil War, Florence, Alabama was a leading center for the textile industry with five cotton mills, including the prominent Cypress Mills. The article gives an overview of the impact of mills in and around the area.

A lithograph fragment of Cypress Mill is available in the William Lindsey McDonald Image Collection. Other images of mills can be found by searching "mills" in the left sidebar.

Archives As Activism: Using Cuny Archives To Examine And Analyze Social Change, Marci Littlefield

Open Educational Resources

Archives as Activism uses CUNY archival materials to help students examine the relationship between activism, social issues and social change. Students will analyze primary sources such as flyers, newsletters, photographs, student newspapers, and institutional documents and connect them to contemporary social issues. CUNY’s history of activism around, race, gender, educational access, women’s organizing and institutional power provides students with an opportunity to investigate questions about power, collective action, intersectionality and social change.

Dacum-Based Job Analysis And Educational Needs Assessment Of Community Disability Care Coordinators, Haesun Lee, Gyeonga Kang, Ju Young Yoon

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

As of 2024, 2,631,356 individuals in South Korea are registered as persons with disabilities, representing 5.1% of the total population. They are at increased risk of preventable secondary health conditions and chronic diseases, further exacerbated by social and environmental barriers such as limited mobility, insufficient provider awareness, and inadequate disability-friendly healthcare infrastructure. These challenges underscore the need for a multidisciplinary team-based approach, in which care coordinators play a critical role. However, despite the establishment of Regional Health and Medical Centers for Persons with Disabilities, coordinators’ roles remain poorly defined, and structured training programs are lacking.

This study was conducted in …

Data For Advocacy Intention Using Pmt, Alice Ann Crandall

ScholarsArchive Data

This includes the deidentified data and code for the article Advocacy Intention Across Politically Sensitive Health Issues: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Protection Motivation Theory

2026-2027 Philharmonia Season Program, Lynn University Conservatory Of Music, Lynn Philharmonia, Guillermo Figueroa, Kenneth Amis, Jon H. Robertson, Aidan Quintana

Philharmonia

Lynn University Wind Ensemble ("The Wind Symphony: Movement 4)

• Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
• Kenneth Amis, conductor

Lynn Philharmonia No. 1 ("Mystery and Revelation")

• Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
• Guillermo Figueroa, conductor
• Kenneth Amis, tuba

Lynn Philharmonia No. 2 ("Halloween Spectacular!")

• Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 1, 2026 at 3 p.m.
• Guillermo Figueroa, conductor

Lynn Philharmonia No. 3 - Concerto Competition Winners' Concert

• Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026 at 3 p.m.
• Guillermo Figueroa, conductor

Lynn Philharmonia …

Click, Listen, Reflect: Implementing Discord In Critical Listening Courses, Kenny Shania Lestari R, Metaria Metaria, Siti Nurhalimah

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

Critical listening requires learners not only to comprehend spoken information but also to interpret and evaluate its meaning. Digital learning environments may support these processes by providing opportunities for repeated access to spoken input, interaction, and collaborative discussion. This study explored how Discord was implemented in a Critical Listening course and how students perceived and experienced its use in supporting their critical listening learning. The study employed a qualitative descriptive design involving 20 students from the International Class Program at Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University of Malang. Data were collected through classroom observation checklists, field notes, and focus group …

Midweek Memo, Georgia Southern University

Midweek Memo

• Applaud 
• Remember 
• Share 
• Experience 
• Around the Nest

Exploring Factors That Influence Child Marriage In Mozambique: A Collaborative Research Project, Karla Adu, Brenita Nicholas-Edwards, Jaime Paulo Mathe

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Child marriage affects nearly 1 in 5 young women globally.¹ UN Sustainable Development Goal 5 specifically set a target of eliminating child marriage by 2030.¹ While the prevalence of child marriage is decreasing worldwide, sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing rising levels.² Mozambique has the 8th highest rate of child marriage in the world, with 48% of girls married before the age of 18 and 13% married before the age of 15.³

Child marriage is a complex issue, rooted in poverty and cultural norms. Factors linked to child marriage include limited access to education, job opportunities, and reproductive …

Caregiver Perspectives On Barriers And Facilitators To Adolescent Asthma Self-Management, Sangita Pudasainee-Kapri, Mei Rosemary Fu, Mary Wunnenberg

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Background: Asthma is the most prevalent chronic disease in children and adolescents, disproportionately affecting minority adolescents from lower-income families (CDC, 2022). Adolescents from low-income and marginalized communities often face unique challenges with asthma control and management due to multiple adverse social and environmental factors. Caregivers play a critical role in daily asthma management (Margolis et al., 2019), however, self-management behaviors in minority families may be influenced by several individual and system level factors (Khan et al., 2021; Holley et al., 2017).

Purpose: This study aims to understand caregivers’ perspective on multilevel barriers and facilitators to adolescent asthma self-management in Camden …

Ecological Determinants Of Youth Marijuana Use: A Longitudinal Mediation Model, Ricardo Zamarripa Ortega, Christopher Browning, Jodi L. Ford

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: This study explores how activity space collective efficacy strengthens families to buffer against depressive symptoms, which may lead to substance use. By identifying these pathways, we aim to improve prevention strategies.

Methods: Data from the Adolescent Health Development in Context study (n = 1,538) were used for mediation models with 10,000 bootstrap draws. The main predictor was activity space collective efficacy. Mediators were family support and depressive symptoms. The outcome was marijuana use. Models controlled for age, sex, race, caregiver education, and baseline marijuana use.

Results: Collective efficacy predicted increased family support (cross-sectional β = 0.134, 95% CI [0.065, …

The Safer-Ai Use™ Framework: A Systems Approach For Ethical And Responsible Ai In Nursing Education, Marie Kelly Lindley, Heather S. Cole, Amber Senetza

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose - To introduce the SAfER-AI Use™ Framework, a systems-based conceptual model to guide educators in the ethical and responsible use of generative AI.

Background - Generative AI is entering nursing education faster than leaders can evaluate its risks. Educators increasingly use large language models (LLMs) for assessments, scenarios, rubrics, and accreditation tasks, yet LLMs generate fluent but non–human-derived output that may contain inaccuracies or bias. Recent scholarship describes AI exemplars and risks (1), faculty needs and readiness (2), and calls for policy engagement (3). Yet discipline-specific conceptual models are lacking, especially those addressing the human–AI interface and safeguards at …

Developing A Near-Peer Teaching Clinical Placement Model To Enhance Students’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Beth Pierce, Thea Van De Mortel, Jeanne Allen

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Near-peer teaching (NPT) involves senior students teaching junior students from the same discipline (Zheng & Wang, 2022). While NPT is integrated extensively in medicine, it recently gained traction in nurse education (Irvine et al., 2018). Near-peer teaching in classrooms/laboratories has been found to enhance senior nursing students’ leadership and teaching skills and junior nursing students’ knowledge and psychomotor skills (Irvine et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 2022). Less is known about its integration in nursing students’ clinical placements (Pierce et al., 2024), nor its influence on their self-efficacy beliefs, both essential to future clinical performance (Abusubhiah et al., 2023).

This …

Robust Load Frequency Control For Multiarea Electrical Power Systems Via Analytical Proportional-Integral-Derivative Plus Second Order Derivative Controller Design, Yavuz Güler, Mustafa Nalbantoğlu, Ibrahim Kaya

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This research presents a proportional-integral-derivative plus second order derivative (PIDD2) controller design based on the Direct Synthesis Method (DSM) for load frequency control (LFC) of interconnected power systems. The parameters of the proposed PIDD2 controller are determined using the DSM, which offers an analytical approach for tuning. The design approaches have been developed specifically for single, two, and three-area power systems, encompassing nonreheated and reheated thermal turbines. In the proposed design method, the best values of PIDD2 controller parameters were found by using a multicriteria objective function that includes the integral of absolute error (IAE) and settling time. In response …

Boundary Layer Sliding Mode Control Strategy For Variable-Speed Compressor In Deep Freezers: Experimental Validation Of Energy Efficiency And Freezing Capacity, Sertan Aksoy, Kami̇l Çeti̇n, Sezai̇ Taşkin

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This study presents the design and experimental validation of a nonlinear sliding mode controller developed for a deep freezer equipped with a variable-speed compressor. The proposed control strategy aims to minimize energy consumption while maintaining rapid and stable cooling performance under varying ambient conditions. A detailed thermal model of the deep freezer was established using an equivalent resistance–capacitance network representation, enabling precise analysis of temperature dynamics. The sliding mode-based control algorithm dynamically adjusts the compressor’s operating frequency according to temperature deviation, ambient conditions, and time-dependent factors, providing robust performance without requiring parameter retuning for different models. Beyond theoretical-based analysis, a …

Measurement-Aware Zero-Phase Iterative Learning Control For Robust Regulation Of Nonideal Boost Converters In Electric Vehicle Fast Charging, Aytaç Altan, Mohammed S. Alzaidi, Cağfer Yanarateş

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Integrating battery energy storage with DC-DC boost converters for electric vehicle fast charging exposes the regulator to ageing-induced parameter drift, periodic load pulses, and, critically, the nonidealities in the output-voltage sensing chain. This paper proposes a measurement-aware, zero-phase iterative learning control scheme for robust output-voltage regulation of a nonideal boost converter whose parameters are matched to those of a commercial Texas Instruments TPS6102x battery regulator. The controller combines an inner proportional-integral stabilizing loop with an outer zero-phase learning law that updates a feedforward correction based on the sensor-captured output trajectory; a forward-backward robustness filter suppresses the amplification of measurement noise …

Empowering Edge Intelligence Through Reparameterized Lightweight Transformers And Distributed Inference, Hosein Esmaeili, Mohammad Ali Afshar Kazemi, Reza Radfar, Nazanin Pilevari

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Deploying advanced transformer-based models on resource-constrained edge devices remains a significant challenge due to their high memory footprint and substantial compute requirements. In this paper, we propose a reparameterized transformer framework that integrates High-Rank Factorization (HRF) during training, layer merging at inference, and dynamic, load-balanced distributed inference across multiple devices. To further reduce resource usage, our framework supports mixed-precision quantization down to 4-bit, enabling flexible accuracy–latency–energy trade-offs. Experimental evaluations on the ESC-50 environmental sound dataset demonstrate that our method matches or exceeds the performance of larger baseline models while using 20–30% fewer parameters, achieving up to 48% latency reduction in …

Relative Rate Observer-Based Online Tuning Mechanism For Single-Input Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Pid Controllers, Oqba Aldreiei, Cenk Ulu, Mert Can Kurucu, Müjde Güzelkaya

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The characteristics of the footprint of uncertainty (FOU) in interval type-2 membership functions (IT2-MFs) are crucial to the performance and robustness of interval type-2 fuzzy controllers (IT2-FCs). However, existing IT2-FC design approaches mostly use fixed FOU structures. This study proposes an online membership function (MF) adjustment mechanism for a single-input interval type-2 fuzzy PID controller (SIT2-FPID)  that adjusts the FOU of the antecedent MFs and weights of the consequent MFs, respectively, to achieve high performance and robustness. The proposed online adjustment mechanism consists of a relative rate observer (RRO), a two-input rule-base adjustment system, and a first-order smoothing filter. The …

Innovating Effective Engineering Designs For Hazard Risk Reduction In North Carolina, Daniella Hirschfeld

Funded Research Records

No abstract provided.

Dissecting The Dissection Laboratory: Elements For Designing A Human Anatomy Laboratory: The Human Anatomy And Physiology Society (Haps)-Anatomical Donor Stewardship (Ads) Committee, Lab Resources Subcommittee, Rhiannon E. Robinson, Abbey Breckling, Danielle N. Edwards, Nicole Geske, Burhan Gharaibeh, Bobbie J. Leeper, Molly Ostwald, Mary Schilling, Bridgett Severt, Kelsey Stevens, J.P. Swigart, Jonathan J. Wisco, Melissa Zolnierz, Jeremy J. Grachan

Faculty and Staff Publications

The human anatomy dissection laboratory is a critical component of anatomical and medical education. Development, maintenance, and stocking of these laboratory spaces have unique demands, with all of the challenges in running a laboratory with Biosafety Laboratory Level 2 (BSL-2) classification, housing a large volume of tissues saturated with volatile chemicals, and safeguarding human beings all within the same space. At times, educators or laboratory managers may be tasked with helping to design a new anatomy laboratory from scratch, to give input on the renovation of an existing laboratory space (which may or may not have been used with human …

Cedar: Investigating The Mesosphere And Lower Thermosphere Neutral Temperature And Winds Responses To Geomagnetic Storms Equatorward Of The Auroral Zone, Tao Yuan

Funded Research Records

No abstract provided.

Peri-Implant Soft Tissue Optimization Through Comprehensive Implant Therapy With Er:Yag Laser-Assisted Labial Frenectomy In The Esthetic Zone: A 5-Year Case Report, Taichen Lin

Articles in Press

No abstract provided.

Artificial Intelligence In Dentistry: A Comprehensive Review Of Applications, Evidence Maturity, And Translational Challenges, Cheng-Chia Yu

Articles in Press

No abstract provided.

Shared Redox Networks And Divergent Oral Tissue Outcomes: From Periodontal Destruction To Mucosal Inflammation And Fibrosis, I-Ta Lee

Articles in Press

No abstract provided.

Association Between Root Caries And Gingival Recession Among Middle-Aged And Older Adults In Taiwan, Lin-Yang Chi

Articles in Press

No abstract provided.