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Art And Exceptionality: Addressing Art Fear And Fear Of Difference In An Introductory Art Course, Arthur Hochman, Kelli J. Esteves

Scholarship and Professional Work – Education

University educators designed and co-taught a course which involved collaborative artmaking and learning with a community-based arts organization that serves individuals with disabilities. Their goal was to help university students examine the potential of art and how it applies to their personal and professional lives. They sought to better understand how to nurture a feeling of artistic agency in undergraduate students who do not define themselves as artists. Educators found that students benefited from an exploration of art fear through an inclusive approach to art creation.

2021-December-11-Congratulations Class Of 2021, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – (Dec. 11, 2021) East Tennessee State University conferred more than 1,300 degrees during two Commencement Exercises earlier today in the Ballad Health Athletic Center.

Gayle Conelly Manchin, federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), delivered the keynote address at 10 a.m., and ETSU faculty member Dr. Sean Fox, who won the Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching, addressed graduates during the 2 p.m. ceremony.

The Class of 2021 included 1,054 undergraduate students and over 230 master’s candidates.   ETSU also conferred 96 doctoral degrees today.  Of the undergraduate students, 108 graduated summa cum laude, 142 earned magna …

2021-December-11-Congratulations Class Of 2021, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – (Dec. 11, 2021) East Tennessee State University conferred more than 1,300 degrees during two Commencement Exercises earlier today in the Ballad Health Athletic Center.

Gayle Conelly Manchin, federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), delivered the keynote address at 10 a.m., and ETSU faculty member Dr. Sean Fox, who won the Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching, addressed graduates during the 2 p.m. ceremony.

The Class of 2021 included 1,054 undergraduate students and over 230 master’s candidates.   ETSU also conferred 96 doctoral degrees today.  Of the undergraduate students, 108 graduated summa cum laude, 142 earned magna …

2021 Fall - Commencement Program, Office Of The Registrar, East Tennessee State University

ETSU Commencement Ceremonies and Programs

No abstract provided.

Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring: A Patient Empowerment Project, Alison Cusmano

Doctor of Nursing Practice Final Manuscripts

Hypertension is a public health issue estimated to affect 112 million adults by 2030. Primary care patients in an outpatient clinic in Southern California with elevated blood pressure readings in the office did not have an organized system for close follow-up. The purpose of this evidence-based project (EBP) was to educate patients on self-measured blood pressure monitoring (SMBP), Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH), diet interventions, and healthy weight loss to improve hypertension rates. Through these interventions, patients developed an understanding of their systolic and diastolic blood pressure goals. Nurse practitioners, medical assistants, and licensed vocational nurses screened for high …

Fascination With Murder: Exploring The Internal Structure Of The True Crime Community, Eric Gaither

Theses and Dissertations

The admiration of killers is a trait found in numerous murderers, who claimed they felt inspired to murder from previous attacks. The True Crime Community is an online community with a deep fascination and possible obsession with criminal behavior. Community members include those who display admiration for killers and those who commit copycat crimes. Unfortunately, information regarding this community is limited and often conflicting as academic studies are scarce. This thesis explores the True Crime Community culture with a content analysis of authority figures' posts from a True Crime Community forum to understand the norms of discussions and behaviors. Although …

University Faculty Experiences: Workplace And Personal Stress, Stress Management, And Coping, Whitney Matthews Gass

Theses and Dissertations

University faculty have work responsibilities and duties that encompass teaching, research (scholarship), and service and experience pressure from administrators, students, institutions, and disciplines. They also have expectations placed on them outside of their institutions by their families, peers, and communities. A gap exists in the literature regarding the workplace and personal stressors that university faculty experience including the coping strategies they employ to manage stress. This qualitative study utilized a general strain theory framework for guidance and modified informal conversational interviews with University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UA Little Rock) faculty. Interview questions were about the lived workplace and …

2021 Winter Undergraduate Commencement, Lindenwood University

Commencement Programs

Lindenwood University Commencement program.

Perceptions Of A Virtual Interview Exercise For Ophthalmology Residency Applicants, Bilal Ahmed, Victoria Ly, Ankur Parikh, Arjun Watane, Sanah Aslam, Anjalee Choudhury, Benjamin Lin, Yoshihiro Yonekawa, Jayanth Sridhar

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Abstract

Importance In-person interviews have traditionally been considered a crucial component of the residency application process. Virtual interviews (VIs) became the standard format for the 2020 to 2021 application cycle due to the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. VIs offer a new perspective and challenge to this process which warrants unique considerations and further understanding of effects on applicants.

Objective This study aimed to assess the perceived efficacy of a VI preparedness exercise for ophthalmology residency applicants in the 2021 residency application cycle.

Design, Setting, and Participants A cross-sectional survey was distributed online. All participants in a mock VI …

Challenges And Solutions For Cochlear Implant Rehabilitation During Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic, Ahmed Mostafa, Iman Elrouby, Mohamed F. Alsoda

Journal of Medicine in Scientific Research

Objective The current study was intended to detect the challenges facing cochlear implantation (CI) and rehabilitation during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and to investigate the influence of the application of the required hygiene measures on the success of CI rehabilitation during coronavirus situations. Patients and methods The present research included 151 patients had CI in the Hearing and Speech Institute in the year of 2020. A total of 116 cases (22 adults and 94 children) have been implanted from August 2020 to December 2020. Of the 94 children (45 males and 49 females), 26 neonates with significant sensorineural hearing loss …

The Effect Of Reciprocal Electrical Stimulation On Handgrip And Pinch Grip Strength In Spastic Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy Child, Abeer El Sayed Hamed, Shymaa Mahmoud Matty, Taher Salah El-Din Taha

Journal of Medicine in Scientific Research

Background In hemiplegic spastic cerebral palsy (CP) patients, the affected hand can present with a combination of spasticity, weakness, and dystonia. Electrical stimulation is a part of a physical therapy program that is used for improving hand function, and one of the methods of electrical stimulation is reciprocal electrical stimulation (RES). RES mimics the neuromuscular-stimulation procedure for alternate activation of agonist and antagonist muscle groups. Also, RES has been reported to decrease the cortical excitability of the spastic muscle and to improve neural drive through stimulation of sensory receptors and sensory neurons of agonist and antagonist muscles. Our study aims …

Assessment Of Auditory Dysfunction As An Extra-Articular Manifestation In Rheumatoid Arthritis Using Brainstem Auditory-Evoked Potential, Abeer H. Ismaiel, Ahmad M. A. Gawad, Amany F. Hakim, Soha S. Shaaban

Journal of Medicine in Scientific Research

Objectives The paper aims to study brainstem auditory-evoked potential parameter changes in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, and their relation to the duration of illness, degree of disease activity, functional stage of the disease, and intensity of pain. Materials and methods Control (group 1) comprised 25 healthy female patients of age 50–60 years, while the study group (group 2) comprised 25 female patients with RA of more than 5 years. Proven cases of RA (according to american college of rheumatology (ACR) 2010 criteria) underwent brainstem auditory-evoked potentials. The recording was carried out by using RMS EMG EPMK2. In the RA group, …

Posterior Tympanotomy Versus Posterior Atticotomy In Creating Well-Ventilated Middle Ear Cleft Pros And Cons, Essam F. Abdelfattah, Wael A. Alzami

Journal of Medicine in Scientific Research

Background Cortical mastoidectomy is considered a cornerstone step in the surgical management of noncholesteatomatous chronic suppurative otitis media. It comprises the canal wall-up technique, preserving the posterior and superior bony canal walls. The goal of cortical mastoidectomy is mainly to ventilate the middle ear cleft besides eradication of diseased mastoid air cells. The ventilation of the middle ear cleft has no way except through the aditus ad antrum and patent epitympanic diaphragm besides well-functioning Eustachian tube. This way of ventilation is usually affected in chronic infected ears by edematous and polypoid mucosa, leading to its obstruction. Traditional practice used to …

Practical Applications Of The Independent Neutrosophic Components And Of The Neutrosophic Offset Components, Florentin Smarandache

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Svpns-Madm Strategy Based On Gra In Svpns Environment, Suman Das, Bimal Shil, Surapati Pramanik

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Processing Binding Data Using An Open-Source Workflow, Errol L G Samuel, Secondra L Holmes, Damian W Young

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

The thermal shift assay (TSA)—also known as differential scanning fluorimetry (DSF), thermofluor, and Tm shift—is one of the most popular biophysical screening techniques used in fragment-based ligand discovery (FBLD) to detect protein–ligand interactions. By comparing the thermal stability of a target protein in the presence and absence of a ligand, potential binders can be identified. The technique is easy to set up, has low protein consumption, and can be run on most real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) instruments. While data analysis is straightforward in principle, it becomes cumbersome and time-consuming when the screens involve multiple 96- or 384-well plates. There …

Gis-Based Volunteer Cotton Habitat Prediction And Plant-Level Detection With Uav Remote Sensing, Tianyi Wang, Xiaohan Mei, J. Alex Thomasson, Chenghai Yang, Xiongzhe Han, Pappu Kumar Yadav, Yeyin Shi

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

Volunteer cotton plants germinate and grow at unwanted locations like transport routes and can serve as hosts for a harmful cotton pests called cotton boll weevils. The main objective of this study was to develop a geographic information system (GIS) framework to efficiently locate volunteer cotton plants in the cotton production regions in southern Texas, thus reducing time and economic cost for their removal. A GIS network analysis tool was applied to estimate the most likely routes for cotton transportation, and a GIS model was created to identify and visualize potential areas of volunteer cotton growth. The GIS model indicated …

Interval-Type Fuzzy Linear Fractional Programming Problem In Neutrosophic Environment: A Fuzzy Mathematical Programming Approach, Hamiden Abd El- Wahed Khalifa, Pavan Kumar

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Neutrosophic Fuzzy Boundary Value Problem Under Generalized Hukuhara Differentiability, Bassem A. Kamal, A. A. Salama, M. Shokry, Magdi S. El-Azab, Galal I. El-Baghdady

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Single Valued Neutrosophic Vikor And Its Application To Wastewater Treatment Selection, Nor Liyana Amalini Mohd Kamal, Lazim Abdullah, Fu Ming Yee, Ilyani Abdullah, Nazanin Vafaei

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

New Notions On Neutrosophic Random Variables, Carlos Granados

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

View On Neutrosophic Over Topologized Domination Graphs, R.Narmada Devi, G. Muthumari

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

On Independence Neutrosophic Random Variables, Carlos Granados, José Sanabria

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Neutrosophic Sets And Systems, Vol. 47, 2021, Florentin Smarandache, Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Said Broumi

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Secure And Privacy-Preserving Crowdsensing Using Smart Contracts: Issues And Solutions, Alfredo J. Perez, Sherali Zeadally

Computer Science Faculty Publications

The advent of Blockchain and smart contracts is empowering many technologies and systems to automate commerce and facilitate the exchange, tracking and the provision of goods, data and services in a reliable and auditable way. Crowdsensing systems is one type of systems that have been receiving a lot of attention in the past few years. In crowdsensing systems consumer devices such as mobile phones and Internet of Things devices are used to deploy wide-scale sensor networks. We identify some of the major security and privacy issues associated with the development of crowdsensing systems based on smart contracts and Blockchain. We …

Activation Of The Α1Β2Γ2l Gaba Receptor By Physiological Agonists, Spencer R Pierce, Allison L Germann, Gustav Akk

Open Access Publications

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A Comparison Of The Flipped Classroom Model For Medical Student Education In Ophthalmology Before And During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Kelly H. Yom, Ryan J. Diel, Pavlina S. Kemp

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Abstract

Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has necessitated a shift of medical education to online learning in lieu of traditional clinic-based rotations. The flipped classroom model, which has been shown to be an effective approach to the medical student ophthalmology curriculum, shows promise as a method of learning that can be shared virtually. As such, the aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a flipped classroom approach to the primary care-focused ophthalmology clerkship delivered entirely online in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods Medical students who completed the 2-week introductory clinical ophthalmology clerkship from …

A Multilayer Network Model Of The Coevolution Of The Spread Of A Disease And Competing Opinions, Kaiyan Peng, Zheng Lu, Vanessa Lin, Michael R. Lindstrom, Christian Parkinson, Chuntian Wang, Andrea L. Bertozzi, Mason A. Porter

School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Faculty Publications

During the COVID-19 pandemic, conflicting opinions on physical distancing swept across social media, affecting both human behavior and the spread of COVID-19. Inspired by such phenomena, we construct a two-layer multiplex network for the coupled spread of a disease and conflicting opinions. We model each process as a contagion. On one layer, we consider the concurrent evolution of two opinions — pro-physical-distancing and anti-physical-distancing — that compete with each other and have mutual immunity to each other. The disease evolves on the other layer, and individuals are less likely (respectively, more likely) to become infected when they adopt the pro-physical-distancing …

A Report From The Nihr Uk Working Group On Remote Trial Delivery For The Covid-19 Pandemic And Beyond, Jane A.H. Masoli, Kim Down, Gary Nestor, Sharon Hudson, John T. O’Brien, James D. Williamson, Carolyn A. Young, Camille Carroll

Peninsula Medical School

Abstract Background Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of clinical trial activity took place face to face within clinical or research units. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a significant shift towards trial delivery without in-person face-to-face contact or “Remote Trial Delivery”. The National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) assembled a Remote Trial Delivery Working Group to consider challenges and enablers to this major change in clinical trial delivery and to provide a toolkit for researchers to support the transition to remote delivery. Methods The NIHR Remote Trial Delivery Working Group evaluated five key domains of the trial delivery pathway: …

Constructivist Peer Review In Music Theory And Composition Courses: Technologies And Practice, Brendan Mcconville

Journal of the Association for Technology in Music Instruction

This article considers the supporting technologies and practices for effective semi-anonymous peer review in traditional music theory and composition-related courses: orchestration, arranging, and composition. A coordinated approach probes two questions nested within one broad case study: (1) does the use of peer review in music theory and composition-related courses create meaningful, constructivist-inspired learning experiences, and (2) what web technologies can efficiently and effectively accomplish its activities? The article first provides a constructivist theoretical framework; next, it explains the methodologies, technologies, and resulting feedback from using peer review in a three-course study; and finally it provides concluding remarks on the many …