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Enhancing Hand Hygiene Compliance Among Icu And Nicu Visitor Families: The Impact Of Advanced Nursing Roles, The Barriers And Challenges: A Review, Siti Azuna Abu Bakar, Khin Thandar Aung, Sahrom Abdullah

Individual Articles

Proper hand hygiene is crucial for preventing,, infections in intensive care units (ICUs) and neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Despite the awareness among healthcare personnel and visitors of its importance, compliance with regulations is often inadequate. Advanced nurse educators and infection control professionals can significantly improve these habits. This review investigates whether advanced nursing positions improve hand hygiene among ICU and NICU families, as well as visitors, focusing on enhancing hand hygiene programs, identifying effective solutions, recognising practice shortcomings, and providing recommendations. The methodology involved a search of databases, including PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus, and Google Scholar, using relevant keywords related …

The Meaning Of Happiness Among Urban Children And Adolescents In Indonesia: A Qualitative Study Through Drawings, Eko Handayani, Dewi Maulina, Winarini W. Dahlan

Psychological Research on Urban Society

Urban children and adolescents face various stressors, including academic pressure, digital media exposure, and limited green spaces, which influence their happiness perception. This study aims to explore the meaning of happiness in children and adolescents living in Indonesia’s urban areas through qualitative research using a drawing-based approach. A total of 243 participants, aged 9-15, from elementary and junior high schools in Jakarta, were asked to draw "I am happy when..." with written brief explanations. Data were analyzed using visual and narrative-thematic approaches across children and adolescents from a developmental psychology perspective. The findings reveal that the images and explanations of …

Digital Marketing Opportunities For The Advancement Of The Tourism Industry Case Study: Indihome Pt. Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Abiyyu Sangaji

Journal of Indonesian Tourism and Policy Studies

Digital marketing is becoming increasingly important in the tourism industry as a way to reach a wider target market and increase sales. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method aimed at exploring digital marketing opportunities in the tourism industry through a case study of IndiHome PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia. The results of the study indicate that digital marketing can provide significant opportunities for the tourism industry, particularly in terms of the use of social media, websites, and engaging visual content. Furthermore, the results also show that the use of data and analytics can help companies optimize their digital marketing campaigns. However, …

Carlos Ferran, Dba, Ed.D., Km, Carlos Ferran

Faculty Research Mixer

No abstract provided.

Professor Alex Liu, Alex Liu

Faculty Research Mixer

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Embracing Artificial Intelligence And Digital Health In Cancer Care, Pavitra P. Krishnamani

Advances in Cancer Education and Quality Improvement

Digital health technologies like AI, telemedicine, and wearables are revolutionizing cancer care by enabling earlier detection, personalized treatment, and improved patient support and access.

Interactive Clinical Dashboard For Psychiatric Oncology Services At A Cancer Institution: A Quality Initiative, Maria Shabih, Adelita D. Martinez, Alan D. Valentine, Deepti A. Chopra

Advances in Cancer Education and Quality Improvement

Accurate documentation of reasons for psychiatry consultations is critical for developing an effective treatment plan for the patient and improving quality of care through targeted interventions. The purpose of this project was to create an interactive dashboard on Power BI. We downloaded the report from Epic on SAP BI. On an Excel sheet, we recoded the reason for consults and categorized using a keyword list and recoded the consults into distinct, categories such as "anxiety," "depression," and "altered mental status (AMS)," with data spanning 2 fiscal years.

Key findings from the dashboard revealed that anxiety and depression accounted for most …

High Turnover On The Menu - Understanding Post-Covid Employee Retention Rates Within Public Assembly Venues In New York City, Liberty University

Sport Leadership Summit

This study explores food and beverage employee turnover rates within sport venues in New York City. The topic holds public interest due to the documented correlation between guest satisfaction and employee satisfaction. It is ethical and feasible, focusing on real-world management challenges in the hospitality industry. By narrowing the scope to a specific population, the study aims to provide actionable insights into employee retention in a post-Covid landscape.

From Snacks To Seats - Examining The Influence Of Concessions On Return Attendance For Liberty University Hockey, Liberty University

Sport Leadership Summit

This study will explore the correlation between attendees’ levels of satisfaction with concessions at Liberty University men’s club sports D1 hockey games and their return attendance at future games. The insights derived from this research will inform collegiate hockey programs’ event concessions and attendance practices.

Leadership, Culture, And Sustained Success - Comparative Case On Belichick's Patriots And Reid's Chiefs, Liberty University

Sport Leadership Summit

This study examines how transformational leadership and organizational culture contribute to long-term success in the NFL, focusing on two exceptional franchises: the New England Patriots under Bill Belichick and the Kansas City Chiefs under Andy Reid. By using the Multi-Factor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) and the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI), the research analyzes leadership behaviors and cultural values through player interviews, press conferences, NFL Films, and archival data. The rationale is to understand how leadership and culture—not just talent or tactics—drive sustained excellence in professional sports, offering insights applicable to both sports and non-sports organizations.

Designing An Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes Information Infrastructure Supported By The Re-Aim Implementation Framework, Amy C. Moreno, Angela Peek, Toshiko S. Stein, Kevin R. Shook, Sara M. Ali, Laia Humbert-Vidan, Aileen Chen, Miriam Lango, Anna Lee, Michael Spiotto, William H. Morrison, Adam S. Garden, Jack Phan, Steven J. Frank, Katherine Hutcheson, David I. Rosenthal, Clifton D. Fuller, G Brandon Gunn

Advances in Cancer Education and Quality Improvement

Objective: Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) contain valuable information that can be leveraged by providers to perform timely interventions and improve quality of life and survival. However, the implementation of electronic PROs (ePROs) remains a challenge from technical and evaluation perspectives. Our objective was to construct a robust electronic health record (EHR)-integrated ePRO information infrastructure founded on RE-AIM (reach-effectiveness-adoption-implementation-maintenance) principles.

Materials and Methods: We used Epic Systems as our EHR platform to build the MD Anderson Symptom Index Head and Neck Module (MDASI-HN) for release to all patients undergoing evaluation and/or treatment in our HN Radiation Oncology clinics. RE-AIM metrics were …

Exploring Patient Perspectives On The Availability And Demand For Patient-Friendly Resources In Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Danielle Brazel, Aakash Desai, Fawzi Abu Rous, Jill Feldman, Eric Singhi

Advances in Cancer Education and Quality Improvement

Introduction: The growing emphasis on patient-centered care, along with the rise of open-access publications and online platforms, has increased patient demand for education about their medical conditions. In this context, patient-friendly language summaries of fundamental cancer clinical trials may be valuable resources for patients to learn more about their disease and treatment options.

Methods: We surveyed patients diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to assess the availability and need for easy-to-understand resources related to treatment decision-making and side effect profiles. Patients were also provided an example patient-friendly language summary and asked for feedback.

Results: One hundred fourteen patients responded …

The Use Of Firgun To Improve Burnout And Workplace Civility In A Pediatric Cancer Center, Karen Moody, Jerry Stein, Deena Levine, Arshia Madni, Clark R. Andersen, Amy Heaton, Alakh P. Rajan, Demetrios Petropoulos, Jian Wang, Deborah Kramer

Advances in Cancer Education and Quality Improvement

Burnout afflicts 35% to 44% of pediatric oncology physicians, nurses, and interprofessional staff and is related to excessive workloads and emotional exhaustion. Conversely, a healthy work environment is a protective factor for burnout among physicians and nurses. Meaningful recognition is a published standard necessary for creating a healthy work environment. This study aimed to reduce staff burnout through firgun, defined as a heartfelt way to express accomplishments of another person. Pediatric oncology staff completed a firgun educational module and logged acts of firgun during a 3-month study period. Validated measures assessing burnout, workplace civility, well-being, work-life balance, and perceived …

Uthealth Mcgovern Medical School 2025 Quality Symposium Abstracts

Teaching in Clinics

UTHealth McGovern Medical School 2025 Quality Symposium Abstracts

Young Entrepreneur Transition To Youth Neet During Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Indonesia, Fx Gugus Febri Putranto, Devanto Shasta Pratomo, M. Pudjihardjo

Jurnal Ekonomi dan Studi Pembangunan

The global crisis caused by the pandemic also has an impact on the labor market in Indonesia. Young and women workers are strongly affected by the crisis and economic uncertainty due to the pandemic. One of the perceived impacts is the transition of young workers from entrepreneurs to NEET. This study aims to analyze the determinants of the transition of young entrepreneurs to NEET during the pandemic in Indonesia, both in general and gender-specific models. Data from the National Labor Force Survey (SAKERNAS) with individual panel observation in August 2019 and August 2020 were analyzed using multinomial logistic regression. Important …

Ensuring Security In Economic Freedom: A Cross Case Between Indonesia's Border Neighbors, Diana Lestari, Syarifah Hudayah, Irwansyah Irwansyah

Jurnal Ekonomi dan Studi Pembangunan

An open economy allows for partnerships between countries. The urgency of this paper is to dedicate the government's concern to revitalizing weapons in finance, export–import, and empowering the military sector to maintain economic freedom in 8 countries. The objectivity of the study focuses on Indonesia's cross–border countries. Annual published data sourced from the Global Economy is compiled for 6 periods. Then, the comparative linear regression technique serves to articulate the analysis funds. Since 2016–2021, there are indications that there is a strong determination of arms imports, arms exports, GDP of the military, armed forces personnel, and military spending on economic …

Gender Equality In The Labour Market In The Midst Of The Covid-19 Pandemic, Ni Putu Wiwin Setyari, Ida Ayu Nyoman Saskara, Ananda Putri Pratama Suwitanty, Gusti Ayu Putu Sinta Dewi Lestari

Jurnal Ekonomi dan Studi Pembangunan

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digitalization process in service systems and manufacturing industries in most countries, although at varying speeds. This was triggered by social distancing requirements and other COVID-19-related regulations imposed by governments around the world, including Indonesia. Digital technology is widely regarded as a promising means of promoting gender equality in education, the labor market, access to finance, and health care. This study is aimed at examining whether there are significant differences between female and male workers in the labor market and the digital access they have during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research design used is quantitative. …

Context-Aware Adjustment Of Noise Cancellation For Wearable Audio Devices, Shailesh Maheshwari, Vedant Maheshwari, Rayansh Maheshwari

Defensive Publications Series

Active noise cancellation in wearable audio devices, such as headphones or earbuds, can reduce a user's ability to hear certain environmental sounds. A system is disclosed that can implement context-driven audio awareness. The system may utilize one or more machine learning models to monitor a user's acoustic environment for specific, predefined sounds from a user-customizable list, such as sirens, doorbells, or a baby crying. Upon detection of a designated acoustic event, the system can automatically and temporarily modify the noise cancellation feature, for example, by disabling it or switching to an audio passthrough mode, allowing the external sound to become …

Method And System For Alias Management Techniques, Suresh Kumar Tavvala, Wenhai Pan, Rajiv Sharma, Michelle Hou

Defensive Publications Series

A server computer receives, from a user device comprising an application comprising an SDK (software development kit), an onboard request, the application supported by an application server computer. The server computer provides an API key to the application in the user device. The server computer receives, from the SDK, an initialization request comprising the API key. A secure session is initiated between the server computer and the SDK in the user device. The server computer receives, from the SDK, a credential during the secure session and verifies the credential. The server computer stores, in an alias directory, the credential in …

Prosodic Based Turn Detection Using The Audio Spectrogram Transformer, Adhwaith Menon

Defensive Publications Series

End of turn (EoT) detection is performed in a voice artificial intelligence (AI) solution to detect when a user is done talking. The currently available systems that perform EoT detection face issues such as detection of only the long pauses and added overhead cost from conversion of audio to text for analysis. To overcome the aforementioned issues, a system is proposed herein that uses a pre-trained Audio Spectrogram Transformer (AST) as a prosodic feature extractor, combined with a high-level transformer encoder that analyzes global prosodic structure. By leveraging this architecture, the system reliably predicts when a speaker has finished their …

Smart Device Hvac Health Evaluation With Large-Language Model Acoustic Signature Analysis, D Shin

Defensive Publications Series

This publication describes systems and techniques for evaluating the operational status or “health” of a heating-ventilation-air-conditioning (HVAC) system by analyzing sound generated by the HVAC system. The sound may be monitored by a microphone incorporated in a smart thermostat or other smart home device and automatically evaluated using an HVAC Large Language-Type Model (HVAC-LLM) including acoustic signatures of properly and/or improperly operating HVAC systems. For example, a system includes one or more microphones integrated in a smart thermostat and/or one or more other smart home devices that act as passive sensors to capture sound made by the HVAC system. Initialization …

Event-Triggered Audio Mode Management For Hearable Devices, Shailesh Maheshwari, Vedant Maheshwari, Rayansh Maheshwari

Defensive Publications Series

This document describes a method for managing audio modes in a hearable device. A user operating a device in an ambient sound passthrough mode may have difficulty hearing audio events, such as notifications or digital assistant responses, over background noise. A system can detect certain triggers, such as the receipt of a notification or the start of a user's interaction with a digital assistant. Upon detecting a trigger, the hearable device can temporarily switch from an ambient sound mode to a noise cancellation mode. After the audio event concludes, for example, after the notification sound or the assistant's response is …

Structured Layered Synthesis For Generating Coherent And Scale-Consistent Text, Saurabh Gupta, Andrea Morandi

Defensive Publications Series

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at generating fluent text at a local level, LLMs struggle to consistently maintain the structure and coherence of generated text over long documents and across different levels of detail. Techniques proposed herein introduce a system and method for enhancing text generation through a structured layered synthesis approach.

Situational Awareness In Virtual Reality By Providing A Wide Field Of View, Alexander Graehl Williams

Defensive Publications Series

Virtual reality (VR) headsets typically limit a user's field of view, restricting situational awareness to what is directly in front of them. This makes it difficult to monitor the surrounding environment for events or motion occurring outside the primary viewing area. This disclosure describes a method for conditionally displaying a panoramic, 360-degree view within a VR headset. The panoramic view can be triggered by events, such as the detection of motion in the user's periphery or rear. Upon detection, the standard forward-facing view is temporarily replaced or augmented with a compressed 360-degree visualization of the environment. This technique enhances the …

Generating Context-Aware Code-Switched Text Using Probabilistic Modeling And Generative Refinement, Mithun Kumar S R

Defensive Publications Series

Artificial intelligence models can experience difficulty understanding and generating code-switched text, and some existing synthetic data generation methods can produce grammatically incorrect or unnatural-sounding results. This disclosure describes a multi-stage system for generating code-switched text from monolingual corpora. The method can employ a probabilistic constraint model to analyze a source sentence and identify syntactically and semantically appropriate points for a language switch. Based on these identified points, a candidate generation engine can create one or more raw code-switched sentences. A large generative model may then refine these raw candidates to address potential grammatical errors at the language junction and improve …

Missteps And Missed Steps, Karen Andrews

Alt Dialogue

No abstract provided.

From Methods To Meaning: Rethinking Psychological Research In Urban Contexts, Dewi Maulina

Psychological Research on Urban Society

From Methods to Meaning: Rethinking Psychological Research in Urban Contexts

Advancing Sex Education And Health Outcome: The Impacts Of Education And Support Program In Cambodia, Natepy Vann

Public Health: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

Abstract

Context:

In most countries, early pregnancies are one of the most public health issues, particularly in a developing country like Cambodia. This problem is leading those young mothers to face mental health breakdowns and limited socioeconomic opportunities. Beyond that, they also face the disruption of education and overall health risks in the long term. This research paper answers and delves into doubts related to the question: How does early pregnancy affect the mental health and future socioeconomic opportunities, including education, career prospects, and social mobility, of teenage mothers in Cambodia?

Methods:

This literature review focuses on psychological …

P–12 District Equity “Shutdown”: Equity Directors’ Experiences Amid Anti-Equity Organizing, 2020–2022, Andrew Matschiner

Education Faculty Articles and Research

This article examines local experiences of the national attack on district equity work intended to better support Students of Color and LGBTQ+ students over the 2020–2022 school years. Drawing on theory on zones of mediation and interviews with over 70 district “equity directors” (EDs) nationally, I analyze how together national, state, and local pressure led to district equity “shutdown.” Forms of district equity shutdown included censoring equity-focused communication and language, eliminating district equity-focused programming or personnel, and restricting books and learning resources, with 40% of EDs reporting at least one form of district equity shutdown.

Cultivating Deia Skills In Open Education Research: The Impact Of Targeted Fellowship Support, Virginia Clinton-Lisell, Jasmine Roberts-Crews

Education, Health & Behavior Studies Faculty Publications

In order to conduct effective research in open education, one needs skills in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. To address this need, a DEIA expert provided consultation to the members and mentor of a fellowship for open education researchers. After completing the fellowship, the researchers were asked to complete a survey about DEIA research skill development during the fellowship and their perceived challenges in DEIA research. Fellows (N = 42) across cohorts indicated growth in DEIA research skills during the fellowship. Notably, fellows who received DEIA consultation described more sophisticated development of DEIA research skills than fellows without the consultation. …