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“I (Still) Need Help On Many Things”: A Writing Center Replication Study Of First-Generation College Students’ Writing Challenges And Cultural Capital, Red Douglas, Ashley Cerku, Isabelle Lundin, Mary Gallagher, Xavier Iriarte, Sophia E. Williams, Kaylie Williams

The Writing Center Journal

Research has increasingly addressed first-generation (FG) students both in and outside the center (Baelemian & Feng, 2013; Bond, 2019; Denny et al., 2018; Ward et al., 2012), but there remains a need to address this unique student population from the perspective of critical theory. In a replication study of Bond’s 2019 “‘I Need Help on Many Things, Please’: A Case Study Analysis of First-Generation College Students’ Use of the Writing Center,” we examined the needs and perceptions of self-reported FG students in a writing center at a large, regional, public R2 university in the Midwest. We gathered preexisting digital data …

Indiana At A Glance: County Trends, 2025 Edition, Roberto Gallardo

Purdue University Press Books

Indiana at a Glance: County Trends, 2025 Edition provides an overview of macro socioeconomic and demographic trends based on county-level data in ten-year periods in Indiana, the upper Midwest region, and the nation. Analyzing data primarily from 2013 through 2023, this book presents information that contextualizes the design and implementation of specific policies enacted by elected officials and community leaders, and reveals the impact these initiatives have on the public.

Inspired, in part, by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural America at a Glance reports, as well as the author’s more than twenty years of work in the field, …

Graphrag-Enabled Local Large Language Model For Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Development Of A Proof-Of-Concept, Edmund Evangelista, Fathima Ruba, Salman Bukhari, Amril Nazir, Ravishankar Sharma

All Works

Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a prevalent chronic condition that affects maternal and fetal health outcomes worldwide, increasingly in underserved populations. While generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in health care, their application in GDM management remains underexplored. Objective: This study aimed to investigate whether retrieval-augmented generation techniques, when combined with knowledge graphs (KGs), could improve the contextual relevance and accuracy of AI-driven clinical decision support. For this, we developed and validated a graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG)–enabled local LLM as a clinical support tool for GDM management, assessing its performance against open-source LLM …

Cerebellar Dysfunction In Glaucoma Patients, Anisha Kasi, Ji Won Bang, Vivek Trivedi, Jeannie Au, Ian Conner, Gadi Wollstein, Joel Schuman, Rakie Cham, Kevin Chan

Wills Eye Hospital Papers

Glaucoma patients often have higher injurious fall rates compared to healthy older adults. However, little is known about the underlying neural mechanisms. Recent evidence shows cerebral changes beyond the visual pathway of glaucoma patients, yet it remains unclear whether the cerebellum, which plays an important role in balance and motor control, is involved in glaucoma. In this study, we sought to investigate cerebellar functional connectivity changes in glaucoma by comparing 32 glaucoma subjects and 10 age-matched healthy control subjects who underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging at 3 Tesla with eyes closed. After conducting both regions-of-interest and seed-to-voxel analyses, we …

A Health System Approach To Evaluating Nurse Well-Being And Designing Interventions, Lee Galuska, Jessica Phillips, Kelley Anderson

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

In the wake of a global pandemic and societal stressors, clinician wellbeing and the threat of burnout are commanding increasing attention. Burnout contributes to nurse turnover and is threatening the ability of health systems to provide safe, high-quality care for patients (Dyrbye et al., 2017). The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) recommends a systems approach to prevent clinician burnout and promote professional wellbeing as healthy professionals are essential for achieving positive health care outcomes (NAM, 2019). Meaning and joy in nursing practice are contributors to professional wellbeing and are part of the solution for achieving the quadruple aim. One of …

Voices Of Emergency Department Nurses And Their Experiences Of Workplace Violence, Emily M. Holland, Elizabeth B. Dowdell

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Background: Nurses in many healthcare facilities frequently feel unsafe and threatened due to workplace violence (WPV) which is a serious and persistent problem across the United States, (American Nurses Association, 2015; Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019). While all nurses are at risk for experiencing WPV, the emergency department (ED) is considered an especially high risk unit due to factors such as the acuity of illness, traumatic events, victims of violence, and the 24/7/365 days open door policy, (Emergency Nurses Association, 2020; Morrison & Joy, 2016). Patients with substance use disorders (SUDs) generate unique challenges for ED nurses since …

Impact Of The Patient Flow Nurse Role In An Acute Care Setting, Esther Rani Devadoss

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Patient throughput is a consistent challenge for healthcare organizations globally, and patient flow delays heavily impact patient safety, quality care, patient satisfaction, and nurses’ job satisfaction. Creating the patient flow nurse role improves patient experience, reduces ED dwell time, and augments nurses’ satisfaction.

Detailed abstract attached.

Spartan Daily, October 15, 2025, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2025

Volume 165, Issue 23

Libel Via Language Models, Peter Wills

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This article explains how developers and users of large language models (LMs) may be treated by English and Canadian libel law. LMs could be economically significant, and the liability environment they exist in will affect where they are developed, who accumulates wealth from their development, and who bears the burdens of any negative consequences of their development. Understanding the existing liability environment allows both developers and policy makers to make informed decisions—about which jurisdiction to offer services and what to prioritise, for the former, and about whether the existing law serves desired policy ends, for the latter. LMs also raise …

2025-10-15 Government Shutdown Fuels Uncertainty, Julia Pilch

The Spectator Online

No abstract provided.

2025-10-15 Mariners Make History With Return To The Alcs, Maddie Rodriguez

The Spectator Online

No abstract provided.

Preoperative Brain Mapping Predicts Language Outcomes After Eloquent Tumor Resection, Matthew T Muir, Kyle Noll, Sarah Prinsloo, Hayley Michener, Jeffrey I Traylor, Vinodh A Kumar, Chibawanye I Ene, Sherise Ferguson, Ho-Ling Liu, Jeffrey S Weinberg, Frederick Lang, Brian A Taylor, Stephanie J Forkel, Sujit S Prabhu

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

When operating on gliomas near critical language regions, surgeons risk either leaving residual tumor or inducing permanent postoperative language deficits (PLDs). Despite the advent of intraoperative mapping techniques, subjective judgments frequently determine important surgical decisions. We aim to inform data-driven surgery by constructing a non-invasive mapping approach that quantitatively predicts the impact of individual surgical decisions on long-term language function. This study included 79 consecutive patients undergoing resection of language-eloquent gliomas. Patients underwent preoperative navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) language mapping to identify language-positive sites ("TMS points") and their associated white matter tracts ("TMS tracts") as well as formal language …

Accessible Workplace, Inaccessible Workflows: Mandatory Documents, Challenges And Workarounds In Accessible Onboarding, Scott Hollier, Justin Brown, Ruchi Permvattana

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This paper describes the accessibility challenges faced by the Centre For Accessibility Australia (CFAA), a small not-for-profit organisation when onboarding new staff. The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) requires that employers fill in a PDF document with tax file information for new employees, a process that is currently not accessible to screen-reader users. The director of the CFAA is legally blind and uses a range of assistive technologies to interact with the Web, documents and messaging platforms. This paper describes accessibility issues identified in the current ATO form and the range of alternative approaches the CFAA has had to adopt as …

Harnessing Lived Experience To Promote Accessible Employment Journeys, Emma Lovegrove, Denise Bertilone, Justin Brown, Elle Beaumont-Bilsby

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This paper describes an Inclusive Employability initiative at Edith Cowan University (ECU) developed in 2024. The paper foregrounds the observations and reflections of Inclusive Employability Officers as they designed, developed and implemented the initiatives within the context of an Australian University. Over the past two decades Australian Universities have encouraged wider participation in higher education, though the resulting social mobility and economic benefit of higher education has not been evenly distributed, especially amongst cohorts with different socio-economic backgrounds and access requirements. The goal of the Inclusive Employability initiative was, and is, to support students from different equity cohorts, including people …

Exploring The Efficacy Of A Source-Based Writing Tutoring Intervention For Multilingual Students In The Writing Center, Dana Lynn Driscoll, Osman Ozdemir

The Writing Center Journal

Source-based writing skills, which include evaluating, synthesizing, and citing sources, are skills that students are expected to acquire as part of college-level writing. Unfortunately, many multilingual writers (MLWs), especially those in advanced degree programs, lack programmatic support and instruction. Thus, writing centers represent a critical site to offer MLWs tutorial-based support. Our study examined whether or not writing centers can help MLWs develop—and transfer—source-based writing skills in a sequence of three tutorials. We recruited five advanced student MLW participants from different cultural backgrounds who were uncomfortable with source use. Through pre-and postwriting samples, interviews, writing process recording videos, and a …

“I Just Need Another Set Of Eyes”: Understanding Students’ Idea Of The Writing Center, Isabelle M. Lundin, Neal Lerner

The Writing Center Journal

In this article, we describe writing center clients’ “idea” of the writing center based on interviews with 26 writing center users and qualitative coding of interview transcripts. Participants’ constructs of the writing center provide a lens to better understand how they perceive writing as an activity, the “writing culture” of the institution, the role of the writing center in their writing processes, and, ultimately, if they see writing centers in the way we would expect them to. The tensions we derived from our data are (1) between who and what tutors are and offer: discipline-specific expertise (including the disciplines of …

“It Would Literally Take The World To End For Us To Do This”: Writing Center Consultants’ Affective Responses To Consulting Modalities, Anita Long, Destiny R. Brugman

The Writing Center Journal

This article discusses findings from semi-structured interviews with writing consultants about their affective experiences working across three different consulting modalities: in person, asynchronous, and synchronous. This study offers affect as a lens for understanding consultants’ responses to and strategies for consulting in multiple modalities and argues that by attending to affect, emotion, and disposition in consulting we can better support our consultants when they’re consulting in different modalities.

From Affordances To Action: Designing Familiar Health Data Interfaces For Older Adults, Peterson Jean, Enda Bates, Emma Murphy Dr

Conference papers

Health data is inherently complex, and tracking it appropriately, whether prescribed by a doctor or motivated by personal interest, offers significant benefits for improving health behaviours. With consumer availability, pervasive technologies such as wearable devices have opened new opportunities for the self-tracking of critical physiological health data. Yet, despite the progress made, older adults often encounter barriers that limit meaningful interactions, leading them to disengage from managing their own health. At the root of these barriers is the gap between designers' intentions and older adults' ability to perceive, interpret, and respond effectively to cues embedded in systems designed to collect …

The Method Of Power Networks Mode Optimization In Basis Of Genetic Algorithm, Tulkin Shernazarovich Gayibov, Gulnaz Makhmutovna Turmanova

Technical science and innovation

One of the main tasks solved in planning short-term and managing operational modes of electric power systems (EPS) is the optimization of their network modes on the adjustable parameters. For modern complex EPS, this task is often characterized by the multi-extremality of the objective function, the appearance of discontinuous functions, the presence of initial information of a probabilistic and partially uncertain nature. In such conditions, solving the problem by traditional algorithms using mainly linear and nonlinear programming methods, Lagrange, gradient, etc., is associated with a number of difficulties in simplifying them and bringing them to a convenient form for calculations. …

Measures To Improve The Structure And Operating Principle Of Perovsite Light-Emitting Devices, Latofat Utkir Qizi Shuhratova, Rustam Rashidovich Kabulov, Farrux Anvar Ugli Akbarov, Anvar Akbarovich Alimov

Technical science and innovation

Since the discovery of the unique properties of perovskite materials, these materials have been used as active layers in various optoelectronic devices. In particular, perovskite-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have attracted the attention of many researchers as a highly efficient and versatile technology for lighting and display devices. Perovskite-based LEDs allow for tunable light emission and can be manufactured at low cost and with flexible fabrication technology. These advantages make them suitable for use in devices ranging from modern displays to wearable electronics. Despite their potential, solving problems such as material stability and industrial scale is one of the current challenges …

Methodology For Creating An Intelligent Mechatron Module Based On A Synergistic Approach, Nurbek Rustamovich Matyokubov, Temurbek Omonboyevich Rakhimov

Technical science and innovation

This article is devoted to the methodology of creating an intelligent mechatron module based on a synergistic approach. Creating a multi-coordinate intelligent mechatron module and expanding the functional capabilities of the controlled object based on them, allows to optimize the dynamic characteristics. Also, the methodology for creating an intelligent mechatronic module based on a synergistic approach allows for the integration of electrical, magnetic, and mechanical components into a single circuit, the integration of technical parameter modification, and the integration of processing functions into a single information-measuring module. In addition, the article proposes a Eurorhythm scheme for expressing how …

The Rhetorical Function Of Writing Center Employee Handbooks, Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison

The Writing Center Journal

In his award-winning book, Around the Texts of Writing Centers, R. Mark Hall (2017) asserts the importance of everyday writing center texts, claiming that these documents “both enact and forward writing center scholarship” (p. 3). It is Hall’s position that such “everyday” documents are essential to understanding the work of writing centers, but that their very ubiquity leads writing center scholars and administrators to ignore them or take their functions for granted. In this study, I take up Hall’s call for more scholarly attention to everyday writing center texts through a thematic rhetorical analysis of nine writing center employee …

Back Matter, Georganne Nordstrom, Isaac K. Wang, Sherry Wynn Perdue

The Writing Center Journal

Back matter for Writing Center Journal 43.2.

Lindenwood Digest, October 15, 2025, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been a digital employee newsletter since 2009.

Stereoelectroencephalography Reveals Neural Signatures Of Multisensory Integration In The Human Superior Temporal Sulcus During Audiovisual Speech Perception, Yue Zhang, John F Magnotti, Xiang Zhang, Zhengjia Wang, Yingjia Yu, Kathryn A Davis, Sameer A Sheth, H Isaac Chen, Daniel Yoshor, Michael S Beauchamp

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Human speech perception is multisensory, integrating auditory information from the talker's voice with visual information from the talker's face. BOLD fMRI studies have implicated the superior temporal gyrus (STG) in processing auditory speech and the superior temporal sulcus (STS) in integrating auditory and visual speech, but as an indirect hemodynamic measure, fMRI is limited in its ability to track the rapid neural computations underlying speech perception. Using stereoelectroencephalography (sEEG) electrodes, we directly recorded from the STG and STS in 42 epilepsy patients (25F, 17M). Participants identified single words presented in auditory, visual, and audiovisual formats with and without added auditory …

2025-10-15 University Graduate Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., University Graduate Committee.

Faculty Senate Records

Meeting minutes of the University Graduate Committee from October 15, 2024.

Justice Impacted Mothers: An Autoethnographic Study Exploring The Impacts Of Quality Prison Visitation With Children, Sarah E. Gore

PSU McNair Scholars Online Journal

This study explores the impacts of in-person visitation at correctional facilities and how the quality of this contact affects relationships between justice impacted mothers and their children. Little is known about these nuanced lived experiences as revealed by qualitative data and from someone who is mothering during incarceration. The literature on maternal incarceration is vast, but relies heavily on quantitative data. Existing research indicates facility visits, particularly those of high quality, offer constructive benefits such as reductions in maternal recidivism rates. However, separation during incarceration has shown higher risks for adolescent substance abuse, behavioral, and academic struggles. This study expands …

Intrinsic Defects (Vacancies And Antisites) In Neutron Irradiated Cdsip2 Crystals, Timothy D. Gustafson, Elizabeth M. Scherrer, Nancy C. Giles, Kevin T. Zawilski, Peter G. Schunemann, Jonathan E. Slagle, Kent L. Averett, Larry E. Halliburton

Faculty Publications

Cadmium silicon phosphide (CdSiP₂) is a nonlinear optical material widely used in optical parametric oscillators. Intrinsic defects (vacancies and antisites) are responsible for unwanted broad optical absorption bands in these crystals that degrade the performance of the devices. In the present work, optical absorption and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra are acquired (at room temperature and 12 K, respectively) from a neutron-irradiated CdSiP₂ crystal. After the irradiation, the crystal is highly absorbing from the band edge near 600 nm to beyond 1.3 μm because of overlapping defect-related absorption bands. Heating to 550 °C removes nearly all the …

Rehabilitation For Chronic Neurological Disorders Including Acquired Brain Injury: Information For The Public, Ian Bernstein, Rachel Keetley, Emer Gilloway, Parashar Ramanuj, Jane Williams, Jenny Jim, Hamise Smith, Nassif Mansour, Rachel Farrell, Gabrielle Parker, Joanne Powell, Jacqueline Dean, Jill Kings, Teresa Clark, Lisa Bunn, Mark Holloway, Nicholas Behn, Geraldine Roxburgh, Sue Williams, Yvonne Pettigrew, Caroline Jones, Lisa Boardman, Jen Francis, Alice Navein, Hayley Shaw, Eric Slade, Joanna Perkin, Kelly Williams, Anja Fricke, Gareth Haman

School of Health Professions

No abstract provided.

Consensus-Based Disease Definitions For Endocrine Immune-Related Adverse Events Of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors, Ling Zhu, Huda Al-Bahadili, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are an important class of cancer treatment. Endocrine immune-related adverse events (E-irAEs) account for a significant proportion of irAEs in ICI-treated patients. Diagnosing E-irAEs accurately and timely can be challenging in the absence of clear categorization and standardization across oncology, endocrinology and other specialties. While existing guidelines provide some broad directions to diagnosis and management, they lack clarity on irAE-specific symptom evaluation and work-up, as well as assessment of severity. These limitations can then impact triage, time-sensitive management and care escalation to specialists such as oncoendocrinologists. The objective of this study was to develop consensus-based statements …