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Senate Meeting, March 24, 2021, Academic Senate, Illinois State University

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Yunus Goksen V. Attorney General United States

2021 Decisions

Agency

Smith V. Kount, Inc. Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 48228

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Facial Expressions On Established Personal Space, Hannah L. Stewart

Student Theses and Dissertations

Differences in personal space preference have been established when encountering individuals with happy, neutral, and angry faces. The present research examines a broader range of expression, by introducing four additional facial expressions, to identify whether previous findings and conclusions persist. In the study, 21 participants were asked to approach fourteen faces consisting of male and female versions of seven different expressions—happy, surprise, neutral, sad, afraid, disgust, and anger—and to stop at the point that they would be comfortable having a conversation with the person. Participants were more likely to be comfortable being closer to faces showing positively associated emotions than …

Speech-Language Pathologist Confidence In Dysphagia Management, Fiona May Fuller

Student Theses and Dissertations

This study served to investigate the dysphagia-specific education and training that practicing speech-language pathologists (SLPs) have received within their graduate programs, within their workplaces, and independently. In addition, SLPs’ perceptions of their preparedness for dysphagia management responsibilities after completion of a graduate-level Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) program and the confidence they have in their own abilities to contribute to different aspects of dysphagia management were also investigated. An electronic survey was distributed to licensed SLPs via an email list provided by the Arkansas Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (ABESPA). Results revealed that although SLPs felt generally …

Therapy Approaches For Broca’S Aphasia: Consultative Vs. Clinician Directed, Stacey Nichole Mott

Student Theses and Dissertations

This investigation sought to explore the outcomes from two common therapy approaches, consultative and clinician directed, to language and communication rehabilitation for individuals with Broca’s aphasia. Both approaches are recognized as evidence-based and are used across many clinical settings. This single case study was performed using standardized assessment, informal measures, and a survey. The data collection reveals that there are positive outcomes to both methods of therapy. However, this study revealed a need to continue investigating the prevalence of use for both types of therapy approaches used by speech-language pathologists in various rehabilitative settings.

Understanding The Reasons And Causes For Federal Student Loan Default Rates In Four-Private And Public Institutions Of Higher Learning In Arkansas, Vicki Kay Walker

Student Theses and Dissertations

With the cost of student debt surpassing credit card debt, those students who default on their student loans are not only affected but the colleges and universities they attended are affected as well. The purpose of this study is to compare default rates before and after the amendment to the Higher Education Act of 2008. This study will identify non-profit, four-year public institutions and private four-year institutions located in Arkansas and compare their default rates based on the two-year and three-year cohort default rates. Data mining will be used to compare two-year and three-year cohort default rates as well as …

Speech-Language Pathologists’ Knowledge And Implementation Of Thyroid Hormone Diseases And Allergies On Voice, Kirsten Combs

Student Theses and Dissertations

There is little research that shows speech-language pathologists’ (SLP’s) knowledge of the impact of allergies or thyroid diseases related to voice disorders, or if they use this information during assessment and treatment. A survey was distributed to every licensed SLPs in the state of Arkansas, and 284 SLPs completed it. Only 20 participants asked clients if they have thyroid hormone diseases, whereas 256 asked about allergies. While treating, 236 participants reported that they consider allergies, but only 94 considered thyroid hormone diseases. On knowledge-based questions, the participants had an overall average of 84% for thyroid hormone diseases and 78% for …

Induction And Characterization Of Microspore Embryogenesis In Soybean (Glycine Max [L.] Merrill), Bretton M. Hale

Student Theses and Dissertations

Gametophytic embryogenesis is a method used to achieve homozygosity in plant breeding programs. However, its application is limited within the Fabaceae, which has historically demonstrated morphogenic recalcitrance in comparison to other plant families (i.e., Brassicaceae and Poaceae). Here, the immature male gametophyte — or microspore — was used to investigate gametophytic embryogenesis in soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merrill). In so doing, an induction regimen was optimized to support embryogenic growth through pretreatment temperature shock, a nitrogen starvation medium, and other post-isolation culture conditions. In addition, parallels were drawn between soybean microspore cytology and that which has been reported in model …

Effects Of Message Framing On Parents’ Attitudes Toward Concussion In Youth Sports, Christopher S. Rivera

Student Theses and Dissertations

This study investigates the effects of message framing on parents’ attitudes toward concussion in youth sports. One of two digital surveys were sent via email to each of 250 participants. 125 participants received a survey preceded by a negative-framed infographic. The other 125 participants received a survey preceded by a positive-framed infographic. Our analysis shows the framed-message infographics had a negligible effect on parents’ attitudes toward concussion in youth sports. We conclude that regardless of knowledge or understanding of concussions, parents are likely to allow participation in full contact and collision sports. Limitations to this study were primarily stemmed from …

The Speech Language Pathologists’ Understanding Of And Interaction With The Functional Health Literacy Of Parents With Infants In The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Emily Elizabeth Gardner Mccullough

Student Theses and Dissertations

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to investigate speech-language pathologists’ (SLPs’) experience with the functional health literacy skills of parents with infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Method: Thirteen NICU SLPs electronically completed the survey on SurveyMonkey. Results: Results support the theory that the health literacy levels of parents in the NICU are limited resulting in multiple functional health literacy breakdowns per week. These SLPs are able to recount specific functional health literacy breakdowns, voice their concerns, and give ideas on how to improve. Conclusion: Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are witnessing many health literacy breakdowns within the NICU, …

Survey Of Current Therapy Methods For Treatment Of Reading Fluency And Comprehension, Brooke Elizabeth Darnell

Student Theses and Dissertations

This study aimed to investigate the current types of interventions SLPs are using when treating children with reading difficulties. This study utilized a survey to investigate not only the types of interventions, but also the SLPs’ opinions regarding the efficacy of these interventions. This study provided evidence to support the use of these methods as well as provided insight into the treatment of children with reading difficulties.

Daily Eastern News: March 24, 2021, Eastern Illinois University

March

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Use Of Face Masks To Limit The Spread Of The Covid-19 Among Western Ugandans: Knowledge, Attitude And Practices, Franck Katembo Sikakulya, Robinson Ssebuufu, Simon Binezero Mambo, Theophilus Pius, Annet Kabanyoro, Elizabeth Kamahoro, Yusuf Mulumba, Jean Kakule Muhongya, Patrick Kyamanywa

School of Nursing & Midwifery, East Africa

Background

The world is grappling with an ever-changing COVID-19 pandemic using preventive measures such as personal hygiene, face masks, restrictions on travel and gatherings in communities, in addition to a race to find a vaccine. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the knowledge, attitudes and practices of the western Uganda community on the proper use of face masks to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

Methods A cross-sectional study using a structured questionnaire was carried out from 1^st July to 10^th July 2020 among western Ugandans of the consent age of 18 years and above. Data was …

The Auditing Imperative For Automated Hiring, Ifeoma Ajunwa

AI-DR Collection

The high bar of proof to demonstrate either a disparate treatment or disparate impact cause of action under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, coupled with the “black box” nature of many automated hiring systems, renders the detection and redress of bias in such algorithmic systems difficult. This Article, with contributions at the intersection of administrative law, employment & labor law, and law & technology, makes the central claim that the automation of hiring both facilitates and obfuscates employment discrimination. That phenomenon and the deployment of intellectual property law as a shield against the scrutiny of automated systems combine …

Neuro-Symbolic Deductive Reasoning For Cross-Knowledge Graph Entailment, Monireh Ebrahimi, Md Kamruzzaman Sarker, Federico Bianchi, Ning Xie, Aaron Eberhart, Derek Doran, Hyeongsik Kim, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

A significant and recent development in neural-symbolic learning are deep neural networks that can reason over symbolic knowledge graphs (KGs). A particular task of interest is KG entailment, which is to infer the set of all facts that are a logical consequence of current and potential facts of a KG. Initial neural-symbolic systems that can deduce the entailment of a KG have been presented, but they are limited: current systems learn fact relations and entailment patterns specific to a particular KG and hence do not truly generalize, and must be retrained for each KG they are tasked with entailing. We …

Former Gardner-Webb Faculty Members Reflect On 10-Year Process To Earn Senior College Status, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

To our readers: Gardner-Webb University celebrates a historic milestone in 2021—the 50th anniversary of senior college status. Transitioning to a four-year college in 1971 was the result of 10 years of planning and meeting goals.

To celebrate this anniversary, Gardner-Webb will publish a series of articles highlighting the stories of former faculty, staff, alumni and supporters who experienced this significant achievement. View the history timeline here. Although first conceptualized in 1961, Gardner-Webb’s transition from a two-year junior college to a four-year senior college was a decade-long process. Much work had to be done, including the hiring of more highly specialized …

Pressure- And Temperature-Dependent Inelastic Neutron Scattering Study Of The Phase Transition And Phonon Lattice Dynamics In Para-Terphenyl, Qingan Cai, Michael Mcintire, Luke L. Daemen, Chen Li, Eric Chronister

Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Research

Inelastic neutron scattering has been performed on para-terphenyl at temperatures from 10 to 200 K and under pressures from the ambient pressure to 1.51 kbar. The temperature dependence of phonons, especially low-frequency librational bands, indicates strong anharmonic phonon dynamics. The pressure- and temperature-dependence of the phonon modes suggest a lack of phase transition in the region of 0-1.51 kbar and 10-30 K. Additionally, the overall lattice dynamics remains similar up to 200 K under the ambient pressure. The results suggest that the boundary between the ordered triclinic phase and the third solid phase, reported at lower temperatures and higher pressures, …

Implementing Interdisciplinary Team Rounding To Reduce External Ventricular Drain-Associated Infections, Laura Reiter

Student Scholarly Projects

External ventricular drains (EVD) are a common intervention in critical care areas for the management of hydrocephalus. The most common complication of this life-saving intervention is infection, which negatively impacts patient outcomes and overall healthcare costs. Current evidence shows that interdisciplinary team rounding improves compliance with evidence-based practice and reduces hospital-associated infection rates. The PICOT question that guided this project is: For patients with an external ventricular drain (EVD), what is the effect of interdisciplinary team rounding compared with the current practice of informal rounding, on compliance with an EVD care bundle and EVD-associated cerebrospinal fluid infections over two months? …

Mentoring Program For New Graduate Nurses, Kathryn Palermo

Student Scholarly Projects

Practice Problem: The high turnover rate among newly licensed nurses has a negative impact on organizational costs, healthcare spending and patient outcomes. The turnover rate among newly licensed nurses, within their first year of practice, at the designated facility was 50%.

PICOT: The PICOT question that guided this project was “In new graduate nurses, how does a formal mentorship program, compared to no formal mentorship, affect the intent to leave within six weeks?”

Evidence: The scientific evidence supported both one-on-one and group mentoring. Retention and/or turnover was shown to be a positive outcome of formal mentor programs.

Intervention: The …

How Well Can We Assess The Validity Of Non-Randomised Studies Of Medications? A Systematic Review Of Assessment Tools, Elvira D'Andrea, Lydia Vinals, Elisabetta Patorno, Jessica M. Franklin, Dimitri Bennett, Joan A. Largent, Daniela C. Moga, Hongbo Yuan, Xuerong Wen, Andrew R. Zullo, Thomas P. A. Debray, Grammati Sarri

Pharmacy Practice and Science Faculty Publications

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether assessment tools for non-randomised studies (NRS) address critical elements that influence the validity of NRS findings for comparative safety and effectiveness of medications.

DESIGN: Systematic review and Delphi survey.

DATA SOURCES: We searched PubMed, Embase, Google, bibliographies of reviews and websites of influential organisations from inception to November 2019. In parallel, we conducted a Delphi survey among the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology Comparative Effectiveness Research Special Interest Group to identify key methodological challenges for NRS of medications. We created a framework consisting of the reported methodological challenges to evaluate the selected NRS tools.

STUDY SELECTION: Checklists …

The Lumberjack, March 24, 2021

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

Increasing Social And Emotional Learning Competencies Through Use Of Tabletop Role-Playing Games, Tia Ruff

Doctor of Education (EdD)

This Improvement Science Dissertation in Practice (ISDiP) aimed to investigate the use of tabletop role-playing games in supporting the social and emotional development of students in upper elementary grade levels. Using a mixed-methods approach, this ISDiP follows a team of invested school community members as they planned, implemented, studied, and reflected on the outcomes of initiating targeted social and emotional learning interventions to 16 students from a small alternative school in Anchorage, Alaska. Through a 90-day cycle, the School's Network Improvement Community (NIC) organized and executed an after-school SEL club after data on a district-wide survey indicated that social and …

Investigation Of The Influence Of Tank Geometry On A Vessel's Stability Under Free Surface Effect When In Coastal Waters, Ross Fuge, Jahir Rizvi, Jahir Rizvi

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Tank sizes on liquid cargo carriers are becoming larger to minimise wasted spaces on-board and maximise payload capacity. This trend can significantly affect a vessel's stability and its design. Therefore, this paper investigates whether spherical tanks provide better stability than a traditional tank formed with vertical sides under a range of free surface scenarios. The motions of a model liquid cargo carrier hull with various sizes of tanks and various fill levels has been investigated in a coastal basin. Regular waves of various heights and frequencies have been generated and the rolling motions of the hull have been documented. Results …

Smith V. Kount, Inc. Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 48228

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Using Multiple Ecological Models To Inform Environmental Decision-Making, Kristy A. Lewis, Kenneth A. Rose, Kim De Mutsert, Shaye Sable, Cameron Ainsworth, Damian C. Brady, Howard Townsend

Faculty Publications

Coastal ecosystems are experiencing degradation from compound impacts of climate change and multiple anthropogenic disturbances. These pressures often act synergistically and complicate designing effective conservation measures; consequently, large-scale coastal restoration actions become a wicked problem. The purpose of this study was to use two different food web models in a coordinated manner to inform resource managers in their assessment of the ecological effects of a large-scale marsh restoration project. A team was formed that included the model developers and outside scientists, who were asked to use available model results of the calibrated simulations of an Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) model …

[Excerpt From] Against Medical Advice: Addressing Treatment Refusal, Luanne Linnard-Palmer, Ellen Christiansen

Sigma Publications: Book Excerpts

This item record pertains to an excerpt from Against Medical Advice: Addressing Treatment Refusal, which is provided free of charge by the publisher.

About this book:

When a patient or family refuses treatment - maybe even lifesaving treatment - because it is contrary to their social, religious, or cultural beliefs, it can plunge healthcare providers, families, and patients into a difficult, emotionally charged conversation. Complex and diverse ethical dilemmas such as this can profoundly impact the health, welfare, and mental and emotional well-being of everyone involved. What's more, today's nurses and healthcare professionals will almost inevitably face this situation …

Follow-Up Rates At A Free Ophthalmology Clinic At A Homeless Shelter, Lauren Hennein, Kimberly A. Spaulding, Veronika Karlegan, Ogonna N. Nnamani Silva, Alejandra G. De Alba Campomanes

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Abstract

Objective Eye health among the homeless community is important, as poor vision makes this population vulnerable and adds significantly to the social and health burden. There is limited knowledge on patient follow-up rates for their eye conditions and barriers to accessing care in this population. The purpose of this retrospective chart review study is to examine follow-up rates and barriers to care for patients referred from a free, medical-student run ophthalmology clinic at a homeless shelter.

Methods All patients evaluated at a free ophthalmology clinic from September 2017 to September 2018 were included; no patients were excluded. If indicated, …

Alaska’S K-12 Capital Spending, Bob Loeffler

ISER Reports

No abstract provided.

Transversus Abdominus Plane Block For Enhanced Recovery After Surgery, Monicka Roden, Nancy Ann Westbrook, Lisa Herbinger

Group: Samford University Moffett & Sanders School of Nursing

Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) blocks are utilized as an opioid-sparing anesthetic regimen and are incorporated into Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programs to promote higher quality care for all surgical patients. Transversus abdominis plane blocks decrease pain scores, nausea and vomiting, respiratory depression, the time until ambulation and return of bowel mobility, and length of hospital stay. Transversus abdominis plane blocks have been shown to be superior to the current “gold standard,” thoracic epidural analgesia (TEA), for multimodal analgesia in an ERAS pathway. An ultrasound guided TAP block was performed after induction in a case involving a 41-year-old female with …