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Doing Drag: Exploring The Experiences Of Drag As An Occupation For Performers In California, Alicia Montes, Anna Ranario, Lilibeth Rosales, Eileen Spahle, Nathan Gelman, Laura Greiss Hess, Karen Mccarthy

The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

Background: Drag is a performative art where individuals explore identity, challenge societal norms, and foster community through exaggerated gendered performance. Drag in the United States is facing potential restrictions and remains underexplored in occupational science and occupational therapy literature.

Methods: This qualitative study explored the experiences of drag performers in California, applying an occupational perspective through the framework of form, function, and meaning. Five drag performers were interviewed. Reflective thematic analysis was used to interpret qualitative data.

Findings: Identity was the central theme, interconnected with form, belonging, non-belonging, meaning and motivation, and resistive occupation. Findings highlight drag …

Empowering Parents Through Occupational Therapy And Primary Care Partnerships: A Feasibility Study, Maureen M. Fischer, Jennifer E. Lape

The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

Background: Partnerships between occupational therapists and primary care providers may increase parents' accessibility to needed information to support their children’s development and promote occupational engagement. The purpose of this study was to explore the feasibility and potential impact of occupational therapy-led parent education sessions in pediatric primary care.

Method: We designed a mixed methods feasibility study with two individualized parent education sessions within 2 weeks. The study took place at a pediatric primary care practice. Convenience sampling was used to recruit nine parents who met these criteria: parent/caregiver of a child 3 years of age or under, 18 years of …

The Relationship Between Burnout, Resilience, And Locus Of Control In Occupational Therapy, Tabitha Gibbs, Miguel Garcia, Karen Menard, William O'Bannon

The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

Background: Burnout in occupational therapists is characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and diminished accomplishment.

Method: This non-experimental correlational study, guided by Rotter’s Locus of Control Theory and the attribution theory of motivation, analyzed the relationship between resilience, locus of control, and burnout among occupational therapists using the Brief Resilience Scale, the Internal-External Locus of Control Short Scale -4, and the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory. The sample of 83 participants was obtained via questionnaires sent to a convenience sample of occupational therapists with at least 6 months of work experience in any practice setting.

Results: The results of this study …

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy And Career Duration In Former Professional American Football Players: A Literature Review, Malik I. Watson, Chase Forbes, Bhavik Singh, Etop Udoh, Kévin Borgella, Jonathan Mosley, Erik Zarandy

The Journal of Integrated Primary Care

Background:

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease associated with repetitive head trauma and has been increasingly identified in former contact sport athletes, particularly American football players. Although the relationship between repetitive head impacts and CTE has been well documented, the role of career duration as a measurable exposure variable remains an important area of investigation. Understanding this relationship may provide clinically useful insight for primary care physicians responsible for longitudinal monitoring of individuals with extensive athletic exposure.

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This literature review examined published studies evaluating the relationship between football career duration, cumulative head impact exposure, and neuropathologic …

Implementing Guiding Questions Combined With Animation Film To Improve Ninth Graders' Narrative Writing Skill, Siswanjaya Siswanjaya, Ali Saukah, Francisca Maria Ivone

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

This Classroom Action Research was aimed at improving students narrative writing ability at SMPN I Terbanggi Besar, Central Lampung. The findings showed that the strategy could improve ninth graders' writing narrative ability through the combination of guiding questions and animation films.

Language Learning Or Language Education? Reviving Teachers' Moral Exemplary Function, Aris Kurniawan, Yazid Bastomi

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

English teaching is not only simply devoted to make students to master language contents. This preliminary case study explored teacher's perception to their moral exemplary function and how they play their role as a moral agent in the classroom. Teachers regard the exemplary function is crucial for students' moral development

Build Me Up: Overcoming Writing Problems Among Pupils In A Rural Primary School In Belaga, Sarawak, Malaysia, Lim Kok Ien, Melor Md Yunus, Mohamed Amin Embi

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

This study aims to investigate the effect of the 'Build Me Up' in helping Year 5 pupils in a rural primary school overcome problems in constructing correct sentences. The analysis of the data indicated that the 'Build Me Up' tool did help the pupils overcome their problems in writing grammatically correct sentences. The use of 'Build Me Up' aids pupils in writing sentences using present tense, past tense, present continuous tense and past continuous tense correctly.

Leading Empathic Engagement Through Teamwork Interaction In Classroom, Alimul Muniroh

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

Emphatic engagement in the classroom is feeling of students who perceive connected with their friends in learning activities in the classroom. This study aimed to explain how an empathic engagement was taught in primary school students through teamwork interaction. The results showed that the teamwork interaction in classroom used by teachers in learning could deliver an empathic engagement.

Pengajaran Hukum Internasional Dan Pembangunan Nasional, D. Sidik Suraputra

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

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From My Mother, Jodi Hottel

Bryant Literary Review

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Author Bios

Bryant Literary Review

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A Multilevel Analysis Of Prescriber-Reported Buprenorphine Induction Challenges In Fentanyl-Endemic Settings, Alyssa Vawn Long

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The emergence of illicitly manufactured fentanyl has increased clinical uncertainty during buprenorphine induction in medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder. The purpose of this quantitative, retrospective cohort study, guided by the Transtheoretical Model (TTM), was to examine whether prescriber-level buprenorphine induction practices and experiences with precipitated withdrawal were associated with reported buprenorphine induction challenges, and whether county-level fentanyl prevalence contributed to these challenges after accounting for geographic clustering. Secondary, de-identified archival data were obtained from the National Institute on Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network study CTN-0134 and included 64 prescribers practicing in fentanyl-endemic settings. Buprenorphine induction challenges were operationalized as …

Unlocking Inexpensive Training Through Overcoming Weaknesses In Dataset Distillation, Connor Wilhelm

Theses and Dissertations

Dataset distillation is a nascent technique that promises accelerated neural network training. In particular, distillation produces a highly compressed dataset that can train a neural network in as little as a single optimization step. However, distillation has not been adopted for real-world use cases due to weaknesses, such as poor approximation of the original task, unclear interpretability, high costs of the initial distillation, and poorly elaborated use cases. Here, we present five papers that advance task distillation towards real-world adoption. The papers focus on: distilling reinforcement learning environments, interpreting distillation-produced datasets, improving distillation performance using ensembling, examining distillation's generalization to …

Toward Human-Like Robot Behavior In Co-Manipulation: Learning From Human Dyad Performance, Adam Kenneth Jackson

Theses and Dissertations

Co-manipulation requires two or more agents to coordinate through a shared object while exchanging information through motion and force. Although this capability is routine for humans, robotic systems still struggle to participate in such interaction naturally and effectively. This thesis addresses that gap by studying human co-manipulation behavior, developing methods to quantify performance, collecting a leader-follower dataset that isolates haptic communication, and training data-driven controllers from human demonstrations. First, cumulative and real-time metrics were developed to quantify human dyad performance. In particular, the behavioral modes "quickly" and "smoothly" were formulated as measurable performance objectives using completion time and squared jerk. …

3d Printed Microfluidic Nonlinear Structures For Implementing Lab-On-A-Chip Integrated Logic Control, Marshall J. Rawlins

Theses and Dissertations

Microfluidic devices are individual chips that manipulate small quantities of fluid to perform, for example, biomedical assays. They provide a compact apparatus for conducting chemical processes while using only micro-liter quantities of potentially expensive chemical reagents. Continued research in microfluidics has brought significant achievements in reducing microfluidic feature sizes, allowing for microfluidic systems to be more densely packed and designed for more complex chemical assays. However, this comes with the need for additional control inputs which require additional external equipment to generate the control inputs. This leads to crowding of external inputs, or an increase in chip volume to accommodate …

Physics-Based And Data-Driven Low-Order Modeling Of Centrifugal Compressors, Chase Oliphant

Theses and Dissertations

Centrifugal compressors serve as critical components across many applications, yet their design and performance prediction present significant challenges. While computational fluid dynamics provides high-fidelity predictions of compressor behavior, its prohibitive computational cost renders it impractical for preliminary design phases where rapid exploration of the geometric and operating space is essential. Conversely, existing low-order models have enabled efficient performance estimation but suffer from limited accuracy and poor interpretability, particularly when applied to novel geometries or off-design operating conditions. This dissertation addresses these limitations through three complementary contributions that bridge the gap between high-fidelity CFD and preliminary design tools. The first contribution …

April 15, 2026 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

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Traditions Of Belief In The Supernatural By Latter Day Saints, Christopher H. Smith

Individual Item Submissions

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Title Page

Bryant Literary Review

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Verso

Bryant Literary Review

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The Case Of The Pierced Veil, Nathaniel Lachenmeyer

Bryant Literary Review

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God's Country, Kate Delay

Bryant Literary Review

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When They Tore Down The White House, Abby E. Murray

Bryant Literary Review

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Tragedy Plus Time, Brett Gustafson

Bryant Literary Review

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To The Doctor With A Twelve-Step Skincare Routine, Colleen S. Harris

Bryant Literary Review

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Wirework, Mark Wagstaff

Bryant Literary Review

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Surfacing, Rebecca Faulkner

Bryant Literary Review

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Theatre On The Wall, Shan Xiaoming

Bryant Literary Review

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Unnoticed, Mary Zelinka

Bryant Literary Review

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Winners, Tom Dilworth

Bryant Literary Review

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