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Shared Decision-Making In Vaginal Breech Birth: An Integrative Review, Laiken K. Noble, Susan R. Turner

All Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Introduction: Vaginal breech birth has declined since the Term Breech Trial in 2000 because of study outcomes showing higher adverse outcomes for the neonate in vaginal breech births (VBB) when compared to cesarean sections. Recent literature, however, shows that maternal morbidity and mortality are high with cesarean section compared to VBB. Modern delivery providers have limited knowledge, education, and skills in VBB, which ultimately leads to limited delivery options for women. Providers should be aware that informed consent includes discussing all options for management, including VBB, external cephalic version, and cesarean section, as well as the short-term and long-term implications …

Ferritin Screening For Nonanemic Iron Deficiency In Pregnancy, Jolene E. Jakubowsky, Tiffany E. Robinson

All Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Introduction: With increased iron demand in pregnancy, accurate and timely diagnosis of iron deficiency is especially important since its symptoms are life-limiting or life-threatening. Screening for ferritin, an indicator of iron storage, could lead to early diagnoses of nonanemic iron deficiency (NAID), though there is currently no consensus on universal ferritin screening in pregnancy. The purpose of this review was to identify the incidence of NAID, the current evidence and guidelines for ferritin screening in pregnancy, to determine if ferritin is the most appropriate test, and if so, what cutoff level has the highest specificity and sensitivity. Methods: Using the …

In Pregnant Individuals, Do Warm Compress Compared To Perineal Massage Reduce Rates Of Second-Degree Or Greater Lacerations During Vaginal Delivery?, Cha'dania R. Page, Courtney Vega

All Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Introduction: Perineal lacerations are a common occurrence during vaginal birth. While there are many proposed methods to protect the perineum from tearing, there is no consensus on the best method to use. The aim of this review is to compare the efficacy of perineal massage versus warm compress in preventing vaginal lacerations greater than the second degree. Methods: Studies were gathered from a variety of databases and filtered through Covidence. The inclusion criteria consisted of research around primipara, multipara, full-term pregnancy, articles within ten years of publication which were available in English language, birth in any setting, second stage perineal …

The Pursuit Of God, A. W. Tozer

Sacred Roots Spiritual Classics

No abstract provided.

Who Can Teach? Making The Case For Adult Learners As Adult Education Teachers, Alisa Vlahakis Povenmire

Community Engagement Student Work

This paper explores the rationale for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education policy requirement of a bachelor’s degree as the minimum qualification for instructors in state-funded adult education programs and how this requirement obstructs equitable access to teaching careers in adult education. The bachelor’s degree policy is analyzed with respect to three complimentary theories: democratic education, equality of intelligence, and empowerment. Analysis is supported with mixed-methods research consisting of a literature review with a focus on the benefits of student leadership; review of pertinent adult education policy; a survey of staffing challenges in Massachusetts adult education programs; a …

Different Forms Of Power In Worship Spaces, Patrick Russell

Obsculta

This project examines the importance of power in a worship space. In particular, looking at the historical structures of St. Paul's Cathedral in London and St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, this paper strives to lay out the presence of power inherent in places of worship. While other aspects could be used: power as a political structure, power of shared identity, power of scale, and power as a means of limits are given here for consideration.

Namesake: An Ekphrasis On La Sagrada Familia Basilica In Barcelona, Spain, Rachel Henry

Obsculta

Ekphrasis is a literary description of a work of art or architecture—a kind of over-the-top ode. The Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family, commonly known as La Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona, Spain, has been under construction for 142 years and is expected to be completed by 2032. With its integral sculptures, soaring towers, and feats of engineering, Architect Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece is unlike any other church or cathedral in the world. Pope Benedict XVI consecrated the temple as a minor basilica in 2010. This article delves into La Sagrada Familia and aims to aid the reader in imaginatively exploring the …

Teaching Professionalism Skills To Secondary Students: An Improvement Science Dissertation On The Efficacy Of A Professionalism Skills System: An Improvement Science Study, James Weber

Doctor of Education (EdD)

This research provided Salem Keizer Public Schools (SKPS) with much-needed information on how to teach and grade secondary students on professional skills. The research was conducted at The Career Technical Education Center (CTEC) in Salem, Oregon. CTEC employs 35 staff members who serve 780 high school students. This research followed an improvement science dissertation in practice model (ISDiP) by implementing a 64-day Plan-Do- Study-Act (PDSA) cycle. A networked improvement community (NIC) met throughout the PDSA cycle to analyze and implement the research.

The NIC and CTEC staff developed a new system to teach, grade, and provide feedback on students' professional …

Information Literacy Skills Of Health Professions Students In Assessing Youtube Medical Education Content, Orianne Pearlman, Lynda Tierney Konecny, Matthew Cole

Health Professions Education Faculty Publications

Introduction: YouTube is a popular social media video platform used by health professions students for medical education. YouTube videos vary in quality, and students need to be able to evaluate and select high-quality videos to supplement their learning. Evaluating the quality of YouTube videos is an essential information literacy skill, and the Association of College and Research Libraries updated the framework of information literacy to include collaborative platforms such as YouTube. Research is needed to understand and explore the information literacy proficiency of students in the health professions who are using YouTube videos as learning resources. Methods: This exploratory expert-novice …

The Futures Of Law, Lawyers, And Law Schools: A Dialogue, Benjamin H. Barton, Sameer M. Ashar, Michael J. Madison, Rachel F. Moran

Scholarly Works

On April 19 and 20, 2023, Professors Bernard Hibbitts and Richard Weisberg convened a conference at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law titled “Disarmed, Distracted, Disconnected, and Distressed: Modern Legal Education and the Unmaking of American Lawyers.” Four speakers concluded the event with a spirited conversation about themes expressed during the proceedings. Distilling a lively two days, they asked: what are the most critical challenges now facing US legal education and, by extension, lawyers and the communities they serve? Their agreements and disagreements were striking, so much so that Professors Hibbitts and Weisberg invited those four to extend their …

Decolonizing Development: Practical Applications For The Classroom And The Field, Nina Miller Phd, Emily Van Houweling Phd

Regis University Faculty Publications (comprehensive list)

This handbook captures the learnings of nearly eight years of committed effort to undo the colonial assumptions that define so much of international development by fulfilling the radical transformative potential of education. After continuous experimentation and refinement in the classroom, and with the active participation of our students and alumni, as well as the generous material support of The Spencer Foundation, we are eager to pass on this collection of pedagogies, learning objectives, principles, resources and activities to the like-minded teachers, practitioners and activists who share our passion for the possibilities of education to move the world toward justice and …

Amended Expert Disclosure Report: Navahine V. Dept. Of Transportation, State Of Hawai’I, Catherine Smith

Scholarly Articles

From a historical and sociological legal perspective, children in America, including in Hawai'i, require extraordinary legal protection from the harm of climate change and the government actions causing them harm. Hawai'i has a long history and tradition of leading the way on broadening rights and protections under state law, particularly for children. The principles of intergenerational justice and equity at the heart of the public trust doctrine in Hawai'i similarly require that courts accord special attention and protection for children.

On June 20, 2024, the youth-powered Navahine case settled, resulting in the first constitutional climate settlement of its kind in …

Aristotle's Ontology Of Artefacts, Errol G. Katayama

Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Gluten-Free Hosts And The Cross: Revelatory Suffering In Christianity, Gilbert Perez

Obsculta

The body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus are said to be made present by the Eucharist: bread and wine placed on the altar. However, the Roman Catholic Church teaches there is no validity to consecrations with gluten-free Hosts. This article notes the past permissions on gluten-free hosts and explores how present and former practices exhibit the nature of the Crucifixion, humanity’s participation in a world it abuses, and, furthermore, how to remedy this source of exclusion.

The Clef-2024 Checkthat! Lab: Check-Worthiness, Subjectivity, Persuasion, Roles, Authorities, And Adversarial Robustness, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Firoj Alam, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Tamer Elsayed, Preslav Nakov, Piotr Przybyła, Julia Maria Struß, Fatima Haouari

Natural Language Processing Faculty Publications

The first five editions of the CheckThat! lab focused on the main tasks of the information verification pipeline: check-worthiness, evidence retrieval and pairing, and verification. Since the 2023 edition, it has been focusing on new problems that can support the research and decision making during the verification process. In this new edition, we focus on new problems and —for the first time— we propose six tasks in fifteen languages (Arabic, Bulgarian, English, Dutch, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovene, Spanish, and code-mixed Hindi-English): Task 1 estimation of check-worthiness (the only task that has been present in all …

Emergent Literacy - Concepts Of Print And Phonemic Awareness, Andrew P. Johnson

Elementary and Literacy Education Department Publications

This is an excerpt from my book, Johnson, A. (2016). 10 essential instructional elements for students with reading difficulties: A brain-friendly approach. Corwin.

The first part of this chapter provides a sense of what effective literacy instruction might look like at the preschool and kindergarten (emergent) levels. The second part of this chapter describes strategies for developing phonemic awareness.

Town Of Lyman, New Hampshire Annual Report Year Ending December 31, 2023., Lyman Town Representatives

Lyman, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Is Long-Term Survival Higher In Patients Who Receive Propofol-Based Total Intravenous Anesthesia During Colorectal Cancer Surgery Compared To Volatile Anesthesia, Shad Anthony Mitchell

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The study reviewed several retrospective cohort studies that examined the impact of propofol-based total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) versus volatile anesthesia (VA) on the long-term survival of colorectal cancer (CRC) surgery patients. Eight studies found no significant difference in mortality between the two anesthesia types, while three studies indicated a significant decrease in all-cause mortality favoring propofol TIVA. The studies had varying follow-up periods, with some extending to five years. Notably, two studies controlled the type of volatile anesthetic used, specifically sevoflurane and desflurane. The findings suggest a potential survival advantage for propofol TIVA, warranting further investigation.

Undergraduate Catalog, 2024-2025, Valparaiso University

Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Graduate Catalog, 2024-2025, Valparaiso University

Graduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Annual Report Of The Officers, Trustees, Boards, Committees, And Agents For The Town Of Nottingham, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2023., Nottingham Town Reports

Nottingham, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Academic Health Department Partnerships: Impacts And Implications, Madeline Kraft

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the Academic Health Department (AHD) partnerships, and the impacts that they provide to three entities: students, health departments, and academic institutions. Through AHD partnerships, internships and other kinds of field experiences are used. Internships provide an opportunity for academic institutions and students to interact with the community, provide experiences and motivations to work within the field, and cement the knowledge gained. For an AHD partnership to be mutually beneficial, it needs to provide benefits for both the academic institution, such as teaching and research opportunities, and the governmental side, …

‘Resisting’ While Collaboratively Informing In Communist Czechoslovakia, Mark A. Drumbl, Barbora Holá

Scholarly Articles

Informers in the service of state secret police collaborate with authorities and thus contribute to the power of repressive regimes. Through a case-study of Communist Czechoslovakia (1945–1989)—and drawing from secret police archives– this article presents selected stories of informers who in one way or another also ‘resisted’ collaboration with the Czechoslovak State Security (StB). By doing so, we try to further complexify the notions of ’everyday resistance’, on the one hand, and ‘collaboration’ on the other. We demonstrate that resistant acts, similar to collaborative acts, can be apolitically devoid of ideology, highly idiosyncratic, and motivated by private drivers. Informing can …

Agent Of Russian Interests Abroad: Assessing The Moscow Patriarchate’S Activity In The Balkans And Beyond, Robert C. Blitt

Scholarly Works

This Article addresses the role played by the Russian Orthodox Church—Moscow Patriarchate (ROC) in supporting the Kremlin’s policy objectives in the Balkans, a region with significant historical ties to Russia and a common religious heritage steeped in Eastern Orthodoxy. In the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, concern for the region’s stability has grown. This is particularly so due to Kremlin efforts to deflect attention away from Ukraine by fueling ethnic, religious, and political tensions left over from the U.S.-brokered Dayton Accords that ended the years of war following Yugoslavia’s collapse.

The analysis presented herein demonstrates that the ROC’s operation …

A Hero's Journey: Experiences Using A Therapeutic Comicbook In A Children’S Psychiatric Inpatient Unit, Idil Yazgan

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Children’s mental health care has been on the decline since the start of the century. The COVID-19 pandemic further unearthed this significant worsening of mental health in children with heightened levels of anxiety, depression, loneliness, anger, and fatigue leading to an increase in the number of emergency room visits and inpatient hospitalizations. Art and narrative-based interventions are known to improve patient outcomes and are a crucial component of pediatric inpatient psychiatric care. We discuss the process of adoption of a novel therapeutic comic book that was developed for children admitted to the hospital in a psychiatric inpatient unit at Yale-New …

Inscape 2024, Morehead State University.

Inscape: Art & Literary Magazine Archive

The 2024 edition of the Inscape: Literary and Art Magazine.

Memories Of The 1971 Field Course In Animal Behavior, Arnold Art

Field Course in Animal Behavior

No abstract provided.

Teaching Community College Composition Students How To Use Ai Technology Ethically Through The Research Process, Amber H. Mabus

Doctor of Arts in English Pedagogy Capstones

Composition and rhetoric instructors' concern about the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) on education has dramatically amplified since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, leading some to fear the end of our discipline as we know it. The controversy surrounding GenAI has led some educators to call for a complete ban on AI programs in the classroom, while others blindly accept what the technology has to offer without considering the risks involved, with a final group resting somewhere in the middle. Inspired by this debate, this study seeks to answer the research question: "Could teaching students how to …

Atlas: Targeting Student Writing Deficiencies Through Assessment & Mentoring In The College Classroom, Leanna Brunner

Doctor of Arts in English Pedagogy Capstones

The landscape of the college classroom is changing at warp speed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and developing technologies such as artificial intelligence. As such, it is time for those in leadership at the administrative level to redefine what it means for students to be successful in their college classrooms. Placing students with different educational experiences and skillsets into one class is no longer working, and many students who could be successful with a little bit of understanding and assistance are slipping through the proverbial cracks of failure. Some of these students never step foot in college again. …

Mary Margaret David Green Collection, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

The Mary Margaret Davis Green Collection (1931-1969; .25 linear feet) is composed of Mary Margaret’s Sigma Kappa group photos, her commencement program, and items of her father’s and mother’s. Those items are: her father’s diploma from L.P.I., a Tech Talk Special Commencement Edition, a commencement program of her mother’s, and a retrospective anniversarian booklet of Davis Brother’s Lumber Company. This collection is of special interest to anyone searching for material on the Davis Brother’s Lumber Company, Davis and Green family genealogies, the North Louisiana timber industry, and Louisiana Tech University history.