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The Ozark Historical Review, V.51, 2024

The Ozark Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Effects Of A Mobile Application-Based Self-Management Program On Health Knowledge, Health Behaviors, And Glycemic Control In Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Prapada Watcharanat

Journal of Health Research

Background: Managing diabetes in the elderly is challenging due to limited access to health education and support. While mHealth tools have improved self-management and glycaemic control, evidence in older populations is limited. This study evaluated the impact of a mobile app and telephone follow-up on diabetes knowledge, health behaviours, and HbA1C levels in elderly individuals with diabetes.

Methods: A quasi-experimental study with a non-equivalent control group design was conducted. A total of 210 elderly individuals with diabetes were recruited and assigned to one of three groups: a mobile application group, a telephone follow-up group, and a control group (70 participants …

Arendt, Hannah–Ephemera 036

Hannah Arendt Personal Library-Ephemera

036 Found in Malraux par Lui-Même: Contained ephemera: a small piece of paper with some handwritten notes in English and French, including the line: "It is in the accusation of life that we find the basic dignity of thought."

Contemporary Applications Of The Transformation Of The Dual Judicial System Into A Unified System, The Omani Judicial System As A Model, Mohammed Hassan Jamaa Tamsah

Sultan Qaboos University Legal Studies Journal

The establishment of the judicial oversight over administrative acts is a cornerstone of the rule of law in a state, whether the judicial system is dual with two judicial bodies, or unified with one judicial body alone adjudicating all disputes and lawsuits. In this context, the problem of this study is to investigate the nature of the transition from a dual judicial system to a unified judicial system, using the Omani judicial system as a case study, where the administrative judiciary are integrated in the ordinary judiciary and specialized administrative chambers are established. The study aims to clarify the nature …

A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Of Visual Representation In English Language Textbooks At The Elementary Level: A Social Semiotic Perspective, Amina Bashir, Aamir Aziz, Muhammad Imran, Norah Almusharraf

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Textbooks serve as a significant and comprehensive resource for language learners. This study focuses on a Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Visual Representations found in English Language Textbooks, employing a Visual Social Semiotic Perspective. Utilizing the framework established by Kress & van Leeuwen (2020), which comprises Representational, Interactional, and Compositional modes, this research investigates the multimodal elements present within these textbooks to assess their role in enhancing comprehension through visuals. Adopting a qualitative descriptive methodology, the study analyzes a purposively selected sample of 158 images from elementary school textbooks. The findings reveal a disproportionate representation of males compared to females across …

Impact Of Age, Gender, And Education On Dialect Word Usage In The Shaki Dialect Of Azerbaijani, Milana Abbasova, Eljan Salimli

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

This article deals with the relationship between social variables and dialect word usage in Shaki, Azerbaijan. The research employed a quantitative correlational research design. The data was collected from 176 informants, who were native speakers of the Shaki dialect of Azerbaijani, via an online questionnaire. Twenty dialect words from the Shaki region were included in the closed-ended questionnaire. The respondents were instructed to provide demographic information about themselves and to indicate whether they used the selected terms in their everyday speech. The results showed that the older speakers used dialect words more often than the younger ones. Besides, the males …

Dark Laughter In Uniform: Humor And Militarism In Gregory Burke’S Black Watch, Pelin Gölcük Mirza

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Gregory Burke’s Black Watch, which premiered at the 2006 Edinburgh International Festival, focuses on the experiences of Scottish soldiers deployed to Iraq in 2003. The play makes extensive use of dark humor by juxtaposing laughter and pain, valor and absurdity, military and civilian life, in order to reveal the contradictions of contemporary militarism. Rather than celebrating patriotism or sacrifice, Burke undermines the romanticized narratives of heroism through profanity, abrupt shifts in tone, and mock-heroic scenes. Dark humor, thus, functions as both a coping strategy for soldiers’ trauma and a satirical device that subverts political rhetoric about the war. By …

Enhancing Nurse Leader Well-Being: Implementing Jean Watson's Caritas Processes To Promote Human Caring, Trisha Rowe, Bernadette M. White

2025 Nursing Research Symposium

No abstract provided.

Improving Schools To Promote Upward Mobility: The Promise And Limits Of School Finance Reforms, Sarah Reber

Brookings Scholar Lecture Series

As part of the Brookings Scholar Lecture Series, Brookings Mountain West presents a lecture titled, "Improving Schools to Promote Upward Mobility: The Promise and Limits of School Finance Reforms" by Brookings senior fellow in economic studies, Sarah Reber.

Systematic differences in access to high-quality schools by race, income, and other characteristics perpetuate inequality across generations. Local property tax financing of schools is often identified as a key cause of unequal educational opportunity. While the consensus of rigorous research supports the common intuition that, on average, “money matters” in improving educational outcomes, questions about how much, and under what conditions, school …

Operating Fund Budget/ Expenditure Summary Report 1st Quarter 2025-26, Csusb Budget Office

University Budget Office records

No abstract provided.

Security And Terrorism Vs Free Expression: Analytical Study On The European Court Of Human Rights, Mariam Adel Massoud

Theses and Dissertations

The 11 of September attacks provide a paradigm shift when it comes to protection of national security. It results in a trending vision that prioritized security over national security, which makes it essential to think about balancing national security with free expression as a pillar of democratization. This study focusses on how the balance between freedom of expression and national security interests is achieved. It studies the legal approached of the European court of human rights and its legal assessment to strike this balance. The findings of this analytical study asserts that in order for the ECtHR to achieve this …

Operating Fund Budget/ Expenditure Summary Report 2025-26, Csusb Budget Office

University Budget Office records

No abstract provided.

Quality Improvement Project Implementing Teamstepps 3.0: Impact On Perception Of Teamwork, Angela Allen

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

The clinical practice site is a rural health clinic that has experienced 28% staffing turnover in the last year, and opportunities for improvement in communication and teamwork were identified. The principal investigator (PI) used the Iowa Model Revised (IMR) as a theoretical framework and Lippitt’s change theory to promote change for the identified priority issue. TeamSTEPPS is an evidence-based program designed to improve communication and teamwork in healthcare teams with the goal of improving patient outcomes and safety. The quality improvement project utilized a quasi-experimental design with pre- and post-intervention surveys to answer the question: among staff at a rural …

South Carolina Reemployment Services And Eligibility Assessments (Resea) Process Analysis Report, Gabrielle Pepin, Christopher J. O'Leary, Aaron Sojourner

Upjohn Institute Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Oral History Interview With Alan Chan, Alan Chan

Oral History Collection

The interview covered:

• Starting at SMU
• Administration
• Challenges and Future; Teaching and Curriculum
• Research
• College of Integrative Studies 
• Students
• Advice for Students

Usa V. Lashaumba Randolph

2025 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

The Limits Of Snap In Addressing Older Adult Food Insecurity, Colleen M. Heflin, Madonna Harrington Meyer

Population Health Research Brief Series

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is designed to address the economic roots of food insecurity. However, SNAP participation rates among older adults substantially lag behind those of other age groups. Based on the book, Food for Thought: Understanding Older Adults Food Insecurity, this brief describes how SNAP is not well designed for older adults in three respects: (1) the high levels of administrative burden associated with eligibility, certification, and benefit-determination processes, (2) the low value of SNAP benefits compared with the high costs associated with redeeming them, and (3) the high levels of state variation in SNAP policies …

Using Visual Imagery To Manipulate Recognition Memory For Faces Whose Appearance Has Changed, Michelle M. Ramey, Darya L. Zabelina

Psychological Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Real-world recognition requires our memory system to accommodate perceptual changes that occur after encoding; for example, eyewitnesses must recognize perpetrators across changes in appearance. However, it is not clear how this flexible recognition ability can be improved: Standard encoding strategies not only tend to be ineffective,but can in fact be detrimental for recognizing people across appearance changes. Given the effectiveness of visual imagery in creating and modifying memory representations, we examined whether counterfactual visual imagery could be used to manipulate flexible recognition by simulating an increase in encoding-retrieval similarity. Across two experiments, participants (n = 317) encoded faces with neutral …

What Kinds Of Experiences And Activities Contribute To College Students' Sense Of Purpose? A Mixed-Methods Study, Katlyn Rochelle Viers

Dissertations and Theses

For many young people, attending college is a core marker of the transition to emerging adulthood. Some students thrive in college while others become lost, confused, or seem to be just marking their time. Some researchers have hypothesized that one thing that can help students take advantage of their college experience is if they are firmly anchored in their own life goals and sense of purpose. The primary goal of this study is to contribute to knowledge about the role of a sense of purpose in college students' development, including not only its potential benefits to their academic functioning and …

From Either-Or To All Together: Integrating Universal And Relativistic Approaches To Belonging And Engagement In The First Year Of Middle School, Kristina Shiann Tucker

Dissertations and Theses

Schools are designed to foster growth and learning while promoting positive educational outcomes for all students. Yet, there is some evidence that the education system is not meeting the needs of all students, nor are achievement outcomes the same for everyone. Some of the identified challenges seem to be developmentally based, whereas others are evident among different demographic subgroups. Developmental differences are apparent in many aspects of academic functioning, such as student motivation and engagement, which peak when students enter school and normatively decline, relatively steadily, throughout students' educational careers. Demographic disparities are even more pronounced, represented, for example, in …

Public K-12 School Start Times In The Mountain West, 2020-2021, Olivia K. Cheche, William E. Brown Jr.

K-12 Education

This fact sheet presents data on public K-12 school start times in the Mountain West states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah as of the 2020-2021 school year. The data are derived from the “School start time: Average public K–12 school start time and percentage distribution of public school start time, by state: 2020–21” report originally published by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). This fact sheet highlights the average public K-12 school start times and distribution of public K-12 school start times for each Mountain West state.

Multispectral Image Analysis Using Deep Neural Networks, Arun D. Kulkarni

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Multispectral image classification plays a crucial role in remote sensing applications such as land cover mapping, agricultural monitoring, and environmental surveillance. Traditional classification techniques, including the Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Tree (DT), and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP), often struggle with the complexity and high dimensionality of multispectral data. Recent advances in deep learning have revolutionized the field of remote sensing by enabling the extraction of high-level, abstract features from raw input data. In this paper, we explore the application of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for pixel-wise classification in multispectral imagery. DNNs are capable of learning informative …

Quality Improvement Project Providing Accessible Evidence-Based Education To Nurses Throughout A National Healthcare System, Bailey Wells

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

The pursuit of ongoing professional development and learning is crucial to ensure nurses remain well-informed about healthcare trends and have access to the most up-to-date evidence-based materials. This quality improvement project aimed to implement a monthly educational series for nursing personnel within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) through expansion of the Veterans Administration (VA) – Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) program. Using Bandura’s Self-Efficacy Theory of Motivation in Psychology, participants’ previous knowledge was linked to continued professional development. The plan, do, study, act (PDSA) framework provided structure for the project, with the awareness, desire, knowledge, ability, and reinforcement (ADKAR) …

The Impact Of The Guided Discovery Method Combined With Sequential Learning On Selected Artistic Gymnastics Skills Among University Students, Ali Shakir Neamah

Modern Sport

This study aims to examine the impact of employing the guided discovery method as the primary approach in teaching certain gymnastics skills, with the sequential method serving as a supportive tool to organize and structure the learning stages. which emphasized the combination of both methods so as to achieve both cognitive and motor objectives for the students. The importance of the current article lies on the emphasizing the duty of guided discovery to develop students’ analytical skills and thinking and motivate the learners to participate actively in the process of learning. Moreover, it contributes to develop motor skill through the …

Navigating Succession: Exploring Succession Planning Strategies In Polish Family Businesses, Jan M. Klaczak, Theresa M. Neal, Yvonne Doll

International Journal of Applied Management and Technology

Family businesses are the foundation of modern economies and societies, yet many encounter continuity challenges during succession. The purpose of this qualitative, multiple-case study grounded in Rothwell’s seven-step model for succession planning was to explore succession planning strategies Polish family business leaders used for ownership and leadership transfer to the next generation. Three family business leaders who executed succession planning in their firms participated in the study. Data were collected via semistructured interviews, researcher notes, and company document reviews. Using methodological triangulation and Yin’s five-step data analysis, four themes emerged: systematic succession, grooming the successor, communication with nonfamily stakeholders, and …

Rising Waters, Falling Taxes: The Impact Of Hurricane Sandy On Property Tax Assessments In New York City, Wei Guo, Qing Miao, Yusun Kim, Yilin Hou

Center for Policy Research

Climate disasters pose fiscal challenges for local governments by increasing recovery costs and demand for property tax relief. Homeowners with or without property damage face tax burdens that may not match changes to their property value. This study examines the impact of Hurricane Sandy on property values and tax assessments in New York City. Using a difference-in-differences approach and comprehensive property-level data, we find that (1) inundated properties faced greater tax burdens due to limited declines in taxable value; (2) unaffected properties in flood zones saw tax burden increases due to declining market values and unchanged taxable values; and (3) …

Clinical Characteristics And Risk Factors Of Acute Pancreatitis In Paediatric Patients In Oman: An 11-Year Experience From A Tertiary Centre, Shurooq S. Al Shereiqi, Aisha Al Fudhaili, Dafalla Rahmatalla, Ravi Chandra, Sanjay Jaju, Ahmed Al Adawi, Adawiya Al Jamei, Yusriya Al Rawahi

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Objectives: The incidence of acute pancreatitis (AP) in the paediatric population has increased over the past two decades, with an estimated annual rate of 0.78 per 100,000 children. This study aimed to describe the risk factors and characteristics of AP in Omani children. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted, including all children <14 years who were admitted and treated with AP at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital in Muscat, Oman, from January 2010 to December 2020. Case presentations, aetiology, management, and outcomes were reviewed. Results: During the 11-year study period, 55 cases were identified (male: female, 1.2:1). The most frequently reported risk factors were toxic/metabolic (49.1%). Abdominal pain was the predominant symptom (76.4%). Conservative treatment was administered in 74.5% of cases, while the remaining patients required surgery or endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. …

Conference Proceedings: Select Abstracts Presented At The 2025 Advocate Aurora Scientific Day, Advocate Aurora Scientific Day

Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews

This abstract supplement includes findings presented through oral or poster presentations at the 51st annual Scientific Day event held on May 21, 2025. Scientific Day provides both an in-person and virtual forum for the sharing of research, quality improvement, and case studies conducted by Illinois- and Wisconsin-based faculty, fellows, residents, and other health professionals associated with Advocate Health.

Htlv-1 And Atll: Epidemiology, Oncogenesis, And Opportunities For Community-Informed Research In The United States, Adrian D. Altieri, Sean P. Reilly, Abu Mansalay, Alan Khoo, Nettie Johnson, Zafar K. Khan, Amy Leader, Pooja Jain, Pierluigi Porcu

Kimmel Cancer Center Faculty Papers

Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1), the first oncogenic human retrovirus, causes adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL), an aggressive neoplasm of mature CD4+ T-cells that is incurable in most patients and is associated with a median survival of less than 1 year. HTLV-1 also causes inflammatory disorders, including HTLV-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) and uveitis. The estimated lifetime risks of ATLL and HAM/TSP in HTLV-1 carriers are 3-5% and 0.25-1.8%, respectively. Although there is uncertainty about other health effects of HTLV-1, a recent meta-analysis showed an association between HTLV-1 and cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and metabolic diseases and a 57% increased risk …

Ketorolac Use Following Operative Clavicle Fracture Fixation Is Not Associated With Increased Nonunion Or Surgical Complications: A Propensity-Matched Analysis, Tuckerman Jones, Tej Joshi, Akhil Katakam, Daniella Ogilvie, Sefy Paulose, Balazs Galdi

Wills Eye Hospital Papers

OBJECTIVES: Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), including ketorolac, are commonly used for postoperative pain management. Concerns about their potential impact on bone healing have been raised. This study investigated the relationship between ketorolac use and postoperative complications following clavicle surgery, including nonunion rates.

METHODS: This retrospective cohort study used the TriNetX Research Database to identify patients who underwent surgical fixation of clavicle fractures between 2002 and 2022. Two propensity-matched cohorts were created: patients who received postoperative ketorolac and those who did not. Primary outcomes included nonunion diagnosis and revision surgery; secondary outcomes included opioid use, wound disruption, surgical site infection, and …