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Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

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"They Had Been Forgotten" The Story Of Weld Hall And Its Stained-Glass Windows, John Mccune

Histories of MSUM

History of Weld Hall and the stained-glass windows originally installed in the building's auditorium and what followed.

Communicating Assessments With Impact: Insights From The Scientific Community, Emily M. Mccarthy

Journal of Strategic Security

Assessments analysts are extensively trained in the application of analytic techniques, but less time is spent equipping them with the tools needed to communicate their assessments effectively. Great pains can be taken to frame, research, and answer an assessment question, but that effort is wasted if the message isn’t heard and embraced by decision makers. An analogous challenge is experienced in the scientific community, where researchers are traditionally trained in methodological rigor rather than impactful communication. Acknowledging this, the scientific community has undertaken a concerted effort to develop and implement evidence-based strategies to communicate its findings with impact. This article …

Dangerous Legitimacy: The Risks Of Normalizing Hamas As A Fundamentalist Terror Group In Western Discourse, Shevach Berkovits, Darnell Downes, Hunter Lacroix, Michael Dobkowski

Journal of Strategic Security

This article examines the dangers of Western discourse misrepresenting and normalizing Hamas, a fundamentalist terrorist group, as a legitimate actor in regional crises and conflicts. It explores Hamas' origins as a global terrorist organization, its history of armed conflict with neighbors and the broader Western world, and its ideological roots in religious fundamentalism and totalitarianism. The article argues that Hamas’ principles and actions are fundamentally incompatible with Western democratic ideals, posing a significant threat to regional and global security. It also addresses the ongoing challenges of "Western washing" Hamas through propaganda spread via social activism and social media. The article …

Systems And Methods For Determining Concrete Strength, Austin Gray Mullins, Sarah Jo Mobley, Kelly Marie Costello

USF Patents

In one embodiment, a concrete strength testing system includes a core drill having a core barrel, a press associated with the core drill that is configured to drive the core barrel into concrete to be tested, a force sensor associated with the core drill that is configured to measure a force with which the core barrel is driven into the concrete by the press, and a depth measurement device configured to measure a depth into the concrete to which the core barrel is driven by the press.

ジェンダーを訳す：東村アキコの「海月姫」の英語版と役割語, Avery Austin

World Languages and Cultures Student Papers and Posters

Role language, a term coined for the different kinds of speech employed by fictional characters according to their archetypes, is notoriously difficult to translate from Japanese into English. There is no direct way to express in English the sentence-ending particles, variations in verb conjugation, and differing first-person pronouns associated with role language, but translators can often work around these issues through effective word choice. In manga, translators are further helped by the aid of the medium’s visuals, which can contribute to the reader’s understanding of a character’s archetype. However, what happens when a character’s role language does not match up …

Emeriti News Spring 2025, Emeriti Council

Emeriti News

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Implementing The We Can! Energize Our Families: Curriculum For Parents And Caregivers In The Primary Care Setting, Randi Bouchillon Msn, Fnp-C, Cpn

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Childhood obesity is one of the biggest issues within the pediatric population affecting over 100 million children nationally (Marcus, et al., 2022). More than 15% of all children in the United States fall into the obesity category given their weight and BMI (Sanyaolu, et al, 2019). Exercise and dietary modifications have always been accepted to aid in weight loss and improved health outcomes. Studies have shown that both exercise and dietary modifications can make a huge impact on a patient’s weight but also have a positive effect on their overall mental health as well (Jebeile, et al., 2019).

Objectives: …

Program Evaluation Of An Emergency Preparedness Training And Simulation Project And Impact On Participant Response, Laura Varnier Mnsc, Aprn, Fnp-Bc, Cph, Cen

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Public health departments play a crucial role in community preparation and emergency response. Efficiency of response efforts leads to improved timeliness of response and reduction in loss of life. This project implementation site prioritized incident command and emergency preparedness training after deficiency was noted in the COVID-19 After Action Report.

Objectives: This project evaluated didactic-only versus didactic and simulation combination-methods emergency preparedness training in public health supervisors, measured by participant knowledge acquisition, capacity to respond in an emergency, and interprofessional collaboration. Aims also included suggestions for future training intervals.

Methods: The one-group, pretest and posttest design measured participant familiarity …

Two Influenza Doses By Two: A Quality Improvement Project, Madeline Robinson Bsn,Rn

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Healthcare authorities recommend that children under eight receive two doses of the flu vaccine, four weeks apart, during their first vaccination series. Evidence indicates that parent education, nursing education, cognitive reminders, and Electronic Health Record (EHR) reminders provide low-cost ways to enhance vaccination. Despite this, many children remain under-vaccinated from the flu yearly, indicating a need for more effective strategies.

Objectives: This project aimed to increase influenza two-dose series completion among patients aged 6 months to 2 years at a pediatric clinic through parent education, nursing education, cognitive reminders, and EHR reminders. Evaluated outcomes included (1) influenza series completion, …

The Implementation Of An Educational Program And Workflow To Improve The Accuracy And Completion Rates Of 30-Day Readmission Assessments Among Inpatient Case Managers, Katharine Mcaneny Mba, Bsn, Rn, Ccm

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Hospital readmissions within 30 days serve as a key quality indicator, influencing patient outcomes and financial penalties under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). Inpatient case managers play a crucial role in conducting readmission assessments to identify preventable causes and implement mitigation strategies. However, low completion rates and variability in assessment accuracy limit data collection and quality improvement efforts.

Aims: This quality improvement project aimed to (1) improve case managers’ understanding of readmissions and their impact on quality measures and reimbursement, (2) enhance self- perceived competence in completing readmission assessments, and (3) increase the percentage of completed readmission assessments …

Bridging The Gap: Enhancing Palliative Care Knowledge And Self-Efficacy Among Acute Care Nurses: A Dnp Project, Amira Dewitt

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Acute care nurses face complex end-of-life situations but are not adequately prepared with comprehensive palliative care training after undergraduate coursework. This knowledge gap affects nurses' ability to manage patients holistically and effectively, undermining their knowledge level and self-efficacy.

Aims: This project aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a structured four-week educational intervention delivered in a hybrid format using artificial intelligence (AI) software and evaluated post-training changes and participant satisfaction.

Methods: A pre-post study design was used, involving nurses recruited from acute care units in a community-based hospital. Prior to the intervention, the nurses completed three validated assessment tools: the …

Reducing Rates And Improving Care Of Incarcerated Pregnant People In Georgia Through The Georgia Women's Care Act: A Policy Analysis And Advocacy Project, Allegra Renee Crews Walker Msn, Cnm

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Maternal mortality rate and the rate of incarcerated women are significantly higher in the U.S. than in comparable nations, with Georgia's rates exceeding the national average. The U.S. and Georgia do not meet the internationally accepted standards for women in prisons, the Bangkok Rules. The Georgia Women's CARE Act seeks to reduce rates of incarcerated pregnant individuals by allowing sentence deferment, alternative sentencing, and eliminating or reducing cash bail when appropriate. The bill also establishes standards for tracking pregnant incarcerated women through federal and state prisons and jails.

Aims: This policy analysis and advocacy project aims to bring awareness …

Evaluating Team Communication Using Teamstepps On A Cardiac Step-Down Unit, Janelle Anderson

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Teamwork and communication are learned skills that can have a tremendous impact on patient experience, patient outcomes, and team dynamics.

Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of a communication training program based on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) TeamSTEPPS concepts: communication, team leadership, situation monitoring, and mutual support to improve teamwork and communication for cardiac step-down clinical staff.

Methods: This quality improvement project utilized a pre- and post-test design to evaluate cardiac step-down unit staff’s attitudes and perceptions regarding communication and teamwork rated on a 5-point scale using the 30-item AHRQ Teamwork Attitudes Questionnaire (T-TAQ) before and …

Understanding The Relationship Between Executive Function And Language During The Preschool Period, Haya Q. Kidwai

Senior Theses

Executive functions (EFs) are abilities that help us to control our actions, pay attention, and go against automatic responses. EF skills include working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility, all of which develop rapidly during early childhood alongside other developmental abilities like language. In fact, previous research has found a relationship between EFs and language abilities. Therefore, the current study investigated the correlation between EFs and language in the preschool period, a pivotal moment in their development. Specifically, the current study examined the relationship between working memory and inhibition and expressive vocabulary and morphosyntax measures in 7 children 4-6 years old. …

Analytical Dispatch Strategies For Pumped Storage Hydro: A Conditional Dynamic Programming Approach To Discontinuous Multi-Period Optimization Problems, Jian Liu, Jianwen Zhang, Zaiwu Gong, Donald C. Wunsch, Rui Bo

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The increasing integration of renewable energy sources like wind and solar poses significant challenges to secure and stable grid operation. Energy storage systems, particularly pumped storage hydro (PSH), play a crucial role in balancing power supply and demand. Traditional analytical studies of PSH economic dispatch problems often assume zero lower bounds for generating and pumping rates to simplify analysis and derive analytical solutions for multi-period optimization problems. However, the inherent mechanical design constraints of PSH require non-zero minimum flow rates for efficient operation. We analyze two scenarios, merchants having PSH only and merchants having both PSH and wind farms. In …

Spectral Width Of Maximum Deposition Eigenchannels In Diffusive Media, Rohin E. Mcintosh, Arthur Goetschy, Nicholas Bender, Alexey Yamilov, Chia Wei Hsu, Hasan Yllmaz, Hui Cao

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The maximum deposition eigenchannel provides the largest possible power delivery to a target region inside a diffusive medium by optimizing the incident wavefront of a monochromatic beam. It originates from constructive interference of scattered waves, which is frequency sensitive. We investigate the spectral width of the maximum deposition eigenchannels over a range of target depths using numerical simulations of a 2D diffusive system. Compared to tight focusing into the system, power deposition to an extended region is more sensitive to frequency detuning. The spectral width of enhanced delivery to a large target displays a rather weak, nonmonotonic variation with target …

Radiative Energy And Mass Shifts Of Quantum Cyclotron States, Ulrich D. Jentschura

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Abstract: We discuss relativistic and radiative corrections to the energies of quantum cyclotron states. In particular, it is shown analytically that the leading logarithmic radiative (self-energy) correction to the bound-state energy levels of quantum cyclotron states is state independent and must be interpreted as a magnetic field-dependent correction to the electron's mass in a Penning trap.

Silverrush. Xiv. Lyα Luminosity Functions And Angular Correlation Functions From 20,000 Lyα Emitters At Z ∼ 2.2-7.3 From Up To 24 Deg2 Hsc-Ssp And Chorus Surveys: Linking The Postreionization Epoch To The Heart Of Reionization, Hiroya Umeda, Masami Ouchi, Satoshi Kikuta, Yuichi Harikane, Yoshiaki Ono, Takatoshi Shibuya, Akio K. Inoue, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Yongming Liang, Akinori Matsumoto, Shun Saito, Haruka Kusakabe, Yuta Kageura

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We present luminosity functions (LFs) and angular correlation functions (ACFs) derived from 18,960 Lyα emitters (LAEs) at z = 2.2−7.3 over a wide survey area of ≲24 deg² that are identified in the narrowband data of the HSC-SSP and CHORUS surveys. Confirming the large sample with 241 spectroscopically identified LAEs, we determine Lyα LFs and ACFs in the brighter luminosity range down to 0.5L⋆, and confirm that our measurements are consistent with previous studies but offer significantly reduced statistical uncertainties. The improved precision of our ACFs allows us to clearly detect one-halo terms at some redshifts, and provides large-scale …

Teacher Mindset: An Investigation On The Influence Of Teachers’ Transformational Leadership On Growth Mindset, Rodolfo Reyes

Doctor of Education (Ed.D)

Identifying transformational leadership as a predictor of a growth mindset can be useful in developing teachers’ growth mindset. This nonexperimental quantitative study examined the relationship between teachers’ growth mindset and transformational leadership, and how the dimensions of teacher transformational leadership styles predict teachers’ growth mindset. The current study examined 63 participants in a school district in Florida. Using Dweck’s growth mindset survey (2006) and a researcher-created instrument to assess teachers’ perceptions of growth mindset and transformational leadership, the study resulted in a statistically significant finding of the association and prediction of transformational leadership on growth mindset. Demographics, such as teachers’ …

A Quantitative Analysis Of Middle School Teachers’ Self-Efficacy And Small-Group Instruction, Charles B. Alvare

Doctor of Education (Ed.D)

This nonexperimental, descriptive quantitative study focused on the relationship between teacher self-efficacy (TSE) and the receptivity to and implementation of small-group instruction (SGI) among middle school teachers in a school district in the Southeast United States. Rooted in Albert Bandura’s 1977 self-efficacy theory, this study integrated Megan Tschannen-Moran and Anita Hoy’s (2001) Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale and a researcher-created instrument that resulted in statistically significant findings from the 76 teachers who participated in the survey. The predictive model of receptiveness to SGI by overall TSE was statistically significant (F[3,72)] = 8.92, p < .001, R2 = .27), as was the predictive model of teacher implementation of SGI (F[1,74] = 35.45, p < .001, R2 = .32). The Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale measures the confluence of TSE related to classroom management, student engagement, and instructional strategies. Teacher efficacy in instructional strategies was indicative of participating middle school teachers’ perceived receptivity of SGI (B = −0.36, t(72) = −1.97, p = .05), and efficacy in classroom management (B = 0.52, t(72) = 3.58, p < .001) impacted their perceived implementation of SGI. Furthermore, the TSE dimension of student engagement was statistically significant in predicting perceptions of overall receptiveness to (B = 0.62, t(72) = 3.52, p < .001) and implementation of (B = 0.31, t(72) = 2.26, p = .03) SGI. The research findings of this current study and the literature highlight the significant benefits of TSE and student engagement.

The Cycle Of Control: How Men Convince Women To Doubt Their Minds And Bodies, Zoe C. Bowman

Augustana Center for the Study of Ethics Essay Contest

In ultra-conservative religious communities, men in positions of power will often use tactics that cause women to doubt their thoughts, emotions, and bodies. Women are gaslighted into believing they are failing in some way when they feel anxious or depressed, as though they have not trusted God enough. While these practices are archaic and are seen less often in modern churches, there are still instances which give cause for concern. In order for women to be more confident in their understanding of the signals their bodies and minds give them, they must be aware of the help that is offered …

Information Literacy: How Students Search For & Verfiy Health-Related Information On Social Media, Isabel Sousa

Honors Projects in Communication and Language Studies

Today, younger generations utilize social media to access what they perceive to be reliable and accurate information, yet there are some concerns regarding validity and the ease of which students share information. This thesis evaluates how undergraduate students search for and verify information seen on popular social media platforms and analyzes the proficiency of their information literacy skills. The data collected will be used in determining which social media platforms are most frequently used and trusted by students, which types of sources are used in verification of this information if verified at all, and their perception of information literacy. The …

Sjsu Erfa News, Spring 2025, San Jose State University, Emeritus And Retired Faculty Association

Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association (ERFA) Newsletter

Volume 38, No 3

One Morning, Ty Rea

Creative Writing Club Poetry

Short lyrical poem about love.

Finding Aid For The Chancellors Portraits Collection (Mum00153)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

The Mississippi Legislature chartered the University of Mississippi as the state’s first venue for public higher education in 1844. After construction, the doors to the institution opened to students in Oxford on 8 November 1848. The first two leaders of the university (George Frederick Holmes 1848-1849 and Augustus Baldwin Longstreet 1849-1856) were called “president” until the title changed to “chancellor” in 1858 at the suggestion of then President F.A.P. Barnard

Dangerous Digital Standing: Applying Spokeo And Transunion To Online Privacy Harms, Michael E. Ten Eyck

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

In recent years, the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) has been used to sue website-holding companies for utilizing chat bots that record online conversations. Such claims have already generated high-profile class actions and multidistrict litigations, with many more expected. Because CIPA violations often occur writ large when websites retain data from their chat boxes, and the statute imposes relatively high damages, there exists an incentive for plaintiffs’ attorneys to seek out aggregated claims, generating time-consuming litigation. Meanwhile, the harms suffered by those bringing suit fall under the category of intangible privacy harms. The US Court of Appeals for the …

A Score For The Outdoors: A Study Of Hayao Miyazaki's Environmentalism And Joe Hisaishi's Score In Princess Mononoke, Jasper E. Vasilevskis

Senior Theses

This honors thesis explores the role of composer Joe Hisaishi’s score in relation to director Hayao Miyazaki’s environmental perspective in Princess Mononoke (1997). Miyazaki’s belief that, regardless of the target audience, a story cannot be told without presenting “the ecological issues”[1] leads to the production of films that have rhetoric in support of environmental appreciation and conservation embedded throughout. When read through an environmentalist lens, Princess Mononoke becomes a critique of “human-centric” thinking, instead supporting an ideology similar to “deep ecology,” which considers humans to be intrinsically linked to nature. Despite Hisaishi and Miyazaki’s close collaboration that leads to …

Charter Schools And Students With Disabilities: Admissions Equity, Kelly L. Carrick

Senior Theses

Many states are now offering parents a choice in where their child attends school, typically offering charter schools as the alternative to public schools. With charter school enrollment on the rise, questions have begun to arise regarding the acceptance rates of students with disabilities, specifically, how do students with disabilities fare in the process of being admitted to charter schools? This research examines the admissions policies of charter schools, the admission rates for students with disabilities, as well as the legality and equity of this topic. Previous research has found that charter schools typically do not accept as many students …

An Examination Of Ambulatory Care Code Specificity Utilization In Icd-10-Cm Compared To Icd-9-Cm: Implications For Icd-11 Implementation, Susan H Fenton, Cassandra Ciminello, Vickie M Mays, Mary H Stanfill, Valerie Watzlaf

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Objective: The ICD-10-CM classification system contains more specificity than its predecessor ICD-9-CM. A stated reason for transitioning to ICD-10-CM was to increase the availability of detailed data. This study aims to determine whether the increased specificity contained in ICD-10-CM is utilized in the ambulatory care setting and inform an evidence-based approach to evaluate ICD-11 content for implementation planning in the United States.

Materials and methods: Diagnosis codes and text descriptions were extracted from a 25% random sample of the IQVIA Ambulatory EMR-US database for 2014 (ICD-9-CM, n = 14 327 155) and 2019 (ICD-10-CM, n = 13 062 900). Code …