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Tremors Of Silver ~ A Battle Of The Brain: An Exploration Of Parkinson's Disease Through Dance, Kelsey Lynn Halio

Dance Department Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Perceptions Of Teachers, Administrators And Counselors On The Adaptation And Integration Of Social Emotional Learning Standards In Academic Settings, Meva Black Rhooms

Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative study aims to explore the perceptions of teachers, administrators, and counselors on the definition, adaptation, and integration of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) within Mae Wright School District. The district’s commitment to educating the whole child has prompted efforts to incorporate SEL into the academic and social environments. Through semi-structured interviews, this study examines how teachers, administrators, and counselors define SEL and their perceptions on the adaptation and integration of SEL standards in academic settings.. Findings reveal diverse interpretations of SEL, with varying levels of support and understanding among participants. Teachers highlighted the need for practical strategies, while administrators …

Using A Transitional Care Management Screening Tool On Medicare Adult Patients With Chronic Conditions: Quality Improvement Project, Lizete D. Rosa

DNP Projects

Background

Within the United States, adult patients over the age of 65 are averaging give emergency room visits per year with potential admission. Patient hospital readmissions occur when a patient is discharged from the hospital and is readmitted within 30 days. This can occur due to medication noncompliance, premature discharge, or the most common reason, lack of adequate provide follow-up as an outpatient.

Project Goals

1. Implement a transitional care management screening tool within the primary care practice with Medicare adult patients with chronic conditions to improve post hospitalization follow up appointments with PCP.

2. Designate a medical assistant to …

Beyond The Screen: Assessing The Impact Of Hospitalist Reliance On Electronic Medical Records In Patient-Centered Care, Brian H. Cox

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The integration of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems has transformed healthcare delivery, offering enhanced data accessibility, improved communication, and operational efficiency. However, concerns persist regarding the potential erosion of patient-centered care due to EMR overutilization. This study investigated how hospitalists’ use of EMR systems correlates with patient satisfaction, focusing on the dynamics of physician communication, hospital length of stay, and regional characteristics. Using a comprehensive framework combining Resource Dependency Theory and Donabedian’s Structure-Process-Outcome model, the research examines the influence of demographic, technological, and structural factors on healthcare outcomes.

The analysis, based on patient survey data from a large integrated delivery …

Undergraduate Catalog Of Studies, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Undergraduate Catalog of Studies

No abstract provided.

Medicare Mandates For Shared Decision Making With Patient Decision Aids: Linking Payment To Preference, Thaddeus Mason Pope, Jd, Phd

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

Since 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has increasingly required shared decision making with evidence-based patient decision aids as an essential Medicare condition for payment. CMS is doing this because it recognizes that most healthcare is preference sensitive and value laden. So, whether treatment is “right” or “beneficial” for a patient is not only a matter of clinical expertise. It equally depends on the patient’s values, preferences, and goals. So, CMS wants to ensure that patients understand the risks, benefits, and alternatives to the healthcare that they receive and for which CMS pays. In short, under its …

Seventh Us Cavalry Base Ball In Kansas, 1868–1870, Revised, Mark E. Eberle

Monographs

From 1868 through 1870, the Seventh US Cavalry and other military units played baseball in Kansas at their various posts and in the field. Details of several games were reported in local newspapers, as well as the New York Clipper. The Seventh Cavalry clubs, most notably Captain Frederick Benteen’s Company H, continued to play through 1875 while stationed in the South and the Dakota Territory, before the regiment was decimated at the Battle of Little Bighorn (Greasy Grass) in 1876. This essay focuses on the Seventh Cavalry’s baseball experiences in Kansas. A list of known games played by the regiment …

Baseball Takes Root In New Mexico, 1867–1883, Revised, Mark E. Eberle

Monographs

The first known baseball club in New Mexico was organized in Santa Fe in 1867 as the Santa Fe Base Ball Club (BBC). As the only club in the area, games were initially played between teams picked from the club’s members. In November 1868, the Bradley BBC at Fort Union in northeastern New Mexico challenged the Santa Fe BBC to a game. Given the distance between Santa Fe and Fort Union, they met for the game in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Originally scheduled for Thanksgiving Day, the game was postponed two days because of snow. This was the first known …

Twelfth Night (2025) | Program, Emily Duncan

The Shakespeare Project

This performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night was adapted and directed by Emily Duncan, with Carmine DiBiase as Dramaturg. The cast features:

• Viola/Cesario: Eleanor Boozer
• Orsino: Christian Watts
• Sir Toby: Forrest Hinton
• Maria: Jennie Wall
• Feste: Jason Wright
• Malvolio: Trevor McMullen
• Olivia: Tea Wilson
• Sir Andrew: Ian Johnson
• Sebastian: Dylan Hurst
• Antonio: Laurellei Veasey
• Valentine: Semaje Newton

South Dakota Farmers Alliance Records, Sdsu Archives And Special Collections, Hilton M. Briggs Library

Manuscript Archive

The South Dakota Farmers Alliance Records document the early agricultural reform movement in Dakota Territory, focusing on farmers’ efforts to organize against economic hardships and railroad monopolies. The collection includes an 1887 address by President H. L. Loucks, proceedings from the Alliance’s annual convention that same year, and an undated advertisement for A Book for Farmers – Dunning’s Farm Ledger and Historical Account. These materials reflect the Alliance’s advocacy for economic reforms, railroad regulation, and farmer education.

The South Dakota Farmers’ Alliance emerged in the early 1880s, influenced by the National Farmers’ Alliance, and driven by declining wheat prices …

Preservice Teachers' Perceptions Of Gifted Students' Characteristics And Needs, Courtney Warren

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Gifted students possess unique needs that require appropriately challenging opportunities to develop their advanced abilities. To meet these needs, gifted students must be correctly identified, which is often through teacher referral, thus subjecting the identification process to teachers’ knowledge and perceptions of giftedness. Teachers can also implement practices, such as differentiation, to meet gifted needs within their own classrooms. Thus, teachers must hold accurate perceptions of gifted students and their needs. However, teacher preparation programs often offer minimal training in giftedness. The purpose of the current study was to examine preservice teachers’ perceptions of gifted students’ characteristics and needs. Thirty-one …

True Love Stays, Sydney Thier

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

True Love Stays is a love story, albeit an atypical one. Inspired by the bond I have cultivated with my dog, Ava, it explores the nature of relationships with other people and myself. As an essayist and a filmmaker, I was inspired by the way that writers like Jo Ann Beard, Joan Didion, and Leslie Jamison write about love and how Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Alice Birch approach the complexities of identity and relationships on-screen. This collected work is meant to be a multi-genre approach to unpacking how love, desire, and grief interact with identity formation through character-driven writing and an …

Examining Antecedents Of Diversity Initiative Fatigue: A Moderatedmediation Model, Anne Simpson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis investigates the relationships between bias awareness, motivation to respond without prejudice, racialized attitudes, and diversity initiative fatigue (DIF) among employees within an academic setting, specifically focusing on faculty and staff at Western Kentucky University. Data were collected through a survey-based approach to measure these constructs and assess their relationships. This study hypothesized that bias awareness negatively correlates with DIF and motivation to respond without prejudice mediating this relationship. Furthermore, the research examines how racialized attitudes moderate the relationship between bias awareness and motivation to respond without prejudice. By examining these relationships using a moderated mediation model, the study …

Examining The Impact Of A Mobile-Delivered Brief Intervention On Substance Coping Motives Among A Sample Of Interpersonal Trauma Survivors With Heavy Alcohol Use, Lily Milam

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Brief interventions (BIs) aim to reduce risky alcohol use but show limited effectiveness for interpersonal trauma (IPT) survivors, who may use alcohol to cope with trauma-related issues. BIs typically do not target coping-related motivations or include effective emotion regulation strategies, which may improve outcomes for at-risk groups like IPT survivors. Additionally, digital interventions often struggle with low engagement. This study examined a trauma-informed and peer-supported BI to reduce coping-related drinking motives in heavy drinking young adults and assess its effectiveness compared to a standard BI and assessment only condition. Participants (N=133, 79.2% Female, 91.2% White, M age=19.77) with a lifetime …

Person-Centered Planning: An Improvement Science Approach To Interventions Impacting Teacher Implementation, Stacie Hutchison

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study used an improvement science framework to influence special education teachers’ behaviors and their implementation of transition service development through person centered planning and ongoing teacher support. Grounded in adaptive leadership principles and a theory of action emphasizing the need for new professional learning and sustained support, this research investigated how targeted interventions impact teacher practice.

I selected a mixed-methods design for this study, combining semi-structured interviews, Likert scale surveys, open-ended questions, and a single-participant case study to evaluate outcomes. Findings revealed that a traditional professional development model incorporating opportunities to practice skills and proactively address potential barriers led …

Social Comparison And Pressure: Examining The Roles Of Sex And Rank, Ashley East

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Faculty in academia face intense competition and growing expectations, often shaped by perceptions of others’ performance. During the COVID-19 pandemic, these dynamics were magnified, making social comparison a critical factor in understanding academic workplace pressures. The purpose of this study is to examine the changing work pressures and social comparison tendencies among academics during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is hypothesized that social comparison tendencies will be positively related to time pressure (H1a) and telepressure (H1b), with moderation by sex (H2a and H2b) and organizational rank (H3a and H3b). Using a panel survey of 197 tenure-track and tenured faculty members in …

Supplementary Materials To "Preindustrial Inequality In Mexico", Amilcar Challú, Israel García Solares, Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato

History Faculty Publications

Supplementary material to "Preindustrial Inequality in Mexico" by Amílcar Challú, Israel García Solares, Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato, in Preindustrial Inequality in Latin America, edited by María Inés Moraes and Amílcar E. Challú (Routledge, forthcoming 2026).

Coffee Farmgate Price And Post-Harvest Processing In Honduras., Isaac Desouza

Theses and Dissertations--Agricultural Economics

Volatile commodity markets and changing climate expose coffee farmers to price and production risk. Proponents recommend specialty coffee as a strategy to combat price risk, because its unique attributes differentiate it from commodity coffee. Extrinsic and intrinsic attributes define specialty coffee and affect prices at many levels of the supply chain. Despite much work on extrinsic attributes, little is known about how intrinsic attributes relate to farmgate price. Post-harvest processing is itself an intrinsic trait and driver of coffee quality. In 2024 we surveyed 261 coffee farmers from La Paz, Honduras, to uncover relationships between capital, post-harvest processing, and farmgate …

Nsu Communiversity Outreach, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Digital: Communiversity

No abstract provided.

College Students’ Beliefs: Association Between Skin Color And Acceptance, Christopher James Thompson

Theses and Dissertations

The Multiracial population represents the fastest-growing demographic group in the United States and is expected to more than double by 2060 (Vespa et al., 2018). Despite this rapid increase in the Multiracial population, there is a dearth of research regarding racial identity development, anxiety, and depression on this group. Social inclusion has been recognized as a fundamental human need, and Multiracial individuals may be more likely to be accepted into a majority group if their appearance is racially ambiguous. The current study builds on previous knowledge by utilizing a novel measure developed to examine the beliefs held by Monoracial and …

Asian Church History: Arise Asian Church: Outline And Chronology (Supplementary), Bong Rin Ro

ATS Digital Resources

No abstract provided.

2025 Idea Of Nature Public Lecture Series Schedule (Flyer), Samantha Harvey

The Idea of Nature Public Lecture Series

The goal of the series is to promote interdisciplinary inquiry about the environment and to foster dialogue across the campus and community, based on the premise that big questions need interdisciplinary answers.

How are conceptions of nature expressed in the sciences, literature, art, philosophy, music and other disciplines? How did ideas of nature change from 1660 to the present, a period of radical change and revolution?

These lectures are free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception with a no-host bar and appetizers.

Neurocognitive Teaching Strategies In The English Language Learner Classroom, Susan Annette Biasco

All Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The emergence of advanced medical technology in the past 30 years has allowed doctors and researchers to look inside the brain to more accurately model cognition and memory. The concept of neuroplasticity has replaced the outdated idea that we are born with all the brain connections we will ever have. Based on these new discoveries, neurocognitive teaching strategies seek to apply the model of how the brain learns best to classroom pedagogy. Teaching techniques that put the student at the center of the equation, instead of the teacher, have been repeatedly shown in the research to improve learning and knowledge …

Maternal Cardiovascular Risk And Lactation: Disparities And Future Directions, Monica Rodriguez, Michele Mccarroll, Caroline Marrs, Kamala P. Tamirisa

North Texas Research Forum 2025

Pregnancy functions as a cardiopulmonary stress test, unmasking underlying cardiovascular disease (CVD) or heightening the future CVD risk following adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs). Multiple studies have demonstrated strong associations between APOs, higher mortality rates, and an increased risk of cardiometabolic diseases. Black women, in particular, have a disproportionately higher burden of coronary artery disease related mortality, with an earlier onset compared to women of other racial and ethnic groups. Increasing allostatic load due to both acute and chronic racial discrimination may potentially be a key factor driving poorer pregnancy outcomes. Breastfeeding has a protective effect on allostatic load and is …

"You Write What You Want And What You Need": Incorporating Reflective Practice In The Ela Classroom Through Caring Pedagogy, Melanie Shoffner, Helen Bentley

Department of Middle, Secondary and Mathematics Education - Faculty Scholarship

Caring pedagogy is critical in today’s classrooms, and supporting students’ emotional needs as well as educational needs is an integral part of the teaching profession. This qualitative case study examines how one 9th grade ELA teacher uses reflective practices to enact care for her students. Creating a specially designed 50- minute freewrite class, the participant centers students by welcoming their voices into the classroom. Notes from observations and semi-structured interviews are used to show how the participant’s reflections about her students’ journals and discussions drive instruction. Findings show that care-based instruction-giving students space to write about any topic, removing the …

Use Of Intraoperative Vancomycin Powder And Its Effects On The Incidence Of Surgical Site Infection In Orthopaedic Trauma: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Troy Puga, Mckenna Box, Alan Lam, Claire Ferguson, Mason Poffenbarger, Cornelis Potgieter, John Riel

North Texas Research Forum 2025

Introduction Surgical site infection (SSI) in orthopaedic trauma can have devastating consequences for patients. Many risk factors for SSI exist and many strategies are employed to prevent SSI. The use of intraoperative powdered vancomycin is one such strategy used in orthopaedic trauma surgery, however, evidence and guidelines remain unclear. The aim of this systematic review is to evaluate the evidence for the use of powdered vancomycin in orthopaedic trauma surgery for the prevention of SSI. Methods A search was conducted across Pubmed/Medline, Cochrane, and Embase databases to evaluate for the use of powdered vancomycin in orthopaedic trauma surgery for the …

Title 18’S Property Conundrum, Karen E. Woody, Joshua L. Clardy

Scholarly Articles

“Property,” in legal terms, carries significant weight. Once an object is heralded as “property,” that object becomes a step closer to being afforded the protections of the Constitution, offered equitable remedies at a court’s disposal, or even subjected to taxation by the state or federal government. Defining an object as “property” also puts it within the reach of the Title 18 property fraud statutes. Title 18’s fraud statutes have been often lauded by federal prosecutors for their “extraordinary utility.” In their current iteration, these statutes criminalize schemes to defraud “money,” “property,” and “the intangible right of honest services.” But what …

Profile: Innovation Through The Liberal Arts, Communications And Marketing

Profile (1996-)

In this issue: Alumnus Chooses to Pay It Forward with Scholarships ; Gallant Makes the Most of Scholarships ; Newell Gives Back with Entrepreneurship Class ; Giving Allows Students to Get Business Ownership Experience ; Competitive Ethics Team Earns National Bid ; Tollefsrud Named Fulbright Finalist ; Noujdi Receives 2024 Undergraduate SEED Award ; Faculty and Staff Awards ; Hands-On Observatory Experience for Physics Students ; Zavada, Students Travel to Peru for Fulbright Research ; Morris Model Wins Second Department of Energy Competition ; 2025 Commencement ; Spotlight: Highlighting the Degree in Three Option ; AI Philosophy Tutor: Using AI …

Lawrence University Course Catalog, 2025-2026, Lawrence University

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Exploring Internal Challenges In Internationalisation: A Case Of A Software As A Service (Saas) Internationaliser, Karl Erik Õim, Tairi Leis

European Management Studies

Purpose: The article examines the internal challenges encountered in internationalisation, focusing on Software as a Service (SaaS) companies. It aims to contribute to the literature on SaaS companies’ internationalisation by examining the unique challenges they face and the challenges they share with other types of firms.

Design/methodology/approach: It encompasses a case study of an international Estonian SaaS company. It is based on a semi-structured, in-depth interview and various additional information sources: internal information, websites, and publicly available financial data.

Findings: When the company was young, it lacked the capacity to cope with competitors. Establishing itself as a …