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Thousands And Thousands Of Lovers: Sense Of Community Among The Nuns Of Helfta By Anna Harrison, Silvia Negri

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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22nd Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference (Agenda), William & Mary Law School

2025 Property Conference

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Exploring The Lived Experiences Of Arab Refugees: Access To Public Housing And Integration In Dallas County, Texas., Salam Lattouf

Planning Dissertations - Archive

Past research in the Global North has overlooked the housing issues faced by low-income refugees while primarily examining disadvantaged communities and people of color, such as low-income African American and Hispanic populations. Refugees coming to the United States face compound challenges and barriers in securing adequate housing, besides contending with other social and economic difficulties such as language barriers and lack of knowledge in the housing market, which expose them to exploitation and eventually impact their access to opportunities such as employment. Although the literature on housing accessibility for refugees is scarce in the United States, we argue that the …

Nature-Based Solutions For Urban Climate Resilience: Assessment Of Environmental Planning & Policy Perspective In New York City, Padmi R. Ranasinghe

Planning Dissertations - Archive

Climate change exerts a profound global influence, elevating the risk of disasters. Rapid urbanization and high population density make cities increasingly vulnerable to disasters. Climate impact is intense for cities in deltas and coastal regions, highlighting the importance of managing urban watersheds effectively. Often, climate change affects people unequally, with marginalized communities being extra vulnerable to climate-related disasters due to where they live (geographical vulnerability) and limited adaptive capacity. People often live in areas vulnerable to climate-related hazards, including flood zones and regions affected by environmental injustices. Enhancing city resilience is crucial, as it needs to reduce vulnerability and exposure …

Processing Warfare And Navigating Defeat: The Mexican Narrative Constructed During The Mexican American War Of 1846-1848, Hailee Brandt

Undergraduate Research Awards

It is undeniable that the citizens of Mexico and the United States of America processed the Mexican American War as it occurred in exceedingly different ways, and wished to remember it differently. This thesis will delve deeper into the Mexican narrative that was constructed during and in the immediate aftermath of the war, about the war, and will highlight some of the most salient differences.

Feeding With Competence: Empowering Parents In Ng Feeding For Nicu Graduates: A Quality Improvement Project, Karen Marsh

DNP Scholarly Projects

Abstract

Background: Infants who are born prematurely stay in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) until they are able to take full enteral nutrition by mouth. While in the NICU a nasogastric tube (NG tube) would be used to supplement the volume needed to be ingested for optimal nutrition. Infants typically feed better with a consistent caregiver and at home in an environment with less stimulation. Allowing infants to be discharged with an NG tube allows the parents to be more involved in their infant's care with a shorter hospital stay. An increased number of infants being discharged home with …

Implementation Of Outpatient Cervical Ripening In The Community Hospital Setting: A Quality Improvement Process, April St Hilaire

DNP Scholarly Projects

Background: Cervical ripening is a critical component of labor induction. Outpatient cervical ripening using mechanical dilators offers a safe patient- centered alternative to inpatient management, with potential benefits in efficiency and patient satisfaction and cost savings.

Local Problem: At a community hospital setting with increasing induction rates, prolonged admission-to-delivery times and prolonged patient stays were observed in patients undergoing inpatient cervical ripening, prompting a need for more efficient, patient centered approaches.

Methods: Using the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) framework, an outpatient cervical ripening protocol was implemented over a 15-week period to compare inpatient versus outpatient cervical ripening using mechanical …

Services For Persons With Limited English Proficiency Within Medicaid Home And Community-Based Service Waivers On The East Coast: A Content Analysis, Amina Meky Ots, Andrea Fairman Ph.D., Mot, Otr/L, Atp, Drp, Gina Novario Otd, Otr/L

Occupational Therapy Doctorate Capstones

Objective & Aim:

To analyze limited English proficiency (LEP) resources and assistive technology (AT) services within home community-based service (HCBS) waivers on the East Coast to identify gaps that may impact healthcare access and equity for LEP individuals.

Optimizing Electronic Health Record Capability To Provide Mindfulness Education To Oncology Patients Experiencing Anxiety, Cynthia Arcieri

DNP Scholarly Projects

Background: The impact of a cancer diagnosis is significant. In 2020, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported over 1.6 million new cases of cancer (National Institutes of Health, 2023). Non-traditional approaches to supporting patients should be considered in providing high-quality cancer care. Mindfulness can help reduce stress reactions and may be beneficial for individuals with anxiety (Vinci et al., 2019). To best support patient care in the landscape of mobile health (mHeatlh) technology, it is essential to adopt best practices that promote patient engagement and empowerment.

Purpose: This quality improvement project aimed to provide oncology patients with a cognitive …

A Quality Improvement Project To Enhance Chronic-Condition And Self-Care Knowledge In Adolescents With Spina Bifida, Ann Paris

DNP Scholarly Projects

Background: Spina Bifida is the most common central nervous system disorder in the United States (CDC, 2024). Even with early surgical repair, patients may have chronic, disabling, multisystem needs (Phillips et al., 2017). Adequate care of Spina Bifida requires a multidisciplinary approach. As such, patients with spina bifida require multiple specialty providers, clinic appointments, care-tasks, and interventions (CDC, 2024, Phillips, et al., 2017). Synthesizing information from multiple care providers can be daunting, especially for adolescents as they grow more autonomous in their care, and especially as they enter the age of pediatric-to-adult transition (Psihogios et al., 2015).

Purpose: …

Robots And (Indian) Reservations: A Jurisdictional Nightmare Waiting To Happen, Adam Crepelle

Faculty Publications & Other Works

Advances in artificial intelligence are expanding the possibilities of robots. Indeed, robots are now engaging in numerous activities previously thought to require human cognition, such as driving cars and diagnosing diseases. Scholars have published numerous articles examining the intersection of law and robots across myriad fields. However, legal scholarship has yet to explore the relationship between robots and federal Indian law. This is a significant oversight because there are 574 federally recognized tribes and over fifty-six million acres of Indian country. Thus, legal issues involving tribes and robots are inevitable. This is the first law review article dedicated to exploring …

Visible Learning: Adapting Primary And Secondary Pedagogical Approaches To Legal Education, Dawn Young

Faculty Publications & Other Works

As a new generation of students, Generation Z, enter law school, educators must continually adapt and improve to be the most effective in their roles. While traditional teaching methods like Socratic dialogue, the case method, and experiential learning are all valuable to varying degrees, law professors can gain further insight by exploring additional teaching approaches.

As law professors welcome Gen Z to their classrooms, how can they ensure they are adapting to the needs of this cohort? Could gaining an understanding of Gen Z’s prior educational experiences provide law professors with additional insight?

This Article argues that law professors can …

Tribal Civil Procedure: An Unexplored Path To Sovereignty And Economic Development, Adam Crepelle

Faculty Publications & Other Works

This Article argues civil procedure reform is a means of strengthening tribal sovereignty and economies. Although tribal civil procedure codes are largely consistent with their state and federal counterparts, tribal rules of procedure can be difficult to locate. The inability to locate tribal rules of procedure has led the Supreme Court to diminish tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians. Similarly, uncertainty about the rules governing tribal court operation deter businesses from investing in Indian country. By making greater efforts to publish tribal procedure rules and the jurisprudence interpreting them, tribes can enhance their sovereignty and their economies.

Tribes should also consider civil …

A Systematic Review And Taxonomy For Privacy Breach Classification: Trends, Gaps, And Future Directions, Clint Fuchs, John Hastings

Research & Publications

In response to the rising frequency and complexity of data breaches and evolving global privacy regulations, this study presents a comprehensive examination of academic literature on the classification of privacy breaches and violations between 2010-2024. Through a systematic literature review, a corpus of screened studies was assembled and analyzed to identify primary research themes, emerging trends, and gaps in the field. A novel taxonomy is introduced to guide efforts by categorizing research efforts into seven domains: breach classification, report classification, breach detection, threat detection, breach prediction, risk analysis, and threat classification. An analysis reveals that breach classification and detection dominate …

Please See The Hr Robot On Your Way In: Navigating The Impact Of Ai In The Modern Workplace, Hon. John G. Browning

California Western Law Review

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Study Of Deep Neural Network Trained With Salient, Compressed Medical Video Data For Enhanced Predication, Aileen Sengupta

Electrical Engineering Dissertations - Archive

The rapid growth of surgical video analysis presents a need for efficient deep learning models for surgical training, while reducing the need for excessive image and video image storage. Traditional training approaches typically rely on uniformly compressed video data, instead of selectively preserving the most surgically relevant regions. This dissertation investigates the impact of training deep neural networks (DNNs), both convolutional and transformer-based architectures, on saliency-guided, differentially compressed surgical video sequences. The study systematically evaluates how such compression influences prediction accuracy, computational efficiency and storage requirements. Experimental results demonstrate that models trained on ROI-focused compressed data combined with motion vectors …

Correlation Of Internal Pressure To The Fundamental Aging Mechanism Of Li-Ion Batteries, Kayla Garcia

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

As technology continues to evolve, the demand for more reliable and longer-lasting batteries is growing rapidly in the electronics industry. Batteries are vital for powering a wide range of technologies, from smartphones and consumer electronics to automotive systems and high-end tools used across multiple sectors. Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have helped bridge the power and energy gap that these different technologies require while achieving sufficient efficiency and reliability to make carrying them around feasible and long lasting. To further enhance the performance and longevity of a these devices, a deeper understanding of the degradation mechanisms occurring inside LIBs is crucial. The …

Individual Brainstorming: Exploring The Efficacy Of The Cyclical Divergent To Convergent Innovation Model (Cdcim), Abu Jaed

Psychology Theses - Archive

This thesis explored the adaptation of the Cyclical Divergent to Convergent Innovation Model (CDCIM), a structural model used in group brainstorming settings, to the context of individual brainstorming. The primary objective was to investigate whether this brainstorming model enhances the creative output of individuals in terms of idea quantity, quality (based on novelty and feasibility), and divergence in the final output. The study employed an experimental design involving 174 participants, divided into two conditions: Linear (C1), and CDCIM (C2). Participants were tasked with designing various aspects of a futuristic university. The results showed that participants in the CDCIM condition generated …

Reducing Future-Oriented Thoughts Through Intention Offloading, Connor Dupre

Psychology Theses - Archive

The present research investigates whether using external reminders to support prospective memory (PM) reduces internal representation of future intentions during the retention interval. While reminders are known to improve PM performance, it remains unclear whether they actually decrease the memory trace associated with maintaining intentions. Across three experiments, we systematically manipulated reminder reliability (Exp 1-3) and task familiarity (Exp 2 & 3) to assess their effects on PM-related thoughts and PM target detection. In Experiment 1, we varied reminder reliability (0%, 50%, 100%) and found no differences in PM-related thoughts, suggesting that participants may have maintained intentions internally regardless of …

When Accomodation Bars Access To Justice: Implications Of Video Remote Interpreting In Legal Settings, Quincy Craft Faber

Mitchell Hamline Law Review

No abstract provided.

Generative Ai As Courtroom Evidence: A Practical Guide, Neal Feigenson, Brian Carney

Mitchell Hamline Law Review

No abstract provided.

Trust, But Verify: The Case For Abolishing The Outlier Authentication Provisions Of The Federal Rules Of Evidence, Sydney A. Beckman

Mitchell Hamline Law Review

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Improving End-Of-Life Care: A Nursing Education Initiative, Spring C. Kingsley

DNP Projects

Background: This study addresses the gap in education and training for medical intensive care unit (MICU) nurses regarding the care of hospice patients. The traditional medical model of healthcare prioritizes illness treatment, often leading to inadequate end-of-life support and increased hospitalization during patients' final days. The rise of in-hospital hospice programs, or scatter-bed hospice models, highlights the need for nurses to enhance their skills in providing end-of-life compassionate care. The MICU at the University of Kentucky’s Chandler Hospital serves as a focal point for this initiative, given its role in caring for critically ill patients who require hospice attention.

Purpose: …

Front Matter

Tenor of Our Times

No abstract provided.

Alumni Spotlight - Ryan Rummage, Jacob Anderson

Tenor of Our Times

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Beyond The Battlefield: Wwii’S Influence On Disability Rights And Legislation, Rachel Limburg

Tenor of Our Times

The post-war disability rights movement's momentum was largely driven by the influx of disabled veterans and the sudden need for a larger post-war workforce. Recent scholarship suggests that the origins of the movement extend beyond the societal upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, reaching back to the early 1940s and even the 1930s.; In Out of the Horrors of War: Disability Politics in World War II America, Audra Jennings argues that World War II was pivotal in transforming societal attitudes toward disability, with demand for wartime labor and the visibility of disabled veterans catalyzing these changes. Jennings highlights the significance …

Loops With Universal And Semi-Universal Flexibility, J.D. Phillips

Conference Papers in Published Proceedings

We study loops which are universal (that is, isotopically invariant) with respect to the property of flexibility (xy · x = x · yx). We also weaken this to semi-universality, that is, loops in which every left and right isotope is flexible, but not necessarily every isotope. One of our main results is that universally flexible, inverse property loops are Moufang loops. On the other hand, semi-universally flexible, inverse property loops are dissociative. We also examine the relationship between universally flexible loops and middle Bol loops. The paper concludes with some open problems.

Enhancing Resilience In Oncology Nurses Through The Implementation Of A Peer Support Program, Denise M. Robinson-Smith

DNP Scholarly Projects

ABSTRACT

Background: Oncology nurses face high rates of burnout and compassion fatigue, contributing to significant turnover and threatening the stability of the oncology nursing workforce. The projected increase in cancer incidence and the resulting demand for oncology services underscore the urgent need for interventions that enhance nurse resilience. Local Problem: At a major hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, it was found that oncology nurses face a significant gap in emotional support, especially during critical incidents such as patient deaths or traumatic events. Existing resources were insufficient to address the unique stressors faced by this team. Methods: A quality …

Exploring The Role Of Bingocize® Workshops In Enhancing Health And Well-Being In Older Adults, Kaitlyn Gray

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

As the population of older adults grows, the need for better health and well-being also grows, making it necessary to implement effective strategies for healthy aging to improve the length and quality of life of older adults (CDC, 2024). This study evaluates the effectiveness of a Bingocize^® Workshop in improving the physical health of older adults. Bingocize^®, a unique program combining bingo with exercise, is designed to increase physical activity. Eleven (11) participants aged 68.55 ± 6.235 attended a ten-week workshop, two times per week focusing on physical exercises tailored to their abilities. The primary objective was …

Coastal Flooding Along The Lower Brazos During The Landfall Of Hurricane Beryl -A Model-Based Investigation, Sabiha Tasnuva Khan

Civil Engineering Theses - Archive

Hurricane Beryl generated a complex hydrodynamic response along the Texas coast and Lower Brazos River, producing storm surge, elevated coastal water levels, intense rainfall, and widespread inundation. Low-gradient coastal rivers such as the lower portion of the Brazos River are particularly sensitive to the interaction of these drivers, yet the inland decay of surge energy and its interplay with watershed runoff remain poorly quantified. This study aims to characterize the physical mechanisms controlling water-level amplification, flow reversal, surge attenuation, and inundation development during Hurricane Beryl along the Lower Brazos and to determine the relative contributions of surge and rainfall to …