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Gardner-Webb Graduates Consistently Achieve 100% Pass Rate On Licensure Exams For Clinical Mental Health And School Counseling, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

The National Institute for Health Care Management reports that 49% of Americans live in a mental health workforce shortage area. Helping to meet this need are alumni of Gardner-Webb University’s accredited Master of Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Master of School Counseling programs. Overall enrollment has steadily increased in the last few years. Students are attracted to GWU’s 100% pass rate on the required tests for licensure, which has occurred for several years. Additionally, all of the graduates who were seeking jobs in the counseling field found employment—some were even hired before completing their degrees.

Implementation Of A Standardized Acute Care Plan For Complex Care Medicine Service Patients: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Tracy Markwell

Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Projects

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Care transition plans, locally called Acute Care Plans (ACPs), are created specifically for super utilizers of the Complex Care Medicine Service (CCMS) and are a target for improvement. The purpose of this project was to improve care for CCMS patients by developing, implementing, and evaluating a standardized CCMS ACP. A multidisciplinary approach was chosen to facilitate the transitions of care process during an admission or discharge from the hospital.

LOCAL PROBLEM: The purpose of the ACP is to get a quick summary of how to treat a patient when they come to the hospital. The ACPs are …

Understanding Student-Athletes' Social Justice Commitment: Utilizing Social Cognitive Framework, Katie M. Califano

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Inequality and discrimination occur within college athletics as well as in general society. As a result, collegiate athletes are increasingly engaging in social justice advocacy. The present study builds on the growing body of research on the development of social justice commitment through a social-cognitive model but adds an additional variable of perceived discrimination as many athletes represent populations that have been discriminated against based on race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or other identities. Using a sample of 128 NCAA Division I, II, and III student-athletes in a variety of sports, results supported utilizing the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) model …

Essays In Healthcare And Public Policy Economics, Babasoji Oyemakinde

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The first essay investigates the short, medium, and long run differential motor vehicle crash fatality effects and gender heterogeneity for the US states that switched to primary enforcement (drivers cited for failure to use seat belts) from secondary enforcement (non-belted drivers further cited for other traffic violations) of the seat belt law. The current study, employing an event study empirical strategy and 1979 to 2019 US state level data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), fills an important void in the literature. This design enables us to exploit variation in the location (treated and control states) and staggered timing …

The Lived Experiences Of Black American Mental Health Therapist Seeking Personal Therapy: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Tera Brownlee Warfield

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Black Americans face unique challenges in America that impact their mental health. Research as specifically shown that Black therapist experience unique challenges within work with clients due to microaggressions and holding space for other people of color related to racial trauma. There is an established body of research pertaining to therapist mental health but limited research pertaining to the mental health of Black mental health therapist especially pertaining to addressing this populations mental health needed. The purpose of this study was to examine the lived experiences of twelve Black therapist who have sought personal therapy. This topic was explored to …

A Review Of Optimal Procedures For Combining P-Values With A Proposal Of A Bayesian Approach To Identify Auxiliary Covariates, Tiffany Geistkemper

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

In this thesis, we review a meta-analytic procedure for evaluating tests from several studies based on the combination of P -values. We provide a summary of properties of several well-known methods that combine P-values of continuous and independent test statistics. We note that it is not uncommon that, in the process of performing statistical tests, potentially important covariates are sometimes inadvertently not accounted for in the individual studies. We outline a procedure based on a Bayesian regression approach that introduces latent variables that may be used to account for and evaluate the significance of such covariates.

Linguistic Features In Mild And Moderate Dementia, Alexsandra Murphy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The aim of this study is to understand what linguistic measures differ in individuals who have dementia versus a healthy control group as linguistic measures can provide insight to discrepancies in cognitive abilities, notably language. The problem with identifying and diagnosing diseases related to memory, such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, is that diagnoses require involved medical examinations, such as neuroimaging, and descriptive diagnostics that may be subjective and relative. This can lead to ambiguous results and lack of clarity for patients and their families and medical care team, making it difficult to chart a course of action or make …

The Relationship Between State Policies And Gun Violence In The United States, Purba Bhattacharjee

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This study investigates the impact of state policies and socio-economic factors on gun violence across the United States, aiming to unravel the dynamics that contribute to variations in violence rates at the state level. The study primarily explores the effects of firearm accessibility, state-level alcohol, drug, and healthcare policies, and broader socio-economic and demographic variables on gun violence incidents. Using comprehensive datasets from the Gun Violence Archive, State Policy & Politics Database, and U.S. Census, the research employs linear and Poisson regression models to quantitatively analyze the relationship between gun violence rates and an array of predictive factors over the …

Social Reward And Mesolimbic Dopamine Release, Travis Ried Erickson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The mesolimbic dopamine system plays a critical role in mediating reward-seeking and motivation, most researched in relation to drug reward. This study examined the relationship between aspects of phasic and tonic NAc dopamine release and behaviors related to social reward in C57Bl/6J mice. Social conditioned place preference (sCPP) was used to assess preference/aversion to chambers associated with social interaction, as well as the frequency/duration of social interactions during the conditioning days. Following sCPP, fixed potential amperometry was used to measure stimulation-evoked dopamine release in the NAc of anesthetized mice before and after an injection of cocaine (10 mg/kg, ip). We …

Impacts Of Glycol Runoff On Water Quality: A Case Study Of Memphis International Airport, Alyssa Riley Huffman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This thesis investigates the impacts of glycol runoff on water quality before and after the installation of a consolidated deicing facility (CDF) at the Memphis International Airport (MEM). Deicing operations at airports are crucial for ensuring safe air travel during cold weather, yet they contribute to environmental concerns due to chemical runoff. Glycol runoff, mainly composed of ethylene and propylene glycol, poses risks to aquatic ecosystems, including oxygen depletion and biodiversity loss. This study focuses primarily on water quality in Nonconnah, Days, and Hurricane creeks around the MEM. The research assesses glycol's effects on water quality and macroinvertebrate populations in …

Synergistic Antioxidant And Antibacterial Effects Of A Zn-Ascorbate Metal-Organic Framework Loaded With Marjoram Essential Oil, Rana R. Haikal, Noha El Salakawy, Alaa Ibrahim, Shaimaa L. Ali, Wael Mamdouh

Faculty Journal Articles

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become an immense threat to public health leading to an urgent need for development of new technologies to tackle such a challenge. Plant-based drugs, specifically essential oils (EOs) and plant extracts, have shown significant potential as effective green antimicrobial agents. However, they suffer from high volatility and low thermal stability resulting in their inefficient utilization in commercial settings. Among the various nanoencapsulation technologies reported, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been recently investigated as potential nanocarriers of EOs in attempt to enhance their stability. Herein, we report the utilization of Zn-ascorbate MOF for the encapsulation of marjoram essential …

Implementing Pain Screening In A Parkinson’S Disease Clinic: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Anne Marie Desmond

Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Projects

Background: Pain is a multifaceted, non-motor symptom often unnoticed and undertreated in Parkinson's disease (PD). PD pain is associated with decreased quality of life (QOL) and is found in 30-85% of PD patients. The effective diagnosis and treatment of PD pain could improve patient QOL. Barriers to appropriate diagnosis and treatment include a valid and reliable PD pain assessment tool. There was an opportunity to improve the assessment of PD-related pain at the movement disorder clinic in this suburban clinic of a tertiary safety net hospital. The local movement disorder clinic did not have a standardized PD-specific tool to assess …

Comprehensive Roadway Safety Data Visualization And Evaluation Platform For Yakama Nation, Yinhai Wang, Wei Sun, Hollyanna Littlebull, Meng-Ju Tsai, Sam Ricord, Yifan Zhuang

CSET Project Reports

The Yakama Nation Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Engineering collaborated with the Smart Transportation Application & Research Laboratory (STAR Lab) at the University of Washington to develop a comprehensive roadway safety data visualization and evaluation platform. With the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Safety Data Initiative (SDI) fund, this tool will support information for the Yakama Nation government for their decision-making. The safety datasets provided in this tool consist of collision records (collision, vehicle, occupant, pedestrian) and roadway characteristics (roadlog, curve and grade, ramp, traffic information, special-use lane, etc.). The multi-source database supported data collection, quality control, integration, database management, visualization, …

Designing And Planning For Safe Pedestrian Paths At Rail Transit Stations Serving Riti Communities, Roger Chen, Xiazhi Zhang, Poya Harirchi, Marissa Chun

CSET Project Reports

In this study, we focus on pedestrian network construction and pedestrian route choice analysis. We developed a GIS based framework for pedestrian network construction, which takes multiple data sources, such as open source networks, satellite imagery, and pedestrian GPS traces. The pedestrian route choice study examines the impact from tradeoffs between environmental and infrastructure attributes, such as ambient noise, tree canopy shade, and surface characteristics (e.g., sidewalk, grass, etc.). We investigate these in a university campus setting, where walking trips comprise about 25% of all commute trips, with a greater percentage expected for within campus OD trips. We collect and …

Synthesis And Computational Studies Of Α- And Δ-Substituted Macrocyclic Europium And Ytterbium Complexes, Delainey Amara Winder

Dissertations and Theses

The uses of macrocyclic lanthanide complexes are vast, with many targeted MRI contrast agents at the forefront of the field. Many of these are ParaCEST agents, which require exchangeable protons accessible on the macrocycle and the slow exchange of coordinated water molecules. The substitution at both the α- and δ-carbon on the amide pendant arm of these macrocyclic lanthanide complexes can lock bulky groups on the δ-carbon to a pseudo-axial position. When the α- and δ-carbons have the same chirality, the bulky group will be pseudo-equatorial, and when the chirality is opposed, the bulky group will be pseudo-axial. By performing …

Flyers At The Olympics, Kristina Schulz

University Libraries Blog Archive

The 2024 Olympic Games kick off on Friday, July 26, in Paris. With more than 200 countries participating in what many consider the most important test of athleticism, University Archives decided to look at how the University of Dayton has contributed to the excellence of this international competition.

Assessing Environmental Injustice In Kansas City By Linking Paediatric Asthma To Local Sources Of Pollution: A Cross-Sectional Study., Elizabeth Friedman, Brian R. Lee, David Rahn, Beto Lugo Martinez, Atenas Mena

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

OBJECTIVE: A grassroots environmental-justice organisation in Kansas City has been examining the disproportionate exposure to air pollution experienced by residents living fenceline to the largest classification railyard in the USA. Prior analyses showed limited increased risk for asthma exacerbation for patients with asthma living closer to toxic release inventory (TRI) facilities and railyards. In this study, we assessed geographical asthma and environmental disparities, to further explore community-level disparities.

DESIGN: This is a cross-sectional study of population-level asthma rates, which included rates for all asthma encounters and acute asthma encounters (urgent care, emergency department, inpatient admission). Distances from census-tract centroids to …

New Species Discovery: Unraveling The Blueberry Gall Midge Complex, Nicholas Gosling

UNH Today Archive

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Cognitive Representation Of Mountaineering Risks And Its Change By Expertise, Shin Murakoshi, Kenta Mitsushita

Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments

Various risks exist during mountaineering. Appropriate representation of characteristics of risks is the basis of survival in such extreme environments. The aim of the present study is to clarify cognitive representation of risks of mountaineering and individual difference according to the experience by psychometric approach. Ninety-seven mountaineers, consisting of top-class leaders and prospective leaders who participated in the training courses of the National Mountaineering Training Center in Japan, were asked to evaluate nine target mountaineering risks repeatedly with nine judgment scales, and the responses were analyzed using three-mode principal component analysis (3MPCA). As a result, two types of risks, sudden …

The Role Of Positive Affect In Asthma Control And Symptom Severity In Adolescents, Brooke N. Jenkins, Logan T. Martin, Jill S. Halterman, Judith T. Moskowitz, Laura M. Glynn, Pornchai Tirakitsoontorn, Sunil Kamath, Zeev N. Kain

Psychology Faculty Articles and Research

Introduction

We test the effects of positive affect and its arousal subscale components of calm, wellbeing, and vigor on asthma control and symptom severity in adolescents with moderate to severe asthma. Additionally, we test whether positive affect (and its arousal components) moderate how stress impacts asthma control and symptom severity.

Methods

Adolescents with asthma (N = 66, ages 12–17) completed brief surveys 4 times a day for 7 days reporting on their positive affect, stress, and asthma symptom severity and conducted a morning peak expiratory flow assessment each day. Asthma control and psychological asthma triggers were assessed at the …

Medication Management For Older Adults: Bridging Learning From Us And Uk Perspectives, Blaise B. Nieve

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

The aging population globally necessitates an effective approach to medication management, particularly among older adults who are at a higher risk for adverse drug events (ADEs). This presentation explores the intricacies of medication management for older adults by comparing and contrasting practices and guidelines from the United States and the United Kingdom.

Understanding The Roles Of Economy And Society In The Relative Risks Of Zoonosis Emergence From Livestock, Stephen Hinchcliffe, Alex Blanchette, Kin Wang (Ray) Chan, Chris Degeling, Jody Emel, Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Michael Winter

Geography

The emergence of zoonotic infections that can develop into pathogens of pandemic potential is a major concern for public health. The risks of emergence and transmission relate to multiple factors that range from land use to human-non-human animal contacts. Livestock agriculture plays a potentially significant role in those risks, shaping landscapes and providing hosts that can act as the source or amplifiers of emergent pathogens. The relative risks will be contingent upon the nature of those systems, with comparisons often made between intensive, indoor, biosecure systems and more extensive, outdoor, insecure systems. Microbiological, ecological and veterinary sciences provide useful entry …

Dietary Tea Polyphenol Supplementation And Its Impacts On Growth Performance, Plasma Parameters, And Antioxidant Capacity Of Juvenile Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia (Gift: Oreochromis Niloticus), Christopher Peterson Daniel, Sahya Maulu, Wenqiang Jiang, Shiyou Chen, Linghong Miao, Xiangping Ge

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

The term ‘tea polyphenols’ (TPs) comprises a broad range of polyphenol compounds present in tea, demonstrating positive health effects such as antioxidant activity, etc. in animals. This study investigated the effects of TPs supplementation in juvenile genetically improved farmed tilapia (GIFT); Oreochromis niloticus). Fifteen fish (weight: 13.46 ± 1.25 g) were distributed in six tanks and randomly assigned with diets containing graded levels of TPs (mg/kg): 0.00 (control), 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 in quadruplicate for 8 weeks. After the trial, the fish fed 500 mg/kg TPs exhibited a significant reduction (p < 0.05) in final body weight (FBW) compared with the control. Whole-body moisture content was elevated, while crude protein was lowered significantly (p < 0.05) by a 100 mg/kg TPs diet compared with the control. Plasma low-density lipoprotein (LDL) was significantly elevated (p < 0.05) at over 200 mg/kg; triglyceride (TG) content was lowered (p < 0.05) by the TPs diet compared with the control diet. Catalase (CAT) was significantly enhanced (p < 0.05) by TPs except at 300 mg/kg; superoxide dismutase (SOD) was increased (p < 0.05) by 200, 400 and 500 mg/kg; total antioxidant capacity (T-AOC) was enhanced (p < 0.05) by 400–500 mg/kg; glutathione (GSH) was improved (p < 0.05) by 500 mg/kg; and malondialdehyde (MDA) level was elevated (p < 0.05) in the 100–200 mg/kg TPs diet compared with the control. TPs can be utilized as a feed supplement to improve the plasma biochemical parameters and AOC of GIFT juveniles.

Evaluation Of Reported Level Of Clinical Confidence In Student Nurses Using Deliberate Practice, Leslie Kirkwood

Dissertations

Critical thinking and clinical reasoning, which support confidence in clinical decision-making of nurses, are still being developed during pre-licensure education. Nursing faculty in higher education are tasked with the challenge to increase the level of practice undergraduate nursing students experience during their program. The research question guiding this project was what effect does the use of deliberate practice with medication administration have on medical-surgical nursing II students regarding clinical confidence? The purpose of this quantitative, quasi-experimental study was to determine if the use of deliberate practice with nursing students by implementing weekly medication administration simulations would increase the level of …

Gender-Specific Mental Health Outcomes In Central America: A Natural Experiment, Thea Nagasuru

Computer Science Summer Fellows

While COVID lockdown measures have had varying effects on the mental health of different demographics, several bodies of research have noted their disparate effect on women. Why is women's mental health more negatively impacted by lockdown measures, and how much more are they impacted than men? How can we predict and mitigate these negative effects on women? This paper aims to contribute to answering those questions by comparing COVID stringency measures and their effect on the gap in depression rates between men and women in two neighboring countries: Nicaragua and Honduras.

The Impact Of Social-Structural Factors On The Health Of Migrating Older People In China : Testing The Buffering Effect Of Social Capital And Social Integration, Anqi Chen

Lingnan Theses (MPhil & PhD)

While older adult migration in China has received significant attention, the related health research and the pivotal role of social relations have been underexplored. This study, grounded in the theory of the relationship between social capital and health, as well as the social integration theory of migration, examines the associations between social relations and health inequalities under the social structure of Chinese society including socio-economic status, hukou and urban/rural residence.

Methodology: Using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) 2018 survey, three health outcomes are physical function, cognitive function, and mental health. The sample consists of 3,137 …

From Classroom Interaction To Academic Success: Tracing The Mediating Role Of Effective Communication In Faculty-Student Dynamics, Nadia Dahmani, Wael Ali, Mohammed Aboelenein, Mohammad A.K. Alsmairat, Mursal Faizi

All Works

This paper aimed to determine the impact of faculty communication style, student proactiveness, and academic discipline on student academic performance and student-faculty relationship quality in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) higher education context. This study also aimed to contribute to the literature by verifying the mediating impact of communication effectiveness between the selected factors. Using a cross-sectional survey design, the study sample comprised 193 university students, and it was analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results revealed that academic discipline and the professor’s communication style enhanced communication effectiveness, whereas student proactiveness had a minimal effect. The …

Morphotype-Specific Calcium Signaling In Human Microglia, Sofia Nevelchuk, Bianca Brawek, Niklas Schwarz, Ariel Valiente-Gabioud, Thomas V Wuttke, Yury Kovalchuk, Henner Koch, Anke Höllig, Frederik Steiner, Katherine Figarella, Oliver Griesbeck, Olga Garaschuk

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background: Key functions of Ca2+ signaling in rodent microglia include monitoring the brain state as well as the surrounding neuronal activity and sensing the danger or damage in their vicinity. Microglial Ca2+ dyshomeostasis is a disease hallmark in many mouse models of neurological disorders but the Ca2+ signal properties of human microglia remain unknown.

Methods: We developed a novel genetically-encoded ratiometric Ca2+ indicator, targeting microglial cells in the freshly resected human tissue, organotypically cultured tissue slices and analyzed in situ ongoing Ca2+ signaling of decades-old microglia dwelling in their native microenvironment.

Results: The data revealed marked compartmentalization of Ca2+ signals, …