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The Impacts Of Authentic Learning On Student Outcomes, Evan Sheppard, Cameron Conner

Dissertations

This dissertation explores the evolving American education system, emphasizing the role of authentic learning in bridging the gap between schooling and employment, especially in the context of the modern post-pandemic student. Authentic learning, characterized by hands-on activities and real-world applications, is posited as a solution to the skilled labor shortage impacting the economy. This study delves into the history and current practices of authentic learning, examining various programs and strategies implemented in educational settings. Utilizing a phenomenological approach, qualitative data was collected through interviews with recent high school graduates to assess the impact of authentic learning on their post-secondary trajectories. …

Occupational Therapy & Dyslexia Curriculum, Tiara Ortiz

Department of Occupational Therapy Entry-Level Capstone Projects

My capstone project, a truly innovative endeavor, was conducted in a school-based setting for children with dyslexia. I developed educational materials, distinct in their approach, for teachers and occupational therapists to implement individually or in a group setting. These materials comprise a curriculum that explicitly targets executive functioning and visual interventions, a novel and exciting approach to dyslexia treatment. The project was successfully implemented in the Bridge Program at the Christ School in Orlando, Florida, a private school program tailored to children with dyslexia. I was mentored by Dominque Kiefer, OTD, OTR/L, BCP, the Bridge Program's school-based occupational therapist.

Using An Evidence-Based Practice Nurse Recognition Practice To Improve Job Satisfaction, Hali Bianchi

Student Scholarly Projects

Practice Problem: The project targeted low job satisfaction and high nurse turnover in a Central Florida bone marrow transplant unit, impacting patient care and costs.

PICOT: (P) For registered nurses (RNs) on the bone marrow transplant unit, (I) does implementing an evidence-based practice employee recognition program (C) compared to no employee recognition program, (O) lead to an increase in job satisfaction (T) over 10 weeks?

Evidence: The evidence supported the effectiveness of meaningful recognition programs, such as personalized verbal acknowledgment from leadership, in boosting job satisfaction among nurses.

Intervention: The intervention involved nurse managers using a weekly employee recognition …

July 17, 2024 Greenmail, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

GreenMail (student newsletter through 2024)

No abstract provided.

Three-Year Outcomes Of 6-Month Paliperidone Palmitate In Adults With Schizophrenia: An Open-Label Extension Study Of A Randomized Clinical Trial, Martha Sajatovic

Faculty Scholarship

Importance: Long-acting injectable (LAI) antipsychotics have the potential to improve adherence and symptom control in patients with schizophrenia, promoting long-term recovery. Paliperidone palmitate (PP) once every 6 months is the first and currently only LAI antipsychotic with an extended dosing interval of 6 months. Objective: To assess long-term outcomes of PP received once every 6 months in adults with schizophrenia. Design, Setting, and Participants: In a 2-year open-label extension (OLE) study of a 1-year randomized clinical trial (RCT), eligible adults with schizophrenia could choose to continue PP every 6 months if they had not experienced relapse after receiving PP once …

Promoting Positive Traffic Safety Culture In Riti Communities Through Active Engagement: Implementation Guide And Outreach Activities, Jacob Pehrson, Logan Prescott, Ahmed Abdel-Rahim

CSET Project Reports

Rural, Indigenous, Tribal, and Isolated (RITI) communities’ crash data analysis clearly highlights three major areas of concern: prevalence of excessive speed, impaired and distracted driving, and underage driving. Safety-focused educational programs and awareness campaigns have all contributed to a reduction in crashes in urban areas. However, in RITI communities, much more work is still needed. It is important that communities are provided with the proper resources and methods to deliver the appropriate training and educational tools that promote and cause a significant positive change in the traffic safety culture. Through reviewed literature and interviews with tribal community stakeholders, this research …

Comprehensive Transportation Equity Analysis For Riti Community: A Data-Driven Approach With Case Study, Yinhai Wang, Wei Sun, Sam Ricord, Cesar Maia De Souza, Yifan Ling, Yan Shi, Bingzhang Wang, Mehrdad Nasri

CSET Project Reports

The report presents a comprehensive analysis addressing safety equity concerns for rural communities and American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) populations, who experience disproportionate rates of serious injuries, fatalities, and general collisions. Despite these disparities, significant gaps exist in understanding the demographics of collisions, particularly within tribal communities where law enforcement jurisdictions are complex, and individuals may misreport their tribal status to gain benefits, leading to biases in collision data. This study aims to fill these gaps by developing a statistical model to predict the true demographics of collisions and enhance safety equity. An ecological regression model, accounting for individual-level …

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 …

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 …

Host-Microbiome Interactions In The Teleost Brain, Amir Mani Varnoosfaderani

Biology ETDs

This dissertation investigates host-microbial interactions within the teleost brain, previously considered sterile. Reviewing current literature highlights significant gaps in understanding teleost brain immunity, despite prevalent neurotropic diseases. We mapped the immune profiles of rainbow trout brains and meninges, revealing the olfactory bulbs as the immune effector part of the brain and the optic tectum as a nod2 expression hub. High il6 and il10 levels were noted in the telencephalon. A persistent bacterial community within healthy salmonid brains shares diversity with gut and blood microbiota. Brain bacterial isolates exhibit genomic signatures for brain colonization and polyamine biosynthesis. The microbiota shifts across …

Nurse Retention Amid Workplace Adversity: Examining Strategies And Outcomes, Horace Smith

Student Scholarly Projects

Practice Problem: This project aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of nurse retention strategies in enhancing job satisfaction, focusing primarily on Emergency Department (ED) Registered Nurses (RNs). A comprehensive approach was adopted within the ED of a veteran hospital in the Southeast, aimed at promoting staff retention.

PICOT: The PICOT question guiding this project is as follows: In a veteran hospital's Emergency Room (ER) located in the southeast (P), how does the implementation of nurse retention strategies (I) compared to current standards (C) increase their job satisfaction (O) over a period of ten weeks (T)?

Evidence: This project …

Making A Smart Investment: Evidence That Worker Health Programs Benefit Everyone—Slide Deck, Population Council, Un Foundation/Universal Access Project

Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Choices

Slide deck for event held on 17 July 2024.

Seed Dispersal By Martu Peoples Promotes The Distribution Of Native Plants In Arid Australia, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Douglas Bird, Christopher T. Martine, Chloe Mcguire, Leanne Greenwood, Desmond Taylor, Tanisha M. Williams, Peter M. Veth

Faculty Journal Articles

Commensal relationships between wild plants and their dispersers play a key ecological and evolutionary role in community structure and function. While non-human dispersers are often considered critical to plant recruitment, human dispersers have received much less attention, especially when it comes to non-domesticated plants. Australia, as a continent historically characterized by economies reliant on non-domesticated plants, is thus a key system for exploring the ecological role of people as seed dispersers in the absence of agriculture. Here, we utilize a controlled observation research design, employing ecological surveys and ethnographic observations to examine how seed dispersal and landscape burning by Martu …

Avco Corp V. Turn And Bank Holdings Llc

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Johnny Castro-Urdieles V. Attorney General United States Of America

2024 Decisions

Agency

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 …

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 …

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 …

Spanish Translation Of The Expert Recommendations For Implementing Change (Eric) Compilation, Amelia E Van Pelt, Alejandra Paniagua-Avila, Amanda Sanchez, Stephanie Sila, Elizabeth D Lowenthal, Byron J Powell, Rinad S Beidas

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Most implementation science resources (e.g., taxonomies) are published in English. Linguistic inaccessibility creates a barrier to the conduct of implementation research among non-English-speaking populations, so translation of resources is needed. Translation into Spanish can facilitate widespread reach, given the large proportion of Spanish speakers around the world. This research aimed to systematically translate the Expert Recommendations for Implementation Change (ERIC) compilation into Spanish as an exemplar for the linguistic translation process.

METHODS: Using the World Health Organization guidelines, this work translated the ERIC compilation strategy names, short definitions, and thematic clusters through a three-step process: 1) forward translation into …

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.

Changing Neighborhood Income Deprivation Over Time, Moving In Childhood, And Adult Risk Of Depression, Clive E Sabel, Carsten Bøcker Pedersen, Sussie Antonsen, Roger T Webb, Henriette Thisted Horsdal

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

IMPORTANCE: Complex biological, socioeconomic, and psychological variables combine to cause mental illnesses, with mounting evidence that early-life experiences are associated with adulthood mental health.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether changing neighborhood income deprivation and residential moves during childhood are associated with the risk of receiving a diagnosis of depression in adulthood.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This cohort study included the whole population of 1 096 916 people born in Denmark from January 1, 1982, to December 31, 2003, who resided in the country during their first 15 years of life. Individuals were followed up from 15 years of age until either …

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

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

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 …

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 …

The Landscape Of Cancer-Associated Transcript Fusions In Adult Brain Tumors: A Longitudinal Assessment In 140 Patients With Cerebral Gliomas And Brain Metastases, Manmeet Ahluwalia

All Publications

Background: Oncogenic fusions of neurotrophic receptor tyrosine kinase NTRK1, NTRK2, or NTRK3 genes have been found in different types of solid tumors. The treatment of patients with TRK fusion cancer with a first-generation TRK inhibitor (such as larotrectinib or entrectinib) is associated with high response rates (>75%), regardless of tumor histology and presence of metastases. Due to the efficacy of TRK inhibitor therapy of larotrectinib and entrectinib, it is clinically important to identify patients accurately and efficiently with TRK fusion cancer. In this retrospective study, we provide unique data on the incidence of oncogenic NTRK gene fusions …

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.