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Pretty Girls Don't Eat Pizza: How An Eating Disorder Taught Me I Am Enough, Hannah Kuhn

Masters Theses

Eating disorders have become one of the most fatal mental disorders, and yet many people still don’t know anything about them. This allows society to misinform people on what this disorder is, and for those suffering from it to feel misunderstood and alone. Patients and their families don’t need more medical advice on the topic. They need to hear a raw, honest and messy story from someone who is not cured, but overtime has found the resources, hope and strength to continue living with it everyday until healing is granted. This is a story that both informs and shows the …

Prosodic Speech Rate, Utterance Duration, Interruption Rate, And Turn-Taking Latency In Autistic And Neurotypical Adults, Grace Madeline Bell

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the following prosodic elements: speech rate, turn-taking latency, number of interruptions, and utterance duration across two groups' neurotypical and autistic young adults. Furthermore, the end goal of this study is to help provide a baseline and clinical application of prosodic differences between autistic and neurotypical adults. Speech samples were collected from 11 neurotypical and 11 autistic young adults from the ages of 18-26. Speech samples were recorded responses from a 10-minute interview between two research assistants and the autistic or neurotypical individual. Using Praat software, speech samples were analyzed and used to …

Nonconsensual Contact, Repeated Nonconsensual Contact, And Fear: Findings From The 2020 Alaska Victimization Survey, Rei Shimizu, Brad A. Myrstol

AJiC Alaska Victimization Survey

Using data from the 2020 Alaska Victimization Survey (AVS), this report examines nonconsensual contact, repeated nonconsensual contact, and the fear felt by those who experience nonconsensual and repeated nonconsensual contact. All percentages included in the report are weighted. Hence, the data is representative of population estimates, namely noninstitutionalized English-speaking adult women residing in Alaska.

Mental Health Provider Shortage In Rural Communities, Barrow N. Tabe

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This study examined the dire issue of mental health provider shortages in rural communities in the South, exploring the unique challenges faced by rural communities in the United States. Rural communities often struggle with limited access to mental health resources, resulting in disparities in care and exacerbating the burden on individuals facing mental health challenges. This study examines existing literature, highlighting the complex nature of the problem, including geographical, socioeconomic, cultural factors, and biblical perspectives that contribute to the shortage of mental health professionals in rural communities. Instrumental challenges identified include the shortage of credentialed mental professionals, lack of healthcare …

Disclosure Of Lesbian, Gay, And Bisexual Identity By Adolescents And Young Adults To Health Care Providers And Its Relationship To Sexual Orientation Victimization, John A. Nelson

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to identify the relationships between sexual orientation disclosure by lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adolescents and young adults to health care providers, gender atypicality of LGB adolescents and young adults, and the level of sexual orientation victimization (SOV) they experience from these health care providers as a result.

Ud In The News March 15-22, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Political scientists provided election analysis to WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio, Scripps News and Spectrum News 1 Ohio. Faculty also contributed to the Academic Minute, The Conversation, Commonweal, Our Sunday Visitor and Catholic World Report.

“A Robust And Simple Catheter Connector Assembly For Long-Term Self-Administration Experiments ”, Mauricio Suarez, Sergios Charntikov, Y. Wendy Huynh, Scott T. Barrett, Rick A. Bevins, Ken T. Wakabayashi

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Intravenous self-administration in rats is used widely to study the reinforcing effects of drugs and serves as the gold standard for assessing their use and misuse potential. One challenge that researchers often encounter when scaling up experiments is balancing the cost, time investment to construct, and robustness of each implanted catheter. These catheters include multiple components such as surgical meshing and a variety of entry ports designed to facilitate the connection of the rat to a catheter port tethering system. Other considerations include maintaining the catheters free of blockage during the extent of the drug self-administration experiment. These large-scale studies …

Neighborhood Eviction Trajectories And Odds Of Moderate And Serious Psychological Distress During Pregnancy Among African American Women, Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson, Benita Jackson, Brittney Francis

Psychology: Faculty Publications

African American mothers are unjustly burdened both by residential evictions and psychological distress. We quantified associations between trajectories of neighborhood evictions over time, and odds of moderate and serious psychological distress (MPD and SPD, respectively) during pregnancy among African American women. We linked publicly available neighborhood eviction filing and judgement rate data to preconception and during pregnancy addresses from the Life-course Influences on Fetal Environments Study (2009-2011, n=808). Multinomial logistic regression estimated odds of MPD and SPD during pregnancy associated with eviction filing and judgement rate trajectories incorporating preconception and during pregnancy addresses (each categorized as low/medium/high, with two 9-category …

Exploring The Use Of Enhanced Swad Towards Building Learned Models That Generalize Better To Unseen Sources, Brandon M. Weinhofer

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Deep learning models, typically, take significant time to train. Classifier ensembles are areliable way to increase classifier accuracy and perhaps generalizability to unseen sources of data. These classifiers can be combined with a simple voting scheme. The problem is that having multiple models can very heavily increase training time. Snapshot ensembles have been shown to provide a boost in performance by creating an ensemble of classifiers with different weights during the training of a single deep learned model. This can somewhat solve the problem of the increased training time as you do not have to train separate models. As Machine …

Nonconsensual Contact, Repeated Nonconsensual Contact, And Fear: Findings From The 2020 Alaska Victimization Survey, Rei Shimizu, Brad A. Myrstol

Alaska Victimization Survey (AVS) (2010-2020)

Using data from the 2020 Alaska Victimization Survey (AVS), this report examines nonconsensual contact, repeated nonconsensual contact, and the fear felt by those who experience nonconsensual and repeated nonconsensual contact. All percentages included in the report are weighted. Hence, the data is representative of population estimates, namely noninstitutionalized English-speaking adult women residing in Alaska.

Pediatric Postoperative Stroke Recognition, Thomas Ferrer, Juliet Velhagen R Valhagen, Tim Peterson, Codruta Soneru

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Introduction

The recognition and diagnosis of pediatric strokes (PS) or cerebrovascular accidents (CVA) is a well known challenge.¹ In postoperative environments, additional factors such as sedation, regional anesthesia, and postoperative limitations exacerbate the difficulty.² This overview of PS etiology and clinical characteristics includes postoperative guidelines and identifies current literature gaps.

Discussion

As in adults, PS can be ischemic: Arterial Ischemic Stroke (AIS) and Cerebral Sinovenous Thrombosis (CSVT); or hemorrhagic (HS): intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhage. The presentation of these varies substantially both from each other and their adult counterparts. Younger children and infants may have unexpected presentations such as …

New Flexible Format For Educational Leadership Ph.D., University Of Dayton. School Of Education And Health Sciences

School of Education and Health Sciences Blog Archive

The University of Dayton’s long-standing Ph.D. program in Educational Leadership is expanding its offerings and reach by moving to a flexible hybrid format.

Digital Performance Management: An Evaluation Of Manufacturing Performance Management Andmeasurement Strategies In An Industry 4.0 Context, Nathaniel David Smith

Theses and Dissertations

Manufacturing management and operations place heavy emphasis on monitoring and improving production performance. This supervision is accomplished through strategies of manufacturing performance management, a set of measurements and methods used to monitor production conditions. Over the last thirty years the most prevalent measurement of traditional performance management has been overall equipment effectiveness, a percentile summary metric of a machine's utilization. The technologies encapsulated by Industry 4.0 have expanded the ability to gather, process, and store vast quantities of data, creating opportunity to innovate on how performance is measured. A new method of managing manufacturing performance utilizing Industry 4.0 technologies has …

Potential For Climate-Based Financing Of Watershed Management To Restore Streams And Improve Water Quality Following A Wildfire: A Case Study Of The Provo River Watershed, Braxton Wayne Porter

Theses and Dissertations

Following wildfires, water quality in forested watersheds is prone to degradation, impacting drinking water treatment and causing increased emissions due to additional energy consumption. We explore the potential for climate-based financing to support wildfire mitigation and watershed restoration and thereby reduce potential water treatment energy demand within the Provo River watershed of Utah, USA. Pre- and post-wildfire erosion and water quality in the Provo River is modeled using GeoWEPP. Energy data from the Don A. Christiansen drinking water treatment plant in the watershed and related literature data are used to estimate the increase in energy use for treating degraded water. …

Lender Center For Social Justice Strenghtening Community, Creating Opportunity: Collaborative Strategies For Nonprofits -- Event Slides, Lender Center For Social Justice

The Lender Center for Social Justice

A twelve-slide presentation for the Lender Conversation in NY event.

Digital Twins For Health: A Scoping Review, Evangelia Katsoulakis, Qi Wang, Huanmei Wu, Leili Shahriyari, Richard Fletcher, Jinwei Liu, Luke Achenie, Hongfang Liu, Pamela Jackson, Ying Xiao, Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, Richard Tuli, Jun Deng

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The use of digital twins (DTs) has proliferated across various fields and industries, with a recent surge in the healthcare sector. The concept of digital twin for health (DT4H) holds great promise to revolutionize the entire healthcare system, including management and delivery, disease treatment and prevention, and health well-being maintenance, ultimately improving human life. The rapid growth of big data and continuous advancement in data science (DS) and artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to significantly expedite DT research and development by providing scientific expertise, essential data, and robust cybertechnology infrastructure. Although various DT initiatives have been underway in the …

Real-Time Camp Dynamics In Live Cells Using The Fluorescent Camp Difference Detector In Situ, Isabella Cattani-Cavalieri, Jordyn Margolis, Camelia Anicolaesei, Francisco J. Nuñez, Rennolds S. Ostrom

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

cAMP Difference Detector In Situ (cADDis) is a novel biosensor that allows for the continuous measurement of cAMP levels in living cells. The biosensor is created from a circularly permuted fluorescent protein linked to the hinge region of Epac2. This creates a single fluorophore biosensor that displays either increased or decreased fluorescence upon binding of cAMP. The biosensor exists in red and green upward versions, as well as green downward versions, and several red and green versions targeted to subcellular locations. To illustrate the effectiveness of the biosensor, the green downward version, which decreases in fluorescence upon cAMP binding, was …

Buckets Of Fun: Impacts Of Fraction Ball Activities On Students' Math-Related Emotions, Siling Guo, Drew H. Bailey, Katherine Rhodes, Kreshnik Nasi Begolli, Vanessa N. Bermudez, Luettamae Lawrence, Daniela Alvarez-Vargas, Lourdes M. Acevedo-Farag, June Ahn, Andres S. Bustamante, Lindsey E. Richland

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

Rational number learning can cause frustration and negative emotions for elementary school students. Fraction Ball, a play-based math intervention, allows students to actively learn rational numbers through engaging and interactive activities. Based on a cluster-randomized trial with 16 teachers and 360 students, our pre-registered analyses showed moderate positive impacts of Fraction Ball on overall students' self-reported math-related emotions. Exploratory analyses indicated that students with higher negative emotions at pretest showed larger experimental impacts on decreasing negative emotions at posttest. Finally, we found that Fraction Ball evidenced no trade-off between rational number learning and emotional outcomes at the classroom block level, …

Oral Feeding Of Infants Who Require Noninvasive Respiratory Support: Retrospective Investigations, Carolyn Barnes

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

There is a dearth of evidence supporting the safety and efficacy of orally feeding infants who require noninvasive respiratory support (NIRS). This dissertation investigates clinical practices surrounding orally feeding infants on NIRS. Manuscript 1 systematically reviews parameters impacting study of this practice. Findings emphasize the dearth of objective data surrounding this practice, and that additional research must be conducted before safety and efficacy outcomes of this practice can be established. Manuscript 2 retrospectively uses electronic health record data to describe which infant populations are orally fed during NIRS use, amount of NIRS used during infant oral feeding, changes in practice …

Tenants’ Right To Counsel: Los Angeles Should Follow New York City’S Lead, Jacklyn Hadzicki

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice (ERSJ) Blog

Cities around the nation are facing housing shortages as the costs of homes soar and the supply of affordable rentals continue to decline. Rental costs severely burden American households, as “almost half of renter households (21.6 million) spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent and 11.6 million households spend more than 50 percent of their income on rent.“ Additionally, 44 percent of rental households have reported “feeling pressure” to move from their homes for a range of reasons, including increased rent, inflation, power imbalances with their landlords, lack of repairs, and threats of eviction.

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Adult Age Differences In Response To Sociomoral Violations, Alyssa R. Minton

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

Moral judgments and emotional reactions to sociomoral violations are heavily impacted by a perpetrator’s intentions, as malicious intent poses a threat to social harmony. Given that older adults are more motivated to maintain interpersonal harmony relative to younger adults, older adults may be more reactive to malicious intentions. In five studies, I investigated adult age differences in moral judgments and emotional reactions to sociomoral violations. In Studies 1-3, participants read scenarios in which a perpetrator either (a) desired to harm another but nothing happened, or (b) harmed another accidentally without malicious intent. Study 2 incorporated additional scenarios designed to evoke …

Edge-Wise Analysis Reveals White Matter Connectivity Associated With Focal To Bilateral Tonic-Clonic Seizures, Sam S. Javidi, Xiaosong He, Ankeeta Ankeeta, Qirui Zhang, Salvatore Citro, Michael R. Sperling, Joseph I. Tracy

Farber Institute for Neuroscience Faculty Papers

OBJECTIVE: Focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures (FBTCS) represent a challenging subtype of focal temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) in terms of both severity and treatment response. Most studies have focused on regional brain analysis that is agnostic to the distribution of white matter (WM) pathways associated with a node. We implemented a more selective, edge-wise approach that allowed for identification of the individual connections unique to FBTCS.

METHODS: T1-weighted and diffusion-weighted images were obtained from 22 patients with solely focal seizures (FS), 43 FBTCS patients, and 65 age/sex-matched healthy participants (HPs), yielding streamline (STR) connectome matrices. We used diffusion tensor-derived STRs …

Single Nucleus Transcriptomics Reveals Cell Type-Specific Heterogeneity On The Effects Of Gestational Ozone Exposure Within The Brain, Sumira Phatak, Kathryn Brayer, Russell Hunter, David Scieszka, Andrea Pasmay, Selita Lucas, Jamie Padilla, Matthew Campen, Shahani Noor

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Air pollution, particularly ozone, is a major global health concern that impacts respiratory health and has been linked to pregnancy-related complications. Our study exposed mice to ozone during early pregnancy, revealing significant changes within the cells of the brain. Combined ozone exposure and pregnancy affected pathways associated with neurodegenerative diseases, potentially influencing long-term maternal and offspring health. These findings highlight the importance of addressing air pollution's impact on both respiratory and neurological health during pregnancy.

Altered Neuronal Network Connectivity In Children With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Maryam H. Alsameen, L Flynn, C Cerros, M Williams, D E. Hill, J M. Stephen

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

We investigated how Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) affects brain connections in children 6-8 years of age using noninvasive brain imaging. Comparing 52 children, half with FASD, we found differences in brain connectivity patterns. Children with FASD showed reduced connections in areas related to thinking and movement, while typically developing children had stronger connections in sensory and movement areas. These findings help us understand how FASD affects the brain's wiring and functioning.

FUNDING: NIAAA P50AA022534, R01AA029605.

Investigating Anticipation For Alcohol In Mice Elicited By Cues Predicting Its Availability, Seth David, Dominic Furlano, Monserrat Orozco, David N. Linsebardt

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Non-expert summary:

Excessive alcohol consumption leads to premature deaths and high societal costs, often exacerbated by relapses triggered by alcohol-associated cues. This study employed a mouse model of binge alcohol drinking to investigate if such cues elicit anticipatory behavior. We found that over time, all mice became responsive to cues irrespective of fluid provided. Surprisingly, control males spent more time near their sipper than other groups during cues, despite only ethanol mice exhibiting craving-associated drinking patterns.

Abstract:

Background: Excessive alcohol consumption contributes to approximately 140,000 deaths and $249 billion dollars in societal costs each year. This is due in …

Dissecting The Functional Impairment Of Wild-Type P53 In Human Glioblastoma, Leopoldo A. García-Montaño, Yamhilette Licon Munoz, Frank Martinez, Kandee Gallegos, Huining Kang, Sara G.M Piccirillo

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Glioblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor in adults. In contrast to several cancers, where the tumor suppressor gene TP53 is altered, most glioblastoma patients retain a non-mutant TP53 gene. However, the survival of these patients is similar to that of mutant patients, suggesting that p53 is nonfunctional. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed data from The Cancer Genome Atlas, identified potential regulators of p53, and we will test their function in patient-derived cells.

Eeg Acquisition Methods During The First Year Of Life: Unm Pilot Of Healthy Brain And Child Development Study (Hbcd), Alexandria Wiesel, Lidia Enriquez Marquez, Lawrence Leeman, Ludmila N. Bakhireva, James F. Cavanagh

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Background:

The HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) is the largest multi-site longitudinal prospective study in the US. The national cohort is composed of local pregnant persons and children who continue with HBCD for 5+ years. HBCD seeks to examine brain and child development amongst substance and environmental exposures, social, cultural, and genetic influences.

Methods:

Repeated electroencephalography (EEG) assessments are performed throughout HBCD, starting at Visit 3 (3-9 months). EEG signals and corresponding stimuli are analyzed to measure event-related potentials (ERPs). EEG acquisition includes 4 age-adjusted tasks recorded via MagstimEGI 128 channel net, EKG lead, and Net Station Acquisition. Video …

Articuli Temporis: St. Augustine And Phenomenology On The Temporal Syntax Of God’S Self-Disclosure, Scott Roniger

Philosophy Faculty Works

In this essay, I articulate an Augustinian “philosophy of history” by highlighting some important texts sprinkled throughout St. Augustine’s writings, especially his City of God. I concentrate on Augustine’s claim that there are “joints of time” that structure God’s self-disclosure to us through sacred history, and I develop these Augustinian insights with the help of Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology. While Augustine enables us to see that God’s revelation is achieved in a sacred history that illuminates the deepest structure and order of the temporal flow of human events, Husserl’s phenomenology can be used to show that the structure and order of …

Addressing Chaplain Care And Resiliency As Protective Factors To Burnout In Community Chaplaincy, Robin Jonell Ratcliff

Masters Theses

This paper will address Chaplain Care and Resiliency as Protective Factors to Burnout in Community Chaplaincy. There will be a problem stated, literature review covered on the subject, the results of the assessments, scales, and screening used to address burnout. Then the author discusses training and interventions and shows analysis of said training and interventions.

In The Dark: State V. Alaska Legislative Council And Public-School Funding In The Face Of The Dedicated Funds Clause, Joe Perry

Alaska Law Review

In the past several years, Alaska has faced many challenges in its public education system. These challenges gave rise to an intense political debate, significant new legislation, and a protracted battle over the future of funding for public education. Governor Mike Dunleavy and the state legislature publicly clashed over the implementation of H.B. 287, a 2018 state law designed to provide financial stability to ailing schools and curtail teacher layoffs. In 2022, the Supreme Court of Alaska resolved the dispute in favor of the governor and found a contentious piece of state legislation unconstitutional under the states "Dedicated Funds Clause." …