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Interactive Elements To Boost Motivation In A Self-Paced Online Course, Emily D. Blake

Department of Learning, Technology and Leadership Education - Graduate Student Scholarship

This applied research project aims to deliver specific recommendations for JMU Libraries to consider implementing in its self-paced online onboarding program to increase completion rates, satisfaction, and the perceived relevance of its training for new employees. This qualitative research design uses an interpretive/inductive approach and informant sampling strategy—interviews with five instructional designers—to collect, analyze, and create practicable suggestions for interactive, non-graded activities that can be added to increase the adult learners’ motivation to engage with the content. The themes that emerged in these interviews pointed to three types of activities: reflection, discussion, and authentic tasks. These activities are well supported …

Navigating The Pathway To Entrepreneurship For Persons With Disabilities: Insights From An Irish Context, Thomas M. Cooney, Martina Brophy, Ahsan Habib

Reports

This report is a study of the challenges facing persons with disabilities who want to start a business in Ireland. It profiles the community and identifies the distinctive barriers to entrepreneurship that persons with disabilities endure. The report concludes by offering a series of recommendations regarding what actions should be taken to improve the pathway to entrepreneurship for persons with disabilities in Ireland.

Section X.A Fed Monetary Policy Report, The Federal Reserve

Documentary Appendix to Table 1-B of Professor Thompson’s Book <em>The Trump v. Harris Voter’s Guide to Their Economic Debate</em> (2024)

No abstract provided.

New Dentist News (March 2024), Ada Committee On The New Dentist

New Dentist News

New Dentist News offers timely information on scientific, social, educational, political and economic developments affecting new dentists. This collection is historical and items may not reflect current standards. For up-to-date information contact the ADA. The New Dentist News was alternately titled ADA Lifeline, 1997-June 2001.

Trauma-Related Shame Predicts Daily Non-Medical Prescription Opioid Use Among Individuals With Ptsd Symptoms, Tanya C. Saraiya, Alyssa C. Jones, Teresa Lopez-Castro, Caitlyn O. Hood, Jessica Flores, Christal L. Badour

UK CARES Faculty Publications

Non-medical prescription opioid use (NMPOU) is the use of opioids without a prescription or in a way different from how they were prescribed and is the fourth most common type of drug use in the United States. Separate research has shown that trauma-related shame is linked to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and, respectively, opioid use. However, no study to date has empirically examined the association between trauma-related shame and NMPOU among individuals with PTSD symptoms. Forty adults with clinical or subclinical PTSD who reported engaging in NMPOU at least one day in the prior month before the study completed 28 …

Core Components And Implementation Determinants Of Multilevel Service Delivery Frameworks Across Child Mental Health Service Settings, Stephanie A. Moore, Jennifer Mcgrory Cooper, Joanne Malloy, Aaron R. Lyon

Institute on Disability

Multilevel service delivery frameworks are approaches to structuring and organizing a spectrum of evidence-based services and supports, focused on assessment, prevention, and intervention designed for the local context. Exemplar frameworks in child mental health include positive behavioral interventions and supports in education, collaborative care in primary care, and systems of care in community mental health settings. Yet, their high-quality implementation has lagged. This work proposes a conceptual foundation for multilevel service delivery frameworks spanning diverse mental health service settings that can inform development of strategic implementation supports. We draw upon the existing literature for three exemplar multilevel service delivery frameworks …

The Complexity Of Prn Psychotropic Medications In The Acute Care Setting, Morgan Pasquali Bsc Rn

Nurse Residency

PICOT Question: In the geriatric population who have PRN medication for agitation compared with those without PRN medication for agitation, are at risk for adverse events during their hospital stay?

Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim Induced Thrombocytopenia: A Report Of Two Cases And A Literature Review, Leigh Griffin Dds, Michael Graffeo Dds, Jay Sher Dds, Paul D. Freedman Dds, Renée F. Reich

The New York State Dental Journal

Sulfamethoxazole- trimethoprim (ST) is a sulfonamide derivative antibiotic that interferes with bacterial folic acid synthesis and growth by blocking dihydrofolic acid formation from para-aminobenzoic acid. One of the potential side effects of sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim is thrombocytopenia. Thrombocytopenia is a blood disorder characterized by a decreased number of circulating platelets. We present two cases of ST induced thrombocytopenia where the oral manifestations were the first indication of the low platelet count leading to life saving interventions. Our aim is to educate dentists about the oral manifestations of thrombocytopenia and its association with ST as their examination may be instrumental in directing treatment.

Impact Of Race And Culture Assessments (Ircas) In Combatting Anti-Black Racism And Reducing Recidivism, Ardavan Eizadirad, Greg Leslie

Education Faculty Publications

The Gladue report, named after R. v. Gladue, is a landmark Supreme Court of Canada case which emphasizes the need to consider unique circumstances faced by Indigenous individuals when determining appropriate sentences. Given the overrepresentation of Black identities at all levels in the justice system, it is argued that the use of pre-sentencing reports referred to as Impact of Race and Culture Assessments (IRCAs), also needs to be comprehensively implemented for Black offenders in Canada. IRCAs are pre-sentencing reports that help sentencing judges better understand the effect of poverty, marginalization, racism, and social exclusion on the offender and their life …

Breaking Point: An Examination Of The Factors And Motivators That Determine Whether A Teacher Will Stay In The Classroom Or Choose To Leave The Profession, Katherine Treloar

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Teachers are quitting the profession in droves, leaving classrooms empty or overcrowded. As a result, students are receiving a sub-par education from unexperienced or underqualified teachers (Watling et al, 2010). Retaining teachers for more than five years is no small feat. Teachers face unrealistic expectations, chronic high stress, and mental and physical health problems that lead to widespread burnout. However, some teachers are able to overcome these obstacles and stay in the profession for long periods of time (Buric & Penzic, 2019). This study identifies the internal motivations and external factors that influence teacher job satisfaction and describes how those …

Phenomenological Inquiry Into Middle School Teachers’ Perception Of Creativity, Katalin Grajzel

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Researchers do agree that creativity is an ability that can be developed and should be fostered (Guilford, 1958; Parnes, 1961). Teachers play an important role in creativity development and often serve as gatekeepers to identify gifted and talented students (Bianco et al., 2011; Novak & Jones, 2021; Schack & Starko, 1990). However, teachers’ judgment of their students’ creativity often only correlates weakly with the results of creativity measures (Kettler et al., 2018; Torrance, 1963). Therefore, in this study I explored teachers’ perception of creativity and creative students as well as factors that support or hinder creativity. The findings revealed that …

Contents, North Carolina Banking Institute

North Carolina Banking Institute

No abstract provided.

Yelling "Fire" In The Financial Theater: Bank Runs In The Social Media Age And The Threat To Financial Stability, Eric J. Spitler

North Carolina Banking Institute

No abstract provided.

Reducing The Negativity In Negative Option Marketing: The Ftc's Amendment To The Negative Option Rule, Dhanya S. Madugalle

North Carolina Banking Institute

No abstract provided.

Reckoning With History's Impact: Financial Institutions And Reparations For American Enslavement, Harseerat Dhillon

North Carolina Banking Institute

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Nitrous Oxide In Adult Inpatient Populations For Analgesic And Anxiety Management During Bedside Procedures, Avery Low Rn, Frances Brown Rn, Hannah Lewis Rn

Nurse Residency

PICOT question: In adult medical-surgical inpatient populations, how does nitrous oxide compared to commonly used pain medications, affect patient procedure compliance and/or experience, within the length of their hospital visit?

Cross-Institutional Collaboration And Exhibit Making: “On The Gold Mountain: Chinese Mining History And Heritage Of Idaho” At The Idaho Museum Of Mining And Geology, Jordan Kathleen Bennett

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Gold Rush, which brought many new immigrant communities to the American West, made a permanent impact on American culture by prompting the development of many Western towns. However, the Chinese immigrant mining population in the Boise, Idaho area has had little museum representation despite the more than 300,000 Chinese people who emigrated to the US between the 1840s and 1880. To rectify this, the Idaho Museum of Mining and Geology (IMMG), in collaboration with members of the Payette National Forest, the Asian American Comparative Collection, Boise State University/US Army Corps of Engineers, and the University of Denver, developed an …

Assessing Psychometric Predictors Of Academic And Life Success For High School Students In A Stem-Based Program In Rural Alabama, Robin Bartlett, Alan Mckendall, Sherron Mckendall, Paige Johnson, Ann Chester

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

The Health Sciences and Technology Academy of Alabama (HSTA-AL) is an academic program focused on health sciences enrichment offered through the College of Nursing at the University of Alabama to address the state’s nursing and biomedical professionals shortage (i.e., a 10:1,000 nursing to population ratio). This paper examines outcomes addressing social, academic, and life success from the participants’ perspective. The one-sample-pretest-posttest designed study evaluated whether there was a difference between baseline and year 1 levels of community engagement and academic intentions for the 23 students for which paired data were obtained. Analyses show promising outcomes from baseline to year one …

Q2 Turns And Air Fluidized Therapy Beds, Fartun Hirsi Rn, Audrey Iradukunda Rn, Krissia Walker Rn

Nurse Residency

PICOT Question: How does repositioning patients every 2 hours compared to Air Fluidized therapy beds reduce the incidence of pressure injuries in critically immobile ill older adults?

The Benefits Of Heat Application And Range Of Motion Vs. Ice Therapy, Jared Proulx Rn Bsn, Alejandro Canales Rn

Nurse Residency

PICOT Question: In patients with musculoskeletal injuries, is heat application and gentle range of motion more or less effective than standard icing and immobilization methods in regard to the healing process, prognosis and positive patient outcomes?

Betamethasone And The Effects On Newborns Of Various Gestations, Julie Allen, Hanna Freeman, Kristina Smith

Nurse Residency

PICOT Question: In newborns of various gestational ages, how does administering betamethasone affect newborn outcomes within the first 72 hours of life?

Bilateral Agreements As An Instrument To Regulate Mobility Of Healthcare Professionals: A Case Study On India, Banantika Datta, Rupa Chanda

Working Papers

Global demand for health workforce has increased in recent decades, especially in developed countries, thus drawing health workers from developing countries. Further, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of health worker availability. Shortage of healthcare workers aggravated by the pandemic resulted in policies to attract and retain foreign health workers in several receiving countries, which have direct repercussions on the already burdened health systems of the source developing countries. Issues like brain drain and how to mitigate its impact on developing countries are still important concerns. It requires us to first identify countries with a critical shortage of health …

2024 March, Cleveland State University College Of Law

2020s

No abstract provided.

Haitians At The Mexican-American Border, William Mccorkle, Mikel Cole, Stephanie M. Madison

Publications

Since 2021, the city of Reynosa on the Mexican-American border has seen a dramatic change in the asylum-seeking population, primarily being composed of families from Central America to now being overwhelmingly Haitian. The authors have assisted with aid work and conducted research in Reynosa with the Haitian population as well as volunteers and educators who have worked with them. This article, based on our ethnographic research, examines the reasons for the increase in Haitian immigration, the experiences of these migrants both coming to and living at the Mexican-American border, and the treatment of the Haitians by the Mexican government and …

Reviewing School District And Caregiver Engagement: Toward Building Capacity To Serve English Learners, Emily Howell, Rebecca Kaminski, Tobi Pirolla

Publications

The authors conducted a comprehensive literature review of school district partnerships with caregivers of ELs to inform this project design. This literature review addresses the following research question: What are the needs of caregivers of ELs in K-12 schools, and how are school partnerships supporting these caregivers? This literature review will address these gaps and overcoming EL caregiver underrepresentation by discussing seven focused and three theoretical codes drawn from a comprehensive review of 21 articles.

Membangun Ketahanan Keluarga Untuk Mencegah Bentuk Kejahatan Narkotika Yang Terorganisasi Dengan Basis Keluarga, Hendra Pakpahan, Reza Bakhtiar, Nasrul Ma'arif

Jurnal Kajian Stratejik Ketahanan Nasional

The phenomenon of family involvement in organized narcotics crime emerged in Indonesia when Lian Silas, the father of a narcotics lord - Fredy Pratama, was involved in alleged money laundering from the proceeds of his son's illicit narcotics business. Not only that, Fredy also involved other family members. In fact, this phenomenon is nothing new in cases of organized narcotics crime, as the Italian mafia group is also closely linked to the role of the family in the crimes committed. This research found that can also be exploited by criminals to collaborate in carrying out their actions. The analysis was …

The Labor Gerrymander, Joel Heller

Vanderbilt Law Review

The foundational metaphor of federal labor law is “industrial democracy.” But like any good metaphor, it is subject to overuse. The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) grants employees the right to have a say in the decisions that govern their working lives through union representation and collective bargaining. Parties and policymakers often invoke the language of American political democracy when describing and debating that right. Democracy is not a unitary concept, however, and not all norms and concepts from the political sphere can or should translate into the labor sphere.

This Article interrogates the political-model analogy through the lens of …

Understanding The Complex Interactions Between Stakeholders In An Organic Food Supply Chain, M S Shalique, Sidhartha S Padhi, Rupesh Kumar Pati

Working Papers

Due to the rampant issues of sustainability violations getting exposed through media reports, NGO scrutiny and government audits, consumers are becoming more wary of irresponsible behavior of brands. This has elicited stringent monitoring of sustainability violations by brands as well as regulatory bodies. Though there are several studies on the barriers towards the adoption of sustainable products, there is a lack of holistic overview of the problems confronting the supply chain considering multiple stakeholders. Hence, we examine the main roadblocks faced by the majority of the stakeholders in implementing sustainable practices. We discuss the issues in terms of broad economic, …

Precision Of Metabolite-Selective Mrs Measurements Of Glutamate, Gaba And Glutathione: A Review Of Human Brain Studies., Kesavi Kanagasabai, Lena Palaniyappan, Jean Theberge

Department of Medicine Publications

Single-voxel proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (SV 1 H-MRS) is an in vivo noninvasive imaging technique used to detect neurotransmitters and metabolites. It enables repeated measurements in living participants to build explanatory neurochemical models of psychiatric symptoms and testing of therapeutic approaches. Given the tight link among glutamate, gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA), glutathione and glutamine within the cellular machinery, MRS investigations of neurocognitive and psychiatric disorders must quantify a network of metabolites simultaneously to capture the pathophysiological states of interest. Metabolite-selective sequences typically provide improved metabolite isolation and spectral modelling simplification for a single metabolite at a time. Non-metabolite-selective sequences provide …

March 2024, Volume 21 Issue 7, James Madison University Student Affairs Communications And Marketing

Potty Mouth

No abstract provided.