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Debunking Medical Myths: Using Some Pharmaceutical Drugs After The Expiry Date, Samih Hamadeh, Alexandra Yorks, Janae Martin, Ariana Madson, Karthik Sridasyam, Aryamaan Gaddam

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Debunking Medical Myths: Do Blue Light Glasses Protect Your Eyes?, Haya Beydoun, Carolyn Baldwin, Yoshio Wagner, Ethan Ervin, Mahnoor Ayub, Camila Arellano

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Debunking Medical Myths: Should I Get Vaccinated After Covid-19 Infection?, Priya Sharma, Taichi Suzuki, Megan Seyerle, Jason Liu, Aliaa Bahzad, Jonathan Richards

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Debunking Medical Myths: Raw Milk Healthy Or Medical Myth?, Sreenavya Gandikota, Nicholas Zura, Allison Boland, Alyssa Dsouza, Samuel Grand, Hassan Ahmad

Patient Education Projects

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Debunking Medical Myths: Addiction Vs Choice, Chayton Fivecoat, Hannah O'Brien, Alexandra Hay, Sofia Howson, Catrina Stephan, Nicholas Stevenson

Patient Education Projects

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Debunking Medical Myths: Tanning Beds, Samantha Pfiffner, Haniyeh Zamani, Catherine Bogolawski, Logan Thayer, Matthew Corsi, Joshua Kirschner

Patient Education Projects

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Debunking Medical Myths: Is Starving Yourself An Effective Way To Lose Weight?, Anuj Kavi, Alexander Buendia, Adrienne-Denise Bilbao, Lana Zalt, Rachel Puentes, Mark Gregory

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Debunking Medical Myths: The Truth About Vaccines, Adam Elder, Zoe Jeffries, Vanessa Drust, Mina Sitto, Melissa Ly, Veronica Marougail

Patient Education Projects

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Debunking Medical Myths: Does Cold Weather Make You Sick?, Jack Mcconnell, Hanna Simmons, Jordan Tall, Eleanor Lasch, Sarah Chung

Patient Education Projects

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Debunking Medical Myths: Getting The Facts About Hiv, Andrew Demko, Justin Bennie, Christelle Wharram, Eli Tanenbaum, Jennifer Schmidt, Amanda Paskavitz

Patient Education Projects

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Debunking Medical Myths: Black Patients And Pain Tolerance, Aarti Patel, Husain Al-Saffar, Sabrina Montemayor, Kathleen Young, Shobi Mathew, Matthew Brennan

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Change Of Air Quality Knowledge, Perceptions, Attitudes, And Practices During And Post-Wildfires In The United States, Alessandro Del Ponte, Lina Ang, Lianjun Li, Noah Lim, Wilson Tam Wai San, Wei Jie Seow

Political Science Faculty Articles and Research

Amid worsening climate change, the recurrent wildfires have substantially worsened air quality in the Western United States (U.S.). Understanding the knowledge, attitudes, perception, and practices (KAPP) over time in response to natural disasters such as wildfires is crucial for public health interventions and disaster preparedness. This is the first study to investigate the change in air quality KAPP over time in response to natural disasters. Previous studies have only assessed KAPP at a fixed time point. Using a two-wave panel survey (during and post-wildfires), we assessed the association between KAPP and respiratory health indicators as well as the changes over …

A Constructivist Grounded Theory Of Spiritual Competencies Development In Counseling Supervision, Emmanuel Javert Nnadozie

Dissertations

Developing religious and spiritual competencies is paramount in the training of counselors to become effective in addressing clients’ religious and spiritual issues in counseling. Clinical supervision in practicum and internship courses is key to the development of these competencies, but questions as to how best they might be infused in counselor training remained. The purpose of the study was to create an explanatory theory of the process of the development of religious and spiritual competencies in clinical supervision. Utilizing grounded theory, experts in the field of supervision and spirituality were interviewed. The ways paradigm was used as a sensitizing concept …

A Discursive Approach To Analyzing The Social Construction Of Exercise During Pregnancy, Savanna Kerstiens

The Qualitative Report

While research has demonstrated that exercise is healthy for pregnant women (Ramirez-Velez et al., 2017), many pregnant women do not meet medical recommendations and hesitate to engage in exercise. This may be related to the dominant discourses circulating in society and popular media. For this study, I selected a sample of top-selling pregnancy books to explore the attitudes, beliefs, and ideas circulating in these texts surrounding exercise during pregnancy. I conducted a discourse analysis to deconstruct the meaning of the language used and the advice given. Throughout the analysis, a postmodern feminist epistemology is employed to consider the implications …

Moving On After Critical Incidents In Health Care: A Qualitative Study Of The Perspectives And Experiences Of Second Victims, Melanie Buhlmann, Beverley Ewens, Amineh Rashidi

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Aims: To gain a deeper understanding of nurses and midwives' experiences following involvement in a critical incident in a non-critical care area and to explore how they have 'moved-on' from the event.

Design: An interpretive descriptive design guided inductive inquiry to interpret the meaning of moving-on.

Methods: Purposive sampling recruited 10 nurses and midwives. Data collection comprised semi-structured interviews, memos and field notes. Data were concurrently collected and analysed during 2016–2017 with NVivo 11. The thematic analysis enabled a coherent analytical framework evolving emerging themes and transformation of the data into credible interpretive description findings, adhering to the COREQ reporting …

The Nested Embryonic Dorsal Domains Of Bmp-Target Genes Are Not Scaled To Size During The Evolution Of Drosophila Species, Juan Sebastian Chahda, Priscilla Ambrosi, Claudia M. Mizutani

Faculty Scholarship

Egg size is a fast-evolving trait among Drosophilids expected to change the spatial distribution of morphogens that pattern the embryonic axes. Here we asked whether the patterning of the dorsal region of the embryo by the Decapentaplegic/Bone Morphogenetic Protein-4 (DPP/BMP-4) gradient is scaled among Drosophila species with different egg sizes. This region specifies the extra-embryonic tissue amnioserosa and the ectoderm. We find that the entire dorsal region scales with embryo size, but the gene expression patterns regulated by DPP are not proportional, suggesting that the DPP gradient is differentially scaled during evolution. To further test whether the DPP gradient can …

The Student Movement Volume 106 Issue 20: Waving Goodbye To The School Year: Afia Musical Dazzles Audience, Timmy Duado, Grace No, Caryn Cruz, Lauren Kim, Solana Campbell, Megan Napod, Kaela Mcfadden, Chris Ngugi, Scott Moncrieff, Robert Zhang, Gabriela Francisco, Evin N. Musgrove, Gloria Oh, T Bruggemann, Alyssa Henriquez

The Student Movement v. 106 (2021-2022)

HUMANS

Meet Your New AUSA President: Aya Pangusan, Interviewed by: Timmy Duado

Meet Your New AUSA Senator-at-Large: Rock Choi, Interviewed by: Grace No

Professor Spotlight: Dr. L. Monique Pittman, Interviewed by: Caryn Cruz

Senior Spotlight: Joshua Pak, Interviewed by: Lauren Kim

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Creative Spotlight: "The Scoop" Podcast, Interviewed by: Solana Campbell

"Return to Palau" Documentary Premiers at AU, Megan Napod

Write ON, Kaela McFadden

NEWS

Balikbayan, Homecoming, Chris Ngugi

Terry Dodge Memorial, Scott Moncrieff

Until We Meet Again: Farewell to Three AU Deans, Chris Ngugi

IDEAS

Does the total score of a college course have anything to do …

The Forgotten Activists Of Georgia: The Black Women Of Savannah, Emily Zanieski

Honors College Theses

Historians of the Civil Rights Movement in Georgia have primarily focused on how the national movement unfolded in the city of Atlanta. More recent scholarship has highlighted the role Martin Luther King Jr. played in Albany; however, many of these analyses focus on figures within the larger movement rather than focusing on local, grassroots organizers. Additionally, their primary focus tends to be on the role of Black men, leaving behind the voices of Black women who led alongside them. Through a Long Civil Rights Movement (LCRM) approach, I argue that Black women in Savannah, Georgia played an instrumental role in …

The Foreign-Born And The American Dream: An Analysis Of Trends In And Determinants Of Immigrant Homeownership, Jared Schneider

Honors Projects

For many Americans, owning a home is an important step in their life journey and constitutes a meaningful component of a person’s achievement of the “American Dream.” This paper analyzes the extent and possibility of homeownership for foreign-born residents of the United States. This paper utilizes Integrated Public Microdata Series (IPUMS) American Community Survey (ACS) data to analyze trends in immigrant homeownership and evaluate the factors that influence homeownership rates among immigrants. To get a view as to what changes have been occurring over time, this paper looks at data from two separate years: 2006 and 2019. I find a …

Economic Feasibility Analysis Of Variable-Speed Pumps By Simulating 15 Multiple Water Distribution Systems, Conrad B. Truettner, Brian D. Barkdoll

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

The UN Sustainability Goals address measures to reduce environmental pollution. Water distribution systems (WDSs) use electric energy, which pollutes the atmosphere through, at least partly, the burning of coal. This study simulates, through modeling, variable-speed pumps (VSPs) on 15 different real WDSs on the network solver EPANET and analyzes the payback period. An algorithm is introduced here to select the optimal pump speed pattern to save the most energy while satisfying the constrain of sufficient pressure at all times and all locations. It was found that five of the 15 systems operated unsuccessfully using a VSP, due to the VSP …

Information Needs And Sources Of Information For Pregnant Women In Jos South Local Government Area Of Plateau State, Nigeria., Eneojo Emmanuel Jacob, Esther Bulus Dalyop

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study discusses the Information needs and sources of information for Pregnant Women in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State. Three (3) objectives were formulated to guide the study. Descriptive research design was adopted for this study, 259 pregnant women in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State was used as the population for this study with the sample of 152 pregnant women. The sampling technique used was the simple random sampling technique. The instrument for data collection adopted was Questionnaire (both open-ended and close-ended). The method adopted for data analysis was the frequency count and simple …

Motherhood And Me (Mom-Me): The Development Of An Acceptance-Based Group For Women With Postpartum Mood And Anxiety Symptoms, Victoria A Grunberg, Pamela A Geller, Kelley Durham, Alexa Bonacquisti, Jennifer L Barkin

PCOM Scholarly Works

Untreated postpartum mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) place women and their families at risk for negative biopsychosocial sequelae. Innovative and tailored treatments are needed to address potential disruptions in maternal functioning. Third-wave cognitive-behavioral approaches, including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), hold promise for optimizing functioning given the focus on values-based living, rather than symptom reduction.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of an innovative psychotherapy group for women with symptoms of PMADs.

Methods: This seven-session group, Motherhood and Me (Mom-Me), includes selected skills training from ACT, DBT, and Emotion-Centered …

Complex Chromosomal Rearrangement Involving 15q11-Q13 Interstitial Triplication And Duplication: A New Case Report Of Dysmorphic And Neuropsychiatric Features, Lekha Chilakamarri, Estrella Lizbeth Mellin-Sanchez

School of Medicine Publications

Our patient is the first to encompass the full spectrum of reported features related to tetrasomy of the Prader–Willi Angelman Critical Region. She has a complex chromosomal rearrangement including an interstitial triplication reported in twelve cases till date and a rare interstitial duplication reported in only four cases till date.

Mycotic Aortic Aneurysm: A Rare Etiology Of Septic Shock., Kaitlin M Bowers, Vishnu Mudrakola, Christopher M Lloyd

Heart and Vascular Articles

Mycotic aneurysm of the aorta is a rare disease with a high mortality rate due to its likelihood of aneurysmal rupture. This syndrome is predominantly seen in patients over age 65 with the most common presenting symptoms being fever and back pain. Our case illustrates a mycotic aneurysm of the aorta presenting in an elderly female with vague abdominal pain, flank pain, and generalized weakness. We review the investigative approach, diagnostic modalities, and treatment options in patient management. This case emphasizes the need for a high index of suspicion of mycotic aneurysms of the aorta in critically ill elderly patients …

Genetic Susceptibility To Patient-Reported Xerostomia Among Long-Term Oropharyngeal Cancer Survivors, Puja Aggarwal, Katherine A Hutcheson, Robert Yu, Jian Wang, Clifton D Fuller, Adam S Garden, Ryan P Goepfert, Jillian Rigert, Frank E Mott, Charles Lu, Stephen Y Lai, G Brandon Gunn, Mark S Chambers, Guojun Li, Chih-Chieh Wu, Ehab Y Hanna, Erich M Sturgis, Sanjay Shete

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Genetic susceptibility for xerostomia, a common sequela of radiotherapy and chemoradiotherapy for head and neck cancer, is unknown. Therefore, to identify genetic variants associated with moderate to severe xerostomia, we conducted a GWAS of 359 long-term oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) survivors using 579,956 autosomal SNPs. Patient-reported cancer treatment-related xerostomia was assessed using the MD Anderson Symptom Inventory. Patient response was dichotomized as moderate to severe or none to mild symptoms. In our study, 39.2% of OPC survivors reported moderate to severe xerostomia. Our GWAS identified eight SNPs suggestively associated with higher risk of moderate to severe xerostomia in six genomic regions …

Concurrent Session 1 The Togo Slippery Frog And Dpsir Frameworks, Aiden Franklin, Ben Walker, Caroline Spirit, Diego Tovar

The Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education

Our presentation will demonstrate how the Togo Slippery Frog plays an important role in both socio-economic and environmental factors of Togo. These include conservation efforts to restore forests and creating protected areas. This will impact eco-tourism, biodiversity loss and forest fragmentation, as well as agricultural practices. The presentation will also dive deeper into drivers and pressures, such as logging, harvesting, and hunting. The Togo Slippery Frog plays a crucial role in Togo and will be investigated through trends and analysis.

System Dynamics Modeling To Understand The Impact Of Covid-19 On Indian Economy, Anuja Shukla, Neha Tomer, Preeti Singh

Management Dynamics

COVID-19 has led to a severe health crisis. This sudden and wide impact of corona virus has brought the global economy to its knees. The virus has spread across the world through the chain of transmission. In India, the first case of COVID-19 was reported in the month of February 2020 and has spread drastically within past four months. As a preventive measure, the government announced complete lockdown in the month of March 2020 to stop this pandemic situation in India (Suri, April 30, 2020). This invisible virus has compelled many business organizations to shutdown their respective activities and to …

Editorial, Anubhav Mishra

Management Dynamics

No abstract provided.

Flipkart : Driving Ecommerce During Covid-19, Aishwarya Kalakata, Apoorv Anand, Pranav Saxena

Management Dynamics

Covid 19 pandemic presented humanity with unprecedented challenges which put millions of livelihoods at risk. The economic and social disruptions impacted the lives of millions of people across the country . Like most companies, the surge of unexpected cases (and orders) initially caught Flipkart off guard. Nationwide lockdowns caused orders per day to go down to zero in some regions, only to see an unforeseen surge come in the next few months. While business was on a rollercoaster , there was also the challenge of running a huge organization remotely - thousands of employees including the on ground delivery personnels.

Pandemic Has Recaste Media Template, Virendra Singh Rawat

Management Dynamics

In August 2021, nearly 200 million people globally were believed to have had Covid-19 since the first case was reported in China in late 2019. The reported global death toll topped 4.26 million even as the World Health Organisation (WHO) expressed grave concern over the coronavirus, its mutations and the ever growing list of symptoms. The Covid-19 pandemic has rightly been regarded as the worst disaster befalling the global social and economic landscape in the last almost 100 years. Whilst previous natural or manmade disasters viz. earthquakes, floods, epidemics and World War I/II were largely confined to a continent or …