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Peaks Island Star : November 2025, Vol. 45, Issue 11, Service Agencies Of The Island

Peaks Island Star, 2025

The Peaks Island Star is the newsletter of the island's service agencies and other community news.

The Relationship Between Sex Guilt And Sex Anxiety On Sexual Function In Sexually Active Adult Women, Mia Audina Olivia, Ahmad Naufalul Umam

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

Sexuality is a deeply ingrained aspect of human identity and experience, and its importance can vary greatly from person to person and across different cultures and contexts. There is a widely accepted perspective in sexual behavior research that western women have more flexible sexual norms and thus function better than women from eastern cultural background. Meanwhile, research in eastern countries often only focused on health matters and bounded to abstinence-centred moral value. This study addresses this gap by investigating the intricate relationship between sex guilt, sex anxiety, and sexual function among sexually active adult women in Indonesia. A sample of …

#Willsmith: Text Analyses Of X Posts About The Oscar Slap, Merrisa Lin, Nairán Ramírez-Esparza

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

Social media users share their thoughts on social events, offering insights into the sociocultural climate. Since language reflects related culture, analyzing social media discussions in different languages provides a window into the sociocultural context. In this exploratory study, we examined English and Spanish posts related to the Oscar Slap, which sparked race and gender discussions. We analyzed X posts with #willsmith hashtag in English (N = 28,717) and in Spanish (N = 4,251). The Meaning Extraction Method automated text analyses revealed three similar themes across language cultures, a theme specific to English posts, and two themes unique to Spanish posts. …

Home Based Elder Care (Hbec) In India: Exploring Culturally Competent Models, Urmi Nanda Biswas

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

The chapter deliberates on elder care models within the sociocultural context of India, aligning with traditional values and family structure. The chapter is based on mini-case studies of 47 healthcare organizations that offer various types of care services to the aging population and extends to discuss a few of the upcoming models. Key informant interviews were conducted across different types of organisations studied involving the CEO/manager / proprietors, paramedical staff, and the seniors availing the services of the organisation. Apart from this focused group discussions of seniors in rural communities were also conducted. Structures of the organizations, along with the …

Factors Influencing Flourishing In Autoimmune Patients: A Systematic Review, Amherstia Pasca Rina, Endang R. Surjaningrum

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

This scoping literature review aimed to identify factors that influence flourishing and to synthesize gaps in previous studies that flourishing is not only influenced by the internal factor but how the social conditions individuals live in can also affect flourishing. Autoimmune diseases are incurable and associated with mental health conditions that can exacerbate the intensity of recurrence, so it is necessary to take protective measures, namely flourishing as a form of behavioral management of chronic diseases. The prevalence of autoimmune patients who are declared flourishing is relatively small, but flourishing is actually a psychological concept that is needed by everyone …

Home Care Workers, Immigration, And An Aging Population, Catherine Ipsen, Luke Santore

Employment

The size of the Home Care Worker (HCW) workforce has not kept pace with demand, and inadequate compensation and benefits have historically contributed to poor HCW recruitment and retention. Demographic trends put further strain on the workforce, with immigrants, naturalized citizens, and Black and Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) individuals currently making up the majority of the HCW workforce.

Policy changes, cuts to benefits, and immigration crackdowns threaten to further weaken the supply of HCWs while the demand continues to rise. In this report, Catherine Ipsen and Luke Santore provide analysis and strategies to support HCWs and strengthen the Personal …

Salvadora Persica’S Effects On Oral Microbiota And Possible Pathophysiological Links To Type Ii Diabetes Mellitus Risk Factors, Ahmed Bahieldin, Heba J. Sabbagh, Mohammed H Alshehri, Abdullah M. Algarni, Naif Aljahdali, Ibrahim M. Asir, Khalid Mohammed Alzahrani, Awad S. Almhwary, Fatemah Saleh Alzaghabi, Abdullah Jaber Alsahafi, Amjed S Alshehri, Ali Ahmed Alzahrani, Faisal M. Alotaibi, Mohammed A. Alghamdi, Abdulwahab S. Almutairi, Sherif Edris

The Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Science

The application of Miswak (Salvadora persica) in healthy children was investigated to identify the oral microbiota associated with risk factors for type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Deep sequencing of the bacterial 16S rDNA V3–V4 regions was conducted on oral microbiome samples obtained prior to and following swaking. The KEGG database and PICRUSt analysis indicated that swaking affected functional pathways, resulting in an enrichment of transport pathways and a decrease in the risk factor associated with the T2DM pathway. Seven operational taxonomic units (OTUs), comprising the uncharacterized species Prevotella, Atopobium, Actinomyces, Lactobacillus, Neisseria bacilliformis, Actinomycetaceae, …

Impact And Effectiveness Of Phq-9 Training For School Counselors On Mental Health Referrals For High School Students, Sherikee Dorice Grim Bsn, Rn, Ja’Quay Brister Dnp, Pmhnp-Bc, Margaret Harvey Phd, Aprn, Acnp, Chfn, Fhrs

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Purpose/Background

Adolescents' mental health has worsened and become a public health issue, with depression being a primary concern. There is an urgent need for early screening, school-based referral pathways, and interventions to address common problems in high schools. Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is a validated, evidence-based tool for detecting depression; however, its systematic use in school-based counseling settings through organized training has not been studied for implementation in high schools. This review assesses the current literature on the impact and effectiveness of PHQ-9 training for school counselors on mental health referrals among high school students, with a focus on early …

Claude Poullart Des Places And Francis Libermann On Mission Today In North-Eastern Nigeria, Kenneth Odeh Oori Cssp

Spiritan Horizons

No abstract provided.

The Ecclesial Approach Of The Synod On Synodality, The Synthesis Report Of Its October 2023 Phase, And My Understanding Of The Spiritan Mission, Emmanuel Ofori Donkor Cssp

Spiritan Horizons

No abstract provided.

The Missionary Dimension Of The Ideas Of Poullart Des Places And His Foundation, Albert De Jong Cssp

Spiritan Horizons

No abstract provided.

Following The Holy Spirit Together: Our Lay Spiritan Journey, Paula Nettleship, Ian Nettleship Phd

Spiritan Horizons

No abstract provided.

Understanding Ai Literacy: Implications For Practice​, Devon Olson, Janet Anderson, Sara Westall

Librarian Publications

Presentation from the 2025 Mountain Plains Library Association Tri-Conference, held in Grand Forks, ND. This presentation provides an overview of basic AI concepts and frameworks for AI literacy, discussing the impact of different patron and learner demographics on learner needs, competencies, and instructional strategies.

2025-26 Faculty Handbook, November 2025 Publication, St. Norbert College

Faculty Handbooks

No abstract provided.

Insecticide Resistance Profile In Nashville Culex Spp. Mosquito Populations, Ellie Sebaugh, Zachary Bement, Abelardo Moncayo, Darlene Panvini

Science University Research Symposium (SURS)

Mosquitoes may develop resistance to insecticides used by control programs, potentially increasing population density and the risk of mosquito-borne diseases. Culex spp. mosquitos are the primary vector of West Nile Virus (WNV), the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the United States and a reportable disease in Tennessee. Resistance profiles were constructed for two insecticides, permethrin and malathion, in a Culex spp. population from Nashville, Tennessee. Adult female mosquitoes were live-captured using gravid traps and tested using the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bioassay protocol to assess resistance or susceptibility. Three inhibitors were also included to identify metabolic …

Trade Secrecy’S Information Paradox, Christopher Buccafusco, Jonathan S. Masur, Deepa Varadarajan

Notre Dame Law Review

Trade secret law is meant to encourage socially beneficial behaviors by permitting firms to protect their investments in the creation of valuable information. In theory, the ability to protect valuable information will make firms more likely to create that information in the first instance. But the law can also be used to shield socially harmful behaviors from public oversight. Firms can assert trade secret protection to prevent journalists, watchdogs, and criminal defendants from learning whether they are engaged in dangerous, wrongful, or biased activity. Ideally, trade secret law should sort socially beneficial uses from socially harmful ones, permitting only the …

Foundations For Platform Liability, Kathryn E. Spier, Rory Van Loo

Notre Dame Law Review

From spreading misinformation to selling deadly products, bad actors use technology platforms to their advantage while causing devastating harms to privacy, health, and even democracy. Despite their central role in enabling these bad actors, the platforms almost entirely escape liability. This legal immunity is purportedly grounded in economics. From the beginning, courts and legislatures feared that liability would chill innovation, growth, and user access. They also speculated that platforms have sufficient market incentives to voluntarily police bad actors, making liability unnecessary.

Whereas many scholars have argued that platform immunity is blind to justice, this Article shows that it is also …

A Crisis Of Consensus: The Supreme Court’S Legitimacy And Recent Challenges Thereto, Abby Ulman

Notre Dame Law Review

Part I retells the history of Supreme Court decisions—from the time when Justices followed the British practice of issuing seriatim opinions to the time of Chief Justice John Marshall who instituted a policy of a single opinion for the Court. This norm of consensus lasted 140 years, during which the Court decided more than ninety percent of its cases unanimously. However, modern practice has been marked by division and dissensus, which have incited rhetoric of delegitimization. Part II examines two types of consensuses. Section A discusses internal consensus, or the extent to which the Justices agree with each other. Yet …

Give Parents The Vote, Joshua Kleinfeld, Stephen E. Sachs

Notre Dame Law Review

Many of America’s most significant policy problems, from failing schools to the aftershocks of COVID shutdowns to national debt to climate change, share a common factor: the weak political power of children. Children are twenty-three percent of all citizens; they have distinct interests; and they already count for electoral districting. But because they lack the maturity to vote for themselves, their interests don’t count proportionally at the polls. The result is policy that observably disserves children’s interests and violates a deep principle of democratic fairness: that citizens, through voting, can make political power respond to their interests.

Yet there’s a …

Give Young Adults The Vote, Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos

Notre Dame Law Review

Joshua Kleinfeld and Stephen Sachs make a significant contribution to the literature on children’s disenfranchisement by describing and defending parental proxy voting: empowering parents to vote on their children’s behalf. The authors’ democratic critique of the status quo is particularly persuasive. Children’s exclusion from the franchise indeed distorts public policies by omitting children’s preferences from the set that policymakers consider. However, Kleinfeld and Sachs’s proposal wouldn’t do enough to correct this distortion. This is because contemporary parents diverge politically from their children, holding, on average, substantially more conservative views. The proxy votes that parents cast for their children would thus …

What Is Voting For?, Joshua Kleinfeld, Stephen E. Sachs

Notre Dame Law Review

Responding to these views requires some reflection on the nature of voting and parenting both. At root, Stephanopoulos and Fishkin don’t think parents are the right people to represent their children politically, and we do. We unpack these theoretical differences as to both voting and parenting in Part I. In Part II, we address Stephanopoulos’s and Fishkin’s concrete policy proposals.

A last note: While our response below naturally focuses on points of disagreement, as that is the way of these things, that focus shouldn’t detract from the crucial fact that all four of us—from different political perspectives—think the status quo …

Appropriations By Any Other Name: The Illegality And Unconstitutionality Of Supplemental Environmental Projects, Andrew Olson

Notre Dame Law Review

This Note fleshes out the history of SEPs and the recent arguments against them. First, Part I traces the history of SEPs, from the early use of third-party payments, through the development of formal policies governing SEPs, to the Trump and Biden administrations’ dueling approaches to them. Then Part II explains what’s wrong with SEPs. Expanding on the arguments made in the various Justice Department memoranda, this Note argues that SEPs contravene both the Miscellaneous Receipts Act (MRA) and the Antideficiency Act (ADA). Next, the Note argues that while their illegality might be remedied by statute, SEPs also present deeper—and …

Imaging In Sports Medicine: Frequency Of Abnormal Findings And The Value Of Point-Of-Care Ultrasound, James Wilcox,, Haia Ramzi Qanadilo,

Family Medicine Collaborative Works

Many musculoskeletal imaging modalities are considered the cornerstone of sports medicine, though the diagnostic yield is different across each modality. Radiographs often detect abnormalities in fewer than half of cases, with the MURA dataset reporting only 39% of abnormal extremity films (Rajpurkar et al., 2018). In contrast, musculoskeletal ultrasound has been shown to identify pathology in up to 83% of examinations (Chiavaras et al., 2008). Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) further enhances rapid bedside diagnosis, with emergency department studies showing pathology in approximately 79% of cases (Situ-LaCasse et al., 2018). This review aimed to describe the frequency of abnormal findings across imaging …

Policy Analytic Approach To Overcoming Barriers In Transitional Support For Autistic Racial And Ethnic Minority Youth, Rosaline Owusu Dnp, Mph, Fnp-Bc, Crnp

Department of Family Medicine

No abstract provided.

Hospitalized Adult Patients With Hypokalemia (Cont.), Lisa Mclaughlin

Nurse Residency

In hospitalized adult patients with hypokalemia, how does intravenous potassium supplementation compare to oral (PO) potassium supplementation in affecting the time to normalization of serum potassium levels within a 72-hour inpatient stay?

Improving Patient Safety In Hospitals With Smartwatch Technology, Shelby Giannelli Rn, Katrina Thibodeau Rn

Nurse Residency

In hospitalized adult patients, how does the use of smart bracelets compare to standard care affect patient safety and monitoring outcomes?

Scheduled Ambulation Twice Per Shift To Reduce Hospital-Acquired Delirium, Rylee Collins Rn

Nurse Residency

In older adult inpatients ages 65 and older on a medical-surgical telemetry unit, does scheduled ambulation twice per shift with staff assistance, compared to as-needed ambulation, reduce the incidence of hospital-acquired delirium during hospitalization?

Reducing Delirium In Older Adults: The Role Of Quiet Hours During Hospitalization, Kelly Hermawan Bsn, Rn

Nurse Residency

In older adults how does the implementation of quiet hours compared to no quiet hours affect the incidence of delirium as measured by positive cam score during hospitalization?

Pedi Psych Boarding In The Emergency Department, Cryspin Russo

Nurse Residency

Will implementation of structured intervention(s) during ED boarding improve the boarding experience for our pediatric psych patients?

Keynoter, November/December 2025, Boise State University Association Of Office Professionals

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