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The Top 10 Ideas To Consider When Revising Your Mission Statement, Charlotte Swint, April Tabor, Eileen Thrower

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

This session will discuss ideas to consider when an organization is reviewing its mission statement. Members of a university’s Mission and Philosophy Committee will share lessons learned from a recent experience with reviewing and revising a mission statement.

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Large Language Models As Information Providers For Appropriate Antimicrobial Use: Computational Text Analysis And Expert-Rated Comparison Of Chatgpt, Claude And Gemini, Marcello Di Pumpo, Maria Rosaria Gualano, Danilo Buonsenso, Francesca Raffaelli, Daniele Donà, Vittorio Maio, Patrizia Laurenti, Walter Ricciardi, Leonardo Villani

College of Population Health Faculty Papers

OBJECTIVES: Antimicrobial resistance is a critical public health threat. Large language models (LLMs) show great capability for providing health information. This study evaluates the effectiveness of LLMs in providing information on antibiotic use and infection management.

METHODS: Using a mixed-method approach, responses to healthcare expert-designed scenarios from ChatGPT 3.5, ChatGPT 4.0, Claude 2.0 and Gemini 1.0, in both Italian and English, were analysed. Computational text analysis assessed readability, lexical diversity and sentiment, while content quality was assessed by three experts via DISCERN tool.

RESULTS: 16 scenarios were developed. A total of 101 outputs and 5454 Likert-scale (1-5) scores were obtained …

Eye On The Prize: Expanding Student Awareness Of Optometry As A Profession, Lorena Flores-Hernandez

MedEd Teaching Certificate Program

The proposed Doctor of Optometry program at UTRGV has the potential to positively enhance the ocular health of our communities. Implementing an outreach program highlighting a career path in optometry will be essential for the future of eyecare in the Rio Grande Valley.

According to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the optometric workforce is projected to grow over the next decade. The increased demand for optometrists is related to multiple factors including an aging population with chronic diseases and a nationwide shortage of ophthalmology practitioners.

Nationally, the Optometry Gives Me Life campaign, launched by the Association of …

Academic Mentoring Program To Support Mentors, Mentees, And A Healthy Work Environment, Megan E. Lippe, Jacqueline Mcgrath, Laura Sisk, Isabell Stoltz, Cynthia Wall

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The purpose of this presentation is to share an innovative, year-long mentoring program for new faculty implemented at one academic health science center and its impact on mentors, mentees, and fostering a healthy work environment.

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The Bg News October 15, 2025, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. October 15, 2025. Volume 105-Issue 07.

Clark Tailings Consolidated Waste Management Area (Ctcwma) Site Investigation Draft Data Summary Report 2024 Surface Water, Groundwater, And Soil Characterization, Woodard & Curran

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

“I (Still) Need Help On Many Things”: A Writing Center Replication Study Of First-Generation College Students’ Writing Challenges And Cultural Capital, Red Douglas, Ashley Cerku, Isabelle Lundin, Mary Gallagher, Xavier Iriarte, Sophia E. Williams, Kaylie Williams

The Writing Center Journal

Research has increasingly addressed first-generation (FG) students both in and outside the center (Baelemian & Feng, 2013; Bond, 2019; Denny et al., 2018; Ward et al., 2012), but there remains a need to address this unique student population from the perspective of critical theory. In a replication study of Bond’s 2019 “‘I Need Help on Many Things, Please’: A Case Study Analysis of First-Generation College Students’ Use of the Writing Center,” we examined the needs and perceptions of self-reported FG students in a writing center at a large, regional, public R2 university in the Midwest. We gathered preexisting digital data …

“I Just Need Another Set Of Eyes”: Understanding Students’ Idea Of The Writing Center, Isabelle M. Lundin, Neal Lerner

The Writing Center Journal

In this article, we describe writing center clients’ “idea” of the writing center based on interviews with 26 writing center users and qualitative coding of interview transcripts. Participants’ constructs of the writing center provide a lens to better understand how they perceive writing as an activity, the “writing culture” of the institution, the role of the writing center in their writing processes, and, ultimately, if they see writing centers in the way we would expect them to. The tensions we derived from our data are (1) between who and what tutors are and offer: discipline-specific expertise (including the disciplines of …

Cerebellar Dysfunction In Glaucoma Patients, Anisha Kasi, Ji Won Bang, Vivek Trivedi, Jeannie Au, Ian Conner, Gadi Wollstein, Joel Schuman, Rakie Cham, Kevin Chan

Wills Eye Hospital Papers

Glaucoma patients often have higher injurious fall rates compared to healthy older adults. However, little is known about the underlying neural mechanisms. Recent evidence shows cerebral changes beyond the visual pathway of glaucoma patients, yet it remains unclear whether the cerebellum, which plays an important role in balance and motor control, is involved in glaucoma. In this study, we sought to investigate cerebellar functional connectivity changes in glaucoma by comparing 32 glaucoma subjects and 10 age-matched healthy control subjects who underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging at 3 Tesla with eyes closed. After conducting both regions-of-interest and seed-to-voxel analyses, we …

Consensus-Based Disease Definitions For Endocrine Immune-Related Adverse Events Of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors, Ling Zhu, Huda Al-Bahadili, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are an important class of cancer treatment. Endocrine immune-related adverse events (E-irAEs) account for a significant proportion of irAEs in ICI-treated patients. Diagnosing E-irAEs accurately and timely can be challenging in the absence of clear categorization and standardization across oncology, endocrinology and other specialties. While existing guidelines provide some broad directions to diagnosis and management, they lack clarity on irAE-specific symptom evaluation and work-up, as well as assessment of severity. These limitations can then impact triage, time-sensitive management and care escalation to specialists such as oncoendocrinologists. The objective of this study was to develop consensus-based statements …

Dendritic Atoh1a+ Cells Serve As Merkel Cell Precursors During Skin Development And Regeneration, Evan W Craig, Erik C Black, Samantha Z Fernandes, Ahlan S Ferdous, Camille E A Goo, Sheridan M Sargent, Elgene J A Quitevis, Avery Angell Swearer, Nathaniel G Yee, Jimann Shin, Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, Jeffrey P Rasmussen

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Sensory cells often adopt specific morphologies that aid in the detection of external stimuli. Merkel cells encode gentle touch stimuli in vertebrate skin and adopt a reproducible shape characterized by spiky actin-rich microvilli that emanate from the cell surface. The mechanisms by which Merkel cells acquire this stereotyped morphology from keratinocyte progenitors are unknown. Here, we establish that dendritic Merkel cells (dMCs) express atonal homolog 1a (atoh1a), extend dynamic filopodial processes, and arise in transient waves during zebrafish skin development and regeneration. We find that dMCs share molecular similarities with both basal keratinocytes and Merkel cells, yet display mesenchymal-like behaviors, …

Harnessing Lived Experience To Promote Accessible Employment Journeys, Emma Lovegrove, Denise Bertilone, Justin Brown, Elle Beaumont-Bilsby

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This paper describes an Inclusive Employability initiative at Edith Cowan University (ECU) developed in 2024. The paper foregrounds the observations and reflections of Inclusive Employability Officers as they designed, developed and implemented the initiatives within the context of an Australian University. Over the past two decades Australian Universities have encouraged wider participation in higher education, though the resulting social mobility and economic benefit of higher education has not been evenly distributed, especially amongst cohorts with different socio-economic backgrounds and access requirements. The goal of the Inclusive Employability initiative was, and is, to support students from different equity cohorts, including people …

Interpreting An Abnormal Vdrl Or Rpr In A Memory Clinic Patient, Shannon Cunningham, Robert Martin

Advocate GME

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The Use Of Social Prescribing And Community-Based Wellbeing Activities As A Potential Prevention And Early Intervention Pathway To Improve Adolescent Emotional And Social Development: A Systematic Mapping Review, Siobhan B. Mitchell, Lucy Cartwright, Alex Gude, Alison Bethel, Harriet Hunt, Jane R. Smith, Daniel Hayes, Marcello Bertotti, Paul Jarvis-Beesley, Vashti Berry, Kerryn Husk

Peninsula Medical School

BACKGROUND: Social prescribing (SP) initiatives which aim to connect individuals to community-based assets have received increased research and policy attention, however schemes have mostly centred on adults. There is little research examining how social prescribing might work for children and young people (CYP), and specifically, what pathways into social prescribing look like for this group.

METHODS: We conducted a systematic mapping review to understand what social prescribing pathways look like for CYP. Searches were carried out in February 2022. We reviewed published journal articles and grey literature on pathways for CYP accessing activities or services in the community. We synthesised …

A Health System Approach To Evaluating Nurse Well-Being And Designing Interventions, Lee Galuska, Jessica Phillips, Kelley Anderson

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

In the wake of a global pandemic and societal stressors, clinician wellbeing and the threat of burnout are commanding increasing attention. Burnout contributes to nurse turnover and is threatening the ability of health systems to provide safe, high-quality care for patients (Dyrbye et al., 2017). The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) recommends a systems approach to prevent clinician burnout and promote professional wellbeing as healthy professionals are essential for achieving positive health care outcomes (NAM, 2019). Meaning and joy in nursing practice are contributors to professional wellbeing and are part of the solution for achieving the quadruple aim. One of …

Voices Of Emergency Department Nurses And Their Experiences Of Workplace Violence, Emily M. Holland, Elizabeth B. Dowdell

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Background: Nurses in many healthcare facilities frequently feel unsafe and threatened due to workplace violence (WPV) which is a serious and persistent problem across the United States, (American Nurses Association, 2015; Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019). While all nurses are at risk for experiencing WPV, the emergency department (ED) is considered an especially high risk unit due to factors such as the acuity of illness, traumatic events, victims of violence, and the 24/7/365 days open door policy, (Emergency Nurses Association, 2020; Morrison & Joy, 2016). Patients with substance use disorders (SUDs) generate unique challenges for ED nurses since …

Interrupted Sleep: Emergency Department Nurses Experiencing Compassion Fatigue, Elizabeth B. Dowdell

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Nurses with compassion fatigue often report poor sleep habits and quality. Factors associated may include technology use like sleep texting. Incorporating appropriate comprehensive assessments that include current sleep habits and experiences with sleep texting are important to obtain, leading to interventions that will promote health and good sleep habits.

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Managing Bullying: Using Polarity Thinking To Create Constructive Team Synergy And A Healthier Workplace, Scott D. Shaw, Sherea Lacy, Luanne M. Shaw

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Polarity Thinking provides a lens to view and assess the complexities of competing priorities and potential workplace power imbalances leading to bullying. This rapid presentation round will provide discussion of a management tool for healthcare leaders to support both individuals and teams in creating healthy systemic change and workplace environments.

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Impact Of The Patient Flow Nurse Role In An Acute Care Setting, Esther Rani Devadoss

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Patient throughput is a consistent challenge for healthcare organizations globally, and patient flow delays heavily impact patient safety, quality care, patient satisfaction, and nurses’ job satisfaction. Creating the patient flow nurse role improves patient experience, reduces ED dwell time, and augments nurses’ satisfaction.

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Strategies For Addressing Covid-19 Vaccine Equity With Intermediaries, Prevention Research Centers, And The Vaccine Confidence Network, Kelianne K Hara-Hubbard, Allison Beaulieu, Anais Mendiola, Pooja Gandhi, Nicole Kuiper, Richard Quartarone, Jinni Tang, Olivia Dominguez, Maritza Bond, Dorothy Cohen, Margaret Goetz, Nasra Mohamed, Paula Cuccaro, Peggy A Hannon, Maria E Fernandez, Jackson Higginbottom, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Bárbara Baquero

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

In April 2021, the CDC provided supplemental funding to all 26 Prevention Research Centers (PRCs) to create the PRC Vaccine Confidence Network (VCN) to increase COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake in communities disparately impacted by COVID-19 and/or in vaccine hesitant populations. A key strategy to building vaccine confidence was engaging with intermediaries (i.e., mutually trusted community and practice-based organizations conducting community outreach and intervention activities) to address barriers for our shared communities of focus. These intermediaries were key in building community trust, addressing community needs and concerns, and in turn, building vaccine confidence and demand in areas and communities disproportionately …

Turning Waste Into Fertilizer: Aloe Vera Leaf Shavings Improve Plant Growth And Support Soil Fertility In Organic Systems, Isaiah Edward Jaramillo, Carine Cocco, James Jihoon Kang, Chu-Lin Cheng, Engil Pereira

School of Earth, Environmental, & Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

The Aloe vera industry discards large amounts of outer leaf tissue (“shavings”), creating an opportunity to repurpose this byproduct as a sustainable fertilizer. This study evaluated whether aloe shavings can serve as a plant-based alternative to compost in organic Aloe vera production. A field trial in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas tested three treatments: aloe shavings (applied to supply 39 kg N ha−1), organic compost (39 kg N ha−1), and a non-fertilized control. Laboratory incubations further assessed nitrogen mineralization and microbial respiration. Aloe shavings significantly enhanced vegetative growth: leaf number increased from 5.7 to 12.3 leaves per plant …

Spartan Daily, October 15, 2025, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2025

Volume 165, Issue 23

Conversion Of Failed Anatomic Total Shoulder Arthroplasty To Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty Yields Similar Pain And Functional Outcomes To Primary Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty But Has A Higher Baseplate Failure Rate: A Matched Cohort Study., Kevin A Hao, Trevor G Simcox, Keegan M Hones, Jonathan O Wright, Thomas W Wright, Tyler Lamonica, Bradley S Schoch, Joseph J King

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background: To investigate whether patients who initially underwent anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty (aTSA) for glenohumeral osteoarthritis and were subsequently revised to reverse TSA (rTSA) due to rotator cuff failure or glenoid loosening ultimately attained a similar clinical outcome compared with those who underwent primary rTSA and identify predictors of poor outcomes in the former population.

Methods: We did a single-center retrospective review of 63 shoulders who underwent revision rTSA after primary aTSA that failed due to glenoid component loosening (n = 32), rotator cuff failure (n = 24), or recurrent instability (n = 7). Pain and functional outcomes at minimum …

Correction: Román-Ríos Et Al., Gabriel Román-Ríos, Gabriel Rosario-Ortiz, Marcos J Ramos-Benitez, Ricardo A Mosquera, Wilfredo De Jesús-Rojas

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

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Tng260 Is A Small-Molecule Corest Inhibitor That Sensitizes Stk11-Mutant Tumors To Anti-Pd-1 Immunotherapy, Leanne G Ahronian, Soumyadip Sahu, Minjie Zhang, Ayushi S Patel, Ke Geng, Reshmee Bhattacharya, Gerald S Falchook, Jonathan W Goldman, Alexander I Spira, Salman R Punekar, David R Spigel, Judy S Wang, Ferdinandos Skoulidis, Janaye Stephens, Mary Meynardie, Jaylen M Powell, Alfonso Lopez, Michela Ranieri, Magdalena A Ploszaj, Yi Jer Tan, Yeuan Ting Lee, Yi Yu, Jiehui Deng, Ting Chen, Patrick Mccarren, Alice Tsai, Suleman S Hussain, Brian Doyon, Kenjie Amemiya, Jacques Ermolieff, Preksha Shahagadkar, Nikitha M Das, Lauren R Flynn, Julie A Shields, Laney Danielczyk, Brian J Mcmillan, Andre Mignault, Samuel R Meier, Hsin-Jung Wu, David J Guerin, Douglas A Whittington, Chengyin Min, Iga Sienczylo, John P Maxwell, Heather J Dibenedetto, Hideo Watanabe, Brian B Haines, Alan Huang, Adam Crystal, Jannik N Andersen, Xinyuan Wu, Kwok-Kin Wong

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with loss of the tumor suppressor gene STK11 are resistant to immune checkpoint therapies like anti–PD-1. In this study, we conducted an in vivo CRISPR screen that identified histone deacetylase 1 as a target to reverse anti–PD-1 resistance driven by loss of STK11 and developed TNG260, a potent small-molecule inhibitor of the CoREST complex with selectivity exceeding previously generated inhibitors in this class in preclinical studies. Treatment with TNG260 led to increased expression of immunomodulatory genes in STK11-deficient cancer cells. When combined with anti–PD-1, TNG260 induced immune-mediated stasis and/or regression in STK11 …

Preoperative Brain Mapping Predicts Language Outcomes After Eloquent Tumor Resection, Matthew T Muir, Kyle Noll, Sarah Prinsloo, Hayley Michener, Jeffrey I Traylor, Vinodh A Kumar, Chibawanye I Ene, Sherise Ferguson, Ho-Ling Liu, Jeffrey S Weinberg, Frederick Lang, Brian A Taylor, Stephanie J Forkel, Sujit S Prabhu

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

When operating on gliomas near critical language regions, surgeons risk either leaving residual tumor or inducing permanent postoperative language deficits (PLDs). Despite the advent of intraoperative mapping techniques, subjective judgments frequently determine important surgical decisions. We aim to inform data-driven surgery by constructing a non-invasive mapping approach that quantitatively predicts the impact of individual surgical decisions on long-term language function. This study included 79 consecutive patients undergoing resection of language-eloquent gliomas. Patients underwent preoperative navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) language mapping to identify language-positive sites ("TMS points") and their associated white matter tracts ("TMS tracts") as well as formal language …

From Affordances To Action: Designing Familiar Health Data Interfaces For Older Adults, Peterson Jean, Enda Bates, Emma Murphy Dr

Conference papers

Health data is inherently complex, and tracking it appropriately, whether prescribed by a doctor or motivated by personal interest, offers significant benefits for improving health behaviours. With consumer availability, pervasive technologies such as wearable devices have opened new opportunities for the self-tracking of critical physiological health data. Yet, despite the progress made, older adults often encounter barriers that limit meaningful interactions, leading them to disengage from managing their own health. At the root of these barriers is the gap between designers' intentions and older adults' ability to perceive, interpret, and respond effectively to cues embedded in systems designed to collect …

2025-10-15 Pac-22 Revisal Draft, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Revisal draft of PAc-22 submitted to the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate on October 15, 2025.

2025-10-15 University Graduate Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., University Graduate Committee.

Faculty Senate Records

Meeting minutes of the University Graduate Committee from October 15, 2024.

Typical Applications And Flame-Retardant Strategies For Organic Phase-Change Materials, Xiao-Mei Yang, Tao Shi, Xiaodong Wang, Huan Liu, De-Yi Wang, Guang-Zhong Yin

Artículos científicos

This study begins by exploring the typical practical applications of phase-change materials (PCMs) in various industries, highlighting their importance in energy storage, temperature regulation, and thermal management. It then emphasizes the necessity of flame-retardant functionalization tailored to the specific application scenarios of PCMs, especially considering their use in safety-critical environments such as electronics, automotive, and construction. The classic characterization methods for assessing the flame-retardant properties of PCM are introduced in detail, including the limiting oxygen index, the vertical burning test, and the cone calorimeter, which are widely recognized standards in material safety testing. Additionally, newly developed methods for evaluating combustion …