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History in the Making

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Photo Essay: Affective Infrastructures Of Migration In Mindanao, Philippines, Marion Breteau

Asia Pacific Perspectives

This photo essay explores the affective infrastructures that sustain and shape return migration between the Philippines and the Arab Gulf states. By affective infrastructures, I refer to the material, moral, economic, and relational arrangements that make migration possible, and that continue to structure life after return. Rather than addressing migration as a linear trajectory (departureemployment-return), the essay presents it as processual, and encrypted in houses, debts, bodies, aspirations, and memories. The fieldwork is grounded in Tampakan, a rural municipality in South Mindanao, a region that contains one of the largest Filipino emigration basins to the Gulf. Illustrating how return reshapes …

Inside The Human Resources Of Camper Mesh Care, Melissa Van Scoy, Megan H. Owens

CompassPoint

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Campwell Involves Playing Well, Alexandra Skrocki

CompassPoint

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The Intersection Of Mesh Care And Camp Nursing, Megan H. Owens

CompassPoint

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Assessing Research Source Credibility, Kathleen B. Gaberson

CompassPoint

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Part Ii: Building Stronger Camp Communities Through Motivation As A Connected Process, Kelley Freridge

CompassPoint

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Spring Issue, Volume 36, Number 1

CompassPoint

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Exploring The Motivations Of Undergraduate Sport Management Students, Kyle J. Brannigan, Tyler J. Hajek

The COSMA Journal

This study explored the motivations of undergraduate sport management in four university programs. Convergent mixed-methods research through the theoretical framework of Self-Determination Theory was incorporated with an adapted questionnaire of the Academic Motivation Scale and semi-structured interviews through Thematic Analysis. Ninety-six surveys with nine interviews were deemed usable across four regionally focused, vocationally minded, and accessible universities. Overall, students reported higher levels of extrinsic motivation than intrinsic motivation. The findings suggested intrinsic motivation to know and extrinsic motivation through regulation for identification scored highest with the participants. No significant differences were found between classes and ethnicities. However, male students experienced …

Revisiting The Flutie Effect: The Impact Of Collegiate Athletics On College Choice, Robin Hardin, Michelle L. Childs, Win G-Y Koo

The COSMA Journal

This study revisits the Flutie Effect by examining factors that influence a student’s college choice which includes the role of athletics and its brand. The study assessed items related to academics, interpersonal influences, campus culture, and athletics through a survey of first-year students. An exploratory factor analysis produced a seven-factor model explaining 71.51% of the variance. The strongest factor was emotional and behavioral identification with university athletics, reflecting fandom, affiliation, and pride in athletic success. Athletics significantly influenced college choice, but their impact extends beyond athletic success to include broader dimensions of branding, fandom, and affiliation. For institutions seeking to …

The Shorthorn: August 1, 1984

The Shorthorn Newspaper Collection: 1980s

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Keeping The Problem Alive: Curriculum, Problematisation And The Eyfs, Claire Walsh

Plymouth Interdisciplinary Education Open Journal

This paper explores how problems are understood in debates about England’s Early Years Foundation Stage (Department for Education [DfE], 2025). Discussions of the EYFS often focus on identifying what is wrong with it and proposing ways to improve or replace it, including both critical perspectives and alternative approaches to early childhood education. While these positions appear different, the paper argues that they share a common tendency: they treat problems as things to be solved. The paper introduces the concept of solution-binding to describe this habit.

Rather than offering another critique or alternative, the paper asks what happens if problems are …

Toward A Standard Of Identity In Ai Interaction, Brian Harber

Defensive Publications Series

Systems are increasingly capable of producing outputs that appear complete and actionable. These outputs are frequently evaluated as though they fully represent the processes that produced them. This paper argues that where identity is not explicit at the interaction boundary, interpretation necessarily relies on inference. Inference enables interaction but leaves residual uncertainty regarding what participated in producing that interaction.

The paper proposes identity as a structural property of interaction rather than an inferred property of behavior or presentation. It defines the interaction-boundary condition under which identity becomes relevant and examines the implications of that condition for evaluation. The contribution is …

Mainehealth Investigator Vignettes - August 2026

Journal of Maine Medical Center

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Breaking The Parallax: Big Tech In India, Dr. Pratiksha Ashok

National Law School Business Law Review

This paper examines the role of Big Tech in India through the conceptual lens of parallax, understood as the analytical distortion that arises when platform power is assessed from shifting institutional, legal, and geopolitical vantage points. Existing scholarship and policy debates tend to frame Big Tech in India either through Global North regulatory paradigms emphasizing monopoly power, market foreclosure, and the need for ex-ante constraints or through a domestic developmental narrative that positions digital platforms as engines of innovation, inclusion, and infrastructural expansion. This paper argues that neither perspective, taken in isolation, adequately captures the legal and political economy of …

Training And Resources For Clinicians To Reduce Paperwork Burden And Improve Patient Work Capacity Documentation, Emilio Del Toro, Susan Gatti, Jennifer Kimble, Rebekah Lewis, Karen L. Fortuna, Samantha Migdail-Goyette, Gregory G. Morneau, Donald J. Medd, Ricky Snyder, Karen L. Huyck

Journal of Maine Medical Center

Problem: Inadequate patient work capacity documentation by clinicians contributes to health and economic inequity, clinical inefficiency, and worse patient health outcomes. The intersection of an aging workforce and high amounts of work disability presents an opportunity for health systems to integrate occupational health best practices across clinical settings to improve patient health and work outcomes. Clinicians, however, are often unfamiliar with navigating patient work capacity forms to help patients maintain or obtain employment. This knowledge gap further perpetuates work disability.

Approach: To compensate for this gap, we co-created a training for clinicians that integrates didactic learning and supplemental resources to …

From Covert Use To Structured Oversight: A Framework For Institutional Governance Of Artificial Intelligence In Graduate Medical Education, Samuel R. Briggs, Bita Behrouzi, Robert Hayden

Journal of Maine Medical Center

Problem Statement: Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are routinely used by residents and fellows across graduate medical education. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has no AI-specific policy nor requirement for disclosure norms, leaving programs and attending physicians without a standard framework for supervising AI-assisted trainee work. The result is a training environment in which AI use is simultaneously widespread and under-governed by operating without the policies and supervisory frameworks needed to make that use educationally productive.

Background: AI tools are now embedded across health system workflows, and their use has expanded beyond clinical documentation into education, research, and scholarly …

Extending Cardiovascular Care Beyond The Clinic: Evaluation Of A Community Paramedicine Program To Support Patients With Medical Complexity, Kailey Kowalski, Corrigan Farnham, Darcy Chandler, Joshua Pobrislo, Elizabeth Bennett, Maxwell E. Afari

Journal of Maine Medical Center

Problem: Health care systems, especially acute care settings, are becoming overburdened with patients who are older, have medical complexity, and have limited access to health care resources. Community paramedicine (CP) programs use paramedics to offer preventive care, health education, and connections with the community that is underserved and experiencing homelessness. CP programs have emerged to reduce acute care utilization and emergency department visits, and to improve health care outcomes.

Approach: A local CP team was paired with the MaineHealth cardiovascular disease fellows' clinic to expand cardiovascular care to patients at high risk. Individuals were identified by clinicians as requiring additional …

Low-Barrier Infectious Disease Specialty Care For Patients Experiencing Homelessness, Eva J. Farkas, Thomas Reynolds, Kimberly Mooney, Adam Normandin, Taylor Nisbett, Kinna Thakarar

Journal of Maine Medical Center

Problem: Homelessness is prevalent in Maine and throughout the United States. People experiencing homelessness have unique medical needs that require both primary and subspecialist care, but they face barriers to accessing these services. Infectious diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis, and skin and soft tissue infections, are highly morbid but are preventable and treatable. Thus, access to infectious disease subspecialty care is a high-impact target for improving the health of people experiencing homelessness. Particularly given Maine's HIV outbreak, there is an urgent need to reduce barriers to accessing infectious disease care.

Approach: In January 2022, a monthly, half-day infectious disease subspecialty …

Enhanced Rehabilitation Program In Acute Care: New Program Development And Results In Response To Delayed Hospital Discharges, David L Smith, Morgan Hall, Mary E Mcnulty, Elizabeth Pontius, Cathy Peabody, Beth Burke, Julie Fox

Journal of Maine Medical Center

Problem: The objective of this project was to evaluate and describe the flow of patients who have delayed discharge after they have participated in an enhanced therapy program. Approach: In the current practice, which started in 2021, the care coordination team identifies patients medically ready for discharge but with barriers. Working with the rehabilitation team, the care coordination team determines if the patient is suitable for the enhanced therapy program. These patients go on to receive 1 hour of physical therapy and 1 hour of occupational therapy each day, Monday through Friday, with the goal of discharge to home. Outcomes: …

Intensification Of Thermal Energy Storage Systems Based On Sodium Nitrate, Hari Suthan V Mr

Theses and Dissertations

Thermal energy storage (TES) systems employing phase change materials (PCM) bridge the gap between thermal energy demand and supply. The low thermal conductivity of sodium nitrate (NaNO3), an inorganic PCM for high-temperature TES systems restricts charging and discharging kinetics, reducing system-level performance. This thesis investigates the intensification of sodium nitrate-based thermal energy storage systems through the incorporation of different classes of additives. Metal oxides (zinc oxide and aluminium oxide) and carbon-based materials (graphene oxide (GO) and expanded graphite (EG)), were incorporated into NaNO3 to improve its thermophysical properties (thermal conductivity, latent heat, specific heat).

Composites were prepared using low-energy ball …

Understanding The Long-Term Patterns Of Change Of A Tidal Marsh In Mission Bay, San Diego, California, Carrie A. Shuster, Theresa Sinicrope Talley Ph.D., Drew Talley Ph.D., Zhi-Yong Yin Ph.D., Kellie Uyeda Ph.D.

Theses

Coastal marshes are among California’s most productive ecosystems and the most impacted, having been extensively modified by dredging, filling, and urban development. This thesis investigates over a century of change for a marsh in Northern Mission Bay, San Diego, California using ecological and spatial analyses.

Chapter 1 provides an overview of the environmental history and current land use of the Northern Mission Bay marsh, tracing changes from pre-contact Indigenous stewardship through colonial and modern urban development. It also introduces a restoration plant palette derived from historical and contemporary species occurrences, ecological functions, and documented cultural uses. By integrating ethnobotanical knowledge …

Reluctant Revolutionaries: Andor, Fallout, And Narrating The Shifting Moral Economy Of Armed Politics In The United States, Cheng Xu

Government: Faculty Publications

This contribution to the special issue of the Forum argues that mainstream science fiction can be an important site for narrating a nascent change in the moral economy of armed politics in the United States. While firearm politics remain durably partisan, I show that a narrower but significant norm change is emerging: the boundary between ordinary gun ownership and politically charged preparedness has become more permeable, even as overt political violence remains broadly stigmatized. I develop this argument through an interpretive comparative reading of Disney’s Andor and Amazon’s Fallout as widely circulating cultural texts that register changing understandings of legitimacy, …

Fieldwork Educators' Perspectives On Occupational Therapy Students Addressing Sexuality And Intimacy: Expectations, Supports, And Barriers, Elizabeth Deluca-Berg

Student Dissertations

Sexuality and intimacy are recognized as meaningful occupations within occupational therapy practice; however, they remain inconsistently addressed in clinical care. Previous research has identified limited educational preparation as a contributing factor to occupational therapists' discomfort and lack of confidence in addressing these occupations. Although classroom instruction provides foundational knowledge, Level II fieldwork serves as the primary setting in which students apply knowledge within authentic clinical environments. Despite the central role of FW educators in facilitating students' professional development, little research has explored how they prepare OT students to address sexuality and intimacy during fieldwork. The purpose of this basic qualitative …

Supporting Graduate Student Flourishing: Development Of A Whole-Person Formation Framework Through A University-Wide Task Force, Elisa Greene, Amanda Grieme-Bradley, Maren Bishop

Papers

How do whole persons form for lives of character and flourishing within graduate schooling years? What steps could an institution take to move toward that end? This work describes the process of one institution’s use of a task force examining these questions using a combination of literature review and structured interviews with key stakeholders across campus. The context of the institution’s unique mission, vision, and virtue framework provided a foundation out of which four areas of focus emerged: 1) infrastructure and representation, 2) belonging and community, 3) communication, and 4) professional identity formation. Investment in these institutional themes supports formation …

The Effect Of A Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program On Stress And Burnout Among Nurses, Shanda Sutherland

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Following COVID19, hospitals were faced with prolonged staff shortages, nurse burnout, and an exodus from bedside nursing (White, et al., 2025). As human resources become increasingly challenged, leaders must think and act outside the box to promote and sustain the well-being of the nursing workforce (Hazelett-Stevens, 2020). This quasi-experimental study examined the effect of a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program (MBSR) on perceived stress and burnout among medical-surgical nurses in a hospital setting. Stress reduction programs have been shown to positively impact stress among nurses and may support them to function at their highest cognitive ability (Burdette, 2020). The consistent …

Strengthening Disease Surveillance In Malawi: Lessons From The 2022 Polio Outbreak, Zione N. Dembo, Mike Nenani Chisema, Joyce Beyamu, Tamandani Kapenga Nazimera

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Background: Infectious disease outbreaks remain a persistent public health threat in Malawi. The 2022–2024 polio outbreak highlighted the central role of enhanced surveillance in timely detection and effective response. This abstract examines key strategies, outcomes, and lessons for strengthening surveillance and preparedness.

Methods: The response leveraged multiple surveillance approaches, including Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) and environmental surveillance, improved specimen transport, digital tools for case investigation, and multiple supplementary immunization campaigns. Data from surveillance indicators and outbreak response activities were analyzed to assess performance and identify challenges.

Results: Enhanced surveillance proved effective, with rapid laboratory confirmation of the index case triggering …

Strategies For Successful Postgraduation Next Generation Nclex (Ngn) Preparation, Kristy P. Ludy

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Background and Problem: In 2023, the Next Generation NCLEX (NGN) was implemented after a strategic practice analysis conducted by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) to improve evaluation of Clinical Judgment and decision-making of nursing graduates (Jessee et al., 2023; Poorman & Mastorovich, 2020). Initially, first-time pass rates (FTPRs) rose after the NGN’s implementation, but have fluctuated on national and state levels (National Council of State Boards of Nursing, 2025). Nursing faculty have been focused on preparing students for the NGN (Boev, 2023; Sturdivant & Allen-Thomas, 2022). However, becoming aware of how graduates prepare after graduation and …

Understanding Brain Fog During Menopause, Cris Meier, Moth Huenemann, Ashley Yaugher, Cara Murray

All Current Publications

Brain fog is an inability to concentrate or think clearly and is a common symptom of perimenopause and early in the menopause phase. While not everyone who goes through menopause will have brain fog, it is a common symptom, and it can be helpful to understand why brain fog occurs. This fact sheet provides helpful information to understand brain fog and ideas you can use to manage it.

Study Links Mississippi Student Gambling Problems To Mental Health, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – As gambling becomes more accessible to college students, a statewide study of Mississippi's public universities found gambling problems frequently occur alongside depression, anxiety and substance use.