Information Needs And Information Seeking Behaviour Of Lecturers In Edo State College Of Nursing Sciences (Edocns), Peace Osemudiamen Eromosele Cln, Progress Erikume Cln, Jemilah Odufua Muhammed

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study explored Information needs and Information Seeking Behaviour of Lecturers in Edo State College of Nursing Sciences (Edocns). The study was guided by four objectives Descriptive survey was used. The population of the study was the 46 Lecturers in Edo State College of Nursing Sciences (Edocns). No sample size due to the small population. Closed ended Questionnaire was used in data collection which included a four likert scale (4-1). 46 copies of the questionnaire were administered, 41 were filled, returned and found usable representing 89.1% response rate. Percentage and Means were used in data analysis. The study established that …

Introducing A Bit Of Active Latin Into Your Current Advanced Latin Classroom: Usus Loquendi Et Audiendi De Terentio Catulloque, Ronnie Ancona

New England Classical Journal

The purpose of this paper is to show how easily and profitably one can introduce a small portion of active Latin into an upper-level Latin classroom through select questioning and response that draws directly from and reinforces grammatical structures and forms, as well as key vocabulary, from the students’ advanced Latin texts under study. Use of active Latin supports SLA (Second Language Acquistion) research about the value of spending time “in the language” in the classroom. The current Standards for Classical Language Learning recognizes this value as well.

Revisiting Ethnic Differences In In-Person Learning During 2021-2022, Alison Heape, Andrew Camp, Gema Zamarro

Education Reform Faculty and Graduate Students Publications

In the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools throughout the United States, forcing a shift to remote learning that lasted the rest of the academic year. In the fall of 2020, schools reopened using combinations of in-person, hybrid, and remote learning models with great geographic variability in access to in-person learning. A growing body of research shows important racial differences in the use of in-person learning during the 2020-2021 school year, with Black and Hispanic students returning to in-person learning at lower rates than white students (Camp and Zamarro, 2021; Kurmann and Lalé, 2022). This in-person learning gap …

Improved Data Communication With Frontline Staff, David Sprecher

Master's Projects and Capstones

Problem: Frequently, communication from the Quality Department (QD) needs to be filtered through several organizational layers without first-hand knowledge of what message was given to frontline staff. Current mechanisms of communication between the QD and front-line microsystem teams have barriers preventing them from being consistent and reliable.

Context: Research has found that collaborating with and supporting frontline staff was key to establishing a culture that supports change and a focus on safety. Establishing open communication and effective teamwork with individuals on the frontline leads to shared values within a team and better collaboration which drives performance improvement.

Interventions: For trended …

Preventing Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injury In High-Risk Patients, Sahara Thapa

Master's Projects and Capstones

Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injury (HAPI) can be costly for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) and painful for the patients. Most pressure injuries are considered preventable, but many patients die each year from complications from pressure injuries. Pressure injury treatment costs millions of dollars annually, which could be spent on other treatments. A quality improvement (QI) project was formulated to address pressure-related injuries and improve patient care outcomes in one skilled nursing facility in Northern California. Based on a review of current evidence, HAPI prevention education was implemented for all patient care staff. The education focused on skin assessment, risk factors, staging of …

Save The Date: An Analysis Of Interventions On Teen Dating Violence, Elizabeth Maestretti

Master's Projects and Capstones

Domestic violence or interpersonal violence (IPV) is a serious public health issue in the United States. IPV is commonly considered to be an issue that occurs in adult relationships. However, most victims of IPV first experience some form of IPV during adolescence, which is known as teen dating violence (TDV). In the United States, TDV impacts about 26% of female and 15% of male adolescents. In Southern California (Orange County) approximately two thirds of adolescents have experienced some form of TDV. This paper examined the literature on existing interventions and strategies which focused on TDV prevention at individual, interpersonal, community/organizational, …

Interventions For Healthcare Provider Burnout: A Systematic Literature Review, Parisa Broomandkhoshbacht

Master's Projects and Capstones

Burnout, an occupational syndrome resulting from chronic stress and emotionally intense work demands, is highly prevalent among healthcare providers (HCPs). Burnout among HCPs is associated with negative consequences for provider health, patient care, and the healthcare system. There is a lack of clear guidelines on how to assist U.S.-based healthcare organizations develop interventions for HCP burnout, including effective intervention types and preferred metrics for quantifying burnout. To address this, this author conducted a systematic literature review. The literature review identified U.S.-based interventions for HCP burnout as well as measures used to assess burnout. The studies included in the literature review …

Ask Your Doctor About: Prescribing Activism For Eco-Anxiety In Adolescents, Lexi Nutkiewicz

Master's Projects and Capstones

Climate change is an ongoing public health crisis. Efforts to protect future generations' physical and mental health are more urgent than ever. Youth, in particular, are experiencing eco-anxiety, a specific form of anxiety relating to stress or distress caused by environmental changes and one’s knowledge of them due to the climate crisis. This scoping review provides a better understanding of the value of youth climate change activism as a strategy to mitigate eco-anxiety. This review evaluates the current definitions of eco-anxiety, the risk factors for eco-anxiety among adolescents, and considers the benefits and drawbacks of youth activism. To identify relevant …

Modern Day Colonization: Gentrification As A Public Health Emergency And Its Impact On Health, Safety, And Wellbeing, Theresa Hayes

Master's Projects and Capstones

This paper analyzes the impact of gentrification in the San Francisco Bay Area, specifically in Oakland, and its relationship to the health and wellbeing of communities. It highlights the public health consequences of gentrification, presents recommendations for policies that will mitigate this impact, and encourages behavior change among newcomers as well as long-term residents. To provide an understanding of gentrification and the Bay Area landscape in which it occurs, a comprehensive literature review was conducted and an exhaustive web search was undertaken to obtain all pertinent information related to the topic. Based on the research, recommendations to combat gentrification now …

Jephthah's Daughter: A Hebrew Foreground For Jesus' Passion In Matthew, Hanna Elizabeth Seariac

Theses and Dissertations

While there are key differences between Jephthah's daughter's story and that of Jesus, not least the difference in gender of the sacrificial victims, this thesis posits that both the similarities and differences between these two accounts can enrich readings of Jesus' death in the gospel of Matthew. A careful comparison of the narrative of Jephthah's daughter with Jesus' Passion narrative in the gospel of Matthew leads to the conclusion that Jesus' death should be interpreted as a human sacrifice. Reading Jesus' death as a human sacrifice and locating it in that socio-religious context makes his death indicative of a transactional, …

Youth Climate Change Activism: How Activism In Youth Can Be Encouraged To Help Combat Climate Change And Reduce Youth Health Impacts, Lorely M. Ruiz

Master's Projects and Capstones

While the effects of climate change are already affecting populations throughout the world, youth will have to deal with the full array of consequences due to the inaction of people in power and environmental regulation failures. Climate change is an issue that needs to be dealt with urgently due to the disproportionate burden it has on youth and future generations. A scoping literature review was conducted to analyze existing literature on climate change activism among youth throughout the globe. Research, practice, and policy recommendations were made to help address gaps in existing literature such as limited research on youth climate …

The Domestic Impact Of International Shaming: Evidence From Climate Change And Human Rights, Faradj Koliev, Douglas D. Page, Jonas Tallberg

Political Science Faculty Publications

Do international shaming efforts affect citizens’ support for government policies? While it is a frequent claim in the literature that shaming works through domestic politics, we know little about how and when international criticism affects domestic public opinion. We address this question through an originally designed survey experiment in Sweden, which (i) compares the effects of international shaming in two issue areas—human rights and climate change, and (ii) tests whether government responses to criticism moderate the impact of shaming. Our main findings are fourfold. First, we find substantial effects of international shaming on domestic public opinion. These effects hold across …

The Role Of Teacher Efficacy In Readiness To Support Lgbtq+ Students In Schools, Andrew Levy

Educational Specialist, 2020-current

LGBTQ+ students experience a myriad of difficulties associated specifically with their sexual or gender minority status. The current body of research has focused on negative outcomes of these difficulties, while there is a dearth of research into how schools can position stakeholders to support these students. Teachers often serve as consistent, direct points of contact for students in schools. As such, this study aims to explore teacher candidates’ sense of professional self-efficacy and its relationship with their confidence in supporting LGBTQ+ students in three ways: individual interventions, developing their own knowledge and skills, and systems-level advocacy. Teacher candidates were surveyed …

Prenatal And Pregnancy Loss Evaluation By Noninvasive Screening And Diagnostic Genetic Testing, Abigail Haggerty

Theses & Dissertations

Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) utilizing cell-free fetal DNA (cffDNA) in the maternal blood is the screening test of choice for physicians today. NIPT depends on the amount of cffDNA in the maternal blood, called the fetal fraction (FF). Researchers are investigating the implications of the FF value in reference to multiple variables in pregnancy outcome, including the risk for aneuploidy and maternal factors that influence the FF.

Diagnostic techniques utilized in patient care include cytogenetics, fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH), and microarray. Diagnostic testing is critical to confirm or rule out genetic abnormalities among women with abnormal screening results, …

Evaluation Of Medication Optimization In The Setting Of Ecmo Therapy: Assessment Of Therapeutic Effectiveness, Greg Peitz

Theses & Dissertations

A series of studies within the setting of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) was undertaken to specifically answer questions related to medication optimization during this complex therapy. These studies included medication therapies involving optimal anticoagulation, analgesia delivery, fluid resuscitation, and infection related outcomes in the context of ECMO. Each investigation was retrospective in nature and included patients from a single institution. The results of these studies indicated the following: 1.) various anticoagulation goals do not impact severe, life-threatening bleeding events during ECMO therapy; 2.) sepsis is a common occurrence in the setting of ECMO; 3.) the choice of either a crystalloid …

Labeling Melanoma Cells With Black Microspheres For Improved Sensitivity In Detection Via Photoacoustic Flow Cytometry, Tori Kocsis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Melanoma is an aggressive form of skin cancer known for developing into metastatic disease. Current clinical diagnostics, including medical imaging and tissue biopsy, provide a poor prognosis since the cancer is in the late stages of disease progression. In recent years, photoacoustic flow cytometry has allowed for the detection of circulating melanoma cells within patient blood samples in vitro. Although this method exploits the naturally-produced melanin within the cells, it has only successfully detected highly-pigmented melanoma cell lines. Since various forms of melanoma exist, each with varying melanin concentrations, this research aims to provide a novel method for detecting lightly-pigmented …

Engl 0111 - Integrated Reading & Writing - Language And Communication, Christanna Eshleman, Kalandra Rankins, Tiffany Dorsey

Open Education Resources

This OER packet contains the course materials for ENGL 0111 - Integrated Reading & Writing that introduce the ways in which reading and writing work together. Good writers are good readers. When you know HOW reading and writing work, and more importantly, you know what to look for as a reader and writer, your reading will become stronger, and your writing will become more advanced. You will write with the reader in mind, and you will read looking for writer’s tips and tricks! This text introduces fundamental strategies to enhance both reading and writing skills that will help you succeed …

Roles Of C-Terminal Domain Of Dna Polymerase Ζ Catalytic Subunit, Rev3, In Translesion Dna Synthesis And Origin Of Mutations In Yeast, Jian Cui

Theses & Dissertations

Translesion DNA synthesis (TLS) effectively bypasses DNA lesions induced by environmental and endogenous mutagens, protecting cells from replication fork arrest, double-strand breaks, and ultimately cell death. Polymerase ζ (Pol ζ), regulated by ubiquitylation of accessory protein PCNA, plays a key role in TLS. Pol ζ acts as the extender from distorted DNA template/primer termini after damage bypass accomplished by other TLS polymerases exploiting a scaffold of cytidyl transferase Rev1. Pol ζ also makes errors during the synthesis of the downstream region. Both transactions lead to mutations. More than 90% of induced and half of spontaneous mutations in yeast are dependent …

Environmental Exposures And Human Health Challenges: Evidence-Based Insights From Health Surveillance Systems, Jagadeesh Puvvula

Theses & Dissertations

Human exposure to environmental hazards is associated with a variety of preventable adverse health outcomes. As the environmental health risks result from the complex interaction between hazard, exposure, and susceptibility, these exposure-outcome associations are heterogeneous across the population. Improving environmental health literacy by advocating evidence-based environmental risk communication could play a role in reinforcing protective behavior against environmental hazards. The use of public health surveillance systems to assess the exposure-response associations is one of the effective ways to quantify the environmental health risks. However, there are several gaps in effectively quantifying environmental health risks. This dissertation aims to address a …

The Development And In Vivo Immunologic Assessment Of Biodegradable Microparticles Incorporating Cpdi-02 And Mucosal Protein Vaccine, Jacob E. Parriott

Theses & Dissertations

Encapsulation in biodegradable microparticles (MPs) is a promising approach to increase the efficacy of intranasally administered protein vaccines. The generation of long-lived adaptive immune responses against encapsulated protein vaccines, however, requires the incorporation of a suitable mucosal adjuvant. CPDI-02—a complement peptide-derived immunostimulant that selectively activates dendritic cells and macrophages over neutrophils while minimizing the inflammatory side effects of parent C5a—has previously been incorporated into both systemic and mucosal vaccine formulations via direct conjugation to chemical moieties, peptides, proteins, inactivated pathogens, and the surface of biodegradable particles, to enhance Th1-biased cellular immune responses. The effect of CPDI-02 surface conjugation to MPs …

Nine Out Of Ten Samples Were Mistakenly Switched By The Orang-Utan Genome Consortium, Graham L Banes, Emily D Fountain, Alyssa Karklus, Robert S Fulton, Lucinda Antonacci-Fulton, Joanne O Nelson

2020-Current year OA Pubs

The Sumatran orang-utan (Pongo abelii) reference genome was first published in 2011, in conjunction with ten re-sequenced genomes from unrelated wild-caught individuals. Together, these published data have been utilized in almost all great ape genomic studies, plus in much broader comparative genomic research. Here, we report that the original sequencing Consortium inadvertently switched nine of the ten samples and/or resulting re-sequenced genomes, erroneously attributing eight of these to the wrong source individuals. Among them is a genome from the recently identified Tapanuli (P. tapanuliensis) species: thus, this genome was sequenced and published a full six years prior to the species' …

Board Of Trustees Minutes, August 12, 2022, Coastal Carolina University

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Increasing Young Children’S Honest Reports And Decreasing Their Transgressions, Robert K. Lehardy

Theses & Dissertations

Young children break rules (i.e., transgress) and then lie about those transgressions. By adolescence, lying is associated with decreased trust, communication, and quality of relationships, and befriending antisocial peers. To decrease lies, we replicated differentially reinforcing honest reports about transgressions for one 6-year-old neurotypical child and two 7-year-old children who were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. After all children learned to report honestly about transgressions, we extended on past research to decrease transgressions by differentially reinforcing play behaviors that children could engage in instead of transgressions. For all children, this resulted in increased levels of play, decreased transgressions, and continued …

Putting Yourself Out There, Lareeca Rucker

University of Mississippi News

Ole Miss journalism students land jobs with BBDO Worldwide

Investigating The Role Of Splenic Macrophages In Pancreatic Cancer, Daisy V. Gonzalez

Theses & Dissertations

Pancreatic cancer is currently the 3rd leading cause of all cancer-related deaths, with a 5-year survival rate remaining at 10%. The current standard treatment of care and a lack of effective diagnostic markers leaves patients with a dismal prognosis at advanced stages of the disease. This thesis research evaluated the effect of ApoE-expressing macrophages in the spleen. First, we aimed to assess the ApoE expression in the spleen of pancreatic tumor-bearing mice. Results showed that ApoE expression in splenic macrophages increased as the disease progressed. In addition, we saw a significant increase in marginal zone metallophilic macrophages and red pulp …

Neuropilin-2 In Advanced Prostate Cancer And Its Targeting With Novel Small Molecule Inhibitors, Ridwan Islam

Theses & Dissertations

Despite the development of new therapies, clinical management of advanced metastatic castrationresistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) still remains challenging owing to the emergence of therapy resistance. Resistance to the therapies is driven by both AR and non-AR pathways. Non-AR pathway is characterized by a lineage switch that leads to the development of neuroendocrine-like (NE-like) prostate cancer (PCa), which has a fulminant clinical course due to the lack of effective treatment strategy. Therefore, novel molecular targets need to be identified to develop effective therapeutic regimen to improve the outcomes in advanced PCa patients including NE-like PCa. Recent investigation on advanced PCa patients …

Mitchell's "American Awakening: Identity Politics And Other Afflictions Of Our Time" (Book Review), Jaclyn Lee Parrott

The Christian Librarian

No abstract provided.

Ud In The News Aug. 6-12, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The Ignatian Solidarity Network featured the University's ethical purchasing. Local media highlighted the L. Crotty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership's new executive director.

Toddler Characteristics And Attention, Lani A. Taylor

Research Psychology Theses

Abstract

Individual differences have become increasingly relevant when addressing variability across child development. Literature bears evidence that these differences may impact a toddler’s ability to respond to Joint Attention (JA). JA refers to a communicative gaze and pointing between a child and another individual. JA has been recognized as being a critical milestone, to the formation and cultivation of shared awareness and attention of an event or object. JA is a skill that is critical to the development of future language acquisition (Vaughan Van Hecke et al., 2007). The aim of this study is to measure whether child characteristics, such …

Reducing The Digital Divide: Why Culturally Relevant Ehealth Interventions Can Reduce Latino Health Disparities, Blanca Flor Garcia-Silva

Master's Projects and Capstones

Objectives: This paper systematically reviews the recent literature on incorporating culturally relevant material in electronic health (eHealth) tools for Latinos. Latinos are a fast-growing ethnic population set to reach 119 million individuals by 2060 (Velasco-Mondragon et al., 2016). Latinos are also disproportionately affected by comorbidities and other poor health outcomes. Developing a culturally sensitive eHealth tool can lead to positive health outcomes among Latinos. Methods: Peer-reviewed articles and analyses were extracted to identify whether eHealth was associated with positive health outcomes among Latino adults. Four literature databases were used to extract English-language articles published from 2001 to 2022. …