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Educating Caregivers To Increase Participation In Sensory Integration Interventions, Hannah G. Williams

Occupational Therapy Doctoral Capstones

This capstone project aims to educate caregivers on the foundational three sensory systems and sensory integration (SI) interventions to enhance children’s participation in daily occupations. Research consistently highlights the vital role caregivers play in supporting their child’s sensory regulation and overall well-being. However, existing literature offers limited investigation into the relationship between SI dysfunction and caregiver education. Sensory integration enables the organization of sensory input to facilitate meaningful interaction with the environment; however, caregiver participation in applying SI-based interventions remains underrepresented in research and practice. To address these issues, this project utilizes an approach called knowledge translation through the creation …

Education And Advocacy For Implementation Of Biofeedback Therapy In Pediatrics With Anxiety And Migraine Headaches, Mckenly Roberts

Occupational Therapy Doctoral Capstones

This capstone project explores the implementation of biofeedback therapy in occupational therapy for treating pediatric migraines and anxiety. A comprehensive literature review was conducted, examining peer-reviewed articles from 2000–2024, which revealed biofeedback therapy’s efficacy in addressing stress-related symptoms across age groups. The study focuses on adolescents’ academic and extracurricular occupations, where stress significantly impacts mental and physical health. The project aims to establish a biofeedback therapy program at the Abilene Christian University Psychology Clinic, addressing gaps in current literature and practice guidelines. Utilizing the Person-Environment-Occupation-Performance (PEOP) model, the research highlights biofeedback’s potential to improve functional performance and participation for children …

Oncology Rehabilitation In Occupational Therapy, Callie D. Freeman

Occupational Therapy Doctoral Capstones

This doctoral capstone project examined the need for occupational therapy (OT) services among individuals diagnosed with cancer and cancer survivors. Evidence indicates that cancer-related fatigue, decreased participation, and diminished quality of life are common challenges following different types of cancer treatment. Occupational therapy addresses these issues through occupation-based interventions, fatigue management education, energy conservation strategies, and activities that promote strength, stability, and social participation. Nevertheless, a gap persists in the utilization of OT services within oncology treatment care. Over a 14-week period, this project implemented group-based interventions to enhance the quality of life and engagement among cancer survivors affiliated with …

Education Of Trauma-Informed Care In The School System: An Occupational Therapy Perspective, Jada F. Muller

Occupational Therapy Doctoral Capstones

This capstone experience focused on providing education to faculty and staff of elementary-aged children. This includes education about signs of trauma, techniques to use for the classroom, and how occupational therapy can contribute to trauma-informed interventions in the school system. More research is needed to show the implications of trauma informed practice and the role of occupational therapy within the school system. To address this gap, this doctoral project was designed to fulfill the need for trauma-informed education and add to the body of knowledge. This project took place at Denison Independent School District, where I created deliverables addressing different …

Sex, Riots, And Holy Water: How Modern Society Desecrates And Reconsecrates The Sacred, Jodeyah J. Mills

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores how modern societies desecrate and reconsecrate the sacred through rhetoric, ritual, and visual performance. Using three case studies, Nazi Germany’s transformation of Quedlinburg Abbey, the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, and Sabrina Carpenter’s controversial church music video, “Feather,” this project analyzes how sacred meaning is violated and restored in religious, civic, and popular contexts. Drawing on Kenneth Burke’s dramatistic cycle and postsecular theory, it argues that desecration and reconsecration are dialogic acts that expose competing moral vocabularies within culture. Each event demonstrates that even in a secular age, people respond to ruptures of ultimate meaning …

Principals’ Perceptions Of Their Preparedness To Facilitate And Support Technology Integration In Schools: A Case Study Of Four Rural Texas Principals, Christina J. Campbell Ed.D.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

School administrators face the challenge of leading technology integration that provides meaningful learning opportunities to prepare students for 21st-century skills and careers. Research has shown that administrative leadership support, behaviors, assumptions, and policies impact technology integration in the classroom. The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) standards include guidelines for education leaders and their role in supporting educators using technology. However, leaders underestimate the impact of their leadership on effective use in the classroom. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the perceptions of South Texas rural public school principals working in Chapman Independent School District …

A Socio-Technical Analysis Of Market Reactions On Meme Coins: Trump’S Presidential Effect, Ping Fan Ke, Yi Meng Lau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Meme coins are a unique type of cryptocurrency whose value is shaped by internet culture and viral trends. This study introduces a socio-technical research model to examine key factors influencing meme coin dynamics and applies it to analyze market reactions to Donald Trump’s 2024 U.S. presidential election victory and inauguration, focusing on the $TRUMP meme coin and other politics-related meme coins, known as PolitiFi. Using a mixed-methods approach, we analyze publicly available news, social media activity, and marketplace data to investigate the interaction between social engagement and technical infrastructure. Econometric analysis shows that Trump-related events triggered short-term price surges, increased …

Safe-Sora: Safe Text-To-Video Generation Via Graphical Watermarking, Zihan Su, Xuerui Qiu, Hongbin Xu, Tangyu Jiang, Jun-Hao Zhuang, Chun Yuan, Ming Li, Shengfeng He, Fei Yu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The explosive growth of generative video models has amplified the demand for reliable copyright preservation of AI-generated content. Despite its popularity in image synthesis, invisible generative watermarking remains largely underexplored in video generation. To address this gap, we propose Safe-Sora, the first framework to embed graphical watermarks directly into the video generation process. Motivated by the observation that watermarking performance is closely tied to the visual similarity between the watermark and cover content, we introduce a hierarchical coarse-to-fine adaptive matching mechanism. Specifically, the watermark image is divided into patches, each assigned to the most visually similar video frame, and further …

2025 December, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications & Marketing.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for December of 2025.

Three Forks, Virginia Van Enckevort

Theses

Three Forks is a thesis drama series about a 19th-century woman sent West to live with her estranged family in Muscogee, a lawless town where justice bends to power and survival means learning the game — or being buried by it. As we follow our lead, Eleanor Davis, out West and eventually her settlement into town, we gain a look into her new world, one where tribal council contend with encroaching U.S. jurisdiction and where settlers, freedmen, and railroad men jostle for influence in a town on the brink of statehood. The many fabled stories and myths about the West …

The Impact Of The 2008 Financial Crisis On Crime And Cybercrime In The United States, Rashed Adel Alsuwaidi

Theses

This thesis will examine how the traditional crime and cy- were affected by the 2008 financial crisis. United States are also experiencing a rise in crime between 2005 and 2012. Based on the FBI data at the national level. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), Uniform Crime Reports and important economic indicators. The study, which involves tors, including unemployment, GDP, rates of foreclosures, and mortgage rates, is a combination. correlationbased interpretation supported by exploratory descriptive trend analysis. model-fit checks. The results indicate that contrary to the conventional expectations, violent and property crime also maintained their long-term reduction during the period …

Predicting Residential Real Estate Prices In Dubai Using Integrated Data Analytics: A Machine Learning Approach, Mohammad Nasser

Theses

Dubai’s rapidly evolving real estate market attracts substantial global investment yet remains characterized by information asymmetry, pricing volatility, and fragmented data sources. This study examines how integrated data analytics and ensemble machine learning can be used not primarily for precise price prediction, but rather to identify and quantify the key behavioral and transactional drivers of residential property prices in Dubai. A unified dataset was constructed by integrating over 100,000 residential property transactions from the Dubai Land Department with macroeconomic indicators, web-scraped listing attributes, and sentiment measures derived from online reviews and social media discussions. Supervised learning models including Linear Regression, …

Predicting Loan Defaults: A Behavioral Scoring Approach For Portfolio Risk Monitoring In Banking And P2p Lending, Humaid Sultan Almarri

Theses

The critical challenge of lending institutions and peer-to-peer investors is to single out high-risk active borrowers in order to avoid defaults and corresponding losses. This thesis is devoted to the development of a data-driven approach to predict loan defaults, which balances predictive accuracy with interpretability and cost-sensitive evaluation. Using a large dataset of loans from LendingClub, we applied the CRISP-DM methodology, performing extensive data preprocessing and exploratory analysis before training several machine learning models-logistic regression, decision tree, random forest, and XGBoost-to classify loans as default or non-default. Class imbalance was addressed through resampling, and models were tuned via cross-validation with …

Segment-Level Machine Learning For Detecting Partial Deepfake Audio: An Rnn–Svm Hybrid Approach For Real-World Adversarial Environments, Ahmad Alhelli

Theses

This study investigates the detection of real, fully fake, and partially fake (PF) audio using classical machine-learning models as well as a segment-level analysis model. Unlike most existing research, which focuses solely on binary real-vs-fake classification, this work introduces a three-class detection framework and constructs realistic PF samples by inserting short synthetic speech segments into otherwise genuine audio recordings. Its method combines MFCC and spectral feature engineering,Wav2Vec2 embeddings, controlled PF synthesis and various models such as SVM, Random Forest, XGBoost and an attention based RNN. Segment level windowing allows fine-grained study of transition of time and breaks of manipulation. The …

Biodegradation Of Common Post-Consumer Plastic, Laura Krebs

Theses

Plastic waste is widespread throughout the Laurentian Great Lakes watershed. During environmental exposure, plastic undergoes abiotic and biotic degradation. The presence of novel plastic substrates coupled with rapid microbial turnover may lead to selection for or evolution of metabolic pathways and enzymes with enhanced biodegradation capabilities. This study investigated the biodegradation potential of bacteria isolated from debris accumulation hotspots - stormwater retention ponds, storm drains, and tributaries - in the Lake Ontario watershed within Rochester, New York. Bacterial isolates were exposed to commonly littered plastics for 240 d: cellulose acetate from smoked cigarette filters, high-density polyethylene from takeout shopping bags, …

Lanthorn, Vol. 60, No. 08, December 1, 2025, Grand Valley State University

Volume 60, August 4, 2025 – April 20, 2026

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

An Examination Of Brand Avoidance Among Consumers Of Membership Business Models, Cara Peters, Bradley W. Brooks

Journal of Applied Marketing Theory

The purpose of this study is to examine how the increasingly prevalent business membership model is linked to potential brand avoidance. Based on a qualitative examination of consumer complaints from two organizations that utilize membership business models, this research demonstrates how consumer complaints are highly consistent with established brand avoidance antecedents. The findings offer a cautionary warning to business decision-makers who manage membership business models with consumers as well as to those who are considering implementing such an approach. The implications for these decision-makers are discussed.

Is Political Information Over Facebook Credible? A Look At The 2020 Presidential Election, Kristina Harrison, Shawn Thelen, Boonghee Yoo, John B. Ford

Journal of Applied Marketing Theory

Much controversy still exists surrounding the events before, during, and after the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Some of this is attributable to voters’ uncertainty, driven by conflicting messages transmitted over social media, about the credibility of information surrounding the candidates and election results. Examining data collected shortly before the 2020 election, this study investigates how consumers perceive political information presented on Facebook. Drawing from Source Credibility Theory and the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM), the research tests a model that includes medium dependency, medium interactivity, information quality, information presentation, personal expertise, and power perception. Data from 407 participants were analyzed using …

Decoding The Dynamics Of Ceo Sociopolitical Activism And Stakeholders’ Response, Nayyer Naseem, Yuqi Wang, Faraz Moin

Journal of Applied Marketing Theory

Business leaders today function as powerful symbolic figures whose sociopolitical stances can transform consumer loyalty, investor confidence, and organizational stability. This study decodes how stakeholders interpret executive actions and respond through behaviors such as boycotts, divestment, or heightened advocacy, highlighting both short and long-term consequences. Drawing on signaling, stakeholder, social identity, social influence, intrinsic motivation, and reputational risk theoretical frameworks, this study develops a four-stage interpretive model that links leadership behavior to stakeholder perceptions, reactions, and market outcomes within varying contextual and environmental conditions. Through a case-based analysis, it illustrates how CEO stance, media framing, and ideological alignment shape these …

Educating For Impact: A Prosocial Marketing Approach To Foster Altruism Among Young Consumers, Bela Florenthal

Journal of Applied Marketing Theory

This study explores how a prosocial marketing intervention in a dual-enrollment course fosters altruistic values and emotional development among young consumers while deepening their understanding of cause-related and social marketing. Grounded in holistic and experiential learning, the project required students to engage in weekly acts of kindness, reflect on their experiences, and share their actions on social media to amplify impact. Thematic analysis of qualitative data collected over two academic years revealed personal growth driven by intrinsic motivation (e.g., belonging, self-esteem) and positive emotions (e.g., joy, pride). Students demonstrated greater social awareness and practical application of marketing principles through volunteering, …

A Study Of Configuration Management Database (Cmdb) Adoption In It Service Management (Itsm) Implementations Within Nj Community Colleges, Fredrick Dande

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the adoption of Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) in IT Service Management (ITSM) implementations within New Jersey (NJ) community colleges. Despite the well-documented benefits of CMDBs—such as faster issue resolution, improved compliance, and greater visibility across IT infrastructures—implementation success rates remain low. As technology continues to enhance production capabilities and expand access to information, the need for centralized configuration visibility has become critical. A CMDB provides a single system of record for IT assets and services, helping organizations manage outages, assess changes, maintain compliance, and improve asset tracking. This research used an online survey to collect data from …

Gry W Praktyce Zarządzania, Michał Mijal

Monografie/Monographs

Monografia podejmuje tematykę rosnącego zastosowania gier w zarządzaniu organizacjami. Autor szczegółowo klasyfikuje różne rodzaje gier, wskazując na ich zastosowanie w obszarach, takich jak rekrutacja, szkolenia, negocjacje i integracja zespołów, co sprawia, że praca jest praktyczna i dostarcza konkretnych przykładów, które mogą być użyte w codziennej praktyce menedżerskiej.

Games in Management Practice

The monograph addresses the growing use of games in organisational management. The author provides a detailed classification of different types of games, pointing to their application in areas such as recruitment, training, negotiations and team building, which makes the work practical and provides specific examples that can be used …

Sztuczna Inteligencja W Systemach Informatycznych Zarządzania W Środowisku Procesowym, Małgorzata Oleś-Filiks

Monografie/Monographs

Współczesne systemy informacyjne zarządzania wraz z procesami biznesowymi odgrywają kluczową rolę w funkcjonowaniu organizacji, wspierając zarówno codzienne operacje, jak i podejmowanie strategicznych decyzji. Monografia przybliża problematykę integracji sztucznej inteligencji z wybranymi typami systemów informatycznych zarządzania ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem Business Process Management jako środowiska sprzyjającego implementacji sztucznej inteligencji jako narzędzia wspomagającego sterowanie, analizę i optymalizację procesów biznesowych. Szeroko prezentuje m.in. typy systemów informacyjnych zarządzania, w których wdrożenie AI przynosi największe korzyści, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem Business Process Management jako środowiska, w którym sztuczna inteligencja może być skutecznie osadzona jako komponent sterujący i analityczny.

Artificial Intelligence in IT Management Systems in a Process …

The Role Of Barriers, Perceptions, And Strategic Gaps In Attracting International Students, Maqsood Saadi Mohammad

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

This paper examined the administrative outlooks of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq regarding the issue of recruiting international students, based on the perceived obstacles, institutional approaches, and the desired support of the government. The study is based on institutional theory and strategic management in higher education, which offers a strong theoretical framework for investigating how universities can ensure their internal capabilities are aligned with external policy structures. Quantitative research design was incorporated, and a structured survey was introduced to the presidents, deans, vice presidents, and directors of international relations and admissions of various universities. The collected data were analyzed using …

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

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Penambahan Jumlah Kementerian Negara: Analisis Terhadap Efektivitas Dan Efisiensi Pemerintahan, Bayu Saputro, Alfi Syahri Lubis, Renaldy Wijaksana Wibowo, M. Fariz Al-Qindi

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The revision of Law 39/2008 on State Ministries, which removes the maximum limit of 34 ministries, has become a polemic issue in society. Analysis shows that increasing the number of ministries is not urgent and runs counter to the spirit of bureaucratic reform. This policy also does not improve the effectiveness of government administration, because the main issue affecting the effectiveness of ministries lies in the quality of ministers, not the number of ministries. The addition of ministries has the potential to cause overlapping authorities, regulatory disharmony, and sectoral egos. From an efficiency perspective, this policy places a heavy burden …

Light Or Acid? Suppressing Water Deactivation In Saf Production Via Phenyl-Mediated Charge Transfer In Wox/Zrox-Functionalised Pmos, Vannia C. Dos Santos-Durndell, Mark A. Isaacs, Jinesh C. Manayil, Lee J. Durndell

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The aviation sector contributes ∼2.5 % of global energy-related CO2 emissions, driving demand for sustainable aviation fuel production (SAF) from biomass. However, water, whether intrinsic or produced in situ, often drives on-stream catalyst deactivation, reducing efficiency and creating barriers to process scale-up. Here, we present an exciting new approach using WOx/ZrOx-functionalised periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMO) photocatalysts that exhibit exceptional stability and performance under aqueous conditions. The incorporation of bis(triethoxysilyl)benzene (BTSB) into the PMO framework not only enhances surface hydrophobicity and acidity but also strategically positions organic π-conjugated phenyl groups next to WOx/ZrOx active sites. These phenyl moieties act as conductive …

Novice Instructors Can Make Satisfying Video Lectures By Using Familiar Techniques: A Repeated-Measures Test Of Video Lecture Formats And Learner Satisfaction Theory, Sonny Rosenthal, Stuart Braiman, Dawn Z. Y. Poh

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

Research has shown that composite video lectures lead to higher learner satisfaction than other video lecture formats, but this finding has not been replicated among novice instructors. In this study, six PhD students created two video lectures on different topics. One used the picture-in-picture (PiP) format, while the other used the video composite format. Undergraduate student participants (N = 185) watched both video lectures by a single instructor and rated them on several variables. Contradicting prior research, the participants rated the composite video as having lower content quality (Cohen’s d = -0.35) and instructor-content interaction (Cohen’s d = -0.17) than …

Navigating Ai-Nature Frictions: Autonomous Vehicle Testing And Nature-Based Constraints, Prerona Das, Orlando Woods, Lily Kong

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

In cities, the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being directed towards transforming different aspects of urban life. These applications take material form in urban spaces, with autonomous vehicles (AVs) providing a prominent example. AI systems rely on large volumes of data on their surroundings to refine the algorithms and enhance the accuracy of prediction for operational efficiency and safety. However, such algorithmic learning and execution can present challenges when dealing with the unpredictable, complex, and dynamic aspects of urban spaces. Nature is a paradigmatic example of such unpredictability, because natural phenomena usually defy consistent patterns and precise data-based modelling. …

Building Rapport In Ethnoculturally Dissimilar Dyads: A Critical Grounded Theory Inquiry, Danielle E. Burton

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Multiculturalism is not a new concept within the field of counseling. It is discussed in terms adjacent to competency, theory, and identity development. However, research indicates that students do not usually feel multiculturally-competent following their graduation from counseling programs, nor do they feel that they have adequate skills and techniques to engage diverse clientele. This critical grounded theory study examines counseling skills, dispositional factors, systemic factors, and other experiential factors used in pursuit of rapport within counseling dyads of ethnocultural dissimilarity. Semi-structured interview data was coded to reveal five themes to be used as a heuristic for further discovery. These …