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Service Provider Practice And Dual Victimization Survivors Seeking Emergency Shelter, Lana Heinen

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The Violence Against Women Act supports responses to the crimes of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. It does not provide a permanent or guaranteed pathway to safe and stable housing for those experiencing the dual victimization of domestic violence and human trafficking. Service provider practices can alleviate or aggravate barriers faced by this population. These practices are influenced by the education and training service providers receive before entering the field and throughout their career. The purpose of this generic qualitative study was to explore service providers’ perceptions of structures and barriers contributing to the obstacles of accessing …

A Sensory Investment Syndrome Hypothesis: Personality And Predictability Are Linked To Sensory Capacity In The Hermit Crab Pagurus Bernhardus, Ari Drummond, Summer Nash, Tianna Holloway, Alexander Wilson, Lucy Turner, Mark Briffa

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Correlated phenotypic traits (i.e., syndromes) may manifest as associations between different behavioural types or between behavioural and non-behavioural phenotypes. While syndromes research is extensive, correlations involving behavioural type and sensory morphology have yet to be investigated. Sensation is essential in decision-making and should be correlated with behavioural phenotypes involved in risk response, including boldness. We investigated correlations between boldness and sensory capacity in Pagurus bernhardus hermit crabs, taking repeat measures of startle response durations to assess hermit crab personality and predictability. The correlation between startle response and the sensillar density (i.e., number of sensilla per unit surface area) of both …

Discharge System Field Sampling Plan, 2025 Update Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Npl Site Butte Mine Flooding Operable Unit | Butte, Montana, Mark Thompson, Dave Griffis

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

A Scoping Review Of Personalised Uk Maternity Care: Where Are We Now?, Louisa Tompkins, Gary Hodge, Jill Shawe, Lisa Burrows, Annick Bogaerts, Susie Pearce

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Background/AimsPersonalised care has been recommended continuously to improve UK maternity services. The aim of this review was to explore the current provision of personalised care and consider why it may not yet be fully embedded in practice.MethodsThis review of Embase, Medline, the Healthcare Management Information Consortium, the British Nursing Index, CINAHL, Google Scholar and reference lists found 15 articles published between 2014 and 2024, which were included for thematic analysis and synthesis.ResultsThe themes included the complexities of personalised care, different perspectives when implementing personalised care and the effect of cultural factors embedded in maternity services.ConclusionsBarriers to implementing personalised care include …

Differential Efficacy Of Bevacizumab And Erlotinib In Preclinical Models Of Renal Medullary Carcinoma And Fumarate Hydratase-Deficient Renal Cell Carcinoma, Niki M Zacharias, Manuel Ozambela, Menuka Karki, Rong He, Pankaj K Chauhan, Pedro I Pesquera, Andres E Hernandez Gonzalez, Oscar Ochoa, Alberto Pieretti, Huiqin Chen, Carolyn De La Cerda, Zhiyuan Yu, Abha Grover, Samantha Hicks-Peña, Natalie W Fowlkes, Lei Wang, Tapati Maity, Priya Rao, Giannicola Genovese, Nizar M Tannir, Jose A Karam, Pavlos Msaouel

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Renal medullary carcinoma (RMC) and fumarate hydratase (FH)-deficient renal cell carcinoma (RCC) are rare and highly aggressive cancers. Although the combination of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibition by bevacizumab and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibition by erlotinib is clinically used for both diseases, the differential effect of each component has not been investigated. Transcriptomic profiling revealed that RMC and FH-deficient tumor tissues demonstrate increased EGFR but not VEGF expression compared with adjacent normal kidney. Subsequent in vitro studies revealed that RMC and FH-deficient cell lines are sensitive to erlotinib treatment, whereas clear cell RCC cell lines are resistant. …

Immature Acta2r179c/+ Smooth Muscle Cells Cause Moyamoya-Like Cerebrovascular Lesions In Mice Prevented By Boosting Oxphos, Anita Kaw, Suravi Majumder, Jose E Esparza Pinelo, Ting Wu, Zbigniew Starosolski, Zhen Zhou, Albert J Pedroza, Xueyan Duan, Kaveeta Kaw, Angie D Gonzalez, Ripon Sarkar, Michael P Fischbein, Philip L Lorenzi, Lin Tan, Sara A Martinez, Iqbal Mahmud, Laxman Devkota, L Maximilian Buja, Heinrich Taegtmeyer, Ketan B Ghaghada, Sean P Marrelli, Callie S Kwartler, Dianna M Milewicz

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

ACTA2 pathogenic variants altering arginine 179 cause childhood-onset strokes due to moyamoya disease (MMD)-like occlusions of the distal internal carotid arteries, but the mechanisms of pathogenesis are unknown and no preventive treatments exist. Here we show that Acta2R179C/+ smooth muscle cells (SMCs) fail to fully differentiate and maintain stem cell-like features, including increased migration and glycolytic flux compared to wildtype (WT) SMCs. Increasing mitochondrial respiration with nicotinamide riboside (NR) drives differentiation and decreases migration of Acta2R179C/+ SMCs. Carotid artery injury of Acta2SMC-R179C/+ mice leads to premature death, intraluminal SMC accumulation leading to MMD-like occlusive lesions, neurologic symptoms, …

Burnout Theory, Pandemic Teaching And Teacher Efficacy: What Is Lost When Schools Return To “Normal”?, Katy Farber, Penny A. Bishop

Journal of Educational Research and Practice

Our qualitative study examined educators’ perceptions of teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of burnout theory. Using the three components of burnout as theorized by Maslach and Leiter (2016), we analyzed teachers’ self-reports of emotional exhaustion, cynicism/depersonalization, and reduced sense of professional self-efficacy. We interviewed 16 teachers who taught through the emergency remote-learning phase of the pandemic in March 2020 and remained in the same district when prepandemic practices returned. We conducted semistructured interviews in person and on Zoom with special educators, integrated arts teachers, school counselors, and general classroom teachers. We describe the unanticipated finding that teachers …

Communication, Technology, And Culture

Communication Research Trends

"...from the alphabet to the motorcar, Western man has been steadily refashioned in a slow technological explosion that has extended over 2,500 years. From the time of the telegraph onward, ••• Western man bega'l to live an implosion. He began suddenly ... to play the movie of his 2,500 year explosion backward".

In characteristically vivid imagery Marshall McLuhan in Understanding Media expresses his belief in the power of technology to transform culture. McLuhan's words raise a host of questions about the complex interrelationship of culture, technology, and human consciousness. Questions such as: does technology determine cultural change? how do changes …

Violence In The Media

Communication Research Trends

Do film and television portrayals of violence cause aggressive behaviour in children, juvenile delinquency, increased crime? For more than fifty years this has been one of the most heavily studied - and heavily funded! - topics of communication research. In the United States and, to some extent, in Britain, no other question of media content has been such an important political issue. The public debate about media violence has offered to media researchers one of their most important opportunities to be directly involved in media policy discussions.

Yet, the continuing analysis of programme content by communication researchers such as George …

Television Viewing And Family Communication

Communication Research Trends

Over the past thirty years a host of research studies has sought to determine just what are the effects of television viewing on social behaviour. In particular, study after study has attempted to establish once and for all whether or not the watching of violent programmes by children and adolescents is a direct cause of later aggressive behaviour.

Yet today all that these studies can tell us for certain is that ''for some children, under some conditions, some television is harmful'' and that ''for most children, under most conditions, most television is probably neither harmful nor particularly beneficial." And we …

Journalism, The Press And New Technology

Communication Research Trends

In Japan, the newspaper Ashai Simbun has installed a computer system which transfers newsprint to the presses, photosets the print, automatically bales the 12 million copies in the required numbers for each district of the country, and loads them on to waiting lorries; all without the help of a single human being.

Though the degree of automation at the Ashai Shimbun is exceptional, newspapers throughout the world are beginning to exploit the power of the computer to revolutionize the work ofj ournalists and printers. And not only the computer. The use of satellites for remote site printing and facsimile transmission, …

Conversations In Isolation: A Mixed-Methods, Multi-Perspective Evaluation Of Extreme Electronic Service Learning During Covid-19, Lauren M. Dinour, Jennifer Y. Daclan

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

Due to physical proximity constraints imposed by COVID-19, extreme electronic service learning (e-service-learning)—instruction and service offered completely online—allowed for the safe continuation of service-learning experiences. Using a combination of surveys and an autoethnographic approach, this study describes findings of an intergenerational extreme e-service-learning project from four perspectives: students, assisted living facility residents, community partner, and course instructor. Positive impacts were noted on personal, social, and learning contexts among each of the four perspectives.

Queera Personalis: Theorizing A Queer Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm In First-Year Writing, Jimmy Hamill

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

This article argues that putting the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP) in conversation with Queer Composition Pedagogy can support LGBTQIA+ students and their often-fraught positions at Catholic universities. Beginning with my history as a gay Catholic at a Jesuit college, I examine the Jesuit value of cura personalis or “care for the whole person” by asking how queer students at a Catholic college can be wholly cared for in an institution that marginalizes queer people. Locating this conversation in the context of the first-year writing classroom, a contact zone where students come from diverse personal and disciplinary backgrounds, this article links …

Alignment And Assessment Of University Core Curriculum With Interprofessional Education, Anthony P. Breitbach, David Pole, Haley R. Cobb, Ellen Crowell

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

A midwestern Jesuit university worked to align an existing IPE program with a new core curriculum and its corresponding student learning outcomes (SLO’s). This paper describes the collaborative curriculum development process used within an institution to develop its first University Core Curriculum. The University-core curriculum development process resulted in a framework, outcomes, and essential criteria associated with nine student learning outcomes (SLO’s). To address this new framework, faculty developed new and revised IPE learning experiences to align with University SLO’s and core attributes. This produced three IPE courses that simultaneously address the health profession program’s unique accreditation requirements, IPE competencies, …

Introducing The Loyola Way: An Ignatian Pedagogy Framework Reinvigorated By Anti-Oppressive And Student-Centered Approaches, Bridget M. Colacchio, Jessica Mansbach, Justin D. Wright, Harrison Seeling, Sydnee O'Donnell

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

Our center for teaching and learning at a mid-sized, private, Catholic, Midwest university responded to recent challenges and opportunities presented by current sociopolitical factors (such as ongoing racial injustice, global conflict, the climate crisis, and the aftermath of a global health pandemic) by rethinking our approach to teaching and learning. To better meet the needs of faculty and students in today’s world, we arrived at an integrated pedagogical approach to amplify interpersonal and societal humanization and justice. In this paper, we introduce this new framework for teaching and learning called The Loyola Way, an innovative combination of three pedagogical …

Gen Z And Gen Alpha: Designing Theology Courses For A Digital And Ai Generation, Maurice N. Emelu

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

This exploratory article examines strategies for teaching theology to Generations Z and Alpha, emphasizing their digital-native traits and unique learning preferences. It argues that theology education thrives when students engage with reflective, creative, and relevant content. Drawing from experiences at a Jesuit college and education research, it introduces the OAEPA strategy—Observation, Analysis, Evaluation, Production, and Assessment—as a framework for designing theology courses. The approach encourages active participation, critical thinking, creativity, and personal relevance, aligning with Jesuit traditions of reflection and discovery. The paper uses examples such as a theme in sacramental theology to show how theological ideas can be meaningful …

Ai In Academic Workplace, Alexander Averin, Richard Diddams, Nicole Lowes, Melesa Poole

Journal of Fundamental & Applied Business Research

Artificial intelligence (AI), once imagined only in science fiction, is now ubiquitous in the reality of modern life. It influences everything from personalized shopping recommendations (Rane et al., 2024) to advanced medical diagnoses (Al Kuwaiti et al., 2023; Khanam et al., 2024; Maleki Varnosfaderani & Forouzanfar, 2024). Redefining the models of analysis and learning, AI is quickly becoming a fundamental component of higher education as universities embrace AI tools for curriculum development, assessments, teaching, research, individualized instruction, and preparation for technological readiness in the workforce (Shah, 2023). However, the perception and adoption of these tools vary among university faculty members …

Character Challenges American Christian Business Leaders Face In The Secular Digital Age, Kevin J. Kennedy

Journal of Fundamental & Applied Business Research

In the digital age, Christian business leaders are a minority who are commonly expected to change their principles of leadership to fit within the secularized culture. These expectations for change are generating character challenges to the very core of a Christian business leader’s moral convictions and forcing them to make decisions which pit the practice of their proclaimed faith against a secularized business practice. In these workplace challenges, the Christian business leader’s faith, freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion compete with secularized practices accepted in today’s American culture. Additionally, digital age behavioral visibility, which can be …

Ewingella Americana: A Rare, Multidrug Resistant And Opportunistic Pathogen Causing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection, Peetam Singh, Anita Pandey

Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Biomedical Research KLEU

Ewingella americana is a Gram-negative rod belonging to the order Enterobacterales and comprises only species of the genus Ewingella. The pathogenic potential of E. americana in humans was not clearly understood previously. E. americana has rarely been reported globally and is considered opportunistic pathogen among immunocompromised individuals. We reported a case of catheter-associated urinary tract infection due to E. americana from a tertiary care medical teaching institute from Uttar Pradesh, India. E. Americana was identified by VITEK-2 compact automated system which was reconfirmed by conventional biochemical tests. This multidrug-resistant pathogen was found susceptible only against tigecycline, and intermediate susceptibility was …

A Cross-Sectional Assessment Of Diabetes Risk Among Adults In A Limited-Resource Urban Primary Care Setting In West Bengal, India, Nazrul Mallick, Puspendu Biswas, Dwija Poddar, Debayan Podder, Disha Bhowmik, Dipika Sarkar

Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Biomedical Research KLEU

INTRODUCTION:

India faces a burgeoning burden of type 2 diabetes mellitus, projected to reach 87 million by 2030, with alarmingly high undiagnosed cases. Early identification remains crucial for targeted health interventions. This study employed a validated risk assessment tool to identify high-risk individuals and explore associations with diabetes risk factors.

Material and Methods:

This cross-sectional study was conducted for 3 months among nondiabetic consenting adults (above 18 years) attending a limited-resource urban primary health center in the field practice area of a teaching hospital in Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal. A predesigned, pretested schedule containing domains on sociodemographics, dietary, medical history, …

Effect Of Health Education On The Awareness Of Human Papillomavirus Infection Among Undergraduate Students Of A Health Sciences University – An Interventional Study, Sasitharan Muthusamy, S. Yogeshkumar

Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Biomedical Research KLEU

BACKGROUND:

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is a significant public health concern associated with various cancers. Despite available vaccines, knowledge gaps persist among healthcare students, impacting vaccine uptake. This study aimed to assess the impact of an educational intervention on health-care students’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding HPV infection and vaccination. Furthermore, the study aimed to assess the potential barriers to vaccination.

METHODOLOGY:

A pre- post-interventional study was conducted among 656 undergraduate healthcare students over a period of 1 year to assess baseline knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to HPV infection and vaccination using a self-structured validated questionnaire. Following this, an …

Journal Metrics: Measuring Academic Impact, Journal Rankings, And Their Implications, Harpreet Kour, Punnya Angadi, Shrihari L Kulkarni

Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Biomedical Research KLEU

No abstract provided.

Self-Assessment In Postgraduate Dental Education And Practice As A Learning Tool: A Questionnaire Study, Sunila B. Sangappa, Rohit Jain, Tamal Das, Ashwini Jithendra

Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Biomedical Research KLEU

BACKGROUND:

Self-assessment (SA) as a learning skill ascends engagement in learning but also promotes learners to take responsibility in understanding their current performance and revise on shortcomings. Pedagogical strategies involving the role of self-assessment skills at varied levels of curriculum, classroom, portfolios, and reflective writing are evidenced in the literature. Health-care providers have to continuously implement changes and keep upgrading their knowledge to fetch better results during their professional career actuating the necessity of SA during students’ training. Although recommendations from the Commission on Dental Accreditation to incorporate self-assessment as early as in predoctoral education have been emphasized, the need …

Impact Of Social Media Influence On Eating Behavior In Mid And Late Adolescent Children A Cross-Sectional Study, Aishwarya Patil, Gavishiddhayya Salimath, Mubashir Angolkar

Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Biomedical Research KLEU

BACKGROUND:

Adolescence is an important period of life when healthy behaviors are learned and cultivated to improve quality of life and physical function. During this time, it is important to eat well, exercise, and feel good about yourself. Social media is a part of adolescent life having many advantages, however, wrong information can have an adverse health effect. Adolescents are influenced by the content posted on social media, which frequently features a lot of fast-junk food marketing advertisements. In turn, these posts affect their eating preferences and choices and may change their perception of what constitutes a healthy eating behavior. …

A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study To Assess The Awareness About Tuberculosis, Genexpert, Nikshay, And 99-Dots Among The Representative Population Of Medical Students, Shruti Jha, Saurabh Rambiharilal Shrivastava

Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Biomedical Research KLEU

BACKGROUND:

Tuberculosis (TB) is a global public health concern. The current study has been done with the objectives to assess the level of awareness about TB, GeneXpert, Nikshay, and 99-DOTS under the National Tuberculosis Elimination Program (NTEP) among the representative population of medical students.

MATERIALS AND METHODS:

It was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted over a period of 2 months from October 2022 to November 2022 in a tertiary teaching medical college of Chengalpet district of Tamil Nadu among the medical students of the teaching medical college and hospital. Participants between the age of 18 and 28 years were included …

Leveraging Machine Learning For Accurate Prediction Of Nba Player Salaries, Ye Cheng, Yan Song, Mingqi Wang

Iraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics

Basketball players in the NBA are renowned for their talent, athleticism, and commitment to the game. NBA players may make enormous sums of money; however, they vary greatly. Rookie agreements begin at a lower price and go up following performance. NBA players’ pays are influenced by several factors. Because they influence games and the success of the club, exceptional players fetch larger compensation. This study employs Machine Learning (ML) techniques, including Lasso Regression and Random Forest Regression (RFR) models to analyze wage trends, enhanced by the Slime Mould Algorithm (SMA) and Artificial Rabbit Optimization (ARO) for accuracy. The goal is …

A Lockean Theory Of Coastal Climate Adaptation, Lingxi Chenyang

Ocean and Coastal Law Journal

What rights do coastal residents have as the seas swallow their homes and livelihoods while the government fails to act? Many legal and policy reforms have been proposed to help people better respond to climate-induced coastal erosion. Little has been said about the underlying theories of climate governance. This Symposium Article identifies three theories of climate adaptation in the context of disappearing coastlines: scientific realism; economic realism; and liberal rights. According to scientific realism and economic realism, the key obstacle to effective climate adaptation is an uninformed government facing a scientifically and economically complex climate future. To the extent that …

Rams In Research: A Guided Journey Through The Mcnair Scholars Summer Program, Rajade M. Berry-James, Cindy Vigil

McNair Journal at VCU

This paper examines the significance of mentoring relationships in higher education, particularly for first-generation college students. Drawing on extensive literature, we highlight how effective mentorship enhances student success by fostering trust, belonging, and self-efficacy. The McNair Summer Research Program serves as a case study, featuring the collaboration between McNair Scholar Cindy Vigil and her mentor, Dr. RaJade M. Berry-James. This partnership focused on analyzing homicide rates in El Salvador, emphasizing key factors such as population, poverty, and government-negotiated truces. Through a comprehensive analysis of data from 1994 to 2019, Cindy refined existing research methodologies and gained valuable insights into the …

It Starts At Home: An Exploration Of Family Ethnic-Racial Socialization And Depressive Symptoms Among Biracial Black-White Young People, Ashley M. Dominguez, Mckenzie N. Green

McNair Journal at VCU

Abstract

A growing body of literature has suggested that ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) is a protective factor for Biracial youth as it can provide youth with skills to face different adversities like racial discrimination, ultimately improving their psychological well-being. Various types of ERS exist (e.g., verbal, non-verbal, etc) across different levels (e.g., parent-child, household/family) but some have been overlooked and understudied in research. This study sought to bridge this gap by exploring ERS at the family/household level and determining whether it relates to depressive symptoms among Biracial Black-White adolescents and emerging adults (N = 723). Specifically, the study examined if (a) …

The Diagnostic: Pel Student-Business Insights, Spring 2025

The Diagnostic

Table of Contents

1 - The Need for Real-Time Vital Sign Monitoring as the Standard of Care

5 - The Role of Digital Technologies in Advancing Anesthesia Practice

8 - The Role of MD/MBA Programs in Promoting PhysicianLeadership in a Rapidly Evolving Healthcare System

12 - Addressing the Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Crisis in the U.S.

16 - The Need for Regulatory Measures Against Media-Induced Mass Hysteria in Healthcare: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

19 - AI, Humanities, and Medical Education – A Medical Student Perspective

22 - Trust in Psychiatric Care: Moving from Detachment to Connection

26 - American …