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Predictors Of Nbcot Examination Pass Rates: The Role Of Gpa, Gre, And Otke Scores In Occupational Therapy Education, Sherri Powers, Lori Eggers Saxby, Christopher Mecklin

Journal of Occupational Therapy Education

Given the critical role of National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT) certification in occupational therapy (OT) practice, this study examined predictors of NBCOT examination success to inform program improvement. Analyzing data from 59 Master of Science in Occupational Therapy (MSOT) graduates at a single institution over the course of three years (2020–2022), a retrospective design with logistic regression assessed undergraduate grade point average (GPA), prerequisite GPA, within-program GPA, Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores, and pre- and post- Occupational Therapy Knowledge Examination (OTKE) scores as predictors of first-attempt NBCOT pass rates. Of 58 students with reported outcomes, 56% passed …

Improving Self-Regulated Learning Among Occupational Therapy Students, Pola Ham

Journal of Occupational Therapy Education

Many occupational therapy students, particularly first-generation students, face significant academic and social challenges in higher education that affect their self-regulated learning (SRL). SRL involves goal setting, self-monitoring, strategy implementation, and reflection. The rigorous academic demands, combined with the unique challenges experienced by many first-generation students, exacerbate these difficulties, particularly in developing SRL skills, which are essential for academic and professional success. While first-generation students often lack these skills due to a variety of factors, many occupational therapy students also struggle to develop these skills, regardless of background. This narrative review examines the role of SRL in occupational therapy education and …

Boycotts, Backlash, And Beer: The Impact Of Brand Partnerships On Political Polarization In The United States, Elizabeth Gray Shoultz

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

In an election year with political instability happening around the world, there are many lessons to be learned about businesses’ role in exacerbating or helping to calm these politically wild times. This research aims to uncover the mysteries that lie at the intersection of the corporate and political worlds by investigating if, and how, political stability is heightened by various brand practices, including but not limited to marketing efforts, social media posts, and influencer collaborations. This paper utilizes the lens of the 2023 Bud Light collaboration with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney and the effects this partnership had on American political …

Everything Old Is Q Again: An Analysis Of The Resurgent #Pizzagate Myth In Social Media, Bond Benton, Daniela Peterka-Benton

College of Communication and Media Scholarship and Creative Works

On November 28, 2023, X CEO Elon Musk posted a meme suggesting that the #pizzagate conspiracy had been suppressed by powerful forces complicit in the exploitation of children. The #pizzagate conspiracy presumed that elites had organized a ring serving pedophiles in the basement of a pizzeria in Washington D.C. The conspiracy was debunked in major news outlets with social media platforms such as Facebook banning such content, as well (BBC News). These efforts ultimately did not prevent #pizzagate from morphing into the QAnon conspiracy that would galvanize multiple extremist political movements (Bleakley). Specifically, however, #pizzagate as a discrete narrative was …

Raw Data For A Mild Alkaline Hydrothermal Etchant For Mbene Exfoliation, Michael Yeung

Chemistry Department Faculty Scholarship

Abstract for data:

Raw data for the journal publication, A Mild Alkaline Hydrothermal Ethant for MBene Exfoliation. ReadMe file provided.

Abstract for journal publication:

MoBene (the boride equivalent of MXenes) has been a synthetic challenge because borides degrade in common etching media. Inspired by the intercalation of lithium ions into AlOOH, we hypothesized that a hydrothermal route enables lithium ions to intercalate the aluminum layer of MoAlB and further separate the MoB sheet apart. Here, MoBene is first synthesized through a mild hydrothermal etching method with dilute lithium hydroxide. X-ray diffraction showed a peak at 8.9°, confirming an exfoliated layered …

Unwarranted Warrants? An Empirical Analysis Of Judicial Review In Search And Seizure, Miguel De Figueiredo, Brett Hashimoto, Dane Thorley

Faculty Articles and Papers

Every year, police perform searches governed by the Fourth Amendment on hundreds of thousands of individuals and their property throughout the United States. Many of the academy’s most decorated scholars have focused on the genesis and jurisprudential nature of the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement. Surprisingly, we know almost nothing about how the Fourth Amendment regulates searchers and how searches actually work in practice.

In this Article, we pull back the curtain on the search and seizure process by presenting the largest quantitative study of warrants of any kind. We analyze over 33,000 warrant applications filed through Utah’s “e-warrants” system over …

Drawing On The Christian Tradition As A Source For The Renewal Of Labor Law Theory, Alvin Velazquez

Saint Louis University Law Journal

Does the Christian tradition have anything to offer to legal theorists exploring the renewal of labor law from its ossified framework? This Essay argues that the Christian tradition has much to offer. There are streams within the Christian intellectual tradition that offer a third way between a “naked public square” of legal thought that refuses to look at religion as a source of ideas for constructing law and Christian nationalism. Schools of theological inquiry within the Christian tradition such as the Theology of the Social Gospel, Catholic Social Teaching, and Liberation Theology draw on the “Sermon on the Mount” for …

Kill ‘Em With Lies: The False Narrative Of The American Execution Laboratory, Danica Howell

Saint Louis University Law Journal

The Supreme Court’s narrative regarding capital punishment, in keeping with the laboratories of democracy theory, boasts the consistent development of more humane methods of execution. Contrary to the Court’s narrative, however, states are not driven by the desire to create humane execution; they are merely striving to keep state-sanctioned killing alive. Examination reveals that execution methods are adopted on best guess and are retained without post-adoption verification of their effectiveness, humanity or painlessness. As abolitionist ideals close in on capital punishment, legislative shortcuts, willful ignorance, and secrecy allow new methods to propagate. As those tactics begin to fail, states resort …

Opening Space For Negotiation Reflection In Law Practice, Katrina Lee

Saint Louis University Law Journal

Critical to negotiations learning and skills-building, reflection is an enduring feature of law school negotiations courses. At the same time, anti-reflection forces in law practice persist. Lawyers face demanding work environments that compel them to make seemingly impossible choices among advancing their careers, maintaining mental and emotional health, and continuing to learn and grow. The time for slowing down and reflecting can be excruciatingly hard to come by. Technology in negotiations may also obscure the need or opportunities for reflection. This Article highlights the importance of negotiation reflection and the longstanding and emerging challenges to creating and maintaining a lawyer’s …

Pracademically Speaking: Incorporating Real-World Legal Practice Into The Dispute Resolution Curriculum, Debra Berman, Denise Peterson

Saint Louis University Law Journal

Bridging the gap between traditional dispute resolution pedagogy and the realities of practice has been a major point of discussion within the legal academy for some time. Professors want to equip students with the dispute resolution knowledge and skills that will allow them to thrive as attorneys. At the same time, the dynamics and time constraints within traditional dispute resolution courses can create many obstacles to doing so. In this article, Professors Berman and Peterson provide tangible recommendations for designing dispute resolution courses that maximize practice-readiness. They address options for course structure, class format, skills building, and various methodologies professors …

Humanizing The Law: Building Better Lawyers Through Mediation Coursework, Simone A. Haberstock

Saint Louis University Law Journal

Many students enter law school with the goal of helping others. Traditional law school classes do not help students develop empathy and an understanding of client needs and interests. This paper argues that mediation training in law school helps students improve their understanding of the human experience of litigants involved in legal disputes and builds important empathic, relational, conflict resolution, and problem-solving skills. These skills not only help students connect with and understand their clients better but can promote the self-awareness and self-care necessary for students to become healthier and happier practicing attorneys. This results in students who are more …

Peer Feedback Skills: A Negotiation Teaching Imperative, Lieutenant Colonel Taren E. Wellman

Saint Louis University Law Journal

Critical feedback, especially among peers, is difficult to give well but can be taught. Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and Negotiations teachers can not only teach negotiation and facilitation skills affecting substantive outcomes but also equip students with the confidence and competence to engage well with critical feedback—a skill readily transferrable into any conflict resolution context. In this study, the author engaged a classroom intervention designed to improve peer feedback quality in an undergraduate negotiation course. The intervention included increasing transparency of what makes effective feedback and supplying a video recording of students’ negotiation performance prior to engaging in peer feedback, …

Book Review: Feminist Afterlives Of The Witch: Popular Culture, Memory, Activism, Subhasis Pal

Journal of International Women's Studies

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Locker Room Talk: A Woman’S Struggle To Get Inside, Sneha V. John, Thahiya Afzal

Journal of International Women's Studies

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Gendered Violence In Public Spaces: Women’S Narratives Of Travel In Neoliberal India, Barnana Baidya, Partha Bhattacharjee

Journal of International Women's Studies

No abstract provided.

Digital Infrastructure Development Through Digital Infrastructuring Work: An Institutional Work Perspective, Adrian Yeow, Wee-Kiat Lim, Samer Faraj

CCX Research

Being able to understand and characterize the digital infrastructure development (DID) process has become even more pressing today due to the rapid advent and implementation of new digital infrastructure (DI) in organizations as well as since the COVID-19 crisis. While information systems (IS) research has begun to recognize the institutional nature of such digital infrastructures, there remains a gap in our understanding of how such developments unfold from an institutional perspective. Through our field study of a digital infrastructure development project involving the implementation of an enterprise-wide electronic medical record system at a large US medical facility, we show how …

Provider-Nurse Rounding Checklist: A Quality Improvement Project, Danielle Ursone

DNP Projects

Background/Introduction: Communication and collaboration between healthcare providers and nurses are essential for a good working relationship. Increased collaboration has been shown to improve staff attitudes and job satisfaction. Using a checklist provides an organized way to perform rounds and increase satisfaction with teamwork as well as decrease miscommunication. At this DNP project site, a rounding checklist is not being used, resulting in a disconnect between the nurses and healthcare providers.

Objective/Purpose: Project goals include:

1. Assess nurses' and providers’ thoughts and feelings on current collaboration and rounding done. Assess what nurses and providers find as barriers for using a rounding checklist …

Stronger Than Sickle Cell, Kingston Fuller, Celina Zhang, Ziaire Mays, Micah Rollins, London Nickols

DC Health and Academic Prep Program (DC HAPP)

Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is an inherited blood disorder that predominantly affects people of color. Our program, Stronger Than Sickle Cell, is focused on raising awareness and promoting community engagement while collecting resources to support Sickle Cell Disease research and treatment. The program will take place during the National Sickle Cell Awareness Month and will include a fundraiser called “Change for Change”, an awareness campaign with school assemblies and posters, and a blood drive in partnership with the American Red Cross. Volunteers, including students and community members will be trained to help lead this work in schools. We will measure …

2025-01-01 Caudill Connection, Morehead State University. Caudill College Of Arts, Humanities And Social Sciences.

Caudill Connection

Caudill Connection newsletter for January of 2025.

Trouble, Trouble, Trouble: Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster, And Arbitration, Imre S. Szalai Professor Of Social Justice

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

Through Ticketmaster’s use of arbitration and the controversy surrounding Ticketmaster’s botched sale of tickets for Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour, this Article explores problems with the broad use of arbitration in the United States. Arbitration, a private contractual method of resolving disputes in a binding manner, is a neutral process that can provide many benefits. However, under the current broad scope of arbitration law, virtually every type of claim can be arbitrated. A more limited arbitration law could provide more robust enforcement of laws, greater accountability and transparency, and stronger development of precedent within our legal system. Stronger parties (like …

Dominance Of Leading Business Schools In Top Journals: Insights For Increasing Institutional Representation, Rodrigo Romero-Silva, Erika Marsillac, Sander De Leeuw

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications

The competitive push for business schools to publish in prestigious journals has resulted in a disproportionate number of papers in prestigious Management and Operations Research/Management Science (OR/MS) journals coming from a select group of institutions. Our analysis shows the Matthew effect of prestigious journals favors established schools with 51.2% of papers in 18 Management ABS 4* journals and 61.3% of papers in 3 OR/MS ABS 4* journals involving authors from the 100 top business schools identified by the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). Citation patterns are similarly concentrated among papers authored by scholars from UTD-listed business schools, with nearly …

Why Ai Monitoring Faces Resistance And What Healthcare Organizations Can Do About It: An Emotion-Based Perspective, Karl Werder, Lan Cao, Eun Hee Park, Balasubramaniam Ramesh

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications

Continuous monitoring of patients' health facilitated by artificial intelligence (AI) has enhanced the quality of health care, that is, the ability to access effective care. However, AI monitoring often encounters resistance to adoption by decision makers. Healthcare organizations frequently assume that the resistance stems from patients' rational evaluation of the technology's costs and benefits. Recent research challenges this assumption and suggests that the resistance to AI monitoring is influenced by the emotional experiences of patients and their surrogate decision makers. We develop a framework from an emotional perspective, provide important implications for healthcare organizations, and offer recommendations to help reduce …

Racial Discrimination In Law Enforcement And The Importance Of Spreading Awareness, Dalia O'Keeffe

Research Days Posters 2025

This project will examine racial discrimination within law enforcement and how it targets African American and Muslim communities in the United States. Tactics of surveillance, racial profiling, and even violence are used by police to monitor innocents based purely on their religion or race. Qualitative examination of court cases brought against the government reveals the repeated pattern of unfounded racial discrimination against minorities, many of which are dismissed on purely legal grounds without addressing the underlying factual issue. The research for this project will show that utilizing social media and litigation can not only bring awareness to social issues, but …

Legitimacy And Institutions In Personalized Authoritarian Regimes, Nicholas Mckeon

Research Days Posters 2025

This research focuses on the area of how modern autocratic regimes legitimize themselves using existing social and governing institutions. Using inductive reasoning, this work will perform an examination of the Russian post-Soviet transition towards authoritarianism with Putin’s rise to power as a consideration of modern personalist autocracies and their relationship to independent societal institutions. Contemporary regime analysis indicates a trend towards increased personalized regime support at the expense of civil structures and general welfare. This is indicative of the realization of legitimacy through the ascendency of personal governing networks, thereby gutting legitimate institutions of power. This contributes to the larger …

The Authoritarian Equation: Psychology And External Factors In Authoritarian Support, Anita Perez

Research Days Posters 2025

In times of crisis, authoritarian leaders often gain support as people seek stability and security. Economic downturns, political polarization, and social unrest create conditions where people become more willing to accept strong-handed leadership, even at the expense of democratic norms. This paper examines the psychological and external factors that drive support for authoritarian leaders and asks what makes some individuals more susceptible to authoritarian rhetoric. This paper utilizes psychological theories, like the authoritarian personality framework, and political case studies from the United States, Hungary, and other nations to analyze how psychological predispositions and outside factors interact to shape authoritarian support. …

Associations Between Cannabis Consumption, Eating Habits, And Illicit Drug Use Among College Students, Gianna Gallo, Kayla Taufman, Hera Khan, Lina Begdache

Research Days Posters 2025

Cannabis use has expanded among young adults in the United States due to its recent accessibility. This trend raises alarm for the harmful habits associated with cannabis consumption. An anonymous online survey was administered through Google Forms, distributed across multiple social media platforms and shared at Binghamton University outreach events. The survey included questions on basic demographics, healthy eating habits, unhealthy eating habits, and other illicit drug use. Data was analyzed using Pearson Correlation Coefficient in SPSS version 28.0. The study revealed a positive correlation between cannabis consumption and unhealthy eating habits (p<0.01) and cannabis consumption and illicit drug use (p<0.01). The data further showed a negative correlation between cannabis consumption and healthy eating habits (p<0.05). This study aims to emphasize the potential issues associated with frequent cannabis use to support the detrimental effects of cannabis on overall health.

“Why Are We Boxing Me In?”: Nuances In Family Acceptance And Rejection For Queer Young Adults, Natalie Destro, Alexandra Itty, Mari Mclaughlin, Harper Weiss

Research Days Posters 2025

Family acceptance and rejection of queer people has a significant impact on health outcomes, with queer individuals who experience rejection demonstrating higher rates of difficulties such as dysphoria and low self-esteem. However, dominant narratives of family acceptance and rejection often fail to recognize the many different social factors which influence how acceptance or rejection is understood within families, such as culture and religious affiliation. This qualitative study investigates how queer young adults conceptualize family acceptance and rejection as shaped by different contextual considerations. 21 participants aged 18-30 were interviewed using a semi-structured protocol. Researchers analyzed data through an extensive coding …

Correlation Between Cocaine Use, Gambling Behaviors, And Body Image, Georgi Hirschegger, Elena Baldo, Haley Prisinzano, Lina Begdache

Research Days Posters 2025

Cocaine use, gambling behaviors, and concerns about negative body image are common among college students and may be interrelated. Previous research suggests a connection between cocaine use and gambling, but little is known about how these behaviors intersect with practices related to body image. This study explores the relationships between cocaine use, gambling behaviors, and body image issues. An anonymous online survey conducted through Google Forms received 878 responses, gathering self-reported data on cocaine use, gambling behaviors, and body image-related practices. The data were analyzed using Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient in SPSS version 28.0. The findings indicate that individuals who use …

Association Between Illicit Adderall Use, Gambling And Substance Use, Zachary Costanza, Rusudan Kvirikashvili, James Keough, Lina Begdache

Research Days Posters 2025

Illicit Adderall use, gambling and substance use are common and growing concerns among college students that have been found to be a precursor for a wide range of mental and physical health problems. An anonymous online survey was administered through a Google Form questionnaire and shared through multiple social media platforms and Binghamton University outreach events. The survey included a basic demographic questionnaire and questions on illicit Adderall use, substance use, gambling, stress, nutrition and coping mechanisms. A Pearson Correlation Coefficient was used to analyze the data in SPSS version 25.0. A positive correlation was found between illicit Adderall use …

Freedom Of Speech Denied Within Reproductive Rights: How Syrian And Palestinian Women Peacebuilders Face Silencing In Exile, Taylor Rogers

Research Days Posters 2025

Syrian and Palestinian women peacebuilders have been at the forefront of human rights development and conflict resolution. These women's rights have been suppressed and their freedom of expression, as guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, has been restricted. This research examines these women in exile and how they are silenced when they speak out against infringements on reproductive rights. Through qualitative analysis of individual stories, this study manually codes their testimonies into themes such as peacebuilding efforts, activism, specifically articulated needs and recommendations, and the challenges they face. The findings aim to reveal patterns of censorship against women …