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The Association Between Physiological Sources Of Pain And Sleep Quality In Older Adults With And Without Dementia, Crystal-Rae Waltons, Christine R. Kovach

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

The association of musculoskeletal pain, respiratory distress, gastrointestinal discomfort, and genitourinary pain to sleep quality in 89 persons with and without dementia was examined in the current exploratory, cross-sectional, observational quantitative design. Sources of pain were recorded, with 37.1% of the sample reporting urinary retention, 30.3% reporting genitourinary discomfort, and 53.9% reporting gastrointestinal discomfort. Mild scores of musculoskeletal pain and respiratory discomfort were elicited in >75% of the sample. An actigraph was used to measure sleep variables. Findings from this research illustrated dementia, gender, pillow use, respiratory distress, and urinary retention were statistically significantly associated with nighttime sleep quality. Results …

Taxpayer Self-Inspections, Audits, And Optimal Tax Administration: Evidence From China, Wei Cui

All Faculty Publications

I document an important tax collection practice that is previously unknown to research on tax administration: mandatory taxpayer self-inspections. The practice emerged spontaneously across China in the 1990s and persists to this day despite having no basis in law. If taxpayers report additional liabilities after self-inspections, no penalties are imposed. Unlike tax amnesties, self-inspections are (i) backed up by the threat of government inspections with a significantly higher-than-normal audit probability, and (ii) used as a basic, routine revenue-generation technique. I show that self-inspections represent roughly 50% of the activity in China’s “tax inspection” (jicha) system and assume even greater importance …

A One Health Framework To Estimate The Cost Of Antimicrobial Resistance, Chantal Morel, Richard Alm, Christine Årdal, Alessandra Bandera, Giacomo Bruno, Elena Carrara, Giorgio Colombo, Marlieke De Kraker, Sabiha Essack, Isabel Frost, Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn, Herman Goossens, Luca Guardabassi, Stephan Harbarth, Peter Jørgensen, Souha Kanj, Tomislav Kostyanev, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Finola Leonard, Gabriel Levy Hara, Marc Mendelson, Malgorzata Mikulska, Nico Mutters, Kevin Outterson, Jesus Rodriguez Baňo, Evelina Tacconelli, Luigia Scudeller

Faculty Scholarship

Objectives/purpose

The costs attributable to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remain theoretical and largely unspecified. Current figures fail to capture the full health and economic burden caused by AMR across human, animal, and environmental health; historically many studies have considered only direct costs associated with human infection from a hospital perspective, primarily from high-income countries. The Global Antimicrobial Resistance Platform for ONE-Burden Estimates (GAP-ON€) network has developed a framework to help guide AMR costing exercises in any part of the world as a first step towards more comprehensive analyses for comparing AMR interventions at the local level as well as more harmonized …

Copyright And Attention Scarcity, Jake Linford

Cardozo Law Review

As the costs of creating and sharing information have plummeted, some scholars question the continued utility of copyright protection, which imposes artificial scarcity so that authors can recoup creation and dissemination costs. Scholars have ignored, however, that when information is abundant, attention becomes a scarce resource. Superabundant information can overtax consumer attention.

Reducing copyright protection in this new environment may worsen the costs of attention scarcity on consumers of creative expression. Firms often compete for attention by free riding on the public interest generated by copyrighted works. If copyright protection is narrowed, new entrants have reduced motivation to create works …

Service Encounters Across The Lifespan In Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders: Results From A Multisite Study In Latin America, Cecilia Montiel-Nava, Sebastián Cukier, Gabriela Garrido, Daniel Valdez, Cristiane Paula, Ricardo García, Analía Rosoli, Matías Irarrázaval, Alexia Rattazzi

Psychological Science Faculty Publications

Background Core symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) continue to affect everyday life as children grow and transition into adulthood. That way, different services may be needed at various stages of their lifetimes. This study aimed to describe service encounters and hours of service per week for individuals with ASD in Latin American countries and compare the data from three age groups (preschoolers, school-aged, and adolescents).

Methods: The data were obtained from an online survey adapted by Red Espectro Autista Latinoamerica (REAL) in 6 different countries in South & Central America. The total sample was composed of 2520 caregivers of …

Fostering Community Supported Agriculture In Utah, Kelsey Hall, Roslynn Brain

All Current Publications

This curriculum contains seven modules that describe the fundamentals of CSA, CSA marketing and outreach, CSA management, CSA pricing, CSA crop planning, legal concerns for CSA operations, and additional resources.

Financial Socialization: A Decade In Review, Ashley B. Lebaron, Heather H. Kelly

Faculty Publications

The financial socialization individuals receive is associated not only with their future financial wellbeing but also relational, mental, and physical wellbeing. This paper is a review of the literature on financial socialization, especially papers published between 2010 and 2019 in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues. We first review family financial socialization theory and then review empirical documentation for the theory, organized by (a) family socialization processes (e.g., parent financial modeling, parent-child financial discussion, and experiential learning as three primary methods of financial socialization) and (b) financial socialization outcomes (e.g., financial attitudes, financial knowledge, financial behaviors, and financial wellbeing). …

How Accessible And Acceptable Are Current Gp Referral Mechanisms For Iapt For Low-Income Patients? Lay And Primary Care Perspectives, F. Thomas, L. Hansford, J. Ford, K. Wyatt, R. Mccabe, R. Byng

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

A Quantitative Analysis Of Educators' Attitudes Toward Wellbeing Promotion In Irish Post-Primary Schools, David Byrne, Colm Mcguinness, Aiden Carthy

Other Resources

In 2017, the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) published the NCCA wellbeing guidelines, mandating all post-primary schools in Ireland to allocate 300 hours of junior-cycle instruction to the promotion of students’ social and emotional wellbeing. Much is understood globally about the potential benefits of such programmes for students and educators alike. However, little is known within an Irish context regarding the attitudes and opinions of educators in this regard. The present study attended to this gap in knowledge.

This study administered the purpose-built “Attitudes Toward Wellbeing Promotion” (ATWP) scale to post-primary educators (n=327). Attitudes were assessed …

An Eeg-Based Multi-Modal Emotion Database With Both Posed And Authentic Facial Actions For Emotion Analysis, Xiaotian Li, Xiang Zhang, Huiyuan Yang, Wenna Duan, Weiying Dai, Lijun Yin

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Emotion is an experience associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity along with different physiological, behavioral and cognitive changes. One behavioral change is facial expression, which has been studied extensively over the past few decades. Facial behavior varies with a person's emotion according to differences in terms of culture, personality, age, context, and environment. In recent years, physiological activities have been used to study emotional responses. A typical signal is the electroencephalogram (EEG), which measures brain activity. Most of existing EEG-based emotion analysis has overlooked the role of facial expression changes. There exits little research on the relationship between …

Exploring English Teachers’ Views On Their Kindergarten Emergent Writing Practices: A Mixed Method Study, Asma Yousef Al Raeesi

Theses

This study aimed at exploring English teachers’ views on the emergent writing practices of kindergarten students. An exploratory sequential mixed method design was adopted by employing qualitative and quantitative means. In the first phase, five kindergarten teachers were selected purposively and interviewed using semi-structured interviews. The results extracted from the qualitative phase served in developing the quantitative tool. The second phase which featured a collection of quantitative data by means of a questionnaire which was distributed randomly to kindergarten teachers in all school districts in the UAE (n=210). The results gleaned from both the qualitative and the quantitative …

Evaluating Medical Devices Remotely: Current Methods And Potential Innovations, Anne Collins Mclaughlin, Patricia R. Delucia, Frank A. Drews, Monifa Vaughn-Cooke, Anil Kumar, Robert R. Nesbitt, Kevin Cluff

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Objective: We present examples of laboratory and remote studies, with a focus on studies appropriate for medical device design and evaluation. From this review and description of extant options for remote testing, we provide methods and tools to achieve research goals remotely. Background: The FDA mandates human factors evaluation of medical devices. Studies show similarities and differences in results collected in laboratories compared to data collected remotely in non-laboratory settings. Remote studies show promise, though many of these are behavioral studies related to cognitive or experimental psychology. Remote usability studies are rare but increasing, as technologies allow for synchronous and …

Women Who Endured Childhood Maltreatment: How Resiliency Led To Lower Mental Health Issues, Rebecca Lee Hirshman

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this study was to have a better understanding of the positive impact that resiliency has on an individual that has endured childhood maltreatment. This qualitative study focused on the information gathered from seven women ranging in age from 18 to 60 years old. Each participant answered three questionnaires (the Adverse Childhood Experience, Brief Resilience Coping Scale, and a Survey Questionnaire) prior to participating in a Zoom interview. This study elaborated on the four types of childhood maltreatment, what prompted the need for programs and interventions, the detrimental effects it has on the development of children and their …

The Relationship Between Sense Of Community And Self-Efficacy Among Senior Citizen Students, Matthew Joseph Pranger

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Older adult students are at risk academically. The senior citizen population and average life expectancy are increasing globally, which results in an increased number of adults returning to school later in life. Sense of community is related to academic engagement, achievement, interactivity, and retention. Self-efficacy is related to motivation, learning, and academic performance. One gap in the literature is the relationship between sense of community and self-efficacy for senior citizen students. The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study is to determine if there is a relationship between sense of community and self-efficacy among senior citizens recently enrolled in a college-level …

The African American Student's Perception Of Equity At Predominately White Institutions: A Phenomenological Study, Annitra C. Leigh

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This phenomenological qualitative study aimed to describe the perceptions of equity among African American graduates of Virginia predominately white institutions. Participants included 12 African American male and female student graduates who attended predominately white institutions in Virginia as full-time campus students. The theories that guided this study are Bandura’s social learning theory and the theory of self-efficacy as they focus on retention and motivation and the influence on one’s surroundings. Data sources included open-ended questionnaires, interviews, and a focus group. Data analysis followed the phenomenological method of listing and grouping, reduction and elimination, clustering, validation, and textural description of participants. …

A Phenomenological Investigation Of The Resilience And Success Of African-American Pastors Serving In The Church Of God In Christ, Terence O. Hayes Sr

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The content of this manuscript is research investigated for the resilience and success of pastors in the Church of God in Christ, a Pentecostal denomination that has over six million members, to include over three-thousand pastors. The research is a phenomenological study designed to provide a narrative, interview of the participants to share their background, role, and day-to-day practices of the work of ministry as a senior pastor in this organization. The research will consist of seven to ten pastors selected from across the country, all African-American males, age groups ranging from 42 years to 72 years of age. The …

A Mother's Trauma In The Face Of Child Removal, Candace Deborah Berry

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The crisis of the involuntary removal of a child from their parent can be traumatic for both child and parent. A child’s biological mother who is undergoing the process of removal experiences a traumatic event as she feels a range of emotions. Those emotions cause depression, loss, and emotional shock that can dissociate the mother from her goal and priority of reunification with her child. Research has been limited concerning parent’s perceptions and experiences of removal with most studies being conducted emphasizing trauma for the child. The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study is to understand the impact of trauma …

Gender Differences In Hispanic High School Students' Attitudes Toward Mathematics, Leslie Marie Mcclammy

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This study examined the difference in attitudes towards mathematics between male and female Hispanic students in a large Florida school system using the Attitudes Towards Mathematics Inventory (ATMI). This study is important because it studies a population that is underserved in the literature of mathematics pedagogy: the Hispanic high school student. The ATMI itself has mostly been used on college students. This is one of the earliest attempts to use it in a high school setting. Though the survey was available to all students in the cooperating schools, only surveys where the student self-identified as Hispanic were examined. The results …

The Pacific Sentinel, November 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

The Pacific Sentinel

Editor: Vivian Veidt

Articles in this issue include:

• Letter from the Editor
• Drones and Robots Battling
• COVID-19
• PSU’s First Homelessness and Housing Insecurity Study
• The Ziplock Diary
• Constitutionally Speaking
• God May Be Dead, but the Christian Left Isn’t
• A True Professional
• Black Is King

Picturing Forgotten Filipinx: Family Photographs And Resisting U.S. Colonial Amnesias, Stevie Cadiz, Alma M.O. Trinidad

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

U.S. imperialism in the Philippines has led to the multiple generations of diasporic conditions of colonial amnesia and systematic forgetting of history. Its impact on the Filipinx community has left unrecorded memories and voices of immigrants silenced, and considered lost to history. This study examines the relationship between U.S. colonialism and imperialism in the Philippines and the experiences of Filipinx immigration to the U.S. through a critical Indigenous feminist lens of visual imagery and storytelling. Given that many of the experiences within the Filipinx diaspora in relation to the American Empire have been systematically forgotten and erased, this study utilizes …

Quality Of Life In Children Treated For Craniopharyngiomas, Mishal Gillani, Sheza Hassan, Umme Hani Abdullah, Muhammad Waqas Saeed Baqai, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim

Medical College Documents

Craniopharyngiomas are common but complex paediatric brain lesions that present interesting management challenges. Quality of life is an important consideration while choosing management options. In this review, we have discussed the existing literature on various aspects of quality of life in patients treated for craniopharyngioma, assessed by variety of measurement tools.

Organizational Readiness Assessment In Acute And Long-Term Care Has Important Implications For Antibiotic Stewardship For Asymptomatic Bacteriuria, Melanie C Goebel, Barbara W Trautner, Yiqun Wang, John N Van, Laura M Dillon, Payal K Patel, Dimitri M Drekonja, Christopher J Graber, Bhavarth S Shukla, Paola Lichtenberger, Christian D Helfrich, Anne Sales, Larissa Grigoryan

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

BACKGROUND: Prior to implementing an antibiotic stewardship intervention for asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB), we assessed institutional barriers to change using the Organizational Readiness to Change Assessment.

METHODS: Surveys were self-administered on paper in inpatient medicine and long-term care units at 4 Veterans Affairs facilities. Participants included providers, nurses, and pharmacists. The survey included 7 subscales: evidence (perceived strength of evidence) and six context subscales (favorability of organizational context). Responses were scored on a 5-point Likert-type scale.

RESULTS: One hundred four surveys were completed (response rate = 69.3%). Overall, the evidence subscale had the highest score; the resources subscale (mean 2.8) was …

Three Blended Librarians' Narratives On Developing Professional Identities, Adonis Amparo

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

A blended librarian holds two separate and distinct responsibilities in the academic institution. One relates to instructional technology, the other relates to the information professional. In this narrative inquiry, I explore the constructed identity of three blended librarians and offer insight to inform current and future blended librarians, instructional technologists and designers, and their academic institutions. Each librarian was hired between 2012 and 2013. Each participant was the first blended librarian at each of their universities. I explored themes of transformation, inclusiveness, and connectedness. I used Mezirow’s transformational learning theory with support from secondary theories, universal instructional design and TPACK …

Quality Of Work Life (Qwl) Motivates Library Professionals Highly To Learn Further And Develop Skills, Dr. Mahendra Singh Rao

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study was carried out to investigate the Quality of Work Life (QWL) motivates library professionals highly to learn further and develop skills in the 20 engineering colleges of Jaipur region and 65 library professionals covering the categories such as Librarians, Assistant Librarians, and Library Assistants was selected from the total population of library professionals. The data for the present study has been collected using a structured questionnaire. This paper aims to measure the Quality of Work Life (QWL) motivates library professionals highly to learn further and develop skills. For this purpose library professionals working in Engineering Institutes of Jaipur …

Contribution Of Left Supramarginal And Angular Gyri To Episodic Memory Encoding: An Intracranial Eeg Study., Daniel Y. Rubinstein, Liliana Camarillo-Rodriguez, Mijail D. Serruya, Nora A. Herweg, Zachary J. Waldman, Paul A. Wanda, Ashwini D. Sharan, Shennan A. Weiss, Michael R. Sperling

Department of Neurology Faculty Papers

The role of the left ventral lateral parietal cortex (VPC) in episodic memory is hypothesized to include bottom-up attentional orienting to recalled items, according to the dual-attention model (Cabeza et al., 2008). However, its role in memory encoding could be further clarified, with studies showing both positive and negative subsequent memory effects (SMEs). Furthermore, few studies have compared the relative contributions of sub-regions in this functionally heterogeneous area, specifically the anterior VPC (supramarginal gyrus/BA40) and the posterior VPC (angular gyrus/BA39), on a within-subject basis. To elucidate the role of the VPC in episodic encoding, we compared SMEs in the intracranial …

Reading Habits Of Working Mothers And Its Impact On Child Development, Humera Ilhaq, Raffat Parveen Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Reading has a significant impact on human culture and civilization as it is one of the ways of communicating an idea and thinking. It is important for getting information, knowledge and enhancement of understanding. Reading provides a medium for languages and ideas as well as entertainment. Reading habits play an important role as a helping hand to mothers for looking after children. Working mothers faces challenges for the development of children due to dual responsibilities; professional and child development. Both responsibilities demand high quality of work from the mothers.

The aim of this study to know reading habits of working …

Assessment Of Research Productivity Of Indian School Of Business (Isb), Hyderabad, India, Ramesh Kuri, Kunwar Singh, Madan Singh, Somanagouda Patil

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aimed to perform a scientometric analysis of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, from 2002 to 2020. The study has used different scientometric dimensions to evaluate the quantitative growth of research publications. The affiliation search was performed to find out the research publications by using the Scopus database. To make the analysis complete and to get better outcomes, authors have considered total publications produced since the inception of ISB, Hyderabad. This study has analysed the year-wise growth of publications, most preferred sources, authorship pattern, subject-wise distribution of papers, etc. Furthermore, the study also explored international research collaboration. During …

Level Of Science Achievement: Basis For The Production Of Strategic Intervention Materials (Sims), Febbie C. Verano, Sheena Mae T. Comighud

UBT International Conference

This research used the descriptive method to determine the level of Science Achievement of Grade VI Pupils: Basis for Production of Strategic Intervention Materials in Bayawan City East Central School, Bayawan City Division during the SY 2019-2020. The quantitative data were gathered from 134 pupils of Bayawan City East Central School, Bayawan City Division during the SY 2019-2020. Also, the researcher conducted a survey questionnaire. Descriptive method was used in this study. The statistical tools used in the analysis of the data were percentage, frequency, mean, weighted mean, and z-test. The study found out that the level of Science Achievement …

Fiscal Decentralization And The Impact Of Disbursing Value Added Tax Income To Local Self- Government Units In The Republic Of North Macedonia, Farije Aliu, Driton Mehmeti

UBT International Conference

Decentralized systems give priority to the role of citizens in the government decision-making process, which through various forms, provide better services. This phenomenon motivates policies in the social system, in order to promote democracy, transparency and accountability. With the signing and ratification of the European Charter of Local Self-Government, as well as the signing of the Ohrid Framework Agreement in 2001, the Republic of Northern Macedonia is obliged to amend the Constitution and in accordance with the Constitution to form a legal framework for the decentralization system, which will allow different roles and responsibilities at all levels of government. For …

Looking At The Perceived Benefits Of Feeding Program In The Eyes Of The Stakeholders, Jane M. Candelanza, Sheena Mae T. Comighud

UBT International Conference

The study focused on the effects of school-based feeding program in the eyes of the stakeholders conducted on March 2019 to grades 1 to 6 beneficiary pupils, selected teachers, SBFP In-Charge and School Head of Mansagomayon Elementary School, District 4 of Sta. Catalina, Division of Negros Oriental. A descriptive design was used in this study whichd eemed appropriate in the context of this study since the researcher will describe the effectiveness of the SBFP as employed in the research locale. Additionally, Key informant interview with the selected representatives of the identified groups of stakeholders was conducted to provide qualitative support …