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Program Agenda 9-2-25, Angela Brock

Programs Committee (PC)

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Opting Out: Over-Alerting And Warning Fatigue In The Era Of Wireless Emergency Alerts, Jeannette Sutton, Michele M. Wood

Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity Faculty Scholarship

While warning fatigue is commonly described among emergency management practitioners as a problem due to over-alerting, which leads to opting out, there has been limited research to define these concepts in a systematic manner that can inform policymaking around public alerting strategies, especially as they relate to Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA). In this study, we draw from semi-structured interviews with emergency managers and open-ended responses from surveys with emergency managers and members of the public, to develop definitions of “over-alerting” and “warning fatigue” and to identify the conditions that cause the public to “opt out” of WEA messages. We conduct …

Ucc Minutes 9-2-25, Angela Brock

UCC Agendas/Minutes

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Psychopathology: Theory And Assessment, Russell Hall

Syllabi

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Counseling Internship - Three, Jacqueline Smith

Syllabi

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Advanced Issues In Cross-Cultural Counseling Inindividuals And Families, Christina Dillon

Syllabi

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Vocation Of Ministry, Chris Kiesling

Syllabi

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Counseling Theories And Techniques, Stephen Stratton

Syllabi

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The Counseling Relationship: Process And Skills, Janet Dean

Syllabi

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Gospel Catechesis:Transformative Discipleship, Ellen Marmon

Syllabi

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The Malditas, The Filipinas, And The Azkals: A Socio-Onomastic Examination Of Nicknames Used For The Philippine Women’S And Men’S National Football Teams, Satwinder Rehal, Inez Z. Ponce De Leon

Department of Communication Faculty Publications

Nicknames in sports can serve a wide range of social and semantic functions. Assigning nicknames to athletes and teams can allow fans to identify with them. Such names can also become symbolic resources that fans and teams turn to when asserting their identity. Nicknames in sports come to convey varied meanings and interpretations understood within a set of contextual properties. This paper fills an empirical gap and investigates nicknames of national sports teams used in Southeast Asia. The investigative focus is on the nicknames of the Philippines men’s and women’s national football teams. Employing Leslie and Skipper’s socio-onomastic framework, this …

The Rider (2025-09-02), Daniela Martinez Salazar

The Rider Archives

Vol. 11, No. 1

Family Systems Theory, Georgina Panting

Syllabi

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Ethical And Legal Issues In Counseling, Jacqueline Smith

Syllabi

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Counseling Internship - One, Tiffany Arrows

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Assessment Inventories In Counseling, Stephen Stratton

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Psychopathology: Theory And Assessment, Russell Hall

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Care Of Persons, Anthony (Tony) Headley

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Pastoral Diagnosis In Care And Counseling, Tapiwa Mucherera

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Teaching The Bible To Youth And Adults, Ellen Marmon

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The Quality Of Life And Marital Adjustment Among Omani Women With Infertility: A Prospective Cross-Sectional Study, Ruhina Aimaq, Moon F. Chan, Maha Alkhaduri, Jokha Alsabti, Hana Alsumri

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Objectives: Female infertility causes considerable emotional distress for affected women, negatively influencing their quality of life (QOL) and marital stability. This study aimed to identify factors influencing QOL and marital distress among Omani women attending a fertility clinic. Methods: This cross-sectional study included Omani women seeking infertility treatment at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman, from November 2022 to February 2023 and assessed QOL using the WHOQOL-BREF and marital adjustment using the Arabic Revised-Dyadic Adjustment Scale. Results: A total of 150 women were included in this study. The mean World Health Organization QOL-Brief Version score was 69.40 …

Human Factors For A Better World: Case Studies In Community Ergonomics, Hanna J. Barton, Andrew Thactcher, Maurita T. Harris, Wendy A. Rogers, Dan Nathan-Roberts, Leah Newman, Carlo Caponecchia

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This panel brings together global experts to explore the evolving practice of community ergonomics—an approach that applies Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) to co-design systems with and for marginalized communities. Building on the lessons articulated in Barton et al. (2025), panelists will present diverse case studies that highlight both the promise and complexity of community-engaged HFE work. Panelists will reflect on the epistemological shifts, methodological adaptations, and relational commitments required to move toward genuine collaboration and social impact. Attendees will leave with tangible strategies for engaging communities as co-designers, as well as deeper insight into how our assumptions as HFE …

Childhood Loneliness And Cognitive Decline And Dementia Risk In Middle-Aged And Older Adults, Jinqi Wang, Danyang Jiao, Xiaoyu Zhao, Yixing Tian, Haibin Li, Xia Li, Chen Sheng, Lixin Tao, Hui Chen, Zhiyuan Wu, Xiuhua Guo

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Importance: Adult loneliness has been linked to cognitive decline and dementia risk, but the long-term implications of childhood loneliness remain underexplored. Objectives: To investigate whether childhood loneliness is associated with cognitive decline and dementia risk and whether adult loneliness mediates or modifies these associations. Design, Setting, and Participants: This cohort study used data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, a nationally representative cohort study conducted between June 1, 2011, and December 31, 2018, with a maximum follow-up of 7 years. Data analyses were performed from October 1, 2024, to January 15, 2025. Exposure: Childhood loneliness was defined as …

What Is Worthy Of Inclusion? An Assessment Of The Utility Of Content Selection Strategies At Institutions Of Higher Learning In Zimbabwe, Darlington Mutanda

Irish Journal of Academic Practice

The selection of content for university curricula is of the utmost importance, especially at universities where lecturers have choice in content selection. By contrast, in many jurisdictions, state school systems for primary and secondary schools have syllabi that must be followed to the letter. University teachers/lecturers can choose what to teach, and the selection of content can be based on several factors such as convenience (choosing to teach what one is comfortable with), expertise, research interests, ideology, by accident, or even what one was taught previously despite the dynamic change of knowledge. This means that the student can be impacted …

O5-02 How And Why Preconception Health Among People Living With Obesity Could Be Improved By Including Obesity As A Health Condition In: Abstracts From The 10th Meeting Of The Association For The Study Of Obesity: Uk Congress On Obesity 2025, Heather Hopper, Kerryn Husk, Kate Maslin, Jill Shawe

School of Nursing and Midwifery

University Of Plymouth, Plymouth, UKPeople living with obesity have a greater chance of developingcomplications during pregnancy and are over-represented inmaternal mortality data relating to both direct and indirect causesduring pregnancy and up to a year after the birth of their child. Inaddition, epigenetic influences result in metabolic changes inoffspring of people living with obesity leading to a greater chanceof them experiencing long-term health consequences. In view ofthese health concerns, people living with obesity are advised to loseweight in the preconception period, before becoming pregnant.Sustained weight loss, however, can be difficult to achieve, andpeople do not always seek preconception advice. The …

Human Resource Management Practices And Employee Commitment In Public Agencies: A Sustainable Workforce Development Perspective From Enugu City, Nigeria, Chukwuebuka Victor Okorie, Leilani I. De Guzman

Journal of Management for Global Sustainability

This study investigates the implementation of sustainable human resource management (HRM) practices and their influence on employee commitment within public agencies in Enugu City, Nigeria. Anchored primarily in Social Exchange Theory (SET), the research explores how specific HRM practices—recruitment, training, rewards, and career management—affect affective, continuance, and normative commitment among customer relations employees. Employing a concurrent mixed-methods design, the study gathered quantitative data via structured questionnaires from 300 employees across five public institutions and qualitative insights through semi-structured interviews with 15 employees. Findings indicate a moderate application of sustainable HRM practices, with training perceived most favorably. Employee commitment levels were …

Risk Of Cardiovascular Events During Delivery Hospitalization Among Pregnant Patients With Mental Health Conditions, Kavya Parekh, R J Waken, Khavya Avula, Katelin B Nickel, Kathryn J Lindley, Cynthia Rogers, Karen E Joynt Maddox

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of maternal mortality. Mental health disorders are risk factors for cardiovascular disease in nonpregnant populations, but their association with delivery outcomes is unknown.

METHODS: This cross-sectional study used delivery hospitalizations from the 2021 National Inpatient Sample. We used generalized estimating equations to fit quasi-Poisson regression models for cardiovascular severe maternal morbidity and mortality (SMM) events as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and non-SMM cardiovascular conditions or complications as defined by the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. Incidence rate ratios were calculated for depression, anxiety, psychosis, bipolar, obsessive-compulsive disorder, …

Genome-Wide Insights Into The Genes And Pathways Shaping Human Foveal Development: Redefining The Genetic Landscape Of Foveal Hypoplasia, Callum Hunt, Ha-Jun Yoon, Alvin Lirio, Kayesha Coley, Jun Wang, Nick Shrine, Jianming Shao, Gail D E Maconachie, Zhanhan Tu, Jonathan H Zippin, Pirro G Hysi, Christopher J Hammond, Omar A Mahroo, Mariya Moosajee, Michel Michaelides, Andrew R Webster, Ala Moshiri, Rui Chen, Martin D Tobin, Chiara Batini, Mervyn G Thomas, Uk Biobank Eye And Vision Consortium

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Purpose: To define the genetic architecture of foveal morphology and explore its relevance to foveal hypoplasia (FH), a hallmark of developmental macular disorders.

Methods: We applied deep-learning algorithms to quantify foveal pit depth from central optical coherence tomography (OCT) B-scans in 61,269 UK Biobank participants. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) was conducted using REGENIE, adjusting for age, sex, height, and ancestry. Rare coding variants (frequency < 1%) were analyzed in an exome-wide rare-variant association study (RVAS). Candidate genes were prioritized using integrative mapping; pathway, cross-ancestry, and genetic-correlation analyses were exploratory.

Results: GWAS identified 126 sentinel variants, including 47 novel associations. Integrative mapping prioritized 129 putative causal genes, with 64 not previously implicated in foveal biology. Enriched pathways included retinoic acid metabolism (e.g., CYP26A1), photoreceptor differentiation …

Barriers And Facilitators To Surgical Trainee Psychological Safety, Jennifer H Chen, Alyssa A Pradarelli, Julie Evans, Niki Matusko, Norah N Naughton, Roy Phitayakorn, John T Mullen, Lily Chang, Melissa Johnson, Thavam Thambi-Pillai, Jon Ryckman, Melissa Alvarez-Downing, Nell Maloney Patel, Sebastiano Cassaro, Felicia Ivascu, David T Hughes, Gurjit Sandhu

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Importance: Although psychological safety has been shown to be imperative for effective learning, specific factors associated with its presence in surgical training have not been well characterized.

Objective: To identify barriers and facilitators to psychological safety for surgical trainees in the clinical learning environment.

Design, setting, and participants: This qualitative study was conducted from February 20 to May 2, 2024, among 25 trainees in general surgery and 3 surgical subspecialty programs at 9 teaching hospitals-4 university-based, 3 community-based, and 2 community-based, university-affiliated hospitals.

Exposure: Participation in surgical training.

Main outcomes and measures: Participants were asked to share their perspectives and …

Path To Parenthood For Medical Residents And Fellows: The Impact Of Leave Policies On Parent Trainees At Oregon Health And Science University, Eline Lenne, Marie Soller, Gillian Lashen, Stephanie Dukhovny, Alinda Reimer, Susanne Klawetter, Emily Carter

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

Residents and fellows in graduate medical education (GME) programs across the USA often complete training during childbearing years, presenting challenges for pregnant and parenting trainees balancing work and family. Institutional policies must better support these trainees. Previous studies show supported trainees experience reduced burnout, better health, and improved patient outcomes.

This study assessed the experiences and unmet needs of pregnant and parenting GME trainees and presents their recommendations for improved support.

Methods: Using a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, we examined the unmet needs and challenges of pregnant and parenting trainees, and their recommendations for improvement. We distributed a survey to …