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Uniqueness Of Parent Advocates: The Power Of Lived Experience, Marina Lalayants, Jovonna Frieson

Journal of Family Strengths

Abstract

This study highlighted the unique elements of the role played by parent advocates (PAs) with lived child welfare experience in supporting families affected by the child welfare system. These elements set PAs apart from other professionals and included non-professionalized peer support, experiential expertise, a strong sense of identification, authenticity, legitimized empathy and understanding, and critical consciousness. As parent peer support programs gain popularity in child welfare services, it is imperative to understand and define these distinctive elements that underpin the PA role, as they serve as the foundation for novel approaches to working with, supporting, and empathizing with parents …

A Computational Investigation Of Wood Selection For Acoustic Guitar, Jonah Osterhus

Senior Honors Theses

The acoustic guitar is a stringed instrument, often made of wood, that transduces vibrational energy of steel strings into coupled vibrations of the wood and acoustic pressure waves in the air. Variations in wood selection and instrument geometry have been shown to affect the timbre of the acoustic guitar. Computational methods were utilized to investigate the impact of material properties on acoustic performance. Sitka spruce was deemed the most suitable wood for guitar soundboards due to its acoustic characteristics, strength, and uniform aesthetic. Mahogany was deemed to be the best wood for the back and sides of the guitar body …

Farmers’ Hiring Decisions Towards Farm Mechanization Services In The Cauvery Delta Zone Of Tamil Nadu, Krishnadas R

Theses and Dissertations

Agriculture is critical to any country's economic development. It not only benefits the primary and secondary sectors but also helps the economy flourish. In addition to ensuring food security, the Indian agricultural sector provides work to huge populations, both directly and indirectly. Traditional farming practices are now overused, labour is no longer abundant, and the power demand is rising steadily. The rapid development of technology has given rise to new opportunities in agriculture (Balafoutis, Evert, & Fountas, 2020). Technology aids agricultural growth by allowing more effective utilization of inputs. It has the potential to make an immense contribution to agricultural …

Health Equity Engineering: Optimizing Hope For A New Generation Of Healthcare, Felicity T Enders, Joyce E Balls-Berry, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Medical researchers are increasingly prioritizing the inclusion of underserved communities in clinical studies. However, mere inclusion is not enough. People from underserved communities frequently experience chronic stress that may lead to accelerated biological aging and early morbidity and mortality. It is our hope and intent that the medical community come together to engineer improved health outcomes for vulnerable populations. Here, we introduce Health Equity Engineering (HEE), a comprehensive scientific framework to guide research on the development of tools to identify individuals at risk of poor health outcomes due to chronic stress, the integration of these tools within existing healthcare system …

Accessibility, Relevance, And Impact Of A Symptom Monitoring Tool For Home Hospice Care: Theory Elaboration And Qualitative Assessment, Karla T Washington, Debra Parker Oliver, Allison K Donehower, Patrick White, Jacquelyn J Benson, Patrick G Lyons, George Demiris

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Early users found Engagement and Visualization to Improve Symptoms in Oncology Care (ENVISION), a web-based application designed to improve home management of hospice patients' symptoms and support patients' and family caregivers' well-being, to be generally useful and easy to use. However, they also raised concerns about potential challenges users with limited technological proficiency might experience.

OBJECTIVE: We sought to concurrently accomplish two interrelated study aims: (1) to develop a conceptual framework of digital inclusivity for health information systems and (2) to apply the framework in evaluating the digital inclusivity of the ENVISION application.

METHODS: We engaged ENVISION users (N=34) …

The Social Justice Educational Assessment Scale: Filling A Gap In Social Justice Education Assessment And Evaluation, Jennifer R. Banas, Sarah Gershon

Health Sciences and Physical Education Faculty Publications

Nationally recognized social justice standards guide educators in developing social justice education. Absent from the guidance are tools to conduct initial formative assessment or to measure the impact of related instruction. To fill that gap, an academic researcher and 10th-grade teacher used a 3-phased, 9-step process to develop, pilot test, and evaluate a self-assessment tool called the Social Justice Educational Assessment Scale (SJEAS). In Phase 1, the team created the SJEAS items, aligning each with the Learning for Justice 9th–12th-grade social justice learning outcomes to ensure content validity. In Phase 2, they pretested the questions, revised the scale, and administered …

Evaluating Effective Communication Of Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Christine N. Brockway

Dissertations

The purpose of this mixed methods study was to determine how communication evaluation by clinical faculty compared in a clinical setting versus a simulation setting for Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) students. Fifty (50) BSN students from three different schools of nursing were scored using the Interprofessional Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation Nurse to Physician Rubric in both clinical and simulation settings by seven nursing faculty. Scoring for each student occurred in both settings during one semester. Following the evaluation, students and faculty were asked to participate in a focus group to discuss their experience. Results from this study showed …

News You Can Use: More To Play Therapy Than Play, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – To an outsider, it may look like children are simply playing with toys. But through this activity, children can reveal the struggles they are facing.

Prosocial Behavior, Sean Fernando, Claire Leach, Danielle Haake, Debra Bigelow-Davis, Jillian Stokes, Aj Kalawai'a, Nore Heinitz, Grace Bates

Psychology Student Publications

Prosocial behavior is a widely researched area of social psychology. It can be defined as the voluntary actions performed with the goal of benefiting others. This concept of helping others includes a wide range of actions, from simple acts such as holding the door open for someone to larger acts like donating money to charity (Peetz & Howard, 2022). This chapter will explore the topic of prosocial behavior by identifying the main types of prosocial behavior and the measure used to assess them, explaining the motivation behind prosocial behavior, and discussing various benefits and counterarguments to prosocial behavior.

Redesigning Secure School Entry Thresholds To Create Inclusive And Welcoming Environments, Alex Yarovaya

University Honors Theses

Schools are known to have been one of the largest assets to communities, providing folks with integral resources and accessible spaces that can foster a variety of activities. Over the last decade, however, our perspective of schools has undergone significant changes. Schools have eagerly been undergoing the process of "hardening" by implementing safety and violence prevention tactics with Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) as a response to the staggering increase of gun violence incidents and safety & security issues today. Schools have been scrambling to accommodate this change in reality by retrofitting with security systems, implementing high security measures …

Determinants Of Implementation For Group Medical Visits For Patients With Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review, Isabel Roth, Malik Tiedt, Carrie Brintz, Ariana Thompson-Lastad, Gayla Ferguson, Erum Agha, Jennifer Holcomb, Paula Gardiner, Jennifer Leeman

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Despite the critical need for comprehensive and effective chronic pain care, delivery of such care remains challenging. Group medical visits (GMVs) offer an innovative and efficient model for providing comprehensive care for patients with chronic pain. The purpose of this systematic review was to identify barriers and facilitators (determinants) to implementing GMVs for adult patients with chronic pain.

METHODS: The review included peer-reviewed studies reporting findings on implementation of GMVs for chronic pain, inclusive of all study designs. Pubmed, EMBASE, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library were searched. Studies of individual appointments or group therapy were excluded. The Mixed …

The Remnants Of Colonialism: An Inquiry Into The Experiences Of Black University Of Victoria Students From Postcolonial Societies, Gabrielle A. Miller

Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics

No abstract provided.

Prediction Of Disease-Free Survival For Precision Medicine Using Cooperative Learning On Multi-Omic Data, Georg Hahn, Dmitry Prokopenko, Julian Hecker, Sharon M Lutz, Kristina Mullin, Leinal Sejour, Winston Hide, Ioannis Vlachos, Stacia Desantis, Rudolph E Tanzi, Christoph Lange

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

In precision medicine, both predicting the disease susceptibility of an individual and forecasting its disease-free survival are areas of key research. Besides the classical epidemiological predictor variables, data from multiple (omic) platforms are increasingly available. To integrate this wealth of information, we propose new methodology to combine both cooperative learning, a recent approach to leverage the predictive power of several datasets, and polygenic hazard score models. Polygenic hazard score models provide a practitioner with a more differentiated view of the predicted disease-free survival than the one given by merely a point estimate, for instance computed with a polygenic risk score. …

Disruptive Child Behavior Severity And Parenting Program Session Attendance: Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis, G. J. Melendez-Torres, Patty Leijten, Stephen Scott, Frances Gardner, Nick Axford, Maria João Seabra Santos, Ankie Menting, Judy Hutchings, Vashti Berry

Peninsula Medical School

Objective: We tested if baseline disruptive child behavior problem severity predicts parental attendance at sessions of a parenting group program. Method: We used a database of randomized trials of the Incredible Years parenting program in Europe and restricted the sample to participants randomized to the intervention arm. Using baseline Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory scores, we distinguished between trial-level problem severity and child-level problem severity, compared linear and quadratic functional forms at both levels, and considered cross-level interactions, all in a multilevel Poisson regression framework. Results: Drawing on 918 participants in 12 trials, we found that within trials, parents of children …

Spectator 2024-05-23, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

No abstract provided.

Feeling Otherwise: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study Of Queer And Trans Youth Of Color Who Create And Embody Fursonas, Hazel Ali Zaman

Dissertations and Theses

Queer and trans youth of color are often the target of surveillance, bullying, discrimination, and abuse. However, in an attempt to navigate such violent and discriminatory circumstances, the queer and trans youth of color in this dissertation found refuge in furry art and performances, both online and offline, where they were able to express themselves freely and thus acquire a sense of belonging among others with similar experiences. In this dissertation, "a furry" is used to refer to an individual who self-identifies as one who has an affinity for anthropomorphic animal characters. A common practice among furries is creating a …

Machine Learning Models For Enhanced Stock Trading Strategies, Alyaa Al Ali

Theses

The purpose of this research is to develop sophisticated machine-learning models that can predict stock price movements, taking into account the multifaceted influences that create volatility in financial markets. To navigate the complexities of market dynamics effectively, investors, financial institutions, and academia rely on precision stock price predictions. This research generates actionable buy and sell signals by using historical stock data, technical market indicators, Linear Support Vector Machines (LSVM), Neural Networks, and Logistic Regression. A distinctive feature of this model is it uses market indicators such as PPO, MACD, RSI Signal, Bollinger Bands, ROC Signal, and DX Signal instead of …

Lincoln's World And The Gettysburg Address, Keith Evans

The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing

Ever since its delivery on 19 November 1863, Lincoln's now-iconic Gettysburg Address has become legend almost as much as Lincoln himself. Historians, political analysts, rhetoricians and fifth-graders have pored over the 272 words to glean insight into this granddaddy of all American speeches. It is possible to view the Address from many angles: some argue he was trying to gain the upper hand over the Confederacy on a moral basis; others argue that he suggested that the Declaration of Independence superseded the Constitution in authority. Other interpretations state that he insinuated the Civil War was being fought to protect the …

The Hidden Barriers For International Students At Auto-Centric Universities, Ryan Allen, Kafui Dzubey, Yuki Miyoshi

Critical Internationalization Studies Review

No abstract provided.

The Hodgkin-Huxley Model For Neuron Action Potentials: A Computational Study, Uditi Chandrashekhar

Macalester Journal of Physics and Astronomy

Neurons are the fundamental units of the nervous system that receive stimuli as signals and pass on this information to other cells in different parts of the body. An action potential refers to the transmission of the electrical nerve impulse along the neuron. In their seminal work published in 1952, Alan L. Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley proposed a mathematical model of neuronal membrane action potentials based on a series of experiments they conducted using the giant squid neuron. This thesis is a study of the nature of the action potential used to transfer signals along the neuron based on the …

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Metacognitive Awareness Of Reading Strategies Of Non-Arabic Speaking Learners And Its Relation To Their Self-Efficacy, Haneen Jawarneh

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

This study aimed to explore the metacognitive awareness of reading strategies among non-Arabic speaking learners and its relation to their self-efficacy in learning the skill of reading. A random sample of 81 non-Arabic speaking male and female learners majoring in Arabic Language and Literature at Yarmouk University, Jordan, was chosen. To achieve the aims of the study, the researcher used the Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory (MARSI) developed by Mokhtari et al. (2018). The scale consisted of 15 items distributed across three areas: Global Reading Strategies (GRS), Problem Solving Strategies (PSS), and Supportive Reading Strategies (SRS). The researcher also …

The Extent Of The Effectiveness Of Sports Activity In Centers Designated For People With Disabilities From The Point Of View Of The Directors Of The Centers, Ra'fat Al'dily, Qutiba Al-Harahsha, Khaled Al-Reqeb, Musa'ab Al-Abdallat, Hamzah Al-Mobiden

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of sports activities in centers designated for people with disabilities from the perspective of the centers' directors, considering variables such as gender (male, female), years of experience, and educational qualifications. The researchers used a descriptive approach, which is suited to the study's objectives. Data were collected using a questionnaire comprising 26 items. The study population included 120 principals and directors of centers for people with disabilities across all governorates of the Kingdom, with a sample of 60 principals and directors chosen randomly. To achieve the study's objectives, data were collected through an electronic …

Organizational School Resilience In Arab Schools In The Haifa District Within The Green Line From The Teachers' Perspective, Wafa Zeidan, Ahmad Rathwan

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

This study aimed to identify the level of organizational school resilience in Arab schools in the Haifa District within the Green Line from the teachers' perspective and to determine the effect of variables such as gender, academic qualification, years of experience, and type of school on that level. The study sample consisted of 382 teachers, chosen using a simple random method. A questionnaire was used to collect the necessary data, and the descriptive survey method was employed. The results showed that the level of organizational school resilience in Arab schools in the Haifa District from the teachers' perspective was moderate. …

The Role Of School Principals In Implementing E-Learning In Arab Schools Within The Green Line, Wafa Murkus, Ahmad Rathwan

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

This study aimed to identify the role of principals in integrating students with special needs in Arab schools within the Green Line and to understand the impact of variables such as gender, job title, educational qualification, and years of experience on that role. A descriptive survey approach was used, and a questionnaire was developed to achieve the study's objectives. The study sample consisted of 385 teachers and 175 principals. The results showed that the role of school principals in integrating students with special needs was moderate. Furthermore, the results indicated significant statistical differences at the (α=0.05) level in the sample's …

Cognitive Dispersal And Its Relationship To The Perceived Self-Efficacy Of Mothers In The Primary Stage In Zarqa Governorate During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Hana Al-Zagharnha, Abdallah Al-Mahaireh

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

This study aimed to identify the level of cognitive dispersion and perceived self-efficacy among the mothers of primary stage students in Zarqa Governorate. It also sought to explore the nature of the relationship between cognitive dispersion and perceived self-efficacy among these mothers. The study sample consisted of 304 participants, who were selected using a simple random sampling method. To achieve the study's objectives, measures of cognitive dispersion and perceived self-efficacy were developed by the researcher for the current study after establishing the validity and reliability of these measures. The results indicated a statistically significant negative correlation between cognitive dispersion and …

The Predictability Of Defensive Pessimism On Academic Ambition Among Graduate Students At Yarmouk University, Esraa Hamdan, Manar Bni Mustafa

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

This study aimed to reveal the predictive ability of defensive pessimism on the academic ambition of graduate students at Yarmouk University considering various variables: gender, marital status, work, academic stage, and specialization. The study sample consisted of 292 male and female students from the second semester of the academic year 2021/2022, selected using convenience sampling. The researchers developed the scales for academic ambition and defensive pessimism to achieve the study objectives. The correlation coefficients for the items on the defensive pessimism scale, reflecting construct validity, ranged from 0.38 to 0.78. The internal consistency coefficient of the defensive pessimism scale was …

The Degree To Which Government School Principals Use Strategic Planning To Reduce Educational Waste In The Capital Governorate, Amman, Madian Khamees, Dalal Hawwash

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

This study aimed to identify the degree to which government school principals use strategic planning to reduce educational waste in the Capital Governorate of Amman, from the point of view of the principals themselves. This study utilized a questionnaire tool based on relevant research, focusing on five essential aspects: school vision, school mission, strategic objectives, and analyzing the internal and external environments of the school. The study population consisted of 184 principals, both male and female, intentionally selected and presented to specialists for validity and internal consistency. The results were as follows: the degree to which government school principals use …

The Degree Of Implementing The Developmental Plan In Improving Educational Outcomes From School Principals’ Perceptions, Muhammad Badarneh

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

This study aimed to identify the degree of implementing the developmental plan in improving educational outcomes from school principals’ perceptions. The study sample consisted of 175 school principals. To achieve the study's objectives, a descriptive approach was used. A questionnaire was utilized, and its validity and reliability were verified. The results revealed that the degree of implementing the developmental plan in improving educational outcomes, as perceived by school principals, was moderate. There was a statistically significant difference in the degree of implementing the developmental plan based on experience, favoring those with more than 15 years of experience. However, no statistically …

Psychological And Physical Symptoms Among Palestinian Ex-Prisoners Released From Israeli Prisons, Rami Tashtoush, Abdullah Mousa

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

This study aimed to reveal the level of psychological and physical symptoms and the nature of the differences between them, considering various variables among Palestinian ex-prisoners released from Israeli prisons. The study sample consisted of 517 male and female ex-prisoners who were selected through convenience sampling. To achieve the study's aim, the psychological symptoms scale and the physical symptoms scale were used after establishing their validity and reliability. The results of the study showed that the level of psychological symptoms among the ex-prisoners was moderate, while the level of physical symptoms was low. Additionally, the study indicated that there were …