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Male Perspectives On The National Rifle Association And Gun Reform, Holly Jo Tatman

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

No abstract provided.

Determinants Of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Medication Use Among People Aged 18–29 Years Living In Florida, Jeremiah Magraubin Mchaka Wandabwa

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

No abstract provided.

Succession Planning Strategies For Inclusive Leadership And Market Competitiveness, Cara L. Miller

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

No abstract provided.

Innovation Strategies For Small And Medium-Sized Construction Companies In Nigeria, Olabode Akinkunmi Akindele

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

No abstract provided.

Instrumentality Of Developmental Coaches’ Self In Building The Coaching Relationship With Clients Seeking Leadership Development, Leslie Ann Rodríguez Díaz

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

No abstract provided.

Staff Education For Nurses On The Stress First Aid Continuum, Gilbert Anyangwe

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

No abstract provided.

Alabama Middle School Teachers’ Experiences Preparing Economically Disadvantaged Students For The Alabama Comprehensive Assessment Program, Jasmine Jeromicia Edmond

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

No abstract provided.

Operational Responsibility In Ai Governance: A User-Centric Liability Framework, Zhengyang Chen

Faculty Publications

Who bears responsibility when artificial intelligence systems cause harm? This question has become central to AI ethics and governance. Most existing approaches focus on developers, yet this faces serious practical and theoretical problems. Drawing on tort law, agency law, and philosophy of technology, this paper argues that AI should be understood as an instrument whose outputs remain the responsibility of human operators rather than developers. We call this 'user-centric governance.' Placing accountability with deployers promotes public trust by creating clear lines of responsibility, a concern that governance approaches have often overlooked. It preserves democratic accountability by keeping human actors answerable …

Learning With Geometric Priors In U-Net Variants For Polyp Segmentation, Fabian Vazquez, Jose A. Nuñez, Diego Adame, Alissen Moreno, Augustin Zhan, Huimin Li, Jinghao Yang, Haoteng Tang, Bin Fu, Pengfei Gu

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Accurate and robust polyp segmentation is essential for early colorectal cancer detection and for computer-aided diagnosis. While convolutional neural network-, Transformer-, and Mamba-based U-Net variants have achieved strong performance, they still struggle to capture geometric and structural cues, especially in low-contrast or cluttered colonoscopy scenes. To address this challenge, we propose a novel Geometric Prior-guided Module (GPM) that injects explicit geometric priors into U-Net-based architectures for polyp segmentation. Specifically, we fine-tune the Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT) on a simulated ColonDepth dataset to estimate depth maps of polyp images tailored to the endoscopic domain. These depth maps are then processed …

Balancing Safety And Quality With End-Of-Life Realities: A Single Inpatient Hospice Facility Review, Hailee Grannan Md, Sarah Riutta Phd, Kavita Sharma Md

Scientific Day

Background/Significance:

Patient safety in hospice care requires balancing traditional safety metrics with individualized, comfort-focused goals at the end of life. Inpatient hospice units manage complex symptoms, high-risk medications, and dynamic family preferences, yet limited literature characterizing safety events in this setting. Despite routine event reporting, no comprehensive evaluation of safety incidents has been conducted at Zilber Family Hospice (ZFH).

Purpose:

The purpose of this project was to characterize and analyze patient safety incidents at ZFH to identify patterns, clarify event categorization, and inform hospice-specific safety practices and staff education that support comfort and harm reduction.

Methods:

Safety incidents at ZFH …

Understanding Patient Experiences And Diagnostic Challenges In Long Covid Care, Raegan King Mph, Tiffany Ford Phd, Mph, Osondi Osondi-Lohrer Ms, Ccrp, Jana Hirschtick Phd, Mph

Scientific Day

Background/Significance:

Long COVID is characterized by persistent, heterogeneous symptoms that often lack timely recognition, contributing to delayed diagnosis and fragmented care. Understanding patient experiences with diagnosis and care pathways is critical to determining whether and how receiving a Long COVID diagnosis influences access to care, patient well-being, and perceptions of validation within the healthcare system. This study aimed to explore patient experiences with a Long COVID diagnosis and care navigation within the Advocate Health system, with a focus on identifying barriers to diagnostic equity and opportunities to improve clinical pathways.

Purpose:

The purpose of this study was to understand diagnostic …

Population Health "Pop Spotting", Glenda Sundberg Fnp-Cs, Apnp, Zeeshan Yacoob Md, Mph, Stephenie Quirke Do, Devanshi Patel Do, Tien Vo Bs,Ba

Scientific Day

Background/Significance:

Various gaps persist across communities due to barriers that prevent patients from accessing their healthcare needs. Aurora St. Luke’s Family Practice Clinic, which serves a diverse and underserved population, developed an interdisciplinary outreach model called “Pop Spotting”

Purpose:

We aim to create a model that allows the clinic team to identify patients who have multiple care gaps and have been lost to follow up. By reaching out to these patients and scheduling visits, we hope to meet health care needs efficiently and improve patient outcomes.

Methods:

This project utilizes Population Health Indicator (PHI) scores to identify established clinic patients …

Identifying Obstetric Care Needs And Experiences Among Rohingya Refugee Women In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Michelle Lin Bs, Amulya Suresh Bs, Sarah Yapo Bs, Dahlia Tesfamichael Md, Manuel Lamptey Ms, Dawn Wankowski Ms, Jessica Jf Kram Mph, Elizabeth Corey Md, Mph

Scientific Day

Background/Significance:

Rohingya refugee women in the United States face barriers to obstetric care, including language isolation, gender norms, prior trauma, and unfamiliarity with Western healthcare systems. Milwaukee hosts the largest Rohingya community nationwide (~3,000 residents), yet little is known about their perinatal care experiences.

Purpose:

Our quality improvement project aimed to characterize obstetric needs and care experiences among Rohingya women in Milwaukee and inform community-centered interventions.

Methods:

We conducted a quality improvement study of Rohingya women who delivered at Aurora Sinai Medical Center from 2019 to 2023. Eligible participants were foreign-born Milwaukee County residents with at least one prenatal visit. …

Implications Of The Dobbs Vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision On The Incidence Rate Of Ruptured Ectopic Pregnancies, Nirja Inamdar Do, Haley Primuth Md, James O. Adefisoye Phd, Jessica Jf Kram Mph, Elizabeth Bruce Bs, Marie Forgie Do

Scientific Day

Background/Significance:

Ectopic pregnancy (EP) requires timely diagnosis and treatment as delays increase the risk of rupture and maternal morbidity/mortality. Delays to reproductive healthcare access due to legal ambiguity, clinic closures, and widespread misinformation post-Dobbs vs. Jacksonmay have increased the incidence of ruptured EPs in Wisconsin. Similar delays may have also been experienced during COVID- 19 increasing ruptured EPs.

Purpose:

To examine the impact of restricted reproductive healthcare access in Wisconsin post-Dobbson EP rupture incidence proportion (IP), presentation, and management.

Methods:

Our retrospective cohort study looked at EPs within one healthcare system at 63 facilities located predominately …

Perceptions Of Novice Career And Technical Education Teachers Regarding Teacher Evaluations, Felix Quayson, Chris Zirkle

Journal of Research in Technical Careers

As states expand funding for alternative teacher-licensure pathways, this qualitative descriptive case study examined how 38 novice Career and Technical Education (CTE) teachers in a Midwestern research university’s alternative licensure program perceived teacher evaluation during their first years in the profession. Analyses yielded ten major themes with three subthemes each, which were synthesized into the DEEPS conceptual evaluation framework: Development, Evaluation, Engagement, Partnerships, and Skills. We arranged the acronym DEEPS based on data analysis for conceptual coherence rather than order of occurrence. Participants described evaluation as misaligned with the specialized demands of CTE instruction and called for tools that better …

An Analysis Of Professional Development Preferences, Needs, And Engagement Among Family And Consumer Sciences Teachers In Illinois, Sally E. Arnett

Journal of Research in Technical Careers

The purpose of this study was to identify the professional development preferences, needs, and engagement of family and consumer sciences (FCS) teachers in Illinois. Signature pedagogy and its three theoretical elements served as a foundational framework for structuring respondents' professional development considerations. Using a descriptive research design, data were collected through an online survey completed by 45 (42%) Illinois FCS teachers. Findings indicated that teachers preferred professional development that was offered in person, located within geographical proximity, and scheduled during contracted working hours. Respondents identified discipline-specific FCS content, effective lab management, and the integration of AI in an FCS classroom …

Interest Requires Knowledge: Initial Development Of A Measure Of Career Knowledge, Sarah Ferguson, Marjorie Blicharz, Kara Ieva, Christopher J. Winkler, Theresa Cann

Journal of Research in Technical Careers

This paper details a measurement development study conducted in multiple phases to establish the reliability and validity of scores from a measure of career knowledge that can be specified to career fields. The initial development study focused on surveying and mapping careers in the engineering technician cluster, in alignment with a larger intervention study on career exploration of STEM technician and technologist careers. A short seven-item measure of perceived career knowledge was developed and piloted to address the need for empirical data on students' career knowledge, an outcome of interest to practitioners and researchers in career development. Exploratory and confirmatory …

Critical Lawyering Pedagogy: Transformational Legal Education, Carolyn Grose

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

In an era marked by democratic backsliding, systemic inequality, and widespread disillusionment with legal institutions, traditional legal education has proven not merely inadequate, but actively complicit in reproducing the institutional norms, professional identities, and hierarchies that have enabled democratic erosion and the misuse of law as a tool of exclusion and domination.

This Article describes a comprehensive, justice-oriented framework that reimagines the structure, content, and outcomes of legal education to better meet those needs. Critical Lawyering Pedagogy (CLP) draws from Critical Pedagogy, Narrative Theory, and Critical Lawyering and challenges the entrenched hierarchies and exclusionary norms that dominate most law schools …

Whose Interest? How Attorney General Paxton Weaponizes His Administrative Power Against The Public Interest, Kaylie Vasquez

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

Attorney Generals wield immense power throughout the country and are charged with protecting the interests of the public. In Texas, the Attorney General manipulates this power for political capital and ideological warfare. This Note examines the case of Annunciation House v. Paxton and the administrative powers granted to the Texas Attorney General. Specifically, this Note examines the Request to Examine statute that authorizes the Texas Attorney General to investigate any business organization at anytime for any reason. It does so by 1) discussing the specific statute and analyzing its weakness; 2) evaluating the Request to Examine at issue in Annunciation …

Behavior Analysts' Recommendations For Police Interactions With Youth On The Autism Spectrum, Emily Emily Hinterneder

Honors Theses

Autism spectrum disorder affects nearly 2% (1 in every 36) of children in the United States, yet few resources exist to aid police officers in effective communication and interaction with this portion of youth. This study surveyed behavior analysts’ recommendations for police regarding how they can better interact with youth with autism spectrum disorder based on their knowledge, experiences, and opinions. The research surveyed behavior analysts initially in Massachusetts, then throughout the United States, on how police interact with youth with autism, with the intent to propose possible improvements. Quantitative analyses of the closed-ended questions were conducted to examine familiarity, …

Homeschool Music: The Predictive Relationship Between Parents’ Homeschooling Approach And Religiosity For Music Learning Choices, Ashley Virginia Finke

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this quantitative predictive correlational study was to examine how accurately the combination of parents’ homeschooling approach and parents’ religiosity predict music learning choices for homeschooled students. A Florida Department of Education report showed an increase in homeschooling between the 2013-14 and 2023-24 school years, while an Institute of Education Sciences report documented that 49 percent of homeschooled students in the United States participated in music in 2016. Despite these reports, limited research exists of homeschool music education in the United States and, specifically, in Florida. This study resulted from the related literature and the dearth of current …

Asynchronous Theologetics For A Digital Church, William Ck Yomes

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The world is currently living through a digital reformation. The advent of the smartphone has forever changed the way people share information and communicate. In the same way that the technological advancement of Gutenberg's printing press fueled the Protestant Reformation, the widespread rapid adoption of the smartphone has begun a digital reformation. Just as academia has proven education can be accomplished online, so too can the local church adopt online teaching strategies. Teaching has always been foundational to formation in the faith. Now, in the era of digital reformation, the local church can take full advantage of tools like asynchronous …

Exploring The Role Of Multimedia Instruction In K-8 Curricular Curation: A Phenomenological Study In Rural Public Schools, Brooke Elizabeth Pelfrey

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to discover individual experiences with instructional design, specifically in the area of multimedia instruction for educators in at the Sunnyside School System. The theory guiding this study was cognitive learning theory, as it provided a structure from which educator knowledge of instructional design could be examined. The central research question was “How do K-8 educators describe their lived experience of selecting, modifying, and creating curricular components of multimedia instruction?” This study followed a transcendental phenomenology approach to qualitative research. The study was conducted utilizing ten participants who were licensed elementary or secondary educators …

A Reappraisal On The Use Of Mechanical Circulatory Support In Acute Coronary Syndrome And High-Risk Percutaneous Coronary Intervention—Lessons From Stemi-Dtu And Chip-Bcis3, Marwan F. Jumean, Mir Babar Basir, Biswajit Kar

Journal of Shock and Hemodynamics

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Workplace Health: Blood Pressure Education And Self-Monitoring At The Worksite, Pamela E. Carver

DNP and Student Works

Hypertension (HTN) is the most common diagnosis in the United States and one of the 10 most expensive health conditions for employers. Poorly managed and undiagnosed HTN increases health care costs and contributes to lost employee productivity. The literature strongly supports self-monitoring as key to blood pressure (BP) control, especially when paired with additional interventions such as education. Although much has been done to review various worksite health promotion programs over the last 20 years to 30 years, specific evidence regarding the potential impact of providing BP self-monitoring equipment at the worksite is lacking. The purpose of this study was …

Employee Engagement And Its Motivational Drivers: Lived Experiences Of Generation Y Employees In The Workplace, Ololade Dorcas Afolabi

Masters Theses, 2020-current

This qualitative study sought to explore the meaning of employee engagement among Generation Y employees in the United States. Specifically, this research aimed to understand how Generation Y employees described their lived experiences of engagement and the motivational drivers that influence their engagement at work. The researcher interviewed five Generation Y employees. Two of them work in retail industry, two work in healthcare technology, and one works in higher education. The findings show that the participants have a shared meaning of engagement, defining engagement as alignment between their personal goals and organizational goals. In addition, participants shared lived experiences of …

2026 Byu Law Review Masthead

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

“We Are Physically Alive But Mentally Dead”: The International Community Must Take Action To Ensure Women’S Right To Education In Afghanistan, Solveig J. Clifford

BYU Law Review

International treaties recognize the right to education as a fundamental human right. The Taliban, which currently act as the government as Afghanistan, are legally bound by treaty obligations to respect the right to education. The Taliban have banned women and girls from receiving education past the sixth grade, which is illegal under international law. During the Taliban’s previous regime in Afghanistan, they implemented a similar policy, which had disastrous results for an entire generation of Afghan women. Once again, the education ban is causing severe harm to the women and girls of Afghanistan. The international community has failed to take …

Antidiscrimination, Not Anti-Dei: The Real Story Of The Supreme Court’S Recent Title Vii Precedent, Madeline Meth

BYU Law Review

For several years, my colleague and I had been litigating employment discrimination cases with facts that shocked our friends and family. For example, we fought Dallas County over a women-work-the-weekend policy that required women detention officers to work weekends while male colleagues took the weekends off. Likewise, we challenged the City of Cleveland when it moved our client, an emergency medical services supervisor, from the day shift to the night shift explicitly because he is Black. Then, in April 2024, in one of our client’s cases, Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overruled the decades …

Popular Constitutionalism In A Populist Age, Thomas G. Donnelly

BYU Law Review

Popular constitutionalism burst onto the scene as a challenge to the constitutional authority of the Supreme Court. Decades later, popular constitutionalists remain susceptible to one of the earliest (and most potent) critiques of their project—the charge that they have done far too little to explain how their theory might work in practice. With the rise of modern populism, it’s also fair to ask whether popular constitutionalism is an approach that’s capable of meeting the challenges of the current constitutional moment. In this Article, I offer a new vision for popular constitutionalism—one that shows how the theory might work in practice, …