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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Preventative Measures To Mitigate The Development Of Atherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease, Alexander Orr, Celina Wu, Elijah Marquez, Fateh Ahmad, Kendyll Gartrelle, Logan Harrison, Mia Sooch, Zahra Chehab, Emilio Espinal

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Local Action, Lower Pressure- Resources To Advocate For Improvement In Hypertension Within The Community, Carinne Jarvis, Elinor Harrison, George Yalamanchili, Kamakashi Sharma, Mackenzie Fitzgerald, Neel Lachhwani, Nimr Assaf, Richard Tuttle

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Resources To Improve Risk Of Hypertension, Bruna Storch Dos Santos, Bryce Brophy, Chonling Liu, Emily Webber, Izzy Havis, Janet Brenya, Noma Imudia, Eli Jarjous

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: School-Centered Interventions To Address Childhood Obesity, Aaron Yang, Amanda York, James Mcknight, Madison Jordan, Myron Shaba, Riley Marchin, Rita Pisegna, Constantine Tangalos

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Emotional And Behavioral Concerns With Limited Support, Ahmed Alzubaidi, Ambrielle Stoltz-Bango, Grace Doakes, Ikenna Oduocha, Isaak Miller, Kelly-Ozze Bollou, Marta Haireek, Wyatt Feldman

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Education And Resources To Improve Pediatric Type I Diabetes Mellitus Care Within Schools And Child Care Services, Alexander Seidel, Alexandra Thomas, Christine Larrea, Daven Sarikonda, Jack Gurwin, Maria Karla Bermudez Pineiro, Matthew Mello, Sana Soman

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Navigating Depression And Anxiety Amid Socioeconomic Strain, Afrah Ansari, Candice Miller, Elizabeth Heinz, Joshua Teso, Muhammad Idrees, Omolola Suleiman, Sospeter Machani, Celia Somers

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Depressive Symptoms And Treatment Hesitancy In A Middle-Aged Male Living Alone, Abdulrahman Altatan, Abigail Biddix, Joseph Kunnappilly, Katherine Zhang, Kehinde Bolaji, Kyrillos Ayoub, Maya Fajardo, Michael Niculcea

Patient Education Projects

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Can Lower(Ed) Expert Opinions Lead To Better Consumer Ratings?: The Case Of Michelin Stars, Xingyi Li, Yiting Deng, Puneet Manchanda, Bert De Reyck

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Expert opinion exerts tremendous influence on the purchase journey, but its effect on overall consumer experience is ambiguous because it can give rise to both “expectation” and “reputation” effects. This paper explores the effect of expert opinions on consumer experience via the lens of consumer reviews in the restaurant industry, where the expert opinions are conveyed by Michelin stars. The paper uses a unique data set based on the Michelin Guide for Great Britain & Ireland from 2010 to 2020. The data include consumer reviews on TripAdvisor for all restaurants that were awarded Michelin stars during this period and a …

Meeting Report On An Integrated Research Agenda For Mosquito-Borne Arboviruses, Angela K. Ulrich, Nicolina M. Moua, Alison Mack, Natsuko Imai-Eaton, J. Erin Staples, Angela J. Mehr, Julia T. Ostrowsky, Tabitha Leighton, Ana Cehovin, Petra C. Fay, Josephine P. Golding, Emma Maynard, Luke Alphey, Diana P. Rojas Alvarez, Lark L. Coffey, Nuno R. Faria, Rafael Maciel-De-Freitas, Kevin Maringer, Kris A. Murray, Henrik Salje, Rosemary Sang, Pedro F.C. Vasconcelos, Yee Sin Leo, Steven P. Sinkins, Jocelyne Neto De Vasconcelos, Samuel K. Dadzie, Eva Harris, Thais H. Dos Santos, Raman Velayudhan

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

The emergence and re-emergence of mosquito-borne arbovirus (MBV) diseases pose a rapidly expanding global health threat fueled by the convergence of multiple ecologic, economic, and social factors, including climate change, land use, poverty, deficiencies of water storage and sanitation, and limitations of vector control programs. On December 6, 2023, the Wellcome Trust and the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy held a meeting titled "An integrated approach to mosquito-borne arboviruses: a priority research agenda."The meeting comprised presentations, panels, and facilitated discussions aimed at describing the state of the field, highlighting recent accomplishments, identifying novel strategies, and …

Hernia Recurrence Risk Matters More Than Mesh Type To Patients Undergoing Ventral Hernia Repair, Stephanie Martinez Ugarte, Mokunfayo O Fajemisin, Chelsea J Guy-Frank, Dalya M Ferguson, Jonah J Stulberg, Lillian S Kao, Julie L Holihan

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Introduction: Patients' perceptions about synthetic mesh for ventral hernia repair (VHR) may stem from a lack of knowledge of risks. We assessed patients' threshold for accepting the risk of hernia recurrence to avoid synthetic mesh.

Methods: Patients ≥18 y old with prior or upcoming VHR viewed a one-time video decision aid describing recurrence risk with biologic versus synthetic mesh. Patients chose between these options using a probability trade-off (PTO) technique, varying hernia recurrence rate with biologic mesh. Based on randomized trials, the recurrence rate using synthetic mesh was 9%. The PTO score was the recurrence rate (0%-100%) at which patients …

Aortopexy With Plication Of Kommerell Diverticulum Is An Effective Alternative To Diverticulum Resection And Reimplantation Of The Aberrant Left Subclavian Artery For Surgical Management Of Vascular Rings In Children, Adegbemisola Aregbe Perkins, Ana-Lucia Tomescu, Christopher J Knott-Craig, Umar Boston, Thomas Spentzas, Karthik Vaidyanathan Ramakrishnan

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background

Right aortic arch with an aberrant left subclavian artery arising from a Kommerell diverticulum is the most common form of vascular ring. We report the outcomes of plication and pexy of the diverticulum in addition to division of the left-sided ligamentum to treat this lesion in children.

Methods

Forty-four patients were included in the study; 22 patients underwent division of the ligamentum arteriosum alone, while the other half underwent plication and/or pexy of the Kommerell diverticulum in addition to division of the ligamentum. The primary outcome of interest was reintervention for persistent symptoms following the initial operation. The other …

Book Review: Origins Of The Just War: Military Ethics And Culture In The Ancient Near East, Pauline Shanks Kaurin

Parameters Bookshelf – Online Book Reviews

Author: Rory Cox

Reviewed by Dr. Pauline Shanks Kaurin, Stockdale Chair in Professional Military Ethics and professor, College of Leadership and Ethics, US Naval War College

Origins of the Just War: Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient Near East, by Rory Cox, explores three ancient cultures —Egyptian, Hittite and Israeli—and how they navigated their relationships between ethics and war. Factors central to these civilizations include political authority, divine leadership, justice, and putting down rebellion. The book offers various disciplinary perspectives including philosophy, religion, art, history, sociology, and international relations. The reviewer notes, “This book will be of interest …

Book Review: Into The Void: Special Operations Forces After The War On Terror, Eric Robinson

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Editors: James D. Kiras and Martijn Kitzen

Reviewed by Eric Robinson, special operations researcher, RAND Corporation

Edited by James D. Kiras and Martijn Kitzen, Into the Void: Special Operations Forces after the War on Terror, looks at what is unique about the special operations forces' enterprise, explores how the organization must evolve, as well as a range of new operational concepts that could benefit SOF. Contributors include academics and practitioners from several backgrounds and countries.

A Mystery Caller Study On Pain Management Options For Intrauterine Device Placement, Mitali Sharma

Student Scholarship

Objectives: To understand whether clinics present pain management options for intrauterine device (IUD) placement over the phone and whether these options align with current evidence for effective pain control during placement. Study design: We used a mystery shopper approach and a standardized call script to collect information from a diverse, purposive sample of 100 clinics listed on www.bedsider.org. Results: We reached responsive personnel at 90 of the 100 selected clinics, of whom 32 (36%) would not provide information about pain control for IUD placement by phone or to non-established patients. Of the 58 clinics that provided information, four (6.9%) reported …

Sustainability Hub Newsletter - Summer 2025, Neyda V. Gilman, Jen Embree, Margaret Saville, Ashley Maurad

Library Sustainability Resources

Happy summer everyone! Check out this special edition of the Newsletter for some tips for having a sustainable summer, a fun recipe, a job opportunity, and more!

Toward The Professionalization Of Executive Coaching: A Delphi Study Of The Requisite Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities For Coaching Executives To Behave Ethically, Richard R. Fletcher

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The problem explored through this research involved the lack of consensus on executive coaching knowledge, skills, and abilities for facilitating ethical behaviors on the part of business executives. This problem led the researcher to employ a mixed-method Delphi study to explore professional executive coach perceptions concerning the establishment of a governing body overseeing the activity of executive coach consulting and to assess the knowledge, skills, and abilities perceived as fundamental to executive coaching. The researcher focused the research approach through a systematic, iterative research design where a panel of six experts in the field of professional executive coaching located in …

Leadership Emergence Among Black Urban Women Survivors Of Intimate Partner Violence: A Qualitative Exploration, Dawn H. Benton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study proposed to identify leadership strategies that assisted intimate partner violence-impacted Black women in urban areas to become leaders in their homes and communities as perceived by mental health professionals. Nine mental health professionals and counselors from an Ohio urban area completed a questionnaire and a semi-structured interview to provide data about Black women in intimate partner violence-impacted relationships living in a metropolitan area in Ohio. Deprived of valuable leadership resources and gifts that the women can offer their families and communities, investigators omitted the women's plights in their studies. Four research questions framed this qualitative case study design …

0893: Maurice G. Burnside Collection, 1793-2003, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection was deaccessioned from East Carolina University to Marshall University Special Collections. The original processing, organizing, and files were maintained in this transfer. The only change that has been made is the addition of the new accession number to the existing folders.

The bulk of this collection pertains to Dr. Burnside’s congressional and political activities (1945-1956) and is composed largely of scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and photographs. Materials reflect the time and effort Dr. Burnside directed towards environmental issues, unemployment, the problems faced by small businesses and farmers, and the promotion of tariffs on foreign products that competed with local …

A Culturally-Tailored Framework For Improving Patient Activation Within A Digital Solution: Supporting Black Pregnant Women With Hypertensive Disorders, Morgan Foreman

Dissertations and Theses (Open Access)

Digital health solutions, like mobile apps, are popular for managing health conditions such as pregnancy and hypertension. Although these tools have great potential, they struggle with sustaining long-term patient engagement, with 80% of users often only logging into a mobile application twice (Fleming et al., 2018; Meyerowitz-Katz et al., 2020; Pfammatter et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2017). App development often uses one-size fits-all methods and can benefit from the inclusion of differences across user populations (Boucher & Raiker, 2024; Budak et al., 2024). Cultural-tailoring has improved adherence to healthcare interventions, with these tailored interventions proving to be more effective …

Mindful: Machine Intelligence Towards Neuropsychiatric Data For Unified Learning, Zehan Li

Dissertations and Theses (Open Access)

Suicide remains a leading cause of preventable death, with particularly high burden in underserved populations treated in safety-net psychiatric hospitals. Early detection is challenged not by the absence of data, but by the informational opacity of psychiatric clinical narratives which is unstructured, subjective, and heterogeneous records that resist traditional analytic methods. This article-based dissertation addresses this challenge by developing an integrated MINDFUL framework that combines clinically validated annotation, advanced machine learning, and explainable AI to enable accurate, interpretable suicide phenotyping in high-acuity psychiatric settings. The first study created a gold-standard annotated corpus of psychiatric notes labeled for suicidal ideation, suicide …

Mission Engineering Competencies Workshop Report: Roles, Responsibilities, And Skills, James D. Moreland, Jr. (Editor), Thomas Irwin, Robert-Allen Baker

Center for Mission Engineering (CME) Publications

This report summarizes the findings of a two-day Old Dominion University Mission Engineering Workshop involving the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Air Force, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the University of New South Wales, and Old Dominion University, focused on defining the roles, competencies, and skills essential to Mission Engineering. It presents a structured competency framework and offers recommendations to guide workforce development, training, and cross-agency collaboration in support of complex, mission-driven systems.

Telogen Effluvium And Anesthesia Considerations: A Case Report., Elizabeth Johnson-Gray, Samantha A Currier, Hanen Fernandez, Matt Brown, Matthias Franzen

Ambulatory and Primary Care Articles

Telogen effluvium is a form of non-scarring hair loss characterized by premature shedding of hair. Pathophysiologically, telogen effluvium occurs when a significant number of hair follicles prematurely enter the telogen phase, resulting in excessive shedding. The exact mechanism is unclear, but it is believed to involve alterations in the hair follicle's growth cycle, possibly mediated by illness, infection, major surgery, low protein intake, or hormonal changes. Some medications can also be linked to this disease, such as beta blockers, carbamazepine, and vitamin A. When affected hairs are in the resting phase, noticeable hair shedding occurs. Our patient was a 61-year-old …

Cardiovascular Manifestations Of Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum., Aimee Willett, Vivek V Jasti, Sean M Muir, Jay Anderson

Ambulatory and Primary Care Articles

Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) is a rare systemic disorder of elastic fibers. The most common manifestations include characteristic papules and ocular angioid streaks. Cardiovascular complications include peripheral arterial disease, hypertension, premature coronary artery disease, and cerebrovascular disease. These associations are secondary to dystrophic elastic fibers, resulting in the calcification of small- to medium-sized arteries. We present the case of a 22-year-old otherwise healthy female patient diagnosed with PXE following a biopsy of a neck lesion. Ophthalmologic evaluation revealed characteristic angioid streaks. The patient also reported early satiety and leg cramping, which prompted referral to gastroenterology and cardiology. Further investigation raised concern …

A Phenomenological Study On The Enabling Role Of Digital Competencies In Heutagogical Learning Contexts, Jennifer Dean

Masters

This study examines how digital competencies contribute to independent learning within heutagogical contexts in higher education.   The research was conducted to address assumptions that digital competence directly enables learner autonomy, despite limited understanding of this empirical relationship in practice.   A qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological approach was employed, using nine semi-structured interviews to explore learners’ lived experiences in digitally mediated environments.   The findings indicate that self-directed learning is primarily driven by intrinsic motivation and often occurs unconsciously.   Digital competencies were found to act as enabling factors by facilitating access, flexibility and engagement, however, their influence on autonomy was context-dependent rather than deterministic. …

Arcadia Magazine, 2025-07

Alumni Magazine

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Naqbu: Cosmological Undercurrents In Sumer And Akkad, Fiona Eirene Andrews

Theses and Dissertations

The concepts of primordial incomprehensibility, ordered creation, and the liminal chaos between them, form a foundational framework in Mesopotamian intellectual culture. The distinctive ways in which these concepts manifest in Sumero-Akkadian cultures suggest a systematic cosmological substructure — characterized by the paradoxical, cyclical, and co-creative relationships between forces such as Infinity and measure, generation and destruction, and definition and obscurity — that remains insufficiently examined in current scholarship. Drawing from diverse corpus of Mesopotamian creative works, Kabbalistic exegesis, and post-modern scholarship, this thesis seeks to elucidate the essential dynamics within that substructure. By proposing a semiotic hermeneutical strategy attuned to …

Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos: Hip-Hop And The Carceral State In The East San Francisco Bay Area, William Maclane Hull

Theses and Dissertations

“Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos: Hip-Hop and the Carceral State in the East San Francisco Bay Area” explores the histories of urban redevelopment and deindustrialization, racialized poverty, police and the carceral system, and hip-hop culture in Oakland and other parts of the eastern San Francisco Bay Area. It explores East Bay politics and urban development in the 1900s, which resulted in the flight of industries and wealthy white residents to the suburbs and the erosion of public services. Black community organizations and funk music alike articulated the damages done by these processes in the 1960s. Subsequently, politicians and …

‘If You Design For The Future To Treat Of Witches:' Diabolic Service Magicians, Astrologers, And Witchcraft In John Dunton's Athenian Mercury, 1690-1697, Lauren Rebecca Rowe

Theses and Dissertations

Originating in the print stands of seventeenth-century London, the Athenian Mercury enjoyed a nearly miraculous seven-year run time as the most well-known and successful anonymous question and answer periodical of its time. Conceptualized and produced by bookseller John Dunton, the Mercury existed as an interface for intellectual discourse readily accessible to men and women. Kept entirely anonymous on the part of the author and reader, the intellectually curious could write questions to the Mercury and receive answers in turn on a vast variety of subjects twice a week. Aside from the more expected queries on science, love, mathematics, and religion, …

Democracy’S Sanctuary: Highlander Folk School’S Campaign For Justice From The Labor Movement To The Civil Rights Movement, 1932-1962, Alexandra Elizabeth Bethlenfalvy

Theses and Dissertations

A sanctuary for political democracy, the Highlander Folk School was established in 1932 as a center for community activism, serving as the leading labor union organizing site in rural Tennessee during the Great Depression. With social unrest swelling in the 1930s, Highlander empowered workers, equipping them with the skills and knowledge needed to demand improved conditions and union representation across the anti-labor South. During World War II, however, as ranks of organized labor grew and civil rights activism in the South accelerated, Highlander convened interracial workshops, beginning in 1944, at a time when racial segregation was enforced by law and …