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Parnassus Classical Journal (Volume 11, 2024), Parnassus Contributors

Parnassus: Classical Journal

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Peeking Into Closets: A Review Of Danielle Bobker's The Closet: The Eighteenth-Century Architecture Of Intimacy, Karenza Sutton-Bennett

Criticism

A Review of Danielle Bobker's The Closet: The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Intimacy

The Impact Of Artificial Intelligence On Library Services And Information Management., Atmika Tripathi, Atmika Tripathi Ms.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study explores the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to bring about transformation in library services and information management. The research used a thorough scale to assess the degree of artificial intelligence (AI) integration into libraries, as well as the resulting consequences for user experience and the encountered challenges. The results indicate improved effectiveness in the organisation and classification of materials, as well as increased user contentment, inside libraries that have integrated artificial intelligence technology. However, the emergence of concerns pertaining to data privacy presents considerable obstacles. This study highlights the necessity of ongoing training for library personnel and …

Privacy Perceptions On Personal Data And Data Breaches In South Africa, Phillip Nyoni, Mthulisi Velempini, Nehemiah Mavetera

The African Journal of Information Systems

Research shows that data breaches often occur when organizations fail to protect users’ personal data sufficiently well. Many devices are connected to the Internet such as mobile phones, smart cars, wearables and ‘Things’ which increase the number of potential entry points into data stores. This paper discusses the potential data privacy risks that users face online. The study used online content analysis and surveys to establish the privacy perceptions of users and trends of data breaches in South Africa. The findings reveal that users have a positive perception of data managers and view them as knowledgeable in data protection. Nevertheless, …

Educational Chatbot Development Informed By Clinical Simulations, Alicia Drelick, Casey L. Woodfield, Justin E. Freedman

College of Education Departmental Research

This manuscript introduces an innovative approach to developing educational chatbots informed by clinical simulations to enhance learning experiences. With the rapid interaction of generative AI in education, this work provides a structured process to creating chatbots that simulate interactions for educational purposes. The four development phases, Conceptualization, Protocol Design, Technical Design, and Trials and Revisions are grounded in the foundational practices of clinical simulations. This approach bridges gaps between theory and practical application of emerging technologies while emphasizing the role of humans at the center of AI-enhanced learning. In addition to technical guidance, pedagogical strategies for introducing chatbots to students …

Thinking Long-Term: Nursing Education On Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics, Arslan Rashid

DNP Qualifying Manuscripts

Schizophrenia cases and their associated healthcare costs have drastically increased over time in the U.S. Antipsychotic non-adherence is a primary contributor to the high rates of relapse and rehospitalization among the schizophrenic adult population. The development of long-acting injectable antipsychotics (LAIs) has positively impacted medication adherence, however, this treatment modality is still underemployed in practice due to barriers, such as physician and patient negative attitudes toward LAIs and lack of education. Nurses are in a great position to address these barriers as they serve as mediators between providers and patients. This literature review aims to discover evidence that LAI education …

Interactions With New-To-Teacher Language Resources: Supporting Translingual Composing In A Multilingual Elementary Classroom, Lindsey W. Rowe

Publications

Educators should support multilingual students’ translingual writing. However, it can be challenging for teachers to support students’ composing in languages that teachers do not speak. Drawing on a community translanguaging lens, this paper explores this issue by asking: How did teachers talk about and interact with language resources that were new to them while supporting translingual writing in an English-medium classroom? Data were collected using ethnographic and practitioner research methods across 1 year in one second-grade writing workshop in the U.S. Students spoke Spanish, Korean, French, Tagalog, or English, and classroom teachers spoke English and Spanish. Data analysis first involved …

Um Autoestudo Do Uso De Inteligência Artificial Generativa Para Apoiar As Tarefas Dos Líderes Escolares, Henrick Oprea

Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education

O uso de ferramentas como o ChatGPT e outros Large Language Models (LLM) tem se mostrado um desafio no mundo da educação. Enquanto os professores estavam inicialmente preocupados com a possibilidade de trapaça e como impedir que os alunos usassem as ferramentas, que ocupavam a maior parte do tempo gasto nas escolas ao discutir essas questões, agora está claro que a Inteligência Artificial Generativa (IA) faz parte do mundo em muitas áreas diferentes. Muito se discutiu nos 2 anos em que essa ferramenta se tornou disponível para educadores, mas muito pouco se discutiu sobre como essas ferramentas podem auxiliar o …

Assessing The Concomitant Presentation Of Acl And Anterolateral Ligament Injuries, Kiang Huang, Katherine Quesada-Tibbetts, Leela Prakash, Neelesh Prakash

Radiology Student Publications

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries severely compromise the quality of life in affected patients, so early detection of concurrent injuries is crucial for quicker rehabilitation and proper surgical treatment. Although injuries to the medial meniscus and medial collateral ligament are frequently linked to damage to the ACL, little is known about other important but underappreciated ligament lesions in individuals with ACL injury. The anterolateral ligament (ALL) is a less well-known lesion that presents tearing injuries in 32%-88% of patients with ACL tears in the same knee, with a higher prevalence in complete ACL tears. Despite their lower occurrence, ALL tears …

A Systematic Review Of Racial Disparities In Emergency Department Pain Evaluation And Treatment In The United States, Cyrus Wolff

Theses and Graduate Projects

Background: Providers working in emergency departments (ED) must balance the need to relieve patients’ pain with the dangers of overprescribing opioids. Lack of standardization of pain evaluation and treatment may contribute to inequities in the management of pain in emergency departments. Evaluating differences in how different populations receive care in emergency departments can help to identify problems and areas where improvements need to occur.

Purpose: The purpose of this literature review is to evaluate what current research states about the prevalence and causes of racial disparities in pain evaluation and treatment in United States emergency departments and determine what gaps …

What Are The Most Effective Non-Pharmacologic Practices For The Management Of Primary Insomnia In Adults?, Alexis Myhre

Theses and Graduate Projects

Objective: Primary insomnia is a mental health condition in which individuals struggle with falling asleep, staying asleep or early morning awakenings. As there are many treatments available that claim to help those with primary insomnia, this review looks specifically at therapy, exercise and acupuncture as management strategies.

Methods: This is a review of 15 peer-reviewed, randomized controlled trials completed in 2018 or later with one additional study completed in 2010. Also, there are four non primary insomnia based studies used to support the efficacy of alternative therapies to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). All the studies used in this review come …

This Is A Call To Action For All Primary Care Providers: Do Better For Your Transgender Patients, Kate Castor

Theses and Graduate Projects

Background: Patients of all ages benefit from primary care. However, not everyone has equal access to primary care. Transgender patients often face a multitude of barriers to receiving basic healthcare.

Purpose: Improve health outcomes for transgender patients, enlighten providers on significant disparities, and offer solutions to these disparities faced by transgender community in the healthcare setting and when receiving cancer screening.

Methods: Literature review comprising results from Augsburg University Lindell Library databases, American Journal of Medicine, and Google Scholar.

Conclusions: Everyone can do better for their transgender patients, but primary care providers should take extra care cultivating relationships with these …

A Review Of The Literature On The Utilization Of Stem Cells In Knee Osteoarthritis, Katrina Krist

Theses and Graduate Projects

Background: This literature review evaluates the utilization of various types of stem cells in the treatment of osteoarthritis.

Purpose: To assess the different types of stem cell therapy available in an attempt to determine its effectiveness and viability as a long term therapy option.

Methods: Articles were found by searching Augsburg Library Services, Google Scholar, and PubMed for recent, original studies using both allogeneic or autologous stem cells from a variety of cell lines including bone marrow and adipose tissue.

Conclusions: The utilization of stem cells as a viable treatment option for osteoarthritis shows improvement in pain management and return …

The Efficacy Of Cannabis As A Substitute Addiction For Opiates, Clark Furlong

Theses and Graduate Projects

Background: Approaches to opiate addiction focus on abstinence and/or a harm reduction model that often utilizes substitute medications. Methadone and suboxone are the most prescribed drugs for opiate maintenance therapy. The long-term side effect profile and health consequences are undesirable. Research is looking for healthier alternatives.

Purpose: Opiate maintenance therapy participants have a mortality rate greater than twelve times that of the normal population, we seek to discover if cannabis can be a useful/safer alternative.

Methods: Following a comprehensive literature review a 7-question online survey was designed with SurveyMonkey to gauge current Augsburg students’ perception of cannabis as an alternative …

How Has Telehealth Impacted Access To Mental Health Services In The Hispanic Population In Minnesota?, Jesse Ochoa

Theses and Graduate Projects

Background: The Hispanic population in the US continues to grow and mental health services still have barriers lowering access to care.

Purpose: The purpose of this literature review is to look at the stressors and perceptions of mental health in Hispanics and analyze how telehealth has impacted access to care despite the barriers present.

Methods: A comprehensive literature review was conducted using google scholar using the search terms With this search criteria, 600 articles were available. Inclusion criteria were studies that provided a comprehensive view about specific topics like telehealth with the hispanic population, mental health specific to Hispanic needs, …

Attraction Is Altered Via Modulation Of The Medial Prefrontal Cortex Without Explicit Knowledge, Samantha Zorns, Claudia Sierzputowski, Sydney Ash, Molly Skowron, Anthony Minervini, Adriana Lavarco, Matthew Pardillo, Julian Paul Keenan

Department of Biology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Previous studies have demonstrated that brain stimulation can alter an individual's physical appearance via dysregulation of the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC). In this study, we attempted to determine if individuals who receive repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) delivered to the MPFC were rated as more attractive by others. It has been previously reported that 1 hertz (Hz) (inhibitory) TMS can alter one's facial expressions such that frontal cortex inhibition can increase expressiveness. These alterations, detected by external observation, remain below the level of awareness of the subject itself. In Phase I, subjects (N = 10) received MPFC rTMS and had …

Nine New Gardner-Webb Faculty Members Welcomed At 2024 Faculty Assembly, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Gardner-Webb University welcomes new faculty members in the College of Education, College of Health Sciences and the College of Arts and Sciences. They were introduced at the Faculty Assembly today (Aug. 13).

El Corrido De La Redada De Los “41 Maricones”: Decolonizing El Porfiriato And Its Queer Signifier, Lucas Espinoza, Rosalva Resendiz, Luis E. Espinoza

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

The purpose of this article is to critically examine the story of the number 41 as a queer signifier in Mexican culture from a decolonial perspective, taking into account archival records in the development of hegemonic masculinity in the 20th century. An examination of hegemonic masculinity and homophobia of early 20th century Mexico is provided by reviewing colonial accounts of indigenous sexuality, as well as uncovering the hidden stories of the corrido/ballad of El Baile de los 41 Maricones. The corrido was used as satire to ridicule the homosexual practices by the bourgeoisie, creating a rift between social classes, and …

Tools For Planning Multi-Axis Vibration Qualification Tests, Marcus Edward Behling

Theses and Dissertations

Vibration qualification testing is necessary to ensure that components will endure vibration-induced damage in flight. Multi-axis tests have shown the potential for improvement over single-axis tests, though they require increased planning. This work focuses on planning three critical aspects of these tests: the amount of operational next assembly to include in the test, the size of shakers to use, and the number of shakers to use. Next assembly selection is studied by varying the amount of next assembly included in the lab test, performing physical tests, and comparing the accuracy of environment reconstruction in each test. In doing so, a …

Secondary Trauma Amongst Emergency Shelter Volunteers: An Intervention To Identify, Assess, And Respond To Secondary Trauma Exposure, Ashlyn K. Yokom

Master's Projects and Capstones

Purpose: Emergency shelter volunteers are experiencing secondary traumatic stress (STS) symptoms during their deployments. The purpose of this paper is to create an intervention that protects the volunteers from developing STS.

Design: Questionnaires were distributed to current and previous emergency shelter volunteers along with conducting interviews. This design allowed important information to be collected that was used to determine the level of STS symptoms experienced by the volunteers.

Trends: Three STS symptoms were focused upon, intrusion, avoidance, and arousal. It was determined that intrusion symptoms were experienced more frequently than avoidance and arousal symptoms.

Summary: It was determined that emergency …

Commonly Missed Miscellaneous Ligament Injuries Co-Occurring With Acl Tears On Diagnostic Imaging, Katherine Quesada-Tibbetts, Kian Huang, Mafaz Kattih, Albert Brotgandel, Neelesh Prakash

Radiology Student Publications

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries greatly affect patient quality of life, necessitating the early identification of additional injuries for faster recovery and appropriate surgical care. Although injuries to the medial meniscus and medial collateral ligament are commonly linked with ACL injuries, there is less awareness of other significant but less recognized ligament lesions in ACL-deficient patients. These less-common injuries include meniscal ramp lesions and meniscal root tears. Research indicates that concomitant ramp lesions are present in 15%-42% of ACL reconstructions, lateral meniscal root tears in 10%-14%, and medial meniscal root tears in a mere 3%. Despite their lower incidence, meniscal …

Personalized Nutrition: Tailoring Dietary Recommendations Through Genetic Insights, Saiful Singar, Ravinder Nagpal, Bahram H. Arjmandi, Neda S. Akhavan

Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences Faculty Research

Personalized nutrition (PN) represents a transformative approach in dietary science, where individual genetic profiles guide tailored dietary recommendations, thereby optimizing health outcomes and managing chronic diseases more effectively. This review synthesizes key aspects of PN, emphasizing the genetic basis of dietary responses, contemporary research, and practical applications. We explore how individual genetic differences influence dietary metabolisms, thus underscoring the importance of nutrigenomics in developing personalized dietary guidelines. Current research in PN highlights significant gene–diet interactions that affect various conditions, including obesity and diabetes, suggesting that dietary interventions could be more precise and beneficial if they are customized to genetic profiles. …

Do Participation Rates Vary With Participation Payments In Laboratory Experiments?, Huizhen Zhong, Cary Deck, Daniel J. Henderson

ESI Working Papers

This paper reports a series of experiments designed to evaluate how the advertised participation payment impacts participation rates in laboratory experiments. Our initial goal was to generate variation in the participation rate as a means to control for selection bias when evaluating treatment effects in common laboratory experiments. Initially, we varied the advertised participation payment to 1734 people from $5 to $15 using standard email recruitment procedures, but found no statistical evidence this impacted the participation rate. A second study increased the advertised payment up to $100. Here, we find marginally significant statistical evidence that the advertised participation payment affects …

Building A Simplistic Automatic Extruder: Instrument Development Opportunities For The Laboratory, Stefanie Klisch, Dylan Gilbert, Emma Breaux, Aliyah Dalier, Sudipta Gupta, Bruno Jakobi, Gerald J. Schneider

Faculty Publications

This work presents an automatic extruder as a research experience for undergraduate students. The system offers a user-friendly approach to preparing vesicles, such as liposomes or polymersomes, with a defined size and polydispersity─properties crucial for research in biology and macromolecules. It comprises two syringe pumps connected by a membrane filter. The setup is controlled by software. Compared to manual extrusion, this automated system provides advantages, such as precisely controlled variables. The project describes a tool to enhance undergraduate learning in science and engineering laboratories. Building an automatic extruder serves as a simplified model of a complex industrial process. It offers …

Simulating The Long-Term Response Of Forest Succession To Climate Change In The Boreal Forest Of Northern Ontario, Canada, Guy R. Larocque, F. Wayne Bell, Eric B. Searle, Stephen J. Mayor, Thomas Schiks, Parvin Kalantari

Aspen Bibliography

The effect of climate change on forest dynamics is likely to increase in importance in the forthcoming decades. For this reason, it is essential to predict the extent to which changes in temperature, precipitation, and atmospheric CO₂ might affect the development of forest ecosystems and successional pathways. The gap model ZELIG-CFS was used to simulate the potential long-term effects of climate change on species-specific annual change in mean basal area and stand density under two scenarios of representative concentration pathways (RCP), 4.5 and 8.5, for the boreal forest region of Ontario, Canada, where mean temperature, precipitation, and atmospheric CO …

August 13, 2024 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

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The Prevalence Of Depression In Women With Pregnancy-Related Pelvic Girdle Pain: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Bradley Halliday, Sarah Chatfield, Joanne Hosking, Jennifer Freeman

School of Health Professions

Background and Aims: Pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain (PPGP) is estimated to affect between 20% and 70% of pregnant women with 10% experiencing it for more than 3 months postpartum. Women may also experience depression during this period. Understanding the prevalence of depression in women with PPGP is important to inform clinical management. This systematic review aimed to examine the prevalence of depression in women with PPGP in the antepartum and postpartum periods. Methods: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Seven databases were searched from inception until May 24, 2023, combining keywords relating to pelvic girdle pain (PGP), depression, and pregnancy. Two …

Early Childhood Teachers’ Perspectives On The Challenges Of Teaching Students Who Lack Age-Appropriate Social And Emotional Skills, Rachel Ann Stewart

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The problem addressed in this study was the significant increase in the number of students who lack age-appropriate social and emotional skills (SES), which has become a concern, especially for teachers. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore early childhood teachers’ perspectives on the challenges of teaching students who lack age-appropriate SES and what support they believed would help them when working with these students in the classroom. The conceptual framework that guided this study consisted of Bandura’s social learning theory. The focus of the research questions was early childhood teachers’ perspectives on the challenges of teaching …

The Lived Experiences Of Clinical Supervision For Stress Mitigation Among Master’S Counseling Students In Internship, Marcia Kay Lebeau

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

There is limited information on the lived experiences of stress mitigation in clinical supervision for master’s-level interns in Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP)-accredited counseling programs. There is a need for insight into how policy and supervision practices in counselor education programs can contribute to supporting and educating students during this time of professional and personal development and avoid negative personal and professional consequences. The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to gain an understanding of the lived experiences of supervision for master’s-level interns in CACREP-accredited counseling programs in relation to utilizing supervision for stress …

Pathways To Prevention: The Intersection Of Child Maltreatment, Child Welfare, And Gun Violence, Children's Advocacy Institute, University Of San Diego School Of Law

CAI Special Reports

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