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Preventing Burnout In Nursing Staff: Strategies And Best Practices For A Healthy Workplace, Friday Chidozie Nwabuisi Jan 2025

Preventing Burnout In Nursing Staff: Strategies And Best Practices For A Healthy Workplace, Friday Chidozie Nwabuisi

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This doctoral project is a staff education initiative focused on improving nursing resilience and mental health through mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs). The project was informed by a practice-focused question: To what extent does the implementation of MBI training reduce stress and burnout among nursing staff in a clinical setting? The purpose of this project was to establish whether MBIs can be implemented as a support strategy in mitigating burnout and stress among nurses. The quantitative evaluation strategy used to determine the effectiveness of MBIs in reducing stress and burnout among nurses was a pretest and a posttest. The project targeted nursing …

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Understanding Covid-19 Vaccination Hesitance Among Registered Nurses, Lucille Fenelon Jan 2025

Understanding Covid-19 Vaccination Hesitance Among Registered Nurses, Lucille Fenelon

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The development of the COVID-19 vaccine, while hailed as a groundbreaking scientific achievement, also brought to light a discernible hesitance from registered nurses (RNs) regarding the vaccination. While extensive research has delved into the broader phenomenon of vaccination hesitancy, there remains a notable gap in comprehensively examining the specific lived experiences of RNs in relation to this hesitancy. Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of RNs contributing to COVID-19 vaccine hesitance within the context of the theory of reasoned action (TRA) and Roy’s adaptation model. TRA helped to guide this study in identifying the …

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Perceptions Of Encouragement For Native American Women To Persist In Doctoral Programs, Venicia Mayo Burton Jan 2025

Perceptions Of Encouragement For Native American Women To Persist In Doctoral Programs, Venicia Mayo Burton

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The problem addressed in this study is the underrepresentation of Native American women in doctoral programs in the United States. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore how encouragement in terms of support, confidence, hope, and advice received from family and tribe, friends and social circles, and faculty and college administrators influence the persistence of Native American women in their doctoral journeys. The conceptual framework for this study is the psychosociolcultural theory (PSC) to help examine the psychological, social, and cultural influences on the educational experiences of minority students in an educational setting. Data from eight interviews …

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Marketing With A Social Conscience: Strategic Windows For Aligning Societal Marketing With Corporate Identity, Christopher Agyapong Siaw Jan 2025

Marketing With A Social Conscience: Strategic Windows For Aligning Societal Marketing With Corporate Identity, Christopher Agyapong Siaw

Plymouth Business School

PurposeThis study proposes a conceptual framework for strategically integrating societal marketing (SM) into corporate identity to effectively represent a firm’s SM programs to stakeholders. The framework is crucial for firms to align their SM efforts with their identity in a manner that minimizes, if not eliminating, the accusations of dishonesty, such as greenwashing, brownwashing, or greenhushing.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on corporate identity theory and synthesizing the literature on SM, the study identifies three levels of corporate identity (strategic, operational, and functional) and three dimensions of SM’s alignment with business objectives (direct, indirect, and remote). Subsequently, the study develops a conceptual framework based on …

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Three-Dimensional Metaphor: After 'Site', Phil Smith Jan 2025

Three-Dimensional Metaphor: After 'Site', Phil Smith

School of Art, Design and Architecture

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Two Families Of Graceful Cacti, Christian Barrientos Jan 2025

Two Families Of Graceful Cacti, Christian Barrientos

Communications on Number Theory and Combinatorial Theory

We present a graceful labeling for each member of a subfamily of quadrangular cacti whose underlying graph correspond to the subclass of rooted binary trees where every level has at most two vertices. We also prove the existence of an $\alpha$-labeling (the most restricted type of graceful labeling) for all cyclic snakes, i.e., those cacti whose blocks are copies of the cycle $C_{4n}$ and its maximum degree is four.

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The Intelligible And Sensible Image, Gao Xin Jan 2025

The Intelligible And Sensible Image, Gao Xin

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The burgeoning field of interdisciplinary image studies is compelling art history to reevaluate its boundaries. Images that exist as formulas or subject programs circulating without a medium require an iconological reading to decipher their symbolism, while the images with a physical presence necessitate insights from media studies are needed to understand their stylistic and technical aspects. Each act of viewing demands that the viewer's embodied experience with the images be considered through anthropological or metapsychological lenses. By embracing multiple methodologies, art history can facilitate a deeper engagement with images. This approach would not seek to intellectualize the images or exhaust …

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Reflections On The Effectiveness Of Aesthetic Education: Based On Theoretical Cognition And Practical Quality, Wang Que Jan 2025

Reflections On The Effectiveness Of Aesthetic Education: Based On Theoretical Cognition And Practical Quality, Wang Que

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Aesthetic education is an important part of China's “Five Educations” framework, which emphasizes the holistic development of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor education. It also represents a long-term strategy for cultivating national talent. In an era of technological advancement and supremacy, aesthetic education serves as a balancing factor in talent development. Theoretical and cognitive awareness of aesthetic education are vital for in improving the quality of its practice. Therefore, it is essential to engage in deep reflection on the effectiveness of aesthetic education within art education, explore the potential of aesthetic education across various fields such as art, nature, …

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Volume 39-2 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

Volume 39-2 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 39-2 Complete Issue

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The Geography Of South Dakota, Donald J. Berg Jan 2025

The Geography Of South Dakota, Donald J. Berg

The Geographical Bulletin

Edward P. Hogan has done a considerable service for the people of South Dakota by researching and writing The Geography of South Dakota, the first such volume in 78 years. It is a book that was long overdue, but such a project also needs the right person at the rig

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Charting The Inland Seas: A History Of The U. S. Lake Survey By Arthur M. Woodford, Robert B. Mancell Jan 2025

Charting The Inland Seas: A History Of The U. S. Lake Survey By Arthur M. Woodford, Robert B. Mancell

The Geographical Bulletin

Here is a book that will delight all who love the Great Lakes and wish to know more about them. Among the numerous books available on the Great Lakes, Charting the Inland Seas is the first exhaustive history of the U. S. Lake Survey. This was the governmental agency in charge of overseeing the Great Lakes from 1841 to its demise in 1976 when it became a part of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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Climate Change: Impact On Coastal Habitation By Doeke Eisma (Ed.), C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

Climate Change: Impact On Coastal Habitation By Doeke Eisma (Ed.), C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

The coast is the meeting place of continents and oceans and a zone of interest and concern to a diverse group of social and physical scientist. The notion thatthe earth's climate is changing due to the release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide is widespread. Increase of fossil fuel consumption is anticipated to result in higher temperatures, weather alterations, dramatic changes in the present-day global agricultural zones, and higher eustatic sea levels due to melting glacial ice.

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News From The Chapters1996-1997, C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

News From The Chapters1996-1997, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

News from the Chapters 1996-1997

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Population-Environment Dynamics. Ideas And Observations. (4th Edition) By Gay Ld. Ness, William D. Drake, Steven R. Brechin, Editors., Wendy Shaw Jan 2025

Population-Environment Dynamics. Ideas And Observations. (4th Edition) By Gay Ld. Ness, William D. Drake, Steven R. Brechin, Editors., Wendy Shaw

The Geographical Bulletin

Population and the environment are intertwined in a complex web that demands the analysis of numerous theoretical and practical issues. These issues have been neglected in the past, and the topics of population and the environment artificially separated in both thought and action. This book attempts to fill these voids using an inductive and interdisciplinary approach. A series of authors contribute fifteen chapters organized into five sections. Section I explores global per - spectives relating to population and the environment, Section II analyzes the im - portance of the state as an actor, Section III focuses on population-environment dynamics in …

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Rediscovering The Roots Of Moroccan Geography In An Era Of Interdependence, Donald J. Zeigler, Driss Fassi Jan 2025

Rediscovering The Roots Of Moroccan Geography In An Era Of Interdependence, Donald J. Zeigler, Driss Fassi

The Geographical Bulletin

The indigenous traditions of Moroccan geography, pioneered by such figures as AI Idrisi and Ibn Khaldun during the classical period of Arab intellectual history (1000-1400), came to be ignored and then replaced with the establishment of a French protectorate in 1912. The era of independence in Moroccan geography was supplanted by an era of dependence on European scholarship, which emphasized resource exploitation and which was to last until political independence in 1956. Following that watershed year, intellectual inquiry became more independent and focused on the development needs of the nation. Following a period of Moroccanization in the 1970s, which included …

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The Electoral Geography Of Oregon's Ballot Measure 16: The Death With Dignity Act, Kathleen O'Reilly Jan 2025

The Electoral Geography Of Oregon's Ballot Measure 16: The Death With Dignity Act, Kathleen O'Reilly

The Geographical Bulletin

On November 8, 1994 Oregon became the first state in the nation to pass legislation allowing terminally ill patients to end their own lives with the assistance of a physician. Ballot Measure 16, the Death with Dignity Act, removes criminal penalties for assisting a terminally ill suicide, but does not allow lethal injection. In August 1995, U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan ruled the Death with Dignity Act violates the equal protection clause ofthe 14th Amendment. The ruling is being appealed. This paper investigates electoral voting patterns regarding Measure 16 in the 36 Oregon counties. It explores the relationships between votes …

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Hydrogeomorphic Response Of A Coastal Plain Stream To Tributary Channelization, Elizabeth J. Nabb, David Shankman Jan 2025

Hydrogeomorphic Response Of A Coastal Plain Stream To Tributary Channelization, Elizabeth J. Nabb, David Shankman

The Geographical Bulletin

The Hatchie River in western Tennessee is one of the few remaining free-flowing streams in the Gulf Coastal Plain. Although there have been no major modifications of the main channel, many of its tributaries have been channelized during the past few decades. Channelization has significantly reduced flooding in the upper sections of the watershed. The straightened and hydrologically more efficient channels, however, speed the flow of water that scours the channel bed. Sediment derived from these unstable channels is transported downstream and into the main channel. An examination of changes in bed elevation indicate that the depth and therefore cross-sectional …

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Dunbar’S Number In Motion: Agent-Based Simulations Of Friendship Formation, Christopher R. Cooke, Cameron D. Lutz Jan 2025

Dunbar’S Number In Motion: Agent-Based Simulations Of Friendship Formation, Christopher R. Cooke, Cameron D. Lutz

Northeast Journal of Complex Systems (NEJCS)

By contrasting Lévy flight and random walk strategies in simulated agents, we discern the effect of movement behavior on the total duration of social interactions. Our agent-based simulation results approximate empirically observed Dunbar social circle formation using simple behavioral rules of interaction and compatibility to mimic exogenous attribute-based friendship formation. We simulate the complexities of social interactions among agents with unique attributes and a time budget for social engagement over a one-year period. Two distinct simulations were conducted to evaluate the behavioral contributions of Lévy flight and random walk movement patterns on cumulative interaction duration and the formation of Dunbar …

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New Media And Religion: Observations On Research, Kyong Cho Jan 2025

New Media And Religion: Observations On Research, Kyong Cho

Communication Research Trends

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Communication Technology And Education, Paul A. Soukup S.J. Jan 2025

Communication Technology And Education, Paul A. Soukup S.J.

Communication Research Trends

No abstract provided.

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Bringing Science And Technology Studies To Bear On Communication Studies Research, Jessica Baldwin-Philippi Jan 2025

Bringing Science And Technology Studies To Bear On Communication Studies Research, Jessica Baldwin-Philippi

Communication Research Trends

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A Decade Of Research Exploring Biology And Communication, Justin P. Boren, Alice E. Veksler Jan 2025

A Decade Of Research Exploring Biology And Communication, Justin P. Boren, Alice E. Veksler

Communication Research Trends

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Advanced Machine Learning Techniques For Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction, Godfred Ahenkroa Kesse Jan 2025

Advanced Machine Learning Techniques For Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction, Godfred Ahenkroa Kesse

Data Science and Data Mining

of mortality, necessitating advanced predictive models to aid early detection and prevention. This study explores the application of machine learning techniques, including Lo- gistic Regression, K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Random Forest, and XGBoost, to predict CVD risk using a dataset of 69,997 observations encompassing demographic, clinical, and lifestyle factors. Data preprocessing involved one-hot encoding of cat- egorical variables and scaling to ensure compatibility with all models. Model performance was evaluated using metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, and AUC-ROC. Among the models, XGBoost demonstrated the highest accuracy at 74%, leveraging its gradient-boosting framework to effectively handle feature interactions and imbalanced …

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Predicting Blood Glucose Levels: A Linear Regression Approach For Non-Invasive Monitoring, Godfred Ahenkroa Kesse Jan 2025

Predicting Blood Glucose Levels: A Linear Regression Approach For Non-Invasive Monitoring, Godfred Ahenkroa Kesse

Data Science and Data Mining

Accurate monitoring of blood glucose levels is vital for the management of diabetes, a chronic condition affecting millions worldwide. This study explores a linear regression approach to estimate glucose levels non-invasively using a dataset enriched with demographic, physiological, and sensor-based variables. Following rigorous data preparation, including normalization and encoding, a Box-Cox transformation was applied to address violations of regression assumptions, stabilizing variance and improving model validity. Stepwise selection and hypothesis testing were employed to refne the model, retaining signifcant predictors such as AGE, GENDER, HEARTRATE, and DIABETIC, while excluding variables like NIR Reading and LAST EATEN for their minimal contribution. …

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Handwritten Digit Recognition Using Naive Bayes And K-Nearest Neighbor Models, Godfred Ahenkroa Kesse Jan 2025

Handwritten Digit Recognition Using Naive Bayes And K-Nearest Neighbor Models, Godfred Ahenkroa Kesse

Data Science and Data Mining

This paper explores the performance of two fundamental classifcation algorithms. It uses Naive Bayes and K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), framing it within the context of digit recognition of the MNIST dataset. The MNIST dataset has 70,00 grayscale images of handwritten digits, offering a standard for assessing classifcation models. This paper focuses on key performance metrics such as precision, accuracy, recall, and F1score to examine the effciency of each model. The results reveal that Naive Bayes has moderate accuracy and misclassifcations because of its notion of feature independence. The paper concludes that the KNN model performs better with the optimal k-value of …

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Variable Selection Using Lasso Regression, Godfred Ahenkroa Kesse Jan 2025

Variable Selection Using Lasso Regression, Godfred Ahenkroa Kesse

Data Science and Data Mining

This study employs Lasso regression to analyze highdimensional genetic data for predicting flowering time in maize, specifically Days to Anthesis (DtoA). Lasso, or Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator, is a form of linear regression that introduces an L1 penalty to the model, encouraging sparsity by shrinking some coefficients to zero. This attribute makes Lasso ideal for feature selection in large datasets, as it highlights the most influential predictors while discarding irrelevant variables. Unlike Ridge regression, which applies an L2 penalty to minimize the squared magnitude of coefficients, Lasso’s L1 penalty induces sparsity, providing a clearer interpretation of the selected …

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Classification And Evaluation Of Machine Learning Algorithms On The Mnist Dataset, Felix Yeboah Jan 2025

Classification And Evaluation Of Machine Learning Algorithms On The Mnist Dataset, Felix Yeboah

Data Science and Data Mining

This paper discusses the use of machine learning algorithms in classifying the MNIST handwritten dataset. The MNIST dataset consists of 28x28 grayscale handwritten images with 10 classes from 0 to 9. The dataset was normalized by scaling the pixel values to a range between 0 and 1 by dividing each pixel value by 255. We compare and evaluate the K-nearest Neighbor and Naive Bayes algorithm based on performance metrics such as accuracy, error rate, f1-score, and precision. The K-nearest Neighbor algorithm achieved better performance in all the evaluation criteria.

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The Police State Legacy, Security Sector Governance And Reform (Ssg&R) Within A P/Cve* Framing In Tunisia: Local Ownership At A Critical Juncture, Fatma Jabbari Jan 2025

The Police State Legacy, Security Sector Governance And Reform (Ssg&R) Within A P/Cve* Framing In Tunisia: Local Ownership At A Critical Juncture, Fatma Jabbari

Peace and Conflict Studies Journal Conference

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Mission Success: Mastering Muscle Function Through Humanoid Analysis, Amber M. Chelette Jan 2025

Mission Success: Mastering Muscle Function Through Humanoid Analysis, Amber M. Chelette

Educational Practices in Kinesiology

Knowledge of muscle function and human movement are essential skills of all kinesiology students. In the humanoid activity, teams are challenged to determine whether a muscle is essential to the successful development of a humanoid being sent to Mars. This activity provides a significant learning experience regarding muscle anatomy, function, and movement analysis. The humanoid activity is intended for use in a face-to-face upper-level kinesiology anatomy or movement analysis course and best implemented with class sizes of 20-30 students. The total time commitment is approximately 45 minutes.

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Theological And Religious Perspectives On The Internet, Yoel Cohen, Jim Mcdonnell, Paul A. Soukup S.J. Jan 2025

Theological And Religious Perspectives On The Internet, Yoel Cohen, Jim Mcdonnell, Paul A. Soukup S.J.

Communication Research Trends

No abstract provided.

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