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Affected Family Members’ Communicative Management Of Opioid Misuse Stigma: Applying And Rethinking The Stigma Management Communication Typology, Sydney O'Shay, Emily Pasman, Danielle L. Hicks, Suzanne Brown, Elizabeth Aguis, Stella M. Resko

Publications

Opioid misuse is a prevalent health problem in the United States with consequences extending past the person who misuses opioids to affected family members (AFM) through courtesy stigma. The goals of this study were to understand the stigma management communication (SMC) strategies employed by AFMs when they experience courtesy stigma and changes in strategies used over time. The findings from interviews with 34 AFMs suggest the SMC strategies they employ range from those that indicate acceptance of stigma and avoidance of stigma situations to strategies where AFMs actively challenge opioid misuse stigma. However, strategy use depended on the social context …

How A Power Differential Between Clinicians And Researchers Contributes To The Research-To-Practice Gap, Natalie Douglas, Jacqueline Hinckley, Kate Grandbois, Megan Schliep, Amy Wonkka, Jennifer Oshita, Julie Feuerstein

HPD Articles

PURPOSE: The purpose of this article is to contend that there is a power differential between researchers and clinicians where researchers are the primary creators of knowledge and clinicians are the primary consumers of knowledge. Rooted in a sociological model illustrating interacting levels of power at macro-, meso-, and microlevels, we argue that authentic research-practice partnerships and clinician-researcher collaborations can mitigate this power differential. CONCLUSIONS: Clinicians and researchers in our field have vastly different responsibilities and priorities that impact our ability to work collaboratively to solve the most pressing problems for the clients we serve. Although some current research practices …

Age, Growth And Maturity Of The Yellow Stingray (Urobatis Jamaicensis), A Biannually Reproductive Tropical Batoid., Jessica Schieber, Daniel P. Fahy, John K. Carlson, David W. Kerstetter

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Urobatis jamaicensis is a coastal batoid species affected by habitat loss and small-scale exploitation from fisheries and the aquarium trade, yet the life-history information available is limited. This is the first study to assess the vertebral centra from 195 stingrays to estimate age and growth patterns and compare them with the biannual reproductive pattern previously reported for this species. Age-at-size data were compared using five different growth models and found a two-parameter von Bertalanffy growth function (VBGF), the Gompertz model, and a modified VBGF fit best for males, females and sexes combined, respectively. Maturity was achieved before one year. However, …

The Student Movement Volume 107 Issue 18: "Ain't I A Woman?": Au Students Reflect On The Feminist Movement, Grace No, Caryn Cruz, Nora Martin, Solana Campbell, Ysabelle Fernando, Aiko J. Ayala Rios, Kaela Mcfadden, Isabella Koh, Andrew Francis, Julia Randall, Bella Hamann, Abby Shim, Chris Ngugi, Amelia Stefanescu, Melissa Moore, Shania Watts

The Student Movement v. 107 (2022-2023)

HUMANS

Interview with the WEAAU President, Interviewed by: Grace No

What is Feminism to You?, Interviewed by: Caryn Cruz

What's Your Major?, Interviewed by: Nora Martin

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Currently: The Idol, Solana Campbell

Faculty Art Exhibition, Ysabelle Fernando

Music Seniors: A Day in the Life, Aiko J. Ayala Rios

Through the Paintings, Kaela McFadden

NEWS

Empowering our Neighbors: Interview with H.E.L.P. Program Director Carlisle Suttton, Isabella Koh

John Wesley Taylor V Elected to be the Next Andrews University President

Students Open the Month with Cultural Showcase, Andrew Francis

The Agora at AU: A Conversation on Police Brutality, Solana Campbell …

Use Of The Bedside Mobility Assessment Tool To Improve Emergency Department Safety, Tracy M. Abrams

Dissertations

Falls are a common occurrence in the emergency department and can lead to unintended patient harm and work-related injury. Fall rates at the site remained a concern, so an evidence-based approach was sought. The purpose of this quantitative, quasiexperimental quality improvement project was to determine if or to what degree the translation of Boynton et al.'s research on the use of the Hillrom bedside mobility assessment tool (BMAT) used in conjunction with current evidence-based bedside practices would impact fall rates when compared to the current practice among adult patients in an emergency department in Southern California over four weeks. Nola …

All Things Being Equal (Not): Undergraduate Research Mentoring Of Black Males In Stem, Joni Schwartz

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

2023 March 9 - Tennessee Weekly Drought Summary, Tennessee Climate Office, East Tennessee State University

Tennessee Climate Office Weekly Drought Summaries

No abstract provided.

March 9, 2023, Caa

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Oh, My Darling Clementine: A Detailed History And Data Repository Of The Los Alamos Plutonium Fast Reactor, Hannah K. Patenaude, Franz J. Freibert

College of Sciences Graduate Student Research

The Los Alamos Plutonium Fast Reactor, Clementine, provided the first fast neutron spectrum using a metallic plutonium fuel system and liquid mercury coolant. Clementine is often mentioned in the history of fast, metal-fueled, or metal-cooled designs, with little public information regarding the specifications or timeline. This paper contains a synopsis of each report regarding the development, operation, experimental results, failures, and subsequent disassembly of Clementine to explore this unique reactor within the context of modern advanced reactor development.

“Vancouver’S Favourite Country Music Pub,” Single Room Occupancy Hotels, And The Context Of International Frameworks: Mapping Vancouver’S Urban Law And Cultural Policy, Sara Ross

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.

The Applicability Of Minnesota’S Workers’ Compensation Laws To Undocumented Workers, Cedar Weyker

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.

The Weekly Challenger, March 9, 2023, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The March 9, 2023, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Don’T Make Them Martyrs: Empowering Children In The Foster Care & Juvenile Justice Systems Through Covid-19 Vaccine Consenting Rights, Victoria Kalumbi

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.

Minnesota’S Mandatory Court Surcharge And The Failure Of The Fee-For-Service Criminal Justice System, Jake Polinsky

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.

Nickel-Palladium Bimetallic Nanoparticles Supported On Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes; Versatile Catalyst For Sonogashira Cross-Coupling Reactions, Katherine A. Wilson, Lacey A. Picinich, Ali R. Siamaki

College of Health, Science, and Technology

We have developed an efficient method to generate highly active nickel-palladium bimetallic nanoparticles supported on multi-walled carbon nanotubes (Ni-Pd/MWCNTs) by dry mixing of the nickel and palladium salts utilizing the mechanical energy of a ball-mill. These nanoparticles were successfully employed in Sonogashira cross-coupling reactions with a wide array of functionalized aryl halides and terminal alkynes under ligand and copper free conditions using a Monowave 50 heating reactor. Notably, the concentration of palladium can be lowered to a minimum amount of 0.81% and replaced by more abundant and less expensive nickel nanoparticles while effectively catalyzing the reaction. The remarkable reactivity of …

An Evidence-Based Design, Translation, And Implementation Of A Hypertension Health Education Pamphlet, Katie Patton

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Health equity is the opportunity for all to attain their highest level of health. This includes creating understandable educational resources that aid in reducing risk and controlling symptoms of disease. A singular piece of written education material will not be effective among all in a broad population due to the many different backgrounds in which people originate. While this may seem obvious, there is a wide gap between knowledge and action. This gap leads to health disparities, or differences in health status between people that are related to social or demographic factors such as race, gender, income, or geographic region …

The Child And Dependent Care Credit: Unlike Trix, Not Just For Kids, Gabrielle Pepin, Yulya Truskinovsky

Upjohn Institute Policy and Research Briefs

No abstract provided.

Nutrient Loadings To Utah Lake From Bulk Atmospheric Deposition, Mitchell Matthew Brown

Theses and Dissertations

Atmospheric deposition is a marginally understood source of nutrient loadings to waterbodies. Atmospheric deposition occurs via wet (rain, snow) and dry (gaseous and particulate transport) pathways. Bulk atmospheric deposition is defined as the total deposition from both wet and dry pathways. Utah Lake is a shallow eutrophic freshwater lake located in central Utah, USA. Recent studies have shown atmospheric deposition to be a significant contributor to the nutrient budget of Utah Lake. This study presents the analysis using three different methods of six years' worth of wet atmospheric deposition samples from nine locations around the lake, though these samples do …

Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Optimization Techniques For Energy And Socioeconomic Systems, Salman Sadiq Shuvo

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Optimization, which refers to making the best or most out of a system, is critical for an organization's strategic planning. Optimization theories and techniques aim to find the optimal solution that maximizes/minimizes the values of an objective function within a set of constraints. Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a popular Machine Learning technique for optimization and resource allocation tasks. Unlike the supervised ML that trains on labeled data, DRL techniques require a simulated environment to capture the stochasticity of real-world complex systems. This uncertainty in future transitions makes the planning authorities doubt real-world implementation success. Furthermore, the DRL methods have …

More Than Just Captions: Using Universal Design For Learning (Udl) Guidelines To Create Accessible Videos, Rachel E. Trnka

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The presentation at the 2023 Designing for Digital Conference explains the value of using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines proactively to design accessible videos in response to a new policy adopted at one librarian’s university; it challenges a common view that adding captions is all that is required to create accessible videos.

College Of Health Professions News, Georgia Southern University

College of Health Professions: News & Publications (2012-2023)

• HSK Faculty Receive Grant for New Equipment

Against God, Good Faith, And Reason: The 1381 Peasants’ Revolt In Cambridge, Reagan T. Vernon

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This paper focuses on the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 as it occurred in the university town of Cambridge. The historiographic understanding of the Cambridge wing of the Peasants’ Revolt has categorized it as foundationally motivated by town and gown resentment. Using legal records and chronicle accounts, this thesis demonstrates that the crowd did not exclusively target the university. As one of the town’s wealthier and increasingly authoritative institutions, the university and its constituents were targets in the uprising—but this was in addition to several attacks on local churches, monastic institutions, and manors. These attacks against higher authorities reflect a loss …

The Colby Echo (2023-03-09), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly during the academic year, 1898-present.

Not Just For Kids: Child And Dependent Care Credit Benefits For Adult Care, Gabrielle Pepin, Yulya Truskinovsky

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

As the U.S. population ages, family caregivers face substantial out-of-pocket costs and financial risks while providing the majority of long-term care. The Child and Dependent Care Credit (CDCC), a tax credit based on income and care spending, subsidizes caregiving expenses but has low participation among adult caregivers. This paper evaluates the CDCC’s current structure, documenting its limited impact on reducing caregiving costs and examining reforms to increase its utility for adult caregivers. Simulations of proposed changes—higher benefits, refundability, and relaxed eligibility requirements—demonstrate potential to expand access and enhance support for family caregivers within the existing policy framework.

Effective Connectivity Of Functional Mri Via Deep Learning Methods, Kai-Cheng Chuang

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Effective connectivity, based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) time series signals, is the quantification of how strongly brain activity in a certain source brain region contributes to brain activity in a target brain region, independent of the contributions of other source regions. Current methods to solve this problem have several limitations. They are either unable to model nonlinear relationships between source and target signals, unable to efficiently quantify time lags in source-target relationships, unable to identify time-varying relationships, or fail to account for variability in the hemodynamic response function that converts neuron activity to a measurable signal. In this …

The Role Of College And High School Partnerships For International Student Experiences, Tian Qin, Jon Mcnaughtan

Health Care Administration Faculty Research

The purpose of this study is to understand the experiences of international students engaged in partnership programs between their high school and a destination college.  Specifically, this study focuses on the experiences and perceptions of a group of Brazilian international students who graduated from a dual diploma high school program prior to arriving at a four-year research university in the United States to complete their postsecondary education. The study is guided by a conceptual model based in the literature around challenges of international students, Tinto’s (1975) academic and social integration theory, and the four primary types of social interactions (Rose-Redwood …

A Solution Technique Of Transportation Problem In Neutrosophic Environment, Manas Karak, Animesh Mahata, Mahendra Rong, Supriya Mukherjee, Sankar Prasad Mondal, Said Broumi, Banamali Roy

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

In this article, we presented a ranking system based on the sign distance in a new direction, such that to compare different single-valued neutrosophic numbers (SVN-numbers), a decision maker has the chance of flexibility. We also developed some important definitions, like level-(α,β,γ) neutrosophic point, and some properties related to the sign distance ranking function. Finally, the sign distance ranking function is applied to solving the neutrosophic transportation problem (NTP) with SVN-number converted into a transportation problem (TP) with crisp data, and to illustrate the appropriateness of this function, we gave two numerical illustrations.

"Please Don't Assess Him To Destruction": The R.A.I.S.E. Assessment Framework For Primary Progressive Aphasia, Jeanne Gallée, Jade Cartwright, Anna Volkmer, Anne Whitworth, Deborah Hersh

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Purpose: Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) assess people with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) through measurements of speech, language, communication, and well-being, with the aims of identifying challenges and strengths, monitoring change, and informing treatment directions and supports. The purpose of this clinical focus article is to highlight the necessity for person-centered assessment specific to PPA and to conceptualize a framework that acknowledges the multifaceted nature of assessment for this population. In this framework, the unique challenges posed by a diagnosis of PPA are addressed with the aim to provide practical guidance for clinicians and to support reflection on current practices. Method: In …

Tidewater Fleet Supply, Llc V. Jason L. Mccard, Et. Al., Order On Defendant's Motion To Dismiss, Kelly Lee Ellerbe

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

No abstract provided.

Characterization Of Bubble Transport In Porous Media Using A Microfluidic Channel, Ryan Haggerty, Dong Zhang, Jongwan Eun, Yusong Li

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Faculty Publications

This study investigates the effect on varying flow rates and bubble sizes on gas–liquid flow through porous media in a horizontal microchannel. A simple bubble generation system was set up to generate bubbles with controllable sizes and frequencies, which directly flowed into microfluidic channels packed with different sizes of glass beads. Bubble flow was visualized using a high-speed camera and analyzed to obtain the change in liquid holdup. Pressure data were measured for estimation of hydraulic conductivity. The bubble displacement pattern in the porous media was viscous fingering based on capillary numbers and visual observation. Larger bubbles resulted in lower …