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Impact Of Iadl Interventions On Discharge Readiness: Musculoskeletal Conditions In Inpatient Rehabilitation, Kasi B. Gannon

Occupational Therapy Doctorate Capstone Projects

Background: Musculoskeletal conditions are the highest contributing cause of the need for rehabilitation globally, and are common conditions treated by occupational therapy in inpatient rehabilitation. Basic activities of daily living (BADLs) are the main focus of rehabilitation in these settings, which may leave clients unprepared to complete important higher level instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) at home.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the impact that instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) intervention and training has on individuals’ perceived discharge readiness and quality indicator scoring for those admitted to an inpatient rehabilitation facility with a musculoskeletal …

Sustainability, Board Composition, And Culture In It Industry Companies: The Employees’ Viewpoint, Mohammad Karimi Sani

Information Systems & Operations Management Dissertations - Archive

The first essay explores the relationship between IT investments and corporate sustainability, emphasizing the cultural milieu within which these investments transpire. While IT investments can drive efficiency, they can adversely affect sustainability. The research suggests that diversity and integrity are vital for sustainability, advocating for integration into strategic decision-making. However, it also reveals agility’s potential downside, indicating a need for businesses to balance rapid change with sustainability objectives. The findings call for a strategic reassessment of IT investments in harmony with an organization’s cultural and sustainability framework, guiding companies toward sustainable technological advancement. The second essay expands the narrative by …

The Midwest Feminist Papers: A Facsimile Edition 1980–1997. Part Ii (1984–1986), Mary Jo Deegan, Michael R. Hill

Zea E-Books Collection

Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill, compilers. The Midwest Feminist Papers: A Facsimile Edition 1980–1997, with prefaces and author indices by Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill. 3 volumes: Part II (1984–1986)

The Midwest Feminist Papers was a creative, group-generated initiative that gave voice to the scholarly questions, research interests, and social concerns of a growing cohort of Midwestern feminist sociology graduate students and their feminist faculty mentors during the last quarter of the Twentieth Century. They were active members of Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society, a regional expression of the larger national Sociologists for Women …

Why Should The Innocent Suffer? Mental Harm As Disability And The Establishment Of A Post Bellum Duty Of Care For Enemy Civilians, Solon Solomon

Fordham International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Birth Of "A Painting": You Yong Solo Exhibition, Dongpeng Wang

MA Projects

Curator Wang Dongpeng takes great pride in unveiling "The Birth of 'A Painting'," an exclusive solo exhibition by the renowned painter You Yong. In this thoughtprovoking display, You Yong harnesses the simplicity of the iPad to craft vivid artworks that capture the essence of individual lives amidst the pandemic. His pieces offer a window into the lived realities within mainland China during these challenging times. This exhibition is an invitation to an extraordinary art experience that breaks free from the confines of traditional art space, promising to leave viewers with lasting impressions. The Birth of "A Painting" stands as a …

2024 Commencement Program, Seattle University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Prejudice In Political Campaigns, Sara Steffens

A with Honors Projects

A research paper examining traits of the highly prejudiced person according to Gordon Allport, how prejudice leads to the ten stages of genocide and an analysis of highly prejudiced political ads.

Art And Entertainment Collaboration: The Benefits And Challenges Of Auction Houses Crossover Collaborations In The Global Art Market, Yushi Chen

MA Theses

Over the past decades, crossover collaboration has become increasingly important
in the contemporary art market as an effective strategy to reach a wholly new customer segment. This research focuses on the crossover collaboration between art and entertainment by exploring the partnerships between auction houses and singers. It uses a case study as a research methodology to analyze Sotheby’s partnerships with three famous singers, including Nigo, T.O.P., and Jay Chou, by which the auction house successfully entered the Asian art market. The research found that these examples have demonstrated Sotheby’s how has integrated crossover collaboration into its sustainable competitive advantages. The …

Paths To The Abstraction: Kandinsky And Rothko, Vera Schueler

MA Theses

This thesis explores the artistic journeys of Kandinsky and Rothko, focusing on underlying motivations that led them towards the realm of abstraction. Kandinsky and Rothko played pivotal roles in the development and advancement of abstraction in the art world. They shared the belief that only non-figurative art had the power to convey deep meaning and evoke profound emotions, going beyond mere representation of the physical world. Despite their divergent artistic paths, artists were united by the idea of the transformative power of artistic expression and aimed to transcend to the viewer the energy and concepts of their vision through delving …

Bouguereau’S Vampires: Navigating Transgressive Desire In Dante Et Virgile, Angelina Diamante

MA Theses

This thesis investigates William Bouguereau’s Dante et Virgile (1850) in the context of nineteenth century vampire literature, emerging as the seminal text on the matter. Through a cross-discipline examination of Dante’s Divina Commedia (ca. 1308–1321), and two canonical works of Gothic vampire fiction — John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819) and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872), respectively — prominent affinities are articulated. Comprising a broad scope, this text propounds a panoptic argument that such consonance is demonstrative of a reconciliation between the classical and Gothic, forged by nuances of the composition’s own nineteenth century — the Byronic hero, homoeroticism, Neoclassicism, …

Canvas Creations Hub, Mengting Yan

MA Projects

This is a business plan about CCH that has not been implemented. With the
rapid development of the Internet in China, e-commerce market has come into the
period of explosive growth after more than ten years of market cultivation. Recently, the amount of APP online shopping in one year has exceeded 40 trillion yuan. In this situation, traditional enterprises are getting involved into e-commerce. This paper studies the situation of the e-commerce market and the art derivatives industry, elaborates the market opportunities, and makes an economic analysis of the operation of art derivatives APPs, which can be used as a …

Art Therapy Business Plan, Jiayu Ou

MA Projects

The existing need or problem that my venture will address is the lack of access and affordability of art therapy services for people who need psychological and emotional support. Art therapy is a form of expressive therapy that uses various forms of art, such as painting, drawing, sculpting, etc., to help clients cope with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and other mental health issues. Art therapy can provide a safe and supportive environment, where clients can explore their feelings, develop their skills, and build their resilience through art creation. However, art therapy services are often limited by the availability and …

Heart Neighbors Art Café Business Plan, Wei Hsuan Chen

MA Projects

Heart Neighbors Art Café is a unique establishment that combines a coffee shop with an art gallery, aimed at creating a vibrant cultural hub in the Wenshan District of Taipei City. Our mission extends beyond serving delicious coffee and providing a comfortable environment; we aspire to foster community cohesion and cultural exchange through the power of art. The philosophy of Heart Neighbors Café is to use coffee to open the heart doors between strangers and art as a means of self-expression. Through respect, inclusivity, and attentive listening, individuals accompany each other, bringing warmth to every lonely soul. The fusion of …

Burnout And Coping Strategies Among Nursing Students In Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study, Hassan N. Moafa, Paul Reinald B Garcia, Khadega A Alhefnawy,, Maria Jocelyn B. Natividad, Mukhlid Alshammari, Mohammed Aljohani, Hammad Ali Fadlelmola

Health Professions Education

Background: Saudi Arabia hosts a total of 39 nursing colleges dispersed across various regions. Nursing students are confronted with multiple stressors during their educational journey. We aim in this study to assess burnout using the Maslach Burnout Inventory questionnaire (MBI) and different coping strategies among undergraduate nursing students at the College of Nursing at Taibah University in Saudi Arabia.

Methods: We utilized a questionnaire to execute a cross-sectional study on nursing students. We gathered data through a stratified convenient sample, whereby participants voluntarily contributed their responses. The questionnaire collected information on sociodemographic variables, as well as their scores on the …

"I Failed My Brother": How Online Radicalization Affects The Family Unit, Serenity Dawn Kollasch

Honors Program Theses

No abstract provided.

From Idea To Act: The Indian Legislative Process, Vasudev Devadasan, Sunil Nandraj, Vineet Chawdhry, Kamala Ram Mohan

National Law School of India Review

Beyond the formal steps prescribed by the Constitution and Parliamentary manuals, little is known about the law-making process in India. Without a baseline consensus on what legislating in India involves, future analyses and proposed reforms of Indian legislative processes may be rendered speculative. Opaqueness surrounding the legislative process also hinders the ability of citizens to meaningfully influence the laws that govern them. This article aims to provide an account of how legislation is conceived, drafted, and enacted in India using the case studies of the Clinical Establishments Act, 2010 and the Kerala Clinical Establishments Act, 2018. Beginning with these two …

The Trials Of Bail: Pre-Trial Presumption Of Innocence Under The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 And General Criminal Laws, Radhika Chitkara

National Law School of India Review

The crisis of undertrial prisoners in India, constituting three-fourths of the total prison population, has occasioned a normative recognition of the relationship between bail and the presumption of innocence (‘PoI’). The same recognition, however, does not extend to special criminal laws such as the UAPA, where almost every single prisoner is an undertrial on account of provisions prohibiting grant of bail. With a focus either on outcomes (prison population) or exceptions (national security considerations), the jurisprudential relationship between bail and PoI per se remains underexplored under both the general and special criminal legal regimes. At issue is the ‘thin’ conception …

“Spread Your Wings And Fly Away” – Reimagining Customary International Law Jurisdiction In Investor- State Disputes, Harshad Pathak

National Law School of India Review

A common assumption in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is that subject to the language of the arbitral provision invoked, an arbitration tribunal can only decide claims that allege a breach of the substantive obligations articulated in the instrument from which it derives jurisdiction. Over time, this assumption has come under challenge, including in cases where an ISDS tribunal derives jurisdiction from a municipal law source, such as an investment contract or legislation. The article addresses this issue by critiquing the Decision on Jurisdiction in Cambodia Power Company v. Cambodia, wherein an ICSID tribunal constituted pursuant to related investment contracts concluded …

Business Lawyer Leadership: Valuing Relationships, Joan Macleod Heminway

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.

Having Fun While Learning: Pedagogical Techniques For Teaching Contract Drafting, Robin Boyle

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.

Gender In The Making Of The Constitution: Proposals For A Feminist Inquiry Into Indian Constitutional History, Achyut Chetan

National Law School Journal

A feminist inquiry into the framing of the Indian Constitution must retrieve and see the interventions of the women members of the Constituent Assembly for what they historically represent, namely, a feminist authorial voice that was developed over a period of time by the pre-Independence women’s movement in India. For a proper understanding of this voice, we must understand the gendered character of the Constituent Assembly, its architecture, its procedures, the dynamics of the gendered relations among its members, and above all, the performative aspects of the debates. This inquiry must also investigate the language employed by the members and …

Bryant University Undergraduate Course Catalog, 2024-2025, Bryant University

Bryant University Undergraduate Course Catalog

No abstract provided.

Uprooting The Research Process: Partnering With First-Year Writing To Cultivate Critical Source Evaluation, Jessica Rardin, Ashley Burchett

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2024

No abstract provided.

Happiness: It Starts With You And Your Mind, Alyssa Lagrone

Undergraduate Student Research Awards

No abstract provided.

A Wesley Bibliography: Thirteenth Edition, Kenneth J. Collins

Academic Books

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of Information Visualization In Digital Intelligence Product, Dejan Ulcej, Anja Podlesek

Journal of Strategic Security

Digital technology has impacted how strategic intelligence products are designed and distributed to political security decisionmakers. Information visualization helps improve the processing of intelligence information. This experimental study investigated whether a prototype digital intelligence report that uses visuals is processed more efficiently and results in a better user experience than a printed intelligence product that contains primarily text. A sample of 72 participants working as decisionmakers in a private company was divided into two equal groups. One group received the digital version of the report, and the other received the printed version. The time it took to read the report, …

A Community-Academic Partnered Approach To Designing A Virtual Village To Address The Needs Of Older Adults Living With Hiv, Annie L. Nguyen, Andrea N. Polonijo, Jerome T. Galea, Moka Yoo-Jeong, Jeff Taylor, Erik L. Ruiz, Karah Greene, Jasmine L. Lopez, Christopher Christensonf, Brandon Brown

Social Work Faculty Publications

Many older adults living with HIV face unique challenges, including comorbidities, loneliness, and isolation. This community-academic partnered study elicited viewpoints from older adults living with HIV about the characteristics of a digital environment (“Virtual Village”) to combat against loneliness and isolation. We utilized Choice-Based Conjoint Analyses to determine preferred attributes of a Virtual Village. We also conducted focus groups and interviews with older adults living with HIV and used an iterative, data-driven approach to systematically identify emergent themes. Participants (N = 82) were aged 50–82 years and racially/ethnically diverse. The majority were men (78%), gay (66%), and lived with …

Matching Markets And Labor Monopsony: A Comment On The Priest/Roth Debateeric A. Posner, Eric A. Posner

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

In a neglected but prescient article, George Priest argued that the “unraveling” of markets for medical residents and judicial clerks resulted from the monopsony power of employers (a cartel in the first case, the government in the second). Because wages were largely fixed, early offers and acceptances of employment became an efficient form of nonprice competition—and efforts to solve the problem of unraveling through market design merely reinforced monopsony power. In a reply, Alvin Roth—the leading figure in the market design literature, who was instrumental in perfecting the design of the medical residency matching program—argued that Priest was wrong to …

Labor Market Trap, Eric A. Posner

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Some products, notably but not only platforms, increase in value for users as the number of other users increases. These interaction or network effects can result in “product market traps” (Bursztyn et al., 2023) where people who use the product would be better off if they all stopped using it and switched to another product, but cannot because of coordination problems. A parallel but overlooked phenomenon is the labor market trap, where employees would be better off if they collectively left an employer, job, or profession, but cannot because of the difficulty of coordination. Product market and labor market traps …

Warsaw Uprising Of 1944, Vanessa K. Gusciora

Pell Scholars and Senior Theses

The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army (Armia Krajowa) to liberate Warsaw from Nazi German occupation. It began on August 1, 1944, and lasted 63 days, as the poorly equipped resistance fought against well-armed German forces. The Soviet Red Army, stationed across the Vistula River, offered no significant aid, leaving the insurgents isolated. The uprising was brutally suppressed, resulting in approximately 200,000 Polish civilian and combatant deaths. Warsaw was left in ruins, and the city’s population was forcibly expelled. Despite its tragic outcome, the uprising symbolized Polish resistance and …