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The Effects Of Race-Related Stress, Racial Socialization And Burnout In African American Teachers Who Attended Hbcus Vs. Pwis, Catava M. Burton

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Prior research has indicated racial socialization (RS) safeguards against race-related stress (RRS). Despite previous investigations, there has been a dearth of scholarship exclusively examining how RRS, RS, and burnout effect African American teachers with divergent collegiate experiences. To illuminate this research gap, this quantitative study used an online survey to examine the predictive role of RRS and RS on burnout in African American teachers (N = 20) who attended HBCUs or PWIs. This study also measured the potential moderating role of collegiate experience on RRS and RS. The respondents were administered the Trauma Symptoms of Discrimination Scale (TSDS), Cultural and …

Shine A Light Into The Darkness: Illuminating The Battles Fought By Civil War Prisoners Of War, Marybeth Allison

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Four hundred thousand Union and Confederate soldiers found themselves imprisoned by the enemy during the American Civil War. Of that number, over fifty-six thousand captives died in the prison camps while their comrades endured unspeakable conditions. The amount of misery and suffering inside these prisons is undeniable, and the history of Civil War prisons encompasses a dark chapter in American history. Much scholarship exists on the prisons and the conditions of the prisons; however, this work focuses on the prisoners’ experiences in their own words. Prisoners continued fighting battles, and most of all, they battled to find light in the …

Media Ecology In Journalism: A Phenomenological Study Of The Adaptation Strategies Of Senior Journalists, Ali Cinar

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This dissertation investigates the adaptation strategies of senior journalists in the ever-evolving media landscape. The extensive technological advancements in media informed the idea behind this dissertation. The study employs a phenomenological approach in exploring the experiences of seasoned journalists and their approaches toward transitioning from conventional journalism to the modern digital landscape. Neil Postman’s media ecology theory is the theoretical framework for this dissertation. The theory postulates that the changes in media greatly influence communication, interaction, and human perception. The research commences by investigating the historical context of journalism, taking into consideration the shift to digital media from print and …

Exploring School Counselors’ Perceptions Of How Poverty Impacts Elementary School Students’ Capacity For Academic And Emotional Success: A Phenomenological Study, Latesha Dixon

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to investigate school counselors’ viewpoints regarding poverty’s influence on elementary school students’ executive functioning, self-regulation abilities, and academic performance. The impact of poverty on children’s academic achievement is widely acknowledged, and school counselors’ assistance to students from low-income families is considered paramount. The study provided a unique viewpoint regarding alleviating poverty by highlighting the crucial significance of education and skills. The guiding theory in the research study was the social cognitive theory that offers a conceptual structure for comprehending how school counselors’ observations and experiences within the educational setting influence their perspectives regarding …

Characteristics Of Natural Environment Use By Occupational Therapists Working In Mental Health Care: A Scoping Review, Ruth Bishop, Frazer Underwood, Fiona Fraser, Lisa Burrows, Jill Shawe

School of Health Professions

Objective: The objective of this review was to identify and characterize the use of the natural environment/outdoor space by occupational therapists working in mental health care. This included consideration of the characteristics of the environment used, interventions, mental health conditions being treated, and the outcomes being used. Introduction: Research has demonstrated the link between human health and the environment. The benefits appear to be particularly relevant to people with mental health conditions. Occupational therapists already consider the environment when assessing and developing interventions, and therefore are well placed to consider and use the natural environment in mental health practice. However, …

Explainable Ai For Autism Diagnosis: Identifying Critical Brain Regions Using Fmri Data, Suryansh Vidya, Kush Gupta, Amir Aly, Andy Wills, Emmanuel Ifeachor, Rohit Shankar

Peninsula Medical School

Early diagnosis and intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been shown to significantly improve the quality of life of autistic individuals. However, diagnostics methods for ASD rely on assessments based on clinical presentation that are prone to bias and can be challenging to arrive at an early diagnosis. There is a need for objective biomarkers of ASD which can help improve diagnostic accuracy. Deep learning (DL) has achieved outstanding performance in diagnosing diseases and conditions from medical imaging data. Extensive research has been conducted on creating models that classify ASD using resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data. However, …

Request For Change (Rfc-Rmap-2024-002), Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Extracellular Vesicle Transfer On The Immunological Acceptance Of The Fetal Allograft, Heloisa Moreno Rutigliano

Funded Research Records

No abstract provided.

Ud Launches Jewish-Christian Reading Group, Abraham Rubin

University Libraries Blog Archive

2025 will mark the 60th anniversary of Nostra aetate, the Catholic Church’s declaration regarding its relationship to non-Christian religions.

Type D Personality, Stressful Lifestyle, Coping Styles, And Social Support In Military Undergraduates, Thomas Richard Rabon

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Type D personality, characterized by negative affectivity and social inhibition, has been shown to predict the prognosis of patients with heart disease. Type D personality has also been shown to have health-compromising effects on patients with other diseases and on the physical and psychological health of otherwise healthy individuals in the general population. The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which a problem-focused coping, emotion-focused coping, dysfunctional or maladaptive coping, perceived stressful lifestyle, and perceived level of social support predict Type D personality in 203 individuals who maintain the dual roles of an active-duty enlisted member …

Gc Minutes Sept 19, 2024, Graduate Council

Graduate Council Minutes

No abstract provided.

Experimental Investigations On Mechanical Wear And Corrosion Behaviour Of Sintered Atomet 4601 Based Hybrid Alloys, Palaksha Reddy K

Theses and Dissertations

Powder metallurgy enables the development of new materials to manufacture products for applications requiring unique properties. The present research initially investigates the mechanical and tribological behaviour of powder metallurgy alloys made from ATOMET 4601 prealloyed powder and varying amounts of elemental carbon (0, 0.5, and 1.0 wt%) as reinforcement. ATOMET 4601 is a high-strength, water-atomized prealloyed powder capable of being compressed to higher densities, with applications in producing near-net or net-shaped parts for the industrial field.

Mechanical behaviour studies on sinter-forged ATOMET 4601, ATOMET 4601+0.5C, and ATOMET 4601+1.0C alloy steels revealed increased hardness, tensile strength, and impact strength, with ATOMET …

In The Matter Of The Parental Rts. As To L.R.S., J.M.S., & J.L.S., 140 Nev. Adv. Op. 62 (Sept. 19, 2024), Daren Dunaway

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

In cases involving a petition to terminate parental rights where one parent retains physical custody of the child, or children in question, courts should not apply NRS 128.107 nor NRS 128.109. Instead, courts should terminate parental rights only if termination serves the best interest of the child and parental fault exists.

Hi-Tech Aggregate, Llc, V. Pavestone, Llc, 140 Nev. Adv. Op. 59, (Sept. 19, 2024), Jacob M. Ginsburg

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

The Nevada Supreme Court established that, in order to demonstrate a breach of the implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose, the purchaser is not required to show that the seller had actual knowledge of the particular purpose for which the goods were purchased but needs only to demonstrate that the seller had reason to know of the particular purpose. The Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court in favor of the plaintiff-purchaser Pavestone, LLC that defendant-seller Hi-Tech Aggregate, LLC breached the implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose that was attached to its sale of aggregate …

Amtrust North America, Inc. V. Ramon Vasquez, Jr., 140 Nev. Adv. Op. 61 (Sept. 19, 2024), Andrew Elkins

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

Prior to AmTrust, Nevada courts were guided not by statute, but by common law, when assessing the degree to which an insurer may assert a claim to damages its insured worker obtained from a third party. One case required courts to use a formula, making insurers bear a portion of the litigation fees and costs when the insurer did not timely intervene.The other limited the portions of the settlement against which insurers could assert a claim, in conflict with the language of NRS § 616C.215.The Court in AmTrust held that the Breen formula is unworkable and that both Breen …

Griffith V. Rivera, 140 Nev. Adv. Op. 60 (Sept. 19, 2024), William Ewell

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

If an amendment that increases the amount of attorney fees a short trial judge may award goes into effect before trial, and the parties had reasonable notice of this change, the new rules will be applicable to the trial. This applies even if the request for trial was filed before the amendment was ordered, and litigation was still pending when the amendment took effect. This is because an increase in the amount of attorney fees that a short trial judge may award is not an alteration of a substantive right, but rather a procedural change to an already existing remedy.

2024-09-19 Revision To Scholarship Appeals & Advisory Committee, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Scholarship Appeals & Advisory Committee.

Faculty Senate Records

A revision to the Scholarship Appeals & Advisory Committee submitted to the Faculty Senate on September 19, 2024.

2024-09-19 Governance Committee Report, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Governance Committee.

Faculty Senate Records

Governance Committee report submitted to the Faculty Senate on September 19, 2024.

2024-09-19 Revision To The General Education Council, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., General Education Council.

Faculty Senate Records

A revision to the General Education Council submitted to the Faculty Senate on September 19, 2024.

News You Can Use: Crime Prevention For Everyone, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Phone snatching is a growing problem everywhere, but a University of Mississippi criminologist advises that everybody can take steps to lower their odds of becoming the next victim of criminals.

Oldest U.S. Multidisciplinary Honor Society Names Professor To Board, Marvis Herring

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi journalism professor Debora Wenger has been appointed to the board of directors for Phi Kappa Phi, one of the nation's oldest and most selective multidisciplinary honor societies.

Time-Series Feature Selection For Solar Flare Forecasting, Yagnashree Velanki, Pouya Hosseinzadeh, Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi, Shah Muhammad Hamdi

Computer Science Student Research

Solar flares are significant occurrences in solar physics, impacting space weather and terrestrial technologies. Accurate classification of solar flares is essential for predicting space weather and minimizing potential disruptions to communication, navigation, and power systems. This study addresses the challenge of selecting the most relevant features from multivariate time-series data, specifically focusing on solar flares. We employ methods such as Mutual Information (MI), Minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance (mRMR), and Euclidean Distance to identify key features for classification. Recognizing the performance variability of different feature selection techniques, we introduce an ensemble approach to compute feature weights. By combining outputs from multiple …

Building Confidence, Diminishing Stress: A Clinical Incivility Management Initiative For Nursing Students, Younglee Kim, Phoebe (Yeon) S. Kim, Henrietta Nwamu, Anne Lama

Nursing Faculty Publications

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an interactive program designed to reduce nursing students’ perceived stress and improve self-efficacy and readiness to professionally address incivility during clinical practice. Background: Incivility in clinical settings adversely impacts learners, educators, institutions, and healthcare systems, undermining safety and the teaching–learning process. Despite its increasing global prevalence, effective interventions remain largely unexplored. Methods: Our mixed-methods study, conducted from March to April 2024, involved senior baccalaureate pre-licensure nursing students (N = 35) from a California State University. The three-week, one-hour-per-week, interactive clinical incivility management program was developed through an extensive …

Gradients Of Deposition And In Situ Production Drive Global Glacier Organic Matter Composition, Amy D. Holt, Amy M. Mckenna, Anne M. Kellerman, Tom I. Battin, Jason Fellman, Eran Hood, Hannes Peter, Martina Schön, Vincent De Staercke, Michail Styllas, Matteo Tolosano, Robert G. Spencer

Faculty, Staff, and Students

Runoff from rapidly melting mountain glaciers is a dominant source of riverine organic carbon in many high-latitude and high-elevation regions. Glacier dissolved organic carbon is highly bioavailable, and its composition likely reflects internal (e.g., autotrophic production) and external (i.e., atmospheric deposition) sources. However, the balance of these sources across Earth's glaciers is poorly understood, despite implications for the mineralization and assimilation of glacier organic carbon within recipient ecosystems. We assessed the molecular-level composition of dissolved organic matter from 136 mountain glacier outflows from 11 regions covering six continents using ultrahigh resolution 21 T mass spectrometry. We found substantial diversity in …

Bezold’S Abscess In A Middle-Aged Man, Mohammed Ansari, Cheyenne Rahimi, Jagan D. Gupta, Neel D. Gupta, Triet M. Do, Enrique Palacios

School of Medicine Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Small Molecule Mcl-1 Inhibitor For Triple Negative Breast Cancer Therapy, Shengli Dong, Suresh K. Alahari

School of Medicine Faculty Publications

Apoptosis is an evolutionarily conserved cell death pathway that plays a crucial role in maintaining tissue homeostasis, orchestrating organismal development, and eliminating damaged cells. Dysregulation of apoptosis can contribute to the pathogenesis of malignant tumors and neurodegenerative diseases. Anticancer drugs typically possess the capacity to induce apoptosis in tumor cells. The Bcl-2 protein family, consisting of 27 members in humans, serves as the key regulator of mitochondrial function. This family can be divided into two functional groups: anti-apoptotic proteins (e.g., Bcl-2, Bcl-xl, Mcl-1) and pro-apoptotic proteins (e.g., Bad, Bax). Mcl-1 exerts its function by binding pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 proteins thereby preventing …

The Hcv-Melanoma Paradox: First Multi-Cohort And Molecular Net-Work Analysis Reveals Lower Incidence But Worse Outcomes—Integrating Clinical, Real-World, And In Silico Data, Essam Al Ageeli, Jawaher A. Abdulhakim, Mohammad H. Hussein, Maryam M. Alnoman, Samia S. Alkhalil, Peter P. Issa, Nader A. Nemr, Ahmed Abdelmaksoud, Dhaifallah A. Alenizi, Manal S. Fawzy, Eman A. Toraih

School of Medicine Faculty Publications

Background and Objectives: The relationship between hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and melanoma remains poorly understood. This study aimed to investigate the association between HCV and melanoma, assess outcomes in patients with both conditions, and explore potential molecular mechanisms connecting the two diseases. Materials and Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 142 melanoma patients, including 29 with HCV-related cirrhosis, and analyzed their clinical outcomes. For external validation, we used the TriNetX Global Collaborative Network database, comprising 219,960 propensity-matched patients per group. An in silico analysis was performed to identify the molecular pathways linking HCV and melanoma. Results: In …

Turkey’S New Law On Homeless Dogs: Controversial Measures And Capacity Challenges, Andrew N. Rowan, Kathleen Rowan

WellBeing News

Turkey's 2024 law mandates removing homeless dogs from streets and placing them in shelters, sparking debate due to a lack of infrastructure and concerns over animal welfare.

Vultures In India & Bats In Usa: Impact On Animal Welfare & Human Health, Andrew N. Rowan

WellBeing News

Discover how declining vultures in India and bats in the USA impact human health, ecosystems, and the economy, revealing crucial wildlife-environment links.

Rising Climate Litigation: Holding Governments & Corporations Accountable, Andrew N. Rowan

WellBeing News

Explore the global rise of climate litigation as legal battles shape climate change policy and hold governments and corporations accountable.