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Screen Fatigue And How Ai Can Assist, David L. Hart Jr, Rebecca J. Armstrong

FDLA Journal

Screen Fatigue and how AI can Assist

As a society, we are all too aware of the sudden and significant evolution of the higher education environment; classrooms that once consisted of only desks, chairs, and chalkboards in a brick-and-mortar auditorium have now largely become part of the technological landscape. We are also frequently reminded of the negative consequences of the online learning format - obesity, sleep problems, chronic neck and back issues, and "Zoom fatigue," among others. However, another relatively new "existence" now contributes to the distance learning format - Artificial Intelligence or “AI.”

In addition to its academic applications, …

Enhancing Patient Care: The Vital Role Of Documentation In Critical Care Nursing, Wilsonroy Wilsonroy

FDLA Journal

Enhancing Patient Care: The Vital Role of Documentation in Critical Care Nursing

Introduction

In the fast-paced and high-stakes world of critical care nursing, healthcare professionals are tasked with delivering life-saving interventions, monitoring patients' conditions, and providing compassionate care. Amid the pad3800 rvc 1198 module 13 case 3 response form ms chaos of emergency rooms, intensive care units, and other critical care settings, one aspect of nursing often takes center stage but remains underestimated – documentation. Effective documentation in critical care nursing is not just paperwork; it is the backbone of patient care, safety, and successful outcomes. In this article, we …

Improving Nursing Documentation Quality: A Vital Pillar Of Patient Care, Wilsonroy Wilsonroy

FDLA Journal

Improving Nursing Documentation Quality: A Vital Pillar of Patient Care

Introduction

Nursing documentation is an essential aspect of healthcare, providing a comprehensive record of patient information, care interventions, and outcomes. High-quality nursing documentation not only ensures efficient communication among healthcare providers but also safeguards patient safety, legal compliance, and quality of care. In this article, we will explore the importance of improving nursing documentation quality and the various strategies and best practices to achieve this critical objective.

The Significance of Quality Nursing Documentation

Patient Safety:

High-quality nursing documentation is a cornerstone of patient safety. Accurate and thorough records allow healthcare …

The Future Of Nursing Leadership: Incorporating E-Learned Artificial Intelligence (Ai) Pathways With A Precautionary Focus On Patient-Centered-Care, Jamie Anne Marcus Dr., Bonnette Villalba Webb

FDLA Journal

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a data-driven mathematical process that incorporates machine-based-logic, usually in the form of algorithms. Education, training, and competencies are now conducted through virtual reality, robotics, simulation, and technology learning-based-platforms by healthcare organizations. This represents a significant change in the future of nursing practice. The adaptability of technology-based-learning platforms can impact the quality and efficiency of learning for some of the workforce population. Nurses' perception of technology and AI-driven nursing practice may vary based on generational orientation and can be a potential barrier to learning, practicing, and adaptability of this framework. The forging of well-trained resilient nurse leaders …

Global Implications Of Covid-19 On Education And Research In Healthcare And Stem: Analysis Of Case Studies, Yumna Indorewala, Santanu De

FDLA Journal

The zoonotic novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 posed major threats to the world’s economy, social development, and public health. Education and research in STEM and healthcare were no exceptions to the global implications of the Coronavirus Infectious Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Social distancing guidelines were initially recommended to refrain from in-person operations for preventing the transmission of the virus. As academic organizations implemented multifarious methods to effectively transition to remote/online or hybrid educational formats, COVID-19 necessitated designing, adopting, as well as evaluating the efficacy of new instructional approaches, especially for disciplines that require active, experiential learning such as healthcare and STEM. These …

Creating A Digital Escape Room To Increase Student Engagement In Cultural Literacy, Stacey Diliberto, Debra Luken, Amy Sugar

FDLA Journal

Teaching cultural literacy skills provides students an opportunity to develop capabilities to competently function in our current ever-changing global society. A digital escape room was created for a fully online Latin American Humanities course offered in the fall 2022 semester, after the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This asynchronous activity was developed to increase engagement and teach cultural literacy to students who experienced a time of turmoil and upheaval and who might have experienced a lack of engagement in a fully online class. In this paper, we will discuss the pedagogical, content, logistical, technical, and accessibility considerations we applied to …

Variegated Order: Making Space For Neurodiverse Perspectives In Archives, Sophie Penniman

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

This article aims to envision how archives could better reflect and represent neurodivergent records creators—people whose brains function in ways that diverge significantly from dominant societal standards of “normal". It discusses how neurodivergent records creators and their recordkeeping behaviors often do not fit within traditional archival paradigms which center verbal, written, and linear documents in specific organizational systems. The article then brings together sources from disability studies, feminist and gender studies, library studies, literary analysis, and archival scholarship to imagine ways in which the principle of provenance could be expanded to fit the archives of neurodiverse creators (and archives that …

How Accessible Are European Public Archives? An Assessment Of The Compliance With The Council Of Europe Recommendation R(2000)13 On A European Policy On Access To Archives, Michael Friedewald, Ivan Szekely, Murat Karaboga

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

This paper takes as its starting point the lessons learned from the second pan-European study on access to archives conducted 20 years after the first one – with the understanding that these results may also provide global lessons. The principal aim of the study was to assess the European archives' compliance with the Council of Europe Recommendation No. R(2000)13 on a European policy on access to archives, which was adopted in July 2000 and was the first international norm in this field. Although the overall access situation in Europe has significantly improved over the past 20 years, several practices still …

Teachers’ Experiences And Perceptions Of Equity-Oriented Practices In K-5 Literacy Instruction, Carla J. Reyes-Crocker Mrs.

Doctor of Education Program Dissertations

The Every Student Succeeds Act (2015) included requirements and supports to advance equity and excellence for all students, including those historically underserved in education. However, data available from the Maine Department of Education (2021) signaled an evident achievement gap. The Every Student Succeeds Act (2015) required equity strategies and evidence-based interventions to improve and encourage schools, educators, and leaders to determine which data-driven approaches best meet school and student needs. Effective equity-oriented practices in the literacy classroom included group work, centering student voice, student-centered instruction, and implementing grade-level materials (Lazar, 2022; Williamson, 2017). Still, little information was available exploring the …

Slip Resistance Evaluation Of 10 Indoor Floor Surfaces, David P. Gilkey, Daniel Autenrieth, Cal Snow, Cody Hays, Sarah Girard, Lorri Birkenbuel

Safety Health & Industrial Hygiene

Slip and fall injuries and fatalities continue to be a signiϐicant problem at work and in the community. Water is the most common contaminant that reduces traction on ϐloors and other walkway surfaces resulting in a slip and fall event. This project investigated 10 common ϐlooring surfaces to assess their slip resistance when dry vs wet and coated vs uncoated. Investigators used the English XL Variable Incidence Tribometer to measure slip resistance under all conditions. Results revealed a signiϐicant (p - value < 0.05) loss of slip resistance when wet vs dry. Investigators also found signiϐicant (p - value < 0.05) increases in traction when using a coating under wet conditions. Researchers support the use of coatings for ϐloors and walkway surfaces that increase traction and reduce the chances of slip and fall events under all conditions.

Dkll Annual Report 2023-2024, Duquesne University

Miscellaneous Pamphlets

No abstract provided.

Meeting Of The Executive Committee - Notice And Agenda 06/17/2024, Uc Law Sf

2024 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Terry "Harmonica" Bean To Play June 30, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

Summertime in Oxford is a little slower-paced as locals and visitors enjoy the town without the hustle and bustle. This June, the annual Summer Sunset Series returns to the Grove stage on the campus of the University of Mississippi. Each Sunday night in June, starting at 6 p.m., make your way to the Grove to enjoy local live music for free!

A Review Of Strategies For Describing Offensive Archival Materials, Leah Minadeo

Reuther Library Scholarly Publications

As archivists concede that neutrality is impossible and non-action itself constitutes action, it follows that to treat reasonably offensive records as any other record is to apply an interpretation that they are innocuous, unremarkable, and uncontroversial. Archivists may perceive the stakes of describing these materials as particularly high, but they lack a comprehensive set of descriptive strategies to apply to these records. As a result, existing practices are likely to be local or ad hoc. This research aims to identify and explore descriptive strategies archivists use which serve to construct (or concede) the meaning that certain historical materials are potentially …

Measuring Heterogeneous Preferences For The Preservation Of Prime Farmland With And Without Agrivoltaics, Arthur J. Caplan, Tiffany Woods, Brent Chamberlain, Sarah Klain

Applied Economics Faculty Publications

This study fills a gap in cultural ecosystem service (CES) assessment of prime farmland located in peri-urban areas by presenting results from a choice experiment recently conducted in Utah's Wasatch Front region. The choice experiment was designed to account for heterogeneous effects associated with a wide array of socio-demographic and attitudinal characteristics on household preferences for farmland preservation, including farmland used for the joint production of solar power and agricultural products. We apply a mixed-logit model to our data that controls for preference heterogeneity among Wasatch Front households along two dimensions – at the individual household level and according to …

Meeting Of The Executive Committee - Open Session Book 06/17/2024, Uc Law Sf

2024 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

Graduate Students' E-Book Awareness And Usage At A Public Research University In The U.S.A., Denise Brush, Daniel G. Kipnis

Libraries Scholarship

Purpose

This study aims to understand the level of graduate students’ awareness and usage of e-books purchased by the authors’ university library since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors created a Qualtrics survey with 13 questions that was sent to the university’s graduate student email list. The survey was sent in the fall of 2023 and was open for one month. The list had 3,318 subscribers; 113 complete responses were received, for a response rate of 3.4%.

Findings

The results found that doctoral students (80%) are more aware than master’s students (64%) of e-book availability through the library, and usage …

The Need For An International Ai Research Initiative: How To Create And Sustain A Virtuous Research-Regulation Cycle To Govern Ai, Kevin Frazier

Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts

This paper explains the need for an international AI research initiative. The current focus of lawmakers at the subnational, national, and international level on regulation over research has created an imbalance, neglecting the critical role of continuous, informed research in developing laws that keep pace with rapid technological advancements in AI.

The proposed international AI research initiative would serve as a central hub for comprehensive AI risk analysis, modeled on successful precedents like CERN and the IPCC. CERN exemplifies a collaborative research environment with pooled resources from member states, leading to significant advancements in particle physics. Similarly, the IPCC has …

Hardware Acceleration Of Numerical Methods For Solving Ordinary Differential Equations, Soham Bhattacharya

Theses and Dissertations

Along with the advancement in technology, the role of hardware accelerators is increasing consistently, delivering advancements in scientific simulations and data analysis in scientific computing, signal processing tasks in communication systems, matrix operations, and neural network computations in artificial intelligence and machine learning models. On the other hand, several high-speed computer applications in this era of high-performance computing often depend on ordinary differential equations (ODEs); however, their nonlinear nature can present a challenge to obtaining analytic solutions. Consequently, numerical approaches prove effective in delivering only approximate solutions to these equations. This research discusses the implementation of a customized hardware accelerator …

A Country-Level Primary-Final-Useful (Cl-Pfu) Energy And Exergy Database: Overview Of Its Construction And 1971–2020 World-Level Efficiency Results, Paul E. Brockway, Matthew Kuperus Heun, Zeke Marshall, Emmanuel Aramendia, Paul Steenwyk, Thomas Relph, Michelle Widjanarko, Jeonghoo (James) Kim, Anjana Sainju, Julian Irtube

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Societal exergy analysis examines the flows of energy and exergy through societies, from primary (e.g. oil) to final (e.g. gasoline) to useful (e.g. propulsion) energy stages. By extending the study of energy to the useful stage, new insights into the under-represented role of energy in economic growth have been made. However, currently (a) country coverage is patchy and incomplete, (b) available data are based on varying methods and assumptions including efficiencies based on economic rather than engineering data, and (c) datasets are constructed using piecemeal computational approaches. To address these gaps, we construct a country-level primary-final-useful (CL-PFU) energy and exergy …

Business Innovation As A Force For Good: From Doing Less Harm To Positive Impact Type 1 And Type 2, Chris Laszlo, David Cooperrider, Ronald Fry

Faculty Scholarship

Commitments of “getting to zero” or becoming a regenerative company are raising investor, customer, and employee expectations at a time when businesses are struggling just to reduce negative impacts. Executives are increasingly caught between wanting to build a better world and the reality of managing value-add activities that continue to harm people and the environment. Businesses need to distinguish between three types of innovation impacts to maintain their credibility and legitimacy. The first is doing less harm, where the goal is to minimize social wrongs and reduce ecological footprints. The second is incremental positive impact, where the goal is to …

A Country-Level Primary-Final-Useful (Cl-Pfu) Energy And Exergy Database: Overview Of Its Construction And 1971–2020 World-Level Efficiency Results, Paul E. Brockway, Matthew Kuperus Heun, Zeke Marshall, Emmanuel Aramendia, Paul Steenwyk, Thomas Relph, Michelle Widjanarko, Jeonghoo (James) Kim, Anjana Sainju, Julian Irtube

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Societal exergy analysis examines the flows of energy and exergy through societies, from primary (e.g. oil) to final (e.g. gasoline) to useful (e.g. propulsion) energy stages. By extending the study of energy to the useful stage, new insights into the under-represented role of energy in economic growth have been made. However, currently (a) country coverage is patchy and incomplete, (b) available data are based on varying methods and assumptions including efficiencies based on economic rather than engineering data, and (c) datasets are constructed using piecemeal computational approaches. To address these gaps, we construct a country-level primary-final-useful (CL-PFU) energy and exergy …

Road Safety Nuggets, Nathan Belz, Jamie Smith

CSET Project Reports

The current state of learning and engagement is much more audiovisual than it has been. Additionally, the use of cartoons can help break down certain social barriers and have the potential to promote thinking and discussion on critical and important societal issues such as climate change conservation, and transportation safety culture. A growing amount of literature supports the use of art as an effective means of science communication because of the visceral and emotional responses that are elicited when engaging the imagination. To that end, cartoons(i.e., comic panels) are used here to present timely and relevant transportation safety issues addressed …

Nearly 83% Of Gardner-Webb Student-Athletes Achieve Big South Presidential Honor Roll, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

The Big South Conference has announced that a league-record 73.98 percent of eligible student-athletes earned Presidential Honor Roll status for their work in the classroom in 2023-24. Gardner-Webb placed 82.75% (307) of its 371 eligible student-athletes on the list. The University was one of three member institutions to have at least 80 percent of 3.0 students.

Development Of Cyber Security Platform For Experiential Learning, Abhishek Vaish, Ravindra Kumar, Samo Bobek, Simona Sternad

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

The cyber security education market has grown-up exponentially, with a CAGR of 13.9 % as reported by Data Intelo. The report published by the World Economic Fo- rum 2023 indicates a shortfall of 2.27 million cyber security experts in 2021 across different roles and hence manifest that Skill-based cyber security education is the need of the hour. Cybersecurity as a field has evolved as a multi-discipline, multi-stakeholder and multi-role discipline. Therefore, the need to address formal education with an outcome-based philosophy is imperative to address for a wider audience with varied past training in their formal education. With the Internet …

Short-Chain Fatty Acid Valerate Reduces Voluntary Alcohol Intake In Male Mice., Suresh C Bokoliya, Jordan Russell, Yair Dorsett, Hunter A Panier, Vijender Singh, Lauren Daddi, Hanshu Yuan, Liv R Dedon, Zhongmao Liu, Yuqi Zhou, Zefang Min, Jessica R Barson, Jonathan Covault, Jason A. Bubier, Yanjiao Zhou

Faculty Research 2024

BACKGROUND: Despite serious health and social consequences, effective intervention strategies for habitual alcohol binge drinking are lacking. The development of novel therapeutic and preventative approaches is highly desirable. Accumulating evidence in the past several years has established associations between the gut microbiome and microbial metabolites with drinking behavior, but druggable targets and their underlying mechanism of action are understudied.

RESULTS: Here, using a drink-in-the-dark mouse model, we identified a microbiome metabolite-based novel treatment (sodium valerate) that can reduce excessive alcohol drinking. Sodium valerate is a sodium salt of valeric acid short-chain fatty acid with a similar structure as γ-aminobutyric acid …

Factors Influencing Purpose In Life In Middle-Aged And Older Adults, Kelly Bergstrom

Dissertations

Purpose in life is an important dimension of psychological well-being with associated health benefits. The current study used a path analysis model to examine how perceived cognitive control, health locus of control- self, engagement in physical activity, and engagement in challenging cognitive activities relate to purpose in life longitudinally. Multimorbidity status was also examined as a potential moderator of paths in the model. Participants were middle-aged and older adults who participated in the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) longitudinal national study (n = 2,481). After controlling for relevant covariates, engagement in physical activity, engagement in challenging cognitive activities, …

Google Searching For The Truth: Examining The Admissibility Of Internet Search History, Chisup Kim

Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts

The internet has become more ubiquitously available than ever before, with search engines serving as the portals to an unparalleled amount of information. As a byproduct of this phenomenon, a vast amount of internet search history has also begun to enter legal proceedings as evidence. The most intimate questions that defendants have asked their search engines have begun to be examined under the scope of the Federal Rules of Evidence or a state equivalent. This Comment examines the admissibility of internet search history and provides a general legal framework based on the Federal Rules of Evidence. Drawing upon six cases, …

Blended Teaching In Higher Education Textbook, Breanna Slaugh

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

BYU's Instructional Psychology and Technology (IP&T) program offers a graduate-level course in blended and online teaching: IP&T 538. This course discusses various methods and frameworks for instructors and instructional designers to develop, facilitate, and evaluate teaching materials tailored for blended and online learning environments. Before this project, IP&T 538 lacked a dedicated textbook that aligned directly with the content of the course. Instead, online activities relied on excerpts from various textbook chapters and readings from academic articles. With this structure, some students felt the content was overwhelming and disjointed. To address this need, my client wanted to consolidate pertinent content …

Bridging The Gap: Using Significance Modeling To Identify Data Gaps In Lithic Sites Within The Tualatin River Basin, Aaron James Reid Hood-Foster

Dissertations and Theses

Archaeologists commonly evaluate National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility for precontact sites in Cultural Resource Management archaeology under Criterion D. This focus on Criterion D can create the false paradigm that precontact sites are only significant by virtue of their information potential. This paper explores precontact sites in the Tualatin River Basin in northwestern Oregon and identifies some key deficiencies in the ways those sites are recorded and documented by archaeologists. This paper then discusses the development of a geodatabase of site attributes and a significance model with contributions and feedback from relevant parties and Tribal representatives.

The geodatabase …