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Three’S A Crowd: Conflicts Of Interest In Third- Party Preparation Of Environmental Impact Statements And Evolving Agency Responsibility Under Nepa, Colleen Mcgrath

UC Law Environmental Journal

Although the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is designed to promote accountability and transparency about the environmental impacts of large-scale government projects, the lack of oversight over the production of Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) can result in incomplete or biased reports, especially when the EIS is prepared by a third party that has financial or organizational ties to the project. As such, this paper investigates the inherent conflicts of interest that arise when third parties prepare EIS and how that lack of impartiality can undermine the credibility of environmental assessments, erode public trust, and diminish the effectiveness of NEPA as …

Silent Holy Spirit, July-September 2023

Silent Holy Spirit

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in St. Louis, MO

Silent Holy Spirit Finding Aid

Online Or In-Store - Shopper Channel Preference Study - 2023, Dinesh K. Gauri

Marketing Faculty Publications and Presentations

As channels converge, consumers have many choices for shopping. Understanding how consumers shop is important for retailers looking to customize their product and service offerings. This report of US Shoppers provides key insights on the current trends in selecting the channels for shopping.

Plan 2028, Eastern Illinois University

EIU Strategic Plans

No abstract provided.

Unit B 2022-2026 Agreement, Eastern Illinois University, Eiu Upi

Unit B Contracts

The 2022-2026 collective bargaining agreement between Eastern Illinois University and EIU UPI for non-tenure annually-contracted faculty and academic support professionals.

Unit A 2022-2026 Agreement, Eastern Illinois University, Eiu Upi

Unit A Contracts

The 2022-2026 collective bargaining agreement between Eastern Illinois University and tenured/tenure-track Unit A faculty.

Ethical Considerations Surrounding Vaccine Development During A Public Health Crisis, Syed Arsalan Akhter Zaidi, Kainat Saleem, Rahul Bollam, Bushra Zaidi

Journal of Health Ethics

Epidemics and Pandemics have been plaguing mankind since many centuries, and are a cause of major healthcare expense in modern times. The novel coronavirus pandemic of 2019-2020 spread worldwide faster than many previous pandemics, including EBOLA in 2017. Although personal protective equipment, and social distancing slowed the outbreak, a vaccine is needed to ensure global immunization and to stop this deadly outbreak. Developing a vaccine in times of a public health crisis comes with a lot of ethical considerations, including overlooking proper informed consent, the issue of using placebo in control arm of trials, extended timelines of development of vaccines, …

A Framework For Personal Respiratory Ethics, Ian W. Goddard

Journal of Health Ethics

The Covid-19 pandemic raises the need for an ethical framework that addresses the unique ethical challenges and questions arising from airborne infectious diseases. For example, are we ever ethically obliged to wear a face mask? If so, why and when? The Respiratory Ethics Framework (REF) herein proposes pathways to answers grounded in ethical norms and the moral principles of non-harm, beneficence and respect for personal autonomy. REF is a personal ethics wherein your ethical duty to increase your respiratory hygiene efforts—such as by donning a mask—is proportional to your estimation of an increase in the likelihood that your respiratory effluent …

Improved Burned Area Mapping Using Monotemporal Landsat-9 Imagery And Convolutional Shift-Transformer, Seyd Teymoor Seydi, Mojtaba Sadegh

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Satellite imagery, specifically Landsat, have been widely used for mapping and monitoring wildfire burned areas. The new Landsat-9 satellite – with higher radiometric resolution compared to its predecessors, and improved temporal resolution when combined with Landsat-8 (∼8 days) – enables a wide range of applications, particularly burned area mapping (BAM). We propose a novel deep learning BAM model that leverages the strengths of the convolutional layers for deep feature generation from Landsat-9 imagery and shift-transformer block for burned area classification. The performance of the model is evaluated in five large fire case studies across the globe. BAM results are also …

Design + Build: College Of Dupage Architecture Design + Build Studio, Summer 2023, Mark A. Pearson

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Student Design + Build Team:

• Esmeralda Arteaga
• Barakat Hasan
• Brandon Martinez
• Marco Mavrenovic
• Denise Sanchez
• Sami Syed

Faculty and Staff:

• Professor: Mark A. Pearson, AIA
• Shop Instructor: Ryan Buckel

For more information about the project, visit our Design Build 2023 website.

Increasing Music Therapy Referrals In A Surgical Intensive Care Unit., Brandi Cecil

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Medications have been the primary intervention in intensive care unit patients due to the fact that the patients are often unconscious, critically medically ill, or unable to actively participate in nonpharmacological treatment. Researchers have found the integration of music therapy in patient care has helped ease pain, anxiety, and stress, and has been useful in vital control, such as decreasing heart rate and respiration count. A study was conducted in a surgical intensive care unit (SICU) to examine the benefits of increasing music therapy consults. Critical care nurses were educated on the advantages of utilizing interdisciplinary care by consulting music …

Intention To Change Lifestyle Behaviors In 10- To 14-Year-Old Children With Obesity., Mallory Swanson

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Background: Pediatric obesity is a multifaceted disease that affects 19.7% of children. Obesity increases the risk of long-term health morbidity and costs billions of dollars annually for the United States healthcare system.

Purpose: The objective of this quality improvement project was to utilize the 5210 Healthy Children Campaign to facilitate behavior change in obese children. Potential outcomes include fostering health promotion and disease prevention, improving patient outcomes, decreasing morbidity and mortality, and easing the healthcare burden.

Methods: Intervention took place at Growing Kids Pediatrics and was conducted through four educational sessions involving the obese child and at least one caregiver. …

Improving Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections In The Intensive Care Unit: Implementation Of A Rounding Tool To Enhance Communication And Collaboration., Bethany Carol Risen

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Background/Significance: Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are avoidable and costly healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and are associated with high morbidity and mortality. A rise in CAUTIs at the project site, and the need for a standardized CAUTI prevention communication process, prompted this quality improvement project.

Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to decrease CAUTIs through improved communication and collaboration amongst the critical care team.

Methods: Twelve nurses completed the Collaboration and Satisfaction about Care Decisions (CSACD) questionnaire pre- and post- intervention which, evaluated communication and collaboration. Nurses also assessed IUC indication and removal during interdisciplinary rounds.

Intervention: This …

Effectiveness Of An Electronic Health Record Embedded Evidence-Based Testing Algorithm For Clostridioides Difficile Infection., Sarah Marie Bishop

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Background: Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) commonly impacts hospitalized patients with almost half a million cases reported in the United States annually. C. difficile colonization is more common than infection. Identifying true infection versus colonization is critical to avoiding inappropriate treatment, unnecessary exposure to antibiotics, and increased cost of care. Implementation of evidenced-based CDI testing criteria can help reduce inappropriate CDI testing and avoid the misidentification of colonized patients as true CDI.

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness of an evidence-based electronic health record (EHR) integrated CDI testing algorithm in reducing inappropriate CDI testing among adult …

More Than Mere Lip Service: A Mansfield Rule For Well-Being, Cecilia A. Silver

Michigan Law Review Online

Law firms’ watchword is well-being. “Never in history have organizations around the world devoted so much attention and capital to improving employee mental health and well-being. It is lamentable that these investments are not always providing a good return regarding improved outcomes.” In the legal arena, a 2021 report from the Institute for Well-Being in Law echoed this sentiment, determining that while 99 percent of law firms have some type of well-being program, these measures did little to nothing to address internal, structural issues that perpetuate the lack of attorney well-being.

A Companion Guide For The Discipleship To Missional Community (D2mc) Program, Jedidiah T. Maschke

Doctor of Ministry Major Applied Project

This Doctor of Ministry (DMin.) Major Applied Project (MAP) offers a companion guide for the discipleship training program called D2MC (Discipleship to Missional Community) taught by PLI, a leadership development organization that works primarily with the LCMS. The D2MC program is based on the training pioneered by Mike Breen through 3DM. The companion guide shows how the methods and practices taught by PLI are soundly based in Scripture and confessional Lutheran theology and offers some personal insights and devotional thoughts. The companion guide was distributed and field tested with volunteer participants through and with the approval of PLI. Participants in …

Indigenous Women's Employment In Natural Resource Industries In Canada: Patterns, Barriers And Opportunities, Bipasha Baruah

Data and Test Instruments

This paper identifies barriers and opportunities that Indigenous women in Canada face in energy, mining, and forest sector employment through a review of scholarly and practitioner literature published between 2000 and 2022, and 10 in-depth interviews conducted between May and August 2021 with Indigenous women working in various capacities within (or knowledgeable about) natural resources industries in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. Our findings reveal that it is important to understand the intersections of gender, culture, ethnicity/race, language, and class to respond to the challenges Indigenous women face in natural resources employment. Some of the barriers that Indigenous women …

Arcadia: A Student Journal For Faith And Culture

Arcadia: A Student Journal for Faith and Culture

No abstract provided.

Longwood Magazine 2023 Summer, Longwood University

Alumni Newsletters & Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Olli Fall 2023 Catalog, Toniann Leavitt

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

No abstract provided.

Can News Literacy Help Reduce Belief In Covid Misinformation?, Seth Ashley, Stephanie Craft, Adam Maksl, Melissa Tully, Emily K. Vraga

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

The rapid spread of misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic has increased calls for news literacy to help mitigate endorsement of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and other falsehoods. In two cross-sectional online surveys conducted in October 2020 (N = 1,502) and July 2021 (N = 1,330), this study examines relationships between news literacy, COVID-19 misinformation, conspiratorial thinking, and political orientation in the United States. The results show that individuals with higher levels of news literacy were more likely to reject COVID-19 misinformation and conspiratorial thinking, but also that news literacy matters more for individuals with liberal political views than conservative …

Urinary Glyphosate Concentrations Among Pregnant Participants In A Randomized, Crossover Trial Of Organic And Conventional Diets, Carly Hyland, Meredith Spivak, Lianne Sheppard, Bruce P. Lanphear, Michael Antoniou, Maria Ospina, Antonia M. Calafat, Cynthia L. Curl

Public and Population Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background: Consumption of an organic diet reduces exposure to a range of agricultural pesticides. Only three studies have examined the effect of an organic diet intervention on exposure to the herbicide glyphosate, the most heavily used agricultural chemical in the world. Despite its widespread use, the primary sources of glyphosate exposure in humans are poorly understood.

Objective: Our objective was to examine the effect of an organic diet intervention on urinary glyphosate concentrations among pregnant individuals.

Methods: We conducted a 2-wk randomized crossover trial in which 39 pregnant participants living near (≤ 0.5 km) or far (> 0.5 km) from …

Pharmacy Matters - July 2023, University Of Mississippi. School Of Pharmacy

Pharmacy Matters Newsletters

Featured stories: "Haines Receives National AACP Award," "University Awarded New NIDA Contract," "Pharmacy School Maintains Top 20 Status in Federal Research Funding," "Support a Student, Sponsor a Coat," "PharmD Students to Benefit from Polk Scholarship," "School Presents Faculty, Research Awards," "Alumnus Works to Change Lives Through Local Pharmacies"

Women's Soccer Record Book 2023, Wofford College. Departmet Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Men's Soccer Record Book 2023, Wofford College. Departmet Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Qa Manual 2022 - 23 Revised, Cct College Dublin

Quality Assurance Manuals

The Quality Assurance Manual for CCT College Dublin, April 2023. Version 5.1

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - July 2023, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

No abstract provided.

Improving Postoperative Breast Augmentation Patient Education Delivery., Madison Callery

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Background: Effective patient education promotes successful postoperative outcomes. Nurses in an outpatient surgery center lacked consistent patient education practices and materials.

Purpose: The purpose of the project was to implement an evidence-based multimodal educational strategy for patients who undergo breast implant surgeries.

Methods: At an outpatient plastic surgery center, pre- and post-intervention phone calls were tracked; post-intervention education, documentation, and patient satisfaction data were recorded. Nurses were educated on the new materials, delivery procedures, and electronic health record (EHR) documentation. All patients undergoing breast implant surgery received multimodal education at each postoperative appointment. Outcomes included (1) the number of patient …

Protecting Wa Crops Issue 31 - July 2023, Department Of Primary Industries And Regional Development, Western Australia

Protecting WA Crops

Protecting WA Crops Issue 31 - July 2023 contents:

• New project to reduce Rhizoctonia impact in low and medium rainfall zones
• Meet Crop Protection team member – Dr Ahmed Saad

In Their Words: Student Reflections On Information-Seeking Behaviors, Sarah P.C. Dahlen, Kathlene Hanson

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Academic librarians try to facilitate student information seeking by providing classroom instruction, creating tutorials and guides, and selecting and modifying search tools to best meet student needs and preferences. These efforts are often informed by interactions with students, and can be even better informed through analysis of student descriptions of their searching practices. In this case study, 50 upper-division students from the Social and Behavioral Sciences major completed searching tasks in a few library search tools and were then interviewed about their search behaviors, both in the experimental setting and in general. Their responses illuminate some of their tendencies, including …