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Southeastern Librarian 71(1) Spring 2023 (Full Issue)

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian Volume 71 Number 1

A Punkhouse In The Deep South: The Oral History Of 309, Stephen Michaels

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Aaron Cometbus & Scott Satterwhite Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2021 ISBN: 9780813068527 154 p. $19.95 (Pbk)

Endless Caverns: An Underground Journey Into The Show Caves Of Appalachia, Timothy Daniels

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Douglas Reichert Powell Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022 ISBN: 9781469669434 232 p. $29.00 (Pbk)

Dreams In The New Century: Instant Cities Shattered Hopes And Florida's Turning Point, Austina M. Jordan

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Gary R. Mormino Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2022 ISBN: 9780813069340 548 p. $34.95 (Hbk)

Academic Librarianship Reflection: How Do You Define Your Roles As An Academic Librarian?, Rebecca Rose

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Reflection by Rebecca Rose.

The President's Column, Crystal Gates

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Column by Crystal Gates.

Understanding The Relationship Between Organic Chemistry Misconceptions And Students’ Chemistry Self-Efficacy In Higher Education Organic Chemistry Courses, Lauren A. Dudley

Education (PhD) Dissertations

Organic chemistry is accepted as a crucial part of science higher education funneling students into many career opportunities such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and medical industries. Students attempting organic chemistry courses in higher education are among a plethora of majors including biology, chemistry, health science, and engineering. However, organic chemistry as a course has stayed fairly stagnant for the past 50 years. Students in this course typically resort to rote-memorization and often regard the course itself as insurmountable. To answer the decreasing retention rates seen across the United States, the research revolving around organic chemistry knowledge and teaching methodologies has increased …

Use Of Natural Language Processing (Nlp) In Civil Case Management: A Report On Three Proof Of Concept Projects, Paula Hannaford-Agor, Jannet Okazaki

Faculty Publications

In 2016, the Conference of Chief Justices (CCJ) and the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA) endorsed recommendations to leverage technology to improve civil case management. In particular, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and related tools could be used to support two areas of civil case processing: sorting cases at filing based on the anticipated level of judicial involvement in case management, and confirming that essential procedural requirements have been satisfied before entering final judgments in cases.

To explore the feasibility of NLP to support court operations in these two areas, the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) designed three distinct …

Adversarial Election Administration, Rebecca Green

Faculty Publications

As Americans, we are conditioned to believe that involving partisans in the administration of elections is inherently problematic. Understandably. The United States is a major outlier; virtually every other developed democracy mandates nonpartisan election administration. Whether on the left or right— especially since the 2020 election—we are barraged with headlines about actual or feared partisanship on the part of those who run our elections. What this narrative misses, however, is a crucial and underrecognized fact: by design, partisans have always played central roles at every level of U.S. election administration. What is more, partisans are baked into the U.S. election …

Oceans Of Literature - The Little Mermaid, Makena Metz

English (MA) Theses

Mermaid stories have existed for millennia, stemming back to the ancient cultures of the world. Influenced by the mythos established in books like The Iliad, sirens and mermaids were a part of European culture for centuries. The mermaid as chimera monster that represented the duality of danger and seduction was subverted in 1837, when Hans Christian Andersen wrote the seminal fairy tale “The Little Mermaid.” In our present day, we can find that this short story has created a canon of “mermaid” literature, especially in the fantasy canon, and has majorly impacted our pop culture and digital spheres. By tracing …

What Makes A Woman "Pious And Good": The Function Of Several Grimm Brothers' Cautionary Fairy Tales, Hannah Montante

English (MA) Theses

This thesis explores how several of the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales, “Little Snow-white and the seven dwarfs,” “The Juniper Tree,” and “Cinderella” exhibit patriarchal expectations of women that fairy tale protagonists strive to uphold, while female villains feel driven to violence and artifice because of their inability to fit into this role. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published these stories in nineteenth-century Germany, which was predominantly Protestant and held the belief that women should be nurturing homemakers who took care of their husbands and children. These cautionary tales instruct women on how to behave and appear physically, likely because these stories …

Ethical Hazards Of Health Data Governance In The Metaverse, Kristin Kostick-Quenet, Vasiliki Rahimzadeh

Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff Publications

Metaverse-enabled healthcare is no longer hypothetical. Developers must now contend with ethical, legal and social hazards if they are to overcome the systematic inefficiencies and inequities that exist for patients who seek care in the real world.

Lack Of Women In Government In The Mena Region, Emma Cummings

Ballard Brief

Only 24.3% of parliament seats globally are held by women, and an even lower 10.4% of parliament seats in the MENA region are held by women. With proper representation in government positions, it can be easier to further political positions such as human rights, education, and the overall development of a country. This is due in part to some of the top government positions in the family, social welfare, and gender equality areas being held by women. There is a lack in the MENA region due to popular social perception, the lack of education and experience, and limited support for …

The Homeownership Gap Between Black And White Families In The United States, Hanna Chugg

Ballard Brief

The black and white homeownership gap in the United States is the difference in the percentage of black and white households that own homes. In 2020, the homeownership rate for black households was 43.4% while the homeownership rate for white households was 72.1%. The housing gap developed due to discriminatory housing practices such as redlining and the subprime crisis. As a result, black households faced high barriers to homeownership and were unable to transfer the benefits of homeownership to future generations. While white households entered homeownership and provided assets for themselves and their posterity, black households fell further behind. The …

Transforming The Volunteer Experience In The Social Service Sector, Dalvin Sidhu, Weng Lin Ng, Thilanga Dilum Wewalaarachchi

Lien Centre for Social Innovation: Research

Transforming the Volunteer Experience in the Social Service Sector is the first analysis report of its kind that focuses on investigating and enhancing volunteerism in Singapore. Through the perspectives of volunteers and volunteer managers via surveys and in-depth interviews, this report reveals a framework depicting five key features that contribute towards a quality volunteering experience. The study also makes recommendations on the actionable steps and strategies that Social Service Agencies can adopt to engage their volunteers more strategically, so that they can play a more significant role in delivering enhanced quality services to service users.

Changes In Electrocardiographic And Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Parameters Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, Elizabeth Seeley, Luai Madanat, Nishaki Mehta

Posters

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is known to cause conduction abnormalities leading to the need for permanent pacemaker implantation. However, the impact of TAVR-related conduction abnormalities on cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) parameters in patients with preexisting devices is not known. We sought to investigate and describe changes in EKG and CIED parameters following TAVR in patients with preexisting CIEDs.

Development And Evaluation Of A Peer Education-Based Ultrasound Curriculum With Emphasis On Clinical Reasoning, Nisha Patel, Arati Kelekar

Posters

Point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) is being increasingly incorporated in pre-clerkship physical diagnosis courses. However, the development of such a curriculum at many medical schools is limited by financial constraints, the availability of trained faculty, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we describe an optional POCUS curriculum that circumvents these barriers while still providing basic image acquisition skills and pathophysiological correlations.

Assessment Of Radiographic Features In Predicting Complete Quadriceps And Complete Patellar Tendon Ruptures In The Pre-Operative Setting, Mitchell Pfennig, Matthew Astolfi, Christopher Vasileff, Betina Hinckel

Posters

Acute patellar tendon or quadriceps tendon rupture is a severely debilitating injury resulting in complete loss of the knee extensor mechanism. Early diagnosis and prompt surgical repair are preferential in order to achieve good functional outcomes. In the setting of trauma and knee pain, plain film radiographs of the knee are obtained to rule out fractures. Patellar and quadriceps tendon rupture is primarily a clinical diagnosis but can benefit from additional imaging to differentiate between a partial and complete tear when there is uncertainty. Our goal is to assess the reliability and reproducibility of radiographic features in a population with …

Surveillance Of Dual-Mobility Hip Systems: Damage Mode And Clinical Data Analysis, Camilla Cascardo, Conner D. Ahlgren, Michael J. Maxwell, Tyler Vovos, Mark Karadsheh, Drew Moore

Posters

Hip instability following total hip arthroplasty (THA) is a prominent indication for revision surgery. Dual mobility (DM) implants are designed to increase stability, and trending use makes characterizing in vivo damage and clinical failure modes important. This study expounds upon micro- and macroscopic damage mode findings of Lombardo et al., including novel screw ring damage using an updated retrieval registry.

May 2023 Annual Report, Perlmutter Center For Legal Justice At Cardozo Law

Perlmutter Center Reports

The May 2023 Annual Report prepared for The Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Foundation highlights the achievements of the Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice in its first year. The report covers events, partnerships with organizations like Legal Aid, and the launch of initiatives such as the Forensic Science Education Program. It introduces key staff members and emphasizes the Center's mission to promote justice by addressing unreliable forensic science, educating legal professionals, and providing services through the Freedom and Clemency Clinics. Overall, the report showcases the Center's commitment to advancing legal justice and making a positive impact.

The Routine Use And Cost Analysis Of Acid-Fast Bacilli And Fungal Cultures In Foot And Ankle Surgery: A Retrospective Study, Margaret Bohr, Robert Dean, Zein El-Zein, Megan Audet, Paul Fortin, Zachary Vaupel

Posters

Infection is a significant complication seen in orthopaedic surgery. In such cases, samples are sent to be cultured for aerobes, anaerobes, acid-fast bacilli (AFB) and fungi. AFB and fungi are generally slow-growing, difficult to culture, and rarely the pathogen, whereas aerobic and anaerobic cultures are routinely positive and guide antibiotic treatment. The goal of this study is to evaluate the value of routinely ordering AFB and fungal cultures in the setting of foot and ankle surgery.

Behind The Design, Natalia C. Smith

Honors Theses

Higher education is a place of learning and such a space requires the optimal design for a learning setting. While classrooms are an important space for learning in higher education, they are not the only place, where learning occurs on campuses. These spaces outside of the classroom are referred to in ways such as “private study areas”, “writing centers,” and “third spaces”, but in this paper, these spaces are referred to as informal study spaces. These spaces are identified as any space, outside of a formal classroom setting, where students regularly congregate for academic purposes. Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) has …

Spring 2023, Georgia Library Quarterly

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Dreamwalker: A Novella In Progress, Camryn Johnson

Honors Scholar Theses

The DreamWalker is a fantasy novella based in the near future city of Nova where beings with extraordinary powers exist alongside "normal" humans. One night there was a mass raid on the homes of extras and they were thrown into the Centrum, a specially curated holding facility that keeps extras and their powers indefinitely imprisoned. Aybis, a Dreamwalker, is one of these beings, though she managed to escape this prison. Now she works for Marco, a handler of sorts, in the underground, using her ability to enter and sometimes manipulate dreams of the wealthy and elite clientele of Nova who …

The Effects Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Mergers And Acquisitions, Goodwill, And Goodwill Impairment In The Technology Industry, Dee Webster

Honors Scholar Theses

I explore associations between COVID-19 and changes in mergers and acquisitions (M&As), goodwill valuation, and goodwill impairments in the technology industry. Prior literature explores the pandemic’s effects on the dynamics of M&As, goodwill, and goodwill impairment, but are not specific to the pandemic’s impact on the technology industry. This study references prior literature to provide conceptual support as well as research findings to examine the overall changes in technology companies of interest in this study. First, I find that M&A activity before COVID-19 and during COVID-19 was not substantially different when averaged. Second, I find that there was a significant …

The Contribution Of Self-Compassion To Anxiety And Mood In Daily Life, Yamini Pant

Honors Scholar Theses

Self-compassion, the act of being kind and understanding towards oneself, has been shown to have positive impacts on mental health. Depression and anxiety are both common mental health disorders that can interfere with an individual’s ability to function in daily life. Several studies have shown that self-compassion correlates with depression and anxiety at a cross-sectional level and across longer periods of time (e.g., several months). In the present study, we examined the fluctuations and the directionality of self-compassion, depression, and anxiety on a day-to-day basis over the span of a week. We also examined the ways that worry and rumination …

Sjsj Cover, Dominique Miller

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Therapeutic Targeting Of Prenatal Pontine Id1 Signaling In Dmg, Dana Messinger, Garrett Gibson, Micah K. Harris, Jessica R. Cummings, Chase Thomas, Tao Yang, Stefan R. Sweha, Rinette Woo, Robert Siddaway, Martin Burkert, Stefanie Stallard, Tingting Qin, Brendan Mullan, Ruby Siada, Ramya Ravindran, Michael Niculcea, Abigail Dowling, Joshua Bradin, Kevin F. Ginn, Melissa A H Gener, Kathleen Dorris, Nicholas A. Vitanza, Susanne V. Schmidt, Cynthia Hawkins, Sebastian M. Waszak, Sriram Venneti, Viveka Nand Yadav

Research at Children's Mercy Month 2023

Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is a highly aggressive brain tumor with rare survival beyond two years. This poor prognosis is largely due to the tumor's highly infiltrative and invasive nature. Nearly 80% of DMGs harbor K27M mutation in the genes encoding histones H3.1 (H3F3A) or H3.3 (HISTIH3B) variants, often with concurrent mutation in ACVR1. Inhibitor of DNA-binding (ID) proteins are key transcriptional regulators of genes involved in lineage commitment and associated with invasiveness and poor clinical outcomes in multiple human cancer. Prior work showed that recurrent K27M and ACVR1 mutations increase ID1 expression in cultured astrocytes, but this has …

Ciclesonide Protects Against Lps-Induced Lung Endothelial Inflammation And Acute Lung Injury, Heather Menden, Sherry M. Mabry, Venkatesh Sampath

Research at Children's Mercy Month 2023

Background: Synthetic glucocorticoids (sGC) are used to prevent bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in preterm infants. Ciclesonide (CIC), a sGC pro-drug, is FDA-approved for treatment of children with asthma. We reported that in comparison with dexamethasone, CIC does not affect brain development when used in the neonatal period. We have also shown that LPS, derived from gram negative bacteria, causes lung endothelial cell (EC) immune activation that contributes to sepsis-induced acute lung injury (ALI). In this study, we hypothesized that LPS-induced endothelial inflammation and ALI will be inhibited by CIC.

Objectives: a) Investigate the mechanisms by which CIC inhibits lung EC inflammation …

Qualitative Insights From Physical And Mental Health Providers In Pediatric Integrated Health Care Settings, Nikolaus Schuetz

Research at Children's Mercy Month 2023

Background:

It is widely accepted that the mind and the body are connected, so it is critical to better understand the connection in order to improve the healing process, quality of care, and well-being. Integrated care is associated with improved patient outcomes and is well-positioned to address conditions with known comorbidities (such as chronic health conditions and depression/anxiety), serve people who use primary health care providers for mental health needs (especially racial/ethnic minorities), and address the impact mental health can have on physical health trajectories and outcomes. However, there is disagreement regarding how to best combine treatments. There are more …