Digital Commons Network^™

Table Of Contents

Gathered Fragments

No abstract provided.

Father Bertin Roll, Ofm Cap., Champion Of Christian Mothers, James K. Hanna

Gathered Fragments

No abstract provided.

The History Of St. Michael’S Seminary In The Diocese Of Pittsburgh, John C. Bates Esq.

Gathered Fragments

No abstract provided.

Safety Of Simultaneous Bilateral Intravitreal Versus Unilateral Anti-Vasculo-Endothelial Growth Factors Injection In An Operating Room Setting, Irfan Kabiruddin Jeeva, Sidra Masud, Rehman Siddiqui, Hadees Murad Fahad

Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Objectives: Chorioretinal diseases requiring the use of anti-vascular endothelial growth (anti-VEGF) injections often occur in both eyes simultaneously. This can necessitate injecting both eyes together rather than one eye at a time. The purpose of the study was to determine whether simultaneous bilateral intravitreal injections of anti-VEGF agents are safe when administered in an operation theatre setting.
Methods: Retrospective review of data was conducted. Single center study conducted in a tertiary care hospital in Karachi Pakistan. Approximately 30,000 eyes that received anti-VEGF injection during a 10-year study period were included (March 2008-February 2018). Patients who were lost to follow up …

Forced Forward, Timo Nurmi

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.

Two Birds With One Stone: Recycling Carbon Dioxide To Produce Plastic, Sydney Rosensaft

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.

Back Matter

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.

Sensitive Salamanders: How Salamanders Are Impacted By Climate Change And Water Pollution, Kristen Aldridge

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.

The Long Haul Virus, Sadia Haidari

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.

Halluiclluistnrataed Tbyi Eovelnyn L Aozenr Medical Revolution: Using Psychedelics As A New Treatment For Disorders, Asha Shukla

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.

Using Nature To Protect Nature: How Environmental Arts Sheds Light On Environmental Issues, Khanh Do

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.

Harnessing Cosmic Power To Fuel Earth: Nuclear Fusion’S Rise As The Promising Renewable Energy, Tara Sefchick

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.

The Hidden Powers Of Plants: The Fascinating Ways Plants Express Themselves, Saurav Chakraborty

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.

A Walk In The Woods: The Science Of Forest Bathing, Sionainn Rudek

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.

How Social Media Controls Your Gut: The Internet, Health Misinformation, And The Human Gut Microbe, Maggie Willis

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.

The Mystery Of Superagers: Are Superagers Simply An Example Of Winning The Genetic Lottery, Or Something, Barbara Asantewaa-Boadi

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Various Safety Leadership Styles On Construction Safety Climate: A Case Of South India, S. Senthamizh Sankar, K. S. Anandh, Sathyanarayanan Rajendran, K. N. Sen

Engineering Technologies, Safety, and Construction Faculty Scholarship

The Indian construction industry is the second-largest job-providing sector in the country, which comprises many investments. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO) report, India is a significant contributor to construction site accidents and fatalities among world nations. The poor Safety Leadership (SL) style and the diminished leader's commitment to quality safety outcomes have caused misfortunes in construction sites. This paper aims to identify the impact of various safety leadership styles on the Organisational Safety Climate (OSC) predictors and propose a conceptual model explaining the relationship between SL styles and OSC. The study identifies six leadership styles from the works …

2022-November-01-Eating Healthy In College - Bucwire, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – Busy college students can find it awfully hard to maintain a healthy diet while juggling classes, work, club activities, and more. But senior ETSU nutrition student Caroline Dos Santos Medeiros shares some useful advice on how to do just that.

“Include a good variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and proteins in your day,” she said. “Drink plenty of water to stay hydrated, and make sure to have healthy snacks in your backpack – we all need that extra brain energy between classes. My personal favorite on-the-go-snacks are nuts, trail mix, protein or granola bars, string cheese, …

2022-November-01-Etsu Announces Notable Women Award Winners, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY— East Tennessee State University’s Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program has announced Dr. Cerrone Foster and Dr. Mary Mullins as the 2022 recipients of the Notable Women of ETSU Award.  

The two award recipients will be honored at the annual Notable Women of ETSU Colloquium on Wednesday, Nov. 16, from 5-7 p.m. via Zoom. The event highlights the expertise and accomplishments of women at ETSU, provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, research and projects generated by faculty, and identifies faculty whose work advances understanding of lived experiences. 

The public is invited to this free event, and …

2022-November-01-Sbi Resilience Presentation, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – “The Power of Belonging: The Role of Secure Base Leadership in Organizational Health and Success” is the topic of a virtual talk in the ETSU Ballad Health Strong BRAIN Institute Resilience Presentation Series on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 1 p.m.

Speakers will be Heather Taylor Griffith of Heather Taylor Griffith LLC, Nashville, and Jenn Drake-Croft, project director of the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Technical Assistance Center at Georgetown University.

The health of an organization directly affects its ability to realize its mission, engage and retain employees, provide quality services and support, and enhance productivity and …

2022-November-01-Skating On The Etsu Commons, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – East Tennessee State University is adding to the list of fun holiday activities in Johnson City with an outdoor synthetic ice-skating rink located on the ETSU University Commons, adjacent to the D.P Culp Student Center.  

The rink officially opens on Dec. 2 from 4-8 p.m., with a grand opening Bucky’s Blizzard Block Party for students and the community. It will be open again on Saturday, Dec. 3, from noon to 7 p.m., following the Johnson City Christmas Parade, and on Sunday, Dec. 4, from 2-7 p.m. Additional days and hours of operation will vary throughout …

Executive Committee - Agenda 11/1/2022, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

The Womb In Labour: Representing The Woman’S Body As An Active Vessel In Hildegard Of Bingen’S Cause Et Cure, Minji Lee

Department of Religion Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Hildegard of Bingen was a German nun who wrote medical treatises in the Middle Ages that interpreted the female body as a positive and purifying agent of God’s creation and salvation at a time when negative connotations of female physicality prevailed in medicine. In particular, she described the female body as an active vessel, in opposition to the predominant image of the female body as passive. Her explanations of conception, pregnancy and childbirth in her medical book Cause et Cure represent the female body as actively advancing, nourishing, purifying and caring for future generations in the form of the baby, …

Toward A Pedagogical Criticism: The Text, The Teacher, And The Global Crisis In Teaching Health And Illness Literature, John Paolo Sarce

English Faculty Publications

The COVID-19 pandemic calls for a change of perspective in the educational landscape, and the literary classroom is revealed to be one of the classes that can quickly adopt this change. Teachers of literature began to curate on their syllabi texts that will signify the global feeling and experience of the pandemic. This transforms the literary classroom into a space that directly connects the experiences of students to this ongoing health crisis. The different literary texts read in classes are portals for students to understand the experience of illness as both historical and sociological phenomena. With these events in class, …

County-Level Societal Predictors Of Covid-19 Cases And Deaths Changed Through Time In The United States: A Longitudinal Ecological Study, Philip J. Bergmann, Nathan A. Ahlgren, Rosalie A. Torres Stone

Biology

People of different racial/ethnic backgrounds, demographics, health, and socioeconomic characteristics have experienced disproportionate rates of infection and death due to COVID-19. This study tests if and how county-level rates of infection and death have changed in relation to societal county characteristics through time as the pandemic progressed. This longitudinal study sampled monthly county-level COVID-19 case and death data per 100,000 residents from April 2020 to March 2022, and studied the relationships of these variables with racial/ethnic, demographic, health, and socioeconomic characteristics for 3125 or 97.0% of U.S. counties, accounting for 96.4% of the U.S. population. The association of all county-level …

International Standard Setting Exercise, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Monitoring Learning

The GEM Centre provides technical support to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics (UIS), which has been mandated to monitor the progress of countries towards achieving the education goals of Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4). The International Standard Setting Exercise (ISSE) was undertaken to harmonise quantitative data across assessment programs, and to provide substantive information about children’s learning levels and progress benchmarked against international standards. The goal of the ISSE was to place thresholds on empirical reading and mathematics Learning Progression Scales for the Minimum Proficiency Level at the end of lower primary …

Teacher Professional Development For Disability Inclusion In Low- And Middle-Income Asia-Pacific Countries: An Evidence And Gap Map, Syeda Kashfee Ahmed, David Jeffries, Anannya Chakraborty, Toby Carslake, Petra Lietz, Budiarti Rahayu, David Armstrong, Amit Kaushik, Kris Sundarsagar

Assessment and Reporting

In the Asia‐Pacific region, around one‐third of the children who are out‐of‐school have a disability and given that teacher readiness and capability are key contributors for inclusive education, it is high time for a mapping of disability inclusive teacher professional development (TPD) interventions in this region. The key objective of this evidence and gap map (EGM) is to locate evidence on interventions for in‐service TPD focussing on education for the inclusion of students with a disability in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) in the Asia‐Pacific region. A broad range of bibliographic databases and repositories were searched electronically to identify the …

Abortion, Pregnancy Loss, & Subjective Fetal Personhood, Greer Donley, Jill Wieber Lens

Vanderbilt Law Review

Long-standing dogma dictates that recognizing pregnancy loss threatens abortion rights-—acknowledging that miscarriage and stillbirthinvolve the loss of something valuable, the theory goes, creates a slippery slope to fetal personhood. For decades, antiabortion advocates have capitalized on this tension and weaponized the grief that can accompany pregnancy loss in their efforts to legislate fetal personhood and end abortion rights. In response, abortion rights advocates have at times fought legislative efforts to support those experiencing pregnancy loss and, more recently, remained silent, alienating those who suffer a miscarriage or stillbirth.

This Article argues that this perceived tension can be reconciled through the …

Montana Voices Amplified: My Perspective: Can I Pet Your Eyes?, Ed Worrell, University Of Montana Rural Institute

Independent Living and Community Participation

The author shares the most common questions he is asked when working with his dog guide, Helen.

Caring For Patients Using Methamphetamines: An Interprofessional Collaborative Approach, Erinne Kennedy, Sarah E. Getch, Benjamin Grin, Russell D. Campillo, Linda C. Niessen

Faculty and Staff Publications

Methamphetamine use is increasing in the U.S. and in Missouri, as are the number of deaths associated with its use. Many systemic and mental health issues are associated with methamphetamine use or methamphetamine use disorder (MUD). Given the range of health issues associated with methamphetamine use or MUD, a collaborative approach to the care of patients can improve outcomes. This article provides an overview of a collaborative approach to caring for patients using or have used methamphetamine, from the perspective of the primary care, behavioral and dental clinician.