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National Council Licensure Examination For Registered Nurses (Nclex-Rn®) Success: Perceptions Of Accelerated Second-Degree Bachelor Of Science In Nursing Students, Vicki L. Brzoza

Dissertations

Most of the 50 states in the United States (U.S.) will experience a significant nursing shortage by the year 2030. Research finds that a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) workforce is associated with better outcomes, fewer adverse events, and lower patient mortality than associate or diploma prepared nurses. BSN-prepared nurses are in great demand, and the accelerated second-degree bachelor of science in nursing (ABSN) programs may meet this need. This study investigates how to be successful in these ABSN programs. The purpose of this study was to describe the ABSN students' perceptions and experiences of what they believe to …

Reducing Violence In The Emergency Department, Improving Perception Of Safety: An Aggression Prevention Team Approach, Marilyn Riley

Dissertations

Acts of aggression towards nurses has reached never-before-seen levels in Emergency Departments (ED) across the United States (US), and it increases by 15% or more every year. Nurses and ED staff are subjected to violent patients, daily. Nurses often do not feel they have the skills to intervene safely when patients become aggressive, and these behaviors can escalate to harmful levels. Nurses must have a safe environment to practice; therefore, it is imperative violence stops. This DNP project implements an Aggression Prevention Team (APT) to respond in the ED when patients or visitors become aggressive and to improve the nurses' …

Accelerating Molecular Property Calculations With Semiempirical Preconditioning, Zehao Zhou, Shane M. Parker

Faculty Scholarship

Computing ab initio molecular linear response properties, e.g., electronic excitation energies and transition moments, requires the solution of large eigenvalue problems or large systems of equations. These large eigenvalue problems or large systems of equations are commonly solved iteratively using Krylov space algorithms, such as the Davidson algorithm for eigenvalue problems. A critical ingredient in Krylov space algorithms is the preconditioner which is used to generate optimal update vectors in each iteration. We propose to use semiempirical approximations as preconditioners to accelerate the calculation of ab initio properties. The crucial advantage to improving the preconditioner is that the converged result …

The Ostensible (And, At Times, Actual) Virtue Of Deference, Anthony O'Rourke

Journal Articles

In Rethinking Police Expertise, Anna Lvovsky exposes how litigators leverage judicial understandings of police expertise against the government. The article is rich not only with descriptive insights, but also with normative potential. By rigorously analyzing the relationship between expertise and authority in specific cases, Professor Lvovsky offers guidance as to how judges and lawyers should factor a police officer’s expertise into an assessment of whether the officer’s conduct is lawful. This Response argues, however, that Rethinking Police Expertise’s normative potential is weakened by the sharp conceptual distinction it draws between judicial understandings of expertise as a “professional virtue” (which it …

Judicial Populism, Anya Bernstein, Glen Staszewski

Journal Articles

Populism has taken center stage in discussions of contemporary politics. This Article details a judicial populism that resonates with political populism’s tropes, mirrors its traits, and enables its practices. Like political populism, judicial populism insists there are clear, correct answers to complex, debatable problems, treating reasonable disagreement as illegitimate. It disparages the institutions that mediate divergent interests in a republican democracy, claiming special access to the law’s clear objective meaning. And it imagines a pure, unified people locked in battle with a subversive elite.

While commentators have recognized political populism as fundamentally undemocratic, judicial populism has largely escaped recognition and …

Commentary On Ellis Et Al. (2021), Sara A. Schmitt, G. John Geldhof, David J. Purpura, Robert Duncan, Megan M. Mcclelland

Purdue Center for Early Learning Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract available.

Conceptual Replication And Extension Of The Relation Between The Number Line Estimation Task And Mathematical Competence Across Seven Studies, Alexa Ellis, María Inés Susperreguy, David J. Purpura, Pamela E. Davis-Kean

Purdue Center for Early Learning Faculty and Staff Publications

A recent meta-analysis demonstrated the overall correlation between the number line estimation (NLE) task and children’s mathematical competence was r = .44 (positively recoded), and this relation increased with age. The goal of the current study was to conceptually replicate and extend these results by further synthesizing this correlation utilizing studies not present in the meta-analysis. Across seven studies, 954 participants, ranging from 3 to 11 years old (Age M = 6.02 years, SD = 1.57), the overall estimation-competence correlations were similar to those of the meta-analysis and ranged from r = −.40 to −.35. The current conceptual replication demonstrated …

How Do Genetic Relatedness And Spatial Proximity Shape African Swine Fever Infections In Wild Boar?, Tomasz Podgórski, Kim M. Pepin, Anna Radko, Angelika Podbielska, Magdalena Łyjak, Grzegorz Woźniakowski, Tomasz Borowik

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

The importance of social and spatial structuring of wildlife populations for disease spread, though widely recognized, is still poorly understood in many host-pathogen systems. In particular, system-specific kin relationships among hosts can create contact heterogeneities and differential disease transmission rates. Here, we investigate how distance-dependent infection risk is influenced by genetic relatedness in a novel host-pathogen system: wild boar (Sus scrofa) and African swine fever (ASF).We hypothesized that infection risk would correlate positively with proximity and relatedness to ASF-infected individuals but expected those relationships to weaken with the distance between individuals due to decay in contact rates and …

Active And Covert Infections Of Cricket Iridovirus And Acheta Domesticus Densovirus In Reared Gryllodes Sigillatus Crickets, Scott K. Sakaluk, Kristin Duffield, John Hunt, Ben M. Sadd, Brenda Oppert, José L. Ramirez, Karyna Rosario, Robert W. Behle

Faculty Publications – Biological Sciences

Interest in developing food, feed, and other useful products from farmed insects has gained remarkable momentum in the past decade. Crickets are an especially popular group of farmed insects due to their nutritional quality, ease of rearing, and utility. However, production of crickets as an emerging commodity has been severely impacted by entomopathogenic infections, about which we know little. Here, we identified and characterized an unknown entomopathogen causing mass mortality in a lab-reared population of Gryllodes sigillatus crickets, a species used as an alternative to the popular Acheta domesticus due to its claimed tolerance to prevalent entomopathogenic viruses. Microdissection of …

Culture And Social Change In Mothers’ And Fathers’ Individualism, Collectivism And Parenting Attitudes, Jennifer E. Lansford, Susannah Zietz, Suha M. Al-Hassan, Dario Bacchini, Marc H. Bornstein, Lei Chang, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Laura Di Giunta, Kenneth A. Dodge, Sevtap Gurdal, Qin Liu, Qian Long, Paul Oburu, Concetta Pastorelli, Ann T. Skinner, Emma Sorbing, Sombat Tapanya, Laurence Steinberg, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong, Liane Peña Alampay

Psychology Department Faculty Publications

Cultures and families are not static over time but evolve in response to social transformations, such as changing gender roles, urbanization, globalization, and technology uptake. Historically, individualism and collectivism have been widely used heuristics guiding cross-cultural comparisons, yet these orientations may evolve over time, and individuals within cultures and cultures themselves can have both individualist and collectivist orientations. Historical shifts in parents’ attitudes also have occurred within families in several cultures. As a way of understanding mothers’ and fathers’ individualism, collectivism, and parenting attitudes at this point in history, we examined parents in nine countries that varied widely in country-level …

Clustering Of Aromatic Residues In Prion-Like Domains Can Tune The Formation, State, And Organization Of Biomolecular Condensates, Alex S Holehouse, Garrett M Ginell, Daniel Griffith, Elvan Böke

2020-Current year OA Pubs

In immature oocytes, Balbiani bodies are conserved membraneless condensates implicated in oocyte polarization, the organization of mitochondria, and long-term organelle and RNA storage. In

Statistical Spectral Characteristics Of Three-Dimensional Winds In The Mesopause Region Revealed By The Andes Lidar, Qian Li, Alan Z. Liu, Shao Dong Zhang, Chun Ming Huang, Kai Ming Huang, Yun Gong, Quan Gan, Yan Ying Yan, Hang Liu

Publications

By analyzing data recorded at the Andes Lidar Observatory in Cerro Pachon, Chile (30.3°S, 70.7°W) from May 2014 to July 2019, we investigated the fundamental features of three-dimensional wind and temperature spectra. The vertical wavenumber spectral amplitudes of horizontal winds show obvious seasonal variations that are closely related to the seasonal variations in the source and background winds. The wavenumber spectral slopes of the horizontal winds are systematically less negative than −3, with mean values of −1.96 and −2.18 for zonal and meridional winds, respectively. The zonal and meridional wind frequency spectra have mean slopes of −1.37 and −1.56, respectively; …

A Case Study On The National Digital Library Of India And Exploring Learning Resources For School Education, Deivam Muniyandi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The National Digital Library of India (NDLI) was created by the Ministry of Education as a National Mission Project on Education to engage, support, and inspire all learners across the country, regardless of age, demographics, or ability. The National Digital Library of India is a knowledge and information melting pot with a diverse range of lectures, courses, and archives in a variety of media forms organised, collated, and created by India's leading institutions. It is a platform that aims to make electronic learning resources available to all citizens of the country in order to motivate, empower, and encourage them to …

Etos Keabdian Berbentuk Keseimbangan Antara Hablum Min-Allah Dan Hablum Min-Annas Dalam Novel Aisyah Karya Sibel Eraslan, Alfin Ari Indria Kusuma Wardani, Djoko Saryono, Roekhan Roekhan

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

The study entitled the ethos of devotion in the form of a balance between hablum min-Allah and hablum min-annas is based on the fact that literature works reflect a transcendent relation between God and His mankind. Qualitative research method is used in this study since the result obtained is in the form of verbal data, which describes the elements of transcendence in literature works. The data collected is ideographic data or verbal data containing the elements of transcendence. Novel written by Sibel Eraslan entitled Aisyah: The Woman in The Prophet’s Dream are used as the sources of data. The researcher …

Pengembangan E-Modul Berbasis Kearifan Lokal Dan Kecakapan Hidup, Adi Tri Atmaja, Nurul Murtadho, Sa’Dun Akbar

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

The purpose of research and development is to produce an electronic module based on local wisdom and life skills. The product is developed according to the stages of the ADDIE model. The feasibility of the e-module is known from the results of expert validation, and an assessment of the attractiveness, practicality, and effectiveness of the product from users. The average validation results of material experts reached 89.5%, design experts 87%. Then the field trial by the teacher obtained an average of 93% attractiveness, 93% practicality, and by students it reached 91% attractiveness percentage, 90% practicality and 96% class completeness effectiveness. …

Kelayakan Dan Pengaruh Modul Digital Usaha Dan Energi Berbasis Multimedia Interaktif Terhadap Penguasaan Konsep, Alvi Hasanati, Edi Supriana, Nandang Mufti

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

An interactive multimedia-based digital module developed to improve students' mastery of concepts. This research uses research and development (R&D) methods with the ADDIE model. The ADDIE model consists of 5 stages, is analysis stage, design stage, development stage, implementation stage, and evaluation stage. Inferential statistical data analysis used paired sample t-test. The results of data analysis show that the value of tcount = -32.879 > ttable = 2.080, then there is an influence of digital modules on concept mastery. The feasibility of digital modules is 93.5% and practicality is 88.5%. The results showed that development of digital modules is feasible and …

Argumentasi Dalam Teks Pidato Mahasiswa, Dedi Gunawan Saputra, Dawud Dawud, Imam Agus Basuki

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

Argumentation is closely related to a person's mindset to achieve communication goals. The focus of this research is the argumentation component, the argumentation model, and the argumentation writing style. The data of this research are in the form of words, sentences, and paragraphs from the students' speech texts of undergraduate students of Indonesian Language and Literature Education, Universitas Negeri Malang. Undergraduate students who are used as data sources are students for the 2019/2020 academic year. The results showed that the arguments in the speech texts of Indonesian Language and Literature Education students at the Universitas Negeri Malang contained various components, …

Strategi Rekursif Dan Eksplisit Pada Generalisasi Aljabar Siswa Kelas Xi Ditinjau Dari Gaya Kognitif, Iman Aniyatuz Zakiyah, I Nengah Parta, Hendro Permadi

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

The aim of this study is to describe the recursive and explicit strategies of algebraic generalization used by 11st grade students based on their cognitive styles and used descriptive qualitative methodology. The subject consisted of 3 field dependent and 3 field independent students. Given 2 tasks to determine the strategies used by students. The problem given are related to near and far generalization. The recursive strategy requires the subject to know the relationship of each term to determine the pattern, whereas the explicit strategy allows the subject to use various rules accordingly. The results show that FD and FI subject …

Penerapan Media Topeng Malang Lestari Untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Literasi, Keterampilan Berpikir Kreatif, Dan Karakter Cinta Budaya Daerah Pada Kelas Iv, Aini Rizqoh

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

The purpose of this study was to improve literacy skill, creative thinking skills, and the love of the culture of students in learning by using the Topeng Malang Lestari Media. The result of the initial thoughts on fourth grade students of SDN 2 Girimoyo showed that literacy and learning of students can be improved through learning that integrates the Topeng Malang Lestari Media based of Local Wisdom as a source of learning. Media Picture books based of local wisdom culture as a source of learning and effort to improve literacy skills and preservation of local cultural wisdom. The research method …

Penalaran Spasial Matematis Dimensi Persepsi Dan Visualisasi Kelas Viii Dalam Pemecahan Masalah Geometri, Risna Zulfa Musriroh, Erry Hidayanto, Rustanto Rahardi

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

Mathematical spatial reasoning is needed to solve geometric problems. This study aims to describe the mathematical spatial reasoning of perception, namely describing objects when their position changes and visualization, which is describing the material that builds objects. The research subjects consisted of 6 students of class VIII including 2 students with highly capable, 2 students with moderately capable, and 2 students with lowly capable. The results showed that the ability of mathematical spatial perception and visualization in problem solving, namely: highly capable subjects can imagine and draw objects, moderately capable subjects can imagine objects but have not been able to …

Developing Bilingual Pocket Book With Qr Codes And Infographics Features For Information Technology Lecturers And Staff, Faiz Ushbah Mubarok, Atiqah Nurul Asri

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

The rapid growth of international students from tertiary level has reached nearly 3 million since 2007. This condition comes from short-term and long-term mobility. Students coming from developed countries, such as Australia, North America and Western Europe, tend to choose short-term program. Meanwhile, pupils coming from Asian-Pacific countries prefer a lengthy extensive study in pursuing their education. The needs and demands of international students coming to this nation must be in line with the development of the universities or institutions inside. Since 2018, State Polytechnic of Malang has opened international classes for foreigners. This institution provides 9 classes for 9 …

Analisis Kebutuhan Terhadap Media Pembelajaran Dan Pemberian Scaffolding Dalam Pembelajaran Daring, Yuni Hafidha Arosyidah, Sa’Dun Akbar, Supriyono Koes Handayanto

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

Learning during the Covid-19 pandemic is done remotely so that it demands the use of digital technology. The study aims to analyze (1) the need for the use of online learning media, (2) the tendency of scaffolding students in completing tasks. The research conducted is descriptive quantitative with data obtained from surveys and literature studies of various literature. The results of the study showed that in online learning 79.5% of students are more interested in learning using computers. Student tendency in the form of video media by 40.2% and educational games by 31.6%. A total of 74.4% are motivated to …

Seeding Rate Effects On Forage Mass And Vegetation Dynamics Of Cool-Season Grass Sod Interseeded With Sorghum-Sudangrass, John A. Guretzky, D. D. Redfearn

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Interseeding annual warm-season grasses into perennial cool-season grasses has the potential to increase summer forage mass and nutritive value. Knowledge of how seeding rate affects annual warm-season grass establishment, forage mass, and vegetation dynamics remains limited. From 2016–2017, we conducted a field experiment evaluating the effects of seeding rates on sorghum-sudangrass (Sorghum bicolor x S. bicolor var. sudanense) density and forage mass and on the frequency of occurrence of plant species in cool-season grass sod in Lincoln, NE. The experiment had a completely randomized design consisting of six replicates of four seeding rates [0, 14, 28, and 35 …

The Role Of Decorin And Biglycan Signaling In Tumorigenesis, Valentina Diehl, Lisa Sophie Huber, Jonel Trebicka, Malgorzata Wygrecka, Renato V. Iozzo, Liliana Schaefer

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

The complex and adaptive nature of malignant neoplasm constitute a major challenge for the development of effective anti-oncogenic therapies. Emerging evidence has uncovered the pivotal functions exerted by the small leucine-rich proteoglycans, decorin and biglycan, in affecting tumor growth and progression. In their soluble forms, decorin and biglycan act as powerful signaling molecules. By receptor-mediated signal transduction, both proteoglycans modulate key processes vital for tumor initiation and progression, such as autophagy, inflammation, cell-cycle, apoptosis, and angiogenesis. Despite of their structural homology, these two proteoglycans interact with distinct cell surface receptors and thus modulate distinct signaling pathways that ultimately affect cancer …

Evaluation Of Noninvasive Biomarkers In Staging Of Hepatitis B-Related Fibrosis, Rasha Salih, Hedef Elyasin, Raghad Al-Akayshee

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

BACKGROUND: Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a public health problem worldwide; it is the main cause of fibrosis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).  Early detection of significant fibrosis is essential for reaching antiviral therapy decisions. Considering the limitations of liver biopsy, noninvasive methods to identify significant fibrosis in chronically HBV infected patients are needed in clinical practice. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the performance of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) to platelet ratio index (APRI) and fibrosis index based on four factors (FIB-4) as simple noninvasive markers for staging of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B in comparison with liver biopsy and …

Prevalence And Severity Of Stress Among Under Graduate Medical Students After Application Of Integrated Curriculum In University Of Kufa. A Comparative Cross Sectional Study, Ghufran Abd-Ali, Salam Mohammed

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

BACKGROUND: Stress is a process by which the environmental demands are more than the adaptive capability of                   a human leading to biological and psychological changes that make the individuals at risk for disorders. Medical students experience elevated stress level throughout their medical school life, and more liable to psychological distress and mental health problems than non-medical students, so that, stressors that confront medical students should be identified early for enabling interventions before development of more serious complications like burnout and depression. OBJECTIVE: Measure stress level among medical students of Kufa and Jabir ibn Hayyan medical colleges by using Kessler10 Psychological …

Risk Factors For Transient Tachypnea Of The Newborn In Full Term Neonates, Akrem Atrushi, Nibras Qaqos

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

BACKGROUND: Transient tachypnea of the newborn (TTN) is a condition characterized by tachypnea that develops shortly after birth but resolves within 2 to 5 days. TTN has been reported to occur more frequently in Caesarean delivery, maternal sedation, perinatal asphyxia, maternal asthma, and birth of male infants. AIM OF THE STUDY: To assess the risk factors for transient tachypnea of newborn in Duhok. METHODS: This study included 100 cases with TTN and 100 controls who are full term neonates without any respiratory problems. All participants were chosen from deliveries in Maternity Hospital in Duhok from Nov. 2018 till Nov. 2019. …

Evaluation Of Predictive Value Of Placental Alpha Microglobulin-1 Compared To Fetal Fibronectin In Symptomatic Preterm Delivery, Gul Abbas Awchi, Ayla Ghalib

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

BACKGROUND: Placental alpha microglobulin-1 (PAMG-1) is an important biomarker for the detection of preterm labor and premature rupture of fetal membrane, also fetal fibronectin leak observed into the vagina if                        a preterm delivery is likely to occur and can be measured by a screening test. OBJECTIVE: To compare the rapid bedside test for (placental alpha microglobulin-1) with the instrumented fetal fibronectin test for prediction of imminent spontaneous preterm delivery among women with symptoms of preterm labor. PATIENT AND METHODS: A prospective observational study, it included 86 pregnant women between 24 – 35 weeks of gestation with singleton pregnancy, viable fetus, …

The Use Of Faricimab For The Treatment Of Wet Age Related Macular Degeneration (Amd) And Diabetic Macular Edema (Dme), Najah Mohammad

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Changes In The Nerve Conduction Of The Paretic Limb In Post-Stroke Patients, Basmah Ali, Zahraa Eldon Ismaeel, Mohammed Mohammed, Farqad Hamdan, Aqeel Hatim

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

BACKGROUND: Post-stroke motor sequelae can lead to an abnormal limb posture and decreased function that can ultimately increase the susceptibility of the peripheral nerves in that limb to compression, particularly within the early stages of stroke. OBJECTIVE: To study nerve conduction in paretic and non-paretic extremity in patients with the first ever-one stroke and to relate these parameters with MRC (Medical Research Council) scale. METHODS: Twenty-three patients aged 31-62 years and duration of illness of 3 and 6 months were studied. Thirteen had right hemiparesis and 10 with left hemiparesis. MRC scale was ≥3 in 17 and <2 in 6 patients. RESULTS: The median and peroneal distal motor latencies (DML) were prolonged and the peroneal compound muscle action potential (CMAP) amplitude was reduced in the paretic as compared to the non-paretic side. The combined sensory index and the lumbrical/interosseous muscles comparison methods revealed significant differences between the paretic as compared to the non-paretic side. Median distal sensory latency (DSL), DML, motor conduction velocity (MCV), and peroneal CMAP amplitude of the paretic limb were significantly different between those with ≥3 and those with <2 MRC scale. In the non-paretic upper limbs, the DSL and DML were significantly prolonged in those with <2 MRC when compared to those with ≥3 MRC. CONCLUSION: Post-stroke entrapment neuropathy may develop, along with axonal neuropathy symptoms in patients with severe paresis. The more severely affected limbs, the more severe electrophysiologic changes.