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Recovery Network Awareness: A Training Guide To Help Clients Choose An Aftercare Program For Sobriety, Thomas Bosek

Dissertations, Theses, and Projects

Abstract

Recovery environments are a crucial role in any individual’s journey to achieve sobriety. A safe environment will allow people who have a history of substance use to work their program effectively and decrease their relapse potential. The purpose of this paper is to identify multiple recovery-based programs for new professionals and providers entering the field of substance abuse treatment that allow their clients to have the best opportunity to succeed with their personal goals. The main programs discussed in this paper include 12 step programs, SMART Recovery, Harm reduction, and Medication Assisted Therapy. Choosing the right program for clients …

Student Success While Incorporating Cooperative Learning In The 6th Grade Classroom, Jacob Johnson

Dissertations, Theses, and Projects

The purpose of this study is to examine the positive impacts of cooperative learning in the classroom. I will be intentionally teaching skills to enhance cooperative learning throughout the duration of the study. The methods of cooperative learning that will be used will be as follows: positive interdependence, individual accountability, interpersonal skills, face to face promotive interaction, and processing out. This study took place within a 6th grade classroom with three different sections of students. The data that was collected showed that students who learned in the cooperative learning setting had a higher percentage of students fully understanding the material, …

Phage Commander, An Application For Rapid Gene Identification In Bacteriophage Genomes Using Multiple Programs, Matt Lazeriff, Geordie Ryder, Sarah L. Harris, Philippos K. Tsourkas

Computer Science Faculty Research

The number of sequenced bacteriophage genomes is growing at an exponential rate. The majority of sequenced bacteriophage genomes are annotated by one or more of several freely available gene identification programs (Glimmer, GeneMark, RAST, Prodigal, etc.). No program has been shown to consistently outperform the others; thus, the choice of which program to use is not obvious. We present the Phage Commander application for rapid identification of bacteriophage genes using multiple gene identification programs. Phage Commander runs a bacteriophage genome sequence through nine gene identification programs (and an additional program for identification of tRNAs) and integrates the results within a …

Mutations In A Barley Cytochrome P450 Gene Enhances Pathogen Induced Programmed Cell Death And Cutin Layer Instability, Gazala Ameen, Shyam Solanki, Lauren Sager-Bittara, Jonathan Richards, Prabin Tamang, Timothy L. Friesen, Robert S. Brueggeman

Faculty Publications

Disease lesion mimic mutants (DLMMs) are characterized by the spontaneous development of necrotic spots with various phenotypes designated as necrotic (nec) mutants in barley. The nec mutants were traditionally considered to have aberrant regulation of programmed cell death (PCD) pathways, which have roles in plant immunity and development. Most barley nec3 mutants express cream to orange necrotic lesions contrasting them from typical spontaneous DLMMs that develop dark pigmented lesions indicative of serotonin/phenolics deposition. Barley nec3 mutants grown under sterile conditions did not exhibit necrotic phenotypes until inoculated with adapted pathogens, suggesting that they are not typical DLMMs. The F2 progeny …

Pushing It To The Limit: Determining Asian Elephant (Elephas Maximus) Olfactory Sensitivity And Discrimination Through A Behavioral Choice Task, Matthew S. Rudolph

Theses and Dissertations

Elephants have shown remarkable olfactory capabilities. Their sense of smell impacts their foraging choices, behavior, and ultimately, survival. Being able to detect a target odor can allow elephants to locate specific resources, identify threats, and find receptive conspecifics. Previous studies have shown that elephants can consistently detect target odors, but have not identified the limits of this detection. Thus, to investigate the extent of elephants’ odor detection capabilities, we tested Asian elephants in a two-step odor discrimination task. First, we investigated whether elephants could detect odors at varying levels of dilution after a training procedure, and then whether they could …

The Influence Of Comorbid Gad On Er Utilization In Urban Youth With Asthma, David A. Karpe

Theses and Dissertations

Current literature indicates a strong association between asthma and the early onset of comorbid generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in minors and their primary caregivers. Studies show that asthma prevalence increases with certain demographic factors, such as ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and housing quality. Evidence also suggests that GAD influences decision-making, especially when deciding to utilize emergency room (ER) services for asthma-related concerns. This study analyzed the effect of comorbid GAD on minors with asthma and ER utilization. The data were provided by an earlier Stress & Justice Study (S&J) baseline survey, an investigation aimed at understanding the impact of parental criminal …

Blended Language Learning: The Decision-Making Process In Designing A Blended Portuguese Course, Camellia Hill

Theses and Dissertations

This study identifies how content specialists, instructors, and instructional designers made decisions about what content to teach in person and what to teach online for a second year Portuguese university course. Qualitative vignettes around three course design participants highlight emergent themes and course artifacts from their interviews that show how they made decisions about what learning opportunities to do online and what to leave in person. The blended language course involved Canvas learning management system with two additional main technology tools used in development: GoReact and H5P. The results are subdivided to reflect the views of the instructional designer, the …

A Peer Feedback Process To Improve Assistant Nurse Manager Job Satisfaction, Juanita A. Jularbal-Walton

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects

Problem

Healthcare organizations offer different methods of training for emerging and newly hired Assistant Nurse Managers (ANM). Without sufficient orientation to what the role requires, new ANMs receive many requests without adequate guidance on how to respond to patient, staff, and leadership requests. This experience creates unhealthy work environments with low job satisfaction and high turnover rates.

Context

Peer feedback provides an opportunity to reflect on the purpose of the Assistant Nurse Manager role. With sufficient orientation and peer feedback, front-line assistant nurse managers develop competency and role satisfaction, as evidenced by reduced turnover and improved retention.

Intervention

This project …

Can Man, Dalton G. Lambert Jr

University of New Orleans Thesis Films

CAN MAN tells the story of a man tasked with identifying a room full of unlabeled cans without opening them. I explore the challenges of making a film with the production guidelines set forth during the COVID-19 pandemic and how it impacted the final film. I also discuss all that I've learned in the past five years I spent studying in the UNO Film and Theatre Department.

2021-December-16-Mentoring Researchers, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – (Dec. 16, 2021) Four East Tennessee State University faculty members have been chosen as the newest participants in the Faculty Research Mentoring Cohort.

This is the second year ETSU has offered the program which provides opportunities for faculty to build their skills and knowledge in designing research investigations and advancing their research agenda. The initiative is sponsored by ETSU’s Office of Planning and Decision Support, the Provost’s Office and the Applied Social Research Laboratory.

Members of the 2021-22 cohort are:

Dr. Patricia A. Harnois-Church, an assistant professor in the ETSU College of Nursing and …

The Impact Of Motown Drummers In Popular Music, Estevan A. Barrientez

Recital Papers

The Impact of Motown Drummers in Popular Music

Restoring Polyhyrdoxybutyrate (Phb) Depolymerase Expression In A Bald Mutant Of Streptomyces Sp. Sfb5a, Youmna Moawad

Honors Projects

Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a biodegradable, plastic-like polymer produced by some bacteria and degraded by others. The filamentous bacterium Streptomyces sp. SFB5A degrades PHB for growth using an extracellular PHB depolymerase, encoded by the phaZ gene. A morphological mutant of this bacterium, bld4, cannot form aerial filaments and cannot produce PHB depolymerase, despite having the phaZ gene. The inability to synthesize PHB depolymerase may be due to a mutation in a gene encoding one of its transcriptional regulators. A gene (lrp) coding for a potential transcriptional regulator is located 2,700 base pairs upstream from phaZ. Our goal …

Population Ecology Of The Queensnake (Regina Septemvittata) In An Urban Creek, 2008 To 2019, Rachel Beiler, R. Elliot Miller, Norman Reichenbach

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Habitat fragmentation is a common result of urbanization and species living in these fragments are at risk of extirpation. We conducted a 12-y (2008–2019) capture-mark-recapture study on snakes living in a 593-m section of Rock Castle Creek flowing through an urban area in central Virginia, USA. Our study site was occupied primarily by Queensnakes (Regina septemvittata). We used data from 168 individual Queensnakes to examine several aspects of their population ecology including survival rates (0.52), reproductive effort (21.3% juvenile to adult ratio), growth rates (68% and 30.6% increase for 1 to 2 y-old and 2 to 3+ y-old snakes, respectively), …

An Open Source Direct Messaging And Enhanced Recommendation System For Yioop, Aniruddha Dinesh Mallya

Master's Projects

Recommendation systems and direct messaging systems are two popular components of web portals. A recommendation system is an information filtering system that seeks to predict the "rating" or "preference" a user would give to an item and a direct messaging system allows private communication between users of any platform. Yioop, is an open source, PHP search engine and web portal that can be configured to allow users to create discussion groups, blogs, wikis etc.

In this project, we expanded on Yioop’s group system so that every user now has a personal group. Personal groups were then used to add user …

Carrier Systems On Overhead Power Lines., Mohamed Mohamed Tantawy, Reda El-Dewieny

Mansoura Engineering Journal

This paper presents a comprehensive study into the application of carrier systems to overhead power transmission lines. The use of carrier systems for the purpose of telemetering as well as in protection schemes, is discussed. Different coupling methods are illustrated and a comparison is included.

Prediction Of E.M.F. Variation Due To Shifting The Resultant Field In Dwr Synchronous Generator., Hassan Abou-Tabl

Mansoura Engineering Journal

In this paper the e.m.f. equation of an idealized synchronous generator, having a divided-winding-rotor, is derived. The equationis obtained in two alternative forms whereby the effect of shifting the resultant field around the rotor on the sinusoidal induced e.m.f. can be approached. Shifting the resultant field axis from its original diraction results actually in considerable distortion in the resultant no – load m.m.f. distribution. This distortion affects the induced e.m.f. , as exhibited by the measured values on machine model . A comparative study of the results, obtained by applying the method of harmonic analysis to the different m.m.f. waveforms …

Control Of Hvdc Bridges Under Light Load Conditions., E. El-Konyaly, Youssif Abed, Mahmoud Kandil

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The performance of a HVDC transmission system under light load conditions is investigated. Two types of control schemes are used , namely constant igintion delay and constant power factor. The study has been carried out as a digital simulation. An algorithm is designed to arrive at the results. It has been shown that a reactive power is needed to reduce the over voltages induced across the bridges. This reactive power requires more switching operation in case of ignition delay angle however smaller in magnitude than in case of power factor angle. It has been advised that for reliability of operations …

Sensitivity Of System Reliability Indices To Forecasted Load Uncertainty., Mohamed Mohamed Tantawy

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The paper presents a comprehensive analysis for the affect of forecasted peak load uncertainty on power system reliability . The uncertainty is described by a normal distribution and the forecasted load is represented by its mean and standard deviation . Equations for the loss of load expectation and variance in terms of peak load uncertainty are given. These equations are distinguished by simplicity and low computer time required for computations. Senstivity analysis for the reliability indices due to finite changes in system loading is introduced.

Solar Energy Conversion., Youssif Abed, Mohamed Mohamed Tantawy

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The paper presents a survey for the methods of generating the electric energy from the solar energy , These methods are devided according to the influence of incident light on the different materials into direct and indirect methods. In the first , the solar energy is converted directly to electricity by means of solar cells , without any byproducts and without any moving parts. The indirect conversion of solar energy into electricity is done through intermediate stage , such as thermal , mechanical and chemical . Each of these methods is discussed in details and comparison between them is done …

Experimental Investigation Of Leakage Current In Power Cables Under Different Operating Conditions., Youssif Abed

Mansoura Engineering Journal

This paper reports an expermintal investigation into the effect of different factors on the leakage current in power cables. The leakage current of different cables was studied using installed cables under actual operating conditions and also cable samples in HV-laboratory under well-controlled conditions. The results obtained showed that, the leakage current in any power cable depends on many factors, including the value and type of the applied voltage, time of voltage application, cable type and construction, and the type of the surrounding soil and its resistivity. These results showed also that leakage current in power cables can be considered as …

A New Criterion For Fluoroquinolone-Associated Disability Diagnosis: Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, Deanna N. Cannizzaro, Lydia F. Naughton, Maya Z. Freeman, Linda Martin, Charles L. Bennett M.D., Ph.D., Cecilia Bove

Faculty Publications

Background and Objectives: Fluoroquinolones (FQs) are a broad-spectrum class of antibiotics routinely prescribed for common bacterial infections despite recent recommendations to use them only for life-threatening cases. In addition to their antimicrobial properties, FQs act in the central nervous system as GABAA receptor inhibitors, which could potentially affect functionality of the vagus nerve at the forefront of gastrointestinal (GI) tract function. Alterations in neural control of digestion have been shown to be linked to Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (FGIDs), which are usually diagnosed based on self-reported symptoms. The aim of this study was to assess the incidence of FGIDs following FQ …

Unh Research Amidst Covid-19 Finds Leadership Style May Impact Crisis Outcomes, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

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Effects Of Catharanthine On Dopamine Release In The Nucleus Accumbens And Ethanol Consumption, Emily Baldwin

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis discusses the history of catharanthine and related compounds, and their potential anti-addictive properties. Current research is exploring possible mechanisms of these properties. Past studies have found catharanthine has effects on neurons that project to the mesocorticolimbic system, an area implicated in addiction. We have seen that catharanthine decreases evoked dopamine (DA) release but increases basal DA release. This is the first study to investigate catharanthine’s effect on DA transmission in vivo. Using microdialysis, we determined the effect of catharanthine on DA in the nucleus accumbens of the striatum. This study determines the effect of different doses of …

Author Deepened Understanding Of Feminist Theories: A Blog Post, Monica De Leon-Sanchez

Feminist & Queer Praxis

This blog post was written for WSU Academic Blog, which showcases the exciting and challenging work WSU students do.

Wgss Program Shaped Alum’S Passion For Activism: A Blog Post, Rae Peter

Feminist & Queer Praxis

This blog post was written for the WSU Academic Blog, which showcases the exciting and challenging work WSU students do.

College Of Health Professions News, Georgia Southern University

College of Health Professions: News & Publications (2012-2023)

• Two Graduate Programs Receive National Ranking
• Waters Professors and Waters Faculty Fellows Announced
• Clinical Internship/ Practicum Experience Update

The Connection Between Pre-Literacy Development And Parent Use Of Strategies, Jhay-Lah Kennell

Honors Projects

The topic of this senior project is to research and develop strategies that parents of preschoolers can use to facilitate development of pre-literacy skills. The outcome will be a set of facilitation strategies embedded in a children's book focusing on phonological awareness skills. Additional, the book includes a method for training parents to use strategies to help their child(ren) develop skills regarding rhyming and blending. The book will be annotated with the specific parent coaching ideas. Overall, the children's book will include a developmentally appropriate storyline with underpinnings of the rhyming and blending skills of phonological awareness. The book will …

Molecular Mechanisms Of Aberrant Protein Glycosylation In Pancreatic Cancer Stemness And Metastasis, Frank Leon

Theses & Dissertations

A myriad of genetic and other abnormal changes underlies the aggressiveness and dissemination properties observed in pancreatic cancer (PC). Aberrant protein glycosylation is a commonly observed feature in PC. The modification of protein O-glycosylation is mediated by glycosyltransferases, which attach and sequentially elongate monosaccharides on Serine/Threonine (Ser/Thr) motifs. Aberrant glycosylation is recognized as an emerging hallmark of cancer where a disruption in normal glycosylation results in irregular O-glycans.

This dissertation research has investigated the consequences of aberrant protein glycosylation on stemness and enhancement of metastatic properties in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Several publications have reported aberrant O-glycosylation increases in oncogenic …

Comparing Macroinvertebrate Total Abundance And Total Biomass On Five Substrate Types From Upstream To Downstream On The North Branch Of The Au Sable River, Paul David Dingman

Masters Theses

The North Branch of the Au Sable River is located in the northern lower peninsula of Michigan and is known for prolific hatches of Ephemeroptera (mayflies), Trichoptera (caddisflies), and Plecoptera (stoneflies). Macroinvertebrates play an important role in processing and recycling organic material in rivers and are a valuable food source for trout. In 2018, anglers were reporting catching fewer numbers of brook and brown trout (Salmo trutta and Salvelinus fontinalis). The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) determined significantly lower abundance than the historical average. We hypothesized that trout abundances were lower due to a lack of prey …

Student Pharmacists’ Emotional Responses And Coping During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Hannah E. Johnson, Deaundre Bumpass, Aric Schadler, Jeffrey Cain

Journal of Wellness

Introduction: Health professions students, including student pharmacists, have been impacted by the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19 pandemic) as schools have transitioned to remote learning and cancelled milestone events. During times of crises, media consumption and hobby participation also impact well-being. The adverse emotional responses and coping strategies of student pharmacists amidst the COVID-19 pandemic have not been evaluated, nor have factors that may contribute to emotional responses. The purpose of this study is to determine Doctor of Pharmacy students’ emotional responses and coping precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the influence of media use, working status, and participation in hobbies. …