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The Effects Of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (Ecmo) On Auditory Brainstem Responses (Abr) In Neonates, Staci Earnest

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper presents a study of the effects of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) on the auditory brainstem response (ABR) of twenty-three neonates, and whether there was asymmetric ABRs in the neonates who had ECMO.

The Effects Of Phonological And Semantic Priming In Speech Production, Lynne Whitmel Shields

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper is a review of experiments to investigate the influence of experimental task, level of processing, and time course in speech production via the priming paradigm.

Promoting Social Skills In Hearing Impaired Children Ages 11 - 14, Roxanna Thoma

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper presents a project teaching social skills to hearing-impaired children ages 11 to 14. Three categories of social skills are included - sportsmanship, sharing, and cooperating – and are practiced by means of recreational and leisure activities and through role plays.

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Administration Documents

The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

• Balyeat, Douglas. Expectations Gap: Where Were the Auditors?
• Brown, Kaye. Larry McMurtry: Saddle Up or Leave the Old West Behind
• Fridy, Geraldine. Stephen Crane's Maggie. Another Example of Patriarchal Misogyny?
• Hazelwood, Shirley and Kay Redfern. Effectiveness of Psychosocial rehabilitation Programs: Do They Make a Difference in the Re-hospitalization of the Mentally Ill?
• Johnson, Sean. Effects of Time-out as a Procedure to Decrease Maladaptive Behavior
• Leibering, Elisa, Michelle Nye and LauraLee Wilson. Euthanasia: Legal, …

Measurement Of Distortion Product Emissions In Chinchilllas, Syed Ahmed

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper is a review of a study on distortion product emissions in normal hearing chinchillas.

Twelve Sequence Stories For Use As Part Of Reading Curriculum For Deaf Children, Amy Mcdonald

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses the use of sight vocabulary drills, experience and sequence stories, pre-primers, basal readers and text books as part of a reading curriculum for hearing-impaired children.

Meaningful Use Of Speech Scale: Application To Orally Educated Hearing-Impaired Children, Jillian Crosson

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses a study to determine whether the use of meaningful speech in everyday situations is independent of a cochlear implant.

Development Of A Social Studies Unit On World Geography Written At A Third Grade Reading Level, Sharron E. Potts

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses a curriculum for teaching world geography at a third grade level.

Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions, Ahmed El-Fouly

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper reviews spontaneous otoacoustic emissions.

Applicability Of The Test Of Visual Perceptual Abilities (Tvpa) In Diagnosing Learning Disabilities In Hearing-Impaired Children, Deborah Tubbs

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper studies the validity of the Test of Visual Perceptual Abilities (TVPA) as an indicator of learning problems in hearing-impaired children and how it correlates with other measures of learning disabilities.

Activities Development For 2 Word Combinations On Pre-Sentence Level Tags, Lisa Vandenheuvel

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper presents activities to assist teachers of hearing impaired students to develop 2-word combinations for use in instruction in conjunction with the Teacher Assessment of Grammatical Structures Pre-Sentence Level (TAGS-P). The paper presents activity procedures and materials to guide teachers in teaching 2-word combinations.

Sn10: Reliability And Validity, Jennifer Marie Taylor

Independent Studies and Capstones

This study discusses a study to assess reliability and validity of the 500 Hz SN10 for adult, non-sedated patients.

Evaluation Technique Designed To Investigate The Efficacy Of A Group Communication-Based Aural Rehabilitation Program For Hearing-Impaired Adults, Elizabeth Anne Yancey

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper studies aural rehabilitation efforts designed to address the compensatory strategies used by hearing-impaired adults and evaluates the success of an eight week group communications-based therapy program.

Evaluation Of A Feedback Equalization Algorithm In The Cid Wearable Digital Hearing Aid, Douglas J. Wood

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper describes the results of an investigation which examined the efficacy of a feedback equalization algorithm incorporated into the Central Institute for the Deaf Wearable Digital Hearing Aid. The study examined whether the feedback equalization would allow for greater usable gains when subjects listened to soft speech signals, and if so, whether or not this would improve speech intelligibility.

Monóxido De Carbono: Amenaza Para La Salud Pública, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Ua60/5/1 Scrapbook, Junior American Dental Hygienist's Association

Student Organizations

Scrapbook documenting 1991-1992 of the Junior American Dental Hygienist's Association at WKU. People included in the scrapbook are: Angela Compton, Stefanie Howell, Aimee Ingram, Dana Lokey, Sandy Meador, Tracey O’Steen, Jacque Parker, Shelly Rasbury, Angela Reece, Mary Riley, Rebecca Roberts, Tracy Ross, Lang Taing, Melissa Taylor, Amy Watkins, Carey Woosnam, Rebecca Loge, Susan Stephenson and Betty Badger.

General Index To Research Notes For: A History Of Blacks In Kentucky, Part Ii, Marion B. Lucas

Kentucky History

This index, general in nature, is organized under seventeen larger topics:

• Camp Nelson
• Slavery
• Slave Hiring
• Free Blacks
• Underground Railroad - Fugitives
• Post-Civil War Living Conditions
• Society & Culture - Medical Care
• Professions - Employment
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Civil Rights
• Politics
• Recreation
• Population
• Segregation- Changes in the 1890s
• Civil War
• Education
• Religion

Under these general headings, there are numerous subtopics. The research notes are numbered and presented in numerical order, and they are searchable by note numbers, names, dates, events, and topics (occasional hand-written numbers may not appear in searches). There are no missing notes, but there are occasional missing numbers, …

Finding Hiv-Infected Women - The Clinician's Role, Mary Guinan

School of Public Health Faculty Research

An estimated 100,000 women are currently infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the United States, and a great majority of them are unaware of their condition. Approximately 20,000 HIV-infected women were identified through publicly funded HIV screening programs in 1989 and 1990, and an unknown number through private screening. Because most HIV-infected women are believed to be in the lower socioeconomic strata, it is unlikely that a significant number were identified in the private sector. Therefore, up to 80% of HIV-positive women may not know they are infected.

The Ethical Judgment Of Animal Research, Shelley L. Galvin, Harold A. Herzog

Experimentation Collection

One hundred sixty subjects acted as members of a hypothetical Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and evaluated five proposals in which animals were to be used for research or educational purposes. They were asked to approve or reject the proposals and to indicate what factors were important in reaching their ethical decisions. Gender and differences in personal moral philosophy were related to approval decisions. The reasons given for the decisions fell into three main categories: metacognitive statements, factors related to the animal, and factors related to the design of the experiment.

The Creation Of Transgenic Animal “Models” For Human Genetic Disease, Bernard Rollin

Biomedicine and Animal Models in Research Collection

Transgenic animals will be created to study human genetic disease as soon as the technological capability exists to do so. Extant laws permit such animals to be created. The mindset of the research community makes it inevitable. It is also clear that such diseases can cause enormous amounts of pain and suffering. Responsible researchers need to explore all possible avenues for controlling such pain and suffering. Thus far the research community has not engaged this issue vis a vis animals. The development of methodologies for controlling pain and suffering is likely to be exportable to numerous areas of animal research, …

Transmission Of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 From A Seronegative Organ And Tissue Donor, R.J. Simonds , M.D., Scott D. Holmberg M.D., M.P.H., Richard L. Hurwitz , M.D., Theresa R. Coleman , B.A., Scott Bottenfield , R.N., Lois J. Conley , M.T., M.P.H., Sherry H. Kohlenberg , M.H.A., Kenneth G. Castro , M.D., Beverley A. Dahan , B.A., Charles A. Schable , M.S., Mark A. Rayfield , Ph.D., Martha F. Rogers , M.D.

Health Administration Publications

Abstract

BACKGROUND

Since 1985, donors of organs or tissues for transplantation in the United States have been screened for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), and more than 60,000 organs and 1 million tissues have been transplanted. We describe a case of transmission of HIV-1 by transplantation of organs and tissues procured between the time the donor became infected and the appearance of antibodies. The donor was a 22-year-old man who died 32 hours after a gunshot wound; he had no known risk factors for HIV-1 infection and was seronegative.

METHODS

We reviewed the processing and distribution of all the …

Reproductive Characteristics Of Rodent Assemblages In Cultivated Regions Of Central Argentina, James N. Mills, Barbara A. Ellis, Kelly T. Mckee, Julio I. Maiztegui, James E. Childs

Zoonotics and Wildlife Disease: Publications

Small mammals were trapped for 2 years at 16 localities on the central-Argentine pampa. Six species (Akodon azarae, Calomys musculinus, C. laucha, Bolomys obscurus, Oligory-zomys flavescens and Mus musculus) accounted for >95% of captures. The major breeding season, as assessed by pregnancies, was September or October through April or May. Mild weather in late autumn and winter of the second season resulted in a relatively longer breeding season during the 2nd year of the study. Females of all six species comprised significantly 50% of captures during the height of the breeding season. For most species, there was …

Family Physicians, Chiropractors, And Back Pain, Peter Curtis, Geoffrey M. Bove

Biomedical Sciences Faculty Publications

In this article, major aspects of back care provided to patients by family physicians and chiropractors are reviewed, and the recent guidelines on spinal manipulation therapy are discussed. These guidelines should be useful for family physicians wishing to refer patients to chiropractors.

Ua61/1 Wku Nursing Class 1992, Wku Nursing

WKU Administration Documents

Members of the 1992 nursing class: Stacy Avery, Kathy Baker, Mindi Bishop, Susan Blackburn, Victoria Broady, Beth Brock, Karin Cahill, Kelly Cahill, Lorna Cash, Andra Cummins, Martha Curtis, Diane Denton, Janella Dowd, Dana Edwards, Christa Frost, Darrell Fulcher, Sherry Gaddis, Stephanie Gerakas, Leanne Gilligan, Allison Guffy, Jerry Howard, Doyle Hunt, Wendy Jarrett, Kevin Korth, Candace Lamberth, Barry Monroe, Jennifer Perkins, Deanna Pollock, Julia Pounds, Melissa Robinson, Laura Roenker, Stephanie Samuels, Christy Sipes, Candy Staples-Wilson, Missy Steckler, Jennifer Taylor, Karren Wilkerson, Shari Wohl and Linda Yeager.

Ua60/5 Wku Dental Hygiene Class Of 1992, Wku Dental Hygiene

WKU Administration Documents

Members of the 1992 dental hygiene class: Mary Riley, Tracy Ross, Rebecca Loge, Tracy O'Steen, Angela Compton, Aimee Ingram, Dana Lokey, Lang Taing, Melissa Taylor, Amy Watkins, Carey Woosnam, Jacqueline Parker, Angela Reece, Stefanie Howell, Susan Stephenson, Sandy Meador and Kelly Boyd.

Relationship Between Anxiety, Self-Confidence, And Evaluation Of Coaching Behaviors, Laura J. Kenow, Jean M. Williams

Faculty Publications

Two experiments examined Smoll and Smith's (1989) model of leadership behaviors in sport. The coaching behaviors of a male head coach of a collegiate women's basketball team (n=11 players) were examined. The data supported competitive trait anxiety as an individual-difference variable that mediates athletes' perception and evaluation of coaching behaviors. There also was support for adding athletes' state cognitive anxiety, state self-confidence and perception of the coach's cognitive anxiety to the model as individual-difference variables. Athletes who scored high in trait anxiety (p<.001) and state cognitive anxiety (p<.05) and low in state self-confidence (p<.05), and athletes who perceived the coach as high in state cognitive anxiety (p<.001), evaluated coaching behavior more negatively. Game outcome may influence the effect of self-confidence in mediating athletes' perception and evaluation of coaching behaviors. Additionally, athletes perceived several specific coaching behaviors more negatively than did the coach, and athletes drastically overestimated their coach's self-reported pregame cognitive and somatic anxiety and underestimated his self-confidence. Overall, the results suggest that coaches should be more supportive and less negative with high anxious and low self-confident athletes.

Measuring Airborne Alpha Radioactivity, Greg Taft

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

This project develops alpha spectroscopy to measure the airborne concentrations of attached and unattached radon progeny. The system is designed and constructed to be used in homes, thus is portable, fast, and easy to use.

Revival Of Metabolism In Rehydrated Marasmius Oreades, Lorie J. Warren

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

Mushrooms from the genus Marasmius have the ability to revive -- viz., dried specimens regain their original shape when moistened. The purpose of this study was to determine if the basidiocarps are metabolically active upon revival or whether they simply absorb moisture like a sponge. The reduction of tetrazolium chloride to a red, water-insoluble formazan pigment was used as a measure of respiratory activity. Basidiocarp samples were incubated in a phosphate buffer containing 1% tetrasolium chloride. After a suitable period, the samples were extracted with MeOH to remove any formazan pigment and the absorbance measured at 530 nm. Fresh M. …

An Introduction To The Five-Factor Model And Its Applications, Robert R. Mccrae, Oliver P. John

United States Public Health Resources

The five-factor model of personality is a hierarchical organization of personality traits in terms of five basic dimensions: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience. Research using both natural language adjectives and theoretically based personality questionnaires supports the comprehensiveness of the model and its applicability across observers and cultures. This article summarizes the history of the model and its supporting evidence; discusses conceptions of the nature of the factors; and outlines an agenda for theorizing about the origins and operation of the factors. We argue that the model should prove useful both for individual assessment and for the elucidation …

Serological Cross-Reactions Between Escherichia Coli 0157 And Other Species Of The Genus Escherichia, Eugene W. Rice, Evangeline G. Sowers, Clifford H. Johnson, Michele E. Dunnigan, Nancy A. Strockbine, Stephen C. Edberg

United States Public Health Resources

The antigenic relatedness of Escherichia coli 0157 and four sorbitol-negative species of the genus Escherichia was examined. Isolates of Escherichia hermannii, E. fergusonii, E. vulneris, and E. blattae were tested in the tube agglutination assay by using polyclonal antisera and in the slide agglutination assay by using latex reagents. Only four isolates (17%) of E. hermannii exhibited serological cross-reactivity.