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COVID Issues Facing Nursing: Past and Future of Vaccinations
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic began in December of 2019 in Wuhan, China. The development of this disease has swept over the world, causing our everyday lives to change. To learn how to handle pandemics today we must reflect on our past. In 1918 the H1N1 Flu pandemic broke out and was believed to come from military personnel. This pandemic affected 500 million people, during this time no vaccinations or antibiotics were developed to help those who were infected. Treatment was geared towards non-pharmaceutical intervention such as isolation, quarantine, good personal hygiene, use of disinfectants, and limiting public gatherings. These similar interventions have been implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic before a vaccination was founded. The annual flu vaccination was established to help protect against one of the four strands. In a similar fashion COVID vaccinations have been established as well as boosters to aid in protection against the virus. Reflecting on our history of previous pandemics has helped to lay the framework in which to handle COVID-19
Eigenwaves
No full textBy representing audio information as a many-dimensional vector, it is possible to derive the characteristic eigenvectors of this audio through data manipulation techniques. From these “eigenwaves”, sounds can be identified or created. The identification of audio waves using eigenwaves has the potential to be useful in many practical applications ranging from human voice recognition to the creation of authentic-sounding computer-generated voices. Some limitations of the proposed method also will be described
The Role of Occupational Therapy Practitioners in School-Aged Youth Literacy
No full textSince the passage of the IDEA Act in 1975, pediatric occupational therapists have been working to improve children’s literacy skills. From the sensory-based assessment and interventions of Ayres (1972) to the Occupations of Reading Practice Model created by Grajo and Chandler (2017), the field of occupational therapy has come a long way in understanding how to treat children with deficits in reading, writing, and other forms of communication. The goal of our study was to understand how occupational therapists are currently working with school-aged youth concerning their literacy skills. Six databases were searched using terms related to occupational therapy and literacy in school-aged youth. Inclusion criteria for the articles included occupational therapist/occupational therapy assistant/occupational therapy, a target age range of k-12, a publication range between 1975 through the present, and published in the English language. Seventy-nine percent of the results occurred between 2006 to present. Sixty-one articles met the inclusion criteria; after removing systematic reviews and meta-analyses, forty-six articles were analyzed for this study. The thematic analysis revealed that occupational therapy practitioners are addressing factors related to perception, vision, and cognition with school-aged youth. The occupational therapy practitioners mainly assessed skills such as handwriting. The commonly used assessments were the Minnesota Handwriting Test and the Evaluation Tool of Children’s Handwriting Manuscript
Students With Disabilities and the Benefits of Visual Arts
No full textVisual Arts have been around for decades, however, recently the arts have been removed from many schools. Within my research I am looking at the way that art benefits students with disabilities through social skills, transitioning through life, and providing an outlet. I also want to look at which art materials are the best and most helpful for students with disabilities. With my research I plan on using a survey that will be handed out to the aides, Multiple Handicapped (MH) Unit teachers and the art teacher. This research will help provide a guide toward changes in students with disabilities from no art in 5th grade to art in 6th, 7th and 8th grade as well as tell me how art benefits students with disabilities. This research is important, bceause it is important to understand that art is beneficial in many ways especially in a time when the visual arts are being taken out of schools
Building Nice Cities: Analysis of Resource Allocation Grids
No full textWhat is the best way to allocate resources in a fixed area where it is possible to have too few or too many in some unit of area? Problems of this nature often can be modeled with a grid composed of tiles that have a scoring system related to the quantity of that tile in each row and column. The arrangements that result in the highest score are a combination of the arrangements that maximize the score for each individual tile. We describe a one-player problem-solving game based on these principles and show that the methods can be applied to a broad range of scenarios, such as seating arrangements or city planning
Mental Health and Education Staff Perspectives of Occupational Functioning of Adjudicated Youth with a History of Substance Use
No full textThis mixed-methods study investigated occupational functioning of court-involved youth with a history or risk of substance use from the perspectives of mental health and education staff within a rural, Mid-western county. The study is a component of an ongoing needs assessment to inform future program development for the target population. The survey participants represented a convenience sample of mental health staff and education staff working with the population of interest within the rural Mid- western county. The results indicated similarities in the common life stressors among youth with a history or risk of substance use, including trauma and a lack of parent or guardian supervision. Additionally, the participants of both surveys reported a lack of parental support and appropriate social engagement as barriers to occupational functioning. Findings were consistent with established literature and provide insight for program development targeting the population of interest
Latency Benefits using the Behavior Momentum Theory
No full textFor students with disabilities, it can be challenging to start on a task immediately after receiving the instructions. Behavioral momentum is a proposed solution to this problem. By utilizing the behavioral momentum theory, having students go from easier to perform tasks, to more difficult tasks, has not only been shown to improve latency, but also grades. This study utilized an AB single-case research design to examine the effects of behavioral momentum on latency in starting a task strategy for a 5th-grade student with EBD in a rural school in Southern Ohio. Results showed a greater than 50% decrease in the time it took the student to start on work. Following the intervention, the time it took for the student to on his work decreased by 53%
Dissolutional micro-textures of carbonate rocks
No full textThe micro-textures of a variety of karstic rocks that developed pre- and post- dissolution in laboratory experiments were investigated. The micro-textures were examined using a Scanning Electron Microscope. The purpose of this research is to determine what, if anything is being dissolved out of the rock preferentially. In doing so, this allows us to better understand the rate at which karstic rocks are dissolving and determine what features will remain in the rock after dissolution has occurred—this research has implications for the global carbon budget and karst development
An Examination of Student Achievement in Algebra I Inclusion Classes that use Short-Cycle Formative Assessments
Get PDFMotivating Struggling Readers
No full textThe purpose of this study is to look into how one can motivate struggling readers. Focusing on how teachers can motivate struggling readers that are in higher education, high school, why is motivation lacking, why are they behind and how can one bring them up to the desired reading level. There is information swarming the internet about the importance of reading and a student\u27s reading level with a focus only on younger aged students. Something is missing and that is the emphasis on higher education students. This paper will be studying factors that have come into play that have created the result of a students reading level, reading alternatives that will motivate and drive a students desire to read, and motivators educators can use. With the information collected I hope that there can start to be more awareness brought to the deficit in high school readers and what educators can do to find ways to keep students on track and motivated in their reading specifically