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Standing Posterior Trunk Rotation with Adaptive Proprioceptive Toss
Get PDFParkinson’s disease (PD) is a remarkably individualized disease. Nearly every person’s trajectory is unique. One person may experience tremor at an early stage of the disease, while another may experience tremor at a later stage or even not at all. For all PD patients, for certain can expect increasing difficulty as the disease progresses. Parkinson’s disease is responsible for the loss of dopamine which displays itself most notably through motor and cognitive symptom disruption. Although Parkinson’s is a chronic and progressive condition that is irremediable, significant strides have been facilitated to help control and manage the trajectory of the disease. Interventions such as medicine and physical exercise are the leading alternatives to coping with the advancements of PD. Early motor signs of PD include smaller hand tremors, changes in walking, reduced facial expressions, slowness of movement, and posture. A person will often display at least two of the four cardinal symptoms of tremor rigidity, bradykinesia, and postural instability. The present study was conducted to investigate the relationships between standing posture, trunk stability, recent falls with balance, gait, and trunk rotation among people. It was predicted that consistent, multiple events per week exercise procedures, including exposure to an accuracy-task procedure (ring-toss) will be associated with a reduced rate of motor symptoms progression. The investigation was determined to potentially reverse some of the well-known cardinal symptoms of PD. Participants (N= 10) completed pre-and- post balancing assessments (MiniBESTest and Force Plate) and a weekly balancing protocol (ring-toss). The current study examined the role of exercise in movement control, which demonstrated that consistent exercise regimens provided long-term bilateral and unilateral motor benefits. The implications of the findings, limitations, and future directions for research will be addressed
How’d They Make That?: Analyzing the Ingredients that Produce a Google Ngram Chart
Get PDFPreprint for chapter in Digital Humanities Cookbook, published by ACRL in 2024.
Chapter Abstract:
Google Ngram is an online tool that graphs the relative frequency of words or phrases that appear over time in the millions of books digitized by Google. It is often used by digital humanists to analyze the popularity of topics, to track the rise and fall of words throughout the ages, and to explain changes in culture and history. Google Ngram is free and requires very little training to use, making it a popular tool for many. It is astonishingly convenient. Anyone can create an Ngram chart in a matter of seconds. But what are we really getting?
This recipe takes a deep dive into how Google Ngrams work. We will explore how Google Ngram charts are produced, what factors influence the results, and what conclusions may be drawn from the output
Spirituality of Emerging Adulthood
Get PDFThis article synthesizes the research on emerging adulthood. After defining the term, this work explores the causes of this phenomenon, the demographic that constitutes it, and how those in this phase of life experience and express their spirituality. Among the significant issues for this demographic are their emotional and practical behaviors in response to the climate crisis
Work-Family Conflict and Burnout in Healthcare: A Qualitative Study
Get PDFWork-family conflict and burnout in the healthcare industry are significant problems resulting in cognitive, physical, and emotional challenges for healthcare workers and dangerous consequences for patient care. Due to the work-family conflict and burnout they experience, many healthcare workers are leaving the industry altogether. Most studies on work-family conflict and burnout focus on the hospital setting. However, it is estimated that likely more than a million healthcare workers work in the private practice setting. Consequently, this study’s problem is that little is known about how the private practice healthcare setting affects employees’ work-family conflict and burnout. The purpose of this qualitative multicase study was to gain a clear understanding of the role that organizational resources and flexible work-life balance policies, specifically in the private practice environment, play in contributing to or mitigating work-family conflict and burnout. This study had nine participants at six different private practices. Coding data from the semistructured interviews helped the following themes to emerge: dedication/loyalty, understaffed practice, employer flexibility, lacking in policies and procedures, and substandard fringe benefits. The researcher evaluated the themes and research questions using the conservation of resources theory as a theoretical lens through which the role of resources was addressed. Benefits and labor data were also used to evaluate interview data. The major findings were that the participants’ private practices were understaffed and did not provide sufficient fringe benefits, which negatively impacted participants’ work-family conflict and burnout. However, the private practice setting offered great flexibility, which many participants felt outweighed the negative consequences of missing resources
“Why Did You Do That?” A Teacher’s Quest to Finding a Solution to Social-Emotional Learning in a Transitional Classroom
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to explore what would happen when a mood board and social-emotional centers were implemented in a transitional first-grade classroom. The goal was to understand how the students would express themselves after receiving this learning and the student and teacher perceptions on social-emotional learning (SEL). Field notes were taken daily for observation when students used SEL language. Surveys and student and teacher interviews were conducted over a four-week span. These were coded using the constant comparative method, grouping together similar categories in the data to create 16 level 1 codes and five level 2 codes. The study found that there were major differences in the boys’ perceptions of sharing big feelings than the girls. It also found that the students held their personal value highly in receiving the classroom reward incentives and tied a lot of their own emotions to their family\u27s wellbeing
Harry Potter and the Immersive Space: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
Get PDFThe ability of humans to share stories has changed over time. From myths shared around a campfire to the introduction of cinema, we can now tell massive, immersive stories on an epic scale. One example of this is the storytelling present in theme parks. Present-day theme parks are continuously growing and expanding each year both in size and attendance. The continued success of these theme parks and the rhetorical influences of their audiences is a cultural phenomenon that deserves rhetorical scrutiny. My analysis looks at how one theme park, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida, immerses guests into the stories that they are telling in an attempt to understand the success of this park. I analyze these narratives through Joseph Campbell’s vision of a monomyth or hero’s journey, arguing that the Wizarding World of Harry Potter uses the hero’s journey narrative structure to send guests on their own immersive “journey.” With a lens of constitutive rhetoric, I argue that various spaces in the park hail audiences and interpellate them into different roles throughout the park, immersing them into the story and reducing their chances of opting out. My analysis reveals one possible way that theme parks use narratives to immerse audiences, thereby leading to the park’s desired rhetorical effects
