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A descriptive study of the implications of sleep hygiene and mental health in the Butler University student athlete
Get PDFIntroduction: There is ample research available regarding the bidirectional relationship between sleep and mental health, but not specifically within the collegiate student athlete population. The purpose of this study was to describe the sleep hygiene and perceived mental health within the Butler University student athlete population through the use of previously validated survey questionnaires. The study aimed to contribute to this growing field of research while also providing possible areas for improvement within this specific population. Methods: 92 total participants completed a 14-question survey which included the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), the 18-item Athlete Sleep Behavior Questionnaire (ASBQ), and the 8-item Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS). Results: Within the data there were significant correlations found between the ASBQ (sleep hygiene), ESS (daytime sleepiness), and GHQ-12 (mental health) scores for the Butler University student athlete population. Also, there were significant discrepancies between the GHQ-12 scores, ESS scores, and ASBQ global scores between the male and female student athlete populations. Conclusion: There are significant relationships between sleep hygiene, daytime sleepiness, and mental health as seen by these data, with greater emphasis being seen within the female student athletes. In correspondence to the significant data reported, there are many key areas that can be focused on in order to improve the overall health of the Butler University student population and in order to further explore this area of study
An Examination into Statistical Evaluations of Major League Baseball Coaches and Managers
Get PDFThis exploration attempts to create statistical procedure capable of defining and comparing a Major League Baseball Manager’s performance in respect to player development. Using a supervised learning method of multiple linear regression, we examine how improvements or deterioration of certain player skills predict an increase in runs scored in a season. Major League Baseball teams (N = 30) over the span of eight seasons since the beginning of the Statcast era in 2015 were evaluated on their ability to improve their team’s batters’ patience in selecting hittable balls, or pitch selection, and quality of contact with the baseball, and graded on how their team’s variation predicts either runs scored, or additional, more traditional offensive metrics that already have well established statistics and research into their run predictiveness. Given the millions of dollars spent on team Manager contracts a year, much less the hundreds of millions spent on player assets said Manager is responsible for developing, more research and data is needed to create more understandable metrics and analytics to better judge a manager’s performance
For Whom Does the Cue Transfer? Exploring the efficacy of congruent and incongruent identity-safety cues among sexual and gender minority women
Get PDFPersons with intersecting, marginalized identities encounter unique challenges in workplace settings and may avoid unsupportive professional spaces. Exposure to an identity safety cue (i.e., a signal indicating one\u27s identity is valued) can help attract marginalized persons to organizational environments. Past work suggests that identity safety cues congruent or incongruent with one\u27s marginalized identities can transfer across traditionally marginalized groups. However, the efficacy of incongruent identity safety cues had yet to be explored among individuals with multiply marginalized identities. The present work examined whether an incongruent identity safety cue, or a cue designed for a marginalized group incongruent with one\u27s identities, transferred and signaled identity safety (i.e., identity safety transfer) among sexual and gender minority white women. White, sexual and/or gender minority women viewed a fictitious organization\u27s website in which the presence and absence of a congruent and incongruent identity safety cue were manipulated in the organization\u27s diversity, equity, and inclusion message. Participants then responded to measures operationalizing their anticipated identity safety at the company: trust and comfort, organizational attraction, and organizational commitment. We found that both the congruent identity safety cue (i.e., the rainbow Pride flag) and the incongruent identity safety cue (i.e., the Black Lives Matter Flag) promoted greater identity safety relative to when either cue was absent. Our work provides preliminary support for the transfer of incongruent identity safety cues among multiply marginalized persons
Anantanand Rambachan. Path ways to Hindu-Christian Dialogue. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2022, xii+158 pages.
Get PDFWork It Women!
Get PDF“Work it Women!” covers various topics surrounding women in the workplace. The zine begins with a note from the authors, followed by a brief history of women in the workplace. Throughout the entire zine, there are historic facts, examples of successful women in the specific topics presented in the zine, and an overall theme of theme encouragement. The goal with this zine is to educate the reader on what women in the workplace experience, but not to discourage the reader from wanting to be a successful woman.https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/spring_2023/1003/thumbnail.jp
War Emissions, Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, and Just War Theory
Get PDFThe Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, has already caused large amounts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and will continue to do so for many years after hostilities have ceased mainly because of the emissions linked to the rebuilding of destroyed or damaged housing, public buildings, infrastructure, factories, and the like. My aim in this paper is to discuss how in a time of climate emergency such emissions of war should impact the political morality of states initiating, continuing, and ending war (through a just and enduring peace) as understood by just war theory (JWT). My point of departure is a study by Lennard de Klerk and six co-authors detailing the emissions of the first year of the Russo-Ukrainian war
The Effects of COVID-19-Induced Stress, Anxiety, and Depression on the Eating Behavior of College Women
Get PDFIncreases in the prevalence of disordered eating patterns have been linked to distress and poor mental well-being. Additionally, COVID-19 has been linked to both depressive and anxious symptomatology, along with increased feelings of distress (Fitzpatrick et al., 2020). Because disordered eating is particularly prevalent among college-age women, this study sought to determine how depression, anxiety, and stress affect eating behaviors of college women in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. One hundred seventy-nine women, aged 18–24, at Butler University gave informed consent before completing a questionnaire pertaining to their demographics, their stress surrounding COVID, and their weight change since March 2020. The next set of questionnaires asked about their anxiety, stress, and depression, as well as their eating behaviors at the time they were completing the survey (September–December 2021) and during the COVID-19 lockdown period (March–August 2020). Depression, anxiety, and stress were significantly higher during COVID-19 than during the fall of 2021, but college-age women reported more restraint in their eating at the time of the study. No overall differences emerged in uncontrolled or emotional eating across the two time points. In correlational analyses, depression and anxiety during COVID-19 correlated with both uncontrolled and emotional eating (depression also correlated with cognitive restraint). Although change in self-reported stress levels across time did not predict changes in disordered eating, improvements in depression and anxiety from Spring 2020 to Fall 2021 correlated with less emotional eating across time. Together, these findings reinforce past research showing that college-age women are a particularly vulnerable population during times of crisis
Almost 30 Years Later: Anti-Femicide Activism in Mexico from 1993 to 2022
Get PDFWhat factors have influenced the strategies of the anti-femicide social movement, and what has this movement accomplished after continuously advocating for almost 30 years? Analyzing news articles, scholarly journals, books on social movements, and Twitter accounts, I argue that the inaction of the government was a root cause of the movement’s change in strategies, from peaceful petitions to highly visible vandalism, and that institutional barriers prevent progress on this issue even in the current day. I demonstrate that transnational activism through international institutions such as the United Nations had a limited impact on effecting domestic change but that using social media to spread awareness of femicide as an issue was effective in promoting transnational solidarity. Finally, I argue that the anti-femicide movement had success in raising awareness of femicide and gaining legislation that criminalized femicide, even if femicide still remains a national issue. Analyzing the strategic shifts in the anti-femicide movement allows one to understand why social movements must adapt their strategies to the political opportunities they are faced with. Moreover, femicide is a global issue, and understanding the achievements and limitations of the movement can help other activist groups create their own strategies in their respective countries
Book Review: Inhaling Spirit: Harmonialism, Orientalism, and the Western Roots of Modern Yoga. By Anya P. Foxen.
Get PDFEasy NanoString nCounter data analysis with the NanoTube
Get PDFSummary: The NanoTube is an open-source pipeline that simplifies the processing, quality control, normalization and analysis of NanoString nCounter gene expression data. It is implemented in an extensible R library, which performs a variety of gene expression analysis techniques and contains additional functions for integration with other R libraries performing advanced NanoString analysis techniques. Additionally, the NanoTube web application is available as a simple tool for researchers without programming expertise.
Availability and implementation: The NanoTube R package is available on Bioconductor under the GPL-3 license (https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/NanoTube/). The R-Shiny application can be downloaded at https://github.com/calebclass/Shiny-NanoTube, or a simplified version of this application can be run on all major browsers, at https://research.butler.edu/nanotube/.
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Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online