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Receiving Notifications Influence on Studying
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to discover the influence simply receiving notifications on one’s phone with the sound alerts on, and not checking them, has on studying. A cellphone can act as significant distraction when a student is attempting to study. A study has shown that taking one’s phone away from them, however, causes anxiety and therefore can also impede a students’ learning (Rosen, 2017). This then made me curious how it can affect them if they make the choice not to use their phone but are still receiving notifications. Is the instant gratification our phones provide us too much to handle, even for studying? Another study found that 24% of people that partook in a self-report questionnaire, stated they feel as though they need to answer their phone, even if it is interrupting a meal or a meeting (Galvan et al. 2013). I wanted to take a closer look at how phone notifications effect a student when attempting to study for a quiz. The results of my study found that just hearing our phones go off while studying, does in fact still affect the success of studying. The best choice would be to alleviate the distraction of sounds from our phones while trying to study
Decreasing Polypharmacy in a Long-Term Care Setting with the Use of the STOPP Tool
Get PDFPolypharmacy is the use of five or more medications. Polypharmacy in older adults can increase fall risk, decrease quality of life, increase adverse reactions and cause a more rapid decline in cognitive function. A literature review revealed that there is benefit to a reduced number of medications taken in the older adult population. This quality improvement project was completed at a long-term care facility in Central Minnesota. The STOPP tool was implemented with the leadership team at the facility which included the Director of Nursing, nursing manager, the PIPP Grant team and the staff development nurse. The project provided education on the use of the Screening Tool of Older People’s Prescriptions (STOPP) with the goal of lowering the overall number of medications that were prescribed to residents in the facility. This screening tool assisted staff in determining unnecessary medications prescribed and aided in conversations with nursing staff and providers to help them determine which medications could be discontinued. The STOPP tool will be used by the leadership staff upon new resident admission to help determine the presence of unnecessary medications that will be reviewed by the provider to be considered for discontinuation
Humanity\u27s Addiction: A Comparison of the Enivornmental Impacts of Cane Sugar and Corn Syrup
Get PDFThe production of sugar has changed in the twenty-first century from natural cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup. In light of climate change, and creating a sustainable environment, which sweet substance is more sustainable while still being able to keep up with global sugar demand? Through the analysis of scholarly articles and books, the impacts these sweeteners have on the environment can be studied to generate a conclusion. Cane sugar and high-fructose corn syrup both produce large amount carbon emissions and degrade the environment, so the answer may be to produce and consume less sugar as a whole
Digital Possibilities: Digital Publishing
No full textPart of the Digital Technologies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference hosted by CSB/SJU Librarie
Reducing Heat in an Acoustic Levitation System
Get PDFAn acoustic levitator is able to levitate small particles, such as pieces of Styrofoam or water, by creating standing sound waves. The levitator produces a sound wave, which is then reflected back on itself by a reflector, creating the standing waves. These standing sound waves can be observed using schlieren optics. An LED point source light is sent through the air between the levitator and the reflector and reflected off a mirror towards a camera. In front of the camera is a small partition; if there is no disturbed air between the levitator and the reflector (no standing sound waves), the camera captures nothing, but if there is disturbed air (standing sound waves), the light is refracted by the disturbed air, misses the partition, and enters the camera, allowing the standing waves to be captured by the camera. In this experiment, the heat produced by the acoustic levitator would interfere with the capture of the standing waves as the heat waves would refract the light by a greater factor than the sound waves did. I had two objectives in this experiment; to reduce the heat in the acoustic levitator system and to observe how particles behaved when levitated by the acoustic levitator and reflected by different shapes of reflectors. I was able to significantly reduce the heat in the system by using Peltier cooling disks, while also being able to observe the behavior of pieces of Styrofoam as they were levitated by the levitator
Review of Essential Catholic Social Thought
Get PDFBernard V. Brady titles his textbook Essential Catholic Social Thought to indicate that his focus extends beyond documents of the Church’s magisterium, usually designated “Catholic social teaching” (CST), but his emphasis is on those documents nonetheless. I will comment on this book from my perspective as a teacher for twenty years of a course called “Catholic Social Teaching.” My course is addressed to upper-level undergraduates in a Catholic university and specifically to those majoring in international studies (though it is open to others), but I hope these comments will be helpful to anyone who is considering Brady’s book for teaching or learning Catholic social thought. Currently I use the full texts or excerpts from the texts of the official documents reprinted in O’Brien and Shannon’s Catholic Social Thought (2016), supplemented by chapters from Daniel Groody’s Globalization, Spirituality, and Justice (2015)
Review of Infected Kin: Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho
Get PDFIn the opening vignette, “A Story about Joala,” we readers are brought to the highlands of Lesotho to share homebrewed beer with brewers, research participants, and the authors. This experience of sharing a drink asks us to consider what it means to share in Lesotho, what the ties are that hold people together. Like the communal sharing of food, sharing joala is a defining social activity and as we learn throughout the ethnography, one that is important in the creation of kin. Indeed, this book is presented though a kinship-first perspective.
Using this framework and ground-up analytical methodology, Block and McGrath explore Basotho caregiving in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Uniquely, this ethnography is written by Block, an anthropologist, with contributions from her writer husband Will McGrath, who opens each chapter with a literary non-fiction vignette. These vignettes transform traditional anthropological fieldnotes allowing us novel insight into the orphans and caregivers, with whom they work. Using a critical biocultural approach, Block situates the epidemic within the political economy of Lesotho, tying the epidemic to the country’s history as a labor reserve for the South African diamond and gold mines. Care, she argues, is best understood through practice theory, where we see how kin networks are shaped by and shape the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The majority of caregivers are elderly women, notably maternal grandmothers, and they explore how these grandmothers both reinforce and resist patrilineal and patrilocal rules to care for orphaned grandchildren. She additionally provides a processual approach to understanding the creation of house and home as cultural symbols as well as explores medical pluralism in Mokhotlong
Meraki Senior Art Thesis Exhibition
Get PDFMeraki {verb.} [may-rah-kee]
(v.) to do something with soul, creativity, or love; to put something of yourself into your work