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TBI with Persistent Cognitive, Visual, and Emotional Challenges of a 24 Year Old College Graduate
Get PDF24-year-old female experienced a fall and was diagnosed with TBI and is experiencing cognitive and emotional challenges. These effects have lasted a year, despite undergoing multiple treatments and therapies. The patient experiences a lightheaded sensation early in the morning, feeling faint once she gets out of bed, chronic fatigue, and persistent anxiety. The patient continues to move through the grieving process of the injury. A TBI is a Traumatic Brain Injury that occurs when the brain is violently shaken or when there is a blow to the head and causes damage. Due to the damage of the brain, patients may experience problems that involve cognitive, emotional, behavioral, mood, whole body, visual, and speech. The most common symptoms that can occur within hours may be headaches, light sensitivity, noise sensitivity, difficulty concentrating, and confusion. A patient may experience delayed onset of symptoms. The goal of this case study is to look at the longterm effects of a TBI, as well as how it affects the patient’s activities of daily living
Calibration of OpenSim Lifting Full-Body Model for Dynamic Simulations of Patient-handling Maneuvers
Get PDFManual patient-handling tasks are associated with lower-back pain and injury. Computational musculoskeletal models may determine forces on the low back, trunk muscle activation during these tasks, and provide insight on how these may result in injury. There are no publicly available models for these tasks. To determine the appropriateness of the OpenSim Full-Body Lifting Model for these tasks, this project calibrated the model with biomechanical data of simulated maneuvers performed by a test subject. Thirty-nine reflective markers were placed bilaterally on bony prominences (forehead, back of head, clavicle, sternum, C7, T10, epicondyle of humerus, styloid process, metacarpal, anterior and posterior iliac crests, calcaneus, toe, upper arm, forearm, thigh, and shank). Ten electromyography (EMG) sensors were attached to the bilateral external obliques, rectus abdominis, thoracic and lumbar erector spinae, and rectus femoris. The subject performed three maneuvers 15 times while standing on two force plates: a twisting motion at the hips, a one arm raise, and a shallow squat. Kinematic data were collected at 100Hz, and EMG and force plate data at 1000Hz. The kinematic and kinetic data were applied to the model to scale and perform inverse kinematics and dynamics. It is recommended that the maximum marker errors be between 2 and 4 centimeters for inverse kinematics and about 2 centimeters for scaling. However, the acceptable error may vary by application. In our trials the maximum errors for inverse kinematics varied between 1 and 10 centimeters. During a lifting trial, the left forehead marker was the only marker with high error. Since that marker is mainly important for scaling, a high error in inverse kinematics shouldn’t affect the simulation predictions; so our calibration procedure ignores high errors from non-essential markers. Our calibration procedure will provide a framework for evaluating simulated results and the feasibility of the model for patient-handling tasks
The Anchor: Fall 2021, Issue II
Get PDFThe Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular
The Anchor: Fall 2021, Issue III
Get PDFThe Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular
Strength & Honor: Sigma Sigma Selects
Get PDFA poster advertising a pop-up exhibition held March 23-27, 2021. Artworks were selected by Hope College\u27s Sigma Sigma Sorority in celebration of Women\u27s History Month.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/kam_poster/1041/thumbnail.jp
Maternal Provision of Mother\u27s Milk and Birth Trauma in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Grounded Theory Analysis
Get PDFLess than half of very low birth weight (VLBW, \u3c 1500 grams) infants are discharged from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) receiving mother’s own milk (MOM), despite its demonstrated importance. Nevertheless, few studies have explored the impact of maternal perceived trauma (MPT) on infant feeding outcomes. The purpose of this study is to describe MPT among mothers of hospitalized VLBW infants and examine infant feeding outcomes with MPT. This analysis is derived from a grounded theory study exploring the maternal provision of milk among a convenience sample of mothers with VLBW infants at a Midwest NICU. This study utilized semi-structured interviews and content analysis to identify common themes (n=30). Data were analyzed using Dedoose, web-based data management and analytical software. A preliminary analysis identified trauma as a prominent theme. Trauma was defined as a mother’s perceived inability to process an experience at the time of the event, a lack of understanding during the time of an event, and the rapid decline of either maternal or infant health. The occurrence of MPT (n=865) was reported most frequently in women described as Black (46%), multipara (57%), married (75%), and ages \u3e 30 (57%). The MPT frequency was greater with cesarean (54%) and hypertensive (71%) births. The MPT frequency with MOM was 63%, but only 23% with exclusive MOM at discharge. This study’s limitations include using a single hospital location and only English-speaking mothers, making the results less generalizable. Additionally, the interviewer’s Latina racial identity may have led to a sense of kinship with some mothers. A better understanding of MPT and those at risk for MPT will allow providers the opportunity to identify interventions to increase MOM feedings at discharge proactively
Dia de los Muertos at the Kruizenga Art Museum
Get PDFA poster advertising a Dia de los Muertos event on Friday, October 29, 2021, hosted by the Kruizenga Art Museum and Hope College Latino Student Organization (LSO).https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/kam_poster/1050/thumbnail.jp
Population, Politics and Power: An Investigation into the Tribal Systems Governing Nigeria’s Democracy after the 1967 Civil War
Get PDFNigeria is the most populous Black nation in the world but economically underperforming relative to its huge natural resources. The country’s interesting history is a by-product of numerous forces that moved across Africa and Europe starting in the 18th century. The 1967 civil war that divided Nigeria was inspired by the tribal grievances created by British Colonizers. It was fought for economic reasons. The Nigerian state could not allow Biafra to successfully secede as most of the revenue-generating oil wells were located in the South-Eastern part of the country(known as Biafra during the war). The underlying tensions that led to the civil war played a big part in the systematic marginalization of the Igbo people which has continued to put the entire country at economic disadvantage. The secessionist state of Biafra, the atrocities committed by the state of Nigeria during the civil war and ethnic grievances are topics that surface frequently in the nation’s current political climate.
I interviewed my father, Dr. Peter Ogudoro, a respected Nigerian educationist who shared how his family has suffered painful disadvantages as a result of the war. His family was forced to leave everything they had and flee from the Northern part of the country because people of Igbo descent were being massacred. Dr Ogudoro’s family later settled in their ancestral home in the South-Eastern part of the country (known as Biafra during the war) but were forced to the very bottom of the economic and social ladder because they had lost all their economic capital. Dr. Ogudoro and some other highly respected Nigerians are using their social platforms to preach ethnic reconciliation in pursuit of national progress. The civil war and its implications for Nigeria are important because of the country’s strategic place in Africa and the larger global community. This genocide and conflict can help other nations to understand the need for stong and unified political insitutions. The war also serves as a reminder that the legacy of colonization does not end after the colonizers have left. Nigeria’s road to recovery, however, serves as proof that progress is possible and can be viewed as a beam of hope for other countries in similar situations
Democratic Development in Africa
Get PDFThe last three decades have seen states in Africa, alongside states around the world, experiment with democracy to varying degrees. Scholarship on the successes and struggle among these democratic attempts suggest certain factors influence the transitions to and consolidation of democracy. These factors include structural and contingent factors, national vs. international factors, and economic vs. political factors. Yet there are still unknown influences on democracy. My research seeks to understand the call for democracy and the reasons why some citizens are pro-democracy and others aren’t, what neopatrimonialism is and the implications that it has on society. Lastly, understand how informal policies affect the nation and the many Africans who are fighting for democracy
Understanding Moral Foundations: Gender, Politics, and Religion Within a Sample of First Year Pre-health Students
Get PDFAll individuals have a sense of what actions are moral or immoral, even without specifically deliberating about decisions. Prior research has shown that moral foundations theory is helpful in understanding variations in moral sentiments within a population. These moral foundations consist of five domains: harm, fairness, in-group/loyalty, authority, and purity/sanctity. For this research project, we looked into how respondents’ religious affiliation, gender, and political ideology affected their core moral foundations. We sent an electronic questionnaire to college freshman who indicated an interest in a health related studies or profession from an initial survey they took before beginning college. Results show that the most consistent relationship is with more liberal political ideologies. More liberal political ideology was positively related with fairness and negatively related with every other moral foundation except harm. It would also be interesting to situate students’ within a family context and get similar responses from parents regarding their religious affiliation, church attendance, and political ideology since these are incoming college freshman