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Title: The Ethical Dilemma of Marketing Sports and Energy Drinks as Healthy Despite Containing Unhealthy Ingredients
No full textThis study aims to understand the influence of package design on the public perception of so-called “healthy” sports and energy drinks despite their inclusion of harmful ingredients. With health-conscious consumerism on the rise, the accuracy and transparency of packaging design and labeling should be prioritized. Therefore, this study aims to best answer the following question; Is it ethically justifiable for companies to communicate products as “healthy”; through packaging design when their actual health impact is comparable to less healthy alternatives?
This study will utilize the concept of triangulation through the following methodologies: demographics and questionnaires, contextual inquiries, and a communications audit. Quantitative data will be gathered through demographics and questionnaires to gauge consumer trust and purchasing behaviors influenced by “healthy”; packaging. The contextual inquiry will examine consumer perceptions and attitudes towards product labeling and health claims. A communications audit will be used to better understand what a company is saying about its health benefits, to its consumers, and how they are making health claims through their packaging design.
After the data has been collected, a comprehensive review will be completed. The outcome of this study will help designers understand the ethical role their work plays on the public’s perception of so-called “healthy” energy drinks and other similar products
How Color Affects Cultural Branding
No full textColor is a powerful tool for branding and plays a giant role in design. Studying how color affects customers through emotions can impact production sales. Corporations must think strategically when expanding internationally, as some cultures perceive colors differently. This presentation explores how color in branding affects the Middle East, Asia, and the general American cultures.
As I conduct this research, I plan to use three tactics to gather the data needed to answer the questions of color theory in brands. A questionnaire will investigate emotional appeal to specific colors and ask questions relating to color culture. Self-ethnography will be used to study the visual language from different cultures in brands and how I react to the color schemes. Color psychology will study the true meanings behind colors in different cultures and how that can affect brands.
I hope to showcase, through this data, how emotional responses to color can change depending on your culture and how this can either harm or benefit brands. My presentation showcases the interplay between color, culture, and branding, emphasizing the significant influences of color on consumer purchasing behaviors and emotional responses. The data presented can influence marketers and designers’ decisions among the use of color for multinational companies
Smart Infusion Pump\u27s Impact on Safe Medication Administration
No full textProblem: There are over 100,000 reported medication errors in the United States each year (Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, 2019). Smart technology has been created in hopes of improving medication administration in the clinical setting. An example of this technology is the smart infusion pump. Do these new pumps truly reduce medication errors or do they cause more problems than they fix?
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to determine if smart infusion pumps are more effective compared to traditional infusion methods in reducing intravenous medication errors in the clinical setting.
Methods: A mixed-methods retrospective design is used in this study. Intravenous medication error percentages from both Mercy Health St. Rita’s Hospital and St. Rita’s Home Health will be calculated. Mercy Health St. Rita’s Hospital utilizes smart infusion pump technology while St. Rita’s Home Health does not. These percentages will then be compared, and the cause of the errors will be determined.
Conclusion: According to previous research, smart infusion pumps reduce medication errors but are not perfect. There is a need to improve upon this smart technology to further reduce medication errors. This researcher believes this study will confirm that smart infusion pumps are a safer option in IV medication administration
A Quantitative Look at the Impact of Inclusivity and Belonging on Nursing Student Organizations
No full textProblem: Since 2018, college student retention rates have declined to 61.1%. With a national shortage of nurses, nursing schools are seeking ways to improve retention rates. Research shows that there is a relation between improving satisfaction and improved retention, yet there is little evidence on how to improve satisfaction. When nursing students feel like they belong and are included in programs, their satisfaction increases. Involvement in student nursing organizations may be one method to increase belonging and inclusion.
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to compare nursing student perceptions of inclusivity and belonging prior to and following involvement in nursing student organizations.
Methods: A quasi-experimental design was used for this project. Nursing students enrolled at a rural university during the 2023-2024 school year completed a pre-survey. The survey used a 5-point likert scale and participants were asked questions regarding their feelings of belonging and inclusion in the nursing program. Based on the pre-survey results, activities were planned and implemented for two different nursing student organizations. After implementing the activities, nursing students completed a post-survey to measure feelings of belonging and inclusion of the nursing students in the organizations.
Results: Preliminary results indicate a significant finding that membership in one nursing organization over the other did influence belonging and inclusion. Post-survey results are currently being analyzed.
Conclusion: Through involvement in nursing organizations, students gain a sense of belonging and inclusion in the nursing program which will ultimately help retention rates and prepare students for professional careers
Breaking the Silence: A study on public perception of sexual exploitation
No full textPublic opinion has always been an influencing factor in our day-to-day lives. As society constantly changes around us, our perception of others is becoming more impactful and persuasive. This comes from the innovation of current technology ranging from the early 2000s to the current year 2024 where social media has now become a staple of our lives. It decides how we act, how we appear, and how we think, and when relating to others it can be nasty. Victims of tragedies are usually at the top of the list as everyone usually wants a say in whether they are truly victims. While the study is still in progress, this research project aims to examine public opinion toward state policies that provide services to victims of sexual exploitation and will present an overall plan of action going forward. This research will use quantitative methods via qualtrics survey distribution using probability sampling to obtain important data on policy approval. Results will be compared visually through histograms and scatter plots. Also, Crosstab Analysis, Pearson\u27s R, and the Chi-Square will be used in the data collection presented through Excel. My research project will provide substantial contributions to the awareness projects surrounding sexual exploitation. The goal is to identify policies that the public can support the most after presenting several questions regarding different kinds of services provided by the state. Also, my research will allow me to understand what policies are the most hurtful toward victims of sexual exploitation. This research can be used to help teach uninformed members of disenfranchised communities about exploitation and how to prevent it from happening to them
AI and the Future of Work: Legal Perspectives on Disability Acommodation and Employment Equity
Get PDFTDMA Algorithm for General EH WSN
No full textEnergy harvesting (EH) technology has big potential to be used in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It allows networks to have more freedom with how they are set up, due to the lack of the wired power restriction. EH technology presents a few issues that are unsolved by current network algorithms. The biggest one is energy reliability. EH technology cannot consistently generate significant amounts of power, so nodes must be very energy efficient. When energy is not available, the nodes will stop functioning. This causes nodes to lose track of time and data. If that node is the only node forwarding that data, it is lost. Additionally, if the node transmits when gaining enough power, it has a high likelihood of colliding with another node, wasting power. To solve these problems, we propose a TDMA algorithm for general EH WSNs. We allow nodes to listen to each other to get time, allowing the network to recover after a partial power outage. As long as one node in a branch has energy, that branch can recover. Furthermore, if the branches are interconnected into a web, this allows one node to revive the whole network. Additionally, data can propagate from one to multiple nodes, which adds reliability to the data transfer from many hop nodes. Another issue is clock drift, which also leads to collisions. To solve this, we observe the overlap between transmit times. When it becomes an issue, we resync the network. This allows us to resync the network less often, increasing the amount of data collected
Transgender Health Therapeutics Module
No full textBackground: Transgender patients pose a challenge to healthcare professionals who have received no training in this specific patient population. With guidelines driven largely by patient goals and satisfaction, clinicians need to listen intently to how their patients feel and include their patient in making decisions about their care. The majority of pharmacy students do not receive a comprehensive education on transgender healthcare, if this underserved population is addressed in the curriculum at all. Objective: To fill in the gaps in pharmacy curriculum to cover transgender healthcare on an elective basis for students who feel this knowledge area is important to their comprehensive education. Methods: At the conclusion of this project, a sixteen-week course will be outlined with assignments and knowledge assessments to create practice-ready, competent PharmD candidates to improve the accessibility of transgender care. Students who complete this course will have met learning objectives covering medication therapy, the types and stages of transition that people experience, and auxiliary healthcare services transgender patients may need. Further Directions: This course curriculum is still in the development process. A next step will be to begin testing out the curriculum in a classroom. Opening the curriculum to the academic community will allow the greatest impact on the most students. A limitation of this work is that no students have been through the course at this time
An Evaluation of the Permissibility of Property Damage for the Environment
No full textThere is no widely-accepted framework in environmental ethics for evaluating the justifiably of activism that causes property damage for the sake of the environment (hereafter, PDFE). However, many activists continue to take the law into their own hands in their fight for justice. In this paper, I devised a framework that can be used to determine if a case of PDFE is morally permissible, and I apply this framework to two real cases of activism. According to my framework, there are four principles that help us determine when PDFE is morally permissible. Those principles are as follows:
Principle 1: causing harm is permissible in some scenarios
Principle 2: harm caused cannot be unnecessary
Principle 3: objective risks of harm must be minimized
Principle 4: harm can only be performed if it yields a net positive expected effectiveness
After presenting my framework, I justify each principle using a thought experiment inspired by Ivar Hardman’s (pseudonym) In Defense of Direct Action involving a hypothetically kidnapped boy. My paper also presents and addresses objections including virtuous person (virtue ethics), objective vs subjective, and utilitarianism arguments