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Legends of Harmonia Cover/Title
No full textFlat of the title artwork for Legends of Harmonia, featuring ornate, hand-drawn ornamentation surrounding the game’s logo and subtitle, The Prophecy of the Guardians. This design serves as the primary cover and promotional poster for the project.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/etds_mfa_images/1147/thumbnail.jp
Revealing The Truth: Book View 4
No full textOpened booklet viewhttps://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/etds_mfa_images/1157/thumbnail.jp
Decreasing Burdensome Transitions in Hospice Care by Increasing Nursing Visits
Full text linkBackground: Burdensome transitions occur when hospice patients discontinue hospice services to seek hospital treatment, often disrupting end-of-life goals and creating distress for patients and caregivers. These transitions continue to rise throughout the country, highlighting the need for strategies to support patients in remaining at home throughout the dying process.
Purpose: This quality improvement project aimed to decrease hospital transitions by increasing nursing visits for hospice patients at high-risk for burdensome transitions.
Project Design: This quality improvement project used a Plan-Do-Study-Act methodology to form and implement an intervention to reduce burdensome transitions. Patients were already identified as low or high-risk through company-established protocols. Over ten weeks, any patient deemed high-risk was given at least three nursing visits weekly. The project data was collected and compared to ten-week periods in 2022 and 2023.
Results: Seventy patients were admitted and screened for risk status during the ten-week intervention period. Implementing three nursing visits per week for high-risk patients reduced burdensome transition rates to 6.2%, a decrease from 9.5% in 2022 and 11.4% in 2023.
Conclusion: These findings suggest that early risk identification and proactive intervention of increased nursing visits can reduce burdensome transition rates. Policy changes to reflect risk-based nursing frequency can reduce unnecessary hospitalizations for patients at the end-of-life
Twelfth Night | Image 16
No full textThis performance of Shakespeare\u27s Twelfth Night, set in 1915 in the United States against a background of jazz and a hurricane, was adapted and directed by Emily Duncan, with Carmine DiBiase as Dramaturg.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/shakespeare_proj_images/1125/thumbnail.jp
Twelfth Night | Image 18
No full textThis performance of Shakespeare\u27s Twelfth Night, set in 1915 in the United States against a background of jazz and a hurricane, was adapted and directed by Emily Duncan, with Carmine DiBiase as Dramaturg.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/shakespeare_proj_images/1127/thumbnail.jp
Graphic Design | Brittani Myers
Full text linkGraphic design entry for 2025 Student Symposiumhttps://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/ce_jsustudentsymp_2025/1074/thumbnail.jp
Transforming Healthcare with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Elderly Caregiving
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The increasing global elderly population necessitates efficient, personalized, and accessible healthcare solutions. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are revolutionizing elderly caregiving by enhancing disease diagnostics, treatment planning, remote monitoring, and health record management. These technologies improve healthcare efficiency, empower seniors, and support caregivers and medical professionals in delivering high-quality care.
However, the widespread adoption of AI in elderly healthcare faces significant challenges, including data privacy concerns, limited digital literacy among seniors, and the opaque nature of AI-driven decision-making. Addressing these barriers requires enhanced AI transparency, stronger privacy safeguards, and user-friendly interfaces to ensure that AI-powered healthcare remains trustworthy and accessible.
This review explores strategies to optimize AI’s role in elderly care, emphasizing the importance of a balanced AI-human caregiving model. By integrating AI as a supportive tool rather than a replacement, healthcare systems can maintain both technological precision and human empathy. The findings suggest that with responsible implementation and continued innovation, AI can reshape elderly caregiving—enhancing healthcare outcomes while preserving the ethical and compassionate aspects of senior care.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/ce_jsustudentsymp_2025/1068/thumbnail.jp
Energy Drinks: Safety, Efficacy, and Performance Implications
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Kids, teenagers, and athletes widely use energy drinks. However, how much benefit do they provide? Are they even safe to consume? Is it beneficial to stop at the gas station and grab a Red Bull on your way to the gym? The International Society of Sports Nutrition’s position regarding the ergogenic value of energy drinks (ED) and energy shots (ES) is based on several ED and ES studies. ED are widely used by populations who may not understand how to consume them to obtain the most benefit possible. Therefore, understanding the safety and efficacy of ED and ES is crucial to supporting the best outcome for athletes.
The recommendations\u27 main aspects include the impact of ED and ES on exercise performance, goal-specific consumption, and considerations for individuals with medical conditions. Key conclusions are as follows: ED and ES are known to contain combinations of nutrients aiming to improve mental and physical performance. However, caffeine is the primary ergogenic component, while the benefits of other nutrients remain inconclusive. Therefore, when considering how to add ED into their routine, caffeine should be considered the main aid to an athlete’s performance. Drinking an energy drink before exercise enhances increases alertness, attention, and endurance. However, moderation is essential since greater dosages might result in anxiety and irritation. Overconsumption also diminishes desired benefits. Even greater caution is advised for individuals with health conditions. They should avoid ED and ES consumption unless their physician has allowed it, as excessive or inappropriate usage might have detrimental consequences. Drinking an energy drink before lifting weights can also improve lifting volume during resistance training. It is important to note that the most substantial improvements in subjective measures were noticed with lower doses, sometimes even lower than the recommended intake. These improvements were reduced as doses were increased. Timing and dosage matter if you want to reap the most benefit from energy drinks. According to limited evidence, energy drinks with many calories can cause weight gain, whereas those with few calories do not influence weight reduction. Impacts over the long run are uncertain. Athletes should consider the large amounts of sugar in ED and its effect on blood glucose levels and metabolism. Children and teens should only consume energy drinks with parental guidance to avoid risks. Overconsumption or other abuse of ED or ES may lead to adverse effects at any age. If used correctly, energy drinks can improve performance, but their risks—like anxiety, sleep issues, and heart problems—make careful use essential, especially for younger or at-risk individuals.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/ce_jsustudentsymp_2025/1066/thumbnail.jp
Optimizing Nutritional Strategies for Physically Demanding Occupations: Enhancing Health and Performance in Tactical Athletes
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Energy and nutritional recommendations are based on work schedules, job demands, and environment, focusing on military personnel, law enforcement officers, and firefighters. Understanding these recommendations are crucial to reduce injury, disease, and mortality in these physically demanding occupations. Energy and nutritional demands in physically demanding occupations are influenced by specific stressors of tactile athletes, identifying tactile, environmental, cognitive, and metabolic stressors. Military personnel must address multiple physiological, cognitive, and environmental factors to meet their nutritional needs. Military personnel suffer from many physiological and energy expenditure demands. Further regarding load carriage, chronic sleep loss, environmental stressors and more impacts health and performance, which should be considered when developing nutritional guidelines to help ensure a successful mission. The supply and timing of sufficient amounts of energy, macronutrients, and micronutrients promote peak occupational performance outcomes and decrease risk of disease or injury. First responders have different physiological demands due to calls for response occur sporadically, meaning law enforcement officers or firefighters may shift from a sedentary state to a state that requires maximal physical exertion. Firefighters and law officers are more at risk for cancer, CVD, and other diseases compared to the general population due to exposure to various physiological, psychological, and environmental stressors along with long-term sleep deprivation. Chronic sleep deprivation adversely affects both mental and physical health. Law enforcement officers and firefighters’ specific energy needs are challenging to plan due to the unknown occupational tasks and increased energy demand from load carriage, PPE (personal protective equipment), and environmental factors. Due to all the occupational factors and stressors for firefighters and law officers, it is recommended that they actively take steps to improve their health. Other considerations listed in the article includes implementing wellness policies, supportive food environments, healthier food system suggestions, and using community assets to offer evidence-based nutrition classes that are affordable and meaningful to improve dietary habits. It is recommended that these tactile athletes should form and maintain a nutritious eating plan to optimize performance levels. The findings suggest that these tactile athletes work in distinctive environments that challenge them mentally and physically. These challenges highlight the need for targeted nutritional and hydration strategies. Further explaining hydration, PPE can decrease convection cooling currents along with the evaporative potential of the skin, therefore, these factors increase the rate of dehydration. Proper hydration and nutrition are critical for maintaining health and performance under occupational stressors. Customized nutrition and hydration are crucial for optimizing performance, mitigating health risks, and improving the general well-being of tactical athletes.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/ce_jsustudentsymp_2025/1062/thumbnail.jp