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Noises Off (2024) | Image 009
No full textPerformed 19-22 April 2024; Michael Frayn\u27s Noises Off is a British farce of theatrical accidents, from mishaps onstage and backstage to script and casting flaws, and even direction and management. The play was directed by Carolyn Conover. Grayson Singleton was stage manager and Semaje Newton and Skylee Vaughn were assistant stage managers. Access to this digital image was provided by JSU Photographic Services.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/productions_images/12295/thumbnail.jp
Noises Off (2024) | Image 013
No full textPerformed 19-22 April 2024; Michael Frayn\u27s Noises Off is a British farce of theatrical accidents, from mishaps onstage and backstage to script and casting flaws, and even direction and management. The play was directed by Carolyn Conover. Grayson Singleton was stage manager and Semaje Newton and Skylee Vaughn were assistant stage managers. Access to this digital image was provided by JSU Photographic Services.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/productions_images/12299/thumbnail.jp
Noises Off (2024) | Image 036
No full textPerformed 19-22 April 2024; Michael Frayn\u27s Noises Off is a British farce of theatrical accidents, from mishaps onstage and backstage to script and casting flaws, and even direction and management. The play was directed by Carolyn Conover. Grayson Singleton was stage manager and Semaje Newton and Skylee Vaughn were assistant stage managers. Access to this digital image was provided by JSU Photographic Services.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/productions_images/12322/thumbnail.jp
Historical Alabamiana: Finding Aid
Full text linkThis collection is comprised of items related to the State of Alabama. The items are in a variety of formats, including pamphlets, brochures, clippings, postcards, correspondence, magazines, and more. These items run the gamut as far as their content and have been organized roughly by category. The items originated with the Library’s vertical file, which was culled and the majority of items discarded in 2020. Items related to Alabama and items deemed of significant historical interest were retained and added to the Library’s Special Collections. The vertical file’s original contents date back to JSU’s time as a Normal School; it appears items were added up until at least the 1990s
Strengthening Medication Adherence in African Americans Diagnosed with Hypertension
Full text linkBackground: African Americans have a high rate of hypertension, which varies by region. Additionally, African Americans struggle to understand the risks of uncontrolled high blood pressure and the necessity of medication adherence in lowering strokes, heart attacks, and quality of life.
Purpose: The project aims to implement a patient education program to improve medication adherence and blood pressure control for African American patients in a primary care setting.
Methods: Twenty African Americans ages 18–65 with hypertension (130/80 mm Hg or above) and six months of nonadherence participated in this project. The pre-, mid-, and post-questionnaires assessed medication adherence and blood pressure control over six weeks using the Hill-Bone High Blood Pressure Scale. The American Heart Association toolkit was used for hypertension education.
Results: The Wilcoxon-Signed Rank Test compared median responses to the Hill-Bone Compliance to High Blood Pressure Therapy Scale at the study’s midpoint and endpoint, indicating a notable shift in medication adherence or lifestyle. The Kruskal-Wallis test found no significant changes in systolic blood pressure readings following the intervention.
Conclusion: Though not statistically significant, the project was clinically significant in that improvement was noted in medication adherence. Several limitations must be considered, including a small sample size and a short duration of time
Reducing No-Show Rates in an Outpatient GI Endoscopy Lab
Full text linkBackground: Patients who do not attend their scheduled appointments cost the healthcare industry approximately $150 billion annually. They are at higher risk of missed diagnoses, delay in care, and increased morbidity and mortality.
Purpose: This quality improvement project aimed to determine the effectiveness of serial reminders using phone calls and electronic messaging to reduce no-shows for patients scheduled for gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy.
Methods: No-show data was retroactively analyzed from June 2023 to December 2023 and compared to post-implementation data from February 2024 to March 2024. For eight weeks, a trained staff team called patients scheduled for endoscopic procedures seven days before the procedure. Reminders were sent via electronic messaging three days before scheduled procedures. One day prior to the procedure, the pre-admission testing team made live calls.
Results: During the eight-week intervention period, the no-show rate was reduced from 2.78% to 0.41%. A two-tailed z-score was used to calculate the statistical significance for the two population proportions. The value of z was calculated at 3.1785, and the p value=0.00148, revealing significance at p\u3c0.05.
Conclusion: The project results were statistically significant, further supporting the efficacy of the intervention. The data emphasizes the importance of implementing a targeted strategy, such as serial reminders, to mitigate appointment no-shows and cancellations, ultimately enhancing healthcare service delivery and patient outcomes
The Relationship Between Changing Land Cover and Benthic Macroinvertebrate Diversity in Choccolocco Creek, Northeast Alabama
Full text linkLand cover changes, driven by urbanization, agriculture, and deforestation, significantly affect the physical and chemical characteristics of water bodies at both the watershed and riparian levels. At the larger spatial scale, a stream’s surrounding watershed facilitates lateral inputs into the stream that are essential for biodiversity support, hydrological stability, and water quality. When a stream becomes disconnected from the lateral inputs due to urban or agricultural development, the morphology of the stream is significantly altered. On a smaller spatial scale, the riparian zone can act as a buffer to pollutants. The vegetation surrounding the stream bank promotes stability to the instream morphology. Riparian zones trap sediments, preventing excessive sedimentation in the stream. In aquatic systems, the sensitivity of organisms to degraded rivers is most apparent in benthic (stream bottom-dwelling) macroinvertebrates such as insects, crustaceans, mollusks, and annelids. Benthic macroinvertebrates, key indicators of water quality and ecosystem health, are highly sensitive to alterations in their habitats. This, in turn, reduces macroinvertebrate diversity by favoring tolerant species over sensitive ones, leading to homogenized communities. Our research analyzed LULC from three time periods in the Choccolocco Creek watershed in Northeast Alabama at two spatial scales (watershed and riparian) to assess their impacts on benthic macroinvertebrate diversity over time. This study design was based on two previous sample periods, 2000 and 2012, where macroinvertebrate samples were collected at four sites in Choccolocco Creek. LULC data was made available from the NLCD Landsat imagery database for all years sampled (2000,2012,2022). Urban, agriculture, and forest percent changes in LULC were determined among the three study intervals for both watershed and riparian zones. Over time, changes in the biodiversity of benthic macroinvertebrates were crucial in determining the resilience of a stream system to changes in land use and land cover (LULC) in the Choccolocco Creek watershed in Northeast Alabama. All three studies used standardized EPA biomonitoring benthic invertebrate collection protocols in riffles. Four riffles in the watershed were sampled during all 3 decades that occurred in April, July, and October. All macroinvertebrates collected were pooled for each event and were identified at the family level for all three studies. Invertebrate diversity statistics of richness, evenness as the Shannon-Wiener index, were determined for each of the four sites across the three sampling events. These values were correlated to changes in LULC across sites and sampling events. Differences in invertebrate community structure among sites and sampling events were with non-metric multi-dimensional scaling analysis. In addition, comparisons of beta diversity (community stability) across sites were used to assess change in communities through time. Results showed that all sites had forest as the most abundant land cover in both watershed and riparian zones across all sampling locations and events (WS- 45 to 80%, Riparian 40 to 65%), agriculture was second (WS 15 to 37%, Riparian 32 to 47%) and urban had the smallest cover (WS 3 to 25%, Riparian 0 to 10%). However, at both the watershed and riparian buffer scales, the urban land cover had the highest percentage increase at each site 5 to 115%), except site one found in the national forest exhibited little change in land cover at either watershed or riparian scales. Results also showed that declines in macroinvertebrate richness and evenness from 2000 to 2022 were correlated to increasing agriculture and urban land cover and decreasing forest cover and that these relationships were similar at both the riparian and watershed scales. NMDS showed that differences in community composition differed across sites although communities did not vary across time. Still, beta diversity estimates were highest in site 3 which also had the largest percent change in land use. This study highlights the need for continued monitoring on multiple spatial scales to maintain biological integrity within a stream
Recording of Ibsen and the Actress by Elizabeth Robins
No full textPresentation on the occasion of the public domain status of Ibsen and the Actress by Elizabeth Robins. Read by Joanne E. Gates.
This 1928 essay, delivered as part of the British Drama League\u27s honoring of the centennial of Ibsen\u27s birth and then published by the Hogarth Press, was a significant landmark for Robins. As of 1924, it has entered the public domain. A subsection of the Elizabeth Robins Web at JSU is devoted to re-publishing the text with related bibliography and annotations. This audio recording is designed in mp4 format so that the text is visible alongside the recording.
This format captures page images from the HathiTrust Public Domain as a more accurate way to produce captioned text.
Make sure to consult the Robins Web at JSU for supporting documentation and related essays by Robins on Ibsen. For Ibsen and the Actress,
https://www.jsu.edu/robinsweb/erplays/ibact/index.html
For further context on Elizabeth Robins\u27 essays for the stage, including near simultaneous other essays on Ibsen in March 1928 in the Times and Time and Tide,
https://www.jsu.edu/robinsweb/erplays/index.htm
