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No full textCut coral with yellow tape labled OR XII. Location: Ocean Pierhttps://nsuworks.nova.edu/feingold_images/1428/thumbnail.jp
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No full textCut coral with pink tape labled OPR XIV. Location: Ocean Pierhttps://nsuworks.nova.edu/feingold_images/1432/thumbnail.jp
CloudLibrary: Download eBooks and Audiobooks
No full textView this short tutorial on how to use the CloudLibrary database to download eBooks and audiobooks to your internet browser or personal device.
This video shows how to login and search for books using the mobile app.https://nsuworks.nova.edu/library_learn_all/1172/thumbnail.jp
The Phases of Variation in Physiotherapy Management of Organophosphate Poisoning Patients: A Case Series
No full textPurpose: Organophosphate (OP) poisoning presents a significant challenge in healthcare, with varying severities requiring adaptive management strategies. This case series examines the physiotherapy management of three patients with different levels of OP poisoning severity: mild, moderate and severe. The study highlights the crucial role of physiotherapy in the multidisciplinary care of OP poisoning patients and demonstrates the need for phase-specific interventions tailored to individual patient needs. Method: The severe case required prolonged mechanical ventilation and intensive care, with physiotherapy progressing from passive techniques to active mobilization over 15 days. The moderate case showed faster recovery, allowing for earlier initiation of active interventions and functional training within 7 days. The mild case benefited from early respiratory exercises and mobilization, emphasizing the importance of physiotherapy even in less severe presentations. Results: Across all cases, physiotherapy management adapted to the changing clinical presentation, focusing initially on respiratory function and secretion clearance, then progressing to neuromuscular facilitation and functional mobility. Early physiotherapy involvement, within 24-36 hours of admission, was crucial in preventing complications and facilitating recovery. Conclusion: In this case series, we emphasize the importance of a holistic, phase-specific approach to physiotherapy in OP poisoning. It demonstrates that individualized treatment plans addressing respiratory, neuromuscular, and functional aspects are essential for comprehensive care and optimal outcomes across varying severities of OP poisoning
Microbial Signatures of Breast Carcinogenesis: Synthesizing Evidence from Breast Tissue Microbiome Studies
No full textBreast cancer remains one of the most prevalent cancers worldwide, affecting approximately one in eight women in the United States1. Recent advances in microbiome research have highlighted the microbiome’s essential role in maintaining health and influencing disease progression. Increasing attention has been directed toward understanding how microbial communities contribute to cancer development, particularly through effects on immune function, metabolism, and cellular signaling pathways. While most existing research has examined the gut microbiome and its relationship to breast cancer focusing on the gut–breast axis, microbial translocation, and their contributions to tumor progression, there is a growing need to characterize the breast tissue–specific microbiome itself. Such work may reveal patterns of dysbiosis directly associated with breast carcinogenesis2. To complement the literature, we analyzed publicly available RNA sequence data from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) biosamples SAMN20520696 and SAMN20520701, to evaluate taxonomic profiles associated with normal and malignant breast tissues. This analysis is ongoing; so far, we have observed that breast cancer tissues demonstrate reduced microbial diversity and enrichment of specific taxa. Understanding these microbial shifts may offer important insights into the role of dysbiosis in breast cancer progression and identify potential microbial biomarkers for future diagnostic or therapeutic applications
Designing the Ideal Health System: A Global Puzzle of Access, Quality, and Innovation
No full textRecorded March 12, 202
The indispensability of dignity: how the practice of Human Rights contributes to peace
No full textIn the aftermath of the horrors of World War II, a conviction took hold in the international community that preserving human dignity is essential for peace and security, and that the preciousness and integrity of human life should be protected by a common understanding of human rights, given form as law. The consensus that emerged was given form as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Preamble of which affirms that ‘human rights should be protected by the rule of law’. The UDHR came to represent basic, internationally acceptable norms and standards that in time were translated into treaties and conventions designed to regulate the behavior of those who hold political authority towards their citizenry, everywhere.
This ‘rules-based consensus’ ushered in an era of multilateral cooperation between countries, based on a shared understanding of what makes us human – from the sanctity of childhood, to vulnerability when migrating for work, to the violence inherent in racism and sexism, through to the basic human need to enjoy freedom to think and believe, unfettered by intrusion from political authorities. This consensus has come under widespread assault in recent years, in the ways in which wars are fought – from the targeting of journalists, medics, food supplies, and even poets - as well as in established democracies.
This presentation introduces how the international human rights architecture functions and asks the question, Does ratification of human rights treaties contribute to peace? It answers this question by examining whether ratifying a major human rights treaty has helped grow peace in a diverse array of contexts, while also identifying obstacles to ratification in settings resistant to participating in these hard-won international mechanisms. The presentation concludes by re-envisaging dignity amid the current adversity, and the role of human rights in preserving and nourishing that value
Bandwidth and Borders: A Quantitative Analysis of Digital Access as a Determinant of Human Security in Post-Conflict States
No full textWhile traditional approaches to human security emphasize physical protection, institutional reform, and community healing, this presentation (paper) introduces a less explored but increasingly vital dimension: digital access. In post-conflict societies, access to reliable internet and communication tools can significantly influence the ability of citizens to secure basic needs, receive humanitarian aid, report human rights violations, and participate in civil rebuilding efforts. This study explores whether digital infrastructure—measured through national indicators of mobile phone coverage, broadband penetration, and internet access—can be empirically linked to improvements in human security outcomes.
Using a dataset that merges information from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), World Bank Development Indicators, and Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), this study examines 40 post-conflict or fragile states from 2000 to 2022. It tests the relationship between digital access and changes in indicators such as civilian-targeted violence, access to emergency services, and aid distribution equity. Multiple regression models and comparative cluster analysis are used to identify patterns and outliers.
Initial results suggest that countries with higher rates of digital connectivity experienced faster declines in conflict recurrence, increased humanitarian access transparency, and greater local participation in governance processes. These findings position digital equity not only as a development goal, but as a key enabler of human security, especially when local and global actors collaborate to close the digital divide.
By reframing peacebuilding to include digital inclusion, this research contributes both a novel theoretical lens and practical policy insights. It supports the PCSJ conference theme by arguing that sustainable peace and just community-building in the 21st century require both physical and digital infrastructure
Peace Innovation and Healing: A design justice framework to support change processes, strengthen relationships, foster trust, and build community
No full textMany organizations aiming to achieve peace and health equity outcomes often focus their design processes and innovation efforts externally without addressing how their organizational culture can unintentionally reproduce the very harms they are trying to address. The purpose of this qualitative design research study is to explore the role of a design justice framework in piloting a Peace Innovation Project aimed at facilitating an organizational culture change process. Specifically, the study focuses on better understanding how integrating a design justice approach could support research collaborators to center equity and justice as core components in building a culture of peace and wellbeing within their organization. The research partner, Green String Network (GSN), is a non-profit focused on healing-centered peacebuilding. The project supported the design of GSN’s scale-up process to build Ustawi (“to thrive” in Swahili), a peace-technology and digital mental health and entrepreneurship platform for youth and women in East Africa. The multi-phase methodology integrates design justice as a theoretical framework. Data collection methods included unstructured interviews, co-creation workshops, un/focus groups, participant observation, and digital illustration. Methods of data analysis included narrative content analysis, insight generation, and experience mapping. The story of the co-design process is a research output depicted via the data visualization, “Peace and Healing: Our collaboration story”. Findings demonstrate the utility of the framework to support change processes, strengthen relationships, foster trust, and build community - when intertwined with embodiment practices centered on relationships to people and place. Research contributions include theoretical knowledge on design justice as a guiding framework, methodology, and consultative tool to support design processes, and actionable recommendations to inform interdisciplinary collaboration and policymaking in and beyond the peace and health sectors.
Keywords: peace innovation, health equity, design, culture change, organizational developmen
Ground of Being (from the Ancestor Talk series)
No full textTraer Price (b. 1964) is a noted African American artist and designer whose work has included the mediums of painting, graphic design, water feature design, and jewelry design. After graduating from Harvard, Price produced graphic design for Fortune 500 firms including Time, Inc. and American Express as well as prominent nonprofits like The United Negro College Fund. She attended New York’s Pratt Institute for graduate studies in graphic design followed by Stanford University and was mentored by renowned designers Sara Little Turnbull and Matt Kahn.
Upon completion of her MFA in Visual Design (1990), Price then integrated water, light and sound via computer to produce theatrical fountain design displays all over the world. Her projects included prominent choreographed shows at The Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE; the Fountains of Bellagio, Las Vegas; Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan; the Fountain of Nations at EPCOT Center, Walt Disney World, Orlando; and Crown Casino, Melbourne, Australia
Within the design industry, Price would produce promotional and exhibit graphics for leading corporate and non-profit clients including Volkswagen, Xerox, and Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium. In expanding her mediums into three dimensions, Price would also cast aluminum housewares with the AZCAST foundry and design firm in California, notably producing the eponymous Traer Bowl featured in Metropolitan Home. Her designs have also been featured and sold at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and similar institutions. After launching her own practice, Traer Price Design, Price expanded further into the design of adornment in metal, beads and cast glass sold online and across the United States including at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL and the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles.
Beginning in the 2000s Price began a focused drawing practice in small sketchbooks, as both counterpoint to the epic scale of fountain design and as visual dialog with not knowing. Emerging organically in abstract silhouettes and dense hatching, the recursive loop of marking, seeing, and responding serves as a way to touch into—and trust—the cusp of each now. Price’s fine ink drawings and related expressions on canvas often resemble entities or artifacts, symbolic portals to liminal spaces of bone-knowing where unseen energies guide without conceptual blueprint. Price’s fine art has featured in Tampa Bay’s Afrofuturist Festival 2024 and became part of celebrity collectors Rena and Andrikk Frazier’s holdings at the Black Art Gala 2025. Her writings are included in The Black Graphic Design History Collections Initiative at Stanford University.
This piece, Ground of Being, combines two drawings from her Ancestor Talk series (Message #117 and Message #23) to create a new original work that nods to her foundations in graphics design, marketing, and their own links to Warholian Pop Art and its use of color, while also advancing them into the highly personal world of her heritage. With imagery both ancient and alien, these distinct forms float in fields of color inspired by two vast landscapes of spiritual significance—the crystaline blue waters of her ancestral St. Croix, USVI and the red rock, rough-edged terrain of one of her adopted homelands, the desert of northern New Mexico.
Culture is a major influence on Price’s art, writings and design. As a Black woman of very light skin, as well as a New Englander with Southern and Caribbean roots, Price frequently explores the quintessentially American experience of being at the crossroads of multiple histories and identities. For more on Price’s unusual path, see her entry in the Black Graphic Design History Collections Initiative at Stanford University ( https://guides.library.stanford.edu/Black_graphic_design_collections/Price ), which includes an essay on race and creativity written in honor of the Collection—From Colorism to Water Choreography: My Design Journey Inward. Price’s attraction to inner thresholds that produce freedom also honors her ancestors, including Rebecca and George Latimer and their son, Lewis Latimer, of light bulb fame, who were noted fugitives from enslavement, as well as the people, animals and environments that Price credits with revealing her truth.https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_permuycollection/1018/thumbnail.jp