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Vinci, Debra
No full textAssociate Professor
One of Dr. Vinci's current research interests focus on using children’s picture books as an innovative approach to increase physical literacy and movement in preschool teachers. She has also worked with community coalitions in promoting their role in obesity prevention, and in a childhood hunger task force to increase access to fresh fruits and vegetables to neighborhoods in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties that experience food insecurity at rates higher than national and state averages.
DrPH, Health Education, Loma Lina University, 1998
MS Human Nutrition, University of Vermont, 1979
BS Human Nutrition, University of Vermont, 1974
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Exploring the minimum bactericidal concentration and time kill kinetics of benzothiophene derivatives in gram-positive bacteria
No full textTo determine the minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) and confirm minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of a benzothiophene derivative (#34) using the microdilution and
macrodilution assay against two gram-positive bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus faecalis.
● To explore the time and dose dependence bactericidal/bacteriostatic activity of the compound #34 using time kill assay
Campbell, Liza
No full textTechnical Services Librarian
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MSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999
BS, Theater, Illinois State University, 1996
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Center for Behavior Analysis
No full textThe Center for Behavior Analysis at the University of West Florida provides collaborative opportunities where higher education, socially valued service and applied research synthesize into meaningful applications to improve lives through an understanding of behavior
Seeking help from formal sources among teen dating violence victims: Exploring the role of incident and victim characteristics
No full textMost teen dating violence (TDV) victims do not seek help after their victimization experience. While research has identified that victims are more likely to turn to informal versus formal sources, there is a lack of knowledge about what factors are predictive of help-seeking
from formal sources. The current study explored the impact of incident and victim characteristics on help-seeking from formal sources among middle and high school TDV victims (N = 2,174). Findings indicate that the severity and location of the victimization significantly increase the likelihood of help-seeking from formal sources.Journal Articl
The future of education in Ghana: Critical education for socio-economic development
No full textThis research explores how critical education can contribute to the development of critical human capital relevant to Ghana’s socio-economic development. Teaching and learning in many Ghanaian classrooms follow a rigid curriculum with limited or no classroom interaction, restricting students’ creativity and critical consciousness. A systematic literature review was conducted using scholarly articles and books to identify concepts that promote critical education. The research revealed four concepts (i.e., problem-posing education, teacher and student roles, praxis, and dialogue) and the following about education: education should be about the critical examination of the social world, resulting in actions that serve the best interest of society. The research concluded that critical education could empower students to become critical thinkers, problem-solvers, and change agents who can champion the cause for Ghana’s socio-economic development.Journal ArticleFinal article publishe
Trauma informed care in nursing: A literature review
No full textTrauma-informed care (TIC) Is a commonly used term without a universal definition.
Patient care should be approached in a way that does not induce or reactivate any past trauma.
Recognizing patients' past trauma will allow providers to deliver patient-centered care and create a safe environment.
The goal of this review is lo clarify the borrowed concept of TIC in the field of nursing.
TIC may contribute to improving health outcomes
GPU-accelerated rapid planar region extraction for dynamic behaviors on legged robots
No full textLegged robots require fast and accurate representation of their surrounding terrain to achieve behaviors such as running, push recovery, continuous walking, backflips, while also utilizing on-board computational resources efficiently. The desired tasks can be achieved efficiently by representing the environment using planar regions. However, existing methods for planar region extraction are either too slow or require significant compute time on the Central Processing Unit (CPU). In this work we exploit key properties of depth images and Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) to estimate planar regions around the robot at very high frame rates of 150-200 Hz. The proposed algorithm uses a set of fully customizable and interchangeable set of kernel layers on the GPU to process the depth map in parallel and generate a locally connected graph structure, which is later separated into planar components using a basic depth-first search. We test the proposed algorithm on the Atlas robot while performing different walking behaviors on oriented cinder blocks, as well as in simulation with simulated sensor and robot. The algorithm is open-sourced for research on legged robots and other fields.Conference PaperPublishe