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Addressing moral distress in critical care
No full textMoral distress has been identified as detrimental to the multidisciplinary healthcare team. In critical care staff and providers, how does the implementation of a Moral Distress Training Protocol & Advance Directive Eduction impact moral distress
Therapeutic benefits of rock climbing for children and adolescents
No full textTraditional educational methods fall short of teaching today’s youth about abstract emotional, social and cognitive aspects of personality. Rock climbing could provide a tangible educational method when incorporated into a therapeutic environment
The unfinished history of the Iran-Iraq War: faith, firepower, and Iran\u27s Revolutionary Guards
No full textA presentation on my book manuscript, which examines how Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has documented the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) in its own publications on the conflict
Do on-campus projects count as community engagement?
No full textIn this presentation I ask, What do scholars in Rhetoric & Writing Studies mean by community in using the term Community Engagement
Sexual health assessments in nursing practice: quantitative analysis of nurses’ behaviors and perceptions
Get PDFSexual health is an important yet often neglected component of patient care. Most research on sexual health assessment and its place in nursing occurred from the 1970s to the early 2000s, leaving a gap in understanding nurses’ current attitudes and beliefs toward assessing patients’ sexual health. Frequencies by which sexual health assessments (SHA) are performed by nurses today is also unknown. The objective of this study was to provide an updated understanding of attitudes, beliefs, and practices of nurses regarding SHA. An online-based Likert-scale survey was administered via social media platforms for professional nurses to complete. Results indicate that nurses are comfortable and confident in performing sexual health assessments and that most participants (N =140) believe sexual health is a nursing responsibility. However, results also indicate that nurses’ frequency of performing SHA is less than it should be and additional training or education is needed to address this disparity. Statistically significant differences in participants’ comfort, confidence, and frequency (p \u3c .05) with SHA were demarcated based on their reported generational group, clinical specialty, professional role, gender, and education level. Based on these preliminary results, it was concluded that additional studies are needed to address barriers to assessing sexual health and incorporating this component of health into patients’ plans of care
Gender, intertextuality & market demands: publishing children\u27s picture books
Get PDFChildren’s literature in the U.S. has long since reflected, and also influenced, the nation’s societal and cultural identity. The genre’s representation of gender has historically aligned with traditionally distinct and separate sex-typed roles of domestic or non-domestic behavior. Through textual analysis of 80 New York Times bestselling picture books between 2009 and 2019, this research seeks to determine if publishers and consumers are selecting titles that support or subvert stereotypical gender roles. Prior studies on gender representation in children’s literature have concluded that the prevalence of static, passive female characters and active male characters negatively impacts the identity development of child readers (Gooden and Gooden; Hamilton et al.; DeLoache et al.; Bishop). The studies’ findings when paired with an analysis of Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever informed my approach to the literary analysis. Although there is an improvement in the quality of female representation in the sample, stereotypical tropes of male and female behavior recur frequently. While male characters comprise the majority of the sample, there are no male minority characters; in fact, only five of the 80 titles centered on a female minority character. Though the presence of gender stereotypes appears to be gradually declining in children’s literature, representation of diverse characters and narratives remains low
The manipulation of RF-DNA fingerprints through the use of a phase-modulated clock in IEEE802.11a Wi-Fi signals
Get PDFThe ubiquity of IoT devices has created an urgent need to augment existing network security mechanisms by leveraging discriminating, waveform characteristics to facilitate the detection of unauthorized devices. RF-DNA fingerprints are a waveform-based approach capable of distinguishing one device from others of the same manufacturer and model. This work investigates the extent to which the intentionally inserted changes can alter the RF-DNA fingerprints of the transmitted signal without negatively impacting the receiver’s ability to demodulate the received signal. The experiments presented herein investigate intentional changes caused by the external clock to the preamble of the 802.11a Wi-Fi waveform from which RF-DNA fingerprints are extracted. Analysis is conducted using the Gabor Transform. The results show the structure of the preamble remains intact when the clock signal is phase-modulated using sine waves oscillating frequencies up to 10 kHz with deviation of 1.5 degrees, or 2.5 kHz with deviation of 90 degrees
Love, Language, and Linear Algebra: Linguistic Modeling of Personality and Mate Preference
Get PDFThis study utilized Latent Semantic Analysis to determine whether similarities in personality predicted similarities in responses to a romantic writing prompt (Landauer & Dumais, 1997). From participants’ writing samples, we calculated thematic cosines (a measure of relatedness) between each male and female participant. Participants also completed the Big Five Personality Questionnaire Short Form (Morizet, 2014). Extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness were related to cosines, which suggested small-medium relationships from personality traits to written responses. This relationship was consistent with previous studies; therefore, Latent Semantic Analysis may be useful in quantifying mate preference, especially when alongside traditional survey methods. We conclude with a discussion of the compatibility of ordinal measures (survey data) and continuous measures in examining complex phenomena in the Behavioral Sciences