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Stratification patterns in central NH lakes
No full textFrom May to August of 2016, we conducted sampling and analyses of three bodies of water in central NH: Squam Lake, Ossipee Lake, and Lower Danforth Pond. This was done in order to identify and assess lake stratification patterns as well as the related physical and chemical properties of these water bodies. Sampling was done with the help of the Squam Lakes Association, as well as the Green Mountain Conservation Group and affiliated volunteers. Samples were delivered to the NH state labs in Concord for most of the chemical analyses, as well as assessed using the facilities in Boyd Hall at Plymouth State University. Additional testing for Carbon/Nitrogen ratios was conducted at Salem State University by their lab personnel. This report will present, assess, and draw hypotheses from the data we collected with regards to the stratification patterns of Squam Lake and Lower Danforth Pond and how these patterns may relate to the presence of metals and chemicals in the water column.Student Showcase of Excellence 201
Quincy Pasture public information expansion
No full textQuincy Pasture Forest, located in Rumney, NH, is a 92-acre parcel of land owned by Pemi-Baker Land Trust. Pemi-Baker Land Trust acquired the property from The Nature Conservancy in 2002. As part of the transfer of ownership, The Nature Conservancy reserved a conservation easement on the property. The Nature Conservancy received the property in 1999 as a donation from Dr. James A. Peterson, who wished to ensure its protection into the future. The forest is located at the base of Stinson Mountain, less than a quarter mile south of the White Mountain National Forest. Tree diversity on the property is achieved both naturally and through management practices. The southern half of the property is accessible to logging practices and is composed of mixed hardwoods and white pine that is managed to ensure plant diversity and benefit wildlife habitat. The higher elevation area to the north is not accessible to logging equipment, and is composed of mainly older-growth conifers, rocky outcrops, and two wetland areas. There are two marked trails on the property with varying difficulties and sights to promote recreation and education. Quincy Pasture Forest lacks general public information on the property. Our goal is to bring general awareness to the area and attract others to this forest. Information and resources about invasive and rare species and points of interest on the property can be added to the visitors kiosk which can be useful in bringing value to existing resources on the property.Student Showcase of Excellence 201
Health promotion, planning, and evaluation
No full textThis collection contains six health program plans on a variety of topics including nutrition, alcohol, and posture. The content is intended for use by health educators, and the target audience of the materials varies from teens to older adults. Each program plan has a rationale, mission, theoretical basis, overview, objectives, interventions, logic model, evaluation matrix, and bibliography. This material was developed by Plymouth State University students as a part of their coursework for Program Planning, in spring 2017 with Dr. Barbara McCahan.Clean Teens p. 1
Andrea Gilbert, Allie Gould, Ashley Marsh, Danielle Oswald
This primary prevention program is designed to develop participant value and concern for health behaviors in regards to all dimensions of wellness through six course meetings. The content is intended for health educators, college aged students, or faculty in a workplace.
Fuel the First Year p. 22
Jamie Carpenter, Emily Longolucco, Madison Roberge, Nick Simeti
This campus design plan is designed to introduce practices for optimal nutrition wellness and health conscious decision making through environmental changes and marketing of healthy behavior activities within a college campus. The content is intended for administrators and people in charge of campus decisions.
Blue Plate: A Nutrition Initiative for Holderness School p. 41
Nicholas Laurence
This program is designed to develop knowledge of nutrition and to improve dietary practices of members of a community. This is done through Blue Plate education, increased communication, understanding of social influences, and policy and environmental changes within a large community. The content is intended for all members of a school and community, particularly students within a private schooling institution.
Preparing to Launch p. 65
Felicia Muse, Alexandra Ambrosino, Elizabeth Daly
This program is designed to introduce dangers of excessive drinking and to promote positive behavior change for students as they prepare to enter the workforce through multiple workshop courses on professionalism and social life design post-college. The content is intended for college students and recent graduates.
Pose for Posture p. 79
Jeana DiBona, Ali Garfano, Annie Guerette, Amber Lena
This program is designed to introduce the importance of healthy posture and safe biomechanics through six workshops. The content is intended for faculty and staff within a college setting.
Ready, Let’s Get Steady! p. 94
Hope Larson, Taylor Martin, Stacey Oliveria, Reyna Pollak
This program is designed to introduce skills that are intended to reduce the risk of falling in older adults. This is administered through physical activity workshops as well as through workshops on goal setting, personal fitness, balance, and home safety. The content is intended for health promotion students and professionals working with older adults
The open anthology of earlier American literature
Get PDFIn this third edition of "The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature," students collectively wrote a preface which encompasses their theory of American literature, added new texts and introductory headnotes, created companion essays on themes such as race in Uncle Tom's Cabin and creative rewritings of Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative, and developed a new section entitled "Where is American Literature Now?," which analyzes contemporary adaptations of Early American literary texts and themes. Students in future Early American Literature classes will read, remix, and contribute to this ongoing PSU-based anthology.
A version of this work is also available on the Pressbooks platform at https://openeal.pressbooks.com
Competency based clinical education for advanced practice registered nurses: raising the bar
Get PDFAdvanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs), Midwives, Nurse Anesthetists, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists, are playing a more significant role in today's delivery of healthcare. The advanced practice nursing apprenticeship clinical training model, established by Loretta Ford over 50 years ago, was designed for a small number of trainees(Stewart, 2015); itis not scalable to meet the current increased marketplace demand for APRNs. This research looks at the clinical preparation and education of APRNs. In it, existing competency frameworks of other health professions are considered for applicability to the APRN roles along with perspectives of APRN program coordinators, who would be charged with implementing curricular changes. The broader perspective of the nursing leadership and its readiness to implement competency-based assessment is also explored. To accomplish this, current guidelines, competencies, recommendations, and accreditation standards are cross-mapped to the Englander et al. (2013) competency framework. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) selected this framework as the scaffolding for which APRN competencies will be established. Themes deemed significant to advanced practice nursing in the original nursing documents that are not represented in Englander et al.'s (2013) work are also identified. APRN program coordinators around the country, from all size institutions and programs were surveyed on their perspective of competency based assessment and readiness for educational reform. Nursing leaders from APRN professional organizations, licensure organizations, and certification organizations were interviewed to obtain feedback to the cross mapping data and program coordinator survey data results. From this triangulation of data sources across stakeholders in APRN education, evidenced based recommendations are presented to build momentum for educational reform.Electronic Thesis or Dissertatio
An examination of the impacts of stress and coping/wellness strategies of information technology workers in the higher education field
Get PDFThe Information Technology (IT) field infiltrates much of our daily lives. It has changed the way we conduct business, communicate, research, and learn. Individuals demand the latest and greatest - faster and better electronic devices, systems, and Internet. Businesses and organizations constantly require upgrades, improvements, or replacements to their technology in order to stay ahead of their competition and offer premium, uninterrupted services to their customers. The aforementioned demands often puts a strain on the IT professionals that support these individuals, businesses, and organizations. Information Technology professionals are faced with pressures of quick turnaround time and deadlines, anticipated and unanticipated workloads, and limited resources. This can cause IT professionals to become stressed, exhausted, and eventually lead to professional burnout. This study was designed to measure stress/burnout level of IT professionals in the higher education setting. The first purpose of the study was to determine whether IT professionals are suffering from stress/burnout and to understand some of the stressors they perceive in the workplace. The second purpose was to determine the coping/wellness strategies IT professionals practice along with the perceived level of effectiveness, their thoughts about complementary health therapies, and their participation in employer wellness programs. The third purpose was to determine if re-wording an original statement of the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI), the instrument that the researcher used to measure burnout, would impact the way in which participants responded. A total of 242 participants completed the researcher's survey. The results showed that participants do experience stress/burnout and shared a number of stressors in their workplaces. Participants reported practicing coping and wellness with the behaviors of smiling, laughing, joking, and social support being reported most frequently on a daily basis. Participants described a primarily positive view of complementary health therapies, with nearly a quarter reporting that they engage in one or more therapies. Participation in wellness programs was a mixed review as program activities varied by employer. The addition of a re-worded statement to the OLBI did not add statistical value to the survey. Limitations included that participants were restricted to IT professionals in the higher education setting. In the future, this study may be replicated in additional settings, such as IT in the healthcare, government, or financial setting. Implications may include the use of the results by organizations in order to review existing work environments, processes, and workload, as well as improving their wellness programs.Electronic Thesis or Dissertatio
Examining methods of ecosystem services valuation to better inform watershed policy
Get PDFDetermining use and non-use values of ecosystem services is a task the field of ecological economics has strived to achieve through various methodologies (Adamowicz, et al. 1998; Alpizar, et al. 2003; Carson & Czajkowski, 2012; Garmendia & Gamboa, 2012; Proctor & Drechsler, 2003; Randhir & Shriver 2009). However, there is concern that different methodological approaches result in different values obtained, skewing the results to show either more or less value than the stakeholder actually has toward an ecosystem service (Bateman et al., 2006; Boxall et al. 1996; Stevens et al., 2000). The implication of this is that current use/non-use values may not be accurately reflecting stakeholders' preferences and therefore misguiding ecosystem services policy. Through examining different methodologies of collecting use and non-use values of ecosystem services held by stakeholders in the Great Bay watershed, we intend to test whether different methodologies result in significantly different values obtained (Bateman et al., 2006; Boxall et al, 1996). All work shown is preliminary research as this study will take place in the fall of 2017.Student Showcase of Excellence 201
Staging a clinical performance
No full text"Staging a Clinical Performance" is a cross-cluster, cross discipline collaborative between the Arts & Technology Cluster & the Health & Human Enrichment Cluster. This project will work with faculty and external partners with medical and theater expertise, to develop a curriculum to train PSU students to act as standardized and simulated patients for Allied Health Profession programs. *Standardized/Simulated Patient is an actor who performs the role of a patient.
Students in the clinical allied health programs will work with standardized patients to integrate clinical knowledge and "soft skills" early and often in simulated clinical practice environments. Working with standardized patients will generate cultural competence, critical thinking, and the formation of sound clinical decisions in high fidelity situations.
The demand for standardized patients affords MTD/acting students opportunity to gain specialty certification that opens new doors for their future careers. Students get to practice and get receive appraisal of their performance and improvisational techniques, with some freedom to portray their character encompassing a variety of emotional/social challenges for clinical allied health students to respond to as they would need to in real world clinical experiences and jobs. Students will broaden their acting portfolios through this process and can market themselves more broadly in the professional world
After completing the requested educational training, faculty will be Certified Standardized Patient Educators able to sponsor/host professional development opportunities to a growing network of external partners who use SSPs to augment health professions education and training.Student Showcase of Excellence 201
Increasing Snowfall Events in the Northern Region of Saudi Arabia
Get PDFSaudi Arabia as part of the Middle East has been experiencing climate change effects. As a result of that, a there has been a noticeable increase in snowfall over the northern regions of Saudi Arabia. In this thesis work, different studies have been applied to better understanding this phenomenon, such as looking closely at the interannual trends in temperature, pressure and precipitation in the northern part of Saudi Arabia. Principle components of variation in temperature, pressure, and integrated precipitable water are also investigated. Work has been done to understand the correlation and time lag between these principle components and the Siberian High (SH). Data used in this work were obtained from different sources because of the data lack in that region. Data from six meteorological stations in the northern part of Saudi Arabia were used in this work including the surface and upper data.
The results of this thesis are divided into two parts. The first part examines the regression between different components such as High-Level Thickness (HLDZ) (700hPa – 500hPa) and the sea level pressure (MSLP) which showed a negative relationship. Relations between Mid-Level Thickness (MLDZ) and MSLP, Potential Temperature () and MSLP, the westerly component of wind at 300 hPa (U300) and MSLP, U300 and , U300 and HLDZ and MLDZ, and U300 and the
mean T are also examined. The results showed that SH has a strong influence over the northern region of Saudi Arabia. Moreover, the cold air aloft associated with the SH leads the atmospheric thickness to shrink.
The second part of results is a synoptic study on the north region of Saudi Arabia. The MSLP Composites Analyses indicated that the SH dominates a large area including the northern region of Saudi Arabia. In addition, the composites results have been divided into two cases, in rain cases and in snow cases to show what causes each case
Effects of superfamiliarity on change blindness in a gradual change
Get PDFChange detection, the ability to notice changes in a scene, is a notoriously difficult task for humans. Change detection is commonly measured using a disrupted, or flicker, model in which a scene is shown, quickly replaced by a blank buffer screen, and followed by an altered version of the original scene. Slow changes, those that occur gradually in the scene, are even harder to detect than those that occur abruptly. This study investigates gradual change detection. Facial expressions of famous and non-famous people are changed slowly over the course of a 12-second video and participants are asked to identify the change and rate their confidence in their change detection abilities. It is anticipated that changes to famous faces will be more readily detected than changes to unfamiliar faces because of participants' greater familiarity with them, thus more attention is available to be used for noticing changes occurring. Preliminary data show results that are consistent with this prediction.Student Showcase of Excellence 201