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KANKAKEE RIVER BASIN AND PARTNERSHIP [speaker\u27s notes]
Get PDFPossible creation date of 1998.
Speaker\u27s notes that appear to have been typed to accompany 23 slides.Overview of the natural resources and the Partnership\u27s work to restore, protect and enhance the Kankakee River Basin (see slide 11 note on page 2 of the document)
Social Media’s Influence on College Students’ Recognition of Inaccurate Nutrition Information
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Basch et al. (2018) found that 74% (n=190) of students indicated that they would often or always use the internet for health information. Nutrition literacy is an important aspect of health literacy. Health literacy is defined as the skills or ability needed to comprehend and apply nutrition or health information (Svendsen et al., 2021). Nutrition misinformation can be harmful to an individual’s wellbeing because of the fallible, misleading, and erroneous content (Wansink, 2006). The purpose of this study was to explore students’ knowledge as it pertains to the inaccurate nutritional information found within social media.
Methods
A quantitative design was used. Participants included all college students (2800) aged 18-23 at a Midwestern university, 126 usable surveys were returned. The validated questionnaire used was the Short Food Literacy Questionnaire (SFLQ) that referenced the Food Guide Pyramid (FGP) and assessed critical and functional elements of food literacy of participants. (Krause et al., 2018). Descriptive statistics and Spearman’s rho test were used to analyze the data.
Results
Most participants (56%) felt that it was easy to recognize credible sources of nutrition information. Confidence in the FGP was statistically significant (pp=0.111) when nutritional information came from social media.
Conclusion
College students have an overall confidence level of nutrition awareness and ability to recognize credible nutrition information. College courses provided a better knowledge base of information than the use of social media.
Funding Source
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Social Media as Second Creation: Cyber-Space as a Denial of Cosmic Community
Get PDFSocial media aims to move the communal sphere into the digital world. It is often quipped that the current generation is the most “connected” yet “disconnected” generation in history. If social media truly succeeds in moving the social community into a digital sphere, what is the source of the widely experienced disconnect from one another? I will argue that evaluating social media in light of Bonhoeffer’s cosmic community reveals that social media insufficiently invades the space of human relationship, not capable of supporting either connection between individuals or creation. Thus, rather than affirming real relationship online, social media replaces community with an individual pursuit of self-justification, and, as a result, denies the physical body as well as creation all together, constituting a secondary creation imposed onto the first
Audience Appeal Through Poetic Devices in a Medieval Poetic Old Testament Narrative
No full textAnalysis of poetic and narrative characteristics of the Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament, revealing in a text shaped to appeal to the laity of the time (ca 1400 AD). The poet, via a narrator who positions himself as mediator between religious clerical knowledge and his uneducated audience, effectively uses rhyming patterns, word pairs, and direct address to present stories of the Old Testament in a dramatic and engaging way
Transatlantic Sisters: The Spread of Euro-American Ideologies as seen through Republican Motherhood
No full textTransregional feminism surged throughout 18th century France and America, though many historians have failed to recognize this sector of historiography. However, within the Enlightenment age, circular history will prove to be superior, with revolutionary minds contributing to the female cause. Republican Motherhood is a concept born directly out of the French and American Revolutions of the 18th centuries. Through an in-depth review of Olympe de Gouges, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Abigail Adams, a clear, intellectual transfer of ideas can be noted across the Atlantic Ocean. Within Transatlantic Sisters, Republican Motherhood\u27s origins and its social, political, economic, familial, and religious capacities, will be explored to promote the idea of a transregional expression of motherhood in the late 18th century
BEST LEADERSHIP PRACTICES OF SENIOR PASTORS IN THE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Get PDFThe current study explored the leadership style and practices of 12 senior pastors in the Church of the Nazarene in the United States whose churches had experienced numerical growth under their leadership. The researcher theorized that uncovering the common leadership style and common leadership practices of these pastors would lead to suggesting growth strategies that may be taught to clergy and applied to churches in the USA region of the Church of the Nazarene. This qualitative collective case study revealed collaboration as the common leadership style among pastors of growing churches. This study also identified 11 common leadership practices among pastors of growing churches, among them are visionary leadership, culture development, lead and lag indicators, and relationships. Lastly, this research found adaptive leadership as the leadership strategy necessary to address the fractured nature of the church community in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
The Intersection of Healthcare Marketing Communications and Patient Experience: A Qualitative Study
Get PDFProviding a positive experience to patients at healthcare organizations is a complex undertaking and a continuous process due to staff turnover and the ever-changing industry. Positive patient experiences are an important part of the healing process as they relate to better outcomes in quality assessments. The purpose of this case study was to examine the nature of collaboration between clinical and marketing communications teams working to improve patient experience. To uncover lived experience, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 participants–nine clinicians and nine marketing communications professionals–from 10 organizations. The study sought to understand how marketing communications teams collaborated with clinicians, how they described barriers to collaboration, and what metrics they used to measure patient experience. Four themes related to the research questions arose: a lack of understanding of each other’s roles persists, a standard definition of patient experience has not yet been adopted, healthcare organizations seek third-party help in developing patient experience programs, and rewards, recognition, and ongoing education are the key ways healthcare organizations keep their staff focused on delivering care that will lead to positive patient experiences. Future research opportunities should include considering marketing communications role in patient experience programs from additional perspectives, especially executive leaders, whose influence is critical to promoting collaboration among team members
