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Dianne Kerr
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/dei_bio_gallery/4/thumbnail.jpgDr. Dianne Kerr is currently an Associate Professor of Health Education and Promotion and Provost’s Faculty Associate for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Kent State University. She is affiliate faculty for the College of Public Health, Women’s Studies and LGBT Studies at Kent State University. Dr. Kerr received her PhD from The Ohio State University in 1992. Prior to that she was the HIV/AIDS Project Director for the American School Health Association. There she wrote an AIDS Update column for the Journal of School Health and directed a CDC cooperative agreement which enabled her to travel the U.S. training school personnel to teach about HIV/AIDS during the early years of the epidemic. Dr. Kerr is a 2-time recipient of the Ohio AIDS Service Award in the category of education and prevention and was recently named a Distinguished Alumna of Slippery Rock University, her undergraduate alma mater. She has published and presented extensively on diversity issues and health disparities. A few pieces of Dr. Kerr’s Hopi pottery collection are featured in our exhibit.</p
The Judicial Process: Law, Courts, and Judicial Politics
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/facultybooks/26/thumbnail.jpgThe Judicial Process: Law, Courts, and Judicial Politics is an all-new, concise yet comprehensive core text that introduces students to the nature and significance of the judicial process in the United States and across the globe. It is social scientific in its approach, situating the role of the courts and their impact on public policy within a strong foundation in legal theory, or political jurisprudence, as well as legal scholarship. Authors Christopher P. Banks and David M. O’Brien do not shy away from the politics of the judicial process, and offer unique insight into cutting-edge and highly relevant issues. In its distinctive boxes, “Contemporary Controversies over Courts” and “In Comparative Perspective,” the text examines topics such as the dispute pyramid, the law and morality of same-sex marriages, the “hardball politics” of judicial selection, plea bargaining trends, the right to counsel and “pay as you go” justice, judicial decisions limiting the availability of class actions, constitutional courts in Europe, the judicial role in creating major social change, and the role lawyers, juries and alternative dispute resolution techniques play in the U.S. and throughout the world. Photos, cartoons, charts, and graphs are used throughout the text to facilitate student learning and highlight key aspects of the judicial process.</p
Experiences, Functioning and Needs of Low-Income African American Mothers of Children With Asthma
No full textThe purpose of this proposed study was to explore experiences, needs and functioning of low-income, African American caregivers of children with asthma in order to better understand symptom management. Method: A qualitative, descriptive design was used. A purposive sampling technique was used to screen 32 caregivers of children with asthma, and 15 caregivers agreed to participate. Results: Three main themes were identified: managing the symptoms; cultural beliefs and values; and culturally competent health care provider. Conclusion: For the caregivers culture disparity is not just about access to health services but instead the healthcare providers\u27 understanding of the complexity of symptoms management.</p
Silent Outrage
No full textThis presentation focuses upon the lack of U.S. response to the German discovery of Polish mass graves in the forest of Katyn near Smolensk, Russia (1942-1943). The German military had found evidence of Soviet culpability; this evidence was labeled as propaganda by the United States government and ignored. In order to bolster their own findings, the German Reich requested numerous Red Cross investigations, and formed an investigative coalition constructed of forensic experts from outside of the German Reich. Although the evidence did suggest Soviet blame, no sanctions were ever made against the United States’ newly founded wartime ally, nor were any ever made post WWII; it was even suggested at Nuremberg that the Germans were responsible for the Polish deaths! In 1956, a U.S. congressional commission (the Madden Commission) investigated the happenings at Katyn; it found that the upper echelon of the United States government in place during 1942-1943 did know of the Soviet crime, and had swept it under the metaphorical rug for the good of the war effort by feeding the public statements declaring “German propaganda”. By analyzing primary documents collected by Polish historians Eugenia Maresch, Anna Cienciala and also the findings of the Madden Commission, it is the goal of this paper to demonstrate that the original evidence presented by the German Reich in 1943 was indeed enough to have raised an alarm, and to have been acted upon. Ignoring this evidence, the United States overlooked a humanitarian catastrophe in order to maintain a tempestuous alliance that would only lead to further conflict and for reasons of self-preservation.</p
Agency Identified Needs of Pregnant Adolescents
No full textFor this project, I have interviewed the administrators at three local agencies to explore and identify the perceived needs of pregnant adolescents. The questions focused on in this study include the values and mission of these local agencies, how the agencies protect the minor rights of young pregnant teens, and perceptions on how to make the available resources better known. The outcome of this project is a pamphlet that presents current research on the topics identified by the organizations which can be passed out among the agencies. The goal of creating such a pamphlet is to help pregnant adolescents feel informed, educated, and to aid in any pregnancy-based decision making.</p
That’s the Way the Cookie Crumbles: The Effect of Food Craving on Working Memory
No full textPrevious research has suggested that preoccupying thoughts caused by food craving can impair performance on working memory tasks. This study tests this hypothesis by giving a baseline test of working memory and then randomly assigning participants to one of three experimental groups: 1) cookie craving unsatisfied, 2) cookie craving satisfied, and 3) a control group. Participants in the craving unsatisfied group were given a large chocolate chip cookie and told to look at it and smell it, but not eat it. Instead, they were given celery to eat. Participants in the craving satisfied group were permitted to eat the cookie. We hypothesize that working memory will decline for the craving unsatisfied group but rebound for the group that is allowed to eat the cookie. Implications for the role of preoccupying thoughts in working memory performance will be discussed.</p
Gathering of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers: Lorraine Bayes
No full textStorytelling is a powerful method of communication; it stems from traditional cultures, many of which are represented at the Council of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. Photographs have the power to convey emotion and moment, and video has the power to transport the audience to another time and place. In Intro to Video Production, I was able to learn about the 13 Grandmothers, and to choose how to frame the subject, which elements to arrange together, and how to connect them all to visually tell a story.</p
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Alternative Paneling Systems for the Greenhouse at Cunningham Hall to Optimize Energy Spending
No full textThe Greenhouse at Cunningham Hall was designed and built using single-paned glass panels, which prove to be energy inefficient thus increasing the operational costs of the facility. Furthermore, the structural failure of many panels has increased heat loss making the need to renovate the greenhouse a necessity.This research proposes to perform a cost-benefit analysis of the greenhouse. An energy model of the greenhouse is used to quantify the energy consumption of alternative paneling systems. We hypothesize that the use of glass panels with greater thermal coefficients would reduce energy spending of the greenhouse creating benefits that outweigh the cost of the upgrade over the panels’ lifespan. The selection of the optimal paneling system would be the one with appropriate thermal coefficient and visual transmission characteristics at the lowest life-cycle cost. Using these methodologies, we would be able to appropriately renovate the greenhouse, which would result in reduced energy spendings whilst creating a thermally accurate environment for biological research. In addition, a similar methodology may be implemented in other university buildings to economize energy spending throughout the Kent Campus.</p
Grieving Through Movement
No full textMy research is choreography that is intended to help audiences understand that grief and emotions surrounding human loss can be conveyed through movement alone. As a population, it is difficult to express our emotions and grief regarding the loss of our loved ones. Specifically, the loss of physical connection to those we love the most is the hardest feeling to bear. Following an extremely tragic event, it has been my focus to explore these numerous emotions through my movement and choreography, instead of using words. My BFA senior piece, "Forever present.", should assist my audience in understanding that their loved ones are always with them, even if the physical aspect is no longer. With my rehearsals being held every Monday and Wednesday night from 7-8:30 p.m. since October, I continuously worked with my dancers to create the technical and emotional aspects that have ultimately created my final product. In order to create my piece objectively, I chose to choreograph in silence. Additionally in rehearsals, to begin new phrases of movement I danced with my own tragedy in mind. To improve the emotional side of the work, my dancers and I shared our own experiences of loss with one another. A playlist was also created that included pieces of music directly encompassing the theme. By instructing my dancers to solely view my improvisatory movement, mentally process what they saw, and immediately dance my phrasing in their own bodies, I have created a piece that is completely raw and original.</p
Circadian Analysis on Human Population Entrainment: Inferences from the Power Grid
No full textFew, if any studies have focused on the daily rhythmic nature of modern industrialized populations. The present study involved actigraphic analyses of continuously streaming electrical load data from a human subject pool of approximately 43 million primarily residential users in the U.S. Pacific Northwest as a reflection of daily household activity. Rhythm analyses reveal striking seasonal and intra-week differences in human activity patterns, largely devoid of manufacturing and automated load interference. Length of the diurnal activity period (alpha) is longer during the spring than the summer (16.64 h versus 15.98 h, respectively; p p p < 0.01). This indicates a general phase-delaying response to the absence of job-related or other weekday morning arousal cues, substantiating a preference or need to sleep longer on weekends. Finally, a shift in onset time can be seen during the transition to Daylight Saving Time, but not the transition back to Standard Time. The use of grid power load as a means for human actimetry assessment thus offers new insights into the collective diurnal activity patterns of large human populations.</p