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Optimizing Oncological Care: The Influence of AI on Insurance Approvals
Get PDFWithin the United States, oncological treatments represent a considerable portion of the health care landscape, in terms of both their prevalence and associated costs. The year 2022 witnessed 1.9 million new cancer cases and over 600,000 cancer-related deaths, signaling the pressing need for efficient strategies in managing and addressing challenges in oncology. Studies suggest that using AI-based systems to standardize clinical data submissions and integrate electronic health records using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources data standard can optimize these processes further
An exploration of teacher perception and practices of using assessment data to improve achievement of equity student groups
Get PDFWhile utilizing assessment data has been a pervasive practice in educational reform for decades, and teachers are expected to use assessment data to improve instruction, little is known about how the practice of requiring teachers to review test data affects their perception of effectiveness in addressing the learning gaps of student groups. This qualitative phenomenological research study used open-ended, semi-structured interviews to help better understand how the expectations of teachers analyzing and integrating assessment data translates into teacher instructional practice and self-efficacy. This study aimed to explore the shared experience of teachers required to participate in collaborative planning centered on analyzing common test data. The study also explores common barriers to integrating assessment data into classroom lessons, deficit-thinking triggers, and effective practices for facilitating data meetings, and identifies which types of data teachers find helpful to inform their teaching practice as they work to improve outcomes for their equity student groups. The findings show the practice of having teachers collaboratively review summary test data, also used for accountability and district monitoring, is not perceived by teachers to increase their efficacy in addressing the compounded needs of equity student groups and may encourage deficit-thinking. The study also found specific practices teachers perceive as effective when looking at assessment data to improve instruction for the equity student groups
Cherry Bomb
No full textDuring my last semester at Marshall University I took an advanced film studies class that centered around the works of director Quentin Tarantino. For our final project another classmate, and myself, created a short film called Cherry Bomb. The film is about a teenage girl who engages in a robbery of sorts with the help of two friends, and the inner moral conflict she’s faced with when committing a crime.
For the project we were tasked with creating something that presented influences of Tarantino, while also making something that had its own style and originality. Tarantino often focuses on stories that involve crime or some sort of heist, mixed with the juxtaposition of the ethical concerns of the main character. We let this serve as a starting point for Cherry Bomb, while incorporating other signature Tarantino characteristics into our film, such as specific shots, long drawn out conversations, and an emphasis on choice of music.
With this film we wanted to not only present characteristics of a Tarantino movie, but to also comment on his personal choices as a filmmaker. One thing that fueled the creation of Cherry Bomb was our discussion in class about his film, Reservoir Dogs, and the complete lack of female characters. We combated the idea that females were not needed or necessary within the film, as stated by our peers, by creating our own film that only has female characters and a predominantly female crew
“There’s a Tear in My Beer”: Understanding Childhood Trauma and the Addiction Memoir
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“There’s a Tear in My Beer”: Understanding Childhood Trauma and the Addiction Memoir
My paper aims to explore Mary Karr’s psyche through her memoir Lit to take a closer look into how her dominant id was created and how the id was one cause of her alcohol addiction. I will first give a brief summary of the memoir for those who have not read it, as well as a brief introduction into Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis. Then, I will begin to look into Karr’s id and ego in her adulthood to show her id is dominating resulting in her acting more in favor towards the pleasure principle than the reality principle. Discussion about her childhood will follow to show how her childhood trauma hindered her id and ego. The conclusion ties together the importance of learning about addiction through memoirs as well as Karr’s influence on the discussion on addiction
Preferences and Attitudes of Psychology Students
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Previous studies have demonstrated a relationship between music, mood, and food choice, though to our knowledge, no study has examined all three factors. Stroebele and de Castro (2006) found that people take longer to eat when listening to music, and individuals in the study tended to eat more food, drink more, and have a larger fat intake while listening to music. Further, participants rated food stimuli as significantly more pleasant while listening to jazz rather than hip-hop (Stroebele, & de Castro, 2006). Researchers have also considered if music can be used therapeutically to help improve/enhance mood, and classical or self-selected music lower levels of reported stress (Labbe, Schmidt, Babin, & Pharr, 2007). The present study examines the relationship between different types of music and mood and looks to see if this relationship can influence what types of food people choose to eat. Students who participate in the study are randomly assigned to one of three groups: classical music, classic rock, or no music. In the study, students complete a questionnaire measuring their mood, music preference, personality, and other attitudes. While completing the questionnaire, the participants get to choose different foods to eat that are healthy such as vegetables and fruits and unhealthy such as brownies, cookies, and chips. Based on prior literature, we predict that individuals listening to classical music will report feeling more relaxed and will also make healthier food choices
Papa wa Doko?: The Absence of Japanese Fathers and Their Gender Role Expectations
No full textDespite movement as a nation into the contemporary age of feminism, thus expanding the capability of women, Japan continues to fall behind in the inclusivity of men in different spheres of life. Specifically, the amount of men raising children and participating in the housework, or taking care of the home-sphere, is exponentially lesser than the number of women. While this makes sense in a society that maintains rigid gender roles of women being homemakers and men being breadwinners, the shift into the present has since allowed women to move into the labor market with force. Even though this shift has been excruciating, leaving the labor market riddled with sexism and sexual assault issues, women are still now making up a large amount of the workforce of Japan. Yet the expansion of men’s role has been slower, leaving them in high positions of power but still restricted by expectational roles. It is of no question that Japan’s gender role models have aided in this restriction and lack of fluidity; thus, I seek to address what specific characteristics that are still prominent in Japan’s gender role ideology are aiding to the segregation of men from the home-sphere
Los Niños de Morelia
No full textLos Niños de Morelia is the name used to refer to approximately 460 Spanish children who were forced to evacuate to Mexico during the Spanish Civil War, the period when Francisco Franco and his nationalist regime established a dictatorship that would last until the mid-1970’s. [1] In 1937, Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas decided to permit the refugee children to seek safety in Mexico. When the children arrived in Mexico on June 7, 1937, they were relocated to the city of Morelia, in the state of Michoacán. Officials created the Escuela España-México, where they were also housed. The Mexican government, believing that the children would only be seeking refuge in Mexico for a short amount of time, decided that the children would not be made available for adoption. Author Patricia Fagen writes that the fear within the Mexican government was that wealthy Spanish families would adopt the children and raise them to hold different values than their biological republican parents. [2] The children were to return to Spain at the end of the civil war; however, WWII caused many of the children to stay in Mexico. This project will look at individual decisions made for these children, then refer to modern reports on childhood trauma to analyze the possible adverse effects such decisions can have on a child’s development.
[1] The Nationalist party of Spain was the right-wing conservative party in this era.
[2] The Republican party of Spain was the left-wing liberal party in this era
Winter Commencement, 2024
Get PDFProgram for the Commencement of Marshall University, Saturday, December 14, 2024 held at the Mountain Health Arena in Huntington, West Virginia
Damn the Dams: Framing ‘Schizophrenic’ Discourses of the Hindu Right
Get PDFThis article examines the concept of schizophrenia as a cultural metaphor in order to analyze the Hindu Right’s contradictory language-framing politics within the public domain, particularly in relation to building mega dams on rivers Narmada and Bhagirathi. In so doing, it intends to examine the nature of the public domain itself that enables such framing politics within the context of late 20th-early-21st-century global capital. Language battles in the public domain have intensified during this period, especially through various forms of digital media. In India, the various groups that form the Hindu Right have often mixed the languages of religion and capitalism to embrace free market policies that conflict with environmental concerns. This paper focuses on their mixing of such languages regarding dam-building, encapsulating all contradictions of national development when land is submerged, indigenous cultures are uprooted, aquatic flora and fauna are lost, subsistence agriculture becomes market-oriented, and inter-state water conflicts erupt. This article is divided into four parts. The first part discusses the Hindu Right’s differential treatment of the two dams. The second investigates the politics and context for mixing languages. The third investigates the connotations of the term “schizophrenia” in the light of its use by scholars in describing the Right’s language framing politics. The fourth part examines the public domain