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Holistically Analyzing the Initial Athlete-Provider Interaction During Sports Injury Diagnosis
No full textRecovering from injury is crucial for an athlete’s health-related quality of life and mental health. A potentially significant moment that could influence an athlete’s mindset towards recovery is the interaction between the provider and athlete during initial diagnosis. To analyze this moment from both perspectives, this study performs a thematic analysis of five semi-structured provider interviews and ten athlete interviews. In this study, all five providers exemplified an understanding of this moment’s significance, expressing awareness of their potential impact on the athlete’s mindset, and emphasizing mutual understanding to ensure streamlined recovery. Meanwhile, all ten of the athletes expressed self-awareness regarding their injury, and half were able to intuitively make sense of its severity/associated recovery prior to diagnosis (meaning the provider’s diagnosis did not affect them). However, during times the athlete could not be certain of the injury’s severity, associated recovery, or effect on career, they expressed a significant emotional response to the diagnostic news from their provider
Overcoming Challenges and Unlocking Potential in Police Training Programs: The Case of Blue Courage
No full textThe Blue Courage website provides the mission of their agency: “The Blue Courage mission is to illuminate a path forward so that we ignite transformation in the individuals and organizations that we engage through our ground-breaking educational and consulting services. Transformation occurs with the small, consistent, incremental changes that amplify and reset current benchmarks of performance. Capacity continuously grows by enhancing our ability to execute, experience, and understand practical applications and tools that can be effectively used to ritualize capacity building practices — both professionally and personally.”
This noble mission reflects the dominate philosophies behind their law enforcement training program1 entitled, Blue Courage: The Heart and Mind of the Guardian. As the title suggests, this training program focuses on strengthening a “guardianship” model of policing. A traditional guardianship model is founded on a traditional notion that the primary role of law enforcement is “To Protect and To Serve” as many of us grew up seeing on the side of cop cars. The goal is to protect the public and civil liberties valued by American citizens (Rahr and Rice 2015), as well as encouraging public engagement and trust in the police (Murphy and McCarty 2024). Officers adopting a guardianship model prioritize communication and display empathy, with a focus on building police-community relationships through positive and procedurally just contacts (Murphy and McCarthy 2023, Murphy and McCarthy 2024, Stoughton 2015)
ACT ON PRINCIPAL: IDENTIFYING THE IMPORTANCE OF HEXAFLEX PROCESSES ON SELF-REPORTED STRESS IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERS
No full textAcceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a behaviorally derived treatment approach with broad application to psychological distress. A key outcome for an ACT-based intervention is psychological flexibility, derived from six core processes known as the hexaflex. (present moment, identification of values, committed action, defusion, acceptance, and self-as-context). ACT is a process-based approach with strong literature support, though it is unknown which, if any, of the six core processes are differentially protective against stress and burnout. The present study investigated if and how the hexaflex processes are correlated with self-reported stress and burnout among educational leaders. Personal accomplishment was found to be significantly correlated with committed action and significantly negatively correlated with cognitive fusion. Findings and limitations are discussed
Memories of Love Returned
Get PDFThis is a film review of Memories of Love Returned (2024), directed by Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine
Demographics of Student Exposure to Homeland Security Enterprise at the University of Nebraska at Omaha
Get PDFWe partner with U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) end users in project-based courses in the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) College of Business Administration to work on DHS end-user challenges as part of the course curriculum. This project addresses workforce and professional development by exposing business students to the homeland security enterprise (HSE), developing their HSE-relevant skills through DHS end-user projects, and providing DHS end users the opportunity to expose and/or recruit students to HSE careers with government or in related industries
Assessment of Dose-Dependent Cytotoxicity of Caffeine on Human Colorectal Adenocarcinoma and Foreskin Fibroblast Cell Lines
Get PDFCaffeine is a stimulant well-known for its alertness enhancement and energy functions. Beyond its neurological effects, caffeine also influences cellular qualities, including viability and membrane integrity. This study aimed to investigate the cytotoxic effects of caffeine on two distinct human cell lines: Human Colorectal Adenocarcinoma (HT-29) and Foreskin Fibroblasts (HFF). Cells were exposed to varying concentrations of caffeine to evaluate whether its effects were dose dependent. Cell viability was assessed using the Trypan Blue exclusion and Alamar Blue assays. Results showed that HFF cell death was more evident than the HT-29 Cells, displaying a potential therapeutic for cancer treatment
AI-Driven Malevolent Creativity: Implications for Terrorist Innovation through Constrained and Unconstrained LLM Tools
Get PDFThis set of studies sought to examine how large language models (LLMs) are used in the malevolent creativity problem solving process. Terrorist innovation, also referred to as tactical innovation or malevolent innovation, is centered on terrorist’s use of new methods for violence. Following the advent of accessible LLM tools, such as generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT), this current effort examined how individuals use these tools to gather information when generating both novel and harmful ideas. Put differently, LLM tools synthesize large amounts of information, that would previously be a limitation of an individual’s knowledge base, to help them ideate and plan attacks. This set of studies offered several advancements to our understanding of novel, intentionally harmful ideation and LLM tools in terrorist organizations. The findings underscore the role AI constraints play in the generation of harmful and novel ideas in response to a social threat. We found that the constrained AI tool suppressed the generation of harmful ideas, suggesting that ethical safeguards are overall helpful and can prevent attacks from being planned. However, this points to a broader implication on AI’s impact on novelty and harmful ideas is contingent on the extent to which it is constrained by guidelines