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Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812
No full texthttps://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/production_2024_2025/1002/thumbnail.jp
08. Madagascariensis
No full texthttps://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/stichweh_hours/1007/thumbnail.jp
17. 13th Fish Pitcher
No full texthttps://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/stichweh_fish/1016/thumbnail.jp
Kate 2024: Manifestos
Full text linkEach year, Kate seeks to: explore ideas about normative gender, sex, and sexuality work against oppression and hierarchies of power in any and all forms serve as a voice for race and gender equity as well as queer positivity encourage the silent to speak and feel less afraid build a zine and community that we care about and trusthttps://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/kate/1010/thumbnail.jp
Recommending an ERAS Guideline for Patients Undergoing Total Joint Arthroplasty
Full text linkEnhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) is a comprehensive guideline that guides patients\u27 care throughout their surgical journey. ERAS is intended to reduce the body’s response to the many stressors of surgery. ERAS is proven effective in various specialty surgical areas, including orthopedics. Orthopedic surgery rates increase parallel with the patient population ages, indicating a need for more joint replacements. Implementing an ERAS guideline reduces healthcare costs to the patient and hospital facility by reducing the length of stay (LOS) and complications postoperatively. The investigation revealed a lack of consistent direction of care, and the developed approach for patients undergoing joint arthroplasty has led to the research and recommendation of an ERAS guideline. The primary goal of this scholarly project is to recommend an evidence-based ERAS guideline for patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty to decrease the LOS at the hospital facility of interest. This educational project utilizes the Edward Deming Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle model, commonly called the Deming Cycle. The team then identified a focal point of the ERAS guideline to assess the effectiveness of the recommended guideline. The recommended ERAS guideline emphasizes patients receiving regional anesthesia before their total joint arthroplasty for its benefits of decreasing surgical stress on the body. It is a multimodal analgesic technique reducing opioid requirements and decreases postoperative pain to allow early ambulation. This project can be seen as a significant cost-saving guideline for the hospital and the patients. The outcomes from this scholarly project can be vital to recommending an ERAS guideline to other surgical specialty areas
Characterization of White Pigments in the Woo Collection at the Frank Museum of Art
No full textOver the past several years, scholars have recognized the importance of the 20th century Chinese American artist C.Y Woo, cumulating in an exhibition of his work at the Cincinnati Art Museum in May 2024. Scholars at Otterbein have become very involved in the study of his artwork, as Otterbein is the home of a large collection of his work. One area of research is the technical study of the materials that Woo used in his work. This will help understand his process as an artist and may help to date the approximately 1,000 paintings in the collection whose creation time is unknown.
The research consisted of two separate components. In the first, white pigments in a selection of Woo’s watercolor paintings were analyzed by several non-destructive techniques, including ultraviolet-induced fluorescence, portable x-ray fluorescence, portable Raman spectroscopy, and fiber optic reflectance spectroscopy. In the second, nanoparticle films were made and evaluated for their ability to measure colorants by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS).
For the first part of the project, after analysis of the dated paintings by portable Raman spectroscopy, portable x-ray fluorescence, and ultraviolet-induced fluorescence, it was found that most of the paintings made from Woo’s time in China (prior to 1966), were composed of lead white with lithopone and/or zinc sulfide and barium sulfate. Of the paintings made in the United States, many of the paintings contained titanium white and barium sulfate. Using the analysis of the dated paintings and the determination of white pigments composition, several undated paintings were given a general timeline from when they were created.
For the second part of the project, it was found that the silver nanoparticles enhanced the signal for specific pigments, but not all of them. Also, although several different films were produced in the lab, they were not successful in SERS analysis of the paintings.
This research has laid the foundation for the analysis of the C.Y Woo collection. Because C. Y. Woo’s collection is so large, this project was only able to get through a small portion of the paintings, specifically, his large bird-and-flower paintings. For future research, other genres of Woo’s artwork will be analyzed, along with the evaluation of other types of SERS films
Galois Theory and the Insolvability of a Quintic
No full textThe objective of this study is to explore whether it is possible to obtain a general solution for fifth degree or higher polynomial equations whilst emulating what doing research may look like in a graduate mathematics setting. To accomplish this, Galois theory will be needed along with a deep understanding of Abstract Algebra principals necessary to address the problem statement and give context to the complexities of the subject matter
2024 Otterbein Honors Convocation Program
Full text linkHonors Program Commencementhttps://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/commencement/1017/thumbnail.jp
Educating Nurses on Frequent Oral Care for Mechanically Ventilated Patients: An Evidence-Based Practice Project Proposal
Full text linkThe final scholarly project proposal is to implement oral care education for nurses in an intensive care unit (ICU). The proposal aims to create a guideline for an investigator to implement oral care recommendations for mechanically ventilated patients in order to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The proposal consists of obtaining VAP data and oral care charting data for the unit studied, steps for providing oral care education, and analysis recommendations. Oral care involves swabbing the patient’s mouth every two hours with a swab and mouthwash. Oral care education would include handouts and direct teaching. The proposal aims to increase oral care charting rates and decrease ventilator-associated pneumonia after educating the unit’s nurses. There will also be recommendations for future practice in the unit and other ICUs. Dissemination will include a poster, presentation, paper, and submission to Digital Commons.
Keywords: Oral care, ventilator, pneumonia, ventilator-associated pneumonia, nursin
Unintended Consequences? An Experimental Investigation of the Impact of Touching Zoo Animals on Children\u27s Conservation Attitudes
No full textAnimal encounters are a common method by which zoological institutions educate and engage their audiences (D’Cruze et al., 2019). However, little research has explored the potential unintended consequences of animal programming, such as the perception that the animals being presented outside of an exbibit by staff or volunteers make good pets. The exotic pet trade has negative consequences for threatened species in the wild and can be detrimental for the animals in captivity if they do not receive proper care (Hess, 2011; Moorhouse et al., 2017). In an experiment at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens, in Palm Desert, California, 227 children (ages 7 – 11) were assigned to different animal presentation styles as part of their participation in a three-day long summer camp. Children were either allowed to touch or not touch the tortoise being presented. We hypothesized that the ability to touch a tortoise would increase both the desire to conserve tortoises in the wild and the desire to own a tortoise as a pet. Our findings suggest that children’s ability to touch the tortoise did not impact their personal desire to own tortoises, though children who did touch the tortoise were more likely to think that other people should be able to own them. Our data also suggest that the children in both conditions increased their conservation intent implying that simply attending a nature-based camp improved their conservation attitudes. However, children who were able to touch the tortoise saw a greater increase in their conservation intent