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UMSL Bulletin 2022-2023
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The role and potential of trusted change agents and freight demand management in mitigating “Panic Buying” shortages
Get PDFThe goal of this research is to help develop effective freight demand management (FDM) programs to reduce the amounts of “panic buying” purchases. Such programs are indispensable because, as explained in the paper, in “panic buying” environments, supply chains are frequently unable to rapidly increase the amounts of critical supplies delivered to points of sales. Thus, reducing the demand is the only option to mitigate shortages. To reach this goal, this research assesses the potential of a novel FDM initiative that relies on Trusted Change Agents (TCAs) to convince individuals to limit their purchases of critical supplies, and outlines a comprehensive FDM program with initiatives spanning the entire disaster management cycle. The research: analyzes survey data to gain insight into the reasons people participate in “panic buying;” establishes that the term “panic buying” is a misnomer—as the instances of true “panic” are extremely rare—and suggests the term “Disaster Related Buying Behaviors” (DRBBs)” to better describe the phenomena; creates a data-driven taxonomy of objectives and motivating reasons for DRBBs; estimates a Structural Equation Model (SEM) to assess the strengths of the interconnections between reasons, themes, and objectives pursued by individuals who enact DRBBs; assesses the impacts of TCA appeals; identifies the initiatives needed, together with the timing and sequencing, to be conducted at the various stages of the disaster management cycle; identifies the stakeholders that ought to be involved in the executions of these initiatives; and puts these elements together to outline a comprehensive FDM program
Effectiveness of Follow up Phone Calls on Postpartum Women After Discharge: A Program Evaluation
Get PDFAfter an expectant mother gives birth, they are closely monitored for 48 to 72 hours after delivery and then discharged from the hospital. They are then typically seen by their physician for a postpartum follow up appointment within six to eight weeks for their postpartum follow up visit. Although complications during this postpartum period can still arise, postpartum women are rarely assessed during this time. Follow-up phone calls have been known to improve patient outcomes and communication between patients and providers once patients are discharged from the hospital. In January of 2020, the Mother/Baby Unit at a midwestern metropolitan hospital implemented the “call back” follow-up phone call system to mothers that had been discharged from the unit. This program was implemented in order to follow up with postpartum women during the Covid-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of follow up phone calls on postpartum women in the areas of follow up appointment attendance and continuation of breastfeeding 6 to 8 weeks (depending on mode of delivery) after discharge. This descriptive study design evaluated the efficiency of the follow-up call program and provided information regarding its effects on follow up appointment adherence and continuation of breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks after discharge. Randomized retrospective data from October 2019 (pre-intervention) and October 2020 (post-intervention) was included in this evaluation. According to the data analysis conducted, there was no statistical significance in follow up appointment attendance or breastfeeding continuation with postpartum women in October 2020 when compared to postpartum women in October 2019. However, a clinical significance was observed seeing that there was no decrease in follow up appointment attendance or breastfeeding continuation in both populations during the Covid-19 pandemic. I recommend continuing follow up phone calls and utilizing the results of this project to recognize areas for improvement and growth
American first-generation college students’ narratives of positive relationships with their school counsellors
Get PDFTrusting and supportive relationships with school counsellors can help first-generation college students access college despite barriers. In this narrative inquiry, 11 first-generation college students in the United States shared stories of their positive relationships with their former high school counsellors. After an iterative and consensus-based data analysis process, we summarised our participants’ grand narrative with five themes: family context, school counselling delivery, relationships with school counsellors, impact of relationships with school counsellors, and suggested improvements. Participants valued how school counsellors helped them advocate for themselves, build their confidence, and feel encouraged and accountable through individual meetings, career counselling, and college guidance. School counsellors can offer targeted and relational interventions to help first-generation college students access and persist through college
Topological Data Analysis of Convolutional Neural Networks Using Depthwise Separable Convolutions
Get PDFIn this dissertation, we present our contribution to a growing body of work combining the fields of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) and machine learning. The object of our analysis is the Convolutional Neural Network, or CNN, a predictive model with a large number of parameters organized using a grid-like geometry. This geometry is engineered to resemble patches of pixels in an image, and thus CNNs are a conventional choice for an image-classifying model.
CNNs belong to a larger class of neural network models, which, starting at a random initialization state, undergo a gradual fitting (or training) process, often a variation of gradient descent. The goal of this descent process is to decrease the value of a loss function measuring the error associated with the model’s predictions, and ideally converge to a model minimizing the loss. While such neural networks are known for generating accurate predictions in a wide variety of contexts and having a significant scalability advantage over many other predictive models, they are notoriously difficult to analyze and understand holistically.
TDA techniques, such as the persistent homology and Mapper algorithms, have been proposed as methods for exploring the CNN training process. As we will detail, Gunnar Carlsson and Richard Gabrielsson’s TDA work with CNNs has suggested fundamental similarities in the distributions underlying both 3-by-3 image patches in natural images and CNNs trained on these images, i.e., CNNs can learn topological information about their training data.
Our work aims to expand this use of TDA to an alternate CNN construction, using the technique of depthwise separable convolution. This construction requires fewer parameters to be trained and requires fewer multiplcation/addition operations than the CNNs discussed in the work of Carlsson and Gabrielsson, which are characterized by what we call the standard convolution. However, we observe that, when trained on a dataset of chest X-Rays, these models are able not only to perform well, but also learn similar topological information to their standard-convolution counterparts
Allied Health Faculty Members’ Perspective on Interprofessional Collaborative Practice: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study
Get PDFA framework for interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) (WHO, 2010) in response to the need to address the complicated conditions that exist in today’s health systems. Much of the focus of today’s health service delivery is predicated on the social determinants of health (Barzansky et al., 2019), which refer to the environmental conditions associated with where people are born, live, go to school, work, play, age, and worship that have an impact on health, function, quality of life, and risks (Healthy People 2030, n.d.). IPCP is thought to be the only approach effective enough to address these complicated systems associated with health (Bosch & Mansell, 2015). This co-authored dissertation explores what may impact the development of IPCP skills in allied health professionals. This study focused on the lived experiences associated with IPCP of four allied health providers at three points along their professional paths. Those points were as students, clinicians, and faculty members. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach included the use of semi-structured interviews to gather information associated with IPCP at these three points. The overall results indicate that IPCP education, exposure, and application vary among the participants. Two of the four participants appear to have had more experience with IPCP, which has implications for patient and client interventions and professional education programs in allied health. Future research is indicated to further examine implications from this study