198 research outputs found
The View
No full textKatelyn Swanson is a sophomore at Louisiana Tech University studying English with a concentration in creative writing. Katelyn has goals of becoming a published author. She fell in love with writing in high school, and the rest has been history. She loves experimenting with different styles of writing and in different types of art as well. When she is not creating, you can find her playing video games in her room or cheering on the Bulldogs on the football field with the LA Tech color guard
what\u27s the point: For Brittany
No full textKatelyn Swanson is a sophomore at Louisiana Tech University studying English with a concentration in creative writing. Katelyn has goals of becoming a published author. She fell in love with writing in high school, and the rest has been history. She loves experimenting with different styles of writing and in different types of art as well. When she is not creating, you can find her playing video games in her room or cheering on the Bulldogs on the football field with the LA Tech color guard
Proposed New Legislation to Improve Animal Living Conditions
No full textEnacting California’s proposition 2 in every state.Fall 2012 PMAccompanied by video fil
Use of mesotrione for annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.) at cool-season turfgrass establishment
No full textAnnual bluegrass is a problematic weed in highly maintained turfgrass environments, and is difficult to control due to its adaptability to highly maintained turfgrass environments and lack of highly effective chemical control options. Mesotrione is a relatively new herbicide which has been found to show some level of control of annual bluegrass, and is safe to use at cool season turfgrass establishment. Thus, mesotrione has potential to be utilized for weed control in cultivated sod production. The objectives of this research were to evaluate mesotrione to determine: 1) tolerance of selected tall fescue cultivars, an important turfgrass species cultivated for sod, to applications of mesotrione; 2) the length of residual of mesotrione versus prodiamine, bensulide and dithiopyr for control of annual bluegrass; and 3) potential of mesotrione to control winter annual broadleaf weeds at Kentucky bluegrass establishment. Tall fescue cultivars were found to be tolerant to mesotrione applications made preemergence and preemergence plus 4 weeks after emergence at higher rates than required for weed control. Significant cover reductions were only observed at the 1.12 kg ha-1 application rate of mesotrione, which is four times the highest labeled rate for weed control. There was little difference in the response of the seven tall fescue cultivars iii evaluated suggesting minor intraspecific variability between tall fescue cultivars to mesotrione. When applied to bare ground, mesotrione provided 48% annual bluegrass control in the fall and annual bluegrass control decreasing to 20% in the following spring. Prodiamine, bensulide and dithiopyr provided much greater levels of annual bluegrass control and high levels of control were maintained into the following spring. These results suggest that although mesotrione has some activity on newly germinating annual bluegrass it is much lower relative to prodiamine, bensulide and dithiopyr. Mesotrione was found to be more effective for winter annual broadleaf weed control when applied POST compared to PRE. For overall winter annual broadleaf weed control mesotrione should be applied PRE at rates of 0.21 kg ha-1 or higher and POST at 0.14 kg ha-1 or higher. The results of these studies demonstrate that mesotrione is safe for use in newly seeded tall fescue and previous studies have shown similar findings with Kentucky bluegrass. The safety of mesotrione to these two economically important turfgrass species widely grown for cultivate sod combined with its ability to control winter annual broadleaf weeds and suppress annual bluegrass demonstrate that is a new and valuable component to an overall weed control program in cultivated sod production.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Katelyn A. Venne
Breaststroke
No full textThis collection of short fiction explores themes of loneliness, loss of love, and self-worth in a strange, often humorous fashion. The characters face challenges that present themselves in ways that exist only within imagined worlds: a woman’s heart leaves her body after a bad breakup, a captive entertainer is let out of her glass cage, a group of children become violent after they discover their new friend can perform shape-shifting. Together, the stories try to capture what it means to move through a transformative period in one’s life.M.F.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Katelyn Catinell
Health Care Utilization and Costs Among Transition-Age Young Adult Medicare Beneficiaries With Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Date Presented 3/30/2017
Our study of Medicare claims found that young adults with autism spectrum disorder (N > 5,500) experienced low rates of preventive and occupational therapy (OT) and physical therapy service use and high rates of emergency department use. There is a need for wellness and preventive services, creating opportunities for OT to develop interventions to improve care.
Primary Author and Speaker: Teal W. Benevides
Contributing Authors: Henry Carretta, Katelyn Graves</jats:p
The impact of social media on intercollegiate athletics
No full textSocial media is being used amongst intercollegiate athletic departments, student-athletes and the NCAA. This study seeks to understand the impact of social media on intercollegiate athletics. More precisely, this study looks into the specific policies set-forth by the NCAA and individual athletic departments. Existing research has established the importance of social media in intercollegiate athletics but there is still some confusion as to how social media can and should be used. Unfortunately, policies do fail to elaborate on the proper tactics student-athletes should be using when engaging in social media platforms. In order to establish best practices of social media by student-athletes, this study looked into policies that contained social media strategies. Third party consultants in some cases were also used as potential solutions. This study also illustrated examples of how student-athletes and intercollegiate athletic programs have suffered the consequences as a result of their actions on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. There may always be a cause for concern when dealing with social media because of how quickly information is being shared as technological advancements continue to prosper.M.A.L.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Katelyn P. Mille
Markerless clinical gait identification using computer vision techniques and artificial intelligence
No full textPose estimation algorithms could provide an unbiased examination for diagnosis, progression, and rehabilitation. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was 1) to critically identify and appraise literature investigating spatiotemporal and kinematic gait characteristics in individuals with idiopathic Parkinson\u27s Disease and spastic diplegic Cerebral Palsy compared to healthy controls; 2) to examine the validity and reliability of spatiotemporal gait characteristics and upper- and lower-body joint kinematics of OpenPose and the agreement with marker-based motion capture in healthy individuals; and 3) to examine the sensitivity, specificity and predictive values of a proposed clinical diagnostic tool using OpenPose in the diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson\u27s disease, spastic diplegic Cerebral Palsy and non-pathological gait. METHODS: First, meta-analysis was performed using the random-effects model for variables with at least three studies. Next, data (motion capture and digital video) were retrieved from an available dataset (Kwolek et al., 2019) and spatiotemporal gait characteristics and joint angle kinematics were calculated. One-way repeated measure ANOVAs, mean absolute errors, and ICC values were performed and calculated. Finally, reference data was retrieved from available literature, and 143 input videos were input into an identification MATLAB script. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive and negative predictive values, and likelihood ratios were calculated. RESULTS: Individuals with idiopathic Parkinson\u27s disease and spastic diplegic Cerebral Palsy exhibited gait deviations when compared to healthy individuals. OpenPose can estimate spatiotemporal gait characteristics and sagittal upper and lower extremity joint angles in healthy gait. OpenPose performed with 32.47% and 93.10% sensitivity for Parkinson\u27s disease and Cerebral Palsy, respectively. CONCLUSION: OpenPose could possess the capability to be implemented in a proposed diagnostic tool for distinguishing gait disorder
The Use of Web-Based Resources to Facilitate Stroke Rehabilitation: A Scoping Review
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Date Presented 4/1/2017
A scoping review was completed to summarize and identify gaps in the literature on the use of web-based resources for stroke rehabilitation and to summarize and analyze the content of active websites that address stroke rehabilitation.
Primary Author and Speaker: Grace Kim
Additional Authors and Speakers: Marisa Davison, Cara Flinter, Nylah Lummer, Katelyn Ryan, Mallori Seliger
Contributing Authors: Patricia Foen, Erica Oh, Jason Park</jats:p
Children's folklore in the academic library: Reorganization for context and collection management
No full textTraditional literature (including folk tales, fairy tales, and fables) is valued in academic children's literature collections for its value in both direct use (real or hypothetical) with children and the historical, cultural, and anthropological study of folklore. The “timeless” feel of these works, along with their distinctively liminal place between fiction and nonfiction, can lead them to be perceived as indefinitely useful, even beyond their unusually long standard retention period. Nevertheless, in a non-archival academic children’s literature collection, routine assessment of traditional literature is necessary and even valuable. This article situates traditional literature in the context of children’s literature and its academic study, then describes how the children’s folklore collection in one academic library was bifurcated to improve access, browsing ability, context, and use of shelf space. Considerations, including thoughts on developing assessment and weeding criteria, are spelled out for collections considering a similar undertaking
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