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Interview with Joyce Wicklund
No full textThe purpose of this qualitative life history study was to explore the evolution of occupational therapy (OT) practice through the life history of Joyce Wicklund, a retired occupational therapist who practiced in multiple settings in North Dakota and other states from 1970-2010. The researchers conducted one 1-hour semi-structured interview with Joyce Wicklund. Themes regarding her involvement in continuing education and her perspectives on the profession were synthesized from the interview data and compared with literature about continuing education and specialization in the field of OT. The predominant categories representing the major elements of her career were Maintaining Competence, Changing Demands of OT, and Ethical and Personal Challenges. The findings indicate that Joyce Wicklund experienced increasing demands and challenges over the course of her practice and she valued the pursuit of competence in her role as a practitioner. Joyce Wicklund was a gentle, caring, accomplished occupational therapist who contributed greatly to the profession of OT by practicing with integrity and passion. Her practice had a significant impact not only on the patients she worked with, but also on her colleagues and other health professionals with whom she interacted. Joyce’s legacy of masterful and skilled practice provides an example of how to face challenges, deal with changes in the healthcare system, and maintain competence through continued education
Life History of Joyce Wicklund
No full textThe purpose of this qualitative life history study was to explore the evolution of occupational therapy (OT) practice through the life history of Joyce Wicklund, a retired occupational therapist who practiced in multiple settings in North Dakota and other states from 1970-2010. The researchers conducted one 1-hour semi-structured interview with Joyce Wicklund. Themes regarding her involvement in continuing education and her perspectives on the profession were synthesized from the interview data and compared with literature about continuing education and specialization in the field of OT. The predominant categories representing the major elements of her career were Maintaining Competence, Changing Demands of OT, and Ethical and Personal Challenges. The findings indicate that Joyce Wicklund experienced increasing demands and challenges over the course of her practice and she valued the pursuit of competence in her role as a practitioner. Joyce Wicklund was a gentle, caring, accomplished occupational therapist who contributed greatly to the profession of OT by practicing with integrity and passion. Her practice had a significant impact not only on the patients she worked with, but also on her colleagues and other health professionals with whom she interacted. Joyce’s legacy of masterful and skilled practice provides an example of how to face challenges, deal with changes in the healthcare system, and maintain competence through continued education.https://commons.und.edu/ot-oral-histories-posters/1007/thumbnail.jp
Evolution of Occupational Therapy Practice: Life History of Joyce Wicklund
No full textThe purpose of this qualitative life history study was to explore the evolution of occupational therapy (OT) practice through the life history of Joyce Wicklund, a retired occupational therapist who practiced in multiple settings in North Dakota and other states from 1970-2010. The researchers conducted one 1-hour semi-structured interview with Joyce Wicklund. Themes regarding her involvement in continuing education and her perspectives on the profession were synthesized from the interview data and compared with literature about continuing education and specialization in the field of OT. The predominant categories representing the major elements of her career were Maintaining Competence, Changing Demands of OT, and Ethical and Personal Challenges. The findings indicate that Joyce Wicklund experienced increasing demands and challenges over the course of her practice and she valued the pursuit of competence in her role as a practitioner. Joyce Wicklund was a gentle, caring, accomplished occupational therapist who contributed greatly to the profession of OT by practicing with integrity and passion. Her practice had a significant impact not only on the patients she worked with, but also on her colleagues and other health professionals with whom she interacted. Joyce’s legacy of masterful and skilled practice provides an example of how to face challenges, deal with changes in the healthcare system, and maintain competence through continued education
General threat leading to defensive reactions: A field experiment on linguistic features
No full textSupported by several theoretical perspectives on motivation, we based an experiment on the idea that threat motivates people to become defensive and to choose that which is familiar and unequivocal in a given situation. The present eld experiment conrmed that a general relevant threat can motivate people in a linguistic multiculture to conform more rigidly to their own language, and hence accentuate their own linguistic singularity. In addition, an exploratory analysis of tolerance towards the competing language revealed that non-threatened people tended to open up toward the other language. A dual-motive model that accounts for opening-up versus defensive reactions is proposed
Non-ideal fit to a performance demand and the emergence of performance-related person categories
No full textEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOG
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Investigation of the phase transitions of pregelatinized waxy maize starch at low moisture contents
No full textA sub-Tg endotherm has been identified in many cereal-based, low moisture food systems, including several commercial varieties of crackers. Given the similarity of this endotherm to the retrogradation endotherm of amylopectin under higher moisture conditions, the presence of this endotherm may indicate structural changes in amylopectin occurring at low moisture contents that could lead to textural changes in the corresponding food system. Pregelatinized waxy maize starch was studied by MDSC as a function of moisture content and storage temperature. A sub-Tg endotherm was observed between 45-65°C in the non-reversing signal for pregelatinized waxy maize starch stored between 0 and 72% RH and over a storage temperature range from 5 to 35°C. The enthalpy of this transition was independent of storage temperature, but exhibited an exponential relationship with increasing moisture content. FTIR-ATR and 13C CP/MAS NMR identified the fundamental structural cause of the endotherm as the reorganization of amylopectin into double helices following gelatinization, but without the aggregation of the double helices into crystalline arrays that can occur during the full retrogradation process. The reorganization into double helices, and hence the development of the sub-Tg endotherm, was observed to increase with time according to Avrami kinetics, which is often used to describe crystallization processes. The Avrami exponent, n, was estimated at 0.24 and was found to be independent of starch moisture content. The Avrami rate constant, K, was exponentially correlated with starch moisture content similar to the enthalpy of the sub-Tg endotherm. In a model wheat-flour based cracker system the development of the sub-Tg endotherm, due to reformation of amylopectin double helical structure, was also found to follow Avrami kinetics and was correlated with a decrease in the hardness and an increase in the toughness of the crackers. This work confirms that staling and associated textural changes in low moisture starch-based food systems, such as crackers, is a result of reformation of amylopectin double helices without crystallization or aggregation of those helices that develops in high moisture starch-based food systems, such as bread.Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2016-07-07 without embargo termsThe student, Rachel Wicklund, accepted the attached license on 2016-02-28 at 20:29.The student, Rachel Wicklund, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2016-02-28 at 20:38.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-03-29 at 08:53.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9087 on 2016-07-07 at 13:27:34Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-07T19:52:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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