The Grand Forks Business and Professional Women’s Club: A History of Women’s Empowerment

Members of the Grand Forks Business and Professional Women’s Club (GFBPWC) personified the intersection of consumer culture, Progressive reform, and the professionalization of women’s labor that occurred between 1890 and 1930. Their membership in the GFBPWC implied economic, political, and social empowerment and granted them an opportunity to actively participate in and transform their community. Not only were these professional women recognized as reputable, upstanding, and passionate members of their community, but they also saw themselves as agents of positive change and improvement within their own lives and for future generations. This study of the concurrent rise of consumer culture, Progressive reform, and the professionalization of women’s labor and the accompanying case study of the GFBPWC reveals the importance of identity and empowerment in the advancement and well-being of not only American women, but also their communities. Related document: The Grand Forks Business and Professional Women’s Club: A History of Women’s Empowerment Poste

Mindfulness through Biofeedback and Meditation Syllabus

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Corinthian Countrysides: Linked Open Data and Analysis from the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey

Corinthian Countrysides presents the datasets, analysis, and results of a large-scale intensive survey in the eastern territory of Corinth between 1997 and 2003. Carried out under a permit of the Greek Ministry of Culture granted through the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey investigated the Isthmus west of the Corinth Canal, a highly-connected transport corridor and densely settled area from prehistory to the present day, and sampled parts of the mountainous and coastal districts of the southeast Corinthia. Researchers recorded a rich body of evidence for habitation and land use covering all periods of human history and documented a materially abundant and varied landscape with few parallels in Greece or the Aegean basin. In Corinthian Countrysides, David K. Pettegrew offers the first comprehensive introduction to the project’s history, methods, analyses, and results in connection with primary online datasets published at Open Context. He provides a critical overview of the project’s major discoveries about the history of the Corinthian countryside and a case study of the new kind of data-centered distributional survey that has proliferated in the eastern Mediterranean in recent decades. Pettegrew shows how artifact-level survey and data-centered analyses open up new ways of rethinking Greek landscapes in terms of their most basic fundamental elements—the atomic traces of objects and features in distribution. In his outline of methods, categories, datasets, and source criticism, Pettegrew prepares readers to experiment, tinker, and play with open data as a process of making meaning about the Greek countryside. Corinthian Countrysides comprises an important critical edition of a new archaeological resource for understanding the history of Corinth’s territory.https://commons.und.edu/press-books/1025/thumbnail.jp

SSRI/SNRI Medication vs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in the Treatment and Management of Postpartum Anxiety

The purpose of this literature review is to determine the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors/Selective Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI/SNRI) in women suffering from postpartum anxiety. Efficacy of non-pharmacological, pharmacological, and combination therapy compared within this review. Lastly, prophylactic treatment of anxiety was examined in women who were pregnant or who were newly postpartum without diagnosis of anxiety. In this review the database PubMed was utilized to conduct research that included many different keywords. The articles included were limited to within the last 30 years, and research was narrowed by limiting patient population to postpartum women and eliminating articles that did not evaluate CBT or SSRI/SNRI medication as a form of treatment for anxiety during the postpartum period. The data presented shows evidence that CBT and SSRI/SNRI pharmacological treatment are effective in the treatment of postpartum anxiety, which indication that CBT is more effective in the short term, while pharmacological treatment may be more beneficial for patients needing long term treatment. Analysis of literature did not show any evidence suggesting statistically more significant reduction or remission of symptoms when combining non-pharmacological and pharmacological treatments. Further research should be conducted to explore potential benefits of prophylactic treatment in the antepartum period for postpartum anxiety.https://commons.und.edu/pas-grad-posters/1323/thumbnail.jp

Monoclonal Antibodies vs. Symptomatic Treatment of Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19

The SARS-CoV-2 virus, or COVID-19, was the virus responsible for the worldwide pandemic declared in March, 2020. Individuals can experience a wide variety of symptoms ranging from fever, fatigue, cough, and, in more severe cases, hypoxia requiring invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV). Until recently, symptomatic care was the protocol for patients infected with COVID- 19. The use of oxygen for mild hypoxia and antipyretics for fevers was considered the standard of care (SOC). The use of antiviral medications, such as monoclonal antibodies, has been proposed in the treatment of acute COVID-19 infection. The purpose of this literature review is to determine if monoclonal antibodies could be considered as treatment options for high-risk patients hospitalized with COVID-19. A literature review was performed on PubMed using the following MESH terms: COVID-19, monoclonal antibodies, and hospitalization. Articles from 2020 to the present were included in the search. Studies were limited to randomized control trials and clinical trials. Out of 97 total search results, 20 articles were relevant to the search. 10 articles were removed due to the studies being performed as outpatient procedures. Two studies were removed as they were reviews. There are three common goals throughout the studies analyzed in this literature review regarding the use of monoclonal antibodies in patients with COVID- 19. The first goal is to decrease the length of hospital admission, the second is to decrease the severity of symptoms, shown by a decrease in inflammatory markers, that may be lethal to more fragile patients, and the third is to reduce the overall mortality of COVID-19. The literature review showed monoclonal antibodies are beneficial when their mechanism of action causes direct inhibition of the inflammatory pathway.https://commons.und.edu/pas-grad-posters/1317/thumbnail.jp

Chinese Abacus

Chinese abacus made from wood and bones holding the wooden beads used for calculating.https://commons.und.edu/fritzcollection/1181/thumbnail.jp