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2023-2024 Boise State University Undergraduate Catalog
This catalog is primarily for and directed at students. However, it serves many audiences, such as high school counselors, academic advisors, and the public. In this catalog you will find an overview of Boise State University and information on admission, registration, grades, tuition and fees, financial aid, housing, student services, and other important policies and procedures. However, most of this catalog is devoted to describing the various programs and courses offered at Boise State
Biosimilars in Europe
This reprint examines regulatory, pricing and reimbursement issues related to the market access and uptake of off-patent biologics, biosimilars, next-generation biologics and competing innovative medicines in European countries
The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome
On October 16, 1943, the Jews of Rome were targeted for arrest and deportation. The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome examines why—and more importantly how—it could have been avoided, featuring new evidence and insight into the Vatican’s involvement. At the time, Rome was within reach of the Allies, but the overwhelming force of the Wehrmacht, Gestapo, and SS in Rome precluded direct confrontation. Moral condemnations would not have worked, nor would direct confrontation by the Italians, Jewish leadership, or even the Vatican.
Gallo underscores the necessity of determining what courses of actions most likely would have spared Italian Jews from the gas chambers. Examining the historical context and avoiding normative or counterfactual assertions, this book draws upon archival sources ranging from diaries to intelligence intercepts in English, Italian, and German.
With antisemitism on the rise today and the last remaining witnesses passing away, it is essential to understand what happened in 1943. The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome grapples with this particular, awful episode within the larger, horrifying story of the Holocaust. Despite the inadequacy of memory, we must continue to attempt to make sense of the inexplicable.https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/purduepress_ebooks/1065/thumbnail.jp
Innovative Evidence-Based Assessment and Treatment of Oropharyngeal Dysphagia and Communication Disorders in Infants and Young Children at High Risk of Cerebral Palsy
Infants with cerebral palsy (CP) have concomitant feeding and communication disorders with lifelong detrimental consequences, including premature death. Early detection and intervention for these deficits is under-researched. This thesis investigates evidence, current practice, innovative assessment, and novel intervention for these domains.
To critically appraise evidence for all interventions for children with CP, a large-scale systematic review was conducted. There is high level evidence to support the use of electrical stimulation alongside oral sensory motor interventions, and Functional Chewing Training. Low positive evidence exists supporting direct intervention for literacy, parent training and augmentative alternative communication for language and communication disorders.
An international survey of dysphagia practice revealed lack of alignment with evidence, with few patients receiving gold standard assessments, adaptation over direct treatment, and children receiving less-intensive treatment than adults.
Ultrasound and Fibreoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing were piloted as novel instrumental assessments of OPD in infants with CP. These tools show promise for safe early detection of OPD and warrant more research to establish psychometrics.
A second systematic review was undertaken to determine evidence for OPD interventions specifically for infants with CP. Results found that neuroplasticity and motor learning-based interventions are most promising.
The Baby Intensive Early Active Treatment (BabiEAT) program was then designed to harness plasticity and was tested against standard care in a pilot randomised control trial. Results showed that BabiEAT was feasible and acceptable, and conferred superior gains in feeding and parental quality of life while maintaining health and safety.
To limit preventable death and optimise outcomes, speech pathologists must keep abreast of evidence, upskill, and implement new successful approaches
2023-2024 Lynn University Academic Catalog
The 2023-2024 Academic Catalog initially published as a web-only document.
The Department of Marketing and Communication created a PDF version, which is available for download here.https://spiral.lynn.edu/accatalogs/1052/thumbnail.jp
Canadians Redefining R&B: The Online Marketing of Drake, Justin Bieber, and Jessie Reyez
In a country that long failed to accept, include, and institutionalize R&B music as part of Canadian culture, musical artists Justin Bieber, Drake, and Jessie Reyez have successfully broken-down barriers by having successful careers as racially diverse Canadian R&B artists. This qualitative study surveys the literature on classifications of the R&B genre and of Canadian identities in popular media. The theoretical framework of discourse analysis is used to conduct a brief episodic history of Canadian R&B and to evaluate how the music genre “R&B,” is traditionally associated with people who have Black and American identities, and how a “Canadian” identity is traditionally associated with “white” and “folk” musical artists. I conclude that the ascription of racialized and nationalized identities is found to play a role in each artist\u27s respective inclusion, exclusion, and/or authentication vis a vis R&B. I evaluate how Bieber, Drake, and Reyez each articulate “R&B-ness” and “Canadian-ness” to represent multiple, yet equally Canadian national narratives through their Canadian R&B artist lifestyle brands. In exploring ideas of national identity, intersectionality, digital celebrity, branding, and marketing related to contemporary Canadian popular music genres, the dissertation seeks to answer the question: How have the careers of Justin Bieber, Drake, and Jessie Reyez reinforced, complicated, and/or challenged hegemonic understandings of both “Canadian-ness” and “R&B-ness”? Through textual analyses of their social media posts, brand partnerships, interviews, music videos, and music lyrics, the dissertation traces out how multicultural Canadian artists Bieber, Drake, and Reyez broke into the music industry as “digital stars” (Harvey, 2017) by using online communication strategies, alongside traditional industry practices (such as networking with music industry gatekeepers). A particular focus involves Drake’s, Bieber’s, and Reyez’s brand partnerships and social media strategies, between 2019 and 2022, when the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the significance of online communications, and the Black Lives Matter movement encouraged changes to race-based music industry classifications. The dissertation includes insights from interviews conducted with 35 U.S. and Canadian marketing professionals and music industry executives in 2020. This study is applicable to explorations of how race, nationality, and music genre categories are classified, cultural branding, and contemporary marketing strategies
Active Imagination, Wellbeing and Ways of Seeing: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Experiences of Adult Learners with Visual Impairments
Six female and two male adult learners who became blind between the ages of 20 and 75 years participated in this study conducted by a blind researcher. The purposely sampled eight were interviewed virtually by way of Zoom. In combination with Johnny Saldana’s work on codes, this study used the NVivo framework for determining structuring categories, selecting node themes, code frameworks and final codes from the first interview. 291 codes were clustered under 26 node themes. NVivo’s word frequency search and Word Tree were applied to clarify and lend a number value to participants’ codes. The second interview, administered after participants had listened and read the first, was treated to the psychological features inherent in interpretive phenomenological analysis, and the relational research tendencies drawn from Carol Gilligan and Jessica Eddy which granted participatory voice to the marginalized, their wellbeing and ways of seeing. The expert group through their codes, provided answers to three research questions: (i) what value do adult learners with visual impairment say they place on using their active imaginations; (ii) what are the various imagination experiences adult learners with visual impairments report they encounter; and (iii) what do adult learners with visual impairments believe are the factors and conditions that promote and hinder the use of their imagination and active imaginations. The blind experts reported that active imagination permeated and enhanced their memory, that is, remembering; their visualizing and picturing, and energized the use of their other senses as they created in, and navigate personal and public spaces. Imagination experiences ranged from depression to strengthening of faith, the discovery of value in caretakers to final acceptance and wholeness. The factors and conditions that hindered or promoted were spread across their 291 codes and significantly, identified changing their impressions of themselves as the point of entrance to their healing and psychological wellbeing
Gaming Capitalism in the Service of a People: A multidisciplinary Study of the Chickasaw Nation
The story of the emergence and growth of contemporary economic development for Native American tribes and particularly those in the gaming industry, is an intriguing one. It is a story that spans more than three decades. It essentially, for many tribes, changes their position from that of an impoverished people to utilizing this industry, to build their identity and strength. However, the story of one of those Indian Nations, the Chickasaw Nation, and their emergence to become such a big player in the gaming industry in Oklahoma and ultimately a major economic engine in the State of Oklahoma, is a particularly intriguing one. The Chickasaw Nation is the 13th largest federally recognized tribe in the United States and has more than 73,000 tribal citizens. They pump $2.4 billion into the state economy and have 16,000 wage earners benefitting from employment. Their success exceeds that of many Native American tribes. And, while gaming is their predominant revenue stream for the Nation, they diversify and generate other revenue streams which contribute to the local and state economy as well as engage in philanthropic efforts within their jurisdictional boundaries and across the state. Their revenue generation has allowed them to build their social capital in programs and services by giving back to their tribal citizens to further their mission “to enhance the overall quality of life for the Chickasaw people.” In summary, the history of the Chickasaw people is intriguing as well as is their ability to navigate and negotiate with both the federal and state governments. They possess a strong three-branch government (executive, legislative, and judicial), uphold their constitution, sustain continuous strategic leadership, and ultimately protect their sovereignty. It would appear those tools have positioned the Chickasaw Nation to sustain and grow in their economic success, make a significant contribution to their people, the state in which they reside as well as poise themselves for future challenges
SoK: Log Based Transparency Enhancing Technologies
This paper systematizes log based Transparency Enhancing Technologies. Based
on established work on transparency from multiple disciplines we outline the
purpose, usefulness, and pitfalls of transparency. We outline the mechanisms
that allow log based transparency enhancing technologies to be implemented, in
particular logging mechanisms, sanitisation mechanisms and the trade-offs with
privacy, data release and query mechanisms, and how transparency relates to the
external mechanisms that can provide the ability to contest a system and hold
system operators accountable. We illustrate the role these mechanisms play with
two case studies, Certificate Transparency and cryptocurrencies, and show the
role that transparency plays in their function as well as the issues these
systems face in delivering transparency
Breakfast After the Bell - A Nutrition-Based Solution to Improving Education Access and Quality in Cleveland County Secondary Schools
This proposal describes a school nutrition program that will improve education access and quality by addressing chronic absenteeism for the secondary students at Cleveland County Schools (CCS). Chronic absenteeism or missing more than 10% of school days, is linked to poor academic performance and serious health issues that persist into adulthood. Nationally, rural schools, like those in Cleveland County, have higher absence rates compared to suburban schools. Breakfast After the Bell (BAB) is an evidence-based program proven to improve school attendance and provides school breakfast through three different, school-dependent models. This program would incorporate an interdisciplinary approach between CCS and the Cleveland County Public Health Department (CCPHD), while focusing on primary stakeholders like students and families. Addressing nutrition and school attendance will result in improved school attendance, graduation rates, educational attainment, and health outcomes.Master of Public Healt
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