Correlation of Clinical Signs/Symptoms and Oxygen Saturation in the Hypoxic Patient

Hypoxia is a condition in which the body lacks oxygen, and is a problem for some populations. Hypoxia in otherwise healthy adults normally happens in situations that would prohibit the use of standard diagnostic tools, such as underwater diving and aviation. Furthermore, the loss of consciousness that follows untreated hypoxia has a high chance of being fatal in these situations. Certain programs like NASA and some military training centers induce hypoxia in their students so they can understand firsthand what signs/symptoms occur, and that they need to fix a problem. However they do not provide a concise progression to these signs/symptoms, so it is impossible to know how severely an individual has become hypoxic. This implies a population that is in need of a way of knowing when they or their partner are beginning to suffer hypoxia without the use of an electronic device or tool, and to know how severe the hypoxia is

Archetype, hybrid, and prototype : modernism and House beautiful's small house competition, 1928-1942

"Domestic architecture lagged behind commercial architecture in accepting new forms of architectural representations and styles, including Modernism. This thesis undertakes the initial question of when and how Modernism began to appear in domestic architecture. House Beautiful's Small House Competition serves as the primary evidence of residences built in America by professional architects for specific clients between the years of 1928 and 1942. By documenting the competition, the research also confronts the question, not simply of Modernism as an architectural form, but Modernism as an accepted means of representation for architects and critics, in the magazine, and the reception of their definition by House Beautiful readers. The thesis traces how the architectural process changes over time from one accepted form (archetype) to another (prototype), using Maxwell's "Two-Way Stretch" theory to uncover the changes. The research shows that, during the course of the competition, archetypes of traditional buildings yielded to hybrids that combined traditional architecture with Modern ideas."--Abstract from author supplied metadata

An investigation of the prediction of success in women's field hockey

The purpose of this study was to determine what, if any, predictive qualities could be identified in a group of skilled women field hockey players. The specific areas investigated were anxiety, visual perception, manual dexterity, ball control, and dynamic balance. Years of experience and playing position served as a secondary focus in the study. A total of 106 women field hockey players served as subjects. They were grouped according to the level of selection each achieved as a participant in the international selection and training camps sponsored by the United States Field Hockey Association during the summer of 1978. Players who entered one of the Level C camps (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) but were not selected to participate at the Level B camp (State College, Pennsylvania) were classified as the least successful group of skilled players. Those players who were selected from the Level B camp to participate in Level A camp were identified as the most successful group of field hockey players

A visual and textual analysis of transnational identity formation and representation

"This dissertation is an exploration of identity formation when crossing national boundaries and confronting disparate cultures and histories. Working with the assumption that identifying (or not) with local discourses informs behaviors and values, this study examines what questions emerge when one is immersed in discourses that were created beyond one's locality. Through weekly interviews with two exchange students who came to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro from Mexico, this inquiry explores how they situate themselves within and against their local discourses before, during and after the transnational experience. The author uses bricolage and brings together different ways of knowing: visual, textual, historical, personal, and analytical in order to explore this encounter with difference. Crossing national boundaries is an experience in which fixed notions are called into question through exposure to disharmonious realities. The purpose of using bricolage is to expose the readers to disharmony in hopes that their own questions emerge about the representation of culture and nature. Rather than leading the reader down a path in which an argument is built vertically, bricolage immerses the reader into a conversation and encourages the reader to make his or her own meaning in their engagement with the texts. By exploring the students' experiences through both a visual documentary and a textual discourse analysis, a comparison between the different forms of representation arises. Different questions and meanings emerge depending on which method the researcher is using. Different paradigms exist at the same time. The pedagogical implications challenge typical definitions of education. Rather than thinking about education as coming from an authority figure that has categorized phenomena for an audience to consume, this dissertation explores the educative experience of pulling apart fixed categories and meditating on the resulting dissonance. The former isolated notion of education complements the written media and the classroom environment. The latter notion considers visual media an important place to raise questions. It deems experience, i.e., traveling, educative and difficult questions central. And it regards considerations about the opportunities and limitations of visual texts, as well as, the opportunities and limitations of written texts as a priority."--Abstract from author supplied metadata

A history of the Southern Business Association

Business Education had its beginning in the United States in the seventeenth century when the curricula, offered by a private instructor engaged by Plymouth Colony in 1635, included reading and writing, and for those who intended to engage in simple mercantile pursuits of the times, casting of accounts. Although there are no records to confirm it, there seems to be little doubt that bookkeeping, navagation, and surveying were taught in Boston and New York City prior to 1700.

A quantitative examination of the ways parents and families interact with their students’ college following campus-sponsored engagement opportunities: events, e-newsletters, and a daily blog

Historically, a college or university’s main constituencies of interest were students, faculty, staff, and alumni (Bok, 2013; Donovan & McKelfresh, 2008; Wartman & Savage, 2008). In recent years, parents and families have claimed their own place in the university ecosystem: “the student-parent-institution dynamic has evolved from the doctrine of in loco parentis, with parents expecting the university to take care of their children, to this new situation where parents have a direct relationship with the university” (Sax & Wartman, 2010, p. 220). Colleges have responded to families’ desire for engagement by creating parent and family relations offices that provide programs and services for families (Savage & Petree, 2017). However, little empirical research exists to measure the relationship between parents and families and their student’s college, or the ways in which parent and family engagement could impact behaviors of interest to the school. The purpose of this study was to examine the ways in which parents and families interact with their students’ college following institutionally-sponsored engagement opportunities, and the resulting behavioral outcomes or attitudes that follow. This study used two-step cluster analysis to classify undergraduate parents and families (N = 1,001) at Wilson University (a pseudonym), the Southern, mid-sized university that was the focus of this study. Clustering of families was based on three types of school-sponsored engagement: attendance at Orientation (one-time engagement), readership of a monthly e-newsletter (semi-regular engagement), and readership of the Family 411 (pseudonym) daily blog (continuous engagement). Specific outcomes that were measured were parent and family intervention with administrators on the student’s behalf, sense of satisfaction with the institution, and charitable giving. This study draws upon Uses and gratifications theory and Organization-Public Relations (OPR) in examining family behaviors. Findings from the study show that there were statistically significant differences in intervention, satisfaction, and charitable giving among six clusters of Wilson University families. Post hoc pairwise comparisons revealed that those differences tended to be concentrated among clusters who had sizeable differences in their consumption of the Family 411 blog, or who did or did not attend Orientation. Overall, the families who were most engaged via Orientation attendance, blog reading, and e-newsletter reading intervened less, were more satisfied with the school, and made more charitable contributions. Further research is needed to determine how demographic differences between clusters may have contributed to those family behaviors. This study contributes to the literature by being the first known empirical study that investigates how a daily blog relates to the behavior of college parents and families, and begins to fill a gap in the knowledge of how to use blogs as a family engagement tool. Implications for practice include encouraging family relations offices to consider adding blogs to their family engagement offerings to create continuous engagement and using cluster analysis to understand the unique needs and behaviors of segments of their parent and family population

Moments of awareness

The history of writing would be enriched if it were known who wrote or told the first story. Yet, it hardly need be imagined that the first story was short, and that the first art form — the transformation of reality through means of the imagination — was the tale or brief story. It is one genre that has had many changes and any effort to classify it rigidly spells failure, for immediately there is the discovery of some classic which defies the rules. But this is not unusual; any attempt to catalogue forms of artistic expression is post facto; hence, more for the critic than for the creator

Recognition of Inductees 2020 and 2021

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, formal induction ceremonies were not held for inductees into the 2020 and 2021 cohorts into the Psi of Chapter California chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Chapman University. However, these students were recognized at the commencement ceremonies for the classes of 2020 and 2021 held in July and August 2021. 22 students were inducted into the 2020 cohort and 24 into the 2021 cohort. Please click here to watch the Phi Beta Kappa Welcome to the Classes of 2020 and 2021 video.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/pbk_induction_programs/1001/thumbnail.jp

2022 Phi Beta Kappa Induction Ceremony Program

The 2022 Induction Ceremony for the Psi of Chapter California was held on May 6, 2022 at the Hilbert Museum at Chapman University. In this ceremony, 19 outstanding students were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/pbk_induction_programs/1002/thumbnail.jp