Pavlov Patient Database

This project is implementing and deploying a functional patient database with customizable treatment plans and progress notes for Choices!, a counseling service center. To build this application and support the various requirements, several frameworks were considered for this project including Django, Flask, and Ruby on Rails. The Ruby on Rails suite was selected for reasons of existing familiarity for the team. Existing libraries within Rails allow for a choice of several database engines; MySQL, Postgresql, MongoDB, and NoSQL were considered. MySQL was adopted as a result of the extensive documentation and for continuity with the previous solution. Front-end requirements were met with a combination of HTML and Javascript, linked to a Bootstrap 5 framework in order to streamline user accessibility. A key quality desired by the customer was ease-of-use, to encourage higher efficiency and easy adoption by the stakeholders. In the process of development, secure data handling also emerged as a further and highly-desired attribute

Farm to Migrant and Seasonal Head Start In Action

Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) is a division of Head Start that serves the needs of migrant and seasonal farmworkers' children and their families and operates seasonally based on the needs of agricultural labor.1 Qualifying families earn at least 50% of their income from employment in fishing, agriculture, or agriculturalrelated work. MSHS operates in 40 states and provides services to more than 37,000 children annually, including early education services; medical, dental, and mental health screenings and referrals; nutritional services; parental involvement activities; and referrals to social service providers.2 Programs are run by a regional grantee organization that oversees multiple sites, coordinates services, and often addresses food procurement. With a built-in connection to agriculture and seasonal operation, integrating farm to early childhood education (ECE) food purchasing and education practices is a natural fit to enhance quality programming

Rapid Recovery

A poster presented by Abby Smith, Adnan Shaik, Alex Reliford, Ella Abney, Ethan Lawhorn and Micah Brown for the class Business, Accounting, and Entrepreneurship.https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/gsp_projects_2019/1013/thumbnail.jp

Recycling and Practicing Sustainability at UMF

Students in the Fall 2022 First-year Fusion course titled “The Sustainable Campus” used the UMF campus as a learning laboratory to examine how principles of environmental sustainability and stewardship are put into practice in their own academic backyard. Throughout the semester, they researched, observed, visited, assessed, and reported on a host of sustainability-related initiatives undertaken over the years at UMF. In this final project presentation, the class offers its recommendations on how UMF can continue its mission to maintain an environmentally aware and sustainably operated campus

Representation of Aging Women in Fashion and Non-fashion Advertisements

The purpose of this study was to investigate how older women are represented in fashion media compared to non-fashion media, based on the social comparison theory

Alpha band prefrontal asymmetry does not underlie pain approach-avoidance: Results from two EEG studies

Pain research is often focused on escape from pain or approach of relief, yet individuals with chronic pain make complex choices to face their pain to satiate other drives (approach-avoidance conflicts). An abundance of research has indicated that prefrontal alpha band asymmetry (PFA) underlies approach-avoidance in general, but there is limited information about whether PFA underlies pain approach-avoidance conflicts. Electroencephalogram activity was recorded while 70 participants with chronic pain (n=33) and without chronic pain (n=37) approached/avoided stimuli containing simultaneous pain (low-high) and monetary reward (low-high). Findings from both studies revealed that approach-avoidance for pain stimuli is not accompanied by prefrontal asymmetry, irrespective of the presence of chronic pain

The Future of Textiles: Disruption and Collaboration

The textile field, while not “local” in the geographic sense, is a community: a group of people with a shared language, history, and practices that date back thousands of years. As deeply-rooted as those materials and practices are, textiles is also an area that has historically experienced enormous disruptions due to changing technology and globalization. In the 21st century, we are undergoing something like a second Industrial Revolution. Advances in digital and robotic technologies and shifting labor markets are driving a revolution in where and how things are made. Global climate change, lack of food security for much of the world’s population, and concern about overwhelming quantities of waste and toxic pollution are altering our priorities for land and resource management. These challenges are bringing together the formerly opposed approaches of handcraft and high-tech, organic and artificial in new and unexpected ways. Venturing into the field of textiles today is taking a bold step into a constellation of disciplines that, on the surface, may not appear to have much in common with the history of cloth. But the future of textiles will rely on cross-collaborations in areas of science, medicine, engineering, technology, agriculture, waste management, and other specialties, as well as an understanding of the balance required for environmentally and economically sustainable textile production. The panel will discuss the changes that are taking place in the textile field and will present new and burgeoning areas in the textile industry including commercially viable smart textiles, non-petroleum synthesized fibers, waterless dyeing, alternative manufacturing strategies, and sustainable practices. It will celebrate positive disruptions and cross-disciplinary collaborations that will enlarge and enrich the textile community, and demonstrate once again the resiliency of its social fabric

The Vehicle, Fall 1996

Vol. 38, No. 1 Table of Contents DarcyMichael Maypage 1 Time in TimeJoe Howardpage 2 Sestina for DyingAmy Haynespage 3 VioletsSandra Beauchamppage 5 Melody\u27s SongSandra Beauchamppage 7 A Spinning Top ContemplationThomas T. Brownpage 10 Lady of the NightShari Grierpage 13 The Difference Between a Hand and a Killing JarJason S. Loguepage 14 The Bat I KilledMichael Maypage 15 UntitledKimberly Mannypage 16 ReleaseKimberly Mannypage 17 Fountain in the RainEric Chisauskypage 18 War, the Old Fashioned WayCarmella Cosenzapage 19 AloneCarmella Cosenzapage 20 MotelMichael Maypage 21 UntitledAndrea Traxlerpage 22 UntitledMichael Maypage 23 From Across the CourtyardShannon Goodallpage 24 CommunionShannon Goodallpage 26 Please Come HomeKendall W. Baumannpage 27 UntitledMichael Maypage 29 Indefinite SacrificeAmanda Watsonpage 30 Recovery RoomAbby Kollerpage 31 Questioning FaithMichael Kawapage 31 MerulaMichael Maypage 32 Biographiespage 33https://thekeep.eiu.edu/vehicle/1066/thumbnail.jp

Acute Pesticide Illnesses Associated with Off-Target Pesticide Drift from Agricultural Applications: 11 States, 1998–2006

Background: Pesticides are widely used in agriculture, and off-target pesticide drift exposes workers and the public to harmful chemicals