STATE GENERAL REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES IN FLORIDA

Public Economics,

Abigayle Cothran ART 399 Portfolio

After my mother passed away, my interest in her old photos grew, and I became intrigued by changes throughout time. With everything in my own life changing so much, I began searching for consistencies in the photos. Through my grief, I needed there to be things that hadn’t changed and would not change. There had to be something that had remained unchanging. Anything that hadn’t been touched by time could be something that connected me to her. The people in the collection of photos stayed the same, but their appearances were ever changing. The rooms and the homes were always different. The places and cities never stayed the same. But, soon I noticed a dining room table. It showed up in many photos. Everytime in a different room. Everytime one of my parents, or both, were sitting at it. And now that very same table sits in my own dining room so many years later. A table that’s been a constant for nearly 5 decades. An old table is not something I ever would have considered special, but now it is something I can find comfort and peace in. My paintings are naturalistic; I strive to honor the details and accuracy of the moment I am painting. The scenes I choose are significant, so the time put into studying and recreating every detail is important. I am inspired by Jeremy Lipking’s ability to use refined levels of definition and detail, while leaving other areas vague and loose, and how he uses subtle color shifts to achieve a more naturalistic look. I also look to Ekua Holmes as inspiration for her use of vibrant colors and seemingly unimportant moments to explore ideas of childhood and family bonds. This series of paintings maps the inevitable transformation of lives, environments, and relationships across 5 decades from the steadfast perspective of a dining room table. Through my work, I encourage my audience to consider the enduring constants within their own lives.https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/art399/1155/thumbnail.jp

Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums

The Power of Remains: America’s Bone Rooms Impact on the Making and Unmaking of Scientific Racism Museums throughout North American and Europe today contain a surprising number of human bones. U.S. museums house an estimated 500,000 Native American remains with another 116,000 sets of bone...

Comparison of non-pharmacologic pain interventions for NICU infants

Infants in the NICU unfortunately have to endure repeated procedures that cause pain. Over time, these painful experiences can compound into larger issues. Infants receiving repeated procedures with uncontrolled pain can develop neurological issues in the future. Because infants have no way of verbally expressing the pain that they experience, their pain can often be overlooked. Premature infants have underdeveloped kidneys and livers leaving them at risk for adverse outcomes to some pharmacological interventions, especially opioids if not given at the correct dose. This highlights the importance of non-pharmacologic interventions to reduce pain. This proposed project would help to determine the best interventions to help decrease the pain that NICU infants experience. The purpose of this project is to compare different non-pharmacological pain interventions and evaluate their effectiveness in treating acute pain in premature NICU infants born between 28 and 40 weeks. Evaluation of the differences in pain experienced by infants during a heel lance while using sucrose, kangaroo care, non-nutritive sucking, facilitated tucking, breastfeeding, and a combination of some of these interventions will be conducted. While there is research literature indicating that these interventions are effective, there is a lack of research accurately comparing the effectiveness of each intervention. An initial control PIPP-R score will be collected with no pain intervention used during the first heel lance. Each time a subsequent heel lance is needed, a different intervention or combination of interventions will be used. A PIPP-R score will be taken during each intervention. These scores will be averaged by intervention and compared with each other intervention. This will indicate a general most effective pain management technique to ideally control acute pain in all NICU infants

Internal Controls in Small City Government

The flexible design multiple case study was performed to broaden the understanding of the possible rationale for city government officials\u27 failing to implement effective internal controls related to the global business problem of occupational fraud. The leadership of an organization should assume a stewardship attitude to reduce fraud risk by designing, implementing, monitoring internal controls, and testing their effectiveness. Asset misappropriation from occupational fraud results in the loss of assets and potential business failure. The research questions explored the internal control procedures implemented to prevent and detect property theft. Additionally, the research questions addressed the strategies implemented to establish segregation of duties and testing of internal controls for effectiveness. The stewardship theory was utilized to understand the leader\u27s responsibility to protect the assets. The fraud triangle theory was applied to evaluate if internal controls were designed to monitor each of the three components. Interviews of 25 participants involved with small city governments in the central United States were conducted, and coinciding city documents were reviewed. The researcher identified five themes as the result of coding the data collected. The findings included how the leadership failed to design internal controls to monitor the pressure and rationalization components of the fraud triangle theory, or test internal controls for effectiveness. The researcher also discovered the leaders’ have a stewardship attitude to protect the assets from misappropriation. The study was conducted to improve business practices based on Biblical precepts of exhibiting exceptional stewardship over God-given authority