The Positive Impact of Applying Economics to Communication Centers

Communication Centers as Uniquely Positioned to Benefit from Economic PraxisCommunication centers are essential for businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. These centers serve as a hub for communication between universities, speakers, and the public. Communication centers are also responsible for providing customer service, support, and information to speakers, staff, and their communities through various channels, such as phone calls, emails, chatbots, and social media platforms. According to Thomas Sowell, economics is the study of how people make decisions when resources are scarce, which is a particular specialty of communication centers (Sowell, 2019). The implementation of economic principles in communication centers can optimize their operations, increase efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction. This essay will specifically discuss the principles of cost-benefit analysis, supply and demand, the law of diminishing returns, marginal analysis, and game theory

Integration of Palliative Care for Improving Quality of Life in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

The purpose of this scholarly project is to determine if the integration of palliative care into COPD management provides an improvement in symptom burden associated with quality of life and end of life care when compared to the standard of care. A review of the literature was performed using the following electronic databases, and the use of keywords and mesh terms were used to define the set of literature that would be critically analyzed. A total of 16 articles achieved the necessary criteria for review and critical assessment. The literature reviewed various aspects related to symptom burden and symptom management associated with the disease, advanced care planning documentation, integration of palliative home care, and challenges surrounding integrating palliative care into standard care plans. The data shows that there was little statistical support for integrating palliative care to improve quality of life through more appropriate management of symptom burden associated with the disease. The literature did find support for the addition of palliative home care for improvements in advanced care planning. The scholarly project concluded that more research is needed to truly assess if palliative care has increased benefits in COPD management because there continues to be challenges that surround the integration of this specialty

Electron transfer within tetrathiafulvalene calix[4]pyrrole supramolecular ensembles

Over the last decade, the ecological need for clean and renewable energy sources has resulted in considerable resources being directed toward the development of systems capable of converting light energy into chemical energy. This has led to a focus on artificial photosynthetic systems and solar cell devices. These types of devices are desirable since they do not contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, as compared with fossil fuels. Organic solar cells (OSCs) are able to convert solar energy into chemical energy via photon absorption that creates a potential difference in the medium and results in electron transfer. The evolution and lifetime of the charge-separated state produced upon this electron transfer has proved difficult to mimic with synthetic materials. One well recognized problem is that to achieve efficient electron transfer, the rate of back electron transfer must be slower than that of forward electron transfer. Creating a molecular dyad that undergoes rapid electron transfer and results in a long lifetime is a key step in the creation of an organic solar cell that permits efficient solar energy conversion. One such way to achieve these systems is to employ supramolecular interactions to pre-organize the donors and acceptors in solution. The goal of the studies depicted in this dissertation was to explore whether tetrathiafulvalene substituted calix[4]pyrroles (TTF–C4Ps) paired with suitable electron acceptors would lead to systems that undergo electron transfer, either thermal or photoinduced, followed by the formation of stable charge-separated states. We chose to employ fullerenes (Chapter 2) and a porphyrin substituted with a carboxylate functional group (Chapter 3) as the acceptors in the putative electron transfer complexes since both are well known as photoabsorbers that have been extensively studied in photosynthetic model systems. The electron transfer from a TTF moiety of the calix[4]pyrrole to either fullerene or porphyrin was studied via UV-Vis-NIR, fluorescence, and electron spin resonance spectroscopies as well as with laser flash photolysis measurements and theoretical calculations. Chapter 4 details work in which TTF oxidation states were used to create a stable TTF mixed-valence dimer as well as a redox switched “on—off—on” fluorescent system.Chemistr

Child Centered Play Therapy

This session will provide a summary of Child Centered Play Therapy and highlight the meaning of play, tenets for relating to children, child-centered theoretical concepts, therapeutic relationship, characteristics of facilitative responses, and therapeutic limit setting. This creative and informative presentation will engage participants through case examples and previously recorded sessions

Ideologies of Mother Tongue at an Indian University: From Stage to Discussion

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