Occupational therapy’s role in using video games as an exercise modality for community dwelling older adults

Video games for physical rehabilitation have gained popularity in the clinic and community. This capstone project, completed at Cleveland State University, analyzed the physical, environmental, in-game, and real-world requirements for various Nintendo Switch games using therapeutic practice frameworks in order to incorporate them into clinical implications for health promotion and prevention.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/ot_capstone_posters/1016/thumbnail.jp

The Heart and Mind of Simone de Beauvoir

This thesis will examine Beauvoir\u27s views on women, her unique brand of feminism. The following questions will be pursued: How did Beauvoir break out of the traditional female role as a young woman? What were Beauvoir\u27s views on women in general? On various types of women? How do Beauvoir\u27s novels reflect her attitudes toward the condition of women? And why? How did other aspects of her thought- her attraction to existentialism and Marxism, her rebellion against her bourgeois background, affect her response to feminist issues

Public Education Fuels The Debate: Academic Outcomes Of Students Socially Promoted From Eighth Grade To High School

Using archival data, this cross-sectional, descriptive study investigated the path of core course enrollment and completion of middle school students socially promoted from eighth grade to high school in a small, urban school district during 2008 to 2012. Supported by research surrounding the development of public education, the debate of retention versus social promotion, and adolescent development, this study delved into social promotion and whether it was an equitable and socially-just educational practice. Though this study quantitatively portrayed a positive outcome for students socially promoted from middle school, the data also showed that a majority of these students continued to perform academically low in high school. Identification of the inconsistencies of student grades led to a discussion of the equity of traditional grading practices and whether they were an accurate portrayal of the knowledge and skills students possessed. Additionally, the available data raised questions about class size and individual instruction impacting the academic performance of these students. Critical reviews of the current educational system along with the establishment of major change are suggested to promote positive adolescent relationships/school bonding, allow equitable assessment of the knowledge and skills of students, and provide individual instruction with smaller core class sizes to meet the academic and social needs of adolescents in a socially-just manner

An Evaluation of Ohio Familicides Between 1959-1988

Research often suggests that simplified categorization of homicides is the best way to represent these cases. However, this oversimplification proves dangerous for the cases itself and the false patterns they attribute information to. In the case of familicide cases from The Ohio Domestic Violence Homicide Database it is revealed that these cases share more commonalities with non-familicidal spouse murders in regard to circumstances. Therefore, why do we define cases by a simplified generic label rather than using the rich detail present in these cases in a simplified way to represent them? An analysis of cases asserted to be familicides reveals a variety of circumstances that put the term familicide under question as the defining term used to represent these killings. Through newspaper accounts, police records, and The Ohio Domestic Violence Homicide Database as sources of information, familicide defined cases were tracked to reveal twenty spouse caused familicide defined cases. Through the careful examination of these cases, it is revealed that there are four definable themes that play heavily into the circumstances of these cases. These themes include shame, depression, marital problems, and possessiveness. The causes of possessive spousal familicides can be further broken down into custody disputes, jealousy, control issues, and rage. This paper aims to display the familicides that occurred between 1959 and 1988 in this random cluster of thirty-six Ohio counties are not easily categorized through the complex information present in these cases that identify additional themes.No embargoAcademic Major: Histor

An Organizing Framework for Specifying and Maintaining Catholic Identity in American Catholic Higher Education

All Catholic institutions are increasingly involved in discussions about what constitutes Catholic identity. It is a pressing question for schools, universities, hospitals, and social service agencies. As the debate proceeds on the possible implementation of formal norms for Catholic universities according to Ex Corde Ecclesiae, the question of Catholic identity becomes a most crucial for Catholic colleges and universities. Through a content analysis of literature on Catholic higher education, the author suggests a framework for specifying the content of Catholic identity. Within a structure of three major influences which are delineated in 18 categories, Catholic identity is described as a rich and multifaceted phenomenon

Learning Communities in Fraternity/Sorority Housing

The purpose of this study was to examine the degree to which members living in fraternity/sorority housing experienced learning outcomes associated with living in a residential learning community. Additionally, the study explored differences in the degree to which selected learning outcomes were achieved by members of fraternities compared to members of sororities. Data were collected by administering the Learning Communities Assessment (Turrentine, 2001) to members living in fraternity and sorority houses at a major research institution in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Respondents characterized their fraternity/sorority living experience as an important living community, but not as a learning community

Koinonia

Empowerment Model, C.G. Kors Dilemma: New Age Infiltration, Dan Janosik NASPA + ACPA National Conventions Conference Speakers; Pre-Conference Workshopshttps://pillars.taylor.edu/acsd_koinonia/1054/thumbnail.jp

The Effect of the Clery Act on Campus Judicial Practices

This article describes a study seeking to assess perceptions of campus judicial officers/members of the Association for Student Judicial Affairs (ASJA) regarding the effectiveness of the Clery Act (Campus Security Act) on campus judicial practices. In addition it provides information regarding overall effectiveness of Clery as perceived by the respondents. The researchers surveyed 1,143 members of the Association for Student Judicial Affairs (ASJA) whose institutions are covered by the Act. A total of 422 ASJA members returned questionnaires. This provided a response rate of 36.9%. The respondents included 39% Senior Student Affairs Officers who supervise a judicial conduct administrator, 44% who were judicial affairs officers and 17% who indicated that they were either faculty members, graduate students or other. The overall population of respondents was divided among both public and private institutions. Here, 60% of the respondents were from public institutions and 40% were from private institutions. A large majority (88%) of the respondents worked at four-year institutions with the remainder (12%) working at two-year institutions

Regieren Algorithmen? Über den sanften Einfluss algorithmischer Modelle

Die gegenwärtige sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Kritik an Algorithmen bezieht sich vor allem auf zwei Aspekte: Dass Algorithmen, erstens, grundsätzlich auf subjektiven Vorstellungen und Vorurteilen beruhen, und dass sie, zweitens, meist im Verborgenen operieren. Wenig beachtet wird dabei die Frage, welchen politischen Einfluss Algorithmen eigentlich haben. Um den politischen Einfluss von Algorithmen zu verstehen, schlage ich Michel Foucaults Perspektive der Gouvernementalität vor. Die politische Bedeutung algorithmischer Modelle besteht dieser Perspektive nach gerade darin, dass sie das tun, was eigentlich dem liberalen Staat vorbehalten ist, nämlich die Bevölkerung zu regieren. Unternehmen wie Google oder Facebook, die weitverbreitete und potente algorithmische Modelle besitzen, sind - so mein Schluss - 'gouvernementale' Unternehmen, die die staatlichen Regierungsinstanzen vor grundlegende Fragen stellen

A Viscoplastic Constitutive Theory for Monolithic Ceramic Materials

With increasing use of ceramic materials in high temperature structural applications such as advanced heat engine components, the need arises to accurately predict thermomechanical behavior. This paper, which is the first of two in a series, will focus on inelastic deformation behavior associated with these service conditions by providing an overview of a viscoplastic constitutive model that accounts for time-dependent hereditary material deformation (e.g., creep, stress relaxation, etc.) in monolithic structural ceramics. Early work in the field of metal plasticity indicated that inelastic deformations are essentially unaffected by hydrostatic stress. This is not the case, however, for ceramic-based material systems, unless the ceramic is fully dense. The theory presented here allows for fully dense material behavior as a limiting case. In addition, ceramic materials exhibit different time-dependent behavior in tension and compression. Thus, inelastic deformation models for ceramics must be constructed in a fashion that admits both sensitivity to hydrostatic stress and differing behavior in tension and compression. A number of constitutive theories for materials that exhibit sensitivity to the hydrostatic component of stress have been proposed that characterize deformation using time-independent classical plasticity as a foundation. However, none of these theories allow different behavior in tension and compression. In addition, these theories are somewhat lacking in that they are unable to capture creep, relaxation, and rate-sensitive phenomena exhibited by ceramic materials at high temperature. When subjected to elevated service temperatures, ceramic materials exhibit complex thermomechanical behavior that is inherently time-dependent, and hereditary in the sense that current behavior depends not only on current conditions, but also on thermo-mechanical history. The objective of this work is to present the formulation of a macroscopic continuum theory that captures these time-dependent phenomena. Specifically, the overview contained in this paper focuses on the multiaxial derivation of the constitutive model, and examines the scalar threshold function and its attending geometrical implications