John Nugent Interview, March 14, 2023

In this interview John Nugent, who served as Missoula Senior Center board president from 2020-2021, talks about how he came to be on the board of the Senior Center, the sources of revenue for the Center, and its activities, including its thrift store, bingo and serving meals to seniors. Nugent served as president in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic began and he discusses the impact of the pandemic on Center services, such as rapidly adapting to provide meals as a drive-through service, and receiving funding from city and federal sources that allowed the Center to continue to provide meals, continue to pay employees, and improve a portion of the Center\u27s HVAC. He also discusses the relationship between Missoula Aging Services and the Center. During the interview Nugent shares the impact of his unexpected diagnosis of multiple myeloma while serving as president. Nugent was interviewed by Mark Spring, who served as Missoula Senior Center board president from 2021-2022.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/covid19_oralhistory/1000/thumbnail.jp

The Defeat of Turkish Hizballah as a Model for Counter-Terrorism Strategy

The article of record as published may be located at http://www.gloria-center.org/2004/03/nugent-2004-03-06/This article analyzes the Turkish security forces' highly successful counter-terrorism operation against the radical Islamist group Trukish Hizballah (THB). Taking advantage of the cease-fire declared by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the security forces focused their increased resources on an initial round of raids that netted significant pieces of information about the THB and its activities. The security forces then diligently took advantage of this new intelligence to conduct raids on a wider scale, thus creating a snowball effect of gathering more intelligence followed by conducting wider and more devastating raids

Principals\u27 Perceptions of the Rule Making Aspects of Leadership in Hawaii

This study was undertaken to determine the impact of rule-making as one of the components of leadership

Community-Based Trials of Mobile Solutions for the Detection and Management of Cognitive Decline

This study focused on the development and usability evaluation of EnCare diagnostics (ECD) and the brain fit plan (BFP) in healthy older adults, cognitively impaired and physically impaired individuals. ECD is proposed as a novel solution to cognitive assessment based on colour selection. BFP is a novel solution to personalised cognitive stimulation. The study consisted of two trials designed to evaluate the usability of the apps. Trial 1 involved 11 healthy older adults and four older adults with physical impairments who undertook ECD and mini-mental state examination (MMSE) once per month for 4 months with only those with physical impairments also completing the BFP daily. Trial 2 involved eight older adults diagnosed with early stage dementia who completed MMSE and ECD once per month for 6 months. In Trial 1, 10 out of 11 participants enjoyed the trial and managed the usability of the app easily. A 75% drop out was observed in response to the BFP with issues of dexterity and lack of understanding on how to use the technology being the main reasons for lack of compliance. Four out of eight participants completed Trial 2 with most of the participants having no usability issues. This usability study demonstrated that ECD is highly acceptable in both healthy older adults and those with early stage dementia when given the shorter versions to accommodate their diagnosis. The BFP was not suited to this population of participants