The challenges of living with a roommate: the impact on students with disabilities\u27 residential experience

The purpose of this study was to explore the challenges that students with disabilities face while living with a roommate. These were explored to determine the impact those challenges have on their experience living on campus. Students with disabilities come to college with a unique set of challenges from their disability and navigating living with a roommate can add to the difficulty of their collegiate experience. A survey was adapted from a study on living with a roommate and a study on the supports for college students with disabilities. This survey gathered information on the student\u27s class year, their experience with a roommate, and their experience with residence life staff. From the data collected, it was concluded that students with disabilities have overall negative experiences with roommates and they do not feel supported by residence life staff

Bodily discourses: When students write about sexual abuse, physical abuse, and eating disorders in the composition classroom

This dissertation analyzes student texts about bodily violence written for Freshman English and advanced writing courses at the University of New Hampshire between 1994 and 1996. All the volunteers were white women, most aged 18-21. The project addresses four central questions: Why are students writing about these experiences? How are they writing about them? What assumptions inform teachers\u27 responses to such essays? What larger cultural contexts shape how such experiences are represented and understood by students and teachers? The primary materials are twenty-five student essays; interviews with students, teachers, and campus personnel; and observations of classrooms and staff meetings. Information was gathered and interpreted using qualitative methods--context-sensitive textual analysis, case study, and classroom ethnography. Engaging the theories of Sandra Bartky, Susan Bordo, Erving Goffman, Alison Jaggar, Peter Stearns, and Lynn Worsham, the study situates students\u27 essays within cultural, historical, gendered, and pedagogical contexts, emphasizing how emotion is constructed and deployed within power relations. This dissertation begins with what compositionists assume about students writing about sexual/physical abuse and eating disorders. They fear that students expect a therapeutic relationship. In addition, such violence is believed to produce psychological disorders, leading some compositionists to assume students only write about these experiences in egocentric, non-academic ways. Some compositions also often assume these essays are primarily solicited from expressivist pedagogies. On the contrary, this study argues students write about these issues across a spectrum of composition pedagogies, adopting multiple genres, arguments, and academic interpretations to structure quite public and often intellectually and rhetorically complex essays. Some students may seek the traditional function of college writing to become part of middle class culture where a unified sense of identity connotes power and authority which have been denied them. Far from seeking a therapeutic relationship with teachers, some students may assume the relative anonymity of the university offers strategies for emotional control and less criticism of emotional intensity. However, these students also implicitly challenge the university\u27s separation of emotion/reason, private/public, normal/deviant. Thus they disrupt power relations and dialectically build social criticism from their outlaw emotions, challenging composition theories

ENHANCED EFFICIENCY NITROGEN FORMULATION EFFECT ON GRASS-LEGUME PASTURE PRODUCTIVITY

The use of nitrogen (N) fertilizer is generally restricted on mixed species forage systems due to its stimulatory effect on grasses which increases competition with legume species. Reduced legume growth from this competition can compromise forage nutritive value and prospective yields. The controlled-release nature of several enhanced efficiency fertilizer N products holds the potential to improve legume persistence in mixed species pastures while providing supplemental N required by the grass component. The studies contained in this dissertation evaluated the effect of different enhanced efficiency N formulations (ATU, ESN, methylene urea, SuperU, and a 75% ESN: 25% urea blend) and untreated urea on yield, nutritive value, and legume persistence in a ‘Wrangler’ bermudagrass and ‘Durana’ white clover mixture (2014-2016 growing seasons), ‘KY-31’tall fescue and ‘Kenland’ red clover mixture (2015-2016 growing seasons), and ‘KY-31’ stockpiled tall fescue (2015-2017). The three studies were conducted at the University of Kentucky Spindletop Research Farm in Lexington, KY in a randomized complete block design. In the bermudagrass-white clover study, all enhanced efficiency N sources maintained white clover populations similar to the unfertilized grass/clover control, but only ESN caused greater clover composition than standard urea. Total forage yields increased linearly with N rate in all years, but dry weather conditions in the second and third years resulted in lower total yield. Forage nutritive value followed general trends throughout each growing season, but ESN’s ability to maintain clover resulted in higher nutritive value. In the tall fescue-red clover, total forage yields curvilinearly increased with N rate in 2015 but did not vary in 2016. ESN and ESN+urea blend treatments retained clover composition similar to that of the unfertilized control. Stockpiled forage yield increased with higher N rates. Enhanced efficiency N fertilizers with the ability to control N release can enhance forage yield while maintaining clover in mixed species swards

M-health adoption by healthcare professionals : a systematic review

Objective The aim of this systematic review was to synthesize current knowledge of the factors influencing healthcare professional adoption of mobile health (m-health) applications. Methods Covering a period from 2000 to 2014, we conducted a systematic literature search on four electronic databases (PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsychInfo). We also consulted references from included studies. We included studies if they reported the perceptions of healthcare professionals regarding barriers and facilitators to m-health utilization, if they were published in English, Spanish, or French and if they presented an empirical study design (qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods). Two authors independently assessed study quality and performed content analysis using a validated extraction grid with pre-established categorization of barriers and facilitators. Results The search strategy led to a total of 4223 potentially relevant papers, of which 33 met the inclusion criteria. Main perceived adoption factors to m-health at the individual, organizational, and contextual levels were the following: perceived usefulness and ease of use, design and technical concerns, cost, time, privacy and security issues, familiarity with the technology, risk-benefit assessment, and interaction with others (colleagues, patients, and management). Conclusion This systematic review provides a set of key elements making it possible to understand the challenges and opportunities for m-health utilization by healthcare providers

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PREFERENCE BASED PAYMENT TRANSACTION BETWEEN BUYER AND SUPPLIER

A method comprising receiving supplier data from an issuer server and comparing supplier data to primary merchants that accept a first payment type. Based on the comparison, the method includes determining qualifying suppliers matching primary merchants and non-qualifying suppliers without a match of primary merchants. The method includes comparing the non-qualifying suppliers with secondary merchants accepting a second payment type from a payment service provider that accepts the first payment type. Based on the comparison, the method includes determining BPSP recipients matching secondary merchants

Investigations into the Effects of Water Exchange and the Structure of Lanthanide Chelates

Lanthanide chelates are effective agents for improving contrast in MR images. Optimizing the relaxation of inner sphere water molecules is a common focus of research in this field. However, the efforts to design an optimal contrast agent have commonly over-looked the relationship of water position and water exchange kinetics. This work explores structural conformation, the impact of very fast water exchange kinetics on hydration, and differing tumbling rates for regioisomers of a number of lanthanide chelates. We have grown crystals of LnDOTMA and obtained structural data by X-ray diffraction that provide a picture of the chelate during water exchange and demonstrate that chelate conformation is associated with water position. We observe increased population of the major isomer with increased water exchange rates in variable temperature 1H NMR studies of HoDOTMA. This suggests that water position and water exchange rates are linked. We therefore recommend that accurate water exchange data be included in the application of the SBM equations when interpreting experimental data. As further support of this recommendation, we measured water exchange kinetics with 17O NMR for the rigid GdNB-DOTMA chelates. These results were used in the fitting of 1H NMRD profiles to establish tumbling parameters. Similar results were also observed in the less rigid GdNB-DOTA, establishing the first identification of regioisomers in these chelates and their biphenyl derivatives. Binding studies of GdBP-DOTA indicate that the side isomer is a more effective agent, but it is the minor species in solution. Our work herein shows that predicting efficacy of contrast agents with SBM equations requires a more complete consideration of chelate hydration (q/r6)