The Public Montessori Journey: A Phenomenological Study of the Transition Experiences of Public Montessori Teacher Interns

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe novice Montessori teachers\u27 practicum experiences in public Montessori schools in the United States. Through the lens of Schlossberg’s transition theory, this study sought to answer the central research question: How do novice Montessori teachers describe their experience in public Montessori teaching practicums? Sub-questions sought to identify the expectations of novice Montessori teachers as they moved into the experience, as well as the supports available or unavailable and coping strategies employed as they moved through the experience. This qualitative transcendental phenomenological research explored the central phenomenon of 10 novice Montessori teachers’ practicum experiences in public Montessori schools in the United States. This study employed epochè, transcendental-phenomenological reduction, imaginative variation, and intuitive integration analysis and synthesis of three sources of data collection: journal prompts, individual interviews, and letter writing. Three themes emerged that the public Montessori practicum experience as Moving In – Preconceptions, Moving through – Victories and Defeats, and Moving Out – The Journey Beyond. The essence of the public Montessori practicum experience was depicted as a journey of hurdles and growth toward a finish line that extends beyond the practicum and continues throughout the teacher’s public Montessori career

Improving Belonging Through Occupation in Individuals Within the Substance Use Disorder Population

This capstone project focused on improving belonging through occupation in individuals within the substance use disorder population. Based on site-based needs assessment findings and informed by the Recovery Model and the Doing, Being, Belonging, and Becoming framework, the Elevate 4-week pilot program was created. The Elevate program successfully demonstrated the feasibility of improving belonging through occupations, as evidenced by changes in pre and post-program client questionnaire scores. The client’s self-report scores in sense of belonging, satisfaction of belonging, and connection to housemates and staff demonstrated noticeable improvement. While the Elevate program demonstrated noticeable improvement in participants’ sense of belonging, satisfaction with belonging, and feelings of connection to house members and staff, it should be noted that this was a pilot program that occurred at one facility with a limited number of participants, and as this was not a research study, information gathered cannot be generalized on a population level. While these limitations existed in this program, there is still value in further research on improving belonging in individuals within the SUD population and in the continued implementation of this program.https://soar.usa.edu/otdcapstones-spring2022/1019/thumbnail.jp

How does the use of Complementary Therapies contribute to the experience of patients with breast cancer?

Purpose The prevalence of Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAMs) amongst breast cancer patients has been well documented within the literature. The nature of CAMs has made it difficult to determine their contribution to patient’s experiences using quantitative research. This review aims to identify qualitative studies looking at the role of CAMs for breast cancer patients. Methods A systematic literature review approach was used. Studies were identified through rigorous searching of online databases and hand searching references. The results of these studies were synthesised into key themes using meta-ethnography to form conclusions. Results Eight studies were identified using inclusion/exclusion criteria. These results were synthesised to form 5 key themes. These are the decision to use, the relationship between Orthodox Health Care Professionals and CAM use, the effectiveness of CAMs, the barriers to using CAM and the implications for future healthcare. Conclusions This review concluded that there are a plethora of reasons why people decided to use CAMs. Participants reported that CAMs were effective in treating physical side effects of conventional medicine. However more importantly, they were effective at making them feel better. Orthodox Health Care Professionals were often identified as expressing negative views towards CAMs and many women wanted their physician to support their CAM use and help provide information and advice. Drawing this literature together may give Orthodox Health Care Professionals a better understanding of these issues. Relevance This review has helped to collate qualitative data and shed light as to why breast cancer sufferers chose to use CAMs and their effectives. These results can be used to clarify an area where the literature is often quite confusing and disputed. Further research is required into whether the results of the study could be feasibly implemented into the clinical environment

Self-management interventions in stages 1 to 4 chronic kidney disease: an integrative review

The prevalence, effect on health outcomes, and economic impact of chronic kidney disease (CKD) have created interest in self-management interventions to help slow disease progression to kidney failure. Seven studies were reviewed to identify knowledge gaps and future directions for research. All studies were published between 2010 and 2013; no investigations were conducted in the United States. Knowledge gaps included the focus on medical self-management tasks with no attention to role or emotional tasks, lack of family involvement during intervention delivery, and an inability to form conclusions about the efficacy of interventions because methodological rigor was insufficient. Educational content varied across studies. Strategies to improve self-management skills and enhance self-efficacy varied and were limited in scope. Further development and testing of theory-based interventions are warranted. There is a critical need for future research using well-designed trials with appropriately powered sample sizes, well-tested instruments, and clear and consistent reporting of results

BurstCube: A CubeSat for Gravitational Wave Counterparts

BurstCube will detect long GRBs, attributed to the collapse of massive stars, short GRBs (sGRBs), resulting from binary neutron star mergers, as well as other gamma-ray transients in the energy range 10-1000 keV. sGRBs are of particular interest because they are predicted to be the counterparts of gravitational wave (GW) sources soon to be detectable by LIGO/Virgo. BurstCube contains 4 CsI scintillators coupled with arrays of compact low-power Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) on a 6U Dellingr bus, a flagship modular platform that is easily modifiable for a variety of 6U CubeSat architectures. BurstCube will complement existing facilities such as Swift and Fermi in the short term, and provide a means for GRB detection, localization, and characterization in the interim time before the next generation future gamma-ray mission flies, as well as space-qualify SiPMs and test technologies for future use on larger gamma-ray missions. The ultimate configuration of BurstCube is to have a set of $\sim10$ BurstCubes to provide all-sky coverage to GRBs for substantially lower cost than a full-scale mission.Comment: In the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Busan, Kore

MoonBEAM A Beyond Earth-Orbit GRB Detector for Multi-Messenger Astronomy

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Nicotine Pretreatment Increases Dysphoric Effects of Alcohol in Luteal-Phase Female Volunteers

The present report shows that nicotine enhances some of alcohol’s positive and negative effects in women and that these effects are most pronounced during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle. Ten low progesterone and 10 high progesterone/luteal-phase women received nicotine patch pretreatments (placebo or 21 mg) 3 hours before an alcohol challenge (0.4 g/kg). Subjective effects were recorded on mood adjective scales and the Addiction Research Center Inventory (ARCI). Heart rate and skin temperature were recorded. Luteal-phase women reported peak positive (e.g. “stimulated”) and peak negative effects (e.g. “clumsy”, “dizzy”) almost twice as great as low progesterone women

Scalable desktop visualisation of very large radio astronomy data cubes

Observation data from radio telescopes is typically stored in three (or higher) dimensional data cubes, the resolution, coverage and size of which continues to grow as ever larger radio telescopes come online. The Square Kilometre Array, tabled to be the largest radio telescope in the world, will generate multi-terabyte data cubes – several orders of magnitude larger than the current norm. Despite this imminent data deluge, scalable approaches to file access in Astronomical visualisation software are rare: most current software packages cannot read astronomical data cubes that do not fit into computer system memory, or else provide access only at a serious performance cost. In addition, there is little support for interactive exploration of 3D data. We describe a scalable, hierarchical approach to 3D visualisation of very large spectral data cubes to enable rapid visualisation of large data files on standard desktop hardware. Our hierarchical approach, embodied in the AstroVis prototype, aims to provide a means of viewing large datasets that do not fit into system memory. The focus is on rapid initial response: our system initially rapidly presents a reduced, coarse-grained 3D view of the data cube selected, which is gradually refined. The user may select subregions of the cube to be explored in more detail, or extracted for use in applications that do not support large files. We thus shift the focus from data analysis informed by narrow slices of detailed information, to analysis informed by overview information, with details on demand. Our hierarchical solution to the rendering of large data cubes reduces the overall time to complete file reading, provides user feedback during file processing and is memory efficient. This solution does not require high performance computing hardware and can be implemented on any platform supporting the OpenGL rendering library

Open Access Publishing: Getting Your Research Disseminated, Read & Cited

Traditional publishing models may restrict the way you share and communicate your work. During this session, we will discuss some of the advantages of Open Access publishing, including how it can help you connect with a wider audience and have your work cited more

The Impact of Increased Awareness of Acute Kidney Injury in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit on Acute Kidney Injury Incidence and Reporting: Results of a Retrospective Cohort Study

Objective: To evaluate the impact of nephrology integration in the NICU on acute kidney injury (AKI) incidence, provider reporting, and nephrology referral. Study design: Cohort study in a single-center NICU from January 2012 to December 2017 (n = 1464). We assessed the impact of clinical practice changes including neonatal-nephrology rounds on the incidence of AKI. Results: AKI occurred in 318 neonates (22%). AKI occurred less frequently in those admitted after clinical practice changes (P < 0.001). After multivariable adjustment, clinical practice changes were associated with reduced odds of AKI (adjusted odds ratio, 0.31; 95% CI 0.22-0.44, P < 0.001). Provider reporting of AKI improved (P < 0.001) and more neonates were referred for nephrology follow-up (P < 0.001). Conclusions: Increased nephrology integration in the NICU was associated with decreased AKI incidence. While recognition of AKI improved, AKI remained poorly reported and nephrology AKI follow-up did not routinely occur. This study supports the importance of increased nephrology involvement in the NICU