Preventing Kernicterus: Racial Equity for Neonatal Jaundice

Neonatal jaundice is a common phenomenon among infants worldwide but the condition may progress to severe hyperbilirubinemia and if this progression is left unchecked, kernicterus may result. Kernicterus is the result of bilirubin toxicity that has reached the brain. It may result in irreversible hearing loss, brain damage, and death. Black and African American infants represent twenty five percent of reported kernicterus cases in the United States. This racial health disparity represents a practice gap that this project aims to highlight and address through provider education. Midwives and paraprofessionals at a midwifery organization in the Pacific Northwest were invited to participate in a story completion process as a means to inform an educational module for providers of neonatal jaundice care. Results of the story completion process were consistent with what we know about health equity and adequate care: listening and trust are foundational to the patient-provider relationship. Empowering families to be literate in the care of neonatal jaundice is imperative. The concepts formed the basis for a provider module that is included in this study. The content of the module has been tailored to the care of neonatal jaundice in Black and African American infants and includes an educational handout for the families and caregivers of this population

EXAMINATION OF ACUTE WHOLE-BODY VIBRATION ON MAXIMAL VERTICAL JUMP HEIGHT IN COLLEGIATE VOLLEYBALL ATHLETES

The purpose of this study was to compare the acute effects on maximal countermovement vertical jump after completing three sets of 30 second body weight squats with and without whole body vibration among Division I volleyball players. Participants (n=7) underwent three days of testing: one baseline, one with WBV at 45 Hertz and one without WBV. The latter two testing days involved a warm-up with three sets of 30-second body weight squats on a vibration platform. Each participant then completed a countermovement vertical jump, measured by a Vertec, after passively resting for one minute and five minutes, respectively. Results indicated a significant difference between baseline and vibration vertical jump means (p=.039). No other significant differences were detected

Social Media Collaboration: a Case Study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Large academic libraries with a decentralized structure can lead to individual library units creating and maintaining their own social media accounts with little standardization or cohesiveness across the library system. As a result, social media account owners often duplicate efforts, overwhelming patrons with communication channels, and lacking a consistent message. At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I), for example, the library system comprises nearly thirty separate library units, and maintains nearly eighty social media accounts. These accounts are spread across platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, YouTube, and Flickr, as well as a plethora of blogs. Having a vibrant social media presence is important for libraries to be able to reach patrons in spaces where they are frequently spending time. However, social media trends and platforms are continually evolving, making it challenging for librarians to keep pace with technology while effectively engaging and communicating with patrons online. In response to these issues the U of I Library created Social Media Working Group (SMWG), which has developed templates for policies and best practices and created channels for streamlined communication. The group hosts speakers and discussion panels on topics such as content strategy, assessment, diversity, scheduler tools, crisis communication, handling negative feedback, and politically sensitive posts. Developing a consistent message about the overall mission of the library system together will result in increased impact in all areas, including engagement, collections, and services

Academic Integrity in Canada: An Enduring and Essential Challenge

In this session, Dr. Julia Christensen Hughes and Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton will reflect on academic integrity in Canada, synthesize their various contributions, and challenge future practice. Drawing from their book, Academic Integrity in Canada: An Enduring and Essential challenge, they will highlight their experience and insights, since the seminal work of Christensen Hughes and McCabe (2006), focusing on the enduring and essential challenge of building cultures and practices aligned with academic integrity in Canadian higher education today. Participants will gain insight into current challenges and strategies for supporting academic integrity in their own administrative and teaching and research practice

Measuring Physiological Responses to Sensation in Typical Adults

Objective: Sensory processing issues can have a large negative impact on the ability to participate in daily occupations such as ADLs, access to work, school and leisure environments, and social interactions (Dunn, 2001). The evidence documenting sensory processing issues in adults is sparse. Physiological information can be used as objective evidence to support the claim that those with over-responsivity to sensations are experiencing their environment differently than the typical population. Understanding more about sensory processing in adults may lead to increased recognition of the problem and more opportunities for intervention to increase occupational participation. The purpose of this quantitative study compared the physiological responses to sensation in people who self-report as high in sensory sensitivity compared to people who self-report as low in sensory sensitivity.Method: Using a quasi-experimental design, physiological responses to sensation in typical adults was measured. The use of the Sensory Profile assessment as a behavioral self-reported measure was used as a pretest and the Sensory Challenge Protocol was used as our physiological outcome measure to quantify participants’ physiological responses to sensation.Results: No significant differences were shown between experimental and control groups in EDR responses to stimuli. Based on the sensory profile, participants’ in the experimental group who identified as sensory sensitive had higher EDR responses to more the intense sensations, such as mower (1.3), feather (1.8), and camphor (1.7). There is a significant correlation between low registration and sensory sensitive (.678), sensory avoidant (.847) and sensory defensive (.817) for the experimental group’s self-reported scores on the Sensory Profile supporting the idea that people who have sensory sensitivities may also suppress responses to sensation.Conclusion: There are differential, meaningful patterns observed in how people with sensory sensitivities are responding to sensations. There is high variability in individuals’ personal understanding of their own sensory sensitivities and what sensory stimuli they are responding to. Therefore, it is important to know and understand what certain people in the general population do because overtime it can lead to maladaptive behaviors in daily functioning

Sensory Psychophysiology

Objective: Sensory processing issues can have a large negative impact on the ability to participate in daily occupations such as ADLs, access to work, school and leisure environments, and social interactions (Dunn, 2001). The evidence documenting sensory processing issues in adults is sparse. Physiological information can be used as objective evidence to support the claim that those with over-responsivity to sensations are experiencing their environment differently than the typical population. Understanding more about sensory processing in adults may lead to increased recognition of the problem and more opportunities for intervention to increase occupational participation. The purpose of this quantitative study compared the physiological responses to sensation in people who self-report as high in sensory sensitivity compared to people who self-report as low in sensory sensitivity. Method: Using a quasi-experimental design, physiological responses to sensation in typical adults was measured. The use of the Sensory Profile assessment as a behavioral self-reported measure was used as a pretest and the Sensory Challenge Protocol was used as our physiological outcome measure to quantify participants’ physiological responses to sensation.Results: No significant differences were shown between experimental and control groups in EDR responses to stimuli. Based on the sensory profile, participants’ in the experimental group who identified as sensory sensitive had higher EDR responses to more the intense sensations, such as mower (1.3), feather (1.8), and camphor (1.7). There is a significant correlation between low registration and sensory sensitive (.678), sensory avoidant (.847) and sensory defensive (.817) for the experimental group’s self-reported scores on the Sensory Profile supporting the idea that people who have sensory sensitivities may also suppress responses to sensation.Conclusion: There are differential, meaningful patterns observed in how people with sensory sensitivities are responding to sensations. There is high variability in individuals’ personal understanding of their own sensory sensitivities and what sensory stimuli they are responding to. Therefore, it is important to know and understand what certain people in the general population do because overtime it can lead to maladaptive behaviors in daily functioning.https://scholar.dominican.edu/ug-student-posters/1064/thumbnail.jp

Effects of Inclination on Measuring Velocity Dispersion and Implications for Black Holes

The relation of central black hole mass and stellar spheroid velocity dispersion (the M-$\sigma$ relation) is one of the best-known and tightest correlations linking black holes and their host galaxies. There has been much scrutiny concerning the difficulty of obtaining accurate black hole measurements, and rightly so; however, it has been taken for granted that measurements of velocity dispersion are essentially straightforward. We examine five disk galaxies from cosmological SPH simulations and find that line-of-sight effects due to galaxy orientation can affect the measured $\sigma$ by 30%, and consequently black hole mass predictions by up to 1.0 dex. Face-on orientations correspond to systematically lower velocity dispersion measurements, while more edge-on orientations give higher velocity dispersions, due to contamination by disk stars when measuring line of sight quantities. We caution observers that the uncertainty of velocity dispersion measurements is at least 20 km/s, and can be much larger for moderate inclinations. This effect may account for some of the scatter in the locally measured M-$\sigma$ relation, particularly at the low-mass end. We provide a method for correcting observed $\sigma_{\rm los}$ values for inclination effects based on observable quantities.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, replaced with accepted versio