COVID-10, Healthcare Interior Design + Provider Experience - How does your space work for you?

The lack of research on healthcare staff experience and interior design of the spaces they work in is evident. A focus on staff perspective is needed, particularly staff who navigated the COVID-19 pandemic. This research seeks to capture those stories to develop further research in order to improve staff experience. The initial phase of this mixed-methods approach is a survey. Hypothetically, by placing providers at the center of qualitative research related to healthcare interior design, we can better understand existing healthcare spaces. Ideally, we can develop additional evidence-based, human-centered solutions to transform interior environments in healthcare. The 20-year Women’s Health Study generated essential data on women’s health, but most importantly, the initial research has snowballed into 600+ research reports and continues to feed research that has made an indelible impact on women’s health (About the Women’s Health Study, n.d.). In the same vein as the Women’s Health Study, this research documents provider experience with interior space and may lead to new healthcare design research. In the long term, the qualitative, grounded-theory approach may lead to remediation of our healthcare spaces by applying transdisciplinary design solutions developed through the research. Grounded theory research “sets out to discover or construct theory from data” (Chun et al., 2008). This grounded-theory survey is entitled, “COVID-19, Healthcare Interior Design + Provider Experience – How does your space work for you?” Participants are providers working in any level of healthcare with any level of experience. The survey questions allow the provider to identify specific components of their space. Additionally, they were offered the opportunity to share a story about their relationship with their interior work environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare staff’s ability to write about their interior environment experiences will offer additional clues about healthcare space and future research.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/gradposters/1149/thumbnail.jp

Understanding High School Students\u27 Motivation and Amotivation to Read in and Outside of School: A Phenomenology

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the motivation and amotivation to read of 9th-12th grade adolescents in a large semi-urban high school in southwestern North Carolina. The principal theory guiding this study is Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985, 1991, 1994, 2000) as it explicates three universal human needs underpinning adolescent motivation to read. This investigation was guided by the following principal research question: How do high school students in southern North Carolina describe their motivation to read? General education high school students (n=12), balanced for gender, ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, and initial reading motivation, were observed, interviewed in a focus group, and interviewed individually during one semester (15 weeks). Students were enrolled in a semi-urban high school in southwestern North Carolina. Phenomenological reductionism (Schutz, 1970) primarily informed data analysis through bracketing out of personal biases and bracketing in of essential commonalities. Participants offered multiple layers and interpretations of motivations and amotivation to read. Most importantly, students read or do not read primarily through interest, choice, and desire/enjoyment, i.e. autonomy. Students want to read materials that they choose out of personal interest; realizing their own interest is often the first barrier. Further research should be conducted on the following: programs or instruments that facilitate interest-creation, case studies with recorded literacy conversations from homes, and a longitudinal ethnography on personality changes over two to three years and the effects on reading motivation

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STORYTELLING, HEALTHCARE, INTERIOR DESIGN EDUCATION & GROUNDED THEORY RESEARCH: THE TRIFECTA OF TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE IN HEALTHCARE DESIG

Target Zero: Implementing and Sustaining a Successful CLABSI Prevention Program

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Functional perfusion imaging using pseudocontinuous arterial spin labeling with low‐flip‐angle segmented 3D spiral readouts

Arterial spin labeling (ASL) provides quantitative and reproducible measurements of regional cerebral blood flow, and is therefore an attractive method for functional MRI. However, most existing ASL functional MRI protocols are based on either two‐dimensional (2D) multislice or 3D spin‐echo and suffer from very low image signal‐to‐noise ratio or through‐plane blurring. 3D ASL with multishot (segmented) readouts can improve the signal‐to‐noise ratio efficiency relative to 2D multislice and does not suffer from T 2 ‐blurring. However, segmented readouts require lower imaging flip‐angles and may increase the susceptibility to temporal signal fluctuations (e.g., due to physiology) relative to 2D multislice. In this article, we characterize the temporal signal‐to‐noise ratio of a segmented 3D spiral ASL sequence, and investigate the effects of radiofrequency phase cycling scheme and flip‐angle schedule on image properties. We show that radiofrequency‐spoiling is essential in segmented 3D spiral ASL, and that 3D ASL can improve temporal signal‐to‐noise ratio 2‐fold relative to 2D multislice when using a simple polynomial (cubic) flip‐angle schedule. Functional MRI results using the proposed optimized segmented 3D spiral ASL protocol show excellent activation in the visual cortex. Magn Reson Med, 2013. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/96313/1/24261_ftp.pd

Extraction of pigment from plant material

The present invention is directed to a process for extracting pigments, namely carotenoids, from plant material. The process includes the step of combining shredded plant material with an enzyme. The enzyme breaks down the plants cellular walls releasing the carotenoids contained within the plant cells. The enzyme added to the plant material can be pectinase, cellulase, hemicellulase, or mixtures thereof

ORGANIZAÇÕES INTERNACIONAIS E O PRINCÍPIO DA AUTONOMIA: UM ESTUDO DA INFLUÊNCIA BRASILEIRA NA CONSTRUÇÃO DO MERCOSUL

TCC (graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro Sócio-Econômico. Relações Internacionais.Ancorada pelo do método indutivo, a pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar como a liderança brasileira influencia o processo de afirmação da autonomia do MERCOSUL. Dessa forma, a presente monografia está situada no campo da integração regional, possuindo também discussões acerca da política externa brasileira. Para tal, o estudo é dividido em três capítulos, que pretendem esmiuçar a discussão a respeito dos três objetivos específicos de pesquisa, sendo eles: a) decompor os aspectos teórico-conceituais das organizações internacionais; b) explicitar o movimento realizado pelo Brasil em direção aos processos de integração regional na América do Sul, bem como o seu aprofundamento na criação do MERCOSUL; c) avaliar como a liderança brasileira influencia a autonomia do MERCOSUL. Essa monografia pretende auxiliar nos estudos da América do Sul ao lançar luz sobre a discussão da autonomia de uma organização internacional, utilizando o caso de estudo do MERCOSUL e partindo da visão que a liderança brasileira possui do processo